The Charlie Kirk Show - The Gang's All Here — Live at AmFest 2024

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody enjoy this episode become a member members.charliekirk.com that is members.charliekirk.com email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com Charlie what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:12.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:14.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:17.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks.

00:00:20.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:22.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:23.000 His spirit, his love of this country.

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00:01:08.000 Good American, great friend Jack Posobiec is with us.

00:01:11.000 Jack, welcome to the program.

00:01:13.000 Where's Jack's book?

00:01:14.000 Jack is always plugging his book.

00:01:15.000 Where is it?

00:01:16.000 What's going on, guys?

00:01:17.000 We got the book.

00:01:18.000 Well, we've got him over at the table in the vendor section.

00:01:22.000 We'll go get a copy.

00:01:23.000 But, you know, Charlie, is it true, by the way, I did hear there's been some talk about opening up some more seats, potentially.

00:01:30.000 There's been some chatter.

00:01:31.000 I mean, we're near 20,000 tickets, so we're right near there.

00:01:35.000 We don't have 20,000 seats in there.

00:01:37.000 So, again, some people show up.

00:01:38.000 This is where the fire marshal comes in and it becomes a bit of a...

00:01:41.000 This is where turning point events become equally an art as a science.

00:01:45.000 Yes.

00:01:46.000 And because you want to try to maximize the amount of people to come, same time you want to make sure that there's...

00:01:51.000 I need to tell the fire marshal, look, it's not like all 20,000.

00:01:53.000 With the exception of when President Trump does victoriously take the stage, you won't have all 20,000 seated at once because there's so many things to do here.

00:02:01.000 There's the vendors, there's media.

00:02:03.000 Correct.

00:02:03.000 Well, that's why we always oversell the capacity in the room.

00:02:06.000 So I will give an announcement multiple times.

00:02:06.000 Exactly.

00:02:09.000 Your seat is not guaranteed for President Trump because, look, even if we have a packed speaker, let's say somebody like Tucker tonight, there'll be 2,000 people in the exhibit hall.

00:02:19.000 Meaning that there's always people not in the room.

00:02:22.000 And so you oversell the room.

00:02:24.000 But with President Trump, I'm a little worried that that exhibit hall is going to be.

00:02:28.000 I just want to be as clear as I can.

00:02:31.000 With President Trump, you've got to get there early.

00:02:33.000 The rest of the building becomes overflow at that point.

00:02:36.000 I think people will understand.

00:02:36.000 People kind of get that.

00:02:37.000 No, it's just like a Trump rally.

00:02:39.000 But this is really...

00:02:40.000 I mean, I've been looking at this.

00:02:41.000 You've been looking at this.

00:02:42.000 This will be President Trump's first public event since Election Day.

00:02:48.000 This is number one.

00:02:49.000 There's been some fundraisers.

00:02:50.000 There's been some galas.

00:02:52.000 There's been, you know, awards and different things he's done.

00:02:54.000 But this is the first event that you could go to and just buy a ticket and walk right in.

00:02:59.000 And that really goes, I gotta say, Charlie, that really goes to show not just the importance of Turning Point and Turning Point Action and what you've done, but AmericaFest.

00:03:08.000 Remember back in 2021 when AmFest was launched right here.

00:03:13.000 I mean, and that was in the, what did Biden call it?

00:03:18.000 That was the COVID winter.

00:03:19.000 Yeah, the COVID winter, the dark winter.

00:03:22.000 And that was like, Trump is over.

00:03:25.000 The movement is over.

00:03:26.000 Charlie Kirk, what are you thinking?

00:03:28.000 And you, my friend, took a lot of personal slings and just bitterness over people saying, Charlie, why are you still backing this guy?

00:03:38.000 Why are you doing this?

00:03:39.000 It's ridiculous.

00:03:40.000 You got to move on.

00:03:42.000 He had some good ideas.

00:03:43.000 We can keep the hats, but we'll change the guy wearing them.

00:03:46.000 And you said no.

00:03:47.000 You said no.

00:03:47.000 We're going to stick with this and we're going to keep going the way we're going.

00:03:50.000 Something went wrong in 2020. We don't like what happened.

00:03:53.000 We don't like the way it went down.

00:03:55.000 AmFest was launched, I believe, four years ago.

00:03:59.000 This is the fourth one.

00:04:00.000 With the vision of this coming.

00:04:02.000 And you and the team at Turning Point could see.

00:04:06.000 You didn't know exactly it would be like this.

00:04:08.000 But you could see that there was a light all the way down at the end of the tunnel.

00:04:12.000 And that's very kind of you to say, Jack.

00:04:14.000 And it's totally true.

00:04:15.000 I mean, this event, understand, we used to do this event in Palm Beach.

00:04:19.000 And it was originally called...

00:04:20.000 Yeah, it was called Winter in West Palm Beach.

00:04:22.000 Then it was called SAS. And we said, okay, Florida's a great state.

00:04:26.000 It's going that way.

00:04:27.000 I said, but our home, Arizona, is falling apart.

00:04:30.000 And we need to double and triple down our investment in Arizona.

00:04:34.000 And now we can look back after four AMFests and four different events that...

00:04:42.000 Donald Trump won Arizona by 5.5 points.

00:04:45.000 It was the best performing swing state by far.

00:04:48.000 In fact, when I spoke to President Trump, and I've said this in the previous hour, he said, Charlie, I will only come on one condition.

00:04:55.000 You call it a tribute to Arizona.

00:04:58.000 And he said, any other state, I don't know if I'd do it.

00:05:00.000 President Trump has always had a very personal connection.

00:05:03.000 Let me just say one last thing.

00:05:04.000 This venue is where the first ever MAGA rally was.

00:05:08.000 Was here in this Phoenix Convention Center.

00:05:08.000 That's right.

00:05:10.000 For Tyler, he was just here.

00:05:11.000 I know.

00:05:12.000 And now President Trump comes back to this very same venue nine years later to receive his crown.

00:05:19.000 One that he earned and one that you gave him.

00:05:22.000 I just think that's so poetic, isn't it?

00:05:24.000 It really is.

00:05:25.000 And...

00:05:26.000 You know, you can tell how his focus is so locked in with the transition right now, participating in these interviews.

00:05:34.000 In 2016, President Trump did a victory tour of the swing states and the states that he won, of course, and he was going out.

00:05:42.000 He continued the rallies.

00:05:43.000 He's not doing that this time around.

00:05:45.000 He's locked in on the transition.

00:05:47.000 I think that's smart.

00:05:47.000 I'm glad he's not doing that.

00:05:48.000 No, I get it.

00:05:49.000 I think it's smart as well because a lot of people point out that he said, look, Back at the time, and I'm not going to point fingers, but there was a certain former governor of New Jersey who was basically put in charge of the transition.

00:06:01.000 He brought in all of these establishment buddies and all of these types, and that's what we ended up with, names that you don't even hear anymore.

00:06:08.000 Rex Tillerson, James Mattis.

00:06:11.000 You remember some of these names.

00:06:14.000 That don't even exist anywhere in the movement, certainly not in this building.

00:06:17.000 And so the fact that he's taking time out of that transition to come all the way across the country, not an easy haul, to Arizona, to AmericaFest, really just shows a testament to the people of Arizona.

00:06:30.000 But more importantly, I think the people of the organization of Turning Point and what Turning Point Action did on the ground in so many cities.

00:06:37.000 It's very, very kind.

00:06:38.000 I give it all to the people of Arizona.

00:06:40.000 The people of Arizona, they took out their shovels.

00:06:42.000 They did the work.

00:06:43.000 This state was so abused in 2020. I want you to think about this.

00:06:46.000 What, 10,000 votes we fell short in 2020, all that nonsense.

00:06:50.000 They tried to put Tyler Boyer in prison, all this alternate elector nonsense.

00:06:53.000 I mean, they did everything they could to try to bully us into submission.

00:06:57.000 One of those cases had a little bit of an issue this morning, so I hear.

00:07:00.000 The one in Georgia?

00:07:02.000 Yeah, I think Tyler hopefully is going to be okay.

00:07:05.000 We'll see.

00:07:06.000 If not, we're going to have to remove Chris Mays from office as Attorney General of Arizona, of which...

00:07:10.000 Oh, well.

00:07:11.000 Right?

00:07:12.000 We're already...

00:07:13.000 That's a top priority of me.

00:07:15.000 In some ways, I want that one even more than the governor's.

00:07:17.000 But we gotta flip the governor as well. 0.50

00:07:19.000 She is such a terrible person.

00:07:21.000 But understand this, that Donald Trump won Georgia by about two points.

00:07:26.000 North Carolina by about three points.

00:07:28.000 Pennsylvania by about a point and a half.

00:07:30.000 You guys did great.

00:07:30.000 120,000 votes.

00:07:32.000 However, did you know we won Arizona by more votes than he won Pennsylvania by, despite the population being nearly 50?

00:07:38.000 You mean in aggregate?

00:07:39.000 Like, we won Arizona by 197,000 raw votes.

00:07:43.000 Donald Trump won Pennsylvania by 120,000 raw votes.

00:07:46.000 Said differently, we won Arizona by 5.5 points.

00:07:48.000 And, again, that sort of swing just doesn't happen automatically.

00:07:53.000 It's through ballot chasing, voter registration.

00:07:55.000 We're really, really proud of that.

00:07:57.000 The president wanted to highlight that and celebrate it.

00:07:59.000 No, it's incredible what happened here.

00:08:02.000 And Charlie, there were so many people who were telling you, especially after the last governor's race, you gotta pull up out of Arizona.

00:08:11.000 You gotta leave.

00:08:13.000 You gotta go to Florida.

00:08:14.000 Florida's the freedom state, especially during COVID. Katie Hobbs, all of that nonsense. 1.00

00:08:19.000 They said, Charlie, you gotta go.

00:08:20.000 And you said, no.

00:08:21.000 You decided to stay firmly planted, your feet to the ground, and you said, instead of running, I'm gonna get to work.

00:08:28.000 And get to work you did.

00:08:30.000 And get to work this organization did.

00:08:32.000 And get to work this movement did with the leadership of Donald J. Trump.

00:08:37.000 And it was all of those people coming together and said, no, we're going to stand in the gap and stand and fight that actually achieved this victory.

00:08:46.000 Yeah, and so, Jack, you've been around AmFest.

00:08:50.000 Walk us through the experience.

00:08:51.000 What happens in the exhibit hall?

00:08:53.000 What happens in the breakouts?

00:08:55.000 I hate to say this because it's kind of a cliche, but it's like the Matrix.

00:08:55.000 I mean, it's...

00:09:00.000 You know, you can't understand it.

00:09:02.000 You have to experience it.

00:09:03.000 You can't just watch AmFest on TV and, sure, we see, you know, the WWE entrances and we see the The cold spark.

00:09:11.000 Shout out to Lauren on that and everything else that goes on.

00:09:14.000 But it's not just about the stage events.

00:09:18.000 It's about the smaller events, the workshops where people actually put together the tools to figure out how to build the next generation of leaders.

00:09:28.000 It's about the vendors.

00:09:29.000 It's about meeting people and making connections that, oh, by the way, and the left is, and we can talk more about this, the left, by the way, is in meltdown mode because they suddenly realized, wait a minute, Charlie Kirk's been building this thing for years.

00:09:43.000 We don't have anything.

00:09:44.000 We were laughing at him.

00:09:45.000 We were making memes about Turning Point.

00:09:48.000 And all of a sudden, Turning Point grew up and beat our pants off.

00:09:52.000 And we have no idea how to respond to it.

00:09:57.000 I will accept every word of that, Jack.

00:10:00.000 Well said.

00:10:00.000 Thank you.

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00:11:37.000 We continue with Jack Posobiec.

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00:12:07.000 Joining us now is Noah Formica.

00:12:09.000 This guy might have won our U.S. Senate seat.

00:12:12.000 Do you think that's right, Cliff?

00:12:13.000 This guy might have won a U.S. Senate seat in the great state of Pennsylvania.

00:12:17.000 I know a lot of grassroots warriors.

00:12:19.000 I've been in this in 12 years.

00:12:20.000 This guy is unbelievable.

00:12:22.000 How many voters did you personally register in the state of Pennsylvania?

00:12:25.000 In Pennsylvania, I personally registered 3,000 voters.

00:12:29.000 I mean, that is unbelievable.

00:12:31.000 3,000 voters.

00:12:32.000 I mean, so walk us through kind of what you did this cycle.

00:12:37.000 You just kept your head down.

00:12:39.000 You did the work.

00:12:40.000 And Noah, we had you throughout.

00:12:42.000 It's just amazing.

00:12:44.000 3,000 new voters.

00:12:45.000 Noah, tell us about it.

00:12:46.000 So when I first started, I just noticed that there are so many people that weren't registered to vote.

00:12:52.000 And I tell people all the time, the grassroots in Pennsylvania, that right now, if you flip a coin, it's more than likely that person is not registered to vote.

00:12:59.000 And now where I was going was, you know, the Amish markets, the gun shows, which a lot of gun owners aren't registered to vote, especially our hunters, which you'd think they would be voting.

00:13:08.000 I mean, hunt or be hunted is what I always tell these people.

00:13:13.000 You know, you go to a lot of county fairs, but pretty much what we did in Turning Point Action is we used a Be Neighborly strategy.

00:13:20.000 We talked to anyone and everyone, and we just asked them that simple question.

00:13:25.000 Hey, are you registered to vote?

00:13:26.000 And are you registered to vote under your current address?

00:13:29.000 Because sometimes people might be registered, but then they aren't registered under their current address.

00:13:34.000 Even on Election Day, we ran into that issue where so many people went in to vote.

00:13:38.000 They're like, oh man, I'm not even registered on my current address, so I have to vote provisionally.

00:13:43.000 So, Noah, tell us about what we did that one day at Penn State University in Center County.

00:13:48.000 That was an amazing event.

00:13:49.000 Walk us through it.

00:13:51.000 Oh, that was amazing.

00:13:52.000 And, you know, even though Penn State shut us down...

00:13:55.000 Which, by the way, Penn State kind of bailed me out, for the record.

00:13:58.000 Why did Penn State bail me out, Jeff?

00:14:00.000 It's a hilarious story.

00:14:02.000 You know, as everybody knows, Charlie Kirk always has a comeback, right?

00:14:08.000 No matter what lib gets up in his face, Charlie Kirk's always got something to say, some fact, some way to turn a phrase, except for when God wants to give Charlie an even greater challenge and take his voice away, which he did twice this year.

00:14:24.000 Twice this year.

00:14:24.000 Twice.

00:14:25.000 And the first time, when I mean I had no voice, I mean, Jack, how bad was this?

00:14:28.000 So Charlie's got no voice.

00:14:30.000 He texts me.

00:14:31.000 No voice.

00:14:31.000 He texts me.

00:14:32.000 I'm on air.

00:14:33.000 He said, Jack, I need you to come to Penn State.

00:14:35.000 And so I give him a call.

00:14:36.000 He hangs up the phone.

00:14:37.000 He texts me back.

00:14:38.000 Jack, I just told you, I have no voice.

00:14:40.000 I can't talk.

00:14:41.000 So we fly up to Penn State.

00:14:43.000 We're there.

00:14:44.000 And I'm like, all right, we're going to do the event.

00:14:46.000 We're going to figure out how to do a Charlie Kirk debate where Charlie can't even talk.

00:14:51.000 Ladies and gentlemen.

00:14:52.000 I was trying to figure this out.

00:14:52.000 I said, how do I debate people without talking?

00:14:55.000 Sign language, gestures.

00:14:56.000 We were thinking of flashcards, maybe.

00:14:58.000 And then eventually, though, Penn State comes up and Noah's out there with the hats and the voter reg.

00:15:04.000 And I think he actually was stapling voter reg to the hats as we threw them out.

00:15:08.000 And we registered hundreds of new voters, didn't we?

00:15:10.000 Oh, absolutely.

00:15:11.000 Well over 350. So I sit down, and Jack's next to me, and people are asking questions.

00:15:17.000 I say, how am I going to do this thing?

00:15:19.000 I'm thinking to myself, next thing I know, Penn State comes in.

00:15:22.000 You're not allowed to be here.

00:15:23.000 You know, it's like, no application.

00:15:25.000 You're not allowed to use these speakers on the campus.

00:15:27.000 I was going to say, they took my voice.

00:15:30.000 Penn State took my voice.

00:15:31.000 And so then I went and took a selfie with every kid for about an hour and a half.

00:15:35.000 So Penn State's tyranny actually bailed me out a little bit.

00:15:38.000 So Noah, really quick, you were there on the day that President Trump got shot in Butler.

00:15:42.000 Jack talks about it in his book here, Bulletproof.

00:15:45.000 Jack, I'm going to let you ask Noah the question about that.

00:15:47.000 Yeah, so Noah, people don't realize this, but Noah, you actually had the opportunity to meet Thomas Matthew Crooks.

00:15:54.000 He came up to your booth.

00:15:55.000 Tell us about that.

00:15:57.000 So pretty much it goes without saying, whenever you're at a Trump rally, you can't assume somebody's registered to vote.

00:16:02.000 So there's a statistic, 13% of people who attend Trump rallies are not registered to vote.

00:16:07.000 So we were asking every single person, are you registered to vote?

00:16:07.000 Crazy.

00:16:10.000 And then here comes Thomas Crooks walking past our booth.

00:16:13.000 We ask him if he's registered to vote.

00:16:15.000 He just looks at us like we're stupid, like we're idiots, doesn't say anything, and walks away with a smug, angry look.

00:16:21.000 So you tried to register the assassin to vote.

00:16:23.000 I did.

00:16:24.000 Yeah.

00:16:24.000 Impressive.

00:16:25.000 He didn't know.

00:16:26.000 No, it was before he was an assassin.

00:16:28.000 And by the way, by the way, he was, I'll point this out because there's video of this, he was not walking around with a rifle at that time, was he?

00:16:35.000 No, he wasn't.

00:16:36.000 No, because you, of course, would have noticed that.

00:16:37.000 So the big, one of the big questions that's left unanswered, how was it that he was able to get that AR-15 in when he was walking around?

00:16:45.000 So really quick, Jack, what do you want to see out of the FBI, DOJ? Should we open a special case assignment for July 13th?

00:16:52.000 Charlie, I think we need one for July 13th, but I would go through to every presidential assassination all the way back to JFK. Check out magachristmasbooks.com.

00:17:04.000 Noah, you do a great job.

00:17:05.000 Noah, you're going to turn Pennsylvania into Ohio.

00:17:07.000 Just don't tell them that.

00:17:08.000 We have a very special guest.

00:17:09.000 First ever media appearance, I think.

00:17:11.000 Is that right?

00:17:12.000 You got to talk in the mic.

00:17:14.000 This is incredible.

00:17:16.000 So Lauren has been around forever, right?

00:17:19.000 And you've never done one of these?

00:17:21.000 She is events OG. Yes.

00:17:24.000 And you guys know who you're looking at here?

00:17:26.000 She is the grand maestro, the chief executive of all Turning Point events.

00:17:31.000 She does a great job, don't you think, Lauren?

00:17:33.000 I mean, this is all her...

00:17:37.000 Her work.

00:17:39.000 I have a personal favorite, by the way.

00:17:41.000 My personal favorite was the, I believe it was the summer sass, and you did the whole Miami theme.

00:17:47.000 You remember the Miami theme with, like, all the Miami Vice style everything a couple years ago?

00:17:52.000 That's my personal favorite.

00:17:53.000 We're going back this year.

00:17:53.000 Yes.

00:17:54.000 Yes.

00:17:55.000 So, Lauren, welcome to the show.

00:17:56.000 You're a great friend, amazing patriot, a humble leader.

00:17:59.000 How is it, Lauren, to feel just how this thing has grown?

00:18:03.000 It's been incredible.

00:18:04.000 I attended SAS 2017 as a student.

00:18:06.000 I had my final interview there, and to see what Turning Point and these events have grown into over the last few years is nothing short of amazing.

00:18:12.000 We started this event four years ago, and now it's over doubled in size, thanks to our amazing events team, all of our staff that put in so many hours outside of their normal jobs to make this all happen, and we're excited to welcome 20,000 people this week.

00:18:25.000 Yeah, and so, Lauren, just kind of go through the logistics of this, because it's easy for people to just kind of say, oh, this thing happens on itself.

00:18:32.000 But guys, you understand that, just for example, how many times did we host President Trump this year?

00:18:37.000 This will be number seven on Sunday.

00:18:39.000 Wait, we hosted President Trump seven times this year?

00:18:41.000 Yes, we did.

00:18:42.000 Jack, can you add some context for an outside group to host the president seven times?

00:18:46.000 Is that normal?

00:18:48.000 Not even like the NRA in their heyday or heritage or, you know, CPACs generally once a year.

00:18:54.000 So that many times in a single year is it's unprecedented.

00:18:59.000 I'm just thinking we did it in Arizona twice.

00:19:01.000 We did it in Detroit.

00:19:02.000 We did it in Georgia.

00:19:03.000 We did it in Vegas.

00:19:04.000 We did it in West Palm Beach.

00:19:05.000 That's right.

00:19:06.000 We did it in West Palm Beach.

00:19:07.000 I forgot about that one.

00:19:08.000 And then we did it here at AmericaFest.

00:19:11.000 So, and by the way, the president is the best.

00:19:14.000 We have his back 100%.

00:19:16.000 He loves the execution of our events, though.

00:19:20.000 Lauren, talk about the standard of excellence that you've set with your team about everything from visual design, from flow of experience, of what we have created here at Turning Point.

00:19:29.000 Good is never good enough.

00:19:30.000 We always strive to be the best in the business and execute to the highest level.

00:19:34.000 Something that you touched on yesterday and that we really pride ourselves on is our staff is what makes these events happen.

00:19:40.000 So from people walking in to going into each lounge and into the sponsor halls, we have our staff everywhere going above and beyond.

00:19:48.000 If someone has a question, he needs to be taken to their seats.

00:19:50.000 If a speaker needs something from CVS, we're going to go and, you know, kind of like make that happen.

00:19:56.000 And we really want that turning point vibe and that turning point standard of excellence to bleed through everything that we do.

00:20:02.000 Because many people have never been involved, you know, like with our movement or with our org before.

00:20:06.000 And this is their first time coming in.

00:20:08.000 And one of the best parts about this job is really all the messages we get afterwards saying, Hey, I had never been to a turning point, you know, anything before.

00:20:17.000 And now I'm starting a chapter on my campus.

00:20:19.000 Now I'm running for office.

00:20:20.000 Now I'm having my daughter start a chapter, whatever that looks like next. 1.00

00:20:24.000 And we build this movement that we've created today.

00:20:27.000 So Lauren, I mean, an event like this, walk into the planning.

00:20:31.000 We literally begin planning for next year's AMFest, like now.

00:20:34.000 Yes.

00:20:34.000 It is a year of planning.

00:20:36.000 We also do Believer Summit, Student Action Summit, Young Women's Leadership Summit.

00:20:40.000 In the case of this last year, we did a lot.

00:20:42.000 We just kept on adding on to it.

00:20:44.000 Jack, can you brag on Lauren?

00:20:45.000 Don't worry, Lauren.

00:20:46.000 There isn't an election next year, at least.

00:20:48.000 That's why we're bringing back SAS. So what Lauren does is, and you could see her influence on the events, because what you do is you don't think...

00:21:02.000 You know, a lot of people think, and Charlie, I'm just going to say it, man.

00:21:04.000 I'm just going to say it.

00:21:05.000 We all love you.

00:21:06.000 But I've seen those pictures of the pre-Lauren Turning Point events.

00:21:12.000 The team that was there.

00:21:13.000 I never want to.

00:21:14.000 And I'm not dumping any of it.

00:21:16.000 But it was grassroots.

00:21:17.000 It was extremely good.

00:21:19.000 A lot of these people are still here.

00:21:20.000 What Lauren brought, though, was a spark and just a... 1.00

00:21:20.000 They were awesome. 1.00

00:21:23.000 It is not a...

00:21:24.000 Yeah, this isn't a dig.

00:21:25.000 I don't mean this as a dig in any way.

00:21:27.000 But what you see is that that was like, how can we get this done?

00:21:31.000 How can we make it work?

00:21:33.000 And resources obviously were nowhere where they are now.

00:21:36.000 But what Lauren has done, building off of that, which never would have gotten off the ground, it was bootstrapped.

00:21:42.000 It was bootstrapped at first, Turning Point was bootstrapped, but now you have this vision for these events.

00:21:48.000 And because, Charlie, you've built the organization to be this level, that there isn't a single area or nook or cranny that you could poke your Self into at these events that doesn't fit one piece of that vision, even the flow of the crowd, the timing of the events, the way all the moving pieces work together.

00:22:08.000 It's incredible.

00:22:09.000 It's amazing.

00:22:10.000 I don't have the eye for it.

00:22:12.000 I have no idea.

00:22:13.000 For me, it's like put up a stage and make sure the audio works, you know, but you have this this mega vision and now we're all walking through it.

00:22:22.000 Well, thank you guys.

00:22:22.000 And honestly, it takes the whole team a lot of credit to Charlie and Tyler who really set the bar for a standard of excellence.

00:22:29.000 Like I said, good is never good enough.

00:22:31.000 It's what can we do better?

00:22:32.000 What can we make better?

00:22:33.000 What can we make a better experience for everyone here?

00:22:35.000 And every year it's a learning opportunity where I have no doubt that the next few days are going to be, you know, absolutely amazing.

00:22:41.000 But we're constantly taking notes on, well, this could have been done a little bit better to make our experience for everyone here better.

00:22:47.000 And we're going to continue to keep on growing.

00:22:49.000 So talk about the breakouts, Lauren.

00:22:51.000 I think that's really important for everyone to understand.

00:22:53.000 It's not just the razzle-dazzle on stage, but it's the hard work in the breakout session.

00:22:58.000 Speak about that, Lauren.

00:23:00.000 The breakout sessions are amazing.

00:23:01.000 There are the trainings and the grassroots trainings, a lot of which are brought to you by Turning Point Action and our sponsoring organizations.

00:23:07.000 And this is where attendees really get that smaller, intimate setting and have that grassroots training to really go apply what they learn there into their communities, into their schools, and make that difference in their campuses, communities, and go from there.

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00:24:40.000 So we have an amazing agenda.

00:24:42.000 Let's walk through kind of what we have going tonight.

00:24:45.000 So tonight we have Tucker, we have Bannon, we have Ben Shapiro, Don Jr. And that's just opening night.

00:24:50.000 And Dr. Carson.

00:24:52.000 And then we're also planning for a presidential kind of arrival.

00:24:56.000 Let's kind of go back in time.

00:24:58.000 Jack, you remember this.

00:24:59.000 This is only at Turning Point Action, and what we built here is this possible.

00:25:03.000 We hosted the president.

00:25:05.000 In Duluth, Georgia, and Vegas in back-to-back days.

00:25:09.000 In 24 hours.

00:25:10.000 I did two campus events in between.

00:25:13.000 We had no sleep.

00:25:14.000 Pastor's Summit as well.

00:25:15.000 We what?

00:25:15.000 The Pastor's Summit as well.

00:25:17.000 Yeah, and we did a Pastor's Summit.

00:25:19.000 I lost my voice, got sick again, and it was flawless, totally full, and beautifully executed.

00:25:26.000 And how large was your staff to pull that off?

00:25:29.000 My team, including graphic designers, I want to say is 10 total.

00:25:32.000 So huge shout out to our events team.

00:25:35.000 They are the hardest working team in the entire country.

00:25:37.000 How great are these graphics ever?

00:25:38.000 This is not the best looking event.

00:25:39.000 How do you do that with just 10 people?

00:25:41.000 How?

00:25:41.000 Because we have a high standard and everyone really is bought into the movement and into the impact that we make.

00:25:48.000 I will compare that to like, so I went to the Kamala, I was at obviously these events, but I also went to the Kamala Harris events and I went to her final concert at Philadelphia, the one where like Oprah came and spoke and Beyonce didn't sing.

00:26:03.000 The difference is they have to pay for those people and they don't.

00:26:06.000 They have staffs of hundreds and hundreds of people.

00:26:10.000 And the issue there is people were stuck outside.

00:26:13.000 They couldn't get in.

00:26:14.000 The event was terrible.

00:26:16.000 They couldn't, you know, the people didn't even sing.

00:26:18.000 And it was like, it was a complete joke.

00:26:21.000 You're telling me you did all this with a core staff of 10?

00:26:23.000 Yes, and a big part in that, too, is again, we have an incredible army of full-time staff in other departments that come to these events outside their normal jobs and are working on registration, on breakouts, on speaker check-in, on ushering, and they set that tone as well to make sure that these events are executed.

00:26:44.000 They spend long days, sleepless nights, but it gets the time.

00:26:48.000 Can I ask a question?

00:26:50.000 Can I ask a question?

00:26:50.000 So Lauren, you work these events, and these are your visions, right?

00:26:54.000 So you have a different perspective on it from any of us, or if you're a speaker, or if you're Charlie, who's always got herding cats and putting out fires as it happens.

00:27:04.000 But Lauren, what's the one thing that you look forward to the most at these events?

00:27:09.000 And you can't say when they're over.

00:27:11.000 It's not even when they're over.

00:27:12.000 I think seeing everything come together and seeing the impact that it's making on people, whether it's them meeting new friends as a student and getting inspired to start a chapter and getting that voice that they thought that they were alone on their campus and then they come and they see thousands of other people and they're like, wow, I'm not by myself.

00:27:31.000 I want to be more involved.

00:27:34.000 One of my favorite parts, too, is just the opening night and seeing all the energy, all the people in here excited to be here and excited to be involved in something bigger than themselves.

00:27:44.000 So, last point here, Lauren.

00:27:47.000 There's a huge demand of people that want to come to this, speak at this exhibit.

00:27:52.000 What is our quick schedule for 2025?

00:27:54.000 What do we have coming up?

00:27:55.000 Quick schedule, at least that I know of right now.

00:27:58.000 We have our Young Women's Leadership Summit in June.

00:28:00.000 That will be in Dallas.

00:28:02.000 Our Student Action Summit in Tampa.

00:28:04.000 That will be in July.

00:28:05.000 AmericaFest, obviously, next year here in Phoenix.

00:28:08.000 And I have no doubt that there will be multiple more.

00:28:11.000 There will be a lot more than that, Lauren.

00:28:12.000 I can guarantee it.

00:28:13.000 Everybody, we wanted to put a face to the name.

00:28:16.000 She makes these events happen, and her team does.

00:28:18.000 Her team deserves all the credit.

00:28:19.000 Her team deserves all the credit.

00:28:20.000 It's not me.

00:28:22.000 When you're walking the halls, you need to go find a Turning Point staffer and say thank you.

00:28:26.000 They haven't slept in weeks to make sure that you have a great and excellent experience.

00:28:30.000 So it's the best staff movement.

00:28:32.000 Jack, you have a thought really quick.

00:28:33.000 That scene when RFK Jr. walked out and officially endorsed Donald Trump.

00:28:40.000 At that rally, with the cold sparks behind, that picture, which is a moment in history, was all created by Lauren right here.

00:28:49.000 And the team.

00:28:50.000 It's not me.

00:28:51.000 Not only that, let me tell you the other true story here.

00:28:55.000 We're going over the budget for that event.

00:28:59.000 And I said, for the love of everything holy, we are not going to spend money anymore, Lauren, on these stupid, like, Twizzlers.

00:29:06.000 What do we call them?

00:29:07.000 The Cold Sparks!

00:29:08.000 It's a waste of money.

00:29:10.000 And Lauren's like, we have to do it.

00:29:13.000 She overrode me.

00:29:14.000 And now it's like the most beautiful.

00:29:15.000 Now it's like the iconic.

00:29:16.000 Now it's like the iconic picture.

00:29:18.000 It's like Trump fight, fight, fight, and RFA. We'd love to go all out.

00:29:22.000 We had no B-roll this segment.

00:29:24.000 Okay.

00:29:24.000 Lauren, thank you so much.

00:29:25.000 Thank you, guys.

00:29:26.000 You're the best.

00:29:26.000 Thank you.

00:29:27.000 I'm going to throw to Brian Glenn, the legend.

00:29:29.000 Brian, how are we doing?

00:29:30.000 Hey, Charlie Curtin.

00:29:31.000 Okay, by the way, the doors aren't even open.

00:29:33.000 And look, there's people here.

00:29:35.000 The crowd is amazing.

00:29:37.000 They're fired up.

00:29:38.000 Isaac, you're from Glendale.

00:29:40.000 What brings you here?

00:29:41.000 Yeah, I work for Arizona Christian University and just Turning Point just aligns with our mission to change culture with the truth of God.

00:29:47.000 What's your thoughts on being here today?

00:29:47.000 Yeah.

00:29:49.000 This is fantastic.

00:29:50.000 I'm so excited.

00:29:51.000 Yeah.

00:29:51.000 What's your thoughts?

00:29:53.000 I mean, everything that Turning Point does, we're here with Northwood University just promoting free enterprise.

00:29:58.000 One of my favorite questions to ask people is, what should President Trump do on day one?

00:30:04.000 Your answer was what?

00:30:06.000 Pardon every single one of the J6ers. 1.00

00:30:09.000 Hey, Brian, Brian, that's a great segue.

00:30:11.000 I've got to interrupt, okay?

00:30:12.000 And I'll throw it back to you in a second.

00:30:14.000 Because I have one of the J6ers right here who they're trying to throw in federal prison. 1.00

00:30:14.000 Is that okay? 1.00

00:30:19.000 Wow.

00:30:20.000 Siaka Masaquai.

00:30:21.000 Siaka, you have a court date on January 21st?

00:30:25.000 It's so interesting how they plan that.

00:30:25.000 Yeah.

00:30:27.000 24 hours right after.

00:30:29.000 So, Siaka, we've known each other for a while.

00:30:31.000 What did you do on January the 6th?

00:30:33.000 Well, I walked down there an hour and a half after anything happened, put out my phone.

00:30:40.000 Can I grab your phone for a second?

00:30:41.000 I held it up, and 71 seconds in the doorway, I went like this, put a big, silly grin on my face.

00:30:48.000 And when the cops said, leave, not only did I leave, I left, but I turned behind me and told the people behind me to leave, too.

00:30:54.000 And that got me 15 agents raiding my house on June 10th.

00:30:57.000 That was awesome.

00:30:58.000 And how many federal charges are you facing?

00:31:00.000 Four misdemeanors.

00:31:01.000 Four misdemeanors.

00:31:02.000 And so, when you say pardon all the J-6ers on day one, you're including Siakam Sikwai, who deserves a full pardon, or at least the very least case, charges dropped. 1.00

00:31:11.000 Brian, let's keep on going around the horn there.

00:31:13.000 Okay, what's your name?

00:31:14.000 My name is Kasia Richardson.

00:31:14.000 Where are you from?

00:31:16.000 I'm with the Carers Project today, and I'm an American Indian under the J-Treaty, but I was born in Canada.

00:31:20.000 I'll ask you the same question.

00:31:22.000 President Trump, day one, what should be his focus?

00:31:24.000 As an American Indian and a Christian, I believe that the first thing that Trump should do is deal with Trudeau and the treason that he has been involved in against the United States government and the people because people like him who has suffered as J6 for trying to speak for their rights is because, in large, what Trudeau has done in his government and to the people.

00:31:43.000 Thanks for being here.

00:31:44.000 How about you?

00:31:45.000 Trump should fix the border and cut funding to Ukraine.

00:31:48.000 How about you, sir?

00:31:49.000 I agree with my son.

00:31:50.000 He should seal the border and stop sending money to Ukraine.

00:31:52.000 Did you vote?

00:31:53.000 I didn't.

00:31:53.000 But you will vote the next election, right?

00:31:55.000 Will do.

00:31:56.000 How many kids your age, as a result of all the things that Charlie Kirk has done with Turning Point, are now starting to be conservative and at least consider being a Republican despite all the things they see on social media?

00:32:07.000 So in your circle of influence, what does that look like?

00:32:11.000 Oh, it's a lot more than it used to be.

00:32:13.000 It's really been cool to see.

00:32:14.000 It's good since Charlie Kirk's done amazing things.

00:32:16.000 How about you, sir?

00:32:17.000 President Trump, day one.

00:32:18.000 Day one.

00:32:19.000 He calls you up on the phone.

00:32:21.000 What's your first name?

00:32:21.000 My name is Chase.

00:32:23.000 Chase from Nashville.

00:32:24.000 He says, hey, what should I do on day one?

00:32:25.000 What's your answer?

00:32:26.000 Defund the IRS. Get rid of the ATF. Pardon all J6ers. 1.00

00:32:30.000 Close the border.

00:32:32.000 And cut about 75% of government jobs.

00:32:34.000 That's a big order right there.

00:32:36.000 Think big.

00:32:37.000 I like it.

00:32:38.000 Thank you, Brian.

00:32:38.000 All right.

00:32:39.000 You're the best.

00:32:39.000 Brian will be here all weekend, if I'm not mistaken, Amfest.com.

00:32:43.000 Siakha, I just want to ask you, you were followed by federal agents for quite a while.

00:32:47.000 You walked off a plane, I believe, with your pregnant wife, and they harassed you. 1.00

00:32:50.000 They arrested me.

00:32:51.000 They arrested you as if you were some sort of, you know, vigilante.

00:32:54.000 By the way, this is how sick this is.

00:32:56.000 There are child sex traffickers that are not even investigated and they chase Siakamasaquai around the world as if he's El Chapo.

00:33:02.000 How did you remain faithful?

00:33:05.000 And then finally, what was your reaction when you knew President Trump won this election?

00:33:10.000 Well, first off, it happened because I was rated in 21. It was after I actually met my wife in September of 21 watching UFC. And she was taking a course called Biblical Citizenship.

00:33:22.000 I started taking that with her.

00:33:24.000 And we started going to Godspeed Church, Rob McCoy.

00:33:27.000 And we actually, shout out to Rob!

00:33:30.000 And we actually started to read the New Testament together.

00:33:33.000 And that was the first time I ever read, outside of blurbs and little highlights, that was the first time I read the New Testament.

00:33:40.000 It took us about a year and a half.

00:33:42.000 So when they started coming at me, it was like, it sucked on a real time level.

00:33:48.000 But at the end of the day, and I think I said this last time I was here, when they arrested me on the tarmac on November 30th, and that night in jail, I did the Lord's Prayer as many times as I could.

00:33:59.000 I got the Bible.

00:34:00.000 I fell asleep reading the Bible.

00:34:02.000 And then the next day, I was in the Seldon cell at the U.S. Marshals.

00:34:06.000 And I was on my knees, hands up, singing Brandon Lake's, you know, gratitude.

00:34:12.000 So I throw up my hands and praise you again and again.

00:34:15.000 And I tell you, it felt like Paul just, the doors just opened up that night.

00:34:19.000 God was working.

00:34:20.000 So it was just leaning in and learning.

00:34:22.000 What was your reaction when Trump won 20 seconds?

00:34:25.000 I turned to everyone around me and I said, I'm not going to federal prison!

00:34:29.000 How great is that?

00:34:30.000 Give it up for Siakamasaquai. 0.98

00:34:31.000 God bless you, man.

00:34:32.000 Bless you, brother.

00:34:33.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:34.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:37.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - December 19, 2024

The Gang's All Here — Live at AmFest 2024

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