The Charlie Kirk Show - August 20, 2026


The Stuff That Has To Be Said: Live Special with Andrew Wilson


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00:00:03.000 My name is Charlie Kirk.
00:00:05.000 I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic.
00:00:11.000 My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth.
00:00:14.000 If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable.
00:00:19.000 But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful.
00:00:24.000 College is a scam, everybody.
00:00:26.000 You've got to stop sending your kids to college.
00:00:27.000 You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible.
00:00:31.000 Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter.
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00:00:39.000 I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade.
00:00:41.000 Most important decision I ever made in my life.
00:00:44.000 And I encourage you to do the same.
00:00:45.000 Here I am.
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00:00:48.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:49.000 Here we go.
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00:01:17.000 All right, we're back, everybody.
00:01:19.000 The one hour special with the one, the only, Andrew Wilson.
00:01:25.000 You might know him from debate fame after last week.
00:01:29.000 Andrew, welcome to the show.
00:01:31.000 It's good to have you.
00:01:32.000 I think we're doing some sort of simulcast.
00:01:34.000 Hopefully, the tech is working.
00:01:35.000 It is.
00:01:36.000 It is.
00:01:36.000 If I put it up on screen, though, it'll show the.
00:01:39.000 The like block that tells you how much time there is until a commercial break.
00:01:44.000 Maybe our team can pull that down for you if that helps.
00:01:48.000 So, well, I have been looking forward to having you on.
00:01:53.000 You are, of course, our horse that we've been riding into the debate thing.
00:01:58.000 If you believe the rumors, I think that's where I want to start here, Andrew.
00:02:02.000 Okay.
00:02:03.000 Maybe just as the because, and I think just so for the audience knows, we're going to ask you questions at the first part of this hour and then you get to ask us some because you were you agreed to do this if you got to ask us.
00:02:13.000 Questions as well.
00:02:14.000 I said, okay, sure, we're an open book.
00:02:17.000 Because we were negotiating for this.
00:02:19.000 Yeah, that starts with part one.
00:02:21.000 I'm a little upset we didn't get paid for having this interview, but that's fine.
00:02:26.000 We have to take it in stride.
00:02:28.000 So, Andrew, why don't we just start there?
00:02:30.000 Why don't you establish the 7,000s in the mail?
00:02:38.000 Yeah, well, according to Candace, I have a much higher price tag than that.
00:02:42.000 So, let's start here.
00:02:43.000 What is your relationship with Turning Point?
00:02:47.000 I went down and did some help with a debate course.
00:02:52.000 That's the entirety of the relationship, as far as I'm aware.
00:02:55.000 Yeah, and that was the one time I've met you.
00:02:57.000 You were on campus, you were teaching some debaters.
00:02:59.000 I thought you were very nice, much to my surprise, based on your public persona at times.
00:03:07.000 I'm kidding.
00:03:08.000 I actually really appreciate the way that you kind of handle your business, but I haven't known you.
00:03:12.000 It's not like a thing that we know Andrew Wilson really well.
00:03:16.000 As far as I know, you said some things that weren't exactly super.
00:03:19.000 Positive and nice about us, but you have been on a dogged.
00:03:24.000 I was most hang on in my defense.
00:03:25.000 I was mostly mean to Blake.
00:03:27.000 Okay, in my defense, I was mostly mean to Blake.
00:03:31.000 Same here, uh, and not as mean to not, yeah.
00:03:33.000 So, I mean, if I if I can make a defense for myself, but anyway, well, hopefully, we can like sitting here going like I don't even know what he's referring to, but whatever.
00:03:42.000 Yeah, what did you say about Blake?
00:03:44.000 I don't remember.
00:03:45.000 I was doing, I know what it was.
00:03:46.000 It was water under the bridge, water, yeah.
00:03:49.000 I was doing a review, um.
00:03:51.000 This was a while ago after Charlie had passed away.
00:03:57.000 And during the review, I said, one of the problems I think with the show is that these guys are just too nice.
00:04:03.000 Like they're really nice guys, right?
00:04:05.000 I actually was pointing this out.
00:04:07.000 And then I'm the nice one?
00:04:08.000 I know.
00:04:09.000 He's flipped his head off.
00:04:11.000 There's a misread.
00:04:11.000 There's a misread on this one here.
00:04:13.000 Yeah, I thought that it was going to get pretty brutal because the left was out in force and they were weaponizing everything that they possibly could against the legacy of Charlie Kirk.
00:04:25.000 He had become a martyr overnight to the entirety of the right.
00:04:28.000 And he was everybody's martyr.
00:04:29.000 It didn't matter.
00:04:30.000 Seemingly, if you were a person who hated him or didn't hate him, suddenly he hit martyrdom status.
00:04:36.000 And so I think one of the critiques I was doing a video on, and it wasn't particularly bad, by the way.
00:04:42.000 And I've always said that I thought TPUSA was more of a force for good than it was for bad.
00:04:47.000 But one of the criticisms was I don't know if these guys know what's coming for them.
00:04:51.000 You know, like I don't know if they know what's going to be coming their way because I knew that the left was mobilizing, I knew it.
00:05:02.000 So let's get into that in a bit, but I want to start with the debate because this is the way, again, it's structured.
00:05:07.000 I have so many questions for you about how you conducted the debate.
00:05:11.000 I saw that you gave yourself a score of like 7 out of 10.
00:05:15.000 I'm just genuinely curious, and you gave her a score of 3 out of 10 or 7.5.
00:05:19.000 I forget what it was exactly.
00:05:21.000 Well, if I could take the lead on this, just what were your immediate feelings getting in that room, engaging with her directly in person like that for?
00:05:33.000 I believe the first time.
00:05:34.000 Same, same.
00:05:34.000 I was going to ask him the same question.
00:05:36.000 I'm just going to be really blunt with you guys.
00:05:37.000 I thought that she was actually quite stupid.
00:05:39.000 I was shocked.
00:05:40.000 I was actually quite stunned.
00:05:42.000 I didn't think that she was a very smart person at all.
00:05:45.000 I had good reason to believe that going in, but I didn't think that she was a particularly good interlocutor.
00:05:54.000 She never made any points at all.
00:05:57.000 She would just kind of ramble.
00:05:58.000 It was just kind of incoherent babble and ramble.
00:06:00.000 And anytime I would get to the point or make her address an actual point, she would go back to rambling incoherently.
00:06:07.000 She didn't understand what inductive reasoning was.
00:06:09.000 I even spelled it out in a very, very simplistic way.
00:06:13.000 Inductive reasoning would be like if, then, and, or.
00:06:18.000 So if I'm 20 minutes away from my job, you know, and I'm supposed to be there in five minutes, then I can assume I'm going to be late, right?
00:06:31.000 That would be an inductively reasoned out position.
00:06:36.000 When I explained that to her and then asked her to give me her induction for how we get to Israel.
00:06:41.000 TPUSA, France, and all these other people who are involved in the conspiracy to murder Kirk, she actually didn't even understand what I was asking her.
00:06:52.000 Yeah.
00:06:52.000 And so, you know, from my perspective, it was that was the toughest part of the debate, was that she actually didn't even understand half of what I was saying.
00:07:00.000 Explain that, actually, because you do a ton of these debates, and it's sort of like one of those things.
00:07:06.000 I have a good friend who's a professional tennis player.
00:07:09.000 He said it's really hard to play against bad tennis players.
00:07:12.000 Because you can't actually serve in volley like you've been training for years to do.
00:07:17.000 It gets easier if the quality of the opponent is high.
00:07:19.000 You're anticipating where a pro would hit it back and they just hit it some other stuff.
00:07:23.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:07:24.000 Is it kind of like that where the person across from you is not even keeping up with the basic blocking and tackling of a debate?
00:07:32.000 It's almost more challenging for you in that way?
00:07:34.000 Well, here, actually, I'll demonstrate it for you.
00:07:37.000 So you just asked me a pointed question.
00:07:40.000 What your pointed question was is hey, Andrew, if somebody doesn't know what they're doing on the other side of this thing, does it actually make it more difficult?
00:07:47.000 To do this thing, right?
00:07:49.000 Now, I could just say, well, yes, of course.
00:07:52.000 And then we would move on with the conversation.
00:07:54.000 But if I was going to be Candace Owens, I would say, Well, what we're talking about here is how I feel and about how I feel about the various things that I'm talking about when it comes to debate.
00:08:06.000 And you say that I'm not a very skilled interlocutor, but we have evidence of me being a skilled interlocutor.
00:08:11.000 You can look back at all the times that I've done interlocuting with other people.
00:08:16.000 And I think that we can all see what's going on here.
00:08:19.000 Yeah.
00:08:19.000 So you see, you see how that doesn't, that's completely unhelpful to.
00:08:25.000 Moving a conversation on or getting to the point of a conversation because it's just incoherent rambling.
00:08:31.000 And so, what my whole job there was, and I knew that that was what it was going to end up being, was to make sure that I could get her to, with her words, make those claims.
00:08:43.000 And then I knew she would.
00:08:45.000 And the reason I knew this is we'd had a like pre debate summit, I guess you could say, with Patrick Fett David, where I talked with her briefly, and she was a prattle machine.
00:08:55.000 Like, I would just be very pointed and say, Well, actually, this is probably the better idea because A, B, C, and D, very quick, 30 seconds.
00:09:02.000 And she would prattle for like three minutes straight about just nonsense.
00:09:07.000 And so I knew going in that that was likely what it was going to be.
00:09:11.000 And so my job somewhat shifted in that debate from the idea that I could just kind of inquire towards those positions and get good faith answers to.
00:09:20.000 She was going to have to let her prattle and then point out the inconsistencies.
00:09:24.000 And that's exactly what I did.
00:09:26.000 Yeah, and I've heard you describe it as sort of Operation Letter Speak kind of thing, because I guess your strategy was that she was going to sort of concede debate points all on her own, and you didn't necessarily have to do too much work to make that happen.
00:09:40.000 She walked back every single claim she made and had no evidence whatsoever for any of the things she was saying.
00:09:46.000 Now, I knew that she wouldn't because I had been looking through kind of the body and catalog of the alternative evidence.
00:09:54.000 And you know what I found out?
00:09:56.000 There isn't any.
00:09:57.000 So, if you're a very skilled debater, the first thing that you do always is you move to falsify your position first.
00:10:07.000 You always move to falsify your position.
00:10:10.000 So, the idea there is if I'm going to defend a thing that I believe, the thing that makes me so good at defending it is because I know it's true because I've tried to falsify it and I can't.
00:10:20.000 These people never did that.
00:10:22.000 They never attempted to falsify any of their own positions or falsify any of their own evidence.
00:10:27.000 And so, the holes in it are just.
00:10:31.000 Miles wide and make absolutely no sense.
00:10:33.000 And so the inferences don't make any sense.
00:10:35.000 They get blocked immediately.
00:10:36.000 You say, well, I think that Israel killed Charlie Kirk.
00:10:41.000 You go, okay, well, why?
00:10:43.000 Well, because we have a text message where he said that I may leave the pro Israel cause.
00:10:47.000 Okay, I understand that.
00:10:48.000 But how does that actually lead towards Israel killing Charlie Kirk?
00:10:53.000 Answer nothing.
00:10:53.000 There's no answer, right?
00:10:55.000 It just leads nowhere.
00:10:56.000 These are all, so they're never attempting to falsify the claims, right?
00:11:00.000 That should lead to the next claim, to the next claim, to the next claim until we get to the claim of, No, Israel killed Charlie Kirk or France killed Charlie Kirk, and we never get to any of that.
00:11:09.000 It just stops immediately.
00:11:11.000 Well, it just stopped at feels and opinion, and you can't tell me how to think and all this stuff, which, right.
00:11:16.000 And you said, I'm not telling you how to think.
00:11:19.000 Yeah, it was interesting.
00:11:20.000 So I predicted that this debate, that you were going to win it because the truth is on your side, right?
00:11:26.000 And as somebody who's lived this firsthand, I know all the garbage when they continually drone on about this stuff and how many lies are continually laced in and just repeated ad nauseum so that.
00:11:38.000 The internet begins to believe them.
00:11:40.000 So I knew that, but I knew also that she has a bigger following, bigger followers on YouTube, whatever.
00:11:46.000 So I knew that immediately there was going to be this rush to say who won, who won.
00:11:51.000 But I predicted this.
00:11:52.000 I said, this will age really well because what I was watching is that she conceded the whole debate very early on, multiple times at every different point and juncture.
00:12:03.000 She kept conceding the point, walking things back.
00:12:06.000 And that as the commentariat kind of comes in that has an IQ above room temperature and pointed that out for people, that it was going to then be this kind of finishing effect after the debate.
00:12:17.000 Is that what you have seen?
00:12:19.000 Oh, 100%.
00:12:20.000 So essentially, what happened here was really interesting.
00:12:26.000 The Baron Coleman's of the world and the sort of law tube picked all of this up and just started tearing her position to pieces immediately.
00:12:36.000 And the commentators in the debate sphere are making a mockery of her.
00:12:40.000 They think that she's a lunatic, has no idea what she's talking about.
00:12:44.000 And then on the flip side to that, too, you even have Main Street coverage.
00:12:47.000 And even on the Main Street coverage, it's the same thing.
00:12:51.000 They're like, well, where's any of the evidence for any of these supposed claims?
00:12:55.000 And we never got to any.
00:12:57.000 So not only will it age well, But what I thought that it would do more than anything else to be as candid as possible, I thought that it would up the pressure of people questioning the questioners.
00:13:10.000 And I've seen a lot of that now moving on social media of people saying, hey, wait a second, where is the actual evidence?
00:13:17.000 I got hundreds of DMs, for instance, from people who didn't know that the steakhouse receipt was a complete phony fraud, that the whole thing is a fraud.
00:13:24.000 Well, I had no idea that that was the case.
00:13:26.000 Can I just say something?
00:13:27.000 So we have Andrea Burkhart.
00:13:28.000 She's going to join us on the show tomorrow.
00:13:30.000 She is apolitical as it comes.
00:13:32.000 Like, she is not.
00:13:33.000 Like on a side at all.
00:13:35.000 And I asked her, I said, if they had exculpatory evidence, whether it's the parents that actually, you know, think he's innocent or they have some steakhouse receipt, would they not present that at the preliminary hearing?
00:13:49.000 And she was like, absolutely they would.
00:13:51.000 No, duh.
00:13:51.000 No lawyer, if they have exculpatory evidence that proves the timeline's wrong, that proves the parents don't actually think it, would not use that evidence because those lawyers are then basically binding their parents.
00:14:04.000 Client over for three years in prison for something that he didn't actually do.
00:14:07.000 They absolutely would have presented that evidence at preliminary hearing.
00:14:11.000 Okay.
00:14:12.000 And it's the same thing my attorney friend.
00:14:14.000 Yeah.
00:14:15.000 Same thing my attorney friend told me, who was one of the fact checkers at the debate that I brought with me.
00:14:20.000 He said the same exact thing.
00:14:22.000 He said, if there was real evidence of conspiracy like that, that would falsify anything that the prosecution had.
00:14:28.000 And that is a thing that you would bring up.
00:14:30.000 Absolutely.
00:14:31.000 Because it would completely crush the opposition.
00:14:34.000 Yeah.
00:14:34.000 And they have the Celbrite.
00:14:35.000 Data from the phone.
00:14:38.000 They know exactly where he actually was based on digital evidence, the whole timeline.
00:14:43.000 Anyways, I want to get to this because the claim was that Tyler Robinson is a patsy, and your claim was that the evidence actually supports that Tyler Robinson's guilty.
00:14:54.000 Okay.
00:14:55.000 Yeah.
00:14:55.000 The claims are actually comparative.
00:14:58.000 So they were comparative claims.
00:15:02.000 Is there more evidence that Tyler Robinson murdered Charlie Kirk than there is evidence?
00:15:08.000 For him being a patsy.
00:15:09.000 So these are comparative claims.
00:15:11.000 So the idea here is in the comparative claim, which one actually has more evidence for it?
00:15:18.000 Now you can say that you don't particularly care for the evidence of the state or that there's problems with it.
00:15:24.000 And that's a fair enough argument.
00:15:27.000 But as a comparative claim, there is nothing to compare.
00:15:29.000 One side has evidence, the other side has no evidence.
00:15:32.000 It's really that simple.
00:15:33.000 It's not very complex.
00:15:34.000 Here's from Milkbar TV.
00:15:36.000 He puts together these compilations on, you know, kind of.
00:15:40.000 A lot of things, but he tends to focus on Candace and kind of the contradictions that she makes often.
00:15:46.000 She's kind of a contradiction queen here.
00:15:47.000 So let's go ahead and play the Patsy claim, SOT 2.
00:15:51.000 Candace's belief that there's overwhelming evidence that Tyler Robinson was a Patsy and didn't kill Charlie Kerr.
00:15:56.000 Why is it that we should go with this idea that it was a Patsy?
00:15:59.000 I'm not saying that we should go with the idea that it was a Patsy.
00:16:03.000 I am saying that there is.
00:16:04.000 Oh, I thought that was the whole defense, your whole claim.
00:16:07.000 No, Tyler Robinson, they're going to convict him.
00:16:09.000 They found their Patsy, they're going to make it work.
00:16:11.000 The alleged shooter, you think they're a Patsy?
00:16:13.000 Of course, they're a Patsy.
00:16:14.000 So Patsy, which is what Tyler Robinson is.
00:16:17.000 See, which is what Tyler Robinson is.
00:16:18.000 See, which is what Tyler Robinson is.
00:16:22.000 So, I didn't edit that together.
00:16:24.000 So, you know, I didn't do the slow mo.
00:16:26.000 I wasn't trying to take a cheap shot, but that's how the Milk Bar TV did.
00:16:30.000 So, basically, she contradicted her original claim that you guys went into the debate almost immediately.
00:16:38.000 Am I missing something?
00:16:40.000 Well, yeah, she contradicted her claim very early on.
00:16:43.000 So, I played this clip.
00:16:44.000 You can actually find it during the debate at right about the 51 minute mark.
00:16:49.000 And what she says there is a comparative claim.
00:16:52.000 There's a hundred other just as likely explanations as.
00:16:57.000 Robinson is a patsy.
00:16:59.000 Her answer in response to that is yes, there is.
00:17:02.000 And then she further qualifies it by saying that not only is that the case, but if you keep moving ahead in the timeline on that particular clip, she concedes the entirety of it, which is what he's showing there for the patsy.
00:17:17.000 She says there's no good reason that you should actually believe he's a patsy.
00:17:21.000 So you have two comparative claims that you can make right there.
00:17:26.000 But that just completely annihilated her position.
00:17:29.000 And I knew right then and there that I'd won the debate.
00:17:31.000 And you can actually, if you pan, they didn't do it because she was speaking, but if they were able to pan over, you actually would have seen what I call the Wilson smug look.
00:17:39.000 It looks something like this, where I'm kind of just get a little bit smug because I know for sure that's it, right?
00:17:47.000 Once I get that game set match right there.
00:17:49.000 Yeah.
00:17:49.000 You know what's interesting, by the way?
00:17:51.000 One of the more, I will just say on a personal level, infuriating moments of the debate was when you guys were talking about complicit.
00:17:57.000 She said, I never said Erica Kirk was complicit.
00:18:00.000 You put those words in Charlie's murder, you put those words in my mouth.
00:18:04.000 I didn't do that.
00:18:04.000 And I'm considering asking her to define the word complicit.
00:18:08.000 I did actually, you know, if you watch, if you watch, what I said to her specifically was, What did you mean when you said complicit?
00:18:15.000 Then what does that actually mean?
00:18:17.000 And what she said is, That means that you believe Tyler Robinson shot Charlie Kirk.
00:18:24.000 And I said, Wait, that's it?
00:18:25.000 You just all you mean by complicit is that Erica believes that?
00:18:29.000 Yes.
00:18:30.000 And then she, I went a step further again and said, So are you just saying that she doesn't believe that?
00:18:36.000 And then Candace says, Yeah, I absolutely don't believe Erica Kirk believes that.
00:18:42.000 I just couldn't believe it.
00:18:44.000 We'll play the clip.
00:18:45.000 This is again from Milk Bar, SOP 3.
00:18:48.000 There is why it is impossible for me to think that Erica Kirk is not complicit somehow.
00:18:53.000 That Tyler Robinson was 100% responsible for the death of Charlie Kirk.
00:18:57.000 Let's just say she believed it with every fiber of her being, believed all the evidence, because she did.
00:19:01.000 She just actually did.
00:19:03.000 Would it then follow that somehow she's complicit in his death?
00:19:08.000 I didn't say implicit in death, you added those two words.
00:19:15.000 By the way, I just want to say, I don't know Milk Bar TV.
00:19:18.000 The team just pulled these clips.
00:19:19.000 We don't pay him because that'll, you know, I don't know what the allegations are going to be.
00:19:23.000 But that, so I'm sitting there going, like, wait, your whole thing is that you've basically set it up that Erica Kirk is complicit in Charlie's death somehow for months.
00:19:35.000 And you're going to sit there in a debate across from Andrew Wilson and say, you added those words.
00:19:40.000 I never said that.
00:19:41.000 I meant she's complicit in.
00:19:44.000 Like the framing of Tyler Robinson, or something like that.
00:19:47.000 And I was like, I'm sitting here going, like, well, thanks for all the death threats because you just think we believe the wrong guy's guilty.
00:19:53.000 Like, thanks for all of the harassment and all the death threats.
00:19:57.000 Really cool.
00:19:58.000 Well, not only that, but the massive slander campaign, the unethical campaign that has been going on.
00:20:06.000 So, one, there's two kind of primary reasons that I even got involved in any of this to begin with.
00:20:12.000 The first was because of a person who has been in my chat for years.
00:20:18.000 Challenged me because he said, I don't really believe this official narrative.
00:20:22.000 And you always tell us to falsify, try to falsify your own claim.
00:20:26.000 So that was what I set out to do.
00:20:28.000 I'm going to see if I can falsify my own claim.
00:20:31.000 And I couldn't falsify it.
00:20:33.000 Right.
00:20:33.000 I just, I mean, and I tried.
00:20:34.000 I went into XBase after XBase, talked to tons of these people with their alternative theories, talked to attorneys, talked to everybody.
00:20:41.000 And I couldn't get it falsified.
00:20:43.000 So that was the first issue.
00:20:45.000 And then the sort of second issue is that what I see is a power dynamic.
00:20:51.000 Problem.
00:20:51.000 I think that people get the motivation of Owens and a lot of these people incorrect.
00:20:56.000 They attribute it to things like jealousy.
00:20:58.000 They attribute it to this type of thing.
00:21:00.000 I don't really think it has much to do with that.
00:21:01.000 I think it has to do with power.
00:21:04.000 From the perspective of the Owens and Owens orbiters, they have license to do whatever horrible thing that they want to anybody because they're running, quote, an investigation.
00:21:13.000 That's what they're doing.
00:21:15.000 So, at least from their end, that's what they say they're doing.
00:21:18.000 So, if they want to dox you, if they want to harass you, if they want to harass your Family, they want to dox your family, they want to do all the things which are normally against all internet protocol, right?
00:21:28.000 The things that people would normally come down hard on you for doing.
00:21:32.000 They're allowed to because they're quote investigators.
00:21:35.000 And so, what that does is it gives them carte blanche to do whatever horrible thing they want to somebody because they're searching for the truth, you see.
00:21:44.000 And that's one of the major issues that I saw going in was like these people have given themselves license to do whatever horrible thing they want to anybody that they want.
00:21:58.000 And then the way that they justify it is, well, they're part of this conspiracy.
00:22:01.000 So, therefore, if we destroy their life, if we dox their family members, if we viciously attack them, if we slander them, if we demean them, if we stalk them, if we do horrible things to them, that's completely justified because all we need to do, the wine moms of the world, is unify and say, well, you're part of the conspiracy.
00:22:19.000 So, we're justified in doing this to you.
00:22:23.000 I'm reminded of the one time I did meet you when you came to HQ and I asked you about, I was like, why are you?
00:22:29.000 You know, I'd seen a debate you did with, I think it was Zach Costello, somebody I'd never heard about before.
00:22:35.000 And I asked you, I was like, why did you do this?
00:22:38.000 And you said, like, you know, I expect us to fight for ourselves, but, you know, I didn't necessarily expect somebody like you, who, again, we didn't know each other.
00:22:48.000 You had criticisms, fair enough, whatever.
00:22:52.000 I didn't expect somebody like you to kind of get into the midst here.
00:22:57.000 And your answer was actually pretty good.
00:22:59.000 You said, I feel like they're in league with the left.
00:23:03.000 And this is something that I've heard from you.
00:23:05.000 In league with the devil, maybe.
00:23:06.000 Well, you've been really on that.
00:23:08.000 Wait, wait, you just said the same thing.
00:23:11.000 Oh, that's the same thing, right?
00:23:13.000 Same thing.
00:23:13.000 Maybe just, I just wanted to ask because, I mean, we don't pay you.
00:23:18.000 We're not working together.
00:23:19.000 We didn't coordinate this debate with you.
00:23:21.000 All of that is just like her nonsense that she wants to put out there.
00:23:25.000 But when I did meet you the one time when you came to campus to teach debate course and stuff like that, you told me that that was a deep motivator for you.
00:23:36.000 That you think they're in league with the left?
00:23:37.000 Explain that.
00:23:39.000 I had noticed for a long time that there was correspondence, very public correspondence, going on with the former stalkers of Charlie Kirk.
00:23:49.000 And you might remember the former stalkers of Charlie Kirk.
00:23:52.000 They called themselves the UnF America Tour.
00:23:56.000 And they're headed by a socialist.
00:23:58.000 And this particular socialist has received tons of money through basically being processed through Act Blue.
00:24:06.000 We knew all of this when we checked her out because she has been behind many.
00:24:11.000 Harassment campaigns towards right wingers, doxing campaigns, and various things like this.
00:24:16.000 And she seems to be very proud of it.
00:24:18.000 In fact, she says she just said recently to Max, a kid that I know who is going towards the pick up the mic tour can't wait to find out what skeletons you have in your closet, right?
00:24:30.000 So her whole thing is to do this.
00:24:32.000 And I noticed that she was corresponding with other accounts like Project Constitution and other of these orbiters who also correspond with Baron Coleman, who corresponds with Candace Owens, et cetera, et cetera.
00:24:42.000 And I thought that that was a very odd.
00:24:45.000 Linkage and suspected that there might be some kind of coordination going on there.
00:24:52.000 So I'd never directly accused Candace of coordinating with these people or Baron Coleman, but I did say that I thought Project Constitution was definitely coordinating with them.
00:25:02.000 And then it turns out, post debate, they're all retweeting each other, including the NF America tour.
00:25:08.000 They're directly corresponding with each other.
00:25:10.000 And that basically confirmed all the suspicions.
00:25:12.000 And I've always thought that leftists.
00:25:16.000 Have pushed this narrative.
00:25:17.000 And Z has now basically come out and admitted that she has been pushing this narrative as hard as possible.
00:25:23.000 And so did Hassan Piker.
00:25:25.000 He's pushing the narrative as hard as possible because instead of the right wing unifying and throwing these people in jail for being terrorists, which is exactly what should have happened, as the federal government had declared Antifa to be a terrorist, the right wing had all the momentum.
00:25:41.000 And then what happens?
00:25:42.000 These leftists begin to also spread and propagate.
00:25:45.000 These theories, which divided the right.
00:25:48.000 Hassan Piker actually put it very succinctly when he pointed this out.
00:25:52.000 Yeah, that Hassan Piker clip is pretty infuriating.
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00:26:57.000 I have a couple more questions for you on the debate here.
00:27:03.000 I noticed you didn't bring up Egyptian planes.
00:27:05.000 You didn't bring up Fort Huachuca, or as I like to call it, some fort in Tucson, because I didn't actually know.
00:27:12.000 I'd never heard of it before.
00:27:14.000 Fort Huachuca.
00:27:14.000 You didn't bring up any of these kind of harebrained, debunked claims, right?
00:27:19.000 You got this Mitch Snow character who says his dad is a zodiac killer that claims he saw people at Fort Huachuca.
00:27:27.000 This stuff is.
00:27:28.000 Is so Looney Tunes, but you didn't go there.
00:27:30.000 Why?
00:27:30.000 I wanted to go after the strongest claims.
00:27:33.000 So, if I were in Candace's seat when I'm kind of gaming this out, which way she would go?
00:27:40.000 If I bring up Mitch Snow, she'd say, Yeah, I brought him on.
00:27:43.000 I never said that he was credible, right?
00:27:46.000 I'm investigating every lead.
00:27:47.000 You can't hold me responsible for his position.
00:27:50.000 And that wastes a lot of my time.
00:27:51.000 Remember, I'm only going to get about three and a half hours here, and I only get an hour and a half.
00:27:56.000 So, what I wanted to do was go after the much stronger claims that she can't just point at and say, Oh, I was just.
00:28:04.000 I was just messing around, or I was just following up on leads, but claims that she has really tied herself to, like the Patsy claim, the Steakhouse claim, the French Foreign Legion claim.
00:28:17.000 These are things that I think are much, much stronger to give opposition to because when she can't actually demonstrate any of this, it makes her look terrible.
00:28:28.000 As opposed to like Mitch Snow, if we were doing Mitch Snow, she would just say, Well, he's just a guy I had on the show.
00:28:34.000 You know, who and I didn't tell anybody they had the Egyptian planes thing, Andrew.
00:28:38.000 She for months was saying this is like the thing that is going to crack everything open.
00:28:44.000 And then, and then I think it was Cain of Coah the Great did a big deep dive, tracked the planes, realized it was like 70% wrong.
00:28:51.000 Even like I think it was two thirds of the time the plane was on a different continent than they had it.
00:28:56.000 I mean, it was trivial because you look at it and it had one.
00:28:59.000 We should point this out that there are multiple times in the spreadsheet where she just repeats the same plane.
00:29:04.000 So, yeah, yeah, that's not a lot of attention to detail, but a lot of it is like.
00:29:08.000 All these times where Erica and these Egyptian planes, they're both flying through Wilmington, Delaware at the same time.
00:29:13.000 And I don't think Erica has literally ever visited Wilmington, Delaware in her life.
00:29:18.000 Yeah.
00:29:18.000 So, I mean, but so anyway, I just think that there's so much that has so much has transpired, so many different stories and so many different threads that we forget and that the average person forgets.
00:29:29.000 And oh, she's just asking questions.
00:29:31.000 She's just on it, you know.
00:29:32.000 But when we actually, I was actually Blake, I was off that day, sort of invited her to have a debate.
00:29:38.000 With us, she ended up pulling something like this French Foreign Legion thing where she thought there was some cartel guy here in Arizona that was going to try and assassinate her.
00:29:48.000 And so we couldn't do it in Arizona, actually.
00:29:50.000 That was like, I don't know if people know that story or not.
00:29:53.000 I can't remember what's public and what's not.
00:29:54.000 That was the excuse.
00:29:55.000 There were multiple layers that she was pairing it.
00:29:58.000 Oh, there could be an assassination threat when I'm approaching the HQ.
00:30:03.000 And then there's like a cartel danger.
00:30:05.000 And then there was a new danger that came after that.
00:30:07.000 Like, endless excuses.
00:30:09.000 And We saw this where she was insisting you had to go to her place.
00:30:13.000 Yeah.
00:30:13.000 Oh, and that's my other question, Andrew.
00:30:15.000 So, there's been much made about this earpiece.
00:30:21.000 And you did question at some point if there was information being fed both ways.
00:30:27.000 I think we have a clip on that, actually, if I'm not mistaken.
00:30:31.000 So, this is PBD talking about this, SOT 5.
00:30:35.000 What is that?
00:30:37.000 What is that?
00:30:37.000 That's an earpiece.
00:30:39.000 Was that legal?
00:30:40.000 It's not like I'm out there saying.
00:30:42.000 You see how he's touching his earpiece?
00:30:43.000 Yeah.
00:30:44.000 Was he wearing an earpiece?
00:30:45.000 100%.
00:30:46.000 He was.
00:30:46.000 Wait a minute.
00:30:46.000 100%.
00:30:47.000 What do you mean he was wearing an earpiece?
00:30:48.000 Candace had it too.
00:30:49.000 Are you ready?
00:30:50.000 Okay, go.
00:30:51.000 That's Candace's earpiece.
00:30:53.000 What does that mean?
00:30:54.000 They gave that earpiece to all of us.
00:30:56.000 So, everybody.
00:30:56.000 Oh, they had it too.
00:30:57.000 No, no, no.
00:30:58.000 But wait a minute.
00:30:59.000 Watch what just happened.
00:31:01.000 The market believes she had an earpiece of things being fed to us.
00:31:05.000 That was an earpiece that Candace's producers gave Candace, gave him.
00:31:08.000 To hear everything you guys behind the scenes.
00:31:10.000 Is she going to say that on air?
00:31:12.000 She would easily, I don't think she would have a problem.
00:31:15.000 I think she will.
00:31:15.000 I don't think she has a problem with that, but that is their earpiece.
00:31:19.000 So, what's the story with the earpiece?
00:31:21.000 Because I asked my tech team, I said, could you, if I had you in studio with me, could I route it in such a way that I feed different sources to different people?
00:31:32.000 We don't have it routed that way, but you could.
00:31:34.000 And they said, yes.
00:31:35.000 Of course.
00:31:36.000 Of course you can.
00:31:37.000 The thing is, though, is like, I can't make that claim because I don't know if it's true or not true.
00:31:45.000 It wouldn't surprise me if it was true.
00:31:48.000 I didn't like the idea of having to get your pieces in.
00:31:50.000 What we were told was you have to have them in.
00:31:53.000 So that you know the cue for we're going to bring up this evidence or we're going to do this or we're going to go to an ad break.
00:31:59.000 That's why you need to have it in.
00:32:02.000 But it wouldn't surprise me if she was being fed through her earpiece at all.
00:32:06.000 So, but I can't say that for certainty.
00:32:09.000 All right, Blake.
00:32:11.000 Andrew has questions for us too.
00:32:13.000 Just so the audience knows, we are going to stream.
00:32:16.000 If this takes longer to get through the whole interview back and forth, like we'll just go longer.
00:32:20.000 We're going long.
00:32:21.000 We're going live.
00:32:21.000 Yeah, we're live.
00:32:23.000 I've asked a bunch of questions.
00:32:25.000 I want to make sure you have a chance to ask any questions.
00:32:27.000 That you have about the debate?
00:32:28.000 I just, I guess I've speculated and like this might be the only time she ever agrees to any debate like this.
00:32:36.000 Well, it's unprecedented, just so you know.
00:32:39.000 Like nothing like this has ever happened on the internet before, as far as I'm aware.
00:32:43.000 The entire thing was unprecedented.
00:32:45.000 The fact that I had to pay for access just to ask basic questions in a way that she couldn't evade, that's probably never going to happen again.
00:32:52.000 Can we just pause there for a second?
00:32:55.000 One of the parts of this that is, I haven't heard.
00:32:57.000 Nearly enough people bring up again.
00:32:59.000 It's the fact that you offered her $300,000 to do the debate and she counters you.
00:33:03.000 She tries to debate.
00:33:03.000 Oh, $500,000.
00:33:04.000 $500,000.
00:33:05.000 And then when you guys do the debate, she's running ads.
00:33:09.000 I just couldn't.
00:33:10.000 Okay.
00:33:11.000 Fair enough.
00:33:12.000 If you saw the contract correspondence, these people were just insane to deal with.
00:33:18.000 But my thought process was who cares?
00:33:22.000 Just make whatever concessions they want and get in the room because I know once I'm in the room, I'm going to be able to expose that there's no evidence for any of these claims at all, and there never has been.
00:33:33.000 So that was my whole thought process was like, whatever, just concede to whatever crazy stuff that they want so that we can get there.
00:33:40.000 Yeah.
00:33:40.000 Well, I have another question.
00:33:41.000 Well, do you feel there was any unfinished business to the debate?
00:33:45.000 Is there anything you really wish you'd gotten to, or is there anything if you had a round two without spoiling what your strategy would be should that round two happen that you feel it merits more exploration?
00:33:58.000 Yeah, I think you rate yourself the only.
00:34:00.000 My biggest, yeah, my biggest critique is that I think it would have actually been better if we had done timed rounds so I could hold her feet to the fire better because she would just filibuster, right?
00:34:13.000 If you look at the debate time, she got twice the speaking time that I did.
00:34:17.000 And you can't be particularly aggressive.
00:34:20.000 It's in her house with, you know, she's pregnant.
00:34:23.000 It would have been terrible optics if I had been as aggressive as I have been in the past in different debates.
00:34:29.000 I had to take a different strategy here.
00:34:31.000 Ultimately, though, yeah, I think that she needed to be hammered even more on a lot of these questions until she actually gave even more concise answers and reconciled some of the contradictions.
00:34:43.000 But that just wasn't possible in that format.
00:34:45.000 But I think ultimately we got exactly what it was that I set out to do, which is we got the answer, right?
00:34:53.000 That there's no evidence.
00:34:55.000 That's what everybody in the world got.
00:34:56.000 They got the answer.
00:34:57.000 There's no evidence of any kind for these claims.
00:35:00.000 Well, and I think that's why this is going to age really, really well for you, Andrew.
00:35:04.000 Because I knew that she had the bigger following.
00:35:06.000 It was going to be like, you know, Candace won, all that stuff.
00:35:09.000 Of course.
00:35:09.000 We knew we were going to get Zerged.
00:35:11.000 And if it wasn't the clip that they picked, it would have been a different clip.
00:35:14.000 It doesn't matter.
00:35:15.000 We knew that the Zerg was going to happen.
00:35:17.000 Anytime I've debated with much larger creators or media talent, the Zerg happens.
00:35:22.000 There's not much that you can do about it.
00:35:24.000 But they only get about 48 or 72 hours.
00:35:27.000 And then when other people start picking it up and picking it apart, they go, whoa, wait a second.
00:35:31.000 There's serious problems here.
00:35:33.000 Yeah.
00:35:34.000 Well, and so did you, were you concerned she was just going to get up and walk out if you pressed her too hard or if you got too aggressive?
00:35:40.000 Yes.
00:35:41.000 In fact, she wanted to make it very clear in the contract that once we're seated in the studio, essentially her contractual obligation is fulfilled.
00:35:50.000 And so that was, she was trying to make that, you know, part of the agreement of the initial contract.
00:35:57.000 And that was, in fact, I'm sure in case she did decide that she was getting pressed too hard and then rage quit and then said, but that now I can keep all the money, right?
00:36:07.000 Because we fulfilled our contractual end.
00:36:10.000 Did you put the money in like an escrow account or something?
00:36:13.000 Like where did the money go?
00:36:15.000 I'm sure you had some stipulation of what it would take to release it, right?
00:36:19.000 Well, my attorney said, send it to his attorney.
00:36:22.000 Because if they don't fulfill their end of the contract and he releases it, they get disbarred.
00:36:26.000 So, you know, send it to him and direct to his escrow.
00:36:30.000 It's their attorney, right?
00:36:32.000 Like if their attorney won't release it to them, then they got a problem.
00:36:35.000 You know what I mean?
00:36:37.000 So that's how I set it up we'll send $300,000 to your attorney.
00:36:42.000 I mean, you know, I'm reminded of something that Charlie told us, something Blake and I have reflected on.
00:36:50.000 You know, he said, if you want to understand, Candace just knows all she cares about is money, which I think he's actually was mistaken about.
00:36:58.000 I think we've seen that it's power, it's influence.
00:37:01.000 I don't even know what it's power.
00:37:02.000 I think it's money, attention.
00:37:05.000 She loves attention.
00:37:08.000 Yeah, we could speculate more, but the money thing just goes away.
00:37:11.000 I think it's just about being able to destroy a person's life and then saying that you're justified in doing it because you're running a quote investigation.
00:37:19.000 The fact of the matter is that these people have run for essentially a year.
00:37:26.000 A massive campaign of slander, doxing, harassment, every sort of horror that you can imagine conducted on other people.
00:37:35.000 And if you even dare disagree with them in a public sense, they move to report your channel.
00:37:40.000 I can show you hundreds of these various messages saying, Go to Andrew's YouTube, right?
00:37:46.000 He promised people who were members he was going to release information and didn't.
00:37:50.000 That's a violation of TOS.
00:37:51.000 Go report him when they knew it wasn't true, right?
00:37:54.000 Well, it's a tons and tons of these people focus on deplatforming doxing operations.
00:38:00.000 And then justify it through, quote, we're running an investigation.
00:38:03.000 And the internet usually frowns on that in a big way.
00:38:07.000 But because they claim that it's an open source investigation, they've thus far been able to get away with some of that.
00:38:12.000 But I'm hoping that we're going to start putting a stop to it.
00:38:14.000 Well, and they all got their own group chats.
00:38:17.000 And I noticed I can see it on my, like on X, if I make a post and you can see it raises their attention, it catches their attention.
00:38:24.000 They all brigade it and they try and get a community note put on it.
00:38:27.000 You see this kind of coordinated efforts a lot, actually.
00:38:31.000 And they made a big deal about this group of 92.
00:38:33.000 Let me say for the, For the internet's record here, I didn't even know this group chat existed.
00:38:41.000 Nobody was paid, nobody was coordinated.
00:38:43.000 These are people doing it organically to defend against what they see as a smear campaign, a character assassination against Erica, against Turning Point, against Charlie's legacy.
00:38:53.000 We don't have to pay people to do this.
00:38:56.000 There are still good people out there that see it and see it for what it is.
00:39:00.000 And the hypocrisy is crazy because they're doing this themselves.
00:39:04.000 And we can see it in the way that they brigade the comments and they.
00:39:06.000 Attack your channel.
00:39:07.000 Well, there isn't any justification at all for you to just say, this group of people disagrees with me.
00:39:16.000 So all bets are off.
00:39:20.000 Imagine having the power to just make the claim, well, this person could potentially be in on it.
00:39:25.000 And just by saying that, you now have given carte blanche power to people to run massive doxing and harassment campaigns, look for private data, look for private medical records, private emails.
00:39:38.000 Private papers and effects, private conversations, various things like this.
00:39:44.000 They now believe that they have carte blanche to all of that on private individuals by just giving the nod, oh, they might have been in on it.
00:39:52.000 Wink, wink.
00:39:53.000 That, by the way, gentlemen, is extraordinary power for one single person on the internet to have.
00:40:00.000 It's extraordinary power to be able to just mark an entire mob to go and destroy a person's entire life.
00:40:09.000 By just saying they could be a part of this thing.
00:40:12.000 I mean, that's, that's, and I think that a lot of people miss that part that they've been able to justify this by claiming it's an open source investigation.
00:40:23.000 You'll hear Stew Peters say this.
00:40:24.000 You'll hear these guys say this all the time.
00:40:26.000 And what that does is it justifies the horrific behavior.
00:40:31.000 I mean, we've seen this.
00:40:32.000 I just, we know people around here.
00:40:34.000 It's like they just circle around, they're predatory.
00:40:38.000 You mentioned how, They like the idea that when you claim you're an investigator, it lets you do anything to people.
00:40:43.000 But I think a deeper psychological thing is it is addictive to people to be wantonly cruel to someone.
00:40:51.000 And then if you can tell the person who's doing that, actually, this is morally righteous.
00:40:55.000 That's an incredibly addictive thing.
00:40:57.000 It's what drives the French Revolution, these Maoist struggle sessions.
00:41:01.000 Like every great frenzy in history has had itself driven by this sort of behavior and egging on this cruelty.
00:41:09.000 Are you saying that this is a leftist?
00:41:10.000 Movement, and I think it is.
00:41:12.000 I call her her followers Cantifa for that reason.
00:41:14.000 They act like it is.
00:41:16.000 Actually, Blake makes a very uh astute point here that if you look at color revolutions of the past where they say it's us versus them, you'll see a lot of this in the posting as well.
00:41:27.000 It's about the elites, it's about the oligarchs, it's about the dividers at the top trying to keep us uh down.
00:41:35.000 Right?
00:41:35.000 These are all very uh very communist and by the way, feminist coded.
00:41:41.000 If you're if you want to know the truth, very feminist coded language, the idea of.
00:41:45.000 Well, we're just being divided not because of worldviews, but because the rich, powerful elite want us to be divided.
00:41:52.000 No, we actually, normal people have completely different worldviews from each other.
00:41:57.000 They're going to be divided on political issues across the board.
00:42:00.000 That is the state of affairs, has nothing even to do with the elite.
00:42:04.000 While I'm sure that there are some people who exacerbate certain problems in order to get divisionary responses or rage bait or what have you, people have very different worldviews, but it's very, very feminist coded language, very communist coded language.
00:42:19.000 I do actually agree with that because I see it over and over and over again.
00:42:23.000 And you'll hear this in that particular movement all the time.
00:42:26.000 There's no right left paradigm.
00:42:29.000 The right left dialectic is false.
00:42:31.000 The right left paradigm is false.
00:42:33.000 It's like, no, it's not.
00:42:35.000 It's not false.
00:42:36.000 I don't know how you think that I'm going to just like suddenly unite with 90 million abortionists.
00:42:43.000 How do you think that works?
00:42:44.000 Like, I'm just going to go, oh, okay, well, you're right.
00:42:47.000 The elites are keeping us down.
00:42:48.000 I'm going to go over there and unite with 90 million abortionists who want abortion legal.
00:42:53.000 And want to continue to murder children for the next however long the rest of my existence, right?
00:42:59.000 No, I don't think so.
00:43:00.000 I don't think I'm going to do that, actually.
00:43:02.000 Yeah, well, which is why your observation that they're partnering with some of these Act Blue groups, I think, is really apt and was a keen insight that you injected into the discourse because it completely is feminist coded.
00:43:15.000 It is left coded and it's horrible.
00:43:17.000 And I just want people watching to understand that we've had low level staff had to have cops parked out in front of their homes because they got doxxed.
00:43:27.000 And I think I mentioned you were mentioning that power to just sick a giant mob on people.
00:43:32.000 That I was talking to a member of our staff who was.
00:43:35.000 Featured in one of her recent episodes, and he had not seen the episode and didn't know what it said.
00:43:39.000 And he just goes, Blake, was I the topic today?
00:43:43.000 Because I can tell because I get the unsolicited Facebook messages, I get the unsolicited text messages start to come in, it all floods in.
00:43:52.000 So he knows when he's been a character in the stuff that they're doing soap opera, this drip, And I do want to actually address that, you know, because before the debate, you reached out.
00:44:07.000 And this is one of the reasons that Candace has said that you were our horse or whatever.
00:44:12.000 Again, Andrew did this of his own accord.
00:44:14.000 He's been on this since before I even knew he existed.
00:44:17.000 He was debating people about this before I even knew who you were.
00:44:22.000 But you did reach out before the debate and you said, hey, I've got some questions.
00:44:27.000 Do you have any evidence about some of this stuff?
00:44:30.000 Now, some of this stuff we didn't even know about internally because it was like on Charlie's phone and.
00:44:36.000 You know, Erica looked on the wrong apps.
00:44:39.000 It was this text exchange, and you read it at the beginning in your opening comments.
00:44:44.000 You have not disclosed it publicly, and I have told the team that it's yours to disclose it at the timing that you wish.
00:44:51.000 And you've said you're going to disclose that on Friday, but that was something that I wasn't even fully aware of the language that Charlie used, which was he was concerned about the left.
00:45:03.000 And he was very specific about it.
00:45:05.000 Now, the thing that was interesting, it didn't shock me a bit.
00:45:10.000 Because when I went back and looked at all of Kirk's public tweets and when he would do public speaking and interviews, if you're talking about Bill Maher, for instance, where he calls them the purple haired Taliban, if you look at his tweets where he says that he's concerned that leftists are attempting to kill and murder him, that doesn't surprise me at all.
00:45:30.000 Why?
00:45:30.000 Because I receive tons and tons and tons of death threats from leftists, and it's constant.
00:45:37.000 Now, they've gotten smarter about coding it.
00:45:39.000 They'll usually say things like, I hope you unalive yourself, or I hope you get what's coming to you.
00:45:44.000 What's coming to you is coming soon, but it's all coded language for threats.
00:45:47.000 Let's not kid ourselves.
00:45:49.000 And so the interesting part here is like it didn't shock me a bit because Kirk's entire pattern, when I went back and reviewed it, was he was really, really, really concerned a leftist was going to kill him.
00:46:03.000 And then it looks, at least appears at the moment, based on all the evidence that one did, that that's exactly what happened, that his fears were completely justified.
00:46:12.000 Andrew, we have stories specifically about this.
00:46:15.000 The only time I ever saw Charlie remove somebody, because sometimes security, somebody was acting up and we didn't even hear about it until after the fact.
00:46:24.000 Security will remove somebody or whatever from an event.
00:46:26.000 The only time I ever saw Charlie say, that person needs to go was when he personally felt unsafe around a trans person at one of the events.
00:46:36.000 And he was like, I don't feel safe.
00:46:38.000 That person needs to go.
00:46:39.000 He sensed this for years.
00:46:41.000 Shortly after I started working with you guys, Spring 23 was the Covenant shooting in Nashville.
00:46:46.000 And Charlie said, like, this is going to be the first, there's going to be a lot of these.
00:46:50.000 And I was skeptical.
00:46:51.000 I was like, shootings are rare.
00:46:52.000 I remember shootings are rare.
00:46:53.000 And you were contrarian on that.
00:46:54.000 I was contrarian.
00:46:54.000 I was like, shootings are rare.
00:46:55.000 And it's, you know, if they're taking feminizing hormones, that's going to make you less likely to do shooty type stuff.
00:47:02.000 And I was totally wrong because there started to be more of those.
00:47:05.000 There was one, we were, I remember him saying like a trans person might do it.
00:47:10.000 This was not a text, otherwise I'd show it, but it was in person because a few days before September 10th, there was one up in Canada, I believe, where again, it was one of the, I think it was an MTF, and they went nuts and shot up their school or some sort of function like that.
00:47:26.000 And I think the family, anyways, yeah, and we were, So, before we do these tours, we would put together these binders.
00:47:33.000 The team would work on binders.
00:47:34.000 Different people would get different topics.
00:47:37.000 And it was for him to study, right?
00:47:39.000 Talking points, stats, new surveys that came out.
00:47:43.000 And for the fall semester, his express direction to the team was don't put trans stuff in the binder.
00:47:52.000 And he wanted to go easy on that subject after the election, didn't feel like he wanted to hit it, didn't want to poke the bear.
00:47:57.000 We're winning that one.
00:47:59.000 And he was legitimately worried about that specific topic.
00:48:03.000 So there's like, and yeah, and he mentioned the Bill Maher clip.
00:48:06.000 And there's actually a major part of this that you guys may not actually know about, for that justifies Kirk's fear of this even more.
00:48:15.000 And I don't know if he knew about this or not, but it did happen.
00:48:18.000 Once upon a time on Twitch politics and on YouTube, there was a lunatic named Keffels who was utilizing the T mob to deplatform any creator who spoke out against T hormones and things like this towards children.
00:48:34.000 They were referred to as the T mob.
00:48:36.000 Right.
00:48:36.000 They called them the trans mob for a reason.
00:48:38.000 And that's exactly what they did.
00:48:41.000 And they would deplatform, they would silence all opposition.
00:48:44.000 And it was bad.
00:48:45.000 Like they didn't even want to say a word about it because they would just instantly mass report you'd be deplatformed.
00:48:50.000 That would be the end of you.
00:48:52.000 So these people were beginning their approach for these kind of mass campaigns against right wingers before it ever even turned into the violence that you saw.
00:49:03.000 It started online with deplatforming and unpersoning.
00:49:06.000 So there's actually a lot more to give that.
00:49:09.000 Credit than you might even think.
00:49:12.000 No, and we, by the way, that's how we ran Charlie's YouTube, just so everybody's clear.
00:49:16.000 We're never allowed to go into that topic because he did get demonetized.
00:49:21.000 I believe the team can fact check me on it, but I believe it was over that topic.
00:49:26.000 Different things for different platforms like Facebook, it was climate change, YouTube, it was always the trans stuff.
00:49:31.000 Anyway, so we were very, very careful about that specific topic.
00:49:35.000 So just another piece of evidence behind what you're talking about here.
00:49:39.000 Andrew, So, an hour has gone by very, very quickly here, and we're going to sign off for our Real America's Voice family here in just about a minute and a half.
00:49:51.000 But, you know, I think to wrap this up and then we're going to transition, we'll keep going, and you get to then ask us questions because that's what we agreed to, and we're an open book, so you can feel free to ask.
00:50:02.000 And if you would like, I can always, you know, if you want to keep it within the time constraints, we can always come back next week and I can ask the questions.
00:50:10.000 No, I think let's just keep rolling.
00:50:11.000 Let's just get you sure.
00:50:12.000 What about the drip, drip, Andrew?
00:50:13.000 Don't you want to do the drip?
00:50:14.000 No, I'm kidding.
00:50:15.000 We could do the drip, drip.
00:50:16.000 Go ahead.
00:50:16.000 That's actually it.
00:50:17.000 We could do the drip, drip.
00:50:18.000 By the way, the team confirms we were demonetized, and Charlie was demonetized and had his account blocked on YouTube because of trans.
00:50:26.000 So that has been confirmed.
00:50:27.000 Well, that doesn't surprise me because you were dealing with the T Mob for a long time.
00:50:31.000 One of the fact checkers I had there, Rob Knorr, very close friend of mine.
00:50:36.000 He was the same gentleman who went out and assisted me with the debate for the pickup of the mic.
00:50:40.000 Very, very, very nice guy.
00:50:43.000 And he was demonetized for several years on and off due to the fact that he was refusing to back down from the T Mafia and was making fun of them so much.
00:50:54.000 So he dealt with that himself quite a bit.
00:50:57.000 What we ended up having to do on YouTube was just take it off YouTube and go to alternative platforms if we even wanted to discuss it.
00:51:03.000 That's how powerful that lobby became until right wingers began breaking it up.
00:51:09.000 We stopped streaming Charlie's show on YouTube.
00:51:12.000 We would only edit out clips and then post them after the fact.
00:51:14.000 That's how bad it was.
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00:52:44.000 It feels kind of like we're transitioning over to your.
00:52:47.000 Oh, wording, phrasing.
00:52:48.000 Whoops, whoops, I'm not wording.
00:52:50.000 To the crucible.
00:52:51.000 You're going to drive, and I guess we're the guests here.
00:52:56.000 So we are men of our word.
00:52:59.000 So the floor is yours.
00:53:01.000 Yeah.
00:53:02.000 One of the reasons that I agreed to do the interview is because.
00:53:07.000 My own audience has had many questions about this since I began discussing these lunatics online, essentially.
00:53:15.000 And that's what I consider them to be.
00:53:18.000 And I thought that maybe if they heard a lot of what I had heard, that they would kind of understand my thought process and how I got to some of these inductions.
00:53:26.000 And so I'd like to start by going all the way back.
00:53:28.000 And maybe you can tell us actually what the relationship was between Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk.
00:53:33.000 What actually was it?
00:53:35.000 Yeah, I'd like to go first there, even though you have far more to say, Andrew, because.
00:53:40.000 I can just speak from my perspective as someone who arrived late 22, moved out here in 23.
00:53:45.000 That I have never met Candace Owens and don't know her.
00:53:51.000 Maybe I saw her in person once at a distance.
00:53:53.000 Maybe I shook her hand.
00:53:55.000 I've never had a conversation with her, to my knowledge.
00:53:57.000 And I think that speaks to something because I was with Charlie for close to three years.
00:54:02.000 And I feel like I met most of the people Charlie was super close with.
00:54:05.000 I met donors, I met his family members, I met his team, I met a lot.
00:54:10.000 And I don't know Candace.
00:54:12.000 So, I like to use that as a preface, but you have more that you can say about that.
00:54:16.000 Yeah.
00:54:16.000 And Blake, you have that great video that everybody plays of you reacting to Candace.
00:54:23.000 Oh, yeah, where I'm kind of like raising my eyebrow.
00:54:25.000 It's fair to say Blake was early on the being suspicious train.
00:54:33.000 Yeah.
00:54:33.000 If you go back far enough, I mean, that's why I put out that tweet basically saying, you know, Candace, your central foundational lie is that you and Charlie were friends.
00:54:41.000 You were not friends, right?
00:54:43.000 Show me something from recent.
00:54:45.000 You know, the end of Charlie's life, the last 12 months or whatever.
00:54:48.000 I think she, she, and then I said 18 months, 24 months.
00:54:51.000 I think she showed something at 22 months.
00:54:53.000 And so I got community noted, right?
00:54:55.000 Okay, whatever.
00:54:57.000 What I can tell you is that I think Charlie and Candace were friends back in 2018, part of 2019.
00:55:04.000 That did not end well at all, actually.
00:55:08.000 Could you have more details there?
00:55:09.000 Even I would like to hear that.
00:55:10.000 Like, what caused her to depart, if we can say?
00:55:13.000 Well, I mean, there's two things, really.
00:55:16.000 And part of it is you got to give credit where it's due.
00:55:18.000 She was a rising star, she was growing really fast.
00:55:21.000 You know, Charlie famously sort of offered her a job.
00:55:24.000 What did you?
00:55:25.000 Sorry if I missed something that you said, Andrew.
00:55:28.000 Oh, okay.
00:55:28.000 Oh, you're good.
00:55:29.000 Yeah.
00:55:30.000 So she was, you know, Charlie offered her a job basically right on meeting her, kind of saw that she was somebody that could help Turning Point, help the movement, in his opinion.
00:55:41.000 And then they, you know, she explodes onto the scene.
00:55:44.000 You know, Kanye had that tweet where it's like, I like the way Candace Owens thinks.
00:55:48.000 And it was kind of like a rocket ship, right?
00:55:51.000 And then they had, but she became more and more difficult to work with, more and more issues with the team.
00:55:58.000 And then she had that moment where.
00:56:00.000 When you say difficult to work with, what do you mean?
00:56:03.000 I think, you know, she was very aware of her rising star power.
00:56:07.000 And so she started exerting more demands on timing, on where she could be deployed, what schools.
00:56:15.000 So she was becoming like a prima donna?
00:56:17.000 You could use that as a.
00:56:18.000 That's what I've heard.
00:56:19.000 I've definitely heard complaints from people who have worked with her.
00:56:21.000 Yeah, and that continued on after when we started working with her later on.
00:56:25.000 Just, you know, I think she canceled an event.
00:56:29.000 With us and our event team still tells this story, you know, like the day before, and we had to scramble to get it replaced because, you know, she ended up in like France with Kanye or something the next day.
00:56:41.000 Um, and so, so, anyways, the point is that it was just an ongoing kind of growing frustration.
00:56:48.000 And then she had that event where she basically said Hitler was great if he just would have stayed, you know, in uh, Germany, stayed in Germany, which you know, there's a lot of now to be fair and charitable here.
00:57:02.000 Right, just to be as unbiased as possible.
00:57:05.000 I went, I did go back and review that clip, uh, as that seemed like it was the turning point for turning point was that actual clip.
00:57:14.000 Sure, uh, it didn't seem to me that, um, she wasn't actually trying to make any sort of like apologetics for Hitler, but rather she was trying to make a comparison to nationalism and saying that as a nationalist, she thought he did a good job.
00:57:32.000 Um, and that was, and then.
00:57:33.000 You know, she basically just kind of misspoke and buried herself with that particular lead.
00:57:38.000 But obviously, it became a massive PR nightmare for Turning Point, right?
00:57:43.000 That's how that ended up playing out.
00:57:44.000 Well, I think it's one of those statements where you can defend it and then, you know, in isolation.
00:57:51.000 And then events afterwards, I think, lend greater clarity to it.
00:57:55.000 Yeah, it was part of a whole.
00:57:56.000 Yeah, like the defense you could make is, oh, she just meant, oh, he wanted Germany's economy to grow.
00:58:01.000 He wanted to undo Versailles.
00:58:03.000 She didn't mean the weird kill all the Jews.
00:58:06.000 Except then.
00:58:07.000 2023, 2024, she actually becomes obsessed with the Jews all the time.
00:58:14.000 Yeah, I would say it was part of a whole, though, to your point.
00:58:16.000 Yeah, you could, if that was a one off, you probably could have defended it.
00:58:19.000 But then we had a bunch of chapters that were really up in arms about it.
00:58:22.000 And then you had this, I think it was a Christchurch shooter in New Zealand that, like, said she was, this guy was inspired by Candace.
00:58:29.000 It was like a whole bunch of stuff.
00:58:31.000 And so it didn't leave on good terms.
00:58:35.000 And, but, you know, Charlie, being a gentleman, wanted to make sure that the transition happened in a, uh, I guess you would say, like, a kind of a soft landing sort of way.
00:58:45.000 Tyler Boyer helped her start Blexit and file the paperwork.
00:58:49.000 I think the original paperwork was filed at Tyler's house at the time, is the story I've heard, but who knows the details.
00:58:57.000 And, you know, provided her with some donor money and donor contacts, and there were some issues there as well.
00:59:06.000 You know, anyways, the point is there was a lot of, I think, hurt feelings.
00:59:10.000 It didn't end well, but Charlie's always a guy that is willing to sort of let bygones be bygones.
00:59:15.000 He was always focused on the greater mission, the movement.
00:59:19.000 It was not a coalition builder, right?
00:59:21.000 Yeah, it's a coalition builder, and he wouldn't focus on internet feuds.
00:59:25.000 He never got into that.
00:59:26.000 One of the reasons that we were probably slow to respond to some of this stuff is because we were trying to emulate what Charlie would do, which was he would all he, I mean, people would attack him all the time, and he would just kind of like be like, hey, we're going to rise above it.
00:59:40.000 We're going to be, we're going to keep doing good work, and that's the way, that's the way forward.
00:59:44.000 And I mean, eventually, at some point, it becomes impossible to do that, right?
00:59:47.000 Um, it's in this instance, it's so it's genuinely sad in that I think she and others were able to.
00:59:53.000 Take advantage of Charlie's own goodness as a person.
00:59:56.000 That if he has differences with someone, he's usually going to operate privately.
01:00:01.000 He's not going to speak about it.
01:00:03.000 I mean, we know plenty of other cases where Charlie had drama with donors and he wouldn't even necessarily share it with other people in the organization because he wasn't a guy who was just spewing out his problems, his beefs, his concerns, his feuds.
01:00:18.000 And that's counter.
01:00:19.000 He was a good bridge builder because he would repair things with people later.
01:00:22.000 Yeah.
01:00:23.000 Well, these things would be essentially counterintuitive.
01:00:26.000 If you're trying to have this massive reach of coalition building for the purpose of winning elections, and nobody takes away from Charlie Kirk or Turning Point USA that they likely assisted a great deal in Trump's election, which means that this coalition building that they did actually worked quite well.
01:00:46.000 So I don't think that there's any, you know, anybody's disputing any of that.
01:00:49.000 The main question just becomes this one of the kind of landing pad for these people is they start with the assumption that Candace Owens.
01:00:59.000 And Charlie Kirk were besties.
01:01:01.000 They were great buds.
01:01:03.000 They were the besties of all besties.
01:01:05.000 They were great friends and they always were great friends.
01:01:09.000 And she's just trying to find out what happened to her friend.
01:01:13.000 But that narrative, as I learned when I was there, actually is not, in fact, true.
01:01:18.000 And so that's what I'm asking you to speak to is there any real truth to that narrative at all?
01:01:24.000 No.
01:01:24.000 And especially at the end, I would say, okay, maybe 22 months was the cutoff.
01:01:30.000 I don't know what the cutoff was exactly.
01:01:32.000 But no, I said online and I'll say it again.
01:01:35.000 Charlie was basically managing that relationship.
01:01:37.000 He saw what she did to the Daily Wire.
01:01:40.000 She saw that it, you know, that that became a spat where he originally sided with her.
01:01:44.000 Yeah, he did.
01:01:45.000 He did.
01:01:46.000 Because in our history with Daily Wire, it was, you know, mixed, right?
01:01:49.000 We had differences of opinion politically.
01:01:51.000 We weren't always sure, you know, where that relationship sat.
01:01:54.000 But Charlie, it's a great example, though.
01:01:56.000 Charlie was the one who invited Ben to speak at Amfest in 2024 and 2025.
01:02:01.000 He personally invited him.
01:02:03.000 And so he was willing to kind of say, hey, what's in the best interest of the movement?
01:02:07.000 Do we have 80% agreement and 20% disagreement?
01:02:10.000 Okay, cool.
01:02:11.000 Let's do this together.
01:02:13.000 And so, yeah, they were not in any way, shape, or form friends in any traditional sense.
01:02:18.000 But I think what would happen was, for example, I would have to have the hard conversations with Candace.
01:02:26.000 So that would fall to me or Justin on the team saying, hey, you can't speak at our events because you've been like juice burgering too much.
01:02:34.000 Sorry.
01:02:34.000 You know, and then you'd talk with George and all this stuff, and he would send her like a nice text about, Hey, I see you know, attendance at Catholic churches is going up, right?
01:02:45.000 So that was kind of basically the way the relationship worked.
01:02:47.000 But she didn't come to his wedding.
01:02:50.000 She didn't come to the memorial.
01:02:51.000 I did actually invite her to the memorial, but she didn't come.
01:02:55.000 I invited her and George not to speak, but to attend.
01:02:59.000 And that was before everything got really crazy.
01:03:02.000 But I will tell you, Charlie, this is another proof point.
01:03:06.000 Charlie, she called at some point, I believe it was February 2024.
01:03:11.000 Things were going bad with Daily Wire, and she needed her own PR.
01:03:15.000 And Charlie said, Andrew, you need to.
01:03:18.000 To do this and help Candace, I was like, I don't know about that.
01:03:21.000 I have some misgivings, some pretty serious misgivings.
01:03:25.000 And he was like, you know, he wanted me to keep her, you know, close to help protect the organization, you know, and that was one of his strategies.
01:03:34.000 And so, and I hate sharing this stuff because I like to keep Charlie's private stuff private.
01:03:39.000 But like when it, when it, you are constantly confronted with these allegations, at some point, you just, what do you, you're backed against the wall.
01:03:47.000 Yeah.
01:03:47.000 And I remember the truth is, it was a gradual process.
01:03:51.000 So Charlie was.
01:03:53.000 Taking Candace's side.
01:03:54.000 That video you mentioned where I kind of have a funny look on my face, that's happening where Candace was on her way out of the wire and he was siding with her.
01:04:02.000 And I was telling him, Charlie, I don't think Candace has gone beyond the pale yet, but I think eventually she will.
01:04:09.000 You were early on that.
01:04:10.000 Seeing this process play out, it tends to not go part way in that style.
01:04:14.000 I remember Blake kept predicting, like, she's on a bad trajectory here, Charlie.
01:04:17.000 Like, this is not going to end well.
01:04:19.000 And I love that about Charlie.
01:04:21.000 Charlie was always sort of like hoping.
01:04:23.000 For a redemption arc, hoping that he could pull somebody back in and get them into the fold.
01:04:28.000 And he always held out a little bit of hope in that way.
01:04:31.000 And so you saw this where it's like stuff breaks down.
01:04:35.000 So I think even in spring of 24, she was doing events with us.
01:04:40.000 I think that was her last one.
01:04:40.000 Yeah, the standard where Charlie's west of the Mississippi, she's east of the Mississippi.
01:04:44.000 That goes away because she's going too nuts.
01:04:48.000 And the communication is becoming less, the appearances are becoming less.
01:04:53.000 And he's still not going to go out and say, Candace is terrible now.
01:04:57.000 I'm going to dump on her.
01:04:58.000 That's just not the nature of what Charlie was doing.
01:05:00.000 He would never do that.
01:05:01.000 I don't know if we've answered your question, but I mean, there's a lot there.
01:05:06.000 I think you did.
01:05:08.000 The team.
01:05:09.000 You could ask anybody on the team, by the way, from the events team to the field team to senior people, the lower people.
01:05:15.000 I did ask around when I was there.
01:05:17.000 I was curious, right?
01:05:18.000 You know me.
01:05:19.000 I can't help myself.
01:05:21.000 I didn't actually see you asking that stuff, but I wasn't there the whole time.
01:05:24.000 But I'm.
01:05:26.000 It's fascinating that you did.
01:05:28.000 So, yeah, I always, you know, I'm always trying to dot my I's and cross my T's.
01:05:33.000 I'm a curious person by nature.
01:05:36.000 But I do want to ask this too.
01:05:39.000 So, moving forward, in September, right, these attacks didn't seem like they were all that prominent yet.
01:05:48.000 She didn't seem like she was moving over to kind of a vicious attack of TPUSA until slightly later than September.
01:05:57.000 October.
01:05:58.000 Yeah.
01:05:58.000 Yeah, the question becomes like, what happened in that period?
01:06:04.000 Did you have communication with her?
01:06:06.000 Were you talking to her?
01:06:07.000 Were you concerned about her safety?
01:06:08.000 This type of thing.
01:06:11.000 What was the interim there that caused her to move into we have to destroy TPUSA?
01:06:18.000 Like, what actually happened there?
01:06:20.000 Well, that's man, you're tempting me to share something I haven't shared before, but so I immediately was in touch with Candace.
01:06:30.000 I so.
01:06:32.000 Again, reminding you in the audience, I was one of the people tasked with sort of, you know, being her point of contact with the org for a number of years.
01:06:43.000 And, um, I, so, you know, when everything happened initially, you're sort of, it feels like the whole slate is wiped clean.
01:06:54.000 You have new beginnings.
01:06:55.000 This terrible thing has just happened.
01:06:57.000 And you're reaching out to people and talking to people.
01:06:59.000 They're reaching out to you.
01:07:00.000 And it's just an overwhelming sense of like, We're all living through this tragedy together.
01:07:05.000 Bygones be bygones, water under the bridge.
01:07:07.000 Okay, it's been tense.
01:07:08.000 We've had our differences.
01:07:10.000 But we just lost Charlie.
01:07:12.000 And, you know, I think you're operating under a place of hope that, you know, we're all in this together.
01:07:19.000 And so I was very happy in the immediate aftermath to communicate with Candace and share what I knew and share what facts were coming in.
01:07:27.000 And I was, you know, really worried about her safety, especially that day of there were rumors floating around that I was later told were.
01:07:34.000 Disinformation that they were maybe targeting her and Tucker and maybe even Megan Kelly.
01:07:40.000 And apparently that just turned out to be misinformation, presumably maybe Russian.
01:07:45.000 I don't know.
01:07:47.000 So, but, you know, people were picking stuff up, send it to me.
01:07:50.000 I wanted to make sure she was aware of those potential threats.
01:07:53.000 And then we just kept talking.
01:07:54.000 And, you know, what I think the, I think that we stopped communication in October because it just became extraordinarily, Clear that this was heading in a terrible direction and she was no longer operating in good faith.
01:08:10.000 But I remember one conversation, it was probably like five or six days after.
01:08:14.000 And I remember I had flown to DC.
01:08:17.000 We had JD Vance hosted Charlie's show on that Monday after.
01:08:21.000 So Charlie was killed on a Wednesday and then JD hosted the show on the Monday.
01:08:27.000 So I remember I flew back, landed in the airport, and I believe I was talking to Candace.
01:08:30.000 And she said something that I've not publicly communicated yet, but.
01:08:35.000 Basically, it was that if the wrong people take over the organization, and she said this, I'll never forget it.
01:08:42.000 She says, I will burn down that organization, I swear to God.
01:08:46.000 And you mean turning point?
01:08:48.000 Turning point.
01:08:48.000 If the wrong people, and I just assumed because she was very obviously anti Jewish.
01:08:52.000 There were no wars at this time.
01:08:54.000 It was five days, six days after whatever it was.
01:08:57.000 She said, I'm going to burn down that organization, I swear to God.
01:08:59.000 And I just thought she meant if the Jews take over.
01:09:02.000 Ben Shapiro.
01:09:02.000 Let's just say the name.
01:09:03.000 Ben Shapiro.
01:09:04.000 People were throwing out because Ben Shapiro had appeared on the show.
01:09:06.000 Some people ran with, like, Ben Shapiro has now taken over.
01:09:09.000 Well, he hadn't appeared.
01:09:10.000 I don't know if he had appeared on that.
01:09:11.000 I think he was actually going to show up the next day on the Tuesday because it went JD, the Daily Wire guys, Glenn Beck, Megan Kelly, Tucker Carlson.
01:09:19.000 That first week.
01:09:21.000 I don't think that you even know what you just said there and how much of a bombshell that is.
01:09:27.000 Can you repeat that again?
01:09:29.000 Yeah.
01:09:29.000 Did you just say that Candace Owens told you that if the wrong people take over TPUSA, she's going to burn it to the ground?
01:09:37.000 Yeah.
01:09:37.000 Like five or six days after Charlie was killed.
01:09:40.000 And then what did, and then what?
01:09:41.000 Did you say that?
01:09:42.000 And I said, I told her because I knew that Charlie had told me multiple times, and multiple, I'll say two, maybe three times I'd heard it.
01:09:50.000 Then I was at Aspen when he was at Aspen.
01:09:52.000 And I've said it was a miasma.
01:09:53.000 This would come up in conversation, and everyone would say.
01:09:56.000 We all just knew if something happened to Charlie that Erica would take over, but we didn't think that hard about it because we just kind of assumed Charlie was going to be with us for the next 56 years.
01:10:04.000 But at that point, I told her before it was public information, you know, Erica, I think, is going to take over.
01:10:12.000 And, you know, she's very conservative.
01:10:13.000 She's Christian, you know, like.
01:10:15.000 This is what Charlie wanted.
01:10:16.000 The board was informed about this when Charlie was alive.
01:10:20.000 Like, this is what's going to happen.
01:10:22.000 Like, you don't have to go there.
01:10:23.000 I remember because, like, a chill went down my spine.
01:10:26.000 And I said, Well, don't say that, Candace.
01:10:27.000 Like, Erica's going to take over.
01:10:28.000 And you kind of heard her react, like, oh, okay.
01:10:33.000 Okay.
01:10:34.000 Like, it kind of takes on a different meaning over time, I think.
01:10:41.000 Yeah.
01:10:41.000 In a moment, she's going to burn it to the ground.
01:10:46.000 She's going to burn it to the ground.
01:10:47.000 But now it gets back.
01:10:49.000 A thing I've said is I think the nature.
01:10:55.000 She's speculating.
01:10:55.000 This is a speculation on my part.
01:10:57.000 And again, I don't know her.
01:10:58.000 This is just kind of my read on her behavior and.
01:11:01.000 I've been around a lot of people and in media and so on.
01:11:04.000 I think Candace is narcissistic enough and kind of delusional enough.
01:11:12.000 We mentioned we would do these campus tours where Charlie's west of the Mississippi, she's east of the Mississippi.
01:11:18.000 I think Candace was able to tell her a story of I was Charlie's equal.
01:11:24.000 I was the other person who did campus events just like Charlie did.
01:11:28.000 I am the natural successor or replacement to Charlie.
01:11:32.000 And I think she managed at some point to convince herself that she would get a call and be asked to take over Turning Point USA.
01:11:39.000 And when that didn't happen, she experienced it as a colossal ego injury.
01:11:45.000 And a lot of things flowed out of that.
01:11:47.000 That's what I personally suspect.
01:11:50.000 To be fair here, I'm going to try to keep the speculation to a minimum, as people are often always speculating about other people's motivations.
01:11:59.000 They often get that incorrect.
01:12:02.000 I'm not sure exactly.
01:12:03.000 Yeah, I think that's what the motivations are.
01:12:07.000 But I can tell you that there's a huge, that like what you just said there is incredible.
01:12:13.000 She said that early on that if people took over that she didn't like, she was going to burn it to the ground.
01:12:20.000 That's an incredible statement.
01:12:22.000 Well, and you think about how early it was.
01:12:24.000 That was.
01:12:25.000 That it was immediately on her mind by extension.
01:12:28.000 And then I, yeah, and so, you know, I remember the first time she mentioned me on her show, and I go, and I, Experienced the wave of like comments and you know searches, and I can actually see it because you know immediately afterwards, we took steps to protect my family's personal information online.
01:12:47.000 So we had we had like a company that you know helps with privacy and stuff like that.
01:12:51.000 And I just actually got the year in review kind of like you know report, and it shows this huge spike in early October.
01:12:59.000 But I think the first time she people trying to get people trying to access private stuff and doing all these like weird searches on you or whatever, and so I.
01:13:08.000 I remember, I don't know if it was late September or early October, but I text her.
01:13:11.000 I go, Did you just bring me up on the show?
01:13:13.000 And she goes, Yes, I did.
01:13:14.000 I said, Did you say good things or bad things?
01:13:16.000 And she says, Good things.
01:13:18.000 I told the truth.
01:13:18.000 She's like, You've always been so good to me.
01:13:21.000 And it was like.
01:13:21.000 And no one said that about you.
01:13:23.000 Yeah.
01:13:24.000 Yeah.
01:13:24.000 And it's like, And now we've always been.
01:13:27.000 You've always been so good.
01:13:27.000 And I was always really nice to her.
01:13:29.000 And even some of the tweets that are texts, group chats, texts that she shared, you know, we're being supportive and we're being in good faith and we're proceeding on as though, like, like, We can work together and things can be harmonious in some way, shape, or form.
01:13:46.000 And again, we didn't want her to turn on the org like she did to Daily Wire.
01:13:49.000 So we were always had that in the back of our heads.
01:13:51.000 But so I was always nice to her.
01:13:53.000 I'm actually a nice guy, as she said.
01:13:55.000 Like it's probably actually one of my flaws.
01:13:57.000 But I was trying to proceed in that vein, especially after losing Charlie.
01:14:02.000 You're hoping everything like blank slate.
01:14:05.000 Like I said, we're moving forward together.
01:14:07.000 Like the movement needs to coalesce.
01:14:09.000 All of this in good faith.
01:14:10.000 And then.
01:14:11.000 You know, the rest is history now.
01:14:13.000 And we saw it.
01:14:13.000 Well, let's move backwards a little bit if you guys don't mind.
01:14:18.000 So, shortly after Charlie Kirk's assassination, your first day back at the office, right?
01:14:26.000 What is this like?
01:14:27.000 What is the actual atmosphere like at Turning Point USA?
01:14:33.000 Not just the founder and figurehead, but also close friends, and in at least one case, family member is now murdered.
01:14:42.000 He's been assassinated.
01:14:44.000 What is the atmosphere there like at this time?
01:14:48.000 Like horrible.
01:14:50.000 It's like that scene in Saving Private Ryan where the bombs go off and just ringing.
01:14:55.000 It felt like you were walking through a cloud, everybody crying, hugging.
01:15:01.000 A lot of that.
01:15:01.000 Comforting each other.
01:15:02.000 And at the same time, the way it's so much activity, because everyone's there who's normally not there.
01:15:10.000 There's hundreds of people outside.
01:15:12.000 Thousands, actually.
01:15:14.000 Thousands.
01:15:14.000 It became like a kind of a shrine outside.
01:15:19.000 And people, it was like people were making pilgrimages.
01:15:21.000 Which they can still do, by the way, if anyone is in Phoenix.
01:15:24.000 People do still come up and just pray, lay flowers still to this day.
01:15:29.000 But yeah, so there was just.
01:15:31.000 So many people around, and then like all these friends of the org throughout the years just wanted to come.
01:15:36.000 And so there was just people that aren't normally here, they were here.
01:15:39.000 And there was a lot of distraction into activity because so many things needed to happen.
01:15:45.000 Yeah.
01:15:45.000 So Erica delivers a statement from the studio here.
01:15:50.000 I believe, was that Thursday night or Friday night?
01:15:53.000 But it was very quickly.
01:15:54.000 Friday night was so we came back.
01:15:58.000 So, so here's what I say so I flew from California to Salt Lake with my or Orem, I guess, Provo.
01:16:05.000 With my wife immediately.
01:16:08.000 Then JD Vance takes all of us back down on Air Force to Phoenix, which was like, I still, he still has my so much appreciation and gratitude I extend to him for that gesture.
01:16:23.000 And I think on Thursday I did Bannon.
01:16:27.000 Steve Bannon flew to Salt Lake or, you know, and he actually wanted me to do a show.
01:16:32.000 And I remember I just sobbed like a baby.
01:16:34.000 Like, I still think about that.
01:16:36.000 Like, I'm a, I'm not one to really show emotion in public, but that day I just couldn't help it.
01:16:41.000 And we were reading this tribute to Charlie, and I kind of just lost it on air.
01:16:47.000 Then JD flies us back down to Phoenix.
01:16:51.000 And then on Friday, we all, all the team got together and we were like, we really want to do the show and just remember Charlie.
01:16:58.000 And that was just like a really heavy day.
01:17:01.000 And I remember Friday night, Erica, that's when she gave her first speech.
01:17:07.000 Actually, right behind where Blake is sitting right there is where we set up just a.
01:17:11.000 Podium, a podium lectern, and she gave that speech.
01:17:15.000 That was, um, it just felt like the whole world needed to hear from us somehow.
01:17:21.000 That was just this like collective feeling.
01:17:23.000 Well, so let's, um, let's back up a little bit here, too.
01:17:27.000 Again, it is completely fair to say that this environment that you find yourself in, besides the fact that everybody, of course, is, uh, is sad, depressed, everything else because, um, Charlie is assassinated.
01:17:40.000 It sounds like.
01:17:42.000 This was complete chaos as well.
01:17:44.000 Just total chaos.
01:17:45.000 It was so busy.
01:17:46.000 It was quiet in a heavy way, but we still had to keep doing stuff, which was extraordinary.
01:17:51.000 Think about everything that happens in the following week.
01:17:53.000 We have guest hosts who are big names themselves each day.
01:17:58.000 We have some stuff that happens out of the White House on the Monday with Vice President Vance.
01:18:03.000 So you have getting a team to D.C. to do stuff with the Vice President of the United States.
01:18:09.000 You have super high profile guest hosts Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
01:18:13.000 You have the memorial, which is a full, like the most massive event Turning Point has ever done.
01:18:19.000 And so it's just a turnaround of 10 days.
01:18:21.000 Absolute madness.
01:18:22.000 I still, it still blows me away the way the team pulled together to pull off the memorial.
01:18:27.000 Like, that shouldn't be possible.
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01:19:30.000 So, is it fair to say then that you guys were leaning very heavily towards friends and influencers to help you guys get on track and figure out where you were going and what you were doing?
01:19:42.000 Of course.
01:19:43.000 Yeah.
01:19:44.000 And so it stands to reason one of these influencers perhaps was Owens, right?
01:19:48.000 That makes sense for why you would contact her to discuss various things.
01:19:52.000 Yeah, I contacted her.
01:19:53.000 It was both.
01:19:54.000 Yeah.
01:19:55.000 Yeah.
01:19:55.000 So that makes sense.
01:19:56.000 So, in a way, some of these influencers that you are contacting.
01:20:01.000 To kind of help you get through a very dark time in Turning Point's history, the darkest time in Turning Point's history.
01:20:07.000 And then one of them used this to their advantage to later leak these various messages and this type of thing in order to utilize that against Turning Point.
01:20:19.000 Is that a fair statement to say?
01:20:20.000 I think that's a fair statement to say.
01:20:23.000 Doesn't that seem diabolical?
01:20:25.000 Like that.
01:20:27.000 Oh, it's deeply diabolical.
01:20:29.000 I've seen some horrible things, but it seems overtly diabolical to take advantage.
01:20:35.000 When it's the case that there's absolute chaos and emotional turmoil in order to integrate yourself into that to later be used for the purposes of profiteering and to, quote, burn down this organization.
01:20:49.000 So it's interesting.
01:20:52.000 This is part of the reasons why I asked the pointed question.
01:20:55.000 And forgive me, I'm not very emotional by nature.
01:20:58.000 I just want to get to the actual facts.
01:21:02.000 It does seem that some of these people took advantage of this.
01:21:07.000 Because it was a dark time.
01:21:09.000 And if you think that that's fair to say, were there other creators that came in to support you who you never thought in a million years would have?
01:21:18.000 Yeah, you would be one of them.
01:21:21.000 You know, I mean, I try and keep things private.
01:21:26.000 Like, I genuinely, there's a part of me that's so disgusted I have to discuss any of this stuff because my nature is to, you know, use discretion and, and, Keep private conversations, phone calls private, right?
01:21:40.000 And so I'll do that here.
01:21:41.000 But yeah, there was absolutely a bunch of people that, you know, from the wider movement, you know, Turning Point had a lot of connections and still does, obviously, but with a lot of people, right?
01:21:52.000 But not everybody.
01:21:53.000 There were some people like yourself that we weren't connected with, or, you know, you insert name here that we're not really close to.
01:21:59.000 But a lot of those people came out of the woodwork and just reached out and wanted to help and have continued to do so, actually, which is one of the, you know, people often ask, Blake and I, like, how did you get through this?
01:22:11.000 How do you get through it?
01:22:11.000 Well, first of all, our faith in Jesus Christ.
01:22:14.000 I like our faith is so foundational.
01:22:17.000 And that was something Charlie was.
01:22:19.000 I mean, he said he wanted to be remembered for Courage First Faith.
01:22:22.000 And, you know, he surrounded himself with a bunch of people that are Christians and Catholics and devout people.
01:22:28.000 Secondly, my marriage, my wife and I, like our relationship has been closer than ever.
01:22:34.000 My kids, my family.
01:22:36.000 But thirdly, it was the larger community rallying around us and continues to.
01:22:41.000 And despite the attacks, that's what's been actually pretty encouraging.
01:22:44.000 There's a lot of people out there that are sane that don't.
01:22:49.000 You know, maybe they haven't gotten into the fray, but they have our backs, or maybe they have gotten loud, you know, but the people I wouldn't have expected.
01:22:56.000 I will tell you, doesn't it?
01:22:58.000 Doesn't it seem to be?
01:22:59.000 I mean, real quick, I'm sorry to cut in.
01:23:01.000 Doesn't it seem to be an unrealistic?
01:23:04.000 This is one of the problems I had when I was going back to falsify my own claim was realistic expectations.
01:23:11.000 So, first of all, Kirk wasn't just a figurehead.
01:23:16.000 My understanding is that Kirk.
01:23:19.000 Was very, very invested in the daily runnings of TPUSA.
01:23:24.000 Is that correct?
01:23:25.000 Yeah.
01:23:26.000 Yeah.
01:23:27.000 He was really, really hands on, certainly, but he also had it set up in such a way that, like, if he had to go travel, do these tours, that, like, you know, the people he put in positions.
01:23:36.000 People can hold down for it.
01:23:37.000 They know what they're doing.
01:23:38.000 Charlie was a supremely talented manager in the sense of being involved in everything, but not micromanaging everything because he recognized that was impossible.
01:23:49.000 I do want to address that.
01:23:50.000 Isn't it.
01:23:51.000 So, then isn't it unrealistic the expectation that while all this chaos is going on and emotional turmoil, as TPUSA is trying to find its legs again while all this is happening, isn't it an unrealistic expectation that everybody's going to say all of the proper things?
01:24:08.000 They're going to do all the proper things.
01:24:09.000 They're going to have the best foot forward with every public image event.
01:24:14.000 Doesn't that seem unrealistic on its face?
01:24:18.000 To me, it is.
01:24:19.000 But you're also looking at this with a.
01:24:21.000 In good faith, right?
01:24:23.000 You're applying some amount of sympathy to us.
01:24:25.000 What's been amazing, it's just like you talk about that first week, first two weeks, you have people running all over the place.
01:24:32.000 It was not even controlled chaos.
01:24:34.000 It was just chaos, right?
01:24:35.000 Because, you know, one of the things about Turning Point when Charlie was with us was, you know, it's like I had the title of spokesman, but Charlie was the spokesman, really.
01:24:46.000 You know what I mean?
01:24:47.000 Charlie was the drum beat at the front that would, you know, go do the interviews and things like that.
01:24:53.000 So, You know, now you have all this media attention.
01:24:57.000 You have all these people that are coming to you because they want to help.
01:25:01.000 They want to do something nice for you.
01:25:02.000 So you want to also meet them where they're at and try and, you know, fulfill the request.
01:25:06.000 So you had that times like 100, 150 people just running around like crazy for the first couple of weeks.
01:25:12.000 And it took us a little while to kind of like rein everything back in and get some like protocols in place, you know.
01:25:18.000 So it was complete chaos, I will say.
01:25:21.000 Yeah.
01:25:21.000 Yeah.
01:25:22.000 I understand.
01:25:22.000 Now, you had wanted to make a point just before.
01:25:25.000 Oh, yeah.
01:25:25.000 Because so much had been made, at least.
01:25:28.000 Earlier stages about this, like Doge audit and stuff like this.
01:25:31.000 Well, I just want people to understand Charlie.
01:25:32.000 We talk about him being hands on.
01:25:34.000 Charlie, I don't know the threshold, but it was like a thousand bucks or like 500 bucks or something.
01:25:39.000 If there was an expense going out the door that was over, and it was like around that, but like 500 to a thousand bucks, he had to review it first.
01:25:48.000 Charlie knew where all the money of the org was going all the time.
01:25:52.000 And he was a stickler for it.
01:25:54.000 So these accusations, like he was somehow a dupe or he.
01:25:58.000 Was naive about these shysters around.
01:26:01.000 And this was insane over time.
01:26:03.000 There was an episode maybe a month ago or so where Candace ran with the idea that Tyler had like progressively replaced everyone at Turning Point to turn this evangelical org into a Mormon mafia.
01:26:15.000 And every single person she named as part of this Mormon mafia had been at Turning Point longer than Candace had been.
01:26:22.000 That, you know, okay, yeah, our camera guy who was Mormon took your headshot when you came here.
01:26:27.000 Yeah.
01:26:27.000 So, anyways, but the point is like, Charlie just loved Doge.
01:26:30.000 He was a big fan of Elon.
01:26:32.000 Thought it was like a cool, like, you know, internal messaging.
01:26:35.000 Hey, we're, you know, it's just.
01:26:38.000 I think it was literally on par with your high school.
01:26:40.000 Like the idea is like, find ways to be more efficient here because it was just driving internal excellence iteratively.
01:26:45.000 Excelling and getting better.
01:26:47.000 That's all that was.
01:26:47.000 It wasn't some like untoward thing where he's trying to hunt down, you know, people that are, you know, I guess laundering the money or something, you know.
01:26:55.000 So it just many things like that have been misconstrued, portrayed wrongly, and just with like so little grace or understanding or credit to Charlie for actually knowing how to run an organization.
01:27:09.000 So essentially, disgruntled former employee gets upset.
01:27:16.000 Let's keep going.
01:27:17.000 This is great.
01:27:17.000 Shattered tragedy.
01:27:19.000 There are a lot more questions that I do have.
01:27:21.000 If you guys will humor me for just a few more minutes.
01:27:24.000 Let's go.
01:27:24.000 Why not?
01:27:25.000 All right.
01:27:25.000 Well, let's fast forward now.
01:27:28.000 We kind of went backwards a bit.
01:27:29.000 We're going to fast forward to when these attacks really began to escalate, especially from the various people all over the internet.
01:27:37.000 Many of these people who I've looked into have been at this for many years, attacking various organizations, attacking various content creators.
01:27:46.000 Anybody who essentially doesn't go along with their.
01:27:49.000 Whatever it is that they believe, you know, this month they're going to be ruthlessly attacked.
01:27:54.000 You had mentioned earlier, before we started my end of the questioning, that TPUSA really didn't have any sort of online defense mechanism from this type of thing, nor was it expected, obviously.
01:28:07.000 Could you dive into that a little bit more?
01:28:10.000 What do you mean, like an online defense mechanism?
01:28:16.000 Sorry, just be a little bit more specific.
01:28:18.000 In other words, you said that.
01:28:20.000 Kirk stayed away from internet beefs.
01:28:22.000 He stayed away from kind of the online drama sphere.
01:28:26.000 He stayed away from that type of thing.
01:28:28.000 So, when these attacks escalated, were you just kind of caught by surprise that this was even going on because it wasn't a thing that TPUSA traditionally wanted to do?
01:28:38.000 Yeah, we were definitely not geared, probably, I would say, to fight that type of war.
01:28:44.000 Certainly, the unceasing nature of it because Turning Point had been attacked before.
01:28:48.000 Charlie had been in the Southwest, though.
01:28:49.000 Usually by the left, though.
01:28:50.000 By the left, or by more, you might say, more moderate.
01:28:53.000 Well, I don't even want to say more moderate factions of the right.
01:28:55.000 We had the Griper War way in the past, and those guys would go after Charlie.
01:28:58.000 And sometimes you'd get, I mean, we'd been through a few rounds of people trying to say Charlie was anti Semitic, and I think that usually had some sort of factional struggle to it.
01:29:08.000 Sure, sure, sure.
01:29:09.000 And so he'd been attacked before, but I think what was special about this one is Charlie had never been the subject of conspiracy theories before.
01:29:17.000 Yeah.
01:29:18.000 Which, by the way, is you're seeing with the Lindsey Clancy stuff, it's like there's no reasoning with some of this stuff.
01:29:22.000 Yeah, and you're just like blown away at the, I think you called it the fallacy of the gap.
01:29:27.000 Where people just like fill in the gap, like evidence, yeah, it's completely new.
01:29:30.000 It's the evidence that the gap is coming in.
01:29:33.000 When we say we've never been faced with conspiracy theories, a few natures of that is if someone, okay, if someone calls Charlie an anti Semite or says he's bad or say he's a racist or whatever, even if it's an unfair attack, it has a certain concreteness and substance to it that you can engage with once or twice and it can't really just go forever and ever.
01:29:52.000 It's like a one off thing you respond to it or you don't, it is a successful attack or it fails, whatever, move on.
01:29:59.000 But what we never had was, when I say we never had a conspiracy theory, we never had one of these things that they truly can just decide to push endlessly.
01:30:09.000 Oh, it was like they'd come up with something new almost every day.
01:30:12.000 You're like, how the hell did you get like the evidence of the gaps fallacy?
01:30:18.000 Is like that.
01:30:19.000 That I when I heard you explain that fallacy, which is a new one I hadn't heard before, I was like, bingo, that's what it is.
01:30:25.000 Like, because every day it was kind of like a new thread that would get pulled.
01:30:29.000 And I'm like, how the hell would anybody even like, we're not smart enough to pull off whatever the hell they think we're doing here?
01:30:36.000 Like, nobody would want to do that.
01:30:38.000 One of the dangers, one of the major dangers of using that sort of fallacious thinking.
01:30:43.000 Because it's not just fallacious argumentation, it's a fallacious form of thinking.
01:30:47.000 You just shouldn't think in patterns that way.
01:30:49.000 It's because it's heads you win, and then, you know, or heads I win, tails you lose, right?
01:30:55.000 So the idea here is either you have to spend all of your time endlessly addressing those things, or you don't bother addressing them, and then your silence is an admittance, right?
01:31:05.000 Right, right, right.
01:31:07.000 There's actually that set up in such a way to create a no win situation for a person.
01:31:14.000 If you address it, That's bad.
01:31:15.000 And if you don't address it, that's bad.
01:31:18.000 So ultimately, that's why the evidence of the gaps is a fallacious form of thinking.
01:31:24.000 Now, it's self destructive, ultimately, because people come to absurd conclusions.
01:31:28.000 But while somebody's being victimized through that methodology or being attacked by that methodology, it's very hard to defend against it because either you have to waste endless amounts of time trying to defend yourself from the attack, or it is the case that if you're silent about the attack because it has no merit, that then your silence is an admittance of said attack, right?
01:31:49.000 Well, it's totally right.
01:31:50.000 And I would add a couple things here, too.
01:31:52.000 You know, when Charlie died, we lost our biggest megaphone, right?
01:31:57.000 We lost Charlie having millions of followers to set the record straight on XYZ.
01:32:03.000 So, we're just, we lost a very practical, you know, function right there.
01:32:09.000 And, you know, so there was that.
01:32:11.000 Also, we were trying to keep up with this explosive growth of the org and all these kids that want to start chapters.
01:32:19.000 We had real, and we were still doing the tour in the fall tour to pay tribute to Charlie.
01:32:23.000 Which went extraordinarily well, and all that was great, but it was like we had real stuff to do, you know?
01:32:29.000 And so you're faced with the, you know, do you, you know, I kind of, I'm kind of reminded of Michael Knowles while he turned down, you know, doing your debate, moderating your debate.
01:32:41.000 It was, he was sort of saying, like, I don't choose to engage this.
01:32:44.000 Now, you can disagree with that logic, but there was a part of us that were kind of going, like, this is so absurd and it's so insulting that I choose not to sort of like even engage it because.
01:32:56.000 Like, I don't owe you anything.
01:32:58.000 I don't have to dance monkey dance when you tell me I owe you some piece of information here or there.
01:33:04.000 And so, there is that kind of thing.
01:33:05.000 And then ultimately, you know, obviously Blake has become more outspoken.
01:33:10.000 I've become more outspoken.
01:33:12.000 And I think the other thing that was interesting about this time is that people assumed that what Candace was saying about her relationship to Charlie and her proximity to the org was actually true.
01:33:21.000 They were also assuming she was a conservative.
01:33:23.000 And I think that that has been proved, both of which have been, I think, proven untrue.
01:33:28.000 And, you know, she'll.
01:33:29.000 Deny that and she'll say that we were besties or whatever, but it wasn't true.
01:33:32.000 Okay.
01:33:33.000 And the point is, those lines have gotten clearer in the months since.
01:33:37.000 And I think that's been helpful too.
01:33:38.000 So people kind of understand where the two sides are at.
01:33:41.000 When, so just moving backwards very quickly, back to Charlie and Candace's relationship, was he pawning her off on other people?
01:33:50.000 Is that what was going on just to kind of maybe not get her to not freak out?
01:33:56.000 What was going on with that?
01:33:57.000 Yeah.
01:33:58.000 I mean, it's easy to be specific.
01:33:59.000 Yeah, no, I mean, I don't want to be overly specific because there are friends involved and things like that.
01:34:03.000 But yeah, but it was a soft land.
01:34:05.000 It's like, hey, you know, we're not trying to like fire you and humiliate you.
01:34:12.000 We're trying to do it graciously and everybody can still be friends and all that stuff.
01:34:16.000 So, yeah, it was, but that's basically what happened in 2019, I guess, early 2019.
01:34:21.000 The typical, you're fired, here's the handshake on the way out and I, good luck to you.
01:34:25.000 Right.
01:34:26.000 Yeah.
01:34:26.000 And then that iterated, right?
01:34:28.000 When, you know, we, Turning Point took over Blexit, you know, at some point.
01:34:33.000 And I think Charlie, again, Charlie was glass half full.
01:34:37.000 Charlie was always trying to do things that were useful for the movement.
01:34:41.000 And Charlie was always like very bullish on, Outreach to minority urban communities and thought that with turning point organizational might behind it, Blexit could turn into something really powerful.
01:34:55.000 And it ended up being the wrong bet in that direction for many reasons.
01:35:00.000 But so Charlie was always looking to the future, always trying to build.
01:35:04.000 And that's one of the things I love about him.
01:35:06.000 But ultimately, in this instance, it was a massive backfire.
01:35:09.000 Gotcha.
01:35:10.000 And then I'm not going to waste too much more of your guys' time.
01:35:13.000 I hope we can do this again in the future.
01:35:15.000 But I do have two quick questions that I want to cover.
01:35:20.000 Before I end my end of the questions that you guys have been very gracious with, the first is what's on everybody's mind.
01:35:28.000 My chat's asked about this a million times the Crucible chat.
01:35:33.000 So, what's in store for TPUSA?
01:35:35.000 What's actually going to go on going forward?
01:35:39.000 Yeah, well, I mean, we've got a lot.
01:35:42.000 Nothing has stopped from what we did while Charlie was with us, of course.
01:35:46.000 So, we just had Chapter Leader Summit last month.
01:35:50.000 And that was twice as big, um, twice as big as the 2024 chapter, even more than twice as big.
01:35:56.000 It was massive, massive, thousands of people.
01:36:00.000 These are all young people, all people involved with chapters, all people who are really engaged with Charlie's message, really inspired by him.
01:36:09.000 So that still is going.
01:36:11.000 Young Women's Leadership Summit, that's going.
01:36:13.000 We've got our first men's summit, so new events are being rolled out.
01:36:17.000 America, I like the men's summit idea, exactly.
01:36:20.000 I love that.
01:36:21.000 I love the men's summit idea.
01:36:22.000 Yeah, and I think it's very cool.
01:36:24.000 They're keeping the list of speakers secret, which I think is a very canny marketing play.
01:36:29.000 I don't even know who the speakers are, actually.
01:36:30.000 And then America Fest still happens.
01:36:33.000 Everything that Turning Point has done or did while Charlie was with us continues to the extent that the outpouring of love and revival and support happened after the shooting.
01:36:48.000 Turning Point's doing its best to harness that for the good of the country, for the good of the movement, for the good of the Christian faith, all of those things.
01:36:57.000 So, we've got Amfest coming up.
01:36:58.000 There's going to be a lot of debates, by the way, because we'll debate data centers, flock cameras, foreign policy, all that stuff.
01:37:06.000 So, it's going to be huge.
01:37:07.000 Amfest is going to be massive.
01:37:09.000 And we've got the pick up the mic tours going around all over college campuses.
01:37:13.000 By the way, high school campuses have exploded almost 200% since.
01:37:17.000 And those take a long time.
01:37:18.000 People don't understand how long a high school campus takes to become an RSO.
01:37:23.000 It took us like three years to get Charlie's high school RSO status.
01:37:27.000 That didn't happen until I think after he died.
01:37:29.000 So, we're over 3,500 official Club America chapters, over 1,500 college chapters.
01:37:35.000 We have a million students involved now with Turning Point in one way, shape, or form or the other.
01:37:41.000 We had 4,000 churches in our network.
01:37:45.000 Now we have 12,000, part of TPUSA Faith.
01:37:48.000 We've got over 1,200 employees across all the Turning Point organizations.
01:37:52.000 Massive, massive support from grassroots donors that are like small dollar donors.
01:37:56.000 So, everything's moving and chugging along.
01:38:00.000 And, you know, as I think, as you say, like stories of our demise have been wildly exaggerated.
01:38:05.000 Wildly overstated.
01:38:06.000 They want to seed that.
01:38:08.000 Yeah, it's crazy.
01:38:09.000 And I will just tell you, when you meet the kids, the students, man, these are like the best kids in America.
01:38:15.000 I really genuinely believe that.
01:38:17.000 They're smart.
01:38:17.000 They're hardworking.
01:38:18.000 Most of them are really serious Christians.
01:38:21.000 And they love this country.
01:38:23.000 They want to fight for this country.
01:38:24.000 They want to bring people together.
01:38:26.000 These are not the people that are like dooming and glooming, and they're not trying to rip people apart and tear people down.
01:38:32.000 They're great.
01:38:32.000 I mean, I just loved it.
01:38:33.000 We had a chapter leader on who got accosted by this hag in Indiana who was blasting her on.
01:38:40.000 On TikTok, and just the level of positivity she had about it.
01:38:43.000 And it would take an army to make me feel bad.
01:38:47.000 It was so great.
01:38:49.000 I'm looking at other stuff.
01:38:50.000 Staff is sending me other stuff that's going on.
01:38:52.000 Turning Point Education is bigger.
01:38:54.000 So they have a gap year program for students who maybe aren't sure what they want to do in college yet or if they want to go to college.
01:39:01.000 That has its second location.
01:39:02.000 More people are signing up for that.
01:39:05.000 We have the Great American Tailgate Tour.
01:39:08.000 I don't even know what that is, actually.
01:39:09.000 I should learn more about that.
01:39:10.000 Yeah.
01:39:10.000 And we've got communities that are launching.
01:39:12.000 So we had a bunch of these like, Alum that wanted to stay involved in their work.
01:39:17.000 We should have that up, Turning Point Communities, because we would get endless emails that say, I'm 38 years old.
01:39:23.000 Can I go to Turning Point Campus events?
01:39:25.000 And I'd say, you know, not all of them are closed, but it is a student organization.
01:39:29.000 Well, now, some of them are 25 or 26.
01:39:31.000 Now you could have a Turning Point chapter that is just families in your neighborhood.
01:39:37.000 We've got young professors, families, first responders, all of that.
01:39:41.000 And so all of those people can now have a Turning Point chapter effectively, which means.
01:39:46.000 More events, more ways of getting the message out.
01:39:49.000 By the way, so you're going to continue the mission of Charlie Kirk.
01:39:54.000 Yeah, so this is the key here, too.
01:39:56.000 I want to make sure that's all on the C3 side, but that doesn't count all of the vision that Charlie had, like on actual chasing ballots.
01:40:03.000 And so think about like turning point action.
01:40:06.000 We're light years ahead of where we were in 2024 as far as our ballot chase program.
01:40:11.000 So we call that Chase the Vote, where we hire actual full time employees.
01:40:16.000 And now we've launched it in three different states.
01:40:17.000 We're in Arizona, Nevada, and New Hampshire.
01:40:21.000 So we're building the red wall, which would make it very hard.
01:40:24.000 Even if in 2028, the Democrats sweep the blue wall, they couldn't win a national race if we hold the South and we add New Hampshire, Nevada, and Arizona.
01:40:31.000 And the growth here is massive.
01:40:34.000 We have field offices in all those states.
01:40:36.000 We have thousands of employees already right now, and they're all trained up.
01:40:40.000 They're mobilized.
01:40:41.000 They're knocking on doors, sending text messages.
01:40:43.000 That's happening right now.
01:40:45.000 Because that's needed, right?
01:40:47.000 We need the ground game.
01:40:48.000 The ground game is the most important, and that was always where.
01:40:52.000 TPUSA came in.
01:40:53.000 It's not just about influencers.
01:40:55.000 That's only the minor part of that job.
01:40:57.000 I always saw TPUSA as a charity for that, just to make sure we don't have anything that I'd said.
01:41:04.000 Yeah, but that's the mission that people support more than anything.
01:41:08.000 Can I just ask a last question before I let you guys go?
01:41:11.000 Can you give me your word and commitment to this chat who's watching and the many, many thousands who will be watching this later that you will commit to stopping the left?
01:41:23.000 You'll do everything in your power to stop the left.
01:41:26.000 Don't say it how you really said.
01:41:28.000 Well, I just think it's a bizarre question because, to the extent that people say they're not answering every single bizarre theory and question we have, it's because our priority always is combating the left.
01:41:40.000 Fighting that.
01:41:41.000 So here's our vision we want young people to be able to get married, to have babies, to own a home, to experience the American dream in an affordable way and not have to go die in some foreign war and to love their country, to believe in it.
01:41:55.000 We want to restore the social compact.
01:41:57.000 We want, we have a vision for young people that will buy in and have skin in the game in America.
01:42:03.000 That is like fundamentally the vision of Turning Point.
01:42:06.000 And in order to do that, yes, you must defeat the left because the ideals will kill and destroy this civilization, not only America, but Western civilization.
01:42:14.000 So, yes, a thousand percent.
01:42:16.000 And when you asked that earlier question, were we really equipped to fight this kind of war?
01:42:19.000 No, because we are, you know, you hear about think tanks.
01:42:22.000 No, we're a battle tank.
01:42:23.000 That's what Charlie always used to say, that is designed to defeat the left.
01:42:27.000 And we're not a drama entity.
01:42:29.000 Like, we don't exist to just have, oh, endless drip drip revelations in whatever soap opera thing that has nothing to do with the next election, that has nothing to do with the actual.
01:42:41.000 Lives of American young people or American families.
01:42:44.000 There's a couple rules.
01:42:45.000 There was a couple rules that Charlie had no black pilling.
01:42:48.000 There's no black pilling allowed.
01:42:49.000 Okay, so we got headwinds in 2026, maybe even in 2028, whatever.
01:42:54.000 The polls are one way or the other.
01:42:56.000 We got a lot of tough races.
01:42:57.000 No black pilling and be a happy warrior.
01:43:00.000 And so, listen, we're going to keep doing what we do as best as we can.
01:43:04.000 And, you know, we ask for people to not believe the lies, to believe in what Charlie built and, you know, have our back because we have this country's back.
01:43:14.000 And, We crushed the left, gentlemen.
01:43:16.000 All right.
01:43:16.000 We crushed the left.
01:43:18.000 You got to crush the left.
01:43:19.000 They're the most dangerous.
01:43:20.000 Charlie, I'm now on planet Earth.
01:43:23.000 Blasted back into my brain a line Charlie had in one of our telegrams where he was just, I think he just said, I will never stop wanting to own the libs.
01:43:33.000 Yeah, because, yeah, well, I have much I could say.
01:43:36.000 Well, gentlemen, I appreciate your time and allowing me to ask these questions.
01:43:40.000 I know that we're constrained a bit by time.
01:43:43.000 It was very kind of you to take a little bit of extra time for this chat.
01:43:46.000 And I hope both of you have a wonderful day.
01:43:49.000 Likewise, thank you for taking the time letting us ask about your debate.
01:43:53.000 And it was great, honestly.
01:43:55.000 We're open books, and I knew this was part of the deal.
01:43:58.000 So happy to do it, and we'll do it again soon.
01:44:02.000 All right.
01:44:02.000 Sounds great.
01:44:03.000 All right.
01:44:03.000 Take care.
01:44:04.000 You too.
01:44:05.000 Thanks, Andrew.
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