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I'm sure we'll have interesting 42 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:29.360 conversations talking about things like the government shut down, all 43 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:32.520 kinds of things that are happening in the news today. 44 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:38.199 So we'll get him right on right now. All right, everyone, 45 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:42.439 My guest tonight is Carson Wade. Carson is a sophomore 46 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:46.319 at the University of Southern Mississippi. He's a conservative, and 47 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:48.080 for those of you who've been listening to this show 48 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:50.560 for a long time, he is the son of one 49 00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:54.280 of our frequent guest, Gerald Wade Carson. Welcome to the 50 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:55.439 right Side Radio Show. 51 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:57.759 It sir, it's good to be here. Can't wait to 52 00:03:57.759 --> 00:03:58.280 get started. 53 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:01.479 Well, Carson, I know that this is your second year 54 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:04.520 at Southern Miss. You're you're very active there. You're a 55 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:08.000 member of the band there at Southern Miss, the Pride 56 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:13.319 of Mississippi. Uh, and you've had one year already of 57 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:16.360 four year college. Tell me a little bit about the 58 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:20.720 experience the highs and the lows of leaving high school 59 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:22.040 and going off to college. 60 00:04:22.759 --> 00:04:24.759 Absolutely, so, you know, high school it's kind of a 61 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:26.839 little bit more of a smaller world or with the 62 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:29.920 same people every day. I mean, being in college, it's 63 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:32.399 definitely a lot different in the bigger world, is a 64 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:35.199 lot more people, it's a lot more spread out you're 65 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:37.720 dealing with. You know, it's a different They treat you differently. 66 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:39.319 In high school you're overshre like a kid. But in 67 00:04:39.399 --> 00:04:42.360 college and that you're an adult, your teachers treat you differently. 68 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:44.079 You're kind of out on your own. No one's there 69 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:47.879 to really almost hold you accountable. So it's definitely different 70 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:51.079 than then. But I mean it's it's great. I love it. 71 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:53.480 It's probably a little harder but also a little bit 72 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:57.000 more liberating in the sense that you have to manage 73 00:04:57.040 --> 00:04:58.800 your own time and make sure you get all your 74 00:04:58.800 --> 00:04:59.639 assignments done. 75 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:03.639 Absolutely, you know, it's kind of have a little bit 76 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:05.000 of free wheeler kind of out on your own and 77 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:06.399 do whatever you want to, but you also got to, 78 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:07.519 you know, get your stuff done. 79 00:05:08.199 --> 00:05:14.600 Now. Of course, being at a university, there's also liberals 80 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:17.959 everywhere now, even here in Mississippi. I know that surprises 81 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:22.600 people to hear that our universities aren't necessarily the bastions 82 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:27.519 of conservative principles and what have you. Is there anything 83 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:33.439 you've encountered early on. We'll go to last year, you know, 84 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:37.319 some of the things that first caught your attention your 85 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:40.480 first year there at Southern mess Yeah. 86 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:44.160 So my freshman year I was a music education major. 87 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:48.560 I mean, the whole like music world, honestly is very liberal, 88 00:05:49.439 --> 00:05:52.120 and I think that was kind of my first introduction 89 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:53.959 to all of it. And I said, I always heard 90 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:56.959 stories about how liberal college campuses are, and I guess, 91 00:05:57.360 --> 00:05:59.279 like I said, I don't really believe it. Being you know, 92 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:02.319 to Southern Miss. I don't really thought how bad it 93 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:04.319 would be. They got into one of my classes and 94 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:08.319 I realized people pushing agendas and pushing narratives that I 95 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:10.360 didn't believe in, and it was almost if you didn't 96 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:13.360 believe in it, you almost got treated differently. It was 97 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:16.480 definitely very eye opening to me to really see what 98 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:19.199 people were really talking about and kind of taking my 99 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:22.199 own perspective and seeing the things and just how I 100 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:22.959 think it's just wrong. 101 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:23.639 It was just it was. 102 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:25.720 It was definitely eye opening. It was it was, it was. 103 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:26.240 It was weird. 104 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:27.399 Oh, I have to say it was weird. 105 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:31.199 Absolutely. I myself went to Southern miss as well, and 106 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:34.560 I was a journalism major, so you can imagine how 107 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:38.560 many conservatives I ran into as a journalism major. So 108 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:42.079 I understand where you're coming from now. I was a 109 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:44.279 bit older when I went to Southern MISS. I didn't 110 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:47.759 go there straight out of high school, so it was 111 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:50.759 easier for me because I was already pre setting my ways. 112 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:56.519 Tell me something that you've encountered that maybe and I 113 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:59.120 know that you haven't changed your belief structure, But tell 114 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:02.480 me something where you might have felt challenged to defend 115 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:08.120 your beliefs. I think we lost Carson, So let me 116 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:13.079 pause here and say we can get him right back. Well, Carson, 117 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:15.000 I know I lost you there for just a second. 118 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:17.480 Did you hear my last question there? 119 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:20.480 Yeah, if you go to repeat that, I appreciate it. 120 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:23.319 Yeah. My question was, you know, I know that you're 121 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:26.040 still preset in your ways. I know that your your 122 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:31.000 ideology hasn't changed any But tell me any incidences you 123 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:35.160 you might have encountered were maybe you felt challenged to 124 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:38.639 defend your beliefs. Is Has there been any incidentss like 125 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:40.639 that occur? Was it with a student? Was it a 126 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:41.639 member of faculty? 127 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:46.839 Yeah? Absolutely so. Also my first or second semester last year, 128 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:50.800 I was taking American Government and the whole class was 129 00:07:51.399 --> 00:07:54.240 kind of set up for open discussion, open debate, which 130 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:58.000 I really liked. I remember one day I tried to 131 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:01.160 you know, I tried not to get to but we 132 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:04.519 were talking about abortion in class and several students made 133 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:06.519 claims and it was I just couldn't. I could pull 134 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:10.000 myself any longer. And it was it was definitely it 135 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:13.160 was interesting getting to debate students. Teacher kind of stood 136 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:15.399 away from it and didn't really get too involved. But 137 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:17.040 I'm you know, there was times I had to get 138 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:18.480 I had to get shut down by the teacher because 139 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:21.040 I was getting a little too riled up. Yeah, it was, 140 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:23.000 it was pretty it was fun. I liked it. 141 00:08:23.160 --> 00:08:25.040 Did the teacher ever have to shut down the other 142 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:27.399 side or was it just your side that got shot down? 143 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:30.839 Oh? It was. It was definitely both sides, both sides. 144 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:32.720 It sounds like you had a good teacher in that 145 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:37.759 instance who actually understands that the college setting is a 146 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:41.080 debate setting that is okay. That seems to not be 147 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:44.200 the trend on most college campuses and in most college 148 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:48.919 classrooms nowadays, to where instead of having an actual debate, 149 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:52.639 it turns into a shouting mouche, And if you're a conservative, 150 00:08:53.080 --> 00:08:55.799 it's an attempt to try to silence your voice. Have 151 00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:58.919 you ever, I know you're limited time there, have you 152 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:01.480 come across any times where you felt like there was 153 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:04.600 an attempt to silence what you believed? 154 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:07.639 So? Yeah, So when I was taking an intro to 155 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:12.360 music education class my second semester, and one part of 156 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:14.600 it we had to teach a folk song, and I 157 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:17.679 remember I was gonna bring my guitar and teach a song. Well, 158 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:20.399 the teacher put up this website of a list of 159 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:24.360 songs that we could not, like teach could not perform, 160 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:27.320 and I were going through the list and it's being shocked. 161 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:30.240 I mean, I saw amazing grace on there. The National 162 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:33.440 Anthem served on this old spiritual hymns that I, you know, 163 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:35.919 grew up singing and grew up listening to that were 164 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:41.559 supposedly too radical or too sexist or whatever, too vulgar 165 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:44.919 ice of right. It just made it made no sense 166 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:48.320 to me as why those specific songs cannot be saying. 167 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:49.960 I think the one that really got me was like 168 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:52.679 the National Anthem, that's the that's a song that I'm 169 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:55.039 proud of. And then seeing that on the list of 170 00:09:55.279 --> 00:09:58.279 songs that are bad was it was shocking to me. 171 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:01.720 What's an American universe? So you would think the National 172 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:06.600 Anthem would be okay, but that was deemed too offensive, right? 173 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:08.799 You would think it was. 174 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:12.440 There any songs that were okayed that you questioned as well? 175 00:10:14.759 --> 00:10:17.399 I don't think there was any more. I know the 176 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:22.320 song I did was an old like bluegrass standard song. 177 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:26.120 I remember I got my guitar and played it. Well whatever. Afterwards, Uh, 178 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:28.559 teacher goes someone someone in this class is gonna be 179 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:31.960 really upset with me. I was like, huh okay, and 180 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:34.399 then he says the name of my song and it's 181 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:37.279 Readi's article about how bad it was, and it's one 182 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:39.120 of those I've listened to the song a million times 183 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:42.080 and never thought of anything any of the words being bad. 184 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:45.320 And it was like, what does he shut me down 185 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:48.639 and almost made me feel like I had to redo something, 186 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:50.840 and it was it kind of really is maybe. 187 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:54.360 Mad, but it wasn't on his band list. So why 188 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:57.360 why did he feel the need to call you out that? 189 00:10:57.360 --> 00:10:58.240 That's a great question? 190 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:01.399 Did you did you ask afterwards? Or was it one 191 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:04.000 of those you knew it wasn't even worth your time asking. 192 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:07.960 I wasn't worth my time. The teacher was very, very 193 00:11:08.039 --> 00:11:11.080 set in his beliefs and it just wasn't worth an argument. 194 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:14.519 Look, I'll tell you probably did the right thing, because 195 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:17.879 I had a history teacher that told me after class 196 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:20.320 one time I needed to drop his class despite having 197 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:24.200 a passing grade, because I challenged him on something he 198 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:26.759 was trying to say in the classroom, and because he 199 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:30.120 couldn't argue his point. He wanted me out of the class. 200 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:35.039 So I definitely will say you probably made a wiser 201 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:39.279 decision than I did in that instance. But it's it's 202 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:41.840 got to be frustrating because again, you did the assignment. 203 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:46.960 You didn't challenge him on any of the absurd band songs, 204 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:49.840 but the song you picked, he decided to go nitpick 205 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:53.960 and find something wrong with it. That that has to 206 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:56.639 be frustrating from a student because I'm I can only 207 00:11:56.679 --> 00:11:59.559 imagine that you put a lot of time and effort 208 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:01.159 into that assignment. 209 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:03.000 Yeah, for sure. 210 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:07.960 So again, you know that's that's definitely one instance. You know, 211 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:12.240 I'm sure that as I understand, you're a part of 212 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:18.200 a couple of organizations there on campus, conservative organizations. Are 213 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:20.000 you a member of the College Republicans? 214 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:23.879 So just recently I did join their College Republicans. You know, 215 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:26.200 it's been sales like a few weeks ago, so we 216 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:28.639 haven't really been schooed to start. I haven't really got 217 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:31.960 into things and doing anythings with that, gotcha. 218 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:35.159 And of course I think that you've joined the Turning 219 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:39.039 Point organization. I don't know if you joined it before 220 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:43.519 or after Charlie Kirk's assassination. Uh, but you're a member 221 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:46.240 of the Turning Point organization there on campus as well, 222 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:46.679 aren't you. 223 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:51.000 Yeah. So, actually, I mean several weeks before the whole 224 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:53.320 Charlie Kirk situation happened, I was talking to my dad 225 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:56.039 about it, and I really wanted to start a chapter 226 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.639 at Southern miss And I did some research and I 227 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:01.360 could not find that we had a chapter at Southern 228 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:04.440 So I went through Turning Points website, filled out a 229 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:06.879 bunch of stuff to start one. And then one day 230 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:09.320 I was just scrolling through Instagram and it was after 231 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:12.000 like a few days after Charlie Kirk had been assassinated, 232 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:15.720 and I saw an Instagram post from Turningpoint USA at USM, 233 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:19.879 and they were founded, Oh how long ago it was. 234 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:22.559 They'd kind of been a little inactive, and then once 235 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:24.840 the assassination happened, they kind of kicked things back up. 236 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:29.039 And I immediately jumped in and tried to get involved 237 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:29.679 as much as I can. 238 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:33.879 With that, I understand, And of course, you know, being 239 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:38.080 a student and seeing someone like Charlie Kirk who was 240 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:43.200 willing to embrace what a university, what a campus setting 241 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:46.200 is supposed to be. To go onto a campus and 242 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:51.639 have conversations, to have debate and actually sit there and 243 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:54.600 give you a microphone and let you sit up there 244 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:58.559 and agreed, disagree, and give you that platform. It seemed 245 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:00.759 like all Charlie was doing was just trying to have 246 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:03.399 open dialogue. Isn't that the way how you kind of 247 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:03.799 saw it? 248 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:07.200 Absolutely? I mean, I think, you know, the first of 249 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:10.200 miment right kind of free speech, and I think kim 250 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:14.080 going on college campuses and tasing people's beliefs and Maggi 251 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:17.080 people actually think for themselves. I think that was something 252 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:19.519 that's very important for you know, my generation. A lot 253 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:22.200 of people just see things online, see things on the news, 254 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:24.840 just immediately believe it, don't put their own thought into it, 255 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:27.919 and don't think for themselves and make their own decisions. 256 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:31.679 Tell me what you know again, Where were you when 257 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:35.879 you heard the news that Charlie Kirk had been shot 258 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:39.759 and then ultimately killed on that campus there in Utah. 259 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:41.399 Tell me about that day. 260 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:44.519 Yeah, it was a It was a Wednesday, and I 261 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:46.840 was sitting in the cafeteria at Southern with some of 262 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:49.919 my fraternity brothers. We were eating lunch, just talking and 263 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:52.600 had normal conversations and one of my buddies pulls out 264 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:54.720 his phone and it tells me it's like Charlie Kirk 265 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:57.440 just got shot. And at first I was like, there's 266 00:14:57.480 --> 00:14:59.519 no way. I didn't I didn't believe it. For I 267 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:01.600 my fault. I wanted my dad text me. I saw 268 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:06.080 fifteen so notifications from news, outwits and everything people texted me, 269 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:10.200 and it was it was unbelievable. It just seemed unreal 270 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:12.840 to think that something like that could have happened. 271 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:16.279 I know my first thought because it was a group 272 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:19.080 text that I have with a couple of friends, one 273 00:15:19.080 --> 00:15:21.600 of them being your dad. One of the friends sent 274 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:25.120 us a video. It was from a long range and 275 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:27.639 I'm like, is this real? And then I think it's 276 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:31.759 your dad found the closer video that unfortunately most of 277 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:35.639 us have seen, and then you knew it was way 278 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:38.679 too real, and it was I think at the moment 279 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:41.279 I saw that video, I realized this wasn't going to 280 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:42.159 have a happy ending. 281 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:43.919 Yeah right. 282 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:47.240 Tell me what your your first thoughts were when you 283 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:51.360 when you saw and heard the news that Charlie had 284 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:52.600 ultimately been killed. 285 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:55.559 Yes, I mean, and I heard about it and it 286 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:57.279 was just hard to believe. And like you said, I 287 00:15:57.320 --> 00:15:59.200 saw that video and At first, I was like, there's 288 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:02.240 just no way. I mean, it's gotta be AI or something. 289 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:04.679 It can't be real. And then I went on Twitter 290 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:08.240 and Instagram then started seeing like Fox News Post and 291 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:10.639 bright Bart and all these nudes outwits, and that's when 292 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:12.200 it get really hit me. It was like, oh, we 293 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:15.320 grab that it really happened. And it was just hard 294 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:18.519 to believe that somebody who was just voicing their opinions 295 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:21.240 on something and helping out so many others just got 296 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:22.960 killed like that. It was hard to believe. 297 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:28.399 Yeah. I was actually recording a special episode talking about 298 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:30.639 the fact that he had been shot when the announcement 299 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:36.120 came over that he ultimately was killed. And it still 300 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:40.559 blows my mind. And the fact that someone on a 301 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:45.120 college campus, assuming that the official story is the true story, 302 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:50.200 that someone could become so radicalized to the point that 303 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:54.159 they felt that the best course of action was to 304 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:57.919 kill him and not sit there and debate him, not 305 00:16:58.080 --> 00:17:01.200 sit there and challenge his beliefs, but they felt like 306 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:04.279 they had to in his life so that way his 307 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:06.079 voice could be taken away from him. 308 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:07.039 Right. 309 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:10.880 Let me ask you this, as a conservative, does that 310 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:14.319 give you any pause to want to continue to speak 311 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:18.000 out or be be active in the conservative movement. 312 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:21.880 If anything, it's such fire under me. I mean, I 313 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:23.839 remember after it happened and I found out that we 314 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:26.839 did have a turning Point chapter. I'm in a pie 315 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:28.799 cap of five for Turnity at Southern miss And I 316 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:31.440 immediately texted in our little group chat. I was like, hey, 317 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:34.079 there's a turning Point chapter. I think we all should 318 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:35.680 join it, all get involved. And I had about ten 319 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:38.079 or fifteen guys joined with me. So, I mean, we've 320 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:40.200 we've all been trying to do as much as we 321 00:17:40.359 --> 00:17:43.400 can and like to not be silenced. So I think 322 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:45.960 it's it's important for us not to be because if 323 00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:48.759 we if we are silence and we do stop talking 324 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:50.799 about it, you know, the other side wins, and that's 325 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:51.799 that's not what needs to happen. 326 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:54.480 Well, tell me a little bit about you know, what 327 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:58.559 drove you to being a conservative Because a lot of folks, 328 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:01.920 younger folks, they tend to lean a little bit more 329 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:06.839 liberal than conservative, just maybe because they haven't lived life 330 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:09.599 the way that they should. But you, being a younger 331 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:15.039 person that is already fully invested in the conservative belief 332 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:18.160 tell me what appealed to you and drove you to 333 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:19.240 become a conservative. 334 00:18:20.559 --> 00:18:24.119 Yeah. So I think my two biggest inspirations as far 335 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:27.119 as my political views is number one by dad Nae 336 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:30.119 definitely number two center Chris McDaniel. I remember my dad 337 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:33.519 running for Superintendent of Education when I was four or 338 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:36.680 five years old. I remember being on the campaign trail 339 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:39.559 with him going into the rock one of four office 340 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:41.799 and recording to add for and when I was, you know, 341 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:45.519 a young kid, and it just always it's always been, 342 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:48.480 It's always been part of my life, honestly, and it 343 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:50.720 was I didn't really know anything else, and it was 344 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:53.640 something that I truly loved and gravitated to, like I 345 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:57.240 will never forget, you know, twenty fourteen being I think 346 00:18:57.279 --> 00:18:59.240 I was seven or eight years old with my dad 347 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:01.960 passing out Christian Daniel signs and knocking on doors, and 348 00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:05.119 it's just always been a huge part of me. And 349 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:07.519 then when Chris mc daniel ran for Lieutenant governor, kind 350 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:09.480 of being in the war room Den on the Coast 351 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:11.880 and seeing all the results come in. It's something that 352 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:15.960 I've just truly truly loved. And seeing the whole the 353 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:19.480 conservative movement and seeing how you know, the establishment tries 354 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:21.359 to shut us down. It just it's one of those 355 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:23.279 kind of just really makes you mad, and it makes 356 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:26.720 you just want to do more and continue to push 357 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:30.279 your narrative. And it's just something that I've always truly 358 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:32.400 believed in and something that I think everybody else seems 359 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:32.680 to see. 360 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:35.400 You can talk about Chris. He was there on your 361 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:41.440 campus yesterday at the Charlie Kirk Prayer Visual and of 362 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:44.680 course it was sponsored by that Turning Point chapter that 363 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:47.319 you're a part of. I understand you weren't able to 364 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:51.160 attend it yesterday, but have you since gone online and 365 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:52.240 watched Chris's speech. 366 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:55.920 Yeah, Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend, and I've not 367 00:19:56.079 --> 00:19:58.160 yet had the time to go, and I think there 368 00:19:58.240 --> 00:19:59.920 was a live stream. I haven't had the time yet 369 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:01.720 to go back and watch. I'm definitely going to do 370 00:20:01.799 --> 00:20:02.160 that soon. 371 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:05.920 You know, Chris pretty much spoke on the fact that 372 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:11.559 we've got to continue to fight and spoke highly of Charlie. 373 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:14.839 I don't know if you heard the last episode or 374 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:18.359 it was also the last episode or the one of 375 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:22.279 the last episodes of Chris McDaniel's America where he kind 376 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:24.240 of turned it over to me and let me run 377 00:20:24.279 --> 00:20:28.000 an interview with him, and Chris knew Charlie, you know, 378 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:31.039 that was somebody that he actually knew, and you know, 379 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:35.839 to ask him that same question, does it give you pause? 380 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:40.200 Does it make you want to back away? He said 381 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:44.240 absolutely not. And I think that that's very telling that 382 00:20:44.279 --> 00:20:48.000 a lot of us that have platforms that have microphones 383 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:52.319 that we're not running away because we're scared somebody might 384 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:55.240 come after us. And I think that that's important that 385 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:58.559 young people like you maintained that as well, because we've 386 00:20:58.680 --> 00:21:02.079 got to have folks like you that are willing to 387 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:06.039 jump in this fight. Because I hate to say it, 388 00:21:06.119 --> 00:21:08.880 but we're getting older. We're about getting ready to hand 389 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:11.920 the torch to you guys and see, uh see, you 390 00:21:12.039 --> 00:21:14.359 guys take it to the next level. What do you 391 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:16.200 think of that? Do you think you're ready to take 392 00:21:16.279 --> 00:21:18.319 on the take the torch and run with it. 393 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:21.920 I think I've definitely tried my best to, you know, 394 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:24.279 learn as much as I can from all the guys 395 00:21:24.319 --> 00:21:27.559 who have kind of paved the way for me. And 396 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:29.839 I think that, you know, being around all of them, 397 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:32.759 it's taught me a lot, and it's taught me enough 398 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:35.839 to where I do believe that you know, older generation 399 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:37.920 moves on. I do believe I could step in and 400 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:39.599 you know, do what's right and make a difference. 401 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:45.799