Why Is Nick Fuentes So Popular? Nikki Haley's Son Explains.

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• 0:29Tucker Carlson?

  Well, it looks like all the screaming about Nick Fuentes on the internet is finally dying down a little bit. It couldn't go on forever, though it seemed like it might. And that's a good thing, because after all, there's a lot else going on in the world, some of it important, and watching people day after day stand up to basically make the same point. "I'm a good person, unlike him." Not that interesting, or edifying, or even really informative. I mean, we definitely learned that there are quite a few professional conservatives who are not that conservative in any sense that really matters. Some of them are fraudulent, or sad, or kind of stuck in nonprofit jobs because they can't get another, and your sympathy goes out to them.

• 1:11Tucker Carlson?

  But listening to them talk day after day really didn't teach us anything. But it doesn't mean that there aren't lessons to be learned. In fact, there's one really important lesson, and this was really the reason to interview Nick Fuentes in the first place. And the lesson is that a lot of young men in America, mostly white, but not exclusively, listen to Nick Fuentes really carefully. And the lesson that our professional betters in Washington have drawn over the past few weeks is that means they're as bad as Nick Fuentes. They're Nazis, too! But of course, they're not Nazis, by and large. They're just American young people. And so the question is, and it's a pressing question if you care about the future of

• 1:53Tucker Carlson?

  the country, why have they been listening to Nick Fuentes?

• 1:59Tucker Carlson?

  Sincerely, like, what is this? Why aren't they listening to somebody from the Heritage Foundation or the Daily Wire? Why do they believe Nick Fuentes more than they believe the people who think they ought to have a monopoly on the attention of young conservatives? That is a really important question. And what does it say, not simply about their attitudes, but about the problems they face, the society they grew up in, the future they imagined for themselves? What does it say about all of that that Fuentes is so popular among young men? After all, young men really are kind of the basis of our hope for continuing as a country. So if they're off in some direction that you don't understand, it's probably incumbent on you to try to understand it to the extent you can.

• 2:43Tucker Carlson?

  You know, it's hard to understand other people's motives, and it's even harder when they're in a different generation. But making a good faith effort to figure out, what is this? Well, that's on us, us being, you know, everyone with a job who's not in that generation, all the beneficiaries of a stronger, more cohesive America, the America we grew up in, which doesn't exist anymore. It's our responsibility to look at newer generations and say, what's going on with them? Can we help in any way? If we care about our country, if we care about our own families, our children and grandchildren, we probably want to do that. And it's probably not enough to call them names. It doesn't work, for one thing. It just makes whatever we claim to dislike even stronger.

• 3:25Tucker Carlson?

  There's one lesson of the Trump 2015 announcement and everything that's happened since then, the last 10 years, it's that. And the lesson, obviously, is that when every power center in the country declares war on you, you become a power center. It doesn't destroy you. It makes you stronger. It's certainly true for Donald Trump. Would he have become president in 2016 and 2024 if all the cool kids hadn't denounced him as a Nazi? Probably not. Would he have been reelected if the FBI hadn't raided Mar-a-Lago and gone through his wife's underwear drawer? We can debate it, but maybe not. Maybe this would be the Ron DeSantis presidency. Probably.

• 4:07Tucker Carlson?

  So attacking people, particularly when you attack them ad hominem, when you don't try to deconstruct or rebut the arguments they're making, but just calling them names. Nazi!

• 4:18Tucker Carlson?

  That's counterproductive every single time. You expose yourself as hysterical and shallow and you elevate them in the minds of everybody else. They're important enough to be yelled at by every trustee at the Heritage Foundation or whatever. They must be important. So, again, it doesn't work, but it's also, on a deeper level, kind of immoral. It's immoral to dismiss the concerns of your countrymen as beneath consideration. I don't have to listen to you because you like some guy who's got ugly views. By the way, it's not a defense of all of Fuentes's views.

• 4:59Tucker Carlson?

  We interviewed him on this show and said, "It is totally immoral to hate Jews as a group, because it's totally immoral to hate any group, period. That's always wrong." But it doesn't mean that everything Fuentes says is wrong. It's not wrong. And, more to the point, what he says on the air, and his huge popularity, which has only increased the more these people scream at him, says a lot about the people who are listening and their legitimate concerns and the factors in our society, in America and the West, that gave rise to their attitudes. Like, how did this happen?

• 5:42Tucker Carlson?

  Let's, for once, in the last 20 years, look back and ask ourselves an honest question: How did this happen? Let's do what we didn't do when we withdrew from Afghanistan or declared a truce in Iraq or carted away the rubble from 9/11. We never asked, "How did this happen?", and no one was ever held responsible for allowing it to happen or the bad decisions that made it happen. Not one person. And so, of course, inevitably, disasters followed disasters, because if you never take the time to take responsibility for what you've done or even understand it, you're apt to repeat it. It's the most obvious observation in the world.

• 6:27Tucker Carlson?

  It's the basis of good parenting. It's why you make your kids apologize, of course. So let's, in the case of Nick Fuentes, focus not on Nick Fuentes, but on the people who watch Nick Fuentes. What kind of world have they grown up in? These young white men! Well, they've grown up in, over the last 10 years, a world that hates them. And not in a subtle way. Openly, with a who-to-like directness and ferocity. They've grown up in a country that has systematically, in law, excluded them from the workplace, from education, from federal grants,

• 7:12Tucker Carlson?

  and has told them again and again and again, "No, we're not discriminating against you, and yes, you deserve it." Imagine growing up like that. And again, this isn't behind the scenes. This is way out in the open. And not only has it done exactly that to young white men, of course, white men being the one group who are officially excluded under DEI. There's only one, it's white men, white, straight men. It's not whining. And by the way, this happens to be the one group in America who by and large have been taught for cultural reasons, "Don't whine, don't talk about yourself so much. No one wants to hear your story, and whatever you do, don't be the victim." All of that's good advice, by the way.

• 7:56Tucker Carlson?

  But this group has not only been excluded with the force of law by the Justice Department in every state and at every college and university, with maybe three exceptions. They've been mocked and attacked and lectured and harangued and screamed at. Every bookstore in America had books on display, "Whiteness is the problem." Well, what if you're white? You know, what if you're like 19? And you're thinking about, "How do I make my way in this increasingly competitive, maybe even ruthless country? And everywhere I go, people are telling me I'm bad because of the way I was born." What effect would that have on you?

• 8:40Tucker Carlson?

  And then you flip on the tube or the internet.

• 8:44Tucker Carlson?

  And all these people with big jobs, making big salaries, who have the implied moral authority of their positions, are telling you you're bad because of your skin color. And by the way, this is not a guess. Here's an example.

• 8:57Speaker 02

  We have systemic racism in the United States of America. It exists today. And it's a white man's problem. White men are responsible for it, not black men.

• 9:07Speaker 03

  And we have stood by to see mediocre, mealy-mouthed, uh, snowflake white men, who are incapable of taking critique, who are willing to dole out infamous repudiations of the humanity of the other. And yet, they call us snowflakes, and they are the biggest flakes of snow to hit the earth.

• 9:29Speaker 04

  American history is one in which white Americans, uh, by and large, have been taught to have indifference or even contempt for black life. We have defined the country as a white nation, where people of color are here on a guest pass.

• 9:43Speaker 03

  One in three Americans are racist. One in three Americans are terrified that this country by the year 2040 is not going to be majority white.

• 9:52Speaker 05

  There has been no oppression for the white man in this country. And don't let it escape you that it is white men on this side of the aisle telling us, people of color on this side of the aisle, that y'all are the ones being oppressed.

• 10:08Speaker 03

  Wake up, white men! What the fuck is wrong with you? And you're just eating it up. I thought, my god. Look at what they're doing. All of a sudden, my heritage is going to be over. That I won't, uh, I want to live in a country where their white kids go to white schools and, and white people marry each other.

• 10:28Speaker 03

  What is wrong with that? I want to grow up in a country that my great-grandfather grew up in. That country doesn't exist anymore, asshole!

• 10:38Tucker Carlson?

  So you can see why there probably are some Nick Fuentes viewers who are a little confused when they hear themselves attacked as racist. Racism is wrong. Of course, it is wrong. But they've grown up in a world where one of the leading CNN anchors is looking right into the cameras, "What the fuck is wrong with you white people? You want to be near other white people? You want to have a heritage? You want to have white children? How dare you?" The CNN anchor is married to a white guy. Whatever. But it's a little hard to tell people that racism is wrong when you're committing it. And again, it's not just a few people.

• 11:22Tucker Carlson?

  It was our entire ruling class was lecturing us about how whiteness is a disease. It's a plague. It's inherently sinful. It's the source of all evil. The President of the United States stood up and said racism is the problem and it's only committed by whites. It's a white man problem. Is racism only committed by whites? No, and everyone knows that. Hating other people is a human problem, one that every person struggles with, hopefully struggles against, because it's wrong. It's always wrong. Anti-Semitism is wrong. It's every bit as wrong as what you just saw. It's every bit as anti-black racism or anti-Malaysian racism. It doesn't matter.

• 12:07Tucker Carlson?

  Hating people for how they were born is wrong. It's called a universal principle. This country is founded on universal principles. They apply to everyone equally. That's the promise of America. That is Western civilization. If you could sum it up in a sentence, what is Western civilization? Well, it's a civilization governed by universal principles. Everyone can be saved. No one is damned by his nature. And hating any group, because that's true, hating any group is by definition immoral. Doesn't mean it hasn't happened. It happens all the time, of course, because it's the default setting in the human heart. But we need to struggle against it.

• 12:50Tucker Carlson?

  Maybe not ban it. Hard to ban attitudes. And once you go down that road, you become totalitarian immediately. But say it's wrong. And if it's not wrong in every case, then it can't really be wrong, can it? If it's not a universal principle, then it's not a principle. And so, how can my racism be worse than your racism? Well, of course, it can't. So the people lecturing Fuentes viewers for something that is wrong, hating all Jews is wrong, totally wrong, don't have the moral authority to make the case because they've been engaging in this in public and in private

• 13:31Tucker Carlson?

  for the entire lifetime of Nick Fuentes viewers. So it's hard to take them seriously. And by the way, you can tell exactly where this is going. It's going toward violence. Tribal warfare. That's the last thing you want. That's why this is a great country. That's why it's exceptional, because we haven't had that. And why haven't we had that? Because we have self-consciously and out loud said, "These are universal principles that apply to every human being because every human being was created by God in God's image." That's it, right there. That's a Christian understanding of the human soul. There's been a lot of noise in the news recently,

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• 17:39Tucker Carlson?

  Well, so Bill Ackman is all upset, you know, about Nick Fuentes and anti-Semitism. Good, I agree. But where was Bill Ackman when Harvard was systematically, as it is today, discriminated against people on the basis of their race? Straight white men. Harvard discriminates against them. There's no guessing about that. There was a lawsuit about it, we have the numbers. No one said a word. No one said a word. Where was Paul Singer? These are now big Republican conservative donors. Were they upset? Did they say anything? Did they do anything meaningful? These are billionaires. If anybody could have weighed in effectively against systemic racism, real systemic racism,

• 18:23Tucker Carlson?

  causing harm, promoting one group over another on the basis of race, it would have been guys like this. They said not a word. Or they certainly didn't do anything about it, that's for sure. Now they're all upset. Well, that looks like self-interest to people watching. These, for the fifth time, are universal principles. The continuation of the United States depends upon those principles. They must be vigorously defended, above all, by the most powerful people in our society, the people who not simply have a voice but have power. To enforce those principles. The meritocracy is not just some like goal that we should strive toward. It's the whole point.

• 19:08Tucker Carlson?

  You have to judge people on their behavior, not on their blood. Otherwise, you move very quickly into collective punishment. This is why what Israel is doing in Gaza is immoral. Not simply because it's a bloody war where civilians are being killed. That's very common and very sad. But what makes this different and worthy of comment is that Israeli politicians are saying out loud, and Mark Levin is joining them in saying out loud, and a number of other Americans are saying out loud, it doesn't matter if they die because they're stained from birth by the sin.

• 19:51Tucker Carlson?

  It's the opposite of universalism. It's tribalism. And it's certainly not unique to the Middle East at all. And anyone who thinks it is is an idiot. It's the human condition. It's a state of man. It's like the deepest, most obvious sin that we exhibit. But it's the whole problem. And you see it in this country too. Oh, that's outrageous. Really, Donny Deutsch? Is it outrageous? Did you say anything about the racism all around you and the elite institutions that you're so proud of being a part of? It was the basis of those institutions. No, we're gonna, we're gonna help some people and hurt other people based on what their parents look like. So why don't you sit this one out, actually?

• 20:34Tucker Carlson?

  Why don't you be quiet for a moment and think about what the core problem is? That's the core problem, right there. It's not a defense of racism or antisemitism. It's all the same. It's the only reason to oppose it. If it applies to you, it applies to me. You should defend that principle as vigorously as I do. And let's hope, there's no evidence that's happening, by the way. Everyone's just retreating into their own little group being like, no, I don't want my people to get hurt. No, no, no. You don't want any person in our country ever to face that, ever. That's why segregation was wrong. That's why the Nazis were bad. I mean, really? We have to have this conversation? Apparently, we do.

• 21:16Tucker Carlson?

  It's not an attack on everyone to point that out. It is not an attack on anyone to point that out. It is instead a defense of everyone. It's not attacking anyone, it's a defense of everyone. It's the only defense of everyone. And it's the only way forward.

• 21:35Tucker Carlson?

  So that's the environment that these kids grew up in. Racism is wrong, antisemitism is wrong. How would they even know that? How would they know that? Because you've been committing it.

• 21:48Tucker Carlson?

  Probably had no idea.

• 21:51Tucker Carlson?

  The second thing to remember about this audience, and I'll just say, I'm 56, so like, how well do I understand Nick Fuentes's audience? I don't know, probably not that well. But I've made some effort to try to understand it. Again, because it's just objectively important. The second thing to remember is that they have been attacked, again, not making them victims, not making excuses, just trying to explain how we got here

• 22:19Tucker Carlson?

  for the last 10 years because they are male, because they are men or boys. And not just subtly with the overwhelming emphasis on female achievement in school. And what about the girls? How are girls doing? Well, actually, girls are doing great. It's the boys who are withering and dying, turning inside, internalizing the hate against them. And as is so often the case, exhibiting it as self-hate.

• 22:47Tucker Carlson?

  Not just ignored, but attacked out loud for being male by some of the most powerful people in our society. Again, in case you've forgotten, here it is.

• 23:00Speaker 05

  The level of misogyny online, everything from literal threats against women in the public arena to the demeaning of women to men with very large platforms who espouse a kind of toxic masculinity connected with violence, brutality, even sometimes rape. It's so shocking, but it's a reality.

• 23:30Speaker 04

  There's too much. Of toxicity. It's masculine toxicity out there. We've kind of confused what it means to be a man, what it means to be masculine. We're seeing it with our younger people. We're seeing it in our discourse, in our politics, in the media. You're seeing it as it relates to so many of the issues that we're pushing back on. So I think it's a problem, and I'm going to continue to use this platform every time I get to speak out against this toxic masculinity that's out there.

• 24:00Speaker 05

  When they talk about Republicans and their success online, they have been successful because they have also been very clear, especially digitally, about what they believe. That women are inferior, that do not, and they do not deserve equal rights. That they believe that LGBTQ Americans are subhuman. And they are able to radicalize and target and exploit a generation of young boys, in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

• 24:45Tucker Carlson?

  And now for today's lecture on masculinity from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Doug Emhoff. I mean, you're tempted to dismiss this as, once again, the unhappiest people in our society, spreading their own personal pain to the entire population. And of course, on one level, that's exactly what it is. People with dysfunctional, incomplete, sad, personal lives probably shouldn't be telling anyone else how to live. In the same way, you probably wouldn't take real estate advice from a homeless guy or investment counsel from Bernie Madoff. Only listen to people who have demonstrated success in whatever area they're lecturing you about. I mean, this is just like the most basic life lesson.

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• 27:00Tucker Carlson?

  But there's more going on here. So one of the saddest things that you learn when you talk to people under, say, 35, unmarried people, and most are. The average marriage age, I think in this country is around 30. It was, you know, in the early 20s, not that long ago. People aren't getting married. And maybe you think that's a great thing. Certainly if you're a Democratic politician, you think that's great because that just means more voters for you. But if you're like a normal person who cares about human happiness and thriving and children and continuing your country and civilization, that's a bad thing. So the question is, how did it happen? And if you talk to young people, it's not exactly clear what the answer is, but you notice immediately that the relationship between men and women, boys and girls,

• 27:44Tucker Carlson?

  is broken on a level it's hard to see how you can fix. I mean, contemptuous of each other, suspicious of each other, at some point dismissive of each other. That's really what you pick up. There's hostility. Men feel hostile to women. Women feel hostile to men.

• 28:02Tucker Carlson?

  Could there be anything sadder than that? Since men and women are designed for each other, it's hard to become fully complete without the other. That's not even a theological point. It's a biological point. It's true for all species. Male and female, that distinction is encoded in all of nature, in plants and animals. It's in the universe, you might say. It's just a fact. And you can ignore it and pretend that, you know, a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. You can come up with any slogan you want. You can externalize your childhood trauma in any way you want and write all the books you want about how dad is bad, but you can't get around nature because you didn't create it. You don't make the rules.

• 28:47Tucker Carlson?

  You either live by them and thrive, or you ignore them and are destroyed. That's the choice that we face. Period. I mean, you could say, you know, it's snowing outside. I'm going to wear my underwear because I should be able to. Well, you're going to freeze to death because it's not up to you. And the same is true for the relationship between men and women. You can say, I hate them. I don't want them, but you're not going to thrive. Period. You will be miserable. And you just saw three miserable people right on the screen.

• 29:14Tucker Carlson?

  Our society has systematically, knowingly or not, it's hard to know exactly how much was intentional, poisoned the relationship between young men and young women. And they've done it in a bunch of different ways. We could go on for hours on this topic, but the results tell the story. They're not getting married because they don't like each other. They don't know how to communicate with each other. And above all, they think they don't need each other. And that's a lie. It's a lie. So anyone who is promoting that view

• 29:47Tucker Carlson?

  is at fault. And when you're powerful and have a platform, a megaphone, when other people are watching you and taking cues from you, when you have the power to convince other people of something and to live a certain way, boy, you're guilty. That's your fault.

• 30:04Tucker Carlson?

  So when I hear people say, well, you know, the thing about Nick Fuentes is he's a misogynist. He doesn't like women. Well, maybe there's some truth in that.

• 30:14Tucker Carlson?

  And that's bad, but it's not so much immoral as it is depressing.

• 30:21Tucker Carlson?

  That's the other thing. This is a group of people whose imagination, whose moral imagination is so limited, and they're so narcissistic in the way they see the world. It's all about them. Every person's sin is an opportunity for them to gloat about how good they are, that it never occurs to them that this is a tragedy. If you hear a young man say, "I prefer porn to girls," or "They're all sluts and they want, you know, money and they're all, they're all basically prostitutes," which is kind of the argument that you hear, you know, you should be very upset by that, very sad about that, and mindful of what that's going to mean in 20 years, on every level. On the most obvious level, like, who's

• 31:04Tucker Carlson?

  gonna make the babies? But on a deeper, more human level, like, how much misery is that? A lot. So if you're adding to that, if you're attacking young men, once again, for how they were born, you are the problem, and you share some of the responsibility for the results, for the bad attitudes that inevitably will form in the face of your hectoring. It's your fault, too. It's our fault, too. That's just true. And now we've reached a point where it's like an actual crisis. And our leaders are not, are not

• 31:46Tucker Carlson?

  responding in a way that's going to make it better. Because, again, they're caught up in their own dramas, their own tribal dramas, their own personal dramas. It's all about them, always. You watch this Mondani thing going on in New York. Hardly an endorsement of Mondani. I mean, please. But like, what do you hear about the guy? 80% of the criticism of Mondani is like his position on Gaza. Who cares? What does that have to do with anything in New York City? Who cares what he thinks of Gaza or Bibi? That's far away and not relevant. This is a guy who said out loud on camera, and then once again, out loud on camera, defending, the first time he said it, "I'm gonna tax white people more because they're white."

• 32:32Tucker Carlson?

  Did anyone even notice that? No, because the people who don't like him have, they don't care. Because they don't see a connection between what happens to those white people and what might happen to some group or cause they're interested in. They're unwilling to defend the universal principle. And so they're just, it's just more self-interest. How dare you say that about Gaza? Wait a second, this is mayor of the biggest city who said he's gonna, he's gonna tax white people more? Well, you're just saying that because you're white. No. Saying it because I'm a human being and a Christian, and that's not acceptable. Your leaders can't talk or think that way. Or else it all just falls apart.

• 33:16Tucker Carlson?

  And in a country that's the size of a continent with 50 component parts, it could fall apart really, really fast and become super, super ugly. And we are right on the brink of that. Why are they misogynist? Maybe because you told them the hormones they were born with were toxic. What are they supposed to do with that? Transition? Well, a lot of them did. Cut your dick off. The ultimate sign of bowing before authority. You're right, I'll self-castrate. And again, a lot did. But what about the ones who didn't want to self-castrate? Where are they? Well, they're pissed.

• 34:00Tucker Carlson?

  And they're pissed at you. They're mad at you and they have every good reason to be mad at you. Period. The third lesson we should take from the fact that Nick Fuentes, who everyone's busy done, Nick Fuentes, he's the problem. Right, yeah, he's the problem. Some 27-year-old goes, he's the problem. No, you're the problem, actually. And the third factor in his popularity is the fact, the uncontestable fact that the economy, the rest of us in our 50s, 60s and 70s, people have all the money have created, is destroying young people. Just a fact. And it's not just that they, it's not just that they can't have, you know, the place in Greenwich and the place in Jackson Hole.

• 34:45Tucker Carlson?

  It's not, I know, they can't have any place. They can't have anything. They don't, can't own anything. And rather than...

• 34:54Tucker Carlson?

  Even spend a day thinking through like, how do we fix this? The answer is, well, we'll just import people who are grateful for what they're getting here, because the differential between what they got at home and got here is pretty big. Like, if you're from Oaxaca or Bangalore, like, not owning a home in your 30s is fine. You never expected to own a home anyway. So you're just, you're just happy to be here, and you're grateful to people who brought you, and you'll vote for them. That is literally their thinking. And it's demonstrable, it's their thinking. But for people who were born here, what a betrayal, what a terrible betrayal, and worse than a betrayal. Here's just an overview of it.

• 35:35Speaker 03

  Buying a home has never been harder. The average first-time buyer is now 40 years old, and it's more expensive to own. Nationally, the median price of a home is $415,000, up more than 50% since 2019. If you buy that average-priced home now, the payment is roughly $2,000 a month. When you pay it off in 30 years, it would have cost you about $657,000. Just six years ago, you'd have paid $1,500 a month and about $563,000 total. The dream of owning a home is causing some Americans to rethink important milestones. A new survey by Coldwell Banker finds 71% of aspiring homeowners are postponing at least

• 36:17Speaker 03

  one life decision, like getting married, having kids, or making career moves until they can afford to buy a home.

• 36:24Tucker Carlson?

  So they can't afford houses. Probably the top issue for young men in their 20s and 30s, or a lot of issues. By the way, at a time when they can't buy a home, the idea of sending money to a foreign country, particularly Israel, but all countries, any country, Sudan, France, pretty offensive, because it is, after all, their government, they pay for it. You know, why wouldn't it offend them? But not being able to buy a home, if you ask any young person, or at least the dozen or two I've asked, number one, like, I grew up in a home, not an apartment, not Section 8, not a rental house, but like, a house that I own, not a huge house, but just like a house. Go to Home Depot, buy garden hose, fix the gutter.

• 37:09Tucker Carlson?

  Like, that's kind of the dream, actually, for most men. And in that home, I have my wife, my children, and my dog. Like, it's not, these are not crazy aspirations. These are the most human aspirations men think about when they go to sleep at night. It's like, my little house. There's nothing more male than that. You know, it's my cave. And they're being denied that. So they're upset, and increasingly, they feel nihilistic. And why wouldn't they? But the question that too few ask is, well, why can't they buy a home? Like, what is that? And you often hear dumb people say, we just don't have enough homes. Okay. Don't have enough homes, says, we need to take, like, Yellowstone and build Section 8 or something. Morons.

• 37:52Tucker Carlson?

  And of course, you know, supply and demand is real, and so, you know, there are fewer homes than than we would like to have, and so the price rises. Okay, but that's not really the whole story. There are a bunch of factors. One, big companies buying homes and turning them into rentals. Why would you ever allow that? If you want a revolution, keep that up.

• 38:12Tucker Carlson?

  Two is, we just have more people. Density is a real thing. This is a great country because it's not an overpopulated country. It's not Bangladesh, not just because we're better than the Bangladeshis, but because there are fewer of us in a bigger piece of land. You don't want to live cheek to jowl. It makes people crazy. It makes rats crazy, and it makes people crazy. Nobody wants that. But we're getting it, and we're getting it through immigration. Illegal and legal. We're being flooded with people from outside the country. Everyone's like, oh, wow, you know, that's a, that's a racial thing. Okay. Maybe for some people, there are racial elements, for sure. Certainly, a lot of cultural elements that are important. But like, at root, it's a very simple question. It's nothing to do with ethnicity or even culture.

• 38:56Tucker Carlson?

  It's like, how many people do you want living near you? So many you can't afford a house?

• 39:03Tucker Carlson?

  That's kind of an overlooked byproduct of stuffing the country full of people who are here because they're inexpensive to employ and grateful to be here. It's a massive byproduct. But there's another factor that's never mentioned, and that's debt. Young people are totally in hock. They are completely indebted. They have student loans. They were required to get a degree or told they were required to get a degree to get some job that no longer exists because it's been eliminated or H1B'd or whatever. The jobs aren't there. Unemployment among recent college grads is out of control, out of control. Are they becoming more moderate?

• 39:44Tucker Carlson?

  Once they leave college, like hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt? They followed every instruction they were given dutifully because young people are actually pretty dutiful? And in this country, young people, some of them are really smart, for real. Talk to them. Tons of losers, of course, there always are, but the smart ones are really smart and very aware of what's going on, and they know that they've been completely betrayed. They did what they were told to do. And they're shafted, they're literally shafted, because they don't have enough income, in some cases, any. So what are they doing? They're going into debt. They have student loans, they have credit card debt, and of course, now there are all

• 40:27Tucker Carlson?

  these other ways to borrow money that are disguised. Buy now, pay later. What's that? You're going into debt, of course. And what's so interesting about this, and this is a problem primarily on the right, though not exclusively, is that no one has sympathy for them at all. Conservatives, you hate to say this out loud, but it's true. Conservatives have been trained to blame the borrower, not the lender. It's like a feature of the mindset. Well, you took the loan, you've got to pay it back. It's your moral duty to pay it back. Pay back what you owe. Don't be a deadbeat.

• 41:09Tucker Carlson?

  Okay, fine, get it, like it. But is it really that simple? No, it's not. Because the relationship between borrower and lender is inherently symbiotic. One cannot exist without the other. What other relationship is like that? What other fraught, sad, diseased relationship is like that? Well, addict and pusher. Of course. You can't be a drug addict unless someone sells you drugs. And yet, we understand the complexity of that relationship and we punish both. In fact, we punish the drug dealer more harshly than we punish the drug addict because we

• 41:51Tucker Carlson?

  understand that the drug dealer is making all this suffering possible. And we feel sorry for the addict. Well, he's an addict. We can punish him and, by the way, throwing him in jail might be the only way to sober him up. It might save his life. And we should. For his own sake and for ours. Stop breaking into my car. Got it? But the drug dealer, well, that we reserve our rage for him. Because he's the one doing it. He's taking advantage of the weak. And that's all true. And that's appropriate to feel that way. It's exactly right. But we don't feel that way about credit card companies. Or student loan vendors. Or the guys who are literally offering buy now, pay later for DoorDash.

• 42:35Tucker Carlson?

  Some unemployed or underemployed college grad went to some crappy college, got a worthless degree because he believed in it. Now he can't get a job at JP Morgan. He's never gonna get one. And we are telling him it's totally cool to buy sushi on credit. What? He shouldn't buy sushi on credit, obviously. That's dumb. But he's a kid. Who's worse?

• 43:06Tucker Carlson?

  The guy who borrows the money or the guy who loans the money at some ridiculous rate payday loans in this country, there are payday loans that have a 600% annual interest rate.

• 43:20Tucker Carlson?

  And we kind of ignore it because we're like, who would take a payday loan?

• 43:24Tucker Carlson?

  You know, that's like a ghetto thing. Okay.

• 43:28Tucker Carlson?

  Okay, fine, it's a ghetto thing. But who would do that to the ghetto, actually? Who would do something like that? If somebody said to you, you know, you can make a pretty good living exploiting and degrading people, destroying their lives, would you do it? Hope not. But if you did do it, the rest of us would have a moral obligation to say, you are disgusting. That's disgusting what you're doing. And we don't. And we especially don't on the right.

• 43:58Tucker Carlson?

  Because it's immoral to criticize banks or something because you don't believe in free markets?

• 44:03Tucker Carlson?

  Well, yeah, I wish we had them. Of course, I believe in free markets. Where is the free market in the United States? When you find it, you got my cell.

• 44:11Tucker Carlson?

  But what we have to be against, and this is more important than whatever you believe about the effectiveness of relative economic systems, we have to be against exploiting and crushing people.

• 44:23Tucker Carlson?

  And if we're not, then what are we doing? And it's not even a matter of banning it. It's a matter of saying it's disgusting. 30% interest credit card? And that's totally fine?

• 44:34Tucker Carlson?

  I must have done 15 segments at Fox News about how Joe Biden's real sin was making credit card debt non-dischargeable and bankruptcy. Oh, who cares? Well, you're against capitalism? If you want to make people against capitalism, let that shit continue and they will absolutely vote for Mondani. And they have, by the way, they have.

• 44:58Tucker Carlson?

  So if you want to understand why young people are getting radical, one of the main reasons is they are being exploited by the most unscrupulous, richest people in our society and then being blamed for it. And no one says a word about the rich, unscrupulous people who are doing this because everyone's taking money from them. And you saw this in the last administration, the Democratic, the liberal administration. So the idea was, and it's true, young people are being destroyed by student loans. Okay, that's true. Who's benefiting from that? Well, the colleges, of course, are benefiting because it's allowing them to hire more administrators

• 45:43Tucker Carlson?

  than they have professors. It's allowing them to live in this kind of fantasy world where they build this incredibly beautiful little biosphere in the middle of some economically depressed hellscape in a rural area, that's true of like every New England college. Bates College at Lewiston, ever been to Lewiston? Bates is beautiful. Why? Because they're participating in the scam, of course. Backstopped by the federal government, by student loans. So they're the beneficiary. They're the loan shark here, actually. And so are the companies that are getting rich from this. But what was, what was the Biden plan?

• 46:24Tucker Carlson?

  The Biden plan was to stick taxpayers with the bill for bailing out students. So they identified the problem correctly, which is kids are getting completely screwed. That's terrible. And it's preventing them from having productive lives, getting married, buying houses. It's hurting them. So who gets to fix it? You do, you've got nothing to do with it. You're probably paying your own kids tuition, but you get to bail them out. And guess who's not blamed or punished? The beneficiaries, the lenders. Because you can't criticize the banks, can't criticize the universities. Oh, yes, you can. Yes, you can. Because it's not exclusively their fault. It's primarily their fault.

• 47:07Tucker Carlson?

  And they've dodged all responsibility, just like everyone who's made life destroying decisions in this country over the past 20 years. The truly guilty have escaped not just punishment, but criticism.

• 47:22Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah, that can't go on forever. And in the meantime, it's creating a whole new audience, not just for Fuentes, but for a lot of increasingly radical people, because that's what happens when you mistreat people and then attack them for not liking it, is you make them radical. As important as it is, politics is not the answer to this country's or man's greatest problem. The only solution is Jesus. Sorry, that's true. At its core, politics is a process of critiquing other people and getting them to change. Christianity is the opposite. Christianity begins with a call for you to change, me to change. It's called repentance, and it brings you back to God. When God is at the

• 48:06Tucker Carlson?

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• 48:50Tucker Carlson?

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• 50:04Tucker Carlson?

  Join us. The good news is that not all of them are radical. A lot of them are just clear thinking and sensible and decent and committed to universal principles of human rights and decency in that generation. The real surprise here is how moderate a lot of these kids are. You would expect them to be a lot more pissed off, and they will get that way soon. But for right now, most of them, most of them are decent people and smart. They know what's up. One of them is called Naylan Haley. We thought a lot before doing this interview, the one we're about to do, because the man

• 50:47Tucker Carlson?

  we're about to talk to is 24 and is the son of Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, presidential candidate, neocon. And there's really nothing more immoral than using a child against a parent. I've been a consistent and pretty strident opponent of Nikki Haley's views for a long time. And so the idea of interviewing her son, of being like, doesn't your mom suck? That's disgusting, and we're never going to do that. And so we had a lot of conversations off camera with him before this interview, and it turns out, he really likes his mom a lot and thinks she was a great mother and she's a great person. And he completely disagrees with some of her views, maybe a lot of her views, while

• 51:30Tucker Carlson?

  still loving her and remaining grateful to her. And that in itself is just such a remarkable model of what this country should be, the way that we should all be, but increasingly are not.

• 51:44Tucker Carlson?

  And so, we were delighted to talk to this man. And I think, and I think if you listen carefully, you will think that he has one of the, from a young person, one of the clearest explanations for how a lot of young Americans, not just white men, but a lot of young people now currently feel about their leaders, the conservative movement, and where we're going. So with that, Neil and Haley, thank you for doing this. Yep, thank you. So, the main reason I interviewed Nick Fuentes is because I wanted to know why Nick Fuentes was popular. And let me just say, none of this is about Nick Fuentes, it's not about one guy, but here you had a guy who was, you know, everyone hated him, he was canceled, and he's getting bigger and bigger, bigger, bigger, and I thought, it's possible he's saying some things

• 52:29Tucker Carlson?

  that are dumb, or probably, you know, but some things that are, need to be heard, and that are not being heard, and that are appealing to young men who feel like they aren't being heard, and maybe we should hear this, and maybe even act on some of these problems before things get even crazier than they already are. So, I want to talk to you now because I have no idea what you think of Nick Fuentes, I'm not even going to ask you, but because I think that young men are reacting against a society that hates them, and have these attitudes we need to hear about. So, um, thank you. Have your political views changed in the last five years? Uh... Well, how old are you, 24?

• 53:09Tucker Carlson?

  Just turned 24, and I actually would say not too much, just a little bit. Yes. I would say, my views started to change probably around late junior year of high school. Nothing significant happened, it was nothing that I saw or anything, it was just, I decided I wasn't going to accept just what Con Inc. was giving me, and it's... What's Con Inc.? Con Inc. is basically your typical conservative media, you know, very typical...

• 53:38Speaker 03

  Republican, not any sort of nationalist, you know, the type of legal immigration, good illegal, bad, you know. Uh, and it's, it's, it got tiring and I was like, I don't want to just accept what's given to me like right in front of me. I want to actually think for myself. And so.

• 53:54Tucker Carlson?

  So did you feel, just to press on a little bit, did you feel that the news outlets that were created for you, you were never liberal, I guess?

• 54:01Speaker 03

  Never, no.

• 54:02Tucker Carlson?

  Okay.

• 54:02Speaker 03

  Thank God.

• 54:03Tucker Carlson?

  I wasn't either.

• 54:05Tucker Carlson?

  But you felt that the news outlets that were like there to serve you were actually maybe not serving you and instead misleading.

• 54:11Speaker 03

  No, of course not. And I absolutely hate the media. I just do. I, I just, they are, to me, the worst people in the world. They are vultures and blood sucking leeches who care nothing about the country. They thrive off the destruction of the United States. They have no loyalty to a country, to an ideology, to a people, only their money and their ratings. And the way that they get that is through sowing division and chaos, because that's how they know people watch them more. That's how they get more money. And so it's very similar to the way the greedy anti-American corporations are. In that they don't care about American values, American identity, American sovereignty, American workers, American people. And therefore we shouldn't care about them. So.

• 54:58Speaker 03

  Some, I assume are good people to, to quote our president.

• 55:04Tucker Carlson?

  I'm glad I asked you that question.

• 55:06Speaker 03

  No, I hate them. I really do. And it's.

• 55:08Tucker Carlson?

  Can I just say amen loud enough?

• 55:09Speaker 03

  Yeah, of course.

• 55:10Tucker Carlson?

  Amen. Amen. Wow. How did you figure that out?

• 55:16Speaker 03

  I don't know. You know, it's, it's funny. Everyone in my generation who's a conservative started out with the, the. Ben Shapiro owns SJW, uh, compilation videos on YouTube. That's what brought it in. It was not even like. The values or the, the talking points actually, which makes sense why we're leaving it kind of, because it was never the values. It was just funny. It was just rage bait, you know? That's what drew us in. And now that we were like, hey, wait a minute. Why is it that we can't talk about this thing? Or why is it that we're not allowed to criticize this? This, that's when people started to feel like, maybe this isn't allowing us to see the entire picture.

• 55:57Tucker Carlson?

  And maybe the point of it was to mislead rather than illuminate.

• 56:00Speaker 03

  Right, exactly.

• 56:02Tucker Carlson?

  How old were you when you figured that? I was like fifty. So how old were you?

• 56:05Speaker 03

  Uh, junior of high school, what is that? I turned seventeen, I think.

• 56:09Tucker Carlson?

  Really?

• 56:09Speaker 03

  So that was, but I, of course, I never told anybody my views and now it's very known that I have different views than my mom, which is also very funny because it's like, whenever anybody like says that, they're like, I can't believe that you have different views. I say, do you have different views than your mom? And they'll be like, yeah, of course. So I still, why would I be any different?

• 56:28Tucker Carlson?

  I want to say out loud, because it's, this has been a present fact for my life recently. I think it's totally immoral to use a child to attack a parent.

• 56:37Speaker 03

  Absolutely.

• 56:38Tucker Carlson?

  I don't think there's really anything lower than that. And I would probably die before I did that. So I just want to be very clear with you. Never do that. And of course, I don't think it's weird that you have different views from a parent. Like, that's just not weird.

• 56:50Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 56:51Tucker Carlson?

  It's pretty normal.

• 56:52Speaker 03

  And that's actually one of the things I respect most about you is how loyal and defensive you are of your family.

• 56:56Tucker Carlson?

  Of course.

• 56:57Speaker 03

  I mean, that's, like, when you saw that thing about the event, it was like, I can't believe he said that. And the whole time I was thinking, good for him, that he did that at that event. Like, I was just like, I would do the same thing. That's a very normal human reaction to someone attacking your family.

• 57:09Tucker Carlson?

  Attack my dad and punish you out. Yeah, well, that's your duty as a son, by the way.

• 57:12Speaker 03

  Absolutely.

• 57:12Tucker Carlson?

  Yes, I believe that. Um, so I just want to be clear with that. Uh, so, so you start to have these realizations that maybe this is like kind of fake, or maybe it's totally fake. Who do you talk to about this?

• 57:25Speaker 03

  Uh, no one. Because the last thing you want to do is tell people that you're, uh, not accepting what they're accepting and what they're believing. So I kind of, I've always been the type to just research things. I, when I see a certain topic that I'm interested in, I just want to Learn more about it. And so that's what I did was taking various different sources and just trying to put it together and just when you When you realize you're not allowed to talk about something in particular opens up very Like more questions than answers, right? And and and sometimes I still feel like I have more questions than answers.

• 57:58Tucker Carlson?

  Oh, I definitely do.

• 57:59Speaker 03

  So that I never told anybody, but it was something that I noticed over time that I'm not the only one.

• 58:06Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 58:06Speaker 03

  Everyone else is noticing this and everyone else is heading towards the same direction, which is nationalist, America first. And that's the direction I hope it will be.

• 58:15Tucker Carlson?

  Well, it's kind of once you start to think about it, it's the obvious conclusion. What's the purpose of a government? I mean, you can like America or not like America, whatever. But if you're running America.

• 58:24Speaker 03

  Right.

• 58:24Tucker Carlson?

  You have an obligation to Americans.

• 58:26Speaker 03

  Absolutely. It's a crazy concept.

• 58:28Tucker Carlson?

  But it's just like, what would the other formula be?

• 58:30Speaker 03

  Exactly. Like, what are we doing?

• 58:32Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah.

• 58:33Speaker 03

  But that's exactly how it's been. It's just, it makes no sense to me why we have special status for certain other countries. Why have a special status for Certain corporations, certain groups. It's like, why? We have people struggling here. We have people below the poverty line. We have bad schools. We have people going into debt because You know, they broke a bone, you know, like

• 58:51Tucker Carlson?

  Exactly.

• 58:51Speaker 03

  This stuff is ridiculous. So we have to call it out. And America first.

• 58:57Speaker 03

  I think is mistakenly always associated with soul, uh, social and cultural issues.

• 59:03Tucker Carlson?

  Right.

• 59:03Speaker 03

  But it's also a massive economic issue as well.

• 59:06Tucker Carlson?

  Totally agree.

• 59:06Speaker 03

  And no one talks enough about that.

• 59:08Tucker Carlson?

  Cause they don't want to talk about that.

• 59:09Speaker 03

  No, of course.

• 59:10Tucker Carlson?

  Caesar's just screaming about Hitler.

• 59:11Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 59:12Tucker Carlson?

  What does that have to do with anything? He's been dead eighty years.

• 59:14Speaker 03

  Label you something. And the labeling is so ridiculous and it drives me crazy because

• 59:19Speaker 03

  I've been called everything fascist socialist woke right?

• 59:22Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah.

• 59:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, radical. And that's the one that really gets me the most. This is a radical thing. I can be called like fascist. So who cares? Right? Those are just Everyone uses that now. So it's nothing special, but the radical. That bothered me because I'm like, all I have done, and the only time I've gotten attention was because I advocated for American jobs, American affordability, American safety, American culture. It's like, that's not radical. That's rational. There's nothing wrong with that.

• 59:50Tucker Carlson?

  I know.

• 59:51Speaker 03

  But it's, it's ridiculous.

• 59:52Tucker Carlson?

  It's the least revolutionary platform ever devised.

• 59:55Speaker 03

  And the labeling is so dangerous too. Just calling someone a Nazi is basically the same thing as calling. For their death at this point. And we've just based off of the political violence and the direction we're heading, I don't really see a difference between the two.

• 1:00:08Tucker Carlson?

  I agree with that.

• 1:00:08Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:00:10Tucker Carlson?

  As someone who's been called it quite a bit. Um, so was it Ben Shapiro that you were watching at first?

• 1:00:17Speaker 03

  Ben Shapiro, um, La La Daily Wire, uh, Steven Crowder.

• 1:00:25Speaker 03

  Uh, but other than that, I think I was never, like, I never sat down and watched Fox, right?

• 1:00:30Tucker Carlson?

  Right.

• 1:00:30Speaker 03

  Cause no one in my generation ever sat down and watched TV. So it was always YouTube videos and stuff online and just, you know, memes, basically. And now we're, we, we've kind of evolved and like now I'm on X. I was never on X. Uh, my life was probably better before I was on X.

• 1:00:46Tucker Carlson?

  Probably so.

• 1:00:46Speaker 03

  But that's, that's, it's definitely something that I transitioned into and I don't really watch the people I used to.

• 1:00:53Tucker Carlson?

  No, no, no.

• 1:00:54Speaker 03

  I don't watch too many people at all, actually. I, but just lost touch with them. I felt like I couldn't relate anymore. So.

• 1:01:02Tucker Carlson?

  What did you, you said at the outset that you noticed that there were things that were never addressed and that you were not supposed to address. What were those things?

• 1:01:08Speaker 03

  Uh, I would say a big part of that is the economic issues that we see. So the goal of every generation, right, is to leave it better than you found it. And right now we're not just not doing that. We're going in the opposite direction. It's getting worse. And I noticed that, you know, you used to have like a choice. You either for free market neoliberalism or you're a Mom Donnie style socialist.

• 1:01:33Tucker Carlson?

  Right.

• 1:01:33Speaker 03

  And it's like, no, capitalism's actually a very broad thing, right? So I was upset because we're not allowed to criticize corporations who are clearly not putting American workers first or the country first. And the Republican Party historically has been like, you can't criticize that. You can't criticize the free markets. And I don't even like to call it free markets. More like lawless markets, actually.

• 1:01:58Speaker 03

  And that's actually the same structure that destroyed industrial America. All of those factory worker jobs that were in Ohio and India. Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Pennsylvania, that all got sent over to China and other foreign countries. And we're not allowed to criticize that? Of course I'm gonna criticize that. You're putting American workers last.

• 1:02:22Tucker Carlson?

  Of course.

• 1:02:23Speaker 03

  And we're, we're putting the elites first, and that's not right. We're putting a small number of people ahead of the majority, and I don't agree with that.

• 1:02:31Tucker Carlson?

  Well, how could anyone agree with that?

• 1:02:33Speaker 03

  Uh, because they have their own interests and certain things drive their interests, like money. And that's what we see from the media, it's what we see from corporations, and that's what they do. Because they don't want to lose track of that.

• 1:02:44Tucker Carlson?

  It seems like one of the main control devices employed by the, by Khan Inc., as you called the institutional conservatives, who are not conservative in any sense, but whatever, was to just call you a socialist. If you talked about Israel, you're an anti-Semitic. If you talked about the collapsing, inverting American economy, where a tiny group got everything, you were a socialist.

• 1:03:04Speaker 03

  It's ridiculous.

• 1:03:05Tucker Carlson?

  But did you feel that?

• 1:03:06Speaker 03

  That I was a socialist?

• 1:03:07Tucker Carlson?

  No, but did you feel that, that some of those gatekeepers were using that term to keep you from asking?

• 1:03:13Speaker 03

  Oh, one hundred percent, and they still do that, and it's, it's never gonna go away. Because anything that's a threat to, like I said, just like the media, any corporate money, or anything that, you know, they don't make their quarterly goal or their profit, then yeah, they're gonna call anyone a socialist, because just being against them, they want to label you, because it scares people. The word socialist scares people, and it's not a good thing. I don't like socialism.

• 1:03:36Tucker Carlson?

  Right.

• 1:03:36Speaker 03

  But they use it in the wrong way, because they want to label someone to say, hey, don't talk about that. He's this, he's that, he's a socialist. And it, it's used to kind of delegitimize you. But I think when you look at the Republican Party now, is now becoming more of the party of the working class, and my generation is kind of, uh, responsible for that. I think it was Newsweek that reported something that, in the nineties or eighties, something like that. They did a survey which said, which party is the party of the working class? Like ninety percent said Democrats. It was unanimous, right? Like, everyone knew the Democrat Party meant working people.

• 1:04:14Tucker Carlson?

  Oh, I was there. That's correct.

• 1:04:16Speaker 03

  And now they asked that again this year, and fifty-one percent said Democrats, and forty-nine percent said Republicans. Why would we not embrace that group of people, those hardworking people? We wouldn't have a country without them.

• 1:04:29Tucker Carlson?

  Of course.

• 1:04:30Speaker 03

  So I hope to see that, and I think my generation is starting to lean that way, and it's important. Important that we put American workers first.

• 1:04:39Tucker Carlson?

  Debt. Keep Charlie, the last conversation I had on camera with Charlie Kirk was about the debt that young people are incurring, not just their student loans, which are, I think, the biggest, but their credit cards, their, you know, buy now, pay later scams. How big a factor is that in your generation?

• 1:04:57Speaker 03

  The reaction to the economic issues that my generation sees ahead of them is despair, hopelessness. They don't see any way out. I mean, and why would they? Because we just passed, I think it was thirty eight point two trillion dollars in debt recently. So, and that's, that's all mainly, and the biggest thing, the biggest thing that scares my generation is the housing crisis. By far, by far. The average first time home buyer in America is forty years old now, forty. Five years ago, it was thirty three. So it's scary how quick we're, I mean, I personally, I don't see how I'm ever gonna buy a home.

• 1:05:40Speaker 03

  And I do decently well for someone my age. And I still don't see it. I live in Fort Mills, South Carolina. It's just south of Charlotte. And I got so angry because about a month or two ago, I was like, let me look at housing prices. Let me see what they are. And I saw how expensive they were. And then I looked and saw how much they were just a few years ago.

• 1:06:02Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:03Speaker 03

  And it's doubled, almost tripled the cost. And that's everywhere in South Carolina, not just there. And it's beyond frustrating that people of the past generations are not doing what parents should do, which is have your kids have a greater life than you did. That's the goal. So it's hopelessness, really.

• 1:06:27Tucker Carlson?

  How much debt does like your friends have? I want to ask you about yourself, but I mean, do people have student loans, credit cards? Is that a part of it?

• 1:06:37Speaker 03

  I mean, everyone's probably scared to talk about it, so I wouldn't know, but I would imagine, you know, just from school alone.

• 1:06:45Speaker 03

  Tens of thousands, maybe some even six.

• 1:06:47Tucker Carlson?

  What, so we live in a country where people are like totally happy to tell you about their sex lives. Whatever weird thought they've had. You know, they're just, it's an exhibitionist culture, but not on the question of debt and money. Why is that? You say people are embarrassed to say they're in hawk to Citibank for their credit card. Why is that embarrassing?

• 1:07:05Speaker 03

  But you know what? Now it's, it's actually, I've noticed it is actually becoming a little less where people are more vocal about it because it's just so normal. Everyone has it and no one really sees a way out. So it's like, what's there to hide? So I think that that's becoming less taboo to talk about.

• 1:07:21Tucker Carlson?

  I hope so.

• 1:07:22Speaker 03

  And I think it's a great thing because the previous generation, either they're not sure of the problems we're facing or they're ignoring it. And to be honest, I don't know which one's worse. So.

• 1:07:34Tucker Carlson?

  And there's also this kind of residual feeling that an indebted person is solely responsible for his debt.

• 1:07:42Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:07:42Tucker Carlson?

  Whereas we don't feel that way about, say, drug addiction.

• 1:07:44Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:07:45Tucker Carlson?

  It's the addict's fault. So it's also the dealer's fault. And actually the dealer gets a worse punishment. I don't understand that. I think that is an idea that's been pushed by Conning pretty hard.

• 1:07:55Speaker 03

  Yeah. And I think just based off of our system now, I think we've seen that that's not the case. If you want, and now it's getting to a point where it's like, like you have to have a degree for everything now. Like even, do you want to work at McDonald's? You have to get a degree. You want to, you know, have this retail job, get a degree. Like everything's a degree when it doesn't need to be a degree. And so that's when we're seeing like so many people going into debt when they don't even need to go to college. And that's how it was for my, uh, parents, my friends, parents, everybody else. You didn't even, you got a job straight out of high school, not even college. You got, you got it out of high school.

• 1:08:31Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:32Speaker 03

  And now it's just become so saturated that it's just, you need a degree in something ridiculous for something that doesn't require it. It's pushing people into debt when they don't need to be.

• 1:08:43Tucker Carlson?

  Do people in your generation think that that's an accident? Or like, how did we get here? This was not the case.

• 1:08:49Speaker 03

  I think they're all confused. I think they have no idea what to make of it because we didn't make it. It's not our fault. We didn't do anything. It was a previous generation. They should answer. So I think we're all just like, what just happened? How come it's harder for us? And they have no idea and they shouldn't have any idea because they're not doing anything wrong. They're getting educated for the. Most part they're hard workers, not, you know, you have some issues with Gen Z with work ethic. But when they want to work, they will work and they're good at it.

• 1:09:13Tucker Carlson?

  There are only two kinds of Gen Z employees. We were just laughing about this last week. My college roommate and I, they're either like just total pothead losers or they're like the most impressive.

• 1:09:23Speaker 03

  No in between, no in between.

• 1:09:25Tucker Carlson?

  Is that, that's not our imagination.

• 1:09:27Speaker 03

  Oh, no, that's just very accurate.

• 1:09:28Tucker Carlson?

  What is that?

• 1:09:29Speaker 03

  I don't know. I have no idea.

• 1:09:31Tucker Carlson?

  I can honestly say some of the smartest people I've ever met are in, for real, I'm not, that's not false flattery in your generation. Like totally aware of everything and then, you know, then the, then there's the face tattoo people.

• 1:09:42Speaker 03

  It's amazing.

• 1:09:43Tucker Carlson?

  Why?

• 1:09:44Speaker 03

  I couldn't even speculate. It actually does make no sense at all, but that's, it's very interesting to think about. Cause I've noticed that as well.

• 1:09:52Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah. It's, it does give you hope because there are a lot of kids who know what's up.

• 1:09:57Speaker 03

  Yeah. Uh, especially with these issues. Cause you know, those pothead kids, you know, they probably don't know what's going on. They wouldn't notice that something's wrong at all.

• 1:10:06Tucker Carlson?

  Right.

• 1:10:07Speaker 03

  But now we have kids that are waking up, they're noticing that there's a problem and they're saying, we have to speak up. We have to fix this. So.

• 1:10:14Tucker Carlson?

  Ah, interesting. What's the, what's the prevailing view of like war, foreign policy?

• 1:10:19Speaker 03

  Oh gosh, we hate war. We really despise it. Um, George Bush was probably the worst president in modern America by far. When you look at the amount of debt, like when we talked about the thirty eight point two trillion, I mean, think about how much of that was Iraq, Afghanistan, all of that.

• 1:10:37Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 1:10:38Speaker 03

  And we don't have anything to show for it really. I mean, Iraq is now a, uh, basically a satellite state of Iran. You know, there was a deterrent to one of America's enemies and now it's just a puppet state. And, uh, you have Afghanistan, which, you know, understand attacking Al Qaeda, you know, they, they attacked us, sure.

• 1:10:56Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 1:10:57Speaker 03

  But the idea that you want to turn a stone age society to a progressive liberal democracy is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard.

• 1:11:05Tucker Carlson?

  Ever. Yeah.

• 1:11:05Speaker 03

  And so we can't rationalize why we ever, why that ever happened. And even, even people in your generation, they're like, what were we thinking? Why did we do that? Like I've spoken to so many people who are conservative and they're like, I don't understand why. ever did that and uh yeah, the war is just not not something we like. I don't think anyone likes it. And the real tragedy of war was not the debt. It's actually just the innocent American lives that were lost.

• 1:11:32Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 1:11:32Speaker 03

  That's the real tragedy.

• 1:11:34Tucker Carlson?

  I agree.

• 1:11:34Speaker 03

  And all the other stuff is secondary, but it still has lasting effects on us.

• 1:11:40Tucker Carlson?

  So when you hear people agitating for like another regime change war in whatever country, what do you think?

• 1:11:46Speaker 03

  I'm angry and I'm frustrated as someone who's the son of, you know, my dad's in the military.

• 1:11:52Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 1:11:53Speaker 03

  That makes me angry.

• 1:11:54Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 1:11:54Speaker 03

  Because I don't want him to go and fight in a war that will just be another waste of money and a failure.

• 1:12:01Speaker 03

  So there's a personal element to it, but also it's just stupid. You know, how many times are we going to do this before we learn it doesn't work?

• 1:12:07Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 1:12:08Speaker 03

  So there's so many elements to it, personal, financial, it makes no sense, and it's just logistically absolutely stupid.

• 1:12:16Tucker Carlson?

  It is stupid.

• 1:12:16Speaker 03

  And it makes me angry that people were even advocating for something like that. And I don't think they're advocating it just to advocate for it. I think there's interest groups that are pushing them to advocate for that.

• 1:12:27Tucker Carlson?

  Clearly, there are.

• 1:12:28Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:12:28Tucker Carlson?

  Learned a lot about that recently. Um, so that's one of the topics that nobody ever, including me, I had zero desire to talk about it, the Israel question. And Fuentes is most famous for, yeah, there's no upside in that. And and I just

• 1:12:42Speaker 03

  The question no one wants to ask.

• 1:12:44Tucker Carlson?

  I never felt it was as central as it turned out to be. I guess that's I just didn't understand it very well, but but Fuentes is famous for, you know, saying naughty things, but also saying like, you know, pretty pretty straightforward critique of the control that Israel has over the United States. Is that view widely shared, do you think?

• 1:13:02Speaker 03

  Uh, well, I don't know too much. I mean, I've

• 1:13:04Tucker Carlson?

  Let's take Fuentes out of it.

• 1:13:05Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:13:06Tucker Carlson?

  I keep reading that young people's views of Israel are increasingly skeptical, if not hostile. Do you think that's true?

• 1:13:12Speaker 03

  Absolutely, yeah. And I don't think it's anything we've done. I think it's All reliant on Israel.

• 1:13:21Speaker 03

  That's on them, actually, not on us. And the reality is they're just another country. I've never bought into like they're super evil, you know. They're just another country. Who cares?

• 1:13:32Tucker Carlson?

  Right.

• 1:13:32Speaker 03

  And if they want a better relationship with the United States, they need to stop interfering in our politics. It's really simple.

• 1:13:38Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 1:13:38Speaker 03

  And it's not just Israel. I mean, we need to ban foreign aid. We need to stop sending. We should not have a single dime going to another country. When we have people in poverty, with bad schools, medical debt, all that stuff. It makes no sense. That's part of America first. We also should ban foreign lobbying. It's irresponsible. Why would we have the interest of another country put as policy for our country?

• 1:14:01Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 1:14:02Speaker 03

  It's our leaders should be making decisions on the interest of American people, not someone in Burundi or something. Who cares?

• 1:14:08Tucker Carlson?

  Exactly.

• 1:14:09Speaker 03

  So those are two things I think if we cut out the aid, cut out the lobbying. I think it'll stop a lot of influence, not just from Israel, but from every country.

• 1:14:18Tucker Carlson?

  Exactly.

• 1:14:19Speaker 03

  Because it's not just Israel. It is a lot of other countries that do that. And it's just as much a problem.

• 1:14:25Tucker Carlson?

  And just as egregious a violation of the most basic principle of government, which is serve your people first.

• 1:14:31Speaker 03

  Absolutely. Yep.

• 1:14:32Tucker Carlson?

  Um, do you feel people are less afraid to say that now?

• 1:14:36Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, for sure. Um, and I just remember like growing up when I was in that 2016 era of conservative politics. Israel was untouchable. Like you could not say anything about it.

• 1:14:50Tucker Carlson?

  No, I remember.

• 1:14:51Speaker 03

  And in some ways it's like still kind of that way, but it's like. It's, it's just weird. It's weird, the obsession, you know, whether I'm not one to like the obsession, whether it's good or bad. It's just weird that people are obsessed with it the way it is. And I just don't agree with either one.

• 1:15:08Tucker Carlson?

  I agree.

• 1:15:09Speaker 03

  You know?

• 1:15:10Tucker Carlson?

  I completely agree.

• 1:15:10Speaker 03

  Waste of time. It's just another country. Yeah, it really is.

• 1:15:13Tucker Carlson?

  Wake up thinking about Israel every day. It's not good, uh, in either direction.

• 1:15:17Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:15:17Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah.

• 1:15:18Speaker 03

  Let's focus on America. How about that?

• 1:15:20Tucker Carlson?

  Uh, amen. So how, what um, are your views on immigration and what views do you think best describe the people you know?

• 1:15:32Speaker 03

  So.

• 1:15:34Speaker 03

  2016, Trump brought spotlight on illegal immigration and that was really desperately needed.

• 1:15:40Speaker 03

  Because we had seen it, but no one really said the obvious. Now we need to do the same with legal immigration. We need to state the obvious. Mass migration is a problem.

• 1:15:49Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 1:15:50Speaker 03

  And it's funny, when I've started speaking out against that, the amount of legal immigrants in this country, the amount of children of immigrants in this country who have come up to me and say, "Thank you for speaking about that", is shocking in some ways, but it's also not shocking because of-

• 1:16:07Tucker Carlson?

  It's not shocking.

• 1:16:07Speaker 03

  It's directly impacting them.

• 1:16:09Tucker Carlson?

  Of course.

• 1:16:10Speaker 03

  How ironic is it that someone leaves their country in search of the American dream, to give their kids a better life, only for their kids to grow up and have the job that they want being sent back to the country that they came from? Like, how are- that's ridiculous!

• 1:16:26Tucker Carlson?

  No.

• 1:16:26Speaker 03

  And it's, it's-

• 1:16:27Tucker Carlson?

  So perfect, though, in a way. Yes.

• 1:16:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's, I mean, you can't make that up. And, and I, I do see like a lot of, um,

• 1:16:38Speaker 03

  there are some, on the other hand, who are legal immigrants, who are children of immigrants, who are saying, "That's hypocritical of me", you know?

• 1:16:46Tucker Carlson?

  Why?

• 1:16:46Speaker 03

  No one should- well, because of, uh, my grandparents, who immigrated here, which is back in 1969. And my, my response is always like, "It's not 1969", we have a very different country, we have a very different set of circumstances, then therefore it's then rational-

• 1:17:00Tucker Carlson?

  So your grandparents did something 56 years ago?

• 1:17:02Speaker 03

  Now I have to do the same thing and believe the same thing they did, which I know damn well they don't, because if they did, they wouldn't have the progressive views that they have, because no grandparents had that progressive views.

• 1:17:10Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah.

• 1:17:11Speaker 03

  But they want to put it on me because they're mad that someone with my identity has the views that I have. And they want, they wanna-

• 1:17:17Tucker Carlson?

  Oh, because you're part Indian or something?

• 1:17:19Speaker 03

  Yeah, they think that I owe them my loyalty because of some decision my grandparents made. Which is stupid, because all I've known is America. All I know is American culture. I love the South, I love Southern culture. I only speak English. I'm a Christian. Why would, why would I, why would I care about anything else?

• 1:17:38Tucker Carlson?

  Exactly.

• 1:17:39Speaker 03

  And so, you have the legal immigrants and the children of immigrants who are upset at me, and who've called me racist, all sorts of things, and it's-

• 1:17:48Tucker Carlson?

  Racist?

• 1:17:49Speaker 03

  Yeah, racist for, for saying, uh, "We don't need more people here", but it's ridiculous. But the reality is that, when those people who are- Calling me racist, lose their job. They need to remember that it was the people that they called racist that were actually trying to save their job from being taken by a foreigner.

• 1:18:07Tucker Carlson?

  Yes, exactly.

• 1:18:09Speaker 03

  And so I I eventually they may understand that, but it's. It's shocking really how we're allowing this to happen.

• 1:18:19Tucker Carlson?

  How widespread is that view, do you think, among people you know?

• 1:18:24Speaker 03

  I would say it's um, it's actually, I would say kind of split. I don't think it's as noticeable as like the economic issues where everyone seems to. See it because they feel it, but there, you know, we have a big country, right? There are some parts of America where you don't see too much migration. Like, what is everyone talking about? There's no migration, but. That's, that's just not the case and and really, I think it's irresponsible to have legal immigration at a time when. Companies aren't hiring, Americans specifically.

• 1:18:56Speaker 03

  We're we're in a fragile economy. And you have AI taking over a lot of jobs. So why would it make sense to import more foreign workers? It doesn't. And that's just one aspect of it is the economic issue. The cultural assimilation issue is a whole nother aspect. And I think it was, so immigration's historically have.

• 1:19:18Speaker 03

  Basically been expected to assimilate. And then around the Obama years was when you started to see a shift of like. No, you don't need to change. You can be who you are. No, you need to assimilate. You have to. Cause without it, we lose our identity as a country. Why are we have people in here who don't see themselves as one of us?

• 1:19:36Tucker Carlson?

  Right.

• 1:19:37Speaker 03

  And you had, that's how you end up with places like Minneapolis with Little Somalia. These people isolate themselves and don't integrate. You have parts of Miami where people literally don't speak English at all. Which is insane, because if I was to move to another country,

• 1:19:53Speaker 03

  and I was thinking, where could I go to get a better opportunity? Oh, I know, somewhere where I don't speak the freaking language.

• 1:20:01Speaker 03

  Genius, right? But it's it's just unbelievable. And there's so many different aspects to immigration that it's not just the migration part of it, but a lot of other things that are just out of control.

• 1:20:12Tucker Carlson?

  Like what?

• 1:20:13Speaker 03

  So, naturalized citizens should not be able to hold public office. Growing up here is a big part of understanding the country. We need to stop and limit the amount of foreign students that are coming into our universities. Some of them are spies, by the way, for foreign governments. But it's also just, we should put our kids first.

• 1:20:32Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 1:20:33Speaker 03

  And

• 1:20:35Speaker 03

  we should also not allow dual citizenship, because that's the stupidest idea. You're either American or you're not. And everyone wants to make it so complicated. That's the thing that I don't like about the past generation is they're always about the rules, the process and regulation. No, it's really simple. You're just America first. People should have their loyalty to America first. And if they can't do that, then this ain't the country for you.

• 1:20:58Tucker Carlson?

  That's totally right. What about serving in a foreign military?

• 1:21:00Speaker 03

  Oh, gosh, no, forget about it. You can't do that.

• 1:21:03Tucker Carlson?

  Of course not, right?

• 1:21:04Speaker 03

  It's ridiculous. That that idea alone is just insane.

• 1:21:10Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah.

• 1:21:10Speaker 03

  Dual citizenship is already bad enough. But to serve in another country's military

• 1:21:16Speaker 03

  is disqualifying, really.

• 1:21:19Tucker Carlson?

  Of course. I mean, it's hard to believe it's even a conversation. What about language? Do you worry that, you know, countries are united by their language and language is inseparable from culture. Language is culture in a lot of ways. But this doesn't seem like an English speaking country anymore.

• 1:21:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, especially when you go to places like Minneapolis, Miami, New York, which I lived there for a little bit. And yeah, I want to be able to understand everybody.

• 1:21:45Tucker Carlson?

  I just do. It's my country. I don't think I should have to speak another language in my own country. I don't think anyone wants that. I don't think it's good for us. Not saying that you can't know another language. I think that's great. You should. To know another language. But to have anything other than English as the primary language in this country, not acceptable. You're not describing the priorities of the modern Republican Party at all here. No, but hopefully one day it will be. That's what I hope will happen. So my sense, but you would know, is that what everything you just said for the past half an hour is like basically what most young men your age think who are conservative. Who are conservative? Absolutely, yes.

• 1:22:30Tucker Carlson?

  Who are conservative. So do they look at the Republican Party as representing them? No, not at all. And that's the struggle that we face. And that's why, that's where the anger comes from. Is that we're looking at our politicians and we don't see any of us, right? When you have a politician, you want them to kind of be a reflection of you in a lot of ways. Yes. And we don't have that at all. And you have Democrats who have kind of listened to young people on their side. So when they're not listening to us on the Republican side, yeah, it's pretty frustrating. You have Democrats who have the first Gen Z member of Congress. They have the AOC, they have the Imam Khomeini, they have Yeah. all these young youthful figures who are doing pretty well, making media, you know, advocating for their causes. But who do we have?

• 1:23:16Tucker Carlson?

  You know, it's frustrating that we can't look to someone and say, that's our guy. He speaks for us. What is that? I couldn't agree more. They must just be anti-young people. I don't know. Or they're just don't want to face the problems that we're putting forth. Which is the issues on the economy, the issues on immigration, because they'd rather just call us radical. It's a lot easier.

• 1:23:38Tucker Carlson?

  I wonder if that makes people radical over time. Oh, for sure. For sure. It makes people radical because they get so angry. Yeah. And when people are angry and they feel like they have no one speaking for them, then yeah, of course, they're going to get angry because we deserve representation. That's the whole point of Right. this democracy, our system, is that you should be able to have someone who represents you. And we don't have that.

• 1:24:02Speaker 03

  Not just don't have that, it'd be one thing if we didn't have someone who we felt we could relate to. That's fine, that's normal, you can't relate to everybody.

• 1:24:08Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah.

• 1:24:08Speaker 03

  But someone who's actively ignoring the problems that we're saying, these are massive problems. Yeah, it's frustrating.

• 1:24:16Tucker Carlson?

  What's going on with the way that men and women get along?

• 1:24:21Speaker 03

  That's a very interesting question, that's something I've said for years, is that, and literally years, I've been saying the future of division in this country is not all these other things like race or income, I mean, some, there, those may be some issues, but the massive division in this country in the future is gonna be between gender, men and women. That's especially problematic. Because in order for a society to function, men need women, women need men.

• 1:24:49Tucker Carlson?

  Amen.

• 1:24:51Speaker 03

  So, the fact that that's the upcoming divide is very scary.

• 1:24:56Tucker Carlson?

  And do you feel that, divide?

• 1:25:00Speaker 03

  I would say, uh, I, in some ways, I think it's a little exaggerated, there are women who are traditional, but for the most part, men are more traditional in my generation, and I think, uh, they're going in different directions, but they're going in different directions for a lot of the same reasons, which is empowerment. Women see themselves as going the more progressive lane, that it's empowering to wear revealing clothes, or, you know, do whatever you want and be promiscuous, and which is actually the male gaze of someone who just wants to view them as an object and not care about who they are as a person, which is, how is that empowering?

• 1:25:39Tucker Carlson?

  I don't think a body count of twenty is that empowering.

• 1:25:41Speaker 03

  Exactly.

• 1:25:41Tucker Carlson?

  I'm just guessing.

• 1:25:42Speaker 03

  It's, it's ridiculous that that's seen as feminist, though. But the reason why I think that is because, on the other hand, you have men, and this is not a majority of traditional men, but there's this very small minority where they feel insecure and powerless. They think that them having a traditional mindset where they're the leader.

• 1:26:01Tucker Carlson?

  Yep.

• 1:26:01Speaker 03

  They're the provider, they're the protector, and they think because of that, my role is better than that of a woman.

• 1:26:07Tucker Carlson?

  Right.

• 1:26:08Speaker 03

  What that does, that's wrong, first of all, but what that does is that it gives ammo to the feminists who are like, look, see, see, women, what we've been trying to tell you, that they think they're better than you, you have to go our way. When in reality, it's, that's not what- Tradition is at all. It's, yes, men are the leader, provider, protector, all of that. But without the woman, it just doesn't work. The family structure doesn't work.

• 1:26:35Tucker Carlson?

  You said it at the outset, men and women need each other. That's just the bottom. That's the biological fact. It's the emotional reality. It's the spiritual reality.

• 1:26:41Speaker 03

  It doesn't work for a man and for a man in a family to not have a woman. It doesn't work for a woman to not have a man. And it's actually, in a way, it's, the whole point is that it brings their best characteristics together to build something amazing. They complement each other with their traits. They rely on each other. And what the result of that is, is just a beautiful family. It works. It, studies have shown.

• 1:27:06Tucker Carlson?

  How do you know all this?

• 1:27:07Speaker 03

  Well, because studies have shown actually that people in these traditional marriages where they pray together, they have less divorce, they're more happy. On the opposite, you have women who are going the progressive route. They're miserable and studies have shown that as well, where they just, they're struggling and they only realize that later in life, struggling to find a person, find a man, to have children, and they become miserable. So it works, but the, the beauty of it is that, it's not, it's not the view that a man is better than a woman. It's that they have different traits. They combine them to make something beautiful. It's partnership.

• 1:27:48Speaker 03

  And I think if that was explained to more progressive women and on the left, and they would see, it's not about being, men being better at all. It's just about.

• 1:27:57Tucker Carlson?

  Dominating you or humiliating you. No, it's about helping each other.

• 1:28:00Speaker 03

  Exactly.

• 1:28:02Tucker Carlson?

  Right. God created Eve as a helper. They help each other.

• 1:28:05Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:28:05Tucker Carlson?

  And that is a fair description, in my opinion. So like, how hard is it to date at twenty-four?

• 1:28:13Tucker Carlson?

  For young men, not you, but.

• 1:28:15Speaker 03

  Uh, I mean, young men, it's not hard, but if you're a. Yeah, it's very hard.

• 1:28:20Tucker Carlson?

  Why?

• 1:28:20Speaker 03

  Well, because it's hard to find someone who prioritizes that in their life. And I'm not saying that's specific to our generation. That's every generation hasn't really been that easy.

• 1:28:28Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah.

• 1:28:30Speaker 03

  But that's just something that is very difficult. And it's unfortunate because that's what makes the most successful relationships. That's what, you know, makes happier children or successful children. It's it's a really beautiful thing. The fact that people are rejecting that is very, very sad.

• 1:28:49Tucker Carlson?

  It is really sad.

• 1:28:50Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:28:52Tucker Carlson?

  I also get the sense that there's a increase in religious faith among young men.

• 1:28:57Speaker 03

  One hundred percent.

• 1:28:58Tucker Carlson?

  Really?

• 1:28:59Speaker 03

  Yeah, which is, I mean, that came out of nowhere, really. Like, no one expected that. And, you know, good, right? Like, God willing, that'll spread everywhere and will be like that everywhere.

• 1:29:11Tucker Carlson?

  When did you first notice that?

• 1:29:14Tucker Carlson?

  When you grew up in the South, you grew up in a nominally Christian culture because it's the South, right?

• 1:29:18Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:29:19Tucker Carlson?

  But but people, but people talking to each other, young people about God, mentioning God.

• 1:29:24Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:29:24Tucker Carlson?

  When did that happen?

• 1:29:25Speaker 03

  So there's always been like cultural Christianity, right? But there's a difference between what we're seeing now, which is actual lived faith in Christ. And we're seeing that in church attendances going up among young men.

• 1:29:40Speaker 03

  Really, I don't know what brought it about. The only thing I could attribute it to is probably the Holy Spirit.

• 1:29:45Tucker Carlson?

  Yep.

• 1:29:45Speaker 03

  And I don't know why it's happening now. But I hope it grows and I hope it continues to flourish because it's something our society desperately, desperately needs.

• 1:29:55Tucker Carlson?

  What was your path?

• 1:29:58Speaker 03

  This is a, so I grew up with kind of two religions in my household. So I had my parents who were Protestant. And my grandparents have always lived with me growing up, my mom's parents.

• 1:30:10Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 1:30:11Speaker 03

  And they were Sikh. As a result, I was very confused.

• 1:30:14Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah.

• 1:30:15Speaker 03

  Because that's what happens.

• 1:30:18Speaker 03

  And I just remember that as young as like third grade, when my friends

• 1:30:25Speaker 03

  would check out their books on dinosaurs and cars and all that stuff. I was reading on every single world religion. And trying to absorb as much as I can because I wanted to know if God exists and if he does, who is he? Right? So that's what I spent doing for years. And I would say.

• 1:30:43Tucker Carlson?

  Reading about world religions instead of dinosaurs?

• 1:30:45Speaker 03

  Yes, I was obsessed with it.

• 1:30:46Tucker Carlson?

  Unusual child.

• 1:30:48Speaker 03

  I was, yeah. Yeah. To put it that way. Um, but and then I would say like.

• 1:30:56Speaker 03

  Around like seventh grade, so like this is a few years of just researching this stuff obsessively. I, and I was reluctant to speak about this publicly, but I figured if it blesses just one person, then I'll say it here.

• 1:31:16Speaker 03

  I had an experience where I was researching.

• 1:31:20Speaker 03

  And it was as if in an instant. I heard. I am the way, the truth and the life. And. As if the knowledge, the truth of God was placed instantly. After that was said in my mind and in my heart. And it's funny, after all these years, I've struggled to really put into words that experience and that feeling. But once that happened. I had always heard about the Holy Spirit, right? Everyone hears about it, but. When, when, when that happened, I was like, oh, that's what that is, right? Like, cause it was just some mythical thing.

• 1:32:01Tucker Carlson?

  Of course.

• 1:32:01Speaker 03

  That I had read about, but then it happened and I was just like. This is really interesting, but and it'd be one thing to just write off as, oh, that's just some weird thing, weird experience, but it never left me.

• 1:32:14Speaker 03

  And. The most interesting part and the part that I kinda like the most is. It wasn't none of my research on these world religions that got me to that answer. Not at all. It was in an, I was very much a skeptic of Christianity prior to that, the second before that happened. It was an instant realization. That was not of any of my own work.

• 1:32:37Speaker 03

  And what made it so beautiful was that not long after that, I was reading the gospel and I found where Jesus said to Peter, then Simon, blessed are you, Simon. Uh, for flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my father in heaven. I was like, that's what that was. And then I also read where he said, knock, and the door will be open to you. Seek and you will find.

• 1:33:01Speaker 03

  And it's just a beautiful thing. When you realize that

• 1:33:07Speaker 03

  God is true to his word. Every single time. And it has never left me.

• 1:33:16Tucker Carlson?

  Amazing.

• 1:33:17Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:33:18Tucker Carlson?

  You became Catholic.

• 1:33:20Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's another thing.

• 1:33:23Speaker 03

  So there's another layer to it.

• 1:33:25Tucker Carlson?

  What happened there?

• 1:33:25Speaker 03

  There's more. Yeah. Um. So when I was, I was Protestant and when I was Protestant, uh,

• 1:33:37Speaker 03

  obviously God is all you need, but I did feel some unexplained void in my faith. I didn't know what it was at the time.

• 1:33:46Speaker 03

  And I went to Villanova, which is a Catholic institution and it's so ironic because my first time ever going to a Catholic mass was the summer after I graduated from Villanova. So never went to mass when I was at Villanova. I've never been to mass before, but it was after I graduated from Villanova that I went to mass for the first time. God doesn't write in straight lines, I guess, but.

• 1:34:12Tucker Carlson?

  No.

• 1:34:13Speaker 03

  Um. And I began to really think about my own faith and I was like, I have this void that I can't explain. How can I be the best Christian I could be? How could I best serve God and serve others? That was the question that made me think about it. And I'm, again, I began to research, but really it wasn't about the research. It was that question, like, where can I be at my best? Where can I serve God and serve others? And when I did study Catholicism,

• 1:34:42Speaker 05

  And I read the early church fathers and their history and all that stuff. I felt, you know what, this may be for me. And then when I started to partake in the sacraments, the Eucharist, confession. That's when I was like, oh, that's that void. That's when I felt like, okay, I feel fulfilled now. And now it's to the point where like, if I can't go to mass on Sunday, I feel empty. If I don't go to confession, I feel like heavyweight on my shoulders. And that's where I was like, this feels like not just speaking about faith, not just having it, but living it. Not just a feeling, but action. And that's when, when that happened, I was like, this is home.

• 1:35:29Tucker Carlson?

  And has it proven to be what you thought?

• 1:35:31Speaker 05

  Absolutely. More than that. It's the best decision I've ever made in my life. Second to becoming Christian in the first place. Although that wasn't really a decision, but it kind of happened to me. But yeah.

• 1:35:41Tucker Carlson?

  I, I feel like this is, which is not to detract from your individual experience, but it does seem like part of a trend. I feel like this is not the first time I've heard this story recently.

• 1:35:49Speaker 05

  Yeah. And I think when you speak about men becoming more religious. It's more the traditional churches, right? Catholicism, orthodoxy. And I think it's because in our society, we're so fed up with modernity. And the phones and the technology and really, it's just not natural. None of it's natural. None of our ancestors had that stuff. So we're feeling that and we're longing for something that's lasting, something that's, you know, feels normal to us. And that's what this is. Now, I'm not saying, and there are people who do this, but I'm not saying that you should join a church just because it's based in trad and all that. No. You should do it because you actually believe in truth and you want to live out that faith and serve others. But that is what's pulling a lot of people more towards that lane.

• 1:36:35Speaker 05

  And it's a very good thing because we have too much technology. We have too much modernity and it's kind of repulsive.

• 1:36:41Tucker Carlson?

  To, to put it mildly. Yeah, I'm trying not to jump all over your great story by agreeing with you too much, but I do. Um, sorry, every freaking word.

• 1:36:54Tucker Carlson?

  Who do you listen to? Where do you get your information?

• 1:36:57Speaker 05

  So just like everyone in my generation, uh, it's social media. Which is not ideal. I don't want to get it from there, but it's also like, what am I going to do? Like read the newspaper?

• 1:37:06Speaker 03

  Go on some article like I don't want to do that either.

• 1:37:09Tucker Carlson?

  No.

• 1:37:09Speaker 03

  So um it's difficult to find somewhere if I am super interested in one specific news article or a topic. Then I will like search various sources, try and see what's happening and all that, but for me and for most of my generation, it's social media.

• 1:37:27Tucker Carlson?

  Are there any political figures that you like or identify with or think are telling part of the truth or?

• 1:37:34Speaker 03

  Uh, I appreciate you.

• 1:37:38Speaker 03

  Oh, political figure. Well, I mean, I again, I don't feel represented by anybody.

• 1:37:41Tucker Carlson?

  Yep.

• 1:37:42Speaker 03

  And in terms of political commentators, I don't watch them either, you know, like it's.

• 1:37:45Tucker Carlson?

  I don't know.

• 1:37:46Speaker 03

  It's not my idea of a good time is to watch political commentators.

• 1:37:50Tucker Carlson?

  Any politicians? It's no, really, that's funny that you feel that way.

• 1:37:54Speaker 03

  Um, you know, I think JD says a lot of good stuff.

• 1:37:59Tucker Carlson?

  Yep.

• 1:38:00Speaker 03

  But I I think there's also just a lot of unknowns and I think once this primary comes up that we'll learn more. And that's where the primaries, it teaches you about them, who they are, what they really believe.

• 1:38:11Tucker Carlson?

  That's the that's the real campaign.

• 1:38:12Speaker 03

  Exactly. And so when that happens, I think we'll learn a lot more and we'll be able to make better decisions, but. My hope is that we'll see someone who resonates with my generation.

• 1:38:23Tucker Carlson?

  And what's your plan? Would you get into politics?

• 1:38:28Speaker 03

  It's like my mom's worst nightmare for me to do that. Not because she's not supportive, but just like it's like. You know, she's seen how toxic and exhausting it is. So it's like.

• 1:38:37Tucker Carlson?

  It's a rough.

• 1:38:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:38:38Tucker Carlson?

  Life.

• 1:38:39Speaker 03

  It's yeah, it really is. And so um no, what I what I would rather have is is people um do their job.

• 1:38:47Tucker Carlson?

  Right.

• 1:38:47Speaker 03

  Not wait for problems to come to them, but really get on top of them, you know, not be so reactionary. I would rather that um but if no one does that, then I don't know, maybe um. No one speaks up, no one's saying the things they need to, then.

• 1:39:04Speaker 03

  You know, that's not something I'm thinking about right now, but someone has to do it. And so I would rather the people right now in office and our leaders, so called leaders, do it now. But um yeah, someone's gonna have to do it because we can't just keep ignoring these problems.

• 1:39:21Tucker Carlson?

  I appreciate your taking this time.

• 1:39:22Speaker 03

  Thank you.

• 1:39:23Tucker Carlson?

  You've given me hope. I will say that. I mean it too. So thank you.

• 1:39:27Speaker 03

  Thank you.