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The Patriettes Podcast: Episode 41 | October 14, 2025 | Hosts: Angie, Donna, Krystle and Teresa | Special guests: TPUSA Students Lilaray & Austin, Anthony Romano, Chris Burgard, & Matthew Margulefsky
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So we are live here every Tuesday night from the studio 7:30 to 8:30 Eastern. And to all our viewers who are watching our livestream, thank you for tuning in for this beautiful night honoring the wonderful and legendary Charlie Kirk. So it's been a heavy hearts over the last couple of weeks, but this is a great way to celebrate his life and what better way to celebrate them with all the youth that we have here today, these young adults who are like amazing and faithful and beautiful and we're just so happy to have you guys here. So with us tonight we have Lila, Ray and Austin, who are the president and the vice president of the Gospel Community Church High School Turning Point chapter. So let's give them a big round of applause for stepping up to do that. And because they both have wonderful bios, we are going to just say a little bit about them because I just want you to know who they are first and then we'll get into our discussion. Okay, so Joshua is a. Are you 14 or 15, Austin? Sorry, I'm in the wrong section. There you go. Sorry. Austin, you're 14, right? Yes. Austin is currently a 9th grade homeschool high schooler who serves as the vice president to a Sable TPUSA chapter. Austin first became interested in Turning Point when he became an avid listener to Charlie Kirk. In the mornings, during breakfast and on family road trips, Charlie's podcast would often be playing. Austin admired Charlie's patriot patriotism, his love for family and his deep faith and passion for sharing the gospel. So when he had the opportunity to help start a student chapter of TPUSA in May of 2025, he gladly jumped on board. Austin doesn't consider himself an activist, but rather an advocate for spreading constitutional literacy amongst his peers and using that as an opportunity to disciple others in the message of Jesus Christ. When Austin isn't trying to get through Latin and logic in his studies or practicing the piano, he is training for his black belt and training other students in mixed martial arts, playing competitive basketball and serving his country in the auxiliary arm of the United States Air Force through Civil Air Patrol. You Are a busy young man. He also enjoys sailing, skiing, kayaking, and anything God's great outdoors has to offer. Yes, that's beautiful. Impressive. Very impressive. And we also have Lila Ray. Lila Ray is 16 and the lead singer of firm foundation. The performance you just watched is where they're with and it's a teen worship band that she and her friends founded. Music has been a passion of hers since she was little. Her goal with the band is to always spread the gospel of Christ through her voice and every word from her mouth. She was recently elected president of the gospel community church high school turning point chapter. That's amazing. Really amazing. Yes. Congratulations. As a young adult, she's proud to have a voice in the future of our country and to be a part of a chapter that is faith based. As Charlie made it his mission to spread the gospel first and foremost, Lila Ray says she owes all to God for the path he has led her down. Let's give them another huge round of applause for these exceptional children. So go ahead. You guys have done so much more than I ever did. Right. I was just thinking, I'm like, your parents must be. So let's clap for those parents out there raising these young adults. Good job, parents. Really phenomenal job. That's amazing. Where would we be without the support of our parents, specifically? My parents put a lot of work into my band, and they have really guided me to be, like, the person I am today. I mean, if it weren't for them raising me, like, with knowledge of the bible in church and stuff, I probably wouldn't be here. Well, they did a phenomenal job. Amazing. They really did. When did you. When did you learn that, like, realize that you had a voice? Like, your voice is so beautiful. When did you start singing? Like, when did I start singing? Well, I've loved music since, like, it said, since I was really little and stuff. And I always wanted to become a part of my church's. My church's worship team. But I had gotten an opportunity to sing with a young teen band that was starting up at another church where I know some of my friends were in it and some of them weren't. And I got to meet a lot of friends through it. I had always kind of just always wanted to sing. Like, I kind of, like, knew I didn't always have the ability to sing. So I had. I did. I do go to lessons, but I want to say that I really got, like, my first experience, like, in the lessons with the teacher. Obviously we had recitals and things, But I think, like, My first time performing or, like, singing and leading worship was at church, where it's Church of the Nazarene in Patchogue, where we started off just playing every other. Every month for communion, we would end the sermon. But now we had gotten the opportunity to sing at the Pine Grove Inn down in Patchogue every month, and we just. We've kind of been looking for opportunities ever since. Oh, you guys are worth it. We heard you at a rally two weeks ago, and you were bringing the crowd to tears, so it's amazing. Yeah. Just listening to you guys tonight, it was beautiful. Just beautiful, beautiful. You should be very proud. Thank you. I'm very proud of, like, all of my bandmates. They've become like siblings to me at this point. Like, I know my actual brother is sitting there with our pianist right now. She loves you, too. Hi, Matthew. Embarrass Matthew. I like to embarrass them. It's fun. So you guys are the new president and vice president of the Gospel Community Church Chapter, Sayville. And so what inspired. We'll kick it to Austin first, then you can answer. But what inspired you to get involved? I first heard about Turning Point, USA through listening to the Charlie Kirk podcast with my dad in the morning when he was making coffee. It's a good way. So it just really inspired me to join Turning Point, and I got elected as vice president right after that. But sadly, that was just a few days before Charlie Kirk's assassination, so I know it was. I remember Lila, Ray, your mom telling me that, you know, you were so excited to win, and then the heavy heart came after. But you guys are here today, now to carry his legacy on and do exactly what his vision was to do. And that's a beautiful thing. Austin, were you always homeschooled? I was not always homeschooled. Up until Covid, I was in public school, but in fourth grade, I was doing distance learning. So how do you. What do you like better, the homeschooling or the kids around you in school? Do you prefer one over the other? Are you happy? Is this, like, the best thing that ever happened, being homeschooled? Yeah. No, I think homeschooling is much better than public school. There's a better environment. There's better kids. Amen. That's right. I've shared this with you ladies here, but two of my kids, my oldest kids, went to a private Christian college up in Houghton, New York. Tiny little place, and it uses a Harvard grading scale. And my kids were publicly educated, and they went there, and they Struggled and they're not done. They're smart kids, but the homeschool kids just thrived and they shone. So I think it says a lot about. It shows here tonight with all the wonderful kids that are home school. It does. And you guys are, you know, Charlie planted seeds, right? He planted millions of seeds, but they're being watered and you guys are carrying that on. And it's just, it's inspirational to adults to watch young people get involved, because I think for a couple of generations now, adults have been much too comfortable and complacent, and it's why we've landed where we are. So I think that you young people are inspiring adults. And I encourage adults watching to take some. Take some notes from these young people who are standing up and making a difference every day in their communities. You're our future. They really are. So what is your goals for your chapter and how can people join with you? Do they have to be part of gospel community specifically? No, like, we have a few people that aren't part of gospel community, really. To get involved, you can go to the. Obviously there's the Turning Point website and then hit search for a chapter. But honestly, at this point here on Long Island, I'm kind of encouraging everyone to make their own because. Because we really do need more of them here. I think it's really. When we had first started out and I was first elected, it was just us. And then Abby Rose's chapter on the island completely. I don't know if that's changed. I think it is. Tony Brook just finally got one. And we're going to hear from Anthony in another episode tonight and he'll tell you all about that. He's in charge of the whole state, but I'm really kind of hoping that it would spread out. You know, I don't want to keep it, like, confined to, like the one area, but to join ours, we do have a sign up folder, a signup sheet that is on Google Docs. And if you want to ask me or Austin or someone else about that, Josh was also part of our thing, so you can ask one of us about that. Yeah. And for all of our viewers, if you want to get involved, you can always email us at the warehouse. I will get it to Lila Rae because we. We've been seeing her at rallies and speak on our stage and these kids are incredible. It's so amazing. We have to pass our torch one day. We're getting tired of fighting so hard. We're gonna have to pass our torch to you guys. Yeah, but so. And now you guys are gonna be looking to do events. That's what. Joshua's on your board also that you saw Joshua in the show before ours. And so what are you trying to do to get the kids to get engaged? Is it like community events and things like that? Well, as well as an event coordinator, we also have outreach coordinator, so I do plan to do a lot of, like, community service things and outreach type things, as well as fundraisers as much as events. Yeah, our events will probably be open to everyone and advertised on the Instagram as well. I know Joshua has shared with me quite a few ideas. He wants to get in some speakers and things. And I do want to work with Lighthouse as far as outreach. Our outreach coordinator, Mia is on top of that, and I know she'll, you know, plan the right things. I trust her. That's awesome. Well, you always have our support here. Thank you. And I want to say we only. These segments go fast. We only have a couple of seconds left. But honestly, from the bottom of my heart, I think everybody in this room, we are so proud of you guys, for whatever that's worth. We are. We really are. I think you guys are, you know, carrying Charlie's legacy on the way he wanted. And hopefully one day we make heaven crowded like he said. But in the meantime, we keep doing what we're doing and you always have a home here at the warehouse. And we love you guys. And let's hear a round of applause for these wonderful patriots who are so faithful and their parents who are doing a great job. Thank you guys for being here. Seriously, we're so blessed. And we are going to cut to commercial break. We'll be right back. Thank you. Forget everything you had planned for this weekend because you are sitting on your couch and winning from the comfort of your own home. 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This is my first time to the America First Warehouse. It's absolutely beautiful and I know Charlie for sure would have adored the place. It is incredible honor to like the greatest country in the world and essentially how I started with Turning Point usa. I first started college during COVID and the time of riots during 2020. And First Start tried to start up a Turning Point chapter. And 2020 was a very, very hard time to be conservative, that if you criticized anything about the way Covid was handled or anything going on, you were shut down immediately. Censored. Racist. Don't we know. Exactly. Yep. White supremacists. Yep. So we tried starting a Turning point chapter at St. John's they shut us down. False claims about Charlie, false claims about Turning Point students. So then we kept trying to fight for a year and a half to get it on campus at St. John's and just there was so much liberal indoctrination pushed at that school that this is St. John's people. And I went because as a Catholic, I thought that I would be able to dive deeper into my faith there. So then I decided to transfer down to the University of Alabama, where it was huge conservative state down there. So we were able to grow Turning Point chapter to be absolutely gigantic. Dove into my deep. My faith really deeper there. And now I started working for Turning Point USA about eight months ago, and it's been the best decision I've ever made. It is so amazing. Getting to see the enjoyment I had being part of the organization when I was a student. Now seeing students go from not even knowing each other when they start up this chapter to becoming best friends, having successful events, even just seeing after Charlie's passing, these vigils that were being hosted. Like I have, Fairfield University, Montclair State University, Rutgers University, that all have had beautiful vigils that. That I would have never imagined, like, on some of these campuses, like, just the outpouring of support for patriotism and just love for America. And just people are. People are fed up now. They are ready to come out of their shells and just stand up for what is right. Yeah, that's an amazing blessing. They were amazing how they just popped up everywhere. They were so organic, and they just showed up and it was just. It was beautiful to see. It really was. It gives you chills and. And it gives you hope. It gives you hope and you find that you have faith in humanity again, honestly, because let's be honest, it's been really hard. It's been really rough having to deal with, well, not just faith in humanity, but faith in the younger generations because we felt like we were losing so much of the youth with the last few years of everything going on. I think there's been a shift. I think it's Coming back, guys, I think America is back. What do you guys think? I think we're back now, right? America's coming back. Like seeing the amount of kids that like want to get involved now since like September 10th, I have not been able to keep up with the amount of like students even in this area that I cover. Long Island, Jersey, Connecticut, all as Teresa said that it's just I probably on my phone now have 200 unread text messages and like voicemails. Welcome to being a leader in the patriot world. This is a great sign of love. Welcome, great problem. But I was going to say, like she said, it's a great problem to have. Like I even got an email the other day of someone wanting to start up a Turning Point USA in the Philippines. And I'm like, I don't know how we would do that, but it is a worldwide Turning Point. International. Yes. Everything is figureoutable. I was watching Facebook scrolling about a month, a couple of weeks ago and somebody said, I'm a six year old man, I'm a senior, I want seniors for Turning Point. I said, now we're onto something here. If we have Turning Point for everyone, we all unify together, it's great. I think the thing is, right, Turning Point was founded in faith. And so our motto here for our podcast is faith, family and freedom. And when you have a faith at your foundation and you bring community, family, which you're giving these kids, you can't help but grow freedom. And it's amazing to watch, but I'd love to hear more from you about what it is you are doing in your role and more about what you're seeing and what your plans are. So 100%, I totally agree. It's amazing seeing the growth towards going to church more and just movement towards Jesus from our Turning Point students that, as you mentioned, so many of my students, they'll start off their meetings in prayer. I had the blessing for the memorial to go down to Phoenix and it was just prayer, vigils, worship, just all ways of honoring God in this very hard time. And kind of in my role, I'm working to just grow and just prosper. All these Turning Point chapters across the area, we started from everywhere from community colleges to Ivy League at Columbia and we could hit everywhere, any type of college, you name it, we could start a Turning Point chapter. And it's much needed. Kids are like, as I mentioned, kids are ready to stand on truth. And essentially once we start up these chapters, it gives the kids that ability to host activism events, meetings, Tablings, speaker events, whatever they want to put their mind to putting on the capabilities are endless. So how do you support them? You help them get started. And what kind of resources does Turning Point provide for new chapters? Yeah, of course. So I'm on campus mostly every day of the week working with these students directly, providing them. We have all of our Turning Point stickers and pins and all of our resources so we could use on campus. We have different grants that we're able to have that through. Like, the organization that are able to help us with funding different events. We have amazing conferences. That's actually one of the biggest fuels, like, in my time as a student, that encouraged me so much to want to come back and be blessed to have this job because Charlie had such a great movement of bringing people together that go into these conferences. I still have friends from five years ago that I'll probably be going to their wedding soon. And just that Charlie made such great friendships of people all around the country that all have shared similar values. So whether if it's on campus events, national conferences, we offer plenty of different resources for these students to really grow in the movement. So it sounds like you got involved pretty early on. Were you alone in that? Was it just you, or did you have friends that were doing it with you? No, so it was actually a few of us. I was introduced by one of my other friends. I never heard of Turningpoint when I first started in 2020. And then as soon as, like, he starts showing me Charlie Kirk videos and everything, and I was like, you know, this is. This is for me, this is like, what I have to do in college and become obsessed with watching them. Oh, yeah. 100% constant. Yeah. And I don't know even if, like, you didn't know him personally, like, Charlie impacted so many millions of lives just through how he preached the word and just inspired so many people. So, yeah, starting off young, really just like, even after college, I first started working in, like, a sales job in power tools. And it was a good job, but, like, just even, like, listening to Charlie Moore motivated me that I have to do something with more purpose in my life and that this gives me so much more purpose. And whether it be my students, my co workers, it's all Turning Point family here. And now being here tonight, whole new more people to add to the whole. Now you're part of the America First Warehouse family. Exactly. And I could relate because I'm here all day long and I love it here too. So you. When you love what you do, it's they say what it's not. It's not work. Right. It's a labor of love. It really is. It is. Yeah, it is. When you do what you. When you do what you love, everything comes back tenfold. It does. It's meaningful. It's just what you're putting out is what is going to come back. So you're doing beautiful work. Thank you so much. And I just give the students the most amount of credit in the world, whether seeing our Club America, our high school branch students go out in their campuses. Like, I don't even know if during high school I would have been able to go out and have the courage that they did. Really, like, everyone's just following in the footsteps now of Charlie, just being ultimately fearless. Even at the school in Long Island I was at today, we just had a table just all in honor of Charlie for his Remembrance Day today earning the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And we had protesters, of course, that, like, were protesting against Charlie. And the amount of like, I would have never imagined during 2020, when I started college that we would have on these campuses so many people in support of us compared to the other way around. So the. One of our sayings with Turning Point is we play offense with a sense of urgency, and that's what we're doing. Like, I don't know if you all have seen the news, but we're now even doing a halftime show. Yes. That's very excited about that. I was gonna read the Bible during the halftime, but I'll watch that. So I don't. I don't even know yet who's gonna be on, but. Oh, it's a good list. I'll. I'll say. I'll say it in a few minutes. Kid Rock is one of them. And Lee Greenwood. I know for sure. I saw. That's awesome. So great. I mean, everything from that. Our conferences are out of this world. Like, as I mentioned, you get to meet so many other great patriots from around the country. And if you haven't signed up yet for America Fest, it is the most incredible conference. It essentially feels like a stadium concert that we have. Worship some of the top speakers in the movement. And, I mean, you get to check out Phoenix, Arizona. You don't get many other opportunities when you come from the Northeast. That's in December, right? In December 18th to 21st. They're killing me at Christmas time. I want to go so bad. My birthday's the 20th. Just saying. So we don't have much time again. So we have the two chapters that we just talked about and my understanding Stony Brook was the next official chapter on Long island that just officiate, you know officially. Yep. So we started ones up at essentially almost every Long island college. Now we have Stony Brook, Adelphi, Hofstra, Malloy, Farmingdale. Yeah that's awesome community. The the next steps are now working with the schools to like have them become official like official clubs on campus that steps a little bit tougher. They have certain deadlines and different requirements and then but we are seeing now like because that they clearly see that free speech is under attack that they're being a little more willing for turning point chapters to have a place on campus. They better courage breeds courage. Exactly. So before we let you go and Anthony will probably be here a lot in the future with the table here and you'll get to know him at our events. Can they find you directly somewhere? Yes. TPUSA BigApple on Instagram. That's our whole territory page where you'll be able to find and you can reach out if you want to get involved in any of our chat and yeah that's what the best you so much honey we appreciate you. Big applause for him. I'm going to go to commercial break. We'll be right back. Thank you so much. 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Just for our guests who are watching the live stream, we just did a little contest, and the crowd's going crazy. We hit a little Jesus under there. Everybody needs to find a little Jesus in their life. And they won a patriotic cat. So thank you for playing along. So this segment is. We're welcoming a very special guest, Chris Burgard. We got to meet Chris. I think it was the summer of 24. We aired his movie the war on truth. He's an amazing patriot. He's an actor, a director, a producer, and he wrote a special song for Charlie Kirk. And life is interesting these days. We have a lot of phone numbers of all these people I never thought I'd have numbers for, and I especially movie producers. And I heard his song, and so I called Chris up and I said, hey, Chris, your song is beautiful, and would you come join US on the 14th to talk about your inspiration for it? And let's play it. So if we can have a warm welcome for Chris Burgard, we're gonna bring him in on the zoom right now. Hi, Chris. Hi, Chris. Hey, ladies. How are you? Great to see you again. We miss you here at the warehouse. But thank you so much for all blondes. My wife's gonna be very jealous how I spent the evening. Well, she could come on anytime. Give me a call and we'll get around with us and come visit us at the warehouse. So, Chris, what have you been up to? Because you're always doing a lot of different things about climbing with or without shoes, boots. You know, life's been good, you know, CSO for his glory and CSO his glory tv. And we were just ramping up to build that up. We're starting a whole new music division. We just released the war on truth directors cut. You know, a year ago, America wasn't quite ready for all the truth we wanted to put in the movie. But after they came out and said, yeah, There really were 274 FBI agents in the crowd and expanded the conventional wisdom. So now when we released the director's cut, guys like Lieutenant Scott Bennett and Bobby Powell, they go into a lot more detail about who is really behind J6 and how the Ukraine revolution in 2014 was a dress rehearsal for what we saw. So that's what I've been up to. So I've been pretty blessed. Thank you. Thank you for everything you guys are doing. Everything that Chris has put out there. The Border stuff that you covered, the documentary is all amazing. Your resume and everything we read about you is incredible. So your song, I got to hear it. I think I got a. Probably got an email from his glory, which I encourage everybody to check out. HisGlory TV. And, Chris, it's HisGlory Me also, right? There's HisGlory Me. Yes, ma'. Am. That's where we have our daily program going on. And hisglory tv, which is where you'll find our movies, our docs, and our newspaper. It's a beautiful production to listen to any of their stuff. So I got a notification. I heard that you wrote a song. I said, wow, this guy writes songs, too. So it was amazing to see that you wrote a song. And I was listening to the words, and I guess it was. Seemed like it was inspired. Since you knew Charlie or you had met him, right? That's. I worked with him twice. The first time was with Breitbart a long time ago. And he was just starting out with him at Gandis Owens. And then Nick Searcy and I did a movie together called America. God shed his grace on me. It was about how this country wouldn't be here if it wasn't for God. John Rich was kind enough to give us the music for the final segment. It was just a neat movie, and Charlie starred in that. And spending that day with him was incredible. I mean, he could quote scripture. He was just one of the smartest, sharpest guys I knew. And then it turned out we had the same pastor in Rob McCoy. We went to the same church back in California when I used to live out there. So he would come out and he would preach there, and he would come visit. And, you know, when he died, I thought, we need to. Need to do a song here about this. And I spent three days trying to write a song. We wrote it, recorded it, and it just wasn't right. And I sat down and I prayed to God. I said, look, I feel like I should do something, but this isn't right. What am I supposed to do? And he just said, just write him a note. Just write him a note saying, so long, Charlie. And that's. That's where the song came from. And I think you'll see that my buddy Tim Lowry did an incredible job putting that video together. And I hope it helps people, you know, I hope it helps the family. It was beautiful. It was comforting when I. When I heard it. And we're going to play it for the audience in a minute. Do you guys have any closing Thoughts or questions for Chris before we let him go? Because we are going to play a song. I know it's a short interview because we do want the audience to see your beautiful song and video. Thank you for your work. Definitely. I hope your audience likes it. I'm honored to be on your show. As you can see, we're losing the light here in East Texas, but just God bless you guys. I mean, you're in New York, we're down here, and just God bless you. And remember Charlie's family on his birthday. God bless them is right. And, you know, all of us share that patriot thread around the country together, near and far. We're very blessed to have friends like you around the country that are fighting the same fight, and we hope you come back and visit us here soon. Chris and I absolutely love Janet. She's my new best friend for the last since we've been talking. So he is my right hand. Yeah, she's a life. And again, I want to say thank you so much. You know, for the last year when you hosted me in New York, I grew much fonder of New York after spending time with y'. All. That's amazing. Well, this home is always here for you. We're on to big things here. We hope you can join us eventually again in New York. And we're always here to support and get out your messaging. So we hate to have you go so soon, but we do want to have the audience play your beautiful watches, hear your beautiful song, and hopefully you can come back and visit the Patriots podcast soon and be a guest and we'll talk about more stuff. Thank you, Chris. God bless you and thank you for being with us. You're doing the great work you're doing. Thank you. All right, control, cue that up, please. So long, Charlie. Kirk, you left us way too soon and words cannot express just how much it really hurts but the message that you served and the movement that you turn will carry on so the last my truth will forever shine and burn so long, Charlie, you're going home the first time that I met you you told me of your love for an angel named Erica? And our father up above you walked into the lion's den and you didn't bring a gun now your time on earth has ended and our father says well done. So, so long, Charlie, you're going home, you're going home. You walked into the lion's den and you didn't bring a gun? Now, now your time on earth has ended and our father says well done. So long, Charlie, you're going home. Goodbye, Charlie. Charlie, you're going home. Yes, goodbye, Charlie. Oh, welcome home. Goodbye, Charl. You're going home. Yes, goodbye, Charlie. Oh, welcome home, Sam. But there was a beautiful video attached to this. I'm sorry, guys, that you sat through it without the video. We might try to play it during the commercial break. So, Chris, if you're watching still, I'm very sorry. I know that video was beautiful. But let's give Chris a round of applause for that beautiful song. And if the control room can get that ready again, maybe we'll play that again. I want to show the beautiful video that goes along with it. Yeah, that was just amazing. So we're going to go to commercial break in about a minute, but I am going to read or just let you guys know. I don't know if you guys know officially that at the end of September, the U.S. senate and House of Representatives passed a resolution establishing today, October 14, the birthday of Charlie Kirk as national remembrance for Charlie Kirk. So it is an official day in remembrance of him. So every year on this day, we hope you wear red and you honor Charlie. And we only have a few seconds left. I was turning point. Put something out Today about the 31 ways you can honor Charlie and I'll start with some of them until we go to commercial break. If you'd like to honor Charlie the way he did in his 31 years on earth, honor the Sabbath, that's number one journal every day, send scripture to friends, have conversations with people you disagree with, register to vote, get married, have kids, go to church. In that order. I like that order. We'll go to church first, work out, get sun, ask your spouse, how can I better serve you? Read your Bible every day, stand up for your beliefs, eat hot sauce. 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We are in our last segment already goes fast. I am gonna finish reading the 31 Ways to Honor Charlie Kirk. But I do wanna say hot sauce. You're right, hot sauce. I love that. We'll email you the link to try to Chris Burghard's songs that I really want you guys to see the video. So if you're not subscribed to the America first warehouse, please go on our website. Subscribe. You'll see our email blast. We don't send a lot, we don't try to inundate people. But I do want to get this video out so you can keep an eye out that way. Beautiful song. Beautiful. And thank you, Chris. And I'm sorry the video didn't play, but I'm going to finish. These are the 31 Ways Turning Point put out. So the last one I think I said was eat hot sauce but this next one's one of my favorites. Carry a pocket constitution which I do every day. We all do support local businesses. 17 is drink mint Majesty tea with two honeys which we're honoring him here with tonight. Avoid drugs and alcohol. Don't be afraid of what others think of you. Get eight hours of sleep, man. I don't follow a lot of these rules. Limit your social media intake. Touch grass and get out in nature. God's green earth. Learn something new every day. Be a leader, not a follower. Never surrender. Be bold and courageous. Outwork your enemy. I like that. Read the college scam. Work to own land. Number 30 was become ungovernable, which I think I did in 2020. And number 31, pick up the mic and don't be afraid to be bold and speak out. So with further ado, I am going to. Yes, we could clap to that. It's good stuff for Charlie. Those are, those are The Turning Point put into honor. Charlie. That's for Charlie. So our next guest, Matthew. I always said this wrong last time. You might have to help me. Matt Margalevsky. Yes. Okay, good. I'm tired by the end of a Tuesday. And Matthew was here with us the night of the vigil. I got a lot of people that came up to me at the end and said, who is that young man? He's amazing. You spoke beautifully. And Matthew, unfortunately, is no longer with Turning Point because he is in law school. He's a very smart kid. Such a good reason. It's a good reason, right? But yeah, we could clap for that. He made it to law school. We need good conservative lawyers out there. And he was the TPUSA chapter president for Adelphi University. And your messaging was beautiful when you were here a few weeks ago. So you want to tell us a little bit about yourself and I guess from where you started with Turning Point until getting to law school, which is one of my dreams. I love that year in law school. Sure. Well, well, first, thank you ladies for having me. It's truly a pleasure being here again. This is my second time, and so far, so good. I'm really, really enjoying my time here. Two for two. Exactly. So my Turning Point journey started, I would say, in high school. I wasn't too familiar with Turning Point, but I did see videos of Charlie Kirk on college campuses speaking to students, engaging in civil dialogue, as we all should. And it really inspired me. You know, listening to what he was talking about, I thought to myself, hey, these are the ideas that I believe in myself at that time, I wasn't too political, but. But they resonated. Right? And so that was towards the tail end of high school. Then I got into College. I attended St. John's University for the first year until I transferred out. But how my journey started, I didn't know that there was a chapter first during my first semester during the fall of 2020, but I was introduced in the spring semester to the Turning Point chapter. And Anthony, who was on earlier, was on the executive board already for the chapter, but we weren't yet recognized by the school. But I decided one day, hey, let me go to their tabling event, see what it's about. And so I went to their tabling event, the next one that I found out about. And I just walked up to them, I said, hey, you know, I really like what you guys are doing. Do you mind if I get involved? And they welcomed me with open arms. And immediately I jumped into action. People were walking By, I'd say, hey, you know, have you heard of Turning Point? Do you want to get involved? And we were met mostly with opposition, surprisingly, at St. John's but who cares? We're there to, you know, talk about what we believe in, try to promote our ideas as conservatives. And immediately, right after the first tabling event, they said, hey, would you like to be the spokesman of the group? And of course, I gladly accepted. And from there, we went on to host a couple of events. We hosted Isabel Brown, who is now at the Daily Wire. We also hosted Will Witt, and they were great events. And then moving forward, after I transferred out of St. John's going towards Delphi, there was no Turning Point chapter yet established. So I figured, let me. Let me. Let me take lead. Let me start the Turning Point chapter, which I did. And we were very successful. We worked in coordination with the College Republicans, which I was also on the board of. And all we wanted to do was spread conservative values on college campus, which we know aren't popular. And we had a great time. It was successful, I'd say, Unfortunately, both at St. John's and at Delphi, we weren't officially recognized, but we were still out there doing what we needed to do, making sure to spread the message, trying to get kids involved. And that's really it. That's great. That's amazing. That's really, you know, thank you. To not have a school recognize you and to push forward and do it anyway. Yeah, I mean, with a lot of these schools, there's bureaucracy. Of course, at St. John's we got turned down twice. And at Adelphi, it was a little bit easier. But at that point, when I had wanted to start the chapter, it was too late in the year. But of course, we still brought to our tabling events. We still brought Turning Point merchandise. What was their reasoning for not allowing you to start the chapter? I mean, it seems so biased and racist, what they call it. Well, at the same time, really, though, I mean, what would be the reason? I want to know what their reason. Did they give you a reason? It's what they tried to. They tried to tie us into Charlie Kirk being racist and a white supremacist. And somehow every. Every time, I don't know exactly how the process was, because I wasn't the one doing it. It was mainly the president and vice president. I was just the spokesman. But they would just try to say that, oh, this is not a group that we want on campus. And it's ridiculous because, you know, all the other left Wing organizations would get in with ease. This is just a prime example as why Charlie said, like, rethink sending your kids to college. Children like young, young men and women. Rethink the. The path forward that you have as you're leaving high school. There are so many other ways forward in your life that will serve you. I want my kids to be better. I say it one time, especially in the last few years, like, my goal isn't to get my kids into Ivy League schools. My goal is to get my kids into the kingdom of heaven. That's right. We want our kids in heaven. Amen. Yeah. And then follow your calling. Right? Everybody's. Everybody has different gifts. Everybody has. Is tapped for different things. Follow. Follow your passion, follow your calling, and don't feel you have to do what the culture is doing. And that's what I think happened for so long when our kids have been growing up. But anyway, it's unfathomable to me that that is experienced in American college campuses. And I said it before on the other segment, but St. John's like, at a Catholic university, it's unbelievable. And he said he went there for his values, you know, and you think they would honor that. But you know What? Saint Everywhere, St. John's Adelphi. I think no one has a choice right now because I think the tide is changing. I think there's gonna be Turning Point chapters and a million Charlie Kirk's will rise up like they said would happen. Yeah. And I just want to say, although I'm not really involved with Turning Point anymore, though, I am the vice president of the Long Island Activism Hub with Ben. Ben Findling. Oh, I love that. I didn't know you were with that stuff. Yeah, we're actually law school classmates. Oh, nice. Yeah, we met at one of the St. John's events that we put on, and we've been best buddies ever since. I love that. So tell us about your law school journey and what do you hope to do when you finish? Sure. So just a little bit of background. I've known since high school, I wanted to go into law. So it's really great to see that I've made it this far. Yay. But really, I would say moving forward with law, we need to defend our values. Right. And a lot of that takes place in the legal system. So I've known for a long time now that constitutional law is something that I want to get into. I want to fight for our freedoms. Ben and I, we talk all the time about, you know, what case we want to take on next. Obviously, we still need to pass the bar, but I have a good feeling. Yeah. And also in our country constitutional law class, just making sure that we talk about what we believe in. Because even though I would say law school, they're more open to other ideas, of course, it's predominantly liberal, so using your voice, I would say to the younger audience who are maybe if they're in college or in high school, if you're considering going to law school and you're conservative, do it. I don't. Don't have any regrets. You need to go. You need to learn about the law, and you need to fight for your values using law. That's right. Sorry. It's great job security, too, because we know that we're gonna have to keep having these bets. Right. I'm thinking, how many times in the last five years did we wish we had a constitutional lawyer in our toolbox? And you're gonna be it when you pass your bar. Now we know who to call. There you go. But we need a lot of good, strong constitutional lawyers, because it seems like that pesky constitution that everyone doesn't want to follow is. You know, it's frustrating that we've gotten here today, but to know that there's young minds out there and, you know, young hearts doing it is very. I'm very grateful for that. Yeah. It's encouraging to all of us. It really is an inspiration for a lot of young kids. And don't be fooled. This generation, Gen Z is very conservative, so nothing to worry about. Yeah. I'm realizing I don't know about those millennials out there, but, yes, Gen Z seems to be. I'm very proud of that. We saw that we were able. We went to the Wildwood rally for Donald, you know, for President Trump before his election. And what I was so amazed by in that sea of red hats was thousands and thousands and thousands of young adults from, like, high school age to, like, mid-20s. And I thought, oh, my God, finally, finally, America's coming back. So we. We need you guys doing this. Yep. And people feel like they have the permission now. Right. That whole courage. And they. People are tired, like I said before. And people feel like they have permission to speak their minds and live their faith boldly. And it's great to see. It really is. Thanks for what you've been doing. Yeah. The revival is coming in many shapes and forms. Sure is. It's not just a religious revival. It's. It's everywhere. Yeah. It's freedom. It's a liberty revival. Revival is changing and the tides are turning for sure. Well, thank you guys for what you're doing. And we're going to be working with Ben and Anthony, so hopefully the warehouse and our guests will see more of you guys in the activism hub. And we want to be a place that you guys can all call home because what a better place to be than the America first warehouse for this kind of stuff, right? So thank you. You could stay with us if you want. We are going to wrap up. We for those of you who don't know, at the end of every show, we pray. So we are going to do that. And after we say our prayer, we are going to play our friend Charlie Carbone song, who wrote a song for Charlie Kirk to close out this portion. And then I believe Firm foundation is going back up, if I'm not mistaken. I think they're going back up after this. So thank you guys for staying with us this night and honoring Charlie Kirk. And for those of you who are faithful, and I hope it's all of you, we're going to get to our closing prayer. If you'd like to stand, please stand with us. If you would like to stay in your seat, please bow your head and join us. Heavenly Father, we come before you with grateful hearts as we close today's time together. Thankful for the life, vision and courage of Charlie Kirk. We thank you for the impact he made in calling a generation to stand boldly for truth, faith, and freedom. Though he is no longer with us, his legacy continues through the work of TPUA and all those carrying that torch forward. In your name, God Lord, we ask your blessing over everyone listening today and over the local chapters, working faithfully to equip young men and women to live out their convictions with grace and strength. Give them the courage to speak truth in love, to lead with integrity, and to keep their eyes fixed on you as you are the ultimate source of wisdom and hope. May Charlie's example remind us that one like fully surrendered to Christ can make a lasting difference in this world. Help us each to do the same, to be the salt and the light. Wherever you've placed us, we entrust all that has been shared today into your hands. And we ask that you continue to guide this movement for your glory alone. In Jesus mighty name we pray. Amen. And as always, keep your faith strong, your family close, and your freedom alive. Thank you guys for being here tonight. Enjoy the rest of the evening. Thank you. All right, control room, can you play Charlie's song? Let's hear it for the Patriots podcast Ladies and gentlemen, take a deep dive into the stories making the news headlines across the world. The News Agents. We're not just here to tell you what's happening, but why? From me, Emily Maitlis. And me, John Sopel with Global's award winning podcast, the News Agents dropping daily covering everything you need to know about politics and current affairs. 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