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The All-American Halftime Triumph

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The Super Bowl was a snoozefest, but the All-American Halftime Show was a monster success, drawing tens of millions of viewers and taking over the national conversation. Benny Johnson joins to react to the performance that may decisively change the game on how halftime shows are conducted for years to come.

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The Charlie Kirk ShowThe All-American Halftime Triumph. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

0:00My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You've got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a turning point to a state college chapter. Go start a turning point to a state high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life. And I encourage you to do the same. Here I am. Lord, use me. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. The Charlie Kirk show is proudly sponsored by Preserve Gold, the leading gold and silver experts and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends and viewers.

1:07All right, it's the day after. It's February 9th, 2026. We're here in Phoenix, Arizona. Blake, what happened over the weekend? I'm not even sure. Well, there was some sporting event. It was really boring. It was, it was, it was actually quite atrocious. It was probably I'm very happy. I'm very happy with the result, but it was not an exciting progression to that result. What was that? Two Saturday score. It was, I think six to nothing or 12. I think it was 12. I think it was six. I think it was six to nothing at the half and 12 to nothing going into the fourth quarter. And then we had it. And then I, they even let me down on the fourth because it would at least be cool if we got the first shut out or if there had been no touchdowns the whole game. But then both teams got touchdowns. And we just kind of got a normal final score. Normal final pass got sat on. The game was not normal. The game was, well, the game was like too normal. It was nothing but normal plays and then like one fumble return touchdown. That was okay. You think of like the great super balls of all time, like L way, you know, never won a Super Bowl 16th year.

2:10Yeah, no, don't worry. You don't need to tell me about that one. No, we can forget about that one. Oh, I didn't realize I was bad one for you. Well, I'm a Packer's fan. I forget. I don't even remember who they were playing. But more importantly, there was a cooler event during that sporting event. Yeah. And then there was an even cooler event. No, no, the other, the other thing in the middle of that sporting event was terrible. Yeah, I am reliably told. Listen, I got a lot of people told me they're like, I can't, I wish there were subtitles. I can't tell what's going on. You don't want it. Subtitles by the way. By the way, we got the subtitles. We should probably tell you what Kineho Molo, that other guy, the thing, the other halftime show. That's how we should refer to it. The other halftime show. Yeah, the other one. So yeah, we had a massive night last night folks. I would be lying if I told you I expected it to go that big, but it went huge. And so huge shout out to Real America's voice and Robin Parker sig. There it is. Yeah, that's a graphic from this morning's Fox and Friends.

3:12I believe that was a 10 million concurrence. I think we actually had more than 10 million concurrence. That's just social media, just social media. So that's not including anybody that was brought, you know, watching on TBN or one of the broadcast partners on dish or direct TV or any of those things. So, you know, the way Nielsen does the numbers and we could go back and forth on this. And nobody's going to believe us if we tell you what the numbers are, but those are just straight from Rumble and YouTube. 25 million plus as of this morning. But the way Nielsen does super balls is they add like a 2.5 multiplier on that because they are assuming that a lot of people are watching with their families or barbecues or watch parties. So we're real realistically looking at a probably a 40 to 50 million viewer total. Now the big game is watched by an average of about 125 million. It's the most expensive advertising real estate on the planet.

4:14And when you have an alternative option that's garnering 40 to 50 million eyeballs potentially and we're again, I'm not giving an official number because I don't know the official number. And we're waiting for data to come in from some of our broadcast partners. But when you have an event that garners that much attention and those that many eyeballs. That's a tectonic shift in the culture. That is a shot across the bow. My phone has been blowing up with reporters this morning with the one question. Does this change the halftime show forever? Does this is this the official damn breaking does it force them to take it back from Jay Z. And I'm not even sure if they can I think he might have him by the he's got a contract through 2029. Good Lord. 2029. And they just gave it to him because they felt bad about George Floyd basically. Is that what it was around? I don't know if it was I don't know for sure if it was before or after. But it was during that kind of peaking cultural era where they need it.

5:15They basically got like politically gilted into doing this among other things. Well, and you're if you're watching right now, you're seeing B roll from Brantley Gilbert. That is Gabby Barrett. I think that the laser show on that song she did right there was insane. So hat tip to our production team that just did an amazing job. It was beautiful. The way that she just stood there in the light show was kind of swirling around her. Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Gabby Barrett and Lee Bryce. They all did an amazing job. I think the probably the most viral portion of just the performances came from Kid Rock when he came out as Robert Richey. So everybody you all often hear people refer to him as Bob. And so he sang the second song under his real name, not as Kid Rock. It came out as Robert Richey. So it was kind of like a big moment for him. And he added a verse to a hit called Till You Can't.

6:18And I saw that clip everywhere. So let's go ahead and play that 222. There's a book that's sitting in your house somewhere that could use some dust and off. There's a man who died for all our sins. The hanging from the cross. You can give your life to Jesus. And you can give you a second chance till you can. Wow. I still get chills. I honestly watched that it was, it was just great music. It was just a really well done product, a really well done concert and the such a huge shout out to the bravery, the courage it took. It took some guts. If you are Brantley Gilbert, Lee Bryce, Gabby Barrett and Kid Rock. They actually, you know, they went against a very real pop culture and economic juggernaut. That can really make things painful for you. They can say, oh, we're not going to let you perform at.

7:21It's not even just Super Bowl shows, but you remember, they have their, they have their stuff at the opening of the season. They have other musical performances. They control venues and the same agents are behind the scenes, the same money, exchanging hands. I mean, they can make things painful. But, you know, I think when you have a success like this, that's the most powerful thing. So now they get to go back to the people that might want to make it painful for them and say, well, listen, you know, 40 million eyeballs say, say differently. And there's a market for this. Get on board. So I think that's ultimately going to be the biggest thing. And listen, is the Super Bowl is the, is the halftime show changed forever? I think that's up to the folks that run the halftime show, the other halftime show. But I think probably, I think the answer is probably we got, you know, we'll got to wait and see the future is unwritten still and they have choices to make. And listen, if they want to reach out and they want to call us in schedule meeting and we could, we could talk about what we would like to help them with. Then, you know, we would, we would engage that conversation.

8:22So, Mr. Commissioner, the, the, you have a green light, please call us, set up a, set up a call, we'll meet, we'll fly to you and we'll talk about it. Because this is important to the country, what we present on the biggest stage of our country. And you see that juxtaposition, Kid Rock with the American flag behind him and then you've got the other guy dancing around with flags from all over the Western hemisphere, basically signaling that this is, that our country belongs to all of them. And we better just get over it. We are a, a colony that is to be colonized by other people that don't speak our language, that don't share our values, that actually have a different culture completely from us. And that we're just supposed to be okay with that. And, you know, there's no hate, there's nothing but love, like listen, this is capitalism, they're able to do that. And if they succeed doing that. Who might have say the market will speak, but I think that's what's interesting about what happened last night. We just did a, a great concert with great music, with great message and great songs. And the market spoke. And so there is a, there is a tectonic ship that just happened last night in the culture. I don't think we fully appreciated what just happened, but it happened.

9:32And there's no going back now. We just proved that you could take on the biggest entertainment, media, juggernaut in the country, and that you could make a serious sizeable dent. I did really like that Kid Rock song was bought with the ball, just because obviously this was substantially broke. Kind of the idea first came in, bad bunny dyslex America. And then he also refuses to sing in English. So we're going to have an English halftime show with the lyrics, quote, ball with the ball to bang to bang, diggy, diggy, diggy said the boogie said up drop the boogie. And he repeats that. Drop his English up drop. Yeah, the up drop. All right. I'm not sure what it means. If you're tired of watching this country drift away from the values that made it great. It's time to get involved. That's why I stand with AMAC, the association of mature American citizens. Charlie loved this country and he loved partnering with organizations that truly stand for what makes America great. One of our most trusted partners, AMAC, the association of mature American citizens is doing something special in Charlie's honor.

10:37AMAC is offering free memberships to all ages, no credit card, no strings attached, just a chance to stand for faith, family and freedom. Join this movement. Go to AMAC.us slash Charlie today. That is AMAC.us forward slash Charlie today. All right, Blake, we got some fun clips here that we need to play. Just some of the people reacting last night. Did you have one in particular that you? Let's get the one. I don't have the number right. The one where they're all where like the audience at the other game observing that alternative. Is it the bar? No, no, not the bar. Let's see. I gosh. How about 276? You'll find yours 276. This is a bar scene reactive.

11:48It really fired up. I think, but I found the one I think I want. This is between the audience. But you know, it's a bar. But like people who are at the game have nothing to do, but to pay attention to the concert. So I believe this is the audience at the actual stadium 249. Just really. There was a longer video. So I had like one woman was like dancing and like that was it. This is my. This is a really funny one. This is a grandma reacting to it. 251. I don't know. Who is this man? Can I be? Okay, fine. I mean, like, what is this? This is ridiculous.

12:55The American flag now is overflash. And yeah, God bless you to get off the stage. Please get off the stage. Can't stand this. I mean, what in the world is all this. Thank you. Get off the stage. Please. Jesus. Get off the stage. Please. Listen, they do them. We'll do us. We'll let the audience decide. Here's what's crazy though. Probably the number one YouTube live stream in the history of YouTube. If not the first, it's definitely the second. That is a massive, massive accomplishment. And that was made possible by all of you guys spread the words. Find it away, making a plan to change the channel and really, really a really amazing moment. Honestly, truly, truly an amazing cultural moment that we got to be a part of. How about this is the real housewives of New York star Jill Zarin. She's slamming it. The not us. The other guys 250.

13:55It was the worst half time show ever. And it's 250 years that was celebrating right now in the United States. And I just don't think it was appropriate to have it in Spanish and quite frankly, I didn't seem grabbing is, you know, G area. I think it was totally inappropriate. You've got all these young kids watching the Super Bowl. And he doesn't have to be grabbing himself every five seconds. I see so insecure. Seriously, I didn't understand. I don't speak Spanish. I would have liked to have known the words he was saying to me. To me, it looked like a political statement because there were literally no white people in the entire thing. I just think that the NFL sold out and it's very sad because 75 years and, you know, shame, shame. So you contrast that with, you know, Kid Rock singing to Jesus. You've got, we had the beautiful tribute to Charlie as well. So in honor of Charlie, we should play what his vision was for the half time show 232.

14:58When you have the most televised event, this is true. Most televised event for the entire year. One of the most televised events on the planet, by the way, that should be a reflection of the virtue that hopefully you want society to embody. And instead, you get some really like graphic stuff from the other guy. We actually have some of these, we had to like blur it out. What's the clip here, guys, of the lyrics of some of these songs that he was singing? We have it here. Well, while we're bringing it up, it's just like the ways that they made it political were political were a little subtle. So I think a lot of people missed it. Like he says in the performance, he said God bless America. Oh, that sounds a little patriotic. And then he lists off every country in Latin America, because this is a thing that left wing Latinos get mad about that people call the United States America. And they're appropriating the whole continent. Well, sorry, guys, we were the first independent country. And also we have America in our name and you guys don't.

16:01So yeah, totally. And that was like, that's with all the flags. And I mean, it was just really offensive actually in so many ways. So this is 262. These are the lyrics sung during his halftime show. If you translate it into English, we had to blur out that much. And I'm sorry, 11 year olds are watching this. So earmuffs, just I'm going to try and do it the best I can. But it's important to say what was on the other screens. And it says real G guiding the new generations with the OG one galactic style lust. Yes, so that your blank get wet get blank and versatile more blank than Betty Boop, the one who got horny Miami was you. I stay killing with the you blank, blank, blank, blank, push it in. Blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, yes, push it in blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, push it in your blank rubbing my blank, push it in this year. I don't want blank, push it in. This is, this is what they put out there. Yeah, it was in Spanish. So a lot of people didn't catch it. If they were going to do this in English, the FCC would have completely blocked this.

17:07And there would have been fine into oblivion. Anyways, I just think the contrast is important to make. And there's a reason why so many people were upset about it. There's a reason why Charlie has been historically upset about it. And honestly, it's been getting worse since 2019 when Jay Z took over the halftime show. I'm just, I mean, let's just call spade a spade. Matt Walsh had a really important observation there that, you know, the accent basically been of a theme since 2019. Howdy, Blake here. You know, in moments like this, truth really matters. The truth was important to Charlie. So we want to share with you a new documentary that's caught our attention, not because it's political, but because it refuses to shy away from the questions that so many Americans are still asking. It exposes the truth. Thank you, Dr. Fauci is a hard-hitting investigative docu thriller from award-winning filmmaker, Jenner First. He digs through thousands of documents, sits down with scientists, intelligence insiders, and whistleblowers, and exposes what may be one of the most significant public health cover-ups of our lifetimes.

18:14This film isn't about scoring partisan political points. It's about transparency, accountability, and the courage to follow the evidence wherever it leads. If you've ever wondered what really happened behind closed doors, this is something you need to see for yourself. Angel Studios was the only platform willing to release it, and that's because you, not Hollywood, decide what gets made. Join the Angel Guild today at angel.com slash Charlie Kirk. Become a member and stream. Thank you, Dr. Fauci today. All right, Benny Johnson. Benny, welcome to the show. I'm so honored to have you. I consider you to be the absolute top top expert in the streaming space. I want you to give us your unfiltered, unadulterated vision version of what just took place last night. Well, thank you, Andrew. And huge congratulations, obviously, to the entire turning point family. You broke the streaming record of the most streamed entertainment performance in the history of YouTube.

19:21So that's monstrous. The world will never be the same after this. I don't think that there will ever be another NFL halftime show that has ever seen the same way. I think the NFL has so disgraced their core constituency, their customers. They've spit in the face of legacy Americans. It's been 32 years, Andrew, since they had a country act at the NFL. It's been since 1994. Wow, I didn't. And so the NFL has made this decision to systematically erase American culture from the national football league. And I think it's critically important because we've seen the way that this is all gone, whether it's Cracker Barrel or whether it's Bud Light. There is this brain virus that says I'm going to betray my core audience in order to find the mythical woke progressive queer transgender identifies as a cat, peas and a kitty litter box style audience. And they're going to be my new customers. And that audience doesn't exist. The modern audience doesn't exist.

20:23And all of these companies that tried this, they failed miserably, but the NFL is trying it on the biggest stage, the biggest performance on our national football league. Now national what nation America? It's is the American sport football baseball has played around the world, basketball has played around the world, soccer has played around the world. There's a world cup for that. There's no world cup for football. This is our thing. And so to invite somebody who hates America and won't perform shows here because he's scared that all his fans or himself is going to be deported by ice, deport him back to Puerto Rico would be kind of funny. It's still American, right? He hasn't American passport, but nonetheless, like he's scared. He said that he said he's scared of that. He won't speak in English. Entire show was not in English. Not only that, the show couldn't even be viewed from the stands, their clips now coming out of NFL fans going, what the hell is going on here? Everybody watching at home is saying what the hell is going on here. It is a show that included debauchery, the kind of stuff that you wouldn't want your kids to see. That included alphabet, a grotesque alphabet propaganda and that also included subliminal messaging about open borders and lowered the American flag in favor of all foreign flags.

21:35That's what they did at the very end. Bad Bunny comes out and says America isn't actually a place. America is actually a continent and you've stolen this land. And so we are the ones who are going to be the actual purveyors of what is America when he says God bless America at the end. He lists off all the nations he actually thinks is America and America is not on there. And so this is what the NFL brought into our homes last night. It was every bit as malicious. It was every bit as woke. It was every bit as derivative and vandalizing as we thought it was going to be. And so what people need in that moment is not just to on Twitter. And this is what we've learned. This is like the sort of the Charlie school. This is what started turning point USA. Yes, there are a bunch of kaduri communists in our education system. Yes, we would like to have those communists not indoctrining our children. We should start something. We have to do something.

22:38He was start something if you go create something an alternative hence turning point. But this was truly the turning point Charlie loved football. He loved the NFL and he loved creating alternative. That's what America fest is, right? And this is what turning point events are. This is the entire organization. And so this alternative saved us from the humiliation ritual that was bad bunny. And also the humiliation ritual of saying you can't do anything about it, Chad, which is exactly what they want here. They want us to be helpless and say no, no, you are going to accept our bad bunny show because it's all you have. You have you just you just cry online about it. And by creating the turning point halftime show. And by creating what Americans wanted to see, which is a country music act, which is an act that like in a room that probably you know that you're watching it, you're like it smells like cigarettes.

23:39It smells like a cigar. It smells like bourbon. You can hear the banjo plan. It smells like leather. The music is familiar and it's it's warm and it's country. And it's saying by people who have American flags behind them and they love this country. And they're not being disrespectful of it. It's sung in English for God's sake. English, do you speak it? It's like listening to Samuel L Jackson like it in the back of my head, the entire, you know, pulp fiction, the entire time. And so was everyone, you know, all the clips and all of it, like not even the people in the stands there that they like yesterday were dancing. Nobody even knew what the hell was going on. There's the biggest miss this biggest F you in corporate history to their fan base. This blows out of the water, Dylan Mulvaney and Bud Light. The NFL will never recover from this. And the magnitude of the views online and streaming online, making it the number one most viewed event is the crystallization of Charlie's vision for turning point attacking the culture, which is what the arena that I worked with Charlie on.

24:43And Charlie obviously did wore many hats and did many things. But what I was what we did and what we built were a video program and a production program in order to put turning point into culture win, win awards, you know, win Oscars and to win, you know, to win Emmys. And that was Charlie's mission was that turning point would be something that could that could that could take on culture that could, you know, prove that a God can bleed right in the words of Leonidas right 300. Like to prove that the NFL you can actually you don't have to just accept their programming. You can do something different. And it is just a massive shout out to the entire team. I was proud to be helpful in promoting it. But everybody from mosaic, everyone from inside of turning point, just a massive shout out for changing culture and history last night in the model of Charlie. God, God bless you. Thank you, Benny. And you were great, Benny. Here's you with Kid Rock and RFK doing a little promo for us. Benny did this all in his own. He didn't ask for like money. He just got. This is what I love about it. It was like, you just took the initiative, Benny. I didn't even know you're doing this. And then I see this and it's going all over the play. I mean, so God bless you to 278.

25:56Kid Rock, half time show, ready to go. Kid, how you feeling? Oh, man, it's been a lot of preparation, a lot of work I could use. No, he's a little advicey. So I'm just about to get my energy level up. But yeah, I got a guy for that. You said, I read the news. Let's go. Super Bowl, half time show featuring Kid Rock. I mean, but that's what happens when the, you know, I guess the market spoke, right? The people wanted this and I joke with Jack Pazobic because it kind of got memed into existence. Next thing I know, you know, actual reporters are like, are you can you can confirm that you guys are doing an alternative half time show? And I was like, well, I wasn't going to do it. But now I think we have to. And we kind of, you know, fell backwards into this moment. And we realized after the memorial with Charlie and the huge production value and the music that people were so we're gravitating to that, you know, who else is going to do this if it isn't us.

26:56So we got, we have to do this. We have to step up and do this. And to see now that it's, you know, we're probably, if not the number one, the number two, number two, number one, we're going to find out from YouTube. Number one, streaming live streaming concurrence number that's ever, you've ever seen on YouTube. When you add up all the different streams. And you take that, we know that there was 25 million streams last night where at least maybe 26 27. That's just social. That's not our broadcast partners. That's not OTT. That's not fast channel that's none of that's up. So just social media. If you did the 2.5 multiplier like they do on Nielsen for super bowls because everybody's watching in groups and parties. We're talking 40 to 50 million people tuned in last night, Benny. This is a shot across the bow in the media and the advertising space and professional football broadcasting everything. I just, you know, I didn't think it was going to be this successful. I'm super grateful that it is. And we have now officially committed to 2027. So hopefully you'll help us get the word out on that as well, Benny.

27:58But I again, you are, you are the, I think the, the most savvy when it comes to, especially streaming in YouTube. Please help the audience understand just how significant this was when it comes to those metrics. Well, YouTube, of course, is TV for an entire generation of people. There are young people that would far prefer to watch YouTube than terrestrial television. It is frankly the TV for anybody under the age of 40. You get into a hotel room. You don't even see terrestrial television anymore. You see your YouTube app, right? They ask you to click and log into your YouTube app when you get in any hotel room. So this is the most powerful live streaming platform that right now exists in social media. And the audience there is at scale, you know, this 3 billion users on YouTube. And so to have the crown of the highest concurrent live stream, which by the way, if you, yeah, if you do add that up and you have 10 million concurrence, that makes it, if you were to compare it to, to, to broadcast that makes it like this, probably the second biggest broadcast actually in the whole world, including TV.

29:17And you know that with the exception of the NFL, with the exception of the actual literal Super Bowl. This is a just remarkable feat. It is a earth shattering feet. I think there are people panicking and screaming inside of the NFL right now. They know that they've messed up. They know that they brought into America's pastime, something that was totally and completely foreign and third world, something that nobody had any relation with that nobody could sing along with. And at the very least, like the turning point show, you can sing along with those banger after banger after banger. It was a crowd pleasing. So proud to be part of the turning point family. So proud of the halftime show American halftime show. Hi folks, Andrew Colvet here. I'd like to tell you about my friends over at Y Refi. You've probably been hearing me talk about Y Refi for some time now. We are all in with these guys. If you or someone you know is struggling with private student loan debt, take my advice and give them a call. Maybe you're behind on your payments. Maybe you're even in default.

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31:31A nation is comprised definitionally of three components, three ingredients. You must have borders or else you're not a nation. You must have unified language or else you're not a nation. And you must have shared culture or else you are not a nation borders language culture. Benny, what do you think it is about the the the the woke whatever the left with left wing ideologues that so want America? They don't they don't demand this of any other country. But for America, we must have no borders. We must bring in people like bad bunny. And they get to traips around with the foreign flags. And they get to basically say that America does. Yeah, which we got we got lectures for ages about bad bunny being American because he is Puerto Rican. And then at the Super Bowl, when he's reciting all the countries in Spanish, of course, that are part of America. And then he goes, you know, Cuba, Argentina, Chile, United States, Canada, and my homeland, Puerto Rico. He acknowledged. So I guess it's not part of America according to himself. And then they had the Puerto Rican flag next to and in front of and more prominent than the American flag. Yeah.

32:38Yeah. What what is it about the left wingers that they just demand this of our country? They don't ask this of any other country. Every other country gets to be its own thing, but not America. Yeah, I mean, I think as punishment, we need to force kid rock to play at every single Mexican soccer game from now on. And you know, you need to have big and rich at the world cup. Every single show at the World Cup, you know, that, that's reparations. We need reparations. I want reparations from my culture. I want reparations for heritage Americans. What the hell is happening? Travis Tritt. No, listen guys. Travis Tritt, friend of your show. I know that on your show legend. He's the last guy that played as a country act at an American flag. And it was when I was a small child in 1994. So I don't even remember it. And try like that was the last time that the NFL nodded and gave their fans, which I think the vast majority of the NFL fans probably don't speak Spanish as a first language, probably are not from the third world, which I still can't get over the third world aesthetics of this performance also.

33:52You know, it's like a muddy grimy orgy on the back of a pickup truck, you know, like like dirty fruit stands, EBT cards. There's a little, they literally had a EBT sign in the window of their dingy fluorescently lit shop. You know, that's that probably has a C or D grade from the health inspector. What is that? It was gross. Like listen, it's something that's completely and totally foreign to the American aesthetic. It's something that's foreign to the people that are the consumers of the NFL and their core fans. My question for the NFL is in the NFL fans, which I do not consider myself one of, right? I just work all day. And I live down the street from Buccaneer Stadium, but I never go. I don't know who the quarterback is. I just don't. I just don't. I don't have time. I work and I have my, you know, and I go home to my family. Like to an actual die out hard NFL fans, like how long until you pull a cracker barrel? You know, how much humiliation can you take? How cupped can you get? Like the executives hate you. Jay Z hates you. They don't like your culture. They don't like you. They want to humiliate you. It was a, it was a humiliation ritual that practiced was practice on the field last night.

35:06This is humiliation ritual to you and your culture. And at some point, you have to, at some point, you have to pull about light. You know, at some point, you're going to have to say, you know, the money is the only thing that gets you guys to move. So we're going to walk. You know, we're done. We're done with this. The well corporate executives hate you. Jay Z hates you. And you know, I got to say it. Like this was probably the breaking point. I think for a lot, for a lot of people. Well, I agree, Benny. I think that, you know what? And I told this to Steve Bannon this morning on War Room. I said, I said, listen, it's one thing to steal a bunch of eyeballs because that's going to, that comes with financial pain, right? Because now they can't sell their ads for as much, right? It's another thing when we start reaching out to Cabela's and Chevy and all of these things. You know, hey, help us underwrite this for next year. And we're going to make it even bigger and better. And when you break the block, who do you want to be part of the number one stream on on YouTube? You know how much money Mr. Beast makes? Like who that's because he's the biggest YouTuber? Who wouldn't want to be part of like the biggest stream in YouTube history?

36:08And that should be the messaging for next year. Like we were going to make that we're going to make we're going to make a dominant Mount Everest stream. We're going to consolidate the, that's the one thing that should have been done. Should have consolidated the streams. No more. We learned some things. We learned some things. Should have consolidated the streams. Nobody asked me, but that's fine. Like not, and don't have a bunch of other people being able to concurrently stream it. If you're able to, if you want to react to it, in your, in your stream, then that should be something that people can do. But like don't have a bunch of other channels streaming it, right? Just like raw streaming it. Consolidated into one and you'll get 10 million concurrents. You'll break the record for all time. It'll be like a crowning. Yeah, I mean, if you add up, if you add up all the streams, I think it was smart having a lot of people in on it. And then everyone was in on wanting it to succeed. Yeah, that's true. It'll also just a lot of people, they autopilot to things. So there were, there were to be people who would just go to Rav, because that's where they watched most things. And then they're, they would, they would fumble it if they had to go to TV to TVN. Got a lot of traditional broadcasters. I've seen so many comments on social people like I watched on TVN because it's on like 70 million homes. So it's on their channel. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about YouTube.

37:15Yep. So you should just say on YouTube, go to turning point on YouTube, go to the turning point account. That's where that's the primary stream. Right. That's where the real show is going to be. Yep. Right. That one account. Right. And then that, and then you message that. So that's what we've done next year. It was big. It was big. It was big. And listen, I think, you know, Benny, you were, you were channeling some energy here. And I got to play this clip. Because you know, see, see span always gets these like rando, like normy callers that sometimes just knock it out of the park. 282. We should have been celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States of America at that half time show. When I went to school, I was taught English. I wasn't taught Spanish. So I don't, I don't know a word. He was begging. You know, we weren't the United States of America. We're English, speaking language. They should at least put a closed caption on there was something so you could understand what they were saying in the dancing. I've seen the same thing at like a strip strip show just would the clothes on the way they were doing on TV. That there's no reason for that.

38:25I didn't know my grand, I didn't know my grand, my maternal, my, my grandfather called in. You said this up. Didn't you? You gave it. Didn't you? This is great. Oh, great. Hey, Benny, where can people, where can people follow you? What times your show? Give them all the deets. 20 seconds. Yeah, just that. Just that, Benny Johnson, all across social meeting. When, when you show live every single week stream live every morning, all across platforms at 10 a.m. Hey, thank you again, Benny for supporting the show, bringing Kid Rock into an RFK doing all that you do. God bless you, man. I love this show. There's no third world aesthetic. More on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieCurk.com.

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