A Tale of Two Revolutions + AMA 274

**Charlie Kirk** (0:03)
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Buckle up, everybody.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:49)
Here we go.

**Charlie Kirk** (0:58)
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**Andrew Marlow** (1:23)
All right. Welcome, everybody. It is Friday, August 7th, 2026 We are here at the Y Reef I Studios in Phoenix, Arizona. How are we doing, Blake?

**Blake** (1:32)
We're doing lovely.

**Andrew Marlow** (1:33)
It is a glorious Arizona morning, I will tell you. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

**Blake** (1:38)
I liked the glorious Arizona morning yesterday because it was actually kind of cool. It was only like 70 degrees.

**Andrew Marlow** (1:43)
Isn't your whole beef with Arizona that it's too cold?

**Blake** (1:47)
Well, I mean, 70 degrees is a good temperature. It's not too cold Arizona, which is anytime you step into a supermarket.

**Andrew Marlow** (1:53)
Ah, well. We have much to cover. And I want to get into the current situation on the left. Okay. The current situation. I was on with Jesse Waters last night. It's always nice when he brings me on. And there is a Civil War brewing on the American political left, right? There is the establishment dems. There are the rising, we'll call them the Young Turks because it ties in, of the DSA.
And now there are news reports that the establishment dems are about to dump $15 million into trying to unseat these people. There is a story that broke on NBC about a paid influencer campaign that was behind Hailey Stevens trying to take out El-Sayed. You even saw the same electioneering that was used against President Trump in 2020 and 2024
Possibly, we can't prove it yet, but it certainly has all the earmarks and hallmarks of the electioneering campaign where they stuffed drop boxes and they released their votes late, especially in the black precincts, to beat El-Sayed. Hailey Stevens ended up falling short. Nevertheless, we know that the establishment was not super ready to cozy up with their radicals. And last night when I was on Jesse Waters, I made a point and I got tons of feedback on it, which leads me to believe that probably I'm going to have to bring in Blake as the resident historian. We're going to have to do an actual multi-part series on this. But let's start here. I am of the belief that in the United States of America, the conservative party, the conservative movement, are the inheritors, the believers, the transmitters of the ideals of the American Revolution, which is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Now, originally, that was life, liberty, and property. We believe in property rights. We believe in your ability to own things and to have the freedom to trade, sell, buy. All of those things are your freedoms and God-given freedoms, by the way.
Now, the French Revolution does not believe in that. They have égalité, fraternité.

**SPEAKER_5** (4:00)
Liberté, égalité, fraternité.

**Andrew Marlow** (4:03)
Egalité, egalité, egalitarianism, equal.
What do we always hear from the American left? Equality, equality, equity, equity.
The animal spirits of the American Revolution are alive and well. On the conservative side, we wish they were more alive at times. And the animal spirits unleashed in the French Revolution are alive and well in the modern progressive left movement. One gave birth to the greatest country in the history of the world, the strongest, the most prosperous, the most equal. The other gave birth to the French Revolution, which ended in a bloody terror. Now, Blake has nuanced thoughts about how it ultimately worked out.

**Blake** (4:44)
The French Revolution is probably the most complicated topic in world history.