Caller Brennan Presbyterian College Republicans;

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00:00 And welcome back to the program. Let's go to Brad and Lawrence. Brad, welcome. 00:07 as going by the way i don't know i'm sorry they don't miss her i think it's brendan brendan carroll brendan how are you yes sir i'm doing good sir i believe you i'm doing great what's up um uh... as well you know well first i just want to say hi mom hi dad in case you're listening so i know they they love they love listening 98.9 but uh... but also you know you guys you were talking about uh... the college campuses and i guess like the progressive uh... takeover of the campuses um... and i just wanted to drive home a point 00:37 that a lot of people are very, they feel very black-filled about this, very like, oh, I don't want to go to college if it's just going to be progressive and this and that and whatever. But I think it's also important to say that, you know, you really need to go to these colleges to change them. You know, you need political, you need to gain political capital within the colleges. You need to kind of, you need to do the same thing that the left did to the colleges, essentially. You need to take a little bit from their playbook. 01:05 and there needs to be institutional capture on the right side. So how do you do that? How do you do that, Brad, when you've got the entire staff, the faculty, student body, and you are in a very small minority? How do you overcome that? That's a lot of pressure for a college student. Yes. Well, see, I'm a freshman at Presbyterian College, and I'm the founder and president of Presbyterian College Conservatives. Good for you. 01:32 I appreciate it. Well, I didn't know I was talking to a celebrity. Well, good for you, man. So how is it? mean, Presbyterian College, they had that professor speaking out against, know, Charlie Kirk and all of that stuff. What's daily life like at Presbyterian College? uh It's very, it's a chaotic situation, but 02:01 The funny part is you'll find a lot of unlikely uh allies in certain aspects. It's really about coalition building. In terms of getting institutional power, just talk to the alumni. There are a surprising amount of staff and administration that are kind of on your side um in the schools. A lot of them are scared to reach out. A lot of them are scared to talk. That is what, that was going to be my next question. Are there more conservatives 02:31 quiet conservatives on college campuses than we actually realize? Yeah, I think so, especially in the more hard sciences when you're talking about uh like biology, chemistry, or even business, economics, those kind of fields, you get a lot of conservatives, but a lot of them are just very nervous and anxious about sharing their political beliefs because, the truth is, know, SGA is mostly left leaning student government, and then also student media. 03:00 And so what I've decided when I got here on the first day was that, we needed to take over student media. We needed to take over SGA. And, you know, that's what I've been doing. I actually have a radio show of my own at the college station. And we've also been, you know, we've been interviewing people. We got Paul Danz over a couple of weeks ago before he dropped out. 03:29 What's the response to that been like? Good? It's been, it's been okay. It's been okay. Yeah. It'll take a while. Yeah, it will take a while. mean, everybody gets the same, you know, threats about trying to get you expelled and worse and, know, things like that, but it's been, it's been pretty good. So that's, well, good for you, but I mean, Joe, I love what you're doing. um 03:55 Did you find that after the Charlie Kirk assassination, more people were willing to reach out to you? I've actually found the opposite a little bit. I'm going to lie. Yes, it got a lot more heated because what happened was I tried to start my club way before I even got here, actually. During over summer break, I submitted my documents to the administration and they said it looked ...

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