Hello, everybody. Welcome to the other people show. I am Brad Listy here in Los Angeles, California. It is good to be with you. I hope you're doing all right out there. Happy Thanksgiving. I have a great show for you. My guest today is Kyle Spencer, author of a new book called Raising Them Right,

the untold story of America's ultra-conservative youth movement and its plot for power.

But in the beginning, my thinking was my answer always to like things that they were saying that I found

disgusting was tell me more why do you think that how did you get there that was what I would

I just felt like my I felt like I had the reader on my you know on my shoulder and I was just

trying to get this person to explain who they were and what they believed in

because if I could do that, then we could help stop people like this, you know, but I needed to tell

people who they were and what they were doing.

Okay, that was Kyle Spencer, author of a new book called Raising Them Right,

The Untold Story of America's Ultra Conservative Youth Movement and its plot for power.

It is available now from Echo Books.

Kyle Spencer is an award-winning journalist.

Her work appears frequently in The New York Times.

She has also written for New York Magazine,

Slate, The Daily Beast, The Washington Post, Politico, and elsewhere. And in this new book of

hers, she is investigating the world of young people who are working for the cause of

conservatism or ultra-conservatism.

And in particular, she examines the lives and careers of three key players in the conservative

youth movement. Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, Candice Owens, a conservative

pundit and media personality, and Cliff Maloney, who for a time ran an organization called Young Americans for Liberty.

It's a libertarian group funded in part by the Koch brothers.

Maloney is now the CEO of a company that he founded called Mobilize the Message, which helps conservative candidates with their

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