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Old friend of the Armstrong and Getty show, Gary Dietrich, CBS News Political Analyst. Gary, welcome to the show. Hey, Jack, good to be with you. And by the way, my friend, it's been decades we've known each other, but I don't think this whole secret has slipped out on air. I am an Eagle Scout. Oh, are you? Cool. That doesn't surprise me. You seem like the kind of guy that would be an Eagle Scout.

Good for you. Well, that's very kind of you. And I catch every once in a while. You mention your son, Henry, and scouting, and you've been singing the praise of scouting. Man, my scouting experience was absolutely awesome. I highly recommend it to everybody. But I'm saying this particularly this morning, Jack, because I heard in your lead-in segment to this that you're going to be out in the wilderness somewhere,

and I just wanted to offer, if you have self-service and get desperate,

hide in the tent, text Gary, and say, what do I do now?

Okay.

I'll keep that in mind.

I appreciate it.

Hey, one thing, no, I won't be available for bear removal. So that's that.

So did you ever meet Charlie Kirk?

I did not meet Charlie. It's just kind of one of those things. Well, for some reason, his path and mine never crossed, but, you know, I don't know exactly what to say.

Well, speak to his, because I know you know about this, speak to his impact with voting for young people across the country.

Oh, it's, you know, Jack, it's nearly impossible to overstate.

I mean, the reality is this, if you look at all the studies that have been done over the

last decade, too, including, I'm not going to mention it, at a place that has an

institute for youth, et cetera, involvement, the involvement of youth, especially their voting rates, and you know this, Jack, have been on the decline.

Sure.

And people had thought this was inexorable.

I mean, this is just sort of, ow, what are we going to do now?

You know, our kids are never going to be part of democracy.

What Charlie Kirk, I won't say single-handedly, but certainly as part of the MAGA movement, as you know, really turned this around.

And so, of course, now, if you look at the major demographic groups that many people attribute to Trump's win and Harris's loss last fall, one of them was the youth vote.

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