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Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

"Turning Point" Leader vs Josh

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

Josh Szeps

Comedy Interviews, Education, Society & Culture, Comedy, Self-improvement

4.5905 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

The national director of Turning Point Australia (the Aussie chapter of Turning Point USA) isn't your typical Christian nationalist. He's a 28-year-old Lebanese-Australian influencer, educator and activist. How should we understand the goals of the new, nationalist right? From Trump to Farage to the National Rally in France, from the Alternative für Deutschland in Germany to the meteoric rise of Pauline Hanson's One Nation party in Australia, it's time to understand who we're dealing with. Joel Jammal gained popularity protesting Australia's Covid lockdowns. Nigel Farage convinced Charlie Kirk to hand Joel the keys to the Turning Point franchise. He now has more than 600,000 followers and a billion views, with a newspaper and a podcast serving Christian nationalism to hundreds of thousands of people disillusioned with mainstream politics. This is not your grandpappy's conservative party. Joel joins Josh to debate immigration, Brexit, Trump and the future of democracy.

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0:00.0

G'day, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. And dangerous ideas are

0:09.0

a plenty on the Christian nationalist right at the moment, whether it's Trump in America or Nigel Farage

0:14.9

leading in the polls, in some polls in the United Kingdom, the national rally in France or the alternative for

0:22.1

Deutschland in Germany or Pauline Hansen's One Nation Party in Australia, which is now the

0:26.8

second most popular party in Australia, incredible, since it was only really a two or three

0:33.0

percentage point game just a few years ago. I thought it was time for us to understand what the new,

0:40.5

energized young nationalist right is actually all about, not the far right, not white supremacists,

0:47.0

but people who are completely changing what conservatism means in Western liberal democracies.

0:54.0

You'll be familiar probably with Turning Point USA, the organization founded by Charlie Kirk,

0:58.5

who was assassinated last year.

1:01.6

Today's conversation is with the head of the Australian chapter of Turning Point,

1:05.8

the leader of Turning Point Australia.

1:08.5

He's not your average Christian nationalist. He's a 28-year-old

1:12.7

Lebanese Australian influencer, educator and activist who was tapped by Nigel Farage himself

1:19.3

and introduced to Charlie Kirk and Farage encouraged Kirk to allow Joel to set up

1:25.5

turning point in Australia. He originally had gained some notoriety in

1:29.9

Australia for his online conversations about Australia's COVID lockdowns and sort of championing

1:35.4

a populist uprising against those. And he now has more than 600,000 followers. He has over a billion

1:41.9

views. He has a newspaper. He has a podcast. A lot of this will

1:46.2

be news to Normies in Australia because this all occurs in a political sphere that is unfamiliar

1:52.0

to the mainstream, but we have to pay attention to it and we have to understand what is

1:57.1

they're thinking. This is not your grandpappy's conservative party. This is something

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