"Turning Point" Leader vs Josh
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps
Josh Szeps
4.5 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 99 minutes
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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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