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CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:29 - AmFest Event Highlights 01:22 - Debating David Pakman: Key Takeaways 03:29 - Meeting Trump at Mar-a-Lago: Insights 04:53 - UFC 272: Colby Covington vs Jorge Masvidal Fight Recap 07:58 - Department of Education: Current Issues 13:03 - Meeting Sylvester Stallone: Behind the Scenes 14:23 - Meeting Mike Tyson: Memorable Moments 16:36 - Ellen DeGeneres: Departure from the Country 17:10 - Celebrities and Epstein: Controversial Connections 17:57 - How to Find Luke: Tips and Resources
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So there was that David Pac-Man guy.
Right.
He was on there.
He had just been slandering me all over YouTube.
I haven't even heard of this guy.
I think he was getting a little jealous or something.
It was quite funny.
He was saying that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden aren't pro-trans when it was Kamala Harris's VP that was putting tampons in men's bathrooms.
It's pathetic.
I called him out on that.
He looked pretty embarrassed on air.
Yeah.
All right, guys.
Bo is back.
We're at Amfest.
Great event so far, right?
Phenomenal.
Yeah, Turning Point definitely does it right.
You know, with their events every year, it's a pleasure to attend, and I'm glad they have me out to all of them because
it's a great time.
It's my first Turning Point event, first AmFest, and I am very impressed.
Yeah, 100%.
They don't mess around with their stuff.
You know, they take their budget and they put it where it matters, and they get some of the greatest speakers, the greatest shows all in one place, and they make it really fun.
Yeah.
How long have you been involved with Turning Point?
I can't say exactly.
I think it's been about like three, three or four years.
Nice.
And I've been coming to their events, you know, as long as I can remember.
My mom was one of the first speakers at all the original Turning Point events when they only had like, you know, 200 attendees and things like that.
And so, yeah, it's been great.
But we've, we're,
my family are lifelong, you know, friends of Charlie Kirk and
partners of Turning Point.
Yeah, the growth has been insane, dude.
I think they played a massive role in this election as well.
You saw him going to so many campuses.
Did you ever go to campus with them?
I would love to.
I think I had an invite when the one when they did it with Bryce Hall in Arizona.
But yeah, I couldn't make out I was doing something else.
Yeah, I would love to sometime.
Also, I'd love to go to campus with
Cliff Cliff Connectley to go as well.
That'd be a good one, too.
Another buddy of mine.
Yeah, I saw.
Did Charlie go to NYU?
I don't know if he did.
I'm not sure if he did yet.
That'd be interesting to see.
He should have there and played Harry Sisson over there.
That'd be fun to see for sure.
Yeah.
I saw you on, I think, Pierce Morgan, right?
You were debating some people.
Yeah.
So there was that David Pac-Man guy.
Right.
He was on there.
He had just been slandering me all over YouTube for like months.
I haven't even heard of this guy.
And he was like, oh, this guy does not deserve to have a platform
on Fox News and stuff like that.
I think he was getting a little jealous or something.
It was quite funny.
But he was saying that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden aren't pro-trans trans people when it was Kamala Harris's VP that was putting tampons in men's bathrooms.
Yeah.
So it's pathetic.
I called him out on that, and he looked, he looked pretty embarrassed on airs.
Yeah, Pac-Man's always looking to stir something up, you know?
Yeah, it was, it was fun.
Same with all those debaters, like Dean Withers.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, these chat GB2 users who think that they're good, they're good debaters.
Have you had one of those guys on?
I've had Perry on.
I would have Dean on, but it's hard to say if they're like paid off in some way.
So I want authentic opinions.
Well, they definitely are because, you know, we had the whole beef with them and Bryce Hall.
And then Bryce was like, are they really paid?
He was asking me.
I'm like, yeah, here.
I gave him the transcripts.
And he posted it out to Twitter.
And that went pretty viral.
So they were getting paid through a company, right?
That's how they get around it.
Yeah, they get through Palette Media, which they're, well, I mean, you know, we're in the social media game.
Everyone's managed by a company or has some company they work with.
I'm transparent about it.
If you ask me, I'll tell you.
But for them, like, they completely lie and try to cover.
But they both have palette media emails and it's all on the
FCC and everything's reported.
So like, crazy.
You can't lie about that.
I can't lie about it.
You've had a busy week, man.
What you been up to?
I've been moving around a lot.
This week has been one of the craziest weeks of my life.
From, you know, I was at Mar-a-Lago for my buddy's event.
And
he's a big-time hedge fund manager, Michael Lehman.
I'll give him a little shout out.
But it was a great event, and
it went super well.
And then after we went up to upstairs and we talked to President Trump for a good while while he was at dinner with like Elon and Tim Cook and some other people, that was really cool.
And he introduced me to Tim Cook and stuff like that.
He was surprisingly nice, he was a cool guy, he was uh cool.
We were talking about the iPhones, and he was trying to tell uh Lee Greenwood why he should upgrade his iPhone.
Not
so, yeah,
it was funny because I heard there was plans on Bezos and Trump.
Not when I was there.
Uh, a few of my buddies saw him, though.
He was there, yeah.
And that's cool that he's not even present yet, but he's already taken these important meetings.
Oh, yeah, and he was doing it before, before the election was even over, he was meeting with Zelensky.
Oh, wow.
And he was doing things like that.
Like he was being more of a president than the actual president.
So I love seeing things like that.
And he's already, you know, he's not wasting any time.
He's not even in office yet, but he's setting everything up now.
Right.
Well, that's smart because four years is usually not enough time to see the results, you know?
No, yeah, definitely not.
And that's why he's an action president.
He's a president who makes promises and keeps them.
So that's why he's going out and he's getting it started now.
So were you Mar-Lago on election night?
Yep.
That was their election.
That was really fun.
Spoke to Dick.
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A non, some of the other people there.
It was, it was really fun.
I was there with Colby, Covington.
I just got back from his fight as well.
In my view, it was a robbery.
I think it was, it was a doctrine stoppage.
I think it should have been stopped.
I think it could have kept going, but, but it was.
I saw that.
That was a shame to see.
Because he looked fine, right?
Yeah.
I mean, it was, it was a, he, Colby, as someone that's trained with him, he has the most incredible cardio and stamina of any person, any human.
I'm not just even saying that.
Like, everyone has all this stuff about David Goggins and no disrespect to David Goggins.
He's great, but I think like, I think Colby could easily last in like a David Goggins course or whatever, running miles with him or doing whatever, because he has insane stamina, cardio like you've never seen.
Training with the guy for two hours straight, no breaks, no pauses.
We'll all be 10 guys dead on the floor, exhausted, and Colby hasn't even broken a sweat.
So like that's his thing.
So he may have looked tired.
And I talked to him.
Yeah, he had, he had blood in his eye.
It was hard to see.
But other than that, he was ready to, he was ready to keep going and he was ready to turn that fight around.
And then the doctor stopped it.
And even Dana said that never happens, that wouldn't have happened in Vegas.
Hopefully, they do a rebouch, you know.
Yeah, that'd be that'd be really great to see.
But, you know, interesting about that fight, you know, we uh, I had a buddy at Trax NYC, the jeweler, he's uh massive on social media, but we uh parted up and and uh
he made Colby this custom Trump chain, it's kind of like the one I'm wearing now, but but much larger scale.
And it was, um,
he took the
chain like this and he put a dark MAGA hat on it.
And then he took the ear and put a diamond ear patch and blood on the face from when Trev got shot and put rubies as the blood.
Wow.
And we put that thing.
It was massive and
it was a real beautiful piece.
And we took it and we gave it to Colby
Day of his fight and he wore it out.
So it was
pretty sick.
That was going pretty viral online.
You know, Dana White posted UFC, ESPN, everybody.
It was everywhere.
As someone who's still, you're 18, right?
Yes, sir.
So you're thinking thinking about going to college.
How do you feel about the Department of Education potentially being removed?
I mean,
I think it could definitely have a lot of positives because there's so much, there's so much propaganda being put in our schools nowadays and things like that.
And
I'm going to go to college for sure.
I think, you know, maybe like Liberty University in Virginia, I like their school a lot.
um i'm doing their online program right now things like that so um but uh i'm gonna go to law school there as well and i think you know i'd like to just I mean, there, I'm not as worried about it because they're a pretty good Christian conservative college.
But, you know, it's sad seeing all these kids, you know, starting in the school age, don't get enough attention from their parents and then get brainwashed by their schools and then more brainwashed in college.
And then they come out as some tool of a society, you know?
So, well, a lot of these degrees, let's be honest, are pretty useless.
You're going for law school.
That makes sense.
I'm going to for a reason.
Yeah, I wouldn't just go to college to go to college.
That's the problem.
And that's why Charlie Kirk is a great example.
This is a guy who didn't need to go to college.
If he was going to, maybe for business or something, but obviously he did fine without it.
And he has one of the biggest companies, one of the biggest political companies in the entire world.
And he's killing it.
And he didn't need to go to college.
He didn't need some degree in art or whatever to get where he is today.
And actually, it would have held him down a lot.
And he might not be where he is today.
Absolutely.
Because he would have had a four-year delay.
100%.
He got started young.
He started in his garage.
He talked to an amazing man, rest in peace, Foster Freeze, and got some investors like that guy to to help boost his company and it did phenomenally and i couldn't be more proud of him and everyone else that understands they don't need to go to college for certain things if you have your idea and you're ready for it start it now don't waste time in college absolutely his video crying on election night was it made me tear up dude yeah that was that was that was heartfelt because you know that's that's again he's a man who's worked really hard for this And like so many of us, like my mom, my mom is one of the original founders of the Tea Party.
And someone like her, like, I feel so blessed that I'm even in a position to fight with for this because I know how hard she worked just to put me where I am.
Yeah, I mean, she from starting on a radio show to doing several of her own shows across networks and Fox News, and she was defending Cresden Trump on TV since since the very beginning.
One of the first people early like 2015, 2016, defending him on TV.
And she didn't even know that he noticed it, but then she met him in 2019.
He's like, you're my hero.
Wow.
You defend me on TV and I've seen it.
And you're one of the only people who stuck by me.
It doesn't flip.
I love that, dude.
That loyalty is hard to find,
especially for Trump in 16 around that time, like not many.
And he doesn't forget.
He doesn't forget.
He knows you're loyal to him, and he knows you're a friend and an ally.
He remembers you, and he picks you out in the crowd, and he always comes up.
So you always ask how your family's doing.
How God bless you.
I love that.
He's a really, really extraordinary man.
That's super cool.
What type of lawyer do you want to be?
Do you know yet?
Yeah, probably constitutional.
Nice.
Yeah, I think it'd be good.
What do you think the biggest changes we should look into for the Constitution are right now?
Well, number one, making sure it doesn't change.
They're trying to add and remove a lot of things in it.
And I think that's not right.
And I think it needs to be more upheld in a society.
And we also have to remember that America is founded on Judeo-Christian values and that this is a country that is based on Christianity.
And I'd love to see more of that.
And I don't, people
get really scared when I say that I'd love to implement a lot of the laws of the Bible.
Even some just more, because one, a lot of them already are in our Constitution, but more of the, so not the ones that force it, because Christianity is not a forced religion.
If you're forcing their religion, you're already not following it.
But I'd love to implement more laws of the Bible and make America more of a known as a Christian nation.
And people like get scared when I say that, but there's plenty of nations that follow one religion.
Yeah.
You know, like all these nations like Dubai that enforce a lot of the laws of Islam and things like that.
So I don't think, I don't see any reason why we couldn't.
And it's just, it would just make our society much more,
I mean, lower crime.
It would make us much more moral citizens.
He would be good Samaritans all around.
It'd be really good for our country.
What do some of the laws of the Bible look like?
The most basic ones of like,
you know, marriage being between a man and a woman.
You know, if you want to go and do your thing with your person, that's fine.
But I think marriage particularly is something that is a Christian thing and it's sacred between a man and a woman.
You have a priest swore you guys and is married.
Right.
So I think something like that is between a man and a woman.
Another big one is no sex before marriage, right?
Things like that.
Yeah.
I think that could be
a law in our country.
That's similar
That would that would help our country as a whole.
Yeah, which degeneracy and things like that, that would stop.
I mean, you see it with the OF movement and all this.
I mean, it's kind of hard to do a law like that, but it could be the kind of thing, you know, where we could, you know, figure out kind of like paying for child supporters up.
Like, do that, you know, put any countries actually have that in their
I think it's very frowned upon.
Like, I think in certain countries, if it gets found out that you did, like, you'll get like stoned.
Somebody's like, cool.
So these foreign countries, bro, you know, it's and same things like homosexuality and, you know, in these foreign countries, like, you know, Palestine.
I i know that yeah i definitely know that yeah so you do a lot of traveling to other countries yeah i do a lot of traveling and mostly i just go around and i just meet people and network and things like that i mean again this week i was saying i was uh met sylvester salone i had the pleasure of going to his house and talking to him for like an hour two hours about his life and his career and he is a really extraordinary guy like he's really nice really humble a lot of these celebrities They're so full of themselves.
They're so, you know, you know what I'm talking about.
You think of them.
Like, you know what what I'm talking about.
It's all ego.
It's all, oh, I'm, I'm Mr.
Important.
But you sit there and you talk to Salone and he's the actual most important celebrity out of in the room.
Right.
And he's the guy that I can just sit and talk to for an hour.
And he's just super chill, super humble.
I was talking about his life and career.
I learned some really cool things talking to him and things like that.
So it was.
Well, his story about the first Rocky movie is crazy.
He had to give away his dog.
I asked him about that.
I said, is that true?
Is that whole thing true?
And he's like, yeah, but there's even more lore.
Like apparently the guy wanted to be in the movie for the second one, too.
And he made that a stipulation
back and something like that.
Like there's all these crazy stuff.
Why it was crazy.
Yeah, this man had to give away his own dog because he was so broke.
Yeah, it was really cool.
Really cool to talk to him about all that stuff and just learn.
Just sit there.
That's how I love talking to, you know, my elders, people that are much older than me.
And they just learn about all the life experience and wisdom they have.
That's smart, man.
I always gravitate towards an older crowd myself.
100%.
A lot of wisdom.
Yeah, and it was great.
I also met Mike Tyson this week.
I've been friends with his daughter and the family for a while.
Nice.
But I hadn't actually bumped into him personally yet, but he was at Mar-a-Lago and we stopped and said hi.
And
yeah, he was another one.
Really nice, super humble.
People don't know what Trump did for him, you know?
Oh, yeah.
I mean, he got him out.
Yeah.
Same, same with him.
Same with Dana White.
And that's why all these guys respect him and they're so close to him is because, again, he's not this evil dictator.
And I was telling a protester this outside, actually.
There's protesters out there?
There's one.
Can you talk to him?
There's one.
People were posting it online.
They were like, Bo Loudon's outside turning point.
Oh, why didn't you see that?
Protester.
It's all my story.
It was hilarious.
But
I was talking to this guy and I'm just telling him, like, you realize this man is not Hitler.
I'm like, look at the things he did in the 80s where he was paying off people's mortgages and he was doing things like taking care of Dana White and attending his events and putting it on at, I think it was like one of his Trump properties.
He put on an event because the UFC was about to go bankrupt or something like that.
Like it's crazy all the things he did for these people and he just did it out of the kind of his heart.
And it wouldn't even like get in the news until like a month later or two months later, however long.
Like Trump would just do something.
Like there's that one man who, um, I think he, I believe, he stopped someone like from killing themselves on a bridge.
And uh, Trump just sent like 10,000 or 20,000 a mail to pay off his mortgage.
It's like, there's things like that, and that happened all the time.
The guy's like, oh, I don't believe you.
That didn't happen.
And I like, I'll show you.
And he's like, oh, wow, it did.
Okay, well, that's nice of him, but I still don't like him.
Dana's the same way.
I know stories of him that haven't hit the media yet, but of him really helping people out.
Oh, he's great.
I was just when I was at the UFC fight
in Tampa for Colby, we went after backstage to see Colby after the fight, but Dana came and he was
walking through and he stopped and said hi to every single fan in the crowd.
They were all who was he signed everything, took a poet with all of them.
And I watched him.
I'm like, is he going to come in actually?
And they're like, no, he's out there.
He was literally talking to all of them and getting pictures or whatever for like 30 minutes.
Yeah, because a lot of people insulate themselves once they get to a certain level.
And when he's like...
at that level, like the CEO, like he can do what he wants.
He can go and, you know, he doesn't even have to attend the events or do things like that.
But for him to do that and still care about the fans yeah and be like that it's respectable yeah he's always been really nice to me he's a good guy did you see ellen left the country ellen degenerous
i did not see that she lives in the uk now ellen degenerate uh that's great that might be a little before your time but she had a huge show yeah no i know i believe me i know yeah she's well she's a she's in all that diddy stuff she was having she was having kids on her show and saying let's bring out diddy like oh wow lebron's not looking so hot right now oh no colby called him out during his fight he was saying lebron i want to know what you mean by there's no party like a diddy party you know tell the tell the tell the people and then lebron's uh now he's hiding all of his stuff so diddy and i guess i think it's weird it's a weird correlation when all the epstein stuff going down a lot of celebrities were leaving the country and and doing weird stuff and now that all the diddy stuff's going down it's the same pattern i hope they released the epstein list i saw it i saw di caprio in um in uh at at Costa Cipriani in New York.
Yeah.
I was sitting at the table next to him and he is like kind of had like a hoodie over his head.
He's all hiding.
Oh, I bet he's low-key these days.
He's seen very low-key.
So seeing stuff like that is hilarious.
I mean, he's on some of these lists.
I wouldn't be surprised.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Definitely.
To get to that level in Hollywood, you got to
owe some people favors.
100%.
And
I've been in the areas.
I know enough stories.
You know, some I can share, some I can't, but like
there is so much corruption in Hollywood and a lot of stuff they say about all of it's very true.
I'm glad some of it's getting exposed, though.
Definitely.
I think, I think enough of it, I mean, I think if it all gets gets exposed, honestly, people won't even know what to believe anymore.
But I think if enough gets exposed to the point where we stop idolizing these people that we just think are so great, that's good.
A lot of their charities are just things for them to launder money.
Oh, 100%.
It's like they're just, they're not good people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You should look up people.
Look at people like Colby Covington or Dana White or Trump or people like that that actually do good things behind the scenes and don't just do it for publicity stuff.
Like all these celebrities dude.
Yeah, you gotta never see them donate to charity where it's not super public publicized.
Yeah.
absolutely.
Well, dude, it's been cool.
Where can people catch up with you?
All social medias at Bo Louden.
That's B-O-L-O-U-D-O-N.
Perfect.
Sounds good.
Thanks for watching, guys.