Gino Falco: Hey, everybody, if you enjoy my content here on the right side, rising podcast, feel free to go check out the buy me a coffee link below where you can show your support for this podcast and help it grow even bigger and better with the right equipment. And most importantly, the ability to give you guys the content you want and you deserve, whether it's from my room or big events like America Fest in Phoenix. Thank you guys all for the continued support and make sure to go check out that buy me a coffee link below where you can show your support for me and this podcast. everybody. Welcome back to another episode of right side rising. So today we're joined by Daniel, who is amazing content creator. He has amassed a large following. He's about to hit 200 K on Instagram right now. He makes awesome content and ⁓ truly I'm happy to have you here, Daniel. And I think we're going to have an amazing conversation.
Danielspeaksup: Thank you for inviting me. I really admire that you're this young and this wise. This is great. This is great to say.
Gino Falco: Thank you. I really appreciate that. first off, tell me a little bit about yourself, like who you are and what you do.
Danielspeaksup: Well, I born and raised in Philly, you know how we are. you know, politics was never my vibe. I was never into politics until about 2020. And I back in the day, I used to do acting classes. I did makeup classes. I did all the things. I never got into politics. That's why, you know, I urge everybody to learn as much as they can. Because for me, if I would have listened to all my teachers back in the day, it would have been great. But I never listened. I was bad in school. And for me, I made one video in last year in 25 right before. Charlie Kirk was assassinated and you know it was pretty much around illegal immigration and for me that was never a voting stance for me even when Hillary was running so I voted for Hillary Clinton in my first election I was a liberal back then and for me it was just because they were telling us what we wanted to hear you know what I mean so when I started when I was 18 my first election it was 2016 the big year that everything popped off and that's when I started to really wake up and start to feel the motion you know but I've always was creative I was creative. I never really did anything like this, you know what I mean? That's why my content is so streamlined to me because I never really, I'm not gonna give you the big words, I'm not gonna sit here with a microphone and do, it's not me. We're gonna talk like we're, you know, we're gonna talk, you know? So I was red-pilled in 2020 and ever since then, 2025 happened and then everything popped off from there.
Gino Falco: That's awesome. ultimately, I know you kind of got into this, but why did you really decide to speak up and build this platform?
Danielspeaksup: Number one, okay, here's the thing. When I was in school, we never really talked about politics. We talked about, well, Republicans like this and Democrats like this, and that's it, right? But they always, everybody in school was always to the left of everything, right? So that's all I knew. My family, weren't like... politics driven, like my grandfather used to do things in like the CDCs and all the civics that he was in, but we never really got political. So because one day I was on the way to work and it was like 8 a.m. and I was watching TikTok as one does, I was scrolling and I followed all beauty people. And there was one in particular and he made a video about how his family was being kidnapped by ICE. And I says, and this is by the time I didn't really know. a lot about it, but what I did know is that he was lying. And I was like, this person has millions and millions of followers. It's Dowsman Dosa. I don't know if anybody knows him, millions and millions of followers and you are actively lying to them. Caveat to that is it's me following them, it's younger people following them, it's all age groups following them. these people have the wherewithal to shape people's minds. So I was like, you know what? I was outside of where I worked. videoed it. But at that point, I worked for a certain makeup company so I couldn't really talk about anything. I had to make a whole separate Instagram and a whole
Gino Falco: Yeah, yeah.
Danielspeaksup: separate TikTok everything. ⁓ And it was illegal immigration. said, you know, the one thing I don't want you to is to ever lie. You can, ⁓ we see it in the mainstream media and legacy media that they're going to ⁓ fabricate stories. They're going to lie. ⁓ And ⁓ you know what I mean? So like,
Gino Falco: Yeah. Tell me about it.
Danielspeaksup: I had to go digging. like, are they really kidnapping? Like I thought so. was like, are they really kidnapped? They can't be true. Turns out he was lying and his video got taken down. That was the first video I made ever since then. It was just up from there.
Gino Falco: So you talked a lot about immigration, is that why you really switched up and became red-pilled?
Danielspeaksup: No, absolutely not even a little bit. The 2020 when we were when we were in COVID and we were in quarantine, I would I at this point in 2020 I voted for Trump but I didn't I wasn't into it like I was. ⁓ But
Gino Falco: Really? Tell me about it.
Danielspeaksup: Every day he would hold a press conference. Every day. It was around three or four o'clock. And every day I was sat. Sat. was, you know, I would go to ACME, come home, go write to Trump's. He just made so much sense to me. And then, of course, I would watch Candace Owen. She was like my first person that I kind of because she lived in Philly at one point, I think.
Gino Falco: Yeah. ⁓ really? I didn't know that.
Danielspeaksup: Yeah, she was in Philly at one point, and then I think she was in Washington at one point. I don't know, but she was like the first person I watched. And then of course, Charlie came along, and then Glenn Beck and all the people. But I never really took it to heart. But my main point was the economy. In 2020, I thought it was a joke that everybody was like, well, it's our constitutional right not to wear a And actually, they were going against all of our constitutional rights. They really were. And.
Gino Falco: ⁓ I... It's crazy.
Danielspeaksup: My nieces are around your age and I couldn't even imagine being in school at that point because you're masking everybody and they really were going against our constitution. It was really true. But the first thing I realized was the economy was so much better in 2017, 2018, 2019. That economy was just.
Gino Falco: Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: chef's kiss and it was all President Trump. I gotta tell you. I gotta tell you. So that was really it. But really I never we talked about illegal immigration like me. I remember me and my brother having a conversation about it but I never really it's not that I didn't care. It's just I didn't think it was that much of an issue kind of like how the left is today. I didn't think we should have open borders but I think I was more like just let him be here who cares. But now I'm like
Gino Falco: Yeah, it was.
Danielspeaksup: little bit. Pump the brakes a little bit. ⁓
Gino Falco: Yeah, I mean, that's great. So you host also the Coffee Talk and Common Sense podcast. Tell me a little bit about that.
Danielspeaksup: So for me, what I would do in my videos, I would just make like one minute clip, two minute clip videos, and everybody be like, what are you talking about? And I'm like, if you didn't get it, then you're never going to get it. But then I was like, you know what? I have a bad time explaining things. So the main point of my Coffee Talk and Common Sense podcast is just to explain what I mean sometimes in my videos, because I'll just say something. then people, like the other day I posted a video. It was about a different subject. And everybody thought I was talking about Erica Kirk. I was like, she didn't even cross my mind when I was making this video. And I said it in the podcast. I was like, ⁓ that makes sense. So that's the main point around my podcast, because I'm like, I just have to explain myself a little bit more. And that's the form to do it. That's it.
Gino Falco: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I get that, yeah. So do you think, I mean in that sense, do you think that short-form content can be a little misleading about somebody's points or, you know, their character?
Danielspeaksup: 1000 percent and we've seen it during the whole Charlie Kirk We've seen it. We've seen everybody take his words, twist them, and then just run with them the way that they want to. This is what we saw. And, you know, I remember one quote that he said about black women. if he really watched the clip, it almost had nothing to do with black women at all. It was just a point of saying DEI is bad because of this. If he would have said it on a podcast, maybe... No, because you know what? People like to clip things anyway. So you know what?
Gino Falco: Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: I think right now we're seeing the media run with what they want to run with, you have a point that short form content is like a little misleading most of the time.
Gino Falco: Yeah. Okay, I got that. So obviously, being a gay conservative, how have you kind of been treated by the LGB community, if it's been any different?
Danielspeaksup: I remember very vividly, I forget if it was 2017, it was definitely before COVID and it was definitely before I was red-pilled, but I posted on Snapchat, it was something about, you know, Hillary running and then something happened to her, she was on the breakfast club and she was talking about having hot sauce in her bag. And I said to Snapchat, and this was like my thousand friends that I had on there, and I was just kind of like. that she's literally pandering to you people. All of my people said you're you're a traitor. You're you know this and you know identity politics. They try to like pin it on me. You're going against your sexuality and this. And I'm like I didn't even say anything about myself. I didn't say anything. I don't make that a point for myself because you're just it is what it is and you're going to get what you get. But like all of my friends almost all of them.
Gino Falco: Yeah. I love that.
Danielspeaksup: And it was on Facebook too, because we had everybody on every, deleted me, unfollowed me, and they were okay by the way. And this is why I think we shouldn't even, I don't like that the left puts identity politics in front of everything because.
Gino Falco: Really? Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: I don't want to talk about it and nobody else wants to talk about it, but it's a point of conversation because they make it such a point. So when someone is telling me that I'm a traitor because I vote for Donald Trump, who, by the way, has the first gay cabinet member, the first president, and also if we think about really going into presidency, not why they're in presidency, going into presidency, he was the first president who approved a gay marriage.
Gino Falco: Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: So when we think of the. Yep, so going into presidency, so Barack Obama, of course, that whole thing with the Obergefell, everything that happened with him, the gay marriage. But that was why he was in presidency. I'm talking going into president all the debates that they used to have. It was well, marriages between a man and a woman. And I'm like, this is Hillary. This is Barack. This is everybody. Probably. Probably right before 2008, 2007.
Gino Falco: Really? I actually didn't know that. Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: Definitely in the 90s. But this is why for me it was harder to come out as a Republican than gay. I gotta be honest with you because I well I never really came out because I never really had to again you're gonna get what you get and also to bring up a point in schools in like in your age bracket, you guys should be worrying about buying a house when you're older. You guys should be worrying about like other things. They make it a point for you guys to worry about these things and make this a point to work. You know what I mean? And it just doesn't make sense because it has nothing to do with anything. So long story short, yeah, it was hard to come out as Republican.
Gino Falco: Yeah, yeah, I see that a lot. I get that, so I mean, why do you think that the gay demographic so heavily identifies with the Democrats?
Danielspeaksup: When you make it a point to bring up somebody's identity politics, that's all it's going to be. So when someone goes out and says that trans right are human rights, well, what does that mean? Let's break that down. That's not something that we should just be shouting from the rooftop, because if they're in the military, I don't want to pay for that. But then a caveat is, That's so much separate than so much sexuality. Sexuality is so normal and it's so, it's a point to say, you know what, if you're gay, you're gay, that's it. You know what I mean? But when you have Hillary Clinton saying, ⁓ let's stand with the gays, let's have Pride Month, let's have this. Pride Month is just not what it used to be. Pride Month used to start out and be like a month that everybody would get together and nobody could say their sexuality to anybody. was like, don't ask, don't tell. Now, everybody just.
Gino Falco: Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: It's definitely not for someone under 21. I didn't even want to go. I still don't want to go and The Democrats hold on to that because that's their base. That's who they can count on. That's who they can
Gino Falco: Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: you know, especially coming up in the midterms this year, that's who they're pandering to. So when you see people like, you know, me or like a Jake or like everybody, everybody, you know, when we talk about these things, we're serious about them because we don't want to be on the, you know, this is something that's said all the time. We don't want to be on the Democrat plantation anymore. Okay. I don't vote because, and it is what it is and you'll, you'll learn it. And listen, I don't want to vote because Hillary Clinton is
Gino Falco: ⁓ really?
Danielspeaksup: saying or Kamala Harris is going to pride events and wearing a rainbow jacket. I don't want to vote for you because that need to tell me what you're going to do for everybody. And guess what? The American flag that stands for all of us. It doesn't stand for some of us. It's all of us. OK. So there should be no pride flags in schools and government buildings and nothing. It's just about the American flag. That's it. That's it.
Gino Falco: Yeah. Yeah, so I also I don't know if this is a maybe a stretch or whatever, but do you think that maybe the Democrat Party pandering to the gay demographic is more of politics and not actually caring?
Danielspeaksup: 1000 percent. So you're so wise for your age and that's what I'm saying. The thing about it is is when you string people, Donald Trump is going to tell you what he says and he's going to tell you what he means and he's not going to put any fluff on it. So when he's saying that it's you know and he will say tonight at the the State of the Union I'm sure we're to hear it a million times you know I mean like I'm telling you it's going to be a great speech and we're going to hear it transgender for everybody and this one over here because guess what?
Gino Falco: I'm loving it.
Danielspeaksup: When we, Republicans are out at the ballot, we care about what's money is going in our pockets, what taxes are being taken out of our paychecks. We care about where our paychecks are going. So where our taxes are going, because we know we got to pay taxes, but where are they going? Are they going to the illegal immigrants that 20 million came over during the Biden administration? That's what we care about. We don't care about that. And when I ask people, hey, I woke up today.
Gino Falco: Yeah, just asking questions, you know?
Danielspeaksup: I am a man in America that just so happens to put on makeup. I don't have any rights stripped away from me. I don't know if you can tell me what rights were stripped away from me. But when you say that, that's when you're all of sudden a fascist. That's when we hear that word. We haven't heard that word until this year, I guess. But you know, it is what it is. Mm-hmm.
Gino Falco: It's no. I hate that. That's such a generalizing statement. It's so weird. It's almost like it's become something more than an actual fascist or like when they call you a racist. It's more than that. It's almost just because you disagree with them. I really think it just comes down to being logical and I hate that. And I love that about your channel because you're not afraid to ask those questions and it's just logic. So I want to take a turn. ⁓ to the right, with your experience as a gay Republican, how can you dispel the notion that the right is intolerant and we're not welcoming to anybody?
Danielspeaksup: So here's the thing. Given everything that I just said, I do think Republicans in the right have a little bit of work to do when it comes to the, I want to say this so lightly because I'll also say something that's contradicting this, the empathy piece. Because sometimes what happens is we say things, and I said it before, Donald Trump will say something without clarifying something. So when he says, ⁓ Well, the Russia-Ukraine war would never would have happened under my administration. I'm going to get it done in one day. What he really means is he's going to get it done quicker than any other president can. He doesn't literally mean one day. So the empathy part is we are looked at like when, prime example, when Kid Rock saw that Dylan Mulvaney did an ad for Bud Light. But Lay is, you know, it's a beer company for usually the type of demographic that Kid Rock is. And then he took his shotgun and he shot the beer cans. That's a little bit, I know what he meant. We know what he meant. But the American people don't know what they mean. So going into the, and again, I'll talk about the midterms a lot because we have a lot, we have a lot to work on this year. Going into the midterms, I think we have to do something better about explaining ourselves. Does that make sense?
Gino Falco: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Danielspeaksup: because that's why we see people say radical right or radical left because the left sometimes literally is radical. Us, we're just logical.
Gino Falco: ⁓ it's every day. Every day.
Danielspeaksup: Every day, every day. honestly, what they say is what they mean. Listen to them. Same thing that Gavin Newscum. mean, when he was on the little stage and he was talking about, you know, as an SAT score of 960, listen to what he meant. Listen to what he meant. Us, we're just talking about common sense here. We're talking logic. And I really couldn't say that. And I know that a lot of people these days are kind of going in the middle. And that's OK. And I would say learn from each part and then pick the part you want to go with.
Gino Falco: Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: I'm always gonna go with logic, but we have a hard time with that empathy piece and we have a hard time explaining ourselves sometimes.
Gino Falco: Yeah, so obviously I guess that's positive criticism. ⁓ What is, in general, what is your biggest criticism or the biggest thing that we can work on as a movement?
Danielspeaksup: Well, I think there's a part of, don't want to hear, so I watch everything that the Republicans do. I watch everything that the left does, but I specifically watch everything that Donald Trump does. I have the White House on YouTube, I have the notifications that come up, I have everything. When they start a live, I hear him say the same thing over and over again, and I'm like, I get it though. Do you know what I mean?
Gino Falco: Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: So I think our message going into the midterms is let's not, okay, give up on the SAVE Act, because I feel like, again, that's very, very common sense. I don't want to hear about men and women's sports anymore. I want you to put legislation forth and call it a day. I don't want to hear that you got $18 trillion in investment, because guess what? It's here, it's good. the first president to ever do it, I need you to keep just keep the conversation fresh because I feel like we do one thing and then we celebrate it and then we're celebrating it for months and then we're like the left is getting bored now I'm getting bored and I'm like okay what do we do what's next you know and I know that Nationwide speaking, I know that Donald Trump plays chess, not checkers. So I know that he's on like the 10th step of the year. I think he's already in October. So you know what I mean? So but our messaging has to be clear to the American people of why we're doing something. So somebody should have came out and I'm talking somebody a very big stature and say to Chuck Schumer, listen, the SAVE Act is not Jim Crow 2.0. We've learned what Jim Crow 2.0 or we learned what Jim Crow was. That's not what this is. Our messaging, have to be very clear.
Gino Falco: I'm telling you about it. Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: about because going around saying wins all the time, the American people are feeling that their bills are still piling up, that the economy is not exactly where it should be. But when you're out there saying you got $18 trillion investment, like, the hell, where's that money? You know what I mean? So messaging.
Gino Falco: Yeah, so like, down rhetoric?
Danielspeaksup: Yes, but it has to be clear. It has to be clear. It has to be digestible for the entirety of America. It can't just be, we got this, we got that, and that's great because now we're losing the voters on our prime performance. We're pro-life. There's so much more things than $18 trillion in investment. That's what the federal government is doing. I'm not seeing any more messaging other than this affordability scam that everybody's talking about. When he came in, we saw things go down right away. You need to give it a minute. And I think Donald Trump had a little bit more. And the Republican Party, I'll say it for Speaker Johnson too, because I watch his things too. He does like a press conference almost once a week, every day almost. Teach the people what tariffs are. Don't just tell us that you're getting this $150 billion in tariffs. Don't just tell us that because now you got Dean Withers on Twitter saying that we should get a refund check when before he was against it because it's Donald Trump. So our messaging has to be clear, very clear.
Gino Falco: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and I totally get that. So, to you, in general, what is the most important issue that, as a nation, we face today?
Danielspeaksup: There's so many, but. ⁓
Gino Falco: You can go into a few if you want.
Danielspeaksup: That's all I have is a few. ⁓ I think, and I say this very lightly, but I also say this to be very genuine with your view as my view as everybody. We just need to bring back American pride. Do understand? So when you do that, and yesterday we saw Cash Patel partying it up with the Olympic people. Guess what? I like that he did that. You know why?
Gino Falco: I loved that. It was amazing.
Danielspeaksup: Exactly because we're we're celebrating our country again What's the matter with celebrating our country when you go to these countries and you go to India and you go to all these places? They have all this culture. We have American culture, too Okay, and now if we're put it in a broader sense We should, and I say this in a lot of my videos, we should make America normal again. Make America normal because guess what? It's normal to love your country. It's normal to want the best for your economy. It's normal to fly an American flag out on your, you know. ⁓ patio. It's normal for these things for you to care about being pro-life. Not just saying that you're pro-abortion just because you want everybody to do what they want ever. It's okay to say we have borders. It's okay. And this is what I'm saying about like and especially the younger crowd. mean you know listen in school it's okay to ask questions. It's okay to be the opposition.
Gino Falco: mean, that's what school's for.
Danielspeaksup: That's exactly, exactly. I get messages all the time from people that they're in high school, they're in college, and they're saying they can't ask questions because they're teachers of this. We have lost the plot when it comes to having an actual conversation. Charlie Kirk did it best. He let people come up to the microphone and. pretty much say what they want. And when we stop talking, things go violent. So the biggest threat to our nation today is when people actually hate our nation. I could go into the economy. I could go into everything else. Put a blanket statement on that. Just love your country. It's OK to love your country. what's the one Instagram? It's cool to love America. It really is. It really is.
Gino Falco: ⁓ I love that. Yes, I love that. I feel like we've kind of like lost that as a nation. mean, I personally have seen that even after 2020 and just in general, like over my years, I know there are not many just yet, but we'll get there. ⁓ And I feel like I've seen the American flag kind of disappear. I know for ⁓ and I kind of want your opinion on this. I know at least in my school and where I'm around, I see more pride flags than American flags. Can you what do think about that?
Danielspeaksup: So here's the thing. When it goes into that kind of subject, that becomes the kind of conversation I want to have and ask the question of, America is not perfect, right? We have a past. We have things that went left. We have things that maybe didn't work out for everybody. I say, let's not forget about our history, but in 2026, there is not one person that can look at me and say, I can't do this in America, or I can't do that. It might take you years. It might take you decades, maybe. But you're able to do it because you're free enough to do it. If we are in North Korea, you can't do these certain things. You can't do these things in the Burlaks apps in Iraq. You can't do these. Do you know? And for me, the flag issue, it comes down to this. Was there a point in American history where gay people were, I hate this word, but oppressed? Yes. Was there a point in American history before 1964 that before a long time before that, that black people were oppressed? Absolutely. Are they oppressed today in 2026? The answer is no. So when we're flying flags in school and when we're doing this, the only flag that should be actually, you know what? I'm going to turn the question around on you. What do you think about that? You're in school. You're actively in school. What do you think about that?
Gino Falco: Yeah, I don't. And again, I don't have a problem with, you know, a pride flag being displayed here and there. mean, that's personal choice. I believe that anybody who wants to fly that can do that. But I don't agree with it being in schools. I don't because I don't believe that the children in schools who are there to learn should be learning about sexuality when they can't consent to sex. That's my thing on it. And I think in general, I think we should as a whole, maybe not just about the pride flag situation, I think we should be really displaying the American flag and our love for this country a little bit more.
Danielspeaksup: 1000 % and that's what I'm saying. When you, I have American flags everywhere. I have one here, there, over there. I have one everywhere. Why? Because it represents every single one of us. Now, was there a point, now again, caveat to that, was there a point where the American flag could be looked at like, oh, you know, a little racist? Of course, of course. But people fail to realize,
Gino Falco: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.
Danielspeaksup: I can wake up tomorrow and I can start my own business and go on about my day. You can't do that in a socialist country. You cannot do that in a dictatorship. You can't do that in a communist country. You can't just wake up in China and say, I'm going to start my own tech company. Guess who's taking 99 % of your profit? The government. And so for me, if America, you're going to say that we're not perfect. I'm cool with that because I'll tell you all day. We ain't perfect. In 2026.
Gino Falco: No.
Danielspeaksup: Under Donald Trump's presidency, we're pretty dang close. We're getting better. Yeah.
Gino Falco: getting better we are getting better yeah so ⁓ I want to kind of you know take like a fun turn here where does your famous line that mm-hmm I know like where does that come from I love that line I see it everywhere I see it on all your videos where does that come from
Danielspeaksup: So I used to watch Wendy Williams and she used to do, back in the day, she used to do an after show. It used to be like hour long videos on YouTube. Sometimes they were like five minutes. But every time she would always, so she would get on the show, she would go in her little beauty suite, take off her heels, take over makeup and everything. And then she would go in like her office area and. She was so funny to me because she would just be sitting there and she would eat the weirdest things. It would be the weirdest food combination. It'd be like popcorn and hot sauce and then popcorn and macadamia nuts on it. And all she would say before she was like done a sentence when she was being like shady a little bit, would go, mm-hmm. And I just took it right from her because I was like, that's, I love her.
Gino Falco: love that. That's also awesome. I can't, love that so much. mean, that's like the, it is.
Danielspeaksup: But it's the perfect way to end a conversation, by the way. If you're ever in a conversation and you don't want to have the conversation anymore, just do that and they're over it.
Gino Falco: It is. mean, I think that's like the first thing I actually remembered about you and it was just so awesome. So, ⁓ overall, really, I know we're dealing with a lot right now in our country. And even when the within this movement, what is, you know, giving you hope still, because I know there's still a lot to be hopeful about what kind of what gives you hope.
Danielspeaksup: So for me, I gotta tell you, people like you and people like the content creators that I see, and they're young, they're my age, they're your age, we're seeing so many different ages, seeing, you say what you want, but Turning Point USA was a big contributor to that, and it's a big contributor to high schools and colleges and things. What gives me hope is getting back, again, it's cool to love America, and I feel like we're getting to, we're getting to a stage where we're almost there. We're almost there to where people will just say, you know, we're in America. We're one nation under God. And it's just, it's the best thing that we can see. And honestly, what I, I know that we're seeing a lot on social media right now with the ICE things and the school walkouts and the things. That's such a minute kind of movement. It really is. Because again, and I'm going to blame it on us for a second. Republicans are not taking a second to really get people to understand what ICE is doing. I don't think we should be showing warrants and things, because that's not their job to do, one or two of them they should, because we should really explain to the American people what exactly we're here to do as people who, again, love this country and want to see us thrive and want to see us, you want to see you own a home, me own a home. Like the American dream, bring it back, right? It gives me hope that people like you and like ⁓ who's the other one? There's just so many young people are following the conservative movement and going against the grain. not all of us, listen, not all you young people came from families that were conservative. I get it. I know it. But we're seeing the light and we're seeing, you know what? It's not as bad. And we're not the boogiemans that everybody thinks we are. We're not sitting here.
Gino Falco: ⁓ yeah.
Danielspeaksup: taking everybody's money like they say we are. We're not sitting here taking away rights like they say we are. And it gives me hope that people now understand today to look for context over what you're seeing in the media. Because when you do that, you'll understand certain aspects of why things are the way that they are and where we want to take them as Republicans. And it's not scary. And that's what I wanted to, you know, listen. Here's the thing that I, you my advice for you, if I may, take back any kind of rhetoric that you can in your schools. Have the conversations. I don't know how you do now, but have the conversation. Politics, I hate when people say, well, we can't talk about politics because it's this, this, this, it's divisive, and this, and this, and this. What we're seeing these days is tonight at the State of the Union, Democrats aren't going to be there. A lot of Democrats are not going to be there. That's not.
Gino Falco: Yeah, go ahead. So crazy.
Danielspeaksup: It's so crazy because that's not democracy and that's not the democracy that the left talks about. This is called we don't want to put up with something so we're not going to do something. You have a right not to be there. Don't get me wrong. It looks better for your constituents to be there. So my advice for you and any young person that even has any kind of political dream at all is to have the conversations. They're not scary. They shouldn't divide us. They should bring us together. They're not scary to have.
Gino Falco: Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: Talk to your teachers. Talk to your guidance counselors. Talk to somebody that, you know what, they're doing an ICE walkout. I'm not going to be a part of that. I'm actually going to do a counter protest. It's our American right to do that. And when we, and again, something that Charlie Kirk said, when we stop talking, everything becomes violent. Don't let that be your generation. And I know you won't, but just saying.
Gino Falco: Yeah. I'm trying, you know, I'm trying my best. I think we have a lot of hope. I think we do. ⁓ Daniel, I just want to thank you again for doing this. I thought we had an amazing conversation and I would love to have you on maybe again in the near future if you we have an issue that I would like to talk to you about. But I just want to thank you again for doing this.
Danielspeaksup: Yeah. Thank you so much for inviting me again and again. Keep up the great work. Stay wise. Stay you know stay educated. I know you will.
Danielspeaksup: Thank you for inviting me. I really admire that you're this young and this wise. This is great. This is great to say.
Gino Falco: Thank you. I really appreciate that. first off, tell me a little bit about yourself, like who you are and what you do.
Danielspeaksup: Well, I born and raised in Philly, you know how we are. you know, politics was never my vibe. I was never into politics until about 2020. And I back in the day, I used to do acting classes. I did makeup classes. I did all the things. I never got into politics. That's why, you know, I urge everybody to learn as much as they can. Because for me, if I would have listened to all my teachers back in the day, it would have been great. But I never listened. I was bad in school. And for me, I made one video in last year in 25 right before. Charlie Kirk was assassinated and you know it was pretty much around illegal immigration and for me that was never a voting stance for me even when Hillary was running so I voted for Hillary Clinton in my first election I was a liberal back then and for me it was just because they were telling us what we wanted to hear you know what I mean so when I started when I was 18 my first election it was 2016 the big year that everything popped off and that's when I started to really wake up and start to feel the motion you know but I've always was creative I was creative. I never really did anything like this, you know what I mean? That's why my content is so streamlined to me because I never really, I'm not gonna give you the big words, I'm not gonna sit here with a microphone and do, it's not me. We're gonna talk like we're, you know, we're gonna talk, you know? So I was red-pilled in 2020 and ever since then, 2025 happened and then everything popped off from there.
Gino Falco: That's awesome. ultimately, I know you kind of got into this, but why did you really decide to speak up and build this platform?
Danielspeaksup: Number one, okay, here's the thing. When I was in school, we never really talked about politics. We talked about, well, Republicans like this and Democrats like this, and that's it, right? But they always, everybody in school was always to the left of everything, right? So that's all I knew. My family, weren't like... politics driven, like my grandfather used to do things in like the CDCs and all the civics that he was in, but we never really got political. So because one day I was on the way to work and it was like 8 a.m. and I was watching TikTok as one does, I was scrolling and I followed all beauty people. And there was one in particular and he made a video about how his family was being kidnapped by ICE. And I says, and this is by the time I didn't really know. a lot about it, but what I did know is that he was lying. And I was like, this person has millions and millions of followers. It's Dowsman Dosa. I don't know if anybody knows him, millions and millions of followers and you are actively lying to them. Caveat to that is it's me following them, it's younger people following them, it's all age groups following them. these people have the wherewithal to shape people's minds. So I was like, you know what? I was outside of where I worked. videoed it. But at that point, I worked for a certain makeup company so I couldn't really talk about anything. I had to make a whole separate Instagram and a whole
Gino Falco: Yeah, yeah.
Danielspeaksup: separate TikTok everything. ⁓ And it was illegal immigration. said, you know, the one thing I don't want you to is to ever lie. You can, ⁓ we see it in the mainstream media and legacy media that they're going to ⁓ fabricate stories. They're going to lie. ⁓ And ⁓ you know what I mean? So like,
Gino Falco: Yeah. Tell me about it.
Danielspeaksup: I had to go digging. like, are they really kidnapping? Like I thought so. was like, are they really kidnapped? They can't be true. Turns out he was lying and his video got taken down. That was the first video I made ever since then. It was just up from there.
Gino Falco: So you talked a lot about immigration, is that why you really switched up and became red-pilled?
Danielspeaksup: No, absolutely not even a little bit. The 2020 when we were when we were in COVID and we were in quarantine, I would I at this point in 2020 I voted for Trump but I didn't I wasn't into it like I was. ⁓ But
Gino Falco: Really? Tell me about it.
Danielspeaksup: Every day he would hold a press conference. Every day. It was around three or four o'clock. And every day I was sat. Sat. was, you know, I would go to ACME, come home, go write to Trump's. He just made so much sense to me. And then, of course, I would watch Candace Owen. She was like my first person that I kind of because she lived in Philly at one point, I think.
Gino Falco: Yeah. ⁓ really? I didn't know that.
Danielspeaksup: Yeah, she was in Philly at one point, and then I think she was in Washington at one point. I don't know, but she was like the first person I watched. And then of course, Charlie came along, and then Glenn Beck and all the people. But I never really took it to heart. But my main point was the economy. In 2020, I thought it was a joke that everybody was like, well, it's our constitutional right not to wear a And actually, they were going against all of our constitutional rights. They really were. And.
Gino Falco: ⁓ I... It's crazy.
Danielspeaksup: My nieces are around your age and I couldn't even imagine being in school at that point because you're masking everybody and they really were going against our constitution. It was really true. But the first thing I realized was the economy was so much better in 2017, 2018, 2019. That economy was just.
Gino Falco: Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: chef's kiss and it was all President Trump. I gotta tell you. I gotta tell you. So that was really it. But really I never we talked about illegal immigration like me. I remember me and my brother having a conversation about it but I never really it's not that I didn't care. It's just I didn't think it was that much of an issue kind of like how the left is today. I didn't think we should have open borders but I think I was more like just let him be here who cares. But now I'm like
Gino Falco: Yeah, it was.
Danielspeaksup: little bit. Pump the brakes a little bit. ⁓
Gino Falco: Yeah, I mean, that's great. So you host also the Coffee Talk and Common Sense podcast. Tell me a little bit about that.
Danielspeaksup: So for me, what I would do in my videos, I would just make like one minute clip, two minute clip videos, and everybody be like, what are you talking about? And I'm like, if you didn't get it, then you're never going to get it. But then I was like, you know what? I have a bad time explaining things. So the main point of my Coffee Talk and Common Sense podcast is just to explain what I mean sometimes in my videos, because I'll just say something. then people, like the other day I posted a video. It was about a different subject. And everybody thought I was talking about Erica Kirk. I was like, she didn't even cross my mind when I was making this video. And I said it in the podcast. I was like, ⁓ that makes sense. So that's the main point around my podcast, because I'm like, I just have to explain myself a little bit more. And that's the form to do it. That's it.
Gino Falco: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I get that, yeah. So do you think, I mean in that sense, do you think that short-form content can be a little misleading about somebody's points or, you know, their character?
Danielspeaksup: 1000 percent and we've seen it during the whole Charlie Kirk We've seen it. We've seen everybody take his words, twist them, and then just run with them the way that they want to. This is what we saw. And, you know, I remember one quote that he said about black women. if he really watched the clip, it almost had nothing to do with black women at all. It was just a point of saying DEI is bad because of this. If he would have said it on a podcast, maybe... No, because you know what? People like to clip things anyway. So you know what?
Gino Falco: Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: I think right now we're seeing the media run with what they want to run with, you have a point that short form content is like a little misleading most of the time.
Gino Falco: Yeah. Okay, I got that. So obviously, being a gay conservative, how have you kind of been treated by the LGB community, if it's been any different?
Danielspeaksup: I remember very vividly, I forget if it was 2017, it was definitely before COVID and it was definitely before I was red-pilled, but I posted on Snapchat, it was something about, you know, Hillary running and then something happened to her, she was on the breakfast club and she was talking about having hot sauce in her bag. And I said to Snapchat, and this was like my thousand friends that I had on there, and I was just kind of like. that she's literally pandering to you people. All of my people said you're you're a traitor. You're you know this and you know identity politics. They try to like pin it on me. You're going against your sexuality and this. And I'm like I didn't even say anything about myself. I didn't say anything. I don't make that a point for myself because you're just it is what it is and you're going to get what you get. But like all of my friends almost all of them.
Gino Falco: Yeah. I love that.
Danielspeaksup: And it was on Facebook too, because we had everybody on every, deleted me, unfollowed me, and they were okay by the way. And this is why I think we shouldn't even, I don't like that the left puts identity politics in front of everything because.
Gino Falco: Really? Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: I don't want to talk about it and nobody else wants to talk about it, but it's a point of conversation because they make it such a point. So when someone is telling me that I'm a traitor because I vote for Donald Trump, who, by the way, has the first gay cabinet member, the first president, and also if we think about really going into presidency, not why they're in presidency, going into presidency, he was the first president who approved a gay marriage.
Gino Falco: Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: So when we think of the. Yep, so going into presidency, so Barack Obama, of course, that whole thing with the Obergefell, everything that happened with him, the gay marriage. But that was why he was in presidency. I'm talking going into president all the debates that they used to have. It was well, marriages between a man and a woman. And I'm like, this is Hillary. This is Barack. This is everybody. Probably. Probably right before 2008, 2007.
Gino Falco: Really? I actually didn't know that. Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: Definitely in the 90s. But this is why for me it was harder to come out as a Republican than gay. I gotta be honest with you because I well I never really came out because I never really had to again you're gonna get what you get and also to bring up a point in schools in like in your age bracket, you guys should be worrying about buying a house when you're older. You guys should be worrying about like other things. They make it a point for you guys to worry about these things and make this a point to work. You know what I mean? And it just doesn't make sense because it has nothing to do with anything. So long story short, yeah, it was hard to come out as Republican.
Gino Falco: Yeah, yeah, I see that a lot. I get that, so I mean, why do you think that the gay demographic so heavily identifies with the Democrats?
Danielspeaksup: When you make it a point to bring up somebody's identity politics, that's all it's going to be. So when someone goes out and says that trans right are human rights, well, what does that mean? Let's break that down. That's not something that we should just be shouting from the rooftop, because if they're in the military, I don't want to pay for that. But then a caveat is, That's so much separate than so much sexuality. Sexuality is so normal and it's so, it's a point to say, you know what, if you're gay, you're gay, that's it. You know what I mean? But when you have Hillary Clinton saying, ⁓ let's stand with the gays, let's have Pride Month, let's have this. Pride Month is just not what it used to be. Pride Month used to start out and be like a month that everybody would get together and nobody could say their sexuality to anybody. was like, don't ask, don't tell. Now, everybody just.
Gino Falco: Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: It's definitely not for someone under 21. I didn't even want to go. I still don't want to go and The Democrats hold on to that because that's their base. That's who they can count on. That's who they can
Gino Falco: Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: you know, especially coming up in the midterms this year, that's who they're pandering to. So when you see people like, you know, me or like a Jake or like everybody, everybody, you know, when we talk about these things, we're serious about them because we don't want to be on the, you know, this is something that's said all the time. We don't want to be on the Democrat plantation anymore. Okay. I don't vote because, and it is what it is and you'll, you'll learn it. And listen, I don't want to vote because Hillary Clinton is
Gino Falco: ⁓ really?
Danielspeaksup: saying or Kamala Harris is going to pride events and wearing a rainbow jacket. I don't want to vote for you because that need to tell me what you're going to do for everybody. And guess what? The American flag that stands for all of us. It doesn't stand for some of us. It's all of us. OK. So there should be no pride flags in schools and government buildings and nothing. It's just about the American flag. That's it. That's it.
Gino Falco: Yeah. Yeah, so I also I don't know if this is a maybe a stretch or whatever, but do you think that maybe the Democrat Party pandering to the gay demographic is more of politics and not actually caring?
Danielspeaksup: 1000 percent. So you're so wise for your age and that's what I'm saying. The thing about it is is when you string people, Donald Trump is going to tell you what he says and he's going to tell you what he means and he's not going to put any fluff on it. So when he's saying that it's you know and he will say tonight at the the State of the Union I'm sure we're to hear it a million times you know I mean like I'm telling you it's going to be a great speech and we're going to hear it transgender for everybody and this one over here because guess what?
Gino Falco: I'm loving it.
Danielspeaksup: When we, Republicans are out at the ballot, we care about what's money is going in our pockets, what taxes are being taken out of our paychecks. We care about where our paychecks are going. So where our taxes are going, because we know we got to pay taxes, but where are they going? Are they going to the illegal immigrants that 20 million came over during the Biden administration? That's what we care about. We don't care about that. And when I ask people, hey, I woke up today.
Gino Falco: Yeah, just asking questions, you know?
Danielspeaksup: I am a man in America that just so happens to put on makeup. I don't have any rights stripped away from me. I don't know if you can tell me what rights were stripped away from me. But when you say that, that's when you're all of sudden a fascist. That's when we hear that word. We haven't heard that word until this year, I guess. But you know, it is what it is. Mm-hmm.
Gino Falco: It's no. I hate that. That's such a generalizing statement. It's so weird. It's almost like it's become something more than an actual fascist or like when they call you a racist. It's more than that. It's almost just because you disagree with them. I really think it just comes down to being logical and I hate that. And I love that about your channel because you're not afraid to ask those questions and it's just logic. So I want to take a turn. ⁓ to the right, with your experience as a gay Republican, how can you dispel the notion that the right is intolerant and we're not welcoming to anybody?
Danielspeaksup: So here's the thing. Given everything that I just said, I do think Republicans in the right have a little bit of work to do when it comes to the, I want to say this so lightly because I'll also say something that's contradicting this, the empathy piece. Because sometimes what happens is we say things, and I said it before, Donald Trump will say something without clarifying something. So when he says, ⁓ Well, the Russia-Ukraine war would never would have happened under my administration. I'm going to get it done in one day. What he really means is he's going to get it done quicker than any other president can. He doesn't literally mean one day. So the empathy part is we are looked at like when, prime example, when Kid Rock saw that Dylan Mulvaney did an ad for Bud Light. But Lay is, you know, it's a beer company for usually the type of demographic that Kid Rock is. And then he took his shotgun and he shot the beer cans. That's a little bit, I know what he meant. We know what he meant. But the American people don't know what they mean. So going into the, and again, I'll talk about the midterms a lot because we have a lot, we have a lot to work on this year. Going into the midterms, I think we have to do something better about explaining ourselves. Does that make sense?
Gino Falco: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Danielspeaksup: because that's why we see people say radical right or radical left because the left sometimes literally is radical. Us, we're just logical.
Gino Falco: ⁓ it's every day. Every day.
Danielspeaksup: Every day, every day. honestly, what they say is what they mean. Listen to them. Same thing that Gavin Newscum. mean, when he was on the little stage and he was talking about, you know, as an SAT score of 960, listen to what he meant. Listen to what he meant. Us, we're just talking about common sense here. We're talking logic. And I really couldn't say that. And I know that a lot of people these days are kind of going in the middle. And that's OK. And I would say learn from each part and then pick the part you want to go with.
Gino Falco: Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: I'm always gonna go with logic, but we have a hard time with that empathy piece and we have a hard time explaining ourselves sometimes.
Gino Falco: Yeah, so obviously I guess that's positive criticism. ⁓ What is, in general, what is your biggest criticism or the biggest thing that we can work on as a movement?
Danielspeaksup: Well, I think there's a part of, don't want to hear, so I watch everything that the Republicans do. I watch everything that the left does, but I specifically watch everything that Donald Trump does. I have the White House on YouTube, I have the notifications that come up, I have everything. When they start a live, I hear him say the same thing over and over again, and I'm like, I get it though. Do you know what I mean?
Gino Falco: Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: So I think our message going into the midterms is let's not, okay, give up on the SAVE Act, because I feel like, again, that's very, very common sense. I don't want to hear about men and women's sports anymore. I want you to put legislation forth and call it a day. I don't want to hear that you got $18 trillion in investment, because guess what? It's here, it's good. the first president to ever do it, I need you to keep just keep the conversation fresh because I feel like we do one thing and then we celebrate it and then we're celebrating it for months and then we're like the left is getting bored now I'm getting bored and I'm like okay what do we do what's next you know and I know that Nationwide speaking, I know that Donald Trump plays chess, not checkers. So I know that he's on like the 10th step of the year. I think he's already in October. So you know what I mean? So but our messaging has to be clear to the American people of why we're doing something. So somebody should have came out and I'm talking somebody a very big stature and say to Chuck Schumer, listen, the SAVE Act is not Jim Crow 2.0. We've learned what Jim Crow 2.0 or we learned what Jim Crow was. That's not what this is. Our messaging, have to be very clear.
Gino Falco: I'm telling you about it. Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: about because going around saying wins all the time, the American people are feeling that their bills are still piling up, that the economy is not exactly where it should be. But when you're out there saying you got $18 trillion investment, like, the hell, where's that money? You know what I mean? So messaging.
Gino Falco: Yeah, so like, down rhetoric?
Danielspeaksup: Yes, but it has to be clear. It has to be clear. It has to be digestible for the entirety of America. It can't just be, we got this, we got that, and that's great because now we're losing the voters on our prime performance. We're pro-life. There's so much more things than $18 trillion in investment. That's what the federal government is doing. I'm not seeing any more messaging other than this affordability scam that everybody's talking about. When he came in, we saw things go down right away. You need to give it a minute. And I think Donald Trump had a little bit more. And the Republican Party, I'll say it for Speaker Johnson too, because I watch his things too. He does like a press conference almost once a week, every day almost. Teach the people what tariffs are. Don't just tell us that you're getting this $150 billion in tariffs. Don't just tell us that because now you got Dean Withers on Twitter saying that we should get a refund check when before he was against it because it's Donald Trump. So our messaging has to be clear, very clear.
Gino Falco: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and I totally get that. So, to you, in general, what is the most important issue that, as a nation, we face today?
Danielspeaksup: There's so many, but. ⁓
Gino Falco: You can go into a few if you want.
Danielspeaksup: That's all I have is a few. ⁓ I think, and I say this very lightly, but I also say this to be very genuine with your view as my view as everybody. We just need to bring back American pride. Do understand? So when you do that, and yesterday we saw Cash Patel partying it up with the Olympic people. Guess what? I like that he did that. You know why?
Gino Falco: I loved that. It was amazing.
Danielspeaksup: Exactly because we're we're celebrating our country again What's the matter with celebrating our country when you go to these countries and you go to India and you go to all these places? They have all this culture. We have American culture, too Okay, and now if we're put it in a broader sense We should, and I say this in a lot of my videos, we should make America normal again. Make America normal because guess what? It's normal to love your country. It's normal to want the best for your economy. It's normal to fly an American flag out on your, you know. ⁓ patio. It's normal for these things for you to care about being pro-life. Not just saying that you're pro-abortion just because you want everybody to do what they want ever. It's okay to say we have borders. It's okay. And this is what I'm saying about like and especially the younger crowd. mean you know listen in school it's okay to ask questions. It's okay to be the opposition.
Gino Falco: mean, that's what school's for.
Danielspeaksup: That's exactly, exactly. I get messages all the time from people that they're in high school, they're in college, and they're saying they can't ask questions because they're teachers of this. We have lost the plot when it comes to having an actual conversation. Charlie Kirk did it best. He let people come up to the microphone and. pretty much say what they want. And when we stop talking, things go violent. So the biggest threat to our nation today is when people actually hate our nation. I could go into the economy. I could go into everything else. Put a blanket statement on that. Just love your country. It's OK to love your country. what's the one Instagram? It's cool to love America. It really is. It really is.
Gino Falco: ⁓ I love that. Yes, I love that. I feel like we've kind of like lost that as a nation. mean, I personally have seen that even after 2020 and just in general, like over my years, I know there are not many just yet, but we'll get there. ⁓ And I feel like I've seen the American flag kind of disappear. I know for ⁓ and I kind of want your opinion on this. I know at least in my school and where I'm around, I see more pride flags than American flags. Can you what do think about that?
Danielspeaksup: So here's the thing. When it goes into that kind of subject, that becomes the kind of conversation I want to have and ask the question of, America is not perfect, right? We have a past. We have things that went left. We have things that maybe didn't work out for everybody. I say, let's not forget about our history, but in 2026, there is not one person that can look at me and say, I can't do this in America, or I can't do that. It might take you years. It might take you decades, maybe. But you're able to do it because you're free enough to do it. If we are in North Korea, you can't do these certain things. You can't do these things in the Burlaks apps in Iraq. You can't do these. Do you know? And for me, the flag issue, it comes down to this. Was there a point in American history where gay people were, I hate this word, but oppressed? Yes. Was there a point in American history before 1964 that before a long time before that, that black people were oppressed? Absolutely. Are they oppressed today in 2026? The answer is no. So when we're flying flags in school and when we're doing this, the only flag that should be actually, you know what? I'm going to turn the question around on you. What do you think about that? You're in school. You're actively in school. What do you think about that?
Gino Falco: Yeah, I don't. And again, I don't have a problem with, you know, a pride flag being displayed here and there. mean, that's personal choice. I believe that anybody who wants to fly that can do that. But I don't agree with it being in schools. I don't because I don't believe that the children in schools who are there to learn should be learning about sexuality when they can't consent to sex. That's my thing on it. And I think in general, I think we should as a whole, maybe not just about the pride flag situation, I think we should be really displaying the American flag and our love for this country a little bit more.
Danielspeaksup: 1000 % and that's what I'm saying. When you, I have American flags everywhere. I have one here, there, over there. I have one everywhere. Why? Because it represents every single one of us. Now, was there a point, now again, caveat to that, was there a point where the American flag could be looked at like, oh, you know, a little racist? Of course, of course. But people fail to realize,
Gino Falco: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.
Danielspeaksup: I can wake up tomorrow and I can start my own business and go on about my day. You can't do that in a socialist country. You cannot do that in a dictatorship. You can't do that in a communist country. You can't just wake up in China and say, I'm going to start my own tech company. Guess who's taking 99 % of your profit? The government. And so for me, if America, you're going to say that we're not perfect. I'm cool with that because I'll tell you all day. We ain't perfect. In 2026.
Gino Falco: No.
Danielspeaksup: Under Donald Trump's presidency, we're pretty dang close. We're getting better. Yeah.
Gino Falco: getting better we are getting better yeah so ⁓ I want to kind of you know take like a fun turn here where does your famous line that mm-hmm I know like where does that come from I love that line I see it everywhere I see it on all your videos where does that come from
Danielspeaksup: So I used to watch Wendy Williams and she used to do, back in the day, she used to do an after show. It used to be like hour long videos on YouTube. Sometimes they were like five minutes. But every time she would always, so she would get on the show, she would go in her little beauty suite, take off her heels, take over makeup and everything. And then she would go in like her office area and. She was so funny to me because she would just be sitting there and she would eat the weirdest things. It would be the weirdest food combination. It'd be like popcorn and hot sauce and then popcorn and macadamia nuts on it. And all she would say before she was like done a sentence when she was being like shady a little bit, would go, mm-hmm. And I just took it right from her because I was like, that's, I love her.
Gino Falco: love that. That's also awesome. I can't, love that so much. mean, that's like the, it is.
Danielspeaksup: But it's the perfect way to end a conversation, by the way. If you're ever in a conversation and you don't want to have the conversation anymore, just do that and they're over it.
Gino Falco: It is. mean, I think that's like the first thing I actually remembered about you and it was just so awesome. So, ⁓ overall, really, I know we're dealing with a lot right now in our country. And even when the within this movement, what is, you know, giving you hope still, because I know there's still a lot to be hopeful about what kind of what gives you hope.
Danielspeaksup: So for me, I gotta tell you, people like you and people like the content creators that I see, and they're young, they're my age, they're your age, we're seeing so many different ages, seeing, you say what you want, but Turning Point USA was a big contributor to that, and it's a big contributor to high schools and colleges and things. What gives me hope is getting back, again, it's cool to love America, and I feel like we're getting to, we're getting to a stage where we're almost there. We're almost there to where people will just say, you know, we're in America. We're one nation under God. And it's just, it's the best thing that we can see. And honestly, what I, I know that we're seeing a lot on social media right now with the ICE things and the school walkouts and the things. That's such a minute kind of movement. It really is. Because again, and I'm going to blame it on us for a second. Republicans are not taking a second to really get people to understand what ICE is doing. I don't think we should be showing warrants and things, because that's not their job to do, one or two of them they should, because we should really explain to the American people what exactly we're here to do as people who, again, love this country and want to see us thrive and want to see us, you want to see you own a home, me own a home. Like the American dream, bring it back, right? It gives me hope that people like you and like ⁓ who's the other one? There's just so many young people are following the conservative movement and going against the grain. not all of us, listen, not all you young people came from families that were conservative. I get it. I know it. But we're seeing the light and we're seeing, you know what? It's not as bad. And we're not the boogiemans that everybody thinks we are. We're not sitting here.
Gino Falco: ⁓ yeah.
Danielspeaksup: taking everybody's money like they say we are. We're not sitting here taking away rights like they say we are. And it gives me hope that people now understand today to look for context over what you're seeing in the media. Because when you do that, you'll understand certain aspects of why things are the way that they are and where we want to take them as Republicans. And it's not scary. And that's what I wanted to, you know, listen. Here's the thing that I, you my advice for you, if I may, take back any kind of rhetoric that you can in your schools. Have the conversations. I don't know how you do now, but have the conversation. Politics, I hate when people say, well, we can't talk about politics because it's this, this, this, it's divisive, and this, and this, and this. What we're seeing these days is tonight at the State of the Union, Democrats aren't going to be there. A lot of Democrats are not going to be there. That's not.
Gino Falco: Yeah, go ahead. So crazy.
Danielspeaksup: It's so crazy because that's not democracy and that's not the democracy that the left talks about. This is called we don't want to put up with something so we're not going to do something. You have a right not to be there. Don't get me wrong. It looks better for your constituents to be there. So my advice for you and any young person that even has any kind of political dream at all is to have the conversations. They're not scary. They shouldn't divide us. They should bring us together. They're not scary to have.
Gino Falco: Yeah.
Danielspeaksup: Talk to your teachers. Talk to your guidance counselors. Talk to somebody that, you know what, they're doing an ICE walkout. I'm not going to be a part of that. I'm actually going to do a counter protest. It's our American right to do that. And when we, and again, something that Charlie Kirk said, when we stop talking, everything becomes violent. Don't let that be your generation. And I know you won't, but just saying.
Gino Falco: Yeah. I'm trying, you know, I'm trying my best. I think we have a lot of hope. I think we do. ⁓ Daniel, I just want to thank you again for doing this. I thought we had an amazing conversation and I would love to have you on maybe again in the near future if you we have an issue that I would like to talk to you about. But I just want to thank you again for doing this.
Danielspeaksup: Yeah. Thank you so much for inviting me again and again. Keep up the great work. Stay wise. Stay you know stay educated. I know you will.
