Bulwark Takes - Inside the Sloppiest Brawl in TPUSA History

Episode Date: August 26, 2025

Tim Miller, Sam Stein, and Will Sommer go play-by-play, blow-by-blow, grab-by-grab in the MAGA fight between Bryson Gray and Misfit Patriot at the Turning Point USA conference in Phoenix.

Hey guys, me, Sam Stein, managing out of the bulwark here with Tim Miller and Will Summer. I'm not going to name the stupid name that Tim has decided he wants to give us. The trio. I guess it's disgusting. Oh, good golly. All right. We're not going to do that. We're here to talk about, it's not Will's latest because I was gone last week.

I was on vacation. I have to think about this stuff. But I came back and I saw this false flag about a brawl that took place at TPUSA. I think it was 2004, December, 24, so almost a year ago. No, not really. Eight months ago. Eight months ago. And Will, for some reason, decided he wanted to write about it.

Well, eight months later, let's write about this. The consequences have reverberated throughout TPSA is the newspaper, I think. But, yeah, in light of the, you know, people watched them over our previous videos about the sort of the sexual incident that went down in the TPSA lobby. You can be more explicit. What kind of incident? You know, famously, it was the fingering incident, you know. From which we have our name, yes. And so a lot of people have said, you know, what goes down at these TPSA conventions?

And then someone highlighted this famous brawl. And so I thought we could maybe learn some combat moves here from this fight video. Okay. So let's set this up. Who are these people? Why are they fighting? Sure. So the people fighting here, number one is this Christian rapper, kind of a MAGA rapper named

Bryson Gray. I think one of his song is like Trump is. is your president. Donald Trump is your president. And if you like it or not. It's that kind of stuff. But he's really popular. And then we have kind of a lesser influencer, a guy named Misfit Patriot, who's kind of like the Tim Miller of this scene and that he's like somewhat, he's somewhat, you know, he's he's, he's, he's, he's, he's a Trump supporter unlike Tim, but he has like kind of shreds of consciousness for these for a right winger.

And he, he's, he's kind of a flattering to Tim. I don't mean it that way. But he's sometimes he's like, he's like, wait a minute. Should we be paling around with Andrew Tate? Things like that. And then people are like, are we like, we hate him? And so that's where they're coming from. Okay.

Now, Tim, you're here. I didn't know that he was the me of the MAGA universe. He says he's hated by all the right people, uncancellable. I'm just looking at his bio right now. Bryce and Gray, Sam, I'm surprised you haven't you haven't heard of him. I mean, we've got a gun-toting Bible thumper, 766,000 streams. Trump is your president, aforementioned, 9 million. 2A for second amendment these are songs yeah 1.9 million i said what i said only 74 000 streams

for that um i should say the uh tim's bulwur podcast songs playlist that i put at the end of my songs does have more followers than bryson but that's okay um i'm gonna sample some of the music i'm sure it's unbelievable tim you were at this deep usa i was at it i missed this fight and i was in an altercation of our own a long time listeners of youtube will know that that i i i have went to an event with a couple of people in the Bannon War Room orbit because of our strange frenemy status. And we were at a bar and Carrie Lake accosted me and kept telling me I'm a piece of shit over and over again. I don't know whether she was drinking. I will say her eyes did not look like they were looking at me straight on. I don't know. That could be anything. And then Laura

Lumer de-escalated and then subsequently got into a fight with Milo. So that was like that was my most recent one year the year before that you know i was i was live with bannon and and someone accosted me up from the crowd so you know usually people are pretty nice there though as far as like wanting to you know they like sparring with me so i've gone a few years in a row and and unfortunately i miss this it looks like i've been trying to spot it when we put play the video and they're in like a dark parking lot i try to stay around lights when i'm at the t p u.s a conference you know i'm not really kind of you know uh traversing dark alleyways right better safe than sorry you never know

Carrie Lake might pop out at me I'm sorry I'm not making you happy The other stuff is like I don't know why you're touching me So I guess I just miss this one But I like to watch Before we get to the altercation Can you talk a little bit Tim about what the vibe is like at these events Because it seems like a total fucking freak show

Where people are just getting fingered in the lobby In fights breaking out But I don't know I mean like the three of us fit in like this age gap There's this huge age gap at the TPP USA events where it's like it's 24 year olds that are there to like party and like you know get laid do their things get hammered um you know then there's like mega influence strivers that are there you see a decent like a lot of people walking around like videoing themselves you know you see a lot of that happening

that's you know also people in their 20s and then a lot of gray hairs a lot of blue hairs people who then just watch the speeches you know and then the only people who are kind of middle-aged or like Charlie Kirk aged out of this yet or like the people speaking on stage. So, you know, I don't know what's happening with the gray hairs at night. I think they're probably just having a nice little dinner there in Phoenix and heading home to the hotel to get their energy back for another big day of speeches from Michael Knowles and his ilk. But the kids party. And I should also say, to be fair, the kids are bifurcated also between a partying group and, well, maybe there might be some overlap here. but also there's like a religious revival aspect so at the end of the night you know some of the

tp osa folks go to a bar and and get into fights and finger and others stay in the venue for like some religious songs and uplift and what do we think that what is this just like a drinking crowd are they doing like any drugs what do we nobody offered be any drugs um while i was there so i can't speak to it one way or the other maybe we'll know yeah again i wouldn't say specifically TPSA. I don't have examples of that. I mean, I know this crowd has perhaps had other events. I mean, famously a few years ago in D.C.

There was like sort of allegations of cocaine with the proud boys at a bar and things like that, but not this conference specifically. It sounds like what Stephen Glass made up for CPAC. Yeah. I should just say the crowd is very different from Seaback. I haven't gone to Seaback for many

many years, even as hate it. It's like the women are hotter. I can just as a gay man, I can just say that. Like, And the guys, you know, like there's far, there's some of like the nerdy blue blazer briefcase khaki guys. Like some of those guys still are around. You know, we haven't gone totally extinct. The most of the Alex P. Keating and crowd. But a lot of like fuck boys, you know, muscle dudes.

Dudes look like they're on the, on the RFK regimen of, you know, no beef tallow, but yes, HDH, you know, that kind of health regimen. You see a decent amount of that there. Yeah. All right. Well, that brings us a nice segue to this fight because I guess when you're like. Yes, I was going to say. Yes, beef tallow and HGSA. No to the food dies.

Sorry, no food dies. Yes, beef tall and HCHH. I just, we want to get that right. Facts are important. Because that brings us to this fight. And I'm like, no, it's a fight. I mean, I'm not going to deny that it's a fight. Have you ever been in a fight?

Have you ever thrown a punch? I threw a one punch once, but I'm not. I'm a pacifist, man. I'm not a fighter. Did it land? The one punch you did it? yeah it did it did i was drunk i was in my i was in a cab as actually threw the punch of my best friend's face because he was acting ridiculous um and it landed in that that was it but i'm

i'm a past well have you ever thought i don't like that oh not since elementary school middle school maybe and what about you yeah i mean i had my crew was pretty motley in high school and college and so there were quite a few times like I threw like app punch and then kind of ducting covered while my friends like fought you know like a decent like a decent like a throwing a punch and then dropping to the ground and pretending like I'd been hit while I watched my buddies getting fights so there's a fair amount of that happening yeah yeah I got smoked I got smoked in the face couple times like did my father my father famously said one of his favorite best lines ever was he's like it's in college he's like I'm surprised you haven't been punched more this assessment

based on my behavior as he was well and that's fair carrie lake almost did it um all right one real good one i get i took well let's get to this so we'll set us up here so and then we'll press play so yeah so we're in phoenix as you said it's the t p u s a convention it's the evening everyone has come out of the daily wire party ben shapiro's operation we're feeling good uh bryson gray is talking to uh jimmy levy who's like a maga singer with with the voice of an angel but he sings about boycotting Target. Target is Target

and then Misfit Patriot comes up to him. And again, you know, Misfit Patriot is kind of on the come up at this point. People don't really know who he is. And I guess basically, Bryson is a hardcore Christian guy and he had called one of Misfit Patriots buddies who's gay an abomination. And he said,

do you think my friend is an abomination? I said, bivocally, he is an abomination. It's just that simple. And he said, well, you're a c. And so Misfit Patriot, it just kind of sucker slaps him he will admit later he's like i was really drunk and i sucker slapped him off the bar stool and so then he runs away and there are these twitter dms about like we need to meet and fight or i'm going to press criminal charges and so that's how they end up in this gravel lot do we know what this lot is just outside the well basically basically bryson claimed he was

trying to set up a real fight at a boxing gym but then misswood patriot sort of dallyed and all the gyms closed and so then he's like i have the perfect place and then he showed up and like seemingly didn't really have a place like he was like well let's just walk a couple blocks how about there yeah i think if i'm not mistaken so when you're at the convention center in phoenix you kind of walk down um past like the train tracks and there's kind of an industrial area and then there's a bar area and i'm pretty sure this is kind of in that like train track industrial area between the convention center and the bars a ph a phoenix local can correct us in the comments if that's wrong but that i think that's that's what i'm looking to see all right we've teased this enough let's

press play okay so the guy on the right misfit patriot well that's a miss that's two misses so the guy in the right the guy in the right is misfit patriot well well now the guy the white guy is misfit patriot and the black guy is bryson and do we know who the guy in the white shirt is kind of hovering around like he's the referee i've spent a lot of effort trying to identify him i think he has a ponytail um but no i have okay it is just thank you for your effort though will thank you for effort. So far we've seen two whiffs by Misfiths Patriot. Okay, here we got. Let's press part. Here we go.

Hurry. A lot of circling. This guy in the right shirt. All right. There you. Stop. That's a key right there. Key right there. So he tries to pick him up and toss him. And it goes terribly wrong, basically. Yeah, he thinks he's going to do like, like, I don't know why he's so gassed up. I mean, it's not going to go in that well for it for either of them.

But then he's like, I'm going to like flip this guy over my head. And he just does it. And he slams. It goes so fast, but he slams his head into the gravel. And then he's just fucked. Can I get another look at that? Can I get a closer look at that? Circling.

Oh, my bull. Oh, he had them. See, he tries to. And then he finds out. Yep. All right, we can press possible. And so then they start going at it. I press pos-

Flailing now. It's like a fish down there. Rewind like a couple seconds because he lands a few blows. Yeah, right here. You're going to see a big blow. Right. Boom. Right there.

And he's trying to hold him down another blow. Oh, my bull! And another blow. That's a fucking street blade. Oh, you hit him in the balls? Did he hit him in the balls? I didn't see it. I think there were a lot of accusations.

Yeah, he calls him a fussy. I think he hits him in the balls. I think he hits him in the balls. Oh, my balls. No, on my balls. Did he grab his balls? Oh, wait. Where is that left hand?

Look at his left hand. Where's the left hand? Yeah. Is that what he did? I think that he's claiming. That's... The issue of the ball grab would come. come up a lot in the post-fight debate

here. I was like, hurt because I got taken the ball. So I think you guys are on to something. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think I think, I don't know whether it's it looks intentional. I'm ruling that as a ball tap. No, he did, because he grabs his balls after the balls are grabbed. Yeah, right there.

You hit the, that's the spot. Oh my God. Okay, and then I believe he calls him a faggot on the way out there because Oh, my phone! Hey, hold on my phone. You f*** the fucking street. Yeah, Tim.

So we're not to do a lot of bleeping. We're not to do a lot of bleeping there because otherwise we're going to get demonetized. And we want to make sure that we get our ad revenue out of this. Very nutritious content. We're providing the people. All right. So do they fight again or is that it? So then, yeah, then the next day, Bryson releases sort of the post-fight press conference video.

And he says, you know, I think we're going to have another showdown at day three of the conference. was crying for a rematch last night on a Twitter space. He said, I got to get a rematch or whatever. So I called him USA. I was like, listen, if I see him, I'm going to have to beat him up instantly because I know he's trying to attack me. So. And then ultimately, they don't fight. But the fight does continue on Twitter. And so there's a lot of popping up to say, you ran like a chump. I won. You know, I won. It's interesting because the runner, so the runner is Bryson there? Sorry, I lost track. Yeah. So basically, Bryson sort of. It looks like Bryson had won. And then he ran. So he got his.

balls grabbed it it sort of seems like he was like I could plausibly declare victory at this point and maybe the tables are turning so I'm just going to fight's over got it okay well that's really something I love a good fight video I'm gonna tell you guys there's a fight at the preseason Saints Jaguars game uh here in new Orleans and one of the gentlemen gets panced and I showed this video to my daughter which is maybe not great parenting but whatever we were watching it together this weekend and she loved it I mean she must have watched it eight times an NFL player pants to another one no no no it's a fan fight as a fan fight in the stands of a preseason game between two of the worst teams in the NFL

so that's like that's real it's pretty equivalent i think to like kind of low level mega influencers fighting this isn't this isn't ben Shapiro versus charlie Kirk in the appellate um all right are they going to be back this year or no well one of them definitely will not be um yeah so this is sort of the aftermath in june tpsa you have to imagine from their point of view this doesn't look too good And so they put out a, well, I mean, look, I mean, it doesn't get some attention. There's a lot of fucking crazy stuff happening here. It sounds like a good time.

If I was a writing influencer, I'd be like, I got to go to this thing. And so basically they banned Bryson from future TPSA events. They haven't banned Misfit patriot. Well, one wonders. I mean, certainly he's also said some I think unpleasant things about gay people that may have also played into it. And so. Oh, yeah. Charlie Kirk really draws a hard line.

any homophobic comments, okay? You read the article today. The Republican comment, and you are not welcome back at the U.S.A. You read that piece in the Times. The Republican Party is the party of A-list gay people these days. Yeah. So there you go. Maybe these guys should have been doing the Bobby and Pete Challenge, push-up, the pull-ups and the push-ups.

That'll be this year's events. Tim, you're going to be this year? I am. Oh, yeah. Right for you. All right. Get ready for the comments. Just kind of hang out in the gravel pit.

Wait for something to happen. I just, you know, I'm like biving out. You know, just going to see and out seeing what happens. Like, you know, it's important to be among the MAGA people. I mean, who the hell knows? You know, like one of the, like, Misfit Patriot might end up, like, running the CFTC. Sometimes, you know? So, like, it's important to get to know these people.

Fairly, very true. All right. Well, thank you for your service documenting this stuff, as always. Tim, thank you for contributions. Appreciate it. Thank you guys for watching us, as always. Bye.