WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:00.650 Hello. 00:00:00.850 --> 00:00:03.670 Hello, Yvonne. How you doing? 00:00:04.490 --> 00:00:05.250 Hurry up. 00:00:06.750 --> 00:00:07.550 Are we? 00:00:07.670 --> 00:00:11.550 I do it. I'm single dad right now. 00:00:12.030 --> 00:00:12.730 So we got to. 00:00:15.390 --> 00:00:18.390 Well, Juana is in Washington State. 00:00:18.690 --> 00:00:20.470 Yeah, you mentioned she was coming. 00:00:20.490 --> 00:00:28.190 Right. Yeah, she's four hours away driving. But I mean, she is closer to you than to me. 00:00:28.650 --> 00:00:30.130 Nice. Nice, nice. 00:00:30.530 --> 00:00:33.450 But not that you could go and pop in to say hi now. 00:00:33.530 --> 00:00:37.590 Right, right. Just a little too far. You know, four hours, I could do that. 00:00:37.690 --> 00:00:38.850 You know, we're... Yeah. 00:00:38.950 --> 00:00:42.450 I mean, you go eight hours round trip seems very inconvenient, I must say. 00:00:46.010 --> 00:00:49.610 Indeed. Okay, so. All politics? 00:00:50.290 --> 00:00:55.110 Or butt first, then all politics? You want to do a butt first or you just jump right in? 00:00:55.130 --> 00:00:58.030 A minor butt first because I... I'm a minor, but first that I've got, 00:00:58.070 --> 00:01:00.930 then we got to jump in because I don't have time. I can't. 00:01:00.930 --> 00:01:05.150 I understand. Yeah, I understand. Okay, here we go. 00:01:09.770 --> 00:01:10.490 Wait a second. 00:01:11.270 --> 00:01:12.470 No, it's not right. 00:01:12.570 --> 00:01:15.450 I know I did it wrong. Hold on. 00:01:15.790 --> 00:01:23.010 I forgot to stick this on the live thing. Here we go. Well, we'll rewind it. Try again. Here we go. 00:01:49.810 --> 00:01:55.070 Welcome to Curmudgeon's Corner for Saturday, July 27th. 00:01:56.250 --> 00:02:02.050 It's 2024. It is just after 220 UTC as we're starting to record this. 00:02:02.110 --> 00:02:03.390 I'm Sam Andreevon Boas here. 00:02:04.310 --> 00:02:06.530 Hello. Hello. Hello. 00:02:07.370 --> 00:02:11.710 And absolutely nothing happened this last week. Nothing at all. 00:02:12.010 --> 00:02:14.350 Nothing. It was totally uneventful. 00:02:15.030 --> 00:02:17.150 Slowest news week in forever. 00:02:17.770 --> 00:02:25.050 Ever. Forever. I mean, you know, we, I mean, the Olympics. The Olympics. Amazing. oh yes. 00:02:25.050 --> 00:02:27.430 Olympics they they they started. 00:02:27.430 --> 00:02:33.890 Yes then they add like a barely ceremony and celine dion was singing look i 00:02:33.890 --> 00:02:38.030 will say that that's momentous look i i you know i've always loved celine dion 00:02:38.030 --> 00:02:43.930 dating back to before she was even famous i i once like i i glimpsed her because 00:02:43.930 --> 00:02:46.350 i didn't have the time to hear her sing she was a, 00:02:47.480 --> 00:02:52.180 Well, I saw her in concert later, but the first time I saw her was in 92 in Seville, Spain. 00:02:52.440 --> 00:02:57.680 Okay. She was there at the World, that's when they, when World Expos were a thing. 00:02:57.880 --> 00:02:59.420 Yeah. Because now nobody cares. 00:02:59.620 --> 00:02:59.980 Yeah. 00:03:01.160 --> 00:03:06.240 I recently, like within the last couple months, listened to an old episode of 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:10.740 this podcast where we talked about going to the Louisville World's Fair. 00:03:11.300 --> 00:03:11.980 Yeah, yeah. 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:14.600 Like, it was Louisville, right? With the Sunsphere. 00:03:14.620 --> 00:03:15.320 No, no, Knoxville. 00:03:15.600 --> 00:03:16.040 Knoxville. 00:03:16.040 --> 00:03:18.420 I Knoxville close enough close. 00:03:18.420 --> 00:03:19.800 Enough it was same part. 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:22.720 Of that was one of those things not a thing okay it was close 00:03:22.720 --> 00:03:26.920 yeah you were close at least okay so Knoxville so that was like when you know 00:03:26.920 --> 00:03:33.460 when those were a thing and she was there and the guy who was hosting me who 00:03:33.460 --> 00:03:37.520 unfortunately is somebody that's passed away he was that old he was about our 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:42.600 age unfortunately he had type 1 One diabetes and some other complications. 00:03:42.660 --> 00:03:47.900 And he wound up dying young, way too young. But anyway, I know. 00:03:48.460 --> 00:03:53.160 But he was he worked for he worked for a radio station covering the events for 00:03:53.160 --> 00:03:55.460 some major radio station in Spain. 00:03:55.640 --> 00:04:00.260 OK. And so he told me that they got, you know, she got to to meet her and talk 00:04:00.260 --> 00:04:04.260 to her and stuff and, you know, said how wonderful she was and whatnot. 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:08.440 And I was mentioning how I liked her music and whatnot and so forth and so on. 00:04:08.440 --> 00:04:13.360 And I will say one thing that, yes, Celine Dion is a Francophone. 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:18.360 She is, you know, French-Canadian. Now, I don't recall that her parents were from France. 00:04:18.580 --> 00:04:22.520 And now she sings in French very well. And it's how she started singing. 00:04:22.660 --> 00:04:29.980 I was just thinking, well, I mean, OK, it is. I mean, it's the Olympics in France. 00:04:30.080 --> 00:04:37.820 You've got OK. Yes, I know Celine sings in French. french but i mean i i did 00:04:37.820 --> 00:04:43.940 it didn't make that much sense to me other than the fact that she spoke french okay they liked they. 00:04:43.940 --> 00:04:46.020 Liked her that's all you need. 00:04:46.020 --> 00:04:48.940 I guess but you know like over at 00:04:48.940 --> 00:04:51.720 the i was watching this thing about the olympics in 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:54.580 london where they had james bond right yeah 00:04:54.580 --> 00:04:57.340 i remember you know do this intro and they had 00:04:57.340 --> 00:05:00.560 the with the queen and the queen the parachute and 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:03.420 everything listen listen that still has to be 00:05:03.420 --> 00:05:06.580 that that that opening ceremony look those clips 00:05:06.580 --> 00:05:09.460 i mean they also had mr bean yeah you know with 00:05:09.460 --> 00:05:12.500 the orchestra which is hilarious i i have 00:05:12.500 --> 00:05:19.360 to say that almost all those opening ceremonies are boring and the british managed 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:26.020 to make it really be cool i saw some of this it was i mean there are there are 00:05:26.020 --> 00:05:29.900 big events but it's like yeah okay now Now, but, 00:05:29.980 --> 00:05:34.560 but a lot of people, and I will consider because I just watched this, 00:05:35.490 --> 00:05:40.830 Celine Dion documentary recently, which is showing how the, the incredible difficulty 00:05:40.830 --> 00:05:44.770 she's having with her health and the fact that it's precluded her from singing. 00:05:45.030 --> 00:05:51.410 Okay. And it's, it's cost her quite severe ill health effects for a long time, 00:05:51.490 --> 00:05:53.450 which she was hiding masking. 00:05:53.690 --> 00:05:58.310 She was going in some concerts where there were tracks that were like recorded 00:05:58.310 --> 00:06:02.210 in order to cover for when she couldn't sing anymore at those tones, 00:06:02.270 --> 00:06:06.410 but she went and she sang in live in public, like but she hadn't done in years 00:06:06.410 --> 00:06:11.150 and so everybody quite a lot of people are very very emotional about that um. 00:06:11.150 --> 00:06:12.430 Nice so. 00:06:12.430 --> 00:06:14.290 Yeah so that's the big story for the week i think we're done. 00:06:14.290 --> 00:06:17.370 Oh yeah we can wrap it up so yeah uh and 00:06:17.370 --> 00:06:20.470 now just to be clear no no we're not we're doing 00:06:20.470 --> 00:06:23.610 we are doing our little but first thing even though like 00:06:23.610 --> 00:06:29.310 there was stuff this week that was pretty big and then it was yeah yeah and 00:06:29.310 --> 00:06:34.790 then uh and then we're just gonna like shift out of that into u.s politics because 00:06:34.790 --> 00:06:40.750 obviously we had a few things happen this week just just a few and. 00:06:40.750 --> 00:06:44.130 Wait i mean i i i mean are you sure i. 00:06:44.130 --> 00:06:49.470 Don't know like i you know i slept through most of the week so i don't know 00:06:49.470 --> 00:06:55.090 no but yes yes we we had yeah well you. 00:06:55.090 --> 00:06:56.210 Guys all. 00:06:56.210 --> 00:06:58.430 Know you know joe biden got. 00:06:58.430 --> 00:06:59.350 Out kamala. 00:06:59.350 --> 00:07:05.690 Harris got in we got all kinds of stuff whoa hit thing we had all kinds of stuff 00:07:05.690 --> 00:07:09.330 and uh yeah and and that's it 00:07:09.330 --> 00:07:14.410 but uh you you said you had one but first thing what was it the olympics. 00:07:14.410 --> 00:07:18.130 Or do you got something the only thing now the only thing i was going to mention 00:07:18.130 --> 00:07:21.550 is that i had to get i i this week i, 00:07:22.230 --> 00:07:28.110 my airpods died out of the blue now i will say that i had noticed since i got 00:07:28.110 --> 00:07:32.730 this new pair of airpods which i had to get because unfortunately i left my 00:07:32.730 --> 00:07:36.450 old airpods in my pants and yeah i never leave stuff in my pants i remember. 00:07:36.450 --> 00:07:37.290 You saying this. 00:07:37.290 --> 00:07:41.390 Yeah that's not a common thing i'm like look so 00:07:41.390 --> 00:07:47.330 he we we went and i had to get a new i had to get new airpods and so but i noticed 00:07:47.330 --> 00:07:53.610 that the sound out of these airpods was not as good as the old ones okay okay 00:07:53.610 --> 00:07:57.370 they just they just Just were not. I was always like. 00:07:57.410 --> 00:07:59.330 You've got a dud pair of AirPods or something. 00:07:59.950 --> 00:08:02.330 Well, and then all of a sudden this week, 00:08:03.150 --> 00:08:06.710 I'm on a conference call, and one of them refused to connect to the computer. 00:08:07.190 --> 00:08:07.670 Okay. 00:08:07.710 --> 00:08:11.190 And then all of a sudden, neither of them, the next day, neither of them would 00:08:11.190 --> 00:08:15.110 connect to any device at all. So I... 00:08:15.110 --> 00:08:19.310 Did you buy these AirPods off, like, some random guy in the parking lot that was. 00:08:19.330 --> 00:08:21.710 Like, selling them out of the back of his truck? Yeah, yeah. 00:08:22.050 --> 00:08:26.110 Yeah, yeah. That's exactly what I normally, as I usually do. 00:08:26.270 --> 00:08:29.110 So, no. And so I contact Apple support. 00:08:29.350 --> 00:08:32.650 And I explain what's going on, and they say uh 00:08:32.650 --> 00:08:36.230 yeah try this try this no okay well 00:08:36.230 --> 00:08:39.070 we can make you a genius appointment at the apple store and like that 00:08:39.070 --> 00:08:41.830 was like at 11 there was one at 12 30 so i'm 00:08:41.830 --> 00:08:44.490 like okay fine you know i'm you know apple store is like 00:08:44.490 --> 00:08:48.410 very close to my household over there like during lunch you know try 00:08:48.410 --> 00:08:51.410 this and the first thing they tried is that first they 00:08:51.410 --> 00:08:54.410 they ran some diagnostic which managed to coax them 00:08:54.410 --> 00:08:57.250 back to connecting to stuff because they would they were 00:08:57.250 --> 00:09:00.430 refusing to connect to any device okay but then 00:09:00.430 --> 00:09:03.350 i put them back on and since i was there and i noticed 00:09:03.350 --> 00:09:06.150 this thing about the sound i put them back on i'm like damn it 00:09:06.150 --> 00:09:08.910 you know what listen the sound is not coming out right of 00:09:08.910 --> 00:09:11.970 these airpods okay there's just something not 00:09:11.970 --> 00:09:14.770 right and i'm like well we got this audio diagnostic tool in 00:09:14.770 --> 00:09:17.770 the back i'm gonna go take apparently so they've got this little do that 00:09:17.770 --> 00:09:21.790 apparently where they can put them in okay and they will check checks 00:09:21.790 --> 00:09:24.510 the sound and stuff off and whatever see if they're working or not that i 00:09:24.510 --> 00:09:27.490 find that really damn cool you know it's not 00:09:27.490 --> 00:09:30.350 like because let me tell 00:09:30.350 --> 00:09:35.470 you you got broken earphones of any other kind nobody is doing that to check 00:09:35.470 --> 00:09:39.610 that they're broken okay all right that's not happening okay so the fact that 00:09:39.610 --> 00:09:43.070 they've got this little thing to test the audio so they went to the back the 00:09:43.070 --> 00:09:45.910 the audio test all of a sudden i see them come out with some boxes i'm like 00:09:45.910 --> 00:09:49.330 what's going on oh your airpods are definitely the the 00:09:49.410 --> 00:09:52.610 speakers are defective. They're not working properly. 00:09:52.910 --> 00:09:58.730 So here's, so they gave me a new set of AirPods, you know? 00:09:58.770 --> 00:10:04.090 So that was, so I had, the other ones were just defective. I mean, 00:10:04.110 --> 00:10:06.210 so I had to get new AirPods. 00:10:06.690 --> 00:10:12.750 And then my work computer indicated that my battery is, and I had noticed the 00:10:12.750 --> 00:10:17.570 battery life on, it's already three years, is fading, okay? Okay, 00:10:17.650 --> 00:10:19.290 the battery performance is no good. 00:10:19.950 --> 00:10:22.670 Well, I will tell you something I found out pleasantly surprised. 00:10:22.790 --> 00:10:24.990 So we have at our company AppleCare Enterprise. 00:10:25.530 --> 00:10:30.270 Okay, and apparently they're going to send somebody to my house to replace the battery on the laptop. 00:10:30.490 --> 00:10:31.170 Oh, nice. 00:10:31.710 --> 00:10:34.530 I mean, they're actually going to send somebody. I could have taken it to a 00:10:34.530 --> 00:10:36.090 store and said, oh, no, no, we can send somebody there. 00:10:36.590 --> 00:10:41.670 I'm like, really? Yeah, well, you just need to make sure they have a clean table 00:10:41.670 --> 00:10:43.550 this size for them to work in. 00:10:43.630 --> 00:10:46.510 And we will perform the repair on time. 00:10:47.990 --> 00:10:53.170 at your home so i was like okay so that's you don't get that. 00:10:53.170 --> 00:10:54.310 With personal apple care. 00:10:54.310 --> 00:10:56.210 No don't this is. 00:10:56.210 --> 00:10:58.550 A corporate apple care exclusive feature repair. 00:10:58.550 --> 00:11:01.590 Yes you know now there is 00:11:01.590 --> 00:11:04.730 one thing you know this type of 00:11:04.730 --> 00:11:08.030 repair to send somebody on site for a 00:11:08.030 --> 00:11:12.090 laptop i remember when i worked at hp okay that 00:11:12.090 --> 00:11:14.790 existed like in the 90s and 00:11:14.790 --> 00:11:17.930 2000s hey you were paying several thousand dollars for 00:11:17.930 --> 00:11:20.850 a laptop and if you bought extended support right 00:11:20.850 --> 00:11:23.550 and i mean today's turns is probably like you know 00:11:23.550 --> 00:11:26.730 five six thousand dollars for a damn computer you 00:11:26.730 --> 00:11:32.490 know we we used to send people to go and like do on-site repairs to send the 00:11:32.490 --> 00:11:36.230 parts and i remember that i had one that an hp one does a problem and hp would 00:11:36.230 --> 00:11:39.870 send an engineer on site they had hp engineers that would go out and fix the 00:11:39.870 --> 00:11:45.670 damn thing okay but sometime in the early 2000s all the almost every tech company did away 00:11:45.770 --> 00:11:48.630 with that shit i mean they all did away with it and so i'm 00:11:48.630 --> 00:11:51.370 like surprised that if you know we talk about 00:11:51.370 --> 00:11:54.370 things going away that this is apparently the comeback 00:11:54.370 --> 00:11:57.350 i i i'm getting my my my 00:11:57.350 --> 00:12:08.210 laptop repaired at at at home so i i was just nice yeah so now i i did i i they 00:12:08.210 --> 00:12:12.910 did suggest that i make a backup and i have this western digital drive that 00:12:12.910 --> 00:12:15.890 i've used before but i have no idea it's an old usb 2. 00:12:16.130 --> 00:12:20.290 i think it's usb i don't know what format it is it's old it's older. 00:12:20.890 --> 00:12:25.550 No it's not even slower it's refusing it will not connect either to my studio 00:12:25.550 --> 00:12:31.110 or to my and i noticed this that drive would only connect to my older laptops 00:12:31.110 --> 00:12:34.570 it will not connect to the new ones that i don't know really old. 00:12:34.570 --> 00:12:35.690 I i've got i've got. 00:12:35.690 --> 00:12:38.150 I think it is i've got seven i've. 00:12:38.150 --> 00:12:43.150 Got a my the The oldest drive I have connected to this computer right now is 00:12:43.150 --> 00:12:46.490 one I bought in July 2015 and it works fine. 00:12:47.350 --> 00:12:51.950 Well, I it's it's also a Western. No, but I have noticed that that that well, 00:12:52.030 --> 00:12:55.650 I've noticed that that drive had been finicky at connecting almost any hard 00:12:55.650 --> 00:12:58.070 drive. OK, for computer, for whatever reason. 00:12:58.150 --> 00:13:01.530 And now any and the newer and I noticed that the older ones that would connect 00:13:01.530 --> 00:13:03.250 none of the newer ones that would connect. 00:13:03.290 --> 00:13:04.450 And now apparently all of those 00:13:04.450 --> 00:13:08.030 new new equipment I got, it just won't connect. So I have to go find out. 00:13:08.150 --> 00:13:14.150 I have to go get a hard drive. I want to make up. I want to do a backup before God before I do that. 00:13:14.210 --> 00:13:17.670 So anyway, so that's I'm getting on site. And they're going to fix my... 00:13:18.170 --> 00:13:22.670 We'll see if they get here. Now, of course, I have to fly out on Tuesday and 00:13:22.670 --> 00:13:26.090 then come back Thursday. So I got to make sure I schedule it for a day then I'm here. 00:13:26.590 --> 00:13:28.070 That would probably help. 00:13:28.750 --> 00:13:29.830 That might help, yes. 00:13:30.590 --> 00:13:31.310 So, okay. 00:13:31.490 --> 00:13:34.070 Unless I can send an engineer to Puerto Rico. They might be. 00:13:34.070 --> 00:13:34.750 They probably could. 00:13:34.910 --> 00:13:38.530 I don't... Yeah, now that I'm thinking about it, it's possible. 00:13:39.190 --> 00:13:40.630 No, no, no. I want to get it done here. 00:13:41.110 --> 00:13:42.550 Okay. My turn? 00:13:43.110 --> 00:13:43.470 Yes. 00:13:43.470 --> 00:13:54.510 So as I promised last week, my movie this time is The Grapes of Wrath from 1940, 00:13:55.010 --> 00:13:58.790 which I watched on February 11th of this year. 00:13:59.690 --> 00:14:07.250 So it is based on a John Steinbeck book from 1939, which I have not read either. 00:14:07.250 --> 00:14:13.910 But bottom line is it's a movie about the Great Depression. 00:14:14.190 --> 00:14:22.230 It's people from Oklahoma who, because of the Great Dust Bowl and everything and the Depression, 00:14:22.610 --> 00:14:30.390 tried to migrate to California and the various travails that they went through. 00:14:31.990 --> 00:14:35.870 And I I'm, I'm watching this cause of the AFI list. 00:14:36.150 --> 00:14:40.730 I neglected to check where on the AFI list it was. 00:14:40.890 --> 00:14:46.250 Let me, let me tell you real quick. I'm grapes of wrath, February. 00:14:46.710 --> 00:14:50.010 It's number 21 on the grapes. 00:14:50.130 --> 00:14:50.610 Yeah. 00:14:50.990 --> 00:14:54.030 I'm, I'm, I'm getting, I'm getting near the end here. 00:14:54.130 --> 00:14:57.790 Like we're, we're, we don't have that much left on the AFI list, 00:14:57.910 --> 00:15:02.930 but yeah, it was number Number 21, and I'm going to give it a thumb sideways. 00:15:03.170 --> 00:15:07.410 I know this is like, you know, on the list of the greatest movies of all time. 00:15:07.710 --> 00:15:12.230 Shame. You uncultured twit. 00:15:12.730 --> 00:15:19.670 That's me. I mean, it was fine, but I didn't feel like it was exceptional, right? 00:15:19.810 --> 00:15:24.470 I mean, as I try to get back to, there we go. 00:15:25.190 --> 00:15:29.630 Now, let's see. The film is widely considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. 00:15:30.030 --> 00:15:34.410 It was one of the first 25 films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation 00:15:34.410 --> 00:15:40.210 as being culturally or historically or aesthetically significant. 00:15:44.730 --> 00:15:49.090 Let's see. Did it win any awards? Critical response. Yeah. 00:15:50.090 --> 00:15:53.690 People who go to pictures for the sake of seeing pictures will see a great one. 00:15:53.690 --> 00:15:59.490 possibly the best picture ever made from a so-so book these are contemporary reviews, 00:16:00.270 --> 00:16:07.610 it won it won best director best supporting actor or actress yeah and so it 00:16:07.610 --> 00:16:10.910 it won a bunch of awards you know yeah yeah. 00:16:10.910 --> 00:16:12.690 Yeah and but but you're you're. 00:16:12.690 --> 00:16:15.450 Like i'm just yeah man it well i. 00:16:15.450 --> 00:16:17.470 Haven't watched it so i i want. 00:16:17.470 --> 00:16:21.110 You know what we talked about this last week and you were you're supposed to 00:16:21.110 --> 00:16:23.990 have homework. You were supposed to watch it before we talked this week. 00:16:24.930 --> 00:16:31.010 I must admit that I have been quite busy. I, yeah. 00:16:31.470 --> 00:16:33.710 Anyway, the bottom line, I gave it a. 00:16:33.770 --> 00:16:34.530 So I failed again. 00:16:34.670 --> 00:16:38.610 I gave it a thumb sideways because it felt a little long for me. 00:16:38.650 --> 00:16:39.990 It moved a little slowly. 00:16:40.350 --> 00:16:45.870 It had, yeah, it just never really like pulled me in. 00:16:46.070 --> 00:16:52.010 It was, it was sort of interesting to see, like, you know, from a historical 00:16:52.010 --> 00:16:56.750 point of of view and from a, and I, you know, obviously it's based on a novel. 00:16:56.790 --> 00:17:02.270 It's not like nonfiction, but you know, is sort of, I haven't spent a lot of 00:17:02.270 --> 00:17:06.090 time learning about that particular part of history, 00:17:06.250 --> 00:17:10.530 the, the migration of people towards California during the great depression, 00:17:10.630 --> 00:17:15.010 because of the, all the crops were failing and it wasn't just the crops were failing. 00:17:15.050 --> 00:17:21.470 It was also like people were buying up all the farms and kicking off the small, the small landholders. 00:17:21.470 --> 00:17:27.170 and so you know it was sort of interesting from that point of view and there 00:17:27.170 --> 00:17:30.750 were a couple of interesting moments but it just didn't do anything for me i 00:17:30.750 --> 00:17:36.150 don't know and and that that's all i got i mean i mean okay. 00:17:36.150 --> 00:17:40.790 So so you basically you're an uncultured you know one of these people. 00:17:40.790 --> 00:17:46.770 Yeah i mean it was fine like that's why i'm giving it a side sideways and not 00:17:46.770 --> 00:17:49.350 a down but like Like, yeah, 00:17:49.550 --> 00:17:57.290 it's, you know, it's more interesting as a historical artifact than actually 00:17:57.290 --> 00:18:03.470 being like, oh, I am entertained by this film or I, or even like I learned from this film. 00:18:03.510 --> 00:18:06.090 It's just sort of like, oh, okay. It's a, it's a thing. 00:18:07.110 --> 00:18:08.470 Shameful. Shameful. 00:18:08.630 --> 00:18:09.030 Okay. 00:18:09.030 --> 00:18:13.470 We are a show just absolutely drenched in shape. 00:18:13.750 --> 00:18:18.650 We just shit on number 21 movie AFI. 00:18:18.710 --> 00:18:26.010 One of the top, one of the first 25 ever preserved by the United States. 00:18:26.130 --> 00:18:28.030 And basically, we just took a dump on it. 00:18:28.990 --> 00:18:33.010 That's a great show. I think that's a wrap. Okay, so we're done? 00:18:33.090 --> 00:18:35.950 Well, I'll tell you. Yes, I'll give you the preview, though. 00:18:36.050 --> 00:18:37.570 Oh, no, we're done with the show. 00:18:37.770 --> 00:18:40.590 Oh, yeah, we're done. but no no next yeah 00:18:40.590 --> 00:18:46.510 the next movie next week is number 20 on the afi list which is what is one flew 00:18:46.510 --> 00:18:52.730 over to cuckoo's nest from 1975 okay have you seen that one i think i think 00:18:52.730 --> 00:18:59.350 i have save it for next week we're going to talk about it next week okay okay, 00:18:59.910 --> 00:19:02.230 it's. 00:19:02.230 --> 00:19:03.170 Not capricorn one. 00:19:03.170 --> 00:19:09.690 No okay is that another you're a capricorn one it's a it's a bad movie right 00:19:09.690 --> 00:19:12.710 i and now i'm adding it to my stupid list it's. 00:19:12.710 --> 00:19:15.990 It's a it's it's it's not a great movie. 00:19:15.990 --> 00:19:19.350 It's not a terrible movie does it have oj yes. 00:19:19.350 --> 00:19:20.370 It does okay. 00:19:20.370 --> 00:19:21.370 So i knew something. 00:19:22.710 --> 00:19:31.030 It's the one where I think it was a fake mission to Mars that they go and they're 00:19:31.030 --> 00:19:37.450 supposed to be, yeah, they were supposed to be going and fake mission to, right, that's right. 00:19:37.810 --> 00:19:41.150 It's supposed to be the first mission to Mars. mars 00:19:41.150 --> 00:19:44.670 and apparently they right before the 00:19:44.670 --> 00:19:50.270 rocket is launched they take the crew out of the capsule because nasa have determined 00:19:50.270 --> 00:19:54.450 that they were going to die and they take him to a studio where they can fake 00:19:54.450 --> 00:19:59.570 everything and then what happens is that the heat shield on the on the capsule 00:19:59.570 --> 00:20:03.530 fails instead of arriving and it burns up and so they decide well we have to kill him. 00:20:03.530 --> 00:20:07.910 Okay well thumbs Thumbs up? Thumbs sideways? Thumbs down? 00:20:08.050 --> 00:20:11.850 I'm going to give it a thumbs sideways because it was just the, 00:20:11.950 --> 00:20:18.570 I got to say that it was pretty good up until the end of the movie where the 00:20:18.570 --> 00:20:26.350 way that it ended was so tacky that it really ruined the movie. 00:20:26.650 --> 00:20:27.290 Okay. 00:20:27.750 --> 00:20:34.670 But it actually is pretty good up until you get to the end. 00:20:35.410 --> 00:20:39.410 okay i mean i don't understand how they could have fucked up to get get almost 00:20:39.410 --> 00:20:44.010 80 percent of the movie right and then just at the edges oh we don't know how 00:20:44.010 --> 00:20:48.950 to end this we'll just figure out some idiotic way to do so okay. 00:20:48.950 --> 00:20:51.310 Shall we take our. 00:20:51.310 --> 00:20:53.390 First break yes and. 00:20:53.390 --> 00:20:57.330 Then we're just going to do politics and all the stuff associated it till the 00:20:57.330 --> 00:21:00.670 end of the show okay here here comes the break. 00:22:01.340 --> 00:22:08.900 Okay we are back so last week i actually like for once like got the podcast 00:22:08.900 --> 00:22:16.300 out on like saturday evening instead of waiting till sunday night or even monday morning and, 00:22:17.640 --> 00:22:22.600 that if i had waited we would have like i would have been calling yvonne and 00:22:22.600 --> 00:22:26.320 been like hey can we do it like a little intro to the show or whatever because 00:22:26.320 --> 00:22:30.060 of course sunday afternoon noon, Joe Biden does the, 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:32.840 I'm not running after all thing. 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:38.120 And kaboom, like everything changes. 00:22:38.940 --> 00:22:40.580 Like, so, you know. 00:22:40.580 --> 00:22:41.600 We're going to say nothing happened. 00:22:41.880 --> 00:22:45.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nothing happened. But, you know, and we talked about this, 00:22:45.840 --> 00:22:49.920 you know, we've been talking about this for the last, what was it? Three weeks. 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:54.340 It was three weeks and three days from the debate until when he made his decision, 00:22:54.440 --> 00:22:56.060 I think, or something like that. 00:22:56.900 --> 00:23:03.820 And last week, we'd said there were lots of reports that it was now a matter 00:23:03.820 --> 00:23:08.660 of when, not if, and it could come as soon as the weekend. 00:23:08.760 --> 00:23:13.780 Now, Joe Biden's people were denying that up and down, left and right when we 00:23:13.780 --> 00:23:18.100 recorded, but there was this weekend or last weekend. 00:23:18.300 --> 00:23:25.300 And there have been a number of stories about how it played out and blah, blah, blah. 00:23:26.020 --> 00:23:30.260 I think the bottom line, and then we'll talk about what happened after, 00:23:30.320 --> 00:23:35.520 but the bottom line is that it had just made, been made completely untenable. 00:23:35.600 --> 00:23:40.140 Like between like, now obviously there's the, 00:23:40.300 --> 00:23:44.380 you know, the bad performance that Biden had at the debate itself, 00:23:44.460 --> 00:23:51.780 but also just all of the three weeks of drama about this, we're just making 00:23:51.900 --> 00:23:55.100 it worse and worse and worse, like regardless of biggest. 00:23:55.160 --> 00:24:02.480 Listen, I don't know, but the, the, the drama was in large part fueled by the 00:24:02.480 --> 00:24:07.520 fact that the rest of the democratic leaders is not like they came out in strong 00:24:07.520 --> 00:24:09.140 support of Biden afterwards, 00:24:09.640 --> 00:24:14.880 because if say all the governors, all the democratic governors and, 00:24:15.780 --> 00:24:18.540 schumer pelosi and everybody came to the white 00:24:18.540 --> 00:24:21.400 house and like showed his strong show of support 00:24:21.400 --> 00:24:25.460 for him okay it it 00:24:25.460 --> 00:24:28.600 it it probably would have been snuffed out 00:24:28.600 --> 00:24:35.200 in a week now i'll say um yeah i i it would have it would have really been far 00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:40.360 far less of a reaction it would have been less of reaction all of them yeah 00:24:40.360 --> 00:24:45.820 but they all kept but they they were doing the opposite they were feeding it but let me say. 00:24:45.820 --> 00:24:49.400 They were absolutely actively feeding it. 00:24:49.460 --> 00:24:55.400 I mean, the counterpoint is if they had done that, like there was a lot of reporting 00:24:55.400 --> 00:24:59.060 and polls around and you, it's self-referential, right. 00:24:59.140 --> 00:25:03.900 But about how people were like, look, I saw him. 00:25:04.020 --> 00:25:08.760 I just don't believe you when you're defending him and you must be hiding something. 00:25:08.940 --> 00:25:13.220 And there would always, even in that scenario, I mean, we've seen enough of, 00:25:13.280 --> 00:25:17.000 you know, Joe Biden in those three weeks had a number of really good performances, 00:25:17.220 --> 00:25:20.980 but he also had a few that were just sort of, eh. 00:25:22.040 --> 00:25:29.420 And so the worry that at some point he would fall down again was always there. There was also just. 00:25:29.500 --> 00:25:30.940 He didn't, he didn't fall. 00:25:31.040 --> 00:25:34.720 I know. I thought fall down metaphorically. I know. 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:38.900 I know. Um, it's like, well, I mean, well, we've had other guys fall down. 00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:42.960 Yeah. But, you know, so the worry would always be there. 00:25:43.080 --> 00:25:48.900 And then you also had the fact that even before the debate, he was losing in 00:25:48.900 --> 00:25:54.280 the polls and he was not like, well, OK, hang on. 00:25:54.280 --> 00:26:00.080 Back up one second. In the days leading to the debate, Biden had actually started 00:26:00.080 --> 00:26:01.420 taking a lead in the national. 00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:06.720 In the national. Okay. Yes. Yeah. It had not yet reflected in critical swing 00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:10.780 states, but yes, he had taken a very narrow lead in the national polls before the debate. 00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:11.040 Yeah. 00:26:11.040 --> 00:26:13.680 And then that was all blown down by the debate. 00:26:13.900 --> 00:26:21.220 And I will say that the big strategic blunder that the Biden campaign did, 00:26:21.400 --> 00:26:28.040 okay, that created this situation was the fact that they decided to play it 00:26:28.040 --> 00:26:33.640 with Biden very conservative, where, okay, we don't want him to make a gaffe or a mistake. 00:26:33.940 --> 00:26:37.780 He is the incumbent. 00:26:38.980 --> 00:26:42.100 All the fundamentals are pretty solid in his favor. 00:26:42.760 --> 00:26:49.580 Let's not have him out there in situations Situations where he can, 00:26:49.660 --> 00:26:57.160 you know, make gaffes and mistakes that that then create certain problems. 00:26:58.290 --> 00:27:01.070 having to walk them back or whatever the heck it is. 00:27:01.070 --> 00:27:05.930 So he wasn't, he wasn't out there. He wasn't active. He wasn't like getting the attention. 00:27:06.330 --> 00:27:09.850 And all he was doing was stump speeches. And the problem with, 00:27:09.930 --> 00:27:13.590 you know, and I was looking the other day and you go back like, 00:27:14.210 --> 00:27:18.270 geez, like some of the Obama campaigns, you know, in the eighties where we were 00:27:18.270 --> 00:27:22.290 doing like say town halls, you know, we haven't, you know, I don't see any of 00:27:22.290 --> 00:27:25.790 the candidates really do that kind of like stuff. 00:27:25.790 --> 00:27:28.490 You know, Biden has definitely not done that. 00:27:28.550 --> 00:27:32.830 I didn't see any of that in like 2016 that I recall either. 00:27:33.190 --> 00:27:38.310 It's something that people backed away. And I think that the the the blunder 00:27:38.310 --> 00:27:42.550 was that by hiding him, then you fed the narrative of, well, 00:27:42.630 --> 00:27:48.110 there's got to be something wrong if you're not putting him in these situations. 00:27:48.110 --> 00:27:51.590 Well, even though he was in public and he was doing stuff or whatever, 00:27:51.770 --> 00:27:53.390 but everybody's like, you know. 00:27:53.390 --> 00:27:57.570 And that's all bullshit. And this will be relevant when we start talking about Harris. 00:27:57.730 --> 00:28:04.570 But like the thing was that even when he was doing his best, 00:28:04.750 --> 00:28:09.450 like there wasn't a lot of excitement around Joe Biden. 00:28:10.050 --> 00:28:10.950 No, no. 00:28:11.070 --> 00:28:11.570 It was just. 00:28:12.510 --> 00:28:16.330 But Sam, part of this was, look, it's a self-fulfilling problem. 00:28:16.590 --> 00:28:17.010 Yeah, no, absolutely. 00:28:17.010 --> 00:28:22.590 Look, because the problem is, okay, you had the Republicans for, 00:28:22.790 --> 00:28:25.830 I don't know, the last couple of years, 00:28:26.010 --> 00:28:34.910 astroturfing this whole thing that Biden was senile, that he was just this doddering 00:28:34.910 --> 00:28:40.350 old fool, that basically this is like Weekend at Bernie's with the presidency, okay? 00:28:40.350 --> 00:28:44.630 OK, they have been saying this over and over and over again. 00:28:44.750 --> 00:28:52.810 And the thing is that what what his campaign did in terms of that narrative was ignore it. 00:28:53.320 --> 00:28:58.260 Whereas what probably would have worked a hell of a lot better was that, 00:28:58.300 --> 00:29:01.580 you know what, even if he's out in public and he was making a mistake calling, 00:29:01.720 --> 00:29:05.300 you know, what's his name by the wrong name or whatever the fuck whatnot. 00:29:05.300 --> 00:29:09.580 Not, you know, those blunders are just, you know, those are minor, 00:29:09.700 --> 00:29:13.120 you know, compared to him answering questions from the public, 00:29:13.140 --> 00:29:16.980 like in an open forum and taking questions and doing a press conference and 00:29:16.980 --> 00:29:21.240 answering questions and showing that, you know, he's got command of the facts, 00:29:21.360 --> 00:29:25.340 even though he sometimes will make a mistake that that has to be walked back. 00:29:25.340 --> 00:29:30.080 Look, I mean, you know, it wouldn't be the first president that was in a live 00:29:30.080 --> 00:29:34.140 press conference where his staff had to go back and say, oh, 00:29:34.140 --> 00:29:36.760 no, no, no, no, no. That's not what we meant about, you know, whatever. 00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:43.100 OK, I mean, and that fear, you know, they they paralyze themselves into that. 00:29:43.280 --> 00:29:46.120 You've got the other guys doing the narrative and, you know, 00:29:46.140 --> 00:29:50.340 and then he goes out and lays a massive egg. Yeah. 00:29:50.540 --> 00:29:53.460 And on national TV. me well and and like i 00:29:53.460 --> 00:29:56.640 you know last week when we were talking about it i i was 00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:02.420 saying you know hey if they're really going to force him out like that for me 00:30:02.420 --> 00:30:06.860 to feel like totally justified that that was the right thing to do these people 00:30:06.860 --> 00:30:11.520 have to know like more than was public like and i and i've heard a couple people 00:30:11.520 --> 00:30:14.660 say like you know in their private interactions with him, 00:30:15.300 --> 00:30:19.620 he'd clearly lost a few steps i don't know but like the other thing is even 00:30:19.620 --> 00:30:22.960 that there's There's also the cold calculation that says, 00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:28.480 you know, by the time you got a couple of weeks into this, like this, 00:30:28.520 --> 00:30:33.160 there was so much damage already done that it wasn't repairable. 00:30:33.260 --> 00:30:35.220 And so, but, but. 00:30:35.220 --> 00:30:41.900 But here's the thing. We say that, right? We say that the reality is that the 00:30:41.900 --> 00:30:46.640 national polling average didn't really move that much. 00:30:47.570 --> 00:30:52.070 In terms of like, look at where it was in May to where it was now where you 00:30:52.070 --> 00:30:58.970 got Trump's shot and the RNC, which gave him a boost. 00:30:59.330 --> 00:31:06.630 In the end, from right before the debate to right before he dropped out, 00:31:06.770 --> 00:31:10.770 he lost about 4% during those three weeks. 00:31:11.470 --> 00:31:17.410 But you know i mean add all the when you're talking about that in the grand 00:31:17.410 --> 00:31:21.490 scheme of key four percent is basically the within the fucking margin of error 00:31:21.490 --> 00:31:25.670 it is but like but what people pointed out over and. 00:31:25.670 --> 00:31:31.250 Over again is that the the amount of slosh you have the number of people in 00:31:31.250 --> 00:31:35.370 the middle who are changing their minds is much smaller than it has been in 00:31:35.370 --> 00:31:42.370 previous cycles so four percent is effectively bigger because it's much harder to move the numbers. 00:31:42.370 --> 00:31:47.330 Because there's so many but sam again i go back to the fact that after it happened, 00:31:47.970 --> 00:31:53.610 instead of circling the wagon yeah yeah yeah what you had was that reaction 00:31:53.610 --> 00:31:58.290 we had the circular firing squad exactly instead of a circle in the wagons he 00:31:58.290 --> 00:32:00.870 had a circle and firing squad If you circled the wagons, 00:32:00.870 --> 00:32:03.550 you may have had like a 2% impact, okay? 00:32:03.950 --> 00:32:05.790 But you add... 00:32:06.770 --> 00:32:14.210 totally the opposite effect and everybody went and like just decided that we're going to this. 00:32:14.370 --> 00:32:16.830 Now, look, there is an important thing. 00:32:17.490 --> 00:32:24.570 Biden had, and I mean, even when he won the first time around, low enthusiasm. 00:32:24.570 --> 00:32:25.030 Oh, yeah. 00:32:25.910 --> 00:32:35.790 I mean, he won, but for whatever reason, people weren't enthusiastic about him. I I, I, I. 00:32:35.790 --> 00:32:41.970 Yeah, I, he, he, I don't know why he pulled out a squeaker winning the majority 00:32:41.970 --> 00:32:47.170 of the double haters who hated both him and Trump, but they went for Biden in the end. 00:32:47.490 --> 00:32:51.930 But there were lots and lots of people last time around who didn't like either of them. 00:32:51.990 --> 00:32:56.070 Well, the last few elections, the same thing was true of Clinton and Trump, 00:32:56.150 --> 00:33:02.170 you know, where huge numbers of people were like, I really don't want either of them. 00:33:02.390 --> 00:33:03.790 I hate both of them. 00:33:03.790 --> 00:33:06.950 I hate both of them. And, and that's been the dynamic and that, 00:33:07.090 --> 00:33:13.030 you know, and, and it, you know, it, it, it, after the debate, 00:33:13.170 --> 00:33:17.810 like it just, that just got worse, you know? 00:33:17.810 --> 00:33:20.410 And, and so you're absolutely right. 00:33:20.510 --> 00:33:25.270 The circular firing squad, if, if people had sort of defended him, 00:33:25.350 --> 00:33:30.290 I think the narrative had been growing anyway, that said, you know, 00:33:30.290 --> 00:33:33.710 there were a lot of people who didn't believe the defense. 00:33:33.790 --> 00:33:37.030 And that would have been even more after. 00:33:37.050 --> 00:33:41.410 Well, Sam, there were a lot of people that before, but it goes back to what 00:33:41.410 --> 00:33:46.650 I said about not countering the narrative in the first place and keeping them in there. 00:33:47.070 --> 00:33:52.830 Everybody, even before that, I heard it over and over, the doddering old fool, the blah, blah, blah. 00:33:52.930 --> 00:33:56.810 This narrative been going and going and going and going. 00:33:57.390 --> 00:34:02.430 And you're not doing anything to counter that. Okay. Anything significant. Okay. 00:34:02.890 --> 00:34:08.250 And so they and they let that out there where the problem was that if you're 00:34:08.250 --> 00:34:11.350 going to have that narrative and your strategies to ignore it, 00:34:11.390 --> 00:34:17.050 then if you're going to go out in public, you better hit it out of the fucking park. Right. 00:34:17.650 --> 00:34:21.710 And what he did was the opposite. Now, there's a lot of good reasons why it 00:34:21.710 --> 00:34:23.170 happened. But you know what? 00:34:23.770 --> 00:34:29.710 When when they've set that narrative and then you confirmed that for the people 00:34:29.710 --> 00:34:33.570 that believe that, then it's, you know, is a very difficult situation. 00:34:33.570 --> 00:34:39.330 And then and then the people that supposedly are supposed to be your biggest 00:34:39.330 --> 00:34:45.790 supporters basically just they they they actually were actively undermining him. 00:34:46.010 --> 00:34:53.310 Right. And, you know, to give the benefit of the doubt, they honestly felt that 00:34:53.310 --> 00:34:57.890 he couldn't do this, that he couldn't bring. 00:34:58.010 --> 00:35:01.450 I think I listen. Let me tell you something. I think that's a lot of bullshit. 00:35:01.450 --> 00:35:06.390 I think that a big part of it is, I will say, is that these guys thought that 00:35:06.390 --> 00:35:09.650 they had the opportunity to put whomever it is that they wanted, 00:35:09.810 --> 00:35:12.150 okay, instead of Biden, okay? 00:35:12.550 --> 00:35:16.390 Because none of them wanted Biden in the first place. 00:35:18.110 --> 00:35:21.530 And, and they didn't want Harris either. So let's not, let's move. 00:35:21.610 --> 00:35:24.530 And they didn't want Harris either. Okay. So let's be clear about this. 00:35:24.590 --> 00:35:28.510 They didn't want, they wanted the opportunity to fucking put wherever the hell 00:35:28.510 --> 00:35:31.270 they wanted in. That's what they wanted. 00:35:31.310 --> 00:35:35.050 So, so now let's, let's move to the next stage of this. Donald, 00:35:35.150 --> 00:35:38.470 Donald Trump. See, I'm doing it again. I'm calling Biden Trump. 00:35:39.410 --> 00:35:41.930 Every week, every week I'm doing this. 00:35:42.950 --> 00:35:47.710 Anyway, the Biden put out his announcement saying I'm out. 00:35:48.110 --> 00:35:53.950 and the immediate reaction was look he didn't endorse anybody he said that we 00:35:53.950 --> 00:35:58.730 need to have like a process whatever blah blah blah a micro. 00:35:58.730 --> 00:36:00.490 An open convention. 00:36:00.490 --> 00:36:05.350 Blah blah blah all kinds of people right after that announcement were jumping 00:36:05.350 --> 00:36:09.890 in talking about the open process talking about how we need how we need like 00:36:09.890 --> 00:36:15.070 some sort of thing convention sam people people were putting out like Like. 00:36:15.070 --> 00:36:16.370 The Slack bot was right again. 00:36:16.410 --> 00:36:21.990 Yeah. People were putting out plans about like, Hey, we're going to have a series of events. 00:36:22.170 --> 00:36:25.970 Oprah Winfrey is going to host one and we're going to do this. 00:36:25.970 --> 00:36:26.950 And we're going to do that. 00:36:27.310 --> 00:36:29.570 And Oprah Winfrey, what the fuck? 00:36:29.670 --> 00:36:29.870 Yeah. 00:36:29.930 --> 00:36:31.370 Somebody actually threw that out. 00:36:31.410 --> 00:36:33.070 Oh yeah. They, they had, they said. 00:36:33.110 --> 00:36:35.390 Joe Manchin thought he was going to be the nominee too. 00:36:35.570 --> 00:36:38.350 Somebody had put out the plan of how this would work. And there was going to 00:36:38.350 --> 00:36:41.850 be a series of five events and they listed who they wanted to be the hosts of 00:36:41.850 --> 00:36:46.350 each one of them. and Oprah Winfrey was one of them. And I forget who the others were. 00:36:46.390 --> 00:36:51.150 They were all sort of famous Democrat leaning celebrity type folks. 00:36:51.610 --> 00:36:56.150 And, you know, and they, they had this whole plan about how you were going to 00:36:56.150 --> 00:36:59.490 have a bunch of people toss their hats into ring, have some mini debates, 00:36:59.610 --> 00:37:00.950 have some events, blah, blah, blah. 00:37:01.110 --> 00:37:05.190 And then a big vote at the convention. And that was going to excite people and blah, blah, blah. 00:37:05.470 --> 00:37:08.550 And all of this conversation was going on. And then, 00:37:09.220 --> 00:37:13.320 About 15 minutes after the initial announcement, Biden comes out. 00:37:13.340 --> 00:37:16.520 I mean, literally all that shit happened in 15 minutes. 00:37:16.560 --> 00:37:21.260 Well, people were, people were already talking about that before Biden's announcement. 00:37:21.500 --> 00:37:26.860 And in that 15 minute gap, like all of the talking heads and all of the people 00:37:26.860 --> 00:37:31.540 on, you know, all the social medias and stuff were going crazy talking about, 00:37:31.620 --> 00:37:33.980 okay, well now this is, this plan has to be activated. 00:37:34.200 --> 00:37:36.980 We're going to do this and we're going to do that. and blah, blah, blah. 00:37:37.540 --> 00:37:41.860 And Harris is obviously in the mix, but there are all these other people too and blah, blah, blah. 00:37:41.980 --> 00:37:48.580 And so after that 15 minute gap, Joe Biden comes in and sends a second post 00:37:48.580 --> 00:37:51.120 out saying, I endorse Kamala Harris. 00:37:51.420 --> 00:37:54.860 I think she's wonderful. She's amazing. She needs to be the person. 00:37:55.080 --> 00:37:57.840 I forget the exact words, but it was along those lines. 00:37:58.760 --> 00:38:07.060 I give her my full-fledged endorsement and then kaboom like it seems like all 00:38:07.060 --> 00:38:12.040 of the other efforts collapsed almost immediately for the first couple hours 00:38:12.040 --> 00:38:15.840 there were still people talking a little bit but even in the first couple hours 00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:17.060 that had diminished a whole. 00:38:17.060 --> 00:38:19.900 Bunch of very important endorsements started coming. 00:38:19.900 --> 00:38:25.220 Out right it started like it started building like very very within like 15 00:38:25.220 --> 00:38:30.440 minutes of biden's endorsement you You started to get other important endorsements. 00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:33.680 And, you know, and by the time I'll tell you one. 00:38:33.760 --> 00:38:37.520 I'll tell you two people that I figured out that really love Joe Biden. 00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:38.200 OK. 00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:42.900 All right. More than just by the way, that above anybody, the Clintons. 00:38:43.240 --> 00:38:43.600 OK. 00:38:44.200 --> 00:38:47.500 I mean, because I don't know if you saw, but not only were they behind them 00:38:47.500 --> 00:38:50.340 when everything was going on, but they were one of the first to go. 00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:53.340 And like, oh, he said, Kamala. OK, we're we're you know. 00:38:53.360 --> 00:38:55.540 They were they were within the first. Oh, yeah. 00:38:56.060 --> 00:38:59.500 Oh, yeah. They were like, boom. Oh yeah, we're in. He's right. 00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:04.920 And, and, and, you know, so within the first few hours, you started getting 00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:08.120 a whole bunch of endorsements and that train just accelerated. 00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:13.640 Uh, you also start, and of course Kamala came out like 15 minutes, half an hour later. 00:39:13.720 --> 00:39:16.640 I forget exactly how long it was saying, of course I'm running. 00:39:16.720 --> 00:39:18.340 Let's go do this. Blah, blah, blah. 00:39:19.720 --> 00:39:23.360 And, and, and then they started raising money, 00:39:23.480 --> 00:39:29.620 huge amounts of money, huge amount of months Like within the first 24 hours, 00:39:29.740 --> 00:39:35.160 you had almost a hundred million directly to Kamala's campaign, 00:39:35.500 --> 00:39:37.180 mostly from small donors. 00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:43.400 And then you, I also saw reported, you had like nearly another hundred, 00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:48.620 150 going to associated packs from big money donors. 00:39:48.620 --> 00:39:53.860 And so within the first 24 hours, you essentially had like a quarter billion 00:39:53.860 --> 00:39:57.200 dollars coming to support this right away. 00:39:57.540 --> 00:39:59.540 And it's continued since then. 00:39:59.900 --> 00:40:03.200 And that basically, I think that sealed it. 00:40:03.240 --> 00:40:09.220 That was like, when numbers came out, it was like, okay, this is game over. I mean, there's just... 00:40:09.220 --> 00:40:13.820 And then you started seeing a parade of all of the people who had been talked 00:40:13.820 --> 00:40:16.580 about as other candidates besides Harris. 00:40:16.580 --> 00:40:21.560 one by one started coming out and saying i endorse harris i endorse harris i 00:40:21.560 --> 00:40:26.020 endorse harris rather than throwing their own hat into the ring the the only 00:40:26.020 --> 00:40:34.080 exceptions were a trial balloon from joe mansion which got shut down right fast and marianne that was. 00:40:34.080 --> 00:40:35.500 Like comedic i mean. 00:40:35.500 --> 00:40:41.280 And marianne fucking williamson which was just ignored by everybody you know. 00:40:42.490 --> 00:40:43.430 And he was like, who? 00:40:43.910 --> 00:40:51.450 And so the other thing I'll say is in addition to all of the endorsements and all of the money, 00:40:51.510 --> 00:40:57.810 the other thing is that almost immediately this started to be a social media 00:40:57.810 --> 00:41:00.250 phenomenon in favor of Harris as well. 00:41:01.470 --> 00:41:06.050 Listen, there is a massive shift in enthusiasm. 00:41:06.070 --> 00:41:09.950 And this is what I want to say. And I want to say this flat out. 00:41:09.950 --> 00:41:14.150 My main concern, well, I had two concerns really. 00:41:14.230 --> 00:41:17.310 One was you're treating Biden like shit. 00:41:17.490 --> 00:41:21.690 But the other, the practical concern is I would be willing to treat Biden like 00:41:21.690 --> 00:41:31.030 shit as long as you were definitely trading for a better option that had a better chance. 00:41:31.030 --> 00:41:35.910 And what I was worried about was that you would have this open convention bullshit 00:41:35.910 --> 00:41:41.470 and a whole bunch of people contending and a bunch of like a fight over who 00:41:41.470 --> 00:41:45.490 would get the nomination that would leave everybody with hard feelings and feeling 00:41:45.490 --> 00:41:50.290 instead of enthusiasm bubbling up for out of the result of this, 00:41:50.370 --> 00:41:54.430 it would be a bunch of people with hurt feelings and a bunch of upset and a 00:41:54.430 --> 00:41:57.230 bunch of chaos. And that was my biggest concern. 00:41:57.690 --> 00:42:00.330 But I will say flat out right now. 00:42:01.030 --> 00:42:04.470 I was wrong. I was completely fucking wrong. 00:42:04.790 --> 00:42:08.870 And I think part of it is, you know, the way Joe Biden did this, 00:42:08.890 --> 00:42:12.730 and we'll talk more about that in a second, but what we've actually seen here 00:42:12.730 --> 00:42:17.130 is such a massive change. 00:42:17.490 --> 00:42:22.030 Like, you know, we, I said earlier, like, you know, there wasn't a lot of enthusiasm for Joe Biden. 00:42:22.170 --> 00:42:26.850 Basically the mood was, especially after the three weeks of dumping on Joe Biden, 00:42:26.910 --> 00:42:31.810 the mood was sort of like, okay, it's like, okay, fine. 00:42:32.590 --> 00:42:37.510 We're going to do this. We will do our best. We will, we still have a shot, 00:42:37.550 --> 00:42:40.610 but like, we, we know it's a long shot, but we have a shot. 00:42:40.670 --> 00:42:47.730 We can make this happen and we will sort of dutifully go out and do our best. And by the way. 00:42:47.770 --> 00:42:52.210 I still will argue again, that it wasn't a long shot that, that the entire thing 00:42:52.210 --> 00:42:56.150 about how bad it was or how good it was, it was overblown. 00:42:56.530 --> 00:42:56.870 Okay. 00:42:56.930 --> 00:42:59.230 All right. So I, Sam, I, 00:42:59.570 --> 00:43:06.830 Sam, Trump in 2016 was losing by that much. I mean, look, I mean, no. 00:43:07.150 --> 00:43:09.430 By the end. 00:43:09.630 --> 00:43:17.550 Biden supposedly, listen, Biden supposedly was going to, the polls in the summer 00:43:17.550 --> 00:43:21.230 were a blowout, you know, for Biden. 00:43:21.290 --> 00:43:23.850 And it turned into a squeaker. Yeah. 00:43:23.890 --> 00:43:25.890 So listen, I'm sorry. 00:43:25.990 --> 00:43:32.630 No, the whole narrative that this was, called and done for was also overdone. 00:43:32.670 --> 00:43:37.570 I get the concerns about what the numbers were, but saying that in July it's 00:43:37.570 --> 00:43:39.930 over, it's just always idiotic. 00:43:39.950 --> 00:43:43.910 Yes. And you're absolutely right. 00:43:44.230 --> 00:43:53.370 The worst Biden's tipping point that I track on election graphs got was just over 5%. 00:43:53.370 --> 00:44:06.430 There were times in 2016 and 2020 where the Democrat was ahead by over 6%, 00:44:06.430 --> 00:44:08.430 over 7% even. 00:44:09.010 --> 00:44:13.470 And like you said, in 2016, Trump came back and won. In 2020, 00:44:13.470 --> 00:44:15.810 Trump came back and made it very, very close. 00:44:16.210 --> 00:44:23.750 But I think the worry was that Joe Biden didn't have what it took to make that kind of comeback. 00:44:24.110 --> 00:44:30.010 But all I'm saying, and I want to be clear, is that, listen, 00:44:30.290 --> 00:44:34.830 that the whole thing that all is lost narrative was ridiculous. 00:44:35.370 --> 00:44:42.070 Now, I do, Listen, like I said, were you on the back foot? Sure. 00:44:42.810 --> 00:44:47.990 But keep continuing to say that all is lost, which is just dumb puckery. 00:44:48.090 --> 00:44:55.850 But my point is, we went from that glum, dutiful, we will try our best. 00:44:56.130 --> 00:44:56.650 Right. 00:44:56.670 --> 00:45:00.690 Because, you know, look, we're in a bad situation, but we'll do our best. 00:45:00.770 --> 00:45:03.390 We'll give it the good college try. Right. 00:45:04.020 --> 00:45:10.920 But sort of a resigned view of like, OK, we got to make this work. 00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:12.600 Yeah, we got to do this. We got to make this. 00:45:12.620 --> 00:45:21.320 We went from that to a few hours later, actual like enthusiasm breaking out fucking everywhere. 00:45:21.860 --> 00:45:26.080 Let me let me give you a number, a stat about that. 00:45:26.160 --> 00:45:29.420 OK, Wall Street Journal. This is for an article in Bloomberg that I was reading 00:45:29.420 --> 00:45:32.480 tonight about the polls and how how the race has shifted. 00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:35.800 wall street journal poll found similar shifts it's 00:45:35.800 --> 00:45:39.360 talking about shifts in enthusiasm while only 37 percent 00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:43.680 of biden voters were enthusiastic nice and 00:45:43.680 --> 00:45:51.120 food and food and food and food jesus enthusiastic enthusiastic about his candidacy 00:45:51.120 --> 00:45:56.500 less than a month ago now 81 percent of harris voters said they were enthusiastic 00:45:56.500 --> 00:46:02.180 so from 37 to 81 percent yeah Yeah. 00:46:02.180 --> 00:46:03.240 Enthusiasm. 00:46:03.440 --> 00:46:08.300 I mean, that's an important... You don't get a shift like that. 00:46:08.460 --> 00:46:13.180 I mean, that's a crazy shift. 00:46:13.400 --> 00:46:17.260 And it's also important... I mean, everybody's more enthusiastic, 00:46:17.300 --> 00:46:23.060 but specifically some of the groups are like... Oh, yeah. 00:46:23.600 --> 00:46:24.880 Speaking of groups... 00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:26.420 Go ahead. You got the numbers. 00:46:26.420 --> 00:46:32.860 Yeah, I got numbers. 81, you know, winning just 59% of black registered voters 00:46:32.860 --> 00:46:36.820 a month ago, Harris at 69 share of Hispanic voters. 00:46:36.940 --> 00:46:42.120 Okay. To 57 from 45 voters under 30 from 46 to 56. 00:46:42.560 --> 00:46:46.040 So yeah. So you see, you know, all those boom, boom. 00:46:46.040 --> 00:46:50.200 Boom, boom, boom. Yeah. And that's the enthusiasm numbers, right? Yes. 00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:55.140 And like I started to mention, she became a social media phenomenon. 00:46:55.680 --> 00:46:59.920 Like, yes, the memes have been out of control. 00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:07.620 There's like songs, there's like various clips of her doing things remixed into other things. 00:47:07.620 --> 00:47:10.800 there's and the other thing is right 00:47:10.800 --> 00:47:13.660 off the bat like as soon as she came 00:47:13.660 --> 00:47:16.380 out the gate actually campaigning and doing 00:47:16.380 --> 00:47:19.360 press releases and all that stuff she has been more 00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:22.340 aggressive about going after donald trump 00:47:22.340 --> 00:47:25.520 than biden has been at all like just 00:47:25.520 --> 00:47:31.220 effectively going out and hitting him and responding to things that are happening 00:47:31.220 --> 00:47:37.260 in near real time and being really really aggressive about it and to the point 00:47:37.260 --> 00:47:42.720 and doing it in a way that resonates and gets attention as well. 00:47:43.040 --> 00:47:47.940 It's just the energy level from, you know, first of all, there's enthusiasm 00:47:47.940 --> 00:47:50.000 of the public, but also you can 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:54.140 tell the energy, her energy level is something that Biden could not do. 00:47:54.790 --> 00:47:57.770 Well, that, that is a hundred percent true. I mean, Biden could not. 00:47:57.870 --> 00:48:01.810 Yeah. Even when he was younger, he didn't have that kind of personality to be 00:48:01.810 --> 00:48:04.670 honest, but certainly when he was older, you know? No. 00:48:04.750 --> 00:48:07.590 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You ever had that personality and definitely now, 00:48:07.710 --> 00:48:10.030 you know? Yeah. No, no. That, that, that is a hundred percent. 00:48:10.070 --> 00:48:14.110 And so she's out there, she's responding to things like the, 00:48:14.110 --> 00:48:20.950 you know, there's new, new posts and things from her. She's going out and doing 00:48:20.950 --> 00:48:23.370 rousing speeches, and people are excited. 00:48:24.130 --> 00:48:27.610 And you mentioned the enthusiasm polls. 00:48:28.110 --> 00:48:36.050 At election graphs, the state polls, like prior to Joe Biden dropping out, 00:48:36.730 --> 00:48:43.990 it had been months since there had been Harris polls, Harris versus Trump polls 00:48:43.990 --> 00:48:46.470 at the state level until the debate. 00:48:46.610 --> 00:48:51.310 And then there started to be a trickle of them. That trickle of them after the 00:48:51.310 --> 00:48:56.390 debate and before Joe Biden dropped out, the movement was basically the Harris 00:48:56.390 --> 00:49:00.770 versus Trump numbers were converging to the Biden versus Trump numbers. 00:49:00.870 --> 00:49:05.510 They were getting closer and closer together because my averages started out 00:49:05.510 --> 00:49:10.570 with her doing better because there are still lots of states where there hadn't been 2024 polls. 00:49:10.570 --> 00:49:15.550 And so there were things like, you know, if you look back, like I start my five 00:49:15.550 --> 00:49:18.490 poll average with the average of the previous five elections. 00:49:19.730 --> 00:49:22.830 Obviously goes back many, many years. But you have, for instance, 00:49:22.950 --> 00:49:27.490 things like, you know, Iowa, if you average out the last five elections, 00:49:27.670 --> 00:49:32.610 actually very close because there have been years it was blue and years that it was red. 00:49:32.870 --> 00:49:38.690 Iowa is now pretty reliably red. We have zero polls so far of Harris versus Trump in Iowa. 00:49:38.910 --> 00:49:43.610 So my average in Iowa still shows that it's close, but it probably really isn't. 00:49:44.010 --> 00:49:47.990 And the same is true of a couple more states that have gotten redder over Their 00:49:47.990 --> 00:49:51.930 states got bluer over time too, but on balance, 00:49:52.250 --> 00:49:59.570 the position as we got more 2024 polls looked worse and worse for Harris, 00:49:59.670 --> 00:50:01.670 and it was converging to the Biden numbers. 00:50:02.290 --> 00:50:09.970 That trend reversed as soon as Biden actually dropped out and she became the 00:50:09.970 --> 00:50:12.670 real candidate and all of this attention started happening. 00:50:12.670 --> 00:50:15.730 happening we've i mean it's only been a few days my 00:50:15.730 --> 00:50:18.730 god it's been like what five and a half days or something 00:50:18.730 --> 00:50:23.310 since that since the announcement it's been three weeks but there have now been 00:50:23.310 --> 00:50:29.030 a flood of harris versus trump polls and practically with every one that comes 00:50:29.030 --> 00:50:36.190 out harris's numbers improve and so you know we still have like a lot of states 00:50:36.190 --> 00:50:38.390 where we don't have good data yet But, 00:50:38.510 --> 00:50:42.690 you know, we're, we're, it's filling in fast and as it's filling in, 00:50:42.750 --> 00:50:44.490 Harris is looking better and better. 00:50:44.670 --> 00:50:51.570 And at this, and along with the national polls that also show like that gap, 00:50:51.790 --> 00:50:57.690 you know, I'd meant, you know, we, we mentioned that after the debate on average 00:50:57.690 --> 00:51:03.630 in the national polls, Trump Biden lost four percentage again, 00:51:03.750 --> 00:51:06.750 about, about four percent. Yeah, I know. I know. 00:51:09.210 --> 00:51:12.890 That the, the, the initial batch of Harris versus Trump polls, 00:51:13.010 --> 00:51:15.410 dead heat again, dead heat. 00:51:15.510 --> 00:51:21.250 So she's right out of the gate within the first week doing significantly better 00:51:21.250 --> 00:51:22.970 than Biden and the national polls. 00:51:23.050 --> 00:51:25.890 And it's starting to look like that in the state polls too, are the, 00:51:25.910 --> 00:51:28.930 although we still need more to feel confident about that. 00:51:28.930 --> 00:51:33.890 I saw, I mean, I saw a number of state polls that really had some huge swings 00:51:33.890 --> 00:51:35.570 to Harris, like Minnesota. 00:51:35.590 --> 00:51:39.530 I think I saw in some other places where they were like polls that, holy shit. 00:51:39.630 --> 00:51:41.730 I mean, you know, they, they really. 00:51:41.730 --> 00:51:43.150 Yeah, comparing to Biden. 00:51:44.050 --> 00:51:45.230 Yeah, comparing to Biden. 00:51:45.350 --> 00:51:50.530 When you look at the averages, it does seem like gut feel. 00:51:52.450 --> 00:51:57.690 About that 3% or 4% better than Biden was doing in most states, it looks like. 00:51:59.990 --> 00:52:03.770 We're getting a ton of these, and we're going to have even more over the next 00:52:03.770 --> 00:52:07.070 week, I'm sure. We'll have a much better picture in another week. 00:52:07.250 --> 00:52:10.630 The other thing is, and just to keep this in mind... 00:52:11.730 --> 00:52:15.590 It's very possible that there'll be an initial bounce that fades a little bit, 00:52:15.690 --> 00:52:20.290 but here's the other thing. Well, I want two things to cover. 00:52:21.970 --> 00:52:26.270 Let's talk more about Harris and her campaign and Trump reacting to them. 00:52:26.390 --> 00:52:34.610 But before we move on completely, I just want to go back a second to the way that Biden did this. 00:52:35.170 --> 00:52:37.530 That's what I wanted to get back to that. 00:52:37.550 --> 00:52:44.390 We skipped over that. The whole way that he did... He was clearly pushed out. He did not want to go. 00:52:44.710 --> 00:52:48.950 But once he decided he was going to go, all of these... 00:52:48.950 --> 00:52:51.330 Well, let's be clear about this. Okay, wait, wait. Hold on one second. 00:52:51.490 --> 00:52:51.650 Yeah. 00:52:52.010 --> 00:52:54.930 You know, Biden is the only one that could decide to get out. 00:52:54.950 --> 00:52:55.150 Yeah. 00:52:55.270 --> 00:53:00.890 Okay, all right. You know, the push out... You know, Biden was basically... You know, how do I say? 00:53:01.010 --> 00:53:05.010 He was... He was pushed out isn't the right thing. Biden was basically... 00:53:05.830 --> 00:53:07.870 You know, he was... 00:53:08.730 --> 00:53:13.250 They cornered him, and I think that the part that became an issue, 00:53:13.310 --> 00:53:17.490 which I think that probably he saw as a significant challenge, 00:53:17.730 --> 00:53:25.630 was how money started to be completely dry up. Okay. Yeah. 00:53:26.170 --> 00:53:32.210 With the big, with big money donors, they, they had started withholding money. 00:53:32.350 --> 00:53:38.470 So I, I think that that was definitely the part where, look, 00:53:38.530 --> 00:53:39.930 you could have done a Trump. 00:53:40.450 --> 00:53:45.630 I mean, Trump never, Trump would have never, I mean, you know, 00:53:45.650 --> 00:53:48.330 the Republican party and everybody could have said, well, you know, 00:53:48.330 --> 00:53:50.850 whole bunch of donors said, we're not giving you a dollar. 00:53:50.890 --> 00:53:57.130 He never back away. way he could have done that but the reality is that he. 00:53:58.090 --> 00:54:05.990 I think that to him it was look I need all these things lined up in order to win right, 00:54:06.790 --> 00:54:13.670 and the allies I'm counting on are not there the money is not there so it winds 00:54:13.670 --> 00:54:21.090 up on him deciding okay I can hang on they can't really force me out do I do that, 00:54:21.830 --> 00:54:27.270 And, you know, bring upon the nation, maybe some very negative consequences 00:54:27.270 --> 00:54:29.190 that I don't want on the nation. 00:54:29.250 --> 00:54:35.110 Or do I just, you know what, I go and I make what tactically is the best decision 00:54:35.110 --> 00:54:39.310 for everybody, even though it's not, I, I, I, I don't agree with everybody's 00:54:39.310 --> 00:54:40.930 opinion about what they're assessing about it. 00:54:41.010 --> 00:54:46.210 But sometimes, you know, it is perception is reality and it doesn't matter if, 00:54:46.290 --> 00:54:52.610 if the, you know, the narrative is wrong. I mean, the reality is you get caught in it and I mean. 00:54:52.630 --> 00:54:56.290 You can't do anything about it. In the end, he made the assessment that fair 00:54:56.290 --> 00:55:03.990 or not, he was now in a situation where what had already, what was already going 00:55:03.990 --> 00:55:06.890 to be a hard race was going to be even harder. 00:55:07.330 --> 00:55:10.510 And he didn't even have his own team behind him. 00:55:10.930 --> 00:55:18.810 And making a shift at that time would give the Democrats a better chance. now the and. 00:55:18.810 --> 00:55:22.130 The one thing is that the timing if it was going to happen it 00:55:22.130 --> 00:55:24.830 had to be now yeah well it 00:55:24.830 --> 00:55:30.710 couldn't there was you know this was and i and i you know i think we talked 00:55:30.710 --> 00:55:34.450 about this a little bit earlier is like you know whatever and i said look the 00:55:34.450 --> 00:55:39.910 one thing i i had said about this if this is going to happen this is when it 00:55:39.910 --> 00:55:43.950 needs to happen well it can't be in september well and no no no. 00:55:43.950 --> 00:55:47.710 It It can't be in September, like after the convention would make everything 00:55:47.710 --> 00:55:54.890 much harder, but already like it, it was clear the people who wanted him out were not stopping. 00:55:55.450 --> 00:56:00.050 And so, and I know, but, but the whole, the whole thing is that, 00:56:00.070 --> 00:56:01.590 look, they couldn't listen. 00:56:01.770 --> 00:56:04.850 You couldn't let this had already gone on three weeks. You couldn't let it go on. 00:56:04.870 --> 00:56:11.110 You know, you could, I mean, like I said, you could, but it's like. 00:56:11.190 --> 00:56:14.090 It would be, it It depends on who the person. 00:56:14.350 --> 00:56:18.330 No, no. But look, it depends on who you are as a person. 00:56:19.100 --> 00:56:24.140 It really boiled down to that at that moment. Okay. Well, if it was Donald Trump 00:56:24.140 --> 00:56:25.980 in the same situation. He would have pushed on. 00:56:26.140 --> 00:56:31.760 And he would have powered on through the whole fucking thing all the way through. 00:56:31.840 --> 00:56:39.300 But Joe Biden knew that continuing to power on through this situation would 00:56:39.300 --> 00:56:42.160 not necessarily make the situation better. 00:56:43.480 --> 00:56:43.500 No. 00:56:43.560 --> 00:56:47.060 And he knew he was already damaged. he knew 00:56:47.060 --> 00:56:54.660 that you know at this point like doing the switch was almost yeah like like 00:56:54.660 --> 00:57:00.660 you said yes he could have powered on but to have a good outcome he probably 00:57:00.660 --> 00:57:06.260 needed to drop out at that point it was it was too late to recover from the internal pressure yeah. 00:57:06.260 --> 00:57:10.440 And the problem is that the internal pressure is like i said you know none of 00:57:10.440 --> 00:57:12.740 these people were backing down look in the week Listen, 00:57:12.940 --> 00:57:19.640 in the week before, you know, during the RNC, you know, powerful Democrats were 00:57:19.640 --> 00:57:23.960 using other Democrats to continue to pressure Biden. 00:57:24.200 --> 00:57:28.040 Like this whole Adam Schiff thing, for example, that happened and other stuff 00:57:28.040 --> 00:57:32.300 and whatnot, which to me, it seemed like, okay, you know, hey, 00:57:32.480 --> 00:57:35.760 which one of us is going to volunteer to go and be the pressure guy? 00:57:35.840 --> 00:57:37.620 And he once said, okay, I'm doing it. Okay. 00:57:38.960 --> 00:57:46.120 You know, it's like I said, look, if you to go and do something like this, you need the allies. 00:57:46.480 --> 00:57:50.820 Okay. And if none of these people are willing to go and like do like, 00:57:51.020 --> 00:57:55.160 I don't know, what the hell is the name of the speaker at a house? 00:57:55.220 --> 00:57:56.860 The guy that the porn monitor? 00:57:57.240 --> 00:58:01.820 What's his name? Mike Johnson, right? Is it Mike Johnson? Is that douchebag called Mike Johnson? 00:58:01.900 --> 00:58:02.180 Yes. 00:58:02.360 --> 00:58:03.240 Speaker at a house? 00:58:03.300 --> 00:58:03.880 Yes. Okay. 00:58:03.940 --> 00:58:09.260 Yeah. I don't know. Just double check. You know, like Mike Johnson go out to 00:58:09.260 --> 00:58:14.280 fucking court after Trump gets convicted, literally convicted of 34 fucking 00:58:14.280 --> 00:58:17.200 felonies. And these fucking clowns are all over there. 00:58:17.220 --> 00:58:20.760 Oh, we're with you. Yes, you're our criminal. 00:58:21.460 --> 00:58:23.400 So, I mean, so. 00:58:23.480 --> 00:58:25.460 I mean, seriously, not even Bob 00:58:25.460 --> 00:58:30.720 Menendez, who fucking has powered through everything, even he's resigning. 00:58:30.720 --> 00:58:37.440 So getting back to what Biden did, basically, when he decided he was going to 00:58:37.440 --> 00:58:41.800 get out, he decided he was going to control how and when he was going to do 00:58:41.800 --> 00:58:43.580 it and who would be his successor. 00:58:43.860 --> 00:58:51.380 And so, first of all, on timing, he probably decided a few days at least before 00:58:51.380 --> 00:58:52.640 he actually made the announcement. 00:58:52.640 --> 00:58:58.680 I, it might've even been as early as the previous weekend, but I think timing 00:58:58.680 --> 00:59:02.180 wise, he also knew wait till the RNC is over. 00:59:03.120 --> 00:59:06.720 Oh yeah, it was the perfect moment because if you get the bump into whatever, 00:59:06.940 --> 00:59:12.840 what not from them, blah, blah, blah, go and fucking just, just jam this right through. 00:59:12.900 --> 00:59:15.900 So basically you completely knock out their narrative. 00:59:15.980 --> 00:59:18.740 Well, cause on, on the other hand, I was thinking for a little bit like, 00:59:18.820 --> 00:59:22.460 okay, we had three weeks of this chaos. This had to be harmful. 00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:26.120 Wouldn't it have been better if Biden had just dropped out immediately after 00:59:26.120 --> 00:59:29.100 the debate? But no, no, it would not have. 00:59:29.340 --> 00:59:32.380 This was, this is much better timing. you have 00:59:32.380 --> 00:59:35.320 the three weeks of chaos but then he drops out right after 00:59:35.320 --> 00:59:41.440 the rnc it maximizes the effectiveness of that change and you know he also screwed 00:59:41.440 --> 00:59:44.620 the media a little bit by waiting till after all the sunday morning shows were 00:59:44.620 --> 00:59:50.260 over you know there's a little tiny bit of additional you know but you know 00:59:50.260 --> 00:59:53.820 but the main thing was waiting till after whatever i'm. 00:59:53.820 --> 00:59:57.540 Like give me a fucking break yeah but what the fuck do that many fucking favors. 00:59:57.540 --> 01:00:01.180 Right and so but then the The Kamala announcement, 01:00:01.580 --> 01:00:07.260 his endorsement of Kamala Harris, he just immediately kneecapped all of those 01:00:07.260 --> 01:00:12.120 people who wanted to get rid of both of them and wanted to have the whole open 01:00:12.120 --> 01:00:15.460 primary and we'll have votes at the convention. 01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:21.420 And there were a whole bunch of people arguing that the crazy convention would 01:00:21.420 --> 01:00:23.440 actually excite everybody and blah, blah, blah. 01:00:23.700 --> 01:00:28.040 And like you said, there are a bunch of people who are sort of angling to get 01:00:28.040 --> 01:00:31.580 one of their folks in. You know, not listen. 01:00:31.880 --> 01:00:35.760 Given the circular firing squad that happened the last three weeks, 01:00:35.900 --> 01:00:40.600 what the hell would give me the impression that an open convention wouldn't 01:00:40.600 --> 01:00:44.280 wind up being another circular firing squad? 01:00:44.480 --> 01:00:50.200 Yeah. And like we've said for weeks and weeks, if you did replace Biden and 01:00:50.200 --> 01:00:52.560 it was anybody other than Harris. 01:00:53.470 --> 01:01:00.250 That would be disastrous in its own way. Like if you screwed over Kamala Harris. I, oh my God. 01:01:00.430 --> 01:01:05.430 I mean, the, the, you know, the, the congressional cock, you know, 01:01:05.430 --> 01:01:06.430 what the hell is their name? 01:01:07.090 --> 01:01:11.750 Congressional caucus or congressional backlog. Which caucus are you talking about? There are many. 01:01:12.210 --> 01:01:13.030 Them. Yes. 01:01:13.150 --> 01:01:13.330 Yes. 01:01:13.330 --> 01:01:15.250 You know how pissed those people would have been. 01:01:15.450 --> 01:01:16.110 Oh yeah. 01:01:16.610 --> 01:01:19.090 And imagine passing it up to some other white dude. 01:01:19.410 --> 01:01:23.310 Right. You know, yes. Yeah. 01:01:23.470 --> 01:01:28.150 Like you, you, you give it to, you know, what's his name in California? 01:01:28.330 --> 01:01:30.870 Newsome or something. Newsome or Shapiro or whatever. 01:01:31.590 --> 01:01:32.070 Yeah. Yeah. 01:01:32.130 --> 01:01:38.150 Just some, some random white dude who's more centrist and, you know, 01:01:38.150 --> 01:01:43.350 cause a big part of this was driven by the quote unquote donor class as well. 01:01:43.570 --> 01:01:48.530 And so a lot of the impression was they, they wanted to get somebody who'd be 01:01:48.530 --> 01:01:54.630 a little bit more aligned with their interests as like rich white dudes. You know, I mean. 01:01:54.670 --> 01:01:59.970 Listen, we've had like I was talking about all the tech bros and all these other people. 01:02:00.010 --> 01:02:01.850 I mean, they're mostly Trump Republican ticket. 01:02:01.850 --> 01:02:07.450 Yeah, I mean, right. But but you still had a whole bunch of you still had some others to you. 01:02:07.490 --> 01:02:11.450 You've got listen, you've got the guys that wanted to fucking trot out mansion. 01:02:13.480 --> 01:02:18.360 I mean come on no i i just laughed at that i'm like are. 01:02:18.360 --> 01:02:19.680 You fucking kidding me. 01:02:19.680 --> 01:02:22.780 He if he had put his name in contention 01:02:22.780 --> 01:02:28.300 at an open convention he'd be lucky if he got like five delegates out of thousands 01:02:28.300 --> 01:02:33.900 to vote for him like probably the democrats that you know he he's left the democratic 01:02:33.900 --> 01:02:41.320 party he would have to rejoin in order to even do that but like none he was not loved at best he was 01:02:41.380 --> 01:02:44.340 like no it's like okay tolerate it's like okay he 01:02:44.340 --> 01:02:46.920 was tolerated he's better than a republican it's a 01:02:46.920 --> 01:02:49.720 miracle that we have somebody in west virginia who'll even 01:02:49.720 --> 01:02:52.880 vote with us some of the time you know yes and 01:02:52.880 --> 01:02:55.780 so he was tolerated because of that anyway yeah he 01:02:55.780 --> 01:03:02.840 not so but i think this is i think a lot of those people including pelosi including 01:03:02.840 --> 01:03:11.000 others like saw biden do that and we're like you know we got biden out but the 01:03:11.000 --> 01:03:13.880 rest of our plan just collapsed well. 01:03:13.880 --> 01:03:16.820 That well well that was my whole point about you know where you're talking about 01:03:16.820 --> 01:03:22.100 for you know force out i'm like look the only guy who could decide to leave 01:03:22.100 --> 01:03:28.600 was him and biden decided okay all right all you assholes are not you know that 01:03:28.600 --> 01:03:32.620 i've done you know but the the fucking guys that are perpetrated this This entire, 01:03:32.780 --> 01:03:36.020 you know, a lot of this shit happening the last three weeks. 01:03:36.300 --> 01:03:39.620 Okay, fine. I'll leave. I'm fucking leaving on my fucking terms. 01:03:39.820 --> 01:03:42.700 Not, you know, you guys don't get to dictate how I go. 01:03:42.940 --> 01:03:45.640 These guys couldn't dictate me to go into first place. Bye. 01:03:46.600 --> 01:03:52.980 I'll give you this and not anything else. Right. And I'm perfectly happy with that. 01:03:53.040 --> 01:03:58.440 And by the way, I picked Kamala Harris for a reason. I believe in her. 01:03:58.560 --> 01:04:01.980 I think she'd make a good president. it. I've been working with her closely 01:04:01.980 --> 01:04:08.260 for nearly four years and yeah here we go like and. 01:04:08.260 --> 01:04:09.920 I guess she's not fucking couches, 01:04:11.080 --> 01:04:14.760 Which apparently is not a true, apparently is a correction. 01:04:14.760 --> 01:04:16.960 I meant to do that correction at the very beginning of the show, 01:04:17.020 --> 01:04:20.540 but forgot. Yes, J.D. Vance, well. 01:04:20.640 --> 01:04:22.460 Did not write in his book, okay. 01:04:22.520 --> 01:04:23.740 Yes, let's be careful. 01:04:23.740 --> 01:04:27.660 Because what you said was, let's be clear, we're not saying that he didn't do 01:04:27.660 --> 01:04:29.780 it. Right. Because we can't know for sure. 01:04:30.100 --> 01:04:35.000 But what you said was that he wrote about it in the book. 01:04:35.060 --> 01:04:35.320 Right. 01:04:35.440 --> 01:04:38.380 Hillbilly Elegy. And apparently that's not correct. 01:04:38.460 --> 01:04:42.600 Apparently that's not true. There was a hoax perpetuated by somebody on Twitter 01:04:42.600 --> 01:04:47.020 who said so and produced some fake images of a page in the book, blah, blah, blah. 01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:51.760 And yeah, so he did not have sex with a couch. 01:04:52.420 --> 01:04:53.040 No, no, no. 01:04:53.060 --> 01:04:56.740 Oh, no, no. He did not write about. Like, I mean, the actual thing. 01:04:56.820 --> 01:04:59.100 I mean, who hasn't? I mean, come on. 01:05:00.800 --> 01:05:01.920 You know, so. 01:05:02.320 --> 01:05:04.980 Trying to think. Not a couch. 01:05:05.340 --> 01:05:05.980 Not a couch. 01:05:05.980 --> 01:05:12.320 I mean, I've had sex on a couch, but not with the couch. Not with the couch. 01:05:12.460 --> 01:05:18.620 Right. But here's the thing. I saw someone saying, you know, 01:05:18.740 --> 01:05:23.180 all of these people figuring out how to do opposition research on J.D. 01:05:23.180 --> 01:05:28.840 Vance, and some stone teenager just makes up a post about this. 01:05:29.040 --> 01:05:31.840 And all of a sudden, he's having to deny it. 01:05:31.840 --> 01:05:34.020 And and like their. 01:05:34.020 --> 01:05:40.060 Memes all over the internet about couches and all of this kind of stuff and like you know. 01:05:40.060 --> 01:05:43.340 Hey hey hey you know what how how 01:05:43.340 --> 01:05:47.600 many years of me listening to the fact that apparently joe biden is a clone 01:05:47.600 --> 01:05:52.320 okay what alex just said that joe biden apparently is a clone this is a clone 01:05:52.320 --> 01:05:55.440 that's in the white house okay that's one of the latest ones you know be listening 01:05:55.440 --> 01:05:59.440 to this shit you know we you know what let's i mean let's just fuck with these 01:05:59.440 --> 01:06:03.120 guys for a little or something where there are bullshit. You know, what the hell? 01:06:03.820 --> 01:06:11.620 So anyway, uh, getting back to, we've got all of this enthusiasm on the Harris side. 01:06:11.740 --> 01:06:17.600 We've got Harris, like it's actually been amazing to see we're like five days 01:06:17.600 --> 01:06:22.140 in and she completely ramped up this campaign. 01:06:22.680 --> 01:06:26.980 Now, you know, she had to have an idea that this might be coming. So there might've been. 01:06:27.000 --> 01:06:32.400 I, yeah, and I'm sure. And, and, and let's be clear, you know, 01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:34.320 Biden endorsed her directly. 01:06:34.420 --> 01:06:37.800 He basically told us handed over the campaign infrastructure. 01:06:38.380 --> 01:06:42.380 Listen, exactly. You know, you were all on this team. 01:06:42.460 --> 01:06:46.880 Okay. All right. And so that obviously makes it quite a lot smoother. 01:06:47.060 --> 01:06:53.460 And, and look, I mean, even within the last few minutes, I just saw pass by 01:06:53.460 --> 01:06:57.180 a new press release. she put out, like critiquing, you know, 01:06:57.180 --> 01:06:59.440 a speech that Donald Trump just did. 01:06:59.540 --> 01:07:05.820 That's like, you know, here Harris for president statement on Trump's strange 01:07:05.820 --> 01:07:10.460 speech at TP USA, uh, Harris for president toilet paper USA. 01:07:10.560 --> 01:07:11.760 There's a convention turning. 01:07:11.760 --> 01:07:13.160 Point Harris for. 01:07:13.200 --> 01:07:16.100 Oh, Harris for president sounded better as okay. 01:07:16.680 --> 01:07:19.800 Spokesman released the following statement tonight. Tonight, 01:07:19.980 --> 01:07:25.020 Donald Trump couldn't pronounce words, insulted the faith of Jewish and Catholic Americans, 01:07:25.280 --> 01:07:29.540 lied about the election again, lied about other stuff, bragged about repealing 01:07:29.540 --> 01:07:33.360 Roe, proposed cutting billions in education funding, announced he would appoint 01:07:33.360 --> 01:07:37.420 more extremist judges, revealed he planned to fill a second Trump term with 01:07:37.420 --> 01:07:39.020 more criminals like himself, 01:07:39.380 --> 01:07:44.180 attacked lawful voting, went on and on and on, and generally sounded like someone 01:07:44.180 --> 01:07:48.160 you wouldn't want to sit near in a restaurant, let alone be president of the 01:07:48.160 --> 01:07:49.820 United States. That was the statement. 01:07:51.000 --> 01:07:55.540 You know, it sounds pretty good. And look, you know, single statements like 01:07:55.540 --> 01:07:57.740 this aren't going to turn the direction of election. 01:07:58.000 --> 01:08:04.160 But the fact that the campaign is on this stuff and putting out these kind of 01:08:04.160 --> 01:08:07.800 aggressive responses nearly instantly after something happens, 01:08:07.940 --> 01:08:11.020 this is just the difference in tone and energy that we talked about before. 01:08:11.160 --> 01:08:15.660 This is just like, you can't like Joe Biden and his campaign. 01:08:15.740 --> 01:08:19.200 And I know, like you said, a lot of the campaign infrastructure is the same, 01:08:19.220 --> 01:08:20.480 but they weren't doing this kind of shit. 01:08:21.000 --> 01:08:25.840 They were doing every once in a while. They tried, but it wasn't landing. 01:08:26.000 --> 01:08:27.460 They tried every once in a while. 01:08:28.000 --> 01:08:33.600 Meanwhile, Harris and her new campaign apparatus are far more aggressive. 01:08:33.600 --> 01:08:37.040 She's being much more aggressive. She's leaning into all of this stuff. 01:08:37.760 --> 01:08:44.360 And well, but there's another thing here that I want to check that you you disagreed with me. 01:08:44.400 --> 01:08:49.960 OK, but but I I totally believe is also helping. Yes. Go for it, Harris. us. 01:08:50.320 --> 01:08:55.200 Well, the fact that because you advocated, oh, if he's leaving. 01:08:55.300 --> 01:08:57.660 He should resign too. Yeah. I did say that on. 01:08:57.660 --> 01:09:01.140 The committee for Slack and I told you you're out of your mind. 01:09:01.340 --> 01:09:04.280 Okay. All right. Because at this point, I think there's enough evidence that 01:09:04.280 --> 01:09:06.940 you were right. Then I will admit I was wrong about that too. Go ahead. 01:09:08.060 --> 01:09:13.340 Because look, a campaign by itself is training enough And running this country, 01:09:13.460 --> 01:09:17.460 you know, is hard as well. 01:09:17.620 --> 01:09:22.600 There is a lot to do. It's very difficult to juggle both. 01:09:22.720 --> 01:09:28.600 And the fact that she could focus on the campaign pretty much exclusively. Okay. All right. 01:09:28.720 --> 01:09:35.040 And Joe and the cabinet could worry about all the other stuff makes it that 01:09:35.040 --> 01:09:39.400 she could be far more effective at actively campaigning out there and getting 01:09:39.400 --> 01:09:42.660 the message out. You really, you know. 01:09:42.700 --> 01:09:47.580 I mean, what, what, what I, what I had said, which again, I admit I was wrong, 01:09:47.680 --> 01:09:53.440 was that if he also resigned, he hands over the incumbency advantage. 01:09:53.660 --> 01:09:58.300 He hands over, you know, the powers of the office and everything else that she 01:09:58.300 --> 01:10:02.580 could use to influence things that the downsides are a everything you just mentioned, 01:10:02.640 --> 01:10:07.240 but be also anything that goes wrong in the next six months, 01:10:07.340 --> 01:10:09.240 she would immediately be blamed for. 01:10:09.240 --> 01:10:12.500 And now she's like, look, it doesn't matter. 01:10:12.720 --> 01:10:17.800 Anything goes good. I can take credit. And basically, if anything goes wrong, it wasn't me. 01:10:18.100 --> 01:10:23.760 Exactly. So I think you're right. I think they... 01:10:24.550 --> 01:10:30.090 Yes, Joe Biden was pushed, but in the end, I think he orchestrated all of this fucking perfectly. 01:10:30.650 --> 01:10:35.370 This is the best possible way to have done this transition, which brings us 01:10:35.370 --> 01:10:40.050 to the other part, which is the Republicans are absolutely flailing and have 01:10:40.050 --> 01:10:42.510 no freaking idea how to deal with this. 01:10:43.270 --> 01:10:46.530 They're going. They're going. I mean, they're losing their minds. 01:10:46.810 --> 01:10:49.710 I mean, they'll probably figure it out before November, but still, 01:10:49.770 --> 01:10:52.030 right now, it's glorious to see. 01:10:53.250 --> 01:10:56.270 I don't know. I really don't know. 01:10:56.510 --> 01:11:02.490 Because, let's be clear, J.D. Vance was a terrible pick for VP. 01:11:02.650 --> 01:11:07.010 Oh, people are already talking about, like, will Trump dump him before the election? 01:11:07.250 --> 01:11:08.750 You know, what would be involved in that? 01:11:08.750 --> 01:11:12.110 I think it's very possible. I gotta be honest. I think it's very possible. 01:11:12.430 --> 01:11:18.650 I mean, the guy is a meme a minute. I mean, you've never seen it. 01:11:18.830 --> 01:11:21.590 We talked about the couch thing. he had 01:11:21.590 --> 01:11:24.390 also there's here the cat 01:11:24.390 --> 01:11:27.250 woman thing that yes the couch thing 01:11:27.250 --> 01:11:30.150 the cat woman thing he's picking fights with 01:11:30.150 --> 01:11:33.270 jennifer aniston over the cat thing like right 01:11:33.270 --> 01:11:36.230 you know okay you got any 01:11:36.230 --> 01:11:41.710 more really popular celebrities you want a child childless women yeah he's he's 01:11:41.710 --> 01:11:46.890 talking about how like you're you're the one of the problems with the democrats 01:11:46.890 --> 01:11:51.710 is they're turning the party over to people without biological children and 01:11:51.710 --> 01:11:54.530 leaving out stepchildren adoptions, 01:11:54.530 --> 01:11:56.370 all of this kind of stuff, or, 01:11:56.430 --> 01:12:00.070 and let alone the people who don't have children at all, which is a perfectly 01:12:00.070 --> 01:12:01.810 valid choice, but he doesn't think so. 01:12:02.210 --> 01:12:03.570 No, he doesn't think so. 01:12:03.650 --> 01:12:10.050 No, you know, but you got all that. And, and then also like he was heavily known 01:12:10.050 --> 01:12:13.170 like in 2016 as a never Trumper. 01:12:13.170 --> 01:12:17.830 and there's like a nice right there's a nice little quote of him talking about 01:12:17.830 --> 01:12:22.850 how he's never trumper which of course someone has remixed into a song you know 01:12:22.850 --> 01:12:28.050 it's like a little techno song he was. 01:12:28.050 --> 01:12:32.450 Like i mean did he say he was you know basically he was our hitler well. 01:12:32.450 --> 01:12:36.890 He his exact statement was he wasn't sure if he was our hitler or something 01:12:36.890 --> 01:12:39.010 else but but no he said well i. 01:12:39.010 --> 01:12:42.110 Mean what that's what that's the level of comparison no. 01:12:42.110 --> 01:12:46.470 I know but But in the song, he talks about how he's a never-Trumper, 01:12:46.530 --> 01:12:50.170 how he doesn't really like Trump, how whatever. And it's all over. 01:12:50.550 --> 01:12:55.550 If you go into TikTok and start scrolling, you'll find this pretty damn quick. 01:12:55.770 --> 01:12:59.090 Now, of course, I say that, but TikTok knows I like this stuff. 01:12:59.270 --> 01:13:00.770 So, of course, it shows me more. 01:13:01.250 --> 01:13:05.630 But the Kamala Harris stuff is all over the place. It's doing well. 01:13:05.870 --> 01:13:07.810 But here's the thing. Fundamentally. 01:13:08.510 --> 01:13:17.370 For nearly two years now, Donald Trump's case for the election has all been about Joe Biden. 01:13:17.650 --> 01:13:23.390 Like it's all been Joe Biden's old. He's senile. He's this. He's that. 01:13:23.750 --> 01:13:27.070 Well, now who's the old senile bastard on the ballot? 01:13:27.150 --> 01:13:32.550 Now he's the old senile one. He is now the oldest candidate ever to have been 01:13:32.550 --> 01:13:33.790 nominated by their party. 01:13:33.850 --> 01:13:36.510 Because, of course, Biden isn't being nominated by his party. 01:13:36.510 --> 01:13:39.170 So Donald Trump is now the oldest ever nominated. 01:13:39.410 --> 01:13:45.830 And of course, before the debate, we were talking about how Donald Trump himself 01:13:45.830 --> 01:13:49.810 was increasingly incoherent at his events and stuff like that. 01:13:49.930 --> 01:13:54.950 Now, we have yet to see a really big pickup in the media talking about that. 01:13:55.030 --> 01:13:58.990 But Harris is bringing that in there in a way that Biden wasn't because Biden 01:13:58.990 --> 01:14:03.910 couldn't. Biden couldn't start hitting Donald Trump about his age or how he 01:14:03.910 --> 01:14:07.630 was confused or how he did because it would all bounce back on him. 01:14:07.690 --> 01:14:12.630 Kamala could completely just damn the torpedoes right now. 01:14:12.690 --> 01:14:17.410 Just hit him with everything on being a doddering old fool. 01:14:17.730 --> 01:14:22.730 Yeah. He's old. He's confused. He doesn't know what he's doing and all of the 01:14:22.730 --> 01:14:25.150 other things that are disastrous about him. He's a criminal. 01:14:25.410 --> 01:14:29.350 You've got the whole, I'm a prosecutor. He's a felon thing going on. 01:14:29.510 --> 01:14:33.650 Oh, speaking of like shark batteries and other stuff or whatever, 01:14:33.830 --> 01:14:38.550 what is this thing now that I was seeing about J.D. Vance also about apparently 01:14:38.550 --> 01:14:40.550 his searches on sex with dolphins? 01:14:41.690 --> 01:14:48.830 He had made a tweet promoting an article about a woman who had been molested by a dolphin, 01:14:48.970 --> 01:14:54.990 but the words that were highlighted in the screenshot of the tweet or whatever 01:14:54.990 --> 01:14:59.530 indicated that he had done a search on the terms woman dolphin. 01:15:01.770 --> 01:15:02.250 Dolphin. 01:15:02.250 --> 01:15:08.590 Now it may have been that he had seen this article and was searching for it 01:15:08.590 --> 01:15:12.410 to find the article that he, but you know, he was regardless, 01:15:12.770 --> 01:15:18.470 he was spreading one of these articles about a dolphin molesting a woman in 01:15:18.470 --> 01:15:24.870 the water, blah, blah, blah, which by the way, male dolphins are known to do, you know, I've heard. 01:15:24.910 --> 01:15:29.870 I've heard, I've heard something about this i can't say that yeah so much about the dolphin but. 01:15:29.870 --> 01:15:35.730 Apparently like if if you're a woman or even a man and the male dolphin likes 01:15:35.730 --> 01:15:41.030 you the male dolphin will try to rape you but you know. 01:15:41.030 --> 01:15:43.690 Oh that's that's that's that's great well. 01:15:43.690 --> 01:15:45.430 I guess it depends on the dolphin. 01:15:45.430 --> 01:15:50.530 You know i have swabbed with dolphins i i have to the dolphin did not try to 01:15:50.530 --> 01:15:53.270 rape you no no not nothing of the sort probably. 01:15:53.270 --> 01:15:55.450 Good I mean I guess it doesn't. 01:15:55.450 --> 01:16:00.330 Happen all the time I must admit I must admit I did not want to do it my wife 01:16:00.330 --> 01:16:03.290 was the one that wanted to do it and basically I got dragged into the water 01:16:03.290 --> 01:16:06.610 and doing this stupid dolphin swim thing which is really dumb. 01:16:07.930 --> 01:16:09.570 So I take it you didn't enjoy it. 01:16:10.050 --> 01:16:11.070 Not particularly. 01:16:11.230 --> 01:16:15.850 Maybe if you had had sex with the dolphin, you would feel different. 01:16:16.230 --> 01:16:18.790 I don't think that that would have helped. 01:16:18.890 --> 01:16:22.870 Okay, good. Yeah. Let's move on from this topic. 01:16:22.970 --> 01:16:29.250 I don't feel like we need to go further in this direction. Couches, dolphins. 01:16:29.290 --> 01:16:33.050 I mean, this is Vince. I don't know what the fuck else he's done. 01:16:33.050 --> 01:16:36.470 You know, the I mean, I mean, J.D. 01:16:36.490 --> 01:16:42.310 Vance is like is a just a machine of generating content. Yes. 01:16:42.410 --> 01:16:47.550 Well, yeah. And also not not just all this stuff that he's screwing up, 01:16:47.570 --> 01:16:55.070 but I've seen a lot of commentary as well that he just sucks as like a speaker and a campaigner. 01:16:55.130 --> 01:16:58.250 He's like boring and people don't. 01:16:58.250 --> 01:17:02.570 And I have seen him speak. It's been utterly boring as all hell. 01:17:02.570 --> 01:17:08.750 And oh, by the way, here's another problem that he created with this, too. 01:17:09.490 --> 01:17:12.230 Well, you see, the Republicans are kind of fucking like really, 01:17:12.350 --> 01:17:17.830 I don't know if you've noticed this, Sam, but the GOP is filled with a lot of racist people. 01:17:18.090 --> 01:17:20.050 Oh, yes. Yeah. 01:17:20.170 --> 01:17:22.610 I don't know if you've noticed. Have you noticed this? 01:17:22.730 --> 01:17:26.690 I've noticed that. And the sexists. And J.D. Vance is. 01:17:26.750 --> 01:17:27.190 And the sexists. 01:17:27.230 --> 01:17:27.590 Both. 01:17:27.730 --> 01:17:31.470 Both. Wife. And, you know, J.D. Vance is a woman. 01:17:31.470 --> 01:17:35.010 No, no. I was saying he's both racist and sexist, but yeah. 01:17:35.230 --> 01:17:39.570 Oh, okay. But you can mention his wife is, of course, of Indian descent. 01:17:39.690 --> 01:17:43.290 His wife is of Indian descent. And oh my God. 01:17:43.330 --> 01:17:50.210 I mean, there has been this ridiculous amount of racist vitriol directed at, 01:17:50.370 --> 01:17:55.230 I'm not voting for this guy that's married to this Indian woman. Right. 01:17:56.300 --> 01:18:00.300 Lovely bunch of people. These people are, I mean, it's like every time, I mean. 01:18:00.420 --> 01:18:04.700 Well, and this goes back to the Trump campaign's general approach to Kamala 01:18:04.700 --> 01:18:07.540 Harris so far, and not just the Trump campaign, but Republicans in general, 01:18:07.600 --> 01:18:14.700 they've been doing this, like she's a DEI hire, DEI hire thing as well, you know? 01:18:14.700 --> 01:18:22.680 And as, as someone pointed out, like that's not on the one hand, 01:18:22.700 --> 01:18:26.860 it's, it's like the code word for the N word because they can't say the N word. 01:18:26.940 --> 01:18:28.000 They're saying DEI higher. 01:18:28.120 --> 01:18:31.600 Basically that's what they're... But also I don't know why you're saying they 01:18:31.600 --> 01:18:35.820 can't. I'm surprised that they're not straight out saying that word. Can I be honest? 01:18:36.160 --> 01:18:41.200 Because of all the other shit they said, I mean, come on. Why aren't they saying it? I'm surprised. 01:18:41.560 --> 01:18:44.760 But also it's more than that. 01:18:44.800 --> 01:18:49.780 The whole implication is that she's inherently unqualified. 01:18:50.840 --> 01:18:51.660 Unqualified, yes. 01:18:51.820 --> 01:18:56.640 And that she's brought... Meanwhile, like she's got a hell of a lot more experience 01:18:56.640 --> 01:18:59.260 than Vance or that Trump had. 01:18:59.940 --> 01:19:01.860 I have a lot. Yeah. 01:19:02.000 --> 01:19:07.660 I mean, Jesus, she's got all the normal things that you would tick off as like 01:19:07.660 --> 01:19:10.260 you would want in the experience of a president. 01:19:10.420 --> 01:19:14.740 She was a prosecutor. She was a Senator. She was a vice president. 01:19:15.300 --> 01:19:21.240 What else do you fucking want? I mean, that's, this is a typical resume for a president. Yeah. 01:19:21.750 --> 01:19:29.230 And she did well at all of those jobs, you know, and the whole implication that because, 01:19:29.990 --> 01:19:36.670 she is not a white male, she's a DEI hire and was brought on board for, 01:19:36.730 --> 01:19:43.190 and isn't really qualified is just inherently racist, like right off the bat. 01:19:43.370 --> 01:19:48.470 And, and, and this is the, like right now, the attacks that they're coming up 01:19:48.470 --> 01:19:53.030 with for For Kamala, you got the racism and you got the sexism, 01:19:53.090 --> 01:19:55.390 and that's been like 80% of it. 01:19:55.470 --> 01:19:57.890 And then you've got random other shit they're trying. 01:19:58.030 --> 01:20:01.050 Like someone was digging up a clip about her trying marijuana. 01:20:02.050 --> 01:20:04.850 Like we got over that in the Clinton administration. 01:20:05.910 --> 01:20:08.890 Yeah, I thought, yeah, exactly. I mean, what the hell? Really? 01:20:09.210 --> 01:20:11.950 This is what we're bringing up. I mean, what the hell? 01:20:12.010 --> 01:20:15.230 And, you know, they're, they're, they're struggling on the one hand. 01:20:15.230 --> 01:20:19.350 They want to, you know, in the primaries when she ran for president, 01:20:19.390 --> 01:20:23.950 you know, back in 2019, she had the issue with the left wing being like Kamala 01:20:23.950 --> 01:20:27.490 is a cop and she's a prosecutor and why do you want that? 01:20:27.650 --> 01:20:30.790 And like, blah, blah, blah. Now she's using that for her advantage. 01:20:30.950 --> 01:20:36.770 But at the same time, the Republicans want to figure out like a way to get in on that. 01:20:36.930 --> 01:20:41.050 Like she prosecuted some people she shouldn't have, and maybe she didn't prosecute 01:20:41.050 --> 01:20:46.370 some people. But they haven't found attacks that are hitting. 01:20:46.730 --> 01:20:52.790 They haven't found attacks that are hitting yet, even within their core audience. 01:20:52.950 --> 01:20:58.570 I mean, I guess in the end, you know, the racism and sexism is going to appeal 01:20:58.570 --> 01:21:01.230 to a big core of Republicans. It just is. 01:21:01.630 --> 01:21:05.810 But in order to get those people in the middle that will decide the election, 01:21:06.050 --> 01:21:07.470 they need something else. 01:21:07.490 --> 01:21:09.730 And they haven't found it yet. 01:21:09.790 --> 01:21:15.670 You do? So, you know, so that's not a winning ticket. I see. Okay. Well. 01:21:17.420 --> 01:21:23.780 Oh, and my wife is reminding me because I've messed up repeatedly. Kamala. 01:21:25.480 --> 01:21:35.540 Kamala. Kamala. And I do sometimes, when I'm thinking about it, I get it right. 01:21:35.620 --> 01:21:38.160 But when I'm talking fast, I mess it up all the time. 01:21:38.240 --> 01:21:41.680 So I apologize for that. We deserve to get the name right. 01:21:41.680 --> 01:21:44.540 Of drugs by the way because before i forget i don't 01:21:44.540 --> 01:21:47.920 know i you know talking about people around this campaign the 01:21:47.920 --> 01:21:51.000 other day i i shared a a video of 01:21:51.000 --> 01:21:54.060 uh donald trump jr okay and i swear 01:21:54.060 --> 01:21:57.380 to god if this guy is not snorting all 01:21:57.380 --> 01:22:00.520 the cocaine in south florida then i 01:22:00.520 --> 01:22:03.400 i there well somebody explained to me what the hell he's taken 01:22:03.400 --> 01:22:07.700 because he looked this guy looks looks just 01:22:07.700 --> 01:22:11.280 absolutely stoned beyond on belief 01:22:11.280 --> 01:22:14.620 okay so i don't 01:22:14.620 --> 01:22:21.100 i i don't know why you know why that is but these guys i mean well why that 01:22:21.100 --> 01:22:25.320 is i mean come on we found out that when ronnie jackson was the was the doctor 01:22:25.320 --> 01:22:28.700 over there apparently i mean he was just handing out drugs like it was like 01:22:28.700 --> 01:22:32.960 you know like there were there were candy so another another thing since so 01:22:32.960 --> 01:22:34.280 i guess they're going very well another. 01:22:34.280 --> 01:22:38.480 Thing since Since we were mentioning her name, one thing that was going a lot 01:22:38.480 --> 01:22:45.200 of repetition online were people saying basically this, hey, 01:22:45.480 --> 01:22:50.540 you call male politicians by their last name as a sign of respect. 01:22:50.620 --> 01:22:54.440 You never call them by their first names. You should be calling her Harris. 01:22:54.640 --> 01:22:56.500 Yeah, I've been referring to her as Harris. 01:22:56.500 --> 01:23:01.380 You should be referring to her as Harris, not Kamala. But here's a couple of things. 01:23:01.400 --> 01:23:07.140 And I've seen a number of people, you know, basically say, okay, no. 01:23:07.560 --> 01:23:14.020 And the reasons why no are because one, that sounds good in general, 01:23:14.100 --> 01:23:18.300 but they're, you know, do we call them Sanders or do we call them Bernie? 01:23:19.200 --> 01:23:20.500 We've said Joe a lot. 01:23:20.580 --> 01:23:22.560 I guess Bernie, we called him Bernie. 01:23:22.760 --> 01:23:24.220 We've said Joe a lot there. 01:23:24.420 --> 01:23:26.460 But we usually call him Biden. 01:23:26.480 --> 01:23:31.940 We do. We do call him Biden. But also, so first of all, it's not a universal rule at all. 01:23:32.060 --> 01:23:35.120 There are some politicians who go by their first name, some that go by their 01:23:35.120 --> 01:23:37.540 last name, some that do the initial thing. 01:23:37.640 --> 01:23:41.880 Like we got AOC going on and RFK for that matter. 01:23:42.100 --> 01:23:45.420 You know, we've got a lot of, you know, and one big. 01:23:45.540 --> 01:23:47.780 Another fucking drug and drug. 01:23:47.780 --> 01:23:55.360 Oh, quick tangent, by the way, even before this change, his numbers were indeed collapsing. 01:23:55.720 --> 01:23:59.880 Like even before this change, like if you go back a few months, 01:24:00.100 --> 01:24:05.580 he would, you know, his average polling was around 10% in state level polls. 01:24:05.860 --> 01:24:08.300 Hey, the more you know of the more you hate. 01:24:08.360 --> 01:24:12.260 And, and I'd say the average, like there's still some, I say average, 01:24:12.300 --> 01:24:13.620 that means there's some higher, some lower. 01:24:13.940 --> 01:24:17.420 I'd say his average has dropped to more like 5% now. 01:24:17.780 --> 01:24:21.320 Like, you know, yeah, you occasionally see one at seven or eight, 01:24:21.420 --> 01:24:24.860 but there are a lot of twos and threes as well. 01:24:25.180 --> 01:24:30.220 And you very rarely now see a number over 10 for Kennedy. 01:24:30.520 --> 01:24:34.540 So his numbers are collapsing. And I think it's collapsed even more when, 01:24:34.540 --> 01:24:40.240 when, after the Harris change, but of course you distracted me with that. 01:24:40.280 --> 01:24:41.860 What was I going to say before that? 01:24:42.220 --> 01:24:46.440 Oh, the names, the names. The other thing is the preference on the names. 01:24:47.080 --> 01:24:51.400 Guess what? A lot of that has to do with what does the candidate themselves 01:24:51.400 --> 01:24:53.660 prefer and what do they push? 01:24:54.740 --> 01:24:55.860 So what is she like? 01:24:55.920 --> 01:24:56.520 I don't know. 01:24:56.520 --> 01:24:59.780 I haven't figured it out because I'm referring to her both. 01:25:00.280 --> 01:25:08.140 In 2019, her campaign bus had Kamala in big letters all over it. You know, she. 01:25:08.300 --> 01:25:09.040 The Kamala Express. 01:25:09.200 --> 01:25:12.540 The Kamala Express. She uses her first name in lots of things. 01:25:12.540 --> 01:25:14.100 She's branded herself that way. 01:25:14.140 --> 01:25:21.820 She uses Harris too, obviously, but she, she has not shown any aversion to being 01:25:21.820 --> 01:25:26.780 called Kamala or Kamala Kamala. I see. I did it again. I did it wrong. 01:25:27.500 --> 01:25:31.400 Kamala. She has so no aversion to that. She had an ad in 2019. 01:25:31.660 --> 01:25:34.780 I'll stick to Harris because I, I, I, I do both. 01:25:34.900 --> 01:25:36.640 I do both. And I, I had. 01:25:36.720 --> 01:25:40.660 Well, I'm sorry. Well, I don't want to keep screwing up the other ones. I'll also, right. 01:25:40.660 --> 01:25:46.480 Right. I mean, I had been trying to do Harris more than Kamala, but you know. 01:25:47.620 --> 01:25:53.080 I will do both. I mean, cause it's clear she's fine with both and she uses both 01:25:53.080 --> 01:25:56.300 in her branding and her campaign in everything. 01:25:56.500 --> 01:26:03.100 Both are there sometimes one, sometimes the other, sometimes both, you know? So, so yeah. 01:26:03.200 --> 01:26:07.500 So anyway, let's see, what have we not hit Yvonne? 01:26:07.620 --> 01:26:11.960 We talked about Biden. Now we talked about Biden endorsing Harris. Oh, VP. 01:26:12.380 --> 01:26:15.460 We have not talked about the Kamala of veep veep 01:26:15.460 --> 01:26:19.420 stakes so apparently at 01:26:19.420 --> 01:26:22.680 the moment they're vetting about 12 people there's a 01:26:22.680 --> 01:26:26.820 lot of speculation on who's the front runners the you 01:26:26.820 --> 01:26:29.920 know i on the curmudgeon's corner slack i'd never mentioned it on the show itself 01:26:29.920 --> 01:26:34.120 but on the curmudgeon's corner slack like weeks ago i had said a brilliant choice 01:26:34.120 --> 01:26:38.440 would be aoc a very risky choice but brilliant because it would unify the democrats 01:26:38.440 --> 01:26:42.020 blah blah blah in such a way but it would be risky because it would all also 01:26:42.020 --> 01:26:43.440 alienate a bunch of moderates, 01:26:43.460 --> 01:26:46.140 but the safe, and I don't think she's going to go there. 01:26:46.220 --> 01:26:49.540 I I'm not predicting that at all. I think it would be a very interesting choice, 01:26:49.580 --> 01:26:50.700 but I don't think she's going to go there. 01:26:50.960 --> 01:26:56.100 And also she's very young. She will only become eligible to even be in that 01:26:56.100 --> 01:26:58.200 spot in like October or something. 01:26:58.340 --> 01:27:06.840 She's just going to turn 35, but the safe choices are white male straight governors, 01:27:06.840 --> 01:27:12.040 You know, so like the people who've been talking or, or, or senators or senators, 01:27:12.160 --> 01:27:17.660 the people who've been talked about the most and basically almost everybody 01:27:17.660 --> 01:27:19.960 who's been mentioned is white male. 01:27:20.740 --> 01:27:22.980 You've got the, uh. 01:27:23.100 --> 01:27:28.460 Well, you had, uh, what's her name? Not, not Whitmer. Well, they also mentioned, uh, Whitmer. 01:27:28.560 --> 01:27:32.360 Yeah. You, you have, you have, you have some mention, you have some mention of Whitmer. 01:27:32.360 --> 01:27:35.100 she's repeatedly said she's she doesn't want to do that 01:27:35.100 --> 01:27:38.860 but she is one of the ones being vetted reportedly and she 01:27:38.860 --> 01:27:41.500 but people keep asking you know 01:27:41.500 --> 01:27:45.140 would two women be too much same thing 01:27:45.140 --> 01:27:50.080 people have mentioned buddha judge which apparently you know kamala has kamala 01:27:50.080 --> 01:27:54.260 has a really good relationship with pete buddha judge but people are asking 01:27:54.260 --> 01:27:58.840 you know okay a woman and a gay guy would that be too much and like on the one 01:27:58.840 --> 01:28:03.220 hand i want to say to all these fuck that if they're you know, maybe, 01:28:03.760 --> 01:28:07.300 maybe double down on two women and that's the right thing to do this time. 01:28:07.340 --> 01:28:12.380 Or just, you know, having the gay guy on the ticket would also send a very clear 01:28:12.380 --> 01:28:14.700 message and blah, blah, blah. 01:28:14.780 --> 01:28:19.560 But the safe choices are like, Hey, let's get Shapiro. 01:28:19.900 --> 01:28:25.720 He's a white guy. He's a governor. He's in Pennsylvania, which is kind of a key state. 01:28:25.800 --> 01:28:28.160 And he's, He's very popular there. 01:28:28.340 --> 01:28:34.960 And right now, most paths to victory go through Pennsylvania. 01:28:35.400 --> 01:28:41.960 So do him. And Whitmer's on their list for the same reason. She's a governor of a key state. 01:28:42.440 --> 01:28:46.560 People are also talking about Kelly in Arizona, Senator Kelly in Arizona. 01:28:47.650 --> 01:28:50.810 Yeah. Kelly's a key state and they like certain aspects of his personality. 01:28:51.130 --> 01:28:52.350 Kelly is a key state. 01:28:52.430 --> 01:28:55.390 Well, sorry. Arizona is a key state. 01:28:55.410 --> 01:28:59.470 But, oh, but I was like, I don't know that we admit them to the union before 01:28:59.470 --> 01:29:01.210 Puerto Rico and DC. I mean, what the hell? 01:29:01.570 --> 01:29:10.330 But the thing with him is like, yeah, Arizona cool, but you can win without Arizona. 01:29:17.210 --> 01:29:21.690 It's Like what states do you think they will help in? Then Shapiro's probably, 01:29:21.750 --> 01:29:25.050 they're also talking about Cooper, who's the governor of North Carolina, 01:29:25.270 --> 01:29:28.470 for the same reason, bring North Carolina back into play. 01:29:28.990 --> 01:29:33.210 And then there's some, the oddballs. Apparently they're also vetting some general. 01:29:34.170 --> 01:29:36.850 Yeah, I mentioned Buttigieg, they're vetting him too. 01:29:38.130 --> 01:29:45.030 And all of this, the campaign has said they will announce the vice presidential choice by August 7th, 01:29:45.030 --> 01:29:48.930 which is coming up really fast because they're still going to be doing that 01:29:48.930 --> 01:29:53.890 virtual roll call to solidify all this stuff before that August 7th deadline, 01:29:54.190 --> 01:29:57.710 which was all prompted by Ohio and their deadlines. 01:29:58.010 --> 01:30:02.430 Now, Ohio has fixed that issue, but the Democrats are basically like, 01:30:02.550 --> 01:30:05.310 we don't want to believe it. 01:30:05.470 --> 01:30:10.070 We don't want to risk it because even if they've If theoretically fixed that 01:30:10.070 --> 01:30:14.290 issue, you could see the Republicans doing lawsuits on it and blah, blah, blah. 01:30:14.450 --> 01:30:17.370 And we don't want any doubt. We want to get it done before the old deadline. 01:30:18.480 --> 01:30:21.940 But anyway, we've got a bunch of candidates in play, potentially. 01:30:22.580 --> 01:30:28.440 I kind of figure she'll go for, like, I feel like Shapiro is the front runner 01:30:28.440 --> 01:30:29.780 because you need Pennsylvania. 01:30:30.560 --> 01:30:32.300 He's popular in Pennsylvania. 01:30:32.340 --> 01:30:34.820 The only one that I thought that could be a wild card. 01:30:34.920 --> 01:30:38.160 Wait, let me just say one more thing on Shapiro real quick. Also, 01:30:38.320 --> 01:30:44.660 apparently Shapiro and Harris have known each other for like 15 years. 01:30:44.660 --> 01:30:47.580 like they were both prosecutors at the same time 01:30:47.580 --> 01:30:50.320 and have dealt with each other professionally and 01:30:50.320 --> 01:30:53.200 have a long personal relationship going back a long time 01:30:53.200 --> 01:30:56.480 i guess long long long i said long multiple times 01:30:56.480 --> 01:31:00.980 but they've got a long-standing relationship and that makes a difference too 01:31:00.980 --> 01:31:06.200 because like you know as numerous people have pointed out you know not only 01:31:06.200 --> 01:31:10.880 are you picking somebody for the campaign but if you win you are picking somebody 01:31:10.880 --> 01:31:14.380 to well replace you if something Something happens, 01:31:14.460 --> 01:31:16.680 of course, but also someone who's 01:31:16.680 --> 01:31:20.760 going to be in the room and a critical advisor for you for four years. 01:31:21.320 --> 01:31:29.180 And, you know, cause these days, like ever since it used to be that vice presidents were just off, 01:31:29.360 --> 01:31:33.800 you know, the whole quote about worth as much as a bucket of worms, 01:31:33.800 --> 01:31:38.520 bucket of warm spit, you know, was the phrase that was used to describe the vice presidency. 01:31:38.520 --> 01:31:45.460 presidency, but basically since, I don't know, Carter, they've actually given 01:31:45.460 --> 01:31:49.660 the vice president responsibilities and included them in the process in a way 01:31:49.660 --> 01:31:51.900 that really wasn't traditional before that. 01:31:52.100 --> 01:31:55.760 And so now these days it's kind of assumed, I mean, any president could change 01:31:55.760 --> 01:31:59.740 this, but it's kind of assumed that the vice president is there in the room, 01:31:59.800 --> 01:32:02.540 part of the decision-making process, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 01:32:02.660 --> 01:32:04.460 So you want somebody you like for all that stuff. 01:32:05.220 --> 01:32:07.500 So who's your dark horse that you wanted to mention? 01:32:08.040 --> 01:32:10.840 Well i was wondering i don't know if i have a 01:32:10.840 --> 01:32:14.180 dark horse specifically but i was wondering you know 01:32:14.180 --> 01:32:18.200 georgia if if we won again georgia georgia 01:32:18.200 --> 01:32:22.000 is a state with a good good number of troll votes but i just i don't know if 01:32:22.000 --> 01:32:25.840 there's anybody who could name from georgia that could maybe bring you know 01:32:25.840 --> 01:32:29.980 well what's her name that i mean i i don't know if there's somebody who could 01:32:29.980 --> 01:32:34.760 name that would balance the ticket you know in order to bring georgia into the into the mix. 01:32:35.240 --> 01:32:40.940 I don't know. I think that's right. I don't think there is because it really 01:32:40.940 --> 01:32:45.460 had the Democrats who have won in Georgia have done so by the skin of their 01:32:45.460 --> 01:32:47.640 teeth. They're not like super, super popular. 01:32:48.580 --> 01:32:52.580 And then, of course, we had the woman who ran whose name I'm blanking on. 01:32:52.620 --> 01:32:53.880 Stacey Abrams. 01:32:53.920 --> 01:32:59.260 I think it is. But she's lost multiple times. She hasn't shown that she can bring that through. 01:32:59.980 --> 01:33:03.120 I was going to argue to bring back Mondale, but Mondale's dead. 01:33:04.110 --> 01:33:05.830 Yeah. I don't, I'm not sure he would help. 01:33:06.130 --> 01:33:09.370 I wonder where he goes. Well, he's from Minnesota. 01:33:09.390 --> 01:33:17.110 But I will say even without that, the polls on Harris that have happened in 01:33:17.110 --> 01:33:21.950 Georgia since Biden's announcement, a different story before the announcement. 01:33:22.530 --> 01:33:32.110 That's why I mentioned it because You know, I'm looking at it like a landmark poll, 1.4% Trump lead. 01:33:33.330 --> 01:33:37.070 A Emerson poll, about 2.3. 01:33:37.330 --> 01:33:41.650 There was a Redfield and Wilton poll with her down five. 01:33:41.930 --> 01:33:48.830 But all of these have, all of this is pointing to Georgia being in contention again. Right. 01:33:49.130 --> 01:33:51.910 And that's the reason why I said it. And so I was like, shit, 01:33:51.970 --> 01:33:56.530 if we could get somebody, it could excite, you know, because Georgia, I mean, you know what? 01:33:56.570 --> 01:34:01.350 It would be nice if we could still take, you know, Pennsylvania and bring back Georgia. 01:34:01.390 --> 01:34:11.410 Now, to be fair, right now, my average for Georgia for Biden was losing by 4.5%. 01:34:12.170 --> 01:34:16.370 Make sure I got that right. Yeah, 4.5%. Trump by 4.5% against Biden. 01:34:16.750 --> 01:34:21.010 Whereas for Harris, the average is now Trump by 5%. But again, 01:34:21.090 --> 01:34:25.550 that 5% includes polls from before Biden dropped out. 01:34:25.690 --> 01:34:29.290 And there's like a step change. Like after Biden dropped out, 01:34:29.370 --> 01:34:34.730 the Harris versus Trump polls improved by several percent in Georgia. 01:34:34.890 --> 01:34:39.630 And I don't like, it's weird, but like, because you're asking the same question. 01:34:39.730 --> 01:34:42.990 The people before Biden dropped out were asking, well, what do you think about 01:34:42.990 --> 01:34:46.950 a Harris versus Trump matchup? But this goes to show you there's a big difference 01:34:46.950 --> 01:34:51.490 between asking Harris versus Trump as a hypothetical versus, 01:34:51.610 --> 01:34:54.090 okay, yeah, she really is the candidate. Now, what do you think? 01:34:54.150 --> 01:34:58.970 No, I know. I know. I know. I know. By the way, I didn't, you know. 01:34:59.590 --> 01:35:02.670 I don't recall us talking about when Mondale died. 01:35:02.990 --> 01:35:04.110 I don't think so. 01:35:04.110 --> 01:35:05.670 It was only like three years ago. 01:35:05.950 --> 01:35:07.350 Yeah, I don't think we talked about it. 01:35:07.610 --> 01:35:12.970 We didn't talk about it. You know, Mondale died of natural causes in his sleep 01:35:12.970 --> 01:35:15.470 at home in Minnesota. He was 93. 01:35:16.130 --> 01:35:17.150 I mean, shit. 01:35:17.410 --> 01:35:21.990 You know, pretty old. Okay, well, all right. 01:35:22.610 --> 01:35:25.690 He tried to run for president. Well, here's the reality. 01:35:26.070 --> 01:35:30.710 I mean, you know, sorry he passed away. Rest in peace. But the one thing is, 01:35:30.730 --> 01:35:33.650 well, he did, he didn't do very well when he ran for president. 01:35:33.810 --> 01:35:35.170 No, no, he did not. 01:35:35.730 --> 01:35:39.970 He did. Yeah. He did probably about as bad as you can do ever. 01:35:40.430 --> 01:35:42.750 So that's not really helpful, I guess. 01:35:43.770 --> 01:35:49.870 Right. So anyway, on vice presidents, I guess I'll, I'll predict, I'll predict Shapiro. 01:35:50.250 --> 01:35:53.270 Are you going to make a prediction? I mean, this could go anyway. 01:35:53.410 --> 01:35:56.890 So this is sort of a predict. 01:35:57.730 --> 01:36:02.930 Who do I predict? What are my options? We got Shapiro. We got Whitmer. 01:36:03.070 --> 01:36:03.690 We got Kelly. 01:36:03.770 --> 01:36:06.510 We got Kelly. Well, who else do you think? 01:36:06.570 --> 01:36:06.990 Buttigieg. 01:36:07.290 --> 01:36:07.910 Everybody got it. 01:36:08.650 --> 01:36:11.910 We got some. Yeah. There was some general whose name I don't remember. 01:36:12.530 --> 01:36:14.790 There were. You got Pritzker. 01:36:15.610 --> 01:36:18.050 Pritzker's on the list. Who else? 01:36:18.270 --> 01:36:19.970 No, that makes no sense. 01:36:21.470 --> 01:36:26.330 There are a few others. I mean, like I said, the reports are there a dozen being 01:36:26.330 --> 01:36:30.870 looked at, but we've mentioned mention the names that come up the most all. 01:36:31.070 --> 01:36:36.230 All, all, all to pick somebody different from you just to pick a name. I'll go say Kelly. 01:36:36.590 --> 01:36:42.230 Okay. It seems like those two names right now are the ones that are being talked 01:36:42.230 --> 01:36:44.610 about the most Shapiro and Kelly. 01:36:45.110 --> 01:36:48.850 Now she could go in a completely different direction. Hell, she might actually pick AOC. 01:36:48.950 --> 01:36:53.190 Like I said, I don't think so, but like for all we know, but you know, you, you never know. 01:36:53.310 --> 01:36:55.470 Like, you know, you're. 01:36:56.620 --> 01:37:01.840 You know, given everything that's going on, I feel like she's going to go for a safe choice. 01:37:02.480 --> 01:37:08.480 Like, you know, not like a, you know, a choice that everybody is immediately questioning. 01:37:08.680 --> 01:37:11.360 And I think people would be immediately questioning AOC. 01:37:11.600 --> 01:37:14.960 I think they'd be questioning Buttigieg. I think they'd be, you know, 01:37:14.960 --> 01:37:21.340 a lot of these are ones that people would be immediately like, not so sure about that. 01:37:22.020 --> 01:37:25.240 And was that a good choice and blah, blah, blah. Now, frankly, 01:37:25.420 --> 01:37:29.660 I think all of these names that have been mentioned would probably be absolutely fine. 01:37:30.840 --> 01:37:36.240 She's not considering like, you know, I don't think she'll do a J.D. 01:37:36.240 --> 01:37:41.660 Vance type pick or or for that matter, you know, or Sarah Palin choice. 01:37:41.880 --> 01:37:46.120 Well, could we see? Well, could we see anybody who is that list that maybe has 01:37:46.120 --> 01:37:48.760 fucked the couch or written about it? 01:37:49.420 --> 01:37:51.800 Is that like a qualified criteria? 01:37:51.800 --> 01:37:56.960 I should mention there are people encouraging her to go for a youth. 01:37:57.020 --> 01:37:57.520 The fuck account. 01:37:57.560 --> 01:38:02.280 No, no. There, there are people encouraging Harris to go for a quote unquote 01:38:02.280 --> 01:38:07.320 unity ticket by, by picking a Republican for the vice president slot. 01:38:07.500 --> 01:38:09.160 Oh fuck that shit. 01:38:09.280 --> 01:38:11.960 Now they've talked about Romney and they've. 01:38:11.980 --> 01:38:14.460 Yeah, I heard about it. I didn't even say it earlier. 01:38:15.300 --> 01:38:17.180 I, I, I, I think there's. 01:38:17.180 --> 01:38:18.900 You mean Liz, not, not Dick. 01:38:18.920 --> 01:38:20.340 Liz, not Dick. Yes. 01:38:20.800 --> 01:38:24.500 Jesus. is crazy. I mean, he's still around and we could name, 01:38:24.500 --> 01:38:28.040 you know, we could make, name vice president again, but I don't think that's a good idea. 01:38:28.160 --> 01:38:30.060 Yeah, I think he's older than Biden. 01:38:34.360 --> 01:38:37.780 And, and I mean, basically he is Darth Vader for real. I mean, 01:38:37.780 --> 01:38:39.600 he's got so many artificial things in him. 01:38:39.640 --> 01:38:43.620 But yeah, no, I, I, she's not going to pick a fricking Republican for this. 01:38:43.620 --> 01:38:46.200 Like, no, we're not going to pick a fucking Republican. What are you at? 01:38:46.200 --> 01:38:52.400 No. And I think, you know, part of the excitement around her on the democratic 01:38:52.400 --> 01:38:56.680 side is actually that she's a little bit more liberal than Biden is, 01:38:56.780 --> 01:39:00.160 you know, when she was, when she was running in 2019, 01:39:00.300 --> 01:39:04.380 she was having trouble figuring out like, where do I slot myself in? 01:39:04.380 --> 01:39:07.060 because I have to appeal to the progressives and the centrists. 01:39:07.140 --> 01:39:12.900 And I'm not really, I'm a little bit, I'm left of Biden, but like right of people 01:39:12.900 --> 01:39:16.000 like Sanders and Warren and those folks. 01:39:16.600 --> 01:39:19.940 And I think she's actually in a nice slot right now. 01:39:20.000 --> 01:39:24.800 And people are excited because she is more liberal than Biden because to a large 01:39:24.800 --> 01:39:29.820 part of the democratic base, Biden was just a little bit too, 01:39:30.180 --> 01:39:35.960 conservative is the wrong word, but a little bit too much about like the preservation 01:39:35.960 --> 01:39:42.320 of the system and tradition and like, let's work with the Republicans and all this kind of stuff. 01:39:42.420 --> 01:39:49.480 And they want someone who will, who will just fight and in ways that Joe Biden didn't necessarily. 01:39:49.620 --> 01:39:53.020 Now, Joe Biden got a lot done with that technique, by the way, 01:39:53.080 --> 01:39:59.020 like there were stuff passed that nobody thought he could pass and it was passed on a bipartisan basis. 01:39:59.400 --> 01:40:03.840 But I think there's an appetite for fuck working with the Republicans. 01:40:03.940 --> 01:40:05.960 Let's ram through whatever we can get done. 01:40:06.420 --> 01:40:10.260 You know, and that kind of thing. But yeah, so I think she'll, 01:40:10.380 --> 01:40:15.480 she doesn't want to screw, she certainly wouldn't screw that up by picking an actual Republican, 01:40:15.580 --> 01:40:20.580 but I think she's going to be careful because while she's certainly not going 01:40:20.580 --> 01:40:22.260 to mess that up by picking a Republican, 01:40:22.360 --> 01:40:29.280 I think she's also not going to want to pick someone too centrist either because 01:40:29.280 --> 01:40:35.220 she doesn't want to spoil the enthusiasm that she's built up over the last week as well. 01:40:35.360 --> 01:40:40.940 And I think she, so she's got a tight rope to walk and she's going to have to figure that out. 01:40:41.040 --> 01:40:45.920 Like one of the things that I've heard brought up about Shapiro is there's a 01:40:45.920 --> 01:40:50.640 lot of concern about like, well, what is his position on the whole Israel Gaza thing? 01:40:50.840 --> 01:40:57.460 And is he like a little bit too centrist for that and like too pro Israel when 01:40:57.460 --> 01:41:01.420 there's a huge portion of the democratic party right now who wants to take a 01:41:01.420 --> 01:41:06.580 step back from Israel and Harris is trying to find a midline in there. 01:41:07.060 --> 01:41:12.080 And, you know, so who knows, but, and, and of course, like part of the vetting 01:41:12.080 --> 01:41:16.160 they're doing, which is an accelerated process because they've only got like 01:41:16.160 --> 01:41:20.020 a week and a half is, you know, the usual sort of things. 01:41:20.120 --> 01:41:23.460 Do any of these people have skeletons in their closet? That would be a problem. 01:41:23.540 --> 01:41:29.680 You know, what are the, the potential attacks against them and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 01:41:29.820 --> 01:41:33.320 That's why these These vice presidents, you know, vice presidents usually get 01:41:33.320 --> 01:41:38.980 this like massive vetting and digging into all their history and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 01:41:39.500 --> 01:41:42.520 And sometimes done better than other times. 01:41:42.560 --> 01:41:48.600 But, you know, but all of these people who are on the list seriously are in, 01:41:48.640 --> 01:41:53.240 in serious positions where they've been in the public eye for a while. 01:41:53.900 --> 01:41:58.800 And so you kind of think like, wouldn't those things have come up already? 01:41:58.940 --> 01:42:00.900 But you know, you never know. No, maybe not. 01:42:01.730 --> 01:42:06.830 So, you know, you mentioned Cheney. So you, you put me down a wild goose chase. 01:42:06.910 --> 01:42:08.650 I will say a couple of things about, okay. 01:42:08.750 --> 01:42:12.550 But one is that I would like them or about, no, no, about Dick. 01:42:12.550 --> 01:42:12.790 Okay. 01:42:12.850 --> 01:42:16.250 No, no, because Liz, you know, that's not going to help us. But I did think 01:42:16.250 --> 01:42:18.590 one way that Dick Cheney could help us. 01:42:18.630 --> 01:42:19.010 Okay. 01:42:19.550 --> 01:42:24.290 He could invite Trump to go hunting. That would be helpful. 01:42:24.950 --> 01:42:29.250 Okay. You know, so aside from that, can I, can I just say something that I. 01:42:29.250 --> 01:42:33.130 You are, you are We're, of course, referring to when Dick Cheney shot his friend 01:42:33.130 --> 01:42:34.570 in the face while they were hunting. 01:42:35.170 --> 01:42:37.850 It was on the back. It wasn't in the face. With a shotgun. 01:42:37.950 --> 01:42:39.830 It was the head, though, right? 01:42:40.470 --> 01:42:43.650 Yeah, it was there in the head, but it was from behind. Yeah, with a shotgun. 01:42:43.650 --> 01:42:45.330 It did not kill the guy. The guy recovered. 01:42:45.590 --> 01:42:48.030 It did not kill the guy, but he was severely injured. 01:42:48.170 --> 01:42:48.390 Yes. 01:42:48.390 --> 01:42:54.590 Okay. But, you know, I was talking about that he's got more attachments than 01:42:54.590 --> 01:43:00.530 Darth Vader. I did remember that he had some thing like a motor or something put in his heart. 01:43:00.610 --> 01:43:04.230 But look, we've called this guy a heartless bastard. 01:43:04.390 --> 01:43:07.170 But listen to this. I did not realize this, okay? 01:43:07.530 --> 01:43:12.450 In early July 2010, Chaney was fitted with a left ventricular assist device 01:43:12.450 --> 01:43:16.930 to compensate for worsening congestive heart failure. 01:43:17.090 --> 01:43:19.790 The device pumped blood continuously through his body. 01:43:20.350 --> 01:43:27.690 The pump was centrifugal. As a result, he remained alive without a pulse for nearly 15 months. 01:43:28.770 --> 01:43:37.330 This son of a bitch actually walked around as been alive for a year and a half without having a pulse. 01:43:37.650 --> 01:43:44.550 Sam, I mean, the guy was alive for a year and a half without a pulse. 01:43:45.030 --> 01:43:45.670 Right. 01:43:46.860 --> 01:43:51.980 Oh, yeah, that's really insane. And then he got a heart transplant somehow. 01:43:52.220 --> 01:43:57.160 So, OK, so but but but yeah, but but yeah, the guy, you know, 01:43:57.180 --> 01:43:59.500 we've said many times the guy had no heart. 01:43:59.740 --> 01:44:02.860 Seriously. Holy shit. It's true. Right. 01:44:03.280 --> 01:44:06.580 So I'm just going through the list. I think we hit everything. 01:44:06.700 --> 01:44:08.420 Biden out. Biden endorses Harris. 01:44:09.020 --> 01:44:09.920 We hit everything. 01:44:09.920 --> 01:44:13.360 The non-Harris contenders, the VP, the VP possibilities, 01:44:13.720 --> 01:44:17.200 the Trump campaign reactions, the Democratic reactions, say Harris, 01:44:17.320 --> 01:44:21.280 should Biden step down the instant mood change, whether this was actually good 01:44:21.280 --> 01:44:25.260 timing, the disarmed and backfiring Republican attacks. 01:44:25.400 --> 01:44:28.040 And finally, the couch thing and the couch. We covered everything. 01:44:28.740 --> 01:44:29.740 Yes, we covered. 01:44:29.860 --> 01:44:33.460 So, yeah, I guess that means we're done. 01:44:34.000 --> 01:44:37.900 I think that means we're done. It's all new ballgame, Sam. which. 01:44:37.900 --> 01:44:40.460 Which ball game is it i. 01:44:40.460 --> 01:44:44.480 Mean the campaign the camps that's a euphemism saying it's a whole new ball 01:44:44.480 --> 01:44:45.920 game it's a whole new thing it's 01:44:45.920 --> 01:44:51.540 not racquetball no not racquetball no no we're not playing no what what. 01:44:51.540 --> 01:44:54.540 What's that that pickleball pickleball. 01:44:54.540 --> 01:44:59.560 Pickleball yeah that's you know i i got a friend of mine who who lost her job 01:44:59.560 --> 01:45:03.520 a couple of months ago thankfully their spouse works and that the other day 01:45:03.520 --> 01:45:07.580 i talked to her sounded very happy she said she's gotten really good at Pickleball right now. 01:45:07.600 --> 01:45:07.980 There you go. 01:45:08.460 --> 01:45:15.000 And I'm like, Jesus, I need something like this. You know, I need my, I need my. 01:45:15.000 --> 01:45:16.240 You need a whole new ball game. 01:45:17.000 --> 01:45:17.920 Yes, I do. 01:45:18.910 --> 01:45:22.910 I would really love it if my wife would make more, but I mean, 01:45:22.930 --> 01:45:27.630 I don't understand this thing about, you know, I, I, I gotta love that guy. The guy's a goof. 01:45:27.770 --> 01:45:31.210 I love this guy, by the way. Well, I, I need, you know, I, I, 01:45:31.210 --> 01:45:34.430 I need something like that. Oh, I want to be just a goofball. 01:45:34.470 --> 01:45:35.170 I met him by the way. 01:45:35.170 --> 01:45:36.610 You know what? My grandfather was like that. 01:45:37.070 --> 01:45:43.570 Dougie muff. He was at an event that my wife was at. So I, I didn't have a conversation 01:45:43.570 --> 01:45:46.450 with him, but I think I might've shook, shook his hand or something. I don't know. 01:45:46.630 --> 01:45:48.950 Well, there you go. That's a hell of a lot more than I've done. 01:45:49.150 --> 01:45:50.790 But anyway, yeah. 01:45:53.430 --> 01:46:00.110 Along those lines, yeah. I am waiting for my wife to move up from state legislator 01:46:00.110 --> 01:46:01.630 to something that actually pays money. 01:46:02.730 --> 01:46:04.950 Well, I mean, it pays, but very little. 01:46:05.190 --> 01:46:07.170 It pays, but I know what you're saying. 01:46:09.070 --> 01:46:12.910 I would like to be in the Doug M. 01:46:12.930 --> 01:46:14.690 Moffitt situation where I just 01:46:14.690 --> 01:46:19.430 go along to the events and sort of be supportive and that kind of stuff. 01:46:19.610 --> 01:46:21.970 And sign me up. 01:46:22.210 --> 01:46:26.950 I mean, you know, all these people say, God, I don't want to ever worry about the woman in power. 01:46:27.050 --> 01:46:30.250 I'm like, oh, sign me up. You know, where the hell do I sign up for this? 01:46:30.350 --> 01:46:34.490 You know, I realized that my grandfather on my dad's side was like this because 01:46:34.490 --> 01:46:37.170 our grandmothers are the ones that really built up the business. 01:46:37.610 --> 01:46:43.470 I mean, he did some stuff, but she was the brains of the operation. 01:46:43.470 --> 01:46:48.690 He was really just there for like, I, he was just, you know, the guy, whatever. 01:46:48.950 --> 01:46:52.050 Yeah. You know, it's great. It's great job. 01:46:52.710 --> 01:46:53.150 Yeah. 01:46:54.620 --> 01:47:01.060 That, yeah. So I, I, I, I heartily encourage my wife to continue to pursue her 01:47:01.060 --> 01:47:04.700 political career and whatever, wherever it takes her, uh, 01:47:04.920 --> 01:47:10.180 into, uh, but of course the thing is like politics doesn't pay that much unless 01:47:10.180 --> 01:47:13.460 you go the Menendez rate way. And I am not. 01:47:13.500 --> 01:47:14.160 No, no. 01:47:14.180 --> 01:47:15.400 And I do not want my wife to do that. 01:47:15.400 --> 01:47:20.980 Listen a senator a u.s senator makes a decent buck you know for example you 01:47:20.980 --> 01:47:25.300 know it's not bad it's not bad you know it's a decent living yeah no but. 01:47:25.300 --> 01:47:29.860 Then you gotta maintain the two houses and all that kind of stuff like you run in dc one yeah. 01:47:29.860 --> 01:47:34.880 But then you write a book and you write a you know yes like that's absolutely. 01:47:34.880 --> 01:47:36.260 True that's absolutely true. 01:47:36.260 --> 01:47:39.660 That's the thing you write a book get some speaking or again. 01:47:39.660 --> 01:47:43.000 You go the menendez route you know and then. 01:47:43.000 --> 01:47:48.600 You can make the big I don't really recommend the route of getting paid in gold 01:47:48.600 --> 01:47:51.780 bars and just stuffed envelopes with cash. 01:47:51.900 --> 01:47:57.640 In order to influence your political actions. 01:47:58.380 --> 01:48:00.800 Yes, I highly discourage it. 01:48:00.880 --> 01:48:06.140 You think the little downside of jail, that it's not worth it? 01:48:06.160 --> 01:48:09.360 It's not great. It's not good. It's not great. Right. Is that, 01:48:09.380 --> 01:48:12.840 you know, I, I will say, you know, for people I've spoken to, 01:48:12.860 --> 01:48:15.400 but experience is not, not enjoyable. 01:48:15.580 --> 01:48:21.260 And so to be absolutely clear, I am not encouraging my wife to take that route. 01:48:21.960 --> 01:48:22.400 Correct. 01:48:22.820 --> 01:48:26.260 Not that she would consider it anyway, but you know, yeah. 01:48:26.620 --> 01:48:31.280 Anyway. Okay. 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We'll send you a mug. 01:49:53.510 --> 01:49:54.850 We will mention you on the show. 01:49:54.970 --> 01:50:01.290 We will ring that bell that Yvonne just did and all of that sort of fun stuff. 01:50:01.950 --> 01:50:05.270 And importantly, at $2 a month or more, 01:50:05.390 --> 01:50:08.370 or if you just ask us, we will 01:50:08.370 --> 01:50:11.270 invite you to the to curmudgeon's corner slack where yvonne and i and 01:50:11.270 --> 01:50:15.730 a bunch of listeners are chatting throughout the week and sharing links talking 01:50:15.730 --> 01:50:20.510 about the news there was quite a bit of activity on the slack this week about 01:50:20.510 --> 01:50:25.370 all the all the politics stuff going on but yvonne do you have a highlight from 01:50:25.370 --> 01:50:29.970 the slack that you'd want to share that would encourage people to join us there. 01:50:29.970 --> 01:50:33.950 Well this week you know we had that crowd crowd strike out. 01:50:33.950 --> 01:50:35.610 Yeah we talked about that last we. 01:50:35.610 --> 01:50:40.150 Talked about that last week, but this week, CrowdStrike, you know, 01:50:40.150 --> 01:50:45.210 trying to mend fences with people, you know, as, you know, the company with a heart. 01:50:46.090 --> 01:50:49.390 CrowdStrike offers, you know, there's a TechCrunch article where CrowdStrike 01:50:49.390 --> 01:50:54.610 is offering, offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for the outage. 01:50:54.790 --> 01:50:59.130 And several people who received the CrowdStrike offer found that the gift card didn't work. 01:50:59.650 --> 01:51:00.170 Nice. 01:51:00.350 --> 01:51:03.610 While others got an error saying the voucher had been canceled. 01:51:03.950 --> 01:51:06.530 Way to go, CrowdStrike. Great job. 01:51:07.670 --> 01:51:13.870 Yes and that's all that's finally all all subsided right like delta was the 01:51:13.870 --> 01:51:16.570 last one that was having problems and they all caught up they. 01:51:16.570 --> 01:51:19.810 They've been able to get finally all back in order. 01:51:19.810 --> 01:51:22.430 Yeah and most of that was catching up i have heard. 01:51:22.430 --> 01:51:24.030 There's a whole bunch of straggler. 01:51:24.030 --> 01:51:25.210 Yeah computers. 01:51:25.210 --> 01:51:27.270 Like in places but nothing. 01:51:27.270 --> 01:51:29.110 That has nothing with a big impact significant. 01:51:29.110 --> 01:51:30.190 Impact Right now. 01:51:30.650 --> 01:51:33.510 Okay. And I guess we're done. 01:51:33.890 --> 01:51:38.050 Are we done for we're, we're, we're under two hours for once. 01:51:38.150 --> 01:51:41.370 We hadn't, we haven't managed that in a few weeks, so we've, we've done good. 01:51:41.430 --> 01:51:45.610 Right. Good. Good. Great. Wonderful. 01:51:45.970 --> 01:51:51.030 Right. Yes. Anyway, I, I, I'm confused and bewildered. 01:51:51.070 --> 01:51:52.830 Any other adjectives that we want to throw? 01:51:53.910 --> 01:51:54.710 Confused, bewildered. 01:51:54.710 --> 01:51:57.510 That's the Biden-esque. Biden-esque. 01:51:57.550 --> 01:52:02.510 Biden-esque. anyway we're done here uh thanks everybody for joining us have a great week, 01:52:03.560 --> 01:52:06.140 I don't, we'll see what happens next week. 01:52:08.380 --> 01:52:09.840 You know, it's, it's. 01:52:09.840 --> 01:52:11.560 I mean, for all we know. 01:52:11.640 --> 01:52:15.080 We said it was going to be a roller coaster this year. Yvonne, 01:52:15.160 --> 01:52:17.780 we, you know, we may not have gotten this. 01:52:17.800 --> 01:52:22.800 We have not. I mean, I've realized right now that my prediction for president is. 01:52:22.880 --> 01:52:26.440 Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean, I mean. 01:52:26.480 --> 01:52:30.580 I've got no way of my, my prediction right now has no way of happening. 01:52:30.620 --> 01:52:33.800 I think you're the only one. Yeah, I think since I actually predicted Trump 01:52:33.800 --> 01:52:38.400 would win, I got who the Democratic nominee would be wrong, obviously. 01:52:39.340 --> 01:52:44.740 Yeah, I got that wrong. Yeah, I got that wrong. And I predicted somebody that 01:52:44.740 --> 01:52:46.900 is not on the ballot anymore. 01:52:46.900 --> 01:52:50.140 Yes not gonna be so the we we weren't 01:52:50.140 --> 01:52:53.300 great on the specifics but we did predict that 01:52:53.300 --> 01:52:56.140 this year would be a roller coaster and i think i don't that 01:52:56.140 --> 01:52:59.960 what we did i don't know i don't i don't know if we said that in the show it's 01:52:59.960 --> 01:53:04.940 in the prediction show itself but we we did say sometime that this year would 01:53:04.940 --> 01:53:08.300 be a roller coaster and it certainly has been so far and i think it's gonna 01:53:08.300 --> 01:53:11.980 it hasn't disappointed i think it's i think it's gonna be chaotic the rest of 01:53:11.980 --> 01:53:14.340 the year too so So we'll see how it goes. 01:53:14.640 --> 01:53:16.920 Anyway, I was starting to say, 01:53:17.000 --> 01:53:22.200 stay safe, have a good week, and we'll talk to you next time. Goodbye. 01:53:23.020 --> 01:53:23.460 Bye. 01:53:54.990 --> 01:53:57.730 Okay. Thank you, Mr. Bo. I'm hitting stop. 01:53:58.610 --> 01:53:59.190 All right. 01:53:59.950 --> 01:54:03.070 Do, do, do. Do, do, do. Do, do, do. 01:54:03.310 --> 01:54:06.950 Do, do, do. Hey, this is Sam. I just finished editing the show, 01:54:07.070 --> 01:54:10.590 and I have a question for you that I forgot to put in the show. 01:54:11.010 --> 01:54:16.470 Last week, I asked for feedback because I edited the show a little bit differently, 01:54:16.570 --> 01:54:22.130 and I said at the end of the show, hey, let me know basically how I did. 01:54:22.410 --> 01:54:24.170 I got no feedback whatsoever. 01:54:24.990 --> 01:54:28.530 So I'm going to ask again, I'm asking two questions. 01:54:28.930 --> 01:54:36.530 A, did you notice any difference whatsoever on what the show sounded like or how the show sounded? 01:54:36.630 --> 01:54:39.330 You know what I mean? Did you notice any difference at all? 01:54:39.530 --> 01:54:46.410 And B, if you did notice a difference, was it better or worse than before? 01:54:46.830 --> 01:54:50.530 I'm basically trying to decide whether I continue to do things the way I have 01:54:50.530 --> 01:54:54.390 the last two weeks or whether I go back to what I have done before. 01:54:54.390 --> 01:54:58.770 And so I'm soliciting feedback to like, you know, the audience here, 01:54:58.910 --> 01:55:00.950 like, does it make any difference? 01:55:01.030 --> 01:55:05.730 And I guess if I hear nothing from anybody that, you know, either it makes no 01:55:05.730 --> 01:55:06.990 difference or you just don't care. 01:55:07.270 --> 01:55:09.310 So I'll just do whatever. 01:55:09.870 --> 01:55:13.410 But I would love to hear from you. Like, did you notice a difference? 01:55:13.650 --> 01:55:16.470 And if you did notice a difference, is it better or worse? 01:55:16.590 --> 01:55:22.390 Because I'd like to do what people like, but, and I'm very carefully not saying 01:55:22.390 --> 01:55:28.770 what I did differently because I don't want to bias what you think, but let me know. 01:55:28.850 --> 01:55:34.770 I'd love the feedback. Of course, very few people make it this far in the show, so who knows? 01:55:35.510 --> 01:55:39.370 Even our loyal listeners often skip the last couple minutes because it's like, 01:55:39.450 --> 01:55:41.930 okay, you're giving the regular info at the end of the show, 01:55:42.010 --> 01:55:43.570 and I've heard this a thousand times before. 01:55:43.750 --> 01:55:47.450 But anyway, if you do hear this, let me know. 01:55:47.510 --> 01:55:52.670 I may ask one more time on the show, maybe at the beginning of the show instead of the end. I don't know. 01:55:53.970 --> 01:55:55.590 Anyway, bye for real.