1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff You Should Know? 3 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 1: From House Stuff Works dot Com? Hey you, and welcome 4 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, 5 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:24,959 Speaker 1: and you put us together, a couple of microphones, some cameras. 6 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 1: You get something called Stuff you Should Know cameras. Yeah 7 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: you're talking about Oh yeah, there's nothing here. Everything's very normal. 8 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:38,880 Speaker 1: Just proceed, Chuck. Yes, I'm great. How are you? What's 9 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: your time is? NI? I'm getting over my cold? Yeah 10 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:44,639 Speaker 1: you sound good? Do I Yeah? Well you sound better 11 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: than last week. Yeah, I'll give you that, but I 12 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: still I don't feel like I found a percent. But 13 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: compared to the swimming and snot phase, I will take 14 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: this and it got really bad, pretty snotty. I'm not 15 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: going to go into it here, but wow. Yeah, um okay, yes, 16 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: election time is not I tried to get right to it, 17 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: yeah and I blocked you. Um so uh yeah, That's 18 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:13,119 Speaker 1: why I wanted to do this one, because people perennially 19 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: perennially ask for the electoral college and other people say, 20 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 1: I don't know what that is but I want to 21 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: hear about that too, And then people in other countries 22 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: just say, you guys do what? Yeah, it's kind of depressing. Yeah. 23 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:29,040 Speaker 1: Actually I meant to look up to see what other 24 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: countries did with their elections. It's like kings and birthrights 25 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: and stuff, but no one else votes. No, that's just 26 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 1: the USA that does that. Um yeah, chuck um. I 27 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:47,320 Speaker 1: don't really have much of an intro here, all right, 28 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: it's more of a can you believe this kind of thing? 29 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: How long have you thought that you went to the 30 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: polls and cast a vote and the vote you were 31 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: casting was for the candidate that you were casting that 32 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: vote for. That that's who that vote went to every 33 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 1: time up until yesterday. So like you didn't have much 34 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: of an idea about the electoral call. Now I did, 35 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: but and I knew sort of how it worked, But 36 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: until you really get down to it, you don't realize that, Wow, 37 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: I'm voting for a person that's going to vote for 38 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 1: a person. Yeah exactly, you know, yeah, because in some cases, 39 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: like it's not even on the ballot, like the person 40 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: who you're actually voting for. Okay, So we did what 41 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 1: I like to do. We confused everybody, and now we're 42 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: gonna go back and explain what we're talking about. Okay, Yeah, 43 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: I was confused. Actually, uh, I'm gonna be a shamed 44 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: shame myself right out of the gate. When it said 45 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: every four years on the Tuesday following the first Monday 46 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: of November, I was like, why don't they just call 47 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,639 Speaker 1: it the first Tuesday in November? But then I realized that, 48 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: I guess if November one is a Tuesday, then it 49 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 1: won't the election won't be to the following Tuesday because 50 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: they gotta get the Monday in there. It gets even 51 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 1: crazier than that with the electoral College. They go the 52 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 1: first Monday day following the second Wednesday in December. Yeah, 53 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: and everybody had like gout or something like that. Back. Yeah, 54 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: that's what it was. So that is when the actual 55 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: presidency is decided in December. Although everyone knows, well you 56 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: would think, yeah, so okay, so let's talk about this. 57 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: So the electoral college the whole thing, like, why don't 58 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: we just stick to the popular vote, which is what 59 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: everybody thinks they're doing. Anyway, where did this come from? 60 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: I have an answer. Uh, back in the day when 61 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: our founding forefathers and mothers were doing their thing here. 62 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 1: They decided, you know, I think I don't trust a 63 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: regular popular vote. Uh it's reckless as described in this article. 64 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: And then um, another camp said, you know what, we 65 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 1: sure as heck ain't gonna let Congress decide the president. 66 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: So why don't we come up with a really confusing, 67 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: wacky system all the electoral college, Because it's like, compromise, 68 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: do you want to have a bunch of uninformed gravel 69 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: rousers who just revolted against the King of England a 70 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: few years before voting, or do you want a group 71 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: of elites voting. It's like citizens United. You don't want 72 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: either of them. So, yeah, they just went and got confusing. 73 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I imagine it was more confusing back then 74 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 1: than it is today. Or maybe not, maybe it made 75 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: more sensepect I think it probably did. So Okay, So 76 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 1: when they come up with it was a compromise. Well, 77 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: the compromises when it comes election time. Um, there are 78 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 1: these people called electors who actually decide the presidency and 79 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:43,279 Speaker 1: they represent Um that's equal to to two U. S. 80 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: Senators that every state has, plus the number of representatives 81 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: that each state has, So that comes to five thirty 82 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:52,479 Speaker 1: eight total. Yes, Um, and three of those are part 83 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 1: of the twenty three amendment from nineteen sixty one that 84 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 1: gave three electors to d C. Yeah, they figured, since 85 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: everything is based here, we might as well talk with 86 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: your votes. Seem like the right. Um, And did you 87 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 1: say that was amendment? So? Um, they actually cast the 88 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: vote when when we when we vote for the president, 89 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,280 Speaker 1: we are voting for the electors, And like you said, 90 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: they're not always even on the ballot. Sometimes they are, 91 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: sometimes they're not. And like I bet you anything, the 92 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: people who vote have no idea who their electors are 93 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,280 Speaker 1: or like how they got to be in that position, right, 94 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: They were like, Um, I'm going to vote for Barack Obama, 95 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: but who is this Todd Winemaker in parentheses thanks to him? 96 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: I have no idea who that is or if in 97 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: some ballots they'll you'll go to the end and it's 98 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: like county commissioner, dog catcher and then electors and then 99 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: there's a list of people's names by party or like 100 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 1: you said, it's just not on there at all. Yeah. 101 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 1: And one thing I was surprised to learn was my 102 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: our own electors here in Georgia. I looked them up 103 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:01,360 Speaker 1: just because I thought, you know, I might as well 104 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: know who they are and their addresses are in there, 105 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 1: Like I can go knock on the dude's door indicator 106 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: like eight blocks from me and say, you, sir, have 107 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,359 Speaker 1: a great responsibility at your hands. Are you going to 108 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 1: do that? But I could? You could? I think maybe 109 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 1: you should reconsider. I'm just surprised. I don't know. I guess, well, 110 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: we know where the president lives, so that's not a 111 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 1: big deal. But I guess I was surprised at all 112 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 1: that stuff is common knowledge. I thought they would be 113 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,719 Speaker 1: like secret. Yeah, I think they want that to go 114 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 1: the opposite way. Well, no, it makes sense now that 115 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 1: I figured it out, Like they do want everything out 116 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: in the open so everyone knows. But it just seemed 117 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: a little weird that the guy voting for the president 118 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,039 Speaker 1: is actually like half a mile from my house or 119 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 1: one of the guys. I'm with you, all right. UM, 120 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: so you've got like this group of people who are 121 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 1: actually voted in, and um they meet after the popular 122 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 1: election to certify. The secretary of each state certifies the vote. 123 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: The governor, Uh, what's the for certificates saying here are 124 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 1: all the votes that age candidate got, and then um, 125 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: based on this, the electors go and cast their vote 126 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: the first Monday following the second Wednesday in December. That's right. 127 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 1: I couldn't find why. Oh, I don't know. I guess 128 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: it just falls somewhere in between the election and jan 129 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: And that's when everybody it's like, wait, wait, wait, Christmas, Christmas. 130 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: We've got to make sure we're done in plenty of time. 131 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: And then um, they cast the vote and then it's unsealed, 132 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: right and read that's right. Even though, barring any surprises, 133 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: you pretty much know election night from either exit polls 134 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: or whatever you know, Dan rather tells you, or whoever 135 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: does it these days, you would hope because that guy 136 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: who lives a few miles away from you, blocks or miles, Um, 137 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: I think I charted him out. I'm stalking him. It 138 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: was less than a mile. That's uh. So that guy, um, 139 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: you want his name? Yeah, John White? That his name, 140 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 1: So John White, the elector, right, one of them. Yeah, 141 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: it's it's perfectly legal for him to say, you know what, 142 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 1: Supposedly I am supposed to be voting for Barack Obama. 143 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 1: But I really like the kind of this. Mitt Rodney's Jim. Yeah, 144 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: that doesn't really happen, though it has, but not quite 145 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: like that. But in the modern time, I think one 146 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: of the reasons why they published their addresses is so 147 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: you know, a good it's throwing you out there like, 148 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 1: hey man, you can vote however you want, but everybody 149 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 1: knows where you live. And if you think they get 150 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: mad about, you know, referees making bad calls, faithless elector 151 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: that's what they're called, which is a great band name. 152 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:45,320 Speaker 1: Do you think faithless selector or the faithless Electors? I 153 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: don't think so. It's too um maybe for like a 154 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: DC law school band. Faithless Electors. I can see that 155 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 1: almost girls, they have no future whatsoever unless they turn 156 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 1: it into something like school opians or something like that. Right, 157 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 1: And actually, faithless electors have no future as electors because 158 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: one thing you can probably be sure of if you 159 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: change your vote, then you're not going to be asked 160 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 1: back to be an elector in the future, and you 161 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 1: could possibly be fined depending on what states you're in, 162 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: and you're probably going to be kicked out of your party. 163 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 1: You're putting a lot on the line. Yeah, and see, 164 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: this is the thing that made it all clear to me. 165 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: Each party has its own electors, so that's why no 166 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 1: one's gonna turn. Like the people that are put in 167 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: the place as electors are like staunch party line people. 168 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:37,320 Speaker 1: You know, they're not going to turn and vote. Like. 169 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: The reason they're there is because they know that they're 170 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: going to vote for either the Republican or the Democrat. 171 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 1: Then know where their bread is buttered exactly. Um. Okay, 172 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 1: so let's talk about these people. How are these people elected? 173 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 1: What do they have to qualify for? Obviously everyone has 174 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 1: to have at least a juris doctor if not a 175 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: PhD in law of some sort, like a juris doctorate um, 176 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 1: some sort of political science degree um. And probably um 177 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 1: they have to have like several hundred hours of community 178 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 1: service under their belt. Yes, that is not true. Are 179 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 1: you sure? A nice set up though, thank you being coy. Uh. 180 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: There actually are no real um strict outlines per the 181 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:22,319 Speaker 1: constitution as to who these people are. Um. They are 182 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 1: usually nominated by a state party committee. Um. It says 183 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 1: in here, usually as a or sometimes to reward many 184 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 1: years of service to the party. So they could be 185 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:35,479 Speaker 1: like big on the campaign trail for you or activists 186 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: maybe for your party or like a robo dialer. Yeah yeah, 187 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 1: I guess so like the all time robot dialing. UM. 188 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:48,319 Speaker 1: But they cannot be UM senators or representatives. And I 189 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 1: would imagine former too, although I didn't see that. I 190 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:55,719 Speaker 1: don't know. I think active is what it is. UM. 191 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 1: You can't be a high ranking official in a position 192 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 1: of trust or profit. Makes sense. And this one I 193 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:05,199 Speaker 1: love that they actually had to specify this. UM, he 194 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: or she cannot be someone who has engaged in insurrection 195 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 1: or rebellion. Well this is this obviously was put in 196 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: by the people who are like, we can't just to 197 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: a popular vote. These people are crazy, Like I saw, 198 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: I must get in that guy's hands last week, aimed 199 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: at my office and now he's an elector, right, he 200 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:26,439 Speaker 1: can't vote. That is still in there though. UM. Yeah, 201 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 1: that insurrection rebellion thing definitely helped form this country. Okay, 202 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: So UM, you've got people who are active in their 203 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 1: in their party, who are who have been rewarded UM. 204 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: Maybe they're activists. UM. Sometimes they know the president or 205 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 1: at president elect, like they met him on the campaign trail. UM. 206 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 1: And that's really about it. Each state has I think 207 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 1: probably a different UM nominating process. But overall, when you 208 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: are when you have a candidate who's running from Green 209 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:03,199 Speaker 1: Party dumb Republican, you take your as your party, as 210 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 1: your Green Party, you all go down together and you 211 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: pile into like the the camper and go down and 212 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: exactly and you're all very depressed because you don't have 213 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: a shot at winning. You know, Roseanne's running for president 214 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 1: for the Green Party. Really yeah, and she's being roasted 215 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 1: right now. I don't think that that's not a media play, right. Um, 216 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: So they all go down to the Secretary of State's 217 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:30,560 Speaker 1: office and say, hey, these are our candidates. There are 218 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: electors for candidates for electors. So when you vote for Roseanne, um, 219 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: it should have all those people's names next to hers 220 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:44,280 Speaker 1: or on on like by party. It might say like 221 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 1: Green Party electors, here's all the people, or it might 222 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 1: not say anything. But um, when you cast that vote 223 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: for Roseanne, you are voting those electors. That's who you're 224 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:59,319 Speaker 1: voting for. That's who the vote goes to, Not Roseanne, 225 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,679 Speaker 1: it goes to John Goodman. I would be That's who 226 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:05,439 Speaker 1: I would have as my elector if I was Roseanne. 227 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:11,959 Speaker 1: What about Tom Arnold? Now, Tom Arnold, that a messy divorce. 228 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:14,839 Speaker 1: He'd be the party press though. Well John Goodman was 229 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:17,760 Speaker 1: never married to there's just TV TV marriage though. That's 230 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 1: like sacer sanct That's just my opinion. All right, Um, 231 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: all right, so where are we? We're talking about how 232 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:30,319 Speaker 1: the vote goes towards not Roseanne where you wanted it 233 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: to go, not Tom Tom Arnold or John Goodman, but 234 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:37,839 Speaker 1: to uh Todd Winemaker and all the other electors. Right, 235 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:42,720 Speaker 1: So what's what's going on here? What's this process? Well, 236 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 1: I mean they they literally just make their vote, um, 237 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: supposedly in accordance with the people's popular vote, and I 238 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 1: think what do they give it to? The secretary secretary 239 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 1: of state? Right, that's that's who's like, it's registered before 240 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 1: election day, like your names on the list, it's yes, 241 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 1: So at the at least if it's not printed on 242 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 1: the ballot, the secretary of state knows who the electors are. 243 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: And there's two ways to do it. Forty eight states 244 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 1: have a winner take all system, and then Maine in 245 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:13,199 Speaker 1: Nebraska have a district system. I'm just confused by that one. Okay, 246 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 1: So the district system actually more closely follows the electoral 247 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 1: college system than the winner take all. Now is this 248 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 1: to to vote for the elector only? No, that's what 249 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: confused me. I think. So let's say you have let's 250 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: do the winner take all system, which is so easy, 251 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: but think about it. So let's say you are in Arizona, 252 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 1: all right, right, and you're you decided to stay, you're 253 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: not moving. Um, that wouldn't happen. You've got like you 254 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: have ten ten there's ten well in two thousand eight 255 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 1: and I believe it's the same in two thousand and twelve. 256 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 1: There's ten electoral votes, right, Um, so the Green Party 257 00:14:54,840 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: candidate Roseanne should have ten electors associated with her, right, Um, 258 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: the Barack Obama should have ten electors? Uh mitt, Ronnie 259 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 1: should have ten electors. So when when that person wins 260 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: the popular vote and that's certified, then those electors are 261 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 1: the ones, those ten associated with that candidate are the 262 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: one that should go down to the state capital on 263 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: the first Monday after the second Wednesday of December and 264 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 1: cast their vote. Okay, I get that. And also we 265 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 1: should point out that in this system, that is the 266 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: reason why sometimes the name isn't even on the ballot 267 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 1: because there's something something somewhere in their state constitution that 268 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 1: says a vote for Barack Obama is a vote for 269 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: these ten people. You don't need to know who they are, 270 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 1: just trust us exactly. Okay, that's the that's the winner 271 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: take all system. Right. The other system in Maine in 272 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: Nebraska is a district system. So the winner take all 273 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: system that's a lot like a popular vote. Um. In 274 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: the district system, you get two votes, the the guy 275 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 1: who won, the guy or the lady or the gender 276 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: gender neutral president, depending on when you listen to this episode. 277 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: Um uh. They whoever got the most popular votes in 278 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: the state gets two electoral votes, the two associated with 279 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: the Senate Right. Then um, the other electoral votes that 280 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 1: are divvied up by congressional district. Whoever one that congressional 281 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: district gets that vote. Yeah, I get that, and I looked. 282 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 1: I looked it up a little further and saw that 283 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:29,760 Speaker 1: there are scenarios in Maine in Nebraska where you could 284 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 1: have three different UM votes cast for three different candidates. 285 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 1: But they said it's never happened. It's just theoretically possible, 286 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 1: mathematically statistically possible, all three. I don't know. It just 287 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: seems like everyone should just be all in the same system. 288 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 1: But but it makes sense if you're but think about it, Like, 289 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 1: the whole reason you have the electoral college, or one 290 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: of the big reasons, is to prevent um one region 291 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: or one one part of this state from wielding enough 292 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:06,920 Speaker 1: power to vote for everybody else. And I think that's 293 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:09,399 Speaker 1: what the district system is is set up to prevent 294 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,959 Speaker 1: to It's kind of like, hey man, you had let 295 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:16,959 Speaker 1: let you. You voted for this, this, this person, UM, 296 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: and we want you to have your say in the 297 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: electoral college. I think it's smarter. Oh yeah, I think 298 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 1: so well than I do too. You swayed me. Good. 299 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 1: John White. I've got his number. You know, he could 300 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 1: use this as evidence one day for what I don't want. 301 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 1: What's gonna happen? What are you gonna do? I'm but 302 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:43,399 Speaker 1: if something happened, then everyone would point their fingers at me. Yeah. 303 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 1: It's like we heard him say it so on his podcast. 304 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:51,400 Speaker 1: All right, I won't testify against you, though I appreciate it. Um. 305 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 1: Should we talk about some of the hinky results over 306 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: the years when things don't go quite as planned or 307 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:04,120 Speaker 1: go exactly as planned. Very true, that's a teaser. Um. 308 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 1: There have been four presidents, Um, potus what they call 309 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:16,400 Speaker 1: him four potuses podai that have one um there their 310 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,639 Speaker 1: post with without the popular vote. Yeah, I mean that's 311 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 1: happened four times in this country, and all the ones 312 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,399 Speaker 1: up until two thousand, we probably weren't his concern with 313 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: because you're like, who cares. They're all old timing, They're 314 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 1: all old time, they were wearing, they were just working 315 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:34,440 Speaker 1: it out. Back in eighty four when John adams Son 316 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: John Quincy the Q, the Q he received thirty eight 317 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: thousand fewer votes than Andrew Jackson. Um, this one was 318 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 1: was definitely hinky because neither one of them won electoral college. 319 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 1: So if that happens, you defer to what the twelfth Amendment, 320 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 1: and that's when the House of Representatives decides who the 321 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:57,120 Speaker 1: president is, which would be really weird these days. Yeah, 322 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,360 Speaker 1: don't you think. I think there'd be a lot of 323 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 1: that just be bad news. But at the same time, 324 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 1: this is four and there were still a lot of 325 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: insurrecting rebellious people, so I'm sure it was a little 326 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:14,400 Speaker 1: nervous back then. Um so who won j Q Q Yeah, 327 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:21,199 Speaker 1: Um eighteen seventy six, brother Ford B. Hayes. Um, this 328 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:23,640 Speaker 1: is the first time and I think the only time 329 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:27,399 Speaker 1: that small states actually swung the election. Hayes carried a 330 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:32,719 Speaker 1: bunch of small states um and basically combined there with 331 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 1: their combined electoral votes, gave him the electoral vote um, 332 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 1: although he lost the popular vote by a lot, by 333 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 1: like a hundred and nine thousand, no, two hundred sixty 334 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: four thousand votes. He lost the popular vote. Yeah, we 335 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 1: almost had a president Samuel Tilden, Sammy Tilden, the Haymaker, 336 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 1: it was his nickname. Really, I feel bad for the 337 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: hay Maker all of a sudden, Yeah, yeah, well, I 338 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: mean everybody liked him a lot more. But Hayes cobbled 339 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:06,719 Speaker 1: together a win from small states, and Colorado had just 340 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:08,959 Speaker 1: been let in this is the Hinky part um and 341 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,640 Speaker 1: they didn't have any popular vote, there was no vote whatsoever. 342 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 1: They just did some electoral voting and it went all 343 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 1: to hay So he put it together with Colorado so 344 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,879 Speaker 1: with very little popular vote, and then in one state 345 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:24,199 Speaker 1: no popular vote, and he won, and he went on 346 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: to be the greatest president of this country's ever seen. 347 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,159 Speaker 1: I mean, Colorado, I guess they were just like, we 348 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 1: don't even have pens and pencils. Can you give us, like, 349 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 1: just get bufflers. We're just like, we're all boxes over here. 350 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: We haven't even started unpacking. So they said, oh well, 351 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: let's just give it to let's just give it to Haze. Yeah, 352 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 1: good on, Yeah, who you got next? Benjie Harrison lost 353 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,600 Speaker 1: the popular vote by more than ninety five thousand votes 354 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 1: to Grover Cleveland. Won the electoral vote by sixty five 355 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,959 Speaker 1: And this is one of the cases where they say 356 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:02,439 Speaker 1: it worked exactly like the plan. Uh, like we planned 357 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:06,639 Speaker 1: it to with electoral college, because you can't just overwhelm 358 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 1: someone in one region and and get the presidency. That's 359 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 1: what happened. And so in six states in the South, 360 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 1: so they the whole campaign pretty much was based on 361 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 1: we want the tariff, we don't want the tariff. Well, 362 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 1: the North that everybody else wanted the tariff, South didn't 363 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 1: want the tariff. Um, so Grover Cleveland was like, no 364 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,119 Speaker 1: tariff whatsoever, and the South voted as a block. They 365 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 1: had a bunch of people. He won the popular vote 366 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:37,120 Speaker 1: by like huge number, but in the other thirty two 367 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:41,159 Speaker 1: states he lost by four twenty five thousand votes. No, no, no, 368 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:45,439 Speaker 1: he lost by three hundred thousand. He had so thirty 369 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,400 Speaker 1: two states were against him. Combined, six states were four him, 370 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,679 Speaker 1: and the Electoral College steps in and prevents the South 371 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,920 Speaker 1: from picking the president for the rest of the country 372 00:21:55,280 --> 00:22:00,440 Speaker 1: flawless and then not flawless. Let's go to the year 373 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:06,200 Speaker 1: two thousand. Yeah. Yeah, I was um driving across country 374 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 1: moving to Los Angeles during this election, and I made 375 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 1: a self made video of my journey, which most of 376 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:16,920 Speaker 1: which was me singing along the songs on the radio 377 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 1: in my U haul. And I've still got this. I 378 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 1: should like get it digitized and posted at some point. 379 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: It's pretty funny. But um, I remember very specifically one 380 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:26,159 Speaker 1: part in the in the thing, I woke up in 381 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 1: New Mexico and I'm you can tell him all sleepy 382 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,679 Speaker 1: and you don't remember going to sleep. I remember going 383 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 1: to sleep, but I woke up and I said, yeah, 384 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: you know here I am in New Mexico. It's weird. 385 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: I woke up this morning and they don't know who 386 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 1: the president is. And it's like captured in time this 387 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,199 Speaker 1: moment where I realized was sleep in my eyes, Like, 388 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 1: that's weird. I went to bed expecting because you know 389 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: that night everybody was going towards Gore. Well, every I 390 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,639 Speaker 1: think it was called a couple of different ways, a 391 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:55,879 Speaker 1: couple of different times. It went back and forth, but 392 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 1: when everybody went to bed, it was like Gore all 393 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 1: the way, like he'd won the popular vote. They knew 394 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: it was close, but everybody had called Gore and and 395 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 1: then they woke up and they're like wait a second. 396 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 1: And then a huge, huge mess cluster ensued afterward, which 397 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 1: involved the court system. It involved um hanging Chad's well 398 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: not only that, you remember like there was this one 399 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 1: county where like their votes just got lost for a 400 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: little while on the way to be counted. They were 401 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: just vanished, um and then reappeared later on, like that 402 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 1: kind of stuff. You should just basically be like, no, 403 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: the whole state, everybody has to wait, the whole state 404 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,879 Speaker 1: has to start over and vote again. Yeah, that might 405 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 1: have been a good mood. They were like accusations of 406 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:49,000 Speaker 1: disenfranchisement among black voters, black in black areas. Yeah, there 407 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,119 Speaker 1: were also, I mean both sides had a lot of 408 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: arguments like when you really start peeling back the layers 409 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: and researching this, like it will make you cry. And 410 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:01,440 Speaker 1: they were just like dozens and dozens of um factors 411 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,200 Speaker 1: that many people never even saw in the nightly news, 412 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 1: you know, like military votes or disenfranchised voters in poor counties. 413 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: And then I think Gore asked for a recount and 414 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 1: only four counties when people are saying he should have 415 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 1: asked for a hand recount in all the counties. And 416 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: in the end, Potas was decided for the country by 417 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: less than, like, less than four hundred votes. Is that 418 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:29,959 Speaker 1: when it came down to well, I mean it depends 419 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,120 Speaker 1: because all the different factors, like do we count these votes? 420 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 1: What about these these people meant to vote for Gore 421 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:36,719 Speaker 1: or Bush and it was cloudy, and what about these 422 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: hanging chads? So there's all different kinds of numbers. But 423 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:43,239 Speaker 1: I've seen one. I've seen one um that said it 424 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 1: was less than a hundred votes. It was the deciding factor. 425 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,120 Speaker 1: So it came down to a hundred votes. But Florida's 426 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,200 Speaker 1: winner take all. Yeah, so that means that those hundred votes, 427 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 1: since Bush got those hundred votes, he got all twenty 428 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 1: five votes in the electoral college for Florida, which just 429 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 1: so happened to put him at exactly the amount of 430 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: electoral votes he needed to win the presidency, which was 431 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,159 Speaker 1: to seventy one it's crazy. I mean I've seen I've 432 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,639 Speaker 1: looked as many people have since then. It like the 433 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 1: independent studies they did afterward, and it just depends on 434 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 1: which ones you want to read. Like I saw today, 435 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:22,640 Speaker 1: I saw like ten independent studies, and six of them 436 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,959 Speaker 1: showed that Gore was the definite winner. Four of them 437 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:29,679 Speaker 1: showed that Bush was. So it's just confusing and disheartening. 438 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 1: But what it did was shed light on ah a 439 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 1: pretty flawed system, um, and how we cast our votes, 440 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,879 Speaker 1: how they're counted, um. And it gave us the hanging 441 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 1: Chad I guess the hanging Chad joke. Um. So uh. 442 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,880 Speaker 1: There was also a bit of awkwardness that came out 443 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:52,120 Speaker 1: of that, um, just a bit. Well in in one instance, 444 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,639 Speaker 1: there was a kind of an overlooked bit of awkwardness. 445 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 1: The when the votes are the electoral votes are unsealed, 446 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 1: they're unsealed by the president of the city. It president 447 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,920 Speaker 1: of the Senate is the vice president. So in two thousand, 448 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: the two thousand election, remember Al Gore was vice president, 449 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 1: he was president Senate, so he had to read his 450 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 1: own defeated electoral college votes did yeah, and there was 451 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 1: like something of an insurrection and a rebellion among black 452 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 1: congressional members who were protesting the vote and protesting including 453 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 1: Florida's vote in the count and uh, he had to 454 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 1: basically be like it's over, it's done. For the good 455 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,680 Speaker 1: of the country, let's move on. But he he there 456 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,160 Speaker 1: was like no emotion, even the emotion you just had, 457 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 1: there wasn't that. There was less than that. For the 458 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 1: good of the country. Let's move on. You know, Gore 459 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:45,360 Speaker 1: always got tagged as the robot, the robotron, But there 460 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 1: was a video I might have talked about it before 461 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 1: that Spike Jones made of Gore that never was released, 462 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 1: a campaign video that I think would have won him 463 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 1: the election. He had like his tie Lesen now man, 464 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 1: he he was like way funnier and cooler than you 465 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,080 Speaker 1: would think he was on thirty Rock. He did a 466 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 1: good job on Yeah, but that was later. But this 467 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: was before when he had the like the bad rap 468 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,159 Speaker 1: is like a robot. But this like he let him 469 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 1: inside his home and it was just very casual, very 470 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 1: laid back, and you're like you saw him as a 471 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: dude for the first time, like cracking jokes and hanging 472 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,439 Speaker 1: out with his family, and it was like very endearing 473 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,920 Speaker 1: and he and he was like, do not release this. Yeah, 474 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 1: I'm sure, and he lost the election. Did you ever 475 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 1: see that Simpsons where Lisa buys al Gore's one of 476 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,679 Speaker 1: his books and like the information is transmitted and somebody 477 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,119 Speaker 1: runs into the to the I don't know what The 478 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 1: vice president's office is called the Trapezoid office, and it's like, 479 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 1: Mr Vice President, someone just bought your book. And he goes, well, 480 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,359 Speaker 1: this calls for a celebration, and he turns so he 481 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 1: turns on the record player and puts on h cool 482 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:54,919 Speaker 1: in the game celebrate and it's like celebreak good times. 483 00:27:55,040 --> 00:28:01,160 Speaker 1: Come on. He goes, I will, It's perfect. They nailed them. 484 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:05,200 Speaker 1: Oh poor guy. So that's Gore. Yeah, that's Gore. So 485 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 1: I guess on both sides of the coin here, Um, 486 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,359 Speaker 1: we have people thinking this is a great thing still 487 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,439 Speaker 1: and people saying this is not a great. Yeah. For 488 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 1: each instance, even the one we were saying like the 489 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 1: electoral college worked perfectly, there are people who are like, no, 490 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,880 Speaker 1: it's all messed up, like he clearly won the popular vote, 491 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 1: however you want to put it, yeah, like uh, and 492 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 1: and other people to say like, calmed down, that's all 493 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 1: just calmed down. Well, one of the knocks against it 494 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:35,440 Speaker 1: is some say it discourages voter turnout. Um, because unless 495 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 1: you're in a swing state or a battleground state, it's 496 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 1: quote unquote predecided. Yeah, but then again, so does like 497 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 1: the two party system. We were in like a very 498 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 1: very red state. So we can say if we you know, 499 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 1: word of not vote read um, we like, we could 500 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: make a case that our votes would be thrown away, um, 501 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 1: and that could dissuade voters from turning out too. And 502 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 1: the people for it say, now, this is exactly what 503 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 1: we need, because it's a wade system. Um. The states 504 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 1: that have the most, the states that should have the 505 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 1: most influences are the states that are the most populated. 506 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: Well that's how it's how it's divided up. Like Alas 507 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 1: is great. We love all that land, but land shouldn't 508 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 1: be deciding who the president is, you know, yeah right, yeah, okay, No, 509 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: I'm with it. It's people. It's people that counts, not mountains. 510 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 1: People not mountains, People not mountains. What do we want 511 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 1: time travel? When do we want it? It's irrelevant? Alright, 512 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 1: I like that side, So I don't know, it's just 513 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,880 Speaker 1: some random guy I posted on the Facebook page. Everyone 514 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 1: thought it was me, though, I guess because facial here, 515 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 1: it's like there's more than me. I see mustaches out there, Yeah, 516 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 1: I mean they're all over the place. Um So, over 517 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,200 Speaker 1: the past two hundred years, over seven hundred proposals have 518 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 1: been introduced to reform or eliminate this process. Yep, the 519 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 1: most proposed les for any constitutional amendment. I could see that. Yeah, 520 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 1: I can see that. I think it's probably because um, 521 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 1: executive executive orders aren't in the Constitution and therefore can't 522 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: be repealed. Maybe. UM, I know that attorneys by and 523 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 1: large are against it. The American Bar Association polled at 524 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:24,520 Speaker 1: SEM in favor of abolishing it, whereas political scientists have 525 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 1: generally supported it. And then there I could find three 526 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:32,640 Speaker 1: popular polls opinion polls over the years. UM in nineteen 527 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 1: sixty seven percent of Americans said they don't like it. 528 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:42,640 Speaker 1: In ninety late sixties, theaters just like, what is it? Government? 529 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,720 Speaker 1: I don't want it? And then that UM in nineteen 530 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 1: eight one that declined to But by and large the 531 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 1: people are saying, or at least up until nine, like, 532 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 1: we don't like this process. Don't make us insurrect. Whoever 533 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,840 Speaker 1: has the most most votes should win is what many 534 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:07,480 Speaker 1: Americans believe. Did we talk about the two elections that 535 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 1: were decided by the House of Representatives because there were 536 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,280 Speaker 1: ties in the electoral Well, we talked about the one, 537 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,880 Speaker 1: I which think we mentioned the other? Oh yeah, yeah, 538 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:22,080 Speaker 1: but Burr and um Adam or Jefferson, right, Um, there 539 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: was a tie in the electoral college, and it took 540 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:28,400 Speaker 1: thirty one votes in the House of Representatives to decide 541 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,960 Speaker 1: who was the president, and it turned out to be 542 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 1: Thomas Jefferson. And then Aaron Burr was shot. That's right. 543 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 1: That's the sad end of that story. Aaron Burr shot 544 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 1: Alexander Hamilton's that's right, And that's the sad end too. 545 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 1: Electoral college. Yeah, and vote people, That's all we have 546 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: to say. Even if you if you live in California 547 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 1: and you're in the Democrat and you think, hey, we're 548 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 1: gonna lock up this fifty votes, even if I sleep 549 00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 1: in and go see my medical marijuana to doctor, get 550 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 1: out vote anyway. Yeah. Or if you're in a state 551 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 1: like Georgia and you're a Republican and you think, hey, 552 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,520 Speaker 1: we're gonna carry this, you get out and vote too. 553 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,920 Speaker 1: It's pretty much the uh, the fable of the rabbit 554 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 1: and the hair that you're talking about. Who's the hair? 555 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,200 Speaker 1: I guess the hair is the person who visits their 556 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 1: medical marijuana doctor. It oversleeps rather than um voting that day. 557 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 1: And how do you oversleep? You mean like sleep until Wednesday, 558 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 1: not get up on Tuesdays. Have you heard about Ohio, 559 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 1: Well that's a swing state. Yeah, but have you heard 560 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 1: what's going on there? Uh? Now, dude, the Secretary of State, 561 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:46,720 Speaker 1: a Republican, has decreed that there that counties that are 562 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:51,240 Speaker 1: typically blue, generally blue blue counties are not going to 563 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,400 Speaker 1: have weekend voting and their early voting hours are going 564 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:59,120 Speaker 1: to be short compared to red counties that are going 565 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:04,040 Speaker 1: to have weekend voting and longer UM early voting hours. 566 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:09,040 Speaker 1: And like there's no explanation for this whatsoever. See, that's 567 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:10,960 Speaker 1: my problem is, like I know, you probably can't do 568 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,840 Speaker 1: a nationwide everything is the same, but within the state, 569 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,640 Speaker 1: every district should have the exact same procedure, the same machines, 570 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,400 Speaker 1: the same Like, all of that should be the same. 571 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,040 Speaker 1: I can't believe there's districts that have like here you 572 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,480 Speaker 1: do a punch card and here you scribble in with 573 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,360 Speaker 1: the number two penciling here. You just say it quietly 574 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,120 Speaker 1: into a booth, and there's someone on the other side 575 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,480 Speaker 1: out a candle, one of the two candles. Yeah, that's 576 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 1: another sentence. It's pretty messed up, though. I think at 577 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,440 Speaker 1: the very least we should be allowed to tarn feather 578 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 1: elected officials who decides stuff like that. Anybody who's responsible 579 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:50,120 Speaker 1: for voter disenfranchisement, tard and feather. I guess that's it. Uh, 580 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 1: and that makes you an insurrectionist. Yeah, all right, I 581 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,480 Speaker 1: always knew I was. Uh. Okay, Well, if you want 582 00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:01,320 Speaker 1: to know more about this weird process we have in 583 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:05,640 Speaker 1: the United States called the electoral College, you can type 584 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:09,040 Speaker 1: those words into the search bart how stuff works dot com. 585 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 1: It will bring up a handy and out of date 586 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,520 Speaker 1: um graph of how the votes were distributed in two 587 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,080 Speaker 1: thousand eight. Is it out of date? Two thousand and 588 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,120 Speaker 1: eight was four years ago? Yeah? Didn't it still the same? 589 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,400 Speaker 1: Well then it's a snapshot of a moment in time. 590 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,640 Speaker 1: Know what it is. Anyway, it's still a good article. 591 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,759 Speaker 1: Electoral College, handy search bar how stuff works dot Com. 592 00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:34,239 Speaker 1: And now it's time for listening man Josh. Before we 593 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,040 Speaker 1: go any further, I didn't realize we were doing anyway. 594 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:41,080 Speaker 1: We are coming to New York City. Yeah, we are town, 595 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 1: one of our town, and we are doing another trivia 596 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 1: event there, which we're both really psyched about. Yeah, but 597 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,319 Speaker 1: we need some help with a venue. We need to 598 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,879 Speaker 1: have the trivia event somewhere that's right, And we are 599 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 1: coming Friday, October twelve, and actually that is when the 600 00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,839 Speaker 1: event is, that evening that night, and we could use 601 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,600 Speaker 1: some help from anyone out there who has connections, good ideas, 602 00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:08,120 Speaker 1: um whatever room for a few hundred people. I don't 603 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:09,879 Speaker 1: want it to their own horn, but I would say 604 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,719 Speaker 1: that that's probably a pretty good projection if everybody who's coming. 605 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,240 Speaker 1: Oh the other way, even if you don't have a venue, 606 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:17,239 Speaker 1: guys were going to be in New York for your 607 00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,520 Speaker 1: trivia event, So make sure you come out details to 608 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,960 Speaker 1: follow up, but on mark your calendar rocks over its wealth. 609 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,560 Speaker 1: And yeah, you're right, like your tiny little bar that 610 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,080 Speaker 1: you love that does trivia in in uh Park Slope, 611 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,600 Speaker 1: probably can't go there. Just to give you an idea, 612 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,520 Speaker 1: although it's probably a great bar. Exactly to give you 613 00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 1: an idea. We had our last trivia event at the 614 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,360 Speaker 1: Bellhouse in Brooklyn, and it was pretty big, and we 615 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,719 Speaker 1: packed it out, and imagine we could pack it out 616 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,480 Speaker 1: at least that or maybe a little more this time around, 617 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,920 Speaker 1: because it's a few years time a lot. Maybe we 618 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,840 Speaker 1: can work out a deal. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, 619 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:56,280 Speaker 1: do you so? Hit us up at Facebook or UM 620 00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,040 Speaker 1: Twitter email to us, Yeah, or you could email UM 621 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,279 Speaker 1: stuff Podcast at Discovery dot com and just put like 622 00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,520 Speaker 1: New York venues in the in the subject line. And 623 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:08,520 Speaker 1: that's a great help for us in October twelve. That's right, 624 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:12,640 Speaker 1: it's gonna be awesome. Jobs is already excited. I'm excited, 625 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,640 Speaker 1: all right, back to it. Yes, I'm gonna call this 626 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:21,520 Speaker 1: UM an Englishman, the Englishman who went up in hill 627 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:27,239 Speaker 1: and came down a mole, came down a moll. DearS Chuck, 628 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,719 Speaker 1: Josh and Jerry and in print disease. He actually, he says, 629 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:34,360 Speaker 1: a small high, the guest producer, Matt oh Nice, A 630 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:38,200 Speaker 1: small high, nothing on a full Hello. My name is 631 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:40,520 Speaker 1: Jack Mead and I'm an avid fan from England. Just 632 00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:44,719 Speaker 1: started listening in October, just started in twenty eleven, and 633 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,600 Speaker 1: tonight I've just finished the four dred and fifty second podcast, 634 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:54,040 Speaker 1: I wish we had the the sound maker. Um. They 635 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:58,800 Speaker 1: maker from Grassoline with Josh and Chris Palette print Disease 636 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:02,040 Speaker 1: a terrible pre Chuck Day, uh to the most recent 637 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,600 Speaker 1: Shark Attack episodes. It's been a wild and exciting ride. 638 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:06,680 Speaker 1: You guys will come a long way. I just listen 639 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:08,680 Speaker 1: to the first one to see the difference, and not 640 00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:10,600 Speaker 1: only is it missing the sweet dulph of tones of 641 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:14,160 Speaker 1: Charles W. Bryant, but Josh's voice sounds very weird. Yeah, 642 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,480 Speaker 1: and it's not like we're recording in a can. Yeah, 643 00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:20,160 Speaker 1: and I was really aggressive. Oh yeah, yeah, like, hey, 644 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:24,239 Speaker 1: what do you think? Huh huh. I can't even listen 645 00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:28,360 Speaker 1: to him. Yeah, you poked me once once. Um. Anyway, 646 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:29,920 Speaker 1: I just want you guys to know your podcast has 647 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,200 Speaker 1: become a huge part of my life. Catching up with 648 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,120 Speaker 1: him has left me both the sense of achievement but 649 00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,919 Speaker 1: also great satness. See. I listened to the podcast pretty 650 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,839 Speaker 1: much any time when I'm not engaging with other human beings. Um, 651 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,520 Speaker 1: I've listened over nine days worth of your voices in 652 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,759 Speaker 1: the space to ten months. I probably heard you too, 653 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,320 Speaker 1: speaking more than my own fiance's voice. I was thinking, 654 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:51,040 Speaker 1: man a little only guy, but he's engaged, Like, dude, 655 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:56,000 Speaker 1: you should prioritize here, that's pause. Going from that amount 656 00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,080 Speaker 1: of awesomeness to just two episodes a week is making 657 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:02,239 Speaker 1: me feel confused and frightened. It's okay, Jack, you know 658 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:05,120 Speaker 1: it's strange. It's like this is a pretty frequent report 659 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,839 Speaker 1: we here. It's like a condition. Well, I like, bulk up, 660 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,000 Speaker 1: you bulk listen. Then all of a sudden you have 661 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,839 Speaker 1: to wait like everybody else, like a schmo. I just 662 00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:17,320 Speaker 1: did the Firefly marathon. Yeah, it's good. Think how I feel. 663 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,239 Speaker 1: You watch fourteen episodes of that than the movie and 664 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,560 Speaker 1: then you're cut off after four days, and that's there's 665 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,640 Speaker 1: not another one coming every week. So I'm just like 666 00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,640 Speaker 1: looking at the walls now wondering where captain type pans 667 00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:33,480 Speaker 1: is is that? Yeah, like sad, I've been trying to 668 00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,160 Speaker 1: figure it out. Everyone else I've talked to like, oh, yeah, 669 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,480 Speaker 1: I'm more than Firefly years ago like everyone else, but 670 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:43,839 Speaker 1: we know you're paying anyway. I'll be on my bunk. 671 00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:47,160 Speaker 1: We don't have a punk. I would like to think 672 00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,000 Speaker 1: that I'm your biggest fan in England, but I guess 673 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:52,960 Speaker 1: that is statistically improbable very much enjoyed Chuck's terrible attempts 674 00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,960 Speaker 1: at an English accent and your attempts at pronouncing our 675 00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,960 Speaker 1: place names. Um. I've been wanting to email you guys 676 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:00,520 Speaker 1: since I got into the podcast, but wanted to catch 677 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:02,480 Speaker 1: up first. I think what you do is truly amazing 678 00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,640 Speaker 1: and genuinely enjoy life more with the podcast as the 679 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:09,520 Speaker 1: soundtrack crazy. I know you guys must get hundreds of 680 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,399 Speaker 1: emails a day. Uh that's not true, so I don't 681 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,080 Speaker 1: expect to reply, but I'm just glad to know that 682 00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:16,840 Speaker 1: you will read this. I look forward today that I 683 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,840 Speaker 1: can contribute information and maybe given even get on the 684 00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,960 Speaker 1: listener mail. So if I may make a quick suggestion, 685 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,840 Speaker 1: I would love the special podcast hosted by Emily and 686 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:27,920 Speaker 1: you me. I have no idea how to spell your 687 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,560 Speaker 1: wife's names? But he actually nailed it? Did he really? Yeah? 688 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:37,440 Speaker 1: And um really yeah? Look at that? Wow? And then uh, 689 00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:40,040 Speaker 1: he wants to hear a podcast Chuck and Josh work 690 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,799 Speaker 1: from my wives. He said it's a long shot, but 691 00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,080 Speaker 1: you never know, and I would it's a pretty long 692 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:47,880 Speaker 1: I would call that the longest of shots, but a 693 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,000 Speaker 1: fun idea. Nevertheless, it is a good idea. Emily be like, 694 00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:55,279 Speaker 1: get your beat button ready. Let me tell you a 695 00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:58,200 Speaker 1: thing or two? Yeah, exactly? Um, well, who is that? 696 00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,279 Speaker 1: Probably good? Jack Mead? Thanks, Jack need Will. It's a 697 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,399 Speaker 1: pretty awesome British name, isn't it? Agreed? Jack need to mix? 698 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:08,160 Speaker 1: You want to put on boxing gloves? Um? Yeah, So 699 00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,680 Speaker 1: if you are a fan who is going through why 700 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:18,360 Speaker 1: should we call this commission? I don't know. I had withdrawal. Yeah, withdrawal, Yeah, 701 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:21,520 Speaker 1: I guess that what it is. Yeah. If you're going 702 00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:25,040 Speaker 1: through stuff, you should know addiction withdrawal and you need help. 703 00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,359 Speaker 1: We were look into forming some sort of support group 704 00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:32,520 Speaker 1: for you. Let's do that, agreed. Uh. Any ideas on 705 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,320 Speaker 1: how to create such a support group, especially one that 706 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:39,160 Speaker 1: would have to be international and global and instantaneous, We're 707 00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:40,759 Speaker 1: open to that. So we need to hear from you 708 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:44,839 Speaker 1: via Twitter at s y s K, podcast, Facebook dot com, 709 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,319 Speaker 1: slash stuff you Should Know, or you can send us 710 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:51,719 Speaker 1: an email with these details um to stuff podcast at 711 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:59,799 Speaker 1: Discovery dot com. For more on this and thousands of 712 00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:08,080 Speaker 1: other topics, visit how stuff works dot com. M hmm. 713 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,200 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 714 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:13,680 Speaker 1: It's ready are you