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Speaker 1: Also media, Welcome to it could happen here a podcast

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Speaker 1: about how to pronounce the vice president and maybe future

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Speaker 1: president's name, which is Kamala. See, I got it, Sophie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you looked at me for reassurance.

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Speaker 1: No, I looked at you to be like, look at me.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing it. I'm riding a bike with no training wheels. Garrison,

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Speaker 1: how's uh, how's grinder going?

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Speaker 3: It's okay. I mean it's certainly better than the r

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's it's still slow picking because I mean

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Speaker 4: to find better.

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Speaker 1: Have you have you run into He lives in the

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Speaker 1: South side of Chicago, a guy named six Garrison. So

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Speaker 1: this is day two, ladies call him treat.

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Speaker 4: The Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

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Speaker 3: I'm Garrison Davis.

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Speaker 4: We are here with Sophie Lichterman and Robert Evans's and

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Speaker 4: I guess let's pick up right where we left off yesterday,

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Speaker 4: because we're recording this Tuesday morning. Yesterday we had a

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Speaker 4: full day of protests. There's still some protests today that

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Speaker 4: that will get to later. But we were also able

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Speaker 4: Sophie will have certainly much to say about that, But

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna throw it to Robert Evans because Robert Evans

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Speaker 1: You know, by the time I got back, the police

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Speaker 1: the same. It's the same tile of fence they had

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, they sure did.

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Speaker 3: They sure did.

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Speaker 4: Me and Sophy spent quite a while trying to get

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Speaker 1: And this is probably if something similar were to happen tonight,

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Speaker 3: Not worth it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would rather die that. I would rather die.

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Speaker 1: Uh huh. Really, it's terrible so I got back to

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Speaker 1: briefly set up an encampment that really did not last

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Speaker 4: very aware of the optics. Yes, And you know, despite

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Speaker 3: Now they do have the truncheons on.

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Speaker 1: They've all got and they've got they have the they

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Speaker 4: But they are they are trying to be as hands

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Speaker 1: But the other thing that they have going for them

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Speaker 4: There is a few differences between you know this and

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Speaker 3: They have been Chicago PD.

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Speaker 1: as how dangerous Chicago is, They're just going to start blasting. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I guess I'm just glad that hopefully nobody gets

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Speaker 3: Well, do you know what we can't get murdered by?

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Speaker 1: Yes, Garrison, Wow, Yes, indeed.

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Speaker 4: Services. That's the fourth podcast. If you enjoy them too much,

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Speaker 4: you know, too much of a good thing is bad.

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Speaker 4: That's what I've heard.

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Speaker 3: If you don't overdose on products.

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Speaker 1: Meet with bad bad le Roy Brown because he's got

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Speaker 1: a custom Continental, he's got an Elorado. To Sophie, I'm

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Speaker 1: a trend center. Nobody was talking about bad bad Le

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to It could happen here.

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Speaker 4: So after getting through that cluster a security entrance, me

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Speaker 4: and Zobe did eventually make it inside the DNC, which

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Speaker 4: we'll talk about in a sec But as me and

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Speaker 4: Robert we were parading around the protests on Monday, Sophie

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Speaker 4: Lichterman was infiltrating dem Palooza.

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Speaker 1: Which is the wrong way. It should be Demapalooza.

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Speaker 4: It should be dema Palooza, but it's not. Sophie the angriest.

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Speaker 2: Let me just give you some visuals here. First of all,

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Speaker 2: you're absolutely cracked. The name is embarrassing, and that's generally

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Speaker 2: how I felt about Dempaluza. What is dem Paluzaalza is

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Speaker 1: First off, only the gen X people are going to

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Speaker 1: remember Lollapalooza.

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Speaker 2: But also why twenty eight dollars band dictionaries at your

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Speaker 3: You get the picture. You get it, all right, you

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Speaker 2: The first panel I went to was a panel that

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Speaker 1: Look, if your relatives want to start talking politics at

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Speaker 4: This is interesting though, SOVID because every night at the

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Speaker 1: I also think it's smart because there's two big threats here.

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Speaker 2: So I walked around and looked into a bunch of

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Speaker 2: Yes, I believe they were part of organizing this panel.

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Speaker 6: the first cases of polio and gaza right now. Polio

443
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Speaker 6: is a potentially deadly disease that crosses paralysis, including paralysis

444
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Speaker 6: the muscles needed to breathe, that has been eradicated for

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Speaker 6: decades in that region.

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Speaker 7: There's been a polio vaccination campaign that just essentially is eradicated.

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Speaker 6: The disease from the majority of the world, and now

448
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Speaker 6: we're seeing cases emerging in a area of the world

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Speaker 6: that cannot that has a healthy system that has been

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Speaker 6: completely and entirely annihilated. I mentioned these wounded children with

451
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Speaker 6: no surviving family. I'm going to give you two quick

452
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Speaker 6: stories just so that you can humanize what I mean.

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Speaker 6: We're gonna say this because I know it's really hard

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Speaker 6: to hear these numbers and think about individuals and what

455
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Speaker 6: this means to them. I received a young boy in

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Speaker 6: the emergency department during one of the mass casualties who

457
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Speaker 6: had hay from half of his face.

458
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Speaker 7: And an aclora.

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Speaker 6: The organs that are vited for breathing and blood supplied

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Speaker 6: to the.

461
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Speaker 7: Brain were preserved.

462
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Speaker 6: They were visible, but preserved, and he was talking to us.

463
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Speaker 7: He couldn't see himself, so he didn't know what he

464
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Speaker 7: looked like. At that Moore in time, he kept asking

465
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Speaker 7: for his sister. His sister was in the bed next

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Speaker 7: to him.

467
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Speaker 6: The majority of her body was burned beyond recognition. He

468
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Speaker 6: didn't recognize that the girl in the bed next in

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Speaker 6: his sister. His entire family, parents and the rest of

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Speaker 6: his siblings were killed in the same attack. That always survived,

471
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Speaker 6: and the next day I went to see him, a

472
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Speaker 6: very young plastic surgeon, one of the few remaining plastic

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Speaker 6: surgeons from Gaza, because both the others have either been

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Speaker 6: killed or have fled. To understand, Pep had removed part

475
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Speaker 6: of his chest and created a graft to cover those

476
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Speaker 6: vibing the organs in the net. He was lying in

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Speaker 6: his bed and mumbling, is so difficult to talk, And

478
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Speaker 6: he kept saying I felt really close to him, and

479
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Speaker 6: he said I wish I had died too. And I

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Speaker 6: said what And he said, I think my entire family.

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Speaker 7: Has gone to heaven. Ever, it's not my entire coming

482
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Speaker 7: is exact words or something effective. Everybody I loved is

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Speaker 7: now in heaven. I don't want to be here anymore.

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Speaker 7: That is one of so many stories.

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Speaker 2: Well, uh, yep, that's yeah. There's some ads, some ads.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, we are back.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna close this episode by talking about means of

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Speaker 4: these experiences in the actual DNC. Once we finally got

489
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Speaker 4: past that ridiculous security gate. So we got in and

490
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Speaker 4: the biggest thing that we realized first was just how disorganized.

491
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Speaker 4: This was at least compared to the RNC. Now, this

492
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Speaker 4: is due to number of factors, the protests being one.

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Speaker 4: They're simply just more people at the DNC, like, way

494
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Speaker 4: way more people.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely feel like one of the right wing

496
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Speaker 2: things to do right now is to be like there

497
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Speaker 2: was nobody there.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely not. It was packed.

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Speaker 1: It was way more crowded than Monday at the hour.

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Speaker 4: It was much harder to find a place to sit

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Speaker 4: inside the arena.

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Speaker 2: Honestly hard to find a place to comfortably stand inside

503
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Speaker 2: the arena. No, so unbelievably packed. Garrison and I got

504
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Speaker 2: inside of the actual seating area trying to find a

505
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Speaker 2: place to sit briefly as VP Harris came to greet

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Speaker 2: the crowd, and it was roar y.

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Speaker 4: It was what I would describe as electric electric. People

508
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Speaker 4: really like to see her. She played it very casual

509
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Speaker 4: to kind of open up the convention. She didn't even

510
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Speaker 4: have a podium. She was just basically a stand up

511
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Speaker 4: set walking around with him.

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Speaker 2: She came out to be like hey girl.

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Speaker 4: Yeah exactly, and she was. She was opening things up

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Speaker 4: very informally. People seem to really like that, and then

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Speaker 4: you know, a lot of a lot of the main

516
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Speaker 4: speakers started started to kind of roll out. Now me

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Speaker 4: and Sophie were able to somehow get special tickets to

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Speaker 4: go on the actual like delegate floor area, something we

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Speaker 4: never were able to do during the R and C

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Speaker 4: Dare I say big mistake, which was this was a

521
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Speaker 4: massive error on our part.

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Speaker 1: This is why I just sat at the bar because it.

523
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Speaker 4: Is a nightmare down there, so much pushing, shoving, no

524
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Speaker 4: place to go.

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Speaker 1: You really get to taste democracy.

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Speaker 4: As soon as we stepped on the floor AOC walked

527
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Speaker 4: on stage, everything went crazy.

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Speaker 3: It was it was a nightmare called.

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Speaker 2: For ceasfire Gaza, which apparently I did not see any

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Speaker 2: of the speeches before her, but apparently that was the

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Speaker 2: first time that was done at night, and the crowd

532
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Speaker 2: loved it.

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Speaker 3: She gave a great speech, mean speech, talking about working people.

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Speaker 4: I think it's also important because of just how well

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Speaker 4: she was received and like the kind of the spot

536
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Speaker 4: that she had at the convention.

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Speaker 3: Like she is she used to.

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Speaker 4: Be kind of be like an outsider to like the

539
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Speaker 4: Democrat party right and at this point loved she is

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Speaker 4: like fully within the fold of like the Democrat machine

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Speaker 4: and for better or worse, to probably a mix of both.

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Speaker 3: In some regards, there's.

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Speaker 1: A lot of talk that in eight or twelve years

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Speaker 1: she's going to be running and yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, she she is preparing for a long political career. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and people seem to like her and the person that

547
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Speaker 4: spoke immediately after AOC while while we while me and

548
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Speaker 4: Sophie were still being shuffled around the show floor.

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Speaker 2: I don't think shuffled is the way to even describe it.

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Speaker 1: You guys have seen the Jordan Peele movie. Sorry, what's

551
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Speaker 1: what's the one with the sky monster? Nope, nope. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's like being it's being caught. It's like you're being

553
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Speaker 1: sharned with a bunch of other people.

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Speaker 2: My hair, my hair was caught in like a CNN camera,

555
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Speaker 2: like you could not breathe. It was like a mosh bit,

556
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Speaker 2: but not fun.

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Speaker 3: No, we were we were caught inside the jean jacket.

558
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Speaker 3: It was we were being slashed around.

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Speaker 2: There's three aisles and we were in the center aisle

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Speaker 2: Jesus christtically like parallel to where the person who would

561
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Speaker 2: be speaking comes up to talk.

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Speaker 4: And then Hillary Clinton took the stage and unfortunately the

563
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Speaker 4: crowd loved it.

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Speaker 2: They went fairal for Hillary Clinton.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, baffling, just baffling.

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Speaker 4: It was.

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Speaker 2: I looked back at Garrison and I and we both

568
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 2: with each other like death.

569
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Speaker 3: Wanted to die.

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Speaker 1: It's it's like when you're in a foreign country and

571
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Speaker 1: they eat some sort of like lutfisk or something some

572
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Speaker 1: sort of like weird rotten fish dish that they just

573
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Speaker 1: love over there or okay, or.

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Speaker 4: When they eat like American garbage fast food and also

575
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Speaker 4: love and you're like, oh no, it's a terrifying I

576
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Speaker 4: don't know.

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Speaker 2: What I was expecting, but I just didn't think the

578
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Speaker 2: DNC still loved Hillary the way they do. But they

579
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Speaker 2: went fair.

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Speaker 1: She was like very popular. I mean, she won the primaries.

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Speaker 1: She's got a base of support. She just is. The

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Speaker 1: people who hate her hate her a lot. Excuse.

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Speaker 3: She gave a very big, mad speech.

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Speaker 2: She loss of arm waving.

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Speaker 1: People disagree about that. Garrison. People got angry at me

586
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Speaker 1: for saying she seems angry.

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Speaker 3: She she was a little big man. I would I

588
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Speaker 3: wouldn't say.

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Speaker 2: I would say she gave a standard Hillary Clinton.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was a pretty standard.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: She's just not very likable and charismatic. So but she did.

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Speaker 2: I do I do have a great picture of wins

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Speaker 2: Garrison and I survived the floor. We were up in

595
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Speaker 2: a press area and of Hillary Clinton with both her

596
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Speaker 2: hands in the air and the crowd eating it up.

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Speaker 4: Again a choice, Yeah, navigating this this whole place with

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Speaker 4: an area We're never going to go in the on

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Speaker 4: the delegate floor again, just a nightmare, thank you, being

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Speaker 4: shuffled around corridors.

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Speaker 3: It's it's it's terrible.

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Speaker 4: There was a few other you know a few other speakers,

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Speaker 4: uh Bashieri, I think did didn't okay speech, you know, uh,

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Speaker 4: lot of stuff about abortion, A lot of videos on

605
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Speaker 4: the big jumbo tron about about cop prosecutor Kamala taken

606
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Speaker 4: down the felon Donald Trump as expected, they had they had.

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Speaker 2: Do we want to play a clip of that? By

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Speaker 2: the way, do you have the Law and Order clip,

609
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Speaker 2: Sophie Garson? Do I have the Law Quarter clip? Of course,

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Speaker 2: I have the Law and.

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Speaker 4: Order kam and we can play twenty seconds of the

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Speaker 4: Law and Order clip.

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Speaker 2: Yes. There was several different videos played throughout the night,

614
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Speaker 2: but I would say the most memorable one was the

615
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Speaker 2: Law and Order themed clip featuring Big Bad kam Law

616
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Speaker 2: as the prosecutor and criminal Donald Trump as the villain

617
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 2: of the story.

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Speaker 3: The New York sex pest criminal of the Week.

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Speaker 9: The criminal justice system the people are represented by two

620
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Speaker 9: separate yet equally important groups, the police who investigate crime

621
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Speaker 9: and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. This is

622
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 9: the story of Donald Trump. His entire life. Trump has

623
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Speaker 9: believed he's above the law, that no one would ever

624
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Speaker 9: dare hold them accountable. For the first time in history,

625
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Speaker 9: we have a convicted felon running for president, and to

626
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Speaker 9: take on this case, we need a president who has

627
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Speaker 9: spent her life prosecuting perpetrators, like Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: God damn it.

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Speaker 3: It was the choice and it was night one. We'll

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Speaker 3: see how that plays.

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Speaker 4: So Jill Biden introduced well, first introduced her daughter, and

632
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Speaker 4: then they introduced Joe Biden. I think one interesting thing

633
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Speaker 4: is that throughout the night I started seeing more green

634
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Speaker 4: Jill signs, which I thought was really confusing, like who's

635
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 4: snuck in Jill Stein Green party.

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Speaker 3: Signs into this?

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Speaker 4: And then I realized, no, the signs for Jill Biden,

638
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Speaker 4: which I don't know if they chose green signs to

639
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Speaker 4: be intentionally like trying to like reclaim green for Jill Biden.

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Speaker 3: Instead of Jill Stein. I don't know. I found it

641
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Speaker 3: to be odd.

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Speaker 4: She led the crowd and like we love Joe Chance

643
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Speaker 4: And immediately as soon as everyone started changing like we

644
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Speaker 4: love Joe, thank you Joe, it started to feel like

645
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 4: we're kind of just sending him out to pasture.

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Speaker 3: And that was the main vibe of the Joe Biden.

647
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Speaker 2: He was very emotional.

648
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: Putting on his favorite Spotify up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he was very emotional, came out crying after his

650
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Speaker 2: daughter introduced him. And I would say there was like

651
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Speaker 2: a good ten minute standing ovation for.

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Speaker 3: Him, maybe five, but it was. It was long.

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Speaker 2: It was I was being generous. It's his last big thing.

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Speaker 1: I don't they It's a really nice farm. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's a great view of the mountains from it. Beautiful

656
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: upstasted run through in the summer all day long, Orgia.

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Speaker 1: We just run it.

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Speaker 2: We had a direct view of the teleprompter. Did a

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Speaker 2: great job reading that teleprompter. He won offscript, you know

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Speaker 2: a handful of times.

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Speaker 4: But his actual performance was pretty good. Yeah, especially for

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Speaker 4: coming out around like eleven pm.

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Speaker 6: He did.

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Speaker 3: He did pretty good.

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Speaker 2: It was a strong It was a strong performance for Joe.

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Speaker 4: One of the first things he mentioned was Charlottesville, as

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Speaker 4: he talked about before in his campaign for being with

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Speaker 4: the reason that he ran in twenty twenty, you know,

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Speaker 4: talking about how, you know, lots of rhetoric was identical

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Speaker 4: from Nazis and anti Semitic vile from the nineteen thirties.

671
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Speaker 4: He had he had a line describing kind of the

672
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Speaker 4: alt right movement as as old ghosts in new garments.

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Speaker 4: I thought that was well written by whatever speech writer

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Speaker 4: at the White House was putting that one together. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: you know, talking about how Trump's being aligned with these

676
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Speaker 4: like with this new version of the KKK, they just

677
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Speaker 4: they just forgot to wear their hoods, talking about you know,

678
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Speaker 4: very fine people on both sides. Hate has no safe

679
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 4: harbor in America, all that kind of stuff. And you know,

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Speaker 4: this was this rhetoric was a lot more common back

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Speaker 4: in like, you know, twenty nineteen, you know, right after

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Speaker 4: Charlotte's film, during like the height of like the alt

683
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Speaker 4: right movement. We don't hear this as much anymore, but

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Speaker 4: I think it is important to remember that this was

685
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Speaker 4: not that long ago. He then kind of talked about

686
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Speaker 4: mostly the past. He wasn't talking about kind of the future.

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Speaker 4: He was talking about what the Biden administration has been

688
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Speaker 4: able to do the past four years, and trying to

689
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Speaker 4: tie in, you know, Kamula to all of the good

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Speaker 4: things that have happened, you know, talking about four years

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Speaker 4: of progress, you know, making waves with COVID, with the economy,

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Speaker 4: lots of new jobs, Inflation is down at least now.

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Speaker 3: He gave his greatest shrinking the racial wealth gaps.

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Speaker 4: You know, health insurance stocks are good. We finally beat

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Speaker 4: big Pharma, I'm sure whatever. A lot of stuff about

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Speaker 4: tying him to the unions, you know, saying that Dan

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Speaker 4: people have called him the most the most pro union

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Speaker 4: president in history, and he's like, I'm proud to I'm

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Speaker 4: proud to take on that Moniker or.

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Speaker 3: Something like that.

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Speaker 4: Union Joe Union Joe said he was the first president

702
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Speaker 4: to walk the picket line. So you know, they were

703
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Speaker 4: definitely focusing a lot of that union messaging. It is

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Speaker 4: interesting considering that one union leader spoke at the RNC yeah,

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Speaker 4: back when the nomination for the Democrats.

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Speaker 1: Speech is yes, yes, yes.

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Speaker 4: Very brief talk about carbon emissions and pollution, but similarly

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Speaker 4: very little climate change stuff.

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Speaker 1: Almost yeah.

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Speaker 4: It's which is which has been common throughout this whole campaign, this, this, this,

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Speaker 4: this whole election has been very little mention of climate

712
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Speaker 4: change stuff.

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Speaker 1: You really get a feeling of what a gift it

714
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Speaker 1: has been for the Democratic Party that the Republicans have

715
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Speaker 1: given them all this fascism stuff to talk about, rather

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Speaker 1: than actually needing to make any kind of serious statements

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Speaker 1: about what they're going to do to be climate change.

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Speaker 4: Part of the other kind of achievements that he was,

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Speaker 4: you know, Lotting was saying that they finally beat the

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Speaker 4: NRA passing this gun safety bill, and next they're going

721
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Speaker 4: to ban assault weapons and pass universal background safety bill.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it was one of the ones that didn't really

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Speaker 1: do anything. Yeah, correct, Ye.

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Speaker 7: Yes.

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Speaker 4: There was a brief section about the border, saying that

726
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Speaker 4: there is now fewer border crossings than when Trump left office,

727
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Speaker 4: saying that, you know, Trump tried to kill our border

728
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Speaker 4: security bill, and he said the main thing that makes

729
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Speaker 4: us different from the Republicans is that we won't demonize immigrants.

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Speaker 1: We are going to.

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Speaker 4: They're going to still do really really bad like border

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Speaker 4: violence and really really bad border.

733
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Speaker 1: Security policies from asylum from being able to like flee

734
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Speaker 1: bad situations.

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Speaker 4: But they're not going to be spending the whole convention

736
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Speaker 4: every single day, talking NonStop about how immigrants are coming

737
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Speaker 4: to rape your family, and like, yeah, that is true,

738
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Speaker 4: you don't talk about them the same way. But some

739
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Speaker 4: of your actual policies are not all that different from

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Speaker 4: what most Republicans in office want. You know, they're not

741
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Speaker 4: calling for massive deportations at the same rate. But still,

742
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Speaker 4: that border security bill was very similar to ones that

743
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Speaker 4: Trump was proposing, and the only reason that Trump killed

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Speaker 4: it was so that Biden wouldn't be able to take credit,

745
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Speaker 4: which Biden didn't also say during the.

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Speaker 1: Speech order fear mongery. I mean, it's just been a

747
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Speaker 1: titanic victory for the.

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Speaker 4: Right, and talk about abortion, talk about how if Harris's

749
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Speaker 4: is president, she'll be able to sign in something that

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Speaker 4: puts into law that right to abortion, saying that quote,

751
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Speaker 4: MAGA found out the power of women in twenty twenty two,

752
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Speaker 4: saying that they're going to find out again in twenty

753
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Speaker 4: twenty four, which he's not wrong about, Dadley, that is

754
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Speaker 4: that is repealing Roe v Wade did I did sign

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Speaker 4: election results.

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Speaker 1: In twenty two, twenty twenty five, abortions mandatory finally.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, he's you know, talking about the quote we

758
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Speaker 4: got to put a prosecutor in the oval office instead

759
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 4: of a convicted Felon said, saying that Harris is going

760
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Speaker 4: to be forty seven. And whenever he made a comment

761
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Speaker 4: like that talking about how Harris is going to be

762
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Speaker 4: the next president, the whole crowd sort of breaking own chance,

763
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Speaker 4: saying thank you Joe, thank you Joe. It's just really

764
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Speaker 4: funny because they are just thanking him for stepping down

765
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Speaker 4: for the race.

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Speaker 1: Everybody wanted a chance to remember what two thousand and

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Speaker 1: eight was like, and they got it, and they could

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Speaker 1: not be more greatful.

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Speaker 2: And just just interesting to note that it took it

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Speaker 2: did take him quite a while to really start talking

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Speaker 2: about kamalaw but whenever the large chance of thank you

772
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Speaker 2: Joe would start, he'd be like, no, no, no, thank

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Speaker 2: you Kambola.

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Speaker 4: One of the last things that Joe talked about was

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Speaker 4: briefly mentioning Ukraine and then talking about Gaza. And this

776
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Speaker 4: is kind of one of the last things in his

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00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 4: speech before he started like his closing remarks. You know,

778
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Speaker 4: he talked about, you know, the need to get to

779
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Speaker 4: get the hostages to safety and to quote unquote end

780
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Speaker 4: of the war in Gaza, saying that they're working around

781
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Speaker 4: the clock to surge humanitarian aid into Gaza and to

782
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Speaker 4: get a lasting ceasefire. He then gave a small off

783
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Speaker 4: the cuff mention to the DNC protests, and this part

784
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 4: wasn't on the teleprompter. He said, quote, those protesters out

785
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Speaker 4: in the street have a point. A lot of innocent

786
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Speaker 4: people are being killed on both sides. And he made

787
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Speaker 4: similar comments to this last march, saying that protesters who

788
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Speaker 4: were disrupting a rally of his quote unquote have a point.

789
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 4: So he has used this line before, but this was

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Speaker 4: kind of the only acknowledgment of the protests that I

791
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Speaker 4: saw today from any of the DNC speeches. It is

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Speaker 4: interesting that this was not scripted, was just something that

793
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Speaker 4: he said.

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Speaker 2: Because as mentioned before, we had a view of the telerompter.

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Speaker 4: And at the same time that this happened, someone on

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Speaker 4: the far side of the crowd unfurled a banner, and

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Speaker 4: I think Robert has some more infro on that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there were a couple of delegates who managed to

799
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Speaker 1: sneak in a banner.

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Speaker 3: Do you know if they were delegates? Well, at least

801
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Speaker 3: one of them was Okay, a.

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Speaker 1: Banner that said stop arming Israel. They unfurled it and

803
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 1: got a very strong and negative reaction from the people

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Speaker 1: around them, some of whom were hitting them or at

805
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Speaker 1: least shoving them. I think it kind of you could

806
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Speaker 1: look at the video and use either term.

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Speaker 3: They were definitely like moving, like pushing.

808
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Speaker 1: They were definitely aggressively making contact with them.

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Speaker 3: With these like big wooden signs that people have not.

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Speaker 1: These thank you Joe signs, and then set up a

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Speaker 1: chant of thank you Joe to kind of like drown

812
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Speaker 1: them out as the people filming in the venue like

813
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Speaker 1: cut the lights basically down to the lights in that

814
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Speaker 1: area so that it would it would be less visible.

815
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Speaker 1: Eventually they got the banner away from them, but it

816
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Speaker 1: was one of those like it shows you kind of

817
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Speaker 1: the hollowness of there's enough of a need that even

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Speaker 1: Biden had to make a positive reference to the protesters.

819
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Speaker 1: They see it as enough of a potential threat to,

820
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Speaker 1: you know, being able to get the votes they need

821
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Speaker 1: that they they have to signpost to it. But a banner,

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Speaker 1: and this is not a radical banner. Stop arming Israel

823
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Speaker 1: is not a radical stance down.

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Speaker 3: It's not calling an end to the state of events.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't an Intifada revolution banner right right. It was

826
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Speaker 1: a literally just stop sending guns.

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Speaker 4: And stopped doing this to Israel that's being used to

828
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Speaker 4: bomb them and people.

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Speaker 1: People were angry enough that I don't want to overstate

830
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Speaker 1: the level of physical violence, but I don't want to

831
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Speaker 1: understate that they were physically aggressive over this like to

832
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Speaker 1: and and had this small group of people surrounded. And

833
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Speaker 1: seeing that is a reminder that I am not in

834
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Speaker 1: line with the people on the left who repeatedly call

835
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Speaker 1: the DIMS fascist, because fascism means something, it's a real

836
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Speaker 1: political things. Have plenty of authoritarians, and that's what that is.

837
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Speaker 1: Is that is authoritarian thinking, and it can and will,

838
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Speaker 1: if not checked, lead to a lot uglier shift than

839
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Speaker 1: what we saw last night. So I did not like

840
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Speaker 1: seeing that. It is a reminder that even as nice

841
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Speaker 1: as the vibe shift has been, and I'm I'm not

842
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: going to try to take enjoyment from that away from people,

843
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,720
Speaker 1: we are still in a real pickle as a country.

844
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Speaker 1: Ari are acceptance of authoritarian aims and tactics.

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Speaker 3: And especially you know, sending twenty billion dollars in bombs.

846
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Speaker 1: And sending twenty billion dollars in bop, just send the tape,

847
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Speaker 1: take all the Israel weapons and send them to the Ukrainians.

848
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Speaker 1: That's that's my stance.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure Rudy Giuliani will love that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah so yeah, I mean you said that the crowd

851
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 4: had a big reaction to some of the Palestine stuff,

852
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Speaker 4: and at least from inside the convention certainly calls for

853
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Speaker 4: ceasefire did that was big. When Biden made his little

854
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Speaker 4: comment acknowledging the protests, the whole room kind of went silent,

855
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Speaker 4: like everyone was kind of surprised. Like it was it

856
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 4: was like a chill went over the air, like no

857
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Speaker 4: one knew how to take it.

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Speaker 3: There.

859
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Speaker 4: There wasn't like massive cheers, there wasn't booze either, but

860
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 4: like it was weird because like arguably Biden gave a

861
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Speaker 4: more positive comment referring to the protests than most of

862
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Speaker 4: like the regular like delegates and attendees. Most of the

863
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Speaker 4: attendees we were standing around in the waiting line were

864
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Speaker 4: much more like negative and dismissive. And I think I

865
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Speaker 4: think Biden's comment kind of like took the wind out

866
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Speaker 4: of the air, at least inside the convention arena. But

867
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Speaker 4: that was basically the end of it. He gave, you know,

868
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:36,200
Speaker 4: closing closing remarks. Kamala went onto stage, They hugged, they

869
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Speaker 4: did their little thing, and then me and Sophie went

870
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Speaker 4: out of the convention as fast as we could, and

871
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Speaker 4: we found this little corridor exit because we didn't want

872
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Speaker 4: to mess with like the like with like the escalators

873
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 4: or the elevator because that's always a nightmare. So we

874
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 4: found this nice little staircase and I turned to the

875
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 4: left walking down the stairs, and I saw two very

876
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Speaker 4: large men in ryan gear with two assault weapons, and

877
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Speaker 4: I said, I guess we're going that way.

878
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Speaker 3: Then I turned around and walk the other direction.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, funniest moment of the day.

880
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Speaker 4: We were like like ten feet away from these guys,

881
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Speaker 4: away some of the giants, some of the most heavily

882
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Speaker 4: armed men I've ever seen. I think we stumbled across

883
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Speaker 4: because I looked at that signs later, I think with

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Speaker 4: someone across the security gate for the presidential motor case.

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Speaker 4: So that's that's where we almost accidentally went.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. No, those are guys who have spent every year

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Speaker 1: of the last twenty years of their lives just planning

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Speaker 1: to kill as many people as they care. The second

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Speaker 1: someone takes them off the lad They.

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Speaker 3: Would shoot a twink on site.

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Speaker 1: They not care, they don't give you, they don't give

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Speaker 1: a fuck who They shoot the instant they have a chance.

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Speaker 4: So me and so we left as soon as we

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Speaker 4: could and went back to the hotel and immediately went

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Speaker 4: to sleep.

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Speaker 3: And that was the first night at the DNC.

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Speaker 1: You had drinks with me, garas.

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Speaker 2: I did not.

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Speaker 1: We shared a special moment.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to create a compelling narrative of the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Well, I thought it was compelling narrative that we had

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Speaker 1: a nice drength was.

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Speaker 2: I said hi to you and then I went okay bye.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I wasn't interested in you because you left.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, I abandoned you. I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 4: But that anyway, that was the first night at the

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Speaker 4: dn Z. That was the first round of speeches. I

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Speaker 4: believe tonight we're gonna split up. Somebody's going to go

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Speaker 4: and then go over there and me and Robert are

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Speaker 4: going to be back in the streets.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I will report if anything of interest happens. It

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Speaker 2: is the I believe Bill Clinton Obama night. Jess, It's

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Speaker 2: once again the years twenty twenty four is the Bill

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Speaker 2: Clinton Obama.

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Speaker 1: It would be pretty funny if Bill Clinton got played

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Speaker 1: onto stage by bad Leroy Brown.

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Speaker 4: All right, this is it can happen here? You think

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Speaker 4: it happened here? Recording from Chicago, Illinois.

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Speaker 3: We'll see you.

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Speaker 1: I do wouldn't walk.

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Speaker 3: All right, Jesus fuck.

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Speaker 5: It could happen here as a production of cool Zone Media.

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Speaker 5: For more podcasts from cool Zone Media, visit our website

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Speaker 5: cool zonemedia dot com, or check us out on the

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Speaker 5: can find sources for It could Happen Here, updated monthly

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Speaker 5: at coolzonemedia dot com slash sources.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening.