Speaker 1: Also media, Welcome to it could happen here a podcast
Speaker 1: about how to pronounce the vice president and maybe future
Speaker 1: president's name, which is Kamala. See, I got it, Sophie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you looked at me for reassurance.
Speaker 1: No, I looked at you to be like, look at me.
Speaker 1: I'm doing it. I'm riding a bike with no training wheels. Garrison,
Speaker 1: how's uh, how's grinder going?
Speaker 3: It's okay. I mean it's certainly better than the r
Speaker 3: n C.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's it's still slow picking because I mean
Speaker 4: to find better.
Speaker 1: Have you have you run into He lives in the
Speaker 1: South side of Chicago, a guy named six Garrison. So
Speaker 1: this is day two, ladies call him treat.
Speaker 4: The Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 3: I'm Garrison Davis.
Speaker 4: We are here with Sophie Lichterman and Robert Evans's and
Speaker 4: I guess let's pick up right where we left off yesterday,
Speaker 4: because we're recording this Tuesday morning. Yesterday we had a
Speaker 4: full day of protests. There's still some protests today that
Speaker 4: that will get to later. But we were also able
Speaker 4: to spend a decent bit of time in the actual
Speaker 4: d and C last night, and I think me and
Speaker 4: Sophie will have certainly much to say about that, But
Speaker 4: I'm gonna throw it to Robert Evans because Robert Evans
Speaker 4: went back to protests after our dinner, and how was
Speaker 4: that it was?
Speaker 1: You know, by the time I got back, the police
Speaker 1: had mostly knocked everything apart. There was a brief attempt
Speaker 1: to occupy the park after we left. So right after
Speaker 1: we left there was a scuffle over the fence and
Speaker 1: some people managed to reach it, largely due to the
Speaker 1: fact that the kind of fences that they use that
Speaker 1: they put up outside of events like this are all
Speaker 1: the same. It's the same tile of fence they had
Speaker 1: up in Portland, and if you remember the fighting over
Speaker 1: the fence in Portland, part of why there was days
Speaker 1: of fighting is because it was a pretty short section
Speaker 1: of fence, they were able to have it reinforced very heavily. Here,
Speaker 1: it was kind of more of a visual barrier than
Speaker 1: an actual physical barrier because they just there was two
Speaker 1: There's probably miles of cumulative fencing, and they don't have
Speaker 1: it all reinforced enough, so when a crowd got close enough,
Speaker 1: it was surprisingly easy for them to push their way in.
Speaker 1: Three people. I think got arrested at the fence breach.
Speaker 1: I've heard some folks say it was partly because press
Speaker 1: crowding in made it impossible for people to get away
Speaker 1: from the cops. Just given the way the rest of
Speaker 1: the day worked and what I've seen, I think that's
Speaker 1: pretty credible. It was one of those things where on
Speaker 1: the ground, if you were just kind of looking at tweets,
Speaker 1: I think it would it would look like it had
Speaker 1: been a larger part of what happened that day than
Speaker 1: it was, because it really was a few minutes and
Speaker 1: then things calmed down relatively quickly. But it did have
Speaker 1: an impact on the actual DNC itself, like if you're
Speaker 1: looking at the protests outside over Gaza. As part of
Speaker 1: their goal to being to disrupt the DNC, they succeeded
Speaker 1: in doing that because once there was a breach in
Speaker 1: the perimeter, the Secret Service has and I don't know
Speaker 1: what these are, but they certainly do have like a
Speaker 1: checklist of like, these are the things we do if
Speaker 1: there was a breach, And one of the things that
Speaker 1: we know they did and after that breach is they
Speaker 1: shut down all of the other multiple entrances for media
Speaker 1: and delegates and attendees into the event and funneled everyone
Speaker 1: through one entrance, which caused a clusterfuck for every massive
Speaker 1: bottom line.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, they sure did.
Speaker 3: They sure did.
Speaker 4: Me and Sophy spent quite a while trying to get
Speaker 4: into the DNC after this, because yes, all of the
Speaker 4: entrances on the northeast and west side of the convention
Speaker 4: all got shut down. Everyone was funneled into one entrance
Speaker 4: on the south side. The line to get in was
Speaker 4: just just crazy. It was so so large.
Speaker 1: I would have to say again if you're looking at
Speaker 1: the goal of these movements as like causing embarrassment and
Speaker 1: disruption to the DNC, because fucking up entrance to the
Speaker 1: DNC fuck stuff up. For all of the influencers and
Speaker 1: media people trying to get in, I saw more anger
Speaker 1: over how fucked up getting in last night was than
Speaker 1: anything that had happened. Yeah, like in terms of like
Speaker 1: formative social media anger than anything that had actually happened
Speaker 1: in the streets. So I would have to call that
Speaker 1: a pretty good win for the protest.
Speaker 2: I ever heard numerous DNC goers wearing their their best
Speaker 2: their best merch complaining that it was the protester's fault, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that the lines were so long.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean people were also complaining about just like
Speaker 4: the level of like the DNC's like organization and like
Speaker 4: out because it was a mix. It was because of this,
Speaker 4: you know, triggered by actions via protesters, but also because
Speaker 4: of how the DNC was handling everything. It was a compounding,
Speaker 4: a compounding nightmare for many people. Yeah, and I mean
Speaker 4: in terms of other like other disruptions. We heard from
Speaker 4: a woman who's staying at our same hotel that she
Speaker 4: left at four pm to get to the DNC. She
Speaker 4: left on like one of the DNC shuttles, and it
Speaker 4: took her four hours to get in now. And part
Speaker 4: of what happened was that if she left on the
Speaker 4: DNC shuttle at around four, she probably got to the
Speaker 4: area around four forty five, just because you know, there's
Speaker 4: slow it's traffic.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 4: And what happened next is that around four point fifty
Speaker 4: is when the is when the fence got breached, and
Speaker 4: then everyone getting off the shuttles could not what happened,
Speaker 4: they did like this like a mini security lockdown. Everyone
Speaker 4: was just told they have to stay in the shuttle.
Speaker 4: She had to stay sitting in the shuttle for an
Speaker 4: extra forty five minutes. She could not exit because they
Speaker 4: were not letting people get off the shuttles as as
Speaker 4: the fence was breached. So like, it's it's stuff like
Speaker 4: that that creates like these like compounding fractures.
Speaker 1: And this is probably if something similar were to happen tonight,
Speaker 1: and the protests, as far as I know, are not
Speaker 1: planned to be in the same kind of locations as
Speaker 1: they were, so I don't think that's likely. I don't
Speaker 1: think it would have a severe response because a big
Speaker 1: part of what was going on Monday is that both
Speaker 1: the president and vice president were in the same building,
Speaker 1: so everything that normally exists in terms of security at
Speaker 1: an event like this was taken up to the suitcase
Speaker 1: that ends the world was in the venue, right, so
Speaker 1: everything was on and like just escalated to the m degree,
Speaker 1: which is why never take the fucking buses. It's long
Speaker 1: been one of my rules.
Speaker 2: Yeah. My take is she left a four pm. She
Speaker 2: didn't get in until about eight pm.
Speaker 3: Not worth it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would rather die that. I would rather die.
Speaker 2: It sounds like a episode of Black Mirror.
Speaker 1: Uh huh. Really, it's terrible so I got back to
Speaker 1: the protest a little later. My understanding sounds like between
Speaker 1: seven and nine arrests over the course of the day.
Speaker 1: There were had been like three at the fence breach.
Speaker 1: There were three or four more when people tried to
Speaker 1: briefly set up an encampment that really did not last
Speaker 1: very long. Was very quick to take that down, and
Speaker 1: it was the I had been kind of wondering, and
Speaker 1: I still think we might see some mace tonight, but
Speaker 1: it didn't. Despite like the kind of Chicago's sixty eight
Speaker 1: tear gas stories that people keep talking about, that did
Speaker 1: not seem likely at all.
Speaker 4: DR No, Yeah, and I've heard from ultiple people on
Speaker 4: the ground that it's it seems like shock. REPDI is
Speaker 4: very aware of the optics. Yes, And you know, despite
Speaker 4: being like the police they are, they are trying to
Speaker 4: not immediately bring out the truncheons on everyone's heads.
Speaker 3: Now they do have the truncheons on.
Speaker 1: They've all got and they've got they have the they
Speaker 1: have the worn ass old wooden ones.
Speaker 3: They do have them.
Speaker 4: But they are they are trying to be as hands
Speaker 4: off physically as they can. Of course, like relying on
Speaker 4: the amount of like internal peace policing from these which
Speaker 4: is big or mass groups.
Speaker 1: But the other thing that they have going for them
Speaker 1: is when they do have to get go hands on,
Speaker 1: there are so many of them that they do not
Speaker 1: need to use crowd control well, crowd control weapons are
Speaker 1: things police use when they are out number. That's partly
Speaker 1: why Portland police are so nuts with it is because
Speaker 1: there's almost no police in Portland, like it is literally
Speaker 1: the least police city per capita in the country pretty much,
Speaker 1: whereas you know Chicago. I think the protesters outnumbered the
Speaker 1: police yesterday, but not by a lot, Like it was
Speaker 1: not an overwhelming amount.
Speaker 4: There is a few differences between you know this and
Speaker 4: the RNC, obviously, and one of the main ones is
Speaker 4: that most of the cops we have seen have been local.
Speaker 3: They have been Chicago PD.
Speaker 4: There's been some Illinois State troopers of course, there's like
Speaker 4: Secret Service, Homeland Security Investigations FBI, but mostly it is
Speaker 4: just Chicago PUD, even around the.
Speaker 1: Premier CPD and Illinois State Illinois State. Yeah, based on
Speaker 1: how because I had been I had been reading updates
Speaker 1: for the last couple of weeks on how security plans
Speaker 1: were proceeding for the DNC. I think that part of
Speaker 1: what we've seen, a large part was influenced by the
Speaker 1: guy that police murdered in Milwaukee, because it was a
Speaker 1: couple of days after the RNC that I started seeing
Speaker 1: the first articles about how there would not be out
Speaker 1: of state police doing patrolling around the city of Chicago.
Speaker 1: So it does seem like, thankfully somebody over here recognized that, like,
Speaker 1: oh you if we have a bunch of fucking Ohio
Speaker 1: cops wandering around downtown Chicago like they're going to murder somebody,
Speaker 1: like they're going to freak out because these hay seed
Speaker 1: hicks have heard nothing in their entire lives as much
Speaker 1: as how dangerous Chicago is, They're just going to start blasting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I guess I'm just glad that hopefully nobody gets
Speaker 1: murdered by the cops this this week.
Speaker 3: Well, do you know what we can't get murdered by?
Speaker 1: Yes, Garrison, Wow, Yes, indeed.
Speaker 4: Services. That's the fourth podcast. If you enjoy them too much,
Speaker 4: you know, too much of a good thing is bad.
Speaker 4: That's what I've heard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, that's really why I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: If you don't overdose on products.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to It could happen here.
Speaker 4: So after getting through that cluster a security entrance, me
Speaker 4: and Zobe did eventually make it inside the DNC, which
Speaker 4: we'll talk about in a sec But as me and
Speaker 4: Robert we were parading around the protests on Monday, Sophie
Speaker 4: Lichterman was infiltrating dem Palooza.
Speaker 1: Which is the wrong way. It should be Demapalooza.
Speaker 4: It should be dema Palooza, but it's not. Sophie the angriest.
Speaker 2: Let me just give you some visuals here. First of all,
Speaker 2: you're absolutely cracked. The name is embarrassing, and that's generally
Speaker 2: how I felt about Dempaluza. What is dem Paluzaalza is
Speaker 2: like a.
Speaker 1: First off, only the gen X people are going to
Speaker 1: remember Lollapalooza.
Speaker 4: No chapel Roone just performed at Lollapalooza.
Speaker 1: That doesn't see you, do you?
Speaker 2: I don't some.
Speaker 4: Kind of horse great keep going, keeping Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: Anyways, it was like half trade show, half panels by
Speaker 2: people talking about things that they think that the DNC
Speaker 2: crowd will care about too hard on the memes, like
Speaker 2: a there was a booth.
Speaker 3: Was it the Coconut Vibes booth.
Speaker 1: It was the almost thought that was a bored apes
Speaker 1: thing at first, they just they just.
Speaker 2: I was like, why why are we acknowledging?
Speaker 1: Fine, it's fine.
Speaker 2: There was there was like cool Coconut Vibes here booth,
Speaker 2: and right behind it was a seated area with like
Speaker 2: probably like one hundred chairs and there were two people
Speaker 2: giving speeches on something and there were two people in
Speaker 2: the crowd. Many many such cases, such cases, and you know,
Speaker 2: there was a lot of cardboard cutouts with VP Harris's
Speaker 2: face on it. There was like a VP Harris as
Speaker 2: Wonder Woman section, and then there was a section.
Speaker 1: With shirts They're all having fun.
Speaker 2: Just so that people have an under understanding of like
Speaker 2: the level of embarrassing. There was a one booth while
Speaker 2: I was waiting in the very unorganized line to get
Speaker 2: into the panels area of Dempalooza that had shirts for
Speaker 2: sale for twenty eight dollars featuring one that said beware
Speaker 2: of the uptidy.
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Up tight white people? I'm guessing.
Speaker 3: Okay, I believe, I believe so.
Speaker 2: But also why twenty eight dollars band dictionaries at your
Speaker 2: own pearl? Oh god, okay, make stupid embarrassing again.
Speaker 3: You get the picture. You get it, all right, you
Speaker 3: get the picture. So what panels did you attend at
Speaker 3: dem Palusa?
Speaker 2: The first panel I went to was a panel that
Speaker 2: was like, how to talk to your relatives about Project
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: A great Thanksgiving dinner talk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it was very unorganized and so I was
Speaker 2: thirty minutes late getting into it because not a single
Speaker 2: volunteer had been trained on how to get people into panels,
Speaker 2: and they had a circuit around the building several times
Speaker 2: until I found a very nice security guard who actually
Speaker 2: worked for the building that was like you go that way,
Speaker 2: thank you, sir. And I walk into this panel. There
Speaker 2: are seats for maybe three hundred people. There is one
Speaker 2: man at the front of the stage and about fifteen
Speaker 2: people listening. And I sat there for about five minutes
Speaker 2: and got up because it was basically the sum of
Speaker 2: it was if your your relatives that you disagree with
Speaker 2: are trying to tell you something. Don't yell at them,
Speaker 2: listen to them first, which is not terrible to sue.
Speaker 1: Look, if your relatives want to start talking politics at
Speaker 1: the dinner table this year, this is going to be terrible. Handgun,
Speaker 1: drop it on the table and then just sit down,
Speaker 1: put your legs up, stare at them. Just like the
Speaker 1: post the exact, I learned everything about negotiations from the
Speaker 1: Portland Police Union.
Speaker 4: This is interesting though, SOVID because every night at the
Speaker 4: DNC they're going to be reading from Project twenty twenty
Speaker 4: five on the main stage. Yesterday they were reading about
Speaker 4: all of the plans within that document to basically make
Speaker 4: Trump a de facto dictator. Tonight they're going to be
Speaker 4: reading on sections about how Project twenty five will affect
Speaker 4: the economy and your pocketbook. So they had this plan
Speaker 4: to every night actually talk about and read from the
Speaker 4: actual document. You know, framing this says like this is
Speaker 4: basically like try plan for once he gets into office,
Speaker 4: or this is like Republicans plan for Trump once he
Speaker 4: gets into office, and you know, this type of like scaremongering,
Speaker 4: fear rhetoric around what Trump would do was SEMy successful
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty, and I think they're trying to, you know,
Speaker 4: use this similarly.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: I also think it's smart because there's two big threats here.
Speaker 1: One of them is does the election, you know, go
Speaker 1: badly for Trump, which is an open question, and then
Speaker 1: the other is if it does, he's not going to concede.
Speaker 1: Do the Republicans have shit together to actually steal the election,
Speaker 1: to do another Brooks Brothers riot, to refuse certification, to
Speaker 1: try and kick up enough uncertainty that they can take
Speaker 1: it to the Supreme Court for a steal. And the
Speaker 1: only way ultimately, if it's an narrow enough election that
Speaker 1: the Republicans go for that the only real way to
Speaker 1: fight back is to get an overwhelming number of people
Speaker 1: out and angry in the streets, like enough that it
Speaker 1: frightens you know, the Supreme Court and everyone else who
Speaker 1: would be required to actually put in like sweat equity
Speaker 1: to carry off that steel. And one of the ways
Speaker 1: you do that is by making the stakes really clear.
Speaker 1: And so I think this is it's a good idea
Speaker 1: and responsible that they're focusing on Project twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: as much as they are, and probably what's necessary to
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that the dims don't fold. If that happens,
Speaker 1: I guess we'll fucking see. You know, it's not two thousand.
Speaker 4: Sob what was the second panel you went to at Dempaluzo.
Speaker 2: So I walked around and looked into a bunch of
Speaker 2: different rooms to see if panels had a big crowd
Speaker 2: or not, and it was definitely or not. And then
Speaker 2: I went to the Voices for Justice, Democrats for Palestinian
Speaker 2: Human Rights panel that was.
Speaker 5: Packed.
Speaker 3: It sounded like the most popular panel of the day.
Speaker 2: Packed, no seats available, standing room, and the energy was
Speaker 2: very respectful. Everyone in there was earnest excited that this
Speaker 2: was happening, but also it was mentioned many times that
Speaker 2: this was a step, but obviously not the step that
Speaker 2: they wanted. And it was filled with media but also
Speaker 2: just people that were there for Dempaluza wanting to hear
Speaker 2: what people had to say. It was a very diverse
Speaker 2: group of people and the panel featured you know, several activists,
Speaker 2: former members of the House of Representatives.
Speaker 3: Someone from the Uncommitted Committee.
Speaker 2: Yes, I believe they were part of organizing this panel.
Speaker 2: Although this panel was an official campaign approved panel, which
Speaker 2: was brought up many times by each person who spoke
Speaker 2: as a thing that it was a first of its
Speaker 2: kind approved campaign panel in regards to the people of Palestine.
Speaker 1: And it's part of the dance the DNC has been
Speaker 1: trying to do where they it is such a popular
Speaker 1: issue like giving a shit about the genocide, wanting to
Speaker 1: cease fire, that they can't not signal to it. But
Speaker 1: also there's absolutely no willingness at the top to actually
Speaker 1: hold Israel accountable, so they like, they hold this event,
Speaker 1: they approve it, and it becomes the most popular one
Speaker 1: at the DNC. Biden makes a very mild line and
Speaker 1: support of like basically saying there was a line during
Speaker 1: speech last night that like the protesters outside of a
Speaker 1: point right, which is not taking meaningful action, but it
Speaker 1: is like it gets one of the largest reactions from
Speaker 1: the crowd that night. I mean, you guys were in
Speaker 1: the room, but at least from where I was watching
Speaker 1: at the bar, it sounded like a pretty sizable response.
Speaker 1: And that's I guess. The juggling act that they're still
Speaker 1: trying to do is like, can we continue not actually
Speaker 1: committing on anything while keeping some of these people happy.
Speaker 4: And the uncommitted people are basically in this the protest
Speaker 4: group that's holding their votes, you know, hostage almost to say, like,
Speaker 4: if you want us to vote for you, Harris, you
Speaker 4: have to signal something, whether that be like an arms embargo,
Speaker 4: a real effort towards getting a ceasefire done, trying to
Speaker 4: lobby for change by using their vote as a bargaining chip.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and a couple interesting things to note before I
Speaker 2: play an audio clip for the listeners here. It took
Speaker 2: almost the entire panel for them to mention Joe Biden
Speaker 2: by name. I think that only happened once. It was
Speaker 2: mostly just referring to the party itself. At one point
Speaker 2: a panel member thank to VP Harris, and she's trying.
Speaker 2: We need to hold her accountable, but give her a chance,
Speaker 2: which was the general energy from the entire entire group
Speaker 2: is like, she is not Joe Biden. We're hoping for better. Yeah,
Speaker 2: she's made an inch of a step. We need more,
Speaker 2: but we want to give her a chance to do that.
Speaker 1: And I mean it's a really different vibe from a
Speaker 1: lot of the protests where you have people who are
Speaker 1: kind of more committed political radicals as opposed to the
Speaker 1: uncommitted folks. The overwhelming vibe is we would really like
Speaker 1: to get on board this, but you need to do
Speaker 1: something right.
Speaker 2: The clip that I'm about to play for the listeners
Speaker 2: here comes from a doctor, doctor Tanya Haja San, who
Speaker 2: is a pediatric intensive care doctor who works with the
Speaker 2: humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, and she has spent the
Speaker 2: last decade as a medical trainer and helping people and
Speaker 2: organizations in Gaza in the West Bank. And she spoke
Speaker 2: for ten minutes, and I thought it was pretty moving.
Speaker 2: It was a large room and I was able to
Speaker 2: get very clear audio, which kind of says a lot
Speaker 2: about the crowd, and she kind of just spoke about
Speaker 2: her experience, and yeah, I guess I'll just play that
Speaker 2: clip for everyone now.
Speaker 6: When the uncomituted Wan asked me to be here, I
Speaker 6: tested every doctor and surgeon.
Speaker 7: That I knew who had been to Gaza in the.
Speaker 6: Last ten months and asked them if they wanted to
Speaker 6: join me here in Chicago. And the overwhelming response, actually
Speaker 6: every single person said yes.
Speaker 7: Let me see if I can switch out of my shift,
Speaker 7: And many.
Speaker 6: Of them are actually here in Chicago right now because
Speaker 6: we cannot unsee what we witnessed and caused every single
Speaker 6: one of us. Many of us have worked in many
Speaker 6: wars before, and we have never seen anything so reachius,
Speaker 6: so atrocious, and that is why many of us swapped
Speaker 6: out of shifts have phown a very long way to
Speaker 6: speak to politic shies when we're not help ourself. As
Speaker 6: doctors were trained to protect and reserve.
Speaker 7: Life, and this Israeli military.
Speaker 6: Campaign that's targeting life and every thing even to sustain
Speaker 6: it has read through that impossible, and that is why
Speaker 6: so many of us have taken to other means of
Speaker 6: trying to protect life. For the past ten months, we
Speaker 6: have witnessed civilian massacre after civilian massacre, school massacres who
Speaker 6: internally displaced people with children, the flower massacre, massacres of
Speaker 6: people try.
Speaker 7: To collect water, massacres of people.
Speaker 6: Are collecting eight at eight sites, massacre after civilian massacre,
Speaker 6: Entire families exterminated in one single long humanitarians, healthcare workers
Speaker 6: killed at anjournalists killed at and record numbers pediatric amputations,
Speaker 6: amputations and children that are heartbreaking records over seventeen thousand
Speaker 6: children who have lost one or both parents Since October
Speaker 6: in in Gazala, we have treated so many children who
Speaker 6: have lost.
Speaker 7: Their entire family that it has A term.
Speaker 6: Has been coined to describe these children who probably heard
Speaker 6: it wounded child on surviving Family in WCNSF. This is
Speaker 6: a term that has been coined since October to describe
Speaker 6: as very frequent phenomenon that I personally waitnessed more times
Speaker 6: than I can count while I was.
Speaker 7: There for children.
Speaker 6: I have held the hand of children who are taking
Speaker 6: their last gasps because their entire family was killed in
Speaker 6: the same attack and couldn't be there holding their hand and.
Speaker 7: Comforting them and could not bury them thereafter.
Speaker 6: For the children who I treated who were discharged, they
Speaker 6: were and survived, they face a Russian let of a
Speaker 6: hundred ways that they will like me and pretend to
Speaker 6: die when they leave the hospital due to the circumstances.
Speaker 6: Is incompatible with life that has been architectured by its
Speaker 6: military assault, direct bombing, starvation, dehydration, diase alarming reports of
Speaker 6: the first cases of polio and gaza right now. Polio
Speaker 6: is a potentially deadly disease that crosses paralysis, including paralysis
Speaker 6: the muscles needed to breathe, that has been eradicated for
Speaker 6: decades in that region.
Speaker 7: There's been a polio vaccination campaign that just essentially is eradicated.
Speaker 6: The disease from the majority of the world, and now
Speaker 6: we're seeing cases emerging in a area of the world
Speaker 6: that cannot that has a healthy system that has been
Speaker 6: completely and entirely annihilated. I mentioned these wounded children with
Speaker 6: no surviving family. I'm going to give you two quick
Speaker 6: stories just so that you can humanize what I mean.
Speaker 6: We're gonna say this because I know it's really hard
Speaker 6: to hear these numbers and think about individuals and what
Speaker 6: this means to them. I received a young boy in
Speaker 6: the emergency department during one of the mass casualties who
Speaker 6: had hay from half of his face.
Speaker 7: And an aclora.
Speaker 6: The organs that are vited for breathing and blood supplied
Speaker 6: to the.
Speaker 7: Brain were preserved.
Speaker 6: They were visible, but preserved, and he was talking to us.
Speaker 7: He couldn't see himself, so he didn't know what he
Speaker 7: looked like. At that Moore in time, he kept asking
Speaker 7: for his sister. His sister was in the bed next
Speaker 7: to him.
Speaker 6: The majority of her body was burned beyond recognition. He
Speaker 6: didn't recognize that the girl in the bed next in
Speaker 6: his sister. His entire family, parents and the rest of
Speaker 6: his siblings were killed in the same attack. That always survived,
Speaker 6: and the next day I went to see him, a
Speaker 6: very young plastic surgeon, one of the few remaining plastic
Speaker 6: surgeons from Gaza, because both the others have either been
Speaker 6: killed or have fled. To understand, Pep had removed part
Speaker 6: of his chest and created a graft to cover those
Speaker 6: vibing the organs in the net. He was lying in
Speaker 6: his bed and mumbling, is so difficult to talk, And
Speaker 6: he kept saying I felt really close to him, and
Speaker 6: he said I wish I had died too. And I
Speaker 6: said what And he said, I think my entire family.
Speaker 7: Has gone to heaven. Ever, it's not my entire coming
Speaker 7: is exact words or something effective. Everybody I loved is
Speaker 7: now in heaven. I don't want to be here anymore.
Speaker 7: That is one of so many stories.
Speaker 2: Well, uh, yep, that's yeah. There's some ads, some ads.
Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, we are back.
Speaker 4: We're gonna close this episode by talking about means of
Speaker 4: these experiences in the actual DNC. Once we finally got
Speaker 4: past that ridiculous security gate. So we got in and
Speaker 4: the biggest thing that we realized first was just how disorganized.
Speaker 4: This was at least compared to the RNC. Now, this
Speaker 4: is due to number of factors, the protests being one.
Speaker 4: They're simply just more people at the DNC, like, way
Speaker 4: way more people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely feel like one of the right wing
Speaker 2: things to do right now is to be like there
Speaker 2: was nobody there.
Speaker 3: Absolutely not. It was packed.
Speaker 1: It was way more crowded than Monday at the hour.
Speaker 4: It was much harder to find a place to sit
Speaker 4: inside the arena.
Speaker 2: Honestly hard to find a place to comfortably stand inside
Speaker 2: the arena. No, so unbelievably packed. Garrison and I got
Speaker 2: inside of the actual seating area trying to find a
Speaker 2: place to sit briefly as VP Harris came to greet
Speaker 2: the crowd, and it was roar y.
Speaker 4: It was what I would describe as electric electric. People
Speaker 4: really like to see her. She played it very casual
Speaker 4: to kind of open up the convention. She didn't even
Speaker 4: have a podium. She was just basically a stand up
Speaker 4: set walking around with him.
Speaker 2: She came out to be like hey girl.
Speaker 4: Yeah exactly, and she was. She was opening things up
Speaker 4: very informally. People seem to really like that, and then
Speaker 4: you know, a lot of a lot of the main
Speaker 4: speakers started started to kind of roll out. Now me
Speaker 4: and Sophie were able to somehow get special tickets to
Speaker 4: go on the actual like delegate floor area, something we
Speaker 4: never were able to do during the R and C
Speaker 4: Dare I say big mistake, which was this was a
Speaker 4: massive error on our part.
Speaker 1: This is why I just sat at the bar because it.
Speaker 4: Is a nightmare down there, so much pushing, shoving, no
Speaker 4: place to go.
Speaker 1: You really get to taste democracy.
Speaker 4: As soon as we stepped on the floor AOC walked
Speaker 4: on stage, everything went crazy.
Speaker 3: It was it was a nightmare called.
Speaker 2: For ceasfire Gaza, which apparently I did not see any
Speaker 2: of the speeches before her, but apparently that was the
Speaker 2: first time that was done at night, and the crowd
Speaker 2: loved it.
Speaker 3: She gave a great speech, mean speech, talking about working people.
Speaker 4: I think it's also important because of just how well
Speaker 4: she was received and like the kind of the spot
Speaker 4: that she had at the convention.
Speaker 3: Like she is she used to.
Speaker 4: Be kind of be like an outsider to like the
Speaker 4: Democrat party right and at this point loved she is
Speaker 4: like fully within the fold of like the Democrat machine
Speaker 4: and for better or worse, to probably a mix of both.
Speaker 3: In some regards, there's.
Speaker 1: A lot of talk that in eight or twelve years
Speaker 1: she's going to be running and yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she she is preparing for a long political career. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and people seem to like her and the person that
Speaker 4: spoke immediately after AOC while while we while me and
Speaker 4: Sophie were still being shuffled around the show floor.
Speaker 2: I don't think shuffled is the way to even describe it.
Speaker 1: You guys have seen the Jordan Peele movie. Sorry, what's
Speaker 1: what's the one with the sky monster? Nope, nope. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like being it's being caught. It's like you're being
Speaker 1: sharned with a bunch of other people.
Speaker 2: My hair, my hair was caught in like a CNN camera,
Speaker 2: like you could not breathe. It was like a mosh bit,
Speaker 2: but not fun.
Speaker 3: No, we were we were caught inside the jean jacket.
Speaker 3: It was we were being slashed around.
Speaker 2: There's three aisles and we were in the center aisle
Speaker 2: Jesus christtically like parallel to where the person who would
Speaker 2: be speaking comes up to talk.
Speaker 4: And then Hillary Clinton took the stage and unfortunately the
Speaker 4: crowd loved it.
Speaker 2: They went fairal for Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 3: Yeah, baffling, just baffling.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 2: I looked back at Garrison and I and we both
Speaker 2: with each other like death.
Speaker 3: Wanted to die.
Speaker 1: It's it's like when you're in a foreign country and
Speaker 1: they eat some sort of like lutfisk or something some
Speaker 1: sort of like weird rotten fish dish that they just
Speaker 1: love over there or okay, or.
Speaker 4: When they eat like American garbage fast food and also
Speaker 4: love and you're like, oh no, it's a terrifying I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 2: What I was expecting, but I just didn't think the
Speaker 2: DNC still loved Hillary the way they do. But they
Speaker 2: went fair.
Speaker 1: She was like very popular. I mean, she won the primaries.
Speaker 1: She's got a base of support. She just is. The
Speaker 1: people who hate her hate her a lot. Excuse.
Speaker 3: She gave a very big, mad speech.
Speaker 2: She loss of arm waving.
Speaker 1: People disagree about that. Garrison. People got angry at me
Speaker 1: for saying she seems angry.
Speaker 3: She she was a little big man. I would I
Speaker 3: wouldn't say.
Speaker 2: I would say she gave a standard Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was a pretty standard.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: She's just not very likable and charismatic. So but she did.
Speaker 2: I do I do have a great picture of wins
Speaker 2: Garrison and I survived the floor. We were up in
Speaker 2: a press area and of Hillary Clinton with both her
Speaker 2: hands in the air and the crowd eating it up.
Speaker 4: Again a choice, Yeah, navigating this this whole place with
Speaker 4: an area We're never going to go in the on
Speaker 4: the delegate floor again, just a nightmare, thank you, being
Speaker 4: shuffled around corridors.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's terrible.
Speaker 4: There was a few other you know a few other speakers,
Speaker 4: uh Bashieri, I think did didn't okay speech, you know, uh,
Speaker 4: lot of stuff about abortion, A lot of videos on
Speaker 4: the big jumbo tron about about cop prosecutor Kamala taken
Speaker 4: down the felon Donald Trump as expected, they had they had.
Speaker 2: Do we want to play a clip of that? By
Speaker 2: the way, do you have the Law and Order clip,
Speaker 2: Sophie Garson? Do I have the Law Quarter clip? Of course,
Speaker 2: I have the Law and.
Speaker 4: Order kam and we can play twenty seconds of the
Speaker 4: Law and Order clip.
Speaker 2: Yes. There was several different videos played throughout the night,
Speaker 2: but I would say the most memorable one was the
Speaker 2: Law and Order themed clip featuring Big Bad kam Law
Speaker 2: as the prosecutor and criminal Donald Trump as the villain
Speaker 2: of the story.
Speaker 3: The New York sex pest criminal of the Week.
Speaker 9: The criminal justice system the people are represented by two
Speaker 9: separate yet equally important groups, the police who investigate crime
Speaker 9: and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. This is
Speaker 9: the story of Donald Trump. His entire life. Trump has
Speaker 9: believed he's above the law, that no one would ever
Speaker 9: dare hold them accountable. For the first time in history,
Speaker 9: we have a convicted felon running for president, and to
Speaker 9: take on this case, we need a president who has
Speaker 9: spent her life prosecuting perpetrators, like Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: God damn it.
Speaker 3: It was the choice and it was night one. We'll
Speaker 3: see how that plays.
Speaker 4: So Jill Biden introduced well, first introduced her daughter, and
Speaker 4: then they introduced Joe Biden. I think one interesting thing
Speaker 4: is that throughout the night I started seeing more green
Speaker 4: Jill signs, which I thought was really confusing, like who's
Speaker 4: snuck in Jill Stein Green party.
Speaker 3: Signs into this?
Speaker 4: And then I realized, no, the signs for Jill Biden,
Speaker 4: which I don't know if they chose green signs to
Speaker 4: be intentionally like trying to like reclaim green for Jill Biden.
Speaker 3: Instead of Jill Stein. I don't know. I found it
Speaker 3: to be odd.
Speaker 4: She led the crowd and like we love Joe Chance
Speaker 4: And immediately as soon as everyone started changing like we
Speaker 4: love Joe, thank you Joe, it started to feel like
Speaker 4: we're kind of just sending him out to pasture.
Speaker 3: And that was the main vibe of the Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: He was very emotional.
Speaker 1: Putting on his favorite Spotify up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was very emotional, came out crying after his
Speaker 2: daughter introduced him. And I would say there was like
Speaker 2: a good ten minute standing ovation for.
Speaker 3: Him, maybe five, but it was. It was long.
Speaker 2: It was I was being generous. It's his last big thing.
Speaker 1: I don't they It's a really nice farm. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a great view of the mountains from it. Beautiful
Speaker 1: upstasted run through in the summer all day long, Orgia.
Speaker 1: We just run it.
Speaker 2: We had a direct view of the teleprompter. Did a
Speaker 2: great job reading that teleprompter. He won offscript, you know
Speaker 2: a handful of times.
Speaker 4: But his actual performance was pretty good. Yeah, especially for
Speaker 4: coming out around like eleven pm.
Speaker 6: He did.
Speaker 3: He did pretty good.
Speaker 2: It was a strong It was a strong performance for Joe.
Speaker 4: One of the first things he mentioned was Charlottesville, as
Speaker 4: he talked about before in his campaign for being with
Speaker 4: the reason that he ran in twenty twenty, you know,
Speaker 4: talking about how, you know, lots of rhetoric was identical
Speaker 4: from Nazis and anti Semitic vile from the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 4: He had he had a line describing kind of the
Speaker 4: alt right movement as as old ghosts in new garments.
Speaker 4: I thought that was well written by whatever speech writer
Speaker 4: at the White House was putting that one together. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, talking about how Trump's being aligned with these
Speaker 4: like with this new version of the KKK, they just
Speaker 4: they just forgot to wear their hoods, talking about you know,
Speaker 4: very fine people on both sides. Hate has no safe
Speaker 4: harbor in America, all that kind of stuff. And you know,
Speaker 4: this was this rhetoric was a lot more common back
Speaker 4: in like, you know, twenty nineteen, you know, right after
Speaker 4: Charlotte's film, during like the height of like the alt
Speaker 4: right movement. We don't hear this as much anymore, but
Speaker 4: I think it is important to remember that this was
Speaker 4: not that long ago. He then kind of talked about
Speaker 4: mostly the past. He wasn't talking about kind of the future.
Speaker 4: He was talking about what the Biden administration has been
Speaker 4: able to do the past four years, and trying to
Speaker 4: tie in, you know, Kamula to all of the good
Speaker 4: things that have happened, you know, talking about four years
Speaker 4: of progress, you know, making waves with COVID, with the economy,
Speaker 4: lots of new jobs, Inflation is down at least now.
Speaker 3: He gave his greatest shrinking the racial wealth gaps.
Speaker 4: You know, health insurance stocks are good. We finally beat
Speaker 4: big Pharma, I'm sure whatever. A lot of stuff about
Speaker 4: tying him to the unions, you know, saying that Dan
Speaker 4: people have called him the most the most pro union
Speaker 4: president in history, and he's like, I'm proud to I'm
Speaker 4: proud to take on that Moniker or.
Speaker 3: Something like that.
Speaker 4: Union Joe Union Joe said he was the first president
Speaker 4: to walk the picket line. So you know, they were
Speaker 4: definitely focusing a lot of that union messaging. It is
Speaker 4: interesting considering that one union leader spoke at the RNC yeah,
Speaker 4: back when the nomination for the Democrats.
Speaker 1: Speech is yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 4: Very brief talk about carbon emissions and pollution, but similarly
Speaker 4: very little climate change stuff.
Speaker 1: Almost yeah.
Speaker 4: It's which is which has been common throughout this whole campaign, this, this, this,
Speaker 4: this whole election has been very little mention of climate
Speaker 4: change stuff.
Speaker 1: You really get a feeling of what a gift it
Speaker 1: has been for the Democratic Party that the Republicans have
Speaker 1: given them all this fascism stuff to talk about, rather
Speaker 1: than actually needing to make any kind of serious statements
Speaker 1: about what they're going to do to be climate change.
Speaker 4: Part of the other kind of achievements that he was,
Speaker 4: you know, Lotting was saying that they finally beat the
Speaker 4: NRA passing this gun safety bill, and next they're going
Speaker 4: to ban assault weapons and pass universal background safety bill.
Speaker 1: Okay, it was one of the ones that didn't really
Speaker 1: do anything. Yeah, correct, Ye.
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 4: There was a brief section about the border, saying that
Speaker 4: there is now fewer border crossings than when Trump left office,
Speaker 4: saying that, you know, Trump tried to kill our border
Speaker 4: security bill, and he said the main thing that makes
Speaker 4: us different from the Republicans is that we won't demonize immigrants.
Speaker 1: We are going to.
Speaker 4: They're going to still do really really bad like border
Speaker 4: violence and really really bad border.
Speaker 1: Security policies from asylum from being able to like flee
Speaker 1: bad situations.
Speaker 4: But they're not going to be spending the whole convention
Speaker 4: every single day, talking NonStop about how immigrants are coming
Speaker 4: to rape your family, and like, yeah, that is true,
Speaker 4: you don't talk about them the same way. But some
Speaker 4: of your actual policies are not all that different from
Speaker 4: what most Republicans in office want. You know, they're not
Speaker 4: calling for massive deportations at the same rate. But still,
Speaker 4: that border security bill was very similar to ones that
Speaker 4: Trump was proposing, and the only reason that Trump killed
Speaker 4: it was so that Biden wouldn't be able to take credit,
Speaker 4: which Biden didn't also say during the.
Speaker 1: Speech order fear mongery. I mean, it's just been a
Speaker 1: titanic victory for the.
Speaker 4: Right, and talk about abortion, talk about how if Harris's
Speaker 4: is president, she'll be able to sign in something that
Speaker 4: puts into law that right to abortion, saying that quote,
Speaker 4: MAGA found out the power of women in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 4: saying that they're going to find out again in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four, which he's not wrong about, Dadley, that is
Speaker 4: that is repealing Roe v Wade did I did sign
Speaker 4: election results.
Speaker 1: In twenty two, twenty twenty five, abortions mandatory finally.
Speaker 4: And yeah, he's you know, talking about the quote we
Speaker 4: got to put a prosecutor in the oval office instead
Speaker 4: of a convicted Felon said, saying that Harris is going
Speaker 4: to be forty seven. And whenever he made a comment
Speaker 4: like that talking about how Harris is going to be
Speaker 4: the next president, the whole crowd sort of breaking own chance,
Speaker 4: saying thank you Joe, thank you Joe. It's just really
Speaker 4: funny because they are just thanking him for stepping down
Speaker 4: for the race.
Speaker 1: Everybody wanted a chance to remember what two thousand and
Speaker 1: eight was like, and they got it, and they could
Speaker 1: not be more greatful.
Speaker 2: And just just interesting to note that it took it
Speaker 2: did take him quite a while to really start talking
Speaker 2: about kamalaw but whenever the large chance of thank you
Speaker 2: Joe would start, he'd be like, no, no, no, thank
Speaker 2: you Kambola.
Speaker 4: One of the last things that Joe talked about was
Speaker 4: briefly mentioning Ukraine and then talking about Gaza. And this
Speaker 4: is kind of one of the last things in his
Speaker 4: speech before he started like his closing remarks. You know,
Speaker 4: he talked about, you know, the need to get to
Speaker 4: get the hostages to safety and to quote unquote end
Speaker 4: of the war in Gaza, saying that they're working around
Speaker 4: the clock to surge humanitarian aid into Gaza and to
Speaker 4: get a lasting ceasefire. He then gave a small off
Speaker 4: the cuff mention to the DNC protests, and this part
Speaker 4: wasn't on the teleprompter. He said, quote, those protesters out
Speaker 4: in the street have a point. A lot of innocent
Speaker 4: people are being killed on both sides. And he made
Speaker 4: similar comments to this last march, saying that protesters who
Speaker 4: were disrupting a rally of his quote unquote have a point.
Speaker 4: So he has used this line before, but this was
Speaker 4: kind of the only acknowledgment of the protests that I
Speaker 4: saw today from any of the DNC speeches. It is
Speaker 4: interesting that this was not scripted, was just something that
Speaker 4: he said.
Speaker 2: Because as mentioned before, we had a view of the telerompter.
Speaker 4: And at the same time that this happened, someone on
Speaker 4: the far side of the crowd unfurled a banner, and
Speaker 4: I think Robert has some more infro on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there were a couple of delegates who managed to
Speaker 1: sneak in a banner.
Speaker 3: Do you know if they were delegates? Well, at least
Speaker 3: one of them was Okay, a.
Speaker 1: Banner that said stop arming Israel. They unfurled it and
Speaker 1: got a very strong and negative reaction from the people
Speaker 1: around them, some of whom were hitting them or at
Speaker 1: least shoving them. I think it kind of you could
Speaker 1: look at the video and use either term.
Speaker 3: They were definitely like moving, like pushing.
Speaker 1: They were definitely aggressively making contact with them.
Speaker 3: With these like big wooden signs that people have not.
Speaker 1: These thank you Joe signs, and then set up a
Speaker 1: chant of thank you Joe to kind of like drown
Speaker 1: them out as the people filming in the venue like
Speaker 1: cut the lights basically down to the lights in that
Speaker 1: area so that it would it would be less visible.
Speaker 1: Eventually they got the banner away from them, but it
Speaker 1: was one of those like it shows you kind of
Speaker 1: the hollowness of there's enough of a need that even
Speaker 1: Biden had to make a positive reference to the protesters.
Speaker 1: They see it as enough of a potential threat to,
Speaker 1: you know, being able to get the votes they need
Speaker 1: that they they have to signpost to it. But a banner,
Speaker 1: and this is not a radical banner. Stop arming Israel
Speaker 1: is not a radical stance down.
Speaker 3: It's not calling an end to the state of events.
Speaker 1: It wasn't an Intifada revolution banner right right. It was
Speaker 1: a literally just stop sending guns.
Speaker 4: And stopped doing this to Israel that's being used to
Speaker 4: bomb them and people.
Speaker 1: People were angry enough that I don't want to overstate
Speaker 1: the level of physical violence, but I don't want to
Speaker 1: understate that they were physically aggressive over this like to
Speaker 1: and and had this small group of people surrounded. And
Speaker 1: seeing that is a reminder that I am not in
Speaker 1: line with the people on the left who repeatedly call
Speaker 1: the DIMS fascist, because fascism means something, it's a real
Speaker 1: political things. Have plenty of authoritarians, and that's what that is.
Speaker 1: Is that is authoritarian thinking, and it can and will,
Speaker 1: if not checked, lead to a lot uglier shift than
Speaker 1: what we saw last night. So I did not like
Speaker 1: seeing that. It is a reminder that even as nice
Speaker 1: as the vibe shift has been, and I'm I'm not
Speaker 1: going to try to take enjoyment from that away from people,
Speaker 1: we are still in a real pickle as a country.
Speaker 1: Ari are acceptance of authoritarian aims and tactics.
Speaker 3: And especially you know, sending twenty billion dollars in bombs.
Speaker 1: And sending twenty billion dollars in bop, just send the tape,
Speaker 1: take all the Israel weapons and send them to the Ukrainians.
Speaker 1: That's that's my stance.
Speaker 3: I'm sure Rudy Giuliani will love that.
Speaker 4: Yeah so yeah, I mean you said that the crowd
Speaker 4: had a big reaction to some of the Palestine stuff,
Speaker 4: and at least from inside the convention certainly calls for
Speaker 4: ceasefire did that was big. When Biden made his little
Speaker 4: comment acknowledging the protests, the whole room kind of went silent,
Speaker 4: like everyone was kind of surprised. Like it was it
Speaker 4: was like a chill went over the air, like no
Speaker 4: one knew how to take it.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 4: There wasn't like massive cheers, there wasn't booze either, but
Speaker 4: like it was weird because like arguably Biden gave a
Speaker 4: more positive comment referring to the protests than most of
Speaker 4: like the regular like delegates and attendees. Most of the
Speaker 4: attendees we were standing around in the waiting line were
Speaker 4: much more like negative and dismissive. And I think I
Speaker 4: think Biden's comment kind of like took the wind out
Speaker 4: of the air, at least inside the convention arena. But
Speaker 4: that was basically the end of it. He gave, you know,
Speaker 4: closing closing remarks. Kamala went onto stage, They hugged, they
Speaker 4: did their little thing, and then me and Sophie went
Speaker 4: out of the convention as fast as we could, and
Speaker 4: we found this little corridor exit because we didn't want
Speaker 4: to mess with like the like with like the escalators
Speaker 4: or the elevator because that's always a nightmare. So we
Speaker 4: found this nice little staircase and I turned to the
Speaker 4: left walking down the stairs, and I saw two very
Speaker 4: large men in ryan gear with two assault weapons, and
Speaker 4: I said, I guess we're going that way.
Speaker 3: Then I turned around and walk the other direction.
Speaker 2: Honestly, funniest moment of the day.
Speaker 4: We were like like ten feet away from these guys,
Speaker 4: away some of the giants, some of the most heavily
Speaker 4: armed men I've ever seen. I think we stumbled across
Speaker 4: because I looked at that signs later, I think with
Speaker 4: someone across the security gate for the presidential motor case.
Speaker 4: So that's that's where we almost accidentally went.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, those are guys who have spent every year
Speaker 1: of the last twenty years of their lives just planning
Speaker 1: to kill as many people as they care. The second
Speaker 1: someone takes them off the lad They.
Speaker 3: Would shoot a twink on site.
Speaker 1: They not care, they don't give you, they don't give
Speaker 1: a fuck who They shoot the instant they have a chance.
Speaker 4: So me and so we left as soon as we
Speaker 4: could and went back to the hotel and immediately went
Speaker 4: to sleep.
Speaker 3: And that was the first night at the DNC.
Speaker 1: You had drinks with me, garas.
Speaker 2: I did not.
Speaker 1: We shared a special moment.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to create a compelling narrative of the podcast.
Speaker 1: Well, I thought it was compelling narrative that we had
Speaker 1: a nice drength was.
Speaker 2: I said hi to you and then I went okay bye.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wasn't interested in you because you left.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, I abandoned you. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4: But that anyway, that was the first night at the
Speaker 4: dn Z. That was the first round of speeches. I
Speaker 4: believe tonight we're gonna split up. Somebody's going to go
Speaker 4: and then go over there and me and Robert are
Speaker 4: going to be back in the streets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will report if anything of interest happens. It
Speaker 2: is the I believe Bill Clinton Obama night. Jess, It's
Speaker 2: once again the years twenty twenty four is the Bill
Speaker 2: Clinton Obama.
Speaker 1: It would be pretty funny if Bill Clinton got played
Speaker 1: onto stage by bad Leroy Brown.
Speaker 4: All right, this is it can happen here? You think
Speaker 4: it happened here? Recording from Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 3: We'll see you.
Speaker 1: I do wouldn't walk.
Speaker 3: All right, Jesus fuck.
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