Speaker 1: Welcome back to a Numbers Game Podcast, Ryan Gradowski, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the very special Ask Me Anything episode. When Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton told me to start doing this segment of the show,
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, this sounds great, but I got
Speaker 1: so few questions. My first few weeks, I was texting
Speaker 1: friends and co workers and family members like give me
Speaker 1: a question. I have no one who sent me questions,
Speaker 1: and thankfully that is no longer the case. I have
Speaker 1: gotten so many questions. We have a backlog that I
Speaker 1: want to get to. It is the dead of summer,
Speaker 1: and I figured why not have a special episode where
Speaker 1: I thank the listeners for being with me here and
Speaker 1: answering some of your questions. And if you want to
Speaker 1: be part of future Ask Me Anything segments of the
Speaker 1: show at the end of the podcast, email me Ryan
Speaker 1: at Numbers Game Podcast dot com. It's Ryan at Numbers
Speaker 1: Plural Numbers Game Podcast dot com. I read every email
Speaker 1: and I would love to hear from you. So let's
Speaker 1: go to some listener questions. First up is Joel from Ohio.
Speaker 1: I love your show and wish it came out before
Speaker 1: seven am because I'm often busy and can't get to
Speaker 1: until later in the day, but today's a slow day anyway.
Speaker 1: My question has to do with the situation in Iran.
Speaker 1: My concern is that the Iranian regime will fall and
Speaker 1: that there will be chaos in the streets. That's no
Speaker 1: good for anyone. What I like to see is a
Speaker 1: government in exile be formed with the support of Saudi Arabia, Qatar,
Speaker 1: United Arab Emirates and Israel that's able to take power
Speaker 1: on day one. Here's the question. Is any polling organization
Speaker 1: asking in its current polls, if the poll if the
Speaker 1: Polie would support regime change, if Iran change in Iran,
Speaker 1: if there was a government in exile waiting for power.
Speaker 1: Great question, Joel, appreciate it. So I think the problem
Speaker 1: with the question you're asking is in the framing. The
Speaker 1: idea of regime change, to the minds of Americans means
Speaker 1: boots on the ground, and that is extremely unpopular. That's
Speaker 1: what people go to when they hear regime change. According
Speaker 1: to a Washington Post poll from June twenty third, is
Speaker 1: twenty two percent of American support military intervention aimed at
Speaker 1: toppling the current government of Iran, while forty eight percent oppose.
Speaker 1: Only thirty six percent of Republicans, they support sending troops
Speaker 1: into Iran, So there's no appetite at all, and all
Speaker 1: pollings surrounding the term regime change is directly related in
Speaker 1: the minds of people, whether correct or incorrect, to military
Speaker 1: intervention ie boots in the ground. I know that's probably
Speaker 1: not what she meant, but that's people think. Now here's
Speaker 1: the idea of a government in exile. The problem is Iranians,
Speaker 1: according to the polls available, which is very limited. I
Speaker 1: will give you that note first. It's extremely limited. But
Speaker 1: according to the polls available, Iranians aren't exactly sure what
Speaker 1: kind of government they even want. A twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: Gamand survey of one hundred and fifty eight thousand online
Speaker 1: Iranian respondent so that eighty one percent rejected the Islamic Republic,
Speaker 1: but twenty two percent actually favored a constitutional monarchy as
Speaker 1: the alternative. Twenty eight percent wanted a presidential republic and
Speaker 1: twelve percent a parliamentary republic. So while the Iranian people
Speaker 1: don't like the current Islamic regime, who knows what future
Speaker 1: government they want and they have to be part of
Speaker 1: that process and they have to decide that for it
Speaker 1: to be legitimate. We can't decide that for them, and
Speaker 1: that's where it gets a little complicated. But thank you
Speaker 1: for your question. Next up, Casey, she writes, new listener
Speaker 1: to your show, but loving it. My question is an
Speaker 1: issue that is being underreported is the immense pushback from
Speaker 1: Senator Mike Lee has faced for his amendment in the
Speaker 1: second in the Senate Reconciliation bill that would sell millions
Speaker 1: of acres of public land in Western states. Right leaning
Speaker 1: groups and voters have publicly denounced the bill, with one
Speaker 1: of the loudest voices coming from hunters who lean right.
Speaker 1: Following the pushback from other Western Republican senators, Mike Lee
Speaker 1: is thinking his overthinking his approach. Is it smart for
Speaker 1: Senator Lee to add such a controversial position to an
Speaker 1: already contentious bill? Could this be an issue that splinter's
Speaker 1: the Republican Party? Thanks? See okay, I got this email
Speaker 1: before that The amendment in question would have sold three
Speaker 1: point three million acres of land that the government owns
Speaker 1: that's managed by the Bureau of Land Management and US
Speaker 1: four Services. It would have sold those three point three
Speaker 1: million acres and to private enterprise into private businesses. But
Speaker 1: because of pressure from Republican senators like the Montana Senator
Speaker 1: Tim Sheheeney. It's out of the bill, so it wasn't
Speaker 1: even voted on. They took it right out of the bill. However,
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to I'm going to give Mike
Speaker 1: Lee a little grace. I don't agree with the approach
Speaker 1: of just selling all of our government owned land, our
Speaker 1: federal own land. Mike Lee has got libertarian leanings, so
Speaker 1: they don't support federal owned land, which I understand. But
Speaker 1: I think that specific to the state of Utah, unlike
Speaker 1: other states, the federal land brushes right up to some
Speaker 1: of their cities. It's not just like in the middle
Speaker 1: of nowhere like it is for some states. Places like
Speaker 1: Saint Utah, which is one of the fastest growing parts
Speaker 1: of southern Utah, has very limited space because of the
Speaker 1: federal land. I think a better solution would be to
Speaker 1: look at where specific areas of federal land are stopping
Speaker 1: urban planning in very specific location. Not millions of acres
Speaker 1: across the country, but you know, maybe a several few
Speaker 1: thousand acres in very select places. That would be in
Speaker 1: a better alternative than Mike Lee's approach. But thank you
Speaker 1: for that question. Next up is John Buckwalter from Scottsdale, Arizona.
Speaker 1: By the way, guys, if I mispronounce your name, you
Speaker 1: have to understand I can barely pronounce my own name.
Speaker 1: I think I got John's name correctly, but other people's names.
Speaker 1: If I mispronounce your name, I apologize. I am from
Speaker 1: New York, I can I am missing whole syllables and
Speaker 1: consonants in my alphabet. I am struggling through the English language.
Speaker 1: Please forgive me ahead of time. Okay, Ryan, I just
Speaker 1: thought I would reach out and say thank you. Listen
Speaker 1: to a fair amount of conservative podcast I really like yours.
Speaker 1: I value quality information on relevant topics and guests and
Speaker 1: expert analysis. You do it like no one else I
Speaker 1: have found, and you don't waste my time. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I hate waste people's time. You must work really hard
Speaker 1: to do your research and organize guests. Are you on
Speaker 1: channels other than the free podcast that I should find
Speaker 1: you on? Great content deserves my support. Keep it up.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, John, that's really really nice of you.
Speaker 1: I have a newsletter called the National Poplist Newsletter on substack.
Speaker 1: It's fifty dollars a year for a subscription, and that's
Speaker 1: basically it. I have been asked many times to start
Speaker 1: a YouTube channel for this podcast, and something I hope
Speaker 1: to do at some point this year is to get
Speaker 1: this on youtubecause people like to listen and watch a
Speaker 1: video seeming to be very animated with my hands flailing
Speaker 1: and all my italianness. But that is something that I
Speaker 1: plan on doing, hopefully sometime this year, if I can
Speaker 1: get around to it. I don't really know how to
Speaker 1: do that though, so I'm going to figure it out.
Speaker 1: Another big fantasy goal of mine for this podcast eventually
Speaker 1: if it continues to grow, and last month was my
Speaker 1: best month ever, so I'm so appreciative to every person
Speaker 1: who spends the thirty to forty five minutes hearing my voice.
Speaker 1: You have no idea how grateful I am. No one
Speaker 1: in my family would do that if I paid them
Speaker 1: to do it. But a big goal of mine eventually
Speaker 1: if it continues to grow, is I would love to
Speaker 1: do a live audience taping one day with like a
Speaker 1: guest like I would if I can ask Anne Cole
Speaker 1: to do it with me one day, that would be
Speaker 1: fun in a theater or something. I don't know. If
Speaker 1: people would pay to attend that, but that would be
Speaker 1: fun and that's something I would love to do. But
Speaker 1: as for right now, it's just the substack. So thank
Speaker 1: you for listening and maybe subscribe. Now let's go to Russell.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna mispronounce your name Kluge. I think hello Ryan,
Speaker 1: great work on your show. I increasing look forward to
Speaker 1: Mondays and Thursdays. I will try to be as concise
Speaker 1: as possible with twenty sixteen and twenty twenty four now
Speaker 1: in the review mirror, What do you think about and
Speaker 1: are there any numbers on the assumption often repeated by
Speaker 1: Democratic pundits in both election years, that the US will
Speaker 1: never elect a female president is the assumption that a
Speaker 1: Democratic nominee is more likely to win if Vance is
Speaker 1: the Republican air apparent. Is there any possibility of a
Speaker 1: female VP pick over, say Marco Rubio or another male
Speaker 1: cabinet member. I've included three major observations and one prompt
Speaker 1: about a candidate that have influenced my own thinking that
Speaker 1: possibly refused the above assumption. The twenty sixteen gender gap,
Speaker 1: which shows there was no differs between Clinton and the
Speaker 1: Trump debates candidate quality in the twenty twenty two elections
Speaker 1: where female candidates. One I'm concise what he says there
Speaker 1: and says, by the way, because it's paragraphs so long.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump himself, no one thought that he was a
Speaker 1: serious candidate before he ran. And Sarah Palin that she
Speaker 1: was not hurt from being a woman. Okay, I appreciate
Speaker 1: he says, by the I appreciate your time that you
Speaker 1: take for your response. Okay, thank you so much, Russell.
Speaker 1: This is Russell Klug. I don't think I'm spelling that
Speaker 1: pronouncing that name correctly anyway, but Russell Klug, thank you,
Speaker 1: very astute observations. I think Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton
Speaker 1: set women politicians back in this country. I really do.
Speaker 1: With their losses, especially Kamala even more than Hillary. I
Speaker 1: think people thought Hillary would be a fluke, and Kamala
Speaker 1: losing the popular vote and losing every swing state and
Speaker 1: making some states more competitive than they should have been
Speaker 1: really hurt female candidates. And I do think it will
Speaker 1: be a bit of time before Democrats nominate a woman again.
Speaker 1: As far as Republicans go, my bigger question is who
Speaker 1: would they pick right And I've heard through the grape
Speaker 1: vine that elis Stephonic is planning to make a run
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty eight, whether or not she wins the
Speaker 1: governorship of New York. I'm sorry, but I don't think
Speaker 1: she's got a shot in hell. Allegedly Trump said that
Speaker 1: she looks like this is mean, but this is what
Speaker 1: I heard through the grape vine. Allegedly Trump said she
Speaker 1: dresses like a couch. And the sad thing is, we
Speaker 1: all know which couch's talking about. It's the couch from Rosanna.
Speaker 1: We know it. A big part of it is not
Speaker 1: cad quality in the sense of do they have what
Speaker 1: it takes? But are they doing the correct things now
Speaker 1: to launch a presidential bid? Are they making an effishing team?
Speaker 1: Do they have the donors in mind? I'll tell you
Speaker 1: Sarah Huckabee Sanders definitely did a lot of damage to
Speaker 1: herself in Trump world when she refused to endorse him
Speaker 1: out of the gate. Katie Britt left a lot to
Speaker 1: be desired when she gave her rebuttal to the State
Speaker 1: of the Union and poison the well water. A lot
Speaker 1: with how grabby she was during the VP selection. Christy
Speaker 1: nom she shot her dog right. That ends that there's
Speaker 1: no America is not going to vote for the lady
Speaker 1: who shot her puppy. I mean, you can say you
Speaker 1: want a woman president, but unless you can give a
Speaker 1: specific example, it's hard for me to give you a
Speaker 1: definitive answer on whether they can be the nominee. And
Speaker 1: there's a big difference between running for governor or Senate
Speaker 1: and running for president. Namely, you're the commander in chief
Speaker 1: of the armed services. So I don't know the answer.
Speaker 1: I know, like my buddy Megan McCain really wants there
Speaker 1: to be a woman president one day, and people have
Speaker 1: mentioned a lot of names. I don't see someone on
Speaker 1: the horizon right now. Doesn't mean there can't be, but
Speaker 1: it's like it's like someone saying, will ever be a
Speaker 1: gay president? Not Pete poota judge. That's the answer to that.
Speaker 1: Will there be one? There's no Republican on the horizon.
Speaker 1: Could there be one? Maybe, but until you give me
Speaker 1: a name, I can't give you an answer. Okay, we'll
Speaker 1: be back with more listener questions after this brief break.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned, Welcome back. Our next listener question comes from
Speaker 1: Andy Kirby. He writes, Hey, Ryan, love the podcast and
Speaker 1: what you do for the seventeen seventy six project. I
Speaker 1: use numbers like number websites like numbers USA and Liberty
Speaker 1: Score to make sure that Republican politicians in my state
Speaker 1: aren't going along with libtard policies. I love that you
Speaker 1: said libtard. Is there any other? Is there any any
Speaker 1: other or better website like that to track how people
Speaker 1: are voting in DC and on state level stuff? Also,
Speaker 1: do we have a chance of winning the governor's mansion
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin replacing Tony Evers? Or do you have any
Speaker 1: of the stories about Wisconsin other than why Tom Tiffany
Speaker 1: is the best elected representative Wisconsin. Thanks so much. Okay, Andy, No,
Speaker 1: there is not a better website. And I know this
Speaker 1: because I have told so many people like Amy Kramer
Speaker 1: and John Magantee and people, and I'm like, make this website,
Speaker 1: make a Magascore website for politicians. It would be a
Speaker 1: huge hit, right. Take big topics trade, foreign policy, you know, infrastructure, whatever,
Speaker 1: immigration obviously, and rank how people vote and make sure
Speaker 1: people know how they're voting, how the representatives are voting
Speaker 1: in terms of things that you like, and include amendments
Speaker 1: and stuff like this. And a lot of people been interested,
Speaker 1: but no, one has done it, and I don't understand why,
Speaker 1: and I'm too busy to do it. But someone should
Speaker 1: do it. Someone should have been doing it for a
Speaker 1: year years. As far as Wisconsin goes, my friend is
Speaker 1: Rebecca Cleafish. She does a lot of school board stuff
Speaker 1: with me, like our nonprofits do, so I respect her
Speaker 1: a lot. I really like her. I think she'd be
Speaker 1: a great governor. I told her on the phone to run,
Speaker 1: and she didn't really give me a clearance when she
Speaker 1: was going to do it or not. Wisconsin is a
Speaker 1: very tough state, and a lot of people from Illinois
Speaker 1: and Minnesota have moved there and taken their politics there.
Speaker 1: It was the closest swing state that voted for Trump.
Speaker 1: In terms of the raw vocoes. You have to either
Speaker 1: get someone who has the Trump effect in the rural
Speaker 1: counties or runs decent numbers in the cities like Dane
Speaker 1: and Milwaukee, or you turn out the wow counties with
Speaker 1: huge numbers. So Wisconsin's a tough state to win. I
Speaker 1: mean it's possible. For sure. Tony Evers is going to
Speaker 1: be a prime target for a flip in Republican for
Speaker 1: the RGA in twenty twenty six, and I think they'll
Speaker 1: put a lot of money there, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have to see the nominee as first.
Speaker 1: As far as Wisconsin stories go, it's tough. I've only
Speaker 1: for the school board races. I've never actually visited the state.
Speaker 1: Of a lot of friends from Wisconsin who will always
Speaker 1: tell me come up there for the beer, the cheese
Speaker 1: and the lakes, and I have not had a chance to.
Speaker 1: It should be my bucket list, though, to go to Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: I heard it's a beautiful state, but I haven't been.
Speaker 1: Next question is from Olivia Hutchins. Okay, this is a
Speaker 1: very long question. I'm going to try to condense it. Olivia, Ryan,
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of the podcast. I've been meaning
Speaker 1: to email you to cover some things about polling for
Speaker 1: my background on my evolution. We are around the same age.
Speaker 1: I'm thirty nine, she's thirty nine. I'm thirty eight, but
Speaker 1: i'm thirty nine. I'll be forty next year. I canvassed
Speaker 1: for Hillary in two thousand and seven, voted for Obama
Speaker 1: in eight and twelve Hillary, and sixteen cry when Trump won,
Speaker 1: then voted for Trump and twenty and twenty four and
Speaker 1: couldn't be happy with how things are going. She's lived
Speaker 1: all around the country, from Philly to San Francisco to
Speaker 1: now Denver. I'm moving back east. A couple of things.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty radicalizednse beingcoming a mom, and I have no
Speaker 1: tolerance for BS, which is basically the entire left right now.
Speaker 1: Absolutely anything that puts my kids at risk is a
Speaker 1: no from me. And I'm wondering if you've seen any research, commentary,
Speaker 1: or polling related to women with kids. I know married
Speaker 1: women tend to vote Republican, but I'm curious about why
Speaker 1: that is. I grew up pretty liberal, went to a
Speaker 1: private liberal arts school, and then went to law school
Speaker 1: when the economy collapsed in eight graduated with lots of debt.
Speaker 1: I paid diligently for a decade plus and now considered
Speaker 1: a highly educated voter with a degree. But I'm not
Speaker 1: particularly religious, so I don't think I fully fit the
Speaker 1: mold of a conservative woman voter. Interested to see if
Speaker 1: you've covered this or have any insight. She also asked
Speaker 1: about the birth rate for immigrants about people who have
Speaker 1: self deported. Okay, so, Olivia, thank you for your question. First,
Speaker 1: I will say this, I am a low education voter
Speaker 1: because I don't have a college degree, a college shropout
Speaker 1: when I say low education, and when people say low education,
Speaker 1: it should not be interpreted as low intelligence or low information.
Speaker 1: Those are two very separate things. And I think that
Speaker 1: that's very important, because people get very tightly wound when
Speaker 1: they hear low education as if it means low information
Speaker 1: or low intelligence. It's not comparable. It's not the same
Speaker 1: thing at all. When it comes to women with children
Speaker 1: under eighteen, I actually did this research for you. So
Speaker 1: this is according to exit polling, which is not the
Speaker 1: most accurate thing in the world, but it is the
Speaker 1: only thing that actually examined this specific question. Women with
Speaker 1: children under eighteen voted more Republican than women without children
Speaker 1: under eighteen in the last election. According to Seen and
Speaker 1: Exit Polls, which was done by the Edison Foundation, White
Speaker 1: women with children under eighteen voted for Trump by a
Speaker 1: margin of eighteen points compared to one point for women
Speaker 1: without children under eighteen. Among Latina women, they voted double
Speaker 1: digits more for Trump than women without children did. Even
Speaker 1: though he didn't win them, he got a lot closer
Speaker 1: because of children. Women and the only group that appears
Speaker 1: to be an outlier to that trend is black women. Now,
Speaker 1: remember I said this is exit polling, so Pew Research
Speaker 1: and other organizations that did this research they didn't include
Speaker 1: that question. But there are numbers for black women. And
Speaker 1: how Trump performed was actually better than the sampling in
Speaker 1: the exit poling, So maybe he did do better. But
Speaker 1: it seems obvious that the trend for a Latino women
Speaker 1: and for white women, especially which there was a large
Speaker 1: sample size, is that he did significantly better. His margins
Speaker 1: were double digits better for both demographics when it came
Speaker 1: to do they have children under eighteen or not? Why
Speaker 1: is that? Why do women with a with a spouse
Speaker 1: and with children vote differently than those without because their
Speaker 1: priorities are different, their life experiences are different, and I
Speaker 1: think that there is something to women who don't And
Speaker 1: this is no listen, everyone's their own choices in life.
Speaker 1: Don't get married, get married, have kids, don't have kids.
Speaker 1: I'm not putting you down for what I'm going to say,
Speaker 1: but I think it's worth's saying there is something for women,
Speaker 1: especially liberal women who are middle aged or older, who
Speaker 1: don't have children, who are politics and they tend not
Speaker 1: to be religious either, except for the nuns. Politics becomes
Speaker 1: their family, their kids, their church, their QVC. It's where
Speaker 1: they put money, it's where they put time, it's where
Speaker 1: they put energy, it's where they volunteer. I respect that immensely.
Speaker 1: You're part of the democratic process, that's great, but that
Speaker 1: is very much their world. And I have friends in
Speaker 1: who fall in that bracket who are liberal, and I
Speaker 1: maintain friendships with them because I think they're good people overall,
Speaker 1: and I like them, but they become exhausting about politics.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they really like to talk about it quite a
Speaker 1: bit more than I do. I don't like to talk
Speaker 1: about politics because I work in it, so it's not
Speaker 1: the same thing for me. But I think that's partly why.
Speaker 1: On the second thing with supporting people, I read the
Speaker 1: full paragraph that I'm not going to read out loud.
Speaker 1: It's very hard for me to sit there and give
Speaker 1: you analysis on self deportation stories because there's no hard numbers.
Speaker 1: As I said in the previous question, a lot of
Speaker 1: it is just the New York Times or NPR interviewed
Speaker 1: this person or that person, they cried and they went home.
Speaker 1: There's we just don't collected data like that, and until
Speaker 1: an organization does that, I don't have the answers. Eventually,
Speaker 1: hopefully I will. Okay, this next question comes from Ryan,
Speaker 1: best name in the best name in the English language. Ryan,
Speaker 1: I say that, I say what you said on this
Speaker 1: podcast on Thursday, all the time you want Nancy Pelosigan.
Speaker 1: Whoever replaces her will be ten times worse. Same with
Speaker 1: Schumer Naler. Look at me in New Jersey Republicans hate
Speaker 1: him Menendez, then we got Kim Way worse. Your podcast
Speaker 1: is fantastic, getting better and better. Keep it up, Ryan,
Speaker 1: Bryan a big fan of the name. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I know it wasn't a correct question, but thanks for
Speaker 1: the shout out. Yeah, the progresses that are coming forward,
Speaker 1: like the Mendanis of the world, will make Build A.
Speaker 1: Blasio look like Ronald Reagan. They are, you know, saturated
Speaker 1: in wokeness, in identity politics, in that Marxism. It's going
Speaker 1: to not be great. It's just not going to be great.
Speaker 1: So I completely agree. Okay, last question, this one I'm reading,
Speaker 1: is from Patty. I love your It's a Numbers Game podcast.
Speaker 1: I've been a listener since you were on Clay and Buck.
Speaker 1: I really liked your New York's New Normal podcast even
Speaker 1: though I am from California, so interesting to hear you
Speaker 1: lay up what's happening in New York, which I believe
Speaker 1: is also filtering across the country and into California. Interesting
Speaker 1: to hear how people are voting based on race, gender, nationally,
Speaker 1: and education. However, it's hard to hear the words lower
Speaker 1: education and less educated because that's me as a middle
Speaker 1: class person, even though I have a college degree, just
Speaker 1: not a higher degree. I think where the people with
Speaker 1: real life experiences, forethought, and common sense believe your podcast
Speaker 1: will get some New York Conservatives voting in the polls.
Speaker 1: My vote is for you to do an in depth
Speaker 1: podcast on California, how they vote and who's voting. We
Speaker 1: have such a strong feeling California that it's really a
Speaker 1: purple state, but it always comes up with such strong
Speaker 1: blue state. Our representatives seemed very lazy. They just vote
Speaker 1: with the Democratic Party no matter what the issue is.
Speaker 1: Would love to hear your analysis in California. I expect
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris be our next governor because the DNC will
Speaker 1: pick her and Democrats's vote in line. Also, I expect
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom's running for president, even though he's made it
Speaker 1: a mess of California. Love your podcast response to an
Speaker 1: email or tidbits. Keep up the good work. Thank you
Speaker 1: Patty for that. Okay, you want a whole California episode,
Speaker 1: I will bring you a whole California episode. I will
Speaker 1: ask the people. I will get people on who are
Speaker 1: expossed on California. Patty, your wish will be my command.
Speaker 1: I will get an episode this summer all in California.
Speaker 1: I have some data in my head. I know California
Speaker 1: is to a lot of new Republicans. So first and
Speaker 1: foremost about the education thing. Once again, when you have
Speaker 1: a college degree, you're actually not a low education voter.
Speaker 1: You're actually a college educative voter. So if you have
Speaker 1: a degree, you do not represent a low education voter.
Speaker 1: I represent a low education voter. I went to Queen's
Speaker 1: College and dropped out with studying art. I was really
Speaker 1: not trying in school. I am the low education voter,
Speaker 1: but I'm not a low inform voter, and I'm a
Speaker 1: very high active voter. The problem with low education voters,
Speaker 1: often times people without a college degree is they don't
Speaker 1: vote frequently, and they have If you're looking at overall
Speaker 1: demographic things, they have a lot of anti social behaviors
Speaker 1: in the sense they don't attend churches or nonprofits, they
Speaker 1: don't give to charity as much, they're less likely to
Speaker 1: have many friends. All of these things are not great
Speaker 1: for them their health and the health of the country.
Speaker 1: And I want non college educated voters to be more engaged,
Speaker 1: like you know, like myself. And that's a lot of
Speaker 1: middle class behaviors come from those kinds of things, like
Speaker 1: participation in things like church and nonprofits and groups, and
Speaker 1: closeness to family. All of that stuff really doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Savings and all the rest of it. All that is
Speaker 1: very tied together as far as race and education. How
Speaker 1: they vote is race, religion, and gun ownership. Those are
Speaker 1: the three biggest indicators. Gun ownership still huge indicator, race
Speaker 1: less so because of the political realignment, it's becoming more
Speaker 1: education than race related. But I will give you a
Speaker 1: whole episode in California and I will talk all about
Speaker 1: it and we will go into it. I will bring
Speaker 1: experts on and that's what I will do for you, Patty.
Speaker 1: We'll do it for a future episode. Okay, I have
Speaker 1: one more segment I know I usually do and ask
Speaker 1: me anything. Segment for the show for the last segment,
Speaker 1: but that's kind of redundant since this whole episode has
Speaker 1: been I have a very cool story about Nancy Pelosi's
Speaker 1: daughter and me sharing a bus ride, which I will
Speaker 1: share with you coming up next. Welcome back to our
Speaker 1: final segment of this episode. Okay, So I have a
Speaker 1: funny story that kind of crawl back in my memory
Speaker 1: a while ago, and I was like, I got to
Speaker 1: share this with the podcast. I've never talked about this
Speaker 1: in real life. I was just like in conversation, but
Speaker 1: never on like a show. In twenty thirteen, there's something
Speaker 1: in New York called the megabus and basically, if you
Speaker 1: booked a ride early enough, you could get a ride
Speaker 1: from New York to DC for a dollar. And that
Speaker 1: was like the enticing thing. And if you were broke
Speaker 1: like I was in twenty thirteen. I don't know how
Speaker 1: old I was, but I was definitely broken. Twenty thirteen,
Speaker 1: you can get a cheap ride for a dollar to Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. So I booked my ride. I think it
Speaker 1: was like for five dollars. And I'm waiting on some
Speaker 1: corner in Manhattan waiting for this bus to show up,
Speaker 1: and this woman dressed all in purple, comes and stands
Speaker 1: next to me and is just chatting my ear off,
Speaker 1: asking how much I paid. I paid five dollars, she
Speaker 1: paid nine dollars. Whatever it was. Her bicycle was just stolen.
Speaker 1: She's heartbroken about this purple bicycle. I mean, just you know,
Speaker 1: one of those times you're traveling and you don't want
Speaker 1: to talk to anybody and you find someone who will
Speaker 1: not stop talking to you. It was that. So the
Speaker 1: bus arrives, we get on it, and she says to me,
Speaker 1: what do you do for a living? And I said,
Speaker 1: and I hate giving the correct answer, so usually I
Speaker 1: just lie. But I didn't have the energy to make
Speaker 1: up a lie like that. I was, you know, a
Speaker 1: dermatologist or something, because if they asked me a real question,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to know anything. I'll start singing the
Speaker 1: song like the you know, the elbow bones connected to
Speaker 1: the armbone. I have no idea. I literally don't know
Speaker 1: about science anyway. So I say, work in politics. And
Speaker 1: at this time, I am I am in ripped up jeans,
Speaker 1: I am in flannel, I am in a I am
Speaker 1: in a like hoodie. Uh no, I was in a
Speaker 1: cart again, and I definitely look like a hipster. I
Speaker 1: was giving off very hipster vibes and she said, oh,
Speaker 1: what party? And I was like, all right, here you go.
Speaker 1: I'm a Republican and she said, oh, you don't look
Speaker 1: like a Republican. And I was like, well, my armband's
Speaker 1: in the washing machine right now, so that's why you
Speaker 1: can't recognize me. And she laughed and I said what
Speaker 1: do you do? And she was, I'm a documentary filmmaker.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, I watched those Alexander Pelosi
Speaker 1: documentaries on HBO. She was, I'm Alexandra Pelosi. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: now I am dying to talk to you. The conversation
Speaker 1: has just increased in interest by seven million percent. I
Speaker 1: was like, what are you doing on a megabus going
Speaker 1: to Washington, d C. And she was, I'm going to
Speaker 1: go see the Anchorman two premiere at the Newseum with
Speaker 1: my mom and her mom is it's Nancy Pelosi. Like
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, this is interesting, and she's like, do
Speaker 1: you like hate my mom? And I was like, no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't hate anybody like. I mean, I don't agree
Speaker 1: with her and stuff, but whatever. So I just started
Speaker 1: talking to her, and she was like, fascinating woman because
Speaker 1: she worked for NBC News for years before becoming a
Speaker 1: documentary filmmaker. And I'm like, oh, this is the good gossip.
Speaker 1: She says to me. This is a couple of good gusps.
Speaker 1: But one thing she said to me, she was, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not one of my moms zombies. Those are the
Speaker 1: exact words that she said to me. And I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: And I think I believe she said this, that one
Speaker 1: of Nancy's children who lived in Texas was actually votes Republican.
Speaker 1: I believe she said that. I don't think my memory
Speaker 1: starts me wrong. The zombies thing definitely doesn't serve me wrong,
Speaker 1: because I was shocked when she said it. Anyway, So
Speaker 1: she says to me, I said, I was a writer too,
Speaker 1: and she goes, would you want to read a screenplay
Speaker 1: I'm working on? And she had made a documentary call
Speaker 1: like on the Bus with George, about her time working
Speaker 1: for NBC News with George W. Bush. So she hands
Speaker 1: me her screenplay and I'm reading it right, and it's
Speaker 1: about her relationship with her mother, and it's it's very good.
Speaker 1: It was well written. She wanted she was there because
Speaker 1: she wanted Will Farrow play George Bush in this movie
Speaker 1: that I guess was never made because it was twelve
Speaker 1: years ago. And she's she's going, I'm going through it.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of personal stories about you know, mother
Speaker 1: daughter relationship. And we started talking about her mom and
Speaker 1: her relationship a little bit. I actually was like, I
Speaker 1: didn't want to be like rude and be like, you know,
Speaker 1: what's your mom think about Obamacare? But I was like,
Speaker 1: I said, I was like, Oh, what's your mom's like
Speaker 1: best Thanksgiving Day recipe that she cooks? And she said
Speaker 1: she makes amazing homemade cranberry sauce. Anyway, well, we're on
Speaker 1: the bus and she started telling me a story with
Speaker 1: George W. Bush, and this was great. First, she said
Speaker 1: that her mother personally enjoyed working with Bush more than Obama.
Speaker 1: I mean because this is pre Trump. So she said, oh,
Speaker 1: they had. She really enjoyed working with Bush. She liked
Speaker 1: him a lot as a person. She didn't have the
Speaker 1: same enjoyment of working with Obama. Secondly, she tells me
Speaker 1: a story that when she was working at MBC, she
Speaker 1: was with she was dating a guy I want to
Speaker 1: say from ABC, but in my CBS, but she was
Speaker 1: dating another producer or person who worked behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: and they were both on the media bus together in
Speaker 1: for the George covering the George W. Bush campaign. And
Speaker 1: they went to a roadside stop somewhere in the Midwest
Speaker 1: or you know, I don't know what state was, Iowa, Pennsylvania, pick,
Speaker 1: you know, take your pick, and they're covering it, and
Speaker 1: they're at a gas station. They're all getting food and
Speaker 1: going to the bathroom. And George W. Bush, who, by
Speaker 1: the way, I am no fan of, but this is
Speaker 1: a cool freaking story. George W. Bush pulled her aside
Speaker 1: and he said to her, I want you to know
Speaker 1: your boyfriend is cheating on you and every person on
Speaker 1: the bus nose besides you. And she said to me,
Speaker 1: I will always respect that man, because I was so
Speaker 1: head over heels from my boyfriend and everyone was lying
Speaker 1: to me, and he was the only one with the
Speaker 1: guts to sit there and tell me the truth. And
Speaker 1: she said, I think it's because he's the dad of
Speaker 1: two girls, but he had he was such a stand
Speaker 1: up guy to her, and that was a really cool story.
Speaker 1: And we shared the bus ride for the whole four
Speaker 1: and a half five hours and we got off and
Speaker 1: we exchanged emails and she never came on me back
Speaker 1: story of my life. I did run into her husband
Speaker 1: a couple of years later, and I recounted how nice
Speaker 1: she was. She was very, very, very nice, but she
Speaker 1: was interesting and that was a cool story, a little
Speaker 1: tidbit of somebody in the political public eye. Anyway, thank
Speaker 1: you again for listening to this episode of the podcast.
Speaker 1: Tune in on Thursday. I'll be back. We'll have a
Speaker 1: regular episode more ask Me Anything segments on the end
Speaker 1: of the podcast. But thank you. Please like and subscribe
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