WEBVTT - From Poles to Polls 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.840 Native lampod is a production of iHeartRadio and partnership with 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:07.280 Reason Choice Media. 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:09.200 Welcome Welcome, Welcome. 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:13.440 Welcome, Welcome home to the Native Landing on the podcast based. 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:14.960 That's it for greatness, sixty minutes. 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:17.279 It's so hit, not too long for the great shit, 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.079 high level combo politics in a way that you could 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:23.880 taste it. Then digested. Politics touches you even if you 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:27.159 don't touch it. So get invested across the t's and 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:29.760 doctor i's, get them back to get them staying on 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.519 business with pride. You could have been anywhere but to 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:35.400 trust us Native land Podcast the brand that you. 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:40.560 Can trust us. Welcome home, y'all. This is episode twenty 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:44.800 four of Neighbor. Wait wait wait wait wait nator twenty 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:46.240 four Did you say neighbor? 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.240 No, I know what twenty four means Saturday, right, I said, 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:49.960 twenty four? 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:54.360 First, twenty four, yore, We twenty four here at Native 0:00:54.440 --> 0:01:00.920 LAMPI where we give it to you direct, honest, truthful 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:04.720 on the political end. And then the culture, y'all, we. 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.520 Be wilding something, you know why though it's still. 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:09.920 But on the I said, on the culture, sometimes we 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.160 be wilding. I can't even put that in a box. 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:14.640 All right, I can't put it in the box. We're 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:18.600 your hosts, everybody. Tiffany Cross, say what's up, tiff. 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.119 Hi, guys, Angela Rye. 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.960 And I'm Andrew Gillam. I hope everybody's doing well today 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:27.399 and enjoying this summer. Ladies, How y'all doing great? 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:28.559 I'm doing great. 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.840 It's a hot one this week, you guys. Like temperatures 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:36.160 are first of all, in Florida, it's gotta be like 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:37.760 frying egg on the sidewalk hot. 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:42.200 It's one hundred degrees. Yes, yeah, yeah, wow, yeah. My 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.440 kids come home with he bumps every I'm like, man, 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:48.440 y'all just hollow. But it's all good. They're in the water, 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:49.800 you know, they're having a good time. 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.440 Speaking of the Gillams, I got on Jay's jacket today. 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:54.320 I love it. 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.440 I asked, yeah, I asked her where she got it from. 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.200 And then I went and got me my fiks r 0:01:58.320 --> 0:01:59.200 j levigear. 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.960 Little people will deserve fun too. I love that, you know, 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:09.240 the fun sized clothes. I love it. I love it. 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:16.959 I love it. And on today's episode, y'all, we got 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.480 a lot going on. It's another day, it's another week, 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:23.440 which means guess what, there's another pole. We're gonna give 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.239 y'all some updates on what's happening in these early states. 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.000 Not like it's gonna look any different than last week, 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.960 but who knows. We'll try faith. And then, of course, 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.800 did y'all hear, especially you, miss lady from Atlanta, that 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:42.280 there is a rumble in the peach tree jungle? 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.720 That was for you, tiff I have no idea what 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:48.880 we're right now. I'm letting you do. 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:53.680 It, golle. The debate, y'all, the debate, it was a 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:54.519 million of them. 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:55.760 I was like a. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.120 Rumble in the peach tree jungle, Tiffany, can you help 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:05.359 me perfect? That? Clearly is not a jungle, But y'all, 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:06.840 I thought you were saying it. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:10.840 Was a million rumbles. Okay. Anyway, the point trying to 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:11.560 tell y'all is. 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:15.680 The presidential debate is upcoming, and we got it okay. 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.680 Fifteen hours later, Thank you, Translator in chief. 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:21.959 I appreciate that. And we'll talk a little bit about 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.800 what we could expect to see coming up next week, y'all. 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:30.320 Both presidential candidates Biden and Trump will be in Atlanta. 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:32.480 More to come on that one, Angela, what you got 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:33.200 on your side. 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:35.960 Well, I would like to talk a little bit about this. 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:41.120 Fifty fifty almost said fifteenth five zero. You said fifty 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:45.400 million dollar abby from the Biden campaign. It's an ad 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:49.520 that launched calling Donald Trump a convicted criminal, and that 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:53.440 ad is targeting voters of color. I am fascinated by 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.240 this choice, and I would love to get into the 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:56.560 strategy discussion of that. 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.200 I'm looking forward to that one. I think I hear 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:04.400 the premise of the kids being made. Tiffany, what's happening 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:05.240 on your horizon? 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:06.280 Well, I have. 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.320 Some somber things to talk about, unfortunately, and that is 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:14.520 there is a major humanitarian crisis happening where over twenty 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:20.840 five million people are facing inadequate food or starvation. And 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.200 I'm going to get into that because one place you 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.760 won't hear about it is in Western media, where they 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.720 insist on covering the same three topics every single day, 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.040 and it's exhausting. But there's a huge story happening across 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.880 the globe that other people are consuming and certainly our 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:35.839 audience should too. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.159 Tiffany has been good having you back from the continent 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.400 these past several weeks, because it didn't take your visit 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.960 there to I think centerfold these issues for us because 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.400 you've been doing it all along. But I think it 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:55.120 comes with some extra weight on it when you bring 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:59.120 it Tiffany now. And I'm looking forward to looking forward 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.080 to the conversation. However, unfortunately he is obviously in that 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.919 part of the world. But before we get too serious, everyone, 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:13.000 we got an interesting story for politics everywhere, and I'm 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.320 gonna ask you give us a little grace today because 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.880 it's so juicy, y'all. I couldn't wait till the end 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.080 of the episode to bring it to you. We're going 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:28.200 to start it out on the front end, Si Angelou. Yeah, 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:29.000 y'all cold with that? 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:30.160 Yep, that's right. 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:39.080 So a Texas Democrat decided to send himself some fake 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:44.960 racist online messages and he has, as a result of 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:51.000 been arrested. This is candidate for Fort Bank County Commission 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:55.520 to Rawl Patel And let me just let y'all hear 0:05:55.640 --> 0:06:00.400 directly from the news sources themselves there and to what 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:00.840 you got. 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.560 Patel sent out a press release with the collage of 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.839 supposed racist social media posts that he claimed were directed 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.080 at him. Meyer told investigators he recognized one of the 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:16.600 accounts behind the comments as Antonio scallywag. The documents then 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.720 further detailed how they linked that account back to Patel, 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:24.880 including getting a subpoena from Facebook and Google. From there, 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:29.040 they were able to obtain account and payment information matching 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:33.840 Patel's credit card number, address, phone number, and other personal data. 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.560 Patel now faces a third degree felony of online impersonation 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:43.240 and class A misdemeanor for misrepresentation of identity. The Daisey's 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.240 office tells us this is the first time that they've 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:49.520 charged someone with that specific election related misdemeanor. 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:55.360 Oh y'all ah right, Jesus, does he win the race? 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:59.240 Well, you know, I don't know. Let's talk about a 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.800 bigger race here, and no pun intended. 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:06.520 I just wonder how many times people on both sides 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.360 of the aisle and somewhere in between. 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:11.560 Are gonna continue to traffic in this tiff. 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.480 We know, we had a little call without you yesterday 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.080 and we were talking about it's not gonna be politics 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:21.000 are everywhere today, is gonna be nonsense is everywhere? And 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.200 this is really one of those This is really one 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.600 of those moments. I think what's sad about here is 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.120 I think people of color, particularly in particular. We know 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.400 that there is a higher bar for us, and there 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.840 are certain things that you can't do. I don't know 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:38.880 enough about Terrell's background. Terrell, I wonder if that's even 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:40.960 that man. Nay, probably some different how than called this 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.520 had a straight brother's day. Shout out to Terrell Jackson 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:44.400 a caffish corner. 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:45.720 See, I watched it. 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:51.000 But anyway, I mean Jesus, But I'm just saying, like, 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:56.720 I really wonder, speaking of caffish, why did he catfish 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:00.560 these people? Why and pretend like he was getting racist? Hey, mail, 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.120 here's the reality of the situation. We don't have to 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.920 make up racism. We live it every day. We don't 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:07.560 have to come up with a fake tweet or a 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.480 fake Facebook post or Instagram story about it all. 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.160 We experience it every single day. 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.640 And I promise you, if y'all are not experiencing it, 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.560 it's not much to be desired here. I want freedom 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:21.960 for you. I want liberation for you. I want you 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.480 to be able to go forth outside of oppression. I 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:26.480 don't need you to make this up, because we got 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.920 it hard enough out here on the record, off the record, 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.120 in between the record. We don't need you to make 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.880 up any false records. That's all I got on this, Andrew. 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:36.400 That's all I got. 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.760 Yeah, Tiffany, I just have to say it must. I've 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:43.480 been in local I've been in media markets where you 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.960 have to fight for attention when you're in a race 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.040 and there are bigger races going on. I just have 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.679 to imagine that the young man just got overcome by 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:56.360 his desire to want to win and serve the people 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:00.520 of his community so bad. You're so nice that he thought, Man, 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.400 what is the most extreme thing I can do to 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:06.479 give some attention? And Facebook, which never acts on anything 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.880 when it comes to you know, these individual complaints, gonna 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.959 get a subpoena, get the man's credit card, w records, 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.560 I mean, put together all the facts to show that 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:21.920 he was indeed the one behind I don't know, racist 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:23.680 attacks on himself. Yeah. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.160 I wish Metal would use their resources for actual genuine 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.240 challenges that they have. And I don't know enough about 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.400 this man's district to say what his chances are. And 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.440 I think I don't know if you're being nice, naive 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.600 or sarcastic when you say he wanted to deserve the 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:40.360 people so badly, Andrew, because this is narcissism one on 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.440 one brother, Like, I mean, I look at this immediate. 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:46.200 It's like you want the traffic and genuine pain of 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:51.199 so many people in this country to gain sympathy and 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:55.720 some sort of victory by pretending that you are a 0:09:55.800 --> 0:10:00.000 victim of these kind of messages. This is for sure nonsense. 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.000 And I think of all the candidates, you know, there's 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.600 an infrastructure when it comes to the party on who 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.080 the party supports, who the party funds, who you know, 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:13.000 a predominantly white male donor class uses viable And I 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.520 think this kind of thing is damaging and makes a 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.480 steep hill that much more steeper for people who are 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:24.480 probably much better well suited candidates to service constituents. I 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:26.600 don't know how you go on to DC after that 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.480 when you've lost credibility and the trust of the people 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.480 who you know would have been voters and supporters. So 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:34.880 I don't like it. I don't like that he did 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.120 that at all. It's not it's not cool. 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.720 Yeah, you know what. And for the record, here the 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:47.200 investigation and to all of this story began because Andy 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:51.920 Meyer's opponent to mister Patel decided to initiate an investigation 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.920 I just want to say, this young man is representing 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:58.520 nobody but himself. Yes, right now, right there's no broader 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.360 message to be I think the I from from it 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.160 other than to say, you know, I thought this was 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:08.920 lighthearted only because of how insanely stupid it was. But 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.040 but but in truth, y'all, I think all of us 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:15.080 agree here that, you know, race racism is nothing to 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.560 be played with, nothing to be toy with, And as 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.319 Angela already pointed out, you certainly don't have to manufacture 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:21.439 the experience on this. 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:24.760 I do want to point out to Andrew, he was 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:28.520 actually running for a position you've once held, not in Texas, 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:32.200 but in Florida. He's running for county commissioner mission So 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.400 he was not gonna go to DC, thank god. Tip 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.640 Oh no, no, no, he's running for county commissioner. 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.760 No, but y'all know we've seen worse in Congress. 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.320 Oh yeah, now we've got to have that. We don't 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.120 have to have a pression Olympics. I was just. 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.040 Saying that, yeah, he's not he was not going there, 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:49.960 and now he's definitely not going anywhere. I don't even 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:51.640 think he's going to the county commissioner. Might be going 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:52.480 to the county jail. 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.240 Well, you know what, First of all, thank y'all for 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.400 humoring me on that one. But to pick up on 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:02.520 your last point, Angela, whether or not this mistake is 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.000 one that is I don't know, career ending. Well, Donald 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.520 Trump and Poland coming from it may be telling a 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.360 different story. Let's take a quick break, pay some bills, 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.440 and come right back on the other side of that. 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:29.200 So clearly I fumbled all over that rumble, y'all, and 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.720 I apologize to the listeners for the corniness of my jokes. 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.320 But you know what, I just am who I am. 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.720 What is most important, though, that we take away from this, y'all, 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:44.400 is that we are commencing with probably the earliest series 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:50.559 of general election debates that we've seen in modern presidential elections. 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:55.280 June twenty seven. June twenty seven, next week in Atlanta, Georgia, 0:12:56.040 --> 0:13:03.240 Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will co moderate presidential debate 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:07.600 between Donald Trump and the sitting president Joe Biden. And 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.120 guess what they agreed to, y'all. They have agreed to 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.480 muting the mics when it is not your turn to speak. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.800 We'll see how that plays out, but they've also agreed 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:21.840 to no opening statements, and to Donald Trump's great chagran, 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.600 there will be no audience, and again all the conditions 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:29.000 will agree to by both sides, and I think it'll 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:30.840 just be an interesting piece. I'd love to hear if 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:32.880 y'all have any thoughts, any predictions on what you think 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.960 happens next weekend and this debate before we talk just 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:37.200 a second about some poland. 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.920 I'm happy with the rules. I do. 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.960 I like that they're muting the mics. Yeah, I love 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.080 that there's no audience. I know we talked about this before, 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.320 and you guys are saying mean so much to the candidates, 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.400 But I think as journalists, your obligation is to the viewer, 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.120 to the American body politic, and so all that cheering 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:57.839 can sometimes misrepresent what is actually happening in the room, 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.000 and people, you know, apply the audience with their support 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.360 and it just takes up time. I think it's so 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.839 important just to hear the meat of what these two 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:08.760 people are saying. Put together, put forth your best ideas 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.440 for the country, and let the people at home deal 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.520 with the cheers and jeers. Donald Trump is a bully. 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.280 He has a habit of over talking people, or interrupting 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.520 people and making a spectacle of himself just to draw 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:24.280 attention to himself. And so he won't have that opportunity now. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:29.000 So he will be without his cheering squad, without his sickophants, 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.160 and without his bullying tools. And let's see what kind 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.840 of policy discussions they have for that part. I think 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.680 it'll be interesting. I am concerned with how many people 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.920 are going to watch, you know, with so many things 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.880 pulling at your attention, what's also happening just up the 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.120 road in Atlanta on that same night as the taping 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.840 A Black Girl's Rock. I wish there was some sort 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.920 of way where these two things could cohabitate, given the 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.920 role that black women play in the American body politic. 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.040 So I don't think that's gonna happen, but yeah, it'd be. 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.520 It'd be interesting to see what happens in how people respond. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.760 Yeah, no, I don't, I don't know. I don't disagree, Angela. 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.080 I think you're deliberately holding your fire on this one. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.840 I didn't know we were talking about this, and we're 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.560 not gonna talk about it. I'm just ready for the 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.440 rumble in the Peachtree Jungle. But let's go to the polls, 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.840 the real speaking of Atlanta Poles. 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:23.000 See what I did. 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.600 There, Speaking of Atlanta Poles, people think something else? 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.560 That's what I said. 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.440 See what I did there? Man, This is a this 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.360 is a we having a tough one today. I was 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.720 talking about p O L E. S to transition this 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:37.120 to L L. 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:39.240 Well, guess what. 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:42.360 We? 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.120 As I said before, this is another day. That means 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.240 there are more poles, of course. But I do think 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:51.680 it's noteworthy to consider that this debate that's happening next 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:56.040 week is happening just as some of the polling through 0:15:56.320 --> 0:16:00.720 the the various national outlets that have conduct a polling 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.960 since the Trump verdict are beginning to see some of 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:07.320 the results of that show up in their polling. And 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.840 I guess the truth is is that I think these 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.320 things will continue to change, and there's so much that 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.480 will be dynamic between now and the election day it's 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.120 hard to even say well or not this stuff will 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:20.040 weigh all the way through. But do know that apparently 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.120 independent voters have decided, to the tune of about thirty 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:28.720 percent of them that the Donald Trump conviction will make 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.560 them less likely to vote for Donald Trump. I got 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.320 issues with the term independent, and I got, and I 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.720 got real questions about whether or not less likely means 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.400 I will not vote for him, or if it just means, 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:47.240 you know, less likely. Also interesting takeaway from polling that 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:52.240 took place this weekend, y'all, alarm bells continue to sound 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:56.680 for the Biden campaign and for Democrats who I think 0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:00.960 are just perpetually nervous. I consider myself one of them, 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:07.520 because the state polling based off of some of the 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:13.720 seven most mentioned target states shows the black voters in 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:20.560 key key Democratic demographics are showing again less enthusiasm for 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:25.359 the ticket. Again, these are things that can change, but 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.399 this is continuing to be a consistent theme over the 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:32.880 last couple of weeks. And then finally, I'm excited about this, 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:36.120 and that is we have our own polling to introduce 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:40.480 into the conversation today, y'all. We commissioned I can't remember 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.920 which one of y'all commissioned, but Angela maybe it was you. 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:45.680 You know that I said we are now going to 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.159 be the newest Poland firm. Maybe we just send some 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.199 money this way because I think our results might be 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.119 more accurate to some of these fools they hire. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.359 Powell shots fired, I meant it. 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.040 The beauty of it is is that our sample size 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.640 is about as large as some of these national polls, 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:04.560 so so it i'd to certainly make a difference to 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:07.199 some of these advertisers out here around where it is 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.080 you're putting your money. But we'll visit that later. Lolo, 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.080 I know you can't, you can't respond to us, but 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:15.159 we just want to give you a big thank you 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.400 for the data that we are about to share. If 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.479 we could, we could pop up a couple of slides 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.800 and for our listening audience, we'll narrate these for you. 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:30.439 But our first ever Native Land pod commissioned polling is 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:35.520 in and frankly this was done Angela and Tiffany. In 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.560 the midst of an episode, it was mentioned, Hey, we've 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:40.639 got this poll, will you go out there and take it? 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:45.200 And I was overwhelmed to see, you know, almost three 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:50.680 hundred and forty listeners went on through their own initiation 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.439 and began to take this poll, which you know, for 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:56.520 some people could last up to ten minutes of their 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.280 time and giving real feedback. I think some of the 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:03.000 high points, if you will one, there were three hundred 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:08.119 and thirty six total responders to this poll by comparison, y'all, 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:10.400 the data that I was sharing with you around the 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:17.880 trajectory that independence see seemed to be moving was a 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:22.600 audience sampling size of just over five hundred. So we're 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:25.920 coming in very close, coming in close to those numbers 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:29.480 I think of Note, it's important to point out that 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:33.199 of those who took the poll, three hundred and twenty 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:35.640 seven of them are registered voters. 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.879 Whoo shout shout out to y'all. 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.960 Three hundred and twenty seven of them are registered voters. 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:46.119 And I was just blown away and impressed by that 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:50.159 and figured you all would be two. It was also noteworthy, 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:55.920 or is rather noteworthy, that the overwhelming majority of you 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.760 have decided that you will participate in this upcoming election, 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:04.840 and moreover, that you overwhelmingly support Joe Biden as we 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:10.239 approach the November election, and then just real quickly on 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.520 some of the issues that you all determined were important 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:17.399 to you. I think no different than some of the 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:23.600 national sampling we've seen economy, race, in equality, which we 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.280 don't hear a lot of, I think in national conversation, 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:28.960 even when we're talking of black blood about black voters 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:35.240 tipped extremely high in our polls. Second most consistently cited issue, 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:39.320 abortion rights came in third, and healthcare sort of just 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:41.480 underneath that, and I think there's some co location on 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:44.280 that issue, and then finally education, and then there were 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:49.640 myriad of responses that responders were able to self initiate, 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:54.680 self narrate, and they ran the gamut. But it's important 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:58.400 to note that consistently, even in self identifying the issues, 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:04.399 the issue of democrisy freedom came up also as a 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:08.639 pretty consistent, a consistent theme. We'll make these available, this 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:13.480 data available obviously for for our native land pod community. 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:17.439 But and we've got an audience question associated with this. 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:20.280 But Tiff Angela, I don't know if y'all had any 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:22.720 initial sort of reaction to to to to what we 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:24.720 heard from our listeners, but I just want to give 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:26.720 a quick again thank you to them, a thank you 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:29.639 to Lolo for her initiation, but to the listeners, I mean, 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:32.080 y'all really, y'all really showed out here, and we appreciate it. 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:32.879 I love it. 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:36.080 I hope that we keep these going, you know, up 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:40.040 until the election, specifically specifically diving into more of what 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:43.920 the issues they care about are, especially because that gives 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:46.000 us an opportunity to kind of talk about some of 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:49.200 those items on the show. I'm proud to say a 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:51.720 little humble brag that we have touched on most of 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:54.760 what was covered in the portions where they could self narrate. 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:56.680 And I'd love to hear the listener question. 0:21:56.680 --> 0:21:58.440 But I would just say I love that three hundred 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:02.320 and twenty seven people identify as registered voters. I would 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:04.719 love the next time we did this to hear from 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:09.000 people who aren't registered voters and why they're not. And 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:13.760 I think this is a great example of how many 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:17.080 people get overlooked in polling, which is why I hate polls. 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:21.240 I think they're relevant to candidates and campaigns, but putting 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:24.320 out data, to your point, Andrew, with these sample sizes, 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:26.959 people will look at the headline and not actually the 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:29.560