WEBVTT - Make America Wealthy Once Again 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:04.960 Also media. 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:08.240 This is it could happen here. I'm Garrison Davis and 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:12.720 joined with Robert Evans and Sophie Lichterman or Day one 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:18.320 of the official RNC, the Republican National Convention. Robert, Sophie, 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:19.239 how's your day? Ben? 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:20.520 Well, I'm tired. 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:22.320 It was a long day. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:25.040 It was very red, Yeah, a lot of red. It 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.840 was very loud. The drinks were very expensive. 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.320 Yeah, we got Sony free drinks yesterday and not today. 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.519 No, not once you're in the convention center. I don't know. 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:38.360 We were trapped in a room with a lot of 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.920 people who had were either used car salesman or spiritually 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:43.080 were used car salesman. 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.440 Also a lot of people who want to kill me specifically. 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:50.760 Yes, we'll talk about this that more later. Yeah, today, 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.760 just structurally, what happened is, you know, it was a 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.160 series of speeches. So you had first off, the big 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.200 floor boat, right, So we got to watch all of 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:01.960 the different had their delegates and they have to form 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.160 even though everyone knows what's happening, they have to like 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:08.520 formally follow Robert's rules of order or whatever and confirm 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:10.800 that Trump is the nominee. And then they announce and 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.800 confirm the VP, who you all know by now is 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:17.040 jd Vance. We'll talk I might as well talk a 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:18.640 little bit about him now. Jd Vance is a guy 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.679 who in the wake of Trump's initial victory. He's a 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:27.119 dude who came from Appalachia sort of part time, went 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.880 to an Ivy League school, did some time in the Marines, 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:32.679 and then made a bunch of money in business. And 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:35.480 then when twenty sixteen happened and a lot of liberals 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.440 were like, wow, how could Trump have won election? He 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.039 capitalized by writing a book trying to explain the Appalation experience, 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.440 even though again he only kind of lived there part 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:48.320 time and mostly yeah, had abandoned those people, and that part, 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.520 like the book is about him abandoning that part of 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:52.640 his life as soon as he possibly can. Not a 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:54.960 great book by my opinion, as someone who grew up 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.200 in a really fucking poor town in the Deep South. 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.480 But see, technically a millennial, Yeah, he's. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.720 The first millennial who might become vice president. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.440 That's a big part of why I think he was picked. 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.440 Agreed, Yeah, that's a big part of why. 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:12.640 So it was time for them to announce jd Vance. 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:17.600 They officially approved him. Delegates officially approved him, which happened 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.960 very quickly, and he came out to Chance in Ohio, 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.040 where he's from, was very stoked to have him there. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.000 Lots of chance of JD JD. 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:27.600 You're right, he had a hype man. 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:31.840 Yeah, and he advanced his way out there with his 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:36.200 wife and looked emotional and yeah. All I know is 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.840 that he really fucking hates lb gt QIA people and 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:41.240 I really fucking ate him. 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:45.040 Uh huh, Yeah, I mean he said that he kind 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:48.600 of like turned the corner finally on what side, because 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.040 he had said some anti Trump stuff once in the day, 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:52.000 but he turned the corner. 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:53.320 Who has his. 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:57.000 Movie got really bad reviews? So if we wind up 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.880 going into full fledged fascist dictatorship, we can blame Ron 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.000 for some of that. And to be honest, we always 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:03.160 knew that was going to be the case. 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:05.640 Yeah, valid, Yeah. 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.400 After that, Yeah, Marjorie Taylor Green gave a speech, a 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.960 couple other people, Tim Scott had a speech. 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:16.600 So there was a break between sessions. We came back 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:21.920 for the second session. The second session opens up with 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:26.639 what I could only describe as I was like, Christopher Nolan, 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:27.360 are you here? 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:29.720 It was like a reception. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:34.720 Sounding music like, Wow, traumatized. Thank you for that dramatized 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:38.960 video of like in a world, yeah, like showing crime 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.960 and people losing money and women and babies crying. 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.480 And then there's like literally bad clip art of money 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:46.360 on fire, bad. 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.880 Clip art of money on fire, and it's about It 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.720 was like three to five minutes long, very long. Because 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:52.680 I took a video of it. 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:56.240 It felt like a really bad, like action thriller trailer 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.200 could have been partly AI. There was sort of some 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.320 stege animation towards the end because they were they had 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.240 this camera that was sweeping through this fake city. It 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:08.040 was all cg and it landed on this this this 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:12.120 floodlight on top of a room, this broken flickering in 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.240 the floodlight. Gears are turning, the music is ramping up, 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:19.359 and finally it lightens and we see Trump, the Trump 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:24.359 signal shining in the cloudy sky, calling calling the hero 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:26.279 the mass Avenger as. 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:27.960 If it was the bat signal from Batman. 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:29.200 It was shameful. 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.760 And then and then people loved it. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.400 They yeah, I got a great reaction. There's also a 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:36.880 video of all the scenes. If you if you've ever 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.360 seen clips from rallies, you've probably seen little clips of Trump, 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:40.680 like fake dancing. 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.360 Doing doing that weird dancer. 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.840 He does his hand, he doesn't dance, he's excited, he's 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:46.360 in a good mood. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:47.160 You know the dance. 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.320 It's what we would describe as a little wiggle. Anyways, 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.080 it was a very long. 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.120 Wiggle video and people loved it. 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:56.200 No, it looked like this is the type of video 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.640 that liberals would post to make fun of Trump, and 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:00.800 the fact that it was used as a hype video 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.160 shows how useless that style of like political property end 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.880 is like, No, you can't make fun of Trump for 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.239 doing that little dance. That doesn't That doesn't do anything. 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.400 You can't make There's no use in making fun of Trump. 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.760 There is no value in satirizing him. There is no 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:17.360 value in laughing at him. Like if it helps you personally, 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.000 that's great, if you need that to get by, we 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.480 all do it sometimes, but it is no, it does 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.680 no damage to them, like the not to shit on 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.159 John Oliver. But the Trump stuff was a wild and 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.680 spectacular failure. None of it accomplished anything, and everybody who 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.719 ever thought that you could make fun of Trump and 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.240 have any positive impact was wrong, And you should feel 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.360 a little bad I do. 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.920 Because and because they used it as a hype video. 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:45.080 They used it to stitch between their different musical acts, 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.240 different segments, and oh boy, the music so that the 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.520 music was better than the music at the at the 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.120 welcome party that we talked about in our last episode. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.640 But that bar is not very high. It's all. It's 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.960 also it's all country music, right, there's country music cover bands. 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:01.640 It was not all country. No, there was a lot 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:02.719 of like nineties stuff. 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.840 There was a fucking it's played in the style of country. 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.880 But there was some bye bye by your boat guy. 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.880 There was the talk about they had a they had 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.720 a Fleetwood Mac song someone did you was? 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:20.560 There was like a essentially like the the run of 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:21.680 the evening. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:25.080 And and country music. My apologies, it was dad rock 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:26.080 and country music. 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:27.839 You know what I have to tell you. We do 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.680 not care enough to argue about this anyways. The music 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:34.640 was fucking mid It was like the way because I 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.000 of course, like a bunch of people have Texas today 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.039 and been like, how is it? And the only way 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:43.680 that we can describe it is if a normal person 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.520 went to their favorite concert and and had great seeds, yeah, 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:51.200 and uh you were very happy. Is the same exact 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.520 or you went to a Game seven of the NBA Finals. 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.280 That's exactly the the reaction that the people in the 0:06:58.320 --> 0:06:59.000 crowd were having. 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.160 It's a mix of like a sports event, a concert, 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.120 and like a mega church. There was if there was 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.000 some kind of concert that a whole bunch of boomers 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.440 really enjoyed. That was the general vibe of the convention today, 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:11.160 which is. 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.320 Not all that different from how Trump rallies feel totally. 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.240 It had it had that vibe, and it felt more 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:21.640 more like a concert than the twenty sixteen RNC diad. 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.400 Yeah, I mean there was also there was so much 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.000 music in so few speeches. The speeches were only like 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.280 two minutes long each and there would be like extended, 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.800 like ten twenty minute musical performances in between each speech. 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.480 Like mostly it's just it's just people playing songs on stage. 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.320 That was most of the R and C today. 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.360 There was there was several different speeches that came after 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:46.400 those strange videos, and we'll get into that, but first 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.520 we're gonna go to an ad break, and when we 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:53.600 come back, we're gonna play live us from the RNC. 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:55.600 Well it was live when we recorded. 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:57.760 Yeah, as what I'm saying live us we were alive 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.280 back then and now questionable talking about what we were 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:02.520 experiencing in the moment. 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:17.480 But first ads, Okay, we are back, and now we 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.120 will tune in to our recording we made on the 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:21.200 convention floor. 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:22.840 Doun dun dun. 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.840 Okay, we are well recording live, broadcasting a little bit later, 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:31.000 but recording live on the ground at the Republican National Convention. 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.120 We've had a very a very busy morning. It's now 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.200 mid afternoon. We're in between sessions. The first session just 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.960 wrapped up, and we thought we were we should record 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:43.480 some of our immediate thoughts before our little debrief tonight. 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:45.680 I guess let's start with Robert Evans. 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:52.520 Yeah. Well, first off, my main overwhelming kind of takeaway 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.720 is that the tone and tempo of this is a 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:59.480 lot milder than I expected. And I think it's because 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:03.440 the over majority of people here are extremely conservative, the 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:07.600 most dedicated and active members of the party. But it's 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.480 not like the Proud Boy Crew over Definitely some of 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:11.360 those people here, but. 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:12.640 These are electoralists. 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.199 These are electoralists. Most of them are a lot older, 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.120 you know. I would say the average age is somewhere 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.559 between the late forties to the sixties of like people 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.800 you encounter here, And it is interesting to me that 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.280 I have not, you know, as soon as we, like 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.120 we said yesterday, as soon as we landed, we saw 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.520 a guy with a Trump after he got shot, sticking 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:31.840 his fist in the airshirt. I haven't seen a ton 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.160 of that on the ground here since. I've not seen 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:35.520 a ton of it, nor have I seen a ton 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:36.920 of direct references to it. 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:41.079 I guess the sophie here, I think that guess the 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:45.120 main reference that I've seen is when they did the delegate. 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:46.959 Official photo, that would be the big one. 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.840 Yeah, they all turned around and raised their fist in 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:53.920 the way that Donald Trump did after the attempted assassination, 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:55.840 which was fascinating to me. 0:09:56.360 --> 0:10:00.640 Yeah, yeah, especially given the lack of otherwise direct emphasis 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.320 on what happened. And maybe that's coming up. I kind 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.880 of do. The way I'm interpreting it now is because 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:07.560 the thing that just dropped a few minutes ago is 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.840 the FBI got into the shooter's phone. So far, preliminary 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.480 findings nothing in there that makes it clear why he 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.960 did it, So I kind of think they may just 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.679 be sort of confused as to why one of their 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:23.320 own seemingly carried out the shooting. Not really clear what 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.600 the rhetoric on the shooters should be, but very clear 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.720 on how they should respond to the Trump photo, Which 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.200 is the primary takeaway from that is the photo is 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.920 the pose, is him cementing his image as this indestructible, 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.160 you know, man who's constantly under attack, right, And so 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:41.640 it makes sense to me that they've adopted that hand sign, 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.319 and I expect we'll see more of it, And boy, howdy, 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.880 does it just look exactly like that the hand sign 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:48.800 from the far right that everyone's familiar with. 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:54.600 So as we were kind of in between speakers, they 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.880 had this little band playing, and we happened to be 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.600 sitting next to one of the younger people that I've 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.560 seen attending the convention, but like still still like an adult, 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.520 like a very young adult, maybe twenty one, maybe twenty 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:06.960 at most. 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:08.640 He couldn't have been older than twenty one, because he 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.319 said this is his first election. He'll be able to 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.680 vote in yes presidential election, so probably a little bit 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:13.160 younger than me. 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:15.360 It's interesting because yesterday we talked with some, you know, 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.280 very old people, and today we talked with some very 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.760 young people to yet and it's it is a it 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:23.120 is an interesting contrast. So, yeah, this young conservative from 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:27.360 from California but now lives in South Dakota and I 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.800 don't know. We were asking him about, like what what 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.120 focus he has in politics. He seemed really concerned about 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.120 the economy. That was that was kind of his main 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:35.160 his main. 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.679 Issue, almost the only thing he wanted to talk about 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:41.480 was the economy. He was one thing, I'll say, very 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.280 good natured, like not in the I am doing the 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.320 pr thing, I am trying to put on an image, 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.600 but just in the not at all aggressive, did not 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.160 react kind of negatively to the fact that we were media, 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.679 which you get a lot of that at events like these. 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.120 He expressed that the only places he gets his news 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.120 is Fox and News Nation on TV. He is not 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:05.360 on social media, which I found interesting and statistics suggest 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.920 obviously that's not the norm, but it is a growing 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.400 number of gen Z and Jen Alpha kids who avoid 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:11.800 a lot of the internet. 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.640 Well, and that's especially among conservatives. I mean, there is 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.440 a lot of young conservatives who do get their news 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.320 on TikTok, who do get their news. Podcasts are one 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.839 of the biggest, biggest ways that young people to the 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.160 right get their news obviously, like the Daily Wire is 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.000 very dominant in the podcasting scene. But no, I find 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.120 that very interesting, And I assuen that's probably like, you know, 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:32.360 influenced by his family. You know, whatever is on, whatever's 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:33.199 on the family TV. 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.400 His uncle is about to be the mayor of Huntington Beach, California, 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:41.520 and is the sheriff. Huntington Beach is the most conservative 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:45.160 city in California, probably a pretty wide margin. 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.640 Yeah. No, he expressed a lot of frustration that we 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.600 were giving lots of money to Ukraine, that he felt 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:55.280 that Zelenski was suspending on himself instead of on the military. 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.160 And yeah, I mean he seemed like a good old 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.680 Christian boy. He was very very in to the praying 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:04.280 section of the night. I asked him and ed ed 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.120 at some point when when JD. Vance was coming out 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.000 on stage to be announcedly the official vice president, like 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.160 if he thinks that they're gonna win this year, Like 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.280 do you think that the Republicans are gonna win? 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.560 And he said yes, if it's fair. 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:19.720 Yeah, that was the same. That was the first thing 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:21.400 I asked him, And that was the same answer he 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:26.199 gave me. And you know, speaking of Vance, because Vance 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.240 is my first thought and a lot of people's first thought, 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.120 and I think this is probably the accurate thing to 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:34.079 say about Vance. He does not provide a lot to Trump, right, 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.120 He's not a guy who won by a wide margin. 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.360 I'm not even confident he on his own does anything 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.440 to deliver his state Ohio. But what this kid brought 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:44.880 up and what I suspect Trump season him, because when 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:46.840 I asked, what do you think about JD. Vance, he 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.720 repeatedly said, I think he's loyal. I think he really 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.400 likes Trump. I think he's loyal. And I did bring 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.720 up the fact that Vance has said bad things about 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:56.839 Trump in the past, and then he went on this 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:58.599 thing where he was like, I think that DeSantis and 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.360 Trump really like each other. It's all politics. And I 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.800 wanted to say, how deranged, but then he was like, 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:07.760 you know, it's like Kamala and Joe. She was really 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:09.319 mean to him during the debate and now she's his 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.480 vice president. I was like, well, that's actually a pretty 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.400 reasonable way to look at the situation. I don't know 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.640 that I think it's actually accurate, but I see the 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:18.640 logical through line there, and I was kind of you know, 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:19.520 I thought that was interesting. 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.680 I thought it was interesting when they were bringing out JD. 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:28.840 Vance and he was dancing vamping. I'm going to call 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:33.720 it dancing vancing advancing that. You know, they were quick 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.720 to call out that he he was a marine, quick 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:38.520 to call him a patriot, quick to call him a 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:39.680 family man. 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:41.440 And I think that's what he brings to the table. 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.400 He brings those three things as well as his age, 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:49.080 and I think that's that's what the GOP is focusing on. Yeah, 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.920 I mean, other than that, there was a really weird 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:53.280 prayer thing Gare. 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:54.600 Yeah. 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.920 That was after Vance came up. They did the benediction. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:14:58.760 Yeah. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.600 It was what I could only express is a little 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.800 bit like spiritually disturbing. All of like the led screens 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:10.400 behind behind, like the speakers all flashed like very like 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:14.000 Facebook esque like images of like you know, the Bible 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.920 of like families praying, like kids glowing like glowing like 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.800 like the heavenly glowing light, like the the the whole 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:22.960 environment change from like you know, it's usually very like 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:26.400 sports debate, you know, Red versus Blue. It's you know, 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.160 it's it's very traditional like Americana, And it was a 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:30.880 very it was a very intense shift to like to 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.640 like this to this like a like strong like facebook 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.200 Christianity almost. That's that's the best way I can I 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.720 can describe it with words. And I mean, you know, 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.440 it was a typical Christian dominionist moment where you have 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.400 you know, the the one of the largest of two 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:49.400 political parties, just fully fully embracing the UH and fully 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.120 you know, putting out that you know, this is this 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.440 is a this is a religious party almost more than 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.840 anything else. The religion is so important to the ceremony, 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:01.400 and specifically not just any religions of course, just Christianity. 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:05.080 And I don't know, they spent like almost like the 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.960 last half of the prayer talking about Israel and you know, 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:14.560 specifically saying the children of Abraham and the Holy City 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.800 of Jerusalem and you know, all all of that kind of. 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:18.840 Language prayer for the hostages. 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.400 Talking about how the hostages are being kept against their will. 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:23.840 But no, all the language reminds me a lot of 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:27.680 like my childhood and the rhetoric around Israel as this 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.280 place to secure so that so that you know. 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.600 The prophecies can come true for Jesus'. 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.840 Second coming, and like that that is that is the 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:36.440 entire the entire bit. 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:38.880 I'm trying to recall if there was a big benediction 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.040 at the end after the twenty sixteen RNC when Pennce 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.040 was nominated, and I'm sure there was, but for whatever reason, 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:46.760 it doesn't stick out in my mind the way this 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:47.160 one did. 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:49.720 No, this will certainly stick stick out in my mind. 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.560 Like everyone knows Republicans are, you know, the more Christian party, 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.800 but just the the shar like a consensus about it here, 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.480 just like everybody is, like even if they aren't themselves Christian, 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.800 most people are, but like everyone in on this thing happening, 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:04.679 it was. It was just a it was just an 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.199 interesting moment contrasted to the overall, you know, like a 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.919 concert kind of sports vibe that the rest of the 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:12.280 convention kind of carries. 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.320 Yeah, I mean, the only other thing that I pointed 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.199 out at one point, I went to get water and 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:24.040 I came back and I mentioned right before we started 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.479 to record, to both Gar and Robert, I was like, 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:31.439 cops keep touching me and like putting their hand on 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.920 my shoulder, and you know is one cop just wanted 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:36.639 to talk to me about my day, and I was 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:39.760 like trying to get water and going back into the convention. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:44.040 And then I mentioned that to Garon Robert and they 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.160 both said that they've been touched quite a lot too, 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.479 And I just think that's interesting to note. And you know, 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.440 I don't particularly like to be touched by strangers, especially cops. 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.159 Mine has been on the shoulder by like a couple 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.080 of different what I would describe them as, like uncle codd, 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.000 guys who I don't know and was not talking to, 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:03.800 just like walking past me and putting a hand on 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.080 my shoulder, like like someone who is a family member 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.400 would do casually, like a family event, you know, when 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:11.240 you're on the way to do something else. But I've 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:14.280 never met these people. We did not talk. That was odd. 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.879 It hasn't happened to me before. Maybe everyone's just in 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:18.880 a very good mood because they're that sure they're going 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.159 to win. Maybe we just ran into a lot of 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:23.760 creepy uncle types unclear. 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.480 It'll be interesting to contrast with the DNC, But no, 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:28.680 it certainly has been a pattern. There's a lot more 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.480 like just casual touching here. And yeah, I think that 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:33.920 is most of our thoughts right now. I guess that 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.320 the last thing I guess I'll add is the young 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.959 kid that we were talking to who was was very 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:43.440 excited about about this, about this whole deal. As Vance 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:45.040 was coming out and you know, the crowd was going 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.359 crazy and everything, he very quietly remarked that he was 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:50.440 like gonna start crying because it was just like so 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:52.280 like an impactfully, I think it was. I think it 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.080 was mostly to himself. He was just like acknowledging that 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.920 verbally and then said he wants to become a cop 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.760