Speaker 1: It was just so funny. Kipt telling how bad that
Speaker 1: guy was. Yeah, but also during the movie, I kept
Speaker 1: fucking with her majestic.
Speaker 2: Of going, oh, dude, dude, another dude just got sucked
Speaker 2: off by the Tornoh. They just they're getting sucked right
Speaker 2: off by these tornadoes.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what kept getting sucked off into the sky. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sucked off. It was. I think it was the only
Speaker 1: way to describe it. It truly is like just got
Speaker 1: getting sucked off. Oh they sucked off that poor mother.
Speaker 1: And I blamed myself for the way he got sucked off?
Speaker 1: Is everyone so stupid? Like how the part I really
Speaker 1: had trouble grasping was like that these sort of hobbyist
Speaker 1: storm chasers are also responsible for like crisis response, Like, guys,
Speaker 1: you gotta get to a fucking basement. Now, where are
Speaker 1: the authorities? Like why is that on you?
Speaker 3: People are like still out at like a parade or
Speaker 3: like a fair, just like juggling, or like children are
Speaker 3: like doing the knock the bottle over game as a
Speaker 3: tornado like bears down on them.
Speaker 1: The siren goes off five minutes before. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: but look, that's a movie. That's what I love about
Speaker 1: a movie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hello the Internet, and welcome to this week grand
Speaker 4: edition of.
Speaker 3: Yeah Yeah, Hey, it's Jack, that's Miles.
Speaker 1: What a weekend.
Speaker 3: We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat.
Speaker 3: Usually we don't have guests, but we figured in our
Speaker 3: flawless planning, yes absolutely, that very little would happen over
Speaker 3: the weekend, and that we would want a r n
Speaker 3: C recap from UH to kind of go over what
Speaker 3: happened at the r n C. So we we're bringing
Speaker 3: in one of our favorite guests from the show, an
Speaker 3: award winning Slate magazine staff writer. You've seen as were
Speaker 3: a couple places. I don't know, CNN, The New York Times,
Speaker 3: I guess, m PRG.
Speaker 5: What's up man?
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 5: My brothers?
Speaker 1: Hey? Look, this is what I'm thinking. Man, We were
Speaker 1: going to have you. We're thinking, oh, look, the RNC
Speaker 1: is happening. This is the perfect timing. Trump gave his speech.
Speaker 1: You weren't able to cover it. I watched the whole
Speaker 1: thing and then boom boom boom. We're here Monday, and
Speaker 1: Trump's speech was going to be so electric that nobody
Speaker 1: was going to be able to talk about anything else.
Speaker 1: But you know what, it's still I think it's important
Speaker 1: because even though Biden dropped out, I think it is important.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, yeah, my bad. I wanted to spoilers. We
Speaker 1: were gonna reveal that to you in such a fun
Speaker 1: way just now. Ah, okay, my bad, bad bad, damn.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, I think it is. It is important,
Speaker 1: even though you know, obviously the main news about Biden
Speaker 1: stepping down to also understand like where the Republicans left
Speaker 1: off before this, because they're also having a bit of
Speaker 1: a reaction to the announcement about Biden dropping out. So
Speaker 1: I think still relevant. But then we figured, damn, like,
Speaker 1: let's just get just get aiming on. We'll just we'll
Speaker 1: chop up, chop up everything, man, We'll chop it up.
Speaker 6: Never never a bad idea to have, amin. I think
Speaker 6: it's so funny that I had this hunch that the
Speaker 6: Biden campaign waited until after the rn C to drop
Speaker 6: this news. It's like nobody everybody forgot about the r
Speaker 6: and C the second that news dumped.
Speaker 1: It felt a little bit like yes, Family Matters, Kendrick
Speaker 1: after or I'm sorry to meet the Grams. After the
Speaker 1: Family Matters video came out from Drake, He's like you
Speaker 1: drop the video. This beef is over and it's like.
Speaker 5: Trying to strike a go and it's probably a minor.
Speaker 1: And now like everybody is so upset, like on the
Speaker 1: right there, like but but it's supposed to be Biden.
Speaker 5: Uh, but it's still in the back like minor.
Speaker 1: Yeah you lie, but yeah, I figure, well we'll just.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're on a ride along and then we're gonna
Speaker 3: get to your recap with r n C. But we
Speaker 3: up first, usually Miles and I, uh, you know, tell
Speaker 3: people a little bit what we're up to, what we're
Speaker 3: thinking about. By doing our own overrated underrated. This is
Speaker 3: a unique position you're in as a guest who gets
Speaker 3: to be here for our overrated underrated and you can
Speaker 3: really just talk shit.
Speaker 5: Yeah not how bad like hot man, they better be hot.
Speaker 1: Fuck give me a second, man, let me make these hotter?
Speaker 1: All right? I think I gotta have you want to
Speaker 1: kick us off with something you take as overrated. I
Speaker 1: think it's on everyone's mind. It's something this is to
Speaker 1: do with the Biden announcement. I think the quote relief
Speaker 1: that Democrats are feeling around Biden's announcement feels a bit overrated,
Speaker 1: like it's like, oh, Like the reaction is is as
Speaker 1: if they're like, oh, well, now we've won because it
Speaker 1: was just Biden. That was the only problem. It was
Speaker 1: that Biden was old. And I get it, Yes, Biden
Speaker 1: is so old that it causes viewers like myself to
Speaker 1: have like an existential panic about my own mortality. But
Speaker 1: I don't think again, he wasn't the best main character
Speaker 1: to have in the story around the fight for the
Speaker 1: soul of America. But again, I'm not sure that this
Speaker 1: solves all of the election issues instantly, like the way
Speaker 1: I was hearing the relief on MSNBC, Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: this changes everything now, and it does to a certain
Speaker 1: extent obviously, Like polling wise, she does pull better than
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, but they're still like, but what policies is
Speaker 1: Kamala running on like the same different more progressive, more
Speaker 1: moderate to offset the potential racism and misogyny in the
Speaker 1: in the voting block of the United States? Is you know?
Speaker 1: I get Biden's visible decline was like basically one dimension
Speaker 1: of a larger issue regarding electability in this election. In
Speaker 1: my opinion, it wasn't purely down to like, well, if
Speaker 1: Joe Biden just wasn't old. Everyone would be like, great,
Speaker 1: he's the person, rather than addressing a lot of the
Speaker 1: things that people were screaming about in their day to
Speaker 1: day lives that they want a president to talk about
Speaker 1: and not just be like Trump is so bad. So
Speaker 1: I think yes on paper good? But does this solve anything? Tbd'
Speaker 1: paper good on paper fine? But this we don't live
Speaker 1: on paper baby, I bold, Yeah.
Speaker 3: My overrated was leaving this position of Joe. I mean, uh,
Speaker 3: I was nervous this weekend, like I so, I am
Speaker 3: feeling the relief. I also felt the immediate like buyer's
Speaker 3: remorse that I think everybody else felt, where they're like,
Speaker 3: oh did we do a bad you know, by being
Speaker 3: behind the narrative of like must replace.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think I've gotten over the buyer's remorse part
Speaker 3: of it and just been like this motherfucker couldn't. It
Speaker 3: wasn't just like existential crisis of like seeing someone who's old.
Speaker 3: It was like just a crisis of like just not
Speaker 3: being able, like seeing somebody who couldn't land the plane
Speaker 3: on a single sentence, you know, like any of the sentences.
Speaker 3: I spent a lot of this weekend you guys know
Speaker 3: Oliver Sacks, like he wrote Awakenings, that movie that had
Speaker 3: Rob Williams and Robert.
Speaker 1: De Niro in it.
Speaker 3: He also, like later in his life, wrote a lot
Speaker 3: about you know. He he was a doctor who worked
Speaker 3: with people with very specific like brain injuries, and like
Speaker 3: one of his famous books at the end of you
Speaker 3: know later on early two thousands was the man who
Speaker 3: mistook his wife for a hat. I think it was called,
Speaker 3: And it was like the thing you would kind of
Speaker 3: come up against in these case studies of people with
Speaker 3: neurological injuries or just you know, neurological disorders, is they
Speaker 3: like their brain blocked out the fact that they were
Speaker 3: diminished in any way like you Like, he would include
Speaker 3: these parts where like he would have a pre interview
Speaker 3: with the person. So this this person who like literally
Speaker 3: tried to grab his wife's head and put it on
Speaker 3: his head like a hat. Like the intro to that part,
Speaker 3: Oliver Sacks is like, what seems to be the matter,
Speaker 3: And the guys like nothing that I know of, Uh,
Speaker 3: there's something wrong with my eyes. And he's like, but
Speaker 3: you don't recognize any problems. No, not directly, but I
Speaker 3: occasionally make mistakes. Like I kept thinking about that over
Speaker 3: the weekend, thinking about Joe Biden like being the one
Speaker 3: who's in charge of deciding if he could like continue
Speaker 3: forward with this that like I don't know, like that
Speaker 3: later on, like minutes after, he's like, I don't know
Speaker 3: what everybody's making a big deal about. I'm good here now,
Speaker 3: Like he put my hat on, she goes, so he
Speaker 3: has to take his shoe off. Oliver Sacks has to
Speaker 3: take his shoe off to do this like exam where
Speaker 3: you like tickle the bottom, yeah, tickle the bottom of
Speaker 3: the foot. And then he goes back to like doing
Speaker 3: his doctors thing, taking notes and shit. And then he
Speaker 3: looks over and the dude still hasn't put his shoe
Speaker 3: back on, and he's like, can I help you? And
Speaker 3: he's like help what? Help who? He's like, help you
Speaker 3: put your shoe on. He's like, ah, I'd forgotten the shoe.
Speaker 3: The shoe, the shoe, but he like seems confused, and
Speaker 3: he's like the shoe, could you like put it on?
Speaker 3: And then he is like, wait, so this is my shoe, yes,
Speaker 3: and he like points to his own foot, but like
Speaker 3: so it's just and this is like a guy who's
Speaker 3: like a you know, music professor. She's it's just our
Speaker 3: brains are really bad at noticing when there there's something
Speaker 3: going on in our own brains, Like we should not
Speaker 3: be in charge of deciding like, you know, trying to
Speaker 3: fix the broken instrument. With the broken instrument is how
Speaker 3: I've heard it described, you know, like people who are
Speaker 3: like I got this, I get it, Like who knows
Speaker 3: me better than myself? And it's like like literally everyone
Speaker 3: at this point knows you better than yourself.
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
Speaker 3: I was very nervous heading into the weekend. So that
Speaker 3: is why I felt enormous relief when he came to
Speaker 3: the same conclusion. I think the way he came to
Speaker 3: the conclusion seems to be that he's like all these
Speaker 3: motherfucker's sandbagged me and made it so that I can't
Speaker 3: win anymore, and so like.
Speaker 1: That that's how we got there.
Speaker 3: But it like it's I am relieved that we got
Speaker 3: there because it was just bad. It was it was
Speaker 3: a bad situation that we were in with him, like
Speaker 3: kind of being in charge of deciding the ultimate authority
Speaker 3: on like whether whether he was still up to it,
Speaker 3: yeah or it.
Speaker 1: Almost feels like the thing. It's like, we'll make it
Speaker 1: seem like he's going to have to make that decision,
Speaker 1: but everything around him just like you gotta go, you
Speaker 1: gotta go, you gotta go. It's like, yeah, I might
Speaker 1: have to go. Really okay, Well, yeah, if you want
Speaker 1: to do that, Yeah, go ahead, dude. That's that's cool
Speaker 1: with us.
Speaker 5: It's cool with us.
Speaker 6: I think it's kind of like our fault though, you know,
Speaker 6: because we knew he was old as hell the last election,
Speaker 6: and so the way that this works is that he
Speaker 6: gets a mandate from the people, and the people give
Speaker 6: him the power, so we could be the person to.
Speaker 5: Make those decisions.
Speaker 6: He probably shouldn't have decided to run, but then that
Speaker 6: was still his mandated. Then the fact that we're not
Speaker 6: going to have a primary scares the shit out of me,
Speaker 6: Like the fact that it's too late to bring to
Speaker 6: have an election essentially to choos who.
Speaker 5: The next candidate's going to be.
Speaker 6: And so now it's not only are we trying to
Speaker 6: to like muscle Biden out, we also put him in
Speaker 6: this position where he needs to anoint the next person. Yeah,
Speaker 6: And that that's the scary part to me, The fact
Speaker 6: that they're they're gonna essentially decide who the candidate is,
Speaker 6: and there's going to be a convention, of course, but
Speaker 6: it's it's just not going to be the same as
Speaker 6: having like a country wide election.
Speaker 1: It's like, such, well, I think, yeah, that's where a
Speaker 1: lot of the the ills were just you know, brought
Speaker 1: to us by the fact that like the machine had
Speaker 1: to protect Biden for so long and even like to
Speaker 1: your point where Peo were like, dude, he looks old man,
Speaker 1: what the fuck is this? And it's funny the same
Speaker 1: people who are like Biden needs to step down were
Speaker 1: the same people a few months ago being like I
Speaker 1: spoke with the president and he is sharper than a
Speaker 1: fucking exact All night I got buck fifty just kissing
Speaker 1: him on the cheek. This is how sharp this man is.
Speaker 1: Like no, and now you're like this motherfucker gotta go.
Speaker 1: It's hard to like square all that too and be
Speaker 1: like no, you know, you were fucking trying to convince us. Also,
Speaker 1: so everybody had to do this thing where I think
Speaker 1: suddenly it's like, well.
Speaker 5: Fuck, we fucked up.
Speaker 1: What are we gonna do? Like he's gotta go? Rather
Speaker 1: than again looking at how we even got here, because
Speaker 1: there's no like to your point aiming like, we didn't
Speaker 1: have a fucking primary. So even when the Republicans are
Speaker 1: like they subverted the will of the people, I'm like,
Speaker 1: that happened when they blew up the primary schedule. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's when that happened, Not because of this shit.
Speaker 1: It happened well before this. But yeah, will there be
Speaker 1: like that kind I mean, that's you'd hope there's some
Speaker 1: kind of reckoning to understand, like, yeah, that wasn't good.
Speaker 1: We need to be more honest about the candidates that
Speaker 1: were running, rather than just sort of doubling down on
Speaker 1: the fact that we don't want to take l's publicly.
Speaker 1: And now yeah this and then as it stands, I mean,
Speaker 1: it looks like a lot of the people are coalescing
Speaker 1: around Kamala Harris, but like there's still room for some
Speaker 1: fucking weird like Joe Manchins, like I'm not gonna run.
Speaker 1: You're like, nobody asked you. You're talking about bro, Joe Manson,
Speaker 1: get out of here.
Speaker 5: Bro.
Speaker 1: He specifically said he was thinking about running right way
Speaker 1: back in like a couple of months ago, I don't know, three,
Speaker 1: three years ago news cycle time. But yeah, I just
Speaker 1: don't like him being like, well, you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: thinking about it.
Speaker 3: It is with a heavy heart that I've come to
Speaker 3: the conclusion that I shouldn't run for It's like, yeah, no, man,
Speaker 3: thank you. Yeah, I mean that kind of it kind
Speaker 3: of what we're talking about tison to my underrated which
Speaker 3: was like how long this was what people wanted because like,
Speaker 3: there does seem to be I've heard from the like, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, Biden hardliners, the people who were like, fuck
Speaker 3: you if you think Biden should bow out this logic,
Speaker 3: and I think it's what he has kind of glombed
Speaker 3: on onto that this was like an overthrow from the elites,
Speaker 3: you know that like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and
Speaker 3: Barack Obama got together and sam bagged him with all
Speaker 3: this criticism and like Democratic voter, like a majority of
Speaker 3: Democratic voters were asking.
Speaker 1: For him not to run.
Speaker 3: In July twenty twenty three, over a year ago, before
Speaker 3: the primaries, before the debate, a time cenopol found Democratic
Speaker 3: primary voters by fifty to forty five percent preferred the
Speaker 3: party nominate someone other than Biden. In twenty twenty four,
Speaker 3: there are like predictions markets. They were like pretty clear
Speaker 3: on like that Biden should step down and was probably
Speaker 3: going to have to step down for a long time.
Speaker 3: Like right after the debate, they were like, all right,
Speaker 3: this is a fucking wrap. This guy's gonna have to
Speaker 3: step down. So like acting like it's this elite, top
Speaker 3: down thing just seems fucking misguided. But again, it also
Speaker 3: seems like it was just like how he had to
Speaker 3: justify it to himself.
Speaker 1: But I think I was saying this last week is
Speaker 1: how the way the party set up, they don't listen
Speaker 1: to the people. They only listen to the elites. They
Speaker 1: only listen to the donors. So like even with that
Speaker 1: polling there, these are the same people like no, he's sharp,
Speaker 1: and then they're like, fuck, he ain't sharp, yo, he
Speaker 1: gotta go. And it's like, well, you you were the
Speaker 1: fucking one, y'all. Are the ones who were saying it
Speaker 1: was the elites were the ones now are yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you change the primary schedule to protect your chosen candidate
Speaker 1: and Joe Biden. So there is a lot of like
Speaker 1: it's just like you're seeing at many levels kind of
Speaker 1: how the most political parties operate, where it's like well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we know, we know we need your vote, but like
Speaker 1: the real decisions, we're kind of making them up here
Speaker 1: because we're standing to make or gain or lose most But.
Speaker 6: Why would they even entertain listening to the people. I mean,
Speaker 6: as soon as they're in office, their whole goal is
Speaker 6: not to serve the people, but to stay in office.
Speaker 6: And you know, I'm thinking about Jamal Bowman and how
Speaker 6: he just got voted out after APAK, which is like
Speaker 6: a right leading organization that openly criticizes and calls for
Speaker 6: Trump to be elected, and it's very right wing and it.
Speaker 5: Has become increasingly right wing over the years.
Speaker 6: Just flooded his campaign run. They gave his opponent more
Speaker 6: money than they ever spent in any campaign in.
Speaker 5: History, and they voted him out.
Speaker 6: And you know, for someone like him, he's representing the
Speaker 6: Bronx in New York, he might personally feel like he's
Speaker 6: you know, for the people, but then they just got replaced.
Speaker 6: They just replaced him, So I think, yeah, it's like,
Speaker 6: ideally we would have these people come in and just
Speaker 6: you know, say, you know what, f the elites, I'm
Speaker 6: going to come in and I'm just going to represent
Speaker 6: the people on here for the people.
Speaker 5: But they're just going to get steamrolled.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 6: It's to some degree, they got to play the game
Speaker 6: because you want to find somebody who's really at that
Speaker 6: player in the game can flip it on its head
Speaker 6: and make the elites fight each other and just feel stupid.
Speaker 5: For not representing the people.
Speaker 6: I mean, I hate to say that I need somebody
Speaker 6: more like Trump on the on the left, because that's
Speaker 6: exactly what he does.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 6: He like he came out of left field. He's like,
Speaker 6: you know what, these elites are crazy, I'm going to
Speaker 6: drain the swamp. Even though he did a personally believe
Speaker 6: even though he's kind of an elite himself. Yeah, of
Speaker 6: course that message was crazy effective and that allowed him
Speaker 6: to overpower some of what the right wing was was
Speaker 6: trying to push on his campaign, and then that kind
Speaker 6: of gave him more power than the elite. It was
Speaker 6: kind of an incredible thing. Yeah, and I just wish
Speaker 6: we could pull something off.
Speaker 5: Like that on the left.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, it's like it's like because for them, it's
Speaker 1: like like white grievance politics is like the like the
Speaker 1: greatest engine of all time. It's like, dude, if I
Speaker 1: can just tap into that specifically, the other issues kind
Speaker 1: of melt away if I keep reminding him. They're like,
Speaker 1: we need to be back on top. Everybody like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: Forgot Just imagine somebody like with Bernie Sanders's values but
Speaker 6: with Trump's attitude.
Speaker 1: Right right, yeah, I mean it's not giving at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, But I think that's that's like the
Speaker 1: hard bit, right is to if you're that out there,
Speaker 1: because so many people if you start playing the game,
Speaker 1: people like, look, they fucking collapsed. They played like sometimes,
Speaker 1: especially for progressives on the left, the game can't be
Speaker 1: played with at all. But that's the shitty part of
Speaker 1: being on the hill is like it's that it is
Speaker 1: what it is, or you'll just you'll just be like
Speaker 1: a one term hit or quitter kind of person, which sucks.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah that's the state of things.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: It kind of feels like Joe Biden was this a
Speaker 6: person who's trying to like one hundred the game, and
Speaker 6: then Kamala was like in the way, He's like, no, no, no,
Speaker 6: we got to shut this down.
Speaker 5: Look at you're getting all kind of crazy. He just
Speaker 5: wanted to complete.
Speaker 6: It, man, He just wanted to get through and get
Speaker 6: that that trophy at the end. Yeah, just like just
Speaker 6: like you guys are saying, man, he just was not.
Speaker 1: No nah yeah, battle Box saying battle Box over was
Speaker 1: like I was like, come on, yeah.
Speaker 3: Like any if you if you're having buyer's remorse if
Speaker 3: you're a Democrat, was like, yeah, but now we have
Speaker 3: a new candidate, Like is this was this a like
Speaker 3: a bad decision?
Speaker 1: Just like, go back and watch one of his interviews,
Speaker 1: watch the Complex, Like the Complex interview with Speedy was
Speaker 1: the one that he got COVID.
Speaker 5: Did you see that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Biden was just fucking raw dog in the world. There.
Speaker 1: These glasses are not unbreakable. Go ahead to snap one, Joe,
Speaker 1: go ahead, snap. He's dealt with a lot of cognitive dissonance.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, Speedy, you've seen it all, Miles. We didn't
Speaker 1: get your underrated. What you're underrated? Explaining memes and TikTok
Speaker 1: trends to your parents. Underrated. It's just a fun exercise. Honestly,
Speaker 1: my dad stopped by last night to hang out with
Speaker 1: the baby, and I always do like a show and
Speaker 1: tell with him. I'm like, show him like some music videos.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, you know, because he's like a visual artist.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, you're gonna fuck with this music video,
Speaker 1: even fuck with this director, this tracks dope whatever. And
Speaker 1: then and then inevitably, I'm like, I got my phone out.
Speaker 1: I'm like showing him some tiktoks that I'm laughing at.
Speaker 1: He's like what truly like care, like what is this?
Speaker 1: But my son is like, do you know how how
Speaker 1: big the destroyer is from Clone Wars? And just talking
Speaker 1: for like five minutes straight and then like pauses and
Speaker 1: I'm realizing that, like he just asked me a question
Speaker 1: about like what, He's like quizzing me. I don't know.
Speaker 1: He's like, I told you it's at least seven Corelian cruisers.
Speaker 1: You're like, man much, Yeah, yeah, I would like a hypothetical, Well,
Speaker 1: so that's probably so sharp. I would test pass like
Speaker 1: words right back to him, be like that ain't that's
Speaker 1: that's not accurate. I'm like, shit, he found me out exactly.
Speaker 1: I'm a fucking lion ass adult, another lion ass adult.
Speaker 1: But anyway, it was just funny too, because like, just
Speaker 1: like the process the exercise of trying to synthesize a
Speaker 1: meme for a boomer so they can understand, like what
Speaker 1: cultural touch points like they're hitting to like sort of
Speaker 1: like make it funny. It's just like it was. I
Speaker 1: had to use new parts of my brain to be like,
Speaker 1: how do I explain this foreign language to another person
Speaker 1: with like their vocabulary? So it hits the right way anyway.
Speaker 1: Good A good, good exercise for people who want to
Speaker 1: see how good or bad their ability to articulate a
Speaker 1: meme to someone older is. But a fun challenge none
Speaker 1: the less, I enjoyed it. So, yeah, make your parents
Speaker 1: confused and explain a TikTok to them.
Speaker 3: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 3: right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back. We're back and again.
Speaker 3: So it was days after let's do a little TikTok
Speaker 3: of the weekend of when we all found out that
Speaker 3: was just.
Speaker 1: That's how we're doing it. Qita the making the Stallion
Speaker 1: Japanese rap friend. Sorry, guys, I'm trying to explain everything
Speaker 1: on TikTok and we all know what that is. And
Speaker 1: immediately got the RD.
Speaker 3: So immediately after catching COVID or you know, a couple
Speaker 3: of days after catching COVID, I guess, and refusing to
Speaker 3: wear a mask which is his presidential prerogative, and we're
Speaker 3: just gonna let him do whatever he wants.
Speaker 1: COVID, as he said, sod.
Speaker 3: Of COVID, man find somebody else. Uh he Uh, We're
Speaker 3: going to allow it because he did ultimately make the
Speaker 3: right decision drop out of the presidential race.
Speaker 1: And uh then.
Speaker 3: He immediately endorsed Kamala Harris, which big news for the
Speaker 3: Democratic Party. Uh, devastating news for Wolf Blitzer, who is
Speaker 3: happily downing Wolf Spritzer's Wolf spread DC bar before he like,
Speaker 3: literally there's a picture of him moments before the news.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I literally was just looking at it this morning.
Speaker 3: Enjoying a Wolf Spritzer at l Presidente Restaurant here.
Speaker 6: In d C.
Speaker 1: And then like an hour later, Blitzer there dropped out
Speaker 1: of the race. More from Kaitlyn Collins on the ground,
Speaker 1: What Wolf, you look unhappy to be there. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. It feels.
Speaker 3: It feels like CNN has just been like if it's
Speaker 3: breaking news, like Wolf Blitzer needs to be. That's the
Speaker 3: only way we know the news is important is if
Speaker 3: Wolf is there. Multiple I personally like, let the man
Speaker 3: drink his wolf Sprinzers and stay off off the television.
Speaker 3: They should have let him drink it on camera, right
Speaker 3: and well, if you're about three deep and pretty shit
Speaker 3: faced at this point, is that correct?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say too fucked up right now? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody was at the the Twitter, Linda Yakarino retweeting that
Speaker 1: thing being like Biden's announcing being like X where History
Speaker 1: Happens is like full He posted that everywhere.
Speaker 8: Yeah, because he's like, I respect the fuck out of
Speaker 8: X because apparently they're already like it sounds like Kamala
Speaker 8: Harris's uh like caught, like her campaign account is getting throttled,
Speaker 8: like the amount of like followers that can get on X.
Speaker 1: Yeah, on that. So Elon Musk is doing his part
Speaker 1: without dropping forty five million a month quite yet, or
Speaker 1: maybe he has, but yeah, X where History Happens for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Republicans are calling on Biden to step down, arguing that
Speaker 3: he's not fit to If he's not fit to campaign,
Speaker 3: he's not fit to serve as president, which was a
Speaker 3: question that I think popped into a lot of.
Speaker 1: People's minds, probably right away.
Speaker 3: But I don't know that's a distraction because we we
Speaker 3: just had big news Democrats solved all their problems, and
Speaker 3: we can move along and nominate Mitt Romney.
Speaker 5: The twist.
Speaker 1: Legitimately Aaron Sorkin was like, all right, so here's my
Speaker 1: here's my like third act twist for this bad boy.
Speaker 1: It was he saying like if I were writing this
Speaker 1: like the West Wing, Yes, okay, go on, how would
Speaker 1: you do it if this was a jam our writer.
Speaker 3: Jam was pointing out that like he may be onto something,
Speaker 3: but instead of just any like older Republican who's already lost,
Speaker 3: why not do the one who has won recently and
Speaker 3: nominate Trump? You know, because they'd never see that comic. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and even if Trump wins, he would be winning Democrats.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and in many ways, isn't that losing but
Speaker 1: in reality in the White House. So I don't know
Speaker 1: about that one, but perfectly timed.
Speaker 3: He dropped the they should nominate Romney like hours before
Speaker 3: the Biden announcement and Biden's endorsement of Harris, and then
Speaker 3: he threw his support body. He was like, my bad,
Speaker 3: I was wrong about the idea to God, but like
Speaker 3: these like lib brained jen whatever he is like can't
Speaker 3: get past the idea of like triangulate, like what if
Speaker 3: Joe Lieberman was the vice president would have John McCain live.
Speaker 1: In a world where yeah, they believe all of these
Speaker 1: people are like benevolent actors, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: and not really coming to the reality of it. They're
Speaker 1: all shrewd operators rather than like, yeah, man, that's a
Speaker 1: good guy who can heal the nation. Because this is
Speaker 1: again not a TV show and we're in a very
Speaker 1: extreme reality compared to that. But yeah, like what's what's
Speaker 1: the idea?
Speaker 6: Are they just trying to draw Republican middle ground voters
Speaker 6: or something?
Speaker 5: Is that the plan?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Exactly, Yeah, that's not a good plan. Have you
Speaker 1: met such a plan?
Speaker 3: And it's also like terrible TV because like Mitt Romney's
Speaker 3: boring as fuck, So like why would that be good?
Speaker 3: I mean, it would be surprising for a second, But
Speaker 3: then everybody's really.
Speaker 6: To vote Trump because he has an R in front
Speaker 6: of his name. What makes you think they're going to
Speaker 6: vote for anyone with a letter D?
Speaker 1: Right? Even Trump? Somehow they'd be like, nah, I can't
Speaker 1: do it. He's a Democrat, not not even Trump. I
Speaker 1: can't do it.
Speaker 3: As for like how things go from here on out,
Speaker 3: it seems like no one really knows. There's gonna be
Speaker 3: a lot of people confidently telling you they know. But
Speaker 3: Biden is the first presumptive nominee of a major party
Speaker 3: to quit the race after the primaries have concluded.
Speaker 1: So it's it's going to be a mess. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's going to be you know, if
Speaker 1: the delegates all go to Kamala, if it turns into
Speaker 1: an all out brawl, it's I mean, as it stands,
Speaker 1: definitely like I said earlier, but the support seems to
Speaker 1: be like, you know, all coming to her side, and
Speaker 1: the fundraising certainly is. I think it was something like
Speaker 1: fucking sixty four million in twelve hours yesterday. Yeah, was
Speaker 1: an obscene amount of money. But yeah, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't even know. We're still we're still trying to figure
Speaker 1: out who the running mate's going to be. Yeah. Yeah, here, And.
Speaker 6: Did you guys not see that thing on Twitter where
Speaker 6: it said like Tammy Baldwin was going to be in
Speaker 6: it because one of the FEC five link changes changed
Speaker 6: it to the Biden Baldwin victory fund.
Speaker 1: Really, I was like, wait, this is.
Speaker 5: A twist, that's why, But it could also be nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's wow.
Speaker 5: I did not like Timmy Baldwin that's a that's a
Speaker 5: good pick Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah right, it was either that or what they
Speaker 1: go with Andy Basher, like the Democratic governor of Kentucky,
Speaker 1: who they feel I can kind of go after. J. D.
Speaker 1: Vance's like Appalachia cred uh and you know, do battle there.
Speaker 1: I don't know, like there's so there's so much like
Speaker 1: moving little pieces around and seeing where you know things
Speaker 1: are going to happen. But yeah, yeah, that's why we're
Speaker 1: sure it's not Harris Baldwin as in Hilario of Baldwin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Alec Alec Baldwin, Alex.
Speaker 3: I mean he's he brings a certain trumpiness of just
Speaker 3: like not guilty, y'all got to filmy type energy to
Speaker 3: the ticket.
Speaker 6: So he's not Trump, but he played Trump on TV once,
Speaker 6: Yeah he did.
Speaker 1: And yeah he's Jack Donnegie. Basically, it would just be
Speaker 1: so wild if we're finding out it's Tammy Baldwin because
Speaker 1: the paperwork, dude, imagine.
Speaker 6: Yeah, oh man, I'm not ready to believe it. But
Speaker 6: if it ends up being Tammy Baldon, I'm gonna be like.
Speaker 1: Wow, I cannot ye. Yeah, I mean, like the all logic.
Speaker 1: I mean, you saw the jokes on Twitter where everyone
Speaker 1: was taking like taking photos from like the wine sections
Speaker 1: of different places are like exciting whites, and they're like,
Speaker 1: so this is a list of Kamala's VP picks or
Speaker 1: like trustworthy.
Speaker 3: Old body way exactly.
Speaker 1: Everyone is kind of doing a joke on that construction
Speaker 1: on Twitter, like yeah, yesterday, but yeah, I that would
Speaker 1: be in I mean, wow, go for it. Let's see,
Speaker 1: let's see where this goes. But are the policies, What
Speaker 1: are the policies? That's the other part.
Speaker 3: I'm more on that later. Let's let's just do then
Speaker 3: be like but I'm not Yeah, but what else?
Speaker 1: What else? I'm not him?
Speaker 5: But did I say I'm not Trump?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, anything else I'm not vands? Oh okay, okay,
Speaker 1: probably a minor Yeah.
Speaker 5: Just like flash pictures of Trump with Epstein.
Speaker 1: Did you see somebody cut a video they said commonly
Speaker 1: needs to run this as an ad, And someone just
Speaker 1: cut the not like us video to have like images
Speaker 1: of Trump and a genius. It's stupid. And they're like
Speaker 1: they're just going to confuse in enrage the elderly in
Speaker 1: like the Midwest. They're like, yeah, well, you know a
Speaker 1: couple of pretty good ads that have been.
Speaker 3: I've seen them be like, look at look how quickly
Speaker 3: the Harris campaign got their ship together. And I don't
Speaker 3: think they're actually ads from the Harris campaign, but.
Speaker 1: No, if the one was probably from the primary, like
Speaker 1: I know there there they were running one of her
Speaker 1: prime like when she was running like in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Uh huh what like one of those ads that felt
Speaker 1: like timeless. Now you're like, oh, when was this made? Now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they'd dropped coffee mugs immediately, So I'm just wondering, like,
Speaker 3: was there a graphic designer working on coffee coffee mug
Speaker 3: designs earlier this week who had a better sense of
Speaker 3: what was about to happen than like White House staffers did,
Speaker 3: Because there's a lot of people who are like, absolutely not,
Speaker 3: He's not going anywhere you can mark my work.
Speaker 1: I mean, if look if this groun like no shade
Speaker 1: to this graphic designer. I know it's a very hard job,
Speaker 1: but this doesn't look like the hardest thing to put together,
Speaker 1: Like we have her name in a font and a
Speaker 1: photo of her on a mug, like, so these don't
Speaker 1: feel like super high minded designs. I would I would,
Speaker 1: I would believe that they were knowing the Democrats, I
Speaker 1: would believe that they had plenty of time to come
Speaker 1: out with this nonsense or in a panic they came
Speaker 1: out with this nonsense.
Speaker 3: They seemed genuinely surprised, though, Like I feel like Biden didn't.
Speaker 1: Tell that many people. I think he just like made
Speaker 1: the call and put that shit out. But I mean,
Speaker 1: if if you remember right before the weekend there, that
Speaker 1: story came out where a lot of people expected this
Speaker 1: weekend to be the final to be it for him. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So I don't know like what that was based on,
Speaker 1: or if they just felt that like he was like
Speaker 1: his you know, his resilience was diminishing in terms of resistance.
Speaker 5: It was over when the mugs were ready.
Speaker 6: The mugs came in the mail box, and they're like,
Speaker 6: Joe Biden, the mug we got.
Speaker 1: Sorry the mugs. Yeah, He's like, fine, if the mugs
Speaker 1: come in on Sunday, then I'll go. But if they're
Speaker 1: not in by Sunday, I'm not going. If they're there Monday,
Speaker 1: I'm still in it. Fine. Yeah.
Speaker 3: At a lot of political reporters who like have sources
Speaker 3: on things and stuff, we're saying that they knew for
Speaker 3: a while now that it was just a matter of
Speaker 3: time because of how united the front was against him.
Speaker 3: Within the Democratic part, they were like, you can't go
Speaker 3: against Nancy Pelosi like that, like she she's gonna if
Speaker 3: it's the president against Nancy Pelosi, like Nancy Pelosi is
Speaker 3: gonna whoop his ass.
Speaker 1: Like he's not gonna be able to survive that that
Speaker 1: knife fight. So yeah, but it, I don't know, it
Speaker 1: was kind of a mess. They did it like exactly
Speaker 1: a week after the assassination attempt on Trump. The thing too,
Speaker 1: is after the r NC though, after I saw Trump's speech,
Speaker 1: I was kind of like, you know, Biden can actually
Speaker 1: stay in this ship. Yeah, That's That's kind of how
Speaker 1: I felt like. I was like, oh shit, bro, this
Speaker 1: guy is fucking up big time too.
Speaker 6: I was worried for Biden for like the first half
Speaker 6: of that speech when he was talking about unity and
Speaker 6: being presidents for all Americans, and then it like sort
Speaker 6: of slipped and yeah, yeah, so smiling, Yeah, should we
Speaker 6: talk about that, yeacause I mean, let's yeah.
Speaker 3: The big news was that Trump was about to unveil
Speaker 3: a tone aka the same exact tone down to the
Speaker 3: fact that he mentioned the.
Speaker 1: Late Great Cannibal elector late Great Cannibal elector.
Speaker 3: Folks like, just I don't know that is hasted in
Speaker 3: his brain. It is not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: But yeah, were you in the building aimen for that speech?
Speaker 5: Sort of? Not really? So what happened?
Speaker 6: Well, uh no, So I had like childcare problems and
Speaker 6: I was like, what's more important being in the room
Speaker 6: for Trump or making sure my kids are taken care of?
Speaker 6: And I was like, uh but I was there for
Speaker 6: the whole every pretty much everything else.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean, that speech was don't I can't believe
Speaker 1: I subjected myself to the entire I can't believe you
Speaker 1: watched the whole thing minutes miles. That is an entire beetlejuice.
Speaker 1: You know what, It's more than a bet a beetle
Speaker 1: juice plus yeah, hour in thirty three minutes was the
Speaker 1: speech of beetlejuice is one hour thirty two minutes that's
Speaker 1: with the credits and damn okay. So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: because going into this right somewhat, the reporting, like from
Speaker 1: even NBC, CNN, they were acting like what was happening
Speaker 1: was not happening. They're like the tone is amazing, like
Speaker 1: they're so energized, like Trump is like, like, because before
Speaker 1: I watched the the speech, like maybe a few hours
Speaker 1: after it happened, because once everyone's like, wow, he really
Speaker 1: he's really saying some things he didn't say. I'm like,
Speaker 1: there's no fucking way. I'm like, what the fuck are
Speaker 1: they talking about? So I had to sit through it
Speaker 1: to see for myself, and yeah, it was the whole
Speaker 1: thing was like an absolute mess.
Speaker 6: It was kind of like, yeah, the tone was different,
Speaker 6: it was just worse.
Speaker 5: It was worse than usual because.
Speaker 6: Usually he'll come out like a firebrand and be like,
Speaker 6: yeah he s you know, but nowadays he was like,
Speaker 6: but this last speech, he was actually really tired, and
Speaker 6: I think, yeah, the whole week, it did look like
Speaker 6: he was sleepy the whole week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I mean it was a mixture of like
Speaker 1: written speech, a little bit of Trump jazz, and then
Speaker 1: also like visiting your grandpa great grandpa at the old
Speaker 1: folks home, where you just got to let him talk
Speaker 1: a little bit so he can get ready for bed.
Speaker 1: But don't worry if nothing is making sense, just don't
Speaker 1: be rude and point out that his slippers are soaking wet.
Speaker 1: For some reason just let great grandpa cook.
Speaker 6: And I was I was in the arena when he
Speaker 6: was doing his sound check, and it was just like
Speaker 6: maybe like thirty people on stage and Trump just sort
Speaker 6: of like walking slow motion. Man, he looked really different
Speaker 6: than any other time that I've seen him live. Like
Speaker 6: usually he's just like snapping, he's shaking hands, he's walking.
Speaker 5: This time he was just sort of like stiff, like
Speaker 5: his arms were up. He wasn't really swinging. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: got some video of it.
Speaker 6: I'll send it to you guys, and I'll say, this
Speaker 6: feels different off the bat, even before he went up
Speaker 6: on stage. But the fact he could still pull off
Speaker 6: an hour and a half speech, I was like kind
Speaker 6: of impressed.
Speaker 5: I was like, wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 6: But it was a total different tone than any other
Speaker 6: speech he's ever given in his life. Usually he's just
Speaker 6: going a million miles an hour. You can see that
Speaker 6: maybe he's even talking faster than his brain is working sometimes.
Speaker 6: But this time it felt like, you know what, maybe
Speaker 6: they're starting to catch up with each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, truly, because it was meandering and like the
Speaker 1: little asides, it was like it was weird at like
Speaker 1: how the speech at times felt like someone was banging
Speaker 1: the teleprompter machine like Yo, this shit is fucking up,
Speaker 1: and then like the texts would come back and he
Speaker 1: would like snap out of whatever the fuck he was saying.
Speaker 1: Like he would just be like, they're very dishonest people,
Speaker 1: you know, but that's okay.
Speaker 7: We like them, don't you. They're like little Johnny from
Speaker 7: your neighborhood. Remember little Johnny always getting in trouble, but
Speaker 7: you couldn't be mad because he was so little. His
Speaker 7: dad worked at the Dow Chemical plant. But when it
Speaker 7: was just president we will no longer have men competing
Speaker 7: in women's sports, and then it was like.
Speaker 1: Weird he would say this shit, he loses the audience
Speaker 1: and then suddenly come up with some culture war talking point.
Speaker 1: It was little Johnny shit on the prompter? Was that real?
Speaker 1: It's hard to know, dude, It's so hard to know
Speaker 1: what is and is it Like if he's truly being like, hold,
Speaker 1: let me do my shirt really quick, I'll come back
Speaker 1: to the sheet. Met Yeah, I need to riff because
Speaker 1: if I mean the you know, the Hannibal electu thing.
Speaker 1: It felt like he knew he wasn't supposed to say it,
Speaker 1: because like I know, they're gonna, they're gonna, they're not
Speaker 1: gonna like me when I bring this up. But the
Speaker 1: late great head of elector folks, I'm like, that can't
Speaker 1: be you know, three he comes.
Speaker 6: It was also a new speech, like he had just
Speaker 6: given one of his speeches to one of his kids
Speaker 6: to give the old speech, but after he got shot
Speaker 6: at that was supposed to.
Speaker 5: Be the moment.
Speaker 6: He was supposed to just be a different person, and
Speaker 6: so they wrote a whole new speech for him. So
Speaker 6: I want to be surprised if there was just some
Speaker 6: elements of him to sort of discovering the speech because
Speaker 6: he's reading it for the.
Speaker 5: First time a lot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and so he's like, wait a second, maybe that
Speaker 6: was a good time for me to just go on
Speaker 6: this other tangent real quick.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he doesn't do any extra reading. We like that.
Speaker 3: There's been rumors that he can't read. He seems to
Speaker 3: be able to read, but he's not gonna do any
Speaker 3: extra reading. He's trying to read the speech ahead at times.
Speaker 3: Funck that, Yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Mean, I mean, what is he supposed to read it
Speaker 5: when he's in court?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Right, It was wild too, because he when he's
Speaker 1: started off, you could he was going to do some
Speaker 1: emo shit too, because at one point he's like, I'm
Speaker 1: not supposed to be here, folks, I shouldn't be here,
Speaker 1: and so amen. What was that like being at the
Speaker 1: RNC the fucking days after someone tries to take this
Speaker 1: man's life and you're in the building with the most
Speaker 1: fervent supporters of this.
Speaker 6: So, first of all, on the way there, I'm scared.
Speaker 6: I'm terrified, sure, because I'm a member of the press.
Speaker 6: I was there at January sixth. I saw other people
Speaker 6: in the press get beat the fuck up by Trump
Speaker 6: supporters for less. So I'm thinking, oh my god, this
Speaker 6: whole week is gonna be nuts. They've been blaming the left,
Speaker 6: they've been blaming the media. They've been saying that everybody
Speaker 6: who's not Republican is responsible for what happened to Trump.
Speaker 6: So I'm like, really tense. I get there, I put
Speaker 6: my bag on the table for the Secret Service to inspect.
Speaker 5: They like stick a finger through. They're like, good, go ahead,
Speaker 5: and they just like let me through.
Speaker 6: It takes like literally ten seconds to get inside, and
Speaker 6: I'm like, wait, that's not at all I was expecting.
Speaker 6: And then I go all that, yeah, yeah, I'm like,
Speaker 6: I'm expecting dogs. I'm expecting, like, you know, Fort Knox,
Speaker 6: like a giant glass dome around the arena.
Speaker 5: You know. Uh No, everything was really really chill. People
Speaker 5: are smiling.
Speaker 6: It was sort of like a nice, like happy atmosphere,
Speaker 6: and it was easier security than the TSA.
Speaker 5: That I had just gone off I had to get
Speaker 5: when I landed in Milwaukee.
Speaker 6: So I get through, I'm like trying to find some
Speaker 6: delegates to talk to, and everybody is just ecstatic. There's
Speaker 6: they can't wait to talk to the press. They're in
Speaker 6: line to get inside the building. I talked to this
Speaker 6: one delegate from North Carolina. She's got like this southern
Speaker 6: charm about her, and she's sort of like going side
Speaker 6: the side. She's just like can't wait. And so I
Speaker 6: asked her, like, what's your mood today, and she goes, oh,
Speaker 6: this is just the best I've been to like the
Speaker 6: last RNC and this is just gonna be so much better.
Speaker 5: We're so united, this is amazing.
Speaker 6: And I'm asking her so like if you tied any
Speaker 6: conversations with other people, like what's that been like for you?
Speaker 5: And then again she's like, this is the best conversations.
Speaker 6: Everybody here is so nice to be around, to the
Speaker 6: like minded people, and I'm like, great, great, great, so
Speaker 6: about Saturday, remember that, Like how do you feel about that?
Speaker 5: And then it was like something switched in her brond.
Speaker 6: She was like, oh yeah, oh man, that was just
Speaker 6: I can't believe this would happen in this country. Political
Speaker 6: violence should never happen. But you know, the radical left
Speaker 6: has always been like calling him Hitler, and that's the reason.
Speaker 6: And then the next thing that everybody would say when
Speaker 6: I talk to them about what happened about the attempted assassination,
Speaker 6: they would bring it to God.
Speaker 5: They would be like, God saved him. Yeah, Jesus put
Speaker 5: his arms around Trump and put in an armor, like
Speaker 5: a layer of armor around him.
Speaker 1: Gave him your armor.
Speaker 5: And that's what felt different.
Speaker 6: It's like there's always been like this religious element to
Speaker 6: the Trump fan base, to the support, but this time
Speaker 6: it felt like everybody had been validated. But again, this
Speaker 6: is only when I brought up the shooting. Otherwise it
Speaker 6: just wouldn't come up right. You know, everybody was just excited.
Speaker 6: One person said that they felt like they were at Disneyland.
Speaker 1: When I asked them, I was just gonna say, like
Speaker 1: Disney adults being at Disneyland, Like, yeah, we went to
Speaker 1: the character breakfast, We got our pictures and pancakes with
Speaker 1: Matt Gates. It was amazing.
Speaker 6: Matt Gates, by the way, is definitely Daffy Duck, you know,
Speaker 6: Donald Disney.
Speaker 5: It was weird, bro.
Speaker 6: And then when I got to like the Maga celebrities
Speaker 6: I'm talking about like the Jack Posebic and Charlie Kirk,
Speaker 6: because it felt like everybody.
Speaker 5: Was just around. They were just all kind of standing around.
Speaker 6: So we get a chance to just talk to all
Speaker 6: these people who you only ever get to see little
Speaker 6: clips of on Twitter. And so when I would talk
Speaker 6: to them, they were the ones who were more rehearsed,
Speaker 6: and they were saying, like, the Left just took their shot,
Speaker 6: and now we have to like court like basically get
Speaker 6: together and make sure that the Left pace for what
Speaker 6: they did. And I'm like, so, how are you so
Speaker 6: sure sure about this guy's motives?
Speaker 5: And then they would just have.
Speaker 6: Their like their greatest hits of like well, Joe Biden
Speaker 6: just said he wanted to put trumpet bullseye And they've
Speaker 6: been calling a hitler.
Speaker 5: And they've been saying this treason and all this stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but the regular people, the delegates, the people who
Speaker 6: just came from all across the nation, not at the
Speaker 6: tops of their minds, not at all.
Speaker 1: Right, that's so weird, Like you think it was just
Speaker 1: like a self preservation mechanism to not want to acknowledge
Speaker 1: like what it was. Cert Like it's a frightening thing
Speaker 1: to be like, oh man, someone trying to fucking shoot
Speaker 1: this guy? Is that? Like what what do you think
Speaker 1: was like feeding that sort of denial or like not
Speaker 1: wanting to entertain because you feel like my like when
Speaker 1: I said, I was like, bro, these they're going to
Speaker 1: get so turned up over this shit, like it's all
Speaker 1: they're going to talk about. But also in the back
Speaker 1: of my mind is like we're also so numb to
Speaker 1: gun violence. Tragically, I don't and like I don't know
Speaker 1: what it's going to do. So I'm curious. It's like
Speaker 1: what your perspective was on like that lack of I guess,
Speaker 1: enthusiasm to talk about it or bring it up, you know.
Speaker 6: For for me personally, my opinion is that it just
Speaker 6: speaks to the nature of the kind of support that
Speaker 6: Trump has, you know, it's you know, I've.
Speaker 5: Done this too.
Speaker 6: I've like characterized it as being like a sort of
Speaker 6: like mean spirited, angry support where they're all sort of
Speaker 6: coalescing around this idea that like immigrants are ruining everything,
Speaker 6: and the Left they're teaching their kids to like hate
Speaker 6: their parents and all this stuff, right, But actually there's
Speaker 6: just a ton of enthusiasm around this person who's in
Speaker 6: their mind like a famous celebrity has come down from
Speaker 6: the Ivory Castle to come and like shake hands with.
Speaker 5: The normal people.
Speaker 6: One of the things that I said to one of
Speaker 6: my colleagues while we were there was like this, I'm
Speaker 6: so glad that it's at least in like a sports arena.
Speaker 6: This was in the fires or Forum where like the
Speaker 6: Milwaukee Bucks play, and I was thinking, this is so appropriate,
Speaker 6: because this is all just people just coming.
Speaker 5: To see Yannis play. It felt like the same thing.
Speaker 6: They wanted to see their favorite people that they know
Speaker 6: about on TV, who they've only ever experienced through these
Speaker 6: like big sound bites, and they wanted to see them live,
Speaker 6: and they wanted to see them play the greatest hits. Right,
Speaker 6: So imagine like people going to see Disney on ice
Speaker 6: right after Mickey Mouse just got like, you know something
Speaker 6: re assassination. Yeah, it's had the assassination on Mickey Mouse
Speaker 6: and maybe it clipped one of his big round years.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, you going.
Speaker 6: You're gonna ask those little kids like are you like,
Speaker 6: how are you feeling. They're gonna be like, I can't
Speaker 6: believe I'm about to see Mickey Mouse. And that was
Speaker 6: That's the best way to explain the energy.
Speaker 1: It's like Mickey's all right, don't worry, I'm here to
Speaker 1: see Mickey though.
Speaker 6: It's like it's like the policies and everything else comes second.
Speaker 6: The major thing that I think attracts them to the party.
Speaker 5: Is just Trump worship.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So one of another.
Speaker 6: Piece that I did while I was down there was
Speaker 6: trying to talk to as many non white delegates as
Speaker 6: I can, and I spent a lot of time with
Speaker 6: this guy.
Speaker 5: His name is Hilario. He's like this young.
Speaker 6: He's twenty three years old and he's the chairman of
Speaker 6: the Milwaukee County Republican Party, which is just insane.
Speaker 5: He was in high school when COVID hit high school.
Speaker 6: Wow, and now he's like the highest ranking Republican in
Speaker 6: the entire county and the host county and so I
Speaker 6: spent a lot of time with him. He's half Mexican,
Speaker 6: he grew up in this very Latino neighborhood. He has
Speaker 6: a black sister who was adopted. He himself was adopted
Speaker 6: by like a white mom, And so I would ask
Speaker 6: him about like all of these things, like, so do
Speaker 6: you think about the great replacement theory? What do you
Speaker 6: think about Trump saying that migrants are poisoning the blood
Speaker 6: of America. It's like all that stuff came second. It's
Speaker 6: like for him, it's all about identifying with this larger
Speaker 6: group and all the policies they're willing to negotiate on,
Speaker 6: Like they.
Speaker 5: Don't really care.
Speaker 6: I don't in my opinion, they don't really care about
Speaker 6: like trans people in sports, Like that's not really a
Speaker 6: thing that they think about, but they see people talking
Speaker 6: about it, and then they see the comments and then
Speaker 6: they get fed. Well, the left actually thinks that this
Speaker 6: should be encouraged, or they left actually thinks that people
Speaker 6: should be allowed to have abortions after the kids born.
Speaker 6: Like they attacked themselves to that kind of stuff, and
Speaker 6: they put themselves on a position based on that. But
Speaker 6: the primary thing that the reason that they're all there
Speaker 6: is because they're just attracted to this cult of personality.
Speaker 6: They love the celebrityiness of it.
Speaker 5: All right, that's the best way I can explain it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder if they because so far we haven't
Speaker 3: seen the energy around the attempted assassination really steered into
Speaker 3: like it it was like Trump at some level was
Speaker 3: grappling with maybe his feelings of mortality and like this
Speaker 3: idea that he could trying go from here and be
Speaker 3: a uniter. And we've also witnessed him like his body
Speaker 3: rejecting that like in the deep. Like it's honestly like
Speaker 3: when people were like, He's going to be the United
Speaker 3: I was like, he absolutely is not going to go
Speaker 3: in a different dreg because we've seen this before, Like
Speaker 3: we've seen I think there was a State of the
Speaker 3: Union where they were like and this is the Donald Trump,
Speaker 3: like where he is going to be he finally became presidential,
Speaker 3: but that shit just like looked like he looked like
Speaker 3: he was falling asleep when he was doing it because
Speaker 3: he was just reading off a prompter and like watching
Speaker 3: his address to the RNC, you feel like you're watching them,
Speaker 3: you know, like going with your sports metaphor It's like
Speaker 3: they were like, all right, Yannis is left handed now,
Speaker 3: so well, no, no he's not, but he's going to
Speaker 3: try and pretend to be, and it's going to look
Speaker 3: awkward as fuck and it's not. The energy is going
Speaker 3: to be off and weird, and you're going to be
Speaker 3: able to recognize it. So I think he is going
Speaker 3: to recognize that shit pretty quickly, especially you know, as
Speaker 3: soon as they get his med styled in or whatever
Speaker 3: is happening with his energy, and then and then we're
Speaker 3: going to see.
Speaker 1: Like a much more.
Speaker 3: I don't know, violent you know, he's he's already kind
Speaker 3: of doing it. But I feel like they're going to
Speaker 3: take whatever those breaks are that we're like, we can,
Speaker 3: we can be the great Uniters.
Speaker 1: I don't know, well, yeah, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: that strategy was built around running against Joe Biden. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and now that that's not the case. I don't know
Speaker 1: what their playbook looks like or what I mean. It
Speaker 1: just sounds like they're reflexively going into you know, misogyny
Speaker 1: and racism.
Speaker 6: They have to start from scratch, which is kind of interesting.
Speaker 6: It's like I was when all this started, when like
Speaker 6: the talk about replacing Biden started, I was like, how
Speaker 6: are we going to start a whole new campaign from
Speaker 6: scratch on a national level and get people who don't
Speaker 6: necessarily pay attention to politics at the same degree that
Speaker 6: you and I might get them to care about showing
Speaker 6: up on like a Tuesday to vote for somebody who
Speaker 6: they don't really understand or don't really.
Speaker 5: Know who they haven't been hearing about.
Speaker 6: But then I was thinking about, oh, wait, so the
Speaker 6: Trump campaign has to start from scratch, too, so this
Speaker 6: might necessary, that might not necessarily be a bigger deal
Speaker 6: as as some people might think.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I hope not.
Speaker 1: Well right, And like the one thing I tried to
Speaker 1: use as copium as I watched this was like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm like, because this is before Biden dropped out, I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: first of all, this dude is fucking up bad too,
Speaker 1: so who knows they might cancel each other out. But
Speaker 1: the other part was the energy in there. It felt
Speaker 1: like the election was already a foregone conclusion, which I
Speaker 1: was like, that's I look, confidence, you need confidence, But
Speaker 1: like the way that that room was moving and shit,
Speaker 1: it felt like it was already the Wednesday after the election,
Speaker 1: and like every race, like every individual race had been
Speaker 1: called for Trump, and I'm like that feels a bit
Speaker 1: that I don't know if that's a place you want
Speaker 1: to be in just competitively to be so like that.
Speaker 1: But again, that also does help for whatever I'm sure
Speaker 1: violent response they would want the base to have in
Speaker 1: the event that Trump doesn't win, to have as much
Speaker 1: like because that expectation is being set like crazy. They're like,
Speaker 1: when we win, when we win, the only way we
Speaker 1: lose is if they cheat. The only way we lose
Speaker 1: is if they do this. That we're not gonna lose.
Speaker 1: We've won, We're winning. That that having that in the
Speaker 1: subconscious and having that reinforce constantly that I'm like a
Speaker 1: little bit like, oh man, what they're going to try
Speaker 1: and do with the like not letting Biden be replaced
Speaker 1: by Harris and then if Harris wins, you know, being like, well,
Speaker 1: that's not this is a fake election. And she's actually
Speaker 1: literally not by president, She's she's a lizard.
Speaker 3: But I do think, like, I mean, people are falling
Speaker 3: asleep during Trump's speech in the building, like it did
Speaker 3: not go over well with the people, Like, you know,
Speaker 3: various reporters from inside the convention were saying like people
Speaker 3: were starting to leave. You could hear like loud chattering
Speaker 3: on the fringes of the arena. This is like their
Speaker 3: god head figure is like delivering the big speed, probably
Speaker 3: the most hype speech.
Speaker 1: Of his career. And they were like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: this is a skip for me, man, I'm yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I mean.
Speaker 6: The poor guy had to go after Hogan probably should
Speaker 6: have done that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a tough one to follow, especially when he's
Speaker 1: seems like he's on a adderall lull and needs to
Speaker 1: take a little break. Ideah, a lot of checks, too
Speaker 1: many stealing glances wolf splitzers, Yeah, too many splitzers. Ayman,
Speaker 1: were there any other like policy kind of things going
Speaker 1: on that you asked just to try and get the
Speaker 1: take of the magi set, just to kind of see
Speaker 1: where they landed on stuff.
Speaker 6: So I'm always looking for like the other angle that
Speaker 6: nobody else could get. Uh So I sort of sniffed
Speaker 6: out the Muslims as best as I can.
Speaker 5: I see, the first one was easy. The first one
Speaker 5: was easy.
Speaker 6: She was wearing like a full blown headget and I'm
Speaker 6: like awesome. So I got close to her and I
Speaker 6: was like, oh, it's up. She told me who she was.
Speaker 6: Her name is Roland Mecki.
Speaker 5: She's from southern Lebanon, her family from southern Lebanon.
Speaker 6: She's from Michigan, and she was an alternate delegate, but
Speaker 6: she couldn't wait to get inside to like go see
Speaker 6: her hero, Donald Trump. And so I was like asking
Speaker 6: her specifically about Israel, because the day before when I
Speaker 6: was talking to her, it was like all about Israel.
Speaker 5: Essentially.
Speaker 6: There was like three or four different speakers who were
Speaker 6: all just talking about Israel. They're talking about the campus
Speaker 6: protests and how that made Jewish Americans feel unsafe. They
Speaker 6: were talking about American hostages. They were talking about pretty
Speaker 6: much everything you could talk about when it comes to Israel.
Speaker 6: So I was asking her how she felt around all
Speaker 6: of that. Right, there's like a pretty interesting subtext of
Speaker 6: like if you're not if you're not for Israel, you're
Speaker 6: against America essentially essentially. So I was talking hear about
Speaker 6: that she's from so Lebanon. People who don't know so
Speaker 6: the Lebanon was occupied by Israel fur period, and then
Speaker 6: they're now getting bumped to death and it's crazy happening.
Speaker 5: Level right now.
Speaker 1: People displaced right now and so too.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So I asked her. I was like, so, do you
Speaker 6: feel weird about this? And she's like, no, I'm with
Speaker 6: my people. This is what I'm here for. My main
Speaker 6: priority is immigration, My main priority is this is that?
Speaker 6: And then behind her the whole time we're talking is
Speaker 6: this woman wearing a hat that said Jexit. I interviewed
Speaker 6: her later about this, but she said it was for
Speaker 6: like the Jewish Brexit, and she was scowling.
Speaker 5: She was giving her.
Speaker 6: Like this mean, dirty look that's seering into the back
Speaker 6: of her head. Meanwhile she's talking about how happy she
Speaker 6: is and how at home she feels. She feels more
Speaker 6: at home with her public party than the Democratic Party.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but she also had to have like this hush voice.
Speaker 6: She knew that if she were going to be like
Speaker 6: outspoken about being pro Palestine her anti Israel, that she
Speaker 6: might you know, it might start some confrontation. But afterwards,
Speaker 6: when I would talk to the lady who was scowling
Speaker 6: at her, I asked her, how do you feel about
Speaker 6: building the coalition with people who are not explicitly pro Israel?
Speaker 5: And she's like, absolutely not. I don't want them to
Speaker 5: have anything through to.
Speaker 6: The Republican Party. If you're not with Israel, you're not
Speaker 6: with us. And so I did that a few times.
Speaker 6: I talked to Niscantor, who goes now by innis Cantor Freedom.
Speaker 6: He's the Turkish national who lost his citizenship after his
Speaker 6: dad was accused of terrorism. But it was also like,
Speaker 6: has to do with criticizing the Chinese government. Crazy story.
Speaker 6: If you don't know about his story, she definitely look
Speaker 6: it up. But after what happened to him, he became
Speaker 6: like this Fox News regular and now he's eyeing like
Speaker 6: a congressional run, which is really interesting. But he's six
Speaker 6: foot six, so he's huge and he's hard to miss.
Speaker 6: So I was talking to him about being a Muslim
Speaker 6: at the RNC, and then right as soon as that
Speaker 6: interview happened, another guy and he started like thumbing through
Speaker 6: my credentials. He was like putting his hands on my
Speaker 6: cod just trying to see my name, and he's like.
Speaker 5: Oh, you're Muslim, and I'm like yeah. So then we
Speaker 5: start talking about it a little bit.
Speaker 6: But then these other two guys, these delegates from New York,
Speaker 6: came and they were like, oh, so, how do you
Speaker 6: feel about this? How do you feel about that. They
Speaker 6: were also Muslim, so they were sort of engaged with
Speaker 6: the idea, and then afterwards, I oh, the funniest part
Speaker 6: about that whole argument was that they were say, well,
Speaker 6: we're Muslim, but we're here for solutions. We want to
Speaker 6: bring a lasting piece of to the area. And the
Speaker 6: other guy, who was a delegate from Illinois, goes, well,
Speaker 6: we just have to get rid of the Arabs, whether
Speaker 6: or not that means like, wow, like airlifting them out
Speaker 6: or I don't know what that's the only and he's
Speaker 6: talking about Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. And so I asked
Speaker 6: the Muslim guys afterwards, I'm like, so, how do you
Speaker 6: feel about building a coalition with this guy? Like how
Speaker 6: do you feel about being on the same team as
Speaker 6: this guy? And they were saying, well, the same thing.
Speaker 6: We care about our local issues. We want to stop
Speaker 6: the over regulations so we can bring more money into
Speaker 6: our communities. We don't want to be like They also
Speaker 6: had some things to say about like the gay agenda.
Speaker 6: They were like, we don't want to be supporting gay
Speaker 6: people in Pennsylvania when we should be supporting like our
Speaker 6: local New York thing, which is like an interesting way
Speaker 6: to like base your entire support for the Republican Party
Speaker 6: either way. Again, I found that delegate from New York
Speaker 6: from Illinois, and I asked him the same question. I
Speaker 6: asked the j Exit lady, how do you feel about
Speaker 6: building a coalition with people who are explicitly anti Israel. Nope,
Speaker 6: don't want anything to do with them. They shouldn't be there,
Speaker 6: they shouldn't be the Republican Party. So I thought that
Speaker 6: was a really interesting But also neither the j Exit
Speaker 6: person nor the guy from Illinois, neither of them said
Speaker 6: that Israel is their top priority. They just their top
Speaker 6: priorities are immigration for both of them, So even though
Speaker 6: it's not their top priority, they still want nothing to
Speaker 6: do with the Muslims who are not explicitly pro Israel,
Speaker 6: which I thought to be very illuminating, only because I'm
Speaker 6: still trying to understand the nature of the support. I
Speaker 6: know it's like several years into the Trump the Trumpification
Speaker 6: of our politics, but it's still doesn't make sense how
Speaker 6: some people seem to be voting against their interests. It's
Speaker 6: pretty much explicitly, but it still feels very strong, and
Speaker 6: I think it has a lot to do with just
Speaker 6: identity that I've chosen to identify with a certain party,
Speaker 6: and then everything else just sort of becomes soup. Like
Speaker 6: they just need to like mix it, choose like whatever
Speaker 6: flavors they want on the side, advocate for those flavors,
Speaker 6: but they're just willing to be part of the soup.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And that's just I think whenever when.
Speaker 6: It comes to the subject of Palestine, people become so
Speaker 6: passionate and triggered because there's just so many pictures like
Speaker 6: that kids, and even on the Israeli side, there's just
Speaker 6: it becomes so violent and visceral for them. So it's
Speaker 6: just interesting to see the way that some people will
Speaker 6: willing to work with other people.
Speaker 5: Other people just wanted nothing to do with other people.
Speaker 6: And so this could be depending on how Kamala comes
Speaker 6: to this one particular issue, this could become a fracture
Speaker 6: for the Republican Party.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 6: Kamala in the past has said that she wanted to
Speaker 6: see US cease fire, but then she also like caveat
Speaker 6: her on the side.
Speaker 5: She was like, he's fire also, you know.
Speaker 6: The Yeah, I'm curious to see how she comes down
Speaker 6: on the issue, how forceful she is about saving kids
Speaker 6: and giving them medicine and giving them food, and whether
Speaker 6: or not that's going to pull Muslims away or from
Speaker 6: the Republican Party who's been really trying hard to expand
Speaker 6: their tents, or if she just ends up being coming
Speaker 6: down on the issue in the same way that genocide Joe,
Speaker 6: who's been dubbed genocide Joe, as I wonder if that's
Speaker 6: going to push even more people away.
Speaker 1: That's that's like a huge issue that I'm really curious
Speaker 1: to see how that resolves itself, because it's it does
Speaker 1: manifest and like voter support and you know, like they're
Speaker 1: already uncommitted to get delegates that be at the d
Speaker 1: n C that I'm sure we'll be trying as hard
Speaker 1: as possible to get the issue like on the platform
Speaker 1: or at least acknowledge to some extent, because that's that's
Speaker 1: that's where that kind of thing is supposed to happen
Speaker 1: at the convention. But if yeah, well we'll see, we
Speaker 1: don't know what kind of convention it's going to be.
Speaker 1: How hard they try to just not mention it at all,
Speaker 1: you know, well, yeah, I also love that. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: in that recent ICJ ruling, you know, probably Puts makes
Speaker 1: the question more irrelevant with them saying that, like, you know,
Speaker 1: these occupied territories are illegal, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: up to countries like the United States too, you know,
Speaker 1: because it's not a binding decision. But we do need
Speaker 1: you do need this, you do need the pressure from
Speaker 1: the you know, global community to make something happen. And
Speaker 1: will that happen that's big question mark, although you know,
Speaker 1: the probability seem lower than I.
Speaker 6: Have a feeling that come On is just going to
Speaker 6: go on stage and just go coconut Tree anyone and
Speaker 6: then just they get.
Speaker 5: Like the memes to go flow out.
Speaker 1: I hope she doesn't think it's lean into the memes.
Speaker 1: That would be bad. Don't lean into the memes. I
Speaker 1: can't explain more to the meme. Don't lean into the meme. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: be the meme. Be the meme. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back.
Speaker 1: And Miles and I both saw Twisters over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Had to had to Did they give you a magnet
Speaker 1: a car magnet?
Speaker 3: I didn't get a car magnet, neuser.
Speaker 1: I saw it on the Big Imax at UH which
Speaker 1: one at t c O down down, bro. I saw
Speaker 1: it at one where they claimed it was Imax. This
Speaker 1: ship was not. They're claiming ship is Imax. That is
Speaker 1: not Imax. Yeah, I'm like, yo, this this is like
Speaker 1: a big screen.
Speaker 5: But this this is like.
Speaker 1: My I have real Imax screens in the city, right
Speaker 1: or oh right right? Oh, like Howard Hughes Center has one,
Speaker 1: Sidney has one? Anyway, like even the one at the
Speaker 1: Science Center that they claim as Imax is not really Imax.
Speaker 1: But yeah that ain't.
Speaker 3: And I go and I say that loudly throughout, screaming.
Speaker 1: All that Imax. That ain't Imax.
Speaker 3: But okay, so Twister's number one movie at the box
Speaker 3: office actually exceeded expectations. One thing it didn't do miles
Speaker 3: And this was kind of the first thing that my
Speaker 3: friend who I went with brought up to me. Where
Speaker 3: my steamy makeout scene? Where how come how come not
Speaker 3: intention see a lot attention? Yeah, how are they going
Speaker 3: to break the tension.
Speaker 1: Sexual attention between the big main boy character and big
Speaker 1: main girl character And they get together at the end,
Speaker 1: but they don't kiss in a way that was like
Speaker 1: was the spoiler alert?
Speaker 3: Okay, so this is kind of spoiler since the real
Speaker 3: spoiler alert for Twisters.
Speaker 1: Spoiler alert for Twisters. They start a throttle with one
Speaker 1: of the twisters.
Speaker 3: The two leads aren't horribly killed in a tornado, and
Speaker 3: the end of the movie finds them. Finally, it's like,
Speaker 3: go see about that girl, goodwill hunting style, and he
Speaker 3: goes and her flight gets delayed, and then you it
Speaker 3: like in the part where the couple would kiss, they
Speaker 3: do not. Instead we hear that her flight is delayed,
Speaker 3: and then they stride off purposefully somewhere to fuck each other,
Speaker 3: I guess, is what I assumed.
Speaker 1: But also yeah.
Speaker 3: Also it's yeah, it's confused because it also is like
Speaker 3: this airport is about to get hit by twister and
Speaker 3: we need to because that seems to be the pattern.
Speaker 3: Like that's That's the one thing I would say that
Speaker 3: is hard to swallow about a Twister movie, this being
Speaker 3: my first one. As I mentioned last week, I didn't
Speaker 3: see the first Twister, and it's that the bad guy
Speaker 3: is a tornado that seems to be targeting them, particularly
Speaker 3: like following them around just tornadoes keep breaking out like
Speaker 3: wherever they are. It's it's got the jaws for a problem,
Speaker 3: right where it's just like this Twister.
Speaker 1: It's it's weird, but this Twister seems to fucking hate
Speaker 1: you two. It's it's a Twister movie, you know. So
Speaker 1: by then I was like, yeah, that was fine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I expected, you know what I mean? Uh,
Speaker 1: But her Magicy and I talked a lot about the ending.
Speaker 1: Actually I thought it was fine for you know, them
Speaker 1: not to kiss. Yeah, she was like, oh I wish
Speaker 1: they did those they should have or whatever. But we
Speaker 1: both as we laid out our cases as to why
Speaker 1: we felt the same way, we both arrived at who
Speaker 1: gives an actual fuck it would have only been like
Speaker 1: one kiss and like, also we're constantly beat over the
Speaker 1: head with the man and the lady must kiss at
Speaker 1: the end or we don't know if this was a
Speaker 1: movie we just saw.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so why are you guys obsessed with the kissing?
Speaker 5: I don't get it.
Speaker 1: No, the internet, so the apparently there was a tweet
Speaker 1: that came out where they're like up there because there
Speaker 1: was a scene where they clearly someone behind the scenes
Speaker 1: there was a behind the scenes shot of them actually
Speaker 1: kissing in this moment, so a kiss was shot.
Speaker 5: Apparently.
Speaker 1: Then Stephen's apparently Stephen Spielberg. Yeah. According to Daisy Edgar Jones,
Speaker 1: she was like, she said, quote, I think it's a
Speaker 1: Spielberg note, wasn't it as to why the kiss was
Speaker 1: cut out? And people were like, well, what happened to
Speaker 1: the kiss? And yeah, I'm sure like a lot of
Speaker 1: people who are like watching, like and this is where
Speaker 1: they kiss. And then you got like a in its
Speaker 1: sequence and this one for my private collection, right right, yeah,
Speaker 1: this one goes. This one's for me. The best best
Speaker 1: scenes are the people getting absolutely just sucked off by
Speaker 1: the Twisters, as I described it, just repeatedly gone hoovered
Speaker 1: out of here. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I do wish the characters that talked more about you know,
Speaker 3: and just when you watched the love of your life
Speaker 3: get sucked off, sucked off, just twister absolutely sucked off
Speaker 3: underneath that interchange, Yeah, uh yeah.
Speaker 1: Great, great, look perfect. I think again, it did exactly
Speaker 1: what I needed it to do. I was nostalgic for
Speaker 1: like a nineties sort of you know, spectacle movie, and
Speaker 1: it did that. It did that. What did you think
Speaker 1: of the lack of the climate change talk, because like
Speaker 1: I get like when he was saying, it's a reflection
Speaker 1: of the world part of me was like, is he
Speaker 1: using sort of like these people who are a little
Speaker 1: bit thoughtless about how in danger they are, like as
Speaker 1: a reflection as to how we look at the situation,
Speaker 1: or that's just bad plot.
Speaker 3: I think I think it was like it seemed like
Speaker 3: some people were like purposefully referencing it without calling it
Speaker 3: climate change. But it definitely felt like their attempt to
Speaker 3: have it both ways, where someone was like, yeah, and
Speaker 3: it's only getting hotter and the weather's only getting more volatile,
Speaker 3: and but like they couldn't call it climate change because
Speaker 3: then it was going to.
Speaker 1: Go woke, go woke. Yeah, it would have gone broke.
Speaker 1: Who knows what would have happened if they mentioned climate change.
Speaker 1: Would it have reached the heights that it did. I know,
Speaker 1: I think it would have. I think it would have.
Speaker 3: Oh man, a lot of there was a lot of
Speaker 3: like meteorology talk and you know, talk of like weather
Speaker 3: patterns and high pressure systems, and like they they did
Speaker 3: kind of go out of their way to explain all
Speaker 3: these things. So it does feel a little weird that
Speaker 3: they didn't mention climate change at all.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but part of me is like I could
Speaker 1: care less about meteorology. Let me just see a big
Speaker 1: storm suck a whole group of people off. Yeah, suck
Speaker 1: a whole group off. And then I'm describing when people
Speaker 1: get pulled into a tornado. Yes, that wasn't clear enough.
Speaker 6: There's this movie PG because I'm hearing a lot of
Speaker 6: sucking off.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm that's how I describe people who are catastrophic,
Speaker 1: catastrophically taken away by the winds of the tornado, because
Speaker 1: it looks like they're just getting sucked off, sucked off
Speaker 1: beyond they're like, hold on to me, and they're like no,
Speaker 1: and they fly away. But that's my annoying way to
Speaker 1: bother my partner by being someone got sucked off, baby,
Speaker 1: and you stop. You're screaming it out loud at this point, like,
Speaker 1: oh he got sucked off? And man, what a pleasure
Speaker 1: having you on the dailies like our inaugural Monday Morning
Speaker 1: with a guest episode.
Speaker 5: After the DNC so we can cry together.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, it'd be so good. Where can
Speaker 3: people find you? Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 6: It's just spelled A A Y, M A and N
Speaker 6: do O T C O m Aiman dot com pretty
Speaker 6: much on Instagram, Twitter, though I don't use it as
Speaker 6: much as I should, but it's it's on there You'll find.
Speaker 1: Me, there you go. And is there a work of
Speaker 1: media that you've been enjoying.
Speaker 6: I've been watching rewatching Veep just because it's so much
Speaker 6: funnier now to imagine Kamala Harris. They addressed the same,
Speaker 6: they kind of look the same, and it's just the
Speaker 6: every moment when she goes into her secretary and she
Speaker 6: goes to the president call and the secretary says nope,
Speaker 6: and then that's it.
Speaker 1: It just wrings a little bit darker for me, right right,
Speaker 1: right man.
Speaker 5: There's also this.
Speaker 6: Really funny scene right at the very beginning where the
Speaker 6: president gets a heart attack, or she's being told that
Speaker 6: the president gets a heart attack, and there's like this
Speaker 6: glimmer of excitement in her eye and.
Speaker 5: She's like, oh, oh yeah.
Speaker 6: And then she gets pulled to the situation room and
Speaker 6: she's giving these big binders and she has to sign
Speaker 6: all the shit, and then like twenty minutes later, they're like, oh,
Speaker 6: the president just had heartburn. Yeah, Oh, I'm so happy
Speaker 6: that that's so relieved.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one of the great characters of all time.
Speaker 3: Amazing, all right, that is going to do it for
Speaker 3: us on this Monday back tomorrow with a whole aast
Speaker 3: episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other,
Speaker 3: be kind to yourself, get the vaccine, get your flu shots,
Speaker 3: don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
Speaker 3: to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Bite peace,