Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to a special edition of Amy and TJ,
Speaker 1: where we stayed up with probably a lot of you
Speaker 1: all listening to watch the vice presidential debate this evening,
Speaker 1: and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. TJ.
Speaker 1: It was civil. It was substantive. I can't ever say
Speaker 1: that word very well, but they really went into the issues,
Speaker 1: and they actually were respectful of one another, and they
Speaker 1: reserved whatever negativity they had towards the top of the ticket,
Speaker 1: towards their running mates and not towards one another. And
Speaker 1: I was shocked, but in a good way.
Speaker 2: I guess it's unfortunately where we are if we are
Speaker 2: shocked that two people political opponents can be civil and
Speaker 2: decent to each other, which if you all weren't able
Speaker 2: to stay up and watch the entire thing, then that
Speaker 2: is thing number one. I suppose, just to see them
Speaker 2: come out and smile and be pleasant and shake hands
Speaker 2: at the top, even through the moderators off for a second,
Speaker 2: that everybody was on stage in a position when it started.
Speaker 2: They did kind of some introductions, and the two guys,
Speaker 2: not being prompted on their own, they went over and
Speaker 2: shook hands, and it threw the moderators off, they had
Speaker 2: to kind of pause, and even seemed like the director
Speaker 2: of the thing didn't even realize that moment was going
Speaker 2: to happen. Tonally throughout you heard them go back and
Speaker 2: forth a time and say, I agree with you on that.
Speaker 2: I think we're on the same page. I think you're decent.
Speaker 2: I think you also don't want that to happen. It
Speaker 2: was incredible to hear two politicians at this stage do that,
Speaker 2: and I wish we saw more of that day and
Speaker 2: day out.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I even heard one of the media commentators afterwards
Speaker 1: say I wish these two could be running for president.
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of Americans who watched that,
Speaker 1: who listened to it may have thought the same thing,
Speaker 1: because we have not seen this type of political debate
Speaker 1: where you're actually just debating the issues and not lobbing
Speaker 1: attacks at one another's I can't remember the last time
Speaker 1: I've seen something so civil and something so informative.
Speaker 3: Although the attacks were on policy, and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1: Yes, we argue exactly over.
Speaker 2: Points in what you believe and I believe, and they
Speaker 2: reserve those attacks for the folks at the top of
Speaker 2: the ticket. But what we're used to seeing. Are these
Speaker 2: are personal attacks? I don't remember, necessarily, as I sit
Speaker 2: here and remind me, maybe there was no. I don't
Speaker 2: remember a single personal attack. It was even a moment
Speaker 2: where Jadie Vans say, hey, I didn't know your son
Speaker 2: had that experience. When Waltz was talking about his son
Speaker 2: witness of shooting, he sounded sympathetic, He sounded like he had.
Speaker 3: A real human moment with another human being.
Speaker 2: We even saw that moment criticized later by some of
Speaker 2: the commentators in the post debate coverage saying, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's good at putting on and pretending like he's your
Speaker 2: friend and he's nice, and like even that moment.
Speaker 1: Questioning his authenticity because it's almost too hard to believe. Now,
Speaker 1: I'll be interested to see because historically speaking, or at
Speaker 1: least in the past several I believe the data is
Speaker 1: for the past six presidential elections, watching a vice presidential
Speaker 1: debate hasn't really moved the needle at all. They cite
Speaker 1: back to you have to go back to two thousand,
Speaker 1: where there was a one point two percent change with
Speaker 1: Dick Cheney sparring against Joseph Lieberman. That was George Bush
Speaker 1: versus al Gore, but still all the other vice presidential debates,
Speaker 1: there is no noticeable change. But I would say in
Speaker 1: this particular case, it's interesting and it will be interesting
Speaker 1: to see if the polls shift it all because of
Speaker 1: course we're neck and neck right now, too close to
Speaker 1: call between right now former President Trump and Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris. But not many people know JD. Vance,
Speaker 1: Not many people know Tim Wall. So this was really
Speaker 1: an introduction for a lot of voters to meet these
Speaker 1: two men and see where they fall in policy.
Speaker 3: I think vans.
Speaker 2: I think both of them came as advertised in a
Speaker 2: lot of ways, the down home the folks see the
Speaker 2: football coach, the elementary school teacher of in Waltz.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean we got an Ivy.
Speaker 2: League educated, best selling author, a senator from a very
Speaker 2: important state. I mean they both kind of came as advertised.
Speaker 2: And I think Vance and everybody it is not us
Speaker 2: saying this. Vance was sharp. It was not a question
Speaker 2: about it. He was well prepared. He was sharp. You
Speaker 2: see why he's good and people talk about him the
Speaker 2: way they do. He is a sharp debater. He knows
Speaker 2: his policy and he knows how to navigate on this
Speaker 2: type of stage. Waltz, as many has said, didn't have
Speaker 2: enough reps roads leading into the night, and it showed
Speaker 2: he hadn't done enough national interviews and the statement we
Speaker 2: heard is not ready for prime time.
Speaker 3: Quite did.
Speaker 2: He gained his footing later, but he did start off
Speaker 2: on a nervous note.
Speaker 1: He definitely started off on a nervous note. And as
Speaker 1: you point out, jd Vance came out just polished, and
Speaker 1: in fact, it's interesting not only watching the debate and
Speaker 1: watching different networks cover the debate. One of the only
Speaker 1: arguments or negative common that you could even hear some
Speaker 1: journalists who tend to be left leaning. The only argument
Speaker 1: they made against Jadevance was that he was quote unquote
Speaker 1: too polished. I don't know that that's a thing, but
Speaker 1: that's as bad of a lob as they could throw
Speaker 1: against him. Now we also know President Trump, by the way,
Speaker 1: if you weren't paying attention, was involved in social media
Speaker 1: throughout much of in fact, throughout the entire debate, and
Speaker 1: he was debating sometimes furiously, sometimes two times in one minute,
Speaker 1: and he was not tonally in line with his vice
Speaker 1: presidential candidate. He threw the lobs out and he went
Speaker 1: hard against Tim Waltz. He was calling him tampon Tim
Speaker 1: pretty much throughout the entire social media tirade that he
Speaker 1: put out for everyone to see. And he was basically
Speaker 1: calling Tim Waltz, a nickname that a lot of right
Speaker 1: wing critics have been using for the past several months,
Speaker 1: basically attacking him on his administration's policy at providing free
Speaker 1: menstrual products in all school bathrooms. I don't know how
Speaker 1: that's going to sit with any undecided voters, certainly with
Speaker 1: any undecided female voters. But he went with that and
Speaker 1: kept on it throughout the night.
Speaker 3: But these were adults.
Speaker 2: A lot of people argue that that Kamala Harris gave
Speaker 2: people of an option a third option so they could
Speaker 2: get away from the two options they didn't want. A
Speaker 2: lot of people didn't want Trump, a lot of people
Speaker 2: didn't want Biden. And it seemed like we had a
Speaker 2: capable adult in the room. We saw on stage tonight,
Speaker 2: two capable dudes. They seem like adults in the room. Look,
Speaker 2: this is not and were robes And I are not
Speaker 2: here to argue policy or break down and do all
Speaker 2: the fact checking. You have plenty of pundits in everybody
Speaker 2: on TV that'll do that, but as viewers, as journalists,
Speaker 2: as observers, and as folks who've covered a lot of
Speaker 2: this stuff, this was one of the more substantive debates
Speaker 2: you will see. They got into some good policy discussions,
Speaker 2: certainly on healthcare, about the Middle East, what we're seeing
Speaker 2: right now with Housabala Aaran and Israel. It was a
Speaker 2: good debate, and gun control question came up. That was
Speaker 2: a good debate about family and abortion. You can disagree
Speaker 2: with what some of them saying and say this guy
Speaker 2: is lying, but it's still it was a respectful, tonally respectful,
Speaker 2: and healthy debate.
Speaker 3: I'm okay with what we saw.
Speaker 1: Tonight exactly and not in addition to some of the
Speaker 1: topics that they discussed things that really matter to American voters.
Speaker 1: They talked about immigration, border patrol, they talked about affordable housing,
Speaker 1: affordable prescription drugs, tax credits. And one of the things
Speaker 1: that was interesting to me, obviously we've been talking about
Speaker 1: Hurricane Helene and the unbelievable devastation, deadly devastation in the southeast.
Speaker 1: But the second question I was a little surprised in
Speaker 1: the debate was on climate change, and it actually got
Speaker 1: quite a lot of time compared to some of the
Speaker 1: other other topics or subjects that they covered. But they
Speaker 1: really went into that, which was a little surprising to me.
Speaker 3: I was about to say, what did you think about that?
Speaker 3: In it?
Speaker 2: I guess that's the I don't know if an opinion
Speaker 2: on whether or not that should be why not? It's
Speaker 2: a very important topic to a lot of people. Maybe
Speaker 2: not at the top of the list for a lot
Speaker 2: of folks, but it's certainly an important question.
Speaker 3: I guess why not? I see a lot of people
Speaker 3: are applauding.
Speaker 1: That it was at high up yep and jd Vance.
Speaker 1: You know, we know that we've heard former President Trump
Speaker 1: talk about climate change as being a hoax. Jd Vance
Speaker 1: did not take that line. So we did see some
Speaker 1: moments where Jadie Vance and Donald Trump don't necessarily see
Speaker 1: eye to eye, But he was very I thought he
Speaker 1: Both men did a very good job explaining their stances
Speaker 1: on how they feel about climate change and how it's
Speaker 1: contributed to some of the devastating weather events we've seen
Speaker 1: in recent years.
Speaker 2: There were a few moments that will stand out. You're
Speaker 2: probably gonna see repeated I guess one. I guess the
Speaker 2: moment of the night didn't come to the end of
Speaker 2: the night, and I guess this would have been probably
Speaker 2: viewed as an overwhelming victory, if you will, for JD.
Speaker 2: Vans had it not been for this. It's like he
Speaker 2: had waltz on the ropes all night and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden walts in the eleventh and twelfth round.
Speaker 2: It starts throwing haymakers. But he asked a direct question
Speaker 2: to JD. Vance if you believe Donald Trump lost the election,
Speaker 2: and he wouldn't give him a straight answer. I was
Speaker 2: very surprised he wasn't better prepared to give something because
Speaker 2: that sounds that's a direct something we're four years now
Speaker 2: removed from that. Did he lose the election? And your
Speaker 2: answer to this day still can be well, yeah, the
Speaker 2: voters spoken, here we are something he just said. He
Speaker 2: gave an answer like a kid would give on a playground,
Speaker 2: and an argument, well, I know you are, but one
Speaker 2: of mine.
Speaker 1: He said, well, you're not talking about censorship. So he
Speaker 1: just completely and he hadn't done that all night. He
Speaker 1: actually if he did go off and decided to say
Speaker 1: what he wanted to say, which he did, in all
Speaker 1: politicians do this, but he always redirected what he was
Speaker 1: saying back to answer specifically the question that was asked
Speaker 1: of him, which I appreciated as a journalist and I
Speaker 1: think a lot of listeners and voters appreciate because we
Speaker 1: don't usually get that from politicians. And we saw both
Speaker 1: men directly answering questions except for that one moment, and
Speaker 1: it stood out. It was stark, and it was disappointing, frankly,
Speaker 1: because whatever his opinion is, I think all of us
Speaker 1: deserve to know what it was. And he refused to
Speaker 1: give it. And that was definitely a problem and a
Speaker 1: low moment and one of the very rare and perhaps
Speaker 1: one of the only bad moments for JdE Bans was
Speaker 1: when he chose not to answer that question, and that
Speaker 1: was certainly deliberate.
Speaker 2: The other substance of thing that people were scratching their
Speaker 2: heads about is that he was making the argument that
Speaker 2: President Trump was the one and who in fact saved Obamacare.
Speaker 3: Yes, a lot of people say that's absurd.
Speaker 2: He was trying to make a connection and a point
Speaker 2: to how Trump was in there and decided, well, we
Speaker 2: can't gut it. He tried to gut the thing and
Speaker 2: didn't get it done. So now he tried to make
Speaker 2: some improvements to it or at least make it soluble.
Speaker 1: He promised he ran on abolishing it, and then now
Speaker 1: Jade Vance wants to give him credit for saving it.
Speaker 2: So he couldn't do that thing, so now he's trying
Speaker 2: to say he saved it. A lot of people call
Speaker 2: bs on that he's trying to make that argument. So
Speaker 2: those are two things at least where substantively a lot
Speaker 2: of people argue jd Vance didn't have an argument to
Speaker 2: stand up now.
Speaker 1: Of course, Governor Tim Waltz had a couple of really
Speaker 1: tough moments as well, and the one that I think
Speaker 1: most people will remember was his answer on whether or
Speaker 1: not he was present as he had previously stated multiple
Speaker 1: times at Tianneman Square. Eventually he had to acknowledge that
Speaker 1: he misspoke and he actually quoted he said, I'm a knucklehead,
Speaker 1: which you know that is going to be used at
Speaker 1: nauseum and Trump advertisements to come, and there will be
Speaker 1: something else that he said that will be used at nauseum,
Speaker 1: because we already saw Trump talking about this on social media.
Speaker 1: Of course, the other moment for Governor Waltz was a
Speaker 1: tough one. When he was talking about school shooters. He
Speaker 1: said he misspoke. He I don't even know if he
Speaker 1: realized he said it. I don't think he knew he
Speaker 1: said it. We've all done this before when speaking in
Speaker 1: front of a live audience. I know I have. But
Speaker 1: he said, I am friends with school shooters.
Speaker 2: He was trying to make the argument of how his
Speaker 2: position had changed on something because actually he changed his
Speaker 2: position on gun control on some gun control legislation because
Speaker 2: he had met with the families and become friends with
Speaker 2: the families who had people who had died in school shootings.
Speaker 2: Is what he was trying to say.
Speaker 1: And it came out, I've become friends with school shooters,
Speaker 1: and it just.
Speaker 3: Went crazy on Twitter. That isn't honest. Just misspoke.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a stupid he didn't mix up policy, he
Speaker 2: didn't stutter, he just he just that just happened.
Speaker 1: And former President Trump's already posted that video clip and
Speaker 1: yes and memes featuring that remark and he and he
Speaker 1: did it throughout the evening. So if you missed it
Speaker 1: on the actual debate itself, it's probably everywhere on social media.
Speaker 1: As we speak this and so.
Speaker 2: But that Tienamant Square moment was that was tough. It
Speaker 2: was tough to listen to his answer when he there
Speaker 2: was a discrepancy. He said he was somewhere, and now
Speaker 2: it's been proven that he was not there. Tenaman Square
Speaker 2: doing during that those those famous moments, he started his
Speaker 2: answer talking about, well, I grew up in a town
Speaker 2: with four hundred people, you know, the kind of places.
Speaker 3: We just ride your bike around.
Speaker 1: What yes? Is?
Speaker 3: What you really did say that out loud?
Speaker 1: What it's It's one of these. Both of the men,
Speaker 1: when asked a direct question, instead of just giving a
Speaker 1: direct answer and then going into explaining yourself, which would
Speaker 1: be far more preferable, they start with some explanation that
Speaker 1: you even forget what the question was that was being
Speaker 1: asked of them. It's almost to distract and to deflect.
Speaker 1: But at the end you still know you haven't answered
Speaker 1: the question. So when I believe it was Margaret Brennan
Speaker 1: who redirected, said but still you haven't really said whether
Speaker 1: or not you were there or not, you know, were
Speaker 1: you there? Then he had to directly say I misspoke.
Speaker 1: I'm a knucklehead. But he wouldn't give the answer initially,
Speaker 1: and that's always problematic when you're listening to you just
Speaker 1: you always say, why can't you just start with I misspoke,
Speaker 1: I was wrong, I apologize and then explain you can
Speaker 1: talk about your childhood and how I grew up and
Speaker 1: how people know you. There he was trying to make
Speaker 1: that connection that people know he's not a bad person,
Speaker 1: or that he's not a liar or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: It did not land. That's a good way to put it.
Speaker 3: It was clear.
Speaker 2: The theme for advance for the night was and he
Speaker 2: repeated this, I mean tons of times throughout the night,
Speaker 2: was just, Hey, you keep talking about what you're gonna do.
Speaker 2: What you're gonna do on day one you've had he
Speaker 2: had an exact number of days that they've been in office, Like,
Speaker 2: why haven't you done all this stuff in this days
Speaker 2: in office?
Speaker 3: What are you talking about? Day one? You're gonna do? What?
Speaker 2: Why haven't you done her already? Go do it now
Speaker 2: you're in office right now. That was a theme and
Speaker 2: he really really drove that point home to the voters.
Speaker 3: And it's a decent one to make.
Speaker 1: What did you think TJ about Nora O'Donnell and Margaret
Speaker 1: Brennan not fact checking. Now, they did a couple of times,
Speaker 1: but they went into it saying they weren't going to
Speaker 1: and that wasn't the plan, and allowing the candidates to
Speaker 1: fact check one another. I didn't mind how it went.
Speaker 1: How did you feel about it?
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 2: I thought it was unfortun I mean, it's a tough
Speaker 2: It's almost an impossible job to be honest. I always
Speaker 2: say it's an impossible job doing a presidential vice presidential
Speaker 2: debate at this stage. The problem is that they made
Speaker 2: a point early on to say we're going to stay
Speaker 2: out of it. Fine, you questioned that, Let's see how
Speaker 2: that's going to go. He put a QR code up
Speaker 2: you can check. You can click on it yourself and
Speaker 2: then go to a fact checking website. That's fine, they
Speaker 2: made the point. But when so many people all just
Speaker 2: looking for ways to criticize the media as left leaning.
Speaker 2: The first two times they broke that rule, it was
Speaker 2: to fact check.
Speaker 3: Jd Vance correct. That's a problem.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just even if they had a legitimate
Speaker 2: are you no, you said you were.
Speaker 1: He said you were going to.
Speaker 3: Why are you going after that guy?
Speaker 1: Let Governor Waltz do it as you said you would, yes,
Speaker 1: and Trump was one of the first things he put
Speaker 1: out on social media. Margaret Brennan just fact check JD
Speaker 1: incorrectly on climate change. When is she going to fact
Speaker 1: check tampon Tim on all of his false statements. Another
Speaker 1: repeat with the fake news being unfair to the Republican
Speaker 1: candidate and trying to get the pathetic democrat across the
Speaker 1: finish line. Unfortunately, when those things happened.
Speaker 3: We deserve that criticism.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we asked for that one. I agree with
Speaker 1: that completely and it was that is a tough part
Speaker 1: to watch. But in terms of what they didn't talk about,
Speaker 1: there were a lot of discussions about the topics that
Speaker 1: were chosen, and never once was Ukraine mentioned, NATO mentioned,
Speaker 1: Afghanistan mentioned, And of course they started out with foreign
Speaker 1: policy at the beginning, but they didn't hold either candidate
Speaker 1: really to get specific about what they would do, how
Speaker 1: they would handle Israel, Iran, all of that. It was
Speaker 1: really left unopen ended and there were no follow ups.
Speaker 1: And some people have criticized that because clearly the tensions
Speaker 1: in the situation we're in right now, this is a huge,
Speaker 1: huge global issue that's going to have far reaching effects
Speaker 1: here in this country, and how and who is leading
Speaker 1: our country in these troubled times is important. So a
Speaker 1: lot of people feel like that was a mist a
Speaker 1: very big missed topic.
Speaker 2: You and I have been talking about it on our
Speaker 2: daily I mean we've been talking about it all for
Speaker 2: the past five days. The Longshortman strike. I was very
Speaker 2: surprised that didn't come up. I mean that strike literally, it's.
Speaker 1: Going to be huge.
Speaker 2: It started on the day of the debate, yes, and
Speaker 2: it didn't come up at all. That was a bit
Speaker 2: of a surprise, certainly, a big economic story like that.
Speaker 3: So that was the one that kind of surprised me.
Speaker 2: But I it's the moderators are going to be talked
Speaker 2: about a lot. They're already being talked about a lot.
Speaker 2: They were being talked about a lot during.
Speaker 3: The the debate. It's it's we say it all the time.
Speaker 2: That an impossible job, but these there was an opportunity
Speaker 2: here for CBS News, an opportunity here. I was excited
Speaker 2: to see them take a hands off approach. I thought
Speaker 2: it would be difficult. We talked about it like, as
Speaker 2: a journalist, you hear something is wrong, you call somebody
Speaker 2: on it. So I know that's difficult to sit on it,
Speaker 2: but there was even a moment tonight robes and it's
Speaker 2: hard to and I hate to to criticize folks who
Speaker 2: are sitting in that position, but there was. It didn't
Speaker 2: come off well. At one point when JD Vans, when
Speaker 2: he being fact checked, he said, wait a second, y'all said,
Speaker 2: he interrupted. They tried to move on. He said, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: y'all said, the rules are, but now you're fact checking me,
Speaker 2: so let me get in here.
Speaker 3: And he spoke up and it was.
Speaker 2: Talking about the CBP one application having to do with
Speaker 2: immigration and the Haitians and gave his answer.
Speaker 4: Her response to him it was it sounded sarcastic. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that it didn't That moment didn't come off well. She
Speaker 4: essentially okay, yeah, thank you for explaining the legal process
Speaker 4: to it.
Speaker 3: It didn't come off well.
Speaker 1: She did say thank you so much for describing that
Speaker 1: legal process to JD. Vance, And it did come off
Speaker 1: as sarcastic, and again, more to that point than it
Speaker 1: seemed as though it was a job against Jade Vance.
Speaker 1: And regardless of how you feel about what he was
Speaker 1: saying or his policy or his politics on immigration, I
Speaker 1: know you E weren like, good for you. Good for you,
Speaker 1: because if you're going to fact check me. He really
Speaker 1: pushed his way through and made sure that he was
Speaker 1: able to basically fact check himself in that sense, or
Speaker 1: at least have a rebuttal to their fact check. So
Speaker 1: that was interesting. I also I liked that their mics
Speaker 1: weren't cut off. I mean, they did cut them off
Speaker 1: at one point when they wanted to move on, but
Speaker 1: other than and that was that was an awkward moment,
Speaker 1: and I don't know that I agreed with that choice
Speaker 1: because I truly appreciated watching them go back and forth
Speaker 1: because it wasn't mean spirited, it wasn't childish. It actually
Speaker 1: was interesting and informative, and I wanted more of that.
Speaker 1: So I I wish they hadn't cut the mics off
Speaker 1: in that moment, But the rest of the debate I
Speaker 1: really liked the mics.
Speaker 2: On to your point, it's weird you have to have
Speaker 2: different rules with different candidates. If you'd have left the
Speaker 2: mics up for others possibly who were debate that weren't
Speaker 2: those two guys, maybe it wouldn't have gone that way.
Speaker 2: But they were even with the mics up, even when
Speaker 2: they jumped in. It seemed like a back and forth,
Speaker 2: whether just rather than just an interruption or a rude interruption.
Speaker 2: It seemed like it was a part of legitimate back
Speaker 2: and forth and debate, and sometimes you talk over each other.
Speaker 2: It was respectful, I thought.
Speaker 1: I mean, I so personally, I would like that to
Speaker 1: be the case for even the presidential debates, because don't
Speaker 1: I want to see how the leader who I'm going
Speaker 1: to choose to represent me in our country, how they
Speaker 1: handled tense moments, how they handled difficult conversations, how they
Speaker 1: handled being attacked or being insulted. This could be a
Speaker 1: conversation with a foreign leader. I want to see how
Speaker 1: they handle themselves under pressure, when they're maybe even under attack.
Speaker 1: So I would appreciate the mics being up because I
Speaker 1: think that's an important part of who we're voting for
Speaker 1: and who were putting in this office, is their temperament
Speaker 1: and their reactions and how they treat other people when
Speaker 1: they're angry or when they're being accused of something. So anyway,
Speaker 1: I really appreciated seeing these two men debate, and I
Speaker 1: appreciated their mics being left on most of the time.
Speaker 2: But to your point, when they did cut the mics.
Speaker 2: It seemed like there was a time when Jade Vans
Speaker 2: was trying to make a point and they wanted to
Speaker 2: shut him down again. It's just I hate will already
Speaker 2: going into it. The moderators are at a disadvantage because
Speaker 2: people are looking at the left leaning media and there's
Speaker 2: going to be biased, and you just you have feed
Speaker 2: it by doing what they did. I thought it was
Speaker 2: a good idea. Fine, we're not going to referee it,
Speaker 2: We're just going to give you the questions and step
Speaker 2: out of the way, and almost immediately they didn't do that.
Speaker 1: It was It was also interesting because I was so
Speaker 1: into the debate and listening to what these men had
Speaker 1: to say, because they were actually saying things I wanted
Speaker 1: to listen to. I never once did the QR code
Speaker 1: with my phone, and I don't know if anyone else did.
Speaker 1: I wish I had, but honestly, I was so into
Speaker 1: the debate I wasn't even thinking about doing it. But
Speaker 1: perhaps that could have been a useful source of information
Speaker 1: as I was watching it. But that's tough. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not good at multitasking, so if I'm listening, it's
Speaker 1: really hard for me to do the QR code and
Speaker 1: then start reading, and then I wouldn't be listening to
Speaker 1: what they were saying. That's the only problem with the
Speaker 1: QR code for me is that it's just hard to
Speaker 1: do in real time.
Speaker 2: It was an interesting it was an engaging and it
Speaker 2: wasn't a nasty debate. I appreciated it, and we're not
Speaker 2: going to get another one for four years now because
Speaker 2: this is essentially the only last debate of the campaign season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got one presidential debate and one vice presidential debate, and.
Speaker 3: Most we got two presidential debates. Oh you're right, Oh wow, yeah,
Speaker 3: different democratic.
Speaker 1: The other one is probably best forgotten for most, but no,
Speaker 1: it was one that will go down in the history
Speaker 1: books forever. So I stand corrected, TJ. You're right. We
Speaker 1: had two presidential debates and one vice presidential debate, and
Speaker 1: we now have how many days thirty something days to
Speaker 1: decide who will be the next president and vice president
Speaker 1: of the United States. I hope that tonight's debate, if
Speaker 1: anyone is undecided or is on the fence, that maybe
Speaker 1: this gave them the information they needed to make the
Speaker 1: best choice for themselves.
Speaker 2: And folks, this was said at the end of debate,
Speaker 2: at close to the end of the bay. We've got
Speaker 2: to shake hands at the end, and he'll have my prayers,
Speaker 2: best wishes, and my help whenever he needs it. That
Speaker 2: I'm not even gonna tell you who said it, because
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. They said this on stage tonight, So
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if the Democrat said or the Republican
Speaker 2: said it. That that was the tone that was on
Speaker 2: stage tonight that I appreciate it the folk. If you
Speaker 2: look at these two guys, you can't just start with okay,
Speaker 2: they're decent dudes. I disagree with his policy. I strongly
Speaker 2: disagree with his policy. I really hate that policy. That's okay,
Speaker 2: But if we just start with that foundation that these
Speaker 2: guys seem to start with, it's a decent man across
Speaker 2: the stage from me, it seemed like they at least
Speaker 2: started with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, maybe it's something to it. I
Speaker 1: don't know that both of these men haven't been in
Speaker 1: the national spotlight for very long. They've done they've been
Speaker 1: local leaders and local politicians. But these two are fairly
Speaker 1: I think it's fair to they're newcomers to the national
Speaker 1: political stage in a lot of ways. Most people don't
Speaker 1: know them, and it gives me a little bit of
Speaker 1: hope that maybe the future isn't what the recent past
Speaker 1: has been in terms of political debate. And I just
Speaker 1: feel like if I saw these two men, I feel
Speaker 1: like they could actually potentially get a bill passed together,
Speaker 1: you know, something that we don't usually see in Congress.
Speaker 1: So I just felt a little hopeful at the end
Speaker 1: of this debate, and I hope many of you did too.
Speaker 1: I feel better today than I did yesterday.
Speaker 2: You didn't say that at the end of the last
Speaker 2: two Well what a night, folks. So we always appreciate
Speaker 2: you spending a little time with us here on Amy
Speaker 2: and TJ. But for now, TJ Holme sitting across from
Speaker 2: Amy Robot. What time is it here? Almost midnight?
Speaker 3: It's almost midnight as we record this thing.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get a couple hours of sleep and
Speaker 1: we'll see y'all. If you want to join us on
Speaker 1: the morning run, we'll be up for that as well
Speaker 1: tomorrow
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