Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: My guest tonight is a four time Olympic gold medalist,
Speaker 2: a three time w NBA MVP, a motivational speaker, a relator,
Speaker 2: and one of the greatest basketball players of all time.
Speaker 1: Giving up for my homegirl, he's a level. That's right.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: You deserve all of that, girl world.
Speaker 1: You know what I got what.
Speaker 4: That's my die right there.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 4: Get you a path.
Speaker 5: She got her own shoe, She got her own shoe.
Speaker 1: Giving up. There's a dogs, there's a lease, a lesson.
Speaker 3: Thanks to Nike twenty fifth anniversary of the WNBA and
Speaker 3: they came out with the dunk.
Speaker 6: So yeah, first of all, how about it's just so
Speaker 6: cool to have you in front of me right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, Leslie.
Speaker 3: Wait, can I just stop your show for a second,
Speaker 3: because your book is amazing?
Speaker 1: Thank you so much amazing.
Speaker 3: I don't know I people, if you haven't got it,
Speaker 3: get it.
Speaker 1: Listen to it.
Speaker 4: I'm on chapter six.
Speaker 3: I've been laughing, crying, laughing again, crying. But it's amazing,
Speaker 3: amazing how.
Speaker 1: Much I laughed and cried a lot too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 6: Like we're both from the same area, right, Like we
Speaker 6: both played ball in LA. I don't think I was
Speaker 6: as good as you. I definitely, I definitely know I
Speaker 6: was not as.
Speaker 1: Good as you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that too.
Speaker 3: But it's okay because you playing ball and you went
Speaker 3: to college playing ball. That's awesome.
Speaker 6: Look, I thought I played you in high school. Remember
Speaker 6: when we first met. I was like, I played against you.
Speaker 6: Remember we almost got into a fight and you was like, girl, No, I.
Speaker 1: Did have a few fights.
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 3: I would say my alter ego is probably your persona
Speaker 3: as a comedian.
Speaker 4: So it's like.
Speaker 3: I'm very calm and collected off the court, but on
Speaker 3: the court, my game is like how you.
Speaker 1: Talk exactly what exactly? You don't want to see me?
Speaker 1: What we tell them, don't come.
Speaker 4: In out house exactly.
Speaker 6: So if we played ball like at our best, me
Speaker 6: at my best, you at your best, who you think
Speaker 6: would have one?
Speaker 3: No, that's not a big car. That's not a good
Speaker 3: question you want to do over because me at my
Speaker 3: best is the best.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I just don't let you know. I
Speaker 1: would have filed you. Oh yeah, for sure on you.
Speaker 3: But just know I was the kind of player that
Speaker 3: I just match whatever energy you come so if you
Speaker 3: want to fight, we can fight. If you want to
Speaker 3: play nice, we can play nice. Like I really believe
Speaker 3: in that too.
Speaker 1: But I love you though.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's amazing though, right because we got a chance to
Speaker 3: be like so fierce and the play a sport that
Speaker 3: we loved. Yes, And for me, it was really about
Speaker 3: the next generation. You know, we didn't get as much
Speaker 3: spotlight as a young women get now, especially in the WNBA,
Speaker 3: but having that opportunity in that platform to be a
Speaker 3: role model for the next generation, that's all I kept
Speaker 3: thinking about, is those little girls out there who are
Speaker 3: going to see me, who want to.
Speaker 4: Be like me.
Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, that was it.
Speaker 4: Let's stick it all.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because it was so crazy when I was coming up.
Speaker 1: We didn't have the wnbaby.
Speaker 6: You know, we can go over the CC play and
Speaker 6: just to see it form and you, just like I said,
Speaker 6: made it look good and looked good doing it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: They called you Hollywood and because you knew how to dress.
Speaker 6: This is the question I have. We're both tall. Well,
Speaker 6: how hard was it for you to find clothes?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: The worst. All my clothes were men's clothes. First off,
Speaker 3: it was like a men's blazer. My mom would like,
Speaker 3: get it tailored. I wore a men's jean I had
Speaker 3: to get you know, I were like a back then.
Speaker 3: I only wear like a two or four or right,
Speaker 3: I an eight now. But it's like it was tough
Speaker 3: because everything had to be altered for me. But I
Speaker 3: had to buy men's clothes. But then I wear like
Speaker 3: v Nex shirts Mike. When I look back at those
Speaker 3: outfits before I started to making.
Speaker 4: Money, it was tough.
Speaker 3: But I always had a feminine nature, and I feel
Speaker 3: like my mom would always teach me to just be
Speaker 3: true to myself. Everybody else is taken right, so you
Speaker 3: have to show up. I started playing basketball late at twelve,
Speaker 3: so I was really into fashion and etiquette and wanting
Speaker 3: to be a model. That was my thing. But basketball
Speaker 3: just came and it was like this is my way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how did you become so good?
Speaker 1: Like was it coaching or was you already.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, thank you, you know it was my it's
Speaker 3: my work ethic.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: First off, I'm very competitive now, I mean I'm like Space, Domino's, Pictionary.
Speaker 4: Whatever it is. I'm trying to win. Like it's not
Speaker 4: fun for you. Don't come to my house. If you're
Speaker 4: not ready to compete.
Speaker 3: Like people that say, like, oh no, it's not that serious.
Speaker 3: Oh no, you probably don't want to come over here.
Speaker 3: Don't come over here. I don't want to take the
Speaker 3: fun out of it for you. So I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: sit it out. But if I'm playing, I'm coming to win.
Speaker 6: Oh I will curse you out if you're my partners spade.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, don't renig, don't get up from the table.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, don't renig. Did you see that joke? Did
Speaker 3: you see me lead with the diamond? That's because only
Speaker 3: got one.
Speaker 1: You were nigged.
Speaker 6: You never invited back to mind, don't come back.
Speaker 3: People might not know renig means to play a book.
Speaker 3: That is, either you do have another in that suit,
Speaker 3: or you're not paying attention to the game if you
Speaker 3: don't realize what that is.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: Competition is my thing, though, so I've always loved being competitive.
Speaker 3: But fashion is something that I liked. I couldn't afford
Speaker 3: to do at a high level. But I just feel
Speaker 3: like when you have style, style is important to me.
Speaker 3: And some time I look at some of the videos,
Speaker 3: I'm like, girlfriend, that was not it?
Speaker 6: Yeah, because I don't think I've had style until I
Speaker 6: got a stylist, and that's like two weeks ago, until
Speaker 6: Brian started addressing me child he saw my closet when
Speaker 6: he first met me, he was like, oh oh, oh, oh,
Speaker 6: you know it's yeah because it's buying.
Speaker 1: Stuff that fit.
Speaker 6: And New York and Company was the only place they
Speaker 6: don't know they had jeans and stuff that was I'm sorry,
Speaker 6: so yeah, yeah it was.
Speaker 1: But they was like, you know, not the ship on them.
Speaker 1: I want to shop on New York.
Speaker 3: But New York Company now they did Gabrielle Union was
Speaker 3: like they came around.
Speaker 6: They got their thing together, but first it was kind
Speaker 6: of silky. But I still like they jeans because they
Speaker 6: jeans was long enough them and tall girls.
Speaker 1: You remember long y'all.
Speaker 6: Yes, y'all, y'all don't know the Trump is of a
Speaker 6: tall with the big feet.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh my god.
Speaker 6: No, pay Let's started doing the pay Less they started
Speaker 6: doing big shoes.
Speaker 3: You went way back pay Less, Yes, I did pay
Speaker 3: Less nor no Rack.
Speaker 4: Nor pay Less was the first ones, like you.
Speaker 6: Could get a park nor you could get like a
Speaker 6: size fourteen at.
Speaker 4: Payless came out before nursing rat Rack came out.
Speaker 6: Well, pay that's was out, but they wasn't doing big
Speaker 6: shoes like Norse rack B. We'll talk about it, I'm
Speaker 6: telling you. So let me ask you a question. Okay,
Speaker 6: so would you sorry is this that's watery?
Speaker 1: That's actually how I call Would you like when the
Speaker 1: NBA w NBA started?
Speaker 6: I know it was pretty exciting, but would you like
Speaker 6: to play the w n B A when it first
Speaker 6: started the w n B A.
Speaker 3: Now, well, that's a great question. First off, I started
Speaker 3: in the beginning, so I was one of the faces
Speaker 3: of the WNBA. But if I play now, I would
Speaker 3: have made so much more money because I was into
Speaker 3: fashion and you know, skincare, haircare, being a role model, deoderant, anything,
Speaker 3: te toothpaste for teeth.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, it's not too late.
Speaker 3: Folks can get y'all because they can croun me. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I think I would have had a more lucrative outcome
Speaker 3: if I play now, and I still have been blocking
Speaker 3: shots like you know, Asia would been Asian.
Speaker 4: Would have been going at Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I love Asia.
Speaker 4: I love her now because you dunked, Yes.
Speaker 1: You dumped.
Speaker 6: And I'm gonna ask you a question because see, I
Speaker 6: know a lot of men ask you this, because you
Speaker 6: know men love to ask dumb ass questions.
Speaker 1: But I know a lot of men have asked.
Speaker 6: You, like, hey, should we lower the rim so y'all
Speaker 6: can dunk more and it could be more excited.
Speaker 1: What's your answer to that?
Speaker 3: Shut the Oh no, my answer is no. I think
Speaker 3: the game is amazing. If anybody has watched the WNBA,
Speaker 3: you already know these ladies are playing at such a
Speaker 3: high level. It's like blurred lines with the men and
Speaker 3: the women. Yes, the dunk is amazing. Yes, more women
Speaker 3: have dunked, But I wouldn't change anything about our game.
Speaker 3: The product is phenomenal. Even college women's basketball is phenomenal.
Speaker 3: Can't wait for any Joel Reese and Caitlin Clark to
Speaker 3: get to the w They like, it's just amazing.
Speaker 4: We're doing a great job.
Speaker 6: So when we look at the camera right now and
Speaker 6: look at all those.
Speaker 1: People two I don't know which one.
Speaker 6: We look at this one right here, this one right here,
Speaker 6: all the people that doubted that the w NBA was
Speaker 6: gonna make it.
Speaker 4: Whatever.
Speaker 1: We're at the.
Speaker 4: Bank though, we're casting check.
Speaker 6: That's right now. What I heard about neo deals. I
Speaker 6: think they call it n I L is n I L. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: so they get those in college, which child we were.
Speaker 6: I was so broken college, like like what, like, what
Speaker 6: is the.
Speaker 1: Advantage of that?
Speaker 6: Because you know they make more money than being in.
Speaker 1: The w n B A.
Speaker 3: I do know that, which so here's the deal. Yeah,
Speaker 3: in college, I have five dollars. I used to get
Speaker 3: a burrito at the burrito truck and you you have
Speaker 3: a brito because you can eat happy for a practice
Speaker 3: and then half after the practice.
Speaker 4: N I L.
Speaker 3: These women and men are getting paid so much money
Speaker 3: for their deals. The same thing else, whether it's cosmetics, outfits.
Speaker 3: They're getting their Nike and other shoe deals early on
Speaker 3: when you're in college. So imagine that I had to wait.
Speaker 3: I signed my first Nike deal my first day after
Speaker 3: my last game, so I had to be completely finished
Speaker 3: from being eligible in college before I could go pro.
Speaker 3: Now you do realize that only applies and usually sports
Speaker 3: that are dominated by African American So that happens to
Speaker 3: the football players and the basketball players. But there are
Speaker 3: other sports that that is not applied. You can get
Speaker 3: endorsement deals in other sports, Tennis, soccer.
Speaker 4: You know, other sports.
Speaker 3: So it's interesting that this NIL really opens the door
Speaker 3: for so many athletes, and especially athletes from our communities,
Speaker 3: that there's no trust fund happening, that they are the
Speaker 3: first millionaires ever and their family they.
Speaker 6: Can money to even be able to support them absolutely
Speaker 6: send money back. It's like a lot of people are
Speaker 6: leaving a big family that, like they probably was working
Speaker 6: and helping.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, man, let me just tell you. My mom
Speaker 3: drove an eighteen wheeler truck. My mom would give me
Speaker 3: two hundred dollars if she could.
Speaker 4: Two hundred dollars is a lot of money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she would give me two hundred dollars, and if
Speaker 3: she could do it every month or every other month,
Speaker 3: and I would have to manage while a usc with
Speaker 3: all these kids who come from a background of money,
Speaker 3: and I'm trying to manage this two hundred dollars just
Speaker 3: to like make it.
Speaker 4: Hence the five dollar burritos.
Speaker 3: So you know you're eating is not as healthy as
Speaker 3: it could because you don't have enough money to necessarily
Speaker 3: eat healthy. So I think the NIL deal is opening
Speaker 3: doors for so many kids. And the key to that
Speaker 3: is going to be money management because a lot of
Speaker 3: times we ignore those conversations because we didn't have money.
Speaker 3: So if you don't have money, how do you know
Speaker 3: how to take care of money, how to invest money
Speaker 3: and hents. That's how I got into real estate.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, because I'm like, yeah, how come we need
Speaker 6: a class on teaching kids how to check books and
Speaker 6: bank accounts and interest rates.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my veiga's advice. I became a real estate
Speaker 3: professional with my husband. We have the Lockwood Group, which
Speaker 3: is our real estate company. We are in the luxury
Speaker 3: space with Keller Williams. But why It's because it's important
Speaker 3: to invest your money and you can get the return
Speaker 3: on your money. And a lot of times kids, especially
Speaker 3: when you're a first generation, you're thinking house, cars, chains,
Speaker 3: necklace stuff, right, because that's when we see that you
Speaker 3: think people with money, But in fact, it's about that
Speaker 3: education of how can you make this money? Make money
Speaker 3: for you? You will not be able to play forever, right, and.
Speaker 1: You got to take care of your kids and you
Speaker 1: get old.
Speaker 3: But people when you know when you're nineteen or twenty,
Speaker 3: you can't Forty is old to a nineteen year old.
Speaker 6: And you're like forty, turn forty and not be able
Speaker 6: to play, right support Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yes, and that money could have just created compound interest
Speaker 3: for you. It's a way to make a living for
Speaker 3: not only your family, but the family that you might
Speaker 3: have in the future. And so that's always our message
Speaker 3: when we're trying to get our real estate company out there.
Speaker 3: We deal with a lot of celebrities and athletes and
Speaker 3: helping them to invest that money so that they'll have
Speaker 3: it to return and share with their family. So let
Speaker 3: me know when you're ready to buy something.
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 6: I want to ask you, and this is probably something
Speaker 6: just off the cuff for me. What would you tell
Speaker 6: black girls like us that's tall and awkward and don't
Speaker 6: know how to really express how they feel or just
Speaker 6: kind of scared and walk hunched over because they're ashamed,
Speaker 6: or their height or what they look like.
Speaker 4: What would you say to them?
Speaker 3: My first thing is about having faith. I was a
Speaker 3: child that had so much faith in God, and I
Speaker 3: was praying, like, Lord, let them see me as beautiful.
Speaker 3: Like you know, you want to be a pilling, but
Speaker 3: it's hard when you just don't. I mean, we didn't
Speaker 3: have all this stuff all hooked up. You're just a
Speaker 3: regular kid looking out there in the world. And I
Speaker 3: feel sorry sometimes for these kids because they have social media,
Speaker 3: so they're being exposed to even more beautiful, perfect looking
Speaker 3: people with all these filters and all these things. I
Speaker 3: would be so discouraged, I think if I was a
Speaker 3: young kid now, but I would just say to learn
Speaker 3: to love yourself and then just be patient. Down your goals.
Speaker 3: That was the biggest thing for me. My short term
Speaker 3: goals were goals I wanted to achieve it, then one year,
Speaker 3: and then my long term goals were goals I wanted
Speaker 3: to achieve within five years. And those goals kept me focused.
Speaker 3: I put them on my mirror in the bathroom. I
Speaker 3: put them on a refrigerator because you know, our girls
Speaker 3: got to eat and I would go But when I
Speaker 3: see these goals, my sacrifice was go to the gym
Speaker 3: and put up the two hundred shots five hundred shots,
Speaker 3: as opposed to going to the mall hanging out with
Speaker 3: my homegirls.
Speaker 1: That's real talk, though, that's real talking.
Speaker 4: Comfortable.
Speaker 6: You got to be uncomfortable to me be successful sometimes
Speaker 6: for a little while, you know, you gotta work it.
Speaker 4: One of the things Kobe and I would always talk about.
Speaker 3: The Great Kobe I left them so much that it's
Speaker 3: just everybody's not willing to make the sacrifice.
Speaker 1: No, no, and they don't understand.
Speaker 6: They want they want the now, but they don't want
Speaker 6: the house.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's hard work.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, yeah, it's hard to work.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, my new friend.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back.
Speaker 5: Don't get it out a daily show.
Speaker 6: Thanksgivings coming up, and we all know how difficult it
Speaker 6: is to have.
Speaker 1: Dinner with some of your family members. But this year
Speaker 1: is going to be different.
Speaker 7: Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and that means getting
Speaker 7: together with family members who you might not see ida
Speaker 7: ie with. But this Thanksgiving, Leslie Jones will come to
Speaker 7: your house and politely interject when the conversation becomes political.
Speaker 4: I'm just thankful that Roe v. Wade was finally overturned.
Speaker 6: That's the conversation you want to start right now at
Speaker 6: this table, while everybody's happy during Thanksgiving, while we trying
Speaker 6: to be happy, you know what has some dry ass turkey?
Speaker 1: And shut the fuck up.
Speaker 4: Perfect the way I the way I see it is
Speaker 4: your generation are all a bunch of lazy socialists.
Speaker 1: Who is you calling lazy? You can't even bring proper
Speaker 1: pie to Thanksgiving? And stop kissing the kids.
Speaker 4: In the mouth.
Speaker 1: That's nasty. They don't like that.
Speaker 7: Leslie can help you them to annoying conversations before they
Speaker 7: even begin.
Speaker 1: Try to make a ship.
Speaker 6: Try it, and I tell everybody in his room that
Speaker 6: you use Nana's Wi Fi to jack off.
Speaker 1: And if that.
Speaker 7: Doesn't work, Leslie goes back to basics.
Speaker 1: I'll just say these transgender people, I just can I
Speaker 1: have some service.
Speaker 7: Leslie will even stop by the kids table to teach
Speaker 7: them how to shout down problematic relatives.
Speaker 1: No, no, okay, look from the diaphragm. You ready, one,
Speaker 1: two three?
Speaker 7: Talking to your family is harm Watching Leslie Jones shut
Speaker 7: them down is easy. And I think it should be
Speaker 7: acknowledged that this dinner is taking place on Cherokee lambs.
Speaker 1: Shut up. All this land is Cherokee. If we're talking
Speaker 1: about can you smell Indigenous? You can't even smell a king.
Speaker 1: Shut up? Don't agree with me? Thank you for sure
Speaker 1: up who invited me.
Speaker 7: To this available for all holidays where a family are includ.
Speaker 6: My guest tonight is an author and a national political
Speaker 6: correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, and I'm totally obsessed
Speaker 6: with him.
Speaker 1: He has gotten me through every election.
Speaker 6: He is the king of the Khakis, and he has
Speaker 6: an apartment in my heart. I have never met him
Speaker 6: in person until this moment, so I am so excited
Speaker 6: to welcome and finally see live and in person right.
Speaker 1: Here for real, Steve Gardanaka.
Speaker 6: Okay, So that's great to meet you. Oh my god,
Speaker 6: it's so crazy that we've never met before, you know,
Speaker 6: so I'm pretty sure you know that I'm totally obsessed.
Speaker 1: I've seen some clips.
Speaker 6: Would you like to see the big clip that they
Speaker 6: made of our love take? Steve Kanaki is the sexiest
Speaker 6: nerd on TV.
Speaker 1: When he would grab that thing and be like no
Speaker 1: and then mark on.
Speaker 6: The boy, I was like, oh, God, just keep solving
Speaker 6: the problems, mister connect.
Speaker 1: Get God, dammit, that is just sexy to me. What
Speaker 1: is that a seventh? Is that a seventh scene? When
Speaker 1: you put that calculator? I was like, what you're gonna
Speaker 1: tell me me exactly?
Speaker 6: Your cactus and your gap shirt and your regular time
Speaker 6: dude and your two tone belt.
Speaker 1: You've been a long to that. I am so embarrassed,
Speaker 1: but not really so. When you're standing at that big uh.
Speaker 6: And you got that damn calculator, how do you keep
Speaker 6: all your facts straight.
Speaker 8: Well, fortunately, I mean, we've got great technology now.
Speaker 4: It's amazing.
Speaker 8: You know, I've been, as you say, an election nerd
Speaker 8: for a lot of my life, and what was possible
Speaker 8: on an election night, say twenty five years ago, is
Speaker 8: a frack of what's possible now. So there's so much
Speaker 8: information loaded into that board. There's so much we can
Speaker 8: do with it. Any given county, any given state, any
Speaker 8: given congressional district, demographic information, so we're able to show
Speaker 8: what's happening in real time with a depth and I
Speaker 8: think a sophistication. Hopefully it just wasn't possible before.
Speaker 1: That was such a sophisticated So let me ask a question.
Speaker 1: Do you know every single county?
Speaker 8: And you I have at some point encountered all of
Speaker 8: them in getting ready for elections. There are three and
Speaker 8: forty three I will admit this. I'll go through, you know,
Speaker 8: a state for an election, and when it is time
Speaker 8: to go for that state, I'll know them all, but
Speaker 8: I will not retain a lot of them afterwards. So
Speaker 8: it's the big swing states and presidentials I'm much stronger
Speaker 8: on than the states that aren't necessarily competitive.
Speaker 6: Okay, I have so many important I really do. Okay,
Speaker 6: so Biden is losing to Trump. Should we be freaked
Speaker 6: out right now?
Speaker 8: I mean, so, there's New York Times polls that came
Speaker 8: out last week the six states we think will decide
Speaker 8: the election in twenty twenty four, and yeah, they had
Speaker 8: Trump ahead in five of those six states. They are
Speaker 8: all states that Trump had lost in twenty twenty. So
Speaker 8: the thing that's interesting to me is if you look
Speaker 8: back at the twenty twenty election, from this point fall
Speaker 8: of twenty nineteen on to election day, there was literally
Speaker 8: not a single poll that ever had Trump ahead of Biden. Nationally.
Speaker 8: We've now had multiple polls that show Trump ahead of Biden.
Speaker 8: So there is a different atmosphere around this looming. And
Speaker 8: we'll see what happens in the primaries, but this is
Speaker 8: looking likely to be the matchup again, and Trump is
Speaker 8: showing a strength or Biden is showing a weakness that
Speaker 8: wasn't there the last time in the run up to
Speaker 8: the election. So I think I take it, I would
Speaker 8: take it very seriously.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, okay, King Steve, Why is Trump still able
Speaker 6: to run?
Speaker 8: Am?
Speaker 1: I confused? What He's being indicted everywhere? How is he
Speaker 1: still able to run for president.
Speaker 8: Well, you know, look, it's a two term limit, not
Speaker 8: a one term limit, so he can.
Speaker 1: You know, he served one term.
Speaker 8: We haven't had a president in modern times lose reelection
Speaker 8: and then four years later say hey, I'm running again.
Speaker 8: You know, George Bush Senior went happily into retirement. Jimmy
Speaker 8: Carter went and built houses. You know, it's been a
Speaker 8: while since you've had a president try to do this,
Speaker 8: but you can. And you bring up all the legal
Speaker 8: issues around Trump, those are hasn't been convicted of anything,
Speaker 8: and you know, it's obviously going to be a major factor,
Speaker 8: I think, just looming over the campaign. But from an
Speaker 8: eligibility standpoint, you know, it looks like there's you know,
Speaker 8: there's no issue that makes no sense.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, so it could.
Speaker 6: It's a real chance that Trump becomes the Republican nominee.
Speaker 8: I mean certainly, again, we're talking polls right now. He
Speaker 8: is at a level of dominance over that Republican field
Speaker 8: that we haven't seen from a candidate in a Republican
Speaker 8: contest in twenty four years.
Speaker 1: The last one was George W.
Speaker 8: Bush, and George W. Bush won the nomination in two
Speaker 8: thousand he had leads the size that Trump has right now,
Speaker 8: this is the first time since Bush we've seen a
Speaker 8: Republican consistently pulling this well in the Republican primaries. Now,
Speaker 8: Bush did get a scare in two thousand, John McCain won.
Speaker 8: Some states put a scare into him. Maybe you know,
Speaker 8: a DeSantis, maybe a Haley. It's looking like if there's
Speaker 8: going to be a threat to him, it's one of
Speaker 8: those two.
Speaker 6: Well, okay, so I want to ask you to explain
Speaker 6: the electoral college because I feel like that's something I.
Speaker 1: Can understand from you.
Speaker 6: Okay, I don't want to sound stupid in front of you,
Speaker 6: my love, but.
Speaker 1: You don't know what.
Speaker 6: The electorian college was. I just started with where politicians
Speaker 6: went to college to learn about politics.
Speaker 1: So what is it?
Speaker 8: It's I mean, it's a bit of a throwback to
Speaker 8: the earliest days of the country. But how it functions
Speaker 8: now is essentially the candidate who wins the vote in
Speaker 8: a state wins the number of electoral votes that that
Speaker 8: state has.
Speaker 4: It gets very complicated in Okay.
Speaker 6: See, I feel like there's math, Matt. Okay, but did
Speaker 6: something kind of a woofye Okay, So okay.
Speaker 1: I just you know. I just I got your little present. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's a calculator. I put your name on the back.
Speaker 1: It's pretty long, but okay, thank you.
Speaker 6: So we can figure those things out and look for
Speaker 6: this next election.
Speaker 1: Yes, if you use my calculator, I'm gonna lose.
Speaker 6: Okay, let me ask you one more important question. I
Speaker 6: mean I heard that you didn't know who Taylor Swift was,
Speaker 6: which I don't care.
Speaker 1: But do you know who Beyonce is? Yes? Okay, good. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to divorce Steak. You are awesome. Be
Speaker 1: sure to.
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