Full Transcript for Mail-In Voting Panic, Ticketmaster, and Rob Sand's Iowa

public and the states probably will have already refiled their lawsuit seeking further relief. 00:04:40.983 --> 00:04:47.283 It's going to end up back in front of the Supreme Court again, but I think there's like two core issues that people need to be aware of. 00:04:47.283 --> 00:04:51.942 One, this did not immediately change how mail-in voting is going to work. 00:04:51.942 --> 00:05:01.882 So I need everyone to like- Right … take a deep breath and not have 1,000 hot takes instantaneously spreading some- iffy information on social. 00:05:01.882 --> 00:05:16.331 And it's true that the Supreme Court and Donald Trump are no friend to democracy, and very well could come back with more rulings- Yeah … that try to chip away at our right and access to the ballot. 00:05:16.331 --> 00:05:16.370 I 00:05:16.370 --> 00:05:18.781 think people freaking out, it's a valid feeling. 00:05:18.781 --> 00:05:22.411 I mean, some ballots are being mailed as early as next week, right? 00:05:22.411 --> 00:05:24.271 It's alarming. 00:05:24.271 --> 00:05:26.050 So we'll stay on top of it. 00:05:26.050 --> 00:05:33.000 I think it is 24 jurisdictions that are affected by this, and it's includes Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:35.141 S- pretty important states. 00:05:35.271 --> 00:05:35.541 Right. 00:05:35.550 --> 00:05:39.600 So, you know, it's kind of like, Trump, we s- we see what you're doing, buddy. 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:45.872 You're making everyone's life more difficult and less affordable, so you're trying to make it more difficult for people to vote. 00:05:45.872 --> 00:05:46.930 Got it. 00:05:46.940 --> 00:05:46.971 Right. 00:05:46.971 --> 00:05:48.341 That's exactly right. 00:05:48.341 --> 00:05:59.730 I do think that the timeline here is on our side because once ballots start to get mailed out, it becomes harder to make the case to the courts that they should intervene. 00:05:59.740 --> 00:05:59.750 Hmm. 00:06:00.110 --> 00:06:11.350 That they should change the rules and either invalidate ballots that have already been cast or to have different states operating under different rules. 00:06:11.350 --> 00:06:34.310 So I do think that the delay of this and, like, the slow churning of the courts having to, like, review and re-review these cases actually works in our favor, and that's why I'm more confident, I think, that we will not have major changes to mail-in voting in the way that Trump is proposing pre-midterm elections. 00:06:34.310 --> 00:06:36.370 2028, a different story. 00:06:36.591 --> 00:06:40.810 Who do you think voted August 18th, 2026 with a mail-in ballot? 00:06:42.060 --> 00:06:42.358 Hmm. 00:06:42.358 --> 00:06:43.329 I don't know. 00:06:43.329 --> 00:06:43.788 Who was it? 00:06:43.788 --> 00:06:43.839 Oh, 00:06:44.509 --> 00:06:45.389 Donald Trump. 00:06:45.389 --> 00:06:49.060 Donald Trump- What a piece of shit … for the Florida gubernatorial. 00:06:49.060 --> 00:06:50.769 I actually looked it up 'cause

I'm petty. 00:06:50.769 --> 00:06:59.620 He voted by mail August 26, March 26, March of 2021, August of 2020, March of 2020, 2018, and 2017. 00:06:59.620 --> 00:07:00.449 All mail-in. 00:07:00.449 --> 00:07:01.728 So- 00:07:02.168 --> 00:07:04.009 Inherently corrupt, as he says it. 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:07.428 But he is the figurehead of corruption, so. 00:07:07.509 --> 00:07:08.038 100%. 00:07:08.038 --> 00:07:18.059 And I don't want people to interpret this as us, like, just blowing off all the threats- Right … from Trump to the midterms because there are other ones that are ongoing, including by USPS. 00:07:18.059 --> 00:07:30.519 So he also has put three additional board of governors, three additional board members for USPS up who are election deniers- Got it straight up. 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:35.899 Who, like- Yeah … played a role in the 2020 nonsense and, and trying to undermine and overturn the election. 00:07:35.899 --> 00:07:38.930 So they could cause other problems, right? 00:07:38.930 --> 00:07:46.468 Just by slowing mail down, making it harder for people to get their ballots in by Election Day. 00:07:46.468 --> 00:07:51.588 All other kinds of nonsense could- Yeah … be going on at USPS, and is. 00:07:51.588 --> 00:08:01.389 But this is at least one potential way for us to head off what could be a really dramatic intervention in the midterms. 00:08:01.610 --> 00:08:02.029 Yeah. 00:08:02.029 --> 00:08:04.158 And I just wanna double down on the point that we made last week. 00:08:04.158 --> 00:08:07.028 This is why local and state elections matter. 00:08:07.028 --> 00:08:09.069 Your attorney generals are the first line of defense. 00:08:09.069 --> 00:08:12.478 Your governors are the last line of veto defense for state governments. 00:08:12.478 --> 00:08:20.238 So it's just, don't be naive to the fact that the federal government is trying to make it more difficult for you to vote, but you still have rights. 00:08:20.238 --> 00:08:21.338 You're still an American. 00:08:21.338 --> 00:08:25.678 Voting is your most, one of your most important roles- Yeah … as citizens. 00:08:25.678 --> 00:08:25.778 Sacred. 00:08:25.778 --> 00:08:25.798 Yeah. 00:08:25.798 --> 00:08:29.189 So G-O-T-V, baby girls. 00:08:31.175 --> 00:08:31.935 Absolutely. 00:08:32.285 --> 00:08:39.404 Okay, Brian, hot off the press, what is the… What, did the jobs report just come out at, in the middle of a recording? 00:08:39.894 --> 00:08:43.475 Well, we just got a GDP growth report. 00:08:44.066 --> 00:08:45.794 Gross domestic product. 00:08:45.965 --> 00:08:47.015 Boom, there it is. 00:08:47.065 --> 00:08:48.635 For our econ heads. 00:08:48.975 --> 00:08:50.995 Big surprise, it sucks. 00:08:50.995 --> 00:08:56.514 In the second quarter, it shows that the economy grew at 1.5%, which is not good. 00:08:56.514 --> 00:09:10.335 That is not what we are aiming for, and that's not a surprise because no one can afford anything, and Trump is continuing to yo-yo on policies constantly that prevent any businesses from making any long-term investments in the country. 00:09:10.335 --> 00:09:23.086 That's why we're continuing to bleed manufacturing jobs and just jobs generally, why there's been a net loss- Yeah … of jobs in recent months instead of any sort of gain like we saw consistently in the six-figure range under Biden. 00:09:23.086 --> 00:09:27.205 Yeah, just like more- Yeah … bad economic news just- Yeah … kind of constantly. 00:09:27.794 --> 00:09:33.875 It was actually 89,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost since Liberation Day. 00:09:33.875 --> 00:09:38.465 And if you couple that with transportation jobs, it's at 189,000 jobs. 00:09:38.465 --> 00:09:38.495 Yeah. 00:09:38.495 --> 00:09:40.566 So that's all thanks to Trump. 00:09:40.566 --> 00:09:43.956 Manufacturing construction is down 14%. 00:09:43.956 --> 00:09:46.894 I wanna talk about the tariffs that were announced on Monday. 00:09:46.894 --> 00:09:50.115 Like, we're trying to start a trade war with Canada. 00:09:50.115 --> 00:09:54.349 Our friendly neighbors from the north, and they are not backing down. 00:09:54.469 --> 00:09:55.708 Succeeding at starting a war. 00:09:56.169 --> 00:09:58.629 What's also crazy, I was looking at some numbers yesterday. 00:09:58.629 --> 00:10:07.399 The Supreme Court struck down the tariffs in February, as we all recall, and yet six months later, the tariff rates are higher than when the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs. 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:12.698 The average American household is paying over $1,000 with additional tariff costs. 00:10:12.889 --> 00:10:38.619 I think it's an underrated shift under the second Trump administration that we've basically seen the death of deference, that in the past when the Supreme Court would rule on something and say, "This is not allowed," typically presidents would give relatively wide latitude to that ruling to say, "Okay, understood. 00:10:38.619 --> 00:10:39.429 We tried. 00:10:39.429 --> 00:10:48.649 We're gonna go work on something else now." A good example of that would be Biden with student loan forgiveness in, like, the way that he handled that. 00:10:48.649 --> 00:10:51.418 Once it was blocked by a court, they stopped. 00:10:51.418 --> 00:10:58.599 They tried to do other stuff on student loans- He remixed it, yeah … and, like, and, like, restructure whatever, but they stopped doing the exact action that they were doing. 00:10:58.599 --> 00:11:10.038 What's happened under Trump is now they say, "We're doing this thing, and we're allowed to do it because of law A." The Supreme Court says, "You're not allowed to do that. 00:11:10.038 --> 00:11:15.309 Law A does not allow you to do that." The next day, the Trump administration says, "Okay. 00:11:15.309 --> 00:11:18.619 We're doing the exact same thing because of law B. 00:11:18.619 --> 00:11:23.568 Law B says that we're allowed to do that." And then the courts come back and they say, "Law B does not give you the power to do

that. 00:11:23.568 --> 00:11:43.908 You are not allowed to do this thing." And then Trump continues, doesn't even take a break, continues doing the exact same action and says, "We're allowed to do this because of law C." Because the courts work so slow, you effectively have policy in effect that has been struck as unconstitutional because the president just refuses to, like, hear what's being said. 00:11:44.395 --> 00:11:49.885 No, it's literally insane that the Supreme Court of the United States said these tariffs are unconstitutional. 00:11:49.885 --> 00:11:50.765 You cannot do them. 00:11:50.765 --> 00:11:57.596 You know when you were in, like, middle school and you wanted to make your papers seem old, so you would, like, put tea leaves on them and then burn them? 00:11:57.596 --> 00:11:59.775 He's just burning the Constitution. 00:11:59.775 --> 00:12:00.965 He does not care. 00:12:00.965 --> 00:12:02.414 He does not care. 00:12:02.414 --> 00:12:09.875 With the DOJ that is supposed to be independent from the office of the presidency, but this DOJ works directly for Donald Trump. 00:12:09.875 --> 00:12:15.325 It is just his little puppets to make sure that he gets what he wants. 00:12:15.355 --> 00:12:18.284 Why were they teaching us to make forgeries in middle school? 00:12:18.575 --> 00:12:19.664 I mean- Like, wh- … they weren't great. 00:12:20.225 --> 00:12:28.154 Why, why was that, like, the priority is not, like, on the content of the Constitution or, like, whatever the fuck that we were- … we were reading. 00:12:28.346 --> 00:12:30.075 Extra credit if you make it look old. 00:12:30.375 --> 00:12:30.725 Right. 00:12:30.725 --> 00:12:34.885 It was like, "No, I need this to look real. I need you to be convinced." Um- 00:12:35.235 --> 00:12:36.455 Like, using twine. 00:12:37.004 --> 00:12:37.245 Yeah. 00:12:37.245 --> 00:12:37.554 Like- To, 00:12:37.554 --> 00:12:38.384 like, close it. 00:12:38.815 --> 00:12:39.284 Like, what? 00:12:40.025 --> 00:12:40.644 Oh, God. 00:12:40.686 --> 00:12:48.745 Yeah, I, I think that you're right, and this is also why the shadow docket has become such a major topic. 00:12:48.796 --> 00:12:49.546 Well, let's pause. 00:12:49.546 --> 00:12:51.725 Can you explain what- Okay what that means? 00:12:52.196 --> 00:12:52.645 Yeah. 00:12:52.645 --> 00:13:14.745 The shadow docket is when the court issues emergency rulings without the full rigmarole, oral arguments, and debating it for months, and writing a lengthy opinion, and having certain justices sign on to that opinion, not sign on to that opinion, which l- as we've all sort of witnessed year after year after year. 00:13:14.745 --> 00:13:16.534 Oral arguments are in December. 00:13:16.534 --> 00:13:19.544 We hear back on the major cases the last week of June. 00:13:19.544 --> 00:13:20.654 Like, it takes forever. 00:13:20.654 --> 00:13:27.375 And so the shadow docket is a way for them to just, like, more quickly turn things around and be like, "Yes, no, yes, no." 00:13:27.595 --> 00:13:27.735 Hmm. 00:13:27.774 --> 00:13:32.995 But the number of cases that they've taken under the shadow docket has exploded. 00:13:32.995 --> 00:13:38.025 It's, like, way more rulings coming via that, which is a much less transparent process. 00:13:38.025 --> 00:13:38.304 Yeah. 00:13:38.304 --> 00:13:42.095 You don't even know what justice, like, wrote the, uh, opinion or whatever. 00:13:42.095 --> 00:13:58.144 What they are choosing to rule on via the shadow docket has also expanded, and so it's really been a massive expansion of the conservatives exercising crazy rulings- Exactly and powers from the court without any transparency. 00:13:58.205 --> 00:14:11.004 If you're an American and you're seeing these rulings come out of the shadow docket, you should be really pissed because the Supreme Court's job is to do all of this in the open, and it's recorded, and you can listen to everything, and you can hear all the questions. 00:14:11.004 --> 00:14:25.284 And this is like them pushing you, the American citizen, out of the room, closing the door, reading their conservative amicus briefs, and talking to their little conservative clerks, and writing things that directly impact you. 00:14:25.325 --> 00:14:26.336 That's exactly right. 00:14:26.336 --> 00:15:02.774 And if Trump is going to just continually push the envelope and make up justifications and cite laws from 200 years ago to give him some new never before seen power over things like tariffs, and the court is the only viable option for us to intervene, it's really important that we know what is going on there and that they actually are having a fair process to make those kinds of rulings in a timeline that- Mm-hmm is responsive to the world that we live in. 00:15:02.774 --> 00:15:09.015 I mean- Yeah … in reality, not to go there, but like it's another reason to expand the court is the num- I was about to say. 00:15:09.015 --> 00:15:25.125 The number of cases that the Supreme Court can take on hasn't changed in a really long time, but it's in like the 60 to 70 range a year, and that's of the 10,000 plus that are- Yeah that people are like trying to get them to, to take. 00:15:25.125 --> 00:15:34.846 It's a court expansion opportunity to say like- Yeah … actually the- we really need a Supreme Court that can hear 300 cases a year- Yeah, we need you on- … and issue rulings. 00:15:35.304 --> 00:15:38.235 We need you behind that bench every single day, okay? 00:15:38.235 --> 00:15:38.315 Right. 00:15:38.315 --> 00:15:40.274 If we're working hard, you're working hard. 00:15:40.274 --> 00:15:52.434 I also saw that the tariff rate is suspected to climb to 11.8%, almost 12% by December, so merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah. 00:15:52.445 --> 00:15:52.815 Okay. 00:15:52.815 --> 00:16:01.855 So yeah, just to clarify there, we have new tariffs on Canada because- Yeah … I don't even actually really know why, what started this one. 00:16:01.855 --> 00:16:02.534 Do you know? 00:16:02.576 -->

00:16:11.164 Basically, they were in negotiation for a new like trade agreement, and then the United States wanted Canada to agree. 00:16:11.164 --> 00:16:19.014 If the United States decided to put economic sanctions on a country or to change the tariffs on a country, they wanted Canada to equal those tariffs against 00:16:19.014 --> 00:16:19.076 that country. 00:16:19.076 --> 00:16:20.375 To match our energy. 00:16:20.375 --> 00:16:20.934 Okay. 00:16:21.004 --> 00:16:27.565 And they were like, "No." The negotiations fell apart, and they just kind of went to, to war. 00:16:27.565 --> 00:16:27.735 Got 00:16:27.735 --> 00:16:27.875 it. 00:16:27.875 --> 00:16:37.565 That's why we have new Canada tariffs, plus Canada has now, I think, put a 50% tariff on all US imports as well, so hurting businesses- Mm like twofold, imports, exports. 00:16:37.565 --> 00:16:49.625 And then with Iran, Trump has now issued up to a 100% tariff on every country that does any business with Iran, which includes China. 00:16:49.625 --> 00:16:54.245 Like China is importing oil from Iran. 00:16:54.245 --> 00:17:00.765 So a genuine question, I'm like, is there about to be a 100% tariff on China? 00:17:00.765 --> 00:17:04.115 Because won't the economy- Collapse explode? 00:17:04.815 --> 00:17:05.234 Yeah. 00:17:05.305 --> 00:17:05.585 Like- 00:17:05.914 --> 00:17:07.255 Um, that makes me nervous … the second 00:17:07.255 --> 00:17:08.744 largest economy in the world. 00:17:08.776 --> 00:17:15.036 Also, with the 50% export, uh, this is gonna impact Maine a lot. 00:17:15.036 --> 00:17:15.795 Hmm. 00:17:15.795 --> 00:17:19.434 Which is not good for Republicans given that- 00:17:19.474 --> 00:17:24.684 Sorry Susie… GLENNIS: there's a very that we're looking to get. 00:17:24.684 --> 00:17:27.826 By the way, if you're looking for your refund, good luck. 00:17:27.826 --> 00:17:28.795 Good luck. 00:17:28.795 --> 00:17:30.545 Yeah, no way. 00:17:30.545 --> 00:17:34.484 Luckily, Donald Trump is issuing dollar off coupons for beef. 00:17:34.744 --> 00:17:35.984 Oh, I saw that. 00:17:35.984 --> 00:17:36.214 Did you see that? 00:17:36.214 --> 00:17:36.704 Yeah. 00:17:36.704 --> 00:17:40.295 Bring that to the next baseball game when you're paying for your $25 hot dog. 00:17:40.295 --> 00:17:43.066 "Oh, here's my Trump dollar." What? 00:17:43.066 --> 00:17:44.734 It's so offensive. 00:17:44.734 --> 00:17:46.405 It's literally so offensive. 00:17:46.654 --> 00:17:59.026 It's literally like when he did like the Freedom gas stations for the July 4th holiday where there were like four gas stations in Philadelphia randomly that like lowered their prices by a, a dollar a gallon or something. 00:17:59.026 --> 00:18:00.894 Okay. 00:18:00.894 --> 00:18:06.724 So for the 1,000 people that could fill up their tanks that day at those gas stations, like rock on. 00:18:06.724 --> 00:18:09.326 For the other 300 million of us, like you're fucked. 00:18:09.355 --> 00:18:09.815 Yeah. 00:18:09.815 --> 00:18:10.535 Yeah. 00:18:10.535 --> 00:18:11.755 It's so silly. 00:18:11.755 --> 00:18:12.855 And literally he said, "Get fucked. 00:18:12.855 --> 00:18:12.855 I don't care about you." Uh, 00:18:13.194 --> 00:18:13.305 it's- 00:18:13.305 --> 00:18:13.775 It's so 00:18:13.775 --> 00:18:16.355 performative… GLENNIS: it's so performative. 00:18:16.355 --> 00:18:31.316 Mind you, while last weekend as he's waving his green flags like a little toddler with his like Lincoln Logs for this Indy 500 race, which was like the cap to the 250 celebrations that cost us, the taxpayers- Always helpful to keep in mind, none of that money was allocated. 00:18:31.316 --> 00:18:33.775 Trump raided every account. 00:18:33.775 --> 00:18:50.286 Our national parks, the money that is designated to- Chills … maintain our national parks, our public lands, was all raided to pay for ballrooms and IndyCar races and UFC fights and like the bullshit going on, the circus. 00:18:50.286 --> 00:18:52.815 Quite literally, the circus- Yeah … around Donald Trump. 00:18:52.845 --> 00:19:02.154 And lest we forget, last week it was also made public that he's rounding up wild horses out of our national parks and selling them for meat abroad. 00:19:02.154 --> 00:19:02.174 For 00:19:02.174 --> 00:19:02.605 glue. 00:19:02.605 --> 00:19:03.025 Yeah. 00:19:03.056 --> 00:19:08.545 Like of all the things that has gone viral, I don't think this is like the most important even, you know, I'm a pescatarian. 00:19:08.545 --> 00:19:11.505 I don't eat meat, but like- You 00:19:11.505 --> 00:19:11.635 don't 00:19:11.635 --> 00:19:11.934 eat hor- 00:19:12.195 --> 00:19:13.194 you don't eat horses? 00:19:13.194 --> 00:19:13.954 I don't- What do you, what- No, 00:19:13.954 --> 00:19:15.695 I don't judge people who eat horse. 00:19:15.695 --> 00:19:18.585 It's like very, um- What do you- Like in France they eat it. 00:19:18.964 --> 00:19:23.194 What do you call someone who doesn't eat fish, doesn't eat other meat, but only eats horse? 00:19:23.194 --> 00:19:25.016 An equestrian. 00:19:27.566 --> 00:19:28.536 Is this mic on? 00:19:28.536 --> 00:19:29.516 Ha ha. 00:19:30.766 --> 00:19:31.101 Uh- That was 00:19:31.101 --> 00:19:31.156 good. 00:19:31.156 --> 00:19:31.546 A pas- But that went viral … a 00:19:31.546 --> 00:19:34.826 pescatarian, an equestri- Equestitarian… GLENNIS: tarian. 00:19:34.826 --> 00:19:36.566 I don't judge people. 00:19:36.566 --> 00:19:38.394 People eat dog too, like, whatever. 00:19:38.394 --> 00:19:52.674 But this went very viral, and it was interesting to see how many people were speaking out against this, and I was like, on the list of things that Trump is doing that is, like, really fucked up and super corrupt and against American interests, low tier. 00:19:52.674 --> 00:19:54.075 But you know what? 00:19:54.075 --> 00:19:54.895 Save the horses. 00:19:54.895 --> 00:19:55.194 Yeah. 00:19:55.194 --> 00:19:59.115 I don't wanna convince people to not be mad about bad shit that Donald

Trump does. 00:19:59.115 --> 00:19:59.415 You're right. 00:19:59.415 --> 00:20:03.095 It's, it's very like- Good point … popularism, as David Shore would say. 00:20:03.336 --> 00:20:03.615 Mm. 00:20:03.635 --> 00:20:12.305 Like, because you and I mainline news straight into our veins 24/7, like, we're pissed about other stuff, oftentimes wonkier stuff. 00:20:12.305 --> 00:20:23.944 But if it's Spirit, if it's Seabiscuit that gets people to vote, then, like, I'm gonna fucking ride my horse to the polls in November- Yeah … let me tell you. 00:20:23.944 --> 00:20:25.065 Like, I'm all in. 00:20:25.065 --> 00:20:29.375 Call me Horse Girl, because if that's what makes you pay attention, I'm down. 00:20:29.714 --> 00:20:32.645 It's a very good point, well taken, and I do agree. 00:20:32.645 --> 00:20:34.395 You're right, I'm too in the weeds. 00:20:34.395 --> 00:20:41.085 And if you're mad about the wild horses being rounded up, show that energy at the polls in November. 00:20:41.085 --> 00:20:43.785 What about Horse Meat Disco also? 00:20:43.785 --> 00:20:47.174 That's like a… Is that a circuit party, or is that only in New York? 00:20:47.184 --> 00:20:48.914 It or- started in London. 00:20:48.914 --> 00:20:58.545 It originally, I think, was a DJ collective and a party that started in London and then came to New York, and I think the New York one is now much larger and more famous than the one in London is. 00:20:58.615 --> 00:20:58.924 Yeah. 00:20:58.924 --> 00:21:01.734 So Horse Meat Disco is a really fun party. 00:21:02.154 --> 00:21:04.465 I think a huge number of our listeners have no idea what you're talking about. 00:21:05.234 --> 00:21:05.545 Okay. 00:21:06.194 --> 00:21:07.125 But if you know, you 00:21:07.125 --> 00:21:07.285 know. 00:21:07.285 --> 00:21:09.454 But the ones who do, if you know, you know. 00:21:09.465 --> 00:21:09.486 Yeah. 00:21:09.486 --> 00:21:14.005 For the four of you who are gay and live in New York and come talk to me at parties, that's for you. 00:21:14.045 --> 00:21:27.695 We talk a lot about corruption, and I wanna start, like, through the election highlighting one or two stories per week that particularly chap my ass or that I think are tangible, direct evidence of corruption. 00:21:27.695 --> 00:21:32.565 So did you see the Live Nation/Ticketmaster situation? 00:21:32.595 --> 00:21:33.295 Oh, yeah. 00:21:33.295 --> 00:21:34.365 Yeah, I did. 00:21:34.585 --> 00:21:38.115 This is new reporting from The Wall Street Journal that came out, like, a couple days ago. 00:21:38.115 --> 00:21:48.195 And let's go back to, like, the Taylor Swift of it all, where this kind of rose to the top, and it was clear that Ticketmaster had too much power, too much control. 00:21:48.195 --> 00:21:53.154 Cut to an antitrust case against Live Nation, that they were manipulating the markets. 00:21:53.154 --> 00:21:54.546 They had too much control. 00:21:54.546 --> 00:21:55.825 They own the venues. 00:21:55.825 --> 00:21:58.734 They own the ticket website. 00:21:58.734 --> 00:21:59.714 Dynamic pricing. 00:21:59.714 --> 00:22:01.565 Have you ever been caught in dynamic pricing? 00:22:01.654 --> 00:22:02.285 Yes. 00:22:03.021 --> 00:22:03.422 Yeah. 00:22:03.481 --> 00:22:04.381 Yes, it's crazy. 00:22:04.381 --> 00:22:04.422 Mm-hmm. 00:22:04.422 --> 00:22:13.391 If you wanna go on tour, no matter what your live act is, if you wanna go on tour, you're basically forced to use Live Nation owned venues. 00:22:13.391 --> 00:22:36.511 And they will only allow you to sell tickets for that event through Ticketmaster, which then has essentially a monopoly on, like, large venue ticketed events from, like, soup to nuts, which is, last time I checked, not legal in the United States of America, which Republicans love to remind us is a place for free markets. 00:22:37.121 --> 00:22:37.681 Correct. 00:22:38.121 --> 00:22:38.570 Continue. 00:22:38.921 --> 00:22:44.230 February 27th, 2026, the Live Nation CEO, Michael Rapino, he's in the Oval Office. 00:22:44.230 --> 00:22:45.800 He has a one-on-one with Donald Trump. 00:22:45.800 --> 00:22:50.942 The reason why they say he's there is to talk about getting more bookings up at the Kennedy Center. 00:22:50.942 --> 00:22:52.931 Not enough people are going to the Kennedy Center. 00:22:52.931 --> 00:22:54.080 How are we gonna fix that? 00:22:54.090 --> 00:22:54.921 Which they're about to demolish. 00:22:55.560 --> 00:23:03.111 Which literally, which Trump was gonna shut down for two years, and is going to shut down for two years for much needed renovations. 00:23:03.111 --> 00:23:10.590 So how does that track that the CEO of Live Nation is going to talk to the President of the United States about a venue that's about to be shut down? 00:23:10.590 --> 00:23:25.721 Shortly after this meeting, where we can assume that they spoke about this antitrust case against Live Nation with the DOJ, Trump calls a senior DOJ official and says, "Settle it." In the court of law, you can do two things. 00:23:25.721 --> 00:23:32.521 You can go to court and hear from a jury of your peers about what's fair, what's not, what's breaking the law, what's not, what's a felony, what's not. 00:23:32.521 --> 00:23:35.881 Settling it is you settle it before it goes to court, nothing happens. 00:23:35.881 --> 00:23:39.441 So jury selection had started on March 2nd. 00:23:39.441 --> 00:23:42.411 Oh, the case was settled on March the 5th. 00:23:42.461 --> 00:23:45.590 Yeah, so a few things stand out to me about this case. 00:23:45.590 --> 00:23:56.520 Number one, Trump making a phone call to specifically direct DOJ to settle an ongoing case might sound relatively innocuous. 00:23:56.520 --> 00:24:00.931 That kind of political intervention directly into the DOJ is not something that we have seen before. 00:24:00.931 --> 00:24:11.141 Number two, the way that Live Nation got this case settled, that they desperately did not want to go to trial- 00:24:11.461 --> 00:24:27.090 Mm-hmm… BRIAN: was

not by hiring really It was by hiring James McDonald, who has no antitrust experience, but represented Donald Trump in criminal cases in New York. 00:24:27.090 --> 00:24:32.505 And it further emphasizes that- Nothing anymore. 00:24:32.505 --> 00:24:39.726 Nothing is about the merits of the case- Mm-hmm … what the Constitution says, what the laws are. 00:24:39.726 --> 00:24:50.635 It's just about how much money you can pay to someone in close proximity to Donald Trump, or pay to Donald Trump and his family directly. 00:24:50.635 --> 00:24:54.234 That is how our entire justice system now operates. 00:24:54.234 --> 00:24:54.265 Mm-hmm. 00:24:54.265 --> 00:25:18.765 It's very transparent, and this case made that so the next time someone is getting absolutely screwed on concert tickets- Mm-hmm … you can directly thank Donald Trump for blocking this case from going forward, which could have resulted in dramatically improving the ticketing industry, which we all know is corrupt as fuck. 00:25:18.765 --> 00:25:19.654 Mm-hmm. 00:25:19.654 --> 00:25:26.224 It was so bad that 34 AGs, many of which were from Republican controlled states, refused the deal. 00:25:26.224 --> 00:25:27.295 They went to trial anyway. 00:25:27.336 --> 00:25:33.474 When the DOJ is working to undercut you, like it really takes the wind out of your sails, let me tell you. 00:25:33.734 --> 00:25:36.885 And there's something else that came out this week, Trump's financial disclosures. 00:25:36.885 --> 00:25:42.996 It's so abundantly clear that this is the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States of America. 00:25:42.996 --> 00:25:47.105 He started a war, your gas prices went up, and his portfolio went up. 00:25:47.105 --> 00:25:48.865 Direct cause and effect. 00:25:48.865 --> 00:26:00.525 He has made 15, almost 16 million on his oil and gas holdings since the start of the war, and he has bought more oil and gas holdings since the start of the war. 00:26:00.525 --> 00:26:04.924 He's the only president in the history of the United States of America who's openly trading while being president. 00:26:04.924 --> 00:26:05.944 While starting wars. 00:26:05.944 --> 00:26:07.815 While starting, and being the president. 00:26:07.815 --> 00:26:09.505 You're supposed to put all of your money into a blind trust. 00:26:09.505 --> 00:26:10.265 He never did that. 00:26:10.265 --> 00:26:20.849 During this time, while Donald Trump is making millions of dollars off of your wallets, your gas pump- Your food on your table that you can't afford. 00:26:20.849 --> 00:26:27.180 You have paid an additional $71 billion in gas fees since the start of the war. 00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:27.480 Yeah. 00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:40.079 I think that it's both hard and important for people to realize the extent to which Donald Trump is intertwined with the system that's screwing everyone over all the time. 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:40.108 Yeah. 00:26:40.108 --> 00:26:52.829 So it's not just the oil and gas industry, it's not just ticketing that is so obvious, but we've seen monopolies form and corporate consolidation across the entire economy. 00:26:52.829 --> 00:26:53.689 Paramount. 00:26:53.689 --> 00:26:55.028 And that i- exactly. 00:26:55.028 --> 00:26:55.068 Mm-hmm. 00:26:55.068 --> 00:26:59.829 And that is exactly what is driving the cost of everything up. 00:26:59.829 --> 00:27:01.838 Beef prices- Mm-hmm … so high. 00:27:01.838 --> 00:27:02.888 We've been talking about that. 00:27:02.888 --> 00:27:02.920 Mm-hmm. 00:27:02.920 --> 00:27:09.229 There are only four companies now that essentially own the entire meat processing industry. 00:27:09.229 --> 00:27:10.538 You look at airlines. 00:27:10.538 --> 00:27:12.679 Travel has gotten so much more expensive. 00:27:12.679 --> 00:27:17.690 There are four airlines that control 70% of the entire- Yeah … market. 00:27:17.690 --> 00:27:19.769 You look at wireless carriers. 00:27:19.769 --> 00:27:19.809 Mm-hmm. 00:27:19.809 --> 00:27:26.339 There are now three companies that control 98% of the entire- Yeah … wireless industry. 00:27:26.339 --> 00:27:27.858 You look at alcohol. 00:27:27.858 --> 00:27:31.410 There are two companies that control 70% of the market. 00:27:31.410 --> 00:27:33.028 You look at sunglasses. 00:27:33.028 --> 00:27:33.400 Yeah. 00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:36.089 Two companies control the entire market. 00:27:36.089 --> 00:27:39.348 You look at search online, like digital advertising. 00:27:39.348 --> 00:27:39.378 Mm-hmm. 00:27:39.378 --> 00:27:42.318 One company controls 90% of the market. 00:27:42.318 --> 00:27:46.739 You look at PBMs, three companies control 80%. 00:27:46.739 --> 00:27:49.808 Like, I literally- Media … could go on- Media … all day. 00:27:49.808 --> 00:27:50.628 Media. 00:27:50.628 --> 00:27:51.068 Yes. 00:27:51.068 --> 00:27:51.603 Larry Ellison alone. 00:27:51.603 --> 00:27:51.645 Who 00:27:51.645 --> 00:27:53.078 owns your local news stations? 00:27:53.078 --> 00:27:54.549 Who's owning the streamers? 00:27:54.549 --> 00:27:58.189 Who's owning the information that you're getting served? 00:27:58.219 --> 00:28:04.378 I think that antitrust is the battle of our generation, that we've sort of- Mm-hmm … hit this point. 00:28:04.378 --> 00:28:05.730 We've talked about this before. 00:28:05.960 --> 00:28:06.108 Mm-hmm. 00:28:06.108 --> 00:28:06.210 But, 00:28:06.210 --> 00:28:08.838 like, capital gives you power. 00:28:08.838 --> 00:28:12.808 You use that power to get more money, and that money gives you power. 00:28:12.808 --> 00:28:12.848 Mm-hmm. 00:28:12.848 --> 00:28:19.239 And it's a very simple loop, but it moves faster and faster the longer it goes on. 00:28:19.239 --> 00:28:46.570 The amount of wealth that's being consolidated by these monopolies and duopolies- Yeah … is why America is looking at this insane scale of inequality and why it feels like life is getting harder year after year after year, regardless of who's in charge, regardless of what's happening-

Yeah … in the, like, global economy. 00:28:46.570 --> 00:28:50.832 And I mean, that's why we need more people like your girl. 00:28:51.431 --> 00:28:51.851 Lina. 00:28:52.392 --> 00:28:53.031 Lina. 00:28:53.320 --> 00:28:53.901 Lina Khan. 00:28:54.320 --> 00:28:54.580 Lina 00:28:54.721 --> 00:28:54.971 Khan. 00:28:54.971 --> 00:28:58.561 She'll be in the administration of Mayor Mamdani this fall. 00:28:58.561 --> 00:29:07.101 For those who don't know, she's an amazing, trailblazing antitrust activist, organizer, adjudicator. 00:29:07.101 --> 00:29:10.840 I wanna put a finer point on the war and the oil. 00:29:10.840 --> 00:29:12.381 This is a war Trump started. 00:29:12.381 --> 00:29:13.711 He's getting richer off of it. 00:29:13.711 --> 00:29:23.941 You're paying over 71 billion more in gas prices, and big oil, their profit on this year alone, profit on this year alone is $125 billion. 00:29:24.621 --> 00:29:27.980 But they had to increase the prices to cover their costs. 00:29:28.401 --> 00:29:34.901 Mm. Even though Donald Trump said, "Raise me a billion dollars, get me elected, and I'm gonna take care of you." 00:29:35.551 --> 00:29:37.882 Diesel has to be $6 a gallon. 00:29:38.010 --> 00:29:44.018 Brian, should we go to some clickbait Double click 00:29:44.438 --> 00:29:55.528 Okay, so I think content creator land has been blowing up this week over the Hakeem Jeffries, Jared Kushner meeting to discuss what will happen when Dems win the House. 00:29:55.528 --> 00:29:57.948 Even James Carville somehow found out. 00:29:57.948 --> 00:30:01.758 Even, even James Carville got in on, on the commentary. 00:30:01.758 --> 00:30:06.147 Do you think that that story is a double click or clickbait? 00:30:06.718 --> 00:30:09.767 I honestly think it's clickbait 'cause I don't care about it. 00:30:09.767 --> 00:30:13.356 But if you're telling me the internet cares, I'm like, sure, Jeffries. 00:30:13.356 --> 00:30:20.332 I did see that Instagram video where he's got his, like, green Yankees hat on, and he's like, "Doo, doo, doo, 00:30:20.332 --> 00:30:21.366 doo, doo." I think it's clickbait. 00:30:21.626 --> 00:30:22.027 Yeah. 00:30:22.407 --> 00:30:23.928 I don't know that the internet cares. 00:30:23.928 --> 00:30:26.356 I think that talking heads care. 00:30:26.356 --> 00:30:31.326 I think that people who read about this stuff all day long care. 00:30:31.326 --> 00:30:43.146 It's a fine line and an important distinction between the horse girls revolt of, like- Yeah … people mad that Trump is putting horses into wood chippers and the- 00:30:43.307 --> 00:30:43.757 Yeah Hakeem 00:30:43.757 --> 00:30:48.237 Jeffries fury from, I think, content creator land. 00:30:48.237 --> 00:30:55.576 That's my read on it, is I really think that this is for political junkies that are, like, souped up on the Kool-Aid. 00:30:55.678 --> 00:30:55.798 Personally. 00:30:55.798 --> 00:31:01.667 Yeah, I mean, if James Carville came out of his $10 million Louisiana house to talk about it. 00:31:01.727 --> 00:31:09.457 I'm generally, just for what it's worth, I'm generally uninterested in conversations about s- whether someone should or should not meet with someone else. 00:31:09.457 --> 00:31:10.987 In general- Same, it feels like a waste of 00:31:11.126 --> 00:31:11.457 time… BRIAN: I'm just, like, sick of it. 00:31:11.457 --> 00:31:13.406 I'm like, "Who the fuck?" I d- Who cares? 00:31:13.406 --> 00:31:13.866 I don't care. 00:31:13.866 --> 00:31:14.326 I don't care. 00:31:14.326 --> 00:31:15.477 Talk to me about the outcome. 00:31:15.477 --> 00:31:18.116 Talk to me about policy that we should or shouldn't support. 00:31:18.116 --> 00:31:21.406 Talk to me about strategies that we should or should not deploy, like, whatever. 00:31:21.406 --> 00:31:26.696 I don't really care about anyone meeting with anyone else if there's nothing else to say about it. 00:31:26.696 --> 00:31:27.497 Right. 00:31:27.497 --> 00:31:29.936 Well, you know what meeting I do care about, though? 00:31:29.936 --> 00:31:32.977 The head of CIA was in Russia yesterday. 00:31:32.977 --> 00:31:33.728 Did you hear that? 00:31:33.787 --> 00:31:34.596 Tell me more. 00:31:34.887 --> 00:31:37.626 I-- No one knows because they won't tell us why he was there. 00:31:37.626 --> 00:31:47.686 He flew to Russia for four hours, had a meeting with Russian intelligence or whoever the head of the CIA, John Ratcliffe is his name, who he met with. 00:31:47.686 --> 00:31:51.317 I don't like it, I'll tell you that much, and I would like to know what was said in that meeting. 00:31:51.686 --> 00:32:02.596 Well, I assume that Trump's handler hasn't been as in touch since he's, like, been really busy with IndyCar 500 and, like, with the renovations and that kind of thing. 00:32:02.596 --> 00:32:03.747 So send your guy. 00:32:03.846 --> 00:32:09.847 Speaking of busy, White House cropped Natalie Harp out of Grand Prix content. 00:32:09.847 --> 00:32:11.057 Did you see these clips? 00:32:11.156 --> 00:32:11.646 No. 00:32:12.384 --> 00:32:13.923 They're in, like, this box watching. 00:32:13.923 --> 00:32:14.844 It's Melania. 00:32:14.844 --> 00:32:21.963 'Cause, you know, Melania comes out whenever there's a crisis, whether it be, like, the Epstein files or the Natalie Harp, all of a sudden she reappeared. 00:32:21.963 --> 00:32:29.982 And her and Trump are like, they're in a, a tense conversation, and then it's like, you know that like TikTok sound, "And who do I see? 00:32:29.982 --> 00:32:41.952 Abby Lee Miller." And it's like, you just, like, go slightly behind, and Natalie Harp's there, like… And then as soon as Natalie Harp shows up, Melania leaves. 00:32:41.952 --> 00:32:47.074 And then they, the White House cropped Natalie out of the photos that they posted from the Grand Prix. 00:32:47.163 --> 00:32:48.804 I mean, I think that it's funny. 00:32:48.804 --> 00:32:48.834 Yeah. 00:32:48.834 --> 00:32:55.044 And I think that, like, them chasing their tails over this is like,

we already said it last week, kudos to Jon Ossoff- 00:32:55.084 --> 00:32:55.374 Yeah 00:32:55.383 --> 00:32:58.962 for hitting such a sore spot for them- Yeah … and just pushing. 00:32:58.962 --> 00:32:59.743 I love it. 00:32:59.743 --> 00:33:00.782 But I mean, ultimately clickbait. 00:33:01.432 --> 00:33:01.873 Yeah. 00:33:01.873 --> 00:33:04.894 I did see a really creepy face mashup. 00:33:04.894 --> 00:33:09.993 Natalie Harp does in fact look a lot like Ivanka Trump 00:33:12.523 --> 00:33:13.223 Natalie does? 00:33:13.823 --> 00:33:14.163 Yeah. 00:33:14.353 --> 00:33:16.423 If I'm being honest, I couldn't even pick her out of a lineup. 00:33:16.624 --> 00:33:18.813 Cr- the only thing about her, she has crazy eyeliner. 00:33:18.813 --> 00:33:21.894 I mean, honestly, girl, paint your face however you want. 00:33:22.203 --> 00:33:22.463 It's giving Black 00:33:22.463 --> 00:33:22.644 Swan. 00:33:22.644 --> 00:33:26.032 I don't wanna, like, judge a woman for how she paints, but she's something else. 00:33:26.063 --> 00:33:37.093 Our next one, the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged that the non-citizen voter numbers that it had put out were, shocker, inflated. 00:33:37.093 --> 00:33:46.124 They said that there were 16,000 non-citizens registered in Nevada, but they actually went through that list and got it down to 185. 00:33:46.124 --> 00:33:48.394 So only off by what? 00:33:48.394 --> 00:33:51.053 97%, 98%. 00:33:51.153 --> 00:33:54.463 It's tough because I know no one's gonna read that, but it is double click. 00:33:54.463 --> 00:34:00.542 To our earlier conversation about the Supreme Court mail-in voting ruling this week, like, the damage has been done. 00:34:00.542 --> 00:34:12.193 People probably saw that sensational headline like, "Wow, there's 16,000 non-US citizens on the voter rolls in Nevada," and that number sticks, not the correction. 00:34:12.193 --> 00:34:14.702 It's a double click in that it's like you should be reading the newspaper, people. 00:34:14.702 --> 00:34:16.253 You should be reading headlines. 00:34:16.253 --> 00:34:18.802 You should be reading corrections, but the damage has been done. 00:34:18.802 --> 00:34:19.213 I don't know. 00:34:19.213 --> 00:34:20.023 What do you think? 00:34:20.083 --> 00:34:21.653 Yeah, I think it's a double click. 00:34:21.653 --> 00:34:25.403 Dems need better messaging on this issue. 00:34:25.403 --> 00:34:30.943 We're always so quick to try to point out like, "Non-citizen voting doesn't exist," which I'm pretty sure I said earlier this episode. 00:34:30.943 --> 00:34:36.753 I think that elected should probably just more so be leaning into non-citizens shouldn't vote. 00:34:36.753 --> 00:34:37.494 I agree. 00:34:37.494 --> 00:34:38.382 Because it's not a thing. 00:34:38.382 --> 00:34:45.592 Just say the thing that people want to hear from you, even if that means not correcting the record as much. 00:34:45.592 --> 00:34:46.693 We can still say it, but like- 00:34:46.713 --> 00:34:52.902 Don't be so absolute with something that happens at a very, very, very, very, very, very, very small margin. 00:34:52.952 --> 00:34:53.422 Totally. 00:34:53.422 --> 00:35:10.974 While non-citizen voting is not a thing, and we should continue to tell people that it's not a thing, I think that it's also okay to just agree and be like, "Yes, we agree that only US citizens should cast ballots in federal elections," and that is the law right now 00:35:10.994 --> 00:35:11.434 Yeah 00:35:11.443 --> 00:35:11.693 I don't know. 00:35:11.693 --> 00:35:12.233 Whatever. 00:35:12.333 --> 00:35:25.103 We didn't wanna talk about this this week, 'cause it doesn't matter, but in South Carolina, Lindsey Graham's unqualified sister won thanks to a shot to the vein with an $800,000 super PAC spend the week before, and Donald Trump's endorsement. 00:35:25.103 --> 00:35:29.853 I don't know if you saw her speech at all, but it's going very, very viral. 00:35:29.853 --> 00:35:38.222 So I'm gonna play this clip for you, and then I wanna tell you how the Democratic side of the internet reacted, 'cause she's making a point, but I don't think she realizes the point that she's making. 00:35:38.262 --> 00:35:42.572 I grew up in the back of a bar and liquor store in one room in central South Carolina. 00:35:42.572 --> 00:35:47.293 My parents worked long, hard hours to make it, make ends meet. 00:35:47.293 --> 00:35:49.293 We didn't take vacations. 00:35:49.293 --> 00:35:54.594 If they were sick, they had to get up and go to work, because the doors weren't open, we weren't making money. 00:35:54.594 --> 00:35:59.784 My mother passed away when I was 11, and my father just over a year later. 00:35:59.884 --> 00:36:01.612 The internet is going wild. 00:36:01.612 --> 00:36:08.003 They're like, "So you're saying if your parents had access to, like, affordable healthcare they wouldn't have died? 00:36:08.003 --> 00:36:38.244 You're boasting that you grew up poor and in the back of a liquor store, and your parents had treatable diseases, but because they didn't have access to affordable healthcare they just died, and that makes you stronger as opposed to, like, the clear opportunity in front of us, which is to have some version of universal healthcare so that everyone, no matter your socioeconomic status, should have access to basic healthcare." This dystopian conservative messaging that is trying to create this worldview for their electorate. 00:36:38.244 --> 00:36:48.143 There's villains, they're othering people, when there's enough money in our government to make sure that every single person has access to affordable healthcare. 00:36:48.143 --> 00:36:58.483 And not to mention, a lot of these Republican senators and House members voted for the big brutal bill, the MAGA murder budget, whatever you wanna call it. 00:36:58.512 --> 00:36:58.882 Right. 00:36:58.882 --> 00:37:02.952 A hard life making you stronger is not a good reason to make people's lives harder.

00:37:03.043 --> 00:37:04.733 You know who had a really hard life? 00:37:04.842 --> 00:37:04.992 Tell me. 00:37:05.023 --> 00:37:05.813 Dolly Parton. 00:37:05.813 --> 00:37:11.523 She was one of 12- Mm … and her parents were sharecroppers, and she worked hard. 00:37:11.523 --> 00:37:11.702 That's 00:37:11.702 --> 00:37:12.072 crazy. 00:37:12.123 --> 00:37:12.693 Yes. 00:37:12.693 --> 00:37:14.253 And she always knew who she wanted to be. 00:37:14.253 --> 00:37:14.523 You could 00:37:14.643 --> 00:37:17.032 00 00:37:17.032 --> 00:37:17.277 00. 00:37:17.277 --> 00:37:17.682 00. 00:37:17.682 --> 00:37:20.485 But Dolly, Dolly worked more than 9:00 to 5:00. 00:37:20.485 --> 00:37:31.347 She was working probably up until the day that she got checked into that hospital Anyway, there's a vision of America that protects everyone, and we are not living that. 00:37:31.347 --> 00:37:37.807 But November 3rd, 2026… Oh, Brian, before we go, can you hit me with an Oath candidate of the week? 00:37:37.887 --> 00:37:40.458 It's kind of our good vibe to leave people with also. 00:37:40.458 --> 00:37:40.686 Ooh, okay. 00:37:40.686 --> 00:37:42.478 We're gonna jam it together this week. 00:37:42.478 --> 00:37:45.976 Our Oath candidate of the week is Rob Sand. 00:37:45.976 --> 00:38:03.726 Rob Sand is running for governor of Iowa, which might sound like exactly the kind of race that I would normally tell people not to donate to, because Democrats haven't won in Iowa, it seems like, in forever, regardless of what Ann Selzer said in 2024 when Kamala Harris was winning by 12 points in her poll. 00:38:03.726 --> 00:38:12.177 Well, this time around, multiple prognosticators now have the race leaning in Rob Sand's direction. 00:38:12.177 --> 00:38:16.516 He is actually the favorite in November, which is bananas. 00:38:16.516 --> 00:38:19.567 It's giving Andy Beshear energy, right? 00:38:19.567 --> 00:38:20.567 In, in a big way. 00:38:20.567 --> 00:38:22.947 Andy Beshear being- Mm-hmm … the Democratic governor of Kentucky. 00:38:22.947 --> 00:38:25.967 It just, like, seems like it's impossible, but here we are. 00:38:25.967 --> 00:38:27.737 He's running an incredible campaign. 00:38:27.737 --> 00:38:31.737 The Iowa State Fair has been going on, and he is killing it. 00:38:31.737 --> 00:38:31.748 Mm-hmm. 00:38:31.748 --> 00:38:45.188 Just, like, really, really knows the voters of Iowa in a way that's allowing him to carve his own lane and define what being a Democrat means to him- Mm-hmm … and maintain, like, mass appeal in Iowa. 00:38:45.188 --> 00:38:48.077 So it's a very masterful campaign, very exciting to see. 00:38:48.077 --> 00:38:50.126 He also is creating coattails. 00:38:50.126 --> 00:38:56.996 He's gonna turn out so many Democrats that we have three potential flip opportunities in the congressional seats. 00:38:56.996 --> 00:39:00.527 Sarah Trone Garriott, Lindsay James, Christina Bohannan. 00:39:00.527 --> 00:39:01.666 Really exciting. 00:39:01.666 --> 00:39:09.177 Rob Sand's honestly gonna be the next governor of Iowa, and that is both- Hell yeah … your Oath candidate of the week and your good vibe goodbye. 00:39:09.356 --> 00:39:09.887 Love it. 00:39:09.887 --> 00:39:10.467 Rob Sand. 00:39:10.467 --> 00:39:12.407 Some say Kennedy good looks. 00:39:12.407 --> 00:39:15.447 That's what the internet's saying. 00:39:15.447 --> 00:39:19.356 But I, but unfortunately- I… … I think it's like JFK sickly Kennedy. 00:39:19.356 --> 00:39:20.936 It's, it's not like- Eeh. 00:39:20.936 --> 00:39:22.427 Yeah. 00:39:22.836 --> 00:39:23.367 Sure. 00:39:23.367 --> 00:39:23.856 Sure. 00:39:23.856 --> 00:39:24.666 Don't Google him. 00:39:24.666 --> 00:39:24.927 The, the straights. 00:39:24.927 --> 00:39:32.996 But make sure to vote for Rob Sand for governor of Iowa, and that is Vibes Only for the week. 00:39:32.996 --> 00:39:38.987 Please make sure to comment, share, and have a great week. 00:39:38.987 --> 00:39:47.307 We'll be back here next week, same time, same place, to check the vibes of American politics, and keep you guys in the loop on everything midterms. 00:39:48.277 --> 00:39:48.927 Iowa. 00:39:48.927 --> 00:39:49.766 Bye. 00:39:52.436 --> 00:39:52.916 Thank you for that. 00:39:53.677 --> 00:39:54.197 Yeah.