บทถอดความฉบับเต็มของ Eric Schmitt Mixed Up the Hawks and the Hawkeyes

omitted- Yeah … because the races that you actually should be helping are right here listed for you." And of course, you could go on and on and on, but nobody has the time, energy, or money to do all of them, so we have to be selective. 00:04:45.156 --> 00:04:49.464 That's literally the whole point- Yeah … of, of doing an exercise like this. 00:04:50.004 --> 00:04:55.795 Yeah, and there are many, many people focused on the Senate races, that people are in your DM saying that you're not focusing on. 00:04:55.805 --> 00:04:55.824 Yeah. 00:04:55.915 --> 00:04:56.725 Myself included. 00:04:56.745 --> 00:05:11.076 Like, there- Right … there are plenty of resources at the Senate level for these states, but it is… Like, we've talked about this so much on the podcast, the importance of having your state government be Democratic and not Republican. 00:05:11.076 --> 00:05:12.185 We- Right … we've seen what's happened. 00:05:12.495 --> 00:05:14.685 So yeah, people should check that out. 00:05:14.694 --> 00:05:15.115 Go online. 00:05:15.115 --> 00:05:16.165 We're everywhere. 00:05:16.175 --> 00:05:22.105 There's-- We're, we're literally everywhere, and I'm gonna also be literally everywhere over the next, I don't know, 30 days. 00:05:22.105 --> 00:05:23.725 I can't do math, but until November 3rd. 00:05:23.795 --> 00:05:28.396 So if you wanna see some reporting from the states, follow me. 00:05:28.504 --> 00:05:29.415 Where are you going? 00:05:30.024 --> 00:05:30.786 Where am I going? 00:05:31.144 --> 00:05:32.074 I'm going to Iowa. 00:05:32.774 --> 00:05:32.995 Oh. 00:05:33.024 --> 00:05:35.324 I'm going to Ohio. 00:05:35.785 --> 00:05:36.654 Hey. 00:05:36.675 --> 00:05:36.944 Where? 00:05:36.946 --> 00:05:37.636 Yes. 00:05:37.805 --> 00:05:38.565 Columbus. 00:05:38.665 --> 00:05:39.644 Georgia. 00:05:40.663 --> 00:05:42.634 Michigan, Texas. 00:05:42.713 --> 00:05:46.074 So we're, we're hitting the big- Okay … the big Senate races there. 00:05:46.524 --> 00:05:46.994 Yeah. 00:05:47.903 --> 00:05:51.283 And it really shows that we are competitive everywhere, man. 00:05:51.293 --> 00:05:51.314 Mm-hmm. 00:05:51.324 --> 00:05:54.283 There are competitive races going on everywhere. 00:05:54.283 --> 00:05:56.994 You just have to selectively pick the right ones. 00:05:57.233 --> 00:05:59.283 We had new polling come out this week. 00:05:59.283 --> 00:06:08.512 There's always new polling, but more polling that showed Democrats up in the generic by 11, which is just so crazy. 00:06:08.553 --> 00:06:19.223 I'm not trusting that on its face, but directionally, we're averaging more than eight on the generic, which is a really good place for us to be at this point. 00:06:19.843 --> 00:06:39.382 It is making Democrats a little bit crazy, where people just now think that everything's in play and they wanna invest in these, like, super red Trump plus 30 places, uh, which I'm down for, but not until we have funded the Trump plus 20 and the Trump plus 10 at the down ballot level. 00:06:39.403 --> 00:06:50.764 Like, you shouldn't be spending- Right … on a Trump plus 30 Senate seat when you have a Trump plus 6 that it- we're gonna lose at the state legs level because they're being outraised three to one. 00:06:50.843 --> 00:06:51.572 Like, that doesn't make any sense. 00:06:51.572 --> 00:06:51.872 Yeah. 00:06:52.793 --> 00:06:53.142 So that's 00:06:53.142 --> 00:06:53.403 the issue. 00:06:53.403 --> 00:06:58.442 And for those who don't know, a generic ballot is like if you were to vote for a Dem or Republican right now, who would you vote for? 00:06:58.452 --> 00:06:58.802 Yeah. 00:06:59.103 --> 00:07:00.163 They don't tell you any names. 00:07:00.194 --> 00:07:00.783 They just ask you party. 00:07:00.783 --> 00:07:01.603 They don't tell you names. 00:07:01.603 --> 00:07:03.783 Just, it's… That's actually, like, the vibes poll. 00:07:04.382 --> 00:07:07.423 Like, are you vibing more- It is … with a Dem or a Republican? 00:07:07.834 --> 00:07:26.634 And two things I wanna touch on from that, which is also, you brought this up before we started recording, Ken Paxton, you know, the, the polls themselves are doing whatever, but then Ken Paxton, the most corrupt, potentially the most corrupt behind Donald Trump candidate to ever live, impeached by his own party, the list goes on and on, said, "You know what, Donald Trump? 00:07:26.642 --> 00:07:31.023 You at the, the Dallas Republican Convention, you actually hurt me. 00:07:31.382 --> 00:07:35.572 Like, the, the, your brand hurt me." It's, it li- literally is comical. 00:07:36.223 --> 00:07:37.173 It is comical. 00:07:38.346 --> 00:07:55.706 And then, Brian, I wanna bring up, which I feel like everyone should be burning trash, like everyone should be so pissed about this, but the Donald Trump ads, the MAGA Republican ads that then the disclosure is paid by the federal government, your taxpayer dollars. 00:07:55.827 --> 00:07:58.927 You are b- you are marketing Donald Trump, whether or not you know it or not. 00:07:59.377 --> 00:07:59.416 It's 00:07:59.536 --> 00:07:59.807 crazy. 00:07:59.817 --> 00:08:00.576 Let's talk about it. 00:08:00.627 --> 00:08:06.906 It's so bananas, and it's very obviously illegal on its face. 00:08:07.336 --> 00:08:41.807 But what's happening is they're using money from the Department of Homeland Security because, as we've talked about for over a year, they cut a blank check to DHS for this ICE and CBP, Customs and Border Patrol, money in, in, like, the hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade, whatever it was, and they've just used it as a slush fund to do whatever they want, um, because it was, like, multiples of the agency's actual annual budget or anything remotely close to what was needed. 00:08:42.398 --> 00:08:48.297 And now they just do whatever they want with that money and pay people off, um, like, very much like this. 00:08:48.307 --> 00:08:59.687 So now they're spending-- They've thus far spent $2.5 million on ads

promoting Donald Trump and Republicans ahead of the midterms. 00:08:59.687 --> 00:09:06.106 It's against the Hatch Act, which is what separates, like, campaigns from the official side. 00:09:06.116 --> 00:09:06.168 Mm-hmm. 00:09:06.456 --> 00:09:19.657 And it's also a violation of another federal statute that I couldn't tell you the name of that bars any federal funds anywhere in the government from pr- promoting or glorifying an individual. 00:09:19.657 --> 00:09:26.187 People might have seen, there was like a semi-viral clip from a constitutional lawyer breaking down why it was illegal. 00:09:26.187 --> 00:09:35.486 But it's just plainly, blatantly illegal, and they have 20 million more dollars worth of advertising that they're planning to do. 00:09:35.506 --> 00:09:37.528 They said they are, quote,"just getting started." 00:09:38.357 --> 00:09:38.707 Yeah. 00:09:38.707 --> 00:09:43.366 You look at your paycheck, and you see that money come out to the federal government. 00:09:44.447 --> 00:09:51.697 That's going to pay for Donald Trump ads indirectly, but it's… I just feel like more Americans should, should be, like, up in arms about this. 00:09:51.706 --> 00:09:51.726 Yeah. 00:09:52.288 --> 00:09:52.998 And they're not. 00:09:54.707 --> 00:09:59.798 But we will keep on keeping on for the next 30 something days until November 3rd. 00:10:00.668 --> 00:10:08.697 Yeah, and they're saying that they're not campaign ads, but they're actually frame for frame the same as 2024 campaign ads that 00:10:09.668 --> 00:10:09.778 Donald Trump 00:10:09.778 --> 00:10:09.807 ran. 00:10:09.807 --> 00:10:09.847 No, literally. 00:10:09.847 --> 00:10:14.008 They're, like, identical to actual campaign ads that they were running pre-election. 00:10:14.008 --> 00:10:18.317 So it's, uh, it's just kind of farcical. 00:10:18.846 --> 00:10:19.856 It's farcical. 00:10:20.517 --> 00:10:20.726 Yeah. 00:10:20.727 --> 00:10:20.856 Is that a 00:10:20.856 --> 00:10:21.907 real, is that a real word? 00:10:22.277 --> 00:10:23.148 It is now. 00:10:23.246 --> 00:10:23.918 It is now. 00:10:24.288 --> 00:10:29.847 Uh- No, I think it is … he also is, like, saying,"Pretend I'm on the ballot. 00:10:27.067 --> 00:10:30.548 Pretend you're voting for me." Oh, we are. 00:10:30.557 --> 00:10:31.297 Pretend I- Oh. 00:10:31.297 --> 00:10:31.927 Yeah. 00:10:31.927 --> 00:10:32.667 We are. 00:10:33.118 --> 00:10:34.837 Yeah, we're marrying you. 00:10:35.017 --> 00:10:39.816 And all these Republicans now who are like, "Actually, the, the war in Iran is bad." I know. 00:10:39.816 --> 00:10:44.136 I said, "Well, you actually voted, Ashley Hinson, seven times for it." It's very- So- 00:10:44.767 --> 00:10:46.736 Yeah, if it, if it weren't sad, it would be funny. 00:10:46.736 --> 00:10:49.898 I guess it's still a little funny 'cause I don't know what to do but laugh. 00:10:49.908 --> 00:11:01.346 But, um, yeah, you have Republicans in deep red seats that are coming out like, "Eh, maybe, maybe Trump wasn't right on this thing over here. Maybe ICE went too far. 00:10:57.466 --> 00:11:03.768 Maybe we actually shouldn't be murdering people in the street." 00:11:03.876 --> 00:11:06.716 Deporting people to third countries that they- Random 00:11:07.167 --> 00:11:07.326 countries. 00:11:07.326 --> 00:11:07.716 Yeah. 00:11:08.357 --> 00:11:09.996 Anyway, we see you Republicans. 00:11:10.047 --> 00:11:12.937 Brian and I see you, and we're coming for you. 00:11:14.138 --> 00:11:36.267 It is a little funny with the, the commercials just how it's, it's just another thing in a long string of things that are sort of i- inexplicable that Donald Trump has e- engaged in or, or decisions that he's made that are really indefensible heading into a, an election where he's historically unpopular. 00:11:36.557 --> 00:11:40.216 His unfavorability is now at a record level. 00:11:40.287 --> 00:11:46.976 Not in the last 40 years have we seen- Mm-hmm … a president heading into a midterm cycle this unpopular. 00:11:47.417 --> 00:11:53.576 And then at the same time, mortgage rates just soared above 7.5%. 00:11:53.616 --> 00:11:55.517 Nobody's- They're 7.8%… GLENNIS MEAGHER: buying a house. 00:11:55.657 --> 00:11:56.047 Aren't they? 00:11:56.187 --> 00:11:56.517 Yeah. 00:11:56.606 --> 00:11:58.008 It's bananas. 00:11:58.657 --> 00:12:01.716 Diesel highest it's ever been. 00:12:01.866 --> 00:12:08.376 I'm seeing constant viral content over, like, $1,000 gas bills at the gas station. 00:12:08.427 --> 00:12:10.207 And then Trump, it's so funny. 00:12:10.277 --> 00:12:11.206 I can't even deal. 00:12:11.427 --> 00:12:12.797 I'm reading from Punchbowl. 00:12:12.807 --> 00:12:18.246 Mm. Trump is planning to begin a national political tour on Thursday focused largely on Republican strongholds. 00:12:18.256 --> 00:12:27.366 So he's specifically going to red places 'cause he can't even, like- Yeah turn people out or, or have a, a decent- Right … presence in, in anywhere purple. 00:12:28.187 --> 00:12:31.177 The president will talk about how great data centers are. 00:12:33.397 --> 00:12:36.287 He's going on a data center promotional tour. 00:12:37.374 --> 00:12:39.614 It's the one thing everyone agrees on. 00:12:39.624 --> 00:12:40.813 Is against, yeah. 00:12:40.813 --> 00:12:48.183 Other than him being just, like, a piece of shit, is like, it's so widely unpopular to be pro data center right now. 00:12:48.254 --> 00:12:50.533 And he's like, "Wait, let me tie myself- 00:12:50.583 --> 00:13:13.312 Yeah… BRIAN DERRICK: to the Republican I'm gonna tell you I'm on the ballot, and then I'm gonna tie myself also to data centers in your backyard." Two kind of addendums I wanna add to this point, which is my heat was on this morning in my apartment, and I was like, "Damn, too soon." Let me, let me Google the cost of heat, if it's gone up, 'cause I'm thinking about, like, how much is this gonna cost me. 00:13:13.494 --> 00:13:14.004 Okay. 00:13:14.283 --> 00:13:16.102 It's up 8.7%.

00:13:16.102 --> 00:13:19.592 Americans are going to pay 8.7% more on their heating costs this year. 00:13:19.614 --> 00:13:23.013 Over $1,000 more- Yikes … from last year. 00:13:23.352 --> 00:13:30.732 Oil is up 31%, electricity is up 9%, propane is up 8.7%, natural gas is up 5.8%. 00:13:30.732 --> 00:13:35.413 Adding that stat to what's- Yeah … what it's gonna cost you to keep your family warm this winter. 00:13:35.763 --> 00:13:36.123 And- Not 00:13:36.123 --> 00:13:36.543 me. 00:13:36.832 --> 00:13:38.014 I'll be in a sleeping bag. 00:13:38.972 --> 00:13:40.773 S- Don't catch me with that 10%. 00:13:40.774 --> 00:13:40.783 I-- 00:13:41.533 --> 00:13:42.852 Yeah, I'll put a hat on. 00:13:43.222 --> 00:13:46.363 I put some wool socks and a hat on, put a heating pad in bed with me. 00:13:46.364 --> 00:13:48.113 It is Victorian times, okay? 00:13:48.124 --> 00:13:48.144 It 00:13:49.423 --> 00:13:50.634 is Victorian times. 00:13:51.053 --> 00:13:54.192 This is very, like, corrupt. 00:13:54.212 --> 00:13:56.962 I was reading this this morning on the data center of it all. 00:13:57.072 --> 00:14:07.373 Did you see the New York Times headline about Meta and the tax loophole that they are using for data centers, and how it is saving them? 00:14:07.403 --> 00:14:08.982 Let me just get this number right. 00:14:09.123 --> 00:14:16.013 They shaved $2 billion with this strategy off their taxes in 2024, and almost 4 billion off in 2025. 00:14:16.383 --> 00:14:21.863 And what Meta is doing with data centers is they're saying that it's experimental, it's innovative. 00:14:21.873 --> 00:14:33.852 It's a, a 1980s, probably Reagan-era tax loophole that says if you're, like, engaging in innovative research and strategy, you can cut your operational costs for said research and innovation. 00:14:34.523 --> 00:14:35.803 So Mark Zuckerberg- 00:14:36.312 --> 00:14:36.592 That's 00:14:36.614 --> 00:14:49.222 wild and Meta, with the data centers that are making your electrical bill more expensive and your reality horrible, the humming, the constant humming and, like, sound coming out of data centers. 00:14:50.082 --> 00:14:52.113 He's just- Right … laughing all the way to the bank. 00:14:52.624 --> 00:14:53.793 And Trump wants him to. 00:14:53.893 --> 00:14:55.043 Trump wants him to. 00:14:55.043 --> 00:14:55.602 That's so crazy. 00:14:55.602 --> 00:15:05.124 The exact IRS terminology is, like, pilot models, so they're saying that the chips they're buying from Nvidia and all of these centers are pilot models. 00:15:05.143 --> 00:15:09.592 I'm like, "I'm gonna pilot model a new life, and write it off 00:15:12.395 --> 00:15:20.615 Okay, so we're in a new term of the Supreme Court, and we're gonna get a bunch more shitty decisions based on the cases that they're deciding to take up. 00:15:21.306 --> 00:15:36.535 But the thing that I did wanna celebrate is that this makes it pretty much impossible or extremely unlikely that Alito or Thomas decides to step down from the Supreme Court pre-November. 00:15:36.565 --> 00:15:37.865 Like, it's basically too late. 00:15:37.904 --> 00:15:40.125 The Senate's out of session after today anyway. 00:15:40.275 --> 00:15:44.625 So Trump is not getting his replacement pre-midterms. 00:15:45.125 --> 00:15:55.264 There's a chance that if we flip the Senate, they could try to do it in the lame duck, meaning between the election and when new senators are sworn in. 00:15:55.985 --> 00:15:56.514 Well- 00:15:56.635 --> 00:16:00.534 But that would be a challenge and potentially unprecedented. 00:16:00.534 --> 00:16:02.745 I would need to go do some additional research. 00:16:02.794 --> 00:16:12.135 And Jon Husted, the senator from Ohio who's filling out- Mm-hmm … JD's term, doesn't have until January. 00:16:12.144 --> 00:16:14.335 He's only in his seat- He's out, 00:16:14.414 --> 00:16:14.774 right? 00:16:14.784 --> 00:16:17.075 The, the, the appointment only lasts until December 15th. 00:16:17.554 --> 00:16:17.735 Yeah, 00:16:17.796 --> 00:16:18.304 see ya. 00:16:18.325 --> 00:16:23.264 And so they'll lose another seat as well, even before new senators are sworn in. 00:16:23.274 --> 00:16:26.066 So we might be, we might be in safe harbor. 00:16:26.075 --> 00:16:37.754 We might be in the period of time where if we do flip the Senate, then we might be able to block a Supreme Court replacement for Trump. 00:16:37.894 --> 00:16:39.764 I mean, the issue that we're gonna have is Fetterman. 00:16:40.605 --> 00:16:41.294 So- 00:16:41.355 --> 00:16:42.586 Did you see his gaffe- 00:16:43.125 --> 00:16:43.655 Yeah … this week? 00:16:43.695 --> 00:16:45.235 So, so bad. 00:16:45.375 --> 00:16:49.905 For those who missed it, he said, "I've, I've been a lifelong Republican. 00:16:50.004 --> 00:16:51.465 Oh, uh, I mean, Democrat." 00:16:52.174 --> 00:16:53.145 He didn't even correct it. 00:16:53.145 --> 00:16:54.495 It's he, he got corrected. 00:16:54.504 --> 00:16:56.034 It was so crazy. 00:16:56.644 --> 00:17:01.455 I mean- So crazy … it's weird that we don't talk about the fact that he is suffering from brain damage. 00:17:01.524 --> 00:17:04.525 It's, it's weird to me that we don't talk about it more often. 00:17:04.634 --> 00:17:08.795 I'm like, is this like a ableism thing? 00:17:08.805 --> 00:17:10.565 Is that, like, why we're not saying this? 00:17:10.585 --> 00:17:10.914 No. 00:17:10.924 --> 00:17:13.925 But, like, we should talk about how, like, he- We're not so woke … had a stroke- Be 00:17:13.925 --> 00:17:14.375 stoked out. 00:17:14.464 --> 00:17:20.954 Yeah, he's, he's-… has brain damage, is not competent to serve at all, and is still in office. 00:17:20.964 --> 00:17:24.615 It's ver- it's weird to me that we don't just, like, say that m- more. 00:17:24.714 --> 00:17:26.045 I don't see people saying it more. 00:17:26.195 --> 00:17:42.453 Maybe we should add in, like, our accountability era some sort of policy that says if elected official suffers a serious medical incident that requires

insert length of hospital stay here- They lose their job 00:17:42.542 --> 00:17:44.683 This is the Tom Kean Jr. 00:17:44.792 --> 00:17:51.792 thing as well- Mm-hmm … where he was gone for four months with no explanation, not even a doctor's note, nothing. 00:17:51.803 --> 00:17:57.243 Didn't tell anyone, didn't tell… Literally didn't tell anyone, just stopped showing up to work for four months. 00:17:58.002 --> 00:18:05.123 But while he was gone, continued to sign approvals for stock transactions. 00:18:05.673 --> 00:18:06.303 Oh, 00:18:06.443 --> 00:18:07.313 so he was- Um Okay. 00:18:07.323 --> 00:18:09.163 So that he could- He was fit enough … making money. 00:18:09.423 --> 00:18:10.032 Yes. 00:18:10.083 --> 00:18:10.423 Right. 00:18:10.453 --> 00:18:10.933 Mm. Correct. 00:18:10.982 --> 00:18:19.613 But couldn't attend a meeting, couldn't call in, couldn't do an interview, couldn't tell anyone where he was, but he could sign off on stock transactions. 00:18:20.123 --> 00:18:23.932 And he was gone for inpatient treatment for depression. 00:18:24.493 --> 00:18:24.844 Yeah. 00:18:24.923 --> 00:18:26.633 Which- I feel like I've made my feelings about that. 00:18:26.634 --> 00:18:27.603 I think that you have the same one. 00:18:27.634 --> 00:18:28.752 It's like no tea, no shade. 00:18:29.042 --> 00:18:29.483 Great. 00:18:29.483 --> 00:18:30.173 Get treatment. 00:18:30.192 --> 00:18:30.762 Love that. 00:18:30.773 --> 00:18:33.173 You don't need to be in Congress while you do that. 00:18:33.212 --> 00:18:49.284 You actually aren't entitled to this seat regardless of what happens to you, and so I'm very sorry that you went through that, but, like, make a decision to take time away to be with your family, to get well- To get well and then run again in the future. 00:18:49.323 --> 00:18:57.593 That's like your- Yeah … you have the ability to do that, but you don't have the right to sit on a seat and just deprive almost a million people of any representation. 00:18:58.252 --> 00:18:58.603 Yeah. 00:18:58.982 --> 00:19:00.663 Love and light- It's a joke … with you next. 00:19:00.863 --> 00:19:02.903 Same with Fetterman, get the fuck out. 00:19:03.442 --> 00:19:03.833 Yeah. 00:19:03.843 --> 00:19:12.022 Did you see the stat that our elected officials in the federal government would not meet the work requirement in the new SNAP rules? 00:19:12.243 --> 00:19:14.663 Like, they did not physically work enough this year. 00:19:14.932 --> 00:19:29.363 For those who don't know, with the big brutal bill, murder bill, MAGA murder budget, whatever you wanna call it, the thing that literally stripped children from SNAP benefits, they had a new work requirement for receiving SNAP, which said that you had to work X amount of days per year in order to receive the benefit. 00:19:29.472 --> 00:19:36.532 And the viral post is that the House has not worked enough to receive that. 00:19:36.663 --> 00:19:37.243 It's crazy. 00:19:37.634 --> 00:19:41.003 The least productive Congress we've had in over a century. 00:19:41.292 --> 00:19:41.962 It's pretty crazy. 00:19:43.212 --> 00:19:44.913 It's what a Republican trifecta will get you. 00:19:45.873 --> 00:19:46.413 Mm. 00:19:46.993 --> 00:19:49.343 Did you watch any of the Jack Smith hearings? 00:19:50.364 --> 00:19:51.042 Did I? 00:19:51.053 --> 00:19:51.123 In Senate. 00:19:51.123 --> 00:19:58.962 As someone who's going to the Iowa Hawkeyes homecoming game this weekend, I sure did. 00:19:59.403 --> 00:20:00.813 Wait, it's so funny. 00:20:00.973 --> 00:20:02.323 It's really funny. 00:20:02.492 --> 00:20:08.492 So for those who missed it, Jack Smith, the Republicans are trying, it's a witch hunt against him, right? 00:20:08.492 --> 00:20:16.693 Like, this is an actual witch hunt, and there was this moment that felt like truly a Veep episode where this Republican senator from Missouri, what's his name? 00:20:16.762 --> 00:20:17.223 Eric Schmitt. 00:20:17.383 --> 00:20:39.765 Eric Schmitt, is trying to pin Jack Smith for perjury by saying that he's lying about where he was on a date and time, and he is trying to say that he was in Atlanta with Fani Willis, who they're trying to say is super corrupt, yada, yada, yada The senator is like, "The Hawks. 00:20:39.984 --> 00:20:45.826 Were you at the Hawks game?" And Jack's like, "Mm, no. 00:20:45.836 --> 00:20:48.655 Like I, I- no, I don't think I was there." 00:20:48.845 --> 00:21:01.605 B- basically, he switched the Iowa Hawkeyes with the Atlanta Hawks, NBA team, college football team, and they were trying to claim that Jack Smith was in Atlanta when he was actually in Iowa. 00:21:02.184 --> 00:21:06.734 And it comes out, like, live, and he thought that he had him in this gotcha moment. 00:21:06.744 --> 00:21:09.255 They had, like, posters blown up with evidence. 00:21:09.255 --> 00:21:20.256 They, like, were laying out this whole case and timeline, whatever, and the whole thing was a mistake by some intern who prepped Eric Schmitt's remarks. 00:21:20.286 --> 00:21:35.275 As we all know, a bunch of senators on both sides of the aisle are just reading when-- in these hearings- And they don't know they're just reading- Yeah… whatever staff sort of puts in front of them as, like, "Here's your line of questioning that we prepared for this witness," whatever. 00:21:35.335 --> 00:21:47.204 He's just reading from it, and oh my gosh, I just think about the staffer who prepped it, watching it unfold live and realizing their mistake. 00:21:47.625 --> 00:21:48.076 Oh, yeah. 00:21:48.144 --> 00:21:49.066 Oh my gosh. 00:21:49.075 --> 00:21:52.795 You couldn't sink-- I would be under the Earth's crust. 00:21:52.846 --> 00:21:55.785 I would… No. 00:21:55.795 --> 00:22:01.996 It's so embarrassing 'cause he really- Yeah … came at him like he was trapping him in this thing. 00:22:02.045 --> 00:22:02.214 No. 00:22:02.566 --> 00:22:02.776 Yeah. 00:22:02.776 --> 00:22:10.315 And then just wildly, wildly off the mark, Amy Klobuchar also was

like, "Are you fucking kidding me with this?" You're wrong. 00:22:10.316 --> 00:22:10.605 Yeah. 00:22:10.615 --> 00:22:11.155 Like, what are you talking about? 00:22:11.316 --> 00:22:15.655 She was like,"You're wrong." Yeah, and then he, like, had a meltdown and was like, "You're still a dirt bag," and, like, ran away. 00:22:16.005 --> 00:22:19.365 But to your point, we need to bring back fear. 00:22:19.555 --> 00:22:27.205 As a former Senate staffer, you were-- I'm not saying… You, you, you had a f- a fear of disappointing your principal. 00:22:27.205 --> 00:22:41.025 You had a fear of getting the facts wrong because you understood the weight and the importance of the position of being a senator and getting it right for your constituents, and making sure that the senator looked good and had fact-based information. 00:22:41.305 --> 00:22:46.836 To me, also, I saw that, I was like, that Republican in that office to not know who the Iowa Hawkeyes are? 00:22:46.996 --> 00:22:50.565 To not know, like, these, like, core college football teams? 00:22:50.595 --> 00:22:52.644 I feel like I don't even like football. 00:22:52.826 --> 00:22:58.326 I could probably name most college football teams and NFL teams because I'm an American. 00:22:59.474 --> 00:23:02.414 The senator's also from Missouri, so I'm like- 00:23:03.005 --> 00:23:03.275 You're 00:23:03.345 --> 00:23:05.935 close to Iowa… you're-- you share a border. 00:23:05.996 --> 00:23:07.664 Like, it's right there. 00:23:08.246 --> 00:23:15.056 The reason it was particularly funny is that no one, literally no one knows who Eric Schmitt is. 00:23:15.076 --> 00:23:18.875 No one knew before this was ultra viral this week. 00:23:19.826 --> 00:23:34.693 The day before this happened, actually maybe even the morning of- There was a whole piece in Axios about how he is JD Vance's favorite for VP- … when Vance runs for president. 00:23:34.943 --> 00:23:50.482 And so this moron is literally getting, same day, is getting national spotlight for consideration- An idiot … as a potential VP pick, and makes tons of news as a literal village idiot. 00:23:52.242 --> 00:23:52.893 Hilarious. 00:23:53.012 --> 00:23:54.114 It's, it was mortifying. 00:23:54.163 --> 00:23:54.863 Folks should look it up. 00:23:54.864 --> 00:23:57.683 Maybe we can roll the clip here so people can hear it live. 00:23:58.153 --> 00:24:04.153 Did you go to an NBA game between the Golden State Warriors and the Atlanta Hawks on February 3rd, 2024? 00:24:04.294 --> 00:24:05.753 Let me, let me just give you a little context. 00:24:05.753 --> 00:24:05.942 Yeah. 00:24:05.953 --> 00:24:10.032 The day before, Fani Willis came clean with her affair with the prosecutor. 00:24:10.032 --> 00:24:12.433 You know the Atlanta prosecutor that was also trying to get Trump? 00:24:12.634 --> 00:24:14.453 The next day, were you in Atlanta? 00:24:15.232 --> 00:24:15.782 No. 00:24:15.942 --> 00:24:26.044 What would you say if I had a series of text messages from your

team that said you were in Atlanta at a Warrior Hawks game on February 3rd, 2024, the day after Willis and Wade announced their affair? 00:24:26.303 --> 00:24:28.303 Y- I don't think you know that we have this stuff. 00:24:28.314 --> 00:24:28.334 Yeah. 00:24:28.794 --> 00:24:32.554 So I'll give you a second to process it so you don't, you know, perjure yourself. 00:24:32.752 --> 00:24:35.753 You've, I think you've already perjured yourself, but, um- 00:24:36.114 --> 00:24:44.583 If this is the correct basketball game, I recall going to a University of Maryland basketball game where Caitlin Clark was playing. 00:24:44.794 --> 00:24:51.532 Right around that time was Maryland playing Iowa, I think February of 2024. 00:24:51.532 --> 00:24:55.272 But again, that's … You can check that out if that's what we're talking about 00:24:59.170 --> 00:25:03.160 Could, could it then be that University of Iowa is the Hawkeyes? 00:25:03.660 --> 00:25:06.069 Could that be it if he was at an Iowa game? 00:25:06.130 --> 00:25:06.900 Is that correct? 00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:10.109 It, it was because Caitlin Clark was coming to Maryland to play. 00:25:10.288 --> 00:25:15.500 That might be the confusion over the names of the team, but perhaps you should have looked at it more carefully. 00:25:15.549 --> 00:25:15.950 But it's not your time. 00:25:15.950 --> 00:25:18.450 When you are calling a witness a dirt bag- 00:25:18.549 --> 00:25:19.492 I presented him with text 00:25:19.492 --> 00:25:19.935 messages- … and 00:25:19.935 --> 00:25:20.157 showing 00:25:20.157 --> 00:25:20.380 him 00:25:20.380 --> 00:25:22.739 these things … about him wanting to meet with people. 00:25:22.769 --> 00:25:23.028 Please. 00:25:23.259 --> 00:25:31.750 I'm gonna begin my questions now, but I think that people should have their facts straight- Oh, we had bonus time around here … before they accuse someone of being a dirt bag and not get the teams wrong. 00:25:31.750 --> 00:25:32.914 I stand by that statement. 00:25:32.914 --> 00:25:34.250 Uh, Klobuchar 00:25:34.250 --> 00:25:38.180 has the- Teams, you have the teams wrong, sir… CHAIRMAN: Senator Klobuchar- Mr. Chairman… has the floor. 00:25:38.798 --> 00:25:39.709 Go, proceed with your questions. 00:25:39.959 --> 00:25:40.479 Thank you. 00:25:41.548 --> 00:25:45.410 From the state of Minnesota, where we have the Gophers, so there's not a lot of confusion. 00:25:45.410 --> 00:25:46.068 Hee hee hee. 00:25:46.079 --> 00:25:46.799 Idiot. 00:25:47.650 --> 00:25:48.200 Okay. 00:25:48.749 --> 00:25:50.919 Should we do some click bait Double Click? 00:25:51.249 --> 00:25:51.429 Yeah. 00:25:52.028 --> 00:25:53.279 Okay Brian, headline one. 00:25:53.788 --> 00:25:53.839 All right. 00:25:54.329 --> 00:25:59.219 "Embarrassing breach at FBI fuels fear of harm to its employees." 00:25:59.420 --> 00:26:00.878 Wait, what i- what ha- what happened? 00:26:01.429 --> 00:26:03.930 Have you not been following the FBI breach? 00:26:04.538 --> 00:26:04.979 No. 00:26:05.049 --> 00:26:07.720 The huge hacking from Shiny Hunters? 00:26:07.730 --> 00:26:07.750 No. 00:26:08.049 --> 00:26:09.759 Okay, raise your hand if you've been hacked by- Shiny Hunters? 00:26:09.808 --> 00:26:10.209 I don't 00:26:10.209 --> 00:26:10.939 even know what that is. 00:26:10.970 --> 00:26:11.490 What is that? 00:26:11.858 --> 00:26:13.640 … GLENNIS MEAGHER: by I have. 00:26:13.660 --> 00:26:19.979 This is the worst hacking of federal databases since the 2012 hacking from China. 00:26:19.989 --> 00:26:20.769 Do you remember this? 00:26:21.138 --> 00:26:22.939 Of the Office of Personnel Management? 00:26:23.358 --> 00:26:23.509 Yes. 00:26:23.509 --> 00:26:24.719 Where they took my information. 00:26:24.730 --> 00:26:26.839 I'm like, "You're not, you're not gonna get much out of me. 00:26:27.028 --> 00:26:31.380 You, you can't make me a spy." Cut to, this was what, last week? 00:26:31.638 --> 00:26:50.838 So Shiny Hunters, which is a dark web hacking group, hacked the FBI and pulled tranches of data on their employees out, and then they blackmailed the FBI and said,"We're gonna do something with this information." It's a big deal. 00:26:51.098 --> 00:26:52.259 It's like a really- Yeah … big deal. 00:26:52.378 --> 00:27:00.429 It's Double Click just 'cause, like, the incompetency of our government under- Yeah the administration of Donald Trump and his cronies is just really pathetic. 00:27:00.829 --> 00:27:08.499 And like, I would be really scared if I was working, like, the Russia desk at FBI for 30 years as, like, an anonymous employee and all of my information was leaked. 00:27:08.638 --> 00:27:14.828 And now this, you know, vigilante hunter, Shiny Hunter hacker group. 00:27:14.909 --> 00:27:20.709 They said they're not gonna release it now, saying the FBI got to them, and they, they have arrested one person in, I believe, Amsterdam. 00:27:20.920 --> 00:27:29.397 But If I was China- Yeah … I'd be like, "I'm gonna give you guys a billion dollars for that information." Right. 00:27:29.397 --> 00:27:29.907 Right. 00:27:30.048 --> 00:27:32.356 Double-click indeed, 'cause I haven't even heard about it. 00:27:32.367 --> 00:27:46.107 But I do think that the FBI, despite elected Republicans' complaints about some sort of partisan whatever the fuck, is really widely respected. 00:27:46.166 --> 00:27:48.416 I think that's like a bipartisan thing that- 00:27:48.416 --> 00:27:50.217 Yeah… BRIAN DERRICK: people like the FBI. 00:27:50.217 --> 00:28:01.298 So any news about Trump undermining the ability for us to have law and order at that level is gonna resonate with conservative-leaning voters. 00:28:01.576 --> 00:28:02.727 Okay, my next one for you. 00:28:03.017 --> 00:28:12.237 Despite hosting the World Cup, the US saw a decline in overseas travel by more than two million people last year. 00:28:12.567 --> 00:28:15.386 It is now down more than 20%. 00:28:16.436 --> 00:28:31.137 And for context, tourism to the United States generates over

$2 trillion a year in economic activity, and is responsible for over 3% of GDP. 00:28:31.227 --> 00:28:33.936 This is the people coming to the United States to visit. 00:28:33.936 --> 00:28:34.356 Correct. 00:28:34.807 --> 00:28:35.406 Yeah, double-click. 00:28:35.406 --> 00:28:35.416 Correct. 00:28:35.416 --> 00:28:35.428 Down 00:28:35.428 --> 00:28:36.127 20%. 00:28:36.196 --> 00:28:41.728 Trump, MAGA Inc., MAGA Republicans, bad business. 00:28:41.807 --> 00:28:48.167 Bad for our economy, bad for the American people It's bad. 00:28:48.167 --> 00:28:48.327 Yeah. 00:28:48.327 --> 00:28:54.788 No one… Of- why would you want to come here if you're scared you're gonna be detained at the border without cause? 00:28:54.837 --> 00:28:56.857 Like this is, these are things that are happening. 00:28:56.958 --> 00:28:58.498 Double click, Trump is bad for business. 00:28:58.498 --> 00:28:59.397 He's bad for the economy. 00:28:59.397 --> 00:29:00.718 He's bad for small businesses. 00:29:00.727 --> 00:29:02.688 He's bad for your bottom line. 00:29:02.738 --> 00:29:10.057 This is part of the reason that the blue wave and all of the crazy positive data for Democrats seems legitimate. 00:29:10.116 --> 00:29:17.097 Like some of the things that make me believe that this is real and not just a bad polling year is because of things like this. 00:29:17.136 --> 00:29:23.498 Think about how many people are impacted by a 20% drop in tourism from overseas. 00:29:23.508 --> 00:29:23.768 Yeah. 00:29:24.167 --> 00:29:29.847 All kinds of people, all kinds of people of all different political persuasions- Yes … are directly affected by that. 00:29:30.188 --> 00:29:33.737 The same as we've talked about many times with the farmers, right? 00:29:33.767 --> 00:29:41.277 When you look at how- Mm-hmm … the ag industry has been impacted by Trump policies, uh, many Trump policies, like that's why it's real. 00:29:41.278 --> 00:29:44.896 That's why it's not a mirage of people just like registering annoyance. 00:29:44.957 --> 00:29:53.017 It is like a simmering economic rage that people- Totally … feel about having their livelihoods destroyed intentionally by Trump. 00:29:53.527 --> 00:29:57.637 Y- yeah, and I'm even looking at, you know, this college football tour I'm going on. 00:29:57.646 --> 00:30:00.894 Like the prices for these flights are astronomical, and this is something you've been doing with your family. 00:30:00.894 --> 00:30:02.017 Is it college football? 00:30:02.567 --> 00:30:03.047 Did you 00:30:03.057 --> 00:30:03.258 say that? 00:30:03.497 --> 00:30:04.127 Oh, yeah. 00:30:04.127 --> 00:30:06.156 That's what I'm… Yeah, I'm going to… No, I, I didn't say that, but now you know. 00:30:06.157 --> 00:30:15.698 Wait, it started as a US Senate tour of like, "Oh, Glennis is gonna be knocking on doors," and now it's just you going to- Oh … college football games to like shotgun beers at a tailgate? 00:30:16.217 --> 00:30:18.116 First of all, I will not be shotgunning a beer. 00:30:18.117 --> 00:30:21.596 I haven't done that for at least 15 years. 00:30:21.657 --> 00:30:26.718 No, it's, it's leveraging the power of college football and, uh- 00:30:26.767 --> 00:30:27.126 Hmm. 00:30:27.407 --> 00:30:28.626 Do you have tickets to the games? 00:30:29.106 --> 00:30:29.467 No. 00:30:29.657 --> 00:30:30.487 I'm not going to the games. 00:30:30.517 --> 00:30:30.797 I'm 00:30:31.008 --> 00:30:31.057 solely 00:30:31.057 --> 00:30:32.156 tailgating. 00:30:32.156 --> 00:30:32.166 Okay. 00:30:32.166 --> 00:30:32.186 All right. 00:30:32.186 --> 00:30:33.586 That was gonna be very sus. 00:30:33.606 --> 00:30:33.817 No. 00:30:33.827 --> 00:30:36.086 If you were a Republican, you would have tickets to the games. 00:30:36.356 --> 00:30:37.176 Oh, 100%. 00:30:37.217 --> 00:30:38.537 You would, you would have expensed that. 00:30:38.537 --> 00:30:38.636 And 00:30:38.636 --> 00:30:42.596 I would… Yeah, it would've been a pilot program, and I would've expensed it out to the IRS. 00:30:44.586 --> 00:30:56.896 If you're a family who's gone for 20 years, and you, maybe you live, you know, a couple states over, and you've flown or you've driven, and the, the cost to attend a homecoming game has gone up 30%- Right you might not be going, and that might affect your vote. 00:30:57.508 --> 00:30:57.917 Totally. 00:30:57.967 --> 00:31:01.297 I think it's gonna be a lot of people just who don't show up, you know? 00:31:01.337 --> 00:31:01.646 Mm-hmm. 00:31:01.846 --> 00:31:14.826 Because they're like, "Fuck this guy. He lied." A new alliance has formed between AI companies and private equity firms that is targeting seven states with data center expansions. 00:31:16.156 --> 00:31:16.757 I hate it. 00:31:16.767 --> 00:31:17.277 Double click. 00:31:17.278 --> 00:31:18.106 What are the states? 00:31:18.606 --> 00:31:20.077 Double fucking click. 00:31:20.656 --> 00:31:26.856 Texas, Georgia- Mm … Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and South Carolina. 00:31:29.607 --> 00:31:30.827 Interesting choices 00:31:30.968 --> 00:31:31.417 Double click. 00:31:31.417 --> 00:31:34.077 Can you- Yeah … can you quadruple click something? 00:31:34.107 --> 00:31:35.698 We're gonna quadruple click this. 00:31:36.038 --> 00:31:38.157 Yeah, that's absolutely crazy. 00:31:38.958 --> 00:31:50.238 We know that private equity is, like, the cause for the gentrification of, like, basically anything and everything you ever enjoyed, and this feels like the axis of evil of 2026. 00:31:50.576 --> 00:31:51.596 It's so bad. 00:31:51.596 --> 00:31:52.856 What do you… I don't- Right … even get it. 00:31:52.867 --> 00:32:05.268 So private equity is going to buy up, what, like, thousands of acres of farmland to make sure that OpenAI and, like, Palantir have as much data as humanly possible? 00:32:05.517 --> 00:32:07.436 And, uh, sorry, I could go on and on. 00:32:07.488 --> 00:32:09.086 Here's my, here's my take on it. 00:32:09.147 --> 00:32:19.596 More data centers have been built or are,

like, in the works being discussed in the whole US than, like, Burger Kings or Wendy's. 00:32:19.636 --> 00:32:39.137 Like, it's so many, and as the pushback and backlash has gotten more severe, I think that what has happened is the people with a financial interest in building more data centers, which are AI companies and- Mm-hmm … the financiers backing them, have decided they can't fight everyone all at once. 00:32:39.188 --> 00:32:52.478 So they need to define a set of battles that they think they can win and fight the war on those specific fronts, rather than trying to win over everyone everywhere all at once. 00:32:52.478 --> 00:32:53.467 It's too expensive. 00:32:53.798 --> 00:33:17.606 And so they're narrowing their focus to seven states where they can buy legislators, they can focus their political operations on ousting people who stand in their way, and buying, you'll notice based on the states, Republican- Yeah … majorities and pushing through their agendas and favorable policies to building more data centers in these states. 00:33:17.886 --> 00:33:20.767 The only one with split government is Pennsylvania. 00:33:21.047 --> 00:33:21.267 Yeah. 00:33:21.267 --> 00:33:28.157 All the other ones have unified Republican control, and they know that Republicans will do anything for cash. 00:33:28.497 --> 00:33:28.636 Yeah. 00:33:28.636 --> 00:33:31.537 Like, they, they've proven that time and time and time and time and time again. 00:33:31.547 --> 00:33:31.866 Yeah. 00:33:31.866 --> 00:33:45.366 And so that's, that is what is happening in my eyes, is they're like, "We actually can't simultaneously be battling policy in New York, and in Florida, and in Montana, and in California. 00:33:45.396 --> 00:33:46.948 Like, we have to pick. 00:33:47.307 --> 00:33:50.106 We're gonna go all in on these seven." Yeah. 00:33:50.317 --> 00:33:57.376 "We're gonna change who's in charge in these places, and then we're gonna jam all of the data centers that we need into these seven states." 00:33:57.557 --> 00:34:05.817 I really hate that, and I am going to read more on that, given that I'm gonna be in four of those states that you mentioned. 00:34:05.866 --> 00:34:08.157 They're building a data center outside of Iowa City. 00:34:08.157 --> 00:34:09.538 I was looking at that yesterday. 00:34:09.777 --> 00:34:10.126 Hmm. 00:34:12.373 --> 00:34:13.023 I hate it. 00:34:13.063 --> 00:34:13.623 I hate it. 00:34:13.663 --> 00:34:24.173 And, and then we don't have time for this, but then you, you kind of get into like, you know, the AI leaders were at the White House this week, and they're talking about how everything needs to be regulated, and it's called regulatory control. 00:34:24.673 --> 00:34:33.512 Like, they're trying to say, "We wanna say exactly how it's gonna be regulated to make sure that we're still the leaders in this industry." It's very nefarious, and I hate it. 00:34:33.543 --> 00:34:33.663 Yeah. 00:34:33.682 --> 00:34:35.543 Double click, quadruple click. 00:34:35.923 --> 00:34:36.472 For sure. 00:34:36.583 --> 00:34:56.724 I mean, to your point about the AI dinner or lunch that was just had at the White House- Mm-hmm it answers the question that I think a lot of, like, MAGA and MAGA curious and Trump voting non-MAGA 2024 people are asking, which is like, why is Trump doing all of this? 00:34:57.072 --> 00:34:57.452 You know what I mean? 00:34:57.452 --> 00:35:07.583 Like, there's all this stuff that he said he wouldn't do that now he's doing, stuff that he said he would do that he didn't do, and it's kind of like, why? 00:35:07.592 --> 00:35:10.682 Because he's so obviously unpopular for doing it. 00:35:10.722 --> 00:35:12.452 What is the incentive behind it? 00:35:12.893 --> 00:35:17.653 We've already talked at length for two years about the personal enrichment, right? 00:35:17.702 --> 00:35:24.182 Is like there's a huge amount of it that's done specifically to make money for himself and his family, but not all of it. 00:35:24.213 --> 00:35:25.784 It doesn't explain every decision. 00:35:27.181 --> 00:35:33.371 There's a whole nother crop of terrible decisions that he's made because of the people that he has surrounded himself with. 00:35:33.371 --> 00:35:33.561 Yeah. 00:35:33.561 --> 00:35:45.541 Because the number one criteria is undying blind loyalty- Yep … over competence or being at all expert in your field or, or anything like that. 00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:53.530 And he's just so insulated from the real world- Mm-hmm that I don't think that he knows or believes much of the truth anymore. 00:35:53.831 --> 00:35:54.271 Yeah. 00:35:54.431 --> 00:35:56.380 And the lunch showed that. 00:35:56.630 --> 00:36:05.690 It was, as Axios reported, the richest table- Mm-hmm … of people ever assembled in the history of the world. 00:36:05.771 --> 00:36:05.990 Disgusting. 00:36:05.990 --> 00:36:06.692 By a lot. 00:36:06.952 --> 00:36:09.420 Yeah, that's what he's basing all of his decisions off of. 00:36:09.460 --> 00:36:13.201 Yeah, did you see the Alex Karp interview, like, with CNBC? 00:36:13.201 --> 00:36:13.391 Yeah, 00:36:13.391 --> 00:36:13.581 insane. 00:36:13.581 --> 00:36:14.260 Okay, you know what? 00:36:14.260 --> 00:36:15.490 I love you guys ask these questions. 00:36:15.490 --> 00:36:15.692 Yeah. 00:36:15.731 --> 00:36:17.110 They're stupid as [expletive] . Okay. 00:36:17.110 --> 00:36:17.942 I'll give you like- What's a good question? 00:36:17.942 --> 00:36:18.681 Okay, like- What's a good question? 00:36:18.710 --> 00:36:21.130 What do you think about AI and why do you believe it? 00:36:21.130 --> 00:36:22.271 Why is it good for America? 00:36:22.530 --> 00:36:23.641 Do you think I'm the village idiot? 00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:24.693 I'm asking you the question, 00:36:24.693 --> 00:36:24.731 right? 00:36:24.731 --> 00:36:25.550 Okay, exactly. 00:36:25.550 --> 00:36:25.641 So you can answer however you want to answer. 00:36:25.641 --> 00:36:28.320 So I'll give you a… I, I… No, no, I

gave you a question that was- Yeah. 00:36:28.510 --> 00:36:29.840 So this is a question I could answer. 00:36:29.851 --> 00:36:31.452 All right, what's, what do you- What do you believe about AI? 00:36:31.460 --> 00:36:31.831 Let's do that. 00:36:31.871 --> 00:36:32.541 Is it, what is it? 00:36:33.251 --> 00:36:33.514 What do you believe about AI? 00:36:33.514 --> 00:36:33.561 Okay. 00:36:33.561 --> 00:36:35.331 AI has to work for the war fighter. 00:36:35.751 --> 00:36:38.280 It was disgusting the way he, like, got in the CNBC reporter's face. 00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:38.630 I know. 00:36:38.681 --> 00:36:39.780 I was like, I would've 00:36:40.331 --> 00:36:41.702 physically pushed him- I would've 00:36:41.702 --> 00:36:42.201 pushed him … if 00:36:42.201 --> 00:36:42.981 I was that guy. 00:36:43.121 --> 00:36:43.380 Yeah. 00:36:43.391 --> 00:36:50.701 I sent to our group chat, "I've never seen a more punchable face." Like, this guy… I, they, they think that they're gods. 00:36:50.722 --> 00:36:52.181 It's, it's really disturbing. 00:36:52.190 --> 00:36:57.971 Bernie Sanders has, has talked about a, a sovereign wealth fund around AI, and I'm, like, fully for that. 00:36:57.990 --> 00:37:06.472 This is our intelligence, our academics' writings, like, our brains that are being extracted for these AI machines. 00:37:06.710 --> 00:37:14.721 We're watching our future be stripped from us and our economic stability being stripped from us as Americans in real time. 00:37:15.405 --> 00:37:16.505 Yeah, hundo. 00:37:16.655 --> 00:37:44.434 Okay, well, I do wanna give everyone something actionable that they can be doing because just to the point of why the AI Private Equity Alliance is focused on these seven states, we need more Dems in office who are gonna fight back against these things, particularly at the state level, which is why our Oath candidate of the week is Jacob Weinberg, who's running for the Arizona House of Representatives. 00:37:44.454 --> 00:37:47.355 It is identified by Oath as the tipping point seat. 00:37:47.505 --> 00:37:59.615 So if we win this race and the races that are more Democratic than it, we will retake the Arizona House of Representatives, pushing us one step closer to unified government there, hopefully in November. 00:37:59.655 --> 00:38:02.065 And he's also just a really cool guy. 00:38:02.094 --> 00:38:07.356 When I was looking through which races from Arizona I would wanna highlight, he's a veteran. 00:38:07.414 --> 00:38:08.925 He was in the Army. 00:38:09.094 --> 00:38:10.525 He was a parachutist. 00:38:10.554 --> 00:38:17.764 I'm like, "Okay, work." He climbed Kilimanjaro, which is also a reason that he stuck out to me personally and I was vibing with. 00:38:17.804 --> 00:38:25.625 And he's a young, new voice for Arizona, and he seems like a very chill dude that you would totally want to shotgun a beer with. 00:38:25.635 --> 00:38:28.784 You should see if he's available on your college football tour wh- while you're tailgating. 00:38:28.784 --> 00:38:29.735 Um- Oh, I'm not 00:38:29.735 --> 00:38:31.786 gonna be at ASU, unfortunately. 00:38:32.204 --> 00:38:38.775 If you're looking for something you can actually do about all this stuff that's really pissing you off, he's an amazing candidate to go support right now. 00:38:38.864 --> 00:38:39.355 Great. 00:38:39.684 --> 00:38:45.974 For our Good Vibe Goodbye this week- … we have an Avengers moment. 00:38:46.394 --> 00:38:47.695 Oh, okay. 00:38:48.355 --> 00:38:53.094 In Nevada, we have a very competitive governor's race. 00:38:53.244 --> 00:38:56.105 There's a Republican incumbent, Joe Lombardo. 00:38:56.894 --> 00:38:57.434 Boo. 00:38:57.804 --> 00:38:58.625 We hate. 00:38:58.894 --> 00:38:59.295 We hate. 00:38:59.295 --> 00:38:59.344 We 00:38:59.344 --> 00:38:59.735 hate. 00:39:00.094 --> 00:39:13.034 Who is running a-- He's the guy for people, just for people to remember, that said Trump needs to give money to his billionaire friends to keep them happy so that they'll create jobs for people, as if that's how the economy works. 00:39:13.574 --> 00:39:15.534 Um, and he's running against Aaron Ford. 00:39:15.534 --> 00:39:15.625 Trickle 00:39:15.625 --> 00:39:16.065 down. 00:39:16.315 --> 00:39:16.505 Trickle 00:39:16.505 --> 00:39:16.534 down. 00:39:16.534 --> 00:39:17.804 Nevada's… Exactly. 00:39:18.184 --> 00:39:21.445 Nevada's current attorney general, and it's a really tough race. 00:39:21.445 --> 00:39:22.795 We've been recommending Aaron Ford. 00:39:22.824 --> 00:39:24.865 We've talked about him on the pod all cycle. 00:39:24.876 --> 00:39:24.896 Yeah. 00:39:24.905 --> 00:39:34.534 He's been chronically underfunded, and we're getting this last-minute surge effort to try to put him over the line because right now it's looking tough. 00:39:34.864 --> 00:39:51.291 And so in Nevada- In the next, like week and a half, we have Elissa Slotkin, Pete Buttigieg, Gretchen Whitmer, Mark Kelly, Rahm Emanuel, Andy Beshear, Ro Khanna. 00:39:51.891 --> 00:40:10.202 Endgame moment of a- every nationally recognized, like, next gen Democrat all- Yeah … swarming to the state in the same 10-day period to stump and rally for Aaron Ford, to try and get him over the line as governor. 00:40:10.211 --> 00:40:14.099 So that is our good vibe of the week is teamwork. 00:40:14.099 --> 00:40:25.121 And I was, like envisioning in my head, like a spin board of all the different faces, and it's like, "Okay, who are we landing on?" And a question for you, do they feel like the progressive caucus or, like an AOC is not helpful? 00:40:25.172 --> 00:40:26.702 I mean, Ro Khanna represents that wing. 00:40:26.710 --> 00:40:26.800 Oh, 00:40:26.800 --> 00:40:27.311 Ro Khanna. 00:40:27.340 --> 00:40:27.721 Sorry. 00:40:27.782 --> 00:40:28.112 Yeah. 00:40:28.112 --> 00:40:29.231 I missed R- sorry, Ro. 00:40:29.831 --> 00:40:30.490 Didn't see you there. 00:40:31.391 --> 00:40:34.460 Was it- I don't know if AOC is gonna show up or not, but she wasn't included in the article. 00:40:34.561 --> 00:40:34.740 Oof. 00:40:34.811 --> 00:40:38.561 It's crazy that, like Ro Khanna and Rahm Emanuel are in- Right, 00:40:38.561 --> 00:40:40.141 right… GLENNIS MEAGHER: the same. 00:40:40.590 --> 00:40:41.201 Totally. 00:40:41.641 --> 00:40:41.971 Okay. 00:40:41.971 --> 00:40:41.981 I 00:40:42.092 --> 00:40:44.081 honestly- Go, go, Power Rangers. 00:40:44.260 --> 00:40:44.822 Period. 00:40:44.822 --> 00:40:44.844 Yes. 00:40:44.844 --> 00:40:45.010 We need- Or 00:40:45.010 --> 00:40:45.141 like 00:40:45.550 --> 00:40:46.021 Captain Planet 00:40:46.570 --> 00:40:52.530 all the help that we can get from lefty lefties to reluctant center right- 00:40:53.001 --> 00:40:54.110 Yeah… BRIAN DERRICK: now Democrats. 00:40:54.152 --> 00:40:54.771 We're gonna need them all. 00:40:55.331 --> 00:40:58.880 Yeah, and I'll just add, we need all the help that we can get, period. 00:40:58.902 --> 00:41:06.981 So if you are listening to Vibes Only, you're still with us at this, like good vibe goodbye, we need you to text your friends and your family. 00:41:07.010 --> 00:41:08.510 Make sure they have a voting plan. 00:41:08.530 --> 00:41:15.931 Someone is more likely to go vote if someone personally reaches out to them to go vote. 00:41:16.402 --> 00:41:18.010 So like we said, we're not pollsters. 00:41:18.041 --> 00:41:18.860 We're just on the vibe. 00:41:18.860 --> 00:41:22.731 The vibes are text your friends, make a voting plan, make sure they know who they're voting for. 00:41:22.802 --> 00:41:27.231 Everyone needs to do everything they can if we want to win in November. 00:41:27.501 --> 00:41:27.931 Hell yeah. 00:41:28.181 --> 00:41:28.661 Hell yeah. 00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:30.822 All right, guys, thank you for joining us this week. 00:41:30.860 --> 00:41:32.641 We will be back next week. 00:41:32.670 --> 00:41:38.481 Same time, same place, same platform to check the vibes of the midterm elections. 00:41:38.800 --> 00:41:39.721 You don't wanna miss it. 00:41:39.760 --> 00:41:42.800 Make sure you're subscribed, like, comment, share. 00:41:43.041 --> 00:41:46.360 Make sure you're following us on Instagram, and we'll see you guys next week. 00:41:46.471 --> 00:41:47.141 Go Hawks. 00:41:49.052 --> 00:41:49.420 Hawkeyes. 00:41:49.420 --> 00:41:50.731 I'm gonna just do a shout-out to the team. 00:41:50.742 --> 00:41:51.851 No, they, they say Hawks. 00:41:51.860 --> 00:41:52.780 They don't even say Eyes. 00:41:53.090 --> 00:41:53.820 Oh, who knew? 00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:54.360 Who knew? 00:41:54.411 --> 00:41:55.001 Who knew?