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Speaker 1: Handle Here. It is a Thursday morning, August twenty two,
Speaker 1: and a lot going on. The big news is the
Speaker 1: politics that we're talking about on the Democratic National Convention.
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Speaker 1: just anyway. That's the podcast this morning. So last night
Speaker 1: was night three of the DNC. Today is the last day,
Speaker 1: and a couple of things that are becoming very very apparent,
Speaker 1: and that is this is obviously from the Democratic side,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris being the nominee, Tim Walls being the nominee
Speaker 1: for vice president, and this is breaking down where we
Speaker 1: know now exactly which way the campaign is going to
Speaker 1: go on both sides. Side one, it's going to be
Speaker 1: a commination. Side one being the democratic side of the
Speaker 1: political landscape as we go towards the general in November,
Speaker 1: and that is it's going down two paths. One attacking
Speaker 1: former President Trump. I mean there are personal attack with
Speaker 1: Trump doing more personal attacks than the Democratic side on
Speaker 1: kind of a I don't know, you know, personal attacks
Speaker 1: like she's not good looking, she's not smart, that sort
Speaker 1: of thing. On the other side, you have the Democrats
Speaker 1: talking about Trump in that democracy is going to disappear.
Speaker 1: He's self aggrandizing, He thinks about himself, he doesn't care
Speaker 1: about the country all.
Speaker 2: He cares about himself, all right.
Speaker 1: That is where we know it's going to go on
Speaker 1: the personal side. On the policy side, which I think
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris is going to we're going to hear a
Speaker 1: lot more over the next couple of months about policy.
Speaker 1: That is, I think both sides are going to have
Speaker 1: a little bit of a problem with policy because policy
Speaker 1: seems to be third. You would think that talking about
Speaker 1: where the country is going and here are the specifics
Speaker 1: that I'm doing, that's kind of back burner. The big
Speaker 1: theme that the Democrats came out with, and we know
Speaker 1: this is going to be huge, is an aspirational theme joy.
Speaker 1: With Barack Obama, it was hope.
Speaker 2: That was the word that was used. With Kamala Harris,
Speaker 2: it is joy.
Speaker 1: We have a joyful party, We're having a joyful convention.
Speaker 1: We're going to have a joyful run for the presidency.
Speaker 1: Our presidency itself will be a joyful president. It's just
Speaker 1: it's a different way of doing it. And the argument
Speaker 1: is that on the Trump side, things are horrible.
Speaker 2: Couldn't get worse.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris becomes president and now it's communist Kamala. They
Speaker 1: finally came into some kind of a name calling that
Speaker 1: seems to stick.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's where he's probably going.
Speaker 1: World War three guarantee to start if Kamala becomes president.
Speaker 1: If Trump becomes president, it is democracy disappearing.
Speaker 2: It is over as far as we know it.
Speaker 1: But the part that is going to be if Kamalia
Speaker 1: becomes the president, what do we get. We're going to
Speaker 1: get joy. We're going to get joy. And that is
Speaker 1: kind of interesting. It was it's soaring rhetoric, is what
Speaker 1: we're hearing and I hate soaring rhetoric. Maybe I'm too
Speaker 1: much a cidic. I want to know exactly where we're going.
Speaker 1: A couple of things that Kamala has come up with,
Speaker 1: I think are going to be brutal.
Speaker 2: We're going to hurt her. One, price controls, she's crazy.
Speaker 2: I think you cannot do price controls. She's tried.
Speaker 1: And by the way, that lends itself to calling her
Speaker 1: very left wing, not quite a communist, but I tell
Speaker 1: you pretty progressive, far more than Joe Biden would ever
Speaker 1: go back. We go to the convention last night, night
Speaker 1: three of the convention, and just a couple I'm not
Speaker 1: going to talk about all.
Speaker 2: Of it, because I mean obvious, these things go on
Speaker 2: for hours and hours, but a lot of video.
Speaker 1: You know, they have that giant screen behind the speaker,
Speaker 1: and you saw a lot of them, and there's no
Speaker 1: other way of describing it other than propaganda. Video obviously
Speaker 1: putting the nominees and the best light possible, very slick,
Speaker 1: done by very professional organizations.
Speaker 2: Both sides do that.
Speaker 1: And for example, when a whole segment was done on
Speaker 1: the insurrection of January sixth, and it was it was
Speaker 1: pretty powerful, especially when we're talking when the former sergeant
Speaker 1: who was capital the packet Capitol Hill Police and he
Speaker 1: was beat up pretty badly, and he talked about how
Speaker 1: he was betrayed by Donald Trump. And on the screen
Speaker 1: you saw the directionists and they of course picked.
Speaker 2: Up the worst of the worst because it was pretty bad.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are video of people just you know,
Speaker 1: calmly walking through the halls, and then the video of
Speaker 1: people that were charging the Capital and this is a
Speaker 1: guy who was, as he described, he was beat with
Speaker 1: a pole that was flying the American flag and it
Speaker 1: was severely injured. And quotes from Donald Trump, these are heroes,
Speaker 1: they're hostages.
Speaker 2: I'm going to pardon them. That sort of thing. So
Speaker 2: pretty powerful stuff.
Speaker 1: As far as the speech making was concerned, I thought
Speaker 1: Oprah Winfrey had a fabulous speech, and she went into.
Speaker 2: History of these.
Speaker 1: Little black girls who in the fifties went into a
Speaker 1: segregated school per brown versus board, and they were by
Speaker 1: themselves because the whole school was emptied out. The parents
Speaker 1: wouldn't let their kids go to school with black little girls.
Speaker 1: They were in an empty schoolhouse and they had to
Speaker 1: put paper on the windows for fear of snipers shooting
Speaker 1: at these little girls and then talked about Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: being in the second integrated class in Berkeley. Oprah Winfrey
Speaker 1: I thought was extraordinary. Bill Clinton just rambled on and
Speaker 1: on one thing about Bill Clinton.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you noticed.
Speaker 1: He was not reading off a teleprompter. He had his
Speaker 1: own notes, and he is very good. Just went on
Speaker 1: way too long, I thought. And of course the most
Speaker 1: anticipated speech of all was Tim Walls, who hit exactly
Speaker 1: where I think his campaign for him for the Vice president,
Speaker 1: helping Kamala Harris, and what he is adding to the
Speaker 1: campaign is he was a former teacher and they had
Speaker 1: former students of him talking about mister Walls and how.
Speaker 2: Great he was.
Speaker 1: The team that he coached all came on to the
Speaker 1: stage in jerseys that were way too tight. It was
Speaker 1: pulling at heartstrings. His service is in the National Guard
Speaker 1: twenty four years is I mean when you talk about
Speaker 1: all of it now. He ran and it was a
Speaker 1: deep red district, and he talked about how he was
Speaker 1: able to win, and.
Speaker 2: He came off exactly as he is going to campaign.
Speaker 1: And why Kamala Harris chose him not because of his
Speaker 1: political strength, because of his personality. He is a gregarious,
Speaker 1: aw shucks kind of regular guy who you just like.
Speaker 1: He's the kind of person that when you meet him,
Speaker 1: you just like him. There's no bluster, doesn't sound.
Speaker 2: Political at all.
Speaker 1: He just is a regular guy who's done all the
Speaker 1: right things in life. And it was and did you
Speaker 1: notice his son and that when that blew up the internet,
Speaker 1: his kid did not stop crying, did not stop crying
Speaker 1: virtually the entire speech of Tim Walls. It was very emotional.
Speaker 1: And now I have not seen the memes. I have
Speaker 1: not seen the reaction from the Republican side, either making.
Speaker 2: Fun of him or leaving it alone.
Speaker 1: Maybe they should because it was so human, because it
Speaker 1: pulled at heartstrings. And I thought Tim Walls got an
Speaker 1: a for what he did. He brought it to the
Speaker 1: table and as he said, and we knew that this
Speaker 1: was the biggest stage he has ever had, speaking in
Speaker 1: front of a group of people in live television and
Speaker 1: to millions of people and to thousands of people in
Speaker 1: the arena. He came off he was an aw shucks
Speaker 1: kind of guy. He is that way, and it's not
Speaker 1: it's not contrived. That's the difference. He is who he is,
Speaker 1: and people love it, and they love him and he
Speaker 1: is well regarded and that's going to be translated hopefully
Speaker 1: into the population. That's it, because Kamala Harris is not
Speaker 1: going to come off that way. Kamala Harris is coming
Speaker 1: off as strong. She's coming off as this a woman
Speaker 1: can that cannot be bullied. She's out there pushing for you.
Speaker 1: I mean that is you know, whether that's true or not,
Speaker 1: or whether you believe that or not. That is a
Speaker 1: political statement. That is a political view.
Speaker 2: With Tim Walls, it's human first then politics. That's not
Speaker 2: easy to pull off. That is not and I think
Speaker 2: he's going to do it. I think he's going to
Speaker 2: do it. Okay.
Speaker 1: Oh and Bill Clinton had one of the greatest lie lines,
Speaker 1: and that is regarding Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Don't look at the lies, look at the eyes.
Speaker 1: In reference to Donald Trump being self agrandizing and I'm
Speaker 1: basically a wonderful person.
Speaker 2: You didn't hear that from Tim Wallas. We'll see how
Speaker 2: much of it we hear from Kamala tonight. Okay.
Speaker 1: President Barack former President of Barack Obama, in his DNC
Speaker 1: address a couple of nights ago, warned about putting a
Speaker 1: premium on money fame.
Speaker 2: Status and likes.
Speaker 1: Okay, while he is saying that the Democrats are deploying
Speaker 1: celebrities and influencers to help try to help prepare propel
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris to the presidency. And this is very interesting stuff,
Speaker 1: the connection between politics and celebrities and the connection between
Speaker 1: influencers and celebrities. Now there is an old joke that
Speaker 1: says DC is Hollywood for ugly people. Okay, fair enough,
Speaker 1: And these days the line between the political world and
Speaker 1: the celebrity world has basically vanished, which probably Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is the premier aspect of this. He is the ultimate celebrity,
Speaker 1: is one of the most well known faces in the world,
Speaker 1: and he comes out of the celebrity world. Ronald Reagan
Speaker 1: came out of the acting world, but by the time
Speaker 1: he ran, he was a politician. To this day, Trump
Speaker 1: runs not as a politician. He runs as a populist.
Speaker 1: He is to his followers not a politician. And so
Speaker 1: the celebrity world really.
Speaker 2: Connects, you know.
Speaker 1: For example, last night, just before prime time, the campaign
Speaker 1: sent out a fundraising email from the VEEP star who
Speaker 1: showed up, Julia Lewis Dreyfus, and she says, I know
Speaker 1: a thing or two about Vice President. Of course, that
Speaker 1: was one of her TV shows. And let me tell you,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris is the real deal. Guess who else was there? Okay,
Speaker 1: you talk about celebrity Spike Lee, Patti LaBelle, Common, Eva Longoria,
Speaker 1: Wendell Pierce, Sean Austen, don Cheatle.
Speaker 2: Also, the Democratic Party invited more than.
Speaker 1: Two hundred influencers and content creators that, well, we don't
Speaker 1: know about those. For the most part, it's celebrity world.
Speaker 1: Obama was the first president of the social media age,
Speaker 1: and he was complaining about Internet and how it influences
Speaker 1: political political campaigns. We chase the approval of strangers on
Speaker 1: our phones, We build all manner of walls around ourselves,
Speaker 1: and when we wonder why we feel so alone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got a real problem with celebrities. Do you know
Speaker 1: any bigger celebrities in Barack and Michelle Obama? And they
Speaker 1: certainly don't rely on their celebrity, right. They have an
Speaker 1: innertainment company Oscar, winning documentaries, Netflix movies.
Speaker 2: They cut a deal. Both have written extremely popular memoirs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Clintons have done the same thing. They've taken
Speaker 1: their politics and have become celebrities. Unlike Ronald Reagan, Unlike
Speaker 1: George W.
Speaker 2: Bush.
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan got two million dollars a speech, but he
Speaker 1: didn't come out as a celebrity.
Speaker 2: He's a former president. Same thing with George W.
Speaker 1: The Obamas and the Clintons are celebrities, and at the
Speaker 1: same time, the Obama is putting all of that down.
Speaker 1: And one of the other things I want to point
Speaker 1: out is when you talk about celebrity power and now
Speaker 1: the Internet is connected with all that. After that disastrous
Speaker 1: debate performance that Joe Biden had which started, well, actually
Speaker 1: didn't start at What it did is put a lid
Speaker 1: on the coffin of his president is run for or
Speaker 1: second term. You know, the argument was he's too old. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, look what he did at the debate. I
Speaker 1: mean he just lost track.
Speaker 2: He was old.
Speaker 1: I mean he looked old, he was old, and he
Speaker 1: lost track of what was going on. So what you
Speaker 1: had in terms of getting rid of Joe Biden, Remember
Speaker 1: he argued, I'm staying, I'm staying, I'm staying. You know,
Speaker 1: when I'm pushed down, I get up. That's what I'm about.
Speaker 2: You know what really pushed him over the edge.
Speaker 1: Pelosi certainly hockeym Jeffries, Schumer all were part of it,
Speaker 1: trying to say, hey, it is time for you to go.
Speaker 1: You cannot run, you don't have a path to win
Speaker 1: against Donald Trump, which was absolutely true.
Speaker 2: So you know who really tipped the barrel? The straw
Speaker 2: on the camel's tip of the barrel? Iceberg, the monkeys
Speaker 2: in the barrel that tip over? Do I have that
Speaker 2: right drunk?
Speaker 1: No, No, I'm just trying to figure out the phrase
Speaker 1: straw that broke the camel's back.
Speaker 2: Okay, that was a little that was a.
Speaker 1: Little shtick, all right, fine.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: But the straw that did break the camel's back on
Speaker 1: this one was George Clooney. George Clooney probably had more influence,
Speaker 1: certainly in our perception.
Speaker 2: He wrapped it up.
Speaker 1: Why because the influence that George George Clooney has not
Speaker 1: only with the public, but also within the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's considered a major donor, not a mega donor.
Speaker 1: I think there are donors that out mega Hymn by
Speaker 1: a long shot. But the celebrity of George Clooney joining
Speaker 1: the crowd and saying it is time for Joe Biden
Speaker 1: to step aside and of course, everybody, a lot of
Speaker 1: we love Joe Biden at the convention, a lot of
Speaker 1: he put the country first, which is a crock. By
Speaker 1: the way, he would have fought like crazy, but for
Speaker 1: the fact that senior leaders and the Democratic Party said
Speaker 1: get out to the extent that it was a coup,
Speaker 1: as is argued by the Republicans, it wasn't a coup.
Speaker 1: It wasn't someone taking it over. It wasn't Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: taking it over. It was simply the decision that we're
Speaker 1: not going to win. That's it unless we get rid
Speaker 1: of Joe Biden and forcing him out.
Speaker 2: That was the reality.
Speaker 1: Okay, uh now uh, there has been a deal finally
Speaker 1: reached between California publishers and Google. What is going on
Speaker 1: with California publishers. I'm talking about little regional local papers.
Speaker 1: No one's buying them and they're not selling any advertising
Speaker 1: because the Internet is it. And the argument has always
Speaker 1: been Google, Google, which publishes this. You go on Google
Speaker 1: and then you go to whatever news source the internet
Speaker 1: source Google.
Speaker 2: Google never paid for this.
Speaker 1: And the advertisers, or at least the papers, the local papers,
Speaker 1: are saying, you're using our stuff and you're not paying
Speaker 1: for it. Therefore that's unfair. Why do they care. They're
Speaker 1: not making any money anymore, they're going out of business.
Speaker 1: They're using Google so they can write stories. That's what's
Speaker 1: going on, the fear of losing local news.
Speaker 2: Outlets, and it's a legitimate fear.
Speaker 1: And that's across the board. Newspapers get to hit too.
Speaker 1: I get the Sunday Times every Sunday. I happen to
Speaker 1: like the La Times. You know. I love getting the
Speaker 1: ink on my fingers and it streaks across my bagels.
Speaker 1: It's just something that I enjoy doing the La Times.
Speaker 1: Have you seen the paper recently? It is a fraction
Speaker 1: of what it used to be a fraction. It used
Speaker 1: to be a phone book, and now it looks like
Speaker 1: a local small paper. Unfortunately, advertisers just they're often a
Speaker 1: different direction, that's all. And it's the shame of it is,
Speaker 1: and it's not even a shame, the reality of it is. Hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, maybe your model is just gone. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, five ten years from now, you will not
Speaker 1: be listening to radio this program. Well, it depends on
Speaker 1: whether I'm going to broadcast from my old age home.
Speaker 1: But five ten years from now, it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: terrestrial radio. You're not gonna see those big antennas up
Speaker 1: and I won't be talking to you on radio at all.
Speaker 1: I'll be talking to you on devices and the transmission
Speaker 1: will go on the Internet. It's just changed completely. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a different world. And have we gotten hit Well,
Speaker 1: I guess to an extent we have, But then we've
Speaker 1: moved over to use the internet.
Speaker 2: Broadcasters can do that. Local papers cannot.
Speaker 1: They need those advertising dollars for their ads, especially the
Speaker 1: personal ads.
Speaker 2: And they used to do great, great personal ads. You know,
Speaker 2: all the crazy sex stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, man looking for kangaroo for an enjoyable afternoon.
Speaker 2: Well now you can't even run those classified.
Speaker 1: Now you go on the Internet and go sex with
Speaker 1: kangaroos and then you join the chat room. What kind
Speaker 1: of kangaroos? Wallabies or big kangaroos? What kind of sex?
Speaker 1: Can't do that in a classified And of course the
Speaker 1: big ads from the big department stores.
Speaker 2: What department stores you're buying on Amazon? Okay?
Speaker 1: The ads from restaurants, right, what restaurants buy on in
Speaker 1: newspapers or magazines?
Speaker 2: They don't. The point is struggling.
Speaker 1: To do this is difficult, so there's been an ongoing
Speaker 1: fight Google in the California publishers have cut a deal
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty million dollars over the next five
Speaker 1: years from Google pays one fourth No, one fourth of
Speaker 1: the money comes from taxpayers in the state.
Speaker 2: The remainder comes from Google.
Speaker 1: Also, they're looking for private donors, and it's you being
Speaker 1: used to set up a graduate school of journalism at
Speaker 1: UC and a fun to distribute millions of millions of
Speaker 1: dollars to California news outlets.
Speaker 2: Read local regional papers. I also enjoy the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 1: My weekend are is hard newspapers, not hard, but newspapers.
Speaker 2: I just love them for just great reading.
Speaker 1: So Sunday it's the La Times and the New York Times.
Speaker 1: Saturday it's the Wall Street Journal. I mean, don't you
Speaker 1: just love trying to fold over a pa a paper
Speaker 1: and it crinkles in the middle and you can't quite
Speaker 1: get it and you get so frustrated when you try
Speaker 1: to fold it over.
Speaker 2: That's fun. That is fun. All right.
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