WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:02.879 If you watch literally any of the late night hosts 2 00:00:02.919 --> 00:00:06.160 last night, believe it or not, they all had the 3 00:00:06.200 --> 00:00:14.119 same awful take, essentially further further alienating the opportunity for 4 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:16.559 I don't know, half the country to want to watch 5 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:19.359 their show. This is a thing that kills me. Can 6 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:22.559 you imagine the level of respect that people might have? 7 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:26.440 And it couldn't be Kimmel. He is, he is unredeemable 8 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:30.320 at this point. But let's say, Ross, who do you 9 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:32.479 think is the least off putting of the night host? 10 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:33.560 Maybe probably Fallen? 11 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:36.079 Right, Yeah, I go, I go Fallen. 12 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:39.560 Yeah, I think Fallin. I think Seth might be able 13 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:42.240 to pull this off. But the other two, Colbert and whatnot. 14 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:45.320 It's not gonna happen if you just came out and 15 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:50.840 didn't act like the world just ended. I know that 16 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:52.840 there's a portion of your audience that once said, and 17 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:55.240 maybe the smarter play is just to lean into that 18 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:57.880 because they don't they don't have anyone, they don't have 19 00:00:57.920 --> 00:00:59.960 anyone to you know, to go to kind of thing 20 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:03.399 saying because that which is not which is an inaccurate 21 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:07.599 way to sit there and wind people up. I gotta 22 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:11.599 tell you I have and I'm sure you had concerns 23 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:15.319 as to, well, what does this mean? What happens if 24 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:17.359 Trump wins? And you know what, I you know what 25 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:19.159 angle I'm asking from? 26 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:20.400 Right? 27 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:25.480 You remember the sheer, insanity, the nonsense, the violence, the 28 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:34.280 the the the murder them, the murders of people, you know, 29 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:42.599 at each other's throat over this stuff. And I'm cautiously 30 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:46.120 optimistic that maybe maybe it's because it didn't work last 31 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:48.480 time that we're not seeing it now. I don't know, Ross, 32 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:52.200 technically I am. I'm in the triad. You're in the triangle. 33 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:53.760 Could you do me a fair? 34 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:54.159 You know what? 35 00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:55.719 Could you do me a fair? Could you go look 36 00:01:55.799 --> 00:01:59.079 out the other window and tell me if downtown Raleigh's 37 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:02.319 on fire? Because I don't I want to say anything 38 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:04.640 that's inaccurate. I can tell you that high Downtown high 39 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:08.639 Point is not on fire, all right, Ross is checking? 40 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:13.960 Uh huh? What I can? 41 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:14.439 Yes? 42 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:16.840 Yeah, I know. 43 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:18.439 You'd have to go around. Yeah, I know where you 44 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:31.000 are fire hell basically hellscape look yeah, nothing, okay? Good? 45 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:32.560 How good that is? 46 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:34.360 Yes? 47 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:37.479 Yes, you know, no, come back around? Yeah, but if 48 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:40.479 it gets really hot all of a sudden, you know, 49 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:43.680 pleasure you're doing business with you so you know, there's that. 50 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:46.360 To be fair, the fire alarm did go off at 51 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:49.120 like four am this morning in the building. Yeah yeah, 52 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:53.319 for a second, I was like, oh no, here, they're here. 53 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:57.039 Dude, I'm not gonna lie. I was, so I don't 54 00:02:57.120 --> 00:02:59.159 know how much detail I got to give I have 55 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:01.159 to to get into the building. I got. I gotta 56 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:06.560 walk across the stretch open ground here, and there's almost 57 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:09.199 never anybody. I've never seen anybody in the parking lot 58 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:12.400 this early other than you know, known radio vehicles, right 59 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:16.599 other hosts, uh uh, the station vehicles. And there was 60 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:18.759 like three cars who whipped into the parking lot when 61 00:03:18.759 --> 00:03:22.000 I was pulling in this morning. But then I saw 62 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:25.719 like three women in their like fifties in clearly what 63 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:30.639 is like speed walking gear. So I'm like, dah, probably okay, 64 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:33.719 so they're off strolling around downtown high Point or whatever 65 00:03:33.719 --> 00:03:37.280 they do in the morning. But that being said, you 66 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:40.000 have it now. It's not the weekend yet. And technically 67 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:43.680 she didn't concede until yesterday. And remember they didn't have 68 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:47.000 Remember the first Remember the remember the first big jaunt 69 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:50.520 they had, which was the rejection of Trump's mere existence. 70 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:52.280 And then they hit you know, with the with the hats, 71 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:55.680 remember the pink hats, you know, the hats I'm talking about. 72 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:59.080 And then they did one after and it just didn't live. 73 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:02.199 Oh it was signedst against Trump. Remember that. Oh we 74 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:09.400 had scientists against Trump. And it's like, well, if it 75 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:11.840 didn't work last time, do you think that maybe people 76 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:17.120 because you need those events for the periphery to do 77 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:21.439 what they do. Remember the very first act of dude. 78 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:24.519 Do you guys remember the very first big act of 79 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:27.600 violence that we you know, became a national news story 80 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:31.759 following the election of Trump. I do, And it was 81 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:35.800 on the periphery of one of those gatherings. Remember they 82 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:42.959 burned the dude's limousine, the immigrant dude's limousine. He comes 83 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:48.240 to America, legally, comes to America, works his butt off, 84 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:52.160 is able to as a driver, saves up enough money 85 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:54.160 to go. You know what, I can do this better. 86 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:57.439 And I can't remember where they said he was from, 87 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:00.040 but it was I remember reading an article and he 88 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:02.160 he or somebody who was talking about where this guy 89 00:05:02.199 --> 00:05:04.680 came from. They're like, you wouldn't if you did that 90 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:07.879 in the country, you'd be upsetting the like the criminal 91 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:11.199 organizations that handle the taxi business and stuff. But no, 92 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:15.000 this guy comes to America, saves his money, buys a limousine, 93 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:20.959 and that's that's his job. This feeds his family and 94 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:25.240 he has the audacity to be within six blocks of 95 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:27.480 where one of these nitwig gatherings is going on. So 96 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:33.279 what do they do? They torch his limousine. They torched 97 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:40.480 the hard working immigrants limousine. So please, I am cautiously 98 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:42.920 optimistic we won't get there and maybe they'll just memory 99 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:44.759 hold it. All right, you're ready, I want to do 100 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:47.399 a thought exercise. Ross. You're the victim because you're the 101 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:50.680 only other one on the show. So thought exercise. I 102 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:52.680 want you to pretend we put you in one of 103 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:55.800 those sensory deprivation chambers for like the week leading up 104 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:59.000 to the election. Okay, you have consumed no news, you 105 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:02.959 have talked to no people. You have basically just which 106 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:06.040 By the way, that sounds relaxing, doesn't it. We should 107 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:10.279 get a sensory deprivation chamber for the studio. Right, you 108 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:13.160 can see the salespeople coming down giving tour pop into 109 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:18.079 that thing. You're home free. AnyWho, I'm sorry, let me 110 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:19.560 get back to this all right, So, Ross, you've been 111 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:23.360 in the sensory deprivation chamber all week? You know nothing, right, 112 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:26.639 But what is the big question on your mind when 113 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:29.160 we pull you out of it yesterday? What would be 114 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:30.920 the first thing you would probably ask? 115 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:33.920 Did the bills win on Sunday? Okay? 116 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:35.759 What would be the second thing? You would ask? 117 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:37.040 Who's the president? 118 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:40.920 Right? So I would? I would, And this is what 119 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:44.879 we're doing is we're checking your predictive analysis. Okay, So 120 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:46.839 I say, great, you want to know the president. I 121 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:48.560 would tell you the bills score. You guys did win, 122 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:51.079 by the way, kudos, And then I would tell you, 123 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:53.560 all right, I'm gonna let me flip on the TV 124 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:58.560 to wrl's eleven o'clock news broadcast, right the nightly news. 125 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:02.279 How many minutes do you think you would linger there 126 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:04.600 before they would ever tell you that Donald Trump was 127 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:08.800 elected president on the night on the day after nightly news, 128 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:10.759 Like it's the biggest story out there, that should be 129 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:16.399 the first story, right, was it? Eleven minutes? Hold on, sorry, 130 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:18.360 it's none just realized it an evident right in front. 131 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:21.519 Eleven minutes you would go eleven minutes. 132 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:23.319 You open up a newspaper, you should be in the 133 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:25.240 front page of big, bold face letters. And if you 134 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:26.519 watch the news, it should be the first. 135 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:29.800 Thing they say, Yeah, give me Truman holding that paper. 136 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:33.639 You know what I'm saying, Let's do this thing. Dewey, 137 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:37.040 what a piece of crap, right, Uugh, all right, I 138 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:38.839 don't really know nothing about him. But but but my 139 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:42.000 point is, are you kidding me? I had multiple listeners 140 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:42.839 send this over. 141 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:43.079 Now. 142 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:46.759 I skimmed it on what they posted, So I'm going 143 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:49.800 to take your word for it, because sometimes when they post, 144 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:51.600 they actually post the clips there and you kind of 145 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:54.160 string them together. It's hard to tell if it's the 146 00:07:54.199 --> 00:07:58.680 pat the same package they ran that being said it clearly, 147 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:04.120 and and don't get me wrong, they got screen calls 148 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:11.879 crawl stuff, but I'm talking the anchors and that's mind boggling. 149 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:16.720 But if that's how people who can't just deal want 150 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:20.759 to deal with it, it's better than burning immigrants limousines 151 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:28.920 that were their entire livelihood, their entire livelihood because you 152 00:08:29.199 --> 00:08:31.600 don't like the way something went. Don't get me wrong, 153 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:34.080 if Kamala Harris won, there'd be a lot of dooming 154 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:38.799 bloom calls on this show. But I also don't think 155 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:45.399 there'd be burned immigrant limousines littering the streets of America. 156 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:49.000 Republicans tend to just turn off in a lot of cases, 157 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:55.519 and it's good and it's bad. One. It's a coping mechanism. 158 00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:57.799 It's not a very healthy one internalizing all your stuff. 159 00:08:57.799 --> 00:09:02.080 And I recognize that. That being said, it's far better 160 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:06.039 that you would internalize something that. Frankly, it should be 161 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:11.240 dealt with amongst friends, family, your doctors if it's to 162 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:14.879 that level, and not openly raging at your coworkers. And 163 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:16.919 I haven't seen a lot of coworkers stuff either. 164 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:18.759 So we had a behind the scenes, so we had 165 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:20.519 a meeting about this right with the boss about like, 166 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:22.080 what do you think would be better for the show 167 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:24.159 if we're going to think about it from this perspective 168 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:26.639 as to who were to win? And the boss is like, oh, 169 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:29.159 it'd probably be Kamala, right, because everybody would be like 170 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:31.840 super pissed and want to tune in out. And I'm like, no, man, 171 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:34.320 I know our audience and I know the electorate, and 172 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:37.759 they would tune out because they would be just burnt 173 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:39.440 out and over it and I just need to get 174 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:40.000 away from it. 175 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:42.240 Yeah, And they'd come back because we're awesome. 176 00:09:42.279 --> 00:09:46.200 But you're right, Yeah, because I know myself, I would 177 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:51.000 be the same way. I'd be like, I'm dejected, I'm upset, 178 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:52.399 I'm just gonna withdraw. 179 00:09:53.879 --> 00:09:57.720 And you're perplexed. And you can be perplexed. That's fine 180 00:09:57.759 --> 00:09:59.600 if you're you're a hair supporter, and you should be 181 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:02.159 if if you were that passion, you were that sure 182 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:04.519 of it, you should be perplexed. But you should also 183 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:05.960 evaluate why you're perplaying. 184 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:08.759 And I'm talking about everything involving politics, right, I would 185 00:10:08.759 --> 00:10:11.279 put my phone away. Oh I would. It's yeah. I 186 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:12.919 did this thing before when the Yankees. There was a 187 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:14.639 while back where the Yankees had a really good season 188 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:16.240 and then they completely blew it at the end. And 189 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:18.879 what I did is I remember this and followed every 190 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:20.799 Yankee account that I was following it. I'm like, I like, 191 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:22.759 I'm done. I don't want to interact with it. I 192 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:24.600 don't want to engage with it. It's over. It would 193 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:26.080 be the same way in social media. I would put 194 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:28.559 my phone away. I would probably delete X off my 195 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:31.639 phone and I would just disengage for a long time. Yeah, 196 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:33.240 but I would. I would not set a limousine on 197 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:35.919 fire and then leave the country but not really, I 198 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:40.679 would not. Oh, okay, because you won't leave the country anyway. 199 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:44.080 So yeah, and so we got our annual list of 200 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:46.480 everyone who says they're leaving the country who hasn't left 201 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:49.799 the country yet. Did Bette Midler did lead her account? 202 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:52.080 By the way, I saw that this morning. 203 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:53.759 I didn't have a chance to check to see if 204 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:54.840 it's photoshopped or not. 205 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:55.679 I think she did. 206 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:00.840 Did she actually post a picture of drain cleaner next 207 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:03.840 to a bottle of wine and says if she's drinking 208 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:07.480 based on who wins? Did she drink the draino? Do 209 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:11.399 we know? I bet Bette Middler did not drink the draino? 210 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:15.039 So anyway, that one I saw previously. I don't know 211 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:16.919 if anyone's asked her about Well they can on X 212 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:20.159 because she got rid of the account. Well, I'm here 213 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:25.480 to tell you there were a lot of reactions. Poor 214 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:29.399 Ross has been having to sift through the sadness this 215 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:33.799 morning so he can go ahead and get her in 216 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:37.240 the system, you know. So and then he and then 217 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:40.919 after he's done doing that, he had to dub in set. 218 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:43.519 Do we have seven or eight view cuts? Seven cuts 219 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:49.120 right from the view, Yes, seven view cuts so you 220 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:51.120 want to talk about somebody who's who's done the heavy 221 00:11:51.159 --> 00:11:52.279 lift already this morning. 222 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:54.159 It's so. 223 00:11:55.679 --> 00:11:56.279 How are you feeling? 224 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:56.440 All? 225 00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:02.399 My takeaway is that the system works. We live in 226 00:12:02.440 --> 00:12:07.559 a democracy. People spoke, This is what people wanted. I 227 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:11.679 vehemently disagree with the decision that Americans made, but I 228 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:14.840 feel very very hopeful that we have a democratic system 229 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:18.039 in this country. We should value it, we should love it. 230 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:24.320 We should protest if the situation arises, protest, which I'm 231 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:27.919 shureing well, and I've been through this before with Nixon. 232 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:32.000 It's been very difficult, but boy, oh boy, do we 233 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:33.919 have a country if we can keep it? 234 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:38.120 Yeah, okay, all right, Ross, So I was completely wrong. 235 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:41.320 That sounds very reasonable what she just said, doesn't it. 236 00:12:42.759 --> 00:12:47.240 That sounds extremely joy behar opening volley. They're very reasonable. Oh, 237 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:49.159 I probably don't even need to play the rest, right, 238 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:53.759 it's probably pretty boring, just you know, talking about ponies 239 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:56.000 or something. Didn't even get into it. Well, I am, 240 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:59.159 I am excited. I mean we'll still have to play 241 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:01.600 because I mean Russ dubbed him and he went through 242 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:04.399 the work. But if it sounds like it's uh, it's 243 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:09.799 it's it's completely reasonable there at the view and for that, 244 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:12.559 I'm very excited. Okay, well we'll continue down that road. 245 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:21.120 And I read a fascinating piece this morning about the 246 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.399 the the late, the late strategy of the Trump campaign, 247 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:29.799 and I'm telling you there's two key takeaways. Those two 248 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:32.320 things may have won him the election, or at the 249 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:35.399 very least won him. Uh you know three or four 250 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:38.960 of those swing states that we're close. I'll explain coming 251 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:42.200 up here on the CaCO Day radio program. I think 252 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:45.879 very instructive to the transition that you've seen with Donald 253 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:52.480 Trump the politician, from you know, escalator days to today. Okay, 254 00:13:53.320 --> 00:14:00.960 Donald Trump got Donald Donald Trump has any go you 255 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:03.440 have to There's a certain amount of audacity that you 256 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:07.159 have to have to go, Hey, everybody, ay, all three 257 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:10.039 hundred and thirty million, I will ah be in charge. Right, 258 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:16.440 That's there's a certain audacity there. And it so but 259 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:19.840 but so when you're like that and people backstab you, 260 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:24.320 it it sticks with you, man, and and and you 261 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.720 internalize and and it it has become clear and it 262 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:31.200 became clear that the course of this h this this 263 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:36.159 uh this last election, that he didn't trust I mean, 264 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:39.240 I shouldn't say he didn't trust anybody, very few people, 265 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:45.639 very few people. And almost every major decision or undertaking 266 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:52.919 passed through a member of his family. Almost everyone. Laura 267 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:56.960 Trump was instrumental. North Carolina native Laura Trump was instrumental. 268 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:59.799 We talked her on the show numerous times. Very nice, 269 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:06.840 but very business minded. Right his sons to some extent, 270 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:09.200 I would argue, I would argue his son's wife, Lauren 271 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:13.919 was out there more Avanka doing some stuff. Kushner behind 272 00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:19.440 the scenes, basically handling all of the transition because remember, 273 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:21.639 they're going to do their own transition because they don't trust, 274 00:15:21.799 --> 00:15:24.080 they don't trust folks within the government to not seed 275 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:27.559 moles in there. This is spy stuff, kind of level stuff, 276 00:15:27.559 --> 00:15:33.120 but it's the reality of politics. And you probably noticed 277 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:35.519 a shift in the campaign, and I'll give you an example. 278 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:39.559 The thing that baffled me and Ross we talked about 279 00:15:39.559 --> 00:15:44.080 this was Trump not re embracing Twitter the way that 280 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:48.679 he did, especially under Musk ownership initially because remember initially 281 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:50.519 we were like, oh, okay, is you gonna be back 282 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:51.039 on Twitter? 283 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:51.200 Now? 284 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:54.159 That him and Elanor bros. And I think that opened 285 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:55.960 the door for it because Donald Trump had went out 286 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:59.960 and he started his own thing, and the business mind 287 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:02.840 of Donald Trump was, look, this is my thing, that's 288 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:05.039 his thing. I'm gonna do my thing, and my thing 289 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:08.799 is gonna be awesome, and and and and someone convinced him. 290 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:10.639 And I think it was just the the budding and 291 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:14.000 romance there that he needed to be on Twitter. That 292 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:16.320 was a more minor thing. The thing that you saw 293 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:20.200 at the end, though, was Donald Trump all over these 294 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:26.759 podcasts he did, but he did Theobaughn he did, uh, 295 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:30.240 and not not just Trump, but Trump and Vance Theovaughn. 296 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:32.399 Hold on, I got a whole list here. I think 297 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:35.360 Aiden Ross, which I don't understand. He did a Logan podcast. 298 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:35.600 Uh. 299 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:37.720 And then of course the granddaddy of them all, he 300 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:42.399 did Joe Rogan. So how did we get there? Well, 301 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:46.200 here's the here's the story. You ready, And I think 302 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:50.919 this is this is crazy interesting. Trump's campaign strategy, Uh, 303 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:55.720 in the latter half of the campaign was finally decided 304 00:16:55.759 --> 00:17:00.720 to quote target young men who primarily interact with politics 305 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:07.160 through podcasts and social media, okay, but also protect women, 306 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:10.680 so in fact, they have a word for it. Well, 307 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:12.920 we'll get to it. We'll get to it as I 308 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:14.720 go through this threat. And I've retweeted this thread for 309 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:18.160 you and there's a link at the bottom. Okay, so 310 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:19.640 they he brought in a guy by the name of 311 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:22.599 Alex Bruskowitz or Bruskewitz. I don't how to pronounce. If 312 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:26.519 you're on Twitter, or bruce Witz Brussewitz. If you're on Twitter, 313 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:29.319 you've seen this guy. We follow him. The show account 314 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:31.359 follows him because you seeah, you got little nuggets out there. 315 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:39.000 And he's twenty seven. The campaign manager, Susie Wiles brought 316 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:42.720 him in and his job was to exploit opportunities with 317 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:47.279 podcasts and social media, and so he's not the social 318 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:50.319 media side per se. We'll learn about that in the moment. 319 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:55.359 But he's handling bookings and he put together a list 320 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:59.519 of these and got on a phone call with Donald Trump, 321 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:01.559 who was on who was on the golf course at 322 00:18:01.559 --> 00:18:04.400 that time. According to this he got onto a call 323 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:08.799 with senior advisor Daniel Alvarez and the President and said, 324 00:18:09.799 --> 00:18:11.759 I have a list of podcasts, Sir, that I want 325 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:15.039 to pitch you, and and Trump reportedly stopped him in 326 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:22.759 mid sentence and said, have you run him by Baron yet? No, sir, 327 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:26.279 said the twenty seven year old stafford. He said, you 328 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:30.480 call Baron, you see what he thinks on each of these, 329 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:34.720 and then you get back to me. And apparently at 330 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:36.839 that point it was also a little struggle to Neil 331 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:40.400 Barren down because his mom, Milania is she does and 332 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:42.200 rightfully so, she didn't want him near a lot of 333 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:45.440 this stuff because I mean, would they put her through? 334 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:48.759 What did she ever do to anybody? What did she 335 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:55.240 ever do to anybody? And Baron allegedly went through the 336 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:59.119 list indicated the ones because he apparently he's a podcast junkie, 337 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:03.599 loves podcasts. He's you know, he's of legal voting age. 338 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:05.920 He's in that young male demo, the very bottom of it. 339 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:08.759 But he's there and he loves the podcast. He loves 340 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:13.680 the guy focused podcast. And once Baron signed off on it, 341 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:20.440 they set the schedule. I think that's I correct me 342 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:23.480 if I'm wrong. I think that that won them some states. 343 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:32.440 It absolutely had an impact. Although the one reporter here 344 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:34.880 is like, I was coordinating with Baron book Trump on 345 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:39.759 a marathon of the bro frat like interviews Theo von Logan, 346 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:44.200 Paul Joe Rogan and others. And then if you look 347 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:46.599 at the numbers, the very demos that they were targeting 348 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:50.279 with those, they saw dramatic increases. 349 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:52.640 We speculated on this a while ago. We said, you know, 350 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:55.480 as Barack Obama was really the first to use the 351 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:58.440 Internet to expand his base and reach out to his 352 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:01.559 and fundraising. Yeah, yeah, he Trump did the same thing, 353 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:03.559 but he did it with with podcasts. 354 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:04.400 Yeah. 355 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:06.720 We mentioned this about. I mean that that's what we 356 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:08.960 were seeing anyways, Like he's doing it differently with these 357 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:09.839 Burro podcasts. 358 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:13.440 But look at the look at the investment of what 359 00:20:13.640 --> 00:20:16.160 is that two staff members a few minutes of his 360 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:19.920 son's time, and the benefit he got from it, like 361 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:23.640 from a cost benefit analysis, that's crazy. But it's not 362 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:25.759 the only story. He saw the crossovers with the eighteen 363 00:20:25.759 --> 00:20:30.079 twenty nine demo, Yes, yes, But the other half of 364 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:31.839 that is social media. And this is what Ross and 365 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:35.359 I were talking about there. Nobody knew for sure who 366 00:20:35.400 --> 00:20:38.000 was running a couple of the Trump social media Twitter 367 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:42.359 and TikTok and all that, and and they they these 368 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:45.759 leftists would do these you know, like Jojo and and others. 369 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:48.519 They would do these investigations. I think it's this guy 370 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:50.000 and it's his burner account. 371 00:20:50.119 --> 00:20:50.759 Bah. 372 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:52.359 And then every time they do it, all it would 373 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:55.160 do is bring an immense amount of attention to this 374 00:20:55.279 --> 00:21:02.799 account or these accounts that were dominating in social media 375 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:07.000 reach versus what the Harris campaign was doing. The Harris campaign, 376 00:21:07.079 --> 00:21:10.319 by the way, was running How we know that at 377 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:14.720 least what probably twenty employees minimum because we saw the 378 00:21:14.759 --> 00:21:18.200 picture right of their diversity, which it's just all young women. 379 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:21.920 But Ross was telling me something fascinating. So they have 380 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:24.960 they and you just retweeted this too, just so I 381 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:29.720 have it right here, okay, all right. So it was 382 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:32.799 like it was a few dudes sitting in I don't know, 383 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:35.599 on the they sit on the golf course, tweeting stuff, 384 00:21:35.599 --> 00:21:39.200 they're gaming. I don't even know what to do. It 385 00:21:39.240 --> 00:21:42.680 was just it was just a handful of guys. They 386 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:44.960 ran all of the social media for Trump, and they 387 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:52.200 whipped Harris's behind in all of the metrics. And it's 388 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:54.519 funny because Price, the guy you're telling me about, is 389 00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:56.599 the guy that I saw Jojo accusing of it, and 390 00:21:56.680 --> 00:22:01.599 he just toyed with her, just toyed with her the 391 00:22:01.640 --> 00:22:03.839 whole time. Absolutely hilarious. 392 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:04.079 Man. 393 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:07.599 So if you want to, you want to check either 394 00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:11.319 of those out, you want a little insight into what's 395 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:13.720 going on we got those for you at Casey on 396 00:22:13.759 --> 00:22:14.720 the radio, on the Twitter. 397 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:16.400 You know what's crazy to me too is when you 398 00:22:16.440 --> 00:22:19.400 look at you know, Trump embracing the bro podcast, and 399 00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:21.240 then on the other side you have Kamala Harris, who 400 00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:24.000 you know obviously looks like they avoided the Joe Rogan podcast. 401 00:22:24.039 --> 00:22:25.720