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What Would Lina Khan Do? Stop the Monopolies Lina Khan! · Vibes Only

• 0:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: I'm Brian Derrick.
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  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And I'm Glennis Meagher.
• 0:02
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Welcome back to Vibes Only.
• 0:03
  BRIAN DERRICK: This week, what would Lina Khan do?
• 0:06
  BRIAN DERRICK: We're gonna talk about Paramount Skydance's merger with Warner Bros.
• 0:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: Discovery, and how one Trump-loving family of billionaires is about to own basically all of our media.
• 0:17
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We get into ProPublica's bombshell reporting about Susan Collins and some shady government contracts.
• 0:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: How Trump banned some major news outlets from the White House, which he thinks belongs to him.
• 0:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: The Senate is about to go to recess, and we talk about why Trump and his cronies haven't gotten that much done.
• 0:34
  BRIAN DERRICK: Also, Alyssa Edwards and James Talarico are going viral, and Republicans are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to try to save Ken Paxton in Texas.
• 0:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: A quick midterm update, and we've got another Oath Candidate of the Week that you might wanna Google Brian, I feel like we match.
• 0:56
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, we kind of just know what days we're gonna wear black- and what days- we're gonna wear a little pop of color.
• 0:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: We kinda do… It's true.
• 1:03
  BRIAN DERRICK: Good morning, Glennis.
• 1:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: How's that coffee doing?
• 1:06
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Good morning, Brian.
• 1:06
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: As, as discussed pre-recording, it tastes like shit.
• 1:10
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But here we are.
• 1:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I will say, when I took my walk this morning, early morning, there was a breeze, a chill in the air.
• 1:19
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Fall is upon us.
• 1:21
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Spooky season is here.
• 1:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It is midterms time, baby.
• 1:24
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 1:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: There are a few trends that I think we see as the, as the elections approach.
• 1:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: Up and to the right, we have cash flow, right?
• 1:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: So much money pouring into these races, which we're gonna talk about.
• 1:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: And political staffers' caffeine intake is up and to the right.
• 1:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: I'm on, like, at least four cups of cold brew a day at this point.
• 1:44
  BRIAN DERRICK: And then down and to the right, we have the temperature, and I walked out this morning and I was like, "It's literally 47 degrees in New York. What the-" I
• 1:51
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: love it.
• 1:52
  BRIAN DERRICK: No.
• 1:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: I
• 1:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: love it.
• 1:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It gives me energy, and it just, like, it, it smells like elections, and I'm ready to go.
• 1:59
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 1:59
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm ready to start my swing state tour, and off to the races.
• 2:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: Well, the other thing that's gonna be up and to the right is winning and good vibes because we're crushing this midterm season.
• 2:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: Let's get into it and talk about all the good news for the week.
• 2:17
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Great.
• 2:19
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I didn't realize it was all good,
• 2:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: but- Well, it's not all good.
• 2:22
  BRIAN DERRICK: But we can start- Okay … with good stuff.
• 2:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: Let's start with Susan Collins.
• 2:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: Let's cook her ass first.
• 2:27
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: This is a, a reporting from less than 48 hours ago from ProPublica.
• 2:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: Can we just fangirl on ProPublica for a moment?
• 2:35
  BRIAN DERRICK: Because they're really having a moment.
• 2:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: Every couple of years, I feel like they drop bombs.
• 2:41
  BRIAN DERRICK: All of their, like, multi-year investigations get published at once, kind of like, remember the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court stuff?
• 2:49
  BRIAN DERRICK: RV.
• 2:50
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, that was a- Yeah … banger year for ProPublica, and we're having another banger year for ProPublica.
• 2:54
  BRIAN DERRICK: They recently, they were the ones who broke the story about a Russian oligarch who's BFFs with Putin- Mm-hmm paying for the red wedding, and now we get the Susan Collins September surprise.
• 3:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: Tell us about it.
• 3:05
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I have to just state, for the record, she has not been charged with any crime.
• 3:10
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Her office vehemently denies all of this, et cetera.
• 3:15
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And-
• 3:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: If you're running for US Senate or any statewide office, needing to start a disclaimer about you that you haven't yet been charged with a federal crime is not a great place to be.
• 3:28
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: 100%.
• 3:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And I will also say, the guy who has now, like, gone on the record against Susan Collins and other elected officials, federal officials, is serving time in federal prison for fraud.
• 3:42
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But two things can be true.
• 3:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'll leave it at that.
• 3:46
  BRIAN DERRICK: Our star witness here is a criminal, but also, he's in jail because he was a party to the crime that she is being alleged to have been involved in, which is selling government contracts for campaign contributions.
• 4:03
  BRIAN DERRICK: That this guy admitted guilt and went to prison for directing money through a shell company into a super PAC for Susan Collins, working directly with her, I believe it's her finance director, maybe it was the campaign manager, and then he got millions and millions of dollars of government contracts as a result of that.
• 4:26
  BRIAN DERRICK: So- Y- yeah … extremely illegal, and the DOJ was investigating this and investigating Collins until Trump came in and killed the investigation.
• 4:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: That is the bombshell report.
• 4:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 4:39
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And we, there is no direct smoking gun to Donald Trump looking at this file and saying, "Kill this," but what he did do was he completely wiped out the department of the FBI that was responsible for investigating fraud and corruption with our elected officials.
• 4:56
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So Thanks, Trump
• 4:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: Look over there.
• 5:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's, it's very that.
• 5:01
  BRIAN DERRICK: No It's very that
• 5:02
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's, it's very that.
• 5:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: This shell company contributed$150,000 to Susan Collins' super PAC, and it's actually the chairman of Collins' super PAC when this guy Martin Kao.
• 5:15
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: When this criminal emailed saying,"I'm gonna route this money through a shell company," the chairman of the super PAC responded, and I quote, "Very smart.""Very smart." Like what?
• 5:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And did you know that, did you see the name of what the shell company was called?
• 5:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: No.
• 5:33
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So this is how they got caught actually by this, like, watchdog group that was checking, like, the contributions to the super PAC was there was, like, a misspelling in the check or that, like, the filing was, was one name and the check had, like, an S at the end of something.
• 5:49
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It was called The Society of Young Women Scientists and Engineers.
• 5:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So okay.
• 5:56
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So they moved $150,000 to Susan Collins' super PAC and oh, how much did his firm get in government contracts?
• 6:04
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: 32 million.
• 6:05
  BRIAN DERRICK: Insane.
• 6:06
  BRIAN DERRICK: Insane.
• 6:06
  BRIAN DERRICK: Literally so crazy.
• 6:08
  BRIAN DERRICK: It is wild.
• 6:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: I mean, I-- We're, we're both in the campaign space.
• 6:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: I focus specifically on campaign finance.
• 6:14
  BRIAN DERRICK: You know the space too.
• 6:16
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's crazy what the, these corrupt electeds will do to get money into super PACs, into the soft-- what we would refer to as soft side.
• 6:26
  BRIAN DERRICK: So directly into the campaign, you could only give $3,500 is the current FEC limit per election, so 7,000 per cycle, 3,500 for primary, 3,500 for general.
• 6:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: Super PACs can take unlimited sums, but candidates are not legally permitted to fundraise directly for the super PAC in unlimited amounts because they're not allowed to be coordinating activity.
• 6:50
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's like part of Citizens United.
• 6:52
  BRIAN DERRICK: And
• 6:52
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: so- We call it a, a firewall.
• 6:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: There- There's supposed to be a wall of fire in between That's, I mean, that's what I think in my head when I'm thinking about, oh, there's supposed to be a wall of fire in between official campaign actions, messaging, strategy- Right and the, I'm using air quotes here, "independent super PAC" that might be working to get that person elected, but there's not supposed to be any coordination.
• 7:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: Right.
• 7:22
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: With a wall of fire is- And- … is what it's called… BRIAN DERRICK: sketchy, So this is bad news for Susan Collins.
• 7:30
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Just to, to tie it back into the midterms, like the reason that I think this is resonating at this moment and it's such a big story and Collins' team is freaking out- Mm-hmm over it is that corruption is the word of the day every day around here.
• 7:46
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's the most motivating issue for a huge chunk of voters, for a big portion of voters even more so than affordability in the midterms.
• 7:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But without a doubt, those are sort of the, the two issues defining the, the midterm elections.
• 8:01
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And so even though Collins has had some scandals in the past, I think this is resonating in a different way because it lumps her in with all the rest of the swampy shit going on with the Trump administration that has drawn more attention to DC corruption than any other time in modern history because we have the most corrupt president in American history.
• 8:24
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So that is uniquely potent as a line of attack against her, and actually I think is going to move the needle in this race, which I would be sort of hard-pressed to say for most, like, scandals of this nature.
• 8:39
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I also want to add that the corruption is directly tied to people's cost of living.
• 8:43
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So it's not just that elected officials are wildly corrupt, and now we have the receipts to prove it.
• 8:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's also that people's cost of living is dramatically higher, thanks to decisions made by aforementioned corrupt elected officials.
• 8:58
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I want to take one step back because I don't know if you saw this Trump line, it definitely was in a speech, where he was talking about his super PAC or one of the super PACs that is associated with MAGA or Trump.
• 9:11
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And he straight up said, "I am going to be controlling how that money is spent." Did you see this?
• 9:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: No, wait, I did not see this.
• 9:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: Tell me more.
• 9:21
  DONALD TRUMP: When does that money start to go out?
• 9:23
  DONALD TRUMP: Whatever amount of money necessary to try and help us.
• 9:25
  DONALD TRUMP: Uh, and this is money from MAGA Inc.
• 9:25
  DONALD TRUMP: This is my money that I control.
• 9:30
  DONALD TRUMP: Now, this is, uh, separate from the RNC.
• 9:33
  DONALD TRUMP: It's separate from people having money.
• 9:35
  DONALD TRUMP: I could use it for 28, yes, if I want.
• 9:37
  DONALD TRUMP: Mr.-
• 9:37
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: "Trump claims that he controls MAGA super PAC draws watchdog complaint".
• 9:42
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So Trump has $400 million sitting in a war chest-
• 9:46
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah… GLENNIS MEAGHER: that he That's very illegal.
• 9:51
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, 100-- it, it is.
• 9:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's, it's also-- I mean, don't get me started on MAGA Inc.
• 9:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: But it ties into, and I don't want us to drift too far, but it ties into another sort of thought that I've been having recently about how Trump really believes that all money in the federal government is his to spend as he pleases unless he decides otherwise.
• 10:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's- Mm-hmm … the tariff money, for example, where he has assessed these unconstitutional tariffs on American companies and consumers, raised prices for everyone, collected billions and billions of dollars for the federal government.
• 10:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: The way that it works is that goes into the federal government, and Congress decides how to appropriate every dollar that the federal government takes in.
• 10:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: Trump sees that as, "I made that money by charging American citizens extra, so now that's my money to spend. If I wanna cut $5,000 checks," which the math there doesn't even close to work out, but whatever.
• 10:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: "If I wanna cut checks to everyone, then I can just do it because I raise that money."
• 10:59
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 10:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: Completely not how our system of government works at all.
• 11:03
  BRIAN DERRICK: Another quick example there being the Venezuelan oil money, where- Oh … we went into Venezuela.
• 11:08
  BRIAN DERRICK: We captured all this shit.
• 11:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: It was, it was, of course, about the oil.
• 11:13
  BRIAN DERRICK: They said that f- I think it was $13 billion flowed out of Venezuela through the, the oil tankers and whatnot that we captured during that whole debacle, and no one knows where that money is now.
• 11:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: Money is.
• 11:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, not, not only is Trump saying that he can spend it as he pleases through the government, but he also just believes that it's his money personally.
• 11:34
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Personally, period.
• 11:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's insane.
• 11:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: No, no,
• 11:36
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: it's literally insane.
• 11:37
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I don't think people are aware that that money just went, like, straight up missing.
• 11:41
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 11:41
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, it's, it's not accounted for.
• 11:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I wanna segue us, but I'm catalyzed by the Trump narcissism, which there was another gaffe that he had, I think it was yesterday or the day before.
• 11:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Unless you're living under a rock, I have to say that you may have missed that Trump banned MSNBC, CNN-
• 12:01
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah… GLENNIS MEAGHER: and one other When he was asked about- Politico.
• 12:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: Politico, right, Politico.
• 12:08
  BRIAN DERRICK: When he was asked about this, he said… Did you hear this clip?
• 12:12
  DONALD TRUMP: There's something wrong with that a country that can allow people to write purposely negative stories.
• 12:19
  DONALD TRUMP: Now, if they wanna write them, that's fine, but I don't have to let them into my-- into the people's house.
• 12:25
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He was like, "Well, it's, you know, these people are unfair and they're not covering." You know, "And I didn't want them in my house, the people's house." He said my house, like the White House is his, and then he corrected himself to be-- to realize, ooh, that's actually… The White House is famously the people's house, that he was like,"My house. I don't want them in my house." Like he genuinely thinks when he like has branded the, the Oval Office with all of this grotesque gold ornaments, that that's like his living room and it's looking like his apartment in Trump Tower up on, you know, 60th Street or whatever it's on.
• 13:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So let's touch base briefly on this- Yeah … unprecedented banning of these three outlets, which then collectively had the entire press pool said, "We're not playing ball here, Trump.
• 13:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We're not gonna cover you."
• 13:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: Right.
• 13:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: So yeah, basically all press stopped, at least temporarily, covering any audio or video feeds for White House events.
• 13:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: At the same time, they were trying to do this ribbon cutting for the helipad that Trump- Oh, it was- … built, then demolished, then built again.
• 13:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: It is a little eerie how committed he seems to be to blowing up Republicans' midterm chances.
• 13:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like this is a bad move immediately before the election to remind people of the way that you abuse the power of the presidency to silence media.
• 13:58
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like is mainstream media popular?
• 13:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: No.
• 14:01
  BRIAN DERRICK: Do people want to see individual outlets targeted because you don't like their coverage of you?
• 14:08
  BRIAN DERRICK: Of course not.
• 14:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like that's crazy.
• 14:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: Right.
• 14:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: And it reminds us that Fox News should be counting down the days until they lose access to the White House, all Democrats, and maybe their broadcast license once a Democrat takes over in 2029.
• 14:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like you're cooked.
• 14:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: Why w- Cooked … why would any Democratic president allow Fox News into the White House?
• 14:34
  BRIAN DERRICK: Or New- Well- Or for that matter, like Newsmax, OAN, all of the even faker bullshit-
• 14:39
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah… BRIAN DERRICK: outlets.
• 14:40
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I mean, it, it should also be stated that when, uh, Trump banned these three outlets, the pool included ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox.
• 14:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Fox said, "Okay, we're not playing ball here either." Uh-
• 14:51
  BRIAN DERRICK: Of course not.
• 14:52
  BRIAN DERRICK: They know that- Yeah … it's an existential threat to them.
• 14:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Mm-hmm.
• 14:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: And I mean, we've talked about it before.
• 14:58
  BRIAN DERRICK: I'm not like- I'm not in my forgiveness era.
• 15:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: No.
• 15:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: I'm not in my-- I'm in my, which was the mean one?
• 15:08
  BRIAN DERRICK: Reputation?
• 15:09
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Literally, I was like, it's a-- Is it Red or Reputation?
• 15:11
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm not a
• 15:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: Swiftie.
• 15:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: I don't, I don't
• 15:12
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: know.
• 15:12
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But the Swifties can let us know.
• 15:14
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 15:14
  BRIAN DERRICK: Well, yeah, let us know.
• 15:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: I'm in that era.
• 15:16
  BRIAN DERRICK: I'm in vengeance era.
• 15:18
  BRIAN DERRICK: Mm-hmm.
• 15:18
  BRIAN DERRICK: So 100%, Fox News should go spend their money on lawyers after we ban them from the White House after this.
• 15:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, goodbye.
• 15:27
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 15:27
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I was also thinking, like, some inside baseball here, like we've both been to the White House a few times, and you know, you go through kind of multiple levels of security.
• 15:34
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And like to hear this announcement, or I think Trump tweeted it, and then for these three outlets to go to the White House the next day to get into like their little like press corner and to just be denied.
• 15:46
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, you know, the, the Secret Service or the Marines are like checking your information in the backend, and they're like, "Yeah, you can't come in.
• 15:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's so crazy.
• 15:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But now, of course, there's lawsuits.
• 15:57
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's both a First and a Fifth Amendment case.
• 16:00
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So-
• 16:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, it looks like it's moving pretty quick, so my guess is that it'll be reinstated pretty fast, and they're gonna say you can't target individual outlets in this particular way.
• 16:11
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Brian, should we talk about one more media thing before we move on?
• 16:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: Which?
• 16:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: The merger that went through thanks to 12 Democratic AGs.
• 16:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, while we're on the end of free speech and, uh, and of free press, let's, let's get into that one.
• 16:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: So we have Skydance Paramount, giant media company owned by the Ellison family.
• 16:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: Mm-hmm.
• 16:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: Trump MAGA goofballs.
• 16:41
  BRIAN DERRICK: They are trying to merge with Warner Bros. Studio, one of the largest, like, owners of IP and additional media brands in the space.
• 16:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: It would create the largest media company in the world by merging these two things.
• 16:58
  BRIAN DERRICK: Huge antitrust concerns about this deal that would consolidate power over a huge chunk of our digital and television, like, bandwidth me- media under- Yeah … c- the control of a single individual, Larry Ellison.
• 17:17
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He was one of the major stakeholders in the TikTok deal.
• 17:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: Who is also one of the major stakeholders of TikTok.
• 17:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: So just massive consolidation of, of power over what we get to see and hear and the information that flows through our screens to all of us.
• 17:35
  BRIAN DERRICK: There was a lawsuit because the federal government under Trump refuses to do anything about this.
• 17:41
  BRIAN DERRICK: They're like- Right.
• 17:42
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah … "Sure," and then they allowed it to go through.
• 17:44
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, Larry Ellison has given money to, to MAGA, et cetera.
• 17:47
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yes.
• 17:47
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 17:47
  BRIAN DERRICK: And so it was Democratic state attorneys general that led the fight to sue to block the merger.
• 17:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: Mm-hmm.
• 17:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: And what happened this week was they settled, and they've come to a settlement agreement that looks like it will clear the path for this merger to go through.
• 18:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, there was an antitrust case that was scheduled for March of next year that's now off the table.
• 18:17
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Ugh, I, I'm kind of like- Yeah… we, we saw a microdose of this with Bari Weiss and CBS and kind of that takeover and what that looked like of-- in terms of who took over the leadership, et cetera.
• 18:28
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It should be concerning to every s- single American that the screens and the phones and what are, what are being produced and published on those screens and phones for, you know, hundreds of millions of people are controlled by essentially one family that backs Donald Trump.
• 18:47
  BRIAN DERRICK: WWLKD.
• 18:52
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: What would Lina Khan do?
• 18:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: What would Lina Khan do?
• 18:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: Lina Khan, where are you?
• 18:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: We need you, please.
• 19:01
  BRIAN DERRICK: Lina Khan, Glennis's hero, is the former, is like a former FTC chair under- Correct … Biden, and is an antitrust warrior.
• 19:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, has led a lot of the antitrust cases against Google, Meta, and all of these big tech companies- Kroger and Amazon.
• 19:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, like-
• 19:21
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, this is like, you know, one of my group chats was blowing up this weekend about dynamic pricing in grocery stores.
• 19:28
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: How grocery stores now are like, you know how you can do, like, control your own cart?
• 19:33
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, you get one of those scanners, and that's how you shop.
• 19:36
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I guess it's, it's big in Europe.
• 19:37
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I see it in Europe, and I guess it's coming here.
• 19:40
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But in Europe, they're not charging people different things for fruit based on your spending habits or how much money you have.
• 19:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And the fact that Lina Khan was able to break up this merger with Kroger, who could have controlled, like, how much your groceries cost, and here we are, you know, less than three years later, and the government's allowing these, like, huge monopolies to have carte blanche over how much our things cost.
• 20:05
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It literally should keep every American up at night.
• 20:07
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, antitrust is so, so deeply important to, like, preserving your right as an American to, like, engage fairly in the capitalist system.
• 20:17
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Right now, it's, it's not fair.
• 20:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: One of the most popular, air quotes, institutions left in American society are small businesses.
• 20:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: People love small businesses and the concept of small businesses.
• 20:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: One of the most popular candidate profiles that you can recruit to run for office is a small business owner.
• 20:39
  BRIAN DERRICK: Mm. And Democrats need to make, like s- like center the fight for small businesses in 2028 and even in 2026 because these are the types of moves that kill the ability for anyone to launch a, a- Mm-hmm business that can actually, like, grow.
• 21:01
  BRIAN DERRICK: Exactly what you're talking about.
• 21:02
  BRIAN DERRICK: If all the food chains merge into one giant company- Yeah … no small business can compete with that.
• 21:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: And then it's a different but related concern when it comes to the control of information.
• 21:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: The ability for people to get out independent, e- whether it's nonfiction and we're talking about- Mm-hmm I mean, nonfiction, LOL, that's a funny way to put that.
• 21:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: But, like, whether it's the news- Yeah.
• 21:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Right… BRIAN DERRICK: or whether like, narrative fiction.
• 21:34
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Do you watch the show Lioness?
• 21:37
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No, but should I?
• 21:39
  BRIAN DERRICK: First of all, it's amazing because- Okay … I just love Zoe Saldaña, but it is literal MAGA propaganda.
• 21:46
  BRIAN DERRICK: It is the- Totally best example that I've ever seen of how you can use a show that is seemingly about, like, CIA agents, and there are car chase scenes, and, like, shit like that, that is actually advancing the most aggressive anti-Ukraine, anti-democratic- No… anti-mainstream media agenda I've ever seen in scripted television.
• 22:13
  BRIAN DERRICK: That is what happens when you let ideologues like Larry Ellison control-
• 22:18
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Totally… BRIAN DERRICK: all the media it drips into the culture.
• 22:22
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, this is an important part of the deal.
• 22:25
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: There are production commitments in this merger that 30 films a year for two years have to be made, uh, plus 300 million a year in extra US production spending, which is all well and good to make sure that the jobs stay in California or Georgia or wherever these huge production shops are.
• 22:41
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But what really matters is who's writing the scripts, what scripts are getting approved, and what is the worldview that those scripts are building.
• 22:46
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, you could just watch all of Clint Eastwood's directed films back to back, and you, you would become a MAGA warrior.
• 22:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like- Right … you know what I mean?
• 22:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like-
• 22:54
  BRIAN DERRICK: Totally
• 22:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: that really does matter.
• 22:57
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: For what it's worth, TikTok, ever since Larry Ellison bought the controlling stake, it's, it's horrible.
• 23:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm like, "Give it back to China." "Give it back to China." Like, it's so bad now.
• 23:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's literally, it's so bad, and everyone would say that.
• 23:12
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But- … you know, the concern also with, with digital media and with TikTok, it's like if, if, you know, MAGA warriors are controlling that algorithm, who's, who's to say what worldview they're pushing?
• 23:22
  BRIAN DERRICK: Right.
• 23:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: Right.
• 23:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: Let's bring it back to some good news because we do have- Okay … a little bit more good news for, for people, and that is that the Senate is wrapping up the end of their session, likely to go in, uh, into recess in the next 48 hours.
• 23:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: Through election day, and that will be the end of any Senate or House voting through the election.
• 23:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: We officially made it through the first two years of the Trump presidency with a Republican trifecta and blocked almost everything.
• 24:01
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 24:02
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, he didn't pass anything of, of… Only a budget bill was passed.
• 24:06
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Right.
• 24:06
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And yes, of course, that had, uh, damaging, uh, consequences.
• 24:10
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But I'm cracking up as you're talking about this 'cause in my mind's eye, all I'm seeing is this TikTok I saw last night of Mitch McConnell getting wheeled back into his house and a reporter yelling, "Mitch, are you here against your will?" And he, like, can't respond, and he's just like… And it's, like, to me that's-
• 24:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: Are you here against your will
• 24:33
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: is dark … Yeah, are you being held against your will?
• 24:35
  BRIAN DERRICK: Very
• 24:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: dark.
• 24:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And it's so dark.
• 24:37
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, straight up elder abuse, right?
• 24:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And he, he doesn't even have the mental and physical capacity to be able to just say, "I'm happy to be here." He's literally like-
• 24:46
  REPORTER: Are you here against your own will?
• 24:49
  REPORTER: He's senator Have a good night, sir Have a good night, sir
• 24:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It symbolizes this, this two years.
• 24:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, January 3rd or whenever they swear in the new, uh, senators, he- someone's just gonna wheel him down a flight of stairs.
• 25:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, they, they- Yeah.
• 25:05
  BRIAN DERRICK: He's gonna have this- Like, he's truly a prop at this point.
• 25:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, or they'll do, like, a Showgirls moment where they'll put some, like, beads under his wheelchair, and it'll just, like… But- It's really, it is elder abuse.
• 25:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, I am an empath- It is … at the end, at the end of the day, and I'm just like, "Let that man go in pe-" Well, just I don't wanna see him on my screen, okay?
• 25:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 25:24
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, I don't want my-- I don't wanna see that as the manifestat- manifestation of my tax dollars.
• 25:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: Right.
• 25:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: So I just wanna give props to the Democratic caucus in both the Senate and House, because if you think all the way back to when the Trump administration first started in 2025, first 100 days, most brutal three months I think most of us have experienced in the last two-
• 25:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah
• 25:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: whatever, decades.
• 25:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: Democrats had no idea what to do.
• 25:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: Democrats were totally lost.
• 25:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: You had Democrats crossing the aisle to vote for Trump appointees- Mm-hmm… because they felt like they had been backhanded by America, and they were trying to find a way back into the g- like, good graces of voters.
• 26:11
  BRIAN DERRICK: They didn't know what to do.
• 26:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: They were like, "Okay, putting Trump back in office a second time, like, did we get it wrong the f- the first time?" Right.
• 26:18
  BRIAN DERRICK: "Should we be trying to work with him on stuff instead of hating on him?" Like, they were so lost, and a lot of them, honestly, are, are still like that.
• 26:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: But where it mattered most, for the most part, they got their shit together, recognized the seriousness of the threat, the unprecedented nature of what Trump was trying to dismantle in, in the country, and blocked a lot of things that had never been blocked before, withheld their participation from processes to slow things down in unprecedented ways.
• 26:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: We're not gonna go into, like, Senate rules here as to how that works.
• 26:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: Mm-hmm.
• 27:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: I think that people would fall asleep immediately.
• 27:02
  BRIAN DERRICK: But, like, they escalated fights that never got covered, never got the credit, but that effectively prevented this administration from passing any meaningful regulatory bills, including the latest attempt, which was the crypto bill that would have green lit more Trump crypto bullshit- Yeah last week.
• 27:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: The only major thing getting done was the one big ugly bill, which as you said- Yeah … was reconciliation and passed with Republican only votes.
• 27:34
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 27:35
  BRIAN DERRICK: So at least we- Yeah … made it this far.
• 27:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: And I was wrong again.
• 27:39
  BRIAN DERRICK: I love being wrong.
• 27:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: Oh.
• 27:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: I do.
• 27:41
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 27:41
  BRIAN DERRICK: I was wrong about a SCOTUS appointment.
• 27:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: No Supreme Court retirements, which means if we flip the Senate, Trump will get no Supreme Court appointments.
• 27:51
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 27:52
  BRIAN DERRICK: Unless they try and do something in the lame duck, which would be kooky bananas.
• 27:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: But huge.
• 27:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 27:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: Those are things worth celebrating.
• 27:58
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay, I'll take it.
• 27:59
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And I just am like, okay, and if we can get the House and the Senate I'm gonna feel much stronger in the next two years.
• 28:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: Some strong signs of our likelihood of taking the Senate.
• 28:13
  BRIAN DERRICK: Should we talk a little bit about our midterms update?
• 28:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 28:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Can we-- I wanna-- This is, like, unrelated but related.
• 28:19
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Have you seen all of the discourse about Alyssa Edwards in Texas?
• 28:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: Wait, I'm terrified already, but no, tell me.
• 28:26
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oh my God, it's insane.
• 28:28
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So James Talarico went slightly viral last week when he was, like, coming off a, like, town hall or something, and a reporter was like, "James, James, who's your favorite Texas drag queen?" And, like, without skipping a beat, he's like, "Alyssa Edwards."
• 28:40
  JAMES TALARICO: Mr. Talarico, who's your favorite drag queen in Texas?
• 28:42
  JAMES TALARICO: Oh my God, probably Alyssa Edwards.
• 28:44
  JAMES TALARICO: Alyssa
• 28:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Edwards?
• 28:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Iconic.
• 28:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: For anyone who, like… If you wanna get introduced to, like, Drag Race or a drag queen, like, Alyssa Edwards I think is, like, one of the best.
• 28:52
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, an iconic- … drag queen.
• 28:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: "Back rolls." "You, you look fucking orange." Like, there's so many quotes from her.
• 29:01
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And this was then taken by Ken Paxton, and now he's, like, attacking Alyssa Edwards.
• 29:06
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He was, like, tweeting, like,"The sick and twisted Alyssa Edwards." Wait, that's really funny.
• 29:10
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And Alyssa's just like, "What?" And if-- But if anything, I'm like, "Oh, good job, James.
• 29:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: That makes you more, um, culturally topical, just to be able to answer that-" Yeah … "so quickly."
• 29:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: We have news on that front.
• 29:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's not shocking, but I think it's good for people to know that we just got news this morning that Republicans are putting an additional 35 million in super PAC ad buys behind Ken Paxton, bringing the total to over 100 million to date, and the projected spend right now to 200 million in super PAC- Just in
• 29:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Texas
• 29:49
  BRIAN DERRICK: in Republicans trying to save Ken Paxton in Texas, $200 million.
• 29:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: It is very telling for where they think they are- They're worried… in this midterm- Yeah … cycle that they're spending 200 million to try to rescue that, uh, what should be a slam dunk Trump win.
• 30:10
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, I mean, I think it's worth doubling down that, like, Ken Paxton is a hyperbolically corrupt politician and hyperbolically bad candidate.
• 30:19
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Uh, his own party-
• 30:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: Impeached his ass… GLENNIS MEAGHER: impeached He also, you know, the, you know, the price of beef, you know.
• 30:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: Texas has an, a huge, huge ranching population.
• 30:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: The Texas, like, Ag Commissioner, uh, uh, he was the one who went viral on TikTok talking about where his beef, where your beef was coming from and how the administration's lying to you.
• 30:42
  BRIAN DERRICK: Also the, I believe the AG commissioner who just went viral for posting a photo of Texas stu- uh, uh, of what?
• 30:50
  BRIAN DERRICK: I don't know these fucking schools.
• 30:52
  BRIAN DERRICK: Maybe UT Austin.
• 30:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: The Longhorns won some game and- UT Austin is
• 30:56
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Longhorns.
• 30:57
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah
• 30:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: Okay.
• 30:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: Well, they, they were celebrating and there was a photo posted on Twitter, and it included some, I believe, like Latino or Asian students.
• 31:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: Mm-hmm.
• 31:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: And he was like posting like they were infiltrating Texas.
• 31:11
  BRIAN DERRICK: It was, it was really racist, extremely racist tweet that went super viral.
• 31:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Texas has a huge AAPI population.
• 31:18
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: That's insane.
• 31:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: Right.
• 31:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: But it is also not only Texas, because let me hit you with some facts.
• 31:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: Hit me.
• 31:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yesterday, Sabato, one of the most popular raters, prognosticators of elections, made a bunch of changes to their ratings.
• 31:38
  BRIAN DERRICK: Are you ready?
• 31:39
  BRIAN DERRICK: US Senate races.
• 31:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: US Senate in Iowa went from lean Republican to toss-up.
• 31:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: That is Josh Turek.
• 31:46
  BRIAN DERRICK: In Kansas, went from likely Republican to lean Republican.
• 31:49
  BRIAN DERRICK: In Michigan, went from toss-up to lean Democrat.
• 31:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's Abdul.
• 31:54
  BRIAN DERRICK: For governor races, Florida went from likely Republican to lean Republican.
• 31:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's David Jolly.
• 32:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: Uh- Mm … in Nevada, from lean Republican to toss-up.
• 32:03
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's Aaron Ford.
• 32:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: In Ohio, from lean Republican to toss-up.
• 32:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's Amy Acton.
• 32:08
  BRIAN DERRICK: In Texas, from likely Republican to lean Republican.
• 32:11
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's Gina Hinojosa.
• 32:13
  BRIAN DERRICK: In Florida's 27th house district, from likely Republican to lean Republican.
• 32:18
  BRIAN DERRICK: In Iowa's 1st Congressional District, toss-up to lean D.
• 32:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: In Texas' 9th Congressional District, safe Republican to likely Republican.
• 32:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: Every single change that they made went in favor of Democrats.
• 32:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: All of these races that we thought were completely unwinnable, completely not competitive in some cases, are now on the map, and Republicans are at risk.
• 32:39
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's a huge tidal wave coming right now.
• 32:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's, it's-
• 32:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah… BRIAN DERRICK: great.
• 32:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And that may seem like a nerdy rundown to folks, like the, the likely to lean, the, the back and forth.
• 32:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's, those are real changes to the polling- It's a big deal… and real… It's a big deal.
• 32:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Um- It's a big deal.
• 32:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's, it's a really big deal.
• 32:56
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So I cannot, again, overstress the importance of, like, relational organizing, of if there's a race that you're really interested in or you've heard about online, or that you really like the candidate, see if there's a phone banking opportunity.
• 33:10
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: See if you know anyone who lives in that state.
• 33:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: See if there's a way to help.
• 33:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It, maybe they need some more money.
• 33:17
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Go to oath.vote.
• 33:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's right.
• 33:20
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oath.vote.
• 33:20
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: That's right.
• 33:22
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 33:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We, we talk about this all the time, but I feel like everyone has woken up after an election and thought,"Oh, I could have done more." Don't do that this cycle.
• 33:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: Exactly.
• 33:32
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Don't do that this cycle.
• 33:33
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Do more.
• 33:34
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Do more.
• 33:36
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I promise you, you will feel better for it.
• 33:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Even if the, the race doesn't go the way you want it to, if you did as much as you could in your personal capacity to help that candidate, you're still gonna feel better than if you did nothing.
• 33:49
  BRIAN DERRICK: Tea.
• 33:50
  BRIAN DERRICK: When she's right, she's right, y'all.
• 33:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's not often.
• 33:56
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But when I am-
• 33:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: When it hits, it hits.
• 33:58
  BRIAN DERRICK: And that is a perfect segue, Glennis, into our Oath Candidate of the Week So where can people make an impact right now?
• 34:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: I'm bringing you the stuff of Democratic wet dreams.
• 34:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: I'm telling you that a race is winnable in a state that hasn't been winnable in a long time, and we're trying to send a shot across the bow, if you know what I mean.
• 34:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay.
• 34:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: Beau Bayh is running for Secretary of State in Indiana.
• 34:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: We've talked- Beau Bayh … many times on the pod about why Secretaries of State races matter.
• 34:34
  BRIAN DERRICK: They run elections and make sure that we all have the right and ability to vote.
• 34:39
  BRIAN DERRICK: Beau has made a statewide race in Indiana competitive for the first time in over a decade for Democrats.
• 34:49
  BRIAN DERRICK: Mm. And he's in a toss-up race right now.
• 34:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: Actually really needs additional funding.
• 34:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: Okay.
• 34:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: And is one of our top-rated races of the week, and he happens to be very good-looking.
• 35:02
  BRIAN DERRICK: I swear to God- Oh … I'm not just picking the hotties, but-
• 35:05
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I was gonna say he happens to be legacy.
• 35:07
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I was like, Bayh, and of course his, his father was the former governor of Indiana and US senator- Right Evan Bayh.
• 35:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: Exactly.
• 35:15
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Uh, and the f- grandson of former US Senator Birch Bayh.
• 35:18
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So we don't always love nepotism in this house, but- No,
• 35:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: we hate
• 35:21
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: it,
• 35:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: but
• 35:22
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I- … in this situation-
• 35:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: I wanna win in Indiana.
• 35:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: I wanna turn Indiana purple.
• 35:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's crazy.
• 35:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: Let's take the opportunity, press our advantage.
• 35:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: Go to oath.vote, and you'll see Beau Bayh listed at the top of the list.
• 35:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm looking at him right now.
• 35:41
  BRIAN DERRICK: All right.
• 35:41
  BRIAN DERRICK: Should we send them off with a good vibe?
• 35:43
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yes, I have a good vibe coming out of the city of New York.
• 35:47
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So Brian, how many times a month do you think you, you DoorDash or Uber Eats or…?
• 35:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: Do you want my actual answer?
• 35:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, I'm curious.
• 35:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: Probably once.
• 35:58
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Once.
• 35:58
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: A month.
• 35:58
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I know, 'cause you're like meal prepping.
• 35:59
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: You're like- Yeah … hitting your macros.
• 36:02
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Um- Yeah.
• 36:02
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Well, if you live in New York, you know that you order food.
• 36:06
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I actually right now, my elevator's still out.
• 36:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm on the sixth floor, so I am, uh, if I order food, I have to really, really think about it, and then I tip- … a ton 'cause I'm like, "I feel bad." I'm like, "That person's gonna have to climb six flights of stairs." Like, I just think like our, our delivery workers like are so hardworking and in the worst- Sure … weather.
• 36:25
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like they are out on their bikes or they're delivering food, and it's just like such a thankless job, but also such a part of New York City living.
• 36:34
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: This week, uh, it was the largest settlement for food delivery workers in US history.
• 36:40
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: DoorDash agreed to pay $131.5 million to delivery workers in New York City.
• 36:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: There was about 260,000 workers who were potentially underpaid, not paid, not given their tips for work they had already done, and DoorDash said, "We messed up." Like, "We're gonna, we're gonna make this right." That is great news, and I was happy when I saw it.
• 37:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: Wage theft is theft.
• 37:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: Undercounting hours, charging crazy fees, not paying things on time, not paying out is theft, and these companies need to be held accountable.
• 37:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: It goes all the way back to the antitrust conversation that we were having, that when you have a handful of companies amassing way too much power over the market or over the job market, then they have the ability- Mm-hmm to really abuse us as consumers and employees.
• 37:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: So I'm thrilled- Yeah … to see that they are being forced to be accountable for the bullshit that they stole from these workers who deserve, as you said, every single dime.
• 37:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's a very hard job.
• 37:42
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 37:43
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And-
• 37:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: And dangerous, too … we
• 37:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: rarely-- And dangerous.
• 37:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And we rarely see companies say, "Okay, we were wrong." So WWLKD, what would Lina Khan do?
• 37:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Just think about that, people.
• 37:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: Somebody get me… I need a bra- I need a bracelet.
• 37:59
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I need a bracelet.
• 37:59
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I know.
• 38:01
  BRIAN DERRICK: Should we get
• 38:02
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: a what would you do-… BRIAN DERRICK: I need a WWLKD.
• 38:04
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 38:04
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Have an awesome week.
• 38:05
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We will be back next week to check the vibes of the midterms and fill you in on everything you need to know about politics for the week.
• 38:14
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: See you then.
• 38:15
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: See you.