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12 Days Out and Ramaswamy’s Amy Acton Ad Splits the GOP · Vibes Only

• 0:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: I'm Brian Derrick.
• 0:00
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And I'm Glennis Meagher.
• 0:02
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Welcome back to Vibes Only.
• 0:05
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We are less than two weeks out from Election Day, and to be totally honest, we are tired.
• 0:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: We are, but we're checking in on the state of the race starting in Ohio, where political attacks have hit a new rock bottom, featuring estranged family members and mailers designed to deliberately confuse voters.
• 0:24
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We're also breaking down evil, pure evil, news clips on Republican messaging strategy, Donald Trump's bizarre campaign claims in North Carolina, and new polling showing 59% of voters disapprove of his performance.
• 0:38
  BRIAN DERRICK: Plus, we're gonna get into the real world hit to your wallet.
• 0:42
  BRIAN DERRICK: Healthcare costs are skyrocketing, and the US is officially running a $2 trillion annual deficit, thanks to all of Trump's lies.
• 0:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And wait until you hear about Elon Musk's new scam, giving stock to newborn babies as a tax write-off that conveniently funnels money right back into his pocket.
• 1:03
  BRIAN DERRICK: Let's get into it.
• 1:04
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Hey, Brian.
• 1:05
  BRIAN DERRICK: Hey, G.
• 1:05
  BRIAN DERRICK: Less than two weeks to go.
• 1:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: How we feeling?
• 1:10
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I've- I'm hanging on by a thread.
• 1:12
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: That's how I feel.
• 1:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: How are you feeling?
• 1:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, dragging my raggedy ass over the finish line like a broken pile of bones is how I feel.
• 1:22
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 1:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I had to, like, throw my Oura Ring out the window yesterday 'cause it was like,"Major signs you seem stressed," and I'm like, "Yeah, thanks.
• 1:31
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Thanks, data.
• 1:32
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Thanks, Palantir."
• 1:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: This is for sure the most burnt out I've ever been.
• 1:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's my-
• 1:37
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Ah… BRIAN DERRICK: fifth election gig, and I'm exhausted.
• 1:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm cooked.
• 1:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay.
• 1:46
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So what commitment are you making to yourself for self-care post-election?
• 1:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Are you gonna do something?
• 1:51
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Are you gonna do a spa day?
• 1:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: Oh, I'm just literally gonna vanish.
• 1:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: No one's gonna hear from me for months.
• 1:57
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, you're gonna be like, "Uh, Alexa, play Lady Gaga Vanish Into You." Brian disappears.
• 2:03
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, I'll be gone.
• 2:03
  BRIAN DERRICK: You'll-- No one will have any idea where I am for- Okay, good … an extended period of time.
• 2:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I love that for you.
• 2:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: You deserve it.
• 2:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: I mean, same.
• 2:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: Where are you going?
• 2:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: Sweden.
• 2:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No, I mean, I'm gonna-- I think I wanna do, like, a staycation in New York City and, like, do a spa, like into, like, a nice hotel night, into like, no one can reach me vibe.
• 2:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: I love it.
• 2:25
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, I-- You know, we all need, we all need to go offline for a second.
• 2:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We're very online.
• 2:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 2:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: The good news is we'll be celebrating post-election- Yes … we think, not sort of sulking as has been the case for the last few election cycles.
• 2:42
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, we have lots of good news.
• 2:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: Should we get into state of the race?
• 2:46
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, let's get into it.
• 2:49
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's funny you say that, too.
• 2:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Also, I was in a meeting the other day, and we were, like, going back and forth on something, and I'm like, I had, like, a meltdown, and I was just like, "We don't even ever win anyway." I was like, "Why are we talking about this?" 'Cause it was just like this, like, minute thing.
• 3:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And you know, Republicans are so experienced at throwing spaghetti against the wall and doing everything that they possibly can to try and win, and testing various different messages and digital strategies and ground strategies.
• 3:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And I think right now we are seeing that Republicans and Trump himself are trying everything possible to win, whether that be horrific attack ads that we're seeing, whether it be Trump stumping on this, like, roadshow he's on for rallies for Republican candidates, money being thrown into the race.
• 3:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And then I don't know if you saw this Jesse Watters clip from the last 24, 48 hours saying how Republicans should be messaging.
• 3:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's absolutely horrific.
• 3:47
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So where should we begin?
• 3:48
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, I, I think that you're right.
• 3:49
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's sort of Republicans in free fall is the vibe right now, and they are grasping at, at straws, and it's getting really ugly.
• 3:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: I feel like we should start with Ohio because that's probably the tip of the spear in terms of the ugliest politics can possibly be.
• 4:06
  BRIAN DERRICK: What do you think?
• 4:07
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
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  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So I saw this yesterday on my For You page.
• 4:10
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Jen Psaki did a video on this.
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  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Vivek Ramaswamy has put out one of the most horrific attack ads I have ever seen On background, Amy Acton was pulled out of her family home because her mother's husband, her stepfather, was abusive to the children.
• 4:31
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: She has no relationship with her mother.
• 4:33
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's known she has no relationship with her mother, and that her mother is a piece of shit.
• 4:39
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: That's kind of public knowledge.
• 4:41
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And cut to an attack ad that was put up in the last week with her mother speaking about Amy against her How low can you go?
• 4:54
  BRIAN DERRICK: Totally.
• 4:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: Her mom calling her a liar because she told the truth about her mother's husband being a sexual abuser and pedophile is
• 5:12
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like
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  BRIAN DERRICK: jaw-dropping in, in how fucked up that is and to, yeah, like you said, clip it and then use it for political purposes is really rock bottom kind of stuff.
• 5:26
  BRIAN DERRICK: When they published the ad, it got immediate bipartisan backlash.
• 5:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: Republicans saying- Mm-hmm … "You have to distance yourselves from this." They spent more than $4 million pushing that ad.
• 5:39
  BRIAN DERRICK: And it plays into all of the worst things that people think about Ramaswamy, that he's ultimately this like sleazy, slimy, philandering scam artist.
• 5:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: Because, I mean, his whole background is, is made up.
• 5:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: All the phar- Mm-hmm … the pharmaceutical company that he sold was literally all fraud.
• 6:01
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 6:01
  BRIAN DERRICK: And him making hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars off of investors, not off of selling a product that worked.
• 6:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: Nothing- Yeah … that they, they produced actually ended up working.
• 6:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: He had hired his mom, who was not qualified to do anything that she was doing to, like, produce the study that said that this drug worked, and then he built an entire company off of it.
• 6:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: So ev- everyone already knows that he's a, a fraudster.
• 6:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: Scam artist.
• 6:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: 'Cause he's a grift artist.
• 6:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: So I think that going and misrepresenting someone's family trauma as a political talking point plays directly into the worst things that people believe about him already.
• 6:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 6:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Talk about someone that we want to go offline and never hear from again.
• 6:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Vivek Ramaswamy, you're number one.
• 6:51
  BRIAN DERRICK: Totally.
• 6:52
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We also saw in Ohio a Republican super PAC spend on mailers for the socialist candidate for Senate trying to split the vote for Sherrod Brown.
• 7:04
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: This is potentially less… It's less violent behavior, but still really shitty.
• 7:11
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Thankfully, there's a lot of internet traction on this, and, uh, Ohio content creators in the news are reporting out on this.
• 7:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But they are-- They put together these, like, really, like, well-designed mailers around this candidate, and they're just trying to split the vote.
• 7:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, and Republicans have been doing this all cycle.
• 7:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: That they're- Yeah … standing up these PACs in the final weeks before an election, before anyone can really see where the money's coming from, and then dumping a bunch of comms, digital mail, et cetera, into boosting socialist candidates and targeting Democrats, not Republicans, with that messaging, trying to, to split the vote.
• 7:46
  BRIAN DERRICK: They've had relatively little success, but I think it kind of undercuts their entire argument of the whole cycle.
• 7:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, the only thing they're running on is Democrats are socialists, and therefore you- Right … have to support us.
• 7:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: You have no choice.
• 7:58
  BRIAN DERRICK: But if you're the ones actually spending the money to boost socialists, clearly you don't think that they're that much of a threat
• 8:05
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: because- 'Cause heaven forbid a socialist wins- Right thanks to your spending.
• 8:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: Totally.
• 8:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: And this also just gets to the problem with having so many ways to hide and disavow political contributions and political activity that re- Republicans should have to, like, stand on business and own it if you're gonna run ads for someone.
• 8:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: And that's why our campaign finance system is so fucked up, that they feel like they can do this without ever having any accountability for who paid for it.
• 8:31
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, they stand it up, they stand it down, they're gone.
• 8:33
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Right.
• 8:34
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: As you and I both know, state-specific campaign finance can get very wonky very fast.
• 8:40
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay, here is another thing that I saw.
• 8:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm gonna play this clip.
• 8:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Jesse Watters on Fox.
• 8:48
  JESSE WATTERS: And have fear porn.
• 8:50
  JESSE WATTERS: You have to say, "These people are gonna take your healthcare.
• 8:53
  JESSE WATTERS: They're gonna let in the Third World.
• 8:55
  JESSE WATTERS: They're gonna jack up your taxes," and that's what's gonna get people to come out to vote. You have to say, "These people are scary and dangerous.
• 9:03
  JESSE WATTERS: You know what we're all about." And that's really a choice.
• 9:06
  FOX NEWS: Hmm.
• 9:07
  FOX NEWS: Good for you.
• 9:07
  FOX NEWS: Fear porn.
• 9:08
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's psychotic.
• 9:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So that psychotic talking points coming out of Fox News.
• 9:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: They're saying the quiet part out loud now.
• 9:15
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: They're just othering people.
• 9:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: They have for many, many cycles, and it's not about their policies, their horrible policies that are taking money out of your pocket and putting it into theirs.
• 9:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: They're saying it's, "Oh, that person's fault, that person's fault." Cut to Donald Trump.
• 9:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He's on this tour.
• 9:36
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Have you been following this at all, his, his GOTV-
• 9:41
  BRIAN DERRICK: I try not to.
• 9:42
  BRIAN DERRICK: I try not to.
• 9:43
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Well, NPR doesn't allow me not to.
• 9:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So this morning- … they were talking about it.
• 9:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He was in North Carolina.
• 9:49
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Apparently, it was one of his smaller rallies.
• 9:51
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: One, he basically said Roy Cooper's gonna get elected.
• 9:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I don't know if it was a gaffe or what, but he said, "You're gonna have Roy Cooper as, as your senator, and it's gonna be bad." So that sucks.
• 10:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like it- it's just like, what you… What, dude?
• 10:07
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: What are you talking about?
• 10:09
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But then also he's on this road show, and he's promising, as we spoke about a couple weeks ago, you know, if Republicans win, he's giving every American $5,000, which presumably you could do anyway, regardless of an electoral outcome.
• 10:24
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He's also promising North Carolinians, "Oh, if the Republicans win, I'm going to…" I forget what it was, like clean up your water or something.
• 10:33
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Why not just do that now?
• 10:35
  BRIAN DERRICK: If you- Me and ExxonMobil.
• 10:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 10:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So it's, it's so blatant, and then we get this Times-Siena poll this morning that, and let me get this right, just 36% of likely voters said that they approved of Mr.
• 10:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Trump's performance while 59% said that they disapproved.
• 10:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: That is his lowest approval rating in any Times-Siena poll.
• 10:58
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: More than two-thirds of independent voters said that they disapprove of the way he has handled his job as president
• 11:06
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 11:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: I can't help but to, to think about Trump's midterm strategy as, like, he's a pilot and there's just a blaring warning sign in the cockpit, "Terrain.
• 11:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: Terrain.
• 11:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: Pull up.
• 11:22
  BRIAN DERRICK: Pull up." And he's just like, "Boo." Right.
• 11:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, literally like- Kamikaze… steering directly into the mountain.
• 11:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, every decision that he's made has made things worse.
• 11:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, every decision.
• 11:34
  BRIAN DERRICK: I can't think of something that they've done that has actually improved their electoral prospects in months.
• 11:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: In months.
• 11:44
  BRIAN DERRICK: Even things like the Russian diesel stunt, which we talked about, like ultimately hurt his electoral chances because people simultaneously know that it's a farce and can see that he's kowtowing to a dictator.
• 11:58
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, it's crazy.
• 12:00
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Wait, to that point, I didn't realize this.
• 12:02
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Did you know… I'm kind of flabbergasted this isn't, like, even bigger news with this diesel stunt.
• 12:10
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So Congress had voted to pass the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, and this cleared on September 16th.
• 12:18
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, very safely cleared, and it was set these new sanctions against Russia were set to go into effect on Friday, October 17th.
• 12:30
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But one day before they started, Trump signed an executive order waiving most of the sanctions.
• 12:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: Totally.
• 12:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's legal.
• 12:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: There was an escape hatch in the bill saying that if it was for reasons for national security, the new sa- sanctions wouldn't go into place.
• 12:47
  BRIAN DERRICK: No, it's crazy.
• 12:49
  BRIAN DERRICK: And it's, again, coming at the same time that Trump's best friend, unelected oligarch, Elon Musk, is turning off and on the Wi-Fi for Ukraine like it's the'90s and someone's being banned from the family computer room.
• 13:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: You know what I mean?
• 13:16
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, to have that level of control and then use it in ways to personally benefit the, the president or to advance his agenda, which is directly opposed to the agenda and best interests of the United States I don't have
• 13:33
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: words I'm going crazy.
• 13:34
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I don't have words.
• 13:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And not only that, Elon Musk, who's turning Starlink on and off, on and off, which is like making a lot of the Ukrainian drones like inoperable-
• 13:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: Right… GLENNIS MEAGHER: is also pumping elections to get electoral outcomes that best benefit Elon Musk.
• 13:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: 100%.
• 13:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: A lot of the dots are starting to be connected for people in ways that just feel really crazy.
• 14:02
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, how can you not see it, you know?
• 14:06
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's, it's-- Well, people are seeing it, and that's like, you know, having the talking point of MAGA Republicans, Republicans are taking money out of your pocket and putting it into theirs.
• 14:14
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, I think people are actually feeling that.
• 14:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: You go to the gas pump, you go to the grocery store, things just cost more.
• 14:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 14:21
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Speaking of things that cost more, Brian, you know what it is?
• 14:24
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Not only is it voting season, it's open enrollment for-
• 14:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: It is… GLENNIS MEAGHER: healthcare.
• 14:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: It is.
• 14:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It opens on November 1st, but like you're allowed to start browsing now.
• 14:33
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Health insurance is gonna go up 15%.
• 14:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 14:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: We just did this for Oath.
• 14:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: We obviously give all of our employees healthcare.
• 14:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's, it's tough.
• 14:46
  BRIAN DERRICK: When you have a limited budget, any additional money that you're spending on healthcare comes out of somewhere, right?
• 14:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: You're-- It's- Mm-hmm … you're either reducing other kinds of expenses, you're reducing the budget that you had for raises and compensation.
• 15:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: It plays into the hidden ways that healthcare being so expensive actually makes all of us poorer.
• 15:11
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 15:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: Even if you're not the one directly footing the bill, there's just more and more money being set on fire in this part of the economy that doesn't materially improve lives.
• 15:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, no one is happy with their healthcare outcomes.
• 15:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: It would be so different if it was like, "Okay, it's expensive, but like we're living good.
• 15:34
  BRIAN DERRICK: People are healthy.
• 15:35
  BRIAN DERRICK: They're stress-free.
• 15:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: They can go to the doctor.
• 15:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: They can get the healthcare that they need whenever they need it." Like, then it would be like,"Okay, yeah, like it's expensive.
• 15:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: I, I get it." But it's like, no, no, no, no, no, like these are margins that you're directly paying to CEOs and shareholders that are not going to actually improve your healthcare experience or outcomes.
• 15:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's what's infuriating.
• 15:57
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's, it's absolutely crazy.
• 16:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I don't even know what to say.
• 16:04
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's just, I don't know how people can afford it.
• 16:05
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I really don't.
• 16:06
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, especially on the, the marketplace, the monthly cost is, like, upwards of $1,000 just to have coverage, let alone what your deductibles- That's what I was saying… and out-of-pocket maximums are.
• 16:17
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Um, that's why so many people just have, like, catastrophic health insurance.
• 16:22
  BRIAN DERRICK: Right.
• 16:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: Right.
• 16:24
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: They're like,"Okay, let's see what happens." But then, of course, you know, this … As you know, as a one-year potential major in public health, like, it's, it's a domino effect.
• 16:37
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: People don't go to the doctor, so they end up in the ER.
• 16:40
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: The
• 16:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: ER- Excuse me.
• 16:41
  BRIAN DERRICK: You mean as an epidemiologist.
• 16:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, no.
• 16:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I mean, you, you intended on majoring in for at least one year.
• 16:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay?
• 16:49
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So you took more public health
• 16:50
  BRIAN DERRICK: classes than I did.
• 16:50
  BRIAN DERRICK: For at least one semester.
• 16:51
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 16:52
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oh, one semester.
• 16:52
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay.
• 16:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: That's different than a year.
• 16:54
  BRIAN DERRICK: No, it was a year.
• 16:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: It was a year.
• 16:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay.
• 16:56
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Anyway, just like add it to the list of things that are costing too much money, and it's just, like, the quality of life in the United States of America is deteriorating while the rich get richer
• 17:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: Kooky crazy man.
• 17:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: Totally.
• 17:11
  BRIAN DERRICK: Back to Elon Musk for a second.
• 17:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No.
• 17:14
  BRIAN DERRICK: Did you see the news that Elon Musk is planning to give one share of SpaceX stock to every American child?
• 17:22
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I did, but then I saw, not unlike the Susan Dell, Dell family Trump accounts for kids, this is just a tax maneuver to save-
• 17:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: 100%… GLENNIS MEAGHER: billions Yeah.
• 17:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I also don't fully understand the mechanics of it, but I saw a video that's saying that, like, the Dell account specifically, it was supposed to originally be, like, X amount of dollars, like hard cash, and now it's becoming, like, just, like, stock dumps.
• 17:52
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So people-- these accounts are taking on, like, stocks that, like, people don't want.
• 17:58
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I don't know.
• 17:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: Totally.
• 18:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, so they set up these Trump accounts, which obviously will be renamed in 2029, but it's an account in the name of every child.
• 18:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: This is an orig- this is a Democratic idea and a Democratic Party proposal.
• 18:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: At the time, it was called Baby Bonds, and the idea is give every child when they're born an account that gets them invested in the s- like, in the economy overall, and so that by the time they're 18, it's actually matured over a long period of time, and that that would actually be more cost-efficient than other, certain other parts of the safety net- Mm-hmm because someone would actually, there'd be compounding interest and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, returns.
• 18:44
  BRIAN DERRICK: Private companies and individuals like the Dells, as you said, have d- made their own decision as to if, if they wanna contribute something into these accounts, and it does largely seem to be a PR or tax move.
• 19:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: Elon Musk's is particularly egregious.
• 19:03
  BRIAN DERRICK: So he's saying that he's gonna give one share to everyone, but that's gonna allow him to write off billions and billions of dollars to avoid paying taxes on being a trillionaire.
• 19:16
  BRIAN DERRICK: The way that it's gonna work is it's gonna move the money from the stock market, from his personal accounts, to a foundation, his foundation- Hmm and then from his foundation to the Trump accounts, and his foundation is required to hit a minimum every year of how much it pays out.
• 19:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: You can't just dump unlimited sums in a foundation and hold it there and, and get the tax benefits.
• 19:38
  BRIAN DERRICK: So this is a way around that because he has failed to actually donate sufficient, the mandatory legal minimum from his foundation, he has failed to donate the last five years running.
• 19:51
  BRIAN DERRICK: So he never gives away any money because he's literally a psychopath and the greediest person on planet Earth.
• 19:58
  BRIAN DERRICK: And This is a way for him to avoid having to actually give away money.
• 20:05
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's a giant tax write-off.
• 20:06
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's basically like double-dipping on tax benefits.
• 20:10
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 20:10
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I think if you put my, like, blood in a thermometer right now, it would be boiling, 'cause when you think about also what he did with DOGE and the cuts that he did, and the fact that there are literal children who are dying globally because USAID has pulled out of their countries or communities, it is pure evil.
• 20:32
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Bono and The Edge from U2 did a-- The New York Times, they do an interview every Sunday, and they were last Sunday, and the reporter asked Bono about it because, you know, with RED he's been doing aid work for a long time.
• 20:47
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Remember RED where, like, you got an iPad and that U2 album was, like, automatically downloaded, and everyone was like, "We don't want this." Like, what?
• 20:57
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Anyway, he worked closely-- Like, the RED organization worked closely with USAID, and Bono was like, "You know, when I think about how one categorizes pure evil or evil in this country, I think-- or in this world, I think about children."
• 21:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's how, how someone affects children.
• 21:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, exactly.
• 21:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Or, you know, look at Epstein.
• 21:15
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, all-- It's all of-- It's all evil and, like, the Republican Party is filled with evil people.
• 21:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: And speaking of DOGE, did you see the new deficit numbers?
• 21:30
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No
• 21:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: The US is running the largest deficit in the history of the country outside of the one year that we spent our way out of COVID economic catastrophe.
• 21:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: And it's $2 trillion now that we're running at an annual deficit of $2 trillion because Republicans made it look like they were gonna cut spending and taxes at the same time.
• 21:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: But really, they just, like, gutted the programs that actually deliver meaningful, useful things to the public, did not cut spending overall across the federal government because they boosted military and war- Yeah costs by so much, and simultaneously let corporations and billionaires off the hook for taxes, the top 1% having the only, like, real meaningful drop in incurred cost in the last year.
• 22:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: And so we're literally drilling ourselves down this hole of national debt faster than we ever have before and getting nothing for it other than bombs dropped on the Middle East.
• 22:47
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And increased health insurance costs, and increased gas prices- It's crazy … and increased grocery prices, and larger interest rates on mortgages, and no one can afford to buy a home.
• 23:00
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, it, it's, it's not good, and I can only think of how we break out of this.
• 23:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We hold people accountable, and we create policies in this country that actually help the American people.
• 23:14
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, the, the last time the budget was balanced was Bill Clinton.
• 23:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 23:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: Democrats always reduce the deficit, and Republicans always increase it.
• 23:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's, like, the, the truth of the last 40 years.
• 23:26
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Damn.
• 23:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Should we do some clickbait?
• 23:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: I think we should.
• 23:32
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay, Brian, let's do a little clickbait double click, where we run through some of the week's headlines, and we decide if it's worth your time or not.
• 23:41
  BRIAN DERRICK: Let's get into it.
• 23:44
  BRIAN DERRICK: Democrats in the House are circulating a letter of intent, essentially, to impeach Pete Hegseth immediately after the midterms.
• 23:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: Clickbait or double click?
• 23:58
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Combo.
• 23:59
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like good, and I, I think we need to like really pressure Democrats to just begin the accountability era of the United States government, where we're not letting anyone off the hook.
• 24:14
  BRIAN DERRICK: Totally.
• 24:16
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, impeach his ass.
• 24:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: I'm like very, very pro that.
• 24:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: Hegseth is a disaster.
• 24:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: Okay, next one.
• 24:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: President Trump announced controversial plans to renovate the public East Potomac Golf Course in DC.
• 24:28
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I saw that.
• 24:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Double click 'cause it's like, okay, yeah, duh.
• 24:31
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: That's all he cares about is golfing and his ballroom and destroying everyone's lives except for his cronies.
• 24:39
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So, okay.
• 24:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: Is that the new kicking ass and taking names?
• 24:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's playing golf and destroying lives.
• 24:48
  BRIAN DERRICK: Doesn't quite have the same ring.
• 24:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No, but that's, that's-- And he's not even like good at it.
• 24:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Do you think-- This is unrelated.
• 24:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I guess this is like internet clickbait double click, that Trump is wearing an exoskeleton.
• 25:00
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Have you seen this?
• 25:03
  BRIAN DERRICK: What are you talking about?
• 25:05
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So the conspiracy is that when you look at Trump's frame, it's always been off, right?
• 25:12
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And a bit grotesque But now look, like look at the way, I'll send you some clips.
• 25:18
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, the idea is that, I don't know, his brain, like the dementia is affecting his gait and his ability to stand and- Guys Did you, or did you see the clip of
• 25:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: him?
• 25:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: Keep it together.
• 25:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: Keep it together for a couple more weeks.
• 25:34
  BRIAN DERRICK: We just have to get through the midterms.
• 25:38
  BRIAN DERRICK: This is ridiculous.
• 25:39
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: If any nurses or doctors listen to Vibes Only, please DM us.
• 25:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: This is a real- All
• 25:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: right… GLENNIS MEAGHER: like hot internet.
• 25:46
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's the definition of clickbait, and think of how, for how many months, years at this point, have we been talking about every bruised hand and every doctor's appointment and, and day that he's missing, whatever.
• 26:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: He has ingested so much artificial preservatives that he is now pickled and he- Totally … will be around forever.
• 26:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: He's gonna outlive his children.
• 26:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: We just have to make our peace that he's
• 26:11
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: going- Wait, he, he also said- … nowhere … in one of these rallies that he takes like one of those like massive like Tylenols every day.
• 26:20
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's like part of his protocol.
• 26:21
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oh.
• 26:21
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm like, "Oh, you're on a blood thinner because you're gravely ill.
• 26:25
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay-" Wait, he's- "… thank you for letting us know."
• 26:26
  BRIAN DERRICK: He's supposed to be on like baby aspirin and he's taking like oxy?
• 26:30
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No, like literally he's like, "I need it.
• 26:31
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's my medicine." And I was like, "Okay."
• 26:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's funny.
• 26:34
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay.
• 26:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 26:35
  BRIAN DERRICK: Okay, I have another one for you.
• 26:37
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Wow.
• 26:38
  BRIAN DERRICK: During the No Kings protest that happened last weekend, Meta took down the primary No Kings organizer's account for most of the day and blamed it on them posting at a very high frequency, but the account shared data that shows that they were not posting anywhere near their highest frequency that they regularly do
• 27:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Hmm.
• 27:05
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So this was big in my world, obviously, but on No Kings Day, I was at the UGA game.
• 27:11
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I think this is worth talking about and being curious because I don't trust Meta, I don't trust TikTok, I don't trust any of these platforms, and I wouldn't be surprised if someone was like, like switch that account off for a couple hours.
• 27:30
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Um, I also do know that, like, you can get banned on the platform or, like, your account can be suspended if you are, like, DM'ing too many people the exact same language or if you're spam posting.
• 27:42
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But if Indivisible is saying,"We weren't spam-- Like, we weren't posting at a faster cadence," I think it's sus.
• 27:47
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, I do think it's sus.
• 27:49
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's so sus.
• 27:50
  BRIAN DERRICK: In the same week to have one billionaire turn off the internet for one of our allies and a different billionaire's platform de-platform the opposition, not just even in the US, but they are doing the same thing in Brazil with Lula.
• 28:07
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Mm.
• 28:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: And they are doing the same thing in Albania with this fight over the Jared Kushner island purchase-
• 28:14
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Really?
• 28:15
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I didn't know that … that Meta has been--
• 28:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, that Meta has been interfering and making it harder for people to organize against it online.
• 28:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: So there's a lot of very sketchy things happening potentially at the direction of billionaires associated with Donald Trump.
• 28:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's the biggest threat to American democracy is us-
• 28:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah
• 28:35
  BRIAN DERRICK: collapsing into a sort of hollow shell of our government that's really run by a handful of tech billionaires.
• 28:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 28:46
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And lest we forget, you know, Meta does not have the best track record.
• 28:49
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Uh, Cambridge Analytica comes to mind.
• 28:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Here's one related to all of our Russia stuff.
• 28:56
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: This happened yesterday.
• 28:57
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Russia releases American Stephen Hubbard from prison.
• 29:02
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Are you aware of this?
• 29:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: Clickbait.
• 29:05
  BRIAN DERRICK: No.
• 29:05
  BRIAN DERRICK: I mean, yes, but, like, no, I don't, I don't-
• 29:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Also, he… Okay, listen
• 29:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, great.
• 29:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: I don't really know who that is, but who cares?
• 29:12
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He's a guy who volunteered to go fight for Ukraine, and he got captured by Russia.
• 29:17
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Trump's using it as, as a political stunt 'cause he wants people to be distracted from the fact that he literally went against the Republican-controlled House and Senate sanctioning Russia with his executive order.
• 29:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, I mean, this costs Russia nothing.
• 29:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: Steve Witkoff called Putin a humanitarian while they thanked him.
• 29:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: No, it's
• 29:37
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: insane.
• 29:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So- They're trying to, like, rebrand Putin for him.
• 29:41
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's crazy
• 29:42
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's really rough.
• 29:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: Any
• 29:43
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: others?
• 29:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's depressing.
• 29:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: This one, okay, 'cause I saw this viral clip that's associated with this.
• 29:47
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: "Abdul El-Sayed highlights Muslim faith in new ad after Republican attacks."
• 29:53
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: I'm Abdul El-Sayed, man of faith.
• 29:55
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: That's a good thing.
• 29:56
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: Faith is a thing there's just too little of in Washington.
• 29:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: I have not seen the clip.
• 30:01
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: The clip was, like, a conservative operative, like an agitator, not, like, maybe like a, a beta Nick Shirley.
• 30:09
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And-
• 30:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: Oh, I saw that… GLENNIS MEAGHER: yeah, and he him to say that he would, like, defend and protect and serve the US Constitution, and El-Sayed had a really good response about, like, JFK being asked as the first Catholic president if he was going to listen to the Constitution or the Pope, highlighting that the question was, like, wildly Islamophobic.
• 30:32
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: You give me your name, I'll answer the question.
• 30:34
  TOMMY: Okay.
• 30:34
  TOMMY: Tommy.
• 30:34
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: Hi, Tommy.
• 30:35
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: How are you?
• 30:36
  TOMMY: I'm great.
• 30:37
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: Are you… Do you know what the Constitution of the United States is?
• 30:40
  TOMMY: I have one simple question.
• 30:42
  TOMMY: No.
• 30:42
  TOMMY: Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood?
• 30:43
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: Sure.
• 30:44
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: Yeah, absolutely.
• 30:45
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: Why are you asking the question?
• 30:46
  TOMMY: Well, because they're a terrorist group.
• 30:49
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: Okay.
• 30:50
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: No, no, but what are you implying?
• 30:51
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: The, the… Do you assume that I wouldn't?
• 30:54
  TOMMY: Yes.
• 30:54
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: Why not?
• 30:55
  TOMMY: Because I have not heard you disavow them yet.
• 30:57
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: Have you disavowed them?
• 30:57
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: I haven't heard you disavow them yet.
• 30:59
  TOMMY: I disavow them.
• 31:00
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: Do you?
• 31:00
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: Great.
• 31:01
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: But here's the thing about it.
• 31:02
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: You're asking the question because implicitly you assume that I'll have dual loyalties, right?
• 31:09
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: You assume that somehow I wouldn't disavow.
• 31:12
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: I'm gonna swear an oath to the Constitution of the United States, and that constitution guarantees us all- … the right to practice whatever faith we want or no, no faith at all.
• 31:20
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: This is not the first time people have asked those kinds of questions because… Do you know who John F.
• 31:25
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: Kennedy is?
• 31:27
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: Do you know who that is, Tommy?
• 31:28
  TOMMY: I do.
• 31:29
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: All right.
• 31:30
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: Uh, do you know what he was asked as the first possible Catholic president of the United States?
• 31:34
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: What did they ask him?
• 31:36
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: You don't remember?
• 31:37
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: You should read history.
• 31:39
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: Tommy, when he ran for president, he was asked whether or not he was going to have allegiance to the Pope at the Vatican, because, of course, he's Catholic.
• 31:50
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: And his answer famously was that he was not running to be a Catholic president, he was running to be president and happened to be Catholic I'm not running to be a Muslim senator.
• 32:02
  ABDUL EL-SAYED: I'm running for US Senate and happen to be Muslim.
• 32:06
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Anyway, hope he wins.
• 32:07
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm in Michigan this weekend.
• 32:09
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Let's go.
• 32:11
  BRIAN DERRICK: Are you going to a U of M game?
• 32:12
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Hell yeah.
• 32:14
  BRIAN DERRICK: Oh, wow.
• 32:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 32:16
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's bleak.
• 32:18
  BRIAN DERRICK: Have fun.
• 32:20
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oh, because you're OSU, so you're like… But one of your best friends went to Michigan.
• 32:25
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Two of y- and like a lot of your friends went to Michigan.
• 32:28
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Had- Yeah, that- Do you guys talk about that?
• 32:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: That theater program is really just churning out a bunch of losers.
• 32:34
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 32:34
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: They're, they're not successful at all.
• 32:36
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's not good.
• 32:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 32:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, UMich.
• 32:39
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And you know, I mean, this is a tight race, Abdul El-Sayed.
• 32:42
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He only won the primary by what, one, one percentage point?
• 32:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: Totally.
• 32:46
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, can't wait to hear about your experience.
• 32:49
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Go Wolverines, I guess.
• 32:52
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Or blue.
• 32:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Go Blue
• 32:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 32:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: For our Oath candidate of the week this week, I'm gonna send people directly to our max impact slate.
• 33:05
  BRIAN DERRICK: It is really the last week that you can donate and have the money get to the campaigns in a way that really matters.
• 33:13
  BRIAN DERRICK: There will probably be a handful of races that we recommend giving to right up until Election Day where we have confirmation that the money can be spent, but this is really the last window that you have to give that $5, $10, $20.
• 33:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: We're updating our max impact slate every single day with the latest data of how much money's moving, what other donors are giving, and, uh, that's the smartest place on the internet to give money right now.
• 33:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: So, uh, head over to oath.vote, give to the top-rated races, and help win everywhere because it is so critical in this cycle that we are funding these down-ballot candidates and not just giving Talarico another $100 million.
• 33:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And Brian, what would, like, a $200 donation… What does that actually mean?
• 33:57
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, how does it help?
• 33:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 33:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: Most state leg races are just trying to get in front of every voter at least once before they go to the ballot box.
• 34:05
  BRIAN DERRICK: So it's not like, "Oh, we're gonna air another television ad. We need a million dollars." It's like, "Oh, can we boost the target audience for our digital ads that just introduce the candidate to the voters so that everyone can see it one time- Mm. "… before they vote?" And people are voting actively right now, so that window is, like, very narrow that we have to still move the needle.
• 34:31
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Mm-hmm.
• 34:32
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Early voting in New York starts October 24th.
• 34:36
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: October 24th is also, like, nationally Early Vote Day.
• 34:39
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So if you haven't voted- Mm. … yet, a lot of states voting is open.
• 34:43
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Uh, but if you haven't voted yet, why don't you make a commitment to yourself and vote on October 24th, Early Vote Day.
• 34:51
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Get yourself a nice, like, sweet treat.
• 34:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I-- Brian, I started drinking, uh, like, flavored coffee on this tour as, like, my little, like- I'm gonna get myself something.
• 35:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And I, I get it.
• 35:04
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, I've had, like, banana bread lattes.
• 35:06
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Ew.
• 35:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: I've had like- That's
• 35:07
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: horrifying.
• 35:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No, Brian, they're so, they're so good.
• 35:11
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: That is fucked up.
• 35:11
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Have you ever had, have you ever had like a-
• 35:13
  BRIAN DERRICK: No.
• 35:13
  BRIAN DERRICK: No.
• 35:14
  BRIAN DERRICK: That sounds terrible.
• 35:15
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No, it, it tastes just like banana bread.
• 35:17
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Or I went to, uh, another place and got like, uh, it was like a, a shake, a shaken espresso brown sugar thing.
• 35:27
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It was Starbucks, which whatever, at the airport at 6:30 in the morning.
• 35:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: At this point, I'm not looking for banana bread lattes, I'm looking for a lobotomy.
• 35:37
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oh, well.
• 35:38
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, we are at that point in the cycle that is not gonna do it.
• 35:42
  BRIAN DERRICK: But I love that for you.
• 35:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: You gotta get every kick you can until we're over the
• 35:49
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: finish line.
• 35:49
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Over the finish line.
• 35:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm just saying to our listeners, like, treat yourself.
• 35:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's fall vibes.
• 35:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, go vote and go- Mm-hmm … get a cinnamon roll or some- just, like, make a thing out of it.
• 36:01
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Make a little- Absolutely … treat central.
• 36:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Um, so- I
• 36:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: like that.
• 36:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: I like that… GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm gonna get back, or maybe Monday.
• 36:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: I don't know.
• 36:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: But by- Yeah … the time we speak again next week, I will have voted.
• 36:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: Wow.
• 36:16
  BRIAN DERRICK: Crazy.
• 36:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: Cra- you're crazy, girl.
• 36:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: Girl,
• 36:19
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: you're crazy.
• 36:19
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: You know me.
• 36:21
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Crazy.
• 36:22
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I always get a little, like, nervous too.
• 36:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm like, "Oh my God," and then I'm like sweating and the thing.
• 36:25
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm like, "Ugh." Even though I know exactly who and what I'm voting for, I still am just like, don't… I think it's like the Scantron trauma Of our youth
• 36:35
  BRIAN DERRICK: Totally.
• 36:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: Totally.
• 36:38
  BRIAN DERRICK: Um, well, there are right and wrong answers, so make sure you get in there and do it right.
• 36:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 36:44
  BRIAN DERRICK: Uh, should we send them off with a Good Vibe?
• 36:47
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, we should.
• 36:48
  BRIAN DERRICK: All right, Glennis, for our Good Vibe this week, we have rock hard data showing that people are jazzed to get out there and vote.
• 36:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: If you look at the return numbers, the number of people who have voted early, either by mail or in person, in Georgia and Texas in particular, we are looking at a historic election cycle.
• 37:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: In Harris County, for example, in Texas- Oh … more than 105,000 people voted on the first day- That's crazy … of early voting, and the previous record for a midterm election was 63,000.
• 37:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: So we're, like, approaching double.
• 37:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: And it was even beating 2024 turnout, which was a presidential election.
• 37:35
  BRIAN DERRICK: So truly astronomically high numbers.
• 37:39
  BRIAN DERRICK: And then if you look at Georgia-
• 37:41
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Georgia, Brian, as of Tuesday afternoon, so we record on a Wednesday, over a million people have voted, which is almost 15% of the total active registered voters.
• 37:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So that's-
• 37:54
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's-… GLENNIS MEAGHER: pretty good.
• 37:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's crazy.
• 37:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: That is crazy.
• 37:58
  BRIAN DERRICK: And with that- Ooh … we will… What?
• 38:01
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: North Carolina too, sorry.
• 38:02
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: North Carolina has almost 740,000 ballots cast, which is up more than 38% versus the same point in 2022.
• 38:12
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So people are voting.
• 38:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Crazy.
• 38:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: People are showing up.
• 38:14
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But what I wanna say, Brian, don't hear these numbers from us and think, "Okay, we're good." We're not good.
• 38:22
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We need every single person to still go vote.
• 38:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: People are voting.
• 38:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yes, absolutely.
• 38:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: What we are saying is get out there and do your duty.
• 38:34
  BRIAN DERRICK: We are voting early in person, but you have so many options, depending on where you live, I guess.
• 38:39
  BRIAN DERRICK: Uh, make sure you get out there and do it.
• 38:41
  BRIAN DERRICK: And thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of Vibes Only.
• 38:46
  BRIAN DERRICK: We'll be back same time, same place next week.
• 38:48
  BRIAN DERRICK: See you then.