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Eric Schmitt Mixed Up the Hawks and the Hawkeyes · Vibes Only

• 0:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: I'm Brian Derrick.
• 0:01
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And I'm Glennis Meagher.
• 0:02
  BRIAN DERRICK: This week on Vibes Only, it's the last day of the quarter and the final major fundraising deadline of 2026.
• 0:08
  BRIAN DERRICK: So we're talking about where your money matters and why it's not in US Senate races.
• 0:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Then we get into everything that's broken from Trump's taxpayer-funded campaign ads to Meta dodging billions to hackers stealing data on every FBI employee.
• 0:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: Plus, Ken Paxton admits Trump's convention actually hurt him.
• 0:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: Eric Schmitt fumbles his Jack Smith gotcha moment, and why John Fetterman is a problem for the party.
• 0:37
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Let's get into it.
• 0:38
  BRIAN DERRICK: Let's get into it.
• 0:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: Wait, "Lol, New York Times 14 minutes ago.
• 0:47
  BRIAN DERRICK: Paxton said that-" I saw "… President Trump's midterm convention hurt his-" Hurt him "… second campaign." That is so funny.
• 1:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: Good morning, Glennis.
• 1:01
  BRIAN DERRICK: Happy last day of the quarter.
• 1:04
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Good morning.
• 1:05
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Brian, did you read the news this morning?
• 1:09
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I was drinking my coffee this morning, and it was like, "US officially pulls out of Iraq."
• 1:16
  BRIAN DERRICK: Oh, I did see that.
• 1:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: But, like-
• 1:18
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: News to me that we were still there 24 years later.
• 1:21
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, what?
• 1:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: We're everywhere, baby.
• 1:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: We have we're, we're deployed everywhere, especially- Iran.
• 1:31
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Also, I was listening to the news this morning and, like, the leadership at OpenAI was warned two months ago about security concerns, et cetera, and did nothing.
• 1:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And then some other headlines.
• 1:39
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's just like, well, duh.
• 1:41
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Well, duh.
• 1:42
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Nothing's shocking to me.
• 1:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's just we live in this cycle of, well, duh, everything is broken and corrupt.
• 1:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Anyway, the, the quarter, the deadline, this is important.
• 1:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Tell people why.
• 1:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: Great note to start the day on, everyone.
• 1:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 1:58
  BRIAN DERRICK: We're all fucked.
• 2:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 2:01
  BRIAN DERRICK: But there's actually tons of really good news coming our way as we see the blue wave on the horizon.
• 2:08
  BRIAN DERRICK: Let's talk about it and all the nonsense that Republicans are doing to try to prevent that from happening.
• 2:15
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, let's talk about it.
• 2:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Brian, I saw your story on, on the Instagram, the Meta app Instagram yesterday, talking about the fundraising deadline.
• 2:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Can you give the too long, didn't read on why this is important and why it is indicative of what we might see in November?
• 2:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yes.
• 2:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: While we are recording, we are pre-deadline.
• 2:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: While you are listening, we are post-deadline.
• 2:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: So this is the last major fundraising deadline of the year nationally, and it's a really big deal because it will be the final deciding factor in what races are ultimately deemed competitive pre-election day and which are not.
• 2:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: So having a surge in fundraising late can be exactly what people need to see in order to believe that you have a path to win and put more money into the race.
• 3:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: The DSCC, the DCCC, the DNC, broke but still, and big donors as well all are looking at these numbers as signals of where we need to put additional resources in order to maximize wins in November.
• 3:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: So this is our last chance to sort of change what the playing field looks like materially in order to incentivize the right kinds of investment for the month of October, which is the biggest month of s- political spending of the whole cycle.
• 3:34
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 3:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And you also posted a story which I think was quite helpful.
• 3:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It was kind of a cheat sheet for various states with candidates that are in certain House races or state races who need an extra bump or could use an extra bump in terms of fundraising.
• 3:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Where can people find that?
• 3:49
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Just on your Instagram?
• 3:51
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 3:51
  BRIAN DERRICK: Hit up my IG for that.
• 3:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: I stole your terminology with the- My cheat sheet cheat sheet.
• 3:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: Glenn is famous- Listen … for her cheat sheets.
• 3:59
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I am.
• 4:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: It works and people know what it is.
• 4:01
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yep.
• 4:01
  BRIAN DERRICK: I just wanted to c- create a very simple directory for people to understand what races they should be focused on in their state.
• 4:11
  BRIAN DERRICK: And if you look at the whole list, you'll notice some patterns that- I'm not telling people to go focus on US Senate races.
• 4:18
  BRIAN DERRICK: That that is not actually where help is needed at this point.
• 4:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: Mm-hmm.
• 4:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: And I always get such angry comments that make me laugh of like, "You're missing this race," or like,"Why don't you know about this?" And I'm like, "Nope, I do know about that, and it's not missing.
• 4:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: It is intentionally omitted- Yeah … because the races that you actually should be helping are right here listed for you." And of course, you could go on and on and on, but nobody has the time, energy, or money to do all of them, so we have to be selective.
• 4:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's literally the whole point- Yeah … of, of doing an exercise like this.
• 4:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, and there are many, many people focused on the Senate races, that people are in your DM saying that you're not focusing on.
• 4:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 4:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Myself included.
• 4:56
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, there- Right … there are plenty of resources at the Senate level for these states, but it is… Like, we've talked about this so much on the podcast, the importance of having your state government be Democratic and not Republican.
• 5:11
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We- Right … we've seen what's happened.
• 5:12
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So yeah, people should check that out.
• 5:14
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Go online.
• 5:15
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We're everywhere.
• 5:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: There's-- We're, we're literally everywhere, and I'm gonna also be literally everywhere over the next, I don't know, 30 days.
• 5:22
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I can't do math, but until November 3rd.
• 5:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So if you wanna see some reporting from the states, follow me.
• 5:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: Where are you going?
• 5:30
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Where am I going?
• 5:31
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm going to Iowa.
• 5:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: Oh.
• 5:33
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm going to Ohio.
• 5:35
  BRIAN DERRICK: Hey.
• 5:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: Where?
• 5:36
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yes.
• 5:37
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Columbus.
• 5:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Georgia.
• 5:40
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Michigan, Texas.
• 5:42
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So we're, we're hitting the big- Okay … the big Senate races there.
• 5:46
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 5:47
  BRIAN DERRICK: And it really shows that we are competitive everywhere, man.
• 5:51
  BRIAN DERRICK: Mm-hmm.
• 5:51
  BRIAN DERRICK: There are competitive races going on everywhere.
• 5:54
  BRIAN DERRICK: You just have to selectively pick the right ones.
• 5:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: We had new polling come out this week.
• 5:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: There's always new polling, but more polling that showed Democrats up in the generic by 11, which is just so crazy.
• 6:08
  BRIAN DERRICK: I'm not trusting that on its face, but directionally, we're averaging more than eight on the generic, which is a really good place for us to be at this point.
• 6:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: It is making Democrats a little bit crazy, where people just now think that everything's in play and they wanna invest in these, like, super red Trump plus 30 places, uh, which I'm down for, but not until we have funded the Trump plus 20 and the Trump plus 10 at the down ballot level.
• 6:39
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, you shouldn't be spending- Right … on a Trump plus 30 Senate seat when you have a Trump plus 6 that it- we're gonna lose at the state legs level because they're being outraised three to one.
• 6:50
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, that doesn't make any sense.
• 6:51
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 6:52
  BRIAN DERRICK: So that's
• 6:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: the issue.
• 6:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And for those who don't know, a generic ballot is like if you were to vote for a Dem or Republican right now, who would you vote for?
• 6:58
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 6:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: They don't tell you any names.
• 7:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: They just ask you party.
• 7:00
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: They don't tell you names.
• 7:01
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Just, it's… That's actually, like, the vibes poll.
• 7:04
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, are you vibing more- It is … with a Dem or a Republican?
• 7:07
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And two things I wanna touch on from that, which is also, you brought this up before we started recording, Ken Paxton, you know, the, the polls themselves are doing whatever, but then Ken Paxton, the most corrupt, potentially the most corrupt behind Donald Trump candidate to ever live, impeached by his own party, the list goes on and on, said, "You know what, Donald Trump?
• 7:26
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: You at the, the Dallas Republican Convention, you actually hurt me.
• 7:31
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, the, the, your brand hurt me." It's, it li- literally is comical.
• 7:36
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It is comical.
• 7:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And then, Brian, I wanna bring up, which I feel like everyone should be burning trash, like everyone should be so pissed about this, but the Donald Trump ads, the MAGA Republican ads that then the disclosure is paid by the federal government, your taxpayer dollars.
• 7:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: You are b- you are marketing Donald Trump, whether or not you know it or not.
• 7:59
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's
• 7:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: crazy.
• 7:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: Let's talk about it.
• 8:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's so bananas, and it's very obviously illegal on its face.
• 8:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: But what's happening is they're using money from the Department of Homeland Security because, as we've talked about for over a year, they cut a blank check to DHS for this ICE and CBP, Customs and Border Patrol, money in, in, like, the hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade, whatever it was, and they've just used it as a slush fund to do whatever they want, um, because it was, like, multiples of the agency's actual annual budget or anything remotely close to what was needed.
• 8:42
  BRIAN DERRICK: And now they just do whatever they want with that money and pay people off, um, like, very much like this.
• 8:48
  BRIAN DERRICK: So now they're spending-- They've thus far spent $2.5 million on ads promoting Donald Trump and Republicans ahead of the midterms.
• 8:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's against the Hatch Act, which is what separates, like, campaigns from the official side.
• 9:06
  BRIAN DERRICK: Mm-hmm.
• 9:06
  BRIAN DERRICK: And it's also a violation of another federal statute that I couldn't tell you the name of that bars any federal funds anywhere in the government from pr- promoting or glorifying an individual.
• 9:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: People might have seen, there was like a semi-viral clip from a constitutional lawyer breaking down why it was illegal.
• 9:26
  BRIAN DERRICK: But it's just plainly, blatantly illegal, and they have 20 million more dollars worth of advertising that they're planning to do.
• 9:35
  BRIAN DERRICK: They said they are, quote,"just getting started."
• 9:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 9:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: You look at your paycheck, and you see that money come out to the federal government.
• 9:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: That's going to pay for Donald Trump ads indirectly, but it's… I just feel like more Americans should, should be, like, up in arms about this.
• 9:51
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 9:52
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And they're not.
• 9:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But we will keep on keeping on for the next 30 something days until November 3rd.
• 10:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, and they're saying that they're not campaign ads, but they're actually frame for frame the same as 2024 campaign ads that
• 10:09
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Donald Trump
• 10:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: ran.
• 10:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: No, literally.
• 10:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: They're, like, identical to actual campaign ads that they were running pre-election.
• 10:14
  BRIAN DERRICK: So it's, uh, it's just kind of farcical.
• 10:18
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's farcical.
• 10:20
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 10:20
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Is that a
• 10:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: real, is that a real word?
• 10:22
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It is now.
• 10:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It is now.
• 10:24
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Uh- No, I think it is … he also is, like, saying,"Pretend I'm on the ballot.
• 10:27
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Pretend you're voting for me." Oh, we are.
• 10:30
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Pretend I- Oh.
• 10:31
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 10:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: We are.
• 10:33
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, we're marrying you.
• 10:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And all these Republicans now who are like, "Actually, the, the war in Iran is bad." I know.
• 10:39
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I said, "Well, you actually voted, Ashley Hinson, seven times for it." It's very- So-
• 10:44
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, if it, if it weren't sad, it would be funny.
• 10:46
  BRIAN DERRICK: I guess it's still a little funny 'cause I don't know what to do but laugh.
• 10:49
  BRIAN DERRICK: But, um, yeah, you have Republicans in deep red seats that are coming out like, "Eh, maybe, maybe Trump wasn't right on this thing over here. Maybe ICE went too far.
• 10:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: Maybe we actually shouldn't be murdering people in the street."
• 11:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Deporting people to third countries that they- Random
• 11:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: countries.
• 11:07
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 11:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Anyway, we see you Republicans.
• 11:10
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Brian and I see you, and we're coming for you.
• 11:14
  BRIAN DERRICK: It is a little funny with the, the commercials just how it's, it's just another thing in a long string of things that are sort of i- inexplicable that Donald Trump has e- engaged in or, or decisions that he's made that are really indefensible heading into a, an election where he's historically unpopular.
• 11:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: His unfavorability is now at a record level.
• 11:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: Not in the last 40 years have we seen- Mm-hmm … a president heading into a midterm cycle this unpopular.
• 11:47
  BRIAN DERRICK: And then at the same time, mortgage rates just soared above 7.5%.
• 11:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: Nobody's- They're 7.8%… GLENNIS MEAGHER: buying a house.
• 11:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: Aren't they?
• 11:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 11:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's bananas.
• 11:58
  BRIAN DERRICK: Diesel highest it's ever been.
• 12:01
  BRIAN DERRICK: I'm seeing constant viral content over, like, $1,000 gas bills at the gas station.
• 12:08
  BRIAN DERRICK: And then Trump, it's so funny.
• 12:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: I can't even deal.
• 12:11
  BRIAN DERRICK: I'm reading from Punchbowl.
• 12:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: Mm. Trump is planning to begin a national political tour on Thursday focused largely on Republican strongholds.
• 12:18
  BRIAN DERRICK: So he's specifically going to red places 'cause he can't even, like- Yeah turn people out or, or have a, a decent- Right … presence in, in anywhere purple.
• 12:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: The president will talk about how great data centers are.
• 12:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: He's going on a data center promotional tour.
• 12:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's the one thing everyone agrees on.
• 12:39
  BRIAN DERRICK: Is against, yeah.
• 12:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: Other than him being just, like, a piece of shit, is like, it's so widely unpopular to be pro data center right now.
• 12:48
  BRIAN DERRICK: And he's like, "Wait, let me tie myself-
• 12:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah… BRIAN DERRICK: to the Republican I'm gonna tell you I'm on the ballot, and then I'm gonna tie myself also to data centers in your backyard." Two kind of addendums I wanna add to this point, which is my heat was on this morning in my apartment, and I was like, "Damn, too soon." Let me, let me Google the cost of heat, if it's gone up, 'cause I'm thinking about, like, how much is this gonna cost me.
• 13:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay.
• 13:14
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's up 8.7%.
• 13:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Americans are going to pay 8.7% more on their heating costs this year.
• 13:19
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Over $1,000 more- Yikes … from last year.
• 13:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oil is up 31%, electricity is up 9%, propane is up 8.7%, natural gas is up 5.8%.
• 13:30
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Adding that stat to what's- Yeah … what it's gonna cost you to keep your family warm this winter.
• 13:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And- Not
• 13:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: me.
• 13:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: I'll be in a sleeping bag.
• 13:38
  BRIAN DERRICK: S- Don't catch me with that 10%.
• 13:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: I--
• 13:41
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, I'll put a hat on.
• 13:43
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I put some wool socks and a hat on, put a heating pad in bed with me.
• 13:46
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It is Victorian times, okay?
• 13:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It
• 13:49
  BRIAN DERRICK: is Victorian times.
• 13:51
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: This is very, like, corrupt.
• 13:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I was reading this this morning on the data center of it all.
• 13:57
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Did you see the New York Times headline about Meta and the tax loophole that they are using for data centers, and how it is saving them?
• 14:07
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Let me just get this number right.
• 14:09
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: They shaved $2 billion with this strategy off their taxes in 2024, and almost 4 billion off in 2025.
• 14:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And what Meta is doing with data centers is they're saying that it's experimental, it's innovative.
• 14:21
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's a, a 1980s, probably Reagan-era tax loophole that says if you're, like, engaging in innovative research and strategy, you can cut your operational costs for said research and innovation.
• 14:34
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So Mark Zuckerberg-
• 14:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's
• 14:36
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: wild and Meta, with the data centers that are making your electrical bill more expensive and your reality horrible, the humming, the constant humming and, like, sound coming out of data centers.
• 14:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He's just- Right … laughing all the way to the bank.
• 14:52
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And Trump wants him to.
• 14:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Trump wants him to.
• 14:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's so crazy.
• 14:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: The exact IRS terminology is, like, pilot models, so they're saying that the chips they're buying from Nvidia and all of these centers are pilot models.
• 15:05
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm like, "I'm gonna pilot model a new life, and write it off
• 15:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: Okay, so we're in a new term of the Supreme Court, and we're gonna get a bunch more shitty decisions based on the cases that they're deciding to take up.
• 15:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: But the thing that I did wanna celebrate is that this makes it pretty much impossible or extremely unlikely that Alito or Thomas decides to step down from the Supreme Court pre-November.
• 15:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, it's basically too late.
• 15:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: The Senate's out of session after today anyway.
• 15:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: So Trump is not getting his replacement pre-midterms.
• 15:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: There's a chance that if we flip the Senate, they could try to do it in the lame duck, meaning between the election and when new senators are sworn in.
• 15:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Well-
• 15:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: But that would be a challenge and potentially unprecedented.
• 16:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: I would need to go do some additional research.
• 16:02
  BRIAN DERRICK: And Jon Husted, the senator from Ohio who's filling out- Mm-hmm … JD's term, doesn't have until January.
• 16:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: He's only in his seat- He's out,
• 16:14
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: right?
• 16:14
  BRIAN DERRICK: The, the, the appointment only lasts until December 15th.
• 16:17
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah,
• 16:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: see ya.
• 16:18
  BRIAN DERRICK: And so they'll lose another seat as well, even before new senators are sworn in.
• 16:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: So we might be, we might be in safe harbor.
• 16:26
  BRIAN DERRICK: We might be in the period of time where if we do flip the Senate, then we might be able to block a Supreme Court replacement for Trump.
• 16:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: I mean, the issue that we're gonna have is Fetterman.
• 16:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: So-
• 16:41
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Did you see his gaffe-
• 16:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah … this week?
• 16:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: So, so bad.
• 16:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: For those who missed it, he said, "I've, I've been a lifelong Republican.
• 16:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oh, uh, I mean, Democrat."
• 16:52
  BRIAN DERRICK: He didn't even correct it.
• 16:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's he, he got corrected.
• 16:54
  BRIAN DERRICK: It was so crazy.
• 16:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: I mean- So crazy … it's weird that we don't talk about the fact that he is suffering from brain damage.
• 17:01
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's, it's weird to me that we don't talk about it more often.
• 17:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: I'm like, is this like a ableism thing?
• 17:08
  BRIAN DERRICK: Is that, like, why we're not saying this?
• 17:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: No.
• 17:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: But, like, we should talk about how, like, he- We're not so woke … had a stroke- Be
• 17:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: stoked out.
• 17:14
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, he's, he's-… has brain damage, is not competent to serve at all, and is still in office.
• 17:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's ver- it's weird to me that we don't just, like, say that m- more.
• 17:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: I don't see people saying it more.
• 17:26
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Maybe we should add in, like, our accountability era some sort of policy that says if elected official suffers a serious medical incident that requires insert length of hospital stay here- They lose their job
• 17:42
  BRIAN DERRICK: This is the Tom Kean Jr.
• 17:44
  BRIAN DERRICK: thing as well- Mm-hmm … where he was gone for four months with no explanation, not even a doctor's note, nothing.
• 17:51
  BRIAN DERRICK: Didn't tell anyone, didn't tell… Literally didn't tell anyone, just stopped showing up to work for four months.
• 17:58
  BRIAN DERRICK: But while he was gone, continued to sign approvals for stock transactions.
• 18:05
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oh,
• 18:06
  BRIAN DERRICK: so he was- Um Okay.
• 18:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: So that he could- He was fit enough … making money.
• 18:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yes.
• 18:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: Right.
• 18:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: Mm. Correct.
• 18:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: But couldn't attend a meeting, couldn't call in, couldn't do an interview, couldn't tell anyone where he was, but he could sign off on stock transactions.
• 18:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: And he was gone for inpatient treatment for depression.
• 18:24
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 18:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: Which- I feel like I've made my feelings about that.
• 18:26
  BRIAN DERRICK: I think that you have the same one.
• 18:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's like no tea, no shade.
• 18:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: Great.
• 18:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: Get treatment.
• 18:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: Love that.
• 18:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: You don't need to be in Congress while you do that.
• 18:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: You actually aren't entitled to this seat regardless of what happens to you, and so I'm very sorry that you went through that, but, like, make a decision to take time away to be with your family, to get well- To get well and then run again in the future.
• 18:49
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's like your- Yeah … you have the ability to do that, but you don't have the right to sit on a seat and just deprive almost a million people of any representation.
• 18:58
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 18:58
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Love and light- It's a joke … with you next.
• 19:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: Same with Fetterman, get the fuck out.
• 19:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 19:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Did you see the stat that our elected officials in the federal government would not meet the work requirement in the new SNAP rules?
• 19:12
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, they did not physically work enough this year.
• 19:14
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: For those who don't know, with the big brutal bill, murder bill, MAGA murder budget, whatever you wanna call it, the thing that literally stripped children from SNAP benefits, they had a new work requirement for receiving SNAP, which said that you had to work X amount of days per year in order to receive the benefit.
• 19:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And the viral post is that the House has not worked enough to receive that.
• 19:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's crazy.
• 19:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: The least productive Congress we've had in over a century.
• 19:41
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's pretty crazy.
• 19:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's what a Republican trifecta will get you.
• 19:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Mm.
• 19:46
  BRIAN DERRICK: Did you watch any of the Jack Smith hearings?
• 19:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Did I?
• 19:51
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: In Senate.
• 19:51
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: As someone who's going to the Iowa Hawkeyes homecoming game this weekend, I sure did.
• 19:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: Wait, it's so funny.
• 20:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's really funny.
• 20:02
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So for those who missed it, Jack Smith, the Republicans are trying, it's a witch hunt against him, right?
• 20:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, this is an actual witch hunt, and there was this moment that felt like truly a Veep episode where this Republican senator from Missouri, what's his name?
• 20:16
  BRIAN DERRICK: Eric Schmitt.
• 20:17
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Eric Schmitt, is trying to pin Jack Smith for perjury by saying that he's lying about where he was on a date and time, and he is trying to say that he was in Atlanta with Fani Willis, who they're trying to say is super corrupt, yada, yada, yada The senator is like, "The Hawks.
• 20:39
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Were you at the Hawks game?" And Jack's like, "Mm, no.
• 20:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like I, I- no, I don't think I was there."
• 20:48
  BRIAN DERRICK: B- basically, he switched the Iowa Hawkeyes with the Atlanta Hawks, NBA team, college football team, and they were trying to claim that Jack Smith was in Atlanta when he was actually in Iowa.
• 21:02
  BRIAN DERRICK: And it comes out, like, live, and he thought that he had him in this gotcha moment.
• 21:06
  BRIAN DERRICK: They had, like, posters blown up with evidence.
• 21:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: They, like, were laying out this whole case and timeline, whatever, and the whole thing was a mistake by some intern who prepped Eric Schmitt's remarks.
• 21:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: As we all know, a bunch of senators on both sides of the aisle are just reading when-- in these hearings- And they don't know they're just reading- Yeah… whatever staff sort of puts in front of them as, like, "Here's your line of questioning that we prepared for this witness," whatever.
• 21:35
  BRIAN DERRICK: He's just reading from it, and oh my gosh, I just think about the staffer who prepped it, watching it unfold live and realizing their mistake.
• 21:47
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oh, yeah.
• 21:48
  BRIAN DERRICK: Oh my gosh.
• 21:49
  BRIAN DERRICK: You couldn't sink-- I would be under the Earth's crust.
• 21:52
  BRIAN DERRICK: I would… No.
• 21:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's so embarrassing 'cause he really- Yeah … came at him like he was trapping him in this thing.
• 22:02
  BRIAN DERRICK: No.
• 22:02
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 22:02
  BRIAN DERRICK: And then just wildly, wildly off the mark, Amy Klobuchar also was like, "Are you fucking kidding me with this?" You're wrong.
• 22:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 22:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, what are you talking about?
• 22:11
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: She was like,"You're wrong." Yeah, and then he, like, had a meltdown and was like, "You're still a dirt bag," and, like, ran away.
• 22:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But to your point, we need to bring back fear.
• 22:19
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: As a former Senate staffer, you were-- I'm not saying… You, you, you had a f- a fear of disappointing your principal.
• 22:27
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: You had a fear of getting the facts wrong because you understood the weight and the importance of the position of being a senator and getting it right for your constituents, and making sure that the senator looked good and had fact-based information.
• 22:41
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: To me, also, I saw that, I was like, that Republican in that office to not know who the Iowa Hawkeyes are?
• 22:46
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: To not know, like, these, like, core college football teams?
• 22:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I feel like I don't even like football.
• 22:52
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I could probably name most college football teams and NFL teams because I'm an American.
• 22:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: The senator's also from Missouri, so I'm like-
• 23:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: You're
• 23:03
  BRIAN DERRICK: close to Iowa… you're-- you share a border.
• 23:05
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, it's right there.
• 23:08
  BRIAN DERRICK: The reason it was particularly funny is that no one, literally no one knows who Eric Schmitt is.
• 23:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: No one knew before this was ultra viral this week.
• 23:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: The day before this happened, actually maybe even the morning of- There was a whole piece in Axios about how he is JD Vance's favorite for VP- … when Vance runs for president.
• 23:34
  BRIAN DERRICK: And so this moron is literally getting, same day, is getting national spotlight for consideration- An idiot … as a potential VP pick, and makes tons of news as a literal village idiot.
• 23:52
  BRIAN DERRICK: Hilarious.
• 23:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's, it was mortifying.
• 23:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Folks should look it up.
• 23:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Maybe we can roll the clip here so people can hear it live.
• 23:58
  ERIC SCHMITT: Did you go to an NBA game between the Golden State Warriors and the Atlanta Hawks on February 3rd, 2024?
• 24:04
  ERIC SCHMITT: Let me, let me just give you a little context.
• 24:05
  ERIC SCHMITT: Yeah.
• 24:05
  ERIC SCHMITT: The day before, Fani Willis came clean with her affair with the prosecutor.
• 24:10
  ERIC SCHMITT: You know the Atlanta prosecutor that was also trying to get Trump?
• 24:12
  ERIC SCHMITT: The next day, were you in Atlanta?
• 24:15
  JACK SMITH: No.
• 24:15
  ERIC SCHMITT: What would you say if I had a series of text messages from your team that said you were in Atlanta at a Warrior Hawks game on February 3rd, 2024, the day after Willis and Wade announced their affair?
• 24:26
  ERIC SCHMITT: Y- I don't think you know that we have this stuff.
• 24:28
  ERIC SCHMITT: Yeah.
• 24:28
  ERIC SCHMITT: So I'll give you a second to process it so you don't, you know, perjure yourself.
• 24:32
  ERIC SCHMITT: You've, I think you've already perjured yourself, but, um-
• 24:36
  JACK SMITH: If this is the correct basketball game, I recall going to a University of Maryland basketball game where Caitlin Clark was playing.
• 24:44
  JACK SMITH: Right around that time was Maryland playing Iowa, I think February of 2024.
• 24:51
  JACK SMITH: But again, that's … You can check that out if that's what we're talking about
• 24:59
  AMY KLOBUCHAR: Could, could it then be that University of Iowa is the Hawkeyes?
• 25:03
  AMY KLOBUCHAR: Could that be it if he was at an Iowa game?
• 25:06
  AMY KLOBUCHAR: Is that correct?
• 25:07
  JACK SMITH: It, it was because Caitlin Clark was coming to Maryland to play.
• 25:10
  AMY KLOBUCHAR: That might be the confusion over the names of the team, but perhaps you should have looked at it more carefully.
• 25:15
  AMY KLOBUCHAR: But it's not your time.
• 25:15
  AMY KLOBUCHAR: When you are calling a witness a dirt bag-
• 25:18
  ERIC SCHMITT: I presented him with text
• 25:19
  AMY KLOBUCHAR: messages- … and
• 25:19
  ERIC SCHMITT: showing
• 25:20
  AMY KLOBUCHAR: him
• 25:20
  ERIC SCHMITT: these things … about him wanting to meet with people.
• 25:22
  CHAIRMAN: Please.
• 25:23
  AMY KLOBUCHAR: I'm gonna begin my questions now, but I think that people should have their facts straight- Oh, we had bonus time around here … before they accuse someone of being a dirt bag and not get the teams wrong.
• 25:31
  ERIC SCHMITT: I stand by that statement.
• 25:32
  CHAIRMAN: Uh, Klobuchar
• 25:34
  AMY KLOBUCHAR: has the- Teams, you have the teams wrong, sir… CHAIRMAN: Senator Klobuchar- Mr. Chairman… has the floor.
• 25:38
  AMY KLOBUCHAR: Go, proceed with your questions.
• 25:39
  AMY KLOBUCHAR: Thank you.
• 25:41
  AMY KLOBUCHAR: From the state of Minnesota, where we have the Gophers, so there's not a lot of confusion.
• 25:45
  AMY KLOBUCHAR: Hee hee hee.
• 25:46
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Idiot.
• 25:47
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay.
• 25:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Should we do some click bait Double Click?
• 25:51
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 25:52
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay Brian, headline one.
• 25:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: All right.
• 25:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: "Embarrassing breach at FBI fuels fear of harm to its employees."
• 25:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: Wait, what i- what ha- what happened?
• 26:01
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Have you not been following the FBI breach?
• 26:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: No.
• 26:05
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: The huge hacking from Shiny Hunters?
• 26:07
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No.
• 26:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay, raise your hand if you've been hacked by- Shiny Hunters?
• 26:09
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I don't
• 26:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: even know what that is.
• 26:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: What is that?
• 26:11
  BRIAN DERRICK: … GLENNIS MEAGHER: by I have.
• 26:13
  BRIAN DERRICK: This is the worst hacking of federal databases since the 2012 hacking from China.
• 26:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: Do you remember this?
• 26:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: Of the Office of Personnel Management?
• 26:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yes.
• 26:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: Where they took my information.
• 26:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: I'm like, "You're not, you're not gonna get much out of me.
• 26:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: You, you can't make me a spy." Cut to, this was what, last week?
• 26:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: So Shiny Hunters, which is a dark web hacking group, hacked the FBI and pulled tranches of data on their employees out, and then they blackmailed the FBI and said,"We're gonna do something with this information." It's a big deal.
• 26:51
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's like a really- Yeah … big deal.
• 26:52
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's Double Click just 'cause, like, the incompetency of our government under- Yeah the administration of Donald Trump and his cronies is just really pathetic.
• 27:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: And like, I would be really scared if I was working, like, the Russia desk at FBI for 30 years as, like, an anonymous employee and all of my information was leaked.
• 27:08
  BRIAN DERRICK: And now this, you know, vigilante hunter, Shiny Hunter hacker group.
• 27:14
  BRIAN DERRICK: They said they're not gonna release it now, saying the FBI got to them, and they, they have arrested one person in, I believe, Amsterdam.
• 27:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: But If I was China- Yeah … I'd be like, "I'm gonna give you guys a billion dollars for that information." Right.
• 27:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: Right.
• 27:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: Double-click indeed, 'cause I haven't even heard about it.
• 27:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: But I do think that the FBI, despite elected Republicans' complaints about some sort of partisan whatever the fuck, is really widely respected.
• 27:46
  BRIAN DERRICK: I think that's like a bipartisan thing that-
• 27:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah… BRIAN DERRICK: people like the FBI.
• 27:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So any news about Trump undermining the ability for us to have law and order at that level is gonna resonate with conservative-leaning voters.
• 28:01
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay, my next one for you.
• 28:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Despite hosting the World Cup, the US saw a decline in overseas travel by more than two million people last year.
• 28:12
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It is now down more than 20%.
• 28:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And for context, tourism to the United States generates over $2 trillion a year in economic activity, and is responsible for over 3% of GDP.
• 28:31
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: This is the people coming to the United States to visit.
• 28:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: Correct.
• 28:34
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, double-click.
• 28:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Correct.
• 28:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Down
• 28:35
  BRIAN DERRICK: 20%.
• 28:36
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Trump, MAGA Inc., MAGA Republicans, bad business.
• 28:41
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Bad for our economy, bad for the American people It's bad.
• 28:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 28:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No one… Of- why would you want to come here if you're scared you're gonna be detained at the border without cause?
• 28:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like this is, these are things that are happening.
• 28:56
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Double click, Trump is bad for business.
• 28:58
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He's bad for the economy.
• 28:59
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He's bad for small businesses.
• 29:00
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He's bad for your bottom line.
• 29:02
  BRIAN DERRICK: This is part of the reason that the blue wave and all of the crazy positive data for Democrats seems legitimate.
• 29:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like some of the things that make me believe that this is real and not just a bad polling year is because of things like this.
• 29:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: Think about how many people are impacted by a 20% drop in tourism from overseas.
• 29:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 29:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: All kinds of people, all kinds of people of all different political persuasions- Yes … are directly affected by that.
• 29:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: The same as we've talked about many times with the farmers, right?
• 29:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: When you look at how- Mm-hmm … the ag industry has been impacted by Trump policies, uh, many Trump policies, like that's why it's real.
• 29:41
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's why it's not a mirage of people just like registering annoyance.
• 29:44
  BRIAN DERRICK: It is like a simmering economic rage that people- Totally … feel about having their livelihoods destroyed intentionally by Trump.
• 29:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Y- yeah, and I'm even looking at, you know, this college football tour I'm going on.
• 29:57
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like the prices for these flights are astronomical, and this is something you've been doing with your family.
• 30:00
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Is it college football?
• 30:02
  BRIAN DERRICK: Did you
• 30:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: say that?
• 30:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oh, yeah.
• 30:04
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: That's what I'm… Yeah, I'm going to… No, I, I didn't say that, but now you know.
• 30:06
  BRIAN DERRICK: Wait, it started as a US Senate tour of like, "Oh, Glennis is gonna be knocking on doors," and now it's just you going to- Oh … college football games to like shotgun beers at a tailgate?
• 30:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: First of all, I will not be shotgunning a beer.
• 30:18
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I haven't done that for at least 15 years.
• 30:21
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No, it's, it's leveraging the power of college football and, uh-
• 30:26
  BRIAN DERRICK: Hmm.
• 30:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: Do you have tickets to the games?
• 30:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No.
• 30:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm not going to the games.
• 30:30
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm
• 30:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: solely
• 30:31
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: tailgating.
• 30:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: Okay.
• 30:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: All right.
• 30:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: That was gonna be very sus.
• 30:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: No.
• 30:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: If you were a Republican, you would have tickets to the games.
• 30:36
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oh, 100%.
• 30:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: You would, you would have expensed that.
• 30:38
  BRIAN DERRICK: And
• 30:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I would… Yeah, it would've been a pilot program, and I would've expensed it out to the IRS.
• 30:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: If you're a family who's gone for 20 years, and you, maybe you live, you know, a couple states over, and you've flown or you've driven, and the, the cost to attend a homecoming game has gone up 30%- Right you might not be going, and that might affect your vote.
• 30:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: Totally.
• 30:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: I think it's gonna be a lot of people just who don't show up, you know?
• 31:01
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Mm-hmm.
• 31:01
  BRIAN DERRICK: Because they're like, "Fuck this guy. He lied." A new alliance has formed between AI companies and private equity firms that is targeting seven states with data center expansions.
• 31:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I hate it.
• 31:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Double click.
• 31:17
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: What are the states?
• 31:18
  BRIAN DERRICK: Double fucking click.
• 31:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: Texas, Georgia- Mm … Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and South Carolina.
• 31:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Interesting choices
• 31:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: Double click.
• 31:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: Can you- Yeah … can you quadruple click something?
• 31:34
  BRIAN DERRICK: We're gonna quadruple click this.
• 31:36
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, that's absolutely crazy.
• 31:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We know that private equity is, like, the cause for the gentrification of, like, basically anything and everything you ever enjoyed, and this feels like the axis of evil of 2026.
• 31:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's so bad.
• 31:51
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: What do you… I don't- Right … even get it.
• 31:52
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So private equity is going to buy up, what, like, thousands of acres of farmland to make sure that OpenAI and, like, Palantir have as much data as humanly possible?
• 32:05
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And, uh, sorry, I could go on and on.
• 32:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: Here's my, here's my take on it.
• 32:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: More data centers have been built or are, like, in the works being discussed in the whole US than, like, Burger Kings or Wendy's.
• 32:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, it's so many, and as the pushback and backlash has gotten more severe, I think that what has happened is the people with a financial interest in building more data centers, which are AI companies and- Mm-hmm … the financiers backing them, have decided they can't fight everyone all at once.
• 32:39
  BRIAN DERRICK: So they need to define a set of battles that they think they can win and fight the war on those specific fronts, rather than trying to win over everyone everywhere all at once.
• 32:52
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's too expensive.
• 32:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: And so they're narrowing their focus to seven states where they can buy legislators, they can focus their political operations on ousting people who stand in their way, and buying, you'll notice based on the states, Republican- Yeah … majorities and pushing through their agendas and favorable policies to building more data centers in these states.
• 33:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: The only one with split government is Pennsylvania.
• 33:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 33:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: All the other ones have unified Republican control, and they know that Republicans will do anything for cash.
• 33:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 33:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, they, they've proven that time and time and time and time and time again.
• 33:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 33:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: And so that's, that is what is happening in my eyes, is they're like, "We actually can't simultaneously be battling policy in New York, and in Florida, and in Montana, and in California.
• 33:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, we have to pick.
• 33:47
  BRIAN DERRICK: We're gonna go all in on these seven." Yeah.
• 33:50
  BRIAN DERRICK: "We're gonna change who's in charge in these places, and then we're gonna jam all of the data centers that we need into these seven states."
• 33:57
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I really hate that, and I am going to read more on that, given that I'm gonna be in four of those states that you mentioned.
• 34:05
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: They're building a data center outside of Iowa City.
• 34:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I was looking at that yesterday.
• 34:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: Hmm.
• 34:12
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I hate it.
• 34:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I hate it.
• 34:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And, and then we don't have time for this, but then you, you kind of get into like, you know, the AI leaders were at the White House this week, and they're talking about how everything needs to be regulated, and it's called regulatory control.
• 34:24
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, they're trying to say, "We wanna say exactly how it's gonna be regulated to make sure that we're still the leaders in this industry." It's very nefarious, and I hate it.
• 34:33
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 34:33
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Double click, quadruple click.
• 34:35
  BRIAN DERRICK: For sure.
• 34:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: I mean, to your point about the AI dinner or lunch that was just had at the White House- Mm-hmm it answers the question that I think a lot of, like, MAGA and MAGA curious and Trump voting non-MAGA 2024 people are asking, which is like, why is Trump doing all of this?
• 34:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: You know what I mean?
• 34:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, there's all this stuff that he said he wouldn't do that now he's doing, stuff that he said he would do that he didn't do, and it's kind of like, why?
• 35:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: Because he's so obviously unpopular for doing it.
• 35:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: What is the incentive behind it?
• 35:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: We've already talked at length for two years about the personal enrichment, right?
• 35:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: Is like there's a huge amount of it that's done specifically to make money for himself and his family, but not all of it.
• 35:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: It doesn't explain every decision.
• 35:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: There's a whole nother crop of terrible decisions that he's made because of the people that he has surrounded himself with.
• 35:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 35:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: Because the number one criteria is undying blind loyalty- Yep … over competence or being at all expert in your field or, or anything like that.
• 35:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: And he's just so insulated from the real world- Mm-hmm that I don't think that he knows or believes much of the truth anymore.
• 35:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 35:54
  BRIAN DERRICK: And the lunch showed that.
• 35:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: It was, as Axios reported, the richest table- Mm-hmm … of people ever assembled in the history of the world.
• 36:05
  BRIAN DERRICK: Disgusting.
• 36:05
  BRIAN DERRICK: By a lot.
• 36:06
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, that's what he's basing all of his decisions off of.
• 36:09
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, did you see the Alex Karp interview, like, with CNBC?
• 36:13
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah,
• 36:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: insane.
• 36:13
  ALEX KARP: Okay, you know what?
• 36:14
  ALEX KARP: I love you guys ask these questions.
• 36:15
  ALEX KARP: Yeah.
• 36:15
  ALEX KARP: They're stupid as [expletive] . Okay.
• 36:17
  ALEX KARP: I'll give you like- What's a good question?
• 36:17
  ALEX KARP: Okay, like- What's a good question?
• 36:18
  ALEX KARP: What do you think about AI and why do you believe it?
• 36:21
  ALEX KARP: Why is it good for America?
• 36:22
  ALEX KARP: Do you think I'm the village idiot?
• 36:24
  CNBC REPORTER: I'm asking you the question,
• 36:24
  ALEX KARP: right?
• 36:24
  ALEX KARP: Okay, exactly.
• 36:25
  ALEX KARP: So you can answer however you want to answer.
• 36:25
  ALEX KARP: So I'll give you a… I, I… No, no, I gave you a question that was- Yeah.
• 36:28
  ALEX KARP: So this is a question I could answer.
• 36:29
  ALEX KARP: All right, what's, what do you- What do you believe about AI?
• 36:31
  ALEX KARP: Let's do that.
• 36:31
  ALEX KARP: Is it, what is it?
• 36:33
  ALEX KARP: What do you believe about AI?
• 36:33
  ALEX KARP: Okay.
• 36:33
  ALEX KARP: AI has to work for the war fighter.
• 36:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It was disgusting the way he, like, got in the CNBC reporter's face.
• 36:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I know.
• 36:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I was like, I would've
• 36:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: physically pushed him- I would've
• 36:41
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: pushed him … if
• 36:42
  BRIAN DERRICK: I was that guy.
• 36:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 36:43
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I sent to our group chat, "I've never seen a more punchable face." Like, this guy… I, they, they think that they're gods.
• 36:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's, it's really disturbing.
• 36:52
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Bernie Sanders has, has talked about a, a sovereign wealth fund around AI, and I'm, like, fully for that.
• 36:57
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: This is our intelligence, our academics' writings, like, our brains that are being extracted for these AI machines.
• 37:06
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We're watching our future be stripped from us and our economic stability being stripped from us as Americans in real time.
• 37:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, hundo.
• 37:16
  BRIAN DERRICK: Okay, well, I do wanna give everyone something actionable that they can be doing because just to the point of why the AI Private Equity Alliance is focused on these seven states, we need more Dems in office who are gonna fight back against these things, particularly at the state level, which is why our Oath candidate of the week is Jacob Weinberg, who's running for the Arizona House of Representatives.
• 37:44
  BRIAN DERRICK: It is identified by Oath as the tipping point seat.
• 37:47
  BRIAN DERRICK: So if we win this race and the races that are more Democratic than it, we will retake the Arizona House of Representatives, pushing us one step closer to unified government there, hopefully in November.
• 37:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: And he's also just a really cool guy.
• 38:02
  BRIAN DERRICK: When I was looking through which races from Arizona I would wanna highlight, he's a veteran.
• 38:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: He was in the Army.
• 38:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: He was a parachutist.
• 38:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: I'm like, "Okay, work." He climbed Kilimanjaro, which is also a reason that he stuck out to me personally and I was vibing with.
• 38:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: And he's a young, new voice for Arizona, and he seems like a very chill dude that you would totally want to shotgun a beer with.
• 38:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: You should see if he's available on your college football tour wh- while you're tailgating.
• 38:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: Um- Oh, I'm not
• 38:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: gonna be at ASU, unfortunately.
• 38:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: If you're looking for something you can actually do about all this stuff that's really pissing you off, he's an amazing candidate to go support right now.
• 38:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Great.
• 38:39
  BRIAN DERRICK: For our Good Vibe Goodbye this week- … we have an Avengers moment.
• 38:46
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oh, okay.
• 38:48
  BRIAN DERRICK: In Nevada, we have a very competitive governor's race.
• 38:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: There's a Republican incumbent, Joe Lombardo.
• 38:56
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Boo.
• 38:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: We hate.
• 38:58
  BRIAN DERRICK: We hate.
• 38:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: We
• 38:59
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: hate.
• 39:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: Who is running a-- He's the guy for people, just for people to remember, that said Trump needs to give money to his billionaire friends to keep them happy so that they'll create jobs for people, as if that's how the economy works.
• 39:13
  BRIAN DERRICK: Um, and he's running against Aaron Ford.
• 39:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: Trickle
• 39:15
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: down.
• 39:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Trickle
• 39:16
  BRIAN DERRICK: down.
• 39:16
  BRIAN DERRICK: Nevada's… Exactly.
• 39:18
  BRIAN DERRICK: Nevada's current attorney general, and it's a really tough race.
• 39:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: We've been recommending Aaron Ford.
• 39:22
  BRIAN DERRICK: We've talked about him on the pod all cycle.
• 39:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 39:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: He's been chronically underfunded, and we're getting this last-minute surge effort to try to put him over the line because right now it's looking tough.
• 39:34
  BRIAN DERRICK: And so in Nevada- In the next, like week and a half, we have Elissa Slotkin, Pete Buttigieg, Gretchen Whitmer, Mark Kelly, Rahm Emanuel, Andy Beshear, Ro Khanna.
• 39:51
  It is literally an Avengers: Endgame moment of a- every nationally recognized, like, next gen Democrat all- Yeah … swarming to the state in the same 10-day period to stump and rally for Aaron Ford, to try and get him over the line as governor.
• 40:10
  It is literally an Avengers: So that is our good vibe of the week is teamwork.
• 40:14
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And I was, like envisioning in my head, like a spin board of all the different faces, and it's like, "Okay, who are we landing on?" And a question for you, do they feel like the progressive caucus or, like an AOC is not helpful?
• 40:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: I mean, Ro Khanna represents that wing.
• 40:26
  BRIAN DERRICK: Oh,
• 40:26
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Ro Khanna.
• 40:27
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Sorry.
• 40:27
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 40:28
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I missed R- sorry, Ro.
• 40:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Didn't see you there.
• 40:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: Was it- I don't know if AOC is gonna show up or not, but she wasn't included in the article.
• 40:34
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oof.
• 40:34
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's crazy that, like Ro Khanna and Rahm Emanuel are in- Right,
• 40:38
  BRIAN DERRICK: right… GLENNIS MEAGHER: the same.
• 40:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: Totally.
• 40:41
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay.
• 40:41
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I
• 40:42
  BRIAN DERRICK: honestly- Go, go, Power Rangers.
• 40:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Period.
• 40:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yes.
• 40:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We need- Or
• 40:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: like
• 40:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Captain Planet
• 40:46
  BRIAN DERRICK: all the help that we can get from lefty lefties to reluctant center right-
• 40:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah… BRIAN DERRICK: now Democrats.
• 40:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We're gonna need them all.
• 40:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, and I'll just add, we need all the help that we can get, period.
• 40:58
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So if you are listening to Vibes Only, you're still with us at this, like good vibe goodbye, we need you to text your friends and your family.
• 41:07
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Make sure they have a voting plan.
• 41:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Someone is more likely to go vote if someone personally reaches out to them to go vote.
• 41:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So like we said, we're not pollsters.
• 41:18
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We're just on the vibe.
• 41:18
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: The vibes are text your friends, make a voting plan, make sure they know who they're voting for.
• 41:22
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Everyone needs to do everything they can if we want to win in November.
• 41:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: Hell yeah.
• 41:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: Hell yeah.
• 41:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: All right, guys, thank you for joining us this week.
• 41:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: We will be back next week.
• 41:32
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• 41:38
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• 41:39
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• 41:43
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• 41:46
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Go Hawks.
• 41:49
  BRIAN DERRICK: Hawkeyes.
• 41:49
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm gonna just do a shout-out to the team.
• 41:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No, they, they say Hawks.
• 41:51
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: They don't even say Eyes.
• 41:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: Oh, who knew?
• 41:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: Who knew?
• 41:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Who knew?