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Can Amy Acton Flip Ohio? Inside an Ohio State Tailgate · Vibes Only

• 0:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: Oh my God, we just got a new inflation report in.
• 0:05
  BRIAN DERRICK: I'm Brian Derrick.
• 0:06
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And I'm Glennis Meagher.
• 0:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Welcome to Vibes Only.
• 0:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: Welcome back.
• 0:11
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Welcome back to Vibes Only.
• 0:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: Glennis is back from my home state of Ohio, where the tailgates showed plenty of spirit for Sherrod Brown, but our creator interviews showed a lot of misinformation on gas prices is sinking in as the war in Iran adds about $2,000 a year to your cost of living.
• 0:28
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Trump's answer is buying Russian oil.
• 0:31
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's a political stunt that won't help anyone at the pump.
• 0:34
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: While he has tripled his net worth and continues to be corrupt as hell-
• 0:39
  BRIAN DERRICK: Elon has now dropped $370 million in the midterm elections.
• 0:44
  BRIAN DERRICK: Jon Ossoff destroyed Mike Collins again in their debate.
• 0:50
  BRIAN DERRICK: The new press secretary called Trump her husband.
• 0:54
  BRIAN DERRICK: Thom Tillis is on a book tour, lol.
• 0:56
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Kimberly Guilfoyle has fallen from grace, and Amy Acton for Ohio governor is our Oath Candidate of the Week.
• 1:03
  BRIAN DERRICK: Mamdani is ending NYC horse carriages, and out of a million people rallying for Lula in São Paulo, the internet fell in love with one really, really hot guy.
• 1:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay, Brian, let's get into it.
• 1:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's the final countdown.
• 1:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: Ba-da-na-na.
• 1:22
  BRIAN DERRICK: Hi, G.
• 1:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Hey, Brian.
• 1:24
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: How are you?
• 1:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: Three weeks to go.
• 1:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: Not even.
• 1:28
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I know.
• 1:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's crazy.
• 1:30
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I was in Ohio this past weekend.
• 1:33
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Can I just say, I didn't realize The Shoe, the stadium for OSU, was that big.
• 1:40
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I felt like we were at an NFL arena.
• 1:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 1:44
  BRIAN DERRICK: Every Saturday- It's- … of my entire college experience was spent at The Shoe.
• 1:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Wait, I didn't realize you went to OSU.
• 1:50
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, girl.
• 1:51
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Wait, this is- Go
• 1:52
  BRIAN DERRICK: Bucks… GLENNIS MEAGHER: completely I have a shirt for you.
• 1:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: I went to Ohio State.
• 1:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: I was on homecoming court.
• 1:58
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Wait, I saw homecoming court people, and I was like, "Royalty." They were like walking past me.
• 2:05
  BRIAN DERRICK: That was
• 2:05
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: me.
• 2:06
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Wow.
• 2:06
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Wow, my mind is blown now that I've been im- immersed- in the tailgate environment.
• 2:11
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But we talked to some really, really diehard MAGA people.
• 2:15
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It was- Uh-oh … crazy, blaming- Yeah … gas prices on Joe Biden, and when asked about it, having no answer whatsoever.
• 2:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We also- … Brian, got kicked out of a data center.
• 2:26
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: That was my first time getting kicked out of a data center.
• 2:27
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: How'd you
• 2:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: get into a data center?
• 2:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: They're open.
• 2:31
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, they're open.
• 2:32
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It doesn't say- No, they're not.
• 2:33
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yes, they are.
• 2:34
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yes, they are.
• 2:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: There's no private property anywhere, and this was an Amazon data center.
• 2:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And we were just in the parking lot, and they had, like, some unmarked car come up and, like, kick us out, recording us.
• 2:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Very, very sus.
• 2:46
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm like, "Amazon, what are you hiding? What are you hiding?" Okay, wait.
• 2:48
  BRIAN DERRICK: So you were, just to clarify , you were in the parking lot?
• 2:52
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Correct.
• 2:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: Not like- Of the data center … in the servers plugging USB sticks in- No, you
• 2:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: can't.
• 2:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: No … like you're in Mission Impossible.
• 2:57
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No.
• 2:58
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, I was not having my, like, Ocean's 8 moment , but- The fuck?
• 3:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I was in the parking lot, and it was, it escalated very quickly.
• 3:06
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And we've been to other data centers where they're just like, "Hey, you can't be here." And we were like, "Okay." And Amazon was like-
• 3:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: Tased you straight away… GLENNIS MEAGHER: sus.
• 3:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: And it, I was like, "Bad vibes.
• 3:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: What are you trying to hide?" But data centers are a huge topic in Ohio, for those who don't know.
• 3:26
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, for sure.
• 3:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 3:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: And I'm very glad that you got to experience an Ohio State game, because for people who did not go to state school, it is a different world.
• 3:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: Politically, culturally- Mm-hmm… it's, it's quite an experience.
• 3:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: I think everyone should go once.
• 3:42
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Mm-hmm.
• 3:42
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm still like, wow.
• 3:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I, I was blown away by the stadium and the tailgate zone and the thousands and thousands of people that I interacted with.
• 3:52
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And you know what I learned?
• 3:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: That you guys cross all your M's out.
• 3:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 3:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: Just for the week of- Mm … the week of the Michigan game at Ohio State, every single M on every single sign on all of campus, Ohio State's campus is huge, is crossed out.
• 4:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: So street signs, building names, any plaque, like literally anything anywhere, the M's all get crossed out the week of the Ohio State game.
• 4:20
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Culture.
• 4:21
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Culture.
• 4:21
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 4:22
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I love it.
• 4:22
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 4:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: TBT, I haven't been back in, like, a decade.
• 4:25
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Ugh, I should've brought you with me.
• 4:27
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Are you kidding me?
• 4:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, that would've been fun.
• 4:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay.
• 4:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: Well- Would've been fun.
• 4:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: Next time.
• 4:31
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: 2028, Brian.
• 4:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: All right.
• 4:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: Should we get into all the hot goss of politics this week?
• 4:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: 'Cause it's very gossipy.
• 4:40
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 4:40
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: What a week.
• 4:41
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Let's, let's get into it.
• 4:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: Where do we wanna begin?
• 4:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: Do we wanna start with the text message scandal or the oil scandal or the Elon Musk scandal, or it's just scandal, scandal city.
• 4:56
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Maybe we should go with like, uh, kind of gravity.
• 5:00
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So like, the oil and Elon Musk to me has direct implications- Mm on every single American's lives.
• 5:09
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Whereas Kimberly Guilfoyle saying,"Daddy pay off $100,000 Amex bill," and then getting fired on- Queens… on national television by the new train wreck of a press secretary.
• 5:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: That's fodder for you and I. But let's start with the oil, the diesel.
• 5:27
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay.
• 5:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yes.
• 5:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: As we've talked about many times, gas prices are one of the most visible and immediately felt economic indicators in the country.
• 5:38
  BRIAN DERRICK: Jobs numbers, unless you are personally without a job, are pretty abstract, whereas gas prices you see every day when you're driving, and you feel when you go to the pump once a week.
• 5:51
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And diesel specifically, most trucks and any sort of transportation for all of our goods run on diesel.
• 5:59
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: The current price of diesel is about 6.20 to 6.50 a gallon.
• 6:04
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: That is one of the reasons why everything is more expensive.
• 6:08
  BRIAN DERRICK: 100%.
• 6:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: And so Republicans facing annihilation in the midterms, right?
• 6:16
  BRIAN DERRICK: Just, just what, where the polling is at is showing horrible numbers for Republicans, are looking for any way to try to chip away at gas prices as a Democratic talking point because, I mean, it's not just a talking point.
• 6:34
  BRIAN DERRICK: Trump started a war, it closed the Strait of Hormuz - … and gas prices doubled.
• 6:39
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, it's very, it's very- Yeah… transparent for anyone to see.
• 6:43
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I wanna, I wanna play… We should like, we should roll this clip.
• 6:46
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: This is one of the clips that we got from this weekend where Eumie, who's like a great creator, asks this OSU fan about… I'll send it to you.
• 6:56
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But they, they're not even willing to admit that it's like the reason that gas prices are so high.
• 7:04
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Let me p- play it for you.
• 7:05
  EUMIE SHIN (@EUMIEXX): Can I get your thoughts on gas prices?
• 7:07
  TRUMP SUPPORTER: They suck.
• 7:08
  EUMIE SHIN (@EUMIEXX): They fucking suck?
• 7:09
  TRUMP SUPPORTER: Yeah.
• 7:09
  EUMIE SHIN (@EUMIEXX): Why is that?
• 7:10
  TRUMP SUPPORTER: Because they're high as fuck.
• 7:12
  EUMIE SHIN (@EUMIEXX): Why do you think they're high as fuck?
• 7:14
  TRUMP SUPPORTER: Um, because we had a Democrat in office for a very, very long time.
• 7:18
  TRUMP SUPPORTER: I know it's Joe Biden's fault.
• 7:20
  EUMIE SHIN (@EUMIEXX): Oh, wait, why is that?
• 7:21
  TRUMP SUPPORTER: Because he's an asshole.
• 7:22
  EUMIE SHIN (@EUMIEXX): Do you think the war in Iran has anything to do with it?
• 7:24
  TRUMP SUPPORTER: No.
• 7:24
  EUMIE SHIN (@EUMIEXX): No?
• 7:25
  EUMIE SHIN (@EUMIEXX): You don't think so?
• 7:26
  EUMIE SHIN (@EUMIEXX): You don't think it's like the Strait of Hormuz or anything?
• 7:28
  TRUMP SUPPORTER: No.
• 7:28
  TRUMP SUPPORTER: Being a, being a veteran myself, like I served two tours.
• 7:31
  EUMIE SHIN (@EUMIEXX): Mm-hmm.
• 7:32
  TRUMP SUPPORTER: So gas prices have really nothing to do with war.
• 7:35
  EUMIE SHIN (@EUMIEXX): Really?
• 7:36
  EUMIE SHIN (@EUMIEXX): Ab- You don't think the fact that like the channel where all of the oil goes through, like the fact that that's closed maybe has something to do with rising gas prices?
• 7:43
  EUMIE SHIN (@EUMIEXX): No.
• 7:43
  TRUMP SUPPORTER: No.
• 7:44
  EUMIE SHIN (@EUMIEXX): Really?
• 7:44
  TRUMP SUPPORTER: No.
• 7:44
  EUMIE SHIN (@EUMIEXX): So, um, how are the high gas prices Joe Biden's fault?
• 7:47
  BRIAN DERRICK: Okay.
• 7:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 7:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So anyway- Okay.
• 7:51
  BRIAN DERRICK: H-
• 7:51
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yes.
• 7:51
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's so wild.
• 7:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: That is not our median voter, let me tell you.
• 7:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: Even in Ohio, that's not a median voter.
• 7:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: I get to do press control.
• 8:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: That is a Fox News, Newsmax, OANN Kool-Aid drinker.
• 8:04
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yes.
• 8:05
  BRIAN DERRICK: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
• 8:06
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Correct.
• 8:07
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Correct.
• 8:07
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So that's, that's wild.
• 8:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: However, we know, to your point, that the unconstitutional war in Iran Has made gas prices higher
• 8:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: Right.
• 8:18
  BRIAN DERRICK: And that has, as you said, increased the price of everything.
• 8:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: Just while recording, we got the latest inflation report, and it just jumped again.
• 8:26
  BRIAN DERRICK: Gas prices up 34%, and that's pushing overall inflation numbers up where we're now almost at double the inflation rate that Biden-- when Biden left office, which is obviously what so directly undercuts the argument that it was Joe Biden's fault.
• 8:42
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's-- it's just, like, silly in every sort of possible respect.
• 8:46
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: The Republicans have a huge problem on their hands.
• 8:49
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Because of the unconstitutional war and all of the bullshit that Trump has put us through and other countries through, our cost of living is markedly higher.
• 8:58
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So Trump, the man who said that he would end the war between Russia and Ukraine in twenty-four hours, cut to two, two years later, it's still raging.
• 9:12
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Hundreds of thousands of people have died.
• 9:14
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Aligning the United States of America with Russia To end sanctions on Russian gas exports, gas and diesel exports, and said, "You know what? Actually, we're gonna take 300,000 tons of Russian diesel to lower…" Which we obviously know is to attempt to lower the cost of diesel for Americans, for the world.
• 9:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But now we are aligning ourselves.
• 9:40
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It is the most undemocratic- Yeah … un-American thing possible.
• 9:44
  BRIAN DERRICK: But I just wanna be clear, we're not taking it, we're buying it.
• 9:46
  BRIAN DERRICK: We're gonna give Russia- We're buying it … who we are sanctioning the shit out of currently- Mm-hmm … a bunch of money.
• 9:54
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, the, it's-
• 9:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: To kill more Ukrainians
• 9:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: it's the opposite.
• 9:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: Ex- it's a, it's funding Russia's war against Ukraine in order to do nothing.
• 10:03
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's a political stunt.
• 10:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's less than one day of diesel in the US.
• 10:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, it, it would not even scratch the surface of the amount required to start reducing prices.
• 10:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: And so Trump had a little bit of, like, a one, two, three, four blunder.
• 10:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: Kind of a like, all, all in a row, just dominoes.
• 10:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: So said that he was going to buy all of this Russian diesel.
• 10:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: Republican senators immediately started coming out saying,"Absolutely not. We're introducing a bill to stop this. No fucking way." Yeah.
• 10:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: Then he tweeted or whatever the hell about, um- Truth … Zelenskyy saying Ukra- Ukraine needs a new leader.
• 10:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: Um- I saw that … and that they should take any deal that Russia offers them.
• 10:48
  BRIAN DERRICK: And then he wrote off a bunch of reports that are showing how Russia is funding the war in Iran and giving them classified intel on US troop movements and placements to help Iran- Wow … attack the US in the Middle East.
• 11:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: And then he doubled down when all these Repu- Republican senators said, "Absolutely we cannot fund Russia's global violence through purchasing diesel." He said, "Nope. We're gonna give 'em a bunch of money." So it's overall been a horrific week for foreign affairs for the US, and T- Trump just continuing to dig himself a hole.
• 11:32
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I mean, Trump hates America.
• 11:34
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He hates you, he hates America.
• 11:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He only loves himself and his family and the people that he can personally enrich with his actions.
• 11:39
  BRIAN DERRICK: Me, me personally or everyone listening?
• 11:42
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Everyone.
• 11:43
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Trump hates everyone.
• 11:44
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, okay, that's kind of mean for a Wednesday morning.
• 11:49
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He does
• 11:49
  BRIAN DERRICK: though.
• 11:50
  BRIAN DERRICK: Maybe Trump hates you, Glennis.
• 11:51
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He for sure hates me.
• 11:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm a strong, independent woman.
• 11:56
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Of course he hates me.
• 11:58
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like- Everything he does is deeply anti-American, and it, I just don't understand how any MAGA Republican is like, "He's my man.
• 12:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He's my man."
• 12:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: Well, should we talk about the public execution?
• 12:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: You know, I feel bad 'cause we were talking about a firing squad at the end of last week's episode because- Oh, no … we were talking about the death
• 12:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: penalty.
• 12:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: I was talking about the- Um … Ossoff-Mike Collins debate.
• 12:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oh, okay.
• 12:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But, um- I thought you… Okay, I thought you were gonna talk about the fact that the United States government plans on live streaming a firing squad.
• 12:31
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But let's table that- … 'cause that's just dark sided, uh, and deeply depressing, and let's talk about Georgia.
• 12:39
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 12:39
  BRIAN DERRICK: I mean, we, we got another debate last night, Mike Collins v Jon Ossoff, and then there was also another Troy Jackson, Susan Collins debate.
• 12:49
  BRIAN DERRICK: And I think we had… Oh yeah, and Ashley Hinson versus Josh Turek in Iowa.
• 12:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 12:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: So three battleground Senate debates.
• 12:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: Ossoff is definitely the best one to watch- Mm … because it is like watching… You know how whenever the Olympics are on, people are always like, "We should put a normal person to run next to them- … so we can see how fast they really are."
• 13:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 13:13
  BRIAN DERRICK: That is like watching Mike Collins debate Jon Ossoff.
• 13:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 13:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: It is an Olympian dismembering someone on stage on live television.
• 13:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's really wild to watch.
• 13:27
  JON OSSOFF: It's worth reminding everybody that while you pay more for everything, when it costs more than any time in American history to power your home, stock your fridge, fill up your truck because of the tariffs Mike Collins voted for, because of the war Mike Collins continues to defend, because of the healthcare cuts he voted for, Donald Trump is enriching himself and his family to the tune of billions of dollars.
• 13:56
  JON OSSOFF: I wonder if Mike Collins can defend that.
• 13:58
  JON OSSOFF: I wonder if Mike Collins can defend voting to double your health insurance premiums.
• 14:05
  JON OSSOFF: You didn't explain it last week, Mike.
• 14:07
  JON OSSOFF: Why did you vote to double health insurance premiums for your own constituents?
• 14:11
  JON OSSOFF: Repres- thank you, Rep-
• 14:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: I don't know who was on Mike Collins' team.
• 14:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: They've never- Do you- … done debate prep before in their life.
• 14:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: Let me tell you, it's-
• 14:20
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah… BRIAN DERRICK: it's really bad.
• 14:22
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And how about the other ones?
• 14:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Josh Turek is a actual former Olympian.
• 14:26
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Um, how did he do?
• 14:26
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 14:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: I didn't watch the whole thing.
• 14:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: I saw clips.
• 14:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: Fine.
• 14:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: I think he, I think he's- I mean, Ash- I think he's good.
• 14:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: He's solid.
• 14:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: The, the trick of running in a place like an Ohio or an Iowa, and we, we've kind of talked about this before, is that at least in recent history Voters really like a sleepy milquetoast candidate, and getting a fiery, fiery sparks at a debate isn't actually necessarily what the strategy is to try to win over these voters that generally don't like either party and generally think that DC is a swampland and like blah, blah, blah.
• 15:02
  BRIAN DERRICK: So an Abdul El-Sayed type of confrontation or sort of Jon Ossoff level of throwing haymakers may not be the best path for them, but it certainly didn't have the virality.
• 15:17
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Sure.
• 15:18
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Right.
• 15:18
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay.
• 15:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: He did bait Ashley Hinson into some important errors that they can throw into their ads- Great … and whatnot moving forward.
• 15:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 15:27
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: She's a train wreck.
• 15:28
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay.
• 15:30
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I have to watch the debate.
• 15:31
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I'm going to Georgia this weekend, so I will watch the debate.
• 15:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I mean, he's a great orator.
• 15:36
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He's a great orator, which is an extremely important characteristic to have as a politician in this media environment.
• 15:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 15:44
  BRIAN DERRICK: Tea.
• 15:44
  BRIAN DERRICK: Okay, let's talk about Elon Musk.
• 15:46
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Ugh, what a piece of shit.
• 15:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So in case you missed it, The New York Times had new reporting on Monday.
• 15:52
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: This is the man, Brian, who said, "I'm gonna pull back." After DOGE and how everyone was like, "You're a piece of shit.
• 15:59
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We hate you," and then the whole meltdown, lest we forget the 24-hour like Twitter battle between Elon Musk and Trump or Truth Social battle, whatever that was.
• 16:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He has now, since July Put in an additional $276 million?
• 16:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 16:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: Crazy, crazy.
• 16:18
  BRIAN DERRICK: I know that we talk about these huge numbers in campaigns all the time, and I think it's hard for people to really conceptualize what a big amount of money is when we're always talking in the millions or hundreds of millions of dollars.
• 16:31
  BRIAN DERRICK: This is unprecedented spending, especially for a midterm cycle.
• 16:35
  BRIAN DERRICK: Barack Obama's entire 2012 re-election campaign, a presidential campaign, cost about 750 million.
• 16:46
  BRIAN DERRICK: And so for some-- for an individual person to spend$370 million is insane.
• 16:52
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's why on Oath we launched the Everyone vs.
• 16:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: Elon campaign because- Hmm that's what it really feels like.
• 17:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: It takes all of us just to counteract the weight of one man.
• 17:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: And there's a lot of reasons why a lot of that money's actually gonna be set on fire, and it's actually going to, like, consultants and things that aren't gonna change the actual, like- Yeah … electoral map.
• 17:14
  BRIAN DERRICK: But it's still horrifying and points to how broken our system is, that one person can do that.
• 17:20
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, I was reading this morning, I mean, 76 million of it is going to door-knocking, 20 million went to the Congressional Leadership Fund, and that's for House Republicans, 10 million to Lone Star Liberty PAC in support of Ken Paxton.
• 17:34
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Good luck with that.
• 17:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: 10 million to Republican Governors Association, and two million to the Republican AGs.
• 17:41
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: You, you had posted on, on Instagram, like, "Vote like you're being robbed in broad daylight." And when you, when you put all of the pieces together of this, like, blatant corruption across the board, whether it be Elon Musk single-handedly putting in $276 million, and then his companies over the course of the last two years getting at least eight billion dollars in government contracts, like that should chap everyone's ass.
• 18:07
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: While also, while he was in government dismantling some of our most important civic offices.
• 18:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: Right.
• 18:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Or, you know, I heard on the news yesterday, on NPR, that MAGA Inc. spent another 10 million of taxpayer dollars on Trump ads.
• 18:26
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: They said they were gonna stop doing that.
• 18:28
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: That's more money.
• 18:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's just so ridiculous.
• 18:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So vote like you're being robbed in broad daylight.
• 18:38
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, you're, you're right because we, we really are.
• 18:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's horrifying and frustrating the many thousands of dollars that-- of my personal tax money that is being driven directly into the bank accounts of Trump's family and his biggest donors.
• 18:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's horrifying to me.
• 18:58
  BRIAN DERRICK: And we have the chance to put a serious-
• 19:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Stopgap on it.
• 19:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah … block on, on their ability to do that.
• 19:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: There's been a, a less of a focus than I expected maybe on the big beautiful bill in the midterms.
• 19:14
  BRIAN DERRICK: But every single tax bracket is paying more under Donald Trump except for the top 10%.
• 19:23
  KATIE ZACHARIA: Yeah.
• 19:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like everyone else is screwed.
• 19:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's why we're being robbed in, in broad daylight, is they're cutting our services and taking more money from you.
• 19:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like that's what's so infuriating.
• 19:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 19:36
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I think also with the big beautiful bill, MAGA murder budget, whatever you wanna call it, a lot of those tax incentives don't go into place, and for the top 10% and the losses for the rest of us don't go into place until 2027.
• 19:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And they did that strategically and deliberately so that when people were going to the polls in 2026, they wouldn't feel the hit that this bill is going to give them with regards to their take-home money at the end of the day.
• 20:04
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Right.
• 20:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: Aye, aye, aye.
• 20:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Aye, aye, aye.
• 20:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Wait, can we talk shit for one second?
• 20:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: Tummy
• 20:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Did you see the new press secretary's first press- I've, uh- conference yesterday?
• 20:20
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And then it was like a double whammy, and then they announced, like, the new ambassador at large for human trafficking.
• 20:25
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Did you see this?
• 20:26
  BRIAN DERRICK: I saw a press release about the ambassador thing, and I saw clips of the first press conference, but I need to watch the whole thing.
• 20:35
  BRIAN DERRICK: I, I heard it's very short because they just, she pulled the rip cord and, and ran away.
• 20:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: But
• 20:40
  EUMIE SHIN (@EUMIEXX): yikes.
• 20:40
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It was really, really, really bad.
• 20:43
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It kinda reminded me of that, like, Miss America competition when the woman, like, really just, like, can't… I feel, I feel bad.
• 20:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But, like, being the empath that I am, I was like, "Wow, this is the worst moment in this woman's life." Like, she was reading, she was reading, like, you know, in parentheses they'll have, like, how you should, uh, deliver the line, and it was like,"With energy and excitement." And she was like- No … "With energy and excitement, we say…" Yeah.
• 21:10
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No.
• 21:10
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, it was so bad.
• 21:11
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And then she had a gaffe where she was talking, like, someone was like, "Are you gonna be home t- be at home at night for your kids or whatever?" And she's like, "Well, my, my president, uh, uh, ooh, I mean my husband, ha, ha, ha."
• 21:23
  KATIE ZACHARIA: I adore my family.
• 21:24
  KATIE ZACHARIA: I love them.
• 21:25
  KATIE ZACHARIA: They are my priority.
• 21:27
  KATIE ZACHARIA: They, I, I love being with my kids.
• 21:29
  KATIE ZACHARIA: The idea of not spending evenings with my kid, uh, kids are, is completely, uh, unacceptable.
• 21:35
  KATIE ZACHARIA: So my president, or excuse me, my husband, uh, that's a, that's a good one.
• 21:40
  KATIE ZACHARIA: My husband is-
• 21:41
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, totally gaffed who her husband was.
• 21:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So amateur.
• 21:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So amateur.
• 21:47
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Wow.
• 21:47
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, so mortifying.
• 21:49
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But we gotta take the wins.
• 21:50
  BRIAN DERRICK: It does say a lot that they threw her up there her second day o- on the job after being announced.
• 22:01
  BRIAN DERRICK: And I think that that's noteworthy, not because it explains why she was bad, but because it explains their expectations.
• 22:08
  BRIAN DERRICK: Their expectations of the press secretary role- Mm are that you already have the talking points.
• 22:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: You don't need to know anything new.
• 22:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: You don't need to know anything that's actually going on in the administration.
• 22:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: You don't need any onboarding or training, because your job is to get up there and lie and defend- Mm-hmm … every single thing that Donald Trump says or does, no matter what it is, and make it sound true and make it sound right.
• 22:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: And so- Well … why would you need a week to prepare on every individual update on every agency in the federal government so that you can answer questions about it, which is your actual job?
• 22:49
  BRIAN DERRICK: Why would you need to do that if your job is to get up there and say, "Donald Trump was right.
• 22:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: Democrats are the problem.
• 22:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: You guys are fake news"?
• 22:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, that's what they
• 22:58
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: think- She's not even there yet… BRIAN DERRICK: the job is.
• 23:00
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I know.
• 23:01
  BRIAN DERRICK: Right.
• 23:01
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Right.
• 23:01
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: She's gotta go work on that.
• 23:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: She's gotta go work on that because it was a little too feeble and unprepared.
• 23:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: There was no, like, delusions of grandeur, and there was no, like- True excitement for the lies.
• 23:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It was just, it was bad.
• 23:17
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Um- Right.
• 23:18
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I mean,
• 23:18
  BRIAN DERRICK: you have to be a sociopath to- Totally … lie instinctually without blinking.
• 23:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: Totally.
• 23:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: Or, or with any, with no kind of like prep or, or training.
• 23:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like Karoline Leavitt I'd be a sociopath.
• 23:34
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, like it-
• 23:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No, totally
• 23:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's a
• 23:36
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: gift Well, psycho maybe.
• 23:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: But, um- And you
• 23:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: know what?
• 23:38
  BRIAN DERRICK: Regardless.
• 23:38
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Karoline Leavitt was and is violent with her words and actions, and the fact that she glossed over so many things that directly or indirectly killed American citizens, so…
• 23:50
  BRIAN DERRICK: Somebody asked me to do a panel with Karine Jean-Pierre-
• 23:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oh
• 23:54
  BRIAN DERRICK: in a couple of weeks.
• 23:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: And I said, "Are you trying to get covered on TMZ?
• 24:01
  BRIAN DERRICK: Because there's about to be a, a literal fight if you think that I'm gonna-" Yeah "… sit on a panel with her and not say anything." Holy shit.
• 24:11
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 24:12
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: For those who for- forgot, she wrote a book.
• 24:14
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, that was Biden's press secretary who then wrote a book.
• 24:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Don't give anyone any more pens to write a book.
• 24:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: Oh my God.
• 24:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, it's over.
• 24:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: Especially Thom Tillis, the worst- Did he
• 24:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: write a book?
• 24:24
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: … BRIAN DERRICK: press tour Yes.
• 24:28
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And he went on tour trying to be like, "I'm the sane one.
• 24:31
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: We have to bring everyone back to the middle." And everyone's like, "You voted for Pete Hegseth.
• 24:36
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: How's that going?" Yeah.
• 24:37
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, like they tore him- Yeah … apart.
• 24:40
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay, we have to talk about my new hero.
• 24:43
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I saw this in the show notes and, uh, I, I need a full too long, didn't read.
• 24:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I don't know who this
• 24:49
  BRIAN DERRICK: is.
• 24:50
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's been a while since something has… Two, two things actually have gone explosively viral in my internet.
• 25:00
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay.
• 25:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: One is the hot guy from the Lula rally in Brazil.
• 25:06
  BRIAN DERRICK: You didn't see this?
• 25:07
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Never heard of him.
• 25:08
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No.
• 25:08
  BRIAN DERRICK: Holy- This
• 25:09
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: is very, this is very
• 25:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: man- There is a rally- Okay.
• 25:11
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay.
• 25:12
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Masked shirtless protester becomes Brazil's internet crush at Lula rally.
• 25:17
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: This
• 25:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: guy?
• 25:17
  BRIAN DERRICK: Not just Brazil.
• 25:18
  BRIAN DERRICK: The world's internet crush.
• 25:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yes, that guy.
• 25:20
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Um- You guys are so stupid.
• 25:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oh my God.
• 25:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: Okay.
• 25:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: He got, he got, like, 250,000 Instagram followers overnight because he was hot.
• 25:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: Hold-
• 25:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: The hottie from Paulista… BRIAN DERRICK: standing up a Brazilian flag, whatever.
• 25:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay, so that went super viral.
• 25:37
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And then the second thing to go viral is a woman who's running for city council in Indiana last night showed up to a candidate forum, and she gave an interview, and she's slurring her words, and the internet is ablaze with clips from this thing.
• 25:56
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: One of the questions is, what would you do in office that not all of your voters would agree with?
• 26:02
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And she thinks about it- Wait, she a Republican or Democrat?
• 26:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: Democrat.
• 26:05
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oh, God.
• 26:06
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay.
• 26:06
  BRIAN DERRICK: This is either gonna really help her or really hurt her.
• 26:09
  BRIAN DERRICK: She goes, "Huh?" And she has to re-ask the question 'cause she forgets what the question was.
• 26:14
  BRIAN DERRICK: Oh, my God.
• 26:14
  BRIAN DERRICK: And then they, and then they reestablish what the question is, and she goes, "Fire all the Republicans." "I don't like them." Honestly, though.
• 26:22
  BRIAN DERRICK: "I don't talk to them. I really don't want to see them." She gives the most unhinged responses.
• 26:30
  BRIAN DERRICK: And then at the end they go,"Is there anything else that your voters should know?" And she thinks about it and goes, "We got guns, too."
• 26:39
  JAIME WEST: What is the one decision that I would make?
• 26:43
  JAIME WEST: Hmm Repeat that again.
• 26:46
  JAIME WEST: What is the one decision that I would make that n- might not be popular with Fayette County?
• 26:49
  JAIME WEST: Right, that may be
• 26:50
  MODERATOR: unpopular-
• 26:51
  JAIME WEST: Correct … with some voters Unpopular with some voters.
• 26:52
  MODERATOR: But is in the best interest of the county.
• 26:54
  JAIME WEST: Mm.
• 26:58
  JAIME WEST: Firing all Republicans.
• 27:00
  JAIME WEST: I wouldn't let them, I mean, I don't even talk to them.
• 27:05
  JAIME WEST: I don't like them.
• 27:06
  JAIME WEST: But, you know, what are you gonna do?
• 27:09
  MODERATOR: Well, that brings us to, um, your opportunity to, um, say just a few last words to, um, to the voters.
• 27:16
  MODERATOR: Hmm
• 27:19
  JAIME WEST: We have guns too
• 27:22
  MODERATOR: All right.
• 27:23
  MODERATOR: Well, as a reminder, the general election is November 3rd.
• 27:26
  MODERATOR: Early voting began October 6th.
• 27:30
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oh my
• 27:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: God.
• 27:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: It is a truly wild interview.
• 27:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: She's a small business owner.
• 27:35
  BRIAN DERRICK: She runs her own cleaning business, uh, in Indiana.
• 27:39
  BRIAN DERRICK: Pretty wild stuff.
• 27:42
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Honestly, let's see how the message lands.
• 27:44
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Let's see.
• 27:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Maybe people are like,"Yeah, we do have guns too."
• 27:48
  BRIAN DERRICK: Watch it if you need a little, a little laugh today.
• 27:51
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Do you think she's gonna have to do, like, a crisis comms tour and be like, "I'm seeking help"?
• 27:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: Oh, I
• 27:57
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: think she's gonna be-
• 27:58
  BRIAN DERRICK: Or is it just-… like, a superstar of the internet.
• 27:59
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay.
• 28:00
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Wait.
• 28:00
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Also, I just opened Threads, which I never do.
• 28:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Of course, the first link for this masked protester, and I see why people are in a frenzy about him.
• 28:10
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He- He's hot.
• 28:12
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: You can't even see his face.
• 28:13
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: You're just, like, commenting on his body, which is-
• 28:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: I saw his face 'cause it was revealed later who he was.
• 28:18
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oh.
• 28:18
  BRIAN DERRICK: And he
• 28:19
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: is- Is this in New York or Brazil?
• 28:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: Brazil.
• 28:21
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Oh, okay.
• 28:22
  BRIAN DERRICK: Babe.
• 28:22
  BRIAN DERRICK: What?
• 28:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: I would already be dating him if it was in New York.
• 28:26
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: You'd be like,"Knock, knock. I found you." I got assaulted with… I, I feel bad commenting on this woman's face, but at the end of the day, it is gender-affirming care what she's done to her face.
• 28:37
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Have you seen the… This is the new-
• 28:41
  BRIAN DERRICK: Human
• 28:41
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: trafficking zone … it's
• 28:42
  BRIAN DERRICK: not right.
• 28:42
  BRIAN DERRICK: Is that the human trafficking zone?
• 28:43
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 28:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: There's so many, like, bad jokes to be made about that and… So this one is all over my For You page.
• 28:50
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Have you seen this?
• 28:52
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's, like, a drag queen getting ready.
• 28:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No.
• 28:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And it's like, "This person has made a plan to vote.
• 28:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Did you?" And it's like, "Yes, queen, I have." Like, this makes me wanna vote more.
• 29:00
  BRIAN DERRICK: I don't think you're the target audience for that content.
• 29:03
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I know.
• 29:04
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I know.
• 29:05
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I know.
• 29:06
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: She must have had, like, multiple face lifts, and then finally got, like, an upper face lift, and they've made her forehead at least, like, four inches larger.
• 29:17
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's literally crazy, and I, I, I feel… Again, I feel bad making fun of someone and the way they look, but at the end of the day, all of these MAGA Republican women have gender-affirming care.
• 29:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: T. T. Did we already talk about Kimberly Guilfoyle or no?
• 29:32
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Round it out really fast.
• 29:33
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Kimberly Guilfoyle has fallen from grace.
• 29:36
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: She was fired, presumably on live television, by this new train wreck of a press secretary, and said that the Trump administration thanks her for her service.
• 29:46
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: She was the ambassador to Greece, and was named the ambassador to Greece shortly after being broken up with by one of the Trump sons.
• 29:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I don't recall which one.
• 29:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: She got caught red-handed because of a leaked text showing she asked a donor to forgive a $100,000 Amex bill, which for those who are new in class, that is a bribe, a textbook bribe from a government official.
• 30:11
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So.
• 30:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yia.
• 30:13
  BRIAN DERRICK: I think that's how you say bye in Greek.
• 30:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: I just Googled it.
• 30:16
  BRIAN DERRICK: Someone who speaks Greek- Oh … hit me up.
• 30:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: Let me know if that's right.
• 30:19
  BRIAN DERRICK: So embarrassing.
• 30:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: One of the most most comical cartoonish examples- Mm-hmm … of corruption that we've seen in the last 30 years.
• 30:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: And she's the president's daughter-in-law now?
• 30:36
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Their engagement got broken off by one of them, and then soon after, her consolation prize for her loyalty or whatever was to become the ambassador to Greece.
• 30:46
  BRIAN DERRICK: Oh, I missed that.
• 30:47
  BRIAN DERRICK: Okay.
• 30:47
  BRIAN DERRICK: Got it.
• 30:47
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 30:47
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No, I'm almost positive she was with the Trump son who just had that Russian wedding, the wedding that was funded by a Russian oligarch.
• 30:56
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He
• 30:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: married someone else.
• 30:57
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He married someone else.
• 30:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: Oh, so when did they break up?
• 31:02
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Right before she became ambassador to Greece.
• 31:05
  BRIAN DERRICK: But that would've been, like, within the last 18 months.
• 31:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: You're saying that this, this Trump son was dating this woman as of inauguration, broke up with this woman less than two years ago, started dating a new woman, got engaged to her, and married her.
• 31:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: Is that what you're telling me?
• 31:21
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 31:22
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I mean, we
• 31:22
  BRIAN DERRICK: have to fact-check
• 31:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: it.
• 31:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: In a Russian-sponsored wedding?
• 31:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: I didn't know any of
• 31:25
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: this.
• 31:26
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 31:26
  BRIAN DERRICK: I thought- Yeah … that she was the one in the Russian wedding.
• 31:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No, no.
• 31:29
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: He met some, like, Floridian- Oh, yeah … socialite and model.
• 31:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: Okay.
• 31:33
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And someone made this cut online.
• 31:35
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: When, you know how she's, like, infamous for being like, "The best is yet to come," and then it's her getting fired, so.
• 31:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's amazing.
• 31:44
  BRIAN DERRICK: Here's what I will say on a serious note is- Mm-hmm corruption, it has not been a major motivating voting issue in the US for a while.
• 31:56
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 31:57
  BRIAN DERRICK: And we've had a corruption issue.
• 31:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: We've needed to ban stock trading and all of these things for a while, and yet it- Mm-hmm … hasn't changed people's support of mostly corrupt Republicans, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 32:06
  BRIAN DERRICK: But, like, sure, we can both sides it, whatever.
• 32:08
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's breaking through the cycle in a way that we have not seen.
• 32:12
  BRIAN DERRICK: One, the first, the first reason is just the scale of the corruption, that there's, like, a, a true departure in just the amount and brazenness of the corruption going on.
• 32:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: Trump tripling his net worth in two years is why.
• 32:27
  BRIAN DERRICK: And the way that that's been able to break through is that the style of the corruption that's happening is so housewives and so Bravo- Yeah that it is easy for people to understand.
• 32:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's, like, kind of funny to, to, to talk about, although the, the, the substance of it's not funny at all, and it's memorable.
• 32:54
  BRIAN DERRICK: And so Kimberly Guilfoyle texting,"Daddy, please pay my Amex bill.
• 33:01
  BRIAN DERRICK: Don't put this in a Signal, LOL," or whatever, it's, like, cartoonish.
• 33:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's something that you would watch on a reality show, and that's one of the reasons that it's breaking through because anyone can go recount that story, whereas if I ask you to tell someone about Nancy Pelosi's stock trades or whatever- Mm-hmm that have been an issue, that have been at issue for, for years Then it's kind of like, well, she did some stuff she, she shouldn't have done.
• 33:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: She probably knew some information, and then it was the husband's broker.
• 33:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, it's like, what?
• 33:34
  BRIAN DERRICK: You know what I mean?
• 33:34
  BRIAN DERRICK: Like, it doesn't stick in the same way.
• 33:37
  BRIAN DERRICK: But the whole conversation we, that we just had about the president's slutty son Treating these women this way and the women being- Yeah like absolute-
• 33:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Scapegoats.
• 33:50
  BRIAN DERRICK: Also- Scapegoats, but also just morally bankrupt-
• 33:53
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yes.
• 33:54
  BRIAN DERRICK: Just- Yeah … openly, brazenly so corrupt- Yeah … is what makes this all sticky in the minds of voters, and why people are gonna punish Republicans in November like never before.
• 34:04
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 34:05
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And just to add to that, one, we have seen with the Trump administration it is always the women first to fall and be thrown under the bus.
• 34:11
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: That's just- Right … the, the nature of the misogynistic administration that he has created.
• 34:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But then also, to add to that, the corruption is directly tied to the cost of living in America.
• 34:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, we're seeing it, people are seeing it, they're feeling it.
• 34:26
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And because those two are tied, because the corruption is really tangible, to your point, and you can see it online in a, in a 90-second clip and totally understand what is happening, and see that Kimberly Guilfoyle can text someone for a, an Amex bill to be written off at the c- like, at $100,000 is a lot of money.
• 34:45
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: And then to see a news clip saying that because of the war in Iran, your cost of living per household has gone up at least $2,000.
• 34:52
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, people feel it.
• 34:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: 100. And they're gonna hopefully- Yeah … bring that to the, to the ballot box.
• 34:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: Get 'em.
• 34:59
  BRIAN DERRICK: Get 'em.
• 35:00
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Before November 3rd,'cause everyone should early vote.
• 35:03
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's right.
• 35:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: That's right.
• 35:05
  BRIAN DERRICK: When does New York early voting start?
• 35:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: Are you gonna vote this year?
• 35:09
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: LOL.
• 35:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: Oh my gosh, it starts in 10 days, on the 24th.
• 35:12
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Do you have a voting plan?
• 35:14
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 35:15
  BRIAN DERRICK: I always vote early.
• 35:17
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So do I. I like that- At 6:00 AM before work … I voted early s- sticker.
• 35:20
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Like, I like- Yeah … the sticker that says that I voted early.
• 35:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 35:24
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I feel like, "Ha ha, I voted."
• 35:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: Okay.
• 35:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: Well, I do have an Oath Candidate of the, of the Week.
• 35:31
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Okay.
• 35:32
  BRIAN DERRICK: If you are a listener and have not made a donation on Oath yet, today is the day.
• 35:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: You're running out of time for the money to actually make a difference.
• 35:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: There's still a bunch of races where $10 can actually really help.
• 35:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: So today's the day.
• 35:46
  BRIAN DERRICK: Go to the link in the show notes and go support our girl, Amy Acton.
• 35:50
  BRIAN DERRICK: Amy Acton- Ohio … is running for governor of Ohio.
• 35:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: She was my advisor at Ohio State.
• 35:58
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: No
• 35:58
  BRIAN DERRICK: way.
• 35:58
  BRIAN DERRICK: She was my professor, yes.
• 36:00
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: For history?
• 36:02
  BRIAN DERRICK: No, for public health when I was a- What?
• 36:05
  BRIAN DERRICK: When I was studying public health.
• 36:06
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 36:06
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Wait, my mom will be very happy to hear that you were studying public health-
• 36:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, I mean, I- as a former
• 36:11
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: public health nurse… BRIAN DERRICK: switched out of Um- Wait, so you could have, you could be a public health administrator right now if you, if you- No … if,
• 36:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: um- 'Cause I didn't graduate with that degree.
• 36:21
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: I know, but, like, there was a part of you that was, like-
• 36:24
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah… GLENNIS MEAGHER: into it.
• 36:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 36:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 36:26
  BRIAN DERRICK: And, uh, she was amazing.
• 36:28
  BRIAN DERRICK: She was an incredible fr- professor, wonderful human, and needs the help.
• 36:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: She's running against- Human poop popsicle
• 36:37
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 36:38
  BRIAN DERRICK: Vivek Ramaswamy
• 36:39
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah, horrible person
• 36:40
  BRIAN DERRICK: Absolute- Horrible person … garbage man.
• 36:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 36:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: She has a real shot at it, especially with Sherrod Brown on the ticket.
• 36:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: Sherrod's been polling- Mm exceptionally well.
• 36:48
  BRIAN DERRICK: He's a known quantity running against a Epstein associate in Jon Husted.
• 36:54
  BRIAN DERRICK: Protector.
• 36:54
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah, right.
• 36:55
  MODERATOR: Yeah.
• 36:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: And so yeah, we have a real shot at it.
• 36:58
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's an uphill battle, and Vivek Ramaswamy is self-funding and just taking checks from billionaires flying around in a private jet, which is exactly why $10 for Amy Acton right now- Yeah is a really good idea.
• 37:13
  BRIAN DERRICK: So you can go to the link in the show notes and hit her up.
• 37:16
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 37:17
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Ohio, I learned this weekend, truly is like a casualty of big tech coming in and bulldozing, like, the best interests of the people of Ohio, and building all of these data centers that are, like, directly impacting people's electricity bills without any, any community oversight, no votes, no nothing.
• 37:37
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: The people that you're voting for, in Ohio specifically, will start regulating big tech in your state.
• 37:44
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah.
• 37:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: Totally.
• 37:46
  BRIAN DERRICK: All right, should we send them off with a Good Vibe?
• 37:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 37:48
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: The Good Vibe this week is New York City related.
• 37:51
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Sorry to those who are not living in Mombadanistan.
• 37:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But we are- Sorry … and we are reaping the benefits of that, which is finally, finally, finally, finally, in 2028, we will see no more horse carriages in the city of New York.
• 38:07
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: This has been an issue for many people for a long time, and yet the horse carriages persisted, and they're just inhumane.
• 38:14
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Do not live in some Cinderella fantasy in New York City, okay?
• 38:17
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's not happening.
• 38:18
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah.
• 38:19
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's too hot.
• 38:19
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: The pavement's too hot.
• 38:21
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's too loud.
• 38:21
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: It's a bad environment for a horse.
• 38:23
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Horses drop dead
• 38:26
  BRIAN DERRICK: It's so crazy to anyone outside of New York that this is such a political issue, but it's a- Yeah huge political issue in the city, and mayor after mayor has said that they were gonna do something about it, that there was gonna be some kind of solution.
• 38:41
  BRIAN DERRICK: There hasn't been.
• 38:42
  BRIAN DERRICK: Horses have died.
• 38:43
  BRIAN DERRICK: A tourist died.
• 38:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: And now no more.
• 38:50
  BRIAN DERRICK: Say goodbye.
• 38:51
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Say goodbye.
• 38:52
  BRIAN DERRICK: Go get a final ride.
• 38:53
  BRIAN DERRICK: Just kidding, don't.
• 38:54
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Don't.
• 38:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: Um,
• 38:55
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But Brian, to your point, you're right.
• 38:56
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: This is, like, such a hot issue in New York City, and people are probably like, "What are they talking about?" What the fuck?
• 39:00
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: But I think this is a great representation that, like, if you elect people who represent you and represent issues that you care about, some- This was a low-hanging political fruit-
• 39:10
  BRIAN DERRICK: Yeah
• 39:10
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: policy fruit that, like, Mamdani was like, "Okay, it's done." And again, reminder there, catalyzed by the fact that a tourist was killed when a horse went mad.
• 39:20
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Yeah But the
• 39:20
  BRIAN DERRICK: horse lobby is powerful.
• 39:23
  BRIAN DERRICK: The horse carriage lobby in New York is a powerful- I know … special interest group.
• 39:29
  BRIAN DERRICK: They've finally been defeated.
• 39:33
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Well, we've defeated Big Horse Lobby in New York City, okay?
• 39:36
  BRIAN DERRICK: Next up, ketamine.
• 39:39
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: Honestly.
• 39:42
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: So bad.
• 39:44
  BRIAN DERRICK: All right, guys.
• 39:45
  BRIAN DERRICK: That is it for Vibes Only this week.
• 39:47
  BRIAN DERRICK: Thank you so much for tuning in.
• 39:49
  BRIAN DERRICK: We hope that you are keeping things positive in this very, very crazy midterm election cycle.
• 39:55
  BRIAN DERRICK: Don't forget to do something.
• 39:58
  BRIAN DERRICK: Listening and reading as much as y'all do, 'cause I know it's a lot, is so important, but it's only the first step.
• 40:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: Correct.
• 40:04
  BRIAN DERRICK: So you gotta get involved.
• 40:06
  BRIAN DERRICK: There are so many ways.
• 40:07
  BRIAN DERRICK: Volunteer for an hour, sign up for a phone bank, get on a bus from wherever you live to go knock on doors, make a donation, do something to participate in our democracy because the stakes this November are so incredibly high.
• 40:21
  BRIAN DERRICK: We appreciate you all listening and tuning back in with us.
• 40:25
  BRIAN DERRICK: Same time, same place next week.
• 40:27
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• 40:33
  BRIAN DERRICK: Would love a little review bomb pre-midterms- Mm … if this has been helpful for you keeping an eye on the midterms, and we'll see you here next week.
• 40:43
  GLENNIS MEAGHER: See you next week.