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I just had to turn down my volume like I'm sorry. It's okay. It's okay. Honestly, that's how I feel. I imagine. Do you remember who was it back in 2020 in Japan that told roller coaster riders to scream inside their heart? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think so that they wouldn't spread COVID germs when they were shouting on their coasters. That sounds like
what I imagine people imagining when they're screaming inside their heart. I'm losing my touch. Back in the day, I used to actually pull away from my mic and yell, but now I just did it directly into the mic. So I apologize for that. It's okay. We'll let it go.
I'm actually getting my COVID in flu shots today. So I'm a little my brain's a little like cloudy. So I think I'm just going to spend most of today's episode screaming, which actually is appropriate this week given. Yeah, so close to the election. How are you two feeling right now? I don't know. I don't know how to feel. We'll get into this a little bit later and it'll probably come up throughout the episode. I just don't give a fuck about the polls.
I don't they mean nothing to me. They were really often 2020. They were really often 2016. They consistently underestimate Trump's performance. And I just I don't trust traditional polling to give us an accurate prediction of what's going on anymore. So that leaves me not knowing what to think. I'm like focusing mostly on early voter turnout on a state by state basis. Like that is giving me more hope than anything because we know Dem's tend to vote early.
So, you know, that's how I feel I feel complicated. Update your Facebook status. It's complicated with America. How are you feeling, Pam? Oh gosh, I don't know. It kind of feels like we have more time, but at the same time, it's like, I can't believe it's next week already. And so I think I'm just in denial of the fact that it's right around the corner now for real. And like this is our last show before election day.
Yeah. And because of that, we will be focusing primarily on only on the election smoke and while we got them today, we each brought a few stories that have been on our radars in the past couple of days concerning the election. I'm I'm honestly feeling optimistic. I'm feeling excited. I'm excited for this next chapter of America. I know we shouldn't be paying too close attention to the polls.
But I still remember the sickening feeling of 2016, but I read a lot of what's happening in this country. And I just I feel like we got this. And I'm not going to say it's a land. It's going to be a landslide. We're going to make some predictions at the end of that. But I feel like there's a chance it could be a big landslide for Kamala Harris.
And lastly, I agree. I think there is a chance for that. That is one of the things that I think the polls could be underestimating. I think the scary thing is that both candidates could really over perform or under perform. I don't know that people are ready for those likelihoods because the polling is telling us it's basically going to be a coin flip. And I think there's potential for, you know, I hope Kamala, but I think there's potential for it to be a surprise either way.
And that's what's making me nervous. The reason I'm excited about the election is I'm having an election night party. And I was doing a lot of party planning last night. And I don't want to spoil all the details just yet, but I went on a little shopping spree for the party. And I'll reveal one item I purchased for the party. Trump toilet paper. Oh, I thought you were going to say coconuts.
You know what? I'm still planning that, but I have another coconut related thing or two up my sleeve that I will. I'll take pictures of all this and share it on social media, only if Kamala wins. I'm not posting my party on social media if she loses it. That's no fun. Not even the Trump toilet paper. Okay, maybe that I'll make an exception for. But yeah, so I'm looking forward to election night. But so we're each going to take turns today and discuss a couple things.
Like I said, that have been on our radar. Let's start with you, Pam. What's been on your radar? For me, it's been the revving up of the star power that's been showing up at these Paris Waltz rallies.
It's not really anything new for celebrities to come out and endorse, but I feel like in these last two weeks, I've really been trying to make sure that they have somebody huge from like every kind of state or city that they're hitting in so that it really kind of resonates with the crowds that are there. So this kind of first popped up on my radar with M&M who joined Obama and Waltz at the rally in Detroit, where he's from.
He's been performed by Obama actually had to have very few bars from lose yourself, proving that he's still the coolest former president. But yeah, I mean, like I think like M&M has somebody that like isn't usually afraid to speak his mind and like he has been very left leaning for a while, but it was still cool to see him like come out for this. And he made a really good speech at the beginning and yeah, yeah, see him there. Yeah, to see him show up for a political rally was a big deal.
Yeah, I don't think he's ever done that before. I, you know what I was trying to think I don't think he has either. I know he's spoken out on certain issues, but I don't I can't recall personally if he's ever actually come out and like fully endorsed it as far as like going to a rally. And any rate, it's definitely not his usual style. So it was really good to see him there. Yeah, I guess he had to cancel out kid rocks appearance at all the Trump rallies because you know he's a fellow Detroit.
Boy, right. Let me cancel that out. Did you see all the commentary saying I'm really glad in the national divorce. We got M&M and they got kid rock. Yeah, that is a big win. I was just going to say I don't feel like either of them are massively relevant these days, but of the two I'd rather take M&M. And I think he's got the leg up. I think he's always relevant. Yeah, but are people talking about that album? I haven't heard anything about that. It's a single. But yeah, all right.
But I think he's relevant with millennials of anything. And though he's still important, you know, no, it's cool to see out. I'm thrilled about it. Well, somebody that you might be a little bit more excited about is Beyonce, who did finally make her long away appearance at Harris, Israeli and Houston, which is Beyonce's hometown. The big clip that was circulating around her speech, she actually introduced Harris was her saying I'm not here as a celebrity and here as a mother.
And people just kind of thought that it was kind of funny, but I actually think that it was important for her to make that distinction that like, regardless of how big your story is or how much money you have, you still like voting for the future of your children. And children have been such a big tent pool discussion topic for better or worse as part of the selection. So yeah, it was smart of her to do that. How did you feel about her not performing?
Because I think some of the reporting was speculating in hindsight that she was going to be performing. She didn't. Well, she might be saving that for the inauguration. Like she performed for Obama's inauguration. Well, sticking to the theme of celebrities, Andrew's excited about Bruce Springsteen, all summated appearance. Who did perform. Yeah, he did perform. This was last night, right? Did you tune in? Philly and Atlanta.
You know what I watched it after the fact I think it was the same thing. He appeared with his BFF Obama in both places. And then in Atlanta, Kamala was there too. So yeah, Bruce is no stranger to campaigning for Democrats. He's done it. He did it in 2008, 2004, 2012, 2006. He started the past like four or five election cycles. And yet Republicans still misconstrued born in the USA. I know. One of his most misunderstood songs ever, I think.
I also wanted to bring up bad bunny who did not actually show up at a rally. But he actually took to Instagram following Trump's rally in New York City. He was at Madison Square Garden could not fill up the venue. Surprise, surprise because New York is not going to turn red. You know, suddenly just because he holds a rally there. But at this rally, he actually featured a community named Tony Hinchcliffe. And he made some comments and portraits about Puerto Rico where bad bunnies from.
We're actually going to talk about this a little bit more in depth later on. But I wanted to bring this up because after these comments are made, he actually took to his Instagram to share clip of Harris's plans for where to re go. And bad bunny has over 45 million followers. But more importantly, he is huge amongst the Hispanic and Latino population as an artist. And the Hispanic and Latino population kind of like sways a little bit both ways.
Unfortunately, despite the fact that obviously Trump has set a lot of nasty stuff about that group of people in particular. So I thought that it was really great to see bad bunny using his influence on this because like somebody like him could really have the potential to sway the Latino vote in favor of Harris, which would be huge. Yeah. And I think Lauren, I both have thoughts on this, but we'll wait until we get to that story later on. But yeah, it was good to see him speaking up for sure.
And then to wrap up the star power portion of this episode, we remiss not to talk about Taylor Swift. Specifically because I think a lot of people are wondering where Taylor is. So currently she's on her last leg of the North American leg of the Harris tour. She will be an Indianapolis from the first through the third, but she does have a gap in her schedule between that and never 14th when she hits Toronto. So I guess her's possibility that she could show up somewhere.
Personally, I think the odds of her popping up at like any kind of Harris event between now and election day or slim, but I would definitely keep an eye on her socials because she'll likely be using her platform to remind people to get out and vote and she's done that in the past. So I think that'll be her contribution.
And if it was anybody else, it would be like, well, you know, she's kind of phoning it in, but she's proven that her just posting on Instagram stories is enough to create a movement. So that would still be really big. Yeah, it would be, but I still want to see her hop on the PJ and show up with Kamala Harris somewhere. She can do it. She flew from Japan to Vegas to watch her boyfriend compete in the Super Bowl. She can cross a few stays to show up with Kamala.
And she also doesn't care about how often she flies on her PJ. So she can go ahead and hop on the plane for a little bit. She loves attention to you can't tell me she doesn't. So I'm optimistic she will do something. I mean, I, you know, after November 5th, it's kind of pointless. So she's only got like six five, six days to do something.
And look, yeah, she's touring right now, but it's not as strenuous to show up at an event and show up on stage for five, 10 minutes as it is to perform a full blown concert. And my point there is just it's not like it's going to be a huge physical burden on her to maybe throw in an extra event. So do you think she would maybe record another endorsement and put that up on socials? That's cool. Or is that not her style?
Well, you know, she might. I know in the past, she's also like baked, like last election, she baked Biden Harris cookies. And she posted a picture of her, yeah, of her like being like, I'm voting for Biden and Harris and I'm like really excited to cheer on Harris in particular. And he is possible. She'll do something super cute. See like that again to remind people. Like first of all, what are stances and then also to get on vote?
Speaking of Biden Harris cookies, I went to a housewarming party a couple weeks ago. And one of the desserts that he had was Biden Harris 2024 cookies. And I felt like I entered a time machine. I'm like, what am I looking at? That person got them on sale. I was like, how do you still have these? And are they still edible? And he had like put them on in a freezer to let them keep. They still tasted like rock art and not good.
But I did take a picture of them because I thought it was so funny to see that in October, 2020. Right. It's like, wait, what year is it? What month is it? This is somebody who was upset that in his opinion, Biden was forced off the ticket. So he's still he's still really. And it's crazy that it feels like that was so long ago, but it wasn't. That was just a few months ago. And honestly, yeah, I kind of do think Biden wants for stuff to take it.
But I think that was also for good reason because if we had a Biden candidacy right now, I would be very certain about the outcome of this election. And I don't think it would have been a good one for us. I agree. And I agree he was forced out, but I'm happy about it. Yeah. Unlike this other person with the Biden cookies. I'm glad it happened, which reminds me, I think I need a Nancy Pelosi lifestyle standee at my election. Right.
I think she's credited with making that. Yeah. Yeah. She kind of kind of stabbed him in the back a little bit. But at the same time, like, sorry, this is bigger than you. Like it's better than I think. I think recognize. Yes. Yeah. I think he got there. I will say I'll forever be mad that he was put up on that debate stage like that. That should have never happened. And I'll never not be mad about that.
Yeah. Yeah. Remember when Trump was saying they were going to drug them up to keep him like looking alive on stage. And then the exact opposite happened. They gave him too many drugs or no drugs at all. Yeah. I don't I think that's the problem. They didn't give him any drugs. Why didn't we follow Trump's advice? All right. So something I wanted to talk about late last week. We had a classic Friday night news dump.
The Washington Post announced that they would not be endorsing a presidential candidate. The first time in decades, it quickly came out that this was owner Jeff Bezos' decision, which further enraged everybody. 200,000 people have canceled their WAPO subscriptions. Since this went down on Friday, truly a stunning number to put that in perspective. The New York Times had reported the post had added 4,000 subscribers since the beginning of 2024 through September.
Meaning they lost 50 times the amount of subscribers they have gained this year. It also works out to about 8% of their readership who canceled stunning. Yeah. They also lost half their editorial board and a bunch of writers. People were resigning in protest because the endorsement for Kamala was already written. They had it ready to go and Bezos killed it. Yeah. There were people calling for somebody at the post to leak it.
That hasn't happened yet, but I think that would be pretty great if the endorsement did get leaked. Bezos wasn't the first one to come out and announce this. Like I said, they posted this other notice about it. They basically said that we're going to get back to our roots. We didn't use to endorse candidates, so we're going to get back to that. We don't want to be seen as a partial media source. We're going to go ahead and just let our readers decide.
But when you issue an endorsement, it is the editorial board. It is the opinion section in which the endorsement gets published. So nobody was buying this. On Monday, Bezos did write an opinion piece on his own and it was just giving. Just trust me y'all energy rich tech bro energy. It did him no favors and I bet it led to even more cancellations because it was so stupid. I actually did have a Washington Post subscription.
I was only paying two dollars a month through some promo via Amazon, but I cancel it. It was going to go up to three dollars next year anyway. So I said no, I want to be a part of this movement. And I know some people were saying, oh, well, if you cancel canceling so wrong move, because you're going to be hurting with the journalist there and the people who work there. I'm sorry, but that's not my problem. That's not my job.
No, and you know, honestly, this was like such a bad move on their part because they, the Washington Post has been struggling for a while. They can't afford to lose subscribers. They were in danger of going under a while ago and they've been teetering on the precipice. So that was the bad call. But that's what you get when, you know, like these conglomerates buy out newspapers. They don't function the way they're supposed to. Right.
Do we think that that point you just brought up, Pam, do we think that's why Bezos did this? Like does he see WAPO as being like a strong wind away from being blown, you know, into obscurity? And is he worried that if Trump does win that WAPO will really go under not to mention the numerous contracts that Bezos has with the US government, he has to be thinking about his own personal benefit here too. Yeah, I mean, I guess it would benefit him if it just went bankrupt, right?
Because he just would file bankruptcy on behalf of Washington Post and he would get a little kickback from that, obviously. But I don't know if it's that so much as that. Like he maybe really is really buying into this ongoing narrative that I've been seeing. And I'm sure you guys have been seeing too that people are just like most people are just sick of the election either way.
And that there's like a huge chunk of people that are like right down the middle and like they're like, I don't care about Kamala, I don't care about Trump, like fuck all the politics. And maybe he thought that they could play it like that. And it would be a good business model. But people that are reading Washington Post are not coming for like a middle ground like that. And also most newspapers will come out and endorse most news outlets come out and endorse the candidate.
Also, Bezos is a billionaire and even if 8% have canceled and it stays that way, he can fund the Washington Post app operations no problem. That's the crappy part about this. They could lose a lot of subscribers and use that as an excuse to go ahead and reduce their team. Even though this really has no impact on Bezos' bottom line, he could keep the ship steady if he really wanted to.
But he probably won't like Pam, I think you were saying there's, well, both of you are saying there's a lot of speculation as to why he did this. He wants to kind of cover his ass should Trump win reelection. But I buy it, I absolutely buy it. I can't figure out why else he would do this. I mean, that's what you do as a paper. You make an endorsement in the stay and age.
Yeah. They've spent the last, what, 10 years talking about how crappy a person Trump is and now they're going to sit back and announce a week before the election. You know what? He sucks and here's all this, here's this avalanche of evidence and you make the decision. You all, we're not going to say anything. Right. Right. Like in the 11th hour, WAPO is just like, you know what? I understand both sides. Right. Right. That's toxic word. That's toxic word.
I said nobody can ever use again. Did you two have a Washington Post subscription? No. No, I've been using the library. Oh, okay. I've in New York Times subscription. Yeah. So do I. And that's part of the reason why I didn't mind canceling because I still have another paper subscription. Although New York Times, they're not fucking around sometimes. I have more than once gone into cancel because they pissed me off. And they got me with the win back offers.
They're like, don't leave us. You can keep your subscription for like a dollar a month for the next six months. And I'm like, okay, fine. If anything, I'm just there for the crossword puzzle. Yeah. I enjoy reading the New York Times. Oh, no, I did too, but like to Laura's point, you know, there's like some fuckery going on. It's like, I can't sell, but then also the crossword puzzle is great. So.
All right, well, we are going to take a quick break and we'll talk about some other stories we've been keeping an eye on. We'll be right back. So one story I wanted to bring up was this video of ballots being destroyed, which ended up turning out to be a deep bake. So federal officials actually stepped in after this video started going viral showing mail and ballot specifically from Pennsylvania being destroyed.
The videos featured ballots from Bucks County and they were being ripped up in this video and the statement that officials made was that this was actually created by Russia as part of Moscow's efforts to influence the election. They also said, this is something that I found interesting to you. They also said that they expect Russia will quote create and release additional media content leading up to and in the least after the election.
In an effort to undermine trust, the integrity of the election and divide Americans. So not only do we have to worry about defects going into the election, we have to worry about defects after the election stirring pot, depending on who does or doesn't win. And Russia is definitely pro Trump. So, you know, anything that they're trying to create an effort to, you know, kind of forced a divide or distrust amongst Americans is going to be pro Trump.
And I wanted to bring this up because I know that we had been talking about fake videos leading up to this year and we talked about our fears about how this might play a huge factor. And so I wanted to ask you both if you were expecting this to be more of an issue than it has been because surprisingly, I feel like it hasn't come up that much.
Now, I think I, I feel like we're in the window of time that I was the most concerned about right now. So I think I think the next week is going to be pivotal because I think when people start getting desperate, they become like cornered animals. Who just lash out and try everything. So I feel like the biggest potential we have for seeing an A.I. deep fake of like Trump or of Kamala or someone influential that can ultimately tip the scales.
I feel like it's in the next week that we would see that. And even sorry, the weeks following the election because what's going to happen is let's say Kamala wins Trump's going to be posting all these deep fake videos of people stealing ballots manipulating ballot boxes stuff like that.
Right. And I was curious about how you all felt about that as well because I think I've been so consumed with like election lead up that I just completely crossed my mind that there could be some crazy stuff coming out after because there's probably going to be a recount either way definitely if Trump loses. We saw what happened last time he lost he did not go gracefully. And I don't expect him to do so this time. So yeah, it's going to be.
I'm going to be fucked for the next few weeks. Y'all like I I know I already said earlier that I really think it could be a full week this time before we know for sure I hope it's not I hope we find out sooner. But I think the strategy here is going to be to flood the swing states with lawsuits to try and delay the outcome because that gives Trump and his allies more time to so the seeds of disinformation and make people not trust in the process.
And all of these things are the building blocks to make it easier for them to overturn the results of an election that they don't like. Yeah, I think we can we just have to hope that social media platforms like Instagram, YouTube, etc. will be detecting and labeling AI content when it catches it.
And I think this a lot on Instagram and actually it's caused a bunch of controversy. People are posting their own photos and they're getting labeled as AI and that's upsetting photographers who edit their photos in standard apps.
And like any photographer would that's just the standard process. So it seems like these the AI labeling is pretty sensitive. And as long as things are being clearly labeled as this is a deep fake this is AI generated hopefully that will that will help tamp down some of the outrage that could come from these deep fakes going viral now are people going to believe these are deep fakes that's a whole other question because we're talking about the people who believe the government has a button to fire a hurricane.
Toward Florida. So there's there's no there's no convincing these people. What the truth is. Well, and what I'm also concerned about is the inverse where something damning does come out. And the Trump campaign automatically says that's a deep fake it's AI.
Even if it is totally legitimate. We're not going to go into it today because there just haven't been any updates and we don't want to contribute to any disinformation but there have been rumors going around for the last week or so that there's some kind of damning video that hasn't come out yet. And immediately following those rumors starting a lot of Trump allies immediately jumped on the bandwagon of whatever you see is fake.
Whatever you see as an AI deep fake it's not real without getting into what it is. So I think that's what we have to look forward to if something damning does come out. They will have a really hard time pushing that narrative, I think, if it's being covered so vigorously in reputable media outlets because I'm just thinking thinking about like the Trump tape from 2016, that's a Hollywood tape. Something like that gets so much attention.
Yeah, sure that people can say, oh guys it's fake it's fake. See it in. But I don't know there's a certain like threshold. I think this stuff crosses where it's like you can't deny it's it's real. Yeah, but the thing is there was no denial that it was real in 2016 and he won.
Like the AI excuse wasn't a thing then and he's still one I think what concerns me is honestly I don't know what could actually come out against him at this point that would be so damning as to completely tank the election for them like beyond a shadow of a doubt because he's done so much. People still vote for him anyway, the people who are still voting for him don't care.
I agree. I don't think there's anything that would stop his base from voting for him anyway. You want to talk about the real ball back? Yeah, so the great like we live in such a weird time, y'all because at the same time that we're hearing about these AI deep fakes of ballots being destroyed that was created by the Russians. And the words of ballots actually were damaged in Oregon and Washington state when a couple of ballot boxes were lit on fire somebody put fireworks in them.
And you can see the legitimate video of these ballot boxes being pulled open and having flames. And you can see the destroyed ballots coming out it's really disheartening because it makes it hard to tell truth from reality when on the one hand we have something that is a verified AI deep fake and another thing that is legitimate and being investigated by the FBI.
It's really tough and I think especially in a country where we have such low media literacy. It just contributes to the confusion that a lot of people are feeling and that's really difficult in an election year like this.
One question I had had about this incident and others like it is what happens for the people who did put their ballots in those boxes. So this had happened early on Monday, the last time the ballots were picked up were on Saturday morning and local officials said that those who had the positive ballots since Saturday morning should contact the local elections office and then they can investigate if they received their ballot or not.
And I really hope people are doing that because it's a crying shame to think of these votes getting lost to some asshole arsonist. Yeah, I mean like I yeah and you have to think about too how many like people don't know like if their ballots you would make it at all. There was one year that I went to drop off my grandparents ballots at the post office and I was about to just like drop them and why did drop them in the slot and as I was dropping them in the slot.
I was like wait a minute it says postage necessary was like one of the smaller elections but still you know and I had to go to the post office and you like hey like.
Is it is their postage necessary for the ballots and they're like oh yeah for for like this county there is and I said okay well like I just dropped my grandparents ballots off can I just like have them because like city halls right next door so I'll just take them there and they were like okay and he pulled out like a stack of ballots so clearly a lot of people didn't know and I was like.
I'll just take them all and drop them off if you want and he was like okay that's fine which in hindsight I realized like was like they probably should have let me do that but I was like that's crazy. That's ridiculous that they like didn't make that more clear. Pam you're an American hero for that. I just walked over three hours like here you go especially from the post office.
I mean was anyone at stay hall like ma'am how did you come into possession of 50 out of the ballots no it was literally just like a steel box you know oh my gosh they are like stuffing them all in. I'm gonna get on the phone with Biden and I'm gonna get you a medal for them that's all of the medals for your for your heroic efforts seriously for you.
I was like okay they say no that I'll just pay for the postage like it's fine that was my other thing she was like willing to buy stamps I was like I'll just pay for the postage or I could just take them next door and like I was like you can just take them next door here just take them all and I said okay. Yeah yeah. I'm good for you.
Well on on the absentee ballot front most states should have this I know Georgia definitely does you can track your absentee ballot in your state's voter portal so they should be able to confirm for you when your ballot was received and whether or not it was accepted. So for anyone who's voting absentee in this election highly recommend logging into your voter portal make sure that your absentee ballot was received and accepted.
I have a feeling for the people in Oregon and Washington state whose ballots were damaged by these box fires. I have a feeling they would probably be allowed to fill out provisional ballots while their elections office researched whether or not their ballots had been received and whether or not they had been among the damaged and provisional ballots you know are then kept in the event that the tallies are too close and they need to turn to counting those provisions.
And they're counting those provisional ballots and determining their eligibility so that's probably what'll happen. I'm guessing I don't know if anyone here has ever filled out a provisional ballot before I have no I mean I did check the status of my mail in ballots and I dropped it off at a drop box but I did still check the status yesterday and I turned on notifications for future ballots to get an email when their status updates like if it's been counted or received all that so.
That's a nice piece of mind thing and I think yeah a lot of states are doing that these days and all states should yeah if not this election cycle hopefully within the next elections like a will or two because that's just let's get down with the times y'all it's a quality of life improvement for all Americans so Pam mentioned bad bunny and this comedian Tony hinge cliff this some these terrible remarks were made at Trump's big.
Madison Square Garden rally over the weekend this is one of his big closing events and it was just a disaster I believe drudge report described it as a spectacle of hates which I thought was a really good way to put it so this comedian Tony hinge cliff he made this joke about Puerto Rico being a floating pile of garbage like Pam said which immediately caused a ton of backlash still ongoing as of Tuesday night amongst the spanics.
And it wasn't the only offensive remark he and other speakers made I mean one after the other just it horrible vile vulgar remark after horrible vile vulgar remark. The views sunny hostage summarized her feeling and the situation well the other day I want to play it because I thought it was really good this Puerto Rican has something to say about the island that I love. Where my family is from Puerto Rico is trash we are Americans Donald Trump.
Revoluntarily served disproportionately high in the military while you have bones burst and we vote. Pennsylvania is home to almost half a million Puerto Ricans North Carolina 115,000 Georgia 100,000 Arizona 64,000 Wisconsin 61,000 Michigan 43,000 Nevada 27,000 we vote Donald Trump trash. Jennifer Lopez Ricky Martin bad bunny Louise Fonsey and Mark Anthony have over 345 million followers on Instagram I think you only have 26 million since you care so much about.
And we don't like what was said about Puerto Rico. And we know how to take the trash out Donald Trump trash that has been collecting since 2016. And that's you Donald Trump. And finally my fellow Puerto Ricans trash collection day is November 5th, 2020. So like she mentions JLo Mark Anthony and I think biggest of all bad bunny have all come out and endorsed Kamala at this point bad bunny has now made two statements about it.
If not more at this point I know he initially posted on his Instagram story and then just earlier today he posted this video celebrating Puerto Rico with the caption garbage. He has major influence in the Hispanic community. I mean I was again a stats on Spotify earlier today 65 million active monthly listeners he's very popular loves him. He's done a lot for that his home island. So that's another thing to keep in mind.
And as sunny pointed out a lot of Puerto Ricans in critical swing states including Pennsylvania where there's roughly 500,000 Puerto Ricans. I'm honestly wondering if this is the October surprise now it's of their own doing that's a big surprise here is this are we going to look back on this as the October surprise.
Could be I mean I think it's important to remember that Biden won Pennsylvania last time but it wasn't a huge victory he only had about 81,000 more votes in Pennsylvania that Trump then Trump. And when you think about the fact that there are half a million Puerto Ricans in Pennsylvania that is more than enough to blow that difference out of the water. We always know Pennsylvania is close anyway Pennsylvania is honestly I think one of the narrow paths to victory that Trump would need.
At least if we were to think about the election being a normal election where there's not a bunch of fuckery happening because we know there will be but you're purely talking about paths to 270. It's really hard for him to get there without Pennsylvania so this this might have been a moment where bone spurs McGee shot himself in the foot.
So I didn't have to be president again well in the Trump campaign knows this has been bad for them as well they have tried to separate themselves from Tony Hinch cliffs remarks but yeah the backlash to this I would say is pretty damn relentless in terms of Pennsylvania I'm actually pretty optimistic about Pennsylvania.
This is a anecdotal but my grandfather actually voted for Trump in 2016 and changed his vote in 2020 he voted Biden in 2020 and his vote in common in 2024 and I think there's a lot of people like that and my grandma just hates Trump just hates always has hated him.
I think there's a lot of people like them and they live in Bucks County a county that's getting a lot of attention in the media I think there's a lot of people like that who are slowly seeing the truth about time will drop and have seen more of the truth over the last four years. So that's what's happening there well we'll see in a week or two if that ends up being the October surprise yeah certainly we'll make an impact.
And in general I know you already kind of emphasize this Andrew but this event was so hateful I mean hateful towards anyone who is not a die hard Trump supporter towards political rivals towards various underrepresented groups I mean there have been a lot of comparisons made between the American fascists came together to embrace European fascist agendas and I see things like this and there are times where like I can't help but wonder what I'm going to do.
And in 1939 rally that also took place at Madison Square Garden where American fascists came together to embrace European fascist agendas and I see things like this and there are times where like I can't help but wonder if they're doing it on purpose to get people to talk about the scandal and distract from maybe the things they don't want us paying attention to. But regardless it was sickening everything about it.
New York Times wash to post everybody was covering it as a as a hate filled hate fueled events so as it rightly should be I mean sometimes people there's this phrase that's been used over the last few months the media will try to sane wash Donald Trump they try to like explain what he did or what he said in a sane way when they should be just saying that goes fucking crazy.
Did you did you try to follow that because we didn't we didn't try to follow it but they try to follow it and they sane wash for sure and the thing is they just keep doing it. It's like this has been happening for nearly a decade y'all you haven't learned yeah kind of related to the last story but just in general.
Trump is continuing to push his playbook for overturning the election assuming he doesn't like the outcome of it and specifically at this Madison Square Garden rally he talked about this secret plan that he has for the house with house speaker Mike Johnson who was also in attendance. And there's a lot of speculation that they may be referring to are alluding to the 12th amendment which allows the house to elect the president if neither candidate reaches 270.
I don't really see a scenario where neither candidate can reach 270 however I think again their plan is to delay certification at the state level as long as they can and if we find ourselves in January when results need to be certified I could see the house trying to fuck around.
With that said I mean the new house is going to be sworn in on January 3rd and it's the vice president who swears in the new house so at that point that'll still be Kamala Harris so I don't know exactly what they think they're trying to pull here but at the same time all of this is unprecedented like our systems and like the infrastructure of our democracy.
And so we have been so weakened by all of this by everything that has happened over the last nearly decade at this point that there may be ways that they're imagining twisting this around so they can accomplish it like I remember us talking about this in 2020. It was a failed coup and usually when people are unsuccessful at overthrowing their government they don't say well I guess we didn't do that they try again and they're going to try a bunch of different ways to get it done.
The narrative is going to be Kamala is certifying the vote and you know she's stealing the election since she's the one who's going to be leading the proceedings so I. And we have to remember that Mike Johnson was an architect of Trump's 2020 attempts to try and overthrow the election so they're absolutely planning to do something very similar and it all again goes down it starts at the state level.
And now with with each state sport of elections Georgia is one of those that's really going to fuck around. That's why we need to hope it is going to be a landside where the the victory is so decisive that there's not even room for debate if we're talking about tens of millions of vote difference all that just like totally fuck him over.
That's what I'm hoping for that's what it needs to be because honestly y'all if it's really close and it ends up going to the Supreme Court like it did in 2000 they will absolutely give it to him just like they did with George Bush but something I wanted to bring up to kind of end on like a positive hopeful note and hopefully make everyone feel bolstered. Did you all see Michelle O'Boss?
I tried to turn over a new leaf and hey you're not ready for me yet because we're about to talk about electoral college predictions and I might surprise you. Oh wow okay. Did you all see Michelle Obama speech in Michigan she was on fire and Michelle is always a wonderful speaker Obama himself even quipped ones that he's the only person stupid enough to try and speak after Michelle Obama because she's so incredible.
She was unapologetic in the way that she addressed the current tone of this campaign in this election.
She spent a lot of time directly appealing to undecided voters particularly undecided male voters asking them to think about the women in their lives and asking the women in those men's lives to not vote the way that somebody else is telling them to vote and she didn't an amazing job of highlighting all the ways in which women's health care is going to be incredibly negatively impacted by a second Trump administration.
I also loved that she was unapologetic about her anger towards people who are expecting Kamala Harris to be perfect but are willing to turn a blind eye to Trump literally shitting his depends every second of every day. panelists, I know they're just going to win, she is Kim navy. That moment with Mo Young, I've discussed who's standard is crazy.
Yes, they always hold her and bye into a higher standard that they've been Sverichurch was kind ofMSHELL STICK And I just kind of really love this new version of her that she's showing us where she's kind of like taking my gloves off and she's like, you know what, the time for that is over. And it's really like inspiring to kind of see her not afraid to go up there and really kind of be impassioned while she talks about a lot of this stuff like there.
There's so much emotion going on in her voice or there was so much emotion going on in her voice and that's what really struck me. Yeah, about this moment. Yeah, I mean, I think I may have joked on the show at some point in the last year. We need to amend those original iconic words when they go low, we go high to when they go low, we go higher.
We need to roll around in the dirt with them a little bit. We can't be the, you know, we're so nice. We got a role in the dirt. We got to throw some insults. Adam, we got to call them dipshits when they're dipshits like Tim Wall stayed in the last week. Yeah, his midwestern accent. Yep, shit. Honestly, he does it. He really, he is effective at doing that. He is able to like thread that needle of being like wholesome down to earth, dad energy, wallet the same time.
You fuck around enough. You know you're about to get Tim angry and you don't want to get Tim angry. Yeah, that's like, oh, dad's not again. Yeah. All right. Well, we are going to make some electoral college predictions and apparently, Laura is going to be leaving us a little optimistic. But first we're going to take a quick break and then we'll be right back.
All right. So I thought this would be fine. Let's make some predictions. They will be, they will be entertaining or horrifying to look back on in a couple of weeks from now. So Pam, can we start with you? What is your electoral college prediction? So I feel like I was very frugal with mine because I wanted to keep my expectations realistic. So I have the that, Tom will taking it in 289 electoral votes with Trump getting 246.
And he states that you felt a little tripped up on. Yeah, I was kind of going back and forth on whether or not Georgia would go blue again. And I was also like going back and forth on Nevada because I just kind of feel like that's also a trickier undertaking as well. But in the end, I ended up, I ended up making Nevada go blue. And then I had Georgia go red, like, which would be like worst case scenario. But I do hope that they surprise us again and go blue.
Yeah, that would be great moment for us on the show because of Laura obviously and it would just be a big now in general. But if all three of our well Pam, we know California well, but like if yeah, Georgia pull it off to that be awesome. Honestly, I, I totally understand where you're coming from on this because I think much like you Pam both Nevada and Georgia are also going back and forth trying to decide what they're going to do. Yeah, I'm not feeling optimistic about Nevada.
I was like particularly optimistic, but it's also only sick. What is it six electoral votes? Yeah, so it's like a whole lot. Georgia is a bit more like double that or yeah, we're 16. Yeah, which in your map, you said Georgia's going red. I did say Georgia's going, but even with Georgia going red, it still gives the, I mean, that would be you need 272 win. So that's up by almost 20 points. Yeah, you said North Carolina blue Pennsylvania blue. Yes, I did say, Pennsylvania blue.
By the way, y'all, we used 270 to win.com to play around with the map and get our predictions. A fun feature of 270 to win.com is you actually can grab a permanent URL to your own maps. So you can share it with your friends or your fellow podcast cohost as we're doing today. So for me, I'm saying, Dems 292 Republicans 246. I'm saying Nevada goes to Kamala. I said Georgia is going to Kamala, but North Carolina is going to Trump. And then I said, Kamala will win Pennsylvania.
Michigan and Wisconsin. So that's how I got to to 92 for the Dems. What are your feelings about Nevada? Because as I was just saying, you and I are in similar boats were like, it really could go either way. I feel like Georgia and Nevada really is a coin toss. It just feels really split here. It's I'm optimistic we could win because of how many Californians are coming to Nevada, which California again, very blue. So some of the blue vote is coming over here.
Biden did win Nevada in 2020. But on the other hand, we do have a Republican governor, the Democratic governor lost in 2020. But but the Democratic Senator stayed in. So it just feels like very much a toss up, but I just living here, I got a hope that Kamala is going to take Nevada. And now with this Puerto Rico twist that that puts a whole other wrinkle in this. I had another question for you about yours. Did you say you think North Carolina is going to go red or blue?
I said red. Okay. Yeah. Because I was it doesn't I'm not seeing a lot of positive evidence out of North Carolina either person. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. But I did give Kamala your state, Laura, because I believe in you. And I believe in you. I mean, I only get one vote. So. Laura, I called you the other day and I said, here's how to vote 10 times and tell all your friends. No, don't just like. We're being.
Yo, we're being recorded right now. Trump is going to take this and he's going to use it in his ads and the days following the election to be like see all the liberals. Okay. But George Soros told me it'd be okay to tell you. And his check cleared. And I could buy a yacht now. So. I'm just following his advice. Well, can you buy me a yacht? Sure. Absolutely. I was going to say if you got Soros money, you're getting me a yacht.
If this clip is still running on Newsmax, check us out at Millennial Show dot com. That's Millennial Show dot com. New episodes every Wednesday. And fuck you, Steve Bannon. Since you just got out of prison, I felt like that audience should hear that. I am either I feel like my prediction here. I can't tell if it is just a hopeful prediction because I don't know if it's entirely like rational, but hear me out. I am predicting a landslide here. I just looked at this. Yeah. Okay.
Now we'll see where it is in a week. But here's the thing. I'm predicting Democrats will take 326 electoral votes, which Republicans getting 212. The main thing I'm thinking about here that really drives this up is Texas. And y'all I know that Texas is known for being super red. The reality is Texas, much like the rest of the South has a very diverse and growing population that is being held hostage by their GOP, GOP led state legislature.
And in recent years, although Texas has remained solidly red, it has been trending more towards Democrats. I also follow the money here. The Harris campaign broke fundraising records in the state of Texas. There is something like $33 million there. It was nuts. She's also been dedicating a lot of focus to Texas as this campaign draws to a close. It is clear to me that Texas at the very least is becoming a more serious part of the Democratic strategy.
I think another thing to take into consideration here is the Senate race coming out of Texas. I was just going to ask you about that. Like how much of that do you think is that the consolation prize of Ted Cruz losing a senticy would still be worth it? Yeah. Well, people hate Ted Cruz, including Tex. And there's no reason that Colin all red should be performing as well as he is in a state like Texas that is believed to still be so traditionally red.
So is Texas going to turn this time around? It might not be this time, but I'm going to throw in for it anyway, because I feel like of recent electoral history. This is the closest we've ever come with Texas. So I'm going to bet on Texas going blue, which is probably the craziest thing I've ever said. And hey, a week from now, y'all might be laughing at me. That's fine. I'll be optimistic. Otherwise on here, I have Pennsylvania going to Harris, Michigan, Wisconsin as well.
Georgia, although I feel like Georgia really is a coin toss North Carolina. I feel like is probably going to go more red. I've been looking at a lot of the early voting trends in these states to kind of help inform the way that I'm feeling Georgia has broken early turnout records again. We broke them in 2020. We've broken them again this year. And the demographics who've been turning out would seem to be in more of a democratic favor.
So you have 55% of the early vote coming from women, 45% of it coming from men, and only 33% of it coming from white people and the rest of it coming from people of color, which is ultimately why I'm putting Georgia in the blue column, although we'll see what election day turnout looks like similarly, but kind of on the opposite side of things.
I'm not sure if I'm going to be listed Nevada is red and it breaks my heart to say that. I know I'm an asshole, but looking at y'all's early voting trends. Yeah, that's scared me too. Yeah, there's there is a decided Republican advantage coming out of y'all's early voting demographics. So I think Nevada is going to flip back red this time.
Yeah, that was scary as well. I mean, we have like two to three weeks of early voting. So that's another factor to people who weren't probably weren't exactly rushing to get their ballots in, even though I was. Yeah, whatever. Oh, something else I want to call it about Texas and it's early voting trends early voting in Texas is like comparatively down compared to 2020, but there's a couple of reasons for that one Texas extended its early voting in 2020 because of COVID.
So there was a longer period of time for people to do it. The other thing is that there are a number of very populous locations in Texas that have not released all of their early voting stats yet. At this point, we don't know that we have an accurate count of how many early votes have been cast there. So I actually feel like it would not blow my mind if Texas went blue this time. I'm with you. It would not really surprise me. Yeah, it's sort of like how Georgia was in 2020.
Yeah, I agree Ted Cruz is a huge factor calling all reds a huge factor abortion is on the ballot. Another huge factor, of course. I can see why you feel optimistic about Texas for sure. And my prediction and pams, you know, we had kind of similar numbers. They're not blowouts, but I'm still optimistic there could be that blowout similar to Laura's map. So we will see.
Honestly, I'm manifesting for a blowout because a blowout is going to be the thing that saves us from weeks and weeks and weeks of lawsuits and fuckery. So yeah, I've got to turn out Texas prediction. You know, is true. God, I know. I know it sounds like a long scene. But 40 electoral votes would be absolutely bananas. Yeah. I want a blowout as big as the wine Trump's toilet seas. The morning after he's feasted on McDonald's. The biggest blowout possible.
So every morning, because that's all the coal I break out. After the coal I break out. That's a pretty slowout. That means he lost Texas and Georgia. So next week, we will not release an episode on Wednesday because as we've been saying things will probably not be finalized on election night. So the plan though is to record an episode as soon as possible after it is called for one of the two candidates.
So you whenever that is. So stay tuned, y'all. But we do intend to record as quick as possible and get that episode out as quick as possible to laugh and cry or laugh for cry or. I don't want to think about it too much right now. Yeah, honestly, I think either way I'm crying. It'll be for two or three different reasons. Well, this had ever appear on camera again. We will see my hair is walls camo hat. We will see. I have to host a funeral if it doesn't go our way for your hat. Yeah. Yeah.
So some closing thoughts for the audience. First of all, take care of yourself and also keep in mind. Take a positive attitude over the next week. I know a lot of people are nervous. But keep in mind some positives Biden did win Handley in 2020. Trump has effectively lost three election cycles. If you include the midterms in 2018 and 2022, there's plenty of data showing strong voter turnout for Kamala Harris. Trump is constantly embarrassing every day.
And every day people are noticing and they're disgusted by him. And also remember, and I direct this point, especially at Laura John Stewart, just the other day other day, signed the contract renewing his daily show hosting duties into 2025. And I'm like, well, Laura, you're Mac even created hearts. Did you see that? I did. Yeah. You know, it's funny. One time, it might have actually been when we went to the daily show for my 21st birthday.
I remember sitting in the back row of the audience and I made heart hands at John Stewart like this in between takes. And he saw me and he was like confused about what I was doing. And he tried to do it back. And I was like, oh my God, John Stewart made heart hands at me. He knows I exist. So yeah, I mean, that one's less serious of a suggestion, but keep your friends close to talk to people over the next week, who are morally aligned with you.
And I think that'll help everybody get through the next couple of weeks. I would say again, reiterating what I said at the top of the show pulls me nothing. And I think it's important to remember that it is in the media's best interest to treat this race like it's a real nail bider. And I'm not saying it won't be. But we have seen in the last two cycles that a lot of the media narratives have proven to be false.
And I think buying into whatever narrative you're seeing on your 24 hour cable news network of choice is probably setting you up for disappointment one way or another. And I really, really think the biggest opportunity for being shocked or surprised is to accept what the media is predicting as the gospel, because they have been so wrong in the way that they have handled this over the last couple of cycles.
And with that said, just echoing what Andrew said, it is going to be a long few days, honestly, probably a long few weeks ahead. And it's going to be really important to take care of yourself, try to the extent possible not to be all consumed by this.
If you voted and if you've made sure that the people in your life have a plan to vote, you've done what you can do. So try not to get sucked up into all the drama that's going to come over the next few weeks because it's just going to make you crazy. I think protect your sanity and just try to protect your peace and do things that you know you need to do to make yourself feel as relaxed as possible. I say all of that where I'm like totally rambling because I don't feel relaxed at all.
But you know, do as I say, not as I do. And even the closing thoughts for the audience. I feel like you all just covered a lot of it. So I'll just say just get out and vote, you know, there's still time. If in a lot of these states, you can register day of to vote as well. So just look up what the laws are in your state and get out and vote if you can.
And try and get to the polls early if you can too because those lines are going to be long as they go. Yeah. Also, Trump is going to try to declare victory on election night. Stop the count. I want. Yeah. Just ignore him. You're like stay in mind. Listen to me. Listen to all those tweets. Good luck, everybody. Good luck, America. If you have any feedback about today's discussion, you can email Millennial show at gmail.com or hit us up on Patreon or social media.
Here's some feedback we received from Casey about last week's episode. Halloween is coming up. So I wanted to include this. She was talking about the drop in Trick or Treaters. And I was listening to your latest episode. You're talking about seeing many less trick or treaters. I wanted to share my perspective as a newer parent six month old and four year old in Texas.
I think there are two big contributors to the change. One, you're on track with trunk or treat, but you talked about this being a rise from COVID. At least in our area, this started probably in the 10 years prior to COVID and was a big push from churches in our area as a way to engage the community. There are obviously a few ways to look at this in terms of motivation.
It was always marketed as the safer option, but it obviously also gives them a way to participate in what I know some churches used to shun as a secular holiday. And reason number two, my husband and I noticed the last couple of years with our son that kids no longer knock on doors. When we were kids, you could knock on any door with a porch light on and it was honestly a great way kids practice respectful interactions with adults.
But today, at least in our area, everyone just sits out in their driveways to hand out their candy. So kids only go to houses that someone is sitting in front of and don't approach other houses, even if the porch light is on, assuming they aren't participating. It's a totally different vibe and I missed the old days of knocking on doors or ringing doorbells. Obviously not sure my four year old has ever done either, which is just weird to think about.
Enjoy the discussion and hope you all have a great Halloween. Thank you, Casey. Thanks, Casey. I want to say, luckily in my neighborhood with the exception of the COVID year, kids do still knock on the doors and hit the doorbell. And I love that, especially looking at the ring cam and there's a giant inflatable dinosaur taking up the entire fisheye lens. But yeah, those are some interesting perspectives, especially with the churches. I hadn't thought about that.
Well, that concludes this week's episode coming up in after dark today. I got some new gossip to share. Let's say this is a continuation of the friend series. One of my friends actually ghosted me in Pat and now is looking for other friends online. We saw him posting elsewhere. I'm like, what the fuck? You're ghosting us? And then going elsewhere? What about us? What about us?
So we'll talk about that in after dark today. And then we're going to extend that discussion into the topic of when a friend breaks up with you and then once you back, what do you do? After dark is part of mega millennial, which you get every week when you're a patron or Apple podcast subscriber. It's also add free because we prefer your support over working with advertisers.
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We also have a new installment of smart mouths up the second one of the month. By the way, I found one in which we were talking about Joe Biden. And he was getting attacked because he wasn't being honest. He was exaggerating the truth. And I was like, oh my goodness, how times have changed. So check that out on patreon time for some recommendations. What do you have for us, Pam? I wanted to recommend 866 hour vote, which is the number that you can call in cases any feckery at your polling place.
Not that there will be, but there might be. So that's just a good number to keep in mind. You can dial that if for whatever reason you get turned away and you think that's fishy. Just make sure you state your polling place and you can talk to a volunteer who let you know what your rights are probably they'll tell you to request a provisional ballot. But they'll also get someone over there to make sure that, you know, there's no interference going on as well for other people.
Well, prior to us canceling them, I wanted to share a tool from the Washington Post that actually lets you see the political donations from both Dems and Republicans split out in your local area via your zip code. So for example, in my area, I learned that Dems are donating at the same volume that Republicans are, but Republicans are donating more per person.
So the Republicans, I guess, have a little more money to spare or are a little more intrigued by the Trump Bibles than Kamala Harris's fans are by the friendship bracelets. So it's interesting to see how people are donating in your area will include a link in the show notes to that tool.
My recommendation is for again, maintaining your sanity, trying not to stay up all night next Tuesday. If you're in the US, I know it's really tempting to want to stay up late and hope that the results will come quickly. I think gone are the days where a victor is announced before midnight on election night. So it's going to be important for you to stay hydrated, get plenty of rest, because I think we're going to be waiting a few days for these results. Sorry. Fine.
Well pals, make sure you're following the show in your favorite podcast apps so you never miss an episode and we would appreciate a review in Apple podcasts or Spotify. And also don't forget we are releasing each episode on YouTube. After dark starts in a moment for patrons and Apple podcast subscribers. Thanks everybody for listening. Godspeed. I'm Andrew. Good night and good luck. I'm Laura. And I'm Kamala. Bye everyone. Bye. Bye.