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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chess dot com. Yes, it says someone lugged into your
account from a new device. Uh oh, but it's in it.
It's I think it's registering my phone. I think it
might have just accidentally hit a wrong button. Take it easy,
chess dot com. Just just living my life. So what
would anybody want with my chess dot com account? Someone
is someone playing chess in your name, in which case,
(00:22):
what's there? What's their rating? Because that could either be
good or bad. Although they take that stuff up very seriously.
You think we take our election seriously here with the legitimacy,
remember that. Did you hear that story about the guy
with the beads? No, but I'm worried. Yeah, you should be, eh,
think about it. I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Uh, I don't even want to ask any questions about it.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Chess player, he's a master chess player. He's an American guy.
Can't remember his name offhand, but if you just look
up chess beads, it'll pop up. I don't want to
and it's it's it's not great. He denies wrongdoing, but uh,
let's just say that there is evidence that oh, his
name's Neemen something Nemen. Gosh, you're gonna make me look
(01:07):
this up, all right. His name is Hans Neeman. That's him,
American American guy. Hans Neeman doesn't sound like an American guy,
but he is.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
He is.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
This was last year and he has settled a defamation
lawsuit after accusations about him cheating in a match using
you know, beats that vibrate. I don't want to know
it's a real thing. You can look it up, all right. Anyway,
a couple of things in the news that I want
to do to look at here in the four o'clock hour.
(01:40):
Thanks for listening, By the way, go ahead and open
the phones just in case somebody wants to call in
about this. USA Today, USA Today, Gannett. Gannett is the
place that owns the USA Today and a bunch of
other newspapers, including like the Des Moines Register. Do they
own Oma World ERLD I don't know. Cannett is owned
by a lot of things. Do they also own Chat?
I was gonna say Chat dot com, Chess dot com. No, No,
(02:03):
chess dot com is owned by chess dot com. It's
an organization. Who owns chess dot com. I'm gonna google it.
Bringing chess into politics like that's one of my safe spaces. Man.
My Chicago Bears lose on Hail Mary's, I can at
least play chess in the comfort.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Of my own home.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Eric Alabest, Yeah, see, not a politician there you go. Anyway,
Ginnett owns all these newspapers around and they basically said,
no endorsements, no endorsements. The USA Today network will not
be issuing endorsements now. Each and every individual outlet can
(02:40):
endorse candidates at the state and local levels if that's
something that they want, but they are not going to
be permitted to endorse people at the presidential level. This
comes on the heels of Jeff Bezos and his WAPO,
the Washington Post. Remember that they said last week that
they weren't going to be endorsing candidates. You know who
else said this Minnesota Star Tribune, which is weird considering
(03:02):
the fact that Minnesota Governor Tim Wallas happens to be
on the Democratic ticket. They say no endorsements from them. Now,
there are plenty of others that are out there and
you know, doing full endorsements. But when people like the
Washington Posts, in Los Angeles Times and USA Today and
the Minnesota Star Tribune and they're saying, you know what,
we're gonna get away from endorsing political candidates. What does
that mean to you? What does that mean to you?
(03:24):
People endorsing people specifically, like the newspapers that are still
you know, surviving.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
That always felt a little weird to me. I remembering
that weird. Yeah, Like I remember when it started happening
all over the place back in sixteen, I was like,
do they do this? Is this a thing? Like? And
they do.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
It's the Washington Post has been like since nineteen sixty
since they've not endorsed a candidate.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And certain newspapers like historically have kind of a bent
to them, right like you'll have oh yeah, oh yeah
for sure.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, And there still are you know, watching New York
Times for instance, right, very liberal versus the New York Post,
New York Post quite conservative for sure, And they lean
into that because that's where the audience is. That's why
the mainstream media do it. Don't think that they're trying
to trick you. Don't think that they're intentionally trying to
trick you. You know what they're trying to do, don't
overthink this. They are looking for ratings and they all
(04:13):
exist in different spectrum spots to generate the most ratings.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Possibly.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Ron Burgundy said it best in Anchorman two, Return of
the Legend. You know what Ron Burgundy said. He's sitting
there and he's made a dumb bet with Jack Lime.
Jack Lime is the cornerstone of GNN, which is the
new network. And obviously it's making fun of seeing in
and all this stuff. Right, all these national people are
making twenty four hour news. Ron Burgundy's the overnight shift.
(04:41):
Jack Lime is prime time. And Ron Burgundy made a
bet with Jack Lime that guess what, I think I
can beat you in the ratings. And he comes to
an epiphany when they're planning it out, he says, why
do we need to tell them what they need to hear?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Why don't we just tell them what they want to hear?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
And based on that premise the entire movie, Ron Burgundy
becomes an absolutely super star. And eventually, you know, there
is a come up. It's for you know, glorifying things
that aren't actually news. It's actually, I think, a decent
commentary on the news industry in a way. It's also
very funny and wildly inappropriate, which is also a good
welfarell basis and I just like the Anchorman movie Sue
(05:17):
me anyway, the point being, you really don't think that's
actually how it happens.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So it's not that the people that are there at
USA Today or the LA Times or you know, these
places don't like a political candidate. It's just that they
have decided in this political climate and environment, it makes
more sense to them not to be endorsing a presidential
political candidate to further that divide in America, which kind
of goes against the whole leaning into whatever side you're on, right,
(05:46):
because you would figure, you know, Washington Posts, La Times, like,
of course they would be endorsing the political candidate on
the on the left. Like that's just historically what they've done,
no matter who it was, right Like, in our lifetimes,
have they ever like endorsed the report Publican, I don't
think so. But maybe this is a step in the
right direction of hey, we need to change how we're
approaching politics in this country, or maybe even in a
(06:08):
more basic sense of trying to be appealing to more
than just one side of people. Maybe these outlets and
organizations want to be true news you know, try to
be as newsy as they possibly can and attract people
from both sides to the table by trying to avoid
as Jeff Bezos said this in his announcement last week,
that we want to avoid a perception of bias. I
(06:28):
don't know how you get away with that when you
want your people to be opinionated in there is a
freedom of the press. But at the same time, it
never quite made sense to me why publications felt the
need to endorse political candidates, and as Bezos also said,
it hasn't really affected elections before, Like it's just us
trying to pretend to be important.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
There's something to that. We'll talk about it. If you
got calls and thoughts on it, you can call us
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(07:06):
for the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, the rookie. Dang, I'm struggling with these Raiders. What
a monster.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Anyway, I was talking about endorsement, political endorsements from these
publications and why it's weird that they're deciding not to.
Why do you think that now's the time. Are they
all of a sudden trying to track people on the
other side of the aisle? Or is this a business decision?
Or maybe even most likely it's just they don't want
to get involved in this whole uh ramarole of you know,
having to you know, back up terrible policy.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Potentially, I'd think it just shows how divided we are.
In the past, it was more okay because maybe the
parties weren't all that much different. But nowadays we're so
divided that the idea that anyone would put any more
divided rhetoric out there, right, Like, it's so I feel
like it's a bigger deal because it's a bigger deal.
Do they go back I hope so that'd be a
(07:56):
good sign.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
No, But do they go back to endorsing people in
for you if things calm down? Yeah, exactly right, I
think so that'd be a good sign. Why would that
be a good sign? It means it would mean that
we're we've corrected ourselves. Yeah, like we're less crazy? Is
this not part of the correction though? Just keep like,
mind your own dang business USA today. I don't need
you telling me how to vote. I don't tell people
how to vote, and I'm listening to as many people
(08:19):
as reading their papers on a day to day basis.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
This is this, I see what you mean. Yeah, it's
a part of the correction. Okay, So let's say the
problem is a cough. Let's pretend like the divisiveness in
society is a cough. This is a cough drop. I
hope we get to a time when we don't need
a cough drop. Right where are you? Our immune system
is corrected to cough, to a point where we're not
even thinking about that anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I agree? Yeah, make politics boring again, Yes, and something
like that.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
That's probably not great news for the media industry, Let's
be honest. Four twenty seven, Hey, you got more for
you coming up on news radio eleven ten kfab e.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Very songer on news radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Okay, so it's Halloween. Yeah, my neighbor threw a Tom
Hanks look alike party. Basically, like you go as a
character from a Tom Hanks movie, nice, and then you
go drank theres kegs and stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
It's great I.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Walked over there. You know, guess gets who I was.
I put it on my Facebook. Oh yeah I saw
this hand Ratty, Yeah I was. I was hand Ratty
from Catch Me If you Can Catch Me?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
If you can.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, h Carl han Ratty from Catch Me If you Can.
Which awesome movie? Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, rewatch It. It's
fantastic stuff. I really my favorite movie of all time
is a Tom Hanks movie. It's called A League of
their Own. It's about the women playing baseball. I absolutely
adore this movie makes me feel all of the fields.
(09:40):
It's just a great film. The baseball is good in it,
the cast is awesome in it, Hanks is great in it.
Everything's good about it. But you know, to really pull
off the Jimmy Dugan character, what do you need? You
can't just you can't just make this. Probably need a
bottle of whiskey? Well, yeah, I can find one of those.
But what else do you need? If you're gonna be
Jimmy Dougan? A baseball uniform and you'd want it to
(10:03):
be like, like, how do you make a You don't
want to make a crappy Rockford Peaches uniform? Right, so
my wife was, you know, spitballing here and trying to
think about what what she.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Was gonna be. Well, what do you think she ended
up doing for me? Did she buy you a Rockford
Peaches uniform off of Temu? I want to show you
a picture.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
This is not posted anywhere, but look at this nice
My wife bought it off of timu. A just the jersey,
the upper the big jersey right, uh huh? Not the
pants and the hat she made by she has she
has a red hat and then she just taped a
big R for Rockford on here. And these are all
(10:45):
funny pictures, but you want to know how legit that
uniform is? All real patches, all legitimate like stitching. All
of it looks like it should, It feels like it should.
There's no you know how some shirts or jerseys and
stuff like that from pretty cheap outlets, you know how
they have like misspellings or things just in the wrong place.
(11:06):
Doesn't it like if there is something like that, you
can't really notice it. How much do you think she
paid for that? In American dollars?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Seven dollars plus twenty one, so twenty eight plus thirty,
so maybe fifty eight.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
You're terrible at this. First of all, the whole point
is for you to guess a normal number, which probably
fifty eight would have been ballpark in the right area.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
All right, you eventually got there. I did see. I
could tell my face I needed to keep adding.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
And then I tell you, like what the real price
is after and you're really surprised.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, the problem is I've never shopped on team. It
was fifteen dollars. That's good, that's a great deal.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
When you say seven first guess, it just completely destroys
the whole, like punchline of the conversation.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I am like the world's worst hype man.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
You were.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
If you were preaching a lesson and I'm supposed to
be the guy who's like saying amen, I'd be like
doing it all at the wrong times, maybe points you
don't want underscored.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You would be doing cartwheels instead of just doing your job. Yeah,
it's like nobody asked you to do cartwheels. Just you'd
sneeze and I'd say amen, brother, Yeah, that's not the
wrong thing to say, right anyway, So that was my
first team. You experience, it's pretty crazy. It's pretty crazy.
So yeah, I've kind of been like sniffing around there.
I also know that there's some sketchiness with them, so
(12:23):
you know, keep that in mind. I had a couple
of things here. Early Voting Axios has done a good
job of putting together an entire list of every single
state that has early voting and how much early voting
has been calculated.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Right now, all but three states.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Have released early voting numbers of how many polls or
or ballots at least that were have been tabulated, not
like counted up, but that they know they have. You
want to venture a guess, is to the highest state
of votes the state that has the most early votees.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
That have been reported. Don't overthink this. It would be
a state full of people who maybe are just early
in general, just big people. Okay, New York State.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
New York State is solid over a million, but it's
not even close to being the top.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Oh yeah, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Pennsylvania actually does have one point five million people have
already voted, and a lot of the early returns on
exit polls, and again they're polls. We haven't actually calculated
what those ballots actually say when they open them, and
they won't open them until election night. So we won't
know until them. But guess what those one point five million,
It sounds like a lot of those are Republicans. Like
(13:41):
Republicans are now kind of catching on to the vote early.
Train Number one and by a pretty solid margin is Texas.
That would not be what I would think. I would
think California, right, Texas almost six million people already have voted.
Florida over five million people have already voted. California hasn't
(14:01):
gotten up to five million people yet. So you have
a couple of states that are read that are going
to vote for Donald Trump in the election, in Texas,
in Florida, and those are the ones that have had
the most movement early. Now that doesn't mean that this
is all Republicans that are here. There is, you know,
quite a bit of reputation for the people on the
political left. They're more of the early voting type, at
least historically, but I think some of that is changing.
(14:23):
Michigan also has almost two million people who have already
cast their ballots. North Carolina and another swing state three
point one million have already put in their balance just
over three million in Georgia. So there are a few
swing states that have been very, very busy with the
early voting, So that tells you people have made up
their mind, they're ready to go. They've had a couple
of weeks to vote so far, and thirty nine percent
(14:43):
of the voters in the campaigning that we are seeing,
roughly thirty nine percent of the votes that have been
cast are registered Democrats, thirty nine thirty six are registered Republicans.
Now that means there's that tracks for the most part
about the balance that we see in America right now.
We're roughly a third of people or registered Democrats and
another third or registered Republicans, and then the rest kind
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of line up in either one of those, A very
small amount are lined up in a third party, and
most of the rest of them just nonpartisan, are independent
on the ballot. Forty one percent of these people in
total sixty five or older. Does that surprise you or
is that should we come to expect that that nearly
half of the people voting early are sixty five or older.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
That makes sense to me, because.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
You would is the convenience of it, the fact that
you can have it mailed to you and you can
mail it back.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, a lot less effort. They eat breakfast earlier. They
get to Denny's a lot earlier than I do, so
it makes sense that they would vote early as well.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
They also go to bed a lot earlier. That's true,
and if you doubt, I'm sorry to generalize. A total
of about one hundred million people, according to this voted
early in twenty twenty in person or by mail. I
don't know if we should count that number, because we
know how crazy that number was because of twenty twenty
being the year of the pandemic and the issues potentially
(16:02):
with pandemic related voting in people just not being sure
they wanted to go in person anywhere. There were a
lot more mail in ballots than there were any other
time in American history, and probably ever you would think
it doesn't make a lot of sense, But if you're
a curious Nebraska, about two hundred and fifty thousand early
votes that have been at least accounted for so far.
(16:25):
For Iowa's just shy of four hundred thousand, so it's
pretty good. It's not in the upper edgelon of the state.
Of all of the states that have early voting, which
is all but three of them that are tabulating this.
And by the way, those three states, New Hampshire, Alabama,
and Oklahoma. But pretty interesting when you take a look
at the University of Florida does this is called the
Election Lab and they have all of this information available
(16:49):
on their website. So you can go to election dot
lab dot ufl dot edu and they got a link there.
You can also just look Florida Election Lab and they'll
show you and they have all this stuff that you
can see how the trends of early voting and what
they have the ability to calculate as well.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So it's a pretty interesting thing.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
And a lot of these demographics that you know, we're
paying attention to very balanced in terms of you know,
party so far and uh by gender at female four
fifty four female here, it's pretty interesting. So now for
forty six, I will have something to give away at
the end of this hour, and so you're gonna want
to listen to next because not only am I doing that,
(17:29):
but I'm also giving Matt case a redo on his
you get and alf so oh you might want to
be ready for this one. And do we have the
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this time? It works this time. Yeah, I fixed it
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Chess dot com. Yes, it says someone lugged into your
account from a new device. Uh oh, but it's in it.
It's I think it's registering my phone. I think it
might have just accidentally hit a wrong button. Take it easy,
chess dot com. Just just living my life. So what
would anybody want with my chess dot com account? Someone
is someone playing chess in your name, in which case,
(00:22):
what's there? What's their rating? Because that could either be
good or bad. Although they take that stuff up very seriously.
You think we take our election seriously here with the legitimacy,
remember that. Did you hear that story about the guy
with the beads? No, but I'm worried. Yeah, you should be, eh,
think about it. I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Uh, I don't even want to ask any questions about it.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Chess player, he's a master chess player. He's an American guy.
Can't remember his name offhand, but if you just look
up chess beads, it'll pop up. I don't want to
and it's it's it's not great. He denies wrongdoing, but uh,
let's just say that there is evidence that oh, his
name's Neemen something Nemen. Gosh, you're gonna make me look
(01:07):
this up, all right. His name is Hans Neeman. That's him,
American American guy. Hans Neeman doesn't sound like an American guy,
but he is.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
He is.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
This was last year and he has settled a defamation
lawsuit after accusations about him cheating in a match using
you know, beats that vibrate. I don't want to know
it's a real thing. You can look it up, all right. Anyway,
a couple of things in the news that I want
to do to look at here in the four o'clock hour.
(01:40):
Thanks for listening, By the way, go ahead and open
the phones just in case somebody wants to call in
about this. USA Today, USA Today, Gannett. Gannett is the
place that owns the USA Today and a bunch of
other newspapers, including like the Des Moines Register. Do they
own Oma World ERLD I don't know. Cannett is owned
by a lot of things. Do they also own Chat?
I was gonna say Chat dot com, Chess dot com. No, No,
(02:03):
chess dot com is owned by chess dot com. It's
an organization. Who owns chess dot com. I'm gonna google it.
Bringing chess into politics like that's one of my safe spaces. Man.
My Chicago Bears lose on Hail Mary's, I can at
least play chess in the comfort.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Of my own home.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Eric Alabest, Yeah, see, not a politician there you go. Anyway,
Ginnett owns all these newspapers around and they basically said,
no endorsements, no endorsements. The USA Today network will not
be issuing endorsements now. Each and every individual outlet can
(02:40):
endorse candidates at the state and local levels if that's
something that they want, but they are not going to
be permitted to endorse people at the presidential level. This
comes on the heels of Jeff Bezos and his WAPO,
the Washington Post. Remember that they said last week that
they weren't going to be endorsing candidates. You know who
else said this Minnesota Star Tribune, which is weird considering
(03:02):
the fact that Minnesota Governor Tim Wallas happens to be
on the Democratic ticket. They say no endorsements from them. Now,
there are plenty of others that are out there and
you know, doing full endorsements. But when people like the
Washington Posts, in Los Angeles Times and USA Today and
the Minnesota Star Tribune and they're saying, you know what,
we're gonna get away from endorsing political candidates. What does
that mean to you? What does that mean to you?
(03:24):
People endorsing people specifically, like the newspapers that are still
you know, surviving.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
That always felt a little weird to me. I remembering
that weird. Yeah, Like I remember when it started happening
all over the place back in sixteen, I was like,
do they do this? Is this a thing? Like? And
they do.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
It's the Washington Post has been like since nineteen sixty
since they've not endorsed a candidate.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And certain newspapers like historically have kind of a bent
to them, right like you'll have oh yeah, oh yeah
for sure.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, And there still are you know, watching New York
Times for instance, right, very liberal versus the New York Post,
New York Post quite conservative for sure, And they lean
into that because that's where the audience is. That's why
the mainstream media do it. Don't think that they're trying
to trick you. Don't think that they're intentionally trying to
trick you. You know what they're trying to do, don't
overthink this. They are looking for ratings and they all
(04:13):
exist in different spectrum spots to generate the most ratings.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Possibly.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Ron Burgundy said it best in Anchorman two, Return of
the Legend. You know what Ron Burgundy said. He's sitting
there and he's made a dumb bet with Jack Lime.
Jack Lime is the cornerstone of GNN, which is the
new network. And obviously it's making fun of seeing in
and all this stuff. Right, all these national people are
making twenty four hour news. Ron Burgundy's the overnight shift.
(04:41):
Jack Lime is prime time. And Ron Burgundy made a
bet with Jack Lime that guess what, I think I
can beat you in the ratings. And he comes to
an epiphany when they're planning it out, he says, why
do we need to tell them what they need to hear?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Why don't we just tell them what they want to hear?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
And based on that premise the entire movie, Ron Burgundy
becomes an absolutely super star. And eventually, you know, there
is a come up. It's for you know, glorifying things
that aren't actually news. It's actually, I think, a decent
commentary on the news industry in a way. It's also
very funny and wildly inappropriate, which is also a good
welfarell basis and I just like the Anchorman movie Sue
(05:17):
me anyway, the point being, you really don't think that's
actually how it happens.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So it's not that the people that are there at
USA Today or the LA Times or you know, these
places don't like a political candidate. It's just that they
have decided in this political climate and environment, it makes
more sense to them not to be endorsing a presidential
political candidate to further that divide in America, which kind
of goes against the whole leaning into whatever side you're on, right,
(05:46):
because you would figure, you know, Washington Posts, La Times, like,
of course they would be endorsing the political candidate on
the on the left. Like that's just historically what they've done,
no matter who it was, right Like, in our lifetimes,
have they ever like endorsed the report Publican, I don't
think so. But maybe this is a step in the
right direction of hey, we need to change how we're
approaching politics in this country, or maybe even in a
(06:08):
more basic sense of trying to be appealing to more
than just one side of people. Maybe these outlets and
organizations want to be true news you know, try to
be as newsy as they possibly can and attract people
from both sides to the table by trying to avoid
as Jeff Bezos said this in his announcement last week,
that we want to avoid a perception of bias. I
(06:28):
don't know how you get away with that when you
want your people to be opinionated in there is a
freedom of the press. But at the same time, it
never quite made sense to me why publications felt the
need to endorse political candidates, and as Bezos also said,
it hasn't really affected elections before, Like it's just us
trying to pretend to be important.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
There's something to that. We'll talk about it. If you
got calls and thoughts on it, you can call us
a four h two five five eight eleven ten. Four
H two five five eight eleven ten. Endorsement talk on
news Radio eleven ten. Kfab Emery's songer on news Radio
eleven ten. Rock BOWERSH there it is the tied end
(07:06):
for the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, the rookie. Dang, I'm struggling with these Raiders. What
a monster.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Anyway, I was talking about endorsement, political endorsements from these
publications and why it's weird that they're deciding not to.
Why do you think that now's the time. Are they
all of a sudden trying to track people on the
other side of the aisle? Or is this a business decision?
Or maybe even most likely it's just they don't want
to get involved in this whole uh ramarole of you know,
having to you know, back up terrible policy.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Potentially, I'd think it just shows how divided we are.
In the past, it was more okay because maybe the
parties weren't all that much different. But nowadays we're so
divided that the idea that anyone would put any more
divided rhetoric out there, right, Like, it's so I feel
like it's a bigger deal because it's a bigger deal.
Do they go back I hope so that'd be a
(07:56):
good sign.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
No, But do they go back to endorsing people in
for you if things calm down? Yeah, exactly right, I
think so that'd be a good sign. Why would that
be a good sign? It means it would mean that
we're we've corrected ourselves. Yeah, like we're less crazy? Is
this not part of the correction though? Just keep like,
mind your own dang business USA today. I don't need
you telling me how to vote. I don't tell people
how to vote, and I'm listening to as many people
(08:19):
as reading their papers on a day to day basis.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
This is this, I see what you mean. Yeah, it's
a part of the correction. Okay, So let's say the
problem is a cough. Let's pretend like the divisiveness in
society is a cough. This is a cough drop. I
hope we get to a time when we don't need
a cough drop. Right where are you? Our immune system
is corrected to cough, to a point where we're not
even thinking about that anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I agree? Yeah, make politics boring again, Yes, and something
like that.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
That's probably not great news for the media industry, Let's
be honest. Four twenty seven, Hey, you got more for
you coming up on news radio eleven ten kfab e.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Very songer on news radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Okay, so it's Halloween. Yeah, my neighbor threw a Tom
Hanks look alike party. Basically, like you go as a
character from a Tom Hanks movie, nice, and then you
go drank theres kegs and stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
It's great I.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Walked over there. You know, guess gets who I was.
I put it on my Facebook. Oh yeah I saw
this hand Ratty, Yeah I was. I was hand Ratty
from Catch Me If you Can Catch Me?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
If you can.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, h Carl han Ratty from Catch Me If you Can.
Which awesome movie? Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, rewatch It. It's
fantastic stuff. I really my favorite movie of all time
is a Tom Hanks movie. It's called A League of
their Own. It's about the women playing baseball. I absolutely
adore this movie makes me feel all of the fields.
(09:40):
It's just a great film. The baseball is good in it,
the cast is awesome in it, Hanks is great in it.
Everything's good about it. But you know, to really pull
off the Jimmy Dugan character, what do you need? You
can't just you can't just make this. Probably need a
bottle of whiskey? Well, yeah, I can find one of those.
But what else do you need? If you're gonna be
Jimmy Dougan? A baseball uniform and you'd want it to
(10:03):
be like, like, how do you make a You don't
want to make a crappy Rockford Peaches uniform? Right, so
my wife was, you know, spitballing here and trying to
think about what what she.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Was gonna be. Well, what do you think she ended
up doing for me? Did she buy you a Rockford
Peaches uniform off of Temu? I want to show you
a picture.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
This is not posted anywhere, but look at this nice
My wife bought it off of timu. A just the jersey,
the upper the big jersey right, uh huh? Not the
pants and the hat she made by she has she
has a red hat and then she just taped a
big R for Rockford on here. And these are all
(10:45):
funny pictures, but you want to know how legit that
uniform is? All real patches, all legitimate like stitching. All
of it looks like it should, It feels like it should.
There's no you know how some shirts or jerseys and
stuff like that from pretty cheap outlets, you know how
they have like misspellings or things just in the wrong place.
(11:06):
Doesn't it like if there is something like that, you
can't really notice it. How much do you think she
paid for that? In American dollars?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Seven dollars plus twenty one, so twenty eight plus thirty,
so maybe fifty eight.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
You're terrible at this. First of all, the whole point
is for you to guess a normal number, which probably
fifty eight would have been ballpark in the right area.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
All right, you eventually got there. I did see. I
could tell my face I needed to keep adding.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
And then I tell you, like what the real price
is after and you're really surprised.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, the problem is I've never shopped on team. It
was fifteen dollars. That's good, that's a great deal.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
When you say seven first guess, it just completely destroys
the whole, like punchline of the conversation.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I am like the world's worst hype man.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
You were.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
If you were preaching a lesson and I'm supposed to
be the guy who's like saying amen, I'd be like
doing it all at the wrong times, maybe points you
don't want underscored.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You would be doing cartwheels instead of just doing your job. Yeah,
it's like nobody asked you to do cartwheels. Just you'd
sneeze and I'd say amen, brother, Yeah, that's not the
wrong thing to say, right anyway, So that was my
first team. You experience, it's pretty crazy. It's pretty crazy.
So yeah, I've kind of been like sniffing around there.
I also know that there's some sketchiness with them, so
(12:23):
you know, keep that in mind. I had a couple
of things here. Early Voting Axios has done a good
job of putting together an entire list of every single
state that has early voting and how much early voting
has been calculated.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Right now, all but three states.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Have released early voting numbers of how many polls or
or ballots at least that were have been tabulated, not
like counted up, but that they know they have. You
want to venture a guess, is to the highest state
of votes the state that has the most early votees.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
That have been reported. Don't overthink this. It would be
a state full of people who maybe are just early
in general, just big people. Okay, New York State.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
New York State is solid over a million, but it's
not even close to being the top.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Oh yeah, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Pennsylvania actually does have one point five million people have
already voted, and a lot of the early returns on
exit polls, and again they're polls. We haven't actually calculated
what those ballots actually say when they open them, and
they won't open them until election night. So we won't
know until them. But guess what those one point five million,
It sounds like a lot of those are Republicans. Like
(13:41):
Republicans are now kind of catching on to the vote early.
Train Number one and by a pretty solid margin is Texas.
That would not be what I would think. I would
think California, right, Texas almost six million people already have voted.
Florida over five million people have already voted. California hasn't
(14:01):
gotten up to five million people yet. So you have
a couple of states that are read that are going
to vote for Donald Trump in the election, in Texas,
in Florida, and those are the ones that have had
the most movement early. Now that doesn't mean that this
is all Republicans that are here. There is, you know,
quite a bit of reputation for the people on the
political left. They're more of the early voting type, at
least historically, but I think some of that is changing.
(14:23):
Michigan also has almost two million people who have already
cast their ballots. North Carolina and another swing state three
point one million have already put in their balance just
over three million in Georgia. So there are a few
swing states that have been very, very busy with the
early voting, So that tells you people have made up
their mind, they're ready to go. They've had a couple
of weeks to vote so far, and thirty nine percent
(14:43):
of the voters in the campaigning that we are seeing,
roughly thirty nine percent of the votes that have been
cast are registered Democrats, thirty nine thirty six are registered Republicans.
Now that means there's that tracks for the most part
about the balance that we see in America right now.
We're roughly a third of people or registered Democrats and
another third or registered Republicans, and then the rest kind
(15:06):
of line up in either one of those, A very
small amount are lined up in a third party, and
most of the rest of them just nonpartisan, are independent
on the ballot. Forty one percent of these people in
total sixty five or older. Does that surprise you or
is that should we come to expect that that nearly
half of the people voting early are sixty five or older.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
That makes sense to me, because.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
You would is the convenience of it, the fact that
you can have it mailed to you and you can
mail it back.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, a lot less effort. They eat breakfast earlier. They
get to Denny's a lot earlier than I do, so
it makes sense that they would vote early as well.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
They also go to bed a lot earlier. That's true,
and if you doubt, I'm sorry to generalize. A total
of about one hundred million people, according to this voted
early in twenty twenty in person or by mail. I
don't know if we should count that number, because we
know how crazy that number was because of twenty twenty
being the year of the pandemic and the issues potentially
(16:02):
with pandemic related voting in people just not being sure
they wanted to go in person anywhere. There were a
lot more mail in ballots than there were any other
time in American history, and probably ever you would think
it doesn't make a lot of sense, But if you're
a curious Nebraska, about two hundred and fifty thousand early
votes that have been at least accounted for so far.
(16:25):
For Iowa's just shy of four hundred thousand, so it's
pretty good. It's not in the upper edgelon of the state.
Of all of the states that have early voting, which
is all but three of them that are tabulating this.
And by the way, those three states, New Hampshire, Alabama,
and Oklahoma. But pretty interesting when you take a look
at the University of Florida does this is called the
Election Lab and they have all of this information available
(16:49):
on their website. So you can go to election dot
lab dot ufl dot edu and they got a link there.
You can also just look Florida Election Lab and they'll
show you and they have all this stuff that you
can see how the trends of early voting and what
they have the ability to calculate as well.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So it's a pretty interesting thing.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
And a lot of these demographics that you know, we're
paying attention to very balanced in terms of you know,
party so far and uh by gender at female four
fifty four female here, it's pretty interesting. So now for
forty six, I will have something to give away at
the end of this hour, and so you're gonna want
to listen to next because not only am I doing that,
(17:29):
but I'm also giving Matt case a redo on his
you get and alf so oh you might want to
be ready for this one. And do we have the
updated buzzer? This buzz are going to actually like work
this time? It works this time. Yeah, I fixed it
all right, we'll get to that next. On news Radio
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