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Hey, everyone, and welcomeback to the All About Nothing podcast.
Today, I've got to take amoment to talk about something that's
probably on a lot of our minds.
It's the outcome of the 2024 election.
Now, I'll be honest with you.
Like many of you, I had highhopes for this election.
I went in with my sleevesrolled up, full of optimism for change
that we believed was coming.
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I wanted this to be theelection where we saw progress on
issues that matter deeply, notjust to me, but to my family, my
friends, and our communityhere in South Carolina and across
the country.
But as the dust settles, it'sclear that things didn't turn out
the way that many of us had hoped.
It's a hard pill to swallow.
It's disappointing when thevision we had for the future, one
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that you know, could upliftand improve lives, takes a hit.
But here's the thing.
Hope isn't gone.
Hope is stubborn.
And it's not a flame that getssnuffed out by one election.
If anything, this outcomereminds us that change isn't a single
victory or a single defeat.
It is a long journey, andwe've got to stay on it.
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So here's my promise to youand to everyone listening.
We're not going to give up.
We're going to keep asking thetough questions, holding people accountable,
and supporting each other.
And while we're at it, we'regoing to try and find ways to laugh,
celebrate, and appreciate thegood things.
Because that's part ofresilience, too.
Let's take the lessons, theenergy, and, yes, even the frustrations
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from this election and turn itinto something constructive.
We'll keep pushing for what's right.
We'll keep striving for what's fair.
And we'll show up forourselves, for each other, and for
the future we still believe is possible.
Thank you for joining me.
Let's get into it.
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Welcome, nothingers, toanother episode of the All About
Nothing podcast.
This is episode number 230.
I am Barack Gruber.
I am joined by Mr.
Bill Fry, who is back from hisleave for an episode.
For one episode.
For one episode.
One episode.
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Zach King is gonna be joiningus here in a little.
He has duties that he isattending to with course, everyone
here except for Bill has children.
He does not know the.
Oh, Bill, you don't have any kids.
Wow.
Dodging tap dancing in the rain.
Come on, join the party, Bill.
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Join the party.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know what, though?
Maybe.
Maybe do it in a blue state.
Just cautious reasons.
We'll get into that.
Yeah.
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Yes, I want to introduce tothe show Midas and famous from the
no shortcuts show on YouTube.
You can find them YouTube.comoshortcutsshow you sure?
Welcome to the show.
Hey, man, thank you for having us.
It's a pleasure to be here.
We didn't do our live showthis Tuesday, you know, because we
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understood it was a holiday.
Want to give everybody achance to vote.
And we got.
We knew we were coming overhere to hang out with you guys and
do a little all about nothing session.
So we're excited to be here, man.
If we can't, we can't talk toeach other for a week.
We got to come on somebody'sshow and do it.
We didn't do our show.
We got to find some way to getwords out.
Somebody showed.
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We're at our disposal.
Thank you so much.
First thing I want to do is Iknow when you listen to these episodes,
you hear us talk about.
You hear me talk about ZJZ Designs.
Again, this is my mother's business.
She is 80, 82 years old.
And honestly, please, if youcould go check out ZJZ Designs.
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This is.
This is the T shirt for Thanksgiving.
This is one of the T shirts.
I love it.
I love it.
It's Tommy the turkey.
Yeah.
Tommy the turkey.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She made sure that I had oneto wear.
Shout out to mom, he's a bird.
Hey, that's the word.
Tom's a bird.
Remember that?
Bird, Bird, bird.
The Cosby Show Thanksgiving episode.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right.
Yeah.
Oh, I didn't put two and twotogether, Mom.
That is copywritten.
You're gonna have to change that.
All right.
It's all good.
Like I said, Zach is going tobe here in a few minutes.
We're going to be on for alittle while.
We're going to do.
We're going to do our regularshow, but Midas Famous, if you could
one of you or both of you give us.
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Give us an idea what you're.
I know.
I've.
I've watched it.
Matt Velarde bow.
Yeah.
Shout out to Matt.
Yeah, He.
He introduced me to it when.
When you all had him on.
And I have watched you guysevery single week since then.
Man, we certainly thank you.
Yeah.
Tell us about the show.
Yeah.
Would you like to.
Famous.
Okay.
I guess.
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All right.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, noshortcuts with Midas and Fame.
We started the platformactually about three years ago.
Famous came to me with theidea of, you know, just creating
a platform where we wouldinitially start out sharing our stories
of entrepreneurship, you know,and our journeys and things like
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that.
And in hopes to help otherswho have aspirations to, you know,
have dreams or gifts,passions, whatever you.
Whatever you embody, you know,as your talent or your skill set
to go after it.
You know, we have guests onweekly, allow them a chance to share
their stories and promotethemselves, but all with the idea
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in mind of inspiring others totake whatever that next step may
be for them.
You know, we.
We believe that everybody hassomething they could bring to the
table and something they couldturn they for fun as a passion.
You.
Something you do for free.
Let's turn that into a meansof being a career for yourself.
So in a nutshell, that's whatour platform is built on.
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Not only that, but weencourage those people to network.
We have our no shortcuts tocommunity group on Facebook, and
we try to interact, networkwith each other.
Famous as a dj, I'm a musicianmyself, but we're not limited to
just the aspects of music.
We have people who have onlinestores, mobile bartenders.
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You know, we've even talked toyou mentioned I got Matt Velarde
Bo.
You know, so he.
As far as politics and thingslike that.
So just whatever.
Whatever industry or aspect,you know, that you may be coming
from, and a lot of times weunderstand that the information and
the discussions don't justapply to being an entrepreneur.
A lot of things we discuss canalso be applied to life in general.
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Yeah.
So we're just having a community.
Good old time over there.
Yeah.
You know, I told you guysbefore we started, this is our.
When I started this podcast,it was.
It was back in 2017, andreally, it was.
It was me just doing a runningmonologue of my thoughts on Donald
Trump's presidency and mydiscomfort in that.
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And one of the reasons that Idid it was because I worked for a
company that.
That, you know, when you workin a corporation or you work for
a small business or anythinglike that, you know, the idea is
that generally you don't wantto discuss politics or religion or
anything like that.
The truth of the fact is, atleast at that company was you don't
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want to talk politics orreligion if they are different from
the owner, your directors,your vice presidents, you know, that's
where you want to.
You're not welcome to discuss politics.
You're welcome, certainly, totake the abuse of listening to it.
Yeah.
But that was essentially the idea.
So I started just basicallyrecording myself on a couple nights
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a week and just publishing them.
Literally, I was publishingthem myself.
To do a podcast, it requirescreating an RSS XML feed, like a
whole.
Basically scripting it out.
I wrote the whole thing for,like, the first 50 or 60 episodes.
Wow.
And.
And again, it was.
It was basically just a model.
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Sometimes I'd have people onto talk with me over the phone or
whatever.
But we have expanded into this.
We.
We won best of Columbia 2023.
This one over here, we werethe best podcast local to Colombia.
Congrats.
2024.
We were the runner up becausethe second year running, the first
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year it was easy.
The second year, it just costyou a lot of money.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Like with anything else, huh?
Allegedly.
Allegedly.
But yeah, man.
So that's essentially what wedo right now.
Just so I can be.
Yeah, yeah, I have something,but it's not.
It's not makers, Mark.
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This is Arnold Palmer.
Yeah.
And in a water bottle.
Yeah.
And we got to shout you outfor your.
For your 2K subscribesubscribers, you know.
Yeah.
Oh, look, honestly.
And you know what?
We've been sitting at 2,000subscribers for a while.
Like.
Yeah, yeah.
I think.
And I'm just gonna say this.
I think that someone may havepaid for some subscribers.
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Okay.
I don't.
I don't know that we got thoseorganically because over the course
of like a month, month and ahalf, we just saw that number steadily
rising.
And I.
My confidence level is low in that.
Yeah.
So with that being said, weshould encourage everyone who's watching
right now to.
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To hit the subscribe button onyour channel, you know?
Yeah.
All About Nothing podcast.
And then also after you getoff of here tonight.
Yeah.
When you get out of heretonight, go over the no Shortcuts
with Midas and Faye.
You might could minimize thisfor just a second if you got the
right smartphone minimum.
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Yeah, no shortcuts.
No shortcuts.
With Midas and Fame, we.
We cross collaborating this evening.
Yeah, yeah, we got.
I see a couple comments out there.
Matt has said hello.
Okay.
Somebody titled the.
Has said good evening.
So.
Okay, everybody.
Yeah, that's from the AllAbout Nothing.
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Yeah, the Travel People podcast.
Oh, okay.
That's Ron.
Yeah, that's one.
Okay.
Mr.
Juan Velasquez.
So, you know, I have yourbusiness card and I.
I promise I will get in touchwith you.
So no.
No worries on that.
Yes.
So essentially, before you.
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Before you go on, Barrett.
Yeah.
Before you go on, let's give ashout out to Juan again at the Travel
People podcast.
Let's.
While we're following eachother and y'all subscribe to no Shortcuts.
Oh, yes.
Travel People podcast.
He does a great show overthere talking all about travel and
cruising, and that's a greatpodcast as well.
So let's all follow each other.
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Yeah.
And let's follow the TravelPeople podcast.
We're actually going to beshooting a new episode next week,
and it'll be out soon.
Yeah, Famous.
Famous is the producer of thatone, as well as Women Worth and Weddings
City over here.
Yes, buddy.
Yeah.
Well, Juan, I'll make sure toinclude the link to the.
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To the Travel.
Travel People podcast, too.
Yeah, we're going to have agood old time.
Check the show notes becauseyou'll find all the links there.
So obviously we had a big weekthis week.
Yeah, it was.
And I'll just say it from myperspective, it was a disappointing
week.
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I'm not forcing my opinion onanyone else.
Um, my.
My disappointment came onefrom Matt Velarde bows campaign loss.
Yeah, we did.
We did lose to David Martin.
And our hope is that DavidMartin is successful in the.
In the State House.
That is mostly, you know, from.
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From the perspective of local politics.
My hope is that David Martinis successful in being a reformer
for the Republican Party andrepresenting Fort Mill with the utmost
strength that he can.
He has an upward battle to fight.
It's.
He is, he is definitely rowingagainst the current.
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But our hope is that he is successful.
Yes.
Secondly, I made comments onthe episode that was released last
week.
I guess that Donald Trump wasgoing to lose handily and that Harris
was going to walk away withsuch a large electoral count that
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the Republicans were going tostart abandoning Donald Trump.
I have eaten quite a bit ofhumble pie.
Yeah.
And you're drinking a lot now.
Picking crow.
Yeah, you got to watch thatpie down.
I am constantly picking crowout of my teeth.
Yeah.
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Yeah.
And I will say that there is,there is an infinite number of trolls
that are making sure that theyknow that I know that they know I
was wrong.
You know, it's.
And I'll just say again, I was wrong.
I read the situationcompletely incorrectly.
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There was, there was so manydata points that pointed towards
a Harris blowout just based onearly voter turnout and polling numbers.
Iowa, Iowa numbers came outand indicated basically an 11 point
swing in Harris's favorcompared to where Biden was when
Trump and Biden run ran in 2020.
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And I, I was completely wrong.
And admittedly I, you know,you know what, I'll just say this.
I'm a, I'm an Atlanta Braves fan.
I am an Atlanta Hawks fan.
I am an Atlanta Falcons fanand I'm used to losing.
Hey, well, don't feel bad.
Don't feel bad.
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Merit.
You weren't the only one.
I actually know.
Yeah.
I don't know if you know aboutthis, this guy.
There's this guy that, anolder gentleman and he had successfully,
he's in politics.
He had successfully predictedevery presidential election since
like the 70s or something.
The only one he got wrong.
Yeah, the only one he got wr.
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Wrong.
What.
There you go, Lickman.
Yeah.
The only one he got wrong wasthe one where he predicted Al Gore
and technically Al Gore didwin the popular vote.
So that was kind of a.
With an asterisk and hepredicted that Harris would win this
election as well.
And now he's.
Yeah.
Also eating.
Also eating crows.
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I watched him tonight.
It was happening.
Really.
It was, it was wild.
Yeah.
I'm interested to see whereeverybody was at and what they were
doing the, the night the, theelection was going on.
Well, let's, let's, let's goaround the room, let's talk and we'll
start with you and people you at.
Yeah.
And I was going to say andpeople in the Chat.
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Feel free to chime in too, andtell us what.
Yeah, yeah.
What you were doing.
But so.
Yeah, go ahead.
I'm sorry, I was just gonna say.
Midas, tell us where you wereat and what, what sort of emotions
were you going while you were watching?
All right, so I actually, Iactually went to vote on Saturday,
this past Saturday becausenormally as a musician, you know,
my busier, busiest time of theyear is like from spring until like
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the end of October.
So I actually was off thispast weekend, so I took an opportunity
to go vote early.
So I did that on Saturday.
Actually Tuesday night I wasdown at the, the church I played
music for on Sundays, Mount dowell Baptist church.
I was having a choir practicedown there.
Yeah, yeah, with the men.
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Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you with that, with ourmen's choir there, man.
And so that was as we weredispersing rehearsal, you know, there
was, there's always chatter onthe way out.
You know, what, who do youthink is gonna, you know, in the
lead and this and that.
And so as I, as I came onhome, you know, then we got my family,
family group text and keepingan eye out on everything.
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Just try the best that, toyour ability with the understanding
that all the, all the, all ofthe votes may not be in at that particular
time.
But, you know, there was a,you're just trying to be, just trying
to be hopeful, you know, andhope for the best, man.
You know, I will, I will sayI'm not the biggest Donald Trump
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supporter, you know, and, youknow, and just let me go back.
There was a time where youdidn't even, you didn't even discuss
who you, you know, who yourinterests may be vested in as far
as your vote is concerned.
I remember growing up, youknow, the pre social media, I think
social media made it where.
Oh, there's my brother.
What's up, Matt?
Smooth sales in the House.
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Thank you for joining us.
Member of the no shortcuts community.
But.
Yeah, but there was a timewhere you didn't even discuss these
things.
And now you bring in the, thefact of being on social media, man,
and everybody's so outward andso bold about what they believe and
who they're going to be voting for.
You know, myself, you know, Ilook at it with, with Kamala Harris,
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man.
I mean, we were saying in thegreen room, she didn't ask to be
in this position, but herbeing in the vice president as, as
Joe Biden, you know, PresidentBiden at the time stepping down,
she, she next in line as theySay next in line.
So she only really since what,August 15th.
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So we.
What did you say the number ofdays was?
7 days.
107 days.
But you like to be hopeful, man.
In this new as we in 20, 20,24, you, you, you want to be hopeful
that there's a possibility forsome sort of change or some sort
of change that kind of equalsthe playing ground for all.
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You know what I mean?
And not just be of the mindsetof the old regime and things like
that.
Because the fact of the matteris we live in a diverse America.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
It just is what it is at this point.
And I had friends in Canada, Igot friends in the UK who reached
out to me asking.
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They're like, it's all overthe news here.
So many words like, well, ifour neighbors house is on fire, we'll
be, we're concerned aboutthem, you know.
So yeah, man, you're justtrying to, and, and as I'm saying
this, I'm trying to keep itas, as neutral as possible because
you know, you know, when itcomes to politics, everybody's sensitive
and things like that.
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But my, my hope and my, youknow, my aspirations was for let's,
let's try something new.
Now granted, you know, she's,she's a female and a female of color
and you know, and the regimeof the United States as we know it
just may not be ready tohandle that just yet.
You know, I think, I don't, Idon't disagree.
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And before we turn to famous,I'll say, I think one of the other
issues is how Democratsapproach that particular issue about
our opinion that the MAGAwing, the gop, the Republican Party,
how we approach that messageof our concern that they're not ready
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for a woman president orthey're not ready for a woman of
color or they're not ready fora woman who also is of Asian descent.
You know.
Yeah, all of, all of thesethings add up and.
Yeah, but one of the thingsthat I've had to come through my
recognition of how Icommunicate, especially when it comes
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to being a campaign manager,of how to communicate that without
making it sound like I'maccusing someone of being racist
or I'm accusing someone ofbeing a misogynist.
Yeah.
Calling Donald Trump afascist, I think had basically no
impact on anyone.
That to, as far as, as far asan impact on making the, or aligning
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them closer with Harris and sorecognizing, recognizing that from
a campaign perspective, butalso recognizing that as a progressive,
you know, I want to be able totell people how, what my opinion
is without making it seem likeI'm belittling them because their
opinion might be different.
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That's, that's, that's one ofthose, that's one of those things
that the Democratic Party justgot really wrong.
Yeah.
Famous.
Tell us, where were, wherewere you on election night and what
were you feeling?
Well, it was all a dream.
I used to read Word up magazine.
I was actually Tuesday night,you know, we went early.
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When my wife got home fromwork, she actually thought I went
ahead and voted without her.
But I waited till she got homeand we went over together.
Our location is literallyright across the street, so we just
walk over there.
But later in the night, youknow, once the poll started closing,
my daughter does a competitivecheer group and they have their rehearsals
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on Tuesdays and Thursdays and Sundays.
And so I was on my way to pickher up 8:30 that night, as did the
first, you know, the first setof results started to win.
And I just had it on my phone.
I had the thing on my phonejust kind of watching the numbers
as I was driving, driving herback home.
And once I got back home, youknow, we just got settled in and
we were just kind of watchinga little bit here and there from
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bed and we just, at one pointwe turned it off and went on to watch
90 Day Fiance and then cameback to it to see what the updates
were because it just wasn't awhole lot of movement at that time.
So we came back to it andjust, you know, once we saw, you
know, how she wasunderperforming even four years ago,
numbers, you know, in some ofthose major places, we just kind
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of, you know, we kind of knewit was going to be uphill from there,
so we just went ahead andturned that thing off and woke up
to the man.
But like you said, there was,there were some things that were,
that were done wrong campaign wise.
But even, you know, from the,from the standpoint of what you said,
Barrett, about America notbeing ready for a black woman, there's
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a lot of blame to go aroundthere and you know, to consider the
fact also, both times thathe's won, it was against a woman.
Yeah, it was a white woman.
Yep.
First time around.
So you put any, you know, anyhalfway decent white man up there,
there that can put a censustogether and then they know, okay,
well, Trump's not the guy.
But you put a woman up there,no matter how qualified and how they
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are, that's just not going to happen.
And Like I said, there's a.
There's a lot of blame to goaround there as far as how we as
a community.
And I am speaking specificallyto mine, how we see women, how our
men see our women, and don'twant them to succeed in that way.
But we all got mothers and weall have daughters and we all have
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sisters, but any other blackwoman that's not in that category,
we don't want no parts of it.
So that's a little bit of aproblem for me.
But like you said, withoutgetting, you know, offending anyone,
because in the.
In the words of MichaelJordan, the goat before the goat,
and it took advice.
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Republicans by shoes, too.
Yo.
Yeah, true.
Truer words have never been said.
Yeah, man.
You notice the goat before thegoat, right?
You notice that line?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Before the goat.
Before the goat.
Yeah, man.
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Jordan, Kobe, and clearly LeBron.
Yeah, yeah.
Jordan.
Jordan's the goat, in my opinion.
You think Kobe.
Okay.
God.
Kobe.
Kobe.
I think Kobe, for me,represented every.
You know, because with MichaelJordan, I adore.
I loved walking, watchingMichael Jordan play.
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But, you know, I was a Hawksfan, so I had.
I had Dikembe Mutombo and Ihad Spud.
Rest in peace.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But.
But you know who.
You know, Kobe.
You know who's Kobe's mentorwas, though, who we used to call
and pick the brain of.
And let me get your workoutregimen and your trainer and, you
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know.
Yeah, I believe it was Mike.
Mike.
Yeah.
Mike.
Oh, that's fair.
Yeah.
Fair.
Yeah.
And.
And who better to tell you 1.
How to.
How to play the court, how toplay the NBA.
Yeah.
How to play the officials.
Yeah.
How to.
How to market.
I mean.
Oh, yeah.
The.
The marketing genius behindJordan and Kobe and LeBron.
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Oh, yeah.
Just, you know, and.
And you know who else playedhuge roles in their lives?
Their mothers.
Yeah.
I mean, their mothers.
Their mothers were part ofevery decision they made from.
From college.
Yeah.
You know, so true, man.
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So getting back to what famouswas saying.
Right.
Kind of.
Yeah.
Tying it all in, you know,and, you know, and if we were.
To be totally honest, youknow, as much as macho as we are,
but, you know, and things likethat as men, you know, the term happy,
happy wife, happy life comesfrom somewhere, you know, and at
the end of the day, man, youjust have to weigh it out and sometimes
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change.
Something new could be good.
Something new could be good.
I wanna.
It's just weird, man.
I'll tell you.
Go ahead, Barrett.
Oh, I was just gonna say.
Just.
We'Re gonna do it.
Yeah, please, a little delay.
So my, my wife works for aDepartment of Corrections and there's
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guys, she, she comes homes andtells me about guys in prison.
You know, they're in prison,they've been in prison for 20 years.
They're going to be in therefor 20 more.
And they're in there talkingabout Trump and talking about not
voting for, you know, if theycould, wouldn't vote for Harris.
And it's just a malechauvinist situation.
That's all it is.
It's just a chauvinistic pointof view, especially in, you know,
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rural areas.
You know, we're in this, we'reall, all of us here in the south,
you know, South CarolCarolinas, all these rural areas
still have that chauvinisticpoint of view.
I'm from New York City.
We knew what Trump was 40years ago, you know what I'm saying?
We knew he was, you know, weknew about the housing discrimination,
we knew about the, you know,the untoward practices, things that,
(28:00):
you know, where most of therest of America started learning
of him through a televisionshow and then he came from there.
But in New York City, we knewwhat this was always.
So it's something to be saidto that, going to specific audiences
and areas and making them,making everybody crazy.
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Yeah.
And he can do no wrong.
Teflon Don.
Yeah, Teflon Don.
Ultimately that's what italways comes down to is that there's
nothing in his supporters eyesthat he can do.
And I'll comment on somethingon that in a minute.
But Bill, before we get toyou, I want to also comment on just
(28:43):
the upstream battle thatKamala Harris had to fight.
And one, the campaign for herwas 107 days long.
Secondly, and I'm going to saythis, and this is probably unpopular,
but some people may agree with it.
Her fate truly was sealed in2023 when, when Biden decided that
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he was not going to be thetransitional president that he said
he was going to be.
When, when he was elected in2020, one of the things he said was
that this will be his one,he'll do one term and he will turn
it over to the next generation.
And in April or May of 2023,when he decided that he was going
to run, I am now of the beliefthat that was when the fate was sealed
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because I don't know that theDemocrats would have chosen Kamala
Harris to go against Donald Trump.
I think that the likelihood isthat they probably would have gone
with a Shapiro from Pennsylvania.
They would have potentiallygone with the governor of Kentucky.
You know, I'm not sayingspecifically who I think it would
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have been, but I think thatKamala Harris, when Biden stepped
aside, Kamala was the only onethat could take over those reins.
And not just.
Not just from the point ofview or not just from the perspective
of, you know, she's alreadythe vice president, but for the only
reason, because she was thevice president.
The amount of money that theDemocrats raised could only go to
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her because she was on the ticket.
If.
If they had chosen anyoneelse, even without going through
the process of primariesagain, if they had chosen anyone
else, that money's notaccessible to them.
No.
No campaign can just movemoney to another campaign.
Right.
So Kamala had everything thatcould potentially tie her down.
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Did.
And I want to.
Real quick.
Let me see.
Yeah.
So Juan posted a message, andI completely agree.
He posted a message.
He said that they should haveavoided overemphasizing first in
a way that might overshadowthe substance of her platform, but
use it as a powerfulcompliment to her qualifications
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and.
Absolutely agree.
Yeah, 100% absolutely agree.
Yeah.
Because ultimately, what.
What occurred was she wastrying to distance herself from Biden
at the same time as she had toacknowledge the things that were
done during that administration.
Right.
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She couldn't.
She couldn't step aside from it.
Yeah.
As they say, it's like, what,burning a candle on both ends.
Right.
Yeah.
Oh, there's my mother.
Hey, Mom.
I love you, Ma.
Thank you for joining us.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're live.
Live with the All AboutNothing podcast in conjunction with.
No Shortcut show.
You know, we gotta do it.
(31:43):
We got to have you on ourshow, too.
You and.
Yeah, that's.
I was thinking about that earlier.
Yeah.
Bill, you can come, too.
We're happy to join.
I'll go.
Yeah.
Yeah, Bill.
Have to do that.
Bill was.
Was probably the busiest amongus because Bill is a journalist student
at the University of South Carolina.
Okay.
Carolina.
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He works for the SouthCarolina News or the Carolina News.
Yeah.
So, Bill, give us.
Give us a short synopsis ofyour evening.
Oh, yeah, it was.
It was wild.
Yeah.
So I work now for.
It's been a minute, by the way.
I'm sure people have probablynoticed my absence from the.
From the podcast here.
I've been working about 60hours a week, sometimes 70, on some
(32:25):
broadcast journalism projects.
I've been producing,anchoring, reporting, all sorts of
stuff.
But this past week, I was just.
I'm just on In Depth thisweek, so I have a story I'm working
on that I can't talk too much about.
Never know if Wis or someone'sgoing to be watching.
They were, they were with methat night.
Yeah, but I was.
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I was out at the SouthCarolina Democratic Watch Party at
the Beer Garden on Canal andat Canalside, where they had a big
screen.
They had people, they had speakers.
Matter of fact, Wayne Borders,who we interviewed over the summer,
was there.
That was a fantastic guy.
Real, real nice guy.
I was there.
And we watched his electionresults come in as well.
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On top of.
Still on top of some othersthat did go well for the Democrats.
Of course, Jim Clyburn wasthere as well.
So he.
He was there along withseveral other speakers.
I.
I was the assistant to my goodfriend Jason Leonard, who was reporting
(33:30):
that night.
And so we watched.
I mean, we watched the.
Everything come in.
We got reactions from several people.
I mean, it was a.
It was a big deal.
I mean, there was people fromsouthern Germany, journalists from
southern Germany.
Oh, wow.
Broadcasting out of this party.
I mean, and they just had these.
Had food for everyone, just.
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And we just.
I kept track of all the numbers.
I had had a prediction thatwent up beforehand.
Earlier that day, I'd actuallyhad the honor of being able to break
down South Carolina's votingfrom 2016 to 2020.
And now I'll be able to seewhat it looks like in 2024.
Is.
It's interesting.
You should take a look at it.
(34:12):
Head over to Carolina reporterif you.
If you want to take a look.
All right.
Yeah.
It's making me want a burger.
Continue.
Yeah, no, it was, it was.
It was fascinating because I,I had a.
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I had a map made up before.
As a matter of fact, it'sfunny you brought up Alan Lickman,
because I followed his keysvery closely the entire time up through
this election, as well as alot of stuff based on previous elections
that had happened in current polling.
And I had a map made up whereit was already a tight race.
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I mean, I had Wisconsin goingtwo to Harris.
I still had Nevada going almost.
I mean, I think it was like 1%.
Same with Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania I had a littlebit more likely.
But it was wild to see.
As soon as Illinois camethrough and we saw numbers that were
coming out of Chicago, numbersthat were in New Jersey.
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I mean, New Jersey might have.
What been.
Might as well have been abattleground state.
I was really.
I mean, it was wild.
And then I.
Around midnight, or maybe.
Maybe around that point, I'dseen what was going on With Philadelphia.
And as soon as I saw those.
Some of those numbers, I waslike, it's.
It's going to be over.
And I think we're going to go to.
Gonna know the next day.
(35:36):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I was fully.
I was telling everyone, likein my newsroom, I was like, it's
going to take three, four days.
This is happen.
They were using my map.
I even felt bad because theywere using my map.
So then the next day I walkin, I'm like, I'm just like, I'm
wrong.
I was, I was.
I was wrong.
Those number.
The margins were close.
As a matter of fact, if youlook back at my map, I have it.
(35:59):
The margins are very tilt, butit goes the way I thought was going
to go for Harris, but exactlyfor Trump.
So, yeah, it was veryinteresting to see those numbers
come in.
Hey.
Yeah, man.
Midas.
Midas says she's just gettingoff of her broadcast.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She.
She has the.
Her.
Our power.
Yeah, yeah.
So she's a member of our.
(36:20):
Of course.
No, no Shortcuts platform aswell, but she has her own platform.
So.
Hey, listen, if you need agood spiritual word, ladies and gentlemen,
go over to the Hour of Powerchannel over on YouTube.
You know, Apostle Francis D.
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We plug in.
We plug in all the podcastshere tonight.
(36:45):
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She's an entrepreneur.
She.
She fits right into, you know,what shortcuts thing.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So yeah, I.
I was.
I was up in York county withthe Evangeline Hudley Hundley's.
(37:09):
Yeah, Shout out campaign.
I, you know, I played herpolitical party and I.
I think it was in June or.
Campaign party.
Excuse me.
My outfit.
Mellow Groove.
Yeah, we played her.
Her campaign party.
Yeah, yeah, we were at the.
We were at the Mercantile.
Mercantile.
Okay.
And Rock Hill.
Okay.
And so shout out to the.
(37:30):
The Mercantile.
Because they put on a really good.
A really good.
Yeah, I guess.
Yeah, they do.
That's where I was at too,when we.
When we had our campaign party.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I.
I think that's.
That might be her favorite.
Might be the spot.
The Mercantile.
Shout out to the Mercantile.
Love it.
So we were, you know, we were.
(37:52):
We were trying to watch thenumbers come in and of course, with
local politics, state.
State houses and such likethat, the Department of State for
South Carolina doesn't put outthose numbers very quickly because
it's hard to get thosereported from, say, York county all
the way to the state and thenthem publishing on their webpage.
So we had, there were severalpeople that were out, like literally
(38:14):
taking pictures of the polltickets to publish the number, to
get the numbers to us.
And I left around 9:00 orabout 8:30, 9:00 to head home.
I live in Columbia, RockHills, a drive.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Yeah, so, and then we also hadsome other stuff going on, but essentially
(38:36):
it was, we were there watchingthe returns come in on msnbc and
everybody was just, everybody,when I was, when I was there, everybody
was seemingly having a good time.
It was, it was the time, bythe time I got to the interstate,
it was for me, just, justseeing the turnout, the numbers,
(39:00):
how Harris was underperformingin Atlanta, how she was underperforming
in Pennsylvania, NorthCarolina, she was underperforming
what the expectation was.
I got home, turned on MFCNBCand basically just watched exactly
what I, what I, what I sawhappening in real time.
(39:21):
What I thought was going tohappen by the time I hit the interstate.
And yeah, was, you know, myemotions, I was crushed.
I did not see it go in this direction.
And, and, you know, Idefinitely, I definitely my mind
was in fear of what a Donald,a second Donald Trump presidency
(39:44):
means for marginalizedcommunities across the country.
My fear of what happens inGaza, my fear of what happens with
Ukraine, and ultimately theonly, the one and a half hours that
I got of sleep that night, theonly thing that really was able to
(40:06):
calm my nerves to the pointwhere I could go to sleep was, look,
Donald Trump is a 78, going tobe 79 years old here very soon.
That in his first term.
I viewed his first term asbeing so incompetent that he didn't
get a lot of the things donethat he said he was going to do.
(40:30):
And I think I was able tosquelch some of the fear I had that
night, recognizing that thepossibility is that his second term
may be the same.
Yeah, I, I, I don't thinkthat's going to be the case.
I think that they're probablygoing to be able to get a lot of
the stuff done that they wantto or he said that he's going to
(40:51):
get done, mostly because Idon't think there will be any of
those moderate voices in theroom this time.
I think that he's going tosurround himself with people that
will, that won't push back onsome of the stuff that he says.
And so that ultimately, that'smy fear.
But I say that as a fear,recognizing that it hasn't happened
(41:13):
yet.
Right.
And it's.
For me, I can't, I don't, Idon't want to speculate on what I
think is going to happen basedon fear because this is what I tell
my kids all the time.
Fear isn't real.
Yeah, danger is real.
You can fear danger, butdanger is the only thing that's real.
Real, not fear.
Yeah, there are somelegitimate things that he has said
(41:36):
that's unbiased.
Oh, yeah, you can go ahead, goahead, finish that.
I was just going to say therewas some.
There's stuff that's unbiasedthat I mean, he's been very clear
about this entire time.
I mean, it's not biased to saythat he's talking about mass deportations.
He's still talking about that.
He's talking about, I mean,cutting Social Security.
(41:58):
I mean, there's a lot of those things.
Yeah, there's been some ofthose things.
If other cabinet members inproject that were 20.
25.
Right.
25, that will be on his thing.
There's a chance.
Department of Education,what's that going to look like?
RFK is going to be on the FDA.
What is that going to look like?
60% tariffs on China, 2000%tariffs on other places.
(42:19):
I mean, what, what could thatlook like?
I mean, those are legitimateconcerns that he has said.
I mean, he has also talkedabout putting a target on Liz Cheney
and targeting Marxists andCommunists in America.
I mean, what does this mean?
That is.
Right.
That's the very.
(42:41):
Yeah.
Well, I just want to, firstoff, I have to thank you guys again
for having us because I dohave to, I do have to jump off here
in a second.
But speaking to, you know,what you said about the fear, we're
kind of at that point wherethere's not much we can do.
Right.
It's done.
Unfortunately, I just kind oflive in a perspective of what can
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I do?
What kind of world do I wantto live in?
Right.
And then part two is what canI do to contribute to the type of
world that I want to live in?
It's not much we can do about,you know, presidents and things like
that.
I will say more and more, youknow, even more importantly than
before is getting involved inyour local politics.
(43:25):
And I know this is somethingyou guys are probably going to talk
about later, but like I said,I got to step off.
But getting involved in yourlocal pockets what you're doing with
Evangeline Huntley and with.
With Matt.
These things are important,you know, a lot of times more important
than the president, becausethe president still has to get stuff
past people.
What's happening in yourcommunities is what you can directly
(43:47):
affect.
Who's the district attorney,you know, who's putting.
Who's putting these people injail unfairly for, you know, unequal,
you know, unequal jail termsfor similar crimes.
Who's doing this?
Who's the judges that we're electing?
A gentleman just got sentenced.
He just.
The death penalty was justcarried out in Colombia last week
(44:08):
on the first.
Right.
Do you know the story aboutthis guy Barrett?
He.
He's 59 years old.
Yeah.
He committed.
This was in 1999.
He walked into a conveniencestore unarmed.
And he was.
Admittedly, I think he was high.
Right.
But he went to make a purchaseand he didn't have enough money.
And there was an argument withthe clerk because he didn't have
(44:32):
enough money to purchase whathe was trying to purchase.
And he, you know, he was outof his mind.
But the clerk pulled the gunon him.
And then the clerk got killed.
Yeah.
In 1999.
Yep.
And then he was sentenced to death.
Yeah.
Let's make.
Let's make that makes sense.
And how does that make sense?
So, yeah, that's my point iswho are we electing to be judges
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in our districts and districtattorneys in our districts?
Who are the sheriffs in our districts?
These are things that we candirectly affect in our communities.
More so than who the presidentis of the United States.
Right.
And like I said, Barry, whatyou were doing with Matt and Evangeline
Hunley, I commend you for thatbecause these are the local.
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Absolutely.
The local difference makers,more so than the national figureheads.
I'll just say this.
Governor McMasters, hisdefense, attempted to try and get
clemency or at least a stay of execution.
Governor McMaster's decisionon his execution was to go through
(45:37):
with it because he hadprevious criminal charge.
And that.
That, to me, you're.
That is.
That is an overstep of one.
A criminal indictment.
Excuse me.
That, to me, doesn't make sense.
He had a previous criminalcharge that he was.
(46:00):
He was either charged with andserved his time, or he was expunged
of the.
The situation.
I.
I have to look into it.
I don't know.
There are certain other people.
But the point is there areother people in prison for far worse
that didn't get a death sentence.
Right.
So there's to be said.
And I'm in.
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People that are in jail.
Well, that too, yeah.
Prison ministry.
Very.
I do prison ministry as well.
So I'm in prison a lot.
Like I said, my wife works inthe prison for the Department of
Corrections.
Not just one prison, but forthe Department of Corrections.
So we see all the time and wehear these stories of these young
men that are doing.
Guy did something when he was18, 19 years old.
(46:44):
Right before this lastgentleman that was executed.
There was one a few weeks ago,the first one in 13 years in South
Carolina, a crime he committedwhen he was 19 years old back in
1997.
So now he's done almost 30years in prison.
And now they executed for thiscrime when he was 19 years old.
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Who are.
We just gotta let that rideout in these places.
That's not the president ofthe U.S.
that's doing that.
That's not Donald Trump doing that.
That's not Kamala Harris.
That's not Joe Biden doing that.
Who are we putting in thesepositions to make those kind of decisions,
to execute someone for whatthey did when they were a kid?
Yep.
And you're absolutely right.
The gentleman just last weekhas been a model prisoner.
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He's helped, you know, otherprisoners since then.
Everybody's, you know, havinggreat things to say about them.
But for something you did 30 years.
Ago, because of that.
Yeah.
I think that's breaking news.
Our focus should be Juan formayor in Fort Mill.
I agree.
I agree.
For mayor.
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I, I thought he already wasthe main.
He's the mayor.
He's at the people's champion.
I want to leave you all with alittle bit of food for thought as
far as that concerned with ourlocal politics.
I know the, you know, the, themain, the main subject of this particular
show is about the presidentialelection and all, but I just wanted
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to put some food for thoughtin terms of being more involved in
our local politics and our councilmen.
Like what you're doing withour mayors, with our district attorneys,
with our sheriffs.
All of these are elected positions.
But, but there's some, there'sa big population of us that just
kind of go out every fouryears and vote for the big one.
And there's more work to bedone there.
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And shout out to William Bump.
Roddy.
Yeah, yeah, Councilman Roddy.
Absolutely.
And like I said, I do have to,I do have to step off, guys.
And I do appreciate you havingme and minus Famous.
No shortcuts.
Famous.
Before you jump off my thing.
Famous.
Yeah.
Before you jump off ThoughGive us, give it, give, give us your
business tell, tell us whatyour businesses are.
Hey.
(48:48):
And so we can make sure toinclude those.
Hey, I appreciate that man.
And I want to hear all thethings when I do it.
I am the owner of FMG Event Company.
We, we do primarily weddingsbut also private events.
Pause please.
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All private events.
Tennessee, Georgia, Florida.
We're all up and down.
Not just weddings, private events.
I' also a budding podcastproducer like these gentlemen here
with the shortcut show withthe travel people with Juan.
Yeah, yeah.
And women worth and weddings.
And there's another podcastcoming soon that I'm a little bit
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tight lipped about but it ison the way.
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All right.
How many days?
I'll make sure that that's allincluded in the notes.
Well, five.
Is it?
Five?
Yeah, at least.
Five.
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Yeah.
Thanks man.
Yeah, at least.
I gotta be honest.
That means, that means you,you have to take advantage of the
evening hours you haveavailable with your kids.
Thank you, sir.
Famous, we really, reallyappreciate with us tonight.
Yeah, really.
We'll catch up with us tonight.
We'll talk soon.
Bill.
Bill.
And I'll definitely be nodoubt soon.
Yeah, we're going to work it out.
(50:14):
We can work it out.
So one of the, one of thethings that I also wanted to talk
about was the here and thisis, this is, this is mostly just
from a historical aspect.
I'm not, I'm not making anyclaims or trying to disparage anyone.
Donald Trump got just under 72million votes.
(50:36):
That's 2 million less than hegot in 2020.
Harris got 67 million votes.
That's 14 less than Biden gotin 2020.
Okay, here's the comparisonand I'm not saying this to Fear Monger.
I'm not saying this to saythat there is any sort of.
I'm not, I'm not trying tomake an accusation.
Right.
From a historical aspect.
Hitler was elected Chancellorin 1933 after 2 million fewer people
(51:00):
voted in that election in 19in November of 1932.
That is an odd similarity towhat we had this time.
Had, had, had, had votersturned out this election likely would
have turned out differently.
Again, I'm not, I'm not sayingthat Donald Trump is Hitler.
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I'm not saying that he is a fascist.
I'm just making a comparison.
The numbers.
At least in the 1932 election.
The fascist was electedbecause fewer people turned out that
is, that, that is, that issomething that is.
That just happened to catch myeye when I was doing some research
in looking at some of the,some of the exit polling information.
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Men didn't vote for Harris.
It was 42, 55%.
Men, females almost didn'tvote for Harris.
It was 53 to 45 in favor of Harris.
White people didn't turn outfor Harris, despite the fact that
there seemed to be anoverwhelming support, especially
financially.
(52:06):
Yeah, whites voted for Trump57 to 41.
One of the things that wediscussed on our show earlier this
summer was that black men didfeel disenfranchised with Kamala
Harris because they didn't,they didn't know what it was that
she had done as far as beingan ag, being a district attorney,
(52:27):
being a senator, what she haddone to try and better the lives
or at least show, show anattempt for black men.
But black men turned out forKamala Harris.
Yeah, Black women turned outfor Kamala Harris.
This was the support forKamala Harris from the black community
was almost exactly where youwould have expected it to have been.
(52:52):
Donald Trump got 13% of blackmen and women, okay, Hispanics, Latino
descent.
This is one of the ones thatwas the most surprising, which was
that Hispanics turned out forTrump at about 46%.
Now, Biden had.
Biden had a better turnoutwith Hispanics in 2020 than Trump
(53:16):
did, but those numbers slipped.
And I think the thing that,what I'm reading and what I'm seeing,
all opinions, but there is a,there's a consensus that, that it
looks like one of the reasonsthat Hispanics didn't turn out for
Harris the way they turned outfor Biden was because the Democratic
(53:36):
Party has, has shifted a lottowards the educated community or,
you know, the college degreesthat people generally making, you
know, anywhere between 70 andup, up to the billionaires, of course,
but that Democrats have, haveshifted from being the party of the
(54:00):
lower class and middle classto now being the party of the middle
and upper middle class.
And that, that is not the,that is not the Hispanic community,
which they're disenfranchisedbecause a lot of the Hispanics that
are in the United States arehere on that are here are doing the
lower wage jobs.
(54:20):
Yeah.
The jobs that basically arethe backbone of the country, they're
not being paid a salary for.
And I read a book, and if Ihad it in front of me, I'd show it
to you, but it is, it's calledDeer Hunting with Jesus.
And I can't remember the nameof the.
Author.
The author, Yeah.
(54:41):
I can look it up for you real quick.
Yeah.
But basically it's a bookspecifically about where he came
from in the Appalachians ofWest Virginia and how the poor white
community votes Republicanbased on this idea that the Republican
Party is the party ofChristianity and evangelicalism,
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that the Republican Party isthe one that is the most likely to
provide for the poor whites,that the Republican Party is the
only one looking out for thepoor whites because communication
from the Democratic Party isalways acknowledging the minorities.
But I think, and you might canattest to this, Midas, that do the
(55:26):
Democrats really turn out andactually support the black community?
And Juan, if, you know, if youonline, welcome.
Zach King.
Zach King.
Sorry, guys.
What's happening?
Did I miss the macabre therapysession today?
(55:52):
Yeah.
Yeah, man.
I mean, of course I can speakfor myself, you know, and I.
And I definitely, definitelydid, you know, and it's hard to say.
I mean, obviously you have thenumbers, right, but it's hard to
say because again, it's likewhen it comes to the vote and it's
(56:13):
not really discussed.
I don't really discuss it, youknow, with.
With like, my fellow fellowpeople that much.
We have conversation, but wenever get down to the who you gonna
vote for?
Type of thing.
But I.
Speaking for myself, you know, I.
I was.
I made it a point to.
To support Kamala Harris, youknow, just from a standpoint, like
(56:35):
I said earlier, you know, atthe end of the day, you know, you
have to.
You have to desire some sortof change.
And we've.
We've seen four years with.
With Donald Trump, and.
And let's not forget what happened.
What was it, January 6, afterhe had to.
In 2020, when he had torelinquish the reign, so to speak.
(56:58):
And.
And we've never seen anythinglike that before in our country,
you know, and.
And, you know, and when you look.
When you look at qualities ofleadership, you know, you want.
You want to.
You.
You want to look upon somebody who.
Self awareness, you know, they can.
Self control, you know, you're compassionate.
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There's certain things,qualities you look for in a leader,
having integrity, you know, these.
These things from Donald Trump.
Yes, I'll let you say.
But, you know, so speaking formyself, as it pertains to the.
The African American vote froma male standpoint, I was in support
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of Kamala Harris, you know.
Yeah.
So.
And we.
I wasn't here, so maybe wealready covered it, but it was.
It was the young white malevoters who.
Who Blame everybody else forthem being.
Yeah, that look, ruin this for everybody.
It's your Joe Rogan podcast listeners.
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It's your, it's your ShaneGillis dogs.
It's.
It's those people that, thatfor no intelligible reason, like
Donald Trump outside of, like,it's tough.
He's a bully.
Says what he's thinking.
Like, it's not a great trait.
Right, Right.
Yeah.
I will say this, I will saythis as well.
The number of people that Isaw, you know, whether it was them
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being on, interviewed onTikTok creators or them creating
their, you know, they're theirown influencers or whatever on TikTok,
YouTube, Facebook, whatever,the number of them that said basically
that they would say thingslike, you know, Donald Trump says,
says, you know, he's tough.
He's going to be tough on Russia.
He's going to be tough.
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You know, these are all things.
But, you know, hear them say that.
Completely ignoring everythingthat Donald Trump says, which is,
I get along very long.
I get along very well withJohn with Putin.
I almost called him Donald put Putin.
I get along very well with Chi.
She is an incredibly smart man.
He rules.
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He rules China with an iron fist.
And it's like.
And, and, and he's very smart.
Kim Jong Un, very, very tough leader.
Very, very powerful man inthis country.
It's a.
And, and, and look, one, onesaid it.
Yeah, there's a cult.
He has a cult following.
Yeah.
He can do no wrong.
Huh?
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It is.
It is.
You know, and, and, and, andsomeone, you know, any.
Someone on the other sidecould certainly look at me being
a progressive and say, youknow, I'm.
I'm brainwashed.
I am, I am.
I am.
I believe these things thatpeople say that, that are in favor
of my opinion.
Y'all are doing the samefucking thing completely.
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You're not, you're not paying attention.
You're, you know, and, and,and I will acknowledge, I think the
Democrats, I said it beforeDemocrats screwed up this election,
and ultimately 15 million ofthem did.
Yeah.
But I'll also say this, forme, looking at how the events played
out, I think Biden was a good president.
(01:00:12):
I think that he did a lot ofgood things in his term that helped
America.
The CHIPS act, theInfrastructure act, these are things
that brought in jobs.
These are things that movedjobs back to the United States.
He did enforce tariffs oncountries where goods were coming
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in in order to create acompetitive situation for the.
For.
Those companies overseas sothat the companies here could empower
themselves to be able to selltheir products for the same price
that are being sold nowbecause of the tariffs.
These are things that Biden'sadministration did in conjunction
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with Congress.
And he, I don't think he getsenough credit for those things.
But his mistake was notsaying, in April or May or June of
2023, transitional time.
I'm stepping.
Yeah, this was my, this was myone, my one, my one term.
I'm going to do this.
I'm out.
I'm going to turn it over tothe Democrat.
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I'm going to turn it over tothe public.
I'm going to turn it over tothe party.
Yeah.
They will decide who takes my place.
Let me, let me bring it backto something you said beforehand,
Barrett, where you weretalking about the cult of Trump could
look at you and right wingpeople can look at you and go, well,
you're brainwashed by the leftside just as much as I am from the
right side.
The number one thing I did forthe last two days, day and a half
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to two days internally waslook at myself, because I'm always
preaching, challenge your worldviews.
And if you're not challengingyour world views, you're not growing,
you're not critically thinking.
Was the biggest thing I didwas sit back and go, am I, am I nuts?
Am I on the wrong side?
Because it happened again.
The thing I did not thinkwould happen again happened.
So am I crazy?
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And you look at, you look backat all the policies, the whole campaign,
the things he says, can't findwhere I'm in the wrong on this one,
that this is a psychopath whois genuinely doing this for himself.
He doesn't even care for thepeople who voted for him.
He's not doing a single thingfor anyone else.
He's doing it for him.
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Always done everything for himself.
And that's still where it's pointed.
The one of solace that I getfrom it is him.
His cabinet are incompetent.
I think they've done some ofthe biggest things they can do with
stacking the Supreme Court,which will get worse, removing women's
rights, which could get worse.
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But I do think that thedagger's been stabbed and this is
this.
The people who pissed them offare going to pay the most for it.
And if they stay on that witchhunt, that's where it's going to
lead.
But I don't think I'm wrong inthis, that compassion is what we
tried.
Kamala ran, she ran, she ranon things that people in 2016 who
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voted for Trump wanted When itcame to fair wages, fair housing
market, to decrease the pricesof groceries, to stock, top corporate
price gouging, things likethat, those are the things that the
people in 2016 wanted andthat's what she's still trying to
give them because the economyis doing better, but the prices are
still high.
And they, they still chosehate over everything else.
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They chose rhetoric overeverything else.
And I don't think you canfight with love anymore.
And I think scathing Atheistshad a good, good intro for that today.
Talking about what else do youdo except for fight hate with hate,
that's all that seems toresonate with them is so plant something
in the ground that's going togrow this time.
Because love wasn't it.
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Yeah, like it just wasn't it.
To your, to your point, Zach,like, if, if, if anyone follows my
TikTok or, or the, the podcastTikTok, I, I put out a state, I put
out a, a video basicallyacknowledging and the number of trolls
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that.
Oh, I can imagine that seeingit too.
Yeah, basically.
Basically the, the number ofpeople that would come in and say,
you know, that didn't age well.
Yeah, I admit it.
I, I told you I was wrong.
I, I acknowledged it.
I.
Here, here's, here's something.
It's called humility.
They're not used to it, dude.
Yeah, they're.
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Yeah, I, look, I'm the most,I'm the most humble person on the
planet, just so you know.
Yeah, yeah.
But hit the bell for yourselfone time.
No one's more humble than I am.
Look, but, but like I, one ofthe, one of the comments that somebody
wrote to me was they said,they said that, you know, that it
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takes a big man to acknowledgethat your party lost.
And I said, yeah, I said, Icompletely acknowledge it.
I acknowledge that we lost in2020 or 2016.
I acknowledge that we lost in 2024.
Guess what we didn't do?
Turn to conspiracy theoriesand storm the Capitol.
Well, so I will comment on that.
Yeah, that's crazy.
Conspiracy.
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There are a number.
Where's the X Files theme?
Yeah, I don't have it on me.
There are a number of leftleaning influencers on social media
that are out there sayingthat, but there has to be something
that went on as to why therewere 16 to 20 million people that
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didn't vote this time around.
Yeah, I don't, I have no idea.
I think we need to man up andjust take the L right here and show
them how it's done and thencome back swinging Harder.
Like Stallone said, Rockysaid, it ain't how hard you hit,
it's how hard you get hit andkeep moving forward.
So, yeah, I don't have timefor conspiracies.
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Let's just take our l.
Fight harder.
And that's.
And that.
I think that's ultimately.
When.
When Harris conceded yesterday or.
Yeah, yesterday, I.
When she conceded, she didn't.
She didn't say anything about,you know, this election was stolen
from me.
Right, right.
This, you know, gotta do it gracefully.
Yeah.
And what class.
Because that's what we do as a country.
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Donald Trump still hasn'tconceded the 2020 election.
He has never.
And he's admitted at timesthat he's lost.
But I think that's.
That's when, you know, whenthe Adderall.
You know, when the Adderalleffect is coming down versus him
taking a handful of pills tobring it back up.
And look, that can be aconspiracy, too.
I'll flat out it.
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We'll say allegedly.
Allegedly.
The man.
The man eats Adderalls likeTic Tacs.
Oh, man.
Allegedly.
So what's the amendment that had.
That instituted term limits?
Was it the 22nd?
Yeah, I think the 22nd or 23rd.
So if he does away with that,he's like, I'm gonna be.
I'm gonna be president tillI'm done.
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Then, you know, he's a step inthe ring.
Let me take this one.
Come.
Coming in.
Yeah, yeah.
Number three.
Absolutely.
This guy does goodimpressions, by the way.
Zach.
That's good.
Zach is.
Zach does all the impressions.
Yeah.
Is Joe Rogan in the house tonight?
Not Joe Rogan.
Sorry.
Is Seth Rogen in the house tonight?
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Oh, Seth Rogan.
I can't believe we lost.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
He's good.
Good.
But.
He's good, man.
So another.
Another topic I wanted to.
Well, Zach, I tell you what.
Before.
Before we move on to the nexttopic, I wanted to discuss Tuesday
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night.
We've all told everybody wherewe were, what we were going through.
Zach, tell us what.
What was your Tuesday night like?
So I was playing Call of Dutywith Heath.
Call of Duty.
And I was watching Apocalypse.
I was watching CognitiveResonance, and they had Heathen right
with them doing Alive.
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Just.
And when he started poundingliquor, I was like, oh, no.
Yeah.
So I just.
I kept watching, and I waslike, oh, it's blue.
Oh, it's red.
All right.
This is like.
It just kept getting worse.
And I was just taking out myimpotent rage on City.
Like, there's nothing else Icould do.
I was like, this sucks.
This sucks.
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And then, like, I instantlywent to bed.
Like, when we were doneplaying, I just went to bed and I
was like, I'm gonna wake up tosome terrible, terrible news.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was.
And, and, and again, weacknowledge it and we accept that
it happened and we accept the.
The failure was our own doing.
It doesn't, you know, itdoesn't matter how much work you
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do at that national level, theimpact that I have, that Zach has,
that Midas has, that Bill has.
Well, Bill, no impact.
The thing that kills me, he has.
To keep his opinion quiet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
With his affiliations, justthe people.
The people that I know that,like, started sharing stupid ass
(01:09:01):
memes of like Harris andLouis, UFC corner with Joe Rogan,
being like, you're down.
Like, I was just like, you're.
You're the dumbest son of a.
I knew in high school.
You.
Like, I'm surprised you drivea car, much less that you found a
voting machine.
Odds are you didn't even vote.
You're just happy for no re.
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Like, it's just.
Yeah, yeah, you know what?
You know, never underestimatethe power as stupid.
And it's just.
That's the guy that couldn'tfigure out how to tie his shoes with
both hands.
So he figured out with one.
Kind.
Of person that you see it likea job that they hate.
And you're like, were youfunny in high school?
And they're like, yeah.
And like, was it worth it?
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I want.
Go ahead.
Sorry.
No, I was just gonna say too.
You know, you have.
I think I said this before wecame on live, but you have a certain
percentage of people who havethe mindset of, you know, this is
all rigged.
My vote doesn't count.
You know, that.
That sort of mindset.
Sometimes I don't know if itwould equate to how many.
How many did you say that thatturned up Democratic?
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The number that Democraticwise, that didn't even place a vote.
We're probably.
We're probably at leastcomparing to 2020.
Anywhere between 6.
Yeah.
14 and 16 million.
Yeah, I don't know if it wouldbe that.
Yeah.
And I don't know if what theangle of which I'm presenting, if
it will be that many.
You know, and I did say when Iwent to vote Saturday, there was
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a young lady who was aWinthrop student and she came in
under the impression she couldvote up here in Rock Hill.
She's from Greenville, and shewasn't able to vote.
You know, she said her motherhad told her it'd be all right this
and that, but they said no,you would have had to do a melon
vote.
So.
But you're not going to beable to vote here.
And, you know, with theelection being on Tuesday, which
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is the final day to vote andthat was a Saturday, I highly doubt
she was.
She drove home just to placeher vote on, you know, so some of
that, that just in myexperiences, I know that was something
I saw live and direct, you know.
But then you do have peoplewho have that mindset like it's all
rigged.
They already got the winnerpicked anyway, so I'm not going out
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to vote.
Hey, that's Childs and all that.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm gonna.
I'm gonna say this right now.
Elections are not the NFL.
The script isn't already written.
Yeah.
You have to go out because theFalcons lost Kansas City Chiefs in
a game that they should have won.
Yeah, yeah.
And you know, man, especiallybeing a African American male, you
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know, I have to think aboutthe people that, you know who died,
who, you know, or ancestorwise didn't get this opportunity
to vote, to have a say.
So as it pertains to life inthe United States of America.
So it was my due diligence tomake sure that I got out and cast
it, casted my vote.
You know, she was like, myvote's not gonna matter.
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And I was like 104 years ago.
We're fighting for this.
Please.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Whether it's regardless ornot, like, make time, you know, like,
it's a.
It's thing that needs to be respected.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
I will say on top of all that,I am just a little curious to hear
about what y'all thought aboutsome of the local race races, like
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Heather Bauer, Russell Ott.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
Heather Bowers, Russell Ott,Jermaine Jones.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah.
One again.
Yeah.
Did Evangeline.
Did Evangeline win?
No.
Well, she didn't win.
Okay.
I voted for her.
Shout out to Evangeline Hundley.
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You know.
Yeah.
I don't think Matt falls intomy district, but I would have voted.
I would have voted for him, too.
We had David Robinson on, andI loved everything he had to say.
I voted for him.
But I hate to see that JoeWilson won yet again.
Well, again, I will say this.
Joe Wilson, while I disagreewith his politics, I will say that
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Joe Wilson, as the person thatrepresents our district, has always
been accessible to me, hasanswered the phone when I called
and has provided assistancefor people that have.
Have asked for it.
And he has.
While, while I guarantee youhe voted for Donald Trump, he has
never been one of thoserepresentatives to me that has come
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out and touted Donald Trump's.
He has never, he's never saidthat he, that he's aligned himself
with the things that DonaldTrump says.
I've seen him, I've seencomments where he has said that Donald
Trump should stop tweeting,Donald Trump should hold his comments.
You know, so while, while Ididn't vote for Joe Wilson, I voted
for David Robinson.
He was on the show, he showedthat he was an individual, he was
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a candidate, and he was readyto represent our district.
And I voted for him because Ithought that he is the next generation
of who should represent theHouse District 20.
What are we, House District 2?
Sorry, I forgot I'm in six,actually, which is Nancy area?
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No, no, Clyburn.
Oh, Clyburn.
Yeah.
You know, so you have to, you.
Have to vote for who you feelis going to be the best candidate
in your opinion, who, whoaligns with your ideals and, you
know, things of that nature.
You know, so I get it.
I get it.
Yeah, I get it.
I don't know how old you are,but I know that Barrett's like 75.
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46, man, 46.
I just turned 46 October 9th.
So.
Did I welcome Zach to the show yet?
Yeah, I have an introductionwritten down here somewhere.
Hold on, let me get.
Let me have another sip before I.
Welcome to the show.
Zach King, funniest guy on the planet.
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He is, isn't he?
Was it.
This could.
Where people this shitty toeach other when, when Bush was running.
Well, what I was saying too,before you got on here, man, like
I remember growing up, right,and you didn't even really discuss
politics openly.
I think social, social mediachanged the whole landscape of that.
Sure.
I just remember being a kidand you know, even, you know, election
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time and things.
I mean, I remember when Reaganand all of that, you know, growing
up.
Yeah, I was born in 78.
But you know, even amongst.
When you.
My parents didn't discuss, youknow, really openly who.
Who they had in mind as far asthe ideal choice for a candidate
for presidency.
You didn't discuss it out.
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No, but I think now nowadayswe're in the era of social media
and everybody runs to thecomputer or the phone to voice, you
know, their choice, especially opinion.
Yeah, especially.
Especially when it comes to politics.
Right.
And.
And it's like, it's so, it's.
It's so divisive.
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To do it and people will goback and forth.
So honest.
So I guess I'm tying it all together.
But you know, honestly, Idon't, I don't make posts in regards
to politics.
I, I read others posts, but Idon't comment because I don't have
time to go back and forth.
You know what I mean?
I, I know what I, I know whatI feel.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I don't even talk that onsocial media because a lot of times
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people just gonna say a lot ofreckless stuff they would never say
to you to your face, you know.
But what I.
So what I was getting back to.
So.
Yeah, it, it wasn't evendiscussed like that prior in my,
in my observations prior tosocial media.
Social media has made thewhole politics and running for this
and that and elections ofextra dirty game.
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It's already dirty, but it's,it makes it extra dirty.
I'm, I'm 36, so.
Okay.
I was growing up in Bush was running.
You had, you had things comeout like movements like Rock Against
Bush where they madecompilations of like bands.
Green Day, clearly a good example.
Rise against another examplethat like Vietnam, they couldn't
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stand what was being done withthe Bush administration and Cheney
and stuff.
Yeah.
I think that might have beenlike very tip of the iceberg of people.
Like, so you don't talkreligion and politics, you turn on
social media.
It is religion and politics.
That's.
Yeah, that's a driving forcecompletely behind this election.
All of it.
Yeah.
I think one of the biggestissues with the availability of social
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media is that it's almostanonymous in the way that people
get to view their opinions orexpress their opinion.
Give the.
Yeah, give.
It is.
I've, I've called it, youknow, hate from a distance, you know,
because like.
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Vicarious hate that you canelect somebody and watch the world
burn and you just live and watch.
Yeah, there we go.
Yeah.
I mean, putting on a mask inthe middle of a thing and doing whatever
you want to someone withoutgetting away with.
Exactly.
Right.
Exactly.
It's.
And it's the same as, it's thesame as, you know, egging someone's
house in the middle of the night.
They don't know you did ituntil the next morning when they're
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like, why can't I see out my window?
Yeah.
You know, it's such a passive way.
It's such a passive aggressiveway of avoiding having a legitimate
conversation.
Yeah.
And actually while we're onthe topic, Zach is my partner in
(01:18:32):
this podcast.
And Zach, I Not to put you onthe spot, but I am probably going
to shut down our Twitteraccount or our X account, mostly
because for.
What I'm with you.
It doesn't produce anythingfor us.
We get so little.
We have been shadow.
Our account has been shadowaccount for probably the last, I
(01:18:55):
don't know, almost a year.
I mean, we used to go from,from being.
To go from being.
You know, we'd have thousandsof views.
It wouldn't, it wouldn'tequate into people, at least, you
know, they weren't, theyweren't commenting, they weren't
always liking.
Right.
But we would get thousands ofviews on our posts.
Now we're down to 5 and 10.
Oh, wow.
Oh, dude, it's.
(01:19:15):
Look at this.
It's right with it.
So I had to create a secondaccount for some like, business stuff
I'm doing for Twitter.
Liked or followed a singlething in and every instant like article
that I get.
Everything on the feed isright wing lunacy.
Yeah.
And you know who hangs outover there?
(01:19:37):
Yeah.
When I accidentally log intothat one, I'm like, Jesus Christ.
Like, what.
What is going on?
The leading report, the oneyou're talking about me?
No.
Or no, I was talking about oneof the, one of the medias.
There's like a.
I'm.
I'm not on X a lot either.
It's just like there's onethat's the leading report and I've
never seen.
(01:19:57):
I got you.
I'll look it up right now.
It is, it is wild.
Wild, dude.
It is one of the comments.
One of the comments somebodysaid to me earlier today was that,
you know, Twitter instantly.
Matt Walsh.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, so.
So Matt Walsh today put out atweet and I'm going to paraphrase
basically saying, hey, y'allwere worried about Project 2025.
(01:20:18):
Well, guess what?
It's real and we're doing it.
That's not exactly what hesaid, but he's my president.
It's.
Yeah.
One.
That's.
Yeah, that.
And there was Jones and he's.
And he's a.
Elon Musk owns that platformand he's affiliated with, with Trump
(01:20:38):
as well, you know, so it's all.
I got a psycho putting.
Yeah.
And.
And he's also created the cheapest.
Well, he didn't create it.
And I do this.
I hound on this idea that Tesla.
We got the darkest timelines.
Iron man, that's what we got.
(01:21:00):
Yeah.
But I don't fault Tesla forbeing bad because of Elon.
Musk.
I fault Tesla for being badbecause they modeled the Dodge Neon
and said, let's put batteriesin it.
And that's what they did.
You really to the Dodge Neon?
Leroy's already told mesmudging the Dodge Neon.
(01:21:23):
Dodge Neon's a great.
Dodge Neon was a great car ifall you had was, was 300 for a down
payment.
You know, it's funny, theydidn't even buy.
I remember put theirs out.
They're like, it's also theNeon, the Plymouth.
Oh, yeah, yeah, they are.
They were similar, weren't they?
And they did.
They have similar body.
Wow.
It was okay.
Wow.
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That is right.
Neon, Plymouth Neon.
We're not even changing the name.
So the last, the last thing Iwant to talk about before we get
done, and this is the one Ithink that bothers me the most, is
that all of Donald Trump'sfederal cases are in the process
of winding down and wrapping up.
So you have the January 6thcase and you have the documents case.
(01:22:05):
Both of these cases areultimately coming to an end.
Jack Smith is, is.
Is.
There's nowhere else for JackSmith because there is this unstated
rule or un, unwritten rulethat you do not investigate a sitting
president or the president elect.
Yeah, I was reading about that.
So those unspoken rules of baseball.
(01:22:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like the no fly rule.
We can get into one.
I'm knocking homers if I putit down the plate.
Yeah.
So.
So I just want to say this,and I wrote it down and I'm going
to read it verbatim for what Iwrote, and I hope I didn't write
it incorrectly.
But for those listening,Donald Trump is an adjudicated felon,
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regardless of whether youthink he was wrongfully convicted.
A jury of his peers,regardless of their opinions of him,
regardless of their politicalleanings, regardless of any feelings,
he is and always will be aconvicted felony.
He may win on appeal, whichabsolutely, he's welcome to appeal.
It's within his rights.
But forever, he will be aconvicted felon.
(01:23:09):
He will die a convicted felon.
Even if he wins on appeal, hewill be a convicted felon.
He will be the first andlikely only president that we ever
elect with felony convictions.
And that is a fact that cannotbe denied without it being in a state
of denial.
So, I guess, what are yourreactions to the fact that Donald
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Trump is and will always be aconvicted felon, that now his party
has elected him?
Well, it looks bad, right?
To be a person of thatmagnitude of leadership, such as
the President of the UnitedStates to have these things on your
record.
And if he can, and if he canhold that position with these things
(01:23:58):
on his record, then I feellike all applications should take.
Should take that off offer the application.
Right, Put it on thepresidential application.
Yeah.
Yes.
I mean, hey, listen, you haveto be held accountable at some point.
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Yeah, yeah, you have to beheld accountable.
Should they, should they windit down because he's now, you know,
elected president?
Hell no.
That's, that's, that's tough.
But I see, I see the plancoming together.
You know, it's like, okay,well, it's all kind of tailor made,
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but none of us, none of uscould go out here and have these
things on our record and fireasses like.
Yeah, could not be a janitorat a public school with a conviction.
With, with a felony conviction.
Right.
That's what I mean, irony that.
That party of guns and hecan't own a firearm, but he can point
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the military wherever he sosees fit.
Yeah.
To me is just wild.
Like you can't do the gunstuff, but we have a millions and
millions of people that youcan tell where to go.
Yeah, yeah.
No, it's gonna be.
No, it was gonna be interestbecause what.
November 26th is also gonna be North.
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New York's New York sentencing hearing.
Okay.
Yeah.
Which I'm like, is the judgegonna give him a break?
Probably, yeah, 100%.
Because that judge will be outof their mind.
And does he rule from jaillike an old school mafia don?
So the reason.
Yeah, like Goodfellas or.
Goodfellas.
Yeah.
The reasoning.
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The reasoning will be thatthis is his first.
His, his first felony convictions.
It doesn't matter that therewere 34 of them.
The reasoning, I guarantee youwill be that this is a first time
offender.
And ultimately these are the.
But ultimately these are,these are white collar crimes.
(01:26:06):
This isn't, this isn'tsomething that, that most people
go to jail for.
This is something that mostpeople would pay a steep fine for.
And maybe he'll have to pay a.
Maybe he'll have to payanother steep fine.
Yeah.
But it doesn't matter.
He'll.
He'll make sure that anyappeals make their way all the way
to the Supreme Court.
To which Clarence Thomas,Alito, Comey, Barrett Roberts, and
(01:26:31):
did I name all of them.
Oh, the people who have bendover and lick their own assholes
to make.
Sure he's okay and will rulein favor and he will not pay any
fines.
And if it wasn't, it could bethem, but also if they stepped down
and he replaces them with 40year old.
Look, basically Trump, Trump,Trump winning the election gives
Clarence Thomas and Alitobasically the permission to go ahead
(01:26:56):
and retire.
Yeah.
And if it was anybody else, Republicans.
Will have the Supreme Courtfor the next 30 years.
30 years, maybe longer.
Comey Barrett, basically Midasand my age.
Yeah.
Kavanaugh is, is just barelyover our age.
Yeah.
That's why we need action.
That, that's where the actionis needed.
(01:27:16):
Yeah.
In her mailbox for the next 30 years.
Every time she has an awful oran opinion on a piece like somebody
has to do something, I'mtelling you.
Yeah.
But you know, if it make it.
Unbearable, make the, make,make their actions have consequences
(01:27:36):
like yeah, be mad.
We need some more rage againstthe machine kind of shit.
Yeah.
But.
And if it was anybody elsebesides him, would they be so, would
they be so lenient?
No, no, I don't think so.
I think that, I think that himas president, Donald Trump as president
basically is a free pass forthe conservative MAGA wing and the
(01:28:03):
Supreme Court to basicallythey will use Donald Trump as their
tool to pass things like anational abortion ban.
I, you know, if the House, ifthe House isn't, if the House isn't
in the Democrats control.
Which we'll find out, I'mhopefully by Saturday.
But if the Democrats don'thave the House, if the House is.
(01:28:24):
House and Senate are both incontrol of Donald Trump.
The executive branch incontrol of Donald Trump and the Supreme
Court.
The judicial branch is incontrol of.
By Donald Trump.
We basically have.
Donald Trump has unfetteredaccess to pretty much do whatever
he wants.
He doesn't have to pass unlessthere's a filibuster rule.
(01:28:47):
You want to know who I feelthe worst for right now?
Well, let me just say on thefilibuster rule, I have fear that
the Republicans will get ridof the filibuster rule because.
Or at least for the time framespeak that long.
Yeah.
Well, no, it's because they'llhave, they'll have the majority vote
and can vote out thefilibuster rule.
And, and which means that theycan pass anything through the Senate
(01:29:10):
that they want.
All they need is 51 votes andthey're at 52 right now.
Okay.
And they may, it may increaseto 56.
And it's such an interestingthing because short term, the filibuster
rule never seems to be great.
Long term too, there's so manypros and cons because there's a,
there's a real bipartisan pushto have wanted to get rid of the
(01:29:32):
filibuster rule for many yearsto be in this situation.
This is.
This will be.
This will be interesting.
Oh, I completely reversed myopinion on the filibuster.
I have always been in.
I have always been in favor ofgetting rid of the filibuster because
it.
It gives the minority power.
(01:29:53):
It gives minority power.
It gives the minority power.
It takes.
I'm sorry, I'm saying it wrong.
It gives the power to theminority party.
And because basically rightnow, Mitch McConnell can.
Can.
Can filibuster or threaten tofilibuster any bill that the scent
that the Democrats try and put up.
(01:30:14):
He can do it.
And it.
And nothing comes across.
It was in.
If I was in the House or unitand I got the filibuster one day,
I would read the strategyguide for Legend of Zelda and Ocarina
of Time.
You may not know what astrategy guide is, but it's going
to be an amazing long time for everybody.
It would be very entertaining, too.
(01:30:34):
It would be very entertaining.
Let me tell you who I feel theworst for.
Who's that custodian that's inthe White House last Thursday and
rubbed the carpet after vacuuming?
He's like, it's gone.
Think of Trump is gone.
Tuesday came and he was like,God damn it.
This back, huh?
(01:30:55):
This guy is off the chain, man.
He's off the shade.
He's never coming out.
Do it all orange.
I don't give a anymore.
He just quits.
I'm not wrong.
Shut down, you all.
I'm out.
You're not.
You're not wrong.
Yeah, man.
Listen.
Can you imagine?
You've heard the Vietnamspitting stories, how they can't
(01:31:17):
stay in the Oval Officebecause the couches are too close
together, because spit comesfrom Trump's mouth and hits everybody
and they're all like, hey,say, let's fucking.
Can we not.
How about.
How about a team's meeting?
Would you like.
Exactly.
Can we go back to Covid?
Oh, my gosh.
I will.
I will.
I will just say this.
(01:31:37):
Yeah.
That for.
For those out there that.
That absolutely are ecstaticover the fact that the person that
they voted for, the DonaldTrump won the election.
I will just say the dim light.
I hope that what you get iswhat you wanted.
(01:32:01):
There are a number of promisesthat Donald Trump made, and we, as
a podcast, are going to.
We're going to ask the questions.
We're going to hold themaccountable to it.
Now, I don't think he caresabout our podcast.
But held accountable for anything.
That's right.
You know, the war in Ukraineis supposed to end within 24 hours
of the.
Of the day that he takes the oath.
(01:32:22):
All the illegal supposed to be gone.
So mass deportation within 24hours of him taking the oath.
Day one.
These are two things.
These are day one things hesaid that he would take care of and
he would do it with the powersof a dictator.
So, you know, but if that happens.
I'll be A, impressed, B,terrified because our economy will
(01:32:44):
be.
Yeah, My, my fear is, is thathe, he definitely recognizes people
like Liz Cheney, AdamKinzinger, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff.
These are Jimmy Kimmel.
Jimmy Kimmel.
Jamie Rasenberger.
(01:33:04):
No, Jamie Raskin.
These are, these areindividuals that.
Yeah, these are individualsthat, because of their association
with the J6 trial or the hearings.
These are individuals that hehas out of his mouth said that these
are people that should face amilitary tribunal and put to death.
(01:33:28):
And he said that.
That Liz Cheney should have agun, a firing squad pointed at her
face.
That's crazy.
Go through her dad, you fatpiece of.
That's crazy.
People in the face without, onaccident, you know, hunting with
them.
Yeah, it's going to be fantastic.
And Dick Cheney has the power.
Dick Cheney has the power toshoot somebody in the face.
(01:33:48):
And a week later, they'reapologizing Dick Cheney for being
in front of their gun.
And also it's Halliburton.
So there's the.
Listen, have y'all seen themovie Civil War?
That was the Apple movie.
Yeah.
I hope this.
I haven't seen it.
Be fantastic.
Oh, you want, you want theCivil War?
The Civil War.
You want the end of the movie?
(01:34:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I have to go watch it now, guys.
To come get you.
Yeah.
I'll just say that Ron Swanson.
Ron Swanson was not a good president.
And this is on.
This is on Apple.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
It is a very jarring.
It's a little hyperbolicbecause for sure it.
(01:34:29):
It went down the kind of theTwilight Zone of what if.
Yeah.
2016.
2020.
Okay.
But thing I was just like beso bad.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
As long as we're shouting outmovies, which.
A Civil war on Apple.
I will say, I want to say this.
If you haven't seen it yet,Netflix number one movie for like
(01:34:51):
three weeks was don't move.
I will, I will say the reasonthat you should see it is because
the person who stars in it, Iapparently know her.
Really.
But we'll get into that later,you know?
Yeah, we're working on something.
Working in progress.
(01:35:12):
Yeah.
I would just say we're tryingto get Kelsey on the show and.
Okay, cool, man.
We might have an inroad on that.
I absolutely love Yellowstone.
I think that it is one of thebest written shows that's on television
right now, and I'm thankfulit's coming back so that we can wrap
up the whole story and TaylorSheridan can get on to maybe focusing
(01:35:33):
on the reboot of Justified.
I'll tell you what's funny.
My wife was watching thepreview for I don't think you should
move or whatever.
Yeah, don't move.
Like, where she's watching it.
And I was like, I don't thinkshe should move.
And she's like, shut up.
And I'm like, I don't thinkshe should move.
She shouldn't move.
She's moving.
She shouldn't.
And she's like, please leave.
I'm like, I just don't thinkshe should.
(01:35:53):
She shouldn't move.
Yeah.
She'S drugged.
Okay.
I did watch this.
Okay.
I gotta catch up on my movies.
Kelsey.
Kelsey Aspel as Bill.
Okay.
Her.
Her.
Her.
That's her stage name.
Her actual name is Kelsey.
(01:36:16):
Her actual name is Kelsey Chow.
It's in her.
It's in her Wikipedia.
But if we.
If we get her on the show,we'll discuss how it is, so that'll
be cool.
Yeah.
So real quick, that's gonna doit for episode number 230.
Awesome, man.
Yeah.
Thank you for having us, man.
I know there's been so many.
(01:36:38):
Thank you all for having us.
Thank you.
Yeah, of course.
No shortcuts.
Podcast show on.
Yeah.
With.
With Midas and fame.
Yeah.
On YouTube.
You can check the links in theshow notes.
Go check it out.
They are live every Tuesday.
Yeah.
At noon.
Yeah.
I'm pissed.
I miss.
I miss fame and I'm so sorry.
Yeah.
He had to tip out a littleearly with dad duties.
(01:36:59):
I'm have to tip out to it andthen just in time get the kids ready.
That's why I was late was dad duties.
Exactly.
Yeah, yeah, we understand.
Yeah.
Bill's the only one that can't.
The Bill's the only one that can't.
He can't.
He can't participate.
Claim that.
Yeah, yeah.
He's a young man.
He's got bad and good decisions.
Bill, like I said, if you'regonna do it, go to a blue state.
(01:37:22):
Your.
Your partner.
Wife will be more protected ina blue state.
That's all I'll say.
All right, that is gonna do itfor episode number two, 230.
Thank you again, Midas, forbeing on the show.
Hey, my pleasure, guys.
Thank you for having me.
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Oh, Bill, thank you for beingon the show with us again.
It was a pleasure.
I was about to say it was a pleasure.
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Thank you so much.
It's so nice to.
Non intern.
Yeah, the Not.
Yeah, the official journalist,Bill, who I've.
Been seeing Bill's post withthe ladies.
Bill, you killing me, okay?
Over in the field talking tothe ladies.
Okay.
Is that your intention, Bill?
Was it the.
Was it the ladies?
No.
Yeah, I didn't think so.
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