August 22, 2024 • 30 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Live coverage of Gov. Tim Walz Vice-Presidential nomination acceptance speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention…PLUS – Thoughts on the impact of Social-Media at the DNC - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Kf I AM six forty years Later with Mo Kelly.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and we're checking
in with the DNC. It seems that they're getting ready
to have Governor Walls speak. I believe he's coming to
the stage now, Stephan, Is he coming to the stage?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Oh, there he is. No, he's coming now, So let's
quead and turn off the audio on that.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Please welcome the Democratic nominee for Vice President, Governor Tim
Walls Town.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
He's acknowledging various people. Audience.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Thank you, wow, well, thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Thank you first of all the Vice President Harris, thanks
for putting your trust in me and for inviting me
to be part of this incredible campaign. And a thank
you President Joe Biden for four years.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Of strong, historic leadership.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
It's the honor of my life to accept your nomination
for Vice President of the United States.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
We're all we're all.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Here tonight for one beautiful, simple reason.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
We love this country.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
So thank you to all.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Of you here in Chicago and all of you watching
at home tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Thank you for your passion.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Thank you for your determination, and most of all, thank
you for bringing the joy to this fight.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Now. I grew up in Butte.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Nebraska, a town of four.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Hundred at people.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I had twenty four kids in my high school class,
and none of them went to Yale. But I'll tell
you what, growing up in a small town like that,
you'll learn how to take.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Care of each other. That family down the road.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
They may not think like you do, they may not
pray like you do, they may not love like you do,
but they're your neighbors, and you look out for them,
and they look out for you. Everybody belongs and everybody
has a responsibility to contribute. For me, it was serving
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in the Army National Guard. I joined up two days
after my seventeenth birthday, and I proudly wore our nation's
uniform for twenty four years. My dad, a Korean War
era Army veteran, died of lung cancer a couple years later.
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He left behind a mountain of medical debt. Thank God
for Social Security survivor benefits, and thank God for the
GI Bill that allowed my dad and me to go
to college and millions of other Americans. Eventually, like the
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rest of my family, I fell in love with teaching.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Three out of four of us married teachers.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I wound up teaching social studies and coaching football at
Mancato West High School goh Scarletts.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
We ran, We.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Ran a forty four defense, We played through to the
whistle on every single play, and we even want a
state championship. Never closed the yearbook, people, But it was
those players and my students who inspired me to run
for Congress. They saw in me what I had hoped
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to instill in them, a commitment to the common good,
an understanding that we're all in this together, and the
belief that a single person can make a real difference
for their neighbors. So there, I was a forty something
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high school teacher with little kids, zero political experience, and
no money, running in a deep red district. But you
know what, never underestimate a public school teacher. Now, I
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represented my neighbors in Congress for twelve years, and I
learned an awful lot.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
I learned how to.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Work across the aisle on issues like growing the rural
economies and taking care of veterans. And I learned how
to compromise without compromising my values. Then I came back
to serve as governor, and we got right to work
making a difference in our neighbors' lives. We cut taxes
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for the middle class.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
We passed paid family and medical leave.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
We invested in fighting crime and affordable housing. We cut
the cost of prescription drugs and help people escape the
kind of medical debt that nearly sank my family. And
we made sure that every kid in our state gets
breakfast and lunch every day, so while other states were
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banning books from their schools, we were banishing hunger from ours.
We also protected reproductive freedom because in Minnesota, we respect
our neighbors and the personal choices they make, and even
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if we wouldn't make those same choices for ourselves, We've
got a golden rule, mind your own damn business, and
that includes IVF and fertility treatments. And this is personal
for Gwyn and I. If you've never experienced the hell
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that is infertility, I guarantee you you know somebody who has.
And I can remember praying each night for a phone call,
the pit in your stomach when the phone had rang,
and the absolute agony when we heard the treatments hadn't worked.
It took Gwen and I years but we had access
to fertility treatments, and when our daughter was born, we
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named her Hope, Hope, Gus and Gwen.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You are my entire world and I love you.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I'm letting you in on how we started a family
because this is a big part about what this election
is about.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Freedom.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
When Republicans use the word freedom, they mean that the
government should be free to invade your doctor's office, corporations
free to pollute your air and water, and banks free
to take advantage of customers. But when we Democrats talk
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about freedom, we mean the freedom to make a better.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Life for yourself and the people that you love. Freedom
to make your own.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Health care decisions, and yeah, your kids, freedom to go
to school without worrying about being shot dead in the hall.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Look, I know guns.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I'm a veteran, I'm a hunter, and I was a
better shot than most Republicans in Congress, and I got
the trophies to prove it. But I'm also a dad.
I believe in the Second Amendment, but I also believe
our first responsibility is to keep our kids safe.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
That's what this is all about.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
The responsibility we have to our kids, to each other,
and to the future. That we're building together in which
everyone is free to build the kind of life they want.
But not everyone has that same sense of responsibility.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Some folks just.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Don't understand what it takes to be a good neighbor.
Take Donald Trump and jd Vance. Their Project twenty twenty
five will make things much much harder for people who
are just trying to live their lives. They spend a
lot of time pretending they know nothing about this.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
But look, I coached high.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
School football long enough to know and trust me on this.
When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook,
they're going to use it.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
And we know if these guys.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Get back in the White House, they'll start jacking up
the costs on the middle class. They'll repeal Affordable Care Act,
they'll gut Social Security and Medicare, and they will ban
abortion across this country, with or without Congress. Here's the thing.
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It's an agenda nobody asked for. It's an agenda that
serves nobody except the richest and the most extreme amongst us.
And it's an agenda that does nothing for our neighbors
in need. Is it weird, Absolutely absolutely, But it's all
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so wrong, and it's dangerous. It's not just me saying so,
it's Trump's own people. They were with him for four years.
They're warning us that the next four years will be
much much worse. You know, when I was teaching, every
year we'd elect a student body president. And you know
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what those teenagers could teach Donald Trump a hell.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Of a lot about what a leader is.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Leaders don't spend all day insulting people and blaming others.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Leaders do the work. So I don't know about you.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I'm ready to turn the page on these guys.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
So go ahead say it with me.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
We're not going back.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
We've got something better to offer the American people. It
starts with our candidate, Kamala Harris. From her first day
as a prosecutor, as a district attorney, as an attorney general,
as a United States Senator, and then our Vice president,
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She's fought.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
On the side of the American people.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
She's taken on the predecestors and fraudsters, She's taken down
the transnational gangs, and she stood up to powerful corporate interest.
She has never hesitated to reach across that aisle if
it meant improving your lives, and she's always done it
with energy.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
With passion and with joy. Folks, we've got.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
A chance to make Kamala Harris the next president of
the United States. But I think we owe it to
the American people to tell them exactly what she'd do
as president before we ask them for their votes. So
here this is the part. Clip and save it and
send it to your undecided relatives so they know. If
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you're a middle class family or a family trying to
get into the middle class, Kamala.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Harris is going to cut your taxes. If you're getting squeezed.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
By prescription drug prices, Kamala Harris is going to take
on big Pharma. If you're hoping to buy a home,
Kamala Harris is going to help make.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
It more affordable.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
And no matter who you are, Kamala Harris is going
to stand up and fight for your freedom to live
the life.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
That you want to lead, because that's what we want.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
For ourselves and it's what we want for our neighbors.
You know, you might not know it, but I haven't
given a lot of big speeches like this, but I
have given a lot of pep talks. So we finished
with this team. It's the fourth quarter. We're down a
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field goal. But we're on offense and we've got the ball.
We're driving down the field, and boy do we have
the right team. Kamala Harris is top, Kamala Harris is experienced,
and Kamala.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Harris is ready.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Our job, our job, our job, our job for everyone
watching is to get in the trenches and do the
blocking and tackling. One inch at a time, one yard
at a time, one phone call at a time, one
door knock at a time, one five dollars donation at
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a time. Look, we got seven six days. That's nothing.
There'll be time to sleep when your dad. We're going
to leave it on the field. That's how we'll keep
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moving forward. That's how we'll turn the page on Donald Trump.
That's how we'll build a country where workers come first,
healthcare and housing are human rights, and the government stays
the hell out of your bedroom. That's how we make
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America a place where no child is left hungry.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Where no community.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Is left behind, where nobody gets told they don't belong.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
That's how we're going to fight.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
And as the next president of the United States always says,
when we fight, when we fight, when we fight, thank
you God.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
What even listening to k if. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
That was the nomination acceptance speech for Tim Walls, Minnesota Governor,
and I have to say I was very surprised at
how relatively brief the speech was. He didn't go much
into proposed policy that supposed Harris Walls administration would feature.
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He did not spend a lot of time talking about
presidential nominee Harris. It was just an overall short speech.
It was to the point I think it was heartfelt.
He spent time talking about his own personal story, difficulty
starting a family, talked about his kids, hope and gusts,
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and you couldn't see the visuals, but his family was
very emotional at that point. But it was still relatively
short as far as vice presidential nomination speeches go. I
can't put an exact number on it, but it was
maybe twenty twenty five minutes.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
In most he.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Ran through his greatest hits though Weird, We'll Sleep when
We're dead, Mind your mind, your own damn business, the
big hit. Yeah, but he didn't didn't.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I'm not grading it as far as quality, just saying,
you know, it wasn't all that long, but I think
it did what it was intended to do as far
as get the crowd going formally introduced himself to all
the nation, and the way that JD Vance introduced himself
to the nation, similarly telling his backstory, telling about the
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road that he took to this moment, and humanizing himself,
humanizing the person who's at the top of the ticket.
And it'll be interesting to see what happens when these
two eventually debate, talking about JD. Vance and also Tim
Wall two big personalities, more so than we've seen in
recent years as far as vice presidential candidates. When if
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you were to compare that to Mike Pins and Kamala
Harris the last cycle, it's not the same, different dynamic.
I would expect more fireworks this time around. We're a
different time in America, so you know, incivility is probably
going to be more featured than civility I think. But
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that was it, you know, I was expecting it to
actually go closer to nine o'clock. Maybe the Democrats got
the memos like, hey, you need to end the damn
show earlier and more, because the first two nights they
went way way, way over, way over, and this one
and obviously Tim Wallas's speech closed out the night ended
like eleven forty pm, but relatively speaking, eleven forty pm
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on the East coast. But relatively speaking, that was early
given the first two nights, and before he started speaking,
I was giving some numbers about vote viewership and trends
and patterns. How that can be indicative, indicative of swelling growth,
more interest in a convention, or declining interest. It will
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be clear by tomorrow. If the Democrats still have escalating viewership,
that means the message is landing, more people are tuning in,
they're reaching out to more people, and people are wanting
to see more of the convention. Now, Donald Trump did
twenty five million viewers for his speech, and that will
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be the bar that will be the reference point for
Kamala Harris. The Democrats have beaten the Republicans, at least
in the first three nights.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Well, let me put it this way.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
The first night of the DNC was in terms of viewership,
was higher than the first three nights of the RNC.
And the second night of the DNC was higher than
the first night of the DNC. And depending on what
this night does, whether it's higher or lower, we'll get
a clearer sense of which way they're trending, and then
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we'll be able to match up Kamala Harris's viewership numbers
against Donald Trump's numbers and we'll see where it stands.
And I think we'll also get some fundraising numbers. We
haven't seen any for the past couple of days as
far as what has been coming in specifically tied to
the DNC and also her campaigning simultaneous to the DNC.
You may remember that Kamala Harris was in Milwaukee yesterday
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campaigning as the dn C was also in mid swing.
It's Later with mo Kelly. We'll have more in just
a moment CAFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on
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Speaker 1 (21:37):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (21:43):
Just a final thought on the events tonight at the DNC.
You may not know this, but the Democrats the DNC specifically,
they have more than two hundred digital content creators who
have been given media access and they've been placed down
front to create in real time as the convention is
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going on.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
That's significant in and of itself.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
It's even more significant when you realize that this is
the first time that the party has ever done anything
like this.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
For all the social.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Media that we've seen that we've participated in since maybe
I would say Barack Obama he was the first presidential
candidate to really utilize social media.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
He used Facebook.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Former President Donald Trump utilized Twitter, So we're talking some
sixteen years ago. This is the first year Republicans and
Democrats have utilized influencers as part of their national convention.
The RNC had seventy online personalities this year and the
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Democrats have credentialed more than two hundred. Meaning the battlefield
is very much in the digital spaceference. When you have
traditional media, there's certain rules that traditional media has to
play by. You're limited as far as the time that
you can air something like for example, the DNCS over
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local broadcasts have already returned to their regular programming now
cable news. They'll have some other spend, they'll have conversations,
they'll have analysts, but they won't have as much of
the core content which was available early in the evening.
But social media, that's twenty four to seven. You can
put together tiktoks, you can put together memes, you can
put together all these short videos and send them anywhere
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and everywhere, and they're not required to show the same
I'll say journalistic restraint that a broadcast would have to
show or cable news would have to observe. You have
much more freedom to craft a message, and you have
much more opportunities to reach people young and old. Remember
I said earlier in the show, maybe you don't remember,
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I said that the Democrats were struggling mightily with viewers.
Not I said viewers, viewers eighteen to thirty four, in
other words, eighteen to thirty four. For the most part,
they're not tuning in, they're not watching what you might
have watched tonight or what we heard here on KFI.
They're doing their own thing. And if they should come
across either of the conventions, it'll be via social media.
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And so the DNC has made it a priority to
make sure that you do come across something some part
of this via social media, specifically TikTok, specifically x slash, Twitter,
those short videos, those memes, easily shareable, easily digestible, And
that's how they're trying to shape opinion.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
And it's not just about this election. Think about this.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
You have thousands and thousands of first time voters. They
may register as an independent, they may register as a
Democrat or Republican, but most likely their voting preferences will
likely stay the same for future elections. They'll probably if
you can get them now, get them young, they'll probably
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stay with you now as they get older. Historically, people
tend to get more conservative small sea as they get older,
but when they're young, they usually lean to the left.
They're more open to certain possibilities. And that's why both
parties are trying really really hard to get these young people.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
And you have to meet them where they are.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
You can't expect them to tune into I guess there's
maybe a three or four hour event today. I think
the DNC started sometime around five o'clock our time, and
it's going on nine o'clock.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
You can't expect someone who has better things to do
to tune in to these conventions. But they will watch
a sixty second TikTok, or they will open something that
was sent to them by a friend who has found
something really cool or very funny or something that is
going to pick their interest on TikTok or Facebook, even
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maybe not Facebook, that's for old folks, now, you know.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Yeah, what about MySpace.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
Mo.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Look, my space still exists. I don't know who's on it,
but no, Tom sold it and it's living on a
beach somewhere counting his money to this day. Look, I
had a MySpace page. I know it doesn't work anymore,
but let me just go to MySpace dot com.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
It still exists, it's still up there.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
I like that you had to use your own code
on MySpace. You did what type of code you had
to like type stuff in and code?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Oh you no?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Oh yes you could. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
You had HTML capabilities where you could decorate your own page.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
You could change it colors and everything.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
And then they realized that that was not a good
idea in a security sense.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Right. But I do not think young people are going
to MySpace for their politics at this point.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Look, old people aren't going to MySpace for anything. Hey, Stephan,
did you ever have a MySpace page? Was that after you?
I sure did? That was the beginning of social media
for me. And I do remember being able to code
like that. It made you feel like you're this it guy.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
Yes you could just you know, put in all the
things you needed and it's like, oh, now your background's green.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Right, And I think that was my first foray into
just light coding, just to get some of the ideas
of how HTML worked. But I had a my first
I'm gonna say, I had a MySpace page and a
black planet dot Com page at the same time.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Oh I haven't seen black planet dot com. Oh yeah,
it was. It was like a nightclub. Let me put
it that way. I heard.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
I didn't have one, but I heard of it. Oh yeah,
it was on and popping.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Let me take you.
Speaker 7 (27:39):
And also to your point about the whole TikTok thing,
that's very true because it's it's kind of the way
we can relate to it as adult is how no
one watches a full award show or a full late
night show. They just catch the clips on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
What if I've been saying for the award shows to
do for how many years now, Imagine if they put
as much emphasis into their social media as the DNC is.
Imagine because let's be clear, the DNC, this is a program.
It's a variety program. You can actually get an Emmy
for this, and they're trying to get eyeballs. And the
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problem is, I think these award shows have lost sight
of the fact that just because you cannot measure them
in terms of Nielsen viewership. You know, people watching tiktoks,
it's not going to translate to Nielsen numbers that they've
somehow thought it is less important.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
No, it's actually equally important. You know.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
You just want people to be able to find your stuff.
You want people to see your content. And if you
prioritize social media, then you have a way in which
you can like drop breadcrumbs and they'll eventually come back
to your content. But yeah, the political parties have figured
it out. They figured out that if they actually want
to reach younger people, they have to put social media
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as a priority.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
And both parties have done.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
And another, Democrats have gone way over the top, more
than twice as many influencers and digital creators on site
in the auditorium as opposed to Republicans. But that's the
next battleground, the digital online space, trying to recruit new
voters and be able to reach them. And here's something else.
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It's a lot less expensive than knocking on doors. It's
basically free. You have the content, you just need people
there to package it and send it out, and you
can send it out immediately. Remember, put it this way,
gone are the days where you need to get something
in the mail, a leaflet, a flyer, someone knocking on
your door and say hey, are you registered to vote?
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They can do all that in a much more slick,
packaged way, and then they're trying to, you know, just
grow their political base for the next possibly thirty forty years.
But it starts right now. I am six forty. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
You have no axes to grind here. What do you
think we are? Lumberjacks? How do you even grind an ax?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Anyway?
Speaker 6 (30:08):
K S I
Speaker 2 (30:09):
M K O S T H G two, Los Angeles,
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Kf I AM six forty years Later with Mo Kelly.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and we're checking
in with the DNC. It seems that they're getting ready
to have Governor Walls speak. I believe he's coming to
the stage now, Stephan, Is he coming to the stage?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Oh, there he is. No, he's coming now, So let's
quead and turn off the audio on that.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Please welcome the Democratic nominee for Vice President, Governor Tim
Walls Town.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
He's acknowledging various people. Audience.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Thank you, wow, well, thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Thank you first of all the Vice President Harris, thanks
for putting your trust in me and for inviting me
to be part of this incredible campaign. And a thank
you President Joe Biden for four years.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Of strong, historic leadership.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
It's the honor of my life to accept your nomination
for Vice President of the United States.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
We're all we're all.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Here tonight for one beautiful, simple reason.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
We love this country.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
So thank you to all.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Of you here in Chicago and all of you watching
at home tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Thank you for your passion.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Thank you for your determination, and most of all, thank
you for bringing the joy to this fight.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Now. I grew up in Butte.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Nebraska, a town of four.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Hundred at people.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I had twenty four kids in my high school class,
and none of them went to Yale. But I'll tell
you what, growing up in a small town like that,
you'll learn how to take.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Care of each other. That family down the road.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
They may not think like you do, they may not
pray like you do, they may not love like you do,
but they're your neighbors, and you look out for them,
and they look out for you. Everybody belongs and everybody
has a responsibility to contribute. For me, it was serving
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in the Army National Guard. I joined up two days
after my seventeenth birthday, and I proudly wore our nation's
uniform for twenty four years. My dad, a Korean War
era Army veteran, died of lung cancer a couple years later.
(04:09):
He left behind a mountain of medical debt. Thank God
for Social Security survivor benefits, and thank God for the
GI Bill that allowed my dad and me to go
to college and millions of other Americans. Eventually, like the
(04:35):
rest of my family, I fell in love with teaching.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Three out of four of us married teachers.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I wound up teaching social studies and coaching football at
Mancato West High School goh Scarletts.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
We ran, We.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Ran a forty four defense, We played through to the
whistle on every single play, and we even want a
state championship. Never closed the yearbook, people, But it was
those players and my students who inspired me to run
for Congress. They saw in me what I had hoped
(05:23):
to instill in them, a commitment to the common good,
an understanding that we're all in this together, and the
belief that a single person can make a real difference
for their neighbors. So there, I was a forty something
(05:44):
high school teacher with little kids, zero political experience, and
no money, running in a deep red district. But you
know what, never underestimate a public school teacher. Now, I
(06:06):
represented my neighbors in Congress for twelve years, and I
learned an awful lot.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
I learned how to.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Work across the aisle on issues like growing the rural
economies and taking care of veterans. And I learned how
to compromise without compromising my values. Then I came back
to serve as governor, and we got right to work
making a difference in our neighbors' lives. We cut taxes
(06:36):
for the middle class.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
We passed paid family and medical leave.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
We invested in fighting crime and affordable housing. We cut
the cost of prescription drugs and help people escape the
kind of medical debt that nearly sank my family. And
we made sure that every kid in our state gets
breakfast and lunch every day, so while other states were
(07:13):
banning books from their schools, we were banishing hunger from ours.
We also protected reproductive freedom because in Minnesota, we respect
our neighbors and the personal choices they make, and even
(07:37):
if we wouldn't make those same choices for ourselves, We've
got a golden rule, mind your own damn business, and
that includes IVF and fertility treatments. And this is personal
for Gwyn and I. If you've never experienced the hell
(08:03):
that is infertility, I guarantee you you know somebody who has.
And I can remember praying each night for a phone call,
the pit in your stomach when the phone had rang,
and the absolute agony when we heard the treatments hadn't worked.
It took Gwen and I years but we had access
to fertility treatments, and when our daughter was born, we
(08:26):
named her Hope, Hope, Gus and Gwen.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You are my entire world and I love you.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I'm letting you in on how we started a family
because this is a big part about what this election
is about.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Freedom.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
When Republicans use the word freedom, they mean that the
government should be free to invade your doctor's office, corporations
free to pollute your air and water, and banks free
to take advantage of customers. But when we Democrats talk
(09:18):
about freedom, we mean the freedom to make a better.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Life for yourself and the people that you love. Freedom
to make your own.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Health care decisions, and yeah, your kids, freedom to go
to school without worrying about being shot dead in the hall.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Look, I know guns.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I'm a veteran, I'm a hunter, and I was a
better shot than most Republicans in Congress, and I got
the trophies to prove it. But I'm also a dad.
I believe in the Second Amendment, but I also believe
our first responsibility is to keep our kids safe.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
That's what this is all about.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
The responsibility we have to our kids, to each other,
and to the future. That we're building together in which
everyone is free to build the kind of life they want.
But not everyone has that same sense of responsibility.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Some folks just.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Don't understand what it takes to be a good neighbor.
Take Donald Trump and jd Vance. Their Project twenty twenty
five will make things much much harder for people who
are just trying to live their lives. They spend a
lot of time pretending they know nothing about this.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
But look, I coached high.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
School football long enough to know and trust me on this.
When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook,
they're going to use it.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
And we know if these guys.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Get back in the White House, they'll start jacking up
the costs on the middle class. They'll repeal Affordable Care Act,
they'll gut Social Security and Medicare, and they will ban
abortion across this country, with or without Congress. Here's the thing.
(11:34):
It's an agenda nobody asked for. It's an agenda that
serves nobody except the richest and the most extreme amongst us.
And it's an agenda that does nothing for our neighbors
in need. Is it weird, Absolutely absolutely, But it's all
(11:59):
so wrong, and it's dangerous. It's not just me saying so,
it's Trump's own people. They were with him for four years.
They're warning us that the next four years will be
much much worse. You know, when I was teaching, every
year we'd elect a student body president. And you know
(12:20):
what those teenagers could teach Donald Trump a hell.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Of a lot about what a leader is.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Leaders don't spend all day insulting people and blaming others.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Leaders do the work. So I don't know about you.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I'm ready to turn the page on these guys.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
So go ahead say it with me.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
We're not going back.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
We've got something better to offer the American people. It
starts with our candidate, Kamala Harris. From her first day
as a prosecutor, as a district attorney, as an attorney general,
as a United States Senator, and then our Vice president,
(13:13):
She's fought.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
On the side of the American people.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
She's taken on the predecestors and fraudsters, She's taken down
the transnational gangs, and she stood up to powerful corporate interest.
She has never hesitated to reach across that aisle if
it meant improving your lives, and she's always done it
with energy.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
With passion and with joy. Folks, we've got.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
A chance to make Kamala Harris the next president of
the United States. But I think we owe it to
the American people to tell them exactly what she'd do
as president before we ask them for their votes. So
here this is the part. Clip and save it and
send it to your undecided relatives so they know. If
(14:07):
you're a middle class family or a family trying to
get into the middle class, Kamala.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Harris is going to cut your taxes. If you're getting squeezed.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
By prescription drug prices, Kamala Harris is going to take
on big Pharma. If you're hoping to buy a home,
Kamala Harris is going to help make.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
It more affordable.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
And no matter who you are, Kamala Harris is going
to stand up and fight for your freedom to live
the life.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
That you want to lead, because that's what we want.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
For ourselves and it's what we want for our neighbors.
You know, you might not know it, but I haven't
given a lot of big speeches like this, but I
have given a lot of pep talks. So we finished
with this team. It's the fourth quarter. We're down a
(15:10):
field goal. But we're on offense and we've got the ball.
We're driving down the field, and boy do we have
the right team. Kamala Harris is top, Kamala Harris is experienced,
and Kamala.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Harris is ready.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Our job, our job, our job, our job for everyone
watching is to get in the trenches and do the
blocking and tackling. One inch at a time, one yard
at a time, one phone call at a time, one
door knock at a time, one five dollars donation at
(15:52):
a time. Look, we got seven six days. That's nothing.
There'll be time to sleep when your dad. We're going
to leave it on the field. That's how we'll keep
(16:12):
moving forward. That's how we'll turn the page on Donald Trump.
That's how we'll build a country where workers come first,
healthcare and housing are human rights, and the government stays
the hell out of your bedroom. That's how we make
(16:37):
America a place where no child is left hungry.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Where no community.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Is left behind, where nobody gets told they don't belong.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
That's how we're going to fight.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
And as the next president of the United States always says,
when we fight, when we fight, when we fight, thank
you God.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
What even listening to k if. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
That was the nomination acceptance speech for Tim Walls, Minnesota Governor,
and I have to say I was very surprised at
how relatively brief the speech was. He didn't go much
into proposed policy that supposed Harris Walls administration would feature.
(17:34):
He did not spend a lot of time talking about
presidential nominee Harris. It was just an overall short speech.
It was to the point I think it was heartfelt.
He spent time talking about his own personal story, difficulty
starting a family, talked about his kids, hope and gusts,
(17:55):
and you couldn't see the visuals, but his family was
very emotional at that point. But it was still relatively
short as far as vice presidential nomination speeches go. I
can't put an exact number on it, but it was
maybe twenty twenty five minutes.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
In most he.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Ran through his greatest hits though Weird, We'll Sleep when
We're dead, Mind your mind, your own damn business, the
big hit. Yeah, but he didn't didn't.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I'm not grading it as far as quality, just saying,
you know, it wasn't all that long, but I think
it did what it was intended to do as far
as get the crowd going formally introduced himself to all
the nation, and the way that JD Vance introduced himself
to the nation, similarly telling his backstory, telling about the
(18:44):
road that he took to this moment, and humanizing himself,
humanizing the person who's at the top of the ticket.
And it'll be interesting to see what happens when these
two eventually debate, talking about JD. Vance and also Tim
Wall two big personalities, more so than we've seen in
recent years as far as vice presidential candidates. When if
(19:07):
you were to compare that to Mike Pins and Kamala
Harris the last cycle, it's not the same, different dynamic.
I would expect more fireworks this time around. We're a
different time in America, so you know, incivility is probably
going to be more featured than civility I think. But
(19:27):
that was it, you know, I was expecting it to
actually go closer to nine o'clock. Maybe the Democrats got
the memos like, hey, you need to end the damn
show earlier and more, because the first two nights they
went way way, way over, way over, and this one
and obviously Tim Wallas's speech closed out the night ended
like eleven forty pm, but relatively speaking, eleven forty pm
(19:51):
on the East coast. But relatively speaking, that was early
given the first two nights, and before he started speaking,
I was giving some numbers about vote viewership and trends
and patterns. How that can be indicative, indicative of swelling growth,
more interest in a convention, or declining interest. It will
(20:13):
be clear by tomorrow. If the Democrats still have escalating viewership,
that means the message is landing, more people are tuning in,
they're reaching out to more people, and people are wanting
to see more of the convention. Now, Donald Trump did
twenty five million viewers for his speech, and that will
(20:33):
be the bar that will be the reference point for
Kamala Harris. The Democrats have beaten the Republicans, at least
in the first three nights.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Well, let me put it this way.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
The first night of the DNC was in terms of viewership,
was higher than the first three nights of the RNC.
And the second night of the DNC was higher than
the first night of the DNC. And depending on what
this night does, whether it's higher or lower, we'll get
a clearer sense of which way they're trending, and then
(21:03):
we'll be able to match up Kamala Harris's viewership numbers
against Donald Trump's numbers and we'll see where it stands.
And I think we'll also get some fundraising numbers. We
haven't seen any for the past couple of days as
far as what has been coming in specifically tied to
the DNC and also her campaigning simultaneous to the DNC.
You may remember that Kamala Harris was in Milwaukee yesterday
(21:27):
campaigning as the dn C was also in mid swing.
It's Later with mo Kelly. We'll have more in just
a moment CAFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on
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Speaker 1 (21:37):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Just a final thought on the events tonight at the DNC.
You may not know this, but the Democrats the DNC specifically,
they have more than two hundred digital content creators who
have been given media access and they've been placed down
front to create in real time as the convention is
(22:05):
going on.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
That's significant in and of itself.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
It's even more significant when you realize that this is
the first time that the party has ever done anything
like this.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
For all the social.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Media that we've seen that we've participated in since maybe
I would say Barack Obama he was the first presidential
candidate to really utilize social media.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
He used Facebook.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Former President Donald Trump utilized Twitter, So we're talking some
sixteen years ago. This is the first year Republicans and
Democrats have utilized influencers as part of their national convention.
The RNC had seventy online personalities this year and the
(22:51):
Democrats have credentialed more than two hundred. Meaning the battlefield
is very much in the digital spaceference. When you have
traditional media, there's certain rules that traditional media has to
play by. You're limited as far as the time that
you can air something like for example, the DNCS over
(23:12):
local broadcasts have already returned to their regular programming now
cable news. They'll have some other spend, they'll have conversations,
they'll have analysts, but they won't have as much of
the core content which was available early in the evening.
But social media, that's twenty four to seven. You can
put together tiktoks, you can put together memes, you can
put together all these short videos and send them anywhere
(23:34):
and everywhere, and they're not required to show the same
I'll say journalistic restraint that a broadcast would have to
show or cable news would have to observe. You have
much more freedom to craft a message, and you have
much more opportunities to reach people young and old. Remember
I said earlier in the show, maybe you don't remember,
(23:55):
I said that the Democrats were struggling mightily with viewers.
Not I said viewers, viewers eighteen to thirty four, in
other words, eighteen to thirty four. For the most part,
they're not tuning in, they're not watching what you might
have watched tonight or what we heard here on KFI.
They're doing their own thing. And if they should come
across either of the conventions, it'll be via social media.
(24:19):
And so the DNC has made it a priority to
make sure that you do come across something some part
of this via social media, specifically TikTok, specifically x slash, Twitter,
those short videos, those memes, easily shareable, easily digestible, And
that's how they're trying to shape opinion.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
And it's not just about this election. Think about this.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
You have thousands and thousands of first time voters. They
may register as an independent, they may register as a
Democrat or Republican, but most likely their voting preferences will
likely stay the same for future elections. They'll probably if
you can get them now, get them young, they'll probably
(25:06):
stay with you now as they get older. Historically, people
tend to get more conservative small sea as they get older,
but when they're young, they usually lean to the left.
They're more open to certain possibilities. And that's why both
parties are trying really really hard to get these young people.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
And you have to meet them where they are.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
You can't expect them to tune into I guess there's
maybe a three or four hour event today. I think
the DNC started sometime around five o'clock our time, and
it's going on nine o'clock.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
You can't expect someone who has better things to do
to tune in to these conventions. But they will watch
a sixty second TikTok, or they will open something that
was sent to them by a friend who has found
something really cool or very funny or something that is
going to pick their interest on TikTok or Facebook, even
(26:00):
maybe not Facebook, that's for old folks, now, you know.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Yeah, what about MySpace.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
Mo.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Look, my space still exists. I don't know who's on it,
but no, Tom sold it and it's living on a
beach somewhere counting his money to this day. Look, I
had a MySpace page. I know it doesn't work anymore,
but let me just go to MySpace dot com.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
It still exists, it's still up there.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
I like that you had to use your own code
on MySpace. You did what type of code you had
to like type stuff in and code?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Oh you no?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Oh yes you could. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
You had HTML capabilities where you could decorate your own page.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
You could change it colors and everything.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
And then they realized that that was not a good
idea in a security sense.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Right. But I do not think young people are going
to MySpace for their politics at this point.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Look, old people aren't going to MySpace for anything. Hey, Stephan,
did you ever have a MySpace page? Was that after you?
I sure did? That was the beginning of social media
for me. And I do remember being able to code
like that. It made you feel like you're this it guy.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
Yes you could just you know, put in all the
things you needed and it's like, oh, now your background's green.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Right, And I think that was my first foray into
just light coding, just to get some of the ideas
of how HTML worked. But I had a my first
I'm gonna say, I had a MySpace page and a
black planet dot Com page at the same time.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Oh I haven't seen black planet dot com. Oh yeah,
it was. It was like a nightclub. Let me put
it that way. I heard.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
I didn't have one, but I heard of it. Oh yeah,
it was on and popping.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Let me take you.
Speaker 7 (27:39):
And also to your point about the whole TikTok thing,
that's very true because it's it's kind of the way
we can relate to it as adult is how no
one watches a full award show or a full late
night show. They just catch the clips on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
What if I've been saying for the award shows to
do for how many years now, Imagine if they put
as much emphasis into their social media as the DNC is.
Imagine because let's be clear, the DNC, this is a program.
It's a variety program. You can actually get an Emmy
for this, and they're trying to get eyeballs. And the
(28:13):
problem is, I think these award shows have lost sight
of the fact that just because you cannot measure them
in terms of Nielsen viewership. You know, people watching tiktoks,
it's not going to translate to Nielsen numbers that they've
somehow thought it is less important.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
No, it's actually equally important. You know.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
You just want people to be able to find your stuff.
You want people to see your content. And if you
prioritize social media, then you have a way in which
you can like drop breadcrumbs and they'll eventually come back
to your content. But yeah, the political parties have figured
it out. They figured out that if they actually want
to reach younger people, they have to put social media
(28:57):
as a priority.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
And both parties have done.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
And another, Democrats have gone way over the top, more
than twice as many influencers and digital creators on site
in the auditorium as opposed to Republicans. But that's the
next battleground, the digital online space, trying to recruit new
voters and be able to reach them. And here's something else.
(29:20):
It's a lot less expensive than knocking on doors. It's
basically free. You have the content, you just need people
there to package it and send it out, and you
can send it out immediately. Remember, put it this way,
gone are the days where you need to get something
in the mail, a leaflet, a flyer, someone knocking on
your door and say hey, are you registered to vote?
(29:41):
They can do all that in a much more slick,
packaged way, and then they're trying to, you know, just
grow their political base for the next possibly thirty forty years.
But it starts right now. I am six forty. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
You have no axes to grind here. What do you
think we are? Lumberjacks? How do you even grind an ax?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Anyway?
Speaker 6 (30:08):
K S I
Speaker 2 (30:09):
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