Vibes Only
The polls are broken. The stakes are unprecedented. And the future of democracy, like it or not, hinges on one thing – VIBES. Vibes Only is here to check the vibes of American politics and break down the need-to-know news of the week. And while one of the two major parties in the country has overwhelmingly embraced a right-wing movement whose whole vibe is undermining democracy and social progress, it’s clear we need voices that can meet voters where they are and clearly and effectively call that BS out for what it is.
Co-host Brian Derrick has earned a reputation for his ability to break down political news and define the stakes to his sizable and dedicated social media audience. Co-host Glennis Meagher is a digital media savant who has built platforms to encourage millennials and gen z to engage with politics, some for the first time. Even when the news of the week could easily kill the vibe, Brian and Glennis are like those needed friends that have the unique ability to keep it real AND pull us out of a doom spiral.
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Inside the DNC: Joyous and Exuberant Vibes
This week, Vibes Only is pleased to bring you a special episode from inside the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, IL. We discuss the policies and the bold vision for the future of America laid out in the speeches from both legacy Democratic Party leaders and the up-and-comers. And because this convention didn't just fall out of a coconut tree, we dig into some of the context behind some of the speeches and the state of the 2024 presidential race.
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BRIAN Derrick: No TV pundits.
Glennis Meagher: No crowded lineups that push the president out of prime time.
Just Vibes. This is Vibes Only, the podcast that checks the vibes of American politics each and every week. And this week, we're bringing you those vibes from inside the United Center at the Democratic National Convention. Pfft.
And the Vibes this week.
Joy Reid: Exuberance. Uh, joy.
There's a sense that it's, it'll be a fight, but it'll be a joyous fight now. It won't be a slog
Glennis Meagher: We'll talk about the speeches and the vibes that we're seeing in and around the convention so far. And the current state of the race to replace Joseph R.
Biden.
Brian Derrick: Before playing
Glennis Meagher: an It's Giving, pulling up our group chat, and leaving you with a good vibe goodbye. Let's get into it.
Brian Derrick: Hi, Glenn is
Glennis Meagher: is our first Vibes Only recording in person.
Brian Derrick: we are here live at the United
yeah. Happy convention.
Glennis Meagher: are you feeling?
Brian Derrick: I feel so energized, so excited. every single day so far has been better than the one before. So I'm thrilled. How are you feeling?
Glennis Meagher: Good. It's really feeling like the Super Bowl [00:01:00] meets the Olympics meets like mathletes or something.
It's like, we're going
Brian Derrick: Nerd prom.
Glennis Meagher: the vibe is super, super high.
Brian Derrick: Yeah. What's been your, let's do some quick superlatives. What's been your favorite speech so far?
Glennis Meagher: So far, I would say AOC. Yeah. You question
Brian Derrick: I'm going to go with Hillary Clinton.
Glennis Meagher: she looked not to be like, she looked amazing. She looked amazing.
Brian Derrick: I thought it was one of the best speeches I've ever heard her give, period. and Jasmine Crockett, honorable
Glennis Meagher: Yeah. That was okay. What?
Brian Derrick: What? Okay. Best burn. Best Trump down.
Glennis Meagher: I really liked when Sean Fain called him a scab.
Brian Derrick: Oh, that was, yeah. And, um,
Glennis Meagher: The United Center
Brian Derrick: was here for
Glennis Meagher: Here for it.
I'm also shocked I still have my voice, because the amount of, like, applause, like, Alexa, play Lady Gaga, applause, because it is out of control.
Yeah, it is. In a good way, though.
Brian Derrick: and that honestly is part of the reason that Monday night's program ran [00:02:00] so long was because there was minutes after minutes of thunderous ovation, like regularly.
it wasn't forced in any way. I mean, we were both here and it felt super organic. People are just
Glennis Meagher: just
Brian Derrick: over the moon and fired up about Kamala Harris,
Glennis Meagher: Joe Biden had to like shut us up. He was like,
Brian Derrick: Yeah. Enough. So did Hillary. I mean, yeah, it was,
Glennis Meagher: It was great. So let's talk about why we're here. We are here as credentialed content creators, which is the first time in the history of the DNC that creators are being treated like press, which is thrilling.
And
Brian Derrick: check me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the RNC even did the same
Glennis Meagher: I don't know.
Brian Derrick: creator credentialing.
Glennis Meagher: don't know. I don't care to know. But I did see Charlie Kirk in the hallway here.
Brian Derrick: Did you?
Glennis Meagher: Which just, you know,
Brian Derrick: He's not going to be a very good undercover operative for
Glennis Meagher: that. No, no, not at all.
Everyone's
Brian Derrick: dartboards with his face on them at home.
Glennis Meagher: but you know, at the DNC and As with the RNC, like they have to invite all press, [00:03:00] so Right. Charlie Kirk is press.
Brian Derrick: I think it's a huge leap forward for the party and for content creators
Glennis Meagher: for sure.
Brian Derrick: to have such a substantial presence at the convention where there are multiple suites dedicated to creators to enable them to make more content the same way that there are suites dedicated to
Glennis Meagher: Totally. I'm looking at them right now. I see ABC, PBS, Fox news, CNN, and then studio 24, which is the content creation suite here at the DNC.
Brian Derrick: And then there's also the floor access where there's this like little,
Glennis Meagher: you go at the platform? It's like the blue
Brian Derrick: creator platform. Yeah. where you have just like clear line of sight to the speakers and you're like right amongst all the delegates. It's probably the rowdiest part of the entire, I still haven't been
Glennis Meagher: you gotta go. Go today. It's like really cool and like the delegates are a vibe. Like super hyped on democracy, on their state, on being here.
I'm like give me some of that juice.
Brian Derrick: Right. If you are, if you haven't watched live [00:04:00] yet, the coverage of the convention, the whole bottom of the arena is like all of the delegates representing all 50 states. And those are the people like sent to represent their voters and like the nominating process. And so those are the people who will officially cast their, vote, although ceremonially, uh, for Kamala Harris on Thursday.
Yeah.
Glennis Meagher: Something I, cause I was watching clips last night when I got back, and I wish that we had here, which we don't have cause it's not like a basketball game, but on primetime they do the cutaways. So you get to see where everyone is and people's reactions. Whereas like here, we don't, we didn't realize for certain speeches that like Kamala actually stayed in the United Center and that we were able to like cut to.
but, but yeah, That is something that I love seeing post, post
Brian Derrick: sure. And I also like noticed just in watching the coverage here on, on the screens that are around the arena, and, and just walking around as well, it is [00:05:00] such a diverse group of people of all ages, all races, religions, like, Every identity under the sun is here and represented in significant numbers because this party represents America in such a real way, which is maybe lacking in other major parties.
A little long.
Glennis Meagher: So on Monday night, it was quite late for all of us, but it was worth it to see, you know, Joe Biden. But during the day, there's a lot of caucus meetings. And to your point, there's a women's caucus, there's the black caucus, youth caucus, LGBTQ caucus, labor caucus, Native American caucus, API, Caucus, Hispanic, Interfaith, and Poverty Council Caucus.
So that's just some. There's more. So we truly are, you know, here at the DNC representing the full scope of [00:06:00] America.
Brian Derrick: Yeah, and we have to talk A little bit about like the content of what has been focused on so far, the message of the convention, which I think has been incredibly forward looking, Monday night was centered, or at least culminated in this, like, thank you, Joe moment where the entire arena was lip chanting
Glennis Meagher: Thank you, Joe.
Brian Derrick: seemingly an hour and a half, maybe longer.
Brian Derrick: which was incredible and just palpable to see the sort of heroes, Welcome
Glennis Meagher: received. Mm-Hmm. When
Brian Derrick: walked on stage. He was emotional about it. It
Glennis Meagher: I mean it was a really nice moment, a historical moment because it really was his last major or one of his last major speeches.
Brian Derrick: the most visible
Glennis Meagher: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Like
Brian Derrick: we will get more addresses from him. He's like, I have a job to do and
Glennis Meagher: yeah. , I'm loving that. He's like digging his heels in.
He is like, I'm [00:07:00] not going anywhere.
Brian Derrick: But, Yeah, I think that outside of his remarks, the entire convention has been geared towards what does the future of the party and the country look like, what do we want it to look like, and what do we need to do in the next 75 days in order to make that vision a reality.
Glennis Meagher: Yikes.
Reality check.
Brian Derrick: Are there particular issues that jumped out at you as being most salient thus
Glennis Meagher: Well, for me, the repro moment on Monday night was so powerful. So, for those who didn't see it in primetime, there were three, A family, a husband and wife, and then two individuals who were impacted by, restrictive reproductive laws, Texas and Kentucky.
And I forget the third, Louisiana. Thank you. and it was, you could hear a pin drop in the United Center. It was so, moving to, to humanize policy in that way, to have people speak to their actual stories. it was, for me, that was like, I, I like stood still.
Brian Derrick: sure people have seen it online by now. the woman from [00:08:00] Kentucky Hadley really just digging deep and showed such courage in telling her story and then was commended and lifted up by her governor, Andy Beshear, right after, which was incredibly powerful. But yeah, just a horrifying and very concrete, picture of like what these laws really mean for people across the country.
And for the millions of people who really do get stuck in this like pro life, pro choice, like, rhetorical argument where they're just throwing talking points back and forth, you'd completely lose the humanity of the issue. And I thought that bringing that forward was so important
Glennis Meagher: Yeah. And done
Brian Derrick: Although I did hear, I didn't watch it on TV obviously, but I did hear that multiple of the stations had cut away and didn't show that segment.
I heard CBS did, I heard ABC did, um, which would be really disappointing, but I'm, I, again,
Glennis Meagher: it online.
Brian Derrick: another reason that having content creators here is so important because you can [00:09:00] capture those moments and you can push them to the point of visibility that even an ABC might not be able to, if you're able to like frame the issue appropriately and connect it with the Voters in a way that is going to resonate
Glennis Meagher: Absolutely. They also started laying the groundwork, uh, just in terms of like Kamala Harris story,
Brian Derrick: Yeah,
Glennis Meagher: they had an intro video. The way they're kind of doing interstitials I think is smart too. They're giving you a little bit of a tease of who's coming up next. So there's a little bit of anticipation and excitement in the audience. they had two of her childhood friends speak and her sister do some VO on a video.
And none of us were expecting this, but Monday night she came out and it was like two roaring applause yet again.
Brian Derrick: How have we not talked about the surprise
Glennis Meagher: know the surprise on Monday. I
Brian Derrick: the lead. That was wild.
Brian Derrick: I've literally, I've never jumped out of my chair
Glennis Meagher: Yeah, it was great
Brian Derrick: be. Is that her? It's her!
Glennis Meagher: vibe felt so good though, because it was so clearly like a passing of the torch of like, yes, like, let's [00:10:00] like put in, put it like on stage that this is in fact Kamala's night and a convention, but to have her have that moment first and then have Joe Biden have that wonderful speech, and then for them all to come out together,
Brian Derrick: agree. I think it also in an interesting way,
Glennis Meagher: almost
Brian Derrick: de centered her kind of But it it was just like she didn't need all of the pomp and circumstance of this huge buildup over days and this grand entrance, which is still going to happen. But she chose to just like walk
Glennis Meagher: out Yeah, like, hey.
Brian Derrick: you know, Thank Joe Biden because that's what she wanted to do and she wanted to have that moment and she wasn't going to like hold back for her own sort of like
Glennis Meagher: Pop in circumstance. Yeah. Yeah.
Brian Derrick: Type of moment, which I thought was just very down to earth and cool of her to do frankly Yeah, Wow, Yeah,
I absolutely agree with you. And introducing [00:11:00] Kamala to America is a central goal of this convention. There are tens and tens of millions of people, hundreds of millions when you consider it online, that are going to view parts of the convention.
And making sure that people have a sense of who Kamala is, is a really important part of this convention. Winning in the next three months. And so, I thought one particularly
Glennis Meagher: moving. Yeah.
Brian Derrick: narrative moment that brought out more of who Kamala is was the story from Jasmine
Glennis Meagher: Crockett.
Brian Derrick: Who had a, uh, fire speech overall.
Just so
Glennis Meagher: good.
Brian Derrick: her, her Trump takedowns of course, but then she also had this really real and authentic emotional moment where she talked about having just been elected to Congress, being in the halls of the Capitol and feeling like she didn't belong there. And like that maybe she had made a mistake.
And that's of course, when she ran into a vice president Harris,
And immediately, although they had never [00:12:00] met, Harris said, what's wrong?
Jasmine Crockett: as I approached Vice President Harris for our official photo, she turned to me and asked, what's wrong? Mind you, we'd never met, but she saw right through me. She saw the distress. I immediately began crying.
And
the most powerful woman in the world, wipe my tears and listen.
there are so many freshman members of Congress that like, it would be very easy for someone as senior as Harris to just like keep on pumping.
Brian Derrick: She has stuff to do and things on her mind. but she engaged and she asked and, you know, Jasmine Crockett talked about breaking down in that moment and it was emotional for her to recall
Glennis Meagher: it. Mm-Hmm.
Brian Derrick: but that Harris was [00:13:00] there to sort of like offer this type of support
Glennis Meagher: something, this reminds me of you talking about this and hearing all the stories that we heard about VP Harris last night. For the last few months or, you know, months ago, we were talking about Joe Biden as a candidate and we were begging his team to give us more character stories to talk more about who Joe Biden is as a person, how he is in closed door rooms.
and we're getting that right away for the VP. And I think that is so, so invaluable to know who the person is because, you know, they don't have that much time to build that narrative. 75 days.
Brian Derrick: Some really interesting data came out recently showing the efficacy of different ads
Glennis Meagher: in,
Brian Derrick: uh, the presidential for and against Kamala and Donald, and. What it showed was that right now messaging about V. P. Harris is much more persuasive to the audience because they don't know her
Glennis Meagher: as
well. Yeah.
Brian Derrick: People's opinions of Donald Trump and even Biden are baked. They're fully baked. You've kind of,
Glennis Meagher: I know mine is
Brian Derrick: you right. You [00:14:00] feel how you feel. And it's really hard to move you off of that with a 32nd ad or something.
But as people are still getting to know Harris, It's actually much more fluid. And so that's a sort of signal to us and to our audience that right now is the most important time to
Glennis Meagher: talking Yeah.
Brian Derrick: about Harris and walls and why you
Glennis Meagher: support right. and
Brian Derrick: why she's going to be a great president because people are more impressionable
Glennis Meagher: now. Yeah. They're tapped in.
Brian Derrick: or will be even a month from now as they start to crystallize those
Glennis Meagher: opinions.
Right.
Brian Derrick: So being loud about it is like especially
Glennis Meagher: important this moment. Yeah.
And just to bring it back to your point, it's so important that content creators are here who have tens of millions of followers who can reach so far beyond, uh, traditional legacy media.
Brian Derrick: Period. Period.
Glennis Meagher: a bit about,
Brian Derrick: a bit about,
Glennis Meagher: Biden's speech and some of the highlights, at least for me.
again, it was long and he definitely like laid down his resume of what he has done, which is [00:15:00] important. I think he should, but. You know, he said the, the A line that really moved. Well when he, quoted a song. I was
Joe Biden: Let me know in my heart what my days are through. America, America, I gave my best to you.
Brian Derrick: so so good. So good.
Glennis Meagher: Oh wow.
Joe Biden: United center was very here
Glennis Meagher: for that.
Brian Derrick: It was so powerful. because it was like simultaneously his humor and his like sort of deep intellectual commitment to American
Glennis Meagher: Ideal. Yes. and
Brian Derrick: this like infusion of like history and patriotism in a way that makes the patriotism of the right look cheap and plastic.
whereas like Biden's patriotism is so rich and truly connected to the soul of the
Glennis Meagher: nation. Totally.
Brian Derrick: talks about
that
And I, I just thought it was so
Glennis Meagher: Same. He like. truly does bleed red, white and blue. he reiterated the line that [00:16:00] he said from his Oval Office speech, which I love my job, but I love my country more.
That of course got another two minute applause. something that was super, super important that he said, was that choosing, Kamala Harris was the best choice of his career.
Joe Biden: Selecting Kamala was the very first decision I made, and it was the best decision I made my whole career.
And she will be a historic president who puts her stamp on America's future.
Glennis Meagher: And I think, you know, that's both in the framework of her as his VP, and then also him endorsing her, you know, minutes. with after, stepping aside, which I still think is one of the most like boss moves of all time.
I also did love that he kept, he did say, I think one or two times by the by, I still have five months left. You're not done. I'm not done. We're not done. and part of me hopes he just fully goes, like goes for it in those five months. but it was, you know, I, I'm on a night when I left the arena, I was like, okay, wow, that was.
Brian Derrick: Right. I gave my best to you. It was, it was so strong. I mean the,
[00:17:00] yeah.
Glennis Meagher: debt
Brian Derrick: that we owe this man
Glennis Meagher: Yeah.
Brian Derrick: for putting the country first in this moment when it would have been easy not to, when it would have been maybe gratifying personally to continue onward is immense. And I'm so, so grateful for him. That was an authentic, moment that we all got to sort of share in, communicating that to him.
And I know he felt
Glennis Meagher: it. Yeah,
I hope the, I know that the, the five minute, thank you, Joe. Uh, standing ovation is not enough, but I hope that he has made like a permanent memory in his brain of that
Brian Derrick: Yeah, can you still have core memories at the age of 81? We could swap them out right I forget how inside out works,
Glennis Meagher: okay. Let's talk a little bit about the polls. Yeah. We are feeling, you know, we, we've been saying to each other, and a lot of us here have been saying, you know, the vibe is so high, but the margins are still so, so tight.
Yeah. So what are the, what's the polls looking like?
Brian Derrick: I think that The polling is consistent with just like data across the ecosystem. There are lots of different kinds of data. The battleground polling, a national [00:18:00] poll, enthusiasm metrics about how excited people are to vote. And all of that has been trending in the right direction. Most notably, and what has made the most news is that most of the sort of highest profile polls now have Harris leading by very narrow margins in the battleground
Glennis Meagher: Yeah.
Brian Derrick: it's a big deal because it
Glennis Meagher: is
Brian Derrick: sort of validating this
Glennis Meagher: surge of enthusiasm.
Brian Derrick: that we're all feeling that it's not just about the base and the bottom. It's about the path forward for the entire country. And the most important thing that's happened in the last 45 days is that we went from having one narrow, scary path to 270 electoral
Glennis Meagher: votes,
Brian Derrick: which was the blue wall, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, to now having multiple different
Glennis Meagher: avenues
Brian Derrick: to how Kamala Harris could become our next president.
It could be the blue wall. It could be some of the Sunbelt
Glennis Meagher: states, Georgia's
Brian Derrick: in play, Arizona, certainly Nevada, absolutely. North Carolina, [00:19:00] even, which Even early in the cycle was sort of written off as like
Glennis Meagher: too
Brian Derrick: of a long shot for, for a presidential. It hasn't been won by a Democrat at the top of the ticket since Obama.
And now suddenly all of all indications point to a very close but winnable race in all of these places.
Glennis Meagher: these
Brian Derrick: Yeah, she is tempering
Glennis Meagher: The energy, which I think is super important. So people don't get ahead of themselves with the vibe and thinking, Oh, I don't have to relationally organize. I don't need to make the phone calls. I don't need to do what I need to do to make sure she gets elected. But like we must do everything that we can in our individual and collective power to make sure that she is elected.
Brian Derrick: And every speaker thus far has emphasized that it never stops at like, Kamala is going to be a great
Glennis Meagher: president. Right.
Brian Derrick: going to do so much. It's like, and the next 75 days
Glennis Meagher: they're putting us to work. Yeah.
Brian Derrick: even Biden is saying that he's going to be the volunteer in
chief. He's going to be the best volunteer that the campaign has, [00:20:00] which is really an indication that this is an all hands on
Glennis Meagher: Totally. I was thinking about that the other morning in the hotel before coming in of like, how amazing to have the sitting president be. Able to go on the road for you or to rally for you. That, that is and not have to be worrying about reelection.
Brian Derrick:
Glennis Meagher: because,
Brian Derrick: talk a little bit about policy because
Glennis Meagher: leading up to the convention, Kamala Harris teased and then dropped like her economic policy. So we're getting more news, more info on what, would actually be the reality if all circumstances were perfect for her policies to be passed, if we had and when we have a Kamala Harris presidency.
so she's going to address food prices and inflation. she's promising to in her first 100 days in office to put federal limits on price gouging food. I mean, my milk is expensive. My eggs at my, supermarket, 12.
Brian Derrick: huh.
Glennis Meagher: They're organic, but still
Brian Derrick: Sorry for our audio only listeners. [00:21:00] My 12 literally just
Glennis Meagher: for the, like the free range organic
Brian Derrick: girl, you got to go somewhere
Glennis Meagher: I'm going to go to the
Brian Derrick: shopping at Erewhon?
Glennis Meagher: No, I'm shopping. I don't
Brian Derrick: you having Erewhon eggs
Glennis Meagher: don't want to out my, no, I think they're literally price gouging. Like my supermarket is like the example of price gouging.
Brian Derrick: Well there. Yeah. I think that it has been emphasized. throughout and has been a common theme that, and it's just like known that if there is a weakness for the Democrats in 2024, it's around the economy. And it's, and it's specifically because people do not know or understand where Democrats stand on some of the issues. that's what they're trying to, I think, break through on is that like, there is a plan in place that's very aggressive to help the middle class. I have not heard. Such an emphasis on the middle class in recent sort of months or years or from the RNC. but there's a very palpable focus here on labor and on policies that are going to [00:22:00] help the middle
Glennis Meagher: Yeah, some more. she's calling for the construction of 3 million new housing units, which would ease the very serious, very real housing crisis in this country. Also, this one is exciting. 25, 000 in down payment assistance to help turn renters into first time homebuyers.
25, 000, that is a huge chunk in a down payment for many, many Americans. Uh, she wants to expand the child tax credit, so. Restore the child tax credit to the pandemic era American rescue plan levels,
Brian Derrick: Which cut child poverty in
half.
Glennis Meagher: Thank you.
Brian Derrick: And until Republicans blocked it from being extended, uh, I think along with Joe Manchin,
Glennis Meagher: guy.
And
Brian Derrick: that one guy, um, We had made the fastest progress in eliminating child poverty in this country that we have ever.
Glennis Meagher: Here's one that I really liked that she announced was the 6, 000 tax credit for newborns. And you think, you know, Republicans, you made this, you know, point on your Instagram, which I think cuts [00:23:00] right to the point are pro birth.
They're not pro life because Republicans want to cut child tax credits. They have never once offered a tax credit for newborns. So what are you actually doing to help American families bring children into this
Brian Derrick: Right. They do not want to make it easier to form the kind of family that you want, obviously like via things like IVF or via social programs that can actually facilitate the kind of family formation that they want. a spouse to support, right? That they pretend to support. Instead, they just want to like take away birth control and just hope that it brings America's birth rate up. They're obsessed with the
Glennis Meagher: so weird.
Brian Derrick: it's all very weird and it shows the sort of empty promise of their solutions that again, it's not about like a helping the people who are Struggling through the challenges.
It's about sort of putting forth ideological, [00:24:00] boogeymen that they can
Glennis Meagher: Climate change. Climate change. Remember, two episodes ago, the, or last episode, the unhinged woman talking about, air quotes, climate change and how it's like about birth and
Brian Derrick: Population control. Yeah,
Glennis Meagher: Yeah, no, no babe. The planet's just literally on fire. Okay, this one is a little wonky, and I don't think it's actually good policy. But Trump, this was like six weeks ago, Trump was like doing one of his rallies and was like, and by the by, this was in Nevada, where obviously there's a ton of hospitality workers.
He's like, I'm going to cut tax on tips. You're not going to get tax on your tips anymore. And, you know, I'll hand it to Kamala Harris. She said, same.
Brian Derrick: 100%.
Glennis Meagher: She's like, me too. Dito.
Brian Derrick: Yep. I mean, that is for those who are looking for Dems to play hardball politics. That's what that
Glennis Meagher: is. Yeah.
Brian Derrick: like, okay, if you're going to make shit up in order to try to like, dupe these workers into voting for you, then
Glennis Meagher: [00:25:00] we'll do it too. Same policy. Yeah. I'm like, let's just tax millionaires and billionaires.
Brian Derrick: Which is like also a key component of the plan. Right. And they talked about that, As well. I think that the policy rollout has been
Glennis Meagher: strong. Yeah.
Brian Derrick: and the messaging throughout the convention has been really
Glennis Meagher: consistent. Yeah.
Brian Derrick: It's super union focused. We've seen a lot of representation from labor. It's been very focused on reproductive rights, on protecting democracy from Donald Trump.
Glennis Meagher: like Joe
Brian Derrick: And on the
Glennis Meagher: night talking about the chips, bring the chips back. The chips. Well, I only started, yeah, yeah, yeah. I only
started
Brian Derrick: we ain't talking no lays.
Glennis Meagher: I don't know why I was like in a chip hole. And I realized that we actually invented chips in America. And then we shipped all of the manufacturing abroad, which is like, what?
Brian Derrick: It doesn't make any
Glennis Meagher: But we're bringing it back. Joe Biden is bringing the chips back. Everyone has a chip. Like, it's in your phone, it's in your computer, it's in this microphone.
Brian Derrick: It is weird how Donald Trump loves to [00:26:00] talk about like import export deficits and then Joe Biden's the one who's like
fixing them, but like no one talks about it when Biden
Glennis Meagher: Biden does it.
Brian Derrick: I sure have.
Glennis Meagher: sure have. Probably more than you are. But,
Brian Derrick: Repeatedly, I have said that there are two types of people left in America, the people who love Donald Trump and everybody else. And so in order to unify the everybody else, I do think that Harris needs to address like media concerns or whatever sort of, concerned about that. Even, even voter concerns about like what the specific platform is.
And we just need to give people a vision and a direction that she's going to move in with you. Congress, not a 72 point policy plan that is like make or break for voters because we know that that's not what people vote based on.
Glennis Meagher: Well, I think just in terms of timeline, like we know that the DNC is literally the week of [00:27:00] vibes. That's the whole point. It is our like rallying cry and like upward swing of momentum and energy. So I think as we look to next week and the following, we're going to be getting more and more from, Harris on what her administration would look like.
Brian Derrick: I think that's spot on. so if this week she can introduce herself to more of the country and talk about her American
Glennis Meagher: story
Brian Derrick: and what brought her to the White House now and what her vision for the country looks like,
Glennis Meagher: What
Brian Derrick: will sort of, paint that picture for the American people. Those are going to be the things I think that grow. The coalition of people behind her and energize the base to go knock on millions of doors and make millions of phone calls and, connect with the people who need it most.
Glennis Meagher: Sign me up.
It's giving. It's giving. It's giving. Okay. It's
giving convention.
I know. It's giving convention. It's giving. We're so high up we can see the balloon drop. It's [00:28:00] giving. I will say they put all the creators in the penthouse level, which sounds very she she.
And it actually is quite nice. It's very nice to have a space. Look it, we're here. We're able to record. Like, that's amazing. but if you get vertigo.
Brian Derrick: yeah, true. I mean, well what what has been ideal for me is that we have this space and then the space down
Glennis Meagher: Yeah, they've really, we're essentially being treated as press, which is to our point that we're, I know.
Brian Derrick: the New York Times. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Glennis Meagher: yeah. Call me
Brian Derrick: weekly
Glennis Meagher: a sweetly. They're actually like down so there was a moment, you know, I'm like an Olympic head. I'm
like, and we won gold, USA men's basketball and Stephen Kerr, who is the basketball coach.
He early days was like, I support Kamala Harris. Shut up. And he, you know, he said stuff about Trump before and he's just seems like a good guy. For me, this was a, uh, you know, gag on Monday night when you see this, like bowls, like interstitial. And I'm like, it's not going to be Michael Jordan,
Brian Derrick: not going to
Glennis Meagher: [00:29:00] And it wasn't,
Brian Derrick: Jordan, is it?
Glennis Meagher: but it was Stephen Kerr.
Literally. I, everyone was like, you S a U S me too. I was like that goal, baby. Uh, I was like, so stoked, but he gave a little speech and it was
Brian Derrick: cute. Absolutely.
Glennis Meagher: take a
Brian Derrick: look.
Glennis Meagher: Way too much reliance on the Blitz 99 against Mankato East. You've got a strong defensive line up to play for press coverage with your corners, and then drop the safeties into a Tampa 2. That's just me. And the results are telling that night. [00:30:00] Words
of a great Steph Curry. You can tell Donald Trump. I love it. I love it. Bring the athleticism to the DNC. Bring Steph Curry to the DNC. Like, bring Steph Curry's shit talking to the DNC. Dad
jokes.
Brian Derrick: it's giving mighty
Glennis Meagher: giving mighty ducks
Yes, fly, flying V.
Brian Derrick: an underdog story, like you
Glennis Meagher: or Miracle on Ice, 1980. Yes.
will say though, yeah, our men's basketball team was not the underdogs.
We were the
Brian Derrick: but yeah, yeah.
mean, right, right, right. Yeah. It's bringing the
vibes. Yeah. Glennis, this isn't a sports podcast. Don't
expect me to know
these things. Not yet.
I think that it's important that we have a message for everyone and a message from the Democratic Party that speaks to everyone and I think that he speaks to a different
audience than many of the other people 000%. As is Tim Walz, and I think they're tapping into that.
Get my camo hat.
Glennis Meagher:
okay, group [00:31:00] chat. What's happening in your group chat? I don't
Brian Derrick: group chat has been, where are you? Where are you? I'm at this. I'm
at this. Which event are you going to? Which after party are you going to? Has been like a majority of my group chats. Honestly, everyone is
Glennis Meagher: Yeah, thankfully, my service is really bad once the arena's full. It's just like, the texts are far and few between, which I kind of appreciate because it allows me to be
Brian Derrick: present I do not appreciate when I'm trying to post on Instagram.
Glennis Meagher: that's, I know as content creators,
Brian Derrick: tick, Oh, I'm like, oh my God, help.
Glennis Meagher: I posted the same story on Instagram like five
Brian Derrick: last
Glennis Meagher: And it was like, a minute long story. And I was like, hello, hello.
Brian Derrick: yeah. yeah.
Glennis Meagher: learn. And this was a joke that we had. I am, I have like my emotional support water bottle, my Awala.
And turns out that, uh, water bottles like Stanley's, Awalas are weapons. And you can't
bring them. Yeah, I should have, I should have not brought it. But, uh, so I texted you or I [00:32:00] FaceTimed you and I said, diva down and the same time that my Oala went down, who else went down?
Brian Derrick: George
Glennis Meagher: George Santos
Brian Derrick: into the clink
Glennis Meagher: into the clink.
Two
Brian Derrick: two years he pleaded
Glennis Meagher: guilty.
Brian Derrick: to like 20 plus
felonies,
including
that he was using his donor's credit cards and stealing
Glennis Meagher: money.
That is still
so,
Brian Derrick: It's so crazy that you think that you would get away with that. It's literally bananas. and yet he did it. And now you do the time. Wait,
you
do the crime.
You do the time.
Glennis Meagher: We should like do that and put Donald Trump's face in the middle.
my, the last thing is that because like I said earlier, we're not getting the cut twos, my friends at home are, so they're sending me cut twos. And last night, did you see Tim Walz's kids when they were zooming in on him?
We're giving him bunny ears, which is like, that is just a guy. He will be the vice president of United States of America, but that is just a
Brian Derrick: just a guy.
Glennis Meagher: Whose kids are like, literally on national TV [00:33:00] giving him
Brian Derrick: be giving him
Glennis Meagher: I kind of love it. I kind of love
Brian Derrick: it.
the other part of my group chat was the, Chaos of the East Coast trying to get to Chicago for the convention.
If you are not in New York
Glennis Meagher: We were hashtag blessed. We were
Absolutely
we were totally blissfully unaware that. It was locked down 'cause of, historical flooding.
Yeah,
Climate change is
Brian Derrick: I
mean they grounded all flights out of LaGuardia and JFK and
Glennis Meagher: Newark for a period of time And then canceled and delayed the rest
Brian Derrick: So, we had multiple friends who drove
Glennis Meagher: like 10.
Brian Derrick: hours to get to the convention, but that is how much they love Kamala
Glennis Meagher: Harris.
and Democracy.
Brian Derrick: Absolutely.
Glennis Meagher: okay. Good vibe. Goodbye.
We have a chance to elect someone who has spent Her entire life trying to give people the same chances America gave her.
Look, Kamala knows, like we do, I believe that regardless of where you come from, what you look like, who you love, how you worship, or [00:34:00] what's in your bank account, we all deserve the opportunity to build a decent life.
Kamala Harris: they just completed their roll call
and they have nominated coach walls and me to be the next vice president and president of the United States.
the good vibe is just going to keep rolling. Here at the DNC in Chicago 2024 baby. Let's go.
Brian Derrick: million, let's
Glennis Meagher: Thanks for listening. If you're new to the show first, glad you made it.
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