MAGA "influencers" get invited to White House (it got cringe)
Brad Polumbo
[{'start': '0.080', 'end': '3.200', 'text': "it's so refreshing to have a press\xa0\nsecretary after the last few years"}, {'start': '3.200', 'end': '7.360', 'text': "who's both intelligent and articulate you're\xa0\na very high-profile young mother who seems"}, {'start': '7.360', 'end': '12.080', 'text': 'to juggle and balance it all beautifully 100\xa0\nincredible days the White House is inviting'}, {'start': '12.080', 'end': '25.280', 'text': "MAGA influencers in for exclusive briefings\xa0\nand it's been interesting to say the least"}, {'start': '25.280', 'end': '30.560', 'text': "we're going to break this down plus Democrats\xa0\ndouble down on the most cringe-worthy pandering"}, {'start': '30.560', 'end': '36.480', 'text': "to white men and Trump's attorney general makes an\xa0\neyebrow raising comment all this and so much more"}, {'start': '36.480', 'end': '41.520', 'text': "is coming up on today's episode of the Brad Versus\xa0\nEveryone podcast my daily show where we take"}, {'start': '41.520', 'end': '47.040', 'text': 'on the craziest ideas from across our media the\xa0\ninternet and our politics all from an independent'}, {'start': '47.040', 'end': '51.520', 'text': 'perspective up first like I mentioned the Trump\xa0\nWhite House is doing something that I actually'}, {'start': '51.520', 'end': '57.520', 'text': 'think is really cool and inviting in influencers\xa0\nand online content creators for exclusive new'}, {'start': '57.520', 'end': '62.640', 'text': 'media press briefings take a listen to White House\xa0\npress secretary Caroline Levit explaining this'}, {'start': '62.640', 'end': '68.400', 'text': "concept at one of these recent meetings thank you\xa0\nfor coming today it's great to be with you this"}, {'start': '68.400', 'end': '74.480', 'text': 'is our first official influencer briefing here\xa0\nat the White House and as I promised as my first'}, {'start': '74.480', 'end': '80.720', 'text': 'briefing as press secretary back in January the\xa0\nTrump White House will speak to all media outlets'}, {'start': '80.720', 'end': '87.280', 'text': 'and personalities not just the legacy media who\xa0\ntraditionally has covered this institution so I'}, {'start': '87.280', 'end': '92.400', 'text': 'think that this is a great idea just in general i\xa0\nmean the old mainstream media is still of course'}, {'start': '92.400', 'end': '96.480', 'text': "getting access in the regular press briefings\xa0\nbut they haven't exactly done a bangup job in"}, {'start': '96.480', 'end': '101.840', 'text': 'recent years and a lot of people do get their\xa0\nnews instead from social media content creators'}, {'start': '101.840', 'end': '107.040', 'text': 'handsome and genius YouTubers i I kid of course\xa0\nbut people do get their news from people like'}, {'start': '107.040', 'end': '111.280', 'text': "me and it's great to have a press briefing and\xa0\naccess to the White House like that i think it's"}, {'start': '111.280', 'end': '116.800', 'text': 'a really a good idea though I have some questions\xa0\nabout the execution at least I can say this so'}, {'start': '116.800', 'end': '123.440', 'text': 'far at least nobody has flashed anybody at these\xa0\npress brief briefings which is um an improvement'}, {'start': '123.440', 'end': '129.440', 'text': 'from the time the Biden administration invited\xa0\nsome influencers if you recall tonight the White'}, {'start': '129.440', 'end': '134.400', 'text': 'House at the center of the latest Pride Month\xa0\ncontroversy welcome to the White House thank you'}, {'start': '134.400', 'end': '140.480', 'text': 'saying transgender activist Rose Mononttoya is now\xa0\nbarred from future events it all happened at what'}, {'start': '140.480', 'end': '148.400', 'text': 'was the largest Pride celebration in White House\xa0\nhistory happy Pride Month mononttoya posting a'}, {'start': '148.400', 'end': '155.200', 'text': 'real on Instagram showing her at the event shaking\xa0\nhands and posing for selfies with the president hi'}, {'start': '155.200', 'end': '161.680', 'text': 'Mr president it is an honor then after Biden moved\xa0\non Mononttoya standing next to two transgender'}, {'start': '161.680', 'end': '167.920', 'text': 'men who had surgically removed their breasts all\xa0\nposing topless on the White House lawn that said I'}, {'start': '167.920', 'end': '172.640', 'text': "do have to call out some of these MAGA influencers\xa0\nfor the way they're approaching these briefings"}, {'start': '172.640', 'end': '177.120', 'text': 'i mean you get access to the White House you\xa0\nshould be asking substantive questions maybe'}, {'start': '177.120', 'end': '181.840', 'text': "challenging them on points where you think they\xa0\naren't following through with their promises"}, {'start': '181.840', 'end': '189.120', 'text': 'not verbally filing them and asking completely\xa0\nunrelated questions that have nothing to do with'}, {'start': '189.120', 'end': '194.880', 'text': "actual policies or issues that impact Americans\xa0\nyet that's unfortunately how some people are"}, {'start': '194.880', 'end': '199.760', 'text': "approaching this take a listen to this clip it's\xa0\nso refreshing to have a press secretary after"}, {'start': '199.760', 'end': '204.480', 'text': "the last few years who's both intelligent and\xa0\narticulate so thank you for that as the youngest"}, {'start': '204.480', 'end': '209.920', 'text': "press secretary in history who is a wife and a mom\xa0\nyou've become wildly popular with America First"}, {'start': '209.920', 'end': '214.960', 'text': "Patriots um as an 18-year-old I can say you're\xa0\ndefinitely an inspiration to Gen Z you're a very"}, {'start': '214.960', 'end': '220.080', 'text': 'high-profile young mother who seems to juggle and\xa0\nbalance it all beautifully what advice do you have'}, {'start': '220.080', 'end': '224.160', 'text': 'to young parents out there who are starting their\xa0\ncareers having kids building families and trying'}, {'start': '224.160', 'end': '229.440', 'text': 'to find that balance so desperately 100 incredible\xa0\ndays and what policies can we expect to see rolled'}, {'start': '229.440', 'end': '233.920', 'text': 'out over the next few months that Americans will\xa0\ndirectly feel the effects of in order to secure'}, {'start': '233.920', 'end': '239.360', 'text': 'the 2026 midterms for the Republican party and\xa0\nkeep his approval rating historically high so'}, {'start': '239.360', 'end': '244.480', 'text': 'this was just cringe to me if you are a content\xa0\ncreator if you are an independent commentator'}, {'start': '244.480', 'end': '250.640', 'text': 'part of the new media it is not your job to just\xa0\nkiss the ass of the people that are in power and'}, {'start': '250.640', 'end': '256.240', 'text': "just praise them and compliment them i'm really\xa0\nnot sure what the point of that is or how that is"}, {'start': '256.240', 'end': '261.440', 'text': 'meaningfully different or better than the kind\xa0\nof obsequious mainstream media coverage of the'}, {'start': '261.440', 'end': '266.160', 'text': 'Biden administration especially in its first few\xa0\nyears where they were constantly just doing PR'}, {'start': '266.160', 'end': '271.280', 'text': 'for them basically promise of new media to me\xa0\nwas never that we would do the same thing in'}, {'start': '271.280', 'end': '276.880', 'text': "the opposite direction that's cringe and honestly\xa0\njust a waste of time plus some of the statements"}, {'start': '276.880', 'end': '282.720', 'text': 'made in here are just like factually incorrect\xa0\ni mean the one content creator who spoke about'}, {'start': '282.720', 'end': '289.120', 'text': "Trump's historically high approval rating I mean\xa0\ndepending on which poll you're looking at Trump"}, {'start': '289.120', 'end': '294.480', 'text': 'has pretty low approval ratings for this point\xa0\nin his presidency an ABC News poll found that'}, {'start': '294.480', 'end': '300.320', 'text': 'Trump has the lowest 100day approval rating in\xa0\n80 years and concluded that a majority of voters'}, {'start': '300.320', 'end': '304.880', 'text': "disapprove of many of Trump's policies now there\xa0\nare plenty of other polls that aren't as bad for"}, {'start': '304.880', 'end': '309.680', 'text': 'Trump and obviously the polling methodology is\xa0\ndeeply flawed in a lot of cases but like to say'}, {'start': '309.680', 'end': '316.400', 'text': 'he has a historically high approval rating is\xa0\njust not true so it just comes off as sick of'}, {'start': '316.400', 'end': '321.200', 'text': "fancy now we're also going to get into some\xa0\nspecific questions that were asked that were"}, {'start': '321.200', 'end': '325.680', 'text': 'absurd but also a few people who used this\xa0\nopportunity to ask really good questions who I'}, {'start': '325.680', 'end': '330.960', 'text': "want to spotlight as well after this i don't 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because he's just a cable news host and"}, {'start': '409.600', 'end': '416.320', 'text': 'Newsmax is included in the regular press pool but\xa0\nhe was there and he chose to ask this question of'}, {'start': '416.320', 'end': '421.200', 'text': "Caroline Levit take a listen and as a followup to\xa0\nall this it really does dovetail because it's not"}, {'start': '421.200', 'end': '430.240', 'text': "just left leaning media uh Fox News fox News put\xa0\nout a poll i'm a statistician the poll they put"}, {'start': '430.240', 'end': '440.000', 'text': 'out was wildly biased against President Trump will\xa0\nWill Fox sue Fox uh will Trump sue Fox for their'}, {'start': '440.000', 'end': '447.040', 'text': "methodology in polling uh it's a clear-cut\xa0\ncase of fake polling no doubt if I may uh"}, {'start': '447.040', 'end': '453.440', 'text': 'also misinformation though right um what guys the\xa0\ncontext you need to know here is that Eric Bowling'}, {'start': '453.440', 'end': '459.440', 'text': 'used to work at Fox News but was fired after an\xa0\nindependent in investigation into allegations'}, {'start': '459.440', 'end': '466.640', 'text': 'that he sent colleagues unsolicited nude photos so\xa0\nmaybe a little bit of bias animating this question'}, {'start': '466.640', 'end': '474.000', 'text': "but Eric does realize that bad polling isn't a\xa0\ncrime even if and look I have no idea maybe the"}, {'start': '474.000', 'end': '480.720', 'text': "Fox News polling is flawed maybe it isn't even if\xa0\nit is it is not illegal to publish a poll in with"}, {'start': '480.720', 'end': '486.640', 'text': 'methodology that some people think is flawed if\xa0\nit was a whole lot of pollsters would be in jail'}, {'start': '486.640', 'end': '493.040', 'text': 'in the political realm i can tell you that and\xa0\nfor new media personalities to use their chance'}, {'start': '493.040', 'end': '499.040', 'text': 'at accessing the White House press briefing\xa0\nto try to ferment government attacks on the'}, {'start': '499.040', 'end': '504.160', 'text': "freedom of the press is actually wild because\xa0\nwe're supposed to be the free speech people"}, {'start': '504.160', 'end': '508.720', 'text': 'the first amendment people and you have this guy\xa0\npotentially motivated by some kind of personal'}, {'start': '508.720', 'end': '516.880', 'text': 'van vendetta using his access to the Trump White\xa0\nHouse to ask them to sue an organization over a'}, {'start': '516.880', 'end': '521.520', 'text': "poll he doesn't like that's not a thing i mean\xa0\nthe Trump administration has tried to sue people"}, {'start': '521.520', 'end': '526.560', 'text': "for bad polls but again they're allowed to\xa0\npublish polls that are flawed that's freedom"}, {'start': '526.560', 'end': '531.040', 'text': "of the press they're not they're certainly\xa0\nnot intentionally publishing incorrect polling"}, {'start': '531.040', 'end': '537.840', 'text': 'or falsifying data now parts of the influencer\xa0\nbriefings have been kind of interesting like this'}, {'start': '537.840', 'end': '544.400', 'text': 'uh where an influencer asked the White House press\xa0\nsecretary to play troll or truth take a listen i'}, {'start': '544.400', 'end': '548.800', 'text': "was wondering if you'd indulge me in a quick\xa0\nuh round of Trump trolling or Trump truthing"}, {'start': '548.800', 'end': '556.160', 'text': "sure let's do it okay good rapid fire greenland\xa0\njoining America uh definitely Trump truthing oh"}, {'start': '556.160', 'end': '560.960', 'text': 'Canada becoming a 51st state trump truthing\xa0\nall the way and the Canadians would benefit'}, {'start': '560.960', 'end': '568.640', 'text': 'greatly let me tell you that eliminating the\xa0\nIRS uh I think that is an optimistic goal and'}, {'start': '568.640', 'end': '574.080', 'text': "the president so I would say we're on the side of\xa0\ntrue thing there for sure and the president again"}, {'start': '574.080', 'end': '578.560', 'text': 'wants to see tax cuts and he wants to see this\xa0\nmassive revenue that we can gain from tariffs'}, {'start': '578.560', 'end': '583.920', 'text': "as well which will create the external revenue\xa0\nservice so that's a definitive goal for sure"}, {'start': '583.920', 'end': '594.160', 'text': 'and most importantly Trump 2028 Trump trolling\xa0\nalthough the hats are flying off the shelves so'}, {'start': '594.160', 'end': '601.200', 'text': 'this was kind of entertaining but like not very\xa0\nserious or substantive journalism because all'}, {'start': '601.200', 'end': '607.120', 'text': 'of these ideas are incredibly impractical in\xa0\ndifferent ways greenland how are we going to'}, {'start': '607.120', 'end': '612.560', 'text': "get it polling shows the majority of Greenlanders\xa0\ndon't want to join the US canada doesn't want to"}, {'start': '612.560', 'end': '619.440', 'text': 'become the 51st state and if they were would be a\xa0\nmassive addition of Democratic senators and house'}, {'start': '619.440', 'end': '623.360', 'text': 'and members of the House of Representatives\xa0\nthat would skew American politics far to the'}, {'start': '623.360', 'end': '628.560', 'text': "left so again it's like you're just floating all\xa0\nthese impractical wild things that Trump has said"}, {'start': '628.560', 'end': '632.320', 'text': "and the press secretary is confirming yeah he's\xa0\nserious about that but you're not highlighting or"}, {'start': '632.320', 'end': '636.720', 'text': "asking about any of the various impracticalities\xa0\nof it i'm not really sure what the purpose of"}, {'start': '636.720', 'end': '641.680', 'text': 'that is beyond being slightly entertaining i\xa0\nguess there were definitely a few people who'}, {'start': '641.680', 'end': '646.240', 'text': 'used the influencer briefings to actually ask\xa0\ninteresting and substantive questions like one'}, {'start': '646.240', 'end': '651.120', 'text': 'guy who who I want to highlight Winston Marshall\xa0\nwho specifically asked about some issues related'}, {'start': '651.120', 'end': '656.640', 'text': 'to the United Kingdom take a listen your vice\xa0\npresident Vice President Barn said no free speech'}, {'start': '656.640', 'end': '664.480', 'text': 'no deal the British uh uh business secretary u\xa0\nwhose name is Jonathan Reynolds has said that'}, {'start': '664.480', 'end': '671.520', 'text': 'in the trade talks with the commerce department\xa0\nUS commerce department there has been no material'}, {'start': '671.520', 'end': '677.200', 'text': 'uh that free speech has been not a material\xa0\nfactor in negotiations so my first question is is'}, {'start': '677.200', 'end': '684.080', 'text': 'it the case that free speech is no longer part of\xa0\nnegotiations and my second question if I may is uh'}, {'start': '684.080', 'end': '691.680', 'text': 'in Britain we have had over a quarter quarter of a\xa0\nmillion people um issued non-crime hate incidents'}, {'start': '691.680', 'end': '698.560', 'text': 'as we speak there are people in prison for quite\xa0\nliterally reposting memes uh we have extensive uh'}, {'start': '698.560', 'end': '707.760', 'text': 'prison sentences and uh for for uh tweets social\xa0\nmedia posts and uh general free speech issues'}, {'start': '707.760', 'end': '715.040', 'text': 'would the Trump administration consider political\xa0\nasylum for British citizens in such a situation'}, {'start': '715.040', 'end': '719.520', 'text': "well to your latter question it's a very good one\xa0\ni have not heard that proposed to the president"}, {'start': '719.520', 'end': '724.240', 'text': 'nor have I spoken to him about that idea but I\xa0\ncertainly can and talk to our national security'}, {'start': '724.240', 'end': '729.280', 'text': "team and see if it's something the administration\xa0\nwould entertain yes please to your first question"}, {'start': '729.280', 'end': '734.000', 'text': 'about free speech in the United Kingdom the vice\xa0\npresident has been incredibly outspoken about this'}, {'start': '734.000', 'end': '738.960', 'text': 'for good reason and the president has spoken about\xa0\nthis as well directly with your prime minister'}, {'start': '738.960', 'end': '745.120', 'text': 'when he was here for a visit to the White House so\xa0\nit remains a critical endeavor of ours to u show'}, {'start': '745.120', 'end': '751.120', 'text': 'the Brits and your your country which we love and\xa0\nadmire um about the first amendment and and the'}, {'start': '751.120', 'end': '756.800', 'text': 'importance of free speech in a sovereign nation so\xa0\nI thought this was a great question one because it'}, {'start': '756.800', 'end': '762.000', 'text': 'asked about something new this idea of you know\xa0\nasylum for people being censored in the UK which'}, {'start': '762.000', 'end': '765.520', 'text': "we've covered on the show before and is absolutely\xa0\ndystopian like a new concept that hasn't been"}, {'start': '765.520', 'end': '769.520', 'text': "brought up before that's an interesting thing to\xa0\ndo at a press conference and it also asked about"}, {'start': '769.520', 'end': '773.520', 'text': "something the Trump administration had said they\xa0\nwould do that it sounds like they're not following"}, {'start': '773.520', 'end': '777.840', 'text': 'through on which is incorporate free speech\xa0\nand pushing for free speech protections for'}, {'start': '777.840', 'end': '782.160', 'text': "the countries we're doing trade with all of that\xa0\nlike that's an example to me of how you should"}, {'start': '782.160', 'end': '786.640', 'text': "conduct yourself in this you don't have to be like\xa0\ninsanely hostile you don't have to be attacking"}, {'start': '786.640', 'end': '791.200', 'text': "the Trump administration but ask something new and\xa0\nask something where you're actually spotlighting"}, {'start': '791.200', 'end': '795.680', 'text': 'some sort of tension or something that needs to\xa0\nbe raised awareness of or potentially pressured'}, {'start': '795.680', 'end': '801.040', 'text': "the administration on don't just go there to like\xa0\ngive them a tongue bath on camera that's cringe"}, {'start': '801.040', 'end': '807.840', 'text': "it's not like hard-hitting independent media it's\xa0\njust more PR uh but by a different name this time"}, {'start': '807.840', 'end': '812.400', 'text': 'another person who asked I think a good question\xa0\nwas an old friend of mine named Chrissy Clark who'}, {'start': '812.400', 'end': '816.800', 'text': 'is a YouTuber and content creator and she just\xa0\nasked an actual real substantive question take a'}, {'start': '816.800', 'end': '821.440', 'text': 'listen one of the most pressing challenges for\xa0\nGen Z right now is the lack of home ownership'}, {'start': '821.440', 'end': '826.640', 'text': 'as of 2025 believe it was the median age is 38\xa0\nyears old of first-time home buyers which is'}, {'start': '826.640', 'end': '830.800', 'text': 'you know a hindrance to starting families for a\xa0\nlot of people how does the Trump administration'}, {'start': '830.800', 'end': '835.840', 'text': "plan on tackling this in the next four years so\xa0\nlike this was a great question caroline didn't"}, {'start': '835.840', 'end': '840.800', 'text': 'give a particularly interesting answer i just\xa0\nclipped it out to save time but like yeah asking'}, {'start': '840.800', 'end': '844.240', 'text': "a question about something that's important\xa0\nto young people for a specific policy issue"}, {'start': '844.240', 'end': '848.320', 'text': "that the Trump administration hasn't focused on a\xa0\nton yet great job like again you don't have to be"}, {'start': '848.320', 'end': '853.520', 'text': "insanely hostile or anything like that i'm just\xa0\nreally disappointed and growing frustrated with"}, {'start': '853.520', 'end': '858.080', 'text': "all this independent new media that cropped\xa0\nup as part of like you know we're the brave"}, {'start': '858.080', 'end': '863.760', 'text': 'trutht tellers we call out the BS but now that\xa0\nRepublicans are in charge they just kind of seem'}, {'start': '863.760', 'end': '869.040', 'text': 'sick of cringe-worthy in the same way that much\xa0\nof the liberal mainstream media was during the'}, {'start': '869.040', 'end': '874.320', 'text': "Biden administration to me that is almost worse\xa0\nbecause it's a betrayal of something with great"}, {'start': '874.320', 'end': '878.880', 'text': 'promise that I was really excited about which is\xa0\nnew and independent media rather than mainstream'}, {'start': '878.880', 'end': '885.280', 'text': 'media which at this point my expectations are\xa0\non the floor for them so I think the new media'}, {'start': '885.280', 'end': '891.600', 'text': 'press corps needs to step up their game i also am\xa0\nnot thrilled at the at the uh lack of ideological'}, {'start': '891.600', 'end': '896.240', 'text': 'or political diversity in these influencer\xa0\nbriefings but I will say that maybe liberal'}, {'start': '896.240', 'end': '901.040', 'text': "or progressive influencers aren't applying\xa0\nfor this aren't seeking to go maybe it's not"}, {'start': '901.040', 'end': '906.160', 'text': 'the Trump administration they could just be hand\xa0\nselecting you know very supportive MAGA people or'}, {'start': '906.160', 'end': '910.400', 'text': "it could be that no one else is asking to come i\xa0\ncan't speak to that so I'm not going to criticize"}, {'start': '910.400', 'end': '915.040', 'text': 'them for that necessarily but I I would like to\xa0\nsee a much more diverse pool of influencers and'}, {'start': '915.040', 'end': '919.200', 'text': 'new media content creators and so I hope that\xa0\nwe see that because it would just be much more'}, {'start': '919.200', 'end': '923.600', 'text': 'interesting and much less sycopantic I imagine but\xa0\nwhat do you guys 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openly state that his job in the campaign'}, {'start': '985.040', 'end': '991.520', 'text': 'was to be something of a a cringe-worthy pander to\xa0\nstraight white men he actually said the quiet part'}, {'start': '991.520', 'end': '997.840', 'text': 'out loud take a listen running against a very\xa0\nunusual opponent on the other side and look my'}, {'start': '997.840', 'end': '1003.520', 'text': 'my job was to do look I knew I was on the ticket\xa0\num I would argue because we did a lot of amazing'}, {'start': '1003.520', 'end': '1007.760', 'text': "progressive things in Minnesota that improved\xa0\npeople's lives but I also was on the ticket quite"}, {'start': '1007.760', 'end': '1014.160', 'text': 'honestly you know because I I could code talk to\xa0\nwhite guys watching football fixing their truck'}, {'start': '1014.160', 'end': '1019.120', 'text': 'doing that that I could put them at ease i was\xa0\nthe permission structure to say "Look you can do'}, {'start': '1019.120', 'end': '1024.960', 'text': 'this and vote for this." and and you look across\xa0\nthose swing states with the exception of Minnesota'}, {'start': '1024.960', 'end': '1031.440', 'text': "um we didn't get enough of those votes wow so it\xa0\nis wild to see them openly admit it they picked"}, {'start': '1031.440', 'end': '1038.080', 'text': 'Tim Walls because they thought he could pander to\xa0\nwhite men and talk about football and make them'}, {'start': '1038.080', 'end': '1042.240', 'text': "feel okay because they're so racist about voting\xa0\nfor a black woman because at least there's a white"}, {'start': '1042.240', 'end': '1046.880', 'text': "man on the ticket yeah shocker you didn't win\xa0\na lot of white men with that approach that's so"}, {'start': '1046.880', 'end': '1052.480', 'text': 'inherently condescending to them and views them as\xa0\nand treats them as like inherently racist like oh'}, {'start': '1052.480', 'end': '1056.800', 'text': "we got to put a white guy in the ticket or white\xa0\nmen won't vote for a black woman yeah maybe that's"}, {'start': '1056.800', 'end': '1062.400', 'text': "true for some but certainly not most and this\xa0\nguy being added to the ticket if didn't help"}, {'start': '1062.400', 'end': '1068.160', 'text': 'if anything it was just like offensive in his\xa0\npandering I can speak football gang cuz I was'}, {'start': '1068.160', 'end': '1073.600', 'text': "a assistant coach for like two years decades ago\xa0\nmeanwhile he's posting stuff like this he tweeted"}, {'start': '1073.600', 'end': '1081.040', 'text': 'tweeted "Aocc can run a mean pick six and I can\xa0\ncall an audible on a play and we both know that'}, {'start': '1081.040', 'end': '1086.240', 'text': 'if you take the time to draw up a playbook you\'re\xa0\ngoing to use it." This was in the context of them'}, {'start': '1086.240', 'end': '1091.600', 'text': "talking about Project 2025 during the election\xa0\nand what's so funny about that is listen y'all"}, {'start': '1091.600', 'end': '1096.400', 'text': "I I don't do football the football expert is\xa0\nnot in the room with us i'm a soccer fan i"}, {'start': '1096.400', 'end': '1102.160', 'text': "watch soccer i really don't care for football at\xa0\nall but I know enough about it to know that one"}, {'start': '1102.160', 'end': '1108.400', 'text': "does not run a pick six a pick six I believe is\xa0\njust something that happens when you're playing"}, {'start': '1108.400', 'end': '1112.800', 'text': "defense you intercept a pass you run all the way\xa0\nto the end zone so correct me if I'm wrong in the"}, {'start': '1112.800', 'end': '1117.440', 'text': "comments like let me know but I'm pretty sure\xa0\nthat the guy who's supposed to pander to white"}, {'start': '1117.440', 'end': '1122.320', 'text': "men about football talk which is again absurd and\xa0\ncondescending but like even if you're going to do"}, {'start': '1122.320', 'end': '1126.560', 'text': "that can't even do that correctly cuz apparently\xa0\nhe doesn't even know basics about football you"}, {'start': '1126.560', 'end': '1131.600', 'text': "got to be kidding it's a beyond parody at this\xa0\npoint and y'all this reminded me of something that"}, {'start': '1131.600', 'end': '1136.080', 'text': 'I just I had to suffer through it at the time i\xa0\ncovered it on the show and I wanted to remind you'}, {'start': '1136.080', 'end': '1142.400', 'text': 'that this genius campaign the Kamla Walls campaign\xa0\nwith their brilliant strategy to attract white men'}, {'start': '1142.400', 'end': '1148.720', 'text': 'to vote for them put together an event or at least\xa0\ntheir supporters did called White Dudes for Harris'}, {'start': '1148.720', 'end': '1154.960', 'text': "that featured this kind of gems take a listen\xa0\nto this clip i'm white i'm a dude and I'm for"}, {'start': '1154.960', 'end': '1161.360', 'text': "Harris over the last few years you know I've been\xa0\nthinking a lot about men i'm not sure if you guys"}, {'start': '1161.360', 'end': '1169.520', 'text': "can recall that feeling you had on the night of\xa0\nTuesday November 8th 2016 uh I stood over my kids'"}, {'start': '1169.520', 'end': '1177.680', 'text': 'bed and I wept white nationalist in MAGA they want\xa0\nto speak for you you specifically as white men in'}, {'start': '1177.680', 'end': '1183.280', 'text': 'the marginalized communities that educate me every\xa0\nsingle day um that this is a constant education'}, {'start': '1183.280', 'end': '1189.760', 'text': 'uh for all of us kamla is carrying on her\xa0\nshoulders 248 years of pain of agony of hope of'}, {'start': '1189.760', 'end': '1197.760', 'text': 'frustration uh what a what a variety of whiteness\xa0\nwe have here with like a rainbow of uh of beige'}, {'start': '1197.760', 'end': '1203.680', 'text': "i don't know about y'all but I'm just shocked at\xa0\nthis wonderful strategy of Tim Walls posting about"}, {'start': '1203.680', 'end': '1210.080', 'text': 'football and talking like a coach to give white\xa0\nmen permission to not be racist anymore and self'}, {'start': '1210.080', 'end': '1216.080', 'text': "flagagillating about what a beautiful rainbow of\xa0\nbeige we all are i'm just shocked this didn't work"}, {'start': '1216.080', 'end': '1220.960', 'text': 'look at me this is my shocked face how are they\xa0\nnot learning how are they not embarrassed to go'}, {'start': '1220.960', 'end': '1225.360', 'text': 'on stage and admit that this is actually how they\xa0\ntried to run a presidential campaign they really'}, {'start': '1225.360', 'end': '1231.040', 'text': "seem to have learned absolutely nothing and until\xa0\nthey do don't expect them to be able to mount any"}, {'start': '1231.040', 'end': '1236.640', 'text': 'sort of meaningful or successful or appealing\xa0\nresistance to Trump and the Republican party'}, {'start': '1236.640', 'end': '1240.400', 'text': "speaking of Trump and the Republican party I want\xa0\nto touch on a clip that's going viral right now"}, {'start': '1240.400', 'end': '1246.320', 'text': "from Trump's attorney general Pam Bondi because\xa0\nthis statistic was interesting take a listen"}, {'start': '1246.320', 'end': '1253.280', 'text': 'i was at DEA yesterday and they said to me "You\xa0\nDonald Trump have taken the handcuffs off of'}, {'start': '1253.280', 'end': '1261.120', 'text': 'DEA agents and as a result of since you have been\xa0\nin office President Trump your DOJ agencies have'}, {'start': '1261.120', 'end': '1270.560', 'text': "seized more than 22 million fentanyl pills 3,400\xa0\nkilos of fentanyl since you've been your last 100"}, {'start': '1270.560', 'end': '1278.800', 'text': 'days which saved are you ready for this media 258\xa0\nmillion lives kids are dying every day because'}, {'start': '1278.800', 'end': '1283.360', 'text': "they're taking this junk laced with something\xa0\nelse they don't know what they're taking they"}, {'start': '1283.360', 'end': '1287.680', 'text': "think they're buying a Tylenol or an aderall and\xa0\na Xanax and it's laced with fentanyl and they're"}, {'start': '1287.680', 'end': '1295.120', 'text': "dropping debt and no longer because of you what\xa0\nyou've done so that statistic made me raise an"}, {'start': '1295.120', 'end': '1302.320', 'text': 'eyebrow because she just suggested that the Trump\xa0\nadministration has stopped twothirds of America'}, {'start': '1302.320', 'end': '1310.480', 'text': 'from overdosing on fentanyl now look the fentanyl\xa0\nissue is a grave and serious issue in America and'}, {'start': '1310.480', 'end': '1316.480', 'text': "roughly 100,000 Americans lose their lives every\xa0\nyear in overdose related deaths and that's such a"}, {'start': '1316.480', 'end': '1321.600', 'text': "tragedy and there's so many complicated things\xa0\nthat go into that but there is no universe in"}, {'start': '1321.600', 'end': '1327.280', 'text': 'which absent the Trump administration intercepting\xa0\nthis fentanyl 2/3 of the country would have taken'}, {'start': '1327.280', 'end': '1332.320', 'text': "it what she's suggesting is that because of the\xa0\namount of tons of fentanyl they intercepted that"}, {'start': '1332.320', 'end': '1337.280', 'text': 'that is enough if you calculate it out per\xa0\nperson exactly to potentially poison and kill'}, {'start': '1337.280', 'end': '1342.400', 'text': "you know 200 odd million people but that's like\xa0\nsaying that if they arrest a criminal and he's"}, {'start': '1342.400', 'end': '1349.200', 'text': "got 10,000 rounds of ammunition then they've saved\xa0\n10,000 lives like not every single person possible"}, {'start': '1349.200', 'end': '1353.280', 'text': "was going to be harmed by that and what's so\xa0\nannoying about this to me is the way that they're"}, {'start': '1353.280', 'end': '1357.280', 'text': 'just so fast and loose with the facts and they\xa0\njust make these wild outlandish claims because'}, {'start': '1357.280', 'end': '1360.800', 'text': "they're actually like hurting themselves\xa0\nfor taking credit for something actually"}, {'start': '1360.800', 'end': '1365.040', 'text': "good they're doing which is it's obviously great\xa0\nthat they're stopping fentanyl from coming into"}, {'start': '1365.040', 'end': '1369.840', 'text': "the country it's a poison that's killing people\xa0\nit's what they ran on doing but by making the"}, {'start': '1369.840', 'end': '1375.520', 'text': "absurd claim in this kind of like sophantic way\xa0\nin front of Trump you're so amazing and you save"}, {'start': '1375.520', 'end': '1382.880', 'text': '200,000 million gazillion people it like takes the\xa0\nshine off what actually is an accomplishment and'}, {'start': '1382.880', 'end': '1387.600', 'text': 'however many thousands of lives they may have\xa0\nactually saved by taking it to this absurd and'}, {'start': '1387.600', 'end': '1392.160', 'text': "ridiculous degree i don't know why they do this\xa0\ni don't know why they're like this it makes me"}, {'start': '1392.160', 'end': '1397.600', 'text': "roll my eyes every time but like so many people\xa0\nin our politics they just can't help themselves"}, {'start': '1397.600', 'end': '1402.800', 'text': 'let me know what you guys think in the comments\xa0\nwhat a what a wild week of American politics'}, {'start': '1402.800', 'end': '1407.760', 'text': "but that's that's just every week now I guess\xa0\nand that'll be it for this episode of the Brad"}, {'start': '1407.760', 'end': '1412.400', 'text': 'Versus Everyone podcast thank you all so much for\xa0\ntuning in thanks to Lumen for sponsoring please'}, {'start': '1412.400', 'end': '1415.920', 'text': "do make sure you're subscribed if you aren't yet\xa0\ndo hit that like button before you go yada 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