Tim Walz
Appearances
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"Governor Tim Walz"
I mean, think of that day. This was a Tuesday morning. We got the call. Within 20 minutes, my life...
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
changed like you know I said I'm minding my own damn business at home and all of a sudden it blows up it should be noted it should be noted Tim I did turn it down I was the first call and then Tim was the second call I'm just we're being honest but they sweep in you've got all these folks around you they pack your clothes for you and tell you you go in and get on a private plane which is I've never flown on a private plane to do this so they fly you to Philadelphia that's funny because Jason's never not yeah
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
Well, they take you to Philadelphia, and then I also, and I told them when they were interviewing me, I said, look, I've never given a speech off a teleprompter. I speak, and look, it has its problems, and I told them that. You'll get about 90% good, and then you'll get 10% stuff you'll have to clean up. That's me, because that's how I talk. But they sent me there.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
They put me in the back of a college locker room, and they had mocked up the stage I was going to go on in about an hour and put the speech on the teleprompter. And so I practiced it a little bit. And then I'm standing at that door in Philadelphia, like 12, 15,000 people waiting to see the vice president in this announcement.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
She and her standing out on the curtain and she's like, you know, well, get this right. So it opened up and that's what it was. But no, it was just, you're right. I think your analysis is right. It was just too big to get nervous about it. I didn't have time to think about it.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
Well, it's a different approach. And I always say this, that I never, and honest to God, I never thought about running for office before. I have a whole life before this, teaching National Guard in my community and things like that. But I think my life prepared me well. And so I approach like, look, you have got to be pretty self-aware and pretty humble to teach high school for a lot of years.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
But it's also so gratifying. And I think one of the things is that I'm super sensitive to this idea. These are servant leadership positions. This isn't a special thing that you've been granted. Your job is to work for people. And I try and approach it like I was hired to teach kids in school, so I need to do my best job. And I've been hired to be a representative.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
And I took great pride that I was very bipartisan. I... You know, this idea that we can't figure things out. My staff, we always had a saying that, you know, if the facts dispute our ideology, we change our ideology. It's that simple. You're not married to it. So a lot of times I don't have an ideological dog in a fight. It's just what the facts show.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
And I think trying to approach these things like problem solving, you're working with people, you're trying to do your best. I'll be the first to admit it has been really challenging with Donald Trump. You know, I won a congressional race in 2016. Donald Trump won my district by double digits, nearly 20%. So thousands of people voted for Donald Trump and me on that. That was only a few years ago.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
Now, would that be true today? Probably not. They've continued to. But I think trying to focus on what the job is, that it's a humbleness and it's not your whole identity. I watch these folks try and hang on to these jobs and things like that. If the folks don't want me to do it, they won't do it. But I'm telling you, Here's what we can do.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
I meet hundreds every day. They won't. They won't, though, because of the money and because of what they're afraid will happen if they get into it.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
Yeah, we were speaking of the overwhelming thing on this back... during that debate, you know, they drove me through Times Square to see my picture up on those big screens. And so somebody said, you look nervous. No kidding. I'm sitting there freaking out. But I'm honest to God, before things went live, I'm standing there and I'm like,
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
there's 345 million people in this country and it's me and this dude. That is just not right. And it's true. I mean, it's kind of overwhelming, but that kind of got rid of my imposter syndrome and said, look, I know that I know what's right. I know who I am. I'm trying to do right. You just go back to your values. Yes. And if you leave from that.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
So Will's point is this, that I do hope people do this. I do hope they get out there because we need them. We need good people.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
Yeah, and rank-and-file union members, one thing, look, the leadership in unions, that's more political than what I'm doing. They have to cover their butt on their things. And I'm as frustrated as you are on this, Will. But the one thing I do think about, you wonder what happened. The first thing I think of, there's not something wrong with my constituents.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
These are good people trying to go to work and do things. And like the New York Times sends somebody out every few weeks to interview a guy at a bar and figure out what happened to rural America. These are my family. I've lived there. I do think one of the things, I always said this as a teacher, if I would give an exam or something,
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
and a majority of students would not do well, probably had a little something to do with me in there. Was I not getting it across? And so I think some of it is how we've messaged this. I don't think that's the full blame on it. Certainly Donald Trump is a master of manipulation, a master of what new media look like. But I do think there's some ways as what are we not doing?
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
to appeal to those ranked. Look, I'm a union member. I think, you know, that's what I did. And I get a lot of union support, but I know there's some rank and file members. And so they're not monolithic. It's not their only issue. But I say this, and I'm kind of with you on this, Will.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
The rest of it is you don't have to worry about all the rest of that stuff if you're not in a union because you're not going to get paid as well. You're not going to have a pension. You may not have health care. You better focus on the things that matter. Stay in your lane. And so they've done a good job of distracting on things that are the cultural war stuff rather than the bread and butter.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
Well, this may be, but this is where I think Vice President Harris is focusing really rightly. This idea of middle class doesn't sound like anything so groundbreaking, but this idea of housing and down payment assistance, this idea of cost down, this idea of child tax credit.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
Because the one thing I will say, Jason, on this is that these guys on the other side have created an economy which many of the people you're talking about are busting their ass just to get by. They don't have time to spend a lot on this. They're trying to figure out how to afford childcare. They're trying to figure out how to make things work.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
They see inflationary prices go up and we may say, look, inflation is higher everywhere else in the world. They don't care about that because that's impacting with them. They hear a guy like JD Vance say, egg prices went up. Yeah, because of bird flu. They don't care about bird flu. They just know egg prices went up.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
So I do think there's a part, certainly discerning on media is something my wife used to teach a course on modern media, language and logic. trying to think through that. But I think part of it is these guys have, as we're saying on this, they've shifted wealth to the point where the wealth gap is staggering. When you see it in a graphic, people can't believe how truly bad it is.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
And what's stuck on that is a whole bunch of people trying to get through their lives. And Donald Trump has told them, you know, where to put the blame rather than that.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
When you Do that. Minnesota's listed as, you know, the Republicans always say it's a high tax state. We're home to many Fortune 500 companies, high concentration. But we have what's rated as the fairest tax system. It's a progressive tax system. If you don't make as much, you don't pay as much. If you make more, you pay more. Look what ends up happening then.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
Top five business state, top three place to raise kids, top place for health care, longest longevity. Look, we're not perfect. And it's cold as hell here in the winter. So there's things that happen.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
Yeah, if we did, it would not be 40 below up here. But you're right, this idea of making the case to people that this works. And look, this isn't class, you know, they said, you know, you're engaging in class warfare. They already won the war almost on that, the guys on the other side.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
Yeah, but this is about sense of fairness and it's it's stunning to me that I thought one of the you know My killer lines in this that would the middle class would say do you think it's fair Donald Trump doesn't pay tax That doesn't seem fair and a lot of people like well, he's successful. He knows how to work the system. That's disappointing to me
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
Yeah, I think that's right. You know, we have folks. Pete Buttigieg goes on Fox News quite a bit. He's one of our best spokespeople. Yeah, and go on and just talk to folks because I don't think we can assume that all of them are not there. Like the vice president making that case, getting out there
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
going to place they you know we're going into some of these pretty red areas and I this is another one of the vice president's things that I think when they feel this and people can see it we're getting off a bus tour in rural Pennsylvania and one side of the street has our supporters and The other side of the street's not. I said, they always make it easy for us.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
They're all in the same hat so we can see and we know who they were. But she didn't blink and it wasn't performance art. The only people there were her husband and my wife and I. And she said, Tim, don't ever forget, we work just as hard for folks on this side of the street as on the other side of the street. You start to see some of the results of that and we're seeing it in Minnesota.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
It's pretty hard. Like the vice president's advocating for this child tax credit. We implement it on the state level, lowers childhood poverty. Some of this stuff starts to make sense and you have to... I'm a school teacher, so I talk Maslow's hierarchy. You can't get to self-actualization about things if people are worried about their safety and their hunger and things like that.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
Show people that these policies help make them more money. People are willing to tackle climate change if their lights come on and their bills don't go up. They don't care where the power comes from. In fact, most people would rather see it come from renewables. But I think sometimes we say, well, why can't you see we have to save the planet on this?
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
How about we just create a whole bunch of new union jobs like they did with this proposal? A whole bunch of opportunities, right? That's so great.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
I'll tell you, Jason, I'm a geographer by training. I love maps except one. whoever built the red-blue map did more damage than you would ever imagine. Because you look at that map and you look at South Dakota and say, oh, South Dakota's all red or whatever. That's not true. That is not true. There's a mix. Or even you look at an urban area and say, well, that's blue, everybody in there.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
That's not true either. And they created this false mindset for us because it's very visual.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
I couldn't agree more. Look, there's... There's household names now of women who should have been able to have their own private health care kept to themselves, who are thrust into the national light because they had to go through horrific situations that should have been as simple as health care being delivered. And look, this is something that's taken a while.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
And I think for all of us on here, men need to know how to talk about it. Men need to know how women's bodies work and how doctors understand that. And I think that's something that has changed. I agree with you. I said a while back in the debate, it took a long time for them to get around to two most important issues, the issue of women's bodily autonomy and the democracy.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
It seems like those would have been two questions to come out of the chute with.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
It's all in that question. It is that simple. And everything stems from that. And these guys are not gonna stop. I talk about it, the whole... you know, they're all over us. I don't want to have to talk with my wife and I infertility issues and trying to use IUI.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
I'm with you, Will. Who's a Who's asking for this agenda? Who's asking for tax cuts for billionaires? Who's asking to repress women on this? I said this, dude, you think the guys... Bunch of men. Rich men. Well, you think they're sitting around in the bar in Wisconsin saying, you know what we really need to do?
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
We need to ban Orwell's books and we need to give billionaires a tax cut and we need to repress women. Let's hope not. Let's hope not. I hope they're talking about we need better jobs. We need to make sure, you know, I can't afford to pay for daycare. Tackle these issues. And I think we as, you know, this is what Kamala's putting out.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
let's really tackle the issues and show them that we're going after these things. But you know, when we start to do that, they don't want to talk about it because they got no plan. Listening to them talk about healthcare, listening to Donald Trump ramble about protecting preexisting conditions, it's terrifying to me.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
If you want to be president of the United States or vice president, you should at least have a working knowledge how insurance works and how healthcare works. And they don't.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
Pump it. It's just crazy. We don't come in and ask them, where's your money for the heat today? We put new windows in the schools. Where's your money, kid? So this idea, and look, it's that simple philosophy of the investing. Every dollar you invest in early childhood, you get 12 back.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
Well, I think about it and I, you know, when you're older, it's a lot of things that come in, certainly from parents and small community, but I gotta be honest with you. I grew up Catholic and at that time it was about service and the Catholic nuns, you know, get the little thump in the back of the head thinking you're too big for your own britches. And it really was
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"Governor Tim Walz"
New Testament, to the least amongst us type of stuff. I don't talk about, you don't need people to give you a sermon in elected office, but try and live one a little bit, you know, try and do something. And I think it was from that. I feel very blessed by that. And it's, you know, it's different now.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
My wife converted me to Lutheranism, which is basically Catholicism with more singing, but that's about the difference. I'm in, I'm in. But it's the same type of principle. So I think that's what it was. And again, we have a saying, we have a great senator who died way too early in Paul Wellstone, who said, we all do better when we all do better.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
And it's the sense of servant leadership, the sense of putting back in and you benefit. And we keep talking about this school meals piece of it. you get better achievement, you get better students in school. And so even if you remove the moral aspect of feeding a child, you actually save money. So if you're just heartless and don't want to pay higher taxes, you save, you get $12 return on that.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
And so I said, the simplification is you can buy school buses and school meals, or you can buy prison buses and prison meals. You make the decision where you want to fast and it's much better.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
That's right. And public schools for all of us are at. And this is in rural areas I keep thinking about, these folks who want to voucherize. So you're going to have your voucher. So here's your voucher. You get a small tax credit or whatever, but your public school closes. Where are you going to send them? Where's that private school when you're out in a town like I was at 400?
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"Governor Tim Walz"
The idea that the community invested, and I had wonderful public school teachers who were teaching in a small school with 20 kids in a class, coming every day prepared to do that, what a sense of investment they all made. And I think, you know, from that kind of servant leadership, but watching the people around me, you know, the old Mr. Rogers thing, when you need somebody, find the helper.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
The helpers were all over and they were doing this. There's some of that.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
you know i was the fun teacher and she's the teacher that kids came back 10 years later and thank say thank you for teaching me english and so mr waltz was a barrel of fun but you know but i learned english do you guys have a similar do you guys have a similar dynamic in parenting are you is she the disciplinarian and you're kind of the fun guy yeah she's amazing uh yeah my if you've seen her and she she can do anything she is just the quintessential lutheran minnesota woman yeah and we're a
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
Just Tim. Just Tim. God, I love you so much. I will say this, though. We did a trade mission to London, and the hello, governor stuff, I just lived on it for the entire week.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
She's great. We're partners in this. I feel blessed that we got together. But just to be clear, She was much more political than me early. She would watch the conventions. I'm like, I'm not watching the conventions. It's summer. I'm going golfing or something. She paid attention. She knew it all. I didn't. She knew who people were. I'm like, I don't know who the senator from North Carolina is.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
Look, it's a privilege. I mean, I wish we weren't in this situation. I wish this thing were a blowout. It's not going to be. It's going to come down to the hard work. But the sense of privilege here, this isn't about the next four years. This is about the next 40. And you're hearing from your people you know around the world. The rest of the world's looking for us to do the right thing here.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
And I think to be a part of that and everybody to be the little things they can do, whether it's door knocking, whether it's going on and given what little they have, you know, donations that people give, 10 bucks, that's a lot for a lot of people. They do something else and they give the help. I think it's this idea that you can be part of something bigger and that's what people want.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
That's the whole thing about teams. Like the kids who enjoyed being on football teams were the most excited. is the kid who got in on kickoffs because you're going to play everybody. He wasn't the best athlete maybe, but that kid was there because he was with his buddies, he was with his team.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
And I think for Americans, this idea we can be in this, we don't have to agree, and I'm not naive, this is tough. There's folks that don't agree on anything, but I think the vast majority of people realize it doesn't need to be this way. And I give Kamala Harris full credit. This idea of joy, and I watched the Wall Street Journal poo-poo joy.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
I'll take joy over being like crabby and awful and no one wants to be around you. Me too. That's what she's doing and politics can be that way. Look, Donald Trump wants to make it. It would be easier, I guess he's saying, is just elect one person forever and let them make the decisions. This democracy stuff is hard. It's messy.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
Hello, governor. Hi, governor. And it wasn't ironic. It was like real. I know.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
It's difficult and it's frustrating, but it's the best that's been devised.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
You know, have you thought about that? Well, she said it and I agree with her. She needs to appoint a Republican to the cabinet. I do think it matters to a position of authority. And look, there's a lot of them out there. These folks who are coming out and speaking on behalf of these Republicans, I disagree with many of them. Their values are there. I served with these people.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
People like Jeff Flake, the senator from Arizona, super conservative, but that man is as honest as anything. I've dealt with him. Jim Langford, who wrote the big piece of the immigration bill, I served with him. That guy is the most conservative person I ever met, but he's also one of the most honorable.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
Some of these people need to be put in a position where they truly have the ability to influence things because they are ethical and they care about this country. And I think that's, I think that's something that really sets her apart to make a high profile appointment to the cap. Or two or three. Yes.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
Bring them folks who care about the country and let us look, I don't want to be surrounded by people. I, in my organization, my folks know that I'll say something. They say, you know, with all due respect, governor, that is a horrible idea and we should not do it. Yeah. And I'm like, okay, good. Thank you for stopping me from doing that horrible idea. Yeah, yeah.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
Yeah, this just irritates, and I don't do it to irritate my pescatarian daughter. Beef jerky is my thing. I'm a homemade beef jerky, and Pete Buttigieg's in-laws made some, and he brought me some. And I like the idea of a friend bringing you homemade beef jerky and know that that pleases you more than anything. So that's my thing.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
Yeah, this was a big deal for me, you guys. Thank you for having me on. I'm a big, big, big fan and appreciate all you're doing. Yeah, likewise. We really appreciate it. Thanks, Tim. Thanks, guys. Bye. Have a great day. That was great, thank you. You guys are the best. Hey, I didn't get in on this. I heard you guys often when you're talking, you're talking the golf stuff.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
This is a thing, honest to God, I don't know if you know this. So I grew up in that really small town. Yeah. Sand Green Golf. Yes. You know it? I know about it. What is Sand Green Golf? Oh, you gotta hear this.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
I did. Small town. And you played golf there? Played golf. And like everybody played golf. Farmers, everybody. And it wasn't country club golf. It was sand green golf. And what it is, the greens are made out of sand and they're oiled with vegetable oil. Well, in the old days, they were oiled with oil, which was not. I think that's what they do in the Middle East. In Australia.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
You rake the green with a path, and then you putt, and then you rake it again to put ridges in it. And they're little postage stamp-sized greens, but it's a whole different game. I hear you guys talk a lot about golf. You've got to get on a sand green golf course.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
We got to win. We're going to find you. All right. Thanks, fellas. Awesome.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
Well, you know, the good thing is, is, you know, old men need less sleep or whatever, I guess. Look, I don't, I do not sleep that much. It's, I've been using this saying, you know, it's kind of my catch thing. I said, you know, we'll sleep when we're dead. And I had a woman come up to me and goes, you're taking this too literally. You look like hell, man. Right.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
It's amazing. Yeah, no, well, it's a privilege to do it, but you're right. My daughter keeps me on this. She got one of these rings, you know, monitor your sleep, whatever. She thinks I need one of those, but I think that will just tell me what I already know. I'm not getting any sleep. That's all it'll say.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
It is just the thing. I think seeing – the one thing about this is there is an end state, if you will, on November 5th. So you just kind of put your mind into it and say, look, there will be a time when this ends. Oh, really? That's probably not true. You think things get calm after the 5th? I don't, but it's the trick I play myself. Team is good.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
I'm surprisingly, and you wouldn't know it by looking at me, I'm a pretty dedicated runner. I run about five times a week. Oh, that's great. How far do you go? I go a 5K usually between three and five miles.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
I'm like, for an old guy, I'm kind of freakishly fast, you know, nine minute miles, little less or whatever, which is, and you know, people are like, oh my God, that's a world record for a man your age.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
I do a treadmill quite a bit of the time, but you have to get outside and my team knows like wherever we're anywhere. And actually, uh, You know, here a while back after we finished that debate, the next morning I got to run in Central Park. Oh, nice. We ran that reservoir route. Of course, it's just stunning. And I'm still truly, you know, the small-town guy.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
I have not spent much time in New York. It just blows me away when I'm there. And that morning, you know, so many great people, you know, kind of good for the psyche. Oh, good job, Governor. And I'm like, oh, thank goodness. And they're, of course, super surprised I'm running too, so it was like a double positive.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
Are you listening to... Rarely, sometimes. I'm kind of zen on that. I got into it, you know, and then I got into the Garmin watch and then I got in on the timing and, you know, how fast my miles were.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
Yeah. I kind of let that go and I kind of, you know, run by feel trying to get into it. And I do think there's something and especially like when I'm in Minneapolis, you know, I got a state trooper, but just get pretty calm. They're running behind or whatever. Folks who run, leave their, I'm convinced of this, dog folks and runners, they leave politics out of it because they know it's your time.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
So it's really refreshing that people talk to you like a runner, not like you're the governor or something. So like, you know, looking good or whatever.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
the vikings or the corn huskers or whatever it is or or or or reality television or what what what do you like to talk about that's kind of nice and silly yeah i i think cars i grew up at a time you guys a little younger than me this whole cars thing i think we were much more into it you know the pixar movie i remember i apologize for him so but i just think like classic cars i've never really owned that many but you know the cars you have i watched the cars i used to own you know i i
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"Governor Tim Walz"
grew up in high school and had a beautiful Camaro, you know, at the time. And then I traded it for a Honda Civic. And now you watch these auction shows and I'm like, damn it, that car's worth $80,000 now. And I traded it for a Honda Civic worth two grand. Exactly.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
The clean power of electric. Look, whole spectrum, the whole spectrum of this. I was in Phoenix for, it was a governor's event or whatever, and there's folks there displaying their wares and the lucid folks were there with their... Fastest production car ever. You put any Lamborghini out there, this thing, and it was like inside a spaceship. Oh, this thing's like 1.8 seconds in the quarter.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
I mean, it's zero to 60. It's unbelievable. And it's like a whole new world. And I have never yet owned a fully electric, but they are fascinating. Yeah, they're the best.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
This is for me. And I said, my thing, my prize possession is that I've had it for a long time. I got a 79 International Harvester. You know, they used to give these things away. A Scout is like a Scouter. Scout, Scout 2. Do you guys hear that? He's on this thing. But yeah, these things are, you used to get it if you bought a tractor. They threw in the Scout for you. It was the original SUV.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
Yeah, there was a, you know, back in the late 70s. So mine was right before they went out of business. It was 1979.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
They were the precursors of SUVs. But here's the deal. 40 years ago at the end of October is when they closed. They were made in Fort Wayne, Indiana. So on that date this year, they're announcing the new Scout, bringing it back fully electric. Come on. No kidding. So an International Harvester Scout, that famous name, name tape is back. Volkswagen bought it. And so they're launching that thing.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
Wow. That's the stuff I talk about. And, yeah, it's the car stuff because it's such – You've got to go do Dax Shepard's podcast because he'll talk to you for three days about cars. I love these guys. And the guys who are so smart tell me how to do it. Look, I'm Tinker on the edges. These are guys that can, you know, replace a transmission. I love that.
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"Governor Tim Walz"
I said when I get done with this, I'm going to go back to like community college and learn like body work. You know, just a sense of accomplishment that you can fix your own vehicle. You can put on a new quarter panel. You can paint it.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
Yeah, some of it. Some of it I can. But look, on these new ones, I don't even know how to open the hood. I will say that. I sound like I'm the old guy. These newfangled... But the cars that you used to be able to do, my kids, it would blow their mind, like, some of the stuff we could fix. Like, my vehicle's overheating. I said, oh, it's the thermostat.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
And you'd show them how to take it out, put it in boiling water, pop the thermostat.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
It makes you feel powerless. I said, I think showing my kids some of these things that you can try and repair, I like doing it. Now, look, we all know that's also very, very dangerous because I don't know sometimes and I start taking stuff apart and then you're like, well, here's six extra screws and there's no idea where they're going. There's a bit of that with me.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
Yeah, there's no T. Yeah, there's no T. It seems pretty easy. But, you know, in all fairness, probably when we immigrated from Germany, they probably dropped the T. Well, this is the last wave of it.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
Well, you know the story. In typical me fashion, I missed the first one. Sure. I thought it was like, you know, a car warranty call coming in, so I didn't take it. And truly, no one knew. Like, this was her decision. And that Tuesday morning, no one knew. And then I got another call and said, pick up your damn phone. And then called back.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
It was overwhelming. It was an incredible privilege. But I heard you guys talking and I listened to the Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson piece about imposter syndrome. Just trust me, when the Vice President of the United States calls you and said, you're on the ticket with me, it sinks in. Pretty cool, yeah. Fast.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
Well, this is one, and I think it's just your mental health of compartmentalizing things. Still focused on, you know, this final stretch that's ahead of us. Still thinking about that. I trust the vice president will make her decision on that. You know, I said... I wasn't interviewing for a job when I talked to her. I said, use my skill sets.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
If you need to plunk me in Omaha to win one vote, send me there. Just what I would help. And I think she, and it feels really right to me. She talks about, you know, a kid from Oakland, a kid from Nebraska, middle-class kids, kind of complimentary things. We've lived different lives, but we have the same values.
SmartLess
"Governor Tim Walz"
So I would assume she would know, you know, my passion is kids and teaching and education. And that's it.
The Brett Cooper Show
JoJo Siwa Is Straight (Again) & Brigitte SLAPS President Macron? | Episode 35
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The Brett Cooper Show
JoJo Siwa Is Straight (Again) & Brigitte SLAPS President Macron? | Episode 35
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The Brett Cooper Show
JoJo Siwa Is Straight (Again) & Brigitte SLAPS President Macron? | Episode 35
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The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Best of Lewis Black Pt. 2
My take is the most neglected part of home ownership is the gutters. It's personal for me. 100% agree. I've had problems with gutters before. You get your basement wet, you get ice dams, cause a lot of problems. Where do you buy gutters? The down spots I bought at Menards. Save big money at Menards.
The Dan Bongino Show
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I think we're going to have to understand what type of leadership do they want. We were pledging to be inclusive. We were pledging to bring people in. Donald Trump has said that that isn't what he wants.
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And so if that's what America's leaning towards, I guess for me, it's to understand and learn more about America, because I thought that they were going to probably move towards a more positive message.
The Dan Bongino Show
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Senator Vance, he became a media darling. He wrote a book about the place he grew up, but the premise was was trashing that place where he grew up rather than lifting it up.
The Dan Bongino Show
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He's a venture capitalist cosplaying like he's a cowboy or something. I don't even know what a venture capitalist does most of the time.
The Dan Bongino Show
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All I said on this was, is I got there that summer and misspoke on this. So I will just, that's what I've said.
The Dan Bongino Show
BONGINO REACTS: Best Clips Of 2024
So I was in Hong Kong and China during the democracy protest went in. And from that, I learned a lot of what needed to be in governance.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Tapper Pressed on Biden Coverage, DOJ Charges Dem Rep, Rubio's Fiery Senate Hearing: AM Update 5/21
So a well-justified fear of persecution. Yeah, they thought that their farms were being burned down and they would be killed.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Tapper Pressed on Biden Coverage, DOJ Charges Dem Rep, Rubio's Fiery Senate Hearing: AM Update 5/21
The statutory phrase says you are entitled to entrance as a refugee if you demonstrate a well-justified... Fear of persecution. No, no, you're not entitled. So can you have a different standard based upon the color of somebody's skin? Would that be acceptable? Well, I'm not the one arguing that. Apparently you are because you don't like the fact that they're white.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Tapper Pressed on Biden Coverage, DOJ Charges Dem Rep, Rubio's Fiery Senate Hearing: AM Update 5/21
I'm just asking you to say that that would be unacceptable.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Tesla Attacks, Weird Walz Comments, and Judges Keep Fighting Trump, with Rich Lowry and Charles C.W. Cooke | Ep. 1030
Saying on my phone, I know some of you know this on the iPhone. They've got that little stock app. I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost during the day. 225 and dropping. And if you own one, if you own one, we're not blaming you. You can take dental floss and pull the Tesla thing off, you know, and take out, just telling you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Tesla Attacks, Weird Walz Comments, and Judges Keep Fighting Trump, with Rich Lowry and Charles C.W. Cooke | Ep. 1030
Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Domestic Terrorism Targeting Tesla, Trump Cracking Down on Title IX Violations: AM Update 3/20
Saying on my phone, I know some of you know this on the iPhone, they've got that little stock app. I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost during the day.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Domestic Terrorism Targeting Tesla, Trump Cracking Down on Title IX Violations: AM Update 3/20
So...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Ghouls Cheer Healthcare CEO's Murder, Hegseth Smears Continue, and Penny Trial Update, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 959
Mm-hmm.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Imagine you are invited to a party at someone else's house and you are legally carrying a firearm and then a fight breaks out and you are like an altercation breaks out between you and some guy. And, you know, there's drinking involved or whatever. I'm not trying to make a one for one scenario. I'm trying to create a potential scenario separate from this one with similarities. You go to a party.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Yeah, let's say you go to a party. And some guy starts saying stuff like, yo, man, get out. And you're like, I can do what I want. I was invited to the party. Verbal, you know, verbal altercation escalates. And then the dude, you're standing there and you pull your sweater back and you've got a gun. You put your hand up and say, don't come any. Don't come close to me, bro.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
I'm warning you right now. Do not come close. Do not take another step. Then the guy grabs your arm and makes a move. So you draw your weapon and you use it. OK, make the argument you have no right to defend yourself when you're being attacked by a guy. Make the argument. By all means, go ahead and do so. I ain't going to do it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
It's so funny what we fight about in America. We're going to ban TikTok or we're not. I don't know. I don't care how you feel about that. At a certain age, you gotta shut up. Like, I'm 39 years old, and I have friends that are still, they're like, they can't ban TikTok.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
I'm like, hey, Ralph. Sit down. Sit this out. They can't ban that child's dancing app. Ralph. This looks terrible, please. Stop. Stop. Where am I gonna watch children dance? All right, hey, enough. You're not helping Ralph.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Yeah, it was a weird time. People were very uptight and people were very, you know, tense. And there was a lot of anger and a lot of it was coming for comedy. A lot of it was pointed in that direction. I feel like now people have, it's dissipated. People are more relaxed. I think, I mean, not in every facet of life, but certainly with comedy, people are relaxing and common sense is coming back.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
And I think people are having more fun.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
I think it was just, you know, people, I think, realized that they were being silly. I think what happened was people were being a bit ridiculous. They were going overboard. I think it tends to happen. I think we're in like a little bit of a moral panic. where people were trying to assert at every moment how good they were. And I think people just got tired of that. I think it's exhausting.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
I think not having fun is actually very tiring. Being a stickler is very tiring. It's very exhausting. And I think people just got to a point when, you know, they realized that that was not only... a terrible way to live, but it's also not effective. The world that they want isn't going to be manifested through scolding people. So I think they realized that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
By the way, that doesn't pay.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Public television.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
And we're getting rid of it, and I'm happy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Oh, that's you in the back.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
You might. I believe Doge has just cut the funding for this, which I think is probably reasonable.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
I'm barely looking at Snuffleupagus. It was a big deal when you're a little kid to do it. Totally. It was like, you know, you got out of school.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
It didn't turn into anything. That was the height of it. What happened? Public television was the height of it. I wasn't good. What?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Just Say No Jay, yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
So it was after the murders? It was after the murders. Comedy Central had this campaign where they were trying to get people to stop watching the trial and start watching Comedy Central. Oh, okay. So they had this just say no J campaign and it satirized how insane people had become with the trial. Yes. And I think I play a young kid playing like a DNA testing kit. Let's see this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
This was the height of it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
There's the dad. Yeah. The dog shuts off the TV.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
This is the height of my career. Two seconds. This is the height of my career. Nothing except that. Years of auditioning, going into the city, nothing. Nothing? That was it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
The two things you just played were it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
And you know the saddest thing? We'd have holiday parties. We're Irish. We'd have big family parties, and we'd play that. We'd play that. So the whole, I mean, everybody would be there. Everybody would be like, oh, he did something? Let's see it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
That. And then it's just a bunch of drunk, red-faced Irish people watching me dance with Snuffleupagus going.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Discovered it. Discovered it. Developed a relationship with it, which was discovered. I like that. By the way, it's the nicest way I've ever heard it described. Discovered it. Yeah. I mean, I was a wild kid and I Is it because of your child acting? It was probably because of that. Also because my parents were kind of, I loved them both. They were just boomers and they were a little checked out.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Parenting was a little different back then. Very. It was not as intense as it is now. There was no tracker on a phone that knew where I was. You would go to the park. You would ride your bike. You would leave. And I had a lot of older friends, and they were into drugs. And I got into it through them. And, you know, it was a little bit of a wild ride for about 10 years. Oh, really? About 10 years.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
And now 15 years sober of all things. So nothing. You don't drink. You don't do anything. Nothing. So it's kind of a blessing. It's a good thing to get out of your system young. I mean, not that young.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
I stopped drinking at 25 and, um, you know, but it was a, uh, it was a time where I learned a lot about life doing all that stuff. I wouldn't recommend it. There's other ways to learn about life. If you're watching this, you know, take a, class or something. Gonna put Junior on the Tim Dillon plan. Yeah, read a book. But I learned a lot about life doing that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
You learn a lot about accountability, being an addict. You learn a lot about not blaming other people for your problems. You learn that when you come out of the addiction. You learn it when you come out of it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
You learn it when you come out of it, which was a great lesson.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
And I'm sure that was stressful to grow up with. Well, she was a schizophrenic and that was hard. It became more obvious when I was older and it was difficult because when you're younger, you're not, you look at your parents and your mother as a authority figure who's like, you know, who's,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
you know, maybe wise or certainly, you know, integral to your growing up, and then realizing that she's a very fallible person with problems is a hard thing to realize, and then realizing you can't do anything about it. You can't really do anything about it. You have to accept it and be the best you can be, and live with it and deal with it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
So, I mean, I think that was something too that was difficult. Did you like experience her when she was having delusions? Yeah, I mean, so an Irish Catholic family, we were very, we weren't big on the term schizophrenic. We were, for a while there, we just thought she was eccentric or fun. You know, Patty's fun. She would say something.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
She'd go, I think like, you know, your uncle is like a CIA agent or something. And we'd all go, she's a boot. She's fun. And then we started realizing, oh, it's a mental disorder. So it was manageable. Like it wasn't like. It was manageable. She worked very hard. She really, really worked. And then I think around in her forties, she started, it started to progress and get worse.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
I think you parlay it into something creative. It doesn't have to be comedy. But for me, it was like there was a lot of stuff that in order to deal with it, you could be funny about it. That's the way to deal with a lot of things. Coping mechanism. Yeah, it's coping mechanism. Mm-hmm. There's a lot of people that have had mental illness in their family.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
They write great novels about it or they're, you know, playwright or they're a musician or something. But for me, comedy made sense because it was a way to kind of goof about things that were, you know, incredibly painful. Yep. You know, and you couldn't understand. So you didn't really understand it. I think that's a big thing in comedy. Comedy is trying to make sense of things in a funny way.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
So how do you deal with that? Well, I do a podcast, but if I become a schizophrenic, I make more money. So I have a career. Everyone would listen to that. No one would know. In fact, it would be multiple years before anyone suggested something was off. In fact, people go, it's getting really good.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
So I have a career where if I were to become a schizophrenic, people go, it's actually getting really good. So I'm not as worried about that as I would be if I was like a lawyer or something where it would become more apparent.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Yes. I hear you're ready to endorse her for president. I like her now. I've come around on her because I, since I'm a little kid, love con artists. I think they're great. I think they're fun. They're an important part of America and the tapestry of our country. They, to me, exude a kind of effortless humor. They're very funny. And I find her to be a great con artist, one of the great...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
One of the greats. One of the greats, you know. This is someone who came to prominence marrying into the royal family, claiming they were racist, claiming she wanted to dedicate herself to uplifting people. young women around the world and is now selling jam at target. Yes. That's beautiful. She moved to the richest and whitest area of our country. Yes. Absolutely. And makes honey.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
There's nothing better than that from where she started to where she is now. And that's what I think a lot of it is. I think a lot of people that claim to be really evolved people who really want to help other people are just trying. She just wants a line of consumer goods.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Well, what's brilliant about what she's doing is she knows people want to spend money, and spending money makes them feel like they're getting something that's better, even though it might not necessarily be true. And I think it's brilliant. You can tell when you watch the show, she thinks people just, we're all animals. And that's her view.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
She just thinks we're all monsters, and we're all just kind of pigs in the mud, and that she's helping us. with jam and honey. It's also very weirdly British, isn't it?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
It's kind of oddly British for somebody who went over there and realized it was just a racist, horrible place. There's a lot of jam and tea and honey.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
America. Well, it seems it's just very interesting. And seeing it all happen in real time fills me with just it fills me with a wrecking like a I recognize how how much this was the plan the whole time. And you got to it's got you got to give your hats off to her.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Like, no, get your name out there in a ubiquitous way. Honey. No, right now. No, no one needs jam. There's not one systemic racist problem that she's that like no one needs jam. There's not one person wrongly accused of something or whatever doesn't have money for a lawyer that's looking for elderberries or wildflowers or whatever the hell she's talking about.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
The only people that are concerned with this stuff are people like she lives in there in Montecito. That's so wealthy. They're not even on Earth anymore. It's a beautiful area. It's a great area. But they float around and they have tea and they pick flowers. They live in a fairy tale.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Yeah, sun tea. Like we all have time to do. Yeah, they kind of sit around in their backyards and they enjoy this and they smell lavender and stuff like that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
It's not how we're living. No, we're sitting by our doors with guns. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Like normal people. Yeah, we're sitting by the door with a gun waiting for someone to come in. That's how we're living.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No one's making, if you have honey in your house, you're using it as a weapon. You don't have a local beekeeper? No, there's no local beekeeper. There's no gardens.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Falling down on the job. Yes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Is it female founders? Female founders, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Thank God. What are they thinking about these female founders? Oh, here you go.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
hard to find. When you are married to a prince, how do you start a business? That's a real question because the struggle shed to go through being married to a prince and being one of the most famous people in the world. How do you start a business when you're rich and famous?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Yeah. I mean, like your one greatest connection is now out. Thank God, because I want to know how this all happened. And I want to get into the mind of the female founder. Here we go. Here's this founder discussing, I think. Remember when she pretended to like poor people? That lasted a few weeks.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
Yeah, I mean, it's, well, she's also, you know, she's kept up at night because she's, you know, half the staff quit. That's right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Weinstein's New Trial, New Lively Questions, and Meghan Markle's Grift, with Tim Dillon, Arthur Aidala, and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 1047
On any given day, the staff will quit because she just, you know, launches into a tirade. And for whatever reason, they feel unsafe. She's been accused multiple times of being a bullying abuser. Well, she's throwing honey at people's heads and stuff. So she's kept up at night wondering about what laws will trickle in because of the abusive behavior towards the staff.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Well, what I like about her, actually, I've gone the other way now, because now that she's coming out as a monster, I like, like, I'm actually on board now. Into it. I'm into it because now, by the way, she's no longer even, there's no longer even an attempt. It's such a thinly veiled attempt to be this conscientious person. You know, she's really just saying, like, I'm a founder. Yeah.
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I'm a founder and I'm a big business person.
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Yeah.
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Right. Doesn't make you a founder. Well, Joseph, she never cared. You know, it was all about, in the beginning, it was all about, like, unwinding the systems of oppression. Yeah. Remember that? That's done, didn't you know? Remember that? She solved that. Remember that it was like she would go to like a third world country and there'd be a bunch of kids dancing and she'd take a photo with them.
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Now it seems much more about like she's looking at like Gwyneth Paltrow, what Gwyneth Paltrow did with her store.
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Goop or whatever. I think it's Goop. Yeah. And I think she's looking at that and going, that's what she wants to be. She wants to be Martha Stewart.
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Well, I mean, you got to hand it to her. She knows that we don't have a memory. Yes, it's true. The country doesn't have a memory. We have a fatally short memory. And we're kind of tolerant of however people want to reintroduce themselves in the moment. Yes. So she understands America.
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Better than I do or maybe you do because she gets it. We love the huckster. We root for the huckster. We root for kind of the criminal sometimes. And she's kind of assuming that role of going, this is who I am today. Right.
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I found my wave.
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Yeah.
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Clearly copying me. I had Steve Bannon on. He had Steve Bannon on. He's literally copying me. The governor of California, Gavin Newsom. Now, by the way, we don't, this is not what politicians should be doing is starting podcasts. No one wanted this. No one who's sitting in an air sheep in Altadena wants him on a podcast. They want him to run the state. You just, you have a job. You have a job.
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It's the governor of California. That's a hard job, right? He keeps saying it is. The state's very big. It's the seventh largest economy in the world or whatever he's saying. How in God's name do you have the time to do a pod? Can you imagine launching a podcast in the ash heap? of your state, he's now doing a... Is he going to have ads? Is he going to read ads?
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Is Gavin Newsom going to read ads while people try to find housing in his state? It's such a good point. Yeah. He's totally copying you. Well, you know what it is? Watching him try and fail to be a human being is a very interesting thing. And that's what he's been kind of doing. You know, Gavin is a... ambitious guy who thought he was going to run for president last time.
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It's clearly obvious to everybody. How many times did he say, I'm standing with Biden? He said it so many times. It was like the lady doth protest too much. He clearly thought he was angling for that. He got passed over, okay, for an unpopular candidate who got trounced. He thinks he's coming back again. And he's trying everything he can to appear like a human being.
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When you're so ambitious, Markle, Newsom, it's the same type of person. They just want the thing, whatever it is. They want the title. They want the status. They don't believe in anything. Gavin Newsom doesn't believe in it. Meghan Markle doesn't believe in anything. So when you have... People like that, their guiding principle is only ambition. Mala Harris didn't believe in anything.
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Say what you want about Donald Trump. He said the same thing about tariffs for 30, 40 years. Yes. Okay? People like Kamala Harris or Gavin Newsom just want the thing. It's a vibes-based thing. They want people to feel a certain way, and they want to make people feel a certain way.
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He goes, I just want to be president. That's all he wants to do. It's really what he's saying. It's really what he wants to do. He doesn't have a specific set of beliefs. He doesn't care. It doesn't mean anything to him.
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Because the way that people like Gavin Newsom get far, the way that people like Kamala Harris get far, and there's a lot of Republicans, by the way, who get far the same way, is they don't have a fixed set of principles.
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Because if you have a fixed set of principles, Bernie Sanders, whatever you want to say about him, has a fixed set of principles. You know, for the most part, he's been saying a lot of the same things for 30 years. Now, that means that eventually someone comes around to you or you're out there in the cold. Now, Gavin and Kamala, people like that, they don't ever want to be out in the cold.
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They constantly want to be in the rooms that matter. So you have to go with the flow. When the world goes a certain way, you got to go with the world. So when Americans render a verdict on the biological men in women's sports and say, we don't want this. Gavin Newsom then has to move in that direction.
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But when he's in his own state and he's asked about it and the time is to do something about it, he's constantly monitoring and going, is this the right thing to say here? Is this the right thing to say there? He can have it all. He can try. He's definitely trying. His popularity is plummeting. That doesn't work anymore. That's my, I guess, thought about it.
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The way that politics has worked forever, which was Gavin Newsom's, Kamala Harris, it's been people- Say whatever the hell you have to. Say whatever the hell you have to. Lindsey Graham is like a lot of times says whatever he has to. Lindsey Graham's everywhere. Right? He's everywhere. These people don't care about anything. That's not working anymore because of the internet.
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You're able to immediately go, wait a minute. You said that last week. Where are you on this now? You're just a phony. You're a phony and you put together these, you know, compilations of people just being for it and against it and this and that. It doesn't work anymore. And I think that's going, that's a major change.
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He's 100 percent. He feels the way he feels. Agree or disagree. Yeah. He's 100 percent been saying the same thing for 30 years.
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No, no.
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Yes, I'm friends with him. I like his family.
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Him and his wife are great. Cheryl's great. He's great.
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We've gone to dinner a few times. I went to their compound on the 4th of July, which was really cool to see.
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It's a big part of American history.
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Yeah, for an Irish Catholic guy. That's a pretty good- Did anybody die? Or was it good?
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I mean, no. No one died, thankfully. But they do dangerous activities. It's not like you can see how it happens. Yeah. Yeah, you can see it.
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They're adrenaline junkies. You know what I mean? They're very much-
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Because he seems to be a little untethered. They seem to be on opposite sides of the thing. Yeah, don't worry about that.
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I actually went with his kids. He wasn't there. Him and Cheryl weren't there that weekend. They were somewhere else, but they could have been there. I think they're like, listen, it's a family. They disagree about stuff. It's a high stakes family. They disagree about a lot of stuff and it's very public.
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But I think at the end of the day, it is a family and it's a, you know, important family in terms of the history of America.
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He talks a lot about that stuff and he's very, very passionate about it. And again, you don't get the vibe that this is someone angling to be famous. Yeah. No, he has genuinely had beliefs. That's not why he like, you know, went after polluters forever when that was incredibly unpopular. That's not why he talked about vaccines during the pandemic when that was incredibly unpopular.
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He feels the way he feels. And I think that The only way to get out of the climate we're in in America in the sense of, like, we need people who have genuine convictions. And they can debate about them and they can argue about them, but we need people with genuine convictions. And he has genuine convictions.
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I think she's an incredibly funny, smart, talented person who's respected in her own right as a great actress, great comedic actress. And I think she has real friends and real relationships. And I think that's also changing a lot of people in that state and in that business are also starting to moderate a little bit.
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Because I think they're starting to see that, you know, they have drifted far from the mainstream of American life. And I think they're starting to come back.
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Yeah, I think the problem with everything now is that people have a visceral reaction to certain people. Meaning like, for whatever reason, there are certain people, like Steve Bannon on my show. I had liberals calling me going, Oh, my God. I agree with Steve Bannon. Yes. That's what happens when you start listening to Steve Bannon. And you go, wow, this guy made a lot of great points.
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But there are certain people who said, I cannot believe you. I will never listen. This guy's a white supremacist. He's a not. And I go, he's none of that. Yeah. Listen to the episode. So there's people that I think are not listening. And there are people that disagree with RFK too. And that's fine. There's people that have principled disagreements with RFK and go, I think you're wrong.
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I think also, you know, listen, your real friends become apparent in these situations, and I'm sure she knows who they are.
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She wasn't controversial. I don't think she disagrees with some of his stuff, right? I don't think they agree on everything. Yeah, I'm sure she does. I think like everybody else, nobody agrees with everybody on everything. I think it's fine to have a position where you go, I think RFK is right here and wrong here. That's how most people feel about most people. Yeah. Right?
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So I think that's totally okay. I think when you go, he's a crackpot, he's a crank, he's completely insane, and you dismiss everything he says, even though you agree with some of it. Like, I don't disagree with everything Meghan Markle says. I like jam. So I think, you know, everybody has to, you know, like, you know, I think you take it issue by issue.
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Yes, a thousand percent. I feel the same. A thousand percent.
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The withdrawal from Afghanistan was sloppy and a mess. I agreed it was time to go. Not in that way. So I said, we shouldn't be there. Good for him. The withdrawal was a mess. Yeah. But the instinct of getting our troops out of a 20 year thing.
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Trump should have done it. And I think maybe this Trump would have done it. But I think last time he didn't do it.
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Are you a Trump supporter? I think that there's things I really like about him and there's things that I find a little bit. you know, I'm not as in love with. He's controversial. Well, yeah, I'm not as in love with all of the things, but I think he understands a lot of the problems. And I think that, you know, it depends on, I don't want to go to war with Iran.
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This is the thing that I disagree with. I think there's a ratcheting up of this, it feels like right now.
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Yeah, I remember that. Yeah. I just, I really like his idea of no wars. Yeah. Having a border, trying to restore fairness in an economy, trying to get a middle class back. If he goes down those roads, I think he'll have a great presidency. If he gets bogged down with a conflict in Iran and kind of, you know, a domestic agenda that is a little chaotic, whereas it's rather streamlined.
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I think the tariffs, I think it's the right instinct. I'm not an economist, but I do think the right, we're what, 37 trillion in the hole? Oh, wait, we have this.
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Charlie takes a big buyout, okay? Because a multinational corporation like Unilever buys the chocolate factory and they move all of the jobs offshore. He didn't even like chocolate. He just liked going to orgies on a yacht in international waters. He comes back, he wipes the blood off himself from just throwing a woman over a boat. And they said, Charlie, why did you sell the factory?
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Why are all the Oompa Loompas on fentanyl? And Charlie says, it's a shame how trans people are treated in this country. And they go, what? And it almost feels like Charlie himself is using some of this to get people's mind off the fact that he sold his chocolate factory to a global multinational conglomerate who's offshored all of the jobs.
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Now we say to the Oompa Loompas, I hope you got your Bitcoin. No, no, no, no, no. I'm trying to make the chocolate bar. Oh, we don't do that here anymore. Go work at Panera. So that's what America is. It's an Oompa Loompa at Panera. Yeah, I think that... the American working class has been thrown aside by both parties.
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And I think that people in this country that are fortunate can't fully understand the desperation in a lot of parts of the country that have been ignored. And I think a lot of that has to do with the de-industrialization of the country and Now, there's going to be periods of adjustment. There's going to be ugliness.
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There's going to be, you know, but I think the country is more than an economic zone. I don't think you could see it as just a place to make money. I think you have to see it as a place where you have a culture. A country is something where you have to go to war to protect, right? You know, I don't think people can just see it as a place where there are financial opportunities.
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Yeah, we got a roaring market. Yeah, right. So I think that obviously it's important that people have a good standard of living, that they have money. You know, we all want those things. But I also think there has to be some attention paid. to large swaths of the country that are not, you know, sharing in any of the prosperity of the last, you know, 20 to 30 years.
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Yeah.
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Well, the Democratic Party was purchased by Wall Street and Wall Street has ideas about how the way the country should function. Wall Street wants endless supply of cheap labor. They want open borders. The Koch brothers loved open borders. It was because it was an endless supply of cheap labor. It broke the back of the working class. It destroyed unions.
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And it provided companies with low wage labor so that their profits went up. None of those profits were shared with their workers. But they got bigger mansions at the top. But they got bigger mansions at the top. And the Democratic Party became completely purchased by Wall Street. And then...
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Identity politics is then kind of manifested as a way to convince people that actually they are interested in changing things. But by changing things, they don't mean giving you health care. They mean giving you like a trans Batman. Right. That's what they're doing. Right. So they're they're basically Snow White who hates Snow White. Snow White is not into it. Right.
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Who thinks it's like some type of like rape fantasy or something like it's a children's book. But, you know, it becomes a great, you know, there's a great quote, and it's for things to stay the same, they must change, or something of that nature. You know, things must change to stay the same. Yeah.
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What the Democratic Party has become is a party that says, we're going to give you a female CEO, but we're not going to give you any bit more, you know, of a pathway to a life. Mm-hmm. So we're going to give you a better feel good about the fact that there's progress in this very aesthetic area that doesn't matter really to your life other than to say, well, that's nice, you know? Yeah.
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But most people are concerned with the financial reality of their own family. What do you make of, as a comedian, of Trump and his comedy skills? He's the funniest politician ever. And I think a lot of it is he doesn't really know that he's being funny. I think he's just being honest in his way. Yeah. Right? So he's just calling things the way he sees it. He's really good at it.
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And it doesn't mean honest in the global sense, because he'll say things that aren't true.
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No politician is. But when he says things... that are funny. I think it's because people are not used to hearing that from a politician.
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What makes him effective is that he understands that there's a way that you can communicate that whether the people don't stop listening. Yes. That's a big part of it. Yeah. So many politicians, you turn them off. Very hard to turn out when Trump's on. You will never turn him off.
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I've said I'm going to watch 10 minutes of his speech, and it's an hour and a half. Yes. And I watch the whole thing. Yes. Because there's a musicality, too. It's like jazz. He comes in and out, and he goes from this thing to that thing, and it's very much a stream of consciousness.
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Well, he also doesn't patronize people. Like I remember, like you had Anna Dasha. They brought up a great point of like he shows up to this rally late and he complained about his private plane.
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That it wasn't working. And he goes, they screw you. They keep you on the runway. He's not pretending. No. That he can empathize fully with someone who's, you know, in a different financial situation. He's saying, this is who I am. This is the way I see it. There's an authenticity to it, even though people hate it.
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He's right. I have some experience with this. I think people hate it. I think there's a snobbery. to it where people look at him and go, we don't like that he represents America. You know, we don't like that. Not those, not that America. Right.
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We'd rather someone from Harvard, even though he went to a great school, but we'd rather someone who understands that there's a certain language that we all speak and he doesn't speak it.
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Yeah. Now you're in LA. I'm back and forth between New York where I grew up and then LA and Austin too sometimes.
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April 15th, Tuesday.
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If you're getting beaten up on Tax Day. With Tim Dillon. Launch a jam brand.
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The LA City Council has given up. This is how much they've given up. I swear to God, they considered giving you a tax credit if you opened your house to a homeless person. I swear to God, they were like, you got a house. What are we even talking about? You hate taxes, right?
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Yeah.
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Well, meet your son. He's 38 years old. He loves fentanyl. Hug your boy. Hug your boy. Did you do it? Were you tempted? Yeah, no, I was. You know, part of the thing is that the solutions that are proposed are always as insane as the problem in L.A. So whenever they started thinking about that, they go, we could just give people tax credits to move people into their house that, you know.
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What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong? So you have a situation where, you know, it really is. It's a beautiful state. It's an important place, you know? And it's, like, run by complete lunatics. Yeah, absolutely. Complete lunatics.
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Well... Not at the moment, but I could get bored. And if I get bored, then perhaps political campaigns do seem fun. Here's what doesn't seem fun. Governing.
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Governing seems tough. Right? He's like, this is boring. He's trying to do this. Yeah. It seems fun to run. Get on, everyone get on the bus.
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We're all drinking coffee. The polls are in, get them. You know, that seems fun. Once you get in there and you then have to figure out a way to fix this, it becomes a real problem. I was in downtown LA the other night. There's a nice place. And I was there, me and my friend, one of the best restaurants in LA is downtown.
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And we went to dinner and we're sitting there and, you know, they always try to downplay it. You know, him and his wife were like, there's pockets. It's fine. There's pockets. And then in the middle of the street, there was a woman just with a blanket over her going like this and the blankets moving and she's screaming. And I said, what's this? And they go, oh, well, she's there all the time.
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And I go, oh, so it's really just getting people used to a certain level of decay. And that's really what it is. It's just you just explain it away. You go, oh, that woman, she's. And then my friend goes, well, the problem is it's a meth town.
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And he goes, if they were on heroin, they'd sleep. But they're on meth, so they start fires. And then he goes like this. He goes like this. Let's get the scallops. They're great. So that's how normalized hell has become. Yeah. We've normalized hell. We've normalized decay. And that's how bad it's gotten that people just don't care.
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Um, well, because anyone can be anything now. So if I'm going to orient myself in this world, I'd like to do it as your mother. Just because your mother gets to tell you what to do and be loud and fat and, and nasty. And we still love her. And we have to love mom.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
Those folks are are in there and they're making, you know, they put out tweets from the president's fail son who threatens people like we're coming for you. You think this is bad or whatever? So I would tell people, stay focused. Don't take the bait on the distractions. Surround yourself with people who understand this and recognize.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
The things they went after today are basically a big chunk of what society does. And people like to have clean water and hospitals and safety and roads and airports. All the things are going after. And you summed it up. This is their societies that function like this, where the rich and the oligarchs do everything.
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And there's some fabulously wealthy people who are basically not basically are above the law. And the rest of us are here.
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So pathetic. If you talk to most
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Americans they probably think we do have a missile system same as what you see in Israel but the truth is we don't which makes us highly vulnerable because if we do get attacked by ballistic missiles or hypersonic missiles or God forbid even nuclear it's probably not going to be shot all the way from Russia it's probably not going to be shot all the way from North Korea or
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or from China, it's going to be shot in international waters just off our shores, which isn't going to give us a whole lot of time to respond. And when you start dealing with hypersonic missiles, it doesn't have a projected pattern like a ballistic missile does, where a ballistic missile has an arc that goes up and you intercept it.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
When you're dealing with hypersonic missiles, you've got to intercept quick because of the fact that it's moving quick and it's moving at an unpredicted location.
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GOP Leaders Freak Out in Public as Support Crashes
On an effort from the White House to expand access to new companies, you've created this new media seat. So I'm wondering if you can comment on... Following this expansion, you've had numerous outlets disparage the companies that you've had sit here as well as the reporters. I'm wondering if you could comment on the unprofessional behavior.
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Trump Gets Destroyed by Dem Govs in Public
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Take it out. Okay, here we go. Here we go. What is it? You go with Play-Doh? All right. You can't help but be optimistic to go into a classroom like that and see where our future is. And I think Minnesotans have always understood that's where our common interest lies in making sure that our little ones are safe. They have housing, they have food, they have a good education.
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And that is why Minnesota continues to excel on so many fronts. We're not focused on fighting trade wars with our neighbors. We're not focusing on chaos. We're focusing on lifting people up and doing the right thing. And it's not all that difficult. And you're seeing it in that classroom. You're seeing it in McDonough. And you're seeing it in over 450,000 children that that was money for books.
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That was money for a new pair of boots. That was money for food. That was money to make sure the folks could keep the heat on in the house for the child. Those things are really, really important.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
Would you accept Robinson as a member of your party? You put UKIP over in association with him last time.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
But the $100 million was for America, a country five times as big as us. I wouldn't be at all surprised, though, if he gave the order of $20 million, which is unprecedented in British politics. And I think it probably will happen. Why I think it will probably happen is Elon Musk has clearly got the bug of politics.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
He's enjoyed and he's committed to what he's done in America, and he made a difference. And so I think he has an ideological affinity with reform, which is part of what motivates him.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
why I reacted knowing it was probably going to be bad, you know, bad for us, bad for us, bad for the trans community. I think there's some, and they know this, that because this community is so demonized, they pick, you know, we're hearing it here. We can't have, you know, in women's sports or whatever.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
Look, if you are really concerned about the safety of women in sports, it's men sexually assaulting female athletes, you know, coaches and things. Let's just be candid about it. There's 10 transgender athletes out of 590,000 in the country. College athletes. I think my response to this, I have stood for those rights because I believe human rights and the trans rights are human rights.
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And I could argue from a moral perspective, which I have and I will.
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of why we need to defend these human rights because they'll come after each and every one of us by the time that ad came and they ran a billion dollars behind it we were dismissing it without a response to it um and i don't think our response you know had to drag everybody through it i think it should have been as simple as this this isn't going to improve your lives and leave these people alone you had a debate with jd vance standing there next to him what was your sense of his strengths and weaknesses and do you have any
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
Well, I think you always do. Look, I said it, David. I am a poor debater in that I think I started at a disadvantage as a school teacher. My inclination is to answer the question. And that puts me at a disadvantage. How did you react to the rap that you were too nice to him somehow? I think it's fair. And I think he was well coached in this.
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And my guess is it came from the Minnesotans that said, look, if you're nice to Tim, it is just in his nature. He will be nice to you. But we did not prep for that J.D. Vance because he was nice to me.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
Yeah, I think so. They, you know, my team took everything in and it's, this is on me. It's a hundred percent on me. It's, you know, people who say, yo, you were overprepped and you did all this. No, I'm the guy standing there and this is a hundred percent on me. I will argue that I would argue like golf. I am not a scratch golfer. I'm a 90 golfer.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
I think my team got, I think my team got me to low eighties just by the work they did, but that's about the best you're going to get. But what struck me about it was- Oh, I think so. Well, yes, I know I could have been. It's my inclination. Like, I think that, you know, and it's retrospect on this.
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They maybe should have let me be when I have had really good debates, which I do have those once in a while, where I'm just speaking the truth straight to it. But the thing that struck me was the ease that he would say things that somebody that smart knows wasn't true. and the ability to say it was really disarming to me, because I'm horrible at it. When I get it wrong, people can see it.
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For example, what did he say that was markedly untrue? Talking about immigrants and housing was one that was really it.
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25 million illegal aliens competing with Americans for scarce homes is one of the most significant drivers of home prices in the country. It's why we have massive increases in home prices that have happened right alongside massive increases in illegal alien...
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We know that's not true. That's not why housing is more difficult to find. It's not anything like that. And then he morphed that into the use of federal lands, that the federal lands are too protected. And it was a really, you know, under, inside the bubble thing that he was talking about is that we need the federal government out of this. We can demonize immigrants at the same time.
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And I'm like, I'm sitting there thinking to myself, we've got a housing shortage in Minneapolis, not as bad as other cities, but we have it. There's no federal lands here, and there's no immigrant can afford a house in Minneapolis.
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And you're making this case, and I'm talking about it's people like you, J.D., the venture capitalists who came in and preyed on these areas, bought up all the houses, jacked them up, gentrified the area, and made it difficult for it to be there. And then you blame the very people who you kicked out. And that part of it of standing side by side, I watched – He was good at it.
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And how are you going to find common ground with someone who is so diametrically opposed to where things are at?
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Yeah, I think it's possible. This is where the fourth grade school teacher in me knows is, is fear is a good short-term motivator. It doesn't change behavior. And people tuned out to it because it seemed so unlikely that this would happen. It was over the horizon, housing costs, gasoline, eggs, and all of that. My point was, is just to show no one was asking for this agenda.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
No one was asking for this stuff. And it's just weird to focus on who's using the bathroom. Like I said, I think we were trying to make an intellectual argument that let's just all be candid. We were right about right now, as it sure appears to be happening. Um, But it wasn't about being right.
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It was about convincing enough Americans that this was a problem, but doing it in a way that, you know, brought to them, brought it home to them. It's like trying as a teacher. I teach a lesson and the kids don't get it. It's not because the kids are dumb. It's because you're not teaching it right. So pivot around and teach it a different way.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
My first responsibility is that we win that seat in Minnesota. So I think you look at the whole field, and I think you'd have to, including me in that, to look at it. But candidly... A couple things. First, I was in Congress for 12 years, and I said, when someone asked, do you miss it? And I said, I'd rather eat glass than miss it. But I recognize that that's a different skill set.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
Why would you rather eat glass than go back to Washington? Because it's so frustrating. Now, I think when I was there, there was still the ability to work across the aisle. And it's something I prized myself on, Agriculture Committee, VA Committee, Armed Services Committee. Working on things together that really mattered. And I think that's gone.
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And now being in this position as, you know, executive for the state, it's just different.
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Yes. But now look, as you gain seniority and it takes a while there, I would argue that might not hold true with Senator Klobuchar. She is an effective national voice. She can change policy, but she's earned that over 18 years. You go as a 61-year-old junior senator from Minnesota, you know, it's going to take a while. And I think...
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The ability to be able to impact states now as kind of the last firewall against this is more important. And to be very candid on this is we've got a deep bench with people who are, you know, probably better qualified than me to be able to do that job. And they will. A blunt question. Is Donald Trump corrupt? Yeah, I believe that. I mean, I think his career has shown that.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
I think you disclose and you should own no stocks and you should own no interest in any company. If you're an elected office, you should not get wealthier while you're an elected office. And I think the inability to do that, never shown us his tax returns. Look, I don't know for a fact he is, but I have an inclination that there's things in there that should be shown.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
I'll just give you this one. You don't agree with him. He threatens you. Look, I disagreed strongly with George Bush, but I respected him greatly. When we had a flood, George Bush was out here in my congressional district and he did what he needed to do. And I would go back to Washington and fight him on his policies on the Iraq war. But I never for once questioned that he was corrupt.
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I never once questioned that he wasn't trying to do the right thing. I just thought he couldn't figure out what the right thing was.
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Ugh. Man, that's tough. Well, you can rank them from 1 to 10 if you like. It's tough. I think Pete Hickseth over at DOD really worries me. He couldn't get into elected office in Minnesota. He was thrashed when he tried to run. So he came in this door, and his policies, especially on women in the military, I find...
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you know, revolting and the antithesis of what this democracy and folks who want to serve. So I think that's troublesome. And I think it's troublesome because these moves of removing generals, I'm not prone to hyperbole.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
But a lot of these things, the final stopping point of the generals, you look globally around the world, the final move, if you're trying to move towards an authoritarian government, is the generals.
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I think it's human nature. Look, I'm with them on that, too. It does feel like, you know, and we know this, you don't cover the planes that land. You know, almost literally, you cover the planes that crash, which we've seen. And so people, I think, have a tendency to want to move on with it. People are just...
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Look, the thing that's common about all those, not just that they're not qualified, the thing that's common about those is every one of those people in all of those positions are loyal to Donald Trump first, and the American people fall right on the line. I appoint people who challenge me daily. That's how you're supposed to do leadership in this. And so I think it's clear that he's building—
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an authoritarian government that is to Donald Trump first. He yelled at the governor of Maine, we are the law. We are the federal law. He is not the federal law. And we bend no knee to no man.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
Yes, for simply she's following her law and federal law. And if you don't like it, you go to court. So, yeah, and look, I think— How far do you think he will go?
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As far as he can. As far as he can. And what does that mean, as far as he can? I think he'd like to see a change. I think he's already hinted at he'd like to run again. I think the checks and balances of government are off. He's said that. He's hinted, and the vice president's hinted.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
If the courts rule against us, we won't do it anyway. Look, it happens to me here. I think sometimes the courts here rule against me. I may disagree, but I fully respect and I will implement exactly what they tell me to do. And that's the way that that is the way it has to be. And I would fully expect to be called to the carpet if I didn't.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
I would argue that the road towards authoritarianism has been paved with people saying you're overreacting. I don't think you can underestimate how far he will go. And I think you should assume this is, I would say, a worst case scenario. If I'm wrong, that's okay. The democracy holds. If I'm right, then we need to be prepared that he'll continue to make these moves.
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And I think as governors, my job is to make sure the firewall is there. My job as governor is to make sure that I'm honoring the system where it is, where it sets in terms of checks and balances.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
Yep, it does. And that's one I'll take with me to the grave, that I knew what my job was. It wasn't to become vice president. It was to protect the most vulnerable. It was to make sure that we balance the budget, to make sure that we keep peace in the world, make sure we tackle climate change. make sure that women make their own reproductive rights. All of those things are at stress right now.
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trying to take a breath, seeing what the impacts were, but they're out there is what I would say. There hasn't been a disengagement. I'll make the case on this. I use this, David, that President Obama, I talked to him and he said, look, when I came in in 2009, He had a 70% approval rating. We had the House. We had the Senate. There was no charismatic Republican.
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So I think for me is to do the best I can to push back against that, to do the right thing. Look, if there's a place to find common ground with Donald Trump, I would find it. But I think we're being very naive here. He's not interested in finding common ground with us. He is not interested in that. He sees us as an impediment and an obstacle.
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And I think he'll continue to move to remove those obstacles the best he can.
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It's deep. And look, I'm going to say it. I'm biased towards the governors. And there's a bunch of them out there doing the work. But look, there's people that I unabashed. I'm a big fan of Pete Buttigieg. I think he talks about it. I don't know what Vice President Harris is going to do, but I think she's got a lot to offer folks. And I wish we would have got to see more of that.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
Just a few times. I think, you know, I'm doing my job and she's doing her job. And we, you know, she's out in California, I believe, living. And I'm here in beautiful Minnesota where the weather's always great.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
Well, maybe it's, you know, maybe she doesn't want to talk to me after we get this thing done. No, I think it's just there'll be a time and a place. But we left good. And my family misses her. I will say that. My daughter, especially. Do you miss her?
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I do. What was that relationship like as it reached its end? Look, it was, it was professional. It was clear that, you know, she was the top of the ticket and my job was there to support her. Uh, she inspired me. I think there were a lot of things that America never knew about her. When I found out she was a band kid, I'm like, why aren't we running ads on that?
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This was like, she played in the high school band. My God, that's a common experience for everybody. And I have to say this, watching her around her family, you know, with, with Doug, with the girls, with her son, um, And that inspired me the most because I loved that they had that. Our families, when we got time to spend together, was really, really fun. And it just felt like the right thing.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
well i think it's tough and and i'm i'm ashamed by that i'm disappointed in our country um we had a supremely qualified uh leader a woman of color who who would we would not be in all this you wouldn't be having this angst i'll guarantee you that um and and yet we didn't choose that so it bothers me yes it bothers me um do i think that that's going to make it harder
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It probably will, but it'll also, I think, forge the steel of that next woman and that next woman of color who's going to rise up, and they will. So yeah, it's tough. I thought we'd be there. My mom is late 80s, and she's madder than hell not that I won, but she said she doesn't know if she's going to live long enough to see a woman president, and that bothers her.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
Look, I never had an ambition to be president or vice president. I was honored to be asked. I told the vice president I would go wherever she asked me. If she didn't pick me and she sent me to Omaha to win one electoral vote, that's what I would do. I've always done this. If I feel like I can serve, I will.
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It was John Boehner and Mitch McConnell. There wasn't somebody on the scene. But what evolved out of that was the grassroots Tea Party movement. And then the Republican leadership followed in, lifted that up, and started to move forward. So I'm not so certain. And I would—the real resistance here is— the pushback towards these policies that aren't improving people's lives and they're showing up.
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And if nationally that's what it looks like, you know, maybe people are like, dude, we tried you and look how that worked out. I'm good with that. I just want the best person who's there and I will support them. I guess what I'm asking you is would you run for president? Yeah. Well, I had a friend tell me, never turn down a job you haven't been offered.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
If I think I could offer something or if there's a piece there that would do it, I would certainly consider that. I'm also, though, not arrogant enough to believe there's a lot of people that can do this. And by the time we get to 2028, what that skill set to do it looks like, we need to coalesce behind that person, whoever it is. And so I'll, you know, if...
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if it would be that might have the skill set, I'll do it. You might do it. If it means that we don't have to put up with what we're doing, I'll do whatever it takes. I certainly wouldn't be arrogant enough to think that it needs to be me. I would just say that.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
Yeah, I never felt that. I never feel that. I didn't feel destined to be member of Congress or to be governor. And I always said this, I didn't prepare my life to be in these jobs, but my life prepared me well. And if this experience I had and what we're going through right now prepares me for that, then I would. But I certainly, I worry about people who have ambition for elected office.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
I don't think you should have ambition. I think you should have a desire to do it if you're asked to serve. And that's kind of where I'm at. And if folks aren't asking, I'm with them then. I'm going with the person they're asking for.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
If I were Republicans, I would be really, really worried about these town halls because in my opinion, That was the real start that led into the 2016 election. That Tea Party movement did not lose its – it just morphed into mega in my opinion. And look, it wasn't totally organic. I know that.
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What I'm saying is, is that I think for whatever reason, we've got to show them that our policies work and I'll take responsibility for the, you know, I needed to do my job and win this election. I knew what was coming if we didn't. And here we are with that being said.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
I thought there would be massive, more of massive immigration raids on inauguration day. Mm-hmm. I thought they'd be in the schools, things like that. So in that regard, my imagination was pretty good about what they could do because I heard it out there. We need to deliver the policies. And look, I'm way more popular than Trump is in Minnesota, not because I'm a popular guy necessarily.
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It's because the policies we were able to put in place resonate with people. And I, for whatever reason, we've lost that with people. They voted for billionaires who gutted programs that many of these people who supported him are going to pay a price for. But We can't just write that off to, well, these people just didn't figure it out or whatever.
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We didn't give them an alternative that was strong enough for them to come.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
Well, first, I wouldn't underestimate, you know, the skill set that Leader Jeffries has. And I certainly... You know, just candidly, my staff pulls me back because I am swinging at every pitch, if you will. I think the audacity of the Trump administration and especially what Musk is doing. I think some of our folks are operating in a world that doesn't exist anymore.
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And we need to have better imagination that, look, I'm not talking. I heard people say, well, you know, you didn't give the message that you should have. Look, I'm not going to give a message to demonize people. I'm not going to demonize people for using a bathroom and things. But I know that we need to do a better job of what does motivate people.
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And I think what we're seeing now is we're articulating very clearly what they're doing and we're running out programs that we think make a difference. And so it was clear to me as a middle class kid that the Democrats were fighting for me. I'll acknowledge this. A large number of people did not believe we were fighting for them. In the last election. And that's the big disconnect.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
We were our policies are super popular, but they did not believe that. Look, I won a congressional district that Donald Trump won by 18 points. I won that thing by 32 points at one time. I think I squeaked by like a point in my last election in that. How did you lose them? I think COVID broke us in more ways than we have yet analyzed, socially, culturally, economically, in a way.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
And there's angst. These folks, they see an economy that it's impossible to own a house. You got a car payment that's 800 bucks. And we didn't say, I think we did. I think the vice president laid out some things. I think we had the $25,000 down payment assistance on a house. That makes a lot more sense than a tax cut for billionaires because we're never going to see that.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
So, you know, my analysis on this is I think we're too cautious to go into media environments that we haven't been. I think we are less likely, like you go back to your earlier question, we have to flood the zone. I'm a shadow government guy. I think we need a shadow Department of Transportation secretary.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
I think if Pete Buttigieg is out there talking about these plane accidents, he should be there every day. He's articulate. He's smart. He knows that he should be. That's true across the spectrum.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
We saw in our federal workers, we have, you know, not a lot. We're a giver state, not a taker state. But we've got, you know, thousands of federal workers. And then today, I've got the analysis of what the Medicaid reductions would look like.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
What do they look like? Well, I'll just take an example. He's a leader, Tom Emmer, you know, number three over there in the house or number two wherever he's at. He's got 124,000 Medicaid recipients. 21,000 of them will be cut off. Those are things that are real to people. So I think getting these numbers, articulating where it's at, and then saying what we would do differently.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
I think that's been the gap in this, to be honest with you, David. I don't think we have done a good enough job. We tried it on the trail, but I, you know, opportunity economy, that doesn't really fall where you at. You've got to be specific with people. Having Medicare pay for in-home health care for our seniors. I got it right now. I got a mother-in-law just had a surgery for a brain tumor.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
She's going to need to go into rehab or whatever. The ability for Medicare to be able to pay for that rehab in her home, rather than that would not only save us money, it would improve quality of life and make a difference. And that was a proposal the vice president put out.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
The economic situation of men has changed in proportion to women. But I would argue this, just because women are getting rights and moving up in the workplace, that doesn't mean that men don't have that same opportunity, that it's there. I think this idea that when somebody else gains a freedom, you lose one, or somebody else gains an opportunity, look, they do whatever they do.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
I have lived straight up the middle of this. I know football. I hunt. You know what they do? They take time to demonize my military career. Say he's not a real coach. He was the defensive coordinator. He doesn't really know how to hunt because, you know, I say so or whatever.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
So anything that was, if that's what defined, and I would say it doesn't, if that was to define masculinity, to know football, fix your own car, you're in the army for 25 years, they don't care. They demonize that. And they voted for a guy who can't do any of those things. And so I think I disagree with the senator.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
Now, when those promises don't come out, when their station in life doesn't improve, when the ability to take care or support their family doesn't get better – He's going to have to deliver. This goes back to my case on this.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
If you don't deliver on policies, the ideal that boggles my mind, I honest to God thought that it was a good talking point that when the Wall Street Journal said Tim Walz is the least wealthy person to ever run for vice president and the first in 40 years it's not a lawyer. apparently wasn't a flex. They went with the guy who's a billionaire and has never been in their situation.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
Someone who's, I'm very proud I have, I pay my bills. I got an 850 credit score. They went with the guy who didn't pay his bills, didn't care about it. So somewhere in there's a disconnect. So I don't think it's as simple as, you know, we've lost it. I think there's complexity around it. I will acknowledge this. We did not win white men.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
Would I change that by saying, you know what, we don't need to hire so many women? No, of course not. But I will acknowledge this. They definitely must not have heard my message, which is one that you should get a fair shake in this. You should have a good job. You should get health insurance. They didn't believe that.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
Look, I just talked to a labor group, the electricians yesterday, and I said, I know we don't all agree on everything on this. But I said, you're in here today to talk about policies on misclassification of workers, the ability to organize, the ability to get good jobs in this. I said, you're going to have to decide whether who's using which restroom is more important than those things.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
You need to make that decision. What I'm telling you is the decision that's going to impact your life the most is right in this room on these economic issues. And I got as more, you know, look, I'm a labor guy and they support me. But it was, I'm telling you, it was different even since the election that there was, yeah, you're right. Yeah.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
If his stuff worked, if tariffs worked, I'll say this, God dang, it worked. People have more money. They're able to buy a house. The middle class is more secure. I don't believe that. Now, they may dismiss, and there's, you know, I think 30% or whatever of his voters, they'll dismiss all the economic stuff. The others will not.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
I'll tell you the biggest change on this was, and it drove me mad during the campaign, Donald Trump was viewed better than Kamala Harris on the economy. Pretty wide gap of all of those things.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
I worried about it the entire campaign, that we were not getting out the economic message that was making a difference, even though the numbers on democracy, women's rights, abortions, things that we care about matter. But that one core issue on the economy, they didn't trust us.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
Yeah, I never lost an election before. So... The thing for me that gives me the most angst, to be candid, was letting people down. An old white guy who ran for vice president, you'll land on your feet pretty well. I still struggle with it. It was my job to get this won. And now when I see Medicaid cuts happening, when I see LGBTQ folks being demonized, when I see some of this happening,
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
That's what weighs on me. Personally, I'll serve where I'm asked to serve.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
No. And that's the one that surprises me. And I have been in elections where I knew it was tough. And there's election nights where I said, look, we're going to win by a point or we're going to lose by a point. On the day before the election, you thought you were going to win. I did. I did. What was telling you that?
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
It just felt like the mood of folks and look, maybe a bad poll or whatever, you know, the Iowa stuff was coming out. It felt like what happened in New York City the week before was a bridge too far. The Madison Square Garden. Yes. Yes.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
It just felt like people would choose a calmness and a hopefulness over that. Obviously, Donald Trump knew more about America on November 5th of 2024 than I did. What do you mean by that? What did he know that you didn't know? Well, you knew that that message would work. And I said, I'm guilty of this.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
They sucked me in on, say, for example, I was just horrified and angry when they were demonizing folks in Springfield, Ohio. And there I was talking for almost a week about immigration, right where they wanted us to be. This is their eating the dogs and the cats. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that bothered me on a real human basis. On that one, I was pretty fired up, you know, pushing back. It wasn't fair.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
We need to do this. It just struck me. And he was right for whatever reason. He was right that more people were okay with saying that than they were against. I really think it was a piece of it. I think the immigration piece did play a role.
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
And wound up killing 20, 30,000 people or so before it was over with.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
I think the voting public right now is what I would say. And I keep telling that we're not going to have a charismatic leader ride in here and save us from this. And I would argue that the Tea Party, as it arose out of the ACA, well, where was that charismatic leader?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
It was John Boehner and Mitch McConnell and a whole bunch of angry folks at town halls that had members of Congress like myself answering questions. So when people are looking around, where's the leaders or whatever, they are going to organically step up.