Taylor Swift vs. the MAGA Media Machine

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Brian Derrick: No polls, no pundits, just vibes. I’m Brian Derrick

Glennis Meagher: I’m Glennis Meagher, and the vibes this week…

Senator Chris Murphy: We do have a bipartisan deal. We’re finishing the text right now. The question is whether Republicans are going to listen to Donald Trump, who wants to preserve chaos at the border, because he thinks that it’s a winning political issue for him, or whether we are going to pass legislation,

Brian Derrick: And Nikki Haley Trump was popping off.

Nikki Haley: Donald Trump was totally unhinged. Unhinged. He threw a temper tantrum out on stage, seriously.

Brian Derrick: We’ll talk a little bit more about her sudden willingness to go after Trump and how it’s going to age when the she eventually bends the knee.

Glennis Meagher: and

Stephen Colbert: Everyone’s getting in on the Super Bowl Swift mania. Right wing dinguses are claiming this whole thing is a conspiracy, suggesting that the Super Bowl will be rigged for the chiefs to set the stage for Taylor Swift’s Biden endorsement.

Brian Derrick: Then we’ll play a little music themed round of It’s Giving, [00:01:00] bring you into our group chat and leave you with a good vibe.

Glennis Meagher: Okay, my vibe this week is one, I have a cold and two, I have not been up on the news. I have not been as terminally online as I usually am. And, I did see your Instagram story this

week going off about. The border immigration deal and how Republicans are going back on many things they wanted. Can you, can you give me a deeper dive

here, please?

Brian Derrick: Absolutely. I would love nothing more So we’ve seen some egregious behavior out of Congress in the last few years and we’d like to talk about it but this one really You already know what I’m going to say.

Chaps, my app. This one really gets me going and it is because

we hear nonstop from Republicans. The border is a problem. The border, the border, the border. Joe should go down there. Kamala should go down there. Everyone should live on the border. and now suddenly [00:02:00] when Democrats and Republicans come to the table and negotiate a deal, those very same people went running for the hills and want nothing to do with it.

And so that’s what’s happening.

Exactly.

Glennis Meagher: didn’t Joe Biden say on Friday, we need to close the border, which for, or something to that nature of, we have a serious issue at the border. We need to act quickly.

And now Republicans are like, wait, wait, wait,

let’s

not.

Brian Derrick: Yeah. I think that like, regardless of where you stand on the issue, I, there is broad acknowledgement that some kind of action needs to be taken that, that what’s happening right now. Isn’t really working. It’s not working for, migrants, people seeking asylum. It’s not working for law enforcement on the border.

It’s not working for the economics of it right now and where, Immigrants are landing and then how they’re being set up for success or lack thereof. Like it’s not working. And so there needs to be a solution. and

Democrats showed a willingness to come to the table and make a deal. and so that’s what’s been being [00:03:00] hammered out for a number of weeks, really months. And As the deal started to take shape, keep in mind, we have not actually seen a bill.

There is no legislative text release. So I can’t even say what is or is not included exactly.

It’s all kind of like hearsay and whisper campaigns as to like what’s in it. Republicans are already saying.

Glennis Meagher: idea what’s in

Brian Derrick: No one does no one does including like including members of the house like they do not know what act ultimately will be included There’s just ongoing conversations about it and without having seen the text of this agreement That’s taken months to hammer out Republicans are already saying it’s DOA.

It’s dead on arrival. They will not vote for it. And that is because

Politics,

Glennis Meagher: yeah.

Brian Derrick: Donald J. Trump, Trump loves to talk about immigration and talk about the border at his rallies and in his ads and attack Joe Biden on it

and they are

very, very

afraid.

it would

really undercut the Trump campaign and his message in 2024 when we know that. Immigration [00:04:00] as a whole is a huge issue for a lot of voters. And so it’s really, again, not shocking. We’ve seen some crazy stuff out of Congress, but it is infuriating to see people behaving so selfishly and with such open, like flagrant, power

hungry. Nonsense. It’s, it’s

maddening.

Glennis Meagher: and disregard for human life.

At the core of this,

Brian Derrick: Of course.

Glennis Meagher: who are fleeing violence, climate change, uh, collapses of, of government. And these are people with families and lives, and they’re trying to do what they view as best for them and to have, you know, we know that the system. And acknowledge the system as it’s currently set up is not working for anyone, as you mentioned.

So to have progress be made or attempted to be made to then be tabled just for political gain, it’s really, it’s really heartbreaking.

Brian Derrick: And don’t just take our word for it. I will read you a direct quote from Senator Lankford, who’s one of the [00:05:00] lead negotiators on the bill. This is a Republican US Senator who represents Oklahoma in the Senate. And he said, and I quote, and now it’s interesting.

Senator James Lankford: Now it’s interesting, a few months later, when we’re filing it at the end, they’re like, oh, just kidding. I actually don’t want to change the law because it’s a presidential election year.

Brian Derrick: That is what this is all about. And you have people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and, Ted Cruz who are leading this charge against progress against a deal because they see it as a direct threat to their own reelections or to that of Donald Trump, depending on who we’re talking about.

Glennis Meagher: it’s super sad. It’s super frustrating. And it’s it speaks to the nature of the 2024 election cycle and politics as a whole right now, and that the political gain is more valuable than the human life or experience or what the policy actually looks like.

In, in real life for Americans and those trying to seek asylum or, or to immigrate here. But we have another quote, from

[00:06:00] everyone’s favorite Marjorie Taylor Greene. She told CNN, I just heard Speaker Mike Johnson saying it’s absolutely dead, which is what I wanted to hear as GOP conference meeting this morning.

Oh, it continues. As a matter of fact. He said so clear. I don’t know why people keep asking me about it because as it stands right now There’s no way forward get a new job. Then do your job figure it

out,

Brian Derrick: Totally. Yeah. And I just want to make clear for people, this is coming from someone, she has not read the text of the bill. Like, like she does not have access to the actual bill and what it does or doesn’t include. This is someone who doesn’t want a path forward. This is someone who’s not interested in a common sense, bipartisan

bill that would make progress on the issue and address other urgent crises around the world. she’s not interested in that at all. None of them

are. Really.

Glennis Meagher: None of them are

Brian Derrick: And I do want to acknowledge, I know that a lot of people are upset. [00:07:00] About the deal on the left. A lot of people feel like it’s too conservative that of a deal that’s been put together from what has leaked and what has been sort of surmised to be in it. And I would say

if you’re going to push for a more progressive solution, like we need way more support and mobilization and messaging around why that’s important, like, let’s talk about how America is a nation of immigrants, let’s talk about the way To, bring more people in with faster work permitting and all these other solutions that I know are out

there. But I think that exactly.

right, right, right. Like get people the resources that they need in order to

succeed. And I don’t think that. Enough of

that is, is out there right now in order to like push for a more progressive solution to the problem.

I completely agree. And it’s something that, you know, as we’re looking at the 2021st cycle and why immigration is an issue, all of all, I would say all of [00:08:00] a sudden, right, I, I hear friends, uh, we both live in the city of New York, New York city is, uh, an asylum city. And there was a lot of political, maneuvering happening with, Certain states, governors, you know, Florida and Texas sending migrants up to New York City.

Glennis Meagher: And we, we saw the reality of that. We see it every day. if you live in New York City, you, you’re seeing migrants every day on the street, whether they’re at a reticketing center or, you know, they’re, they’re doing jobs. and we saw what that crisis looked like. And it became much more of the public discourse when, mayor Eric Adams is going back and forth with the administration requesting more funding, et cetera.

So just by virtue of it being a policy that is now. More in front of people, we’re seeinghow we do need more resourcing and more systems in place to be able to provide these people with opportunities and just basic resourcing.

Brian Derrick: yeah. I mean, let me, let me put it this way. If a deal gets done, then we should continue to push for the best deal that we can that really [00:09:00] addresses like the root causes of the problem and isn’t super reactionary. If a deal does not get done, then Democrats should be attack dogs on this issue for the rest of the year as Republicans try to point and cry wolf at the border when they refuse to pass a bill to do anything about it.

Glennis Meagher: Absolutely.

Brian Derrick: well, someone else has tried to make some lemonade out of these lemons, when it comes to the border. And, honestly, a lot of issues over the last week. And that is Nikki Haley,

Glennis Meagher: Nikki,

Haley. I like, don’t want to talk about her anymore because I truly just don’t like talking about any Republicans, even though it is part of my job, but something that I do think is super important that we make note of, because this is something I do in my personal life and it’s called receipts and I want to

know what you’re

saying, why you’re saying

it. Timeline. [00:10:00] Yeah, all of it. And I think it’s important that we continue to hold, even though maybe it’s delusional because they don’t have any sort of moral compass, hold them accountable to what they say and what they do as it relates to Donald Trump and, you know, beyond Donald Trump.

So Brian, let’s talk a little bit about how she’s been, and I’m using air quotes here, attacking him because she’s just kind of stating the obvious, but that’s more than most

Republicans are doing.

Brian Derrick: Yeah. I mean, it’s giving Chihuahua, not exactly German

Shepherd over

Glennis Meagher: I don’t actually, actually talk to any vet or any vet tech and they will tell you a chihuahua is much more vicious during an ear cleaning than a German shepherd.

Brian Derrick: I’m sure that’s true. Shout out to the vets. yeah, This is a clear shift in strategy since New Hampshire, which we, as we reported to y’all on last time, Nikki Haley did well. But it wasn’t enough. She did better than I anticipated, but it wasn’t enough to, like, really change up the [00:11:00] game.

The delegate math is not working. She doesn’t have a path to take the nomination from Trump. It’s Trump. And so now I think we’re seeing a real shift from her in her willingness to, like, sharpen those elbows and throw, like, Wait, what? And yeah,

Glennis Meagher: throw those bows

Brian Derrick: throw those bows is, is where we’re going. why do you think that is, what is your theory of the case?

Why is Nikki Haley suddenly knives out for Trump?

Glennis Meagher: Well, I don’t think that she expects to get the nomination. That’s for sure. But I do think she wants to have a firm record against Donald Trump. Depending on what ends up happening with him, you know, regardless, she wants to be on, I’m using air quotes again, the right side of history as it relates to, an insurrectionist, anti American former president, but. You know, she’s building her brand. There’s a brand building exercise for Nikki Haley. Anyone who’s running in a primary where they’re really not going to be the nominee, I kind of view them all as brand building exercises for each candidate. what do you

[00:12:00] think?

Brian Derrick: It’s also a cash grab. Let’s be real. She has 10 fundraisers in the next two weeks, many of them in California and New York, hosted by a bunch of billionaires. And this is the anti Trump crowd, who, while there

aren’t

Glennis Meagher: yet still

Republican.

Brian Derrick: True, correct, correct. For the most part. There are some sort of like wobbly ones in the middle, but like this is a cash grab She’s going all in on her moment in the Sun because it’s just mano a mano with her and Trump in the Republican primary the It’s a foregone conclusion, but she can still go

raise

Glennis Meagher: Totally.

Brian Derrick: or hundreds of millions of dollars.

She’s, yeah, she’s already raised, I think like 10 million or something like that since New Hampshire. She raised 4 million in grassroots donations since New Hampshire. A million in the 24 hours after Trump said that he was going to permanently bar from the MAGA camp anyone who gives [00:13:00] money to Nikki Haley.

And like, that’s all working for her, right? Is we know that outrage politics work when it comes to fundraising and she is trying to juice these

lemons, baby, because that’s all she has left.

Glennis Meagher: working overtime on that

juicer.

Brian Derrick: She called Trump totally unhinged

unhinged. Unhinged.

Glennis Meagher: she stole my line.

What?

Brian Derrick: That is talk about brand stealing.

she also was talking about how she trusted the jury. when it came to the Eugene Carroll case, she said that she trusted the jury and said that they made the decision based on the evidence implying that Trump was in fact a rapist.

And she also has been, uh, contrasting herself with him on the border.

Nikki Haley: And Donald Trump, the last thing he needs to do is tell them to wait to pass a border deal until the election. We can’t wait one more day.

Brian Derrick: And so she is like trying to take this middle road approach. But I honestly think that a lot of it is, is [00:14:00] about her billionaire

donors.

Glennis Meagher: Yeah,

Brian Derrick: where, that’s what’s keeping her campaign

alive at this point.

I’ll say that

Glennis Meagher: and her brand and her future after this election, like, you know,

what’s next for Nikki

Haley?

Brian Derrick: the last thing that could be happening. with Nikki Haley sort of sparring with Trump, other than like desperation, I guess, is that she’s angling for. a third party run. I don’t think that that’s the most likely scenario. I don’t think that she would do that because it would effectively end her Republican career permanently.

Like, like she wouldn’t be able to then run in 28 as the Republican nominee. especially if like Trump and her both lose on the ticket in the general. but she is potentially joining this Like, group of people who are running or rumored to be

running, And

I have to say this past week, Doug Sosnick, is this like renowned political strategist, prepares these memos that are always like kind of Prussian, a little bit like spooky, a lot of times extremely accurate, not [00:15:00] always, but does these like deep dives.

And I just wanted to read a segment from his most recent memo, which you can find in Politico.

Trump can’t win without a third party candidate dividing the anti Trump vote, period. Again, Trump can’t win without a third party candidate dividing the anti Trump vote. With the exception of winning Georgia in 2016 with 50.

77 percent of the vote, Trump never reached 50 percent in any of the competitive states that determined the outcome of the last two presidential elections. So that is to say, Trump’s only path to victory is by having these third party candidates rack up votes. When you’re talking to your friends, it’s an easy way to be like, just so you know, it’s a Trump play.

Like, honestly, Nikki Haley running, whatever, it like, you, we don’t know who’s gonna pull votes from who, but we do know that in a two person race, Trump has no path to 50 percent of the country. It doesn’t, it doesn’t [00:16:00] exist.

Glennis Meagher: Period.

Brian Derrick: Period.

speaking of things that could swing the entire election,

Glennis Meagher: for sure.

Brian Derrick: your girl,

Glennis Meagher: Well, it’s just, okay, I wanna be, like, on the record, I wanna be, like, fair about this, is I’m a very, very new Swiftie. Like, yes, I exist on planet Earth, so I know a lot of her songs, I hear them, and somehow know all the lyrics, and I’m like, what?

But recently, my friend made me watch The Arrows Tour, and I was like, okay, wow.

So she has a new boyfriend, which you may know about. His name is Travis Kelsey. And he is a football player. And he is going to the Super Bowl. cause he plays for the Kansas City Chiefs.

so the New York Times She’s published a story recently that the Biden campaign is seeking a swift endorsement. which makes sense. She is one of the most powerful people in the world. And what will come as a shock to absolutely no one, conservatives are losing their minds.

are they losing their minds, they’re coming up with conspiracy theories [00:17:00] and they’re not stopping and they just need, dare I say, To calm down.

Brian Derrick: Um, yeah, it’s pretty bonkers. So I’m relatively new to this whole story. I love the Taylor Swift political crossovers. They’ve happened before. She’s pushed tens of thousands of people to register to vote, which we love. But I think that my understanding is she’s gotten progressively more, political, not just like civic engagement wise, but like endorsing candidates or speaking out against candidates.

Glennis Meagher: Well,

Brian Derrick: Marcia Blackburn in

Tennessee.

Glennis Meagher: yeah, for sure. as her platform has grown, she has understood the responsibility that she carries being such an influential person.

Brian Derrick: So Republicans are losing their minds that she might endorse. Biden, which is obviously her right to do so if she so chooses,

Glennis Meagher: I think that we have a supercut of All the Fox News hosts freaking out.

Brian Derrick: [00:18:00] Ooh. Ew. Values. She doesn’t care.

Well, that’s pretty transparent.

Glennis Meagher: right. It’s like women supporting women, but only when they’re doing things they want them to do. get a grip,

Brian Derrick: so true.

just weeks ago, the Pentagon had to respond to a conspiracy pushed by Waters and Fox News

Glennis Meagher: that Taylor Swift was a front for a covert political agenda.

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Brian Derrick:

Little did we know that the chart topping singer behind hits such as Cruel Summer

and

Glennis Meagher: Actually,

name some more. Cruel

Summer.

Brian Derrick: Oh yeah,

I’m gonna

Glennis Meagher: All Too Well,

the ten minute version.

Brian Derrick: Something about, um, when you walked in or, um, I’m the problem, it’s

me?

Glennis Meagher: Yeah, that’s

good. If I Were a Man.

Brian Derrick: Little did we know that it was a military operation the whole time to sway the election.

We’re not going to go do any of the more obvious things to influence the election. We’re not going to like rig it in some way. No, we’re going to help a pop star rise to the top of the charts and then use her Instagram to push [00:20:00] voter registration links to help Joe Biden. That’s the PSYOP. What?

Glennis Meagher: And, lest we forget, Taylor Swift started as a country music star. So, I don’t want to amalgamate all country music fans into one political party. But that argument doesn’t really

follow,

Brian Derrick: I think that’s, why they’re so mad. I think that that’s why this gets under conservative skin so much is that like they feel like Taylor Swift should be theirs. Is they feel this ownership over country music and country music stars and it always makes such waves when a country music pop star or, or whatever, doesn’t toe the line,

Glennis Meagher: I do just want to, take a beat to look at Waters uh, logic there, and how he was leading the audience by saying that we have no evidence at all, but we’re curious. Intro the, the, I’m using air quotes, facts, and then concluding the argument with how’s the PSYOP going.

So serving that on a platter to the [00:21:00] Fox News audience

Brian Derrick: It’s a tragedy in three

acts.

Yeah. Misinformation is abound.And I think that it also speaks to The sexism of it all.

Um,

there were some really good, I think that there were

Glennis Meagher: Although I do appreciate you said it and not

Brian Derrick: groundbreaking, groundbreaking news on vibes only this week.

Glennis Meagher: Yeah.

Brian Derrick: Okay. More specifically, I saw some good takes around the Stanley cup sort of, um, fervor where people are like, like going crazy for these, um, Stanley cup water bottles. And it’s like, people just love to make fun of. Young women for liking stuff that there’s like any, anytime there’s like a large fan base, particularly of women, that get excited about something.

It becomes sort of a, a cultural punching bag in a way. And that feels like the same thing that’s happening here. They’re saying like, Oh, Taylor Swift fans would do whatever she [00:22:00] says yada, yada, yada.

Glennis Meagher: It belittles them also, like you think every Taylor Swift fan is going to do exactly what she says. No, they’re going to buy her album. Yeah, because they like her music and it speaks to them in a way that other music doesn’t. But yeah, there’s the hope when you get a celebrity endorsement or an influencer endorsement that they will do.

They will say that they support you as a candidate and to go vote for that. And that. Those people will go do that, but there’s no guarantee. So it’s super frustrating.

Brian Derrick: I also want to share a special appreciation for when Influential people, including celebrities, are willing to take a riskier position than just saying vote.

And so, to have someone who is willing to put their paycheck on the line, right? Maybe there are going to be fans who will not go to the next, Taylor Swift tour, or go see her movie, or whatever. And she’s fine with that. Obviously, she has lots of other fans in line behind them. But like, to say, I’m actually fine with that because I want to live my values, and One of these candidates is against [00:23:00] democracy.

And one of these candidates isn’t. I hope that she does do that and come out swinging. Cause I respect it more than I respect someone who just is going to use their platform to say like, vote. It doesn’t matter who let’s see what happens.

Glennis Meagher: Let’s hold hands and vote. Absolutely. I 1000 percent agree with you.

Brian Derrick: We’re having a very musical episode, because our It’s Giving lightning round also includes some musical

guests.

Glennis Meagher: I want to, I want to put a trigger warning on for the audience because these will hurt your ears.

They may make you shudder

in

Brian Derrick: it’s like a surgeon, it’s like

a, it’s a surgeon general’s warning.

Glennis Meagher: Literally,

Ben Shapiro: look at the stats, I’ve got the facts. My money like Lizzo, my pockets are fat. Homie, I’m epic, don’t be a wap. Dog, it’s a yarmulke, homie, no cap. Look at the graphs, look at my charts. You’re blowing money on strippers and cars. You’re going to prison, I’m on television. Dogs, no one knows who you are

Brian Derrick:

Glennis Meagher: Literally so lame.

Brian Derrick: it’s giving the [00:24:00] Weird Al collection at Urban Outfitters.

Glennis Meagher: It’s giving cultural appropriation. for those who, uh, I don’t even think we intro’d that. That was, Tom McDonald, featuring Ben Shapiro, who is my number one enemy, and what they’re trying to do is to make it go number one on billboard and to like, you know, kind of create a fissure in the culture war and be like, we’re, we’re better than the left when it comes to culture.

You’re not, I assure you,

you’re not.

Brian Derrick: it’s Bleak. No, they think that it’s giving Kendrick Lamar and it’s very much giving Napoleon

Dynamite.

it’s giving rhymezone.

com.

Glennis Meagher: Yeah, it’s giving chat GPT. Write a, write a offensive rap song where I can feature Ben

Shapiro.

Brian Derrick: Okay. But speaking of offensive to my ears, we had another Republican musical hit this week, that you’re going to want to brace yourself for. [00:25:00] It’s close.

Glennis Meagher: Ew. It’s

kid bop meets Christian rock.

Brian Derrick: it’s giving, didn’t get the rights to the

Glennis Meagher: Didn’t get the right. Literally.

Brian Derrick: It’s giving cease and

desist.

I kind of feel like it’s giving imagine during the pandemic.

Glennis Meagher: No, I

Brian Derrick: Yes, Yes, it was that, that is that level of

cringe.

Glennis Meagher: it’s

true.

Brian Derrick: Oh,

Glennis Meagher: Yeah, that was bad.

Brian Derrick: I just want everyone to think about how many people were involved in that project and how much time they spent realizing, thinking, no, this is definitely the best thing that we can do right now to help elect Nikki Haley.

Glennis Meagher: if I was Nikki, I would say return to sender. Thank you, but[00:26:00]

I don’t want it. I don’t

want it.

Brian Derrick:

Glennis Meagher: Time for group chat, Brian. I’m excited because this week we have our very first listener

submission

Brian Derrick: We got a bunch of them,

which we love. We’re obsessed.

Glennis Meagher: talking about on the pod.

Brian Derrick: percent, a hundred percent. So we are actually inviting y’all into the group chat officially. What was the question?

Glennis Meagher: Well this came from, came in via email from Karen, but she says not that kind. Love that, Karen.

I’m going to read her question. Is it just word vomit for MAGA Trump supporters to continue to say that their main issue for voting for Trump is the economy? The economy is literally better in every aspect, but when listening to podcasts like The Runup, it is commonly

stated amongst all Trump supporters as one of their main issues. Should Dems be shouting this message more? Just curious how to combat that question when the weird neighbor says these things.

Brian Derrick: It is a good question. I think there are a few sort of points to this. I’ll take a whack at a couple and [00:27:00] then you jump in because I know that you have very strong opinions

on this question.

So I will first say that there are so many different economic indicators out there that people can tell the story that they want to tell, right?

And like, it is, it is true that if you lean into different things at different times, then you can, try to undercut what the like mainstream narrative is around the economy. I think that Republicans in general benefit from like resting on laurels and a misconception that they are more fiscally responsible and were particularly in the 20th century.

And so it’s, it’s a branding problem in a lot of ways that people just associate Republicans with like fiscal austerity, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. and then you have like what the current economic indicators say, which the data that we have. 100 percent Karen is correct. Like that GDP is up above expectations that inflation is down, that real wages are up even after you take, inflation [00:28:00] into account, that rent has been going down, that mortgage rates have been going down, that like these very real things.

Are. like moving in the right direction at a minimum, and many of them are like setting records, record high stock market. Um,

but that’s not always what people are basing their, understanding or vibes on the economy on.

Glennis Meagher: Sure, and that makes sense because not everyone is invested in the stock market and therefore 401k isn’t going up or the Roth IRA, etc. So I do think a lot of it has to come down with how people feel about it at the kitchen table and what the gallon of. Milk costs that week,et cetera. So

It is a branding thing. but it’s also making sure that we’re messaging and communicating the right, audiences about how the administration has created more economic opportunities for them, whether that be in tax cuts or. child tax credits or job opportunities, with the Inflation Reduction Act.

So it’s, I mean, it’s a very difficult thing that every administration has [00:29:00] to, has to deal with, which is how do you communicate a message to the people that these policies are impacting so that they understand how that policy is making their lives, you know, in, in, you know, Democrats cases better. but yeah, it’s a messaging thing that I know that 2024 is going to be super, super dense on is the economy.

But part of our job here at Vibes Only is to make it less dense and more like here’s what’s going on. So keep listening.

Brian Derrick: So keep listening.

Thank

Glennis Meagher: Karen, that’s my answer. More to come. More to come.

Brian Derrick: So, In addition to the listener questions that we got in, we also have the results of our Spotify

poll.

Glennis Meagher: Ooh

exciting

Brian Derrick: that when we post episodes, we can post a poll alongside.

So when you listen, you can vote on the hot goss of the app. And so last week we talked about DeSantis, very embarrassingly endorsing [00:30:00] Donald Trump

Glennis Meagher: Ron Ron.

Brian Derrick: The question was, why? Like, why kiss

Glennis Meagher: Why?

Brian Derrick: Um, and so, we

Glennis Meagher: We couldn’t answer it. So we’ve sent it to the people,

to the

Brian Derrick: we needed, we needed the crowd.

to weigh in.

so we have the results.

so there were three options. 2028, bay bay.

Glennis Meagher: Bye

Brian Derrick: getting ready for, another run. To save face, cause you know, he’s just a generally embarrassing human. Or to cover said face with pudding, which is as we know,

Glennis Meagher: His

favorite thing to do, to eat pudding with his fingers.

Brian Derrick: majority of respondents said all of the above.

It’s a pudding face 2028

run. Absolutely.

Glennis Meagher: So, weigh in, if you listen on Spotify, weigh in on our poll this week, um, and we’ll, we’ll shout you out next time.

Brian, we have our good vibe of the week before we say goodbye to our [00:31:00] lovely audience, which is that, Joe Biden, the Biden administration has paused all DOE Department of Energy approvals for new liquefied natural gas.

Brian Derrick: pew!

pew!

Glennis Meagher: it’s a good thing.

We’re happy about it.

in the

Brian Derrick: We’re happy about it. I did see this news go out on Friday afternoon because that’s when the Biden administration loves to release good news. and

like

me, they love to do it on a Friday afternoon and, it’s a big deal. To. Fight climate change and lean in to a greener economy and an energy system that is both, domestic and independent and better for our world and our future.

So I think that this was a big step. A lot of my climate friends were psyched and it’s a direct response to the work done by climate activists. Like this is something that they’ve been calling for, for years, of the Biden administration and boom, there it

is.

Glennis Meagher: Not [00:32:00] just the Biden administration for, for like decades is, is this is a hat tip, to all of the climate organizers and activists, who have lobbied this issue for, for many, many years. So good vibe.

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