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Shorts Episode #70 dives into the impending election, with less than a week to go, as Barrick Gruber and Zach King discuss early voting trends across the country. They highlight that over 50 million people have already cast their votes, which reflects significant engagement compared to previous elections. The hosts share insights from their recent guest, Carl Smith, who is involved in voter education efforts, and they emphasize the importance of civic duty in participating in elections. The conversation also touches on the challenges faced by candidates and the dynamics of local politics in South Carolina. As the countdown to election day continues, the hosts encourage listeners to make a plan to vote and engage in the democratic process.
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Zach King:Listener discretion is advised.
Barrick Gruber:Welcome Nothing nerds to another episode of the All About Nothing podcast.
Barrick Gruber:This is episode number shorts, episode 70, and we are less than a week out from the election.
Barrick Gruber:If you're watching this on YouTube or on Twitch, I am Barrick Gruber.
Zach King:I am Zach King.
Zach King:We are.
Zach King:We are.
Zach King:We are two months and 1/8 days away from a regime change.
Zach King:Right.
Barrick Gruber:Something like that.
Barrick Gruber:That count is accurate enough for me.
Zach King:I don't start if you fraction up a month.
Zach King:I don't know if it's an eighth because January 6th, man.
Barrick Gruber:Right.
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Barrick Gruber:So.
Zach King:And I don't.
Zach King:I didn't frost these tips.
Zach King:So go back to old episodes and see that Zach actually committed and had all blonde hair.
Barrick Gruber:Not that.
Barrick Gruber:Not that old of episodes.
Zach King:Your hair grows quick.
Zach King:It does.
Barrick Gruber:Your hair grows quick.
Zach King:I'm trying to get rid of it so I don't have any more NSync vibes going on.
Zach King:Like, Shelby at the haunt was like, I see you're trying to bring frosted tips back.
Zach King:Good for you.
Zach King:And I said timeout.
Zach King:I wouldn't purposely do this.
Barrick Gruber:How.
Barrick Gruber:How.
Barrick Gruber:How frosted the tips have to be and.
Barrick Gruber:Or like, what is.
Barrick Gruber:What is the cutoff point on length when it's no longer tips?
Zach King:Yeah, I don't know.
Zach King:That's.
Barrick Gruber:That's more aggressive than tips.
Zach King:Yeah.
Zach King:Like, it's not even tips.
Zach King:It's.
Zach King:It's not just the tip.
Zach King:It's the whole thing.
Zach King:I did the whole thing.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah, the whole thing was done.
Barrick Gruber:And if like, like he said, go back to look at episodes in July because that's.
Barrick Gruber:I think your.
Barrick Gruber:Your coming out party for the.
Barrick Gruber:For the froth.
Barrick Gruber:For the.
Barrick Gruber:For the blonde hair was, I guess it.
Barrick Gruber:The.
Barrick Gruber:The first recording at.
Barrick Gruber:For.
Barrick Gruber:For the.
Barrick Gruber:The live episode.
Barrick Gruber:For the.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah.
Barrick Gruber:The rooftop over there.
Zach King:Hendrix.
Barrick Gruber:I wish.
Barrick Gruber:Hendrix.
Barrick Gruber:Thank you.
Barrick Gruber:Because I wish my memory was better I kept wanting to say we're both tired.
Barrick Gruber:That was.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah, yeah.
Zach King:We.
Zach King:We went there and met awesome people who.
Zach King:Like the owner, John.
Zach King:That's his name.
Zach King:I don't remember his last name.
Zach King:I want to have him on.
Zach King:He was a great guy.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah.
Barrick Gruber:Also, let's see.
Barrick Gruber:The episode that we dropped this week was with Carl Smith, who was the organizer for the voter education project, which I would think would be in full swing right now with, I guess, as of this recording, six days till election.
Barrick Gruber:He was very interesting.
Barrick Gruber:His second half of his episode will drop on Monday, The.
Barrick Gruber:The day before the election.
Zach King:And I'll listen to that one because that's the part I wasn't able to say around.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah, Zach.
Barrick Gruber:Zach.
Barrick Gruber:Zach had to take a.
Barrick Gruber:Zach had to take a leave of absence after.
Barrick Gruber:After our first hour of recording.
Barrick Gruber:I enjoyed the conversation with Carl, but, you know, and it's not awful getting, you know, two hours of episodes out of a recording.
Barrick Gruber:It's.
Barrick Gruber:It certainly is appreciated when a guest wants to talk to us as long as they do.
Barrick Gruber:And he had a lot.
Zach King:He had a lot of awesome things to say.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah.
Zach King:People seem to have a.
Barrick Gruber:People seem to have a good time coming on our show, so, you know, we appreciate them.
Barrick Gruber:We do have some.
Barrick Gruber:I have some guests planned for our election night or post election night recap that we'll be doing next week.
Barrick Gruber:And we'll go live with that.
Barrick Gruber:It's.
Barrick Gruber:We.
Barrick Gruber:I won't announce it just yet.
Barrick Gruber:I'll just say, you know, stay tuned.
Barrick Gruber:I'll put out an announcement on our.
Barrick Gruber:On our social media about.
Zach King:I'll say it is Pamela Anderson.
Zach King:It's not.
Barrick Gruber:No, no.
Barrick Gruber:But Tommy.
Barrick Gruber:Tommy Lee.
Barrick Gruber:Tommy Lee.
Barrick Gruber:I didn't get that right, did I?
Zach King:No, it is Tommy Lee.
Zach King:He's just the worst one.
Zach King:We want Tommy Lee Jones.
Zach King:I'll tell you what, squirt, vote for Kamala Harris.
Barrick Gruber:All right, so one thing I did want to bring up is that early voting across the country, as I think as of this morning, we are the country.
Barrick Gruber:Nationwide, more than 50 million people have voted early.
Barrick Gruber: have voted that voted in the: Zach King:Will they hold off to tell us who they voted for?
Barrick Gruber:The individuals or.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah, so I'm talking about, like, who's winning?
Zach King:Like, all right, so early voting's in.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah, there's.
Barrick Gruber:There's.
Barrick Gruber:There's no.
Barrick Gruber:Most states don't actually allow for the voting of those early ballots or mail in ballots or absentee ballots.
Barrick Gruber:They don't get to Actually start counting those until the day of the election.
Barrick Gruber:Well, I take that back.
Barrick Gruber:I keep Pennsylvania.
Barrick Gruber:It save a ton of time, but I think part of the issue is, is that you wind up having assholes.
Zach King:Burn your ballot boxes.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah, that's happening.
Barrick Gruber:But I think part of the problem with starting to release, like, any early counts is that it would probably put both camp.
Barrick Gruber:Both presidential campaigns into a tailspin.
Barrick Gruber:Like, I think that they would.
Barrick Gruber:They would just freak out.
Zach King:And my problem is, is like, I need to notice.
Zach King:Either start preparing for the resistance or preparing to take a deep breath and calming down a little bit.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah, I, you know, I still go back to this idea, and we'll talk about the early voting in South Carolina in a minute, but I still go back to this idea.
Barrick Gruber:First of all, polling is inaccurate.
Barrick Gruber:Polling is a snapshot in time of a very small sample of the public.
Barrick Gruber:And the polling that is done is.
Barrick Gruber:It's not only just, you know, registered voters, but it's broken down into likely voters, unlike registered voters versus likely voters, because those are two completely different groups.
Barrick Gruber:Registered voters, of course, includes likely voters, but registered voters doesn't include the people that register to the DMV and have zero intent of ever showing up.
Barrick Gruber:They'll have an opinion on Facebook, but they won't.
Barrick Gruber:They won't show up for the election.
Zach King:Those are the people who think voting is pointless.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah.
Barrick Gruber:And I don't think that voting is pointless.
Barrick Gruber:I think living in South Carolina, I think that it's possible to make a difference or at least give some idea of a message about South Carolina being prepared to maybe change leadership.
Barrick Gruber:But Matt's campaign is not hard.
Barrick Gruber:I mean, Matt's campaign is not easy.
Barrick Gruber:It is.
Barrick Gruber:It is extremely difficult.
Barrick Gruber:The amount of support that.
Barrick Gruber:That.
Barrick Gruber:That his opponent's campaign is getting from other elected Republicans is.
Barrick Gruber:Is.
Barrick Gruber:You don't.
Barrick Gruber:You don't see a lot of that when it comes to the ground level, local politics with other Democrats.
Barrick Gruber:You see it with the candidates.
Barrick Gruber:You see.
Barrick Gruber:You see it with the candidates supporting each other.
Barrick Gruber:But as far as, like, candidates that are already in office or ones that have, you know, basically, you know, they're running their own campaign.
Barrick Gruber:But if they're already in office, you don't.
Barrick Gruber:I, you know, it might just be me.
Barrick Gruber:I'm not speaking for every candidate, you know, but it doesn't seem like there is the same level of support being offered to candidates that are running for their first time or for their second time for an office.
Barrick Gruber:That is.
Barrick Gruber:I mean, in Matt's case, it's an Open seat, and it could potentially be won by either of them.
Barrick Gruber:But I see seasoned.
Barrick Gruber:Seasoned politicians and state representatives and statewide representatives for other, you know, treasure, whatever that have come out in support of Matt's opponent.
Barrick Gruber:And, you know, I don't fault them for it.
Barrick Gruber:You know, I think.
Barrick Gruber:I think that there is a level of desperation to that, just because you don't normally see it.
Barrick Gruber:And it.
Barrick Gruber:To me, it speaks that there might be some concern that Matt might be.
Barrick Gruber:We might be pulling this off, that Matt might see his name on the returns as having the higher number of votes.
Zach King:I'd love to see it.
Barrick Gruber:I would, too.
Barrick Gruber:I'd love to see it for Bill Kemmler and Dr.
Barrick Gruber:Jamil Brooks, all of the candidates that they've had on their show.
Zach King:Bill, probably get more votes if you want.
Zach King:The Eagles fan.
Barrick Gruber:I want to re.
Barrick Gruber:I want to.
Barrick Gruber:I want to visit something that happened on the last time that Matt was on the show.
Barrick Gruber:And I'm glad you brought up sports, Zach, because I know exactly.
Barrick Gruber:Matt.
Barrick Gruber:Matt.
Barrick Gruber:Matt and I made a bet that if the Falcons won.
Barrick Gruber:Well, let's.
Barrick Gruber:Let's just say whichever team won both of the games in the season against each other, because the Falcons and Tampa Bay play twice, that if Tampa Bay won both games, I would adore.
Barrick Gruber:Adorn a Tampa Bay jersey.
Barrick Gruber:It'd have to be.
Barrick Gruber:It would have to be a Gronkowski jersey.
Barrick Gruber:I'd have to go back and get a Gronkowski jersey.
Zach King:Oh, dude, you wouldn't get a Brady one.
Barrick Gruber:Why?
Barrick Gruber:You know, Gronky's rocks.
Zach King:I'm pretty sure you can.
Barrick Gruber:I've never been a huge Tom Brady.
Barrick Gruber:I won't discount his talent, but it's.
Zach King:The best quarterback that's ever existed.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah, I think.
Zach King:I think outside of the one true God, Josh Allen.
Barrick Gruber:Josh Allen has been.
Zach King:You have my whole season by taking.
Barrick Gruber:Josh Allen again, by the way, Josh.
Zach King:Allen and I am Patrick Mahomes and you my season.
Zach King:It's not even just a talent thing.
Zach King:Josh Allen's better than Patrick Mahomes.
Zach King:I'll tell you that all day long.
Zach King:But it was the mojo because I have Amari Cooper, who's now a Buffalo Bill.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah, you, Barrett.
Barrick Gruber:Sorry.
Zach King:Unless you want to trade.
Zach King:I just want my mojo.
Barrick Gruber:I.
Barrick Gruber:I'm gonna keep.
Barrick Gruber:I'm gonna keep Josh Allen, you know, Son of a.
Barrick Gruber:I'm not saying that there can't be some sort of a.
Barrick Gruber:You know, obviously my season.
Zach King:I'll give you ninja.
Zach King:And Joku is a great tight end.
Zach King:Just got me 16 points in Joku and Patty Mahomes.
Zach King:If you just give me Josh Allen back.
Barrick Gruber:Dang.
Barrick Gruber:That's.
Barrick Gruber:That's an interesting.
Barrick Gruber:You know what?
Barrick Gruber:Let's.
Barrick Gruber:Let's.
Barrick Gruber:We'll.
Barrick Gruber:We'll discuss that one.
Barrick Gruber:We'll discuss that one outside of the recording, because I don't need anybody from our league seeing this and being like, you know, stuff was going on.
Barrick Gruber:I mean.
Zach King:No, no, that is perfectly on the up and up.
Zach King:You're allowed to make trades.
Barrick Gruber:You are correct.
Barrick Gruber:And we don't play with that guy anymore.
Zach King:Yeah, whoever.
Zach King:Have you seen the league?
Zach King:You're absolutely allowed to make trades.
Zach King:Get the fuck out of here.
Barrick Gruber:Exactly.
Barrick Gruber:So just to recap.
Barrick Gruber:So Matt and I made a bet, and that bet included that if the Falcons won, he would adorn a Falcons jersey, and after the election, he would have to change his profile picture until the end of the season.
Barrick Gruber:And if the Bucks won both games, then I would change my profile picture for the rest of the season.
Barrick Gruber:And as of this weekend, the Falcons held on to their second victory, which means that Mr.
Barrick Gruber:Matt Velardebo.
Barrick Gruber:Matt V.
Barrick Gruber:Oh, my God.
Zach King:Make him get your quarterback's jersey because he sucks.
Barrick Gruber:I'm not.
Barrick Gruber:No.
Barrick Gruber:I'm not making anybody buy a jersey.
Barrick Gruber:I will pick the appropriate jersey.
Zach King:No.
Zach King:Who's your quarterback?
Zach King:He has to get that guy.
Barrick Gruber:Kirk Cousins.
Zach King:Kirk Cousins.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah, but I'm not gonna make some.
Barrick Gruber:I don't.
Barrick Gruber:I'm not.
Barrick Gruber:I'm not prepared to buy a Kirk Cousins jersey at this point.
Barrick Gruber:I'm not no.
Barrick Gruber:100 in.
Barrick Gruber:Oh, all right.
Barrick Gruber:Fair enough.
Zach King:To be fair, you didn't make me buy one when I lost this bet.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah.
Barrick Gruber:You wore the Matt Ryan jersey, and then Matt Ryan left.
Zach King:Maddie Ice is the vanilla envelope of quarterbacks.
Barrick Gruber:I mean, he'll get.
Barrick Gruber:He'll get hall of Fame for the Falcons.
Barrick Gruber:He'll be in that Falcons hall.
Zach King:He won a lot.
Zach King:But you're he.
Zach King:Listen, Boston Colleges have put a statue of him out there along with Luke Keighley.
Barrick Gruber:I don't.
Barrick Gruber:I don't disagree.
Barrick Gruber:And the high school that they.
Barrick Gruber:That.
Barrick Gruber:That centered around the Goldbergs because Maddie Ice went to the Goldbergs High School.
Barrick Gruber:If you watch that show.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah, yeah.
Barrick Gruber:In fact, when they did.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah.
Barrick Gruber:They had Matt Ryan.
Barrick Gruber:They had Matt Ryan on the show one time.
Zach King:Oh, no way.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah.
Barrick Gruber:It was pretty cool.
Barrick Gruber:So I was going to tell you.
Zach King:A cool voter story, by the way.
Barrick Gruber:Please.
Zach King:Just because we always talk about that.
Barrick Gruber:Is our segue back into the topic.
Zach King:Yeah, but we're not always, like, staunchly.
Zach King:Good ideas are good ideas and good people are good people.
Zach King:If they're.
Zach King:They happen to be Republican, they will get my vote.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah.
Zach King:I, I ran into an individual I work with who was 20 plus years with Richland county, and he wanted me, he wanted to meet today.
Zach King:He's a bit higher up than I am.
Zach King:And I was like, why?
Zach King:And he was just to introduce himself.
Zach King:And so, like, we started talking and I was like, we have a mutual friend, Leon Lot.
Zach King:I was like, I was like, yeah, we, I was like, we played softball together.
Zach King:And then we had him.
Zach King:I interviewed him, all this stuff.
Zach King:And he just gushed.
Zach King:He was like that.
Zach King:That is one of the best men I know.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah.
Zach King:And he goes, I want him to come where I live in South Carolina and be the sheriff over there.
Zach King:And he goes, well, Lexington will never elect a Democrat.
Zach King:And he goes, let me tell you this, Zach.
Zach King:He goes, I'm a lifelong Republican, but in 95, when he first came up, I voted for him and I voted for Democratic.
Zach King:And I was like, he's on the same page.
Zach King:He goes, if it's a good person, it's a good idea.
Zach King:I was like, yeah.
Zach King:I said, I'm a Democrat.
Zach King:But good, good ideas and good people are what it's about.
Zach King:The lines don't matter.
Zach King:And so it was someone that's a Republican that people just think, if you're a Democrat, you hate that you hate Republicans.
Zach King:It's a vehement thing.
Zach King:It's genuinely not.
Zach King:And it was an awesome example of meeting someone today that thought the same way.
Zach King:I thought, I will cross that line when, when someone else is there to represent being good ideas or good people.
Barrick Gruber:Because in, in, in the end, I don't, I don't vote on party line.
Barrick Gruber:I, I vote for the person that I believe is going to carry forward the progress or carry on with the issues that I think are important.
Barrick Gruber:As long as, you know, we have the same, we have the same ideas on those issues.
Barrick Gruber:It's not a, it's not just a partisan.
Barrick Gruber:Democrats are the only ones that can get things done.
Barrick Gruber:You know, we're.
Barrick Gruber:Especially at a local level.
Barrick Gruber:Like, you know, for the most part.
Barrick Gruber:I think that's why, you know, for town positions, if it's county council or, you know, like, I would fully support them being nonpartisan position.
Barrick Gruber:Like, I don't need to know whether you're a Democrat or Republican to be the mayor of West Columbia.
Barrick Gruber:I don't know what Tim Miles political affiliation is or what party he belongs to.
Barrick Gruber:I have zero idea on that.
Barrick Gruber:And I don't need to Know, I just know that if I lived in the town of West Columbia, that Tim Miles probably would have my vote because I think that he's done well as the mayor and he has worked very well with the other council members that have been elected to the seats there.
Barrick Gruber:So, you know, I don't.
Barrick Gruber:It's not always about party affiliation.
Barrick Gruber:If it's a good person, it's a good person.
Barrick Gruber:You know, I also recognize that in some cases it's just, you know, good to have the affiliation, that there is a benefit to being a Democrat in Richland county or a Republican in Lexington County.
Barrick Gruber:You know, I can't fault anybody for that.
Zach King:Well, the scales will tip.
Zach King:I'm a Democrat because I do believe the majority of Democrats that I come across have those better ideas are the kind of people I want to associate with and have lead my community.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah, No, I agree.
Zach King:Yeah.
Zach King:It's not to say there's things about Republicans that I enjoy, but I also believe that there are times where they would get rid of minimum wage if they could, that they would, you know, get rid of Medicare and they would privatize it and give it to insurance companies that they're out to make a profit and not tax the rich.
Zach King:There's just so much of that shit.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah, yeah.
Barrick Gruber:Totally agree.
Barrick Gruber:So real quick, we're not going to make this episode very long because this is sort of one of those shorts episodes I do want to share because I think this is.
Barrick Gruber:This is kind of exciting.
Barrick Gruber:South Carolina we have almost seen and this may not even be the right screen.
Barrick Gruber:It isn't.
Barrick Gruber:This is what I do.
Barrick Gruber:I find some way to muck it up.
Barrick Gruber:Let me see.
Barrick Gruber:Where's my.
Zach King:What your spreadsheet say, sir?
Barrick Gruber:Here we go.
Barrick Gruber:This is the one that I wanted to show.
Barrick Gruber:So as you can see, the.
Barrick Gruber:The voting totals here for South Carolina as of yesterday's close.
Barrick Gruber:So these came out this morning.
Barrick Gruber:South Carolina is on the verge of hitting 1 million early voters.
Barrick Gruber:And unless for some reason does it go that.
Zach King:Does it blow out the past record?
Barrick Gruber:So I would have to go back and look and maybe when we record next week, I'll have that information.
Barrick Gruber:Of course, we'll be past the election, so it won't be important.
Barrick Gruber: of voters from: Barrick Gruber:I think.
Barrick Gruber:I think we're probably upwards.
Barrick Gruber: re past the third mark on the: Barrick Gruber:So to be.
Barrick Gruber:It's freaking awesome.
Barrick Gruber:It's huge.
Barrick Gruber:You know, here in.
Barrick Gruber:Here in Lexington county, the numbers aren't as high, which I think is.
Barrick Gruber:You know, we've seen 54,000 people vote in Lexington County.
Barrick Gruber:That is.
Barrick Gruber:That isn't as high as York County.
Barrick Gruber:York county is almost a 70, you know, and, you know, I just collect.
Zach King:These numbers coming from.
Zach King:This has got to be exponential.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah, I think, I think that it is.
Barrick Gruber:I think that it is indicative of a good turnout for the election.
Barrick Gruber:And regardless of how people vote, I just.
Barrick Gruber:I just want them to vote.
Barrick Gruber:That's.
Barrick Gruber:That's.
Barrick Gruber:Ultimately, that's.
Barrick Gruber:That's the biggest thing to me is people vote.
Barrick Gruber:Everyone turn out, do your civic duty and vote.
Barrick Gruber:That's.
Zach King:I also want to mention this real quick and we'll talk about it on the next episode, because this just reminded me of it.
Zach King:Sorry, Barrett.
Zach King:How hard Donald Trump stepped on his own balls or his campaign getting Tony Hinchcliffe to run your.
Zach King:One of your rallies.
Barrick Gruber:See, and let me just say this about Tony Hinchcliffe.
Barrick Gruber:I think Tony Hinchcliffe is not an unfunny comedian.
Zach King:He's very funny.
Zach King:You asked the dog to be a dog or dog to be a cat.
Zach King:Like, what did you expect him to do?
Barrick Gruber:I think the fault of the Trump campaign is the fact that they had him come in there and he did what he does.
Barrick Gruber:You know, he's, he's, he's just a.
Barrick Gruber:He's just that type of comedian.
Barrick Gruber:I think the fact that Trump's campaign loaded his.
Barrick Gruber:His monologue into the teleprompters and only said he couldn't call Kamala Harris the C word is.
Barrick Gruber:No, he didn't.
Barrick Gruber:He, he, he didn't do that joke.
Zach King:He just took.
Zach King:But took it, took it on to the Puerto Ricans.
Barrick Gruber:Everything that he said was approved by Donald Trump's campaign.
Barrick Gruber:And the fact that Donald Trump.
Barrick Gruber:And it's too late now, but the fact that Donald Trump didn't come out and say anything about, like his campaign came out and, you know, just, you know, tried to distance themselves from it.
Barrick Gruber:But Donald Trump himself should have come out and said something.
Barrick Gruber:But I guarantee you Donald Trump thought it was funny because he thought it was true.
Barrick Gruber:Donald Trump has had an issue with Puerto Rico for decades.
Barrick Gruber:He's never had a golf resort built there.
Barrick Gruber:He doesn't have a hotel in Puerto Rico.
Barrick Gruber:And I don't know if that's because of things that have occurred in the government with Puerto Rico not wanting Donald Trump there.
Barrick Gruber:But ultimately, I think that what the comedian said is A reflection of probably what Donald Trump actually thinks about Puerto.
Zach King:Rico and make no buns about it.
Zach King:Donald Trump does not a funny bun in his body.
Zach King:He just took it as face value.
Zach King:Like, that's true.
Zach King:All of that stuff is true.
Barrick Gruber:Islands float.
Zach King:I don't know.
Zach King:Is it really garbage?
Zach King:It's actually garbage.
Barrick Gruber:Like, is that Walk on it?
Barrick Gruber:Is that why they have earthquakes daily is because of the shifting garbage?
Barrick Gruber:You know, I mean, dude, that.
Zach King:That was just like, how stupid can you be?
Zach King:He's a rose comedian.
Barrick Gruber:He.
Zach King:If you've ever watched Kill Tony, he has contestants that he destroys.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah.
Zach King:That is all he does.
Zach King:And he's great at it.
Zach King:And he just bodied half of your voter or whatever you want to call those quantities of it.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah.
Barrick Gruber:I think basically an entire state.
Zach King:Yeah.
Barrick Gruber:Successfully handed Pennsylvania to Kamala Harris.
Barrick Gruber:That's.
Barrick Gruber:That's potentially 500,000 people registered Puerto Rican.
Barrick Gruber:Registered voters.
Zach King:The whole.
Zach King:The whole country of Puerto Rico can vote.
Zach King:You just.
Barrick Gruber:Well, the state or the territory.
Zach King:Yeah, territory.
Zach King:It's a country.
Zach King:Puerto Rico is its own.
Zach King:Like, it's part of the U.S.
Zach King:it's a territory.
Zach King:So we'll.
Zach King:I'm going to call Puerto Rico their country because they are.
Zach King:But not only that, the Puerto Ricans who live here and, you know, they're proud.
Zach King:You see their flag hanging from the rearview mirrors.
Zach King:Yeah, that's.
Zach King:I love Puerto Ricans.
Zach King:Claudio Sanchez, Puerto Rican.
Zach King:Love it.
Zach King:I.
Zach King:It's just the dumbest move somebody could have made.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah.
Zach King:He's literally playing checkers.
Zach King:Yeah.
Zach King:The chess rules apply.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah, it's.
Barrick Gruber:I, I again, I don't think Donald Trump wants to be president.
Barrick Gruber:I think he just.
Barrick Gruber:I think he just wants to get out of going to jail.
Zach King:I think coked up.
Zach King:Don Jr.
Zach King:Loves fucking kill Tony and did not.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah.
Zach King:Take it easy on the bumps before deciding.
Zach King:That was a great idea.
Barrick Gruber:I suspect that is probably.
Barrick Gruber:That is probably true.
Barrick Gruber:That is probably true.
Zach King:Well, no, dad, you should totally get him.
Barrick Gruber:I think.
Barrick Gruber:I think the message from Zach and I is that between now and election day, vote early.
Barrick Gruber:If you're not going to vote early, then vote on election day and make yourself.
Barrick Gruber:Make sure you have a plan for voting or voting on election day, because I think the temperatures are going to be going up across the country and, you know, depending on how the election turns out, you know, be prepared.
Barrick Gruber:I don't know what for, but just, you know, be prepared.
Barrick Gruber:Just.
Zach King:And we can.
Zach King:We can only alter the weather so much.
Barrick Gruber:You see.
Barrick Gruber:I'll just say this one last thing.
Barrick Gruber:If you haven't seen it yet on YouTube, Jordan Klepper did a special where he took some celebrities to some Trump rallies and then he took Trump rally Tony or whatever his name is, Tom, and took him to a Kamala Harris rally.
Barrick Gruber:And it was very entertaining, but it was interesting to see that where the Trump.
Barrick Gruber:He'd been to 93 or 94 Trump rallies previously, but it was interesting to see the effect that going to a Harris campaign rally had on him, which was, you know, this isn't what I've heard.
Barrick Gruber:This is obviously high energy.
Barrick Gruber:This is obviously a packed arena.
Zach King:No one said the N word once.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah, nobody's leaving early, you know, so it's, it's, you know, it was, it was interesting to see and Jordan Kleffer is a comedic genius.
Barrick Gruber:Like, he's, he's extremely quick.
Barrick Gruber:I don't know how much of that was scripted, but it played very well.
Barrick Gruber:John Lennon was fantastic.
Barrick Gruber:Just.
Zach King:Well, I'll close this out, Barrett, in case I don't see you.
Zach King:Good evening.
Zach King:God damn it.
Zach King:I messed it up already.
Barrick Gruber:Yeah, so I'll do the regular clothes.
Barrick Gruber:That's going to do it.
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Zach King:And you sound like the guy at the end of like this.
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