Stay Free - Russel Brand - LIVE WATCH PARTY: DNC FINALE - KAMALA’S SPEECH (with special guest Neil Oliver)

00:00:00.000 Right?

00:00:00.000 Precisely because I love this country so much, I reserve the right to criticize.

00:00:03.000 Absolutely.

00:00:05.000 Let's head to the convention stage.

00:00:06.000 Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is speaking right now for a portion of the convention focused on climate change.

00:00:14.000 In my Keres language, greetings friends and family.

00:00:19.000 My name is Kresh Turquoise and I'm from the Turquoise clan.

00:00:27.000 Thirty-five generations ago, my ancestors built lives in the high desert of New Mexico.

00:00:34.000 I am on this stage tonight because of them.

00:00:40.000 While fishing with my dad and running through the desert with my cousins, I learned that we have a responsibility to take care of our planet.

00:00:56.000 Donald Trump never learned that lesson.

00:01:01.000 He called the climate crisis a hoax.

00:01:08.000 He made it easier for big companies to poison our air and water.

00:01:15.000 An American president must lead the world in tackling climate change.

00:01:21.000 We need a president who understands that assignment.

00:01:26.000 That's Kamala Harris! 1.00

00:01:29.000 I know her record.

00:01:36.000 She held polluters accountable for spilling oil into the San Francisco Bay. 0.85

00:01:42.000 She defended President Obama's Clean Power Plan in court.

00:01:50.000 And as vice president, she cast the tie-breaking vote for the most ambitious climate action plan in our nation's history!

00:02:00.000 Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will fight for a future where we all have clean air.

00:02:19.000 Clean water and healthy communities.

00:02:25.000 Let me go back to the lesson I learned in the desert southwest.

00:02:31.000 We all have a role in protecting our Earth for future generations.

00:02:37.000 So let's all be fierce and let's make Kamala Harris the next president of the United States. 1.00

00:02:44.000 Thank you all so much. Thank you. Thank you.

00:02:48.000 Interior Secretary and former New Mexico member of Congress Ted Holland.

00:02:52.000 Let's go back down to Laura Baron-Lopez, who I'm told is with the Wisconsin delegation. 0.73

00:02:56.000 Laura?

00:02:57.000 Hi, yes, I'm here with Terri Winkman.

00:02:59.000 She's a first-time delegate for Wisconsin and a registered nurse.

00:03:02.000 Terri, just tell me what you're thinking about right now as you're here in this moment and it's your first time being a delegate.

00:03:09.000 I'm thinking about the impact that this election is going to have on a lot of the issues that have meant a lot to me in my lifetime.

00:03:16.000 I've lived with a good portion of my life having choice about health care decisions.

00:03:22.000 And now I have two daughters, and I'm concerned about their future.

00:03:26.000 And I'm also very concerned about the expansion of health care for all.

00:03:31.000 I've been a nurse, like you said, for almost 20 years.

00:03:35.000 And I've seen a lot of people with a lot of health issues and having to make decisions just solely based on what coverage they have and what treatment they can get or have access to.

00:03:45.000 And those are huge issues, I think, on the ballot that we've got to work on and get Kamala

00:03:51.000 Harris and Tim Walz in office.

00:03:53.000 And have you always been politically active or is this something new for you?

00:03:57.000 I have always been peripherally pretty active.

00:03:59.000 So in college I worked with sexual assault survivors on my college campus.

00:04:05.000 I also took some classes at the Paul Wellstone Institute at the University of Minnesota as

00:04:11.000 well.

00:04:12.000 So Paul Wellstone's always been kind of a huge inspiration to me.

00:04:16.000 And I would say that I have done a lot of volunteer work.

00:04:21.000 And the biggest piece for me, it's not necessarily politically, but I have been on our school board in my small rural town in Jefferson for about 10 years now.

00:04:31.000 So public education, I've always been a strong advocate for keeping our public education system strong and equal for all.

00:04:37.000 And you're from a pretty red county in Wisconsin, correct?

00:04:41.000 Correct.

00:04:41.000 And are you sensing any change in a red county like that?

00:04:45.000 I am.

00:04:45.000 We look at the data, a group of me and some other women in the city of Jefferson.

00:04:50.000 We look at data every single election, whether it's small, large, a primary, a major election.

00:04:57.000 And we do feel like we're moving a little bit more in the purple direction.

00:05:01.000 We've got a little bit of blue adding in.

00:05:04.000 I do think that this is also more consequential.

00:05:08.000 I am meeting a lot more people who in 2020 voted for, you know, voted and they were Republicans and have been pretty strong Republicans and over the course of, you know, the last four years are realizing the impact that Donald Trump had in 16 to 20.

00:05:29.000 And they're kind of like, I'm ready to jump ship, and I'm ready to not do that again.

00:05:35.000 So, I do think although they are lifetime Christians and conservatives, and they will call themselves Republicans, I'm finding more and more people that think this is too consequential to allow this particular Republican to get into office.

00:05:49.000 That's fascinating.

00:05:50.000 Thank you so much, Sherry Winkman.

00:05:52.000 Amna and Jeff, she's sensing somewhat of a change in her red county in Wisconsin.

00:05:58.000 Laura Barone Lopez, thank you so much.

00:05:59.000 Thank you to Terry as well for taking the time to speak with you.

00:06:03.000 Amy Walter, back up here, there's another person I've been meaning to ask you about.

00:06:06.000 We spoke a lot about earlier Trump campaign being out counter-programming.

00:06:10.000 We haven't heard a lot from the campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent candidate who we know was pulling votes largely from Trump more recently.

00:06:18.000 It's now reported he could be considering ending his campaign this week, possibly endorsing Donald Trump.

00:06:23.000 What kind of impact could all of that have on the shape of the race?

00:06:26.000 I'm so glad you asked, because I have been communicating with the folks who do polling for us at that very question.

00:06:35.000 What would happen based on the polling that they conducted for us?

00:06:40.000 That is about two weeks old.

00:06:42.000 So, when we looked at who RFK voters were most recently, and we asked those voters,

00:06:48.000 OK, if you had to choose for one of the two major candidates, not—who wasn't RFK,

00:06:54.000 who would you pick?

00:06:56.000 About 40-something percent of them said, I'd go to Trump.

00:07:00.000 About 25 percent said they'd go to Harris.

00:07:03.000 But a big chunk were undecided.

00:07:05.000 And so what the pollsters came back and said was, if that breaks down similarly, that basically

00:07:11.000 the Trump people go to Trump, the Harris people go to Harris, and then the undecided just

00:07:16.000 kind of sit out, they don't really do—they don't show up to vote, it's not going to

00:07:20.000 have much of an impact.

00:07:22.000 But if those undecided voters move overwhelmingly to Trump or to another third-party candidate,

00:07:29.000 that has an impact.

00:07:30.000 Now, again, we live in this world where a point, half a point, is big movement in these

00:07:33.000 In a point, half a point is big movement in these swing states.

00:07:38.000 swing states.

00:07:39.000 But it could move numbers enough if—so that's why I think the big if is RFK not just dropping

00:07:39.000 But it could move numbers enough if, so that's why I think the big if is RFK not just dropping

00:07:47.000 out but endorsing Donald Trump, speaking to, I don't know much about who are you, if you're

00:07:47.000 out but endorsing Donald Trump, speaking to—I don't know much about who are you, if you're

00:07:53.000 still undecided.

00:07:55.000 Is it because of somebody who says they're an RFK voter?

00:07:58.000 Are you undecided because you really don't want to choose between the two candidates?

00:08:03.000 You really want a third party candidate and you're going to stick with that person and

00:08:08.000 if there's no third party option, you're just not going to vote?

00:08:11.000 Or is it that they think there's something about RFK that they like more than Trump,

00:08:17.000 but if RFK says, that's okay, this is my guy, that, so it would have to work in that way

00:08:24.000 for it to have much of an impact.

00:08:26.000 Let's head back to the convention stage because Congressman Maxwell Frost, he's the first member of Gen Z to serve in Congress, represents Florida in the House, here he is.

00:08:36.000 I'm Maxwell Alejandro Frost and I'm proud to be the first member of my generation in Congress.

00:08:43.000 I'm also proud to represent Central Florida!

00:08:48.000 You might expect me to talk about how climate change will impact our future, but as a Floridian, as a Florida man, I'm here I'll tell you that the climate crisis isn't some far-off threat.

00:09:01.000 It is here.

00:09:03.000 Donald Trump and J.D.

00:09:04.000 Vance think they can divide us by saying this crisis is some type of hoax.

00:09:10.000 But I've walked the streets of communities that have been forced to rebuild after hurricane flooding destroyed their homes.

00:09:18.000 I've heard the stories of immigrant farm workers made to work in horrid conditions, exacerbated by this crisis.

00:09:26.000 And I felt the scorching record heat and know that climate change can sometimes feel like an unstoppable force.

00:09:34.000 But with our movement and with organizing and an administration that cares, we are making progress.

00:09:44.000 Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have proven That tackling this crisis creates jobs.

00:09:51.000 That investing in clean energy protects our health.

00:09:55.000 And that investing in mass public transit builds strong communities.

00:10:02.000 And we must always remember that peace is essential to our climate and war destroys our environment.

00:10:10.000 This election is about every drop of water that we consume and every breath we take.

00:10:17.000 We agree.

00:10:19.000 Fighting the climate crisis is patriotic. 0.99

00:10:22.000 And unlike Donald Trump, our patriotism is more than some damn slogan on a hat. 0.97

00:10:29.000 It's about actually giving a damn about the people who live in this country. 0.97

00:10:33.000 Because when you love somebody, you want them to have clean air.

00:10:38.000 When you love somebody, you want them to have safe drinking water.

00:10:42.000 And when you love somebody, you want them to have a dignified job.

00:10:47.000 And so, America, it's simple.

00:10:51.000 Let's get to work and elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz for our planet, for our future, for our present, and for our people! 0.96

00:11:02.000 God bless!

00:11:03.000 God bless!

00:11:16.000 Up here in our anchor booth with us now, we want to welcome in California's other senator, Alex Padilla, who was appointed to the Senate after Kamala Harris was elected vice president.

00:11:24.000 Senator, welcome.

00:11:25.000 Thanks for being here.

00:11:26.000 Thank you, thank you.

00:11:27.000 Can you imagine how special it feels, not just to speak tonight on her big night, but as I mentioned from the stage, I was appointed with big Chuck Taylors to fill.

00:11:38.000 The work continues, but she's been a dear friend for many years.

00:11:41.000 Well, that goes to how long you have known her and how closely you have worked with her in the past.

00:11:46.000 So tell us a little bit about what you are going to be watching for specifically in terms of what she says and what she doesn't say from the stage tonight.

00:11:54.000 So I think throughout the convention, especially tonight directly from her and for the next 75 days, The country will get to know the Kamala Harris that we in California know and love.

00:12:04.000 She is thoughtful.

00:12:05.000 She is smart.

00:12:06.000 She is tough.

00:12:07.000 But she's got a big heart for helping people.

00:12:10.000 That's what it should be about for all of us in this business of public service.

00:12:15.000 And I've just seen it time and time again from her days as District Attorney.

00:12:18.000 attorney from her days as attorney general, certainly as my predecessor in the United

00:12:22.000 States Senate, as vice president these last three, almost four years, and certainly for

00:12:27.000 the next four when she becomes the President of the United States. 0.87

00:12:30.000 I'm getting chills on my goosebumps here.

00:12:34.000 Well, look, we're told that she spent the last couple of weeks going back and forth to her alma mater, Howard University, where she's been practicing this speech, writing, rewriting this speech.

00:12:43.000 When you talk to her, how is she feeling about this moment?

00:12:45.000 And how is she feeling about the message that she hopes to convey?

00:12:48.000 I think, I mean, starting on the day that President Biden We love Joe, we thank Joe, but she came out of the box immediately after his announcement and was able to shore up the support necessary to become the presumptive nominee within a matter of hours, not weeks.

00:13:08.000 It just says a lot about her preparations, her relationships, and the goodwill and respect that she has.

00:13:16.000 She's a great person, and she's a great mom.

00:13:35.000 It's why she's determined to lower healthcare costs and make housing more affordable. 1.00

00:13:40.000 Donald Trump has no plan to help the middle class.

00:13:43.000 Just more tax cuts for billionaires.

00:13:46.000 Being president is about who you fight for.

00:13:49.000 And she's fighting for people like you.

00:13:51.000 I'm Kamala Harris and I approve this message.

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00:13:58.000 Can you blame them?

00:13:59.000 They've got the biggest rivalries.

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00:15:54.000 I'm Jeff Zeleny at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and this is CNN.

00:15:58.000 What's up, everybody?

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00:16:09.000 I'm Jeff Zeleny at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and this is CNN.

00:16:14.000 What's up everybody?

00:16:17.000 Stephen Curry here.

00:16:18.000 I know you all know I'm grateful to go to the State Warriors,

00:16:21.000 and man, what a great honor it was to represent Team USA and go out there

00:16:26.000 and win that gold medal at the Olympics this summer.

00:16:28.000 And that unity on and off the court reminded us all that together, we can do all things and continue to inspire the world.

00:16:35.000 That's why I believe that Kamala, as president, could bring that unity back and continue to move our country forward.

00:16:44.000 This is about preserving hope and belief in our country, making sure families can be taken care of during the most precious times, I got to visit Kamala with my team in the White House last year, and I can tell you one thing I knew then and definitely know now.

00:17:01.000 The Oval Office suits her well.

00:17:04.000 So in the words of Michelle Obama, do something!

00:17:07.000 Go vote!

00:17:09.000 Be active!

00:17:10.000 Let's show out in November like never before.

00:17:14.000 It's been an honor for me to represent our country.

00:17:17.000 It's an honor to support Kamala.

00:17:19.000 So let's all do our part.

00:17:22.000 God bless.

00:17:25.000 David Axelrod, obviously this is the final night.

00:17:32.000 What are you expecting?

00:17:34.000 What does Kamala Harris need to do? 1.00

00:17:36.000 Look, this has been a good week for Democrats, and there have been a lot of great speeches, and they've positioned the party, and they've positioned her in the mainstream, in the middle class, and in ways that I think are very helpful.

00:17:51.000 But now she has to carry the ball.

00:17:53.000 This is her convention.

00:17:56.000 There's so much Americans still want to learn about her and they want to hear her tell it and they want to hear her tell it in the framework of her own experience and from the depths of her own experience.

00:18:07.000 I think that's what we're going to hear tonight.

00:18:09.000 This is a big moment for her.

00:18:11.000 I think how she delivers this speech and how it's received will ultimately put a coda on this convention or it'll put a damper on it.

00:18:20.000 I think she's going to do pretty well.

00:18:21.000 It's so interesting, you know, you look at the Republican convention, there was so much lead up to Donald Trump's speech, and then when he actually spoke, it sort of deflated a lot of what they had tried to do all week.

00:18:33.000 Obviously, the pressure is on.

00:18:35.000 Well, first of all, Donald Trump had to tell his story of an assassination attempt, right?

00:18:40.000 So, very different atmosphere.

00:18:43.000 Let's listen to Colin Allred.

00:18:44.000 Hey, everybody.

00:18:44.000 Colin Allred.

00:18:45.000 Hey everybody, I'm Colin Allred, a congressman from Dallas, dad to two perfect little boys.

00:18:57.000 And this November, I'm going to beat Ted Cruz.

00:19:00.000 A congressman from Dallas, dad to two perfect little boys.

00:19:20.000 And this November, I'm going to beat Ted Cruz.

00:19:23.000 And I'm so proud to be here to support our next president, Kamala Harris.

00:19:35.000 You know, like Kamala, I was raised by a single mom.

00:19:39.000 Mom was a public school teacher who often worked two jobs to make ends meet. 1.00

00:19:44.000 So when we talk about lowering costs, I think about the times when we went to the grocery store when I was growing up.

00:19:50.000 Hello there, you awakened wonders.

00:19:50.000 You are joining me and Neil Oliver live in the UK for our Kamala Harris watch-along exclusively on Rumble.

00:19:56.000 Now, it could be going for a while, Neil.

00:19:58.000 It could be three hours before we get a glimpse of Kamala.

00:20:03.000 Hello there you awakened wonders you are joining me and Neil Oliver live in the UK for our Kamala Harris watch

00:20:11.000 along exclusively on Rumble.

00:20:14.000 Now it could be going for a while Neil, it could be three hours before we get a glimpse of Kamala, how do you feel

00:20:19.000 about that?

00:20:19.000 I can't really understand why that could possibly be.

00:20:22.000 I must admit, when you invited me to this, I thought the DNC would be a very slick, well-oiled operation, and it would be like that, and that you would know when the next thing was going to happen, and you would be trailing it.

00:20:33.000 Well, the possibility that we just have no idea where she is or what she's going to do or when is...

00:20:38.000 We've got no power over this, is essentially what's happening.

00:20:41.000 We're at the moment watching the CNN output and we are so grateful you're watching along with us.

00:20:47.000 I'm talking to you, Corey Witness and Trish McLeod and Arad Dalton and Cryptic Eye Steel Toad.

00:20:53.000 Thank you.

00:20:54.000 These people have no dignity.

00:20:56.000 I think they're talking about the DNC.

00:20:59.000 My favourite comment so far has been My favorite comment so far has been, this is boring, when's Hulk Hogan gonna tear his shirt off?

00:21:08.000 Which I think is the kind of spirit.

00:21:10.000 Everything okay back there, guys?

00:21:12.000 Neil, move your mic here, mate.

00:21:15.000 Here you go, old bean.

00:21:17.000 Everything, other than that, everything okay?

00:21:19.000 Alright, we're some bearers while we adjust to this.

00:21:23.000 Like the Kamala presidential bid, this is the early stages of this.

00:21:28.000 We're good?

00:21:29.000 All perfect?

00:21:30.000 Love it.

00:21:32.000 What channel are we watching?

00:21:33.000 At the moment we're watching CNN, but we'll move between CNN and PBS's coverage, I reckon, in order to ensure perfect coverage.

00:21:45.000 Actually, this is a lovely set-up, isn't it?

00:21:47.000 I prefer this to the normal show.

00:21:48.000 It is.

00:21:49.000 There's a considerable slump factor on the couch, though.

00:21:53.000 In three and a half hours, I think we could be prone.

00:21:56.000 Wait, there's no question about it.

00:21:57.000 Prone is likely.

00:21:58.000 Now, let's see what this... Now, for the DNC has introduced a family.

00:22:03.000 Let's have a look at a family.

00:22:05.000 ...to prepare for a stillbirth.

00:22:08.000 I needed care.

00:22:09.000 Sad.

00:22:10.000 But my state's abortion restrictions kept it from me.

00:22:13.000 I miscarried in a bathroom.

00:22:16.000 I'll never forget my husband's face as he tried to stop the bleeding, trying to do what doctors should have been doing.

00:22:25.000 When I reached the hospital, I'd lost nearly half the blood in my body.

00:22:31.000 I can't change the past.

00:22:33.000 This is actually a very complex idea that is being conveyed now, because it's a pro-choice piece with a family and an infant, so that's a complex bit of live I would say... I don't want to use the word propaganda when there's something so sensitive at its core.

00:22:59.000 But it's such a... What I've been struck by, Neil, watching this convention so far is the extraordinary amount of strategy that goes into managing our perception of, say, Joe Biden's eventual dismissal and extraction, how that's being framed, how we've been invited to review legacy figures like Bill Clinton and the Obamas.

00:23:25.000 This is the first time I've seen anything where members of the public have been deployed like that.

00:23:32.000 It strikes me as the kind of thing that plays very much to what I would expect from We've always talked at home about how practiced everyone in America seems to be in front of.

00:23:48.000 It's difficult to imagine if the same idea was playing out in the UK.

00:23:56.000 That they would offer up people, see, in as sensitive and heartbroken a situation as that.

00:24:04.000 I was working as a post office master and then they accused me of nicking all the money and it turned out it was a bleeding computer that had done it.

00:24:12.000 Eventually this was proven over time but it was too late.

00:24:15.000 By then my reputation had been besmirched and I still haven't had my letters.

00:24:20.000 But they can deliver.

00:24:21.000 They can all deliver.

00:24:22.000 Everyone from every walk of life.

00:24:24.000 Everyone from every part of America.

00:24:26.000 They can all do it.

00:24:27.000 They can all do it effortlessly.

00:24:27.000 Yeah, like everyone that you're likely to encounter is like an accomplished speaker.

00:24:33.000 That's one of the great advantages of our American cousins.

00:24:36.000 We flip to the PBS coverage now for a moment.

00:24:39.000 Let's see what the angle is here.

00:24:42.000 Over the last four years, 19 million new business applications have been filed.

00:24:48.000 Like Trump, I grew up in Queens.

00:24:51.000 But unlike him, I built my business with grit.

00:24:56.000 That's my story.

00:24:57.000 That's the American story. 0.57

00:25:00.000 Let's turn the page on Trump.

00:25:02.000 Feels a bit Eurovision-y.

00:25:12.000 And now it's here.

00:25:15.000 Now the family.

00:25:16.000 This is a highlights reel, of course.

00:25:18.000 Unless they're sort of different places and podiums throughout the stadium.

00:25:22.000 I'll tell you what we're watching now.

00:25:23.000 It's highlights, right?

00:25:24.000 Or is this testimony of people that are all present right now?

00:25:26.000 Aren't they all on the stage together?

00:25:29.000 I see.

00:25:30.000 I want these values to be reflected in our leaders.

00:25:33.000 I don't want to have to turn off the TV because our president is lobbing insults or telling

00:25:37.000 lies.

00:25:38.000 I'm tired of all of the hate.

00:25:42.000 It's time to move forward together and build a country our kids can be proud of.

00:25:48.000 Applause Ah, that's nice.

00:26:01.000 They move into a circle.

00:26:03.000 In fact, look, it's always going to be sympathetic, especially if you've been watching politicians for a couple

00:26:08.000 of days, to see ordinary people.

00:26:10.000 It's like a relief, isn't it?

00:26:11.000 It's like a real sorbet, a spiritual sorbet in a barn.

00:26:15.000 Like, oh wow, they're not well-practiced politicians, they're Human beings.

00:26:19.000 In effect, it's extraordinary to bring them out in this highly synthetic environment that it seems so far to be doing such a wonderful job of ignoring their needs.

00:26:30.000 The moment I keep sort of sighting is Billionaires Are Bad by Bernie Sanders and then a billionaire being brought out that was like a good billionaire.

00:26:39.000 Here's a good bit.

00:26:42.000 It's drums.

00:26:44.000 It's gotta be good.

00:26:45.000 Please welcome the Bulls official drumline, Chicago's own Pac Drumline.

00:26:53.000 What will the message be here?

00:26:55.000 I think the message is continually unity and youth.

00:27:03.000 I would say that so far it's been a well-staged event.

00:27:08.000 Do you think we'll ever get to this?

00:27:10.000 Could you imagine this kind of event translating?

00:27:14.000 Well, at Clacton, Nigel Farage did have a firework.

00:27:18.000 A single firework?

00:27:19.000 Did he know it was coming?

00:27:20.000 It was a big political moment, actually.

00:27:23.000 When Nigel Farage came out, there was a firework.

00:27:27.000 I remember thinking, well, that's... He came on to a sort of eight-mile style... I think it was... Moment!

00:27:35.000 Never let it go!

00:27:37.000 We've got one shot and actually just one firework, actually, so... Yeah, I don't think we can get this far, Neil.

00:27:44.000 I wasn't expecting this.

00:27:46.000 I wasn't expecting this to be an element of this.

00:27:49.000 This is filler, isn't it?

00:27:50.000 I mean, this is filler while Carmilla Harris says, I've got another two hours.

00:27:55.000 I still don't understand why they don't know when she's coming.

00:27:57.000 I don't understand.

00:27:58.000 Well, actually... Surely this should be choreographed to within an inch of its life, timed to the split second.

00:28:04.000 You would think, but they apparently... I think they do know, but they just want a little largesse.

00:28:10.000 You know, or it's not largesse, you know, a grace, as it were.

00:28:12.000 And they think the impact will be intensified by three extra hours of drumming.

00:28:18.000 It's giving me a real boost.

00:28:23.000 So sometimes, you know, remember, we're in the UK, so...

00:28:27.000 Occasionally, there might be a failure in the stream.

00:28:31.000 And also, occasionally, Neil and I might sort of lapse into a kind of state of deep sorrow that we lost the colonies.

00:28:39.000 Those are occasional emotions that we might experience, aren't they?

00:28:43.000 I still struggle with that as a reality.

00:28:46.000 Yeah.

00:28:47.000 Yeah, I know, it's wounding.

00:28:49.000 I'm not over it.

00:28:51.000 What's that?

00:28:52.000 Well, before you remark on that, do bear in mind that it's possible that these are blind drummers and that We could, uh... I'm just... I'm just... It's possible, innit?

00:29:04.000 Because when they did, like, the lady with a baby, who describes her rather tragic miscarriage story, you might think, oh, let's do a joke about it, they've got headbands around their eyes, and it's like, and that's the blind drummers of Chicago.

00:29:15.000 Or no, that's the blind Chicago drummers! 0.95

00:29:18.000 They might actually be, I mean, even this could be a mistake.

00:29:20.000 They might be X-Men.

00:29:22.000 Yeah.

00:29:24.000 I mean, X-Men, you know, what's a chromosome at the DNC?

00:29:31.000 I find DNC quite a distressing acronym, actually.

00:29:37.000 Yeah.

00:29:41.000 I suppose what's worth us bearing in mind as well, Neil, is we've potentially got three hours, you know, so perhaps we can cancel out.

00:29:50.000 You've got a robe and a cigar.

00:29:53.000 It's not my first all-night watch alone, mate.

00:29:55.000 I bought cigars, a dressing gown.

00:29:59.000 Is that an expensive and exclusive cigar?

00:30:04.000 We're on, actually, yeah it is, it's Cuban.

00:30:09.000 We're watching, we're available on YouTube, but how long should we stay on YouTube for?

00:30:16.000 That was definitely footage of a buffalo throwing someone up a tree.

00:30:20.000 I actually, listen, this is the last time I'll say it, I love this shot.

00:30:24.000 Looks really nice.

00:30:26.000 We can, commercials by the way, we should stay with them.

00:30:30.000 Someone mentioned, I saw earlier, when I mentioned that I might have worn Paddington Bear pyjamas, which I said in jest only, and someone said it wouldn't be as good as leopard print.

00:30:42.000 Have you worn this on here before?

00:30:44.000 Yeah, so I wore it for the... Do you know, that's something I'm sort of slightly embarrassed to admit.

00:30:48.000 What leopard print are they referring to?

00:30:50.000 This very leopard print.

00:30:51.000 I watched the Biden-Trump debate.

00:30:55.000 It was quite late at night.

00:30:56.000 We had Starlink.

00:30:57.000 It was in my back garden.

00:30:59.000 And I watched that entire debate, and I didn't think... I didn't notice anything unusual about Joe Biden's performance.

00:31:05.000 I was like, well, this is what he always does.

00:31:07.000 I smoked my cigar.

00:31:08.000 I went to bed.

00:31:09.000 The next day, people were like, he's actually gone a bit too far there with the dementia.

00:31:13.000 We're going to have to do something about this.

00:31:14.000 And then began the sort of grind of Operation Kamala at that point.

00:31:20.000 But I watched it live.

00:31:21.000 And because I'm someone who watches Biden a lot, I didn't notice anything remarkable.

00:31:25.000 Do you feel... Do you feel sympathy?

00:31:29.000 For Joe Biden at all, at any level.

00:31:33.000 Yes, at a human level, but like, you know, I was thinking about the point you made earlier today, that there was that recent hearing that appeared to determine that he actually had received illicit funding and, you know, what amounts to bribery, forgive the word if it's not appropriate.

00:31:55.000 I find, even though I find it all despicable and Fraudulent and fake and all of that.

00:32:03.000 And still, against my expectations, I actually do feel I have to acknowledge that I feel slightly sorry for him.

00:32:13.000 Because you look at him and you think, that is a man who needs help.

00:32:20.000 He needs help.

00:32:21.000 And yet, that's what we're dealing with, is a machine that would use someone to that extent.

00:32:32.000 Yes.

00:32:32.000 You know, exploiting the predicament that that man is in.

00:32:37.000 Yes.

00:32:37.000 To further an objective.

00:32:41.000 I find that distressing to watch, even though I find the collective entity very questionable.

00:32:48.000 On the most, like, human level, it's difficult.

00:32:51.000 That's, by the way, look at what's on screen.

00:32:53.000 A minute ago, there was just two men on the sofa.

00:32:55.000 I was thinking, what kind of Sartre is in camera.

00:33:01.000 It's two men on the sofa watching two men on a sofa.

00:33:05.000 On the most human level you can't help but be moved by the entire spectacle of a man with dementia decaying before you.

00:33:14.000 But I suppose because as you say it's a symbol for so many other things.

00:33:20.000 Corruption and also because you have continual access to Joe Biden's more potent former life in sepia color, sort of bombastically condemning drug addicts, advocating for war.

00:33:39.000 I like the bit where he says if you have some controlled substances this big, you're going to jail.

00:33:48.000 That'll take everything from you.

00:33:50.000 That's one of my favourite ones.

00:33:52.000 These are their adverts.

00:33:56.000 Yeah, this is CNN's output and I'll just take a moment to talk to our friends in the stream like Jess Rock, hello there, and Joey Odo, Kyle Rhino and Elijah Fire, Pixel Dunn, all of you guys, thank you for joining us for this Watch Along with Neil and I. Remember, whilst you might be watching this on the East Coast or the West Coast or Anywhere in between, above or below.

00:34:21.000 Neil and I are actually the only people in Britain that are watching this right now, including the people that we work with, so please forgive us if we err, and join us with your comments, your talking points, and what you anticipate encountering this evening.

00:34:38.000 It is a strange watch at the moment.

00:34:40.000 There's an unmistakable sense of all of it being filler.

00:34:46.000 Yeah.

00:34:48.000 You know, drummers.

00:34:49.000 I've done enough award shows to know when I'm watching filler, or in those cases, providing it, for six minute interludes while a stage was reset for Amy Winehouse to come out, which could take a considerable amount of time given that she was Amy Winehouse.

00:35:05.000 Linda said I sounded like Paul McCartney and that you don't.

00:35:09.000 I feel like that's part of a conversation that started somewhere else and is going in another direction.

00:35:13.000 Yeah, I would say with streaming there is a require for a near-permanent personal editorial.

00:35:23.000 Let's have a look at the upsync on this moment of presumed hyperbole.

00:35:29.000 They're singing the music.

00:35:31.000 They're dancing.

00:35:31.000 It doesn't matter your age, your color, your creed, who you love.

00:35:36.000 Everyone is standing up and enjoying themselves.

00:35:39.000 They are all waiting to hear the keynote speaker, of course, Pamela Harris, but there are a lot of rumors going around.

00:35:46.000 There are some people who really want a certain someone to show up, but even if she doesn't,

00:35:53.000 everyone is energized here.

00:35:54.000 There's one thing we have learned from this Democratic National Convention.

00:36:01.000 It is that people feel incredibly energized, and they are all telling me, one after the other.

00:36:08.000 So there's a rumour, Gareth says, that George Bush is going to come.

00:36:12.000 Now, they all see that, I suppose, as an incredible scout, but I would personally see that as further evidence of the Uniparty's amalgamated power. 0.81

00:36:24.000 George Bush's presence doesn't send the message of Unity, it sends the message that I often see when they talk about aisle-crossing alliances, of this is a one-directional locomotive that's entirely captured.

00:36:39.000 Yeah, don't you think that's just Uniparty underlined, isn't it?

00:36:43.000 You know, I see these ghouls when they all get together in that cross-the-aisle way, you know, sharing sweets and jokes together, and I watch it happen here as well, you know, when you see footage of You know, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer glad-handing each other off-camera, as it were.

00:37:05.000 And likewise, when you see something like all of these, you know, ageing ex-presidents get together as though none of the things that we were invited to think they cared about divided them.

00:37:18.000 They were all able to get together on it and be together on it and... Right, they're Covid parties.

00:37:23.000 I get the sense that they were all at each other's Covid parties.

00:37:26.000 There's also a strong sense of staged fun taking place here and Tim... Tim Waltz is really, really... Is that Tim Waltz leaning into it?

00:37:35.000 If it's not Tim Waltz it should be.

00:37:38.000 Mm.

00:37:38.000 Do you want a drink?

00:37:39.000 How long have they... Please.

00:37:41.000 How long have they... This is a long night.

00:37:43.000 We're supposed to be asleep.

00:37:44.000 Do you need help with that?

00:37:46.000 No, it's not that... No, I'll be fine.

00:37:48.000 Are you drinking coffee?

00:37:50.000 I was drinking coffee.

00:37:51.000 How long have they been here now, that audience?

00:37:54.000 They do seem to be having a lovely time.

00:37:57.000 They do seem to be having a sustained lovely time.

00:37:59.000 I don't know how often that audience is in and out.

00:38:04.000 Will they have been on their feet clapping and waving for hours?

00:38:10.000 Yeah.

00:38:12.000 What would be good to watch, I think, with something like this, with any potential three-hour broadcast, Neil, is how we, over the course of the evening, you'll be able to see us kind of collapse and implode.

00:38:24.000 There won't be this much verbiage two hours in.

00:38:27.000 I'm telling you, this is 2am talk.

00:38:30.000 We're coming out very hard.

00:38:32.000 Some people in the chat right now are saying that Beyonce may come.

00:38:39.000 Taylor Swift, yeah.

00:38:41.000 Right, Beyonce, Taylor Swift.

00:38:43.000 But you think it's George Bush?

00:38:46.000 I mean, the Gareth list says that it might be George Bush.

00:38:49.000 It's swinging to different sides of a spectrum, isn't it?

00:38:52.000 It's vacillating wildly between Bush and Swift.

00:38:58.000 But, in a way, everyone's performing a kind of function here.

00:39:01.000 In fact, that's one of the things, like, from the last couple of days, because we consume it, obviously, I guess like most people watching, on X or elsewhere on social media, so you just see kind of clips.

00:39:13.000 So what you begin to identify is how certain characters are deployed in order to perform certain roles, whether it's their real-life miscarriage, the drummers, Taylor Swift, Pink!

00:39:28.000 That's quite a list.

00:39:29.000 I think there's some irony on that list, am I wrong?

00:39:41.000 A strange American said something about strange electricity everywhere.

00:39:50.000 Which I don't think was a heartfelt sentiment.

00:39:53.000 Do you stream on your channel?

00:39:57.000 No.

00:39:58.000 No, I'm... This is your first time experiencing this?

00:40:01.000 This is my first time.

00:40:03.000 I do watch your...

00:40:06.000 Comment streams all the time.

00:40:09.000 And I'm quite challenged by some of it.

00:40:14.000 I think actually, so far, it's quite... Yeah, it's good.

00:40:18.000 It's pretty good.

00:40:20.000 Hey, look, there's some of it you wouldn't read out, isn't there?

00:40:24.000 Yes, we must be prudent, Neil.

00:40:28.000 Is this happening automatically?

00:40:30.000 Should I indicate visually about this with audio and stuff?

00:40:34.000 So now it would be good to have it up, if that's all right.

00:40:38.000 The RNC was an electrifying environment for many of those nights, but this is different tonight, I think.

00:40:45.000 It feels to me like there is an enormous amount of energy and happiness in this room, which is a bit of a contrast from what we saw about four minutes ago at the RNC.

00:40:54.000 It's a little more solemn at times.

00:40:56.000 And the anticipation here for... Is it possible to move it?

00:41:04.000 All I'll say is that this place went wild for like five seconds.

00:41:09.000 It's not what was happening.

00:41:12.000 You can see it on the screen in person to see this sea of American flag that has been given out to all of the

00:41:20.000 Democrats.

00:41:21.000 21 million watched Obama on night two.

00:41:23.000 It's definitely the watchword here tonight.

00:41:26.000 It is not an accident that this is what they are leaning into.

00:41:31.000 This is the theme of one of the makings of Kamala Harris's discussions.

00:41:38.000 I sense anticipation in the crowd.

00:41:40.000 Here are the chicks, formerly known as the Dixie Chicks, who are going to sing the National Anthem.

00:41:49.000 The Dixie Chicks.

00:41:50.000 I'm going to sing the national anthem.

00:41:51.000 They're chicks now. 0.93

00:41:54.000 They've lost their Dixie. 0.79

00:41:55.000 They're just chicks. 1.00

00:41:57.000 It is the DNC after all.

00:42:02.000 I'm loving this already.

00:42:02.000 Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming.

00:42:20.000 Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly

00:42:37.000 streaming.

00:42:40.000 Thanks for doing this, you know, sitting up to this hour.

00:42:47.000 It's very kind of you.

00:42:48.000 Definitely can't read that stuff out at the moment.

00:42:53.000 That our flag was still there Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave

00:43:08.000 If you look at your ex, how about your father?

00:43:11.000 You'll see that this may yet be one of those moments that people are really fascinated by, you know?

00:43:24.000 Sometimes it just sort of passes by your eyes, like meandering Joe Biden, and elsewhere it's been regarded as, what the hell was that?

00:43:35.000 Meandering Joe Biden sounds like the country in West Ham.

00:43:39.000 When did they drop their Dixies? 0.99

00:43:48.000 Probably sometime around the BLM right?

00:43:51.000 Please welcome Kerry, Washington Applause

00:44:15.000 What's your favourite view?

00:44:18.000 I actually... I'm not familiar with... It's very well.

00:44:22.000 It's not just me.

00:44:23.000 It's not just me.

00:44:24.000 The last three nights have been extraordinary.

00:44:28.000 And tonight we hear from our next president, Kamala Harris.

00:44:33.000 Will it be soon?

00:44:35.000 Now as I stand here, I know that there are folks on social media already saying, go back

00:44:43.000 to your TV show. 0.99

00:44:45.000 Shut up and act! 0.99

00:44:47.000 But I am not here tonight as an actor. 0.99

00:44:49.000 I am here as a mother, as a daughter, as a proud union member.

00:44:58.000 I am here as the granddaughter of immigrants, as a black woman descended from enslaved people.

00:45:07.000 I am here tonight because I am an American and because I am a voter.

00:45:12.000 And because we the people are stronger when all our voices are heard.

00:45:19.000 Look, I know that I am the one standing on this stage, but I am not the lead character in this story.

00:45:31.000 You are.

00:45:33.000 All of you.

00:45:35.000 You are the messengers.

00:45:37.000 You are the fixers.

00:45:39.000 Dare I say it, you are the Olivia Popes.

00:45:46.000 You are the superheroes.

00:45:49.000 It is you, not me, who have the greatest power to convince your loved ones to vote.

00:45:57.000 So, just like Michelle Obama told us, let's do something.

00:46:03.000 Let's make a video.

00:46:09.000 Everybody take out your phones.

00:46:12.000 Everybody take out your phones.

00:46:13.000 We're going to make a moment.

00:46:14.000 Can somebody bring me my phone?

00:46:17.000 to capture this historic moment and share it with the people that we love.

00:46:22.000 Oh hi!

00:46:24.000 We're going to take this video guys, we're going to take it together, we're going to post it to social media,

00:46:41.000 text your friends, send this message out into the world.

00:46:44.000 the world. When I say when we fight, you're gonna say?

00:46:49.000 Are you ready?

00:46:51.000 Okay, let's record.

00:46:52.000 We're recording.

00:46:52.000 You ready, Tony?

00:46:53.000 Yep, I'm ready.

00:46:54.000 Okay, ready?

00:46:54.000 When we fight, we win!

00:47:05.000 Are you ready for Kamala Harris to win?

00:47:08.000 Thank you.

00:47:12.000 Good!

00:47:12.000 Because when Kamala wins, America wins!

00:47:20.000 We did it!

00:47:21.000 We did it, Joe!

00:47:24.000 That gave me a real... I felt, with that staged moment, the feeling I often feel with engineered moments of fun or joy, like a real sort of... In fact, this is a reference only for the British that are awake right now, Neil Kinnock's We're Alright moment, which he's said to have lost in that election against Thatcher.

00:47:46.000 I didn't find it much like Neil Kinnock.

00:47:47.000 I know the meaning you're referring to, but...

00:47:52.000 Give me a real shudder.

00:47:54.000 Yeah, give me like a sort of back... I could reduce heating bills.

00:48:02.000 I can keep myself warm on that.

00:48:04.000 Here to help me are some very special guests.

00:48:07.000 Heartwarming.

00:48:15.000 Thank you, ladies.

00:48:16.000 Can you tell us your names?

00:48:17.000 George Bush is trending on social media.

00:48:21.000 And my name is her little sister.

00:48:24.000 I suppose that can only mean George Bush is going to... Do you want to say your auntie's name?

00:48:28.000 Well, once we saw these on RNC... So, how do you pronounce it?

00:48:33.000 This is a good bit.

00:48:34.000 oligarchy, aristocracy of the Republican Party had been extracted, no Bush, no Mitt Romney, 0.86

00:48:42.000 none of the sort of former stars and I guess yeah we're gonna see some of them potentially

00:48:50.000 appearing here.

00:48:51.000 This is a good bit.

00:48:52.000 Everybody over here say Kama!

00:48:53.000 Kama!

00:48:54.000 Everybody over here say La!

00:48:55.000 La!

00:48:56.000 Together!

00:48:57.000 La!

00:48:58.000 Oh this is good.

00:48:59.000 La!

00:49:00.000 La!

00:49:01.000 This is good.

00:49:02.000 La!

00:49:03.000 La!

00:49:04.000 This is worth staying up for.

00:49:06.000 Thank you.

00:49:07.000 FOR PRESIDENT!

00:49:09.000 FOR PRESIDENT!

00:49:11.000 APPLAUSE!

00:49:34.000 I went with that there.

00:49:36.000 I was picked up by the cadence in the room.

00:49:42.000 My head's still moving.

00:49:47.000 Please welcome Mina Harris, Ella Emhoff and Helen Hudlin.

00:49:52.000 Oh, thank goodness.

00:49:56.000 That's who we need right at this moment.

00:49:58.000 Well, someone's read the room well.

00:50:03.000 Hi, I'm Nina.

00:50:06.000 I'm Ella.

00:50:07.000 And I'm Helena.

00:50:11.000 I grew up in Oakland, California, in a house full of extraordinary women.

00:50:20.000 My mom, my grandma, And my auntie, who showed me the meaning of service.

00:50:26.000 Helping her sister, a 17 year old single mom, fighting for justice for the American people, and still cooking Sunday family dinner.

00:50:37.000 She guided me, now she's guiding my own children, and I know she'll guide our country forward.

00:50:45.000 Kamala came into my life when I was 14.

00:50:48.000 Famously a very easy time for a teenager.

00:50:52.000 Like a lot of young people, I didn't always understand what I was feeling.

00:50:55.000 But no matter what, Kamlo is there for me.

00:50:58.000 She was patient, caring, and always took me seriously.

00:51:03.000 She's never stopped listening to me and she's not going to stop listening to all of us.

00:51:07.000 Kamala Harris is my godmother.

00:51:18.000 To me, her advice means everything.

00:51:20.000 Whether it's pursuing my passions, making an impact, or finding hope when the world doesn't feel so hopeful.

00:51:28.000 She taught me that making a difference means giving your whole heart and taking action.

00:51:34.000 She's fighting for economic opportunity, LGBTQ plus equality, And reproductive freedom, because we are not going back. 0.56

00:51:47.000 She's fighting for social justice, health justice, environmental justice, and she isn't alone.

00:51:55.000 We're all in this fight together.

00:51:58.000 So let's keep up the fight.

00:51:59.000 Let's keep up the joy.

00:52:01.000 And let's elect this extraordinary woman as our next president! 1.00

00:52:10.000 Did they hit the spot?

00:52:19.000 It's interesting, isn't it, to watch, like, a requiem of sincerity, and as I said before, like, when it is actual real people, like, it's difficult to sustain the level of cynicism, but I still feel a kind of sadness because people are trotting out real emotions in a very synthetic situation.

00:52:43.000 What's happening, California?

00:52:47.000 At the RNC, that emotional weight would have been carried by Hulk Hogan, just ripping something off.

00:52:55.000 And putting plaque to Nigel Farage.

00:52:58.000 And a firework.

00:52:59.000 That's another level.

00:53:00.000 Did you enjoy the RNC more than the... so far?

00:53:03.000 RNC, you know, when we were there, what it was... is unignorable is that the... that those type of events have a kind of flavor.

00:53:16.000 Gareth said it could have been about Lego.

00:53:19.000 You know, like they're just sort of like it's a carnival.

00:53:22.000 It's a convention.

00:53:23.000 It has a sort of an unusual atmosphere.

00:53:27.000 Maybe it's sort of like so easy to be cynical and in a way necessary to be cynical because like at its heart I think it's a propagandist endeavor.

00:53:34.000 I saw Chris Cuomo was there and said like all these seats up here are like half a million.

00:53:41.000 Bucks or boxes, you know, I figure they probably were.

00:53:45.000 And all of the rhetoric is about social justice and progress, but an event like this is an extraordinarily expensive thing, and it's about the maintenance of power, it's about change.

00:54:00.000 I don't feel... it's not exactly... it's not cynicism that I feel, it's a sort of disbelief.

00:54:06.000 That this is how it's done.

00:54:16.000 That the collective decision was taken that this is how this is done.

00:54:19.000 I don't feel cynical about it, I just feel... It's just me.

00:54:24.000 It's just me.

00:54:26.000 Like if you watch the conventions of the 70s and 80s, it's much more matter of fact.

00:54:41.000 Even then, when America still knew how to do a parade, still knew how to do hyperbole and propaganda.

00:54:52.000 But compared to this, this is the first time where I thought,

00:54:55.000 oh right, they of course use the same people that would do this.

00:55:00.000 That's what I mean.

00:55:01.000 Is this how this is done?

00:55:02.000 the Grammys or whatever you know like I saw all the architecture.

00:55:07.000 That's what I mean.

00:55:09.000 Is this how this is done?

00:55:12.000 This is about preparing to make a decision about how the most powerful country in the world is run.

00:55:19.000 Hey this might be a good time to switch the speaker.

00:55:24.000 If that's okay, just because... Is it, um, manually that we're doing dipping audio?

00:55:27.000 Exactly what you promised to I believe that your apologies if it is it manually that we're doing

00:55:33.000 Dipping audio all day is happening Do you think anyone's really mind Neil if we curled up like

00:55:44.000 kittens on this couch and slept to a car more Well, that's what I mean.

00:55:48.000 I think we could, we could, um, flop and fail.

00:55:50.000 You're sounding like your head there, my head there, head, feet, head, feet.

00:55:54.000 I'm CNN are one minute behind the PBS output.

00:55:56.000 What does that mean?

00:55:57.000 CNN are one minute behind the PBS output.

00:56:01.000 What does that mean?

00:56:04.000 It just means I suppose that in the corporate world of social media,

00:56:09.000 people are one minute on, they're watching the PBS.

00:56:13.000 Oh, I see.

00:56:14.000 Right.

00:56:15.000 I mean, that's a lifetime, isn't it?

00:56:18.000 That's a lifetime of the modern world.

00:56:20.000 You know, what I feel like is, forgive me saying stuff like this, I don't want to rip down the curtain too much, but I really think we've cracked the production.

00:56:32.000 Like, doesn't it look amazing?

00:56:36.000 Doesn't it sound fantastic?

00:56:37.000 The energy in this room is electric.

00:56:40.000 What about the energy in this room?

00:56:41.000 And you can feel it everywhere, all over the country.

00:56:45.000 I like Kerry.

00:56:45.000 We can feel it in England.

00:56:47.000 I want us to find ways to maintain this energy and this joy and this commitment.

00:56:53.000 We'll handle it.

00:56:55.000 There will be days when the work ahead seems impossible.

00:56:59.000 Is it because the whole thing's a spectacle?

00:57:03.000 And you're looking for various ways to control us?

00:57:06.000 Legitimising authority for endless crises?

00:57:08.000 to my community because community is why this is why we do so many people

00:57:16.000 There's so many people.

00:57:17.000 There's so many people.

00:57:18.000 Neil seems to be very uninterested.

00:57:19.000 I'm not.

00:57:20.000 That's just the way my face is.

00:57:21.000 That's my concentrating face.

00:57:21.000 Neil's holding it together for two hours.

00:57:22.000 Neil seems to be very uninterested.

00:57:24.000 I'm not. That's just the way my face is. That's my concentrating face.

00:57:29.000 Neil, we're holding it together. Two hours.

00:57:34.000 Gary, I feel like there are rumours about George Bush, Taylor Swift.

00:57:40.000 Are there rumours about what time Kamala might come on?

00:57:45.000 Let the people go.

00:57:47.000 I'm glad for the consequences.

00:57:49.000 Please welcome, Genesee County, Michigan Sheriff... Oh, that's a good rumor.

00:57:53.000 Yes, I thought she dropped her bag.

00:57:56.000 It was toilet paper, I thought, that came off the sole of her shoe. 0.93

00:58:03.000 Hold on.

00:58:06.000 And here, in this context, I'm to provide some testosterone and law and order.

00:58:13.000 Do you think that uniform's the one with Velcro?

00:58:17.000 It's coming off that.

00:58:18.000 And there would have been bloodshed, but that didn't happen.

00:58:25.000 We laid down our riot gear.

00:58:26.000 But that is amazing that a police officer can deliver that to 20,000 people.

00:58:34.000 Everyone in America can do this.

00:58:35.000 The whole nation can perform.

00:58:37.000 We need you to appear at the DNC.

00:58:40.000 They'll be like, I'm already there!

00:58:44.000 You will not see a single English or Scottish or Welsh person.

00:58:48.000 No.

00:58:51.000 Thank you very much for allowing me to participate at the Democratic National Convention.

00:59:02.000 Look at that!

00:59:03.000 That's the whole idea of that!

00:59:04.000 that yeah Wow the thing that obviously one of the things I felt while they are

00:59:17.000 in scene is like that it's difficult to escape the image of Hulk Hogan tearing

00:59:23.000 And as a person that's been sort of part of the Hollywood liberal elite, you know, me myself, part of me thinks like, wow, gosh, this is sort of rather gauche.

00:59:31.000 that I'd want to see as a spectacle.

00:59:33.000 But is it really any different than this?

00:59:37.000 Is it just an aesthetic choice?

00:59:40.000 Is George Clooney's endorsement really any more valuable than Hulk Hogan?

00:59:44.000 Only if you prefer George Clooney to Hulk Hogan.

00:59:48.000 You can't say there's an essential or fundamental quality that George Clooney has that Hulk Hogan doesn't have.

00:59:55.000 I would go so far as to say that given the way things have rolled

00:59:57.000 out over the last few years, that Hulk Hogan's more credible.

01:00:02.000 I think George Clooney's burst his own credibility bubble.

01:00:07.000 Hulk Hogan has a sense of mystery.

01:00:11.000 It's not quite clear yet.

01:00:12.000 What do you mean, Hulk?

01:00:16.000 Vests ripping apart.

01:00:17.000 Is this pastiche?

01:00:19.000 Is it parody?

01:00:20.000 Is it kitsch?

01:00:21.000 What exactly, Hulk?

01:00:22.000 I don't know about this.

01:00:23.000 That is a well-presented uniform.

01:00:27.000 That is a, that is a well-pressed shirt.

01:00:30.000 Pause for effect.

01:00:37.000 He's very good.

01:00:38.000 Someone just said quit.

01:00:40.000 Oclet, go to.

01:00:41.000 Quit talking about the Queen.

01:00:43.000 And Kenwood, Paul Blart.

01:00:45.000 As a reference to Paul Blart, Malkoff.

01:00:50.000 Kevin... He was super.

01:00:53.000 What's his surname, Kevin?

01:00:54.000 Kevin James.

01:00:59.000 We were contemplating adopting.

01:01:01.000 And then, out of nowhere, I got pregnant.

01:01:05.000 Jordan was so much fun.

01:01:06.000 Oh, it's Heartstrings.

01:01:07.000 It's an award show.

01:01:08.000 It's Pride of Britain.

01:01:12.000 Jordan didn't deserve to die that way.

01:01:15.000 Shall we have a look at PBS?

01:01:17.000 Go a minute.

01:01:18.000 Let's leap a minute into the future.

01:01:20.000 I can't watch actual tragedies.

01:01:22.000 We were praying and crying.

01:01:22.000 tragedies.

01:01:39.000 You know, it's drummers, and then it's, you know, and then it's without a breath, it segues into school shooting.

01:01:47.000 You don't know what you're going to get next.

01:01:50.000 Don't you feel that in a general way when consuming culture, whether online or even on radio?

01:01:57.000 It was remarked, I heard, that Bowie was one of the first artists that was able to create a kind of mosaics where, you know, there's kind of an incoherent group of ideas bundled together.

01:02:11.000 And now we're just, yeah, used to one minute watching an advert for Screwfix.

01:02:17.000 And the next being confronted with a school shooting.

01:02:21.000 It's confronting because you don't know what's real.

01:02:24.000 You're questioning are they real people or not all the time?

01:02:31.000 Is this going to be somebody speaking from the heart about a tragedy or is this someone who's going to play the flute?

01:02:38.000 Please flute, please flute!

01:02:40.000 Oh no, it's tragedy from the heart, human interest anecdote.

01:02:44.000 It's tragedy from the heart, I'll go and put the kettle on.

01:02:47.000 Next time I see a tragedy from the heart, I'm sparking up this cohiba. 1.00

01:02:52.000 Yeah, enough is enough.

01:02:53.000 By the way, just to clarify, not that anyone's asking, this is kombucha.

01:02:58.000 And this is a cigar.

01:02:59.000 There are no stimulants other than Neil's always riveting conversation.

01:03:04.000 Thank you, Neil, for joining me.

01:03:05.000 Do I detect the fetish of this watch of irony?

01:03:07.000 No way!

01:03:09.000 If you could, it would soon be drowned out by fine Cuban tobacco.

01:03:12.000 No, that's gratitude.

01:03:14.000 That's the vapour of gratitude.

01:03:16.000 Trying to read to them.

01:03:19.000 Trying to drown out the sounds.

01:03:22.000 No.

01:03:23.000 Terror.

01:03:25.000 Crying.

01:03:26.000 Not sincerity.

01:03:27.000 Running.

01:03:29.000 I carry that horrific day with me.

01:03:34.000 Twenty beautiful first grade children.

01:03:36.000 Oh yeah, shall we?

01:03:37.000 Let's do that.

01:03:38.000 Six of my beautiful colleagues.

01:03:40.000 If you forgive me, mute the audio of PBS.

01:03:44.000 But you can leave the visual.

01:03:45.000 Nice, thank you.

01:03:46.000 Now, Neil, this is our best of moment.

01:03:48.000 You can pip us up to... Let's switch the ratios, guys, if you don't mind.

01:03:53.000 Like, make me and Neil that, and then there's footage of that.

01:03:56.000 Hello and thank you for joining us for Watch Along with Russell and Neil, while two British men grapple with the complexity of American politics at the DNC.

01:04:07.000 While we wait for Kamala Harris's speech, which could be on at any moment, but it could also be preceded by Taylor Swift, George W. Bush or even Beyonce herself.

01:04:15.000 Let's look at some of our favourite moments from the DNC so far.

01:04:21.000 We're going to start with what the media are saying is the best speech in human history.

01:04:27.000 It's Michelle Obama's speech.

01:04:30.000 And I guess we'll just pause it using hand gestures and stuff.

01:04:32.000 I'd buy that.

01:04:34.000 I'd buy that, yeah.

01:04:35.000 That's what you'll be sold.

01:04:36.000 Let's have a look.

01:04:39.000 It's on four, yeah.

01:04:41.000 They've got a copy of this in there.

01:04:46.000 Yep, let's have a look.

01:04:47.000 Oh, and we can leave them in.

01:04:49.000 That's nice.

01:04:51.000 That was wonderful.

01:04:53.000 She was masterful, you know, not only in her words, but in her expressions.

01:04:56.000 This was a masterful...

01:04:58.000 ...act of leadership.

01:05:00.000 It was a sacred task.

01:05:02.000 It was like an oasis.

01:05:04.000 I didn't realize I had been in a spiritual desert.

01:05:06.000 ...as her wife was just so... 1.00

01:05:09.000 Man, she has got some skills. 0.55

01:05:12.000 A roof...

01:05:15.000 ...blew the roof off of the syringe last night.

01:05:19.000 Back in that moment when you left your body as a disappointment...

01:05:22.000 That's what I'm here for.

01:05:24.000 That's the sort of content I'm here for.

01:05:26.000 Rachel Maddow, believe it or not.

01:05:28.000 Do we pause like that?

01:05:29.000 Pause?

01:05:29.000 And then if we do we pause like that? Pause?

01:05:32.000 Well how do we indicate pause?

01:05:34.000 Hmm? Thank you.

01:05:37.000 What was he going to say?

01:05:38.000 So, we'll get back to it.

01:05:40.000 But yeah, this is what we want from a convention, isn't it?

01:05:43.000 The actual hysteria beyond, to the point of overdose there.

01:05:50.000 I reckon, don't worry about the ratios, Julian, because we'll go in and out, and maybe I'll use hand gestures to signal, well, I can just tell you when.

01:05:59.000 Coming out, I'll do a hand gesture.

01:06:01.000 Going back in, I'll just say, let's have a look at people Enjoying, beyond enjoying, in rapture, Michelle Obama's recent speech.

01:06:12.000 Let's have a look.

01:06:17.000 unusual perfectly keep a vision speech Michelle LaVon Robinson Obama from the

01:06:23.000 south side of Chicago honey was on that stage tonight and yes she preached 0.90

01:06:27.000 Michelle Obama preached tonight she gave a sermon to this country she gave

01:06:32.000 instructions and things that needed to be done or ability in a way that makes

01:06:36.000 you see one another as human beings put it up there with Barack Obama's 2004

01:06:42.000 speech or Reagan's 1910 Kennedy's speech Goodness me.

01:06:51.000 Is that the end of the clip?

01:06:55.000 Hey, do you know what we could do?

01:06:56.000 Do you reckon we could stretch to a countdown on it?

01:06:59.000 Or at least a visual...

01:07:04.000 Do you know what I feel when I watch that comp?

01:07:06.000 Is that the appetite for something meaningful to happen is so ravenous, Neil, that people will just create it.

01:07:15.000 I've sensed that a lot in our culture at the moment, and sometimes negatively.

01:07:18.000 The shadow side of it being that the conflagrations in our country recently generated such an appetite for blame and condemnation that people almost couldn't wait for who perpetrated those terrible crimes in Southport.

01:07:33.000 became irrelevant what the nature of the crime was because the sort of the there was such a

01:07:38.000 febrile appetite for the you know the outcomes um and like here yeah it's like there's such a

01:07:46.000 craven desire for some meaning for some purpose for someone to take to the stage and do all the

01:07:52.000 things they've described that i mean i watched a bit of michelle obama's vision was like that's a

01:07:56.000 good speech that would be my you know that was nice but but don't don't you think it's what you

01:08:00.000 get when when they have to when it has to be hyperbolic all the time yeah that this is where

01:08:07.000 you end up that they just run out of any adjectives that they can possibly use to make this not just a

01:08:14.000 good speech not just a great speech not just the best speech of all time not just the best speech

01:08:19.000 there could ever be but better on all of that You're right, because we live in a social media space that requires continual overstimulation, further and further defibrillation.

01:08:30.000 When you're doing a three-day live event, you have to somehow sustain those levels.

01:08:35.000 But what Michelle Obama said, it's gone so far beyond anything that's credible.

01:08:45.000 You know, I mean, when she actually was able to stand there and say, you know, that her parents were suspicious of people that took too much.

01:08:54.000 How?

01:08:55.000 How could she stand in front of a mirror rehearsing that and not, for example, and not think, I can't possibly say that because I'm worth hundreds of millions in my own right and I own several beachfront properties.

01:09:08.000 And yet I'm going to suggest to the American people that I'm descended from and I still extol the values of people who are suspicious of those who take too much.

01:09:16.000 Because I think, this is how I think, because America still believes in the defining American dream notion that people are self-made and secondly the anecdote is being ascribed not to her but to her parents who are a generation away and thirdly and perhaps most importantly because We have become completely uprooted from meaning at all.

01:09:37.000 Once you've untethered an event like that from reality, you can say anything.

01:09:42.000 There are so many continuing examples of hypocrisy.

01:09:46.000 There's no requirement... Do you really believe, Neil, that there's an... that there'll be someone that goes, don't say that, because watching this, you'll go, hold on, you guys have just done a Netflix deal for 50 million quid.

01:09:56.000 People are going to think it's hypocritical.

01:09:57.000 No, they'll say, well, no, we would counter that by saying it's your parents that said it.

01:10:01.000 It's the American dream.

01:10:02.000 dream and also look mate, look at what's happening in the whole pandemic era, we're just sort

01:10:06.000 of collapsing continually with new information, you've got no time for people to assess something

01:10:12.000 like that, that's subtle almost.

01:10:14.000 But just in and of itself, if you just take it as a speech in its own right, just look

01:10:19.000 at the content, why would she say, why would she connect her parents, her mother, saying

01:10:28.000 that our parents were suspicious of people taking too much.

01:10:32.000 When she is someone who is not an exemplar of those values, you just go another way.

01:10:41.000 She's setting herself up for her own fall.

01:10:44.000 There's no logic to invoking her mother.

01:10:48.000 There is no fall.

01:10:50.000 What follows now is endless eulogising and hagiography immediately afterwards.

01:10:57.000 No one on CNN or anywhere other than us, a couple of poor British fellas spilled on the couch are going to point out the hypocrisy of that. 0.99

01:11:08.000 Elsewhere on social media.

01:11:10.000 People that are paying attention.

01:11:11.000 But it's too much.

01:11:14.000 It's too quick.

01:11:15.000 It's too continual.

01:11:16.000 It's too incessant.

01:11:17.000 The function of Michelle Obama in that context is the authenticity and integrity.

01:11:23.000 Gareth called it the other day when he said what the DNC is this year is a rebrand.

01:11:28.000 That brand had been badly damaged by Biden, reaching its nadir in the debates.

01:11:35.000 Now, through strategy, because certainly a lot of people were predicting that Biden wouldn't run in 2024, they've got this opportunity for an incredible reboot.

01:11:43.000 So I say, before the event takes place, they're almost right.

01:11:47.000 What are the reviews going to be?

01:11:49.000 The reviews are going to be This was the most amazing... So what are they going to say by that record about Kamala Harris?

01:11:54.000 We're going to be reading in Legacy Media, you know, statesmanly or womanly.

01:12:00.000 This was incredible.

01:12:01.000 This is what the country needs.

01:12:03.000 You know, if she's a person that seems awkward on camera, you're inundated with... She's joyful.

01:12:09.000 She's brilliant.

01:12:09.000 People love that she's quirky.

01:12:11.000 The machine, I think, is watertight, and I don't think it cares for the kind of hypocrisy that you're sort of outlining.

01:12:18.000 I care, the people here care, but it's too much to account for.

01:12:23.000 But do you think the vast majority of people who are watching this, who aren't us, are

01:12:29.000 just able to set aside everything they know, everything they've heard, and just consume

01:12:34.000 this in the present with no reference to anything they know, anything they've heard.

01:12:39.000 Anything from the recent past distant past are they just watching as a as a spectacle and just enjoying That you let they say oh, we've just watched the greatest speech of all time even though a moment's reflection would say well It wasn't it was bollocks.

01:12:54.000 Yeah I've got a book called The Greatest Speeches of All Time, and one of the speeches it has in there is one of the leaders of the ghettos in Poland, whose job it is to go in to appeal to the parents that they have to yield their children to the concentration camps, and the speech that that person has to give.

01:13:16.000 Elsewhere in it, it's Martin Luther King, and it's Churchill, and it's all the best speeches of the 20th century.

01:13:22.000 And it's full of, like, dialogue, or in that case, I suppose, monologues, that are evoking such incredible spirit.

01:13:32.000 And I think in the absence of it, we just sort of pretend it's there.

01:13:35.000 Because obviously, you know, what you talk about all the time on your show, Neil, is, ultimately, it's only, like, two years ago that all this stuff happened, and we're just pretending that it didn't.

01:13:43.000 We almost can't take it on board.

01:13:45.000 And I feel like...

01:13:46.000 Yeah, I love your point.

01:13:48.000 What are the general consumers?

01:13:49.000 Because, you know, if you watch the chat on Rumble, what most people are thinking is this thing is total bollocks.

01:13:55.000 But also what that shows, I think, is they're not appealing to people like, you know, whether it's libertarians or anarchists or MAGA people or Trump voters.

01:14:08.000 They're appealing to this is who we want.

01:14:12.000 Well, I don't know, man, because it's odd, isn't it?

01:14:15.000 Because it's like the party of academia. 1.00

01:14:19.000 It can't be stupidity. 1.00

01:14:20.000 It has to be something more complex than that. 1.00

01:14:22.000 It's a kind of faith, isn't it?

01:14:24.000 It's a kind of religious faith.

01:14:26.000 Did anyone see it coming, though, that now that we've got all the means to record and keep everything... I mean, all these people are filming this.

01:14:34.000 Look at them.

01:14:35.000 They're not even necessarily watching it now.

01:14:37.000 They're making sure that they've recorded it for posterity.

01:14:42.000 And so there's like infinite ability to remember it, but memory itself, being able to relate what you're watching now to what you've previously learned and what you already know, seems to have been utterly destroyed by this ability to record.

01:14:57.000 I don't need to pay attention to this now.

01:14:59.000 I've got it on my phone.

01:15:00.000 I can watch it later.

01:15:02.000 Nobody ever watches any of these things back.

01:15:04.000 They're not going to watch that, whatever it is that they've just recorded on their phone.

01:15:08.000 And so they've recorded it for posterity, they'll never watch it again, and they didn't watch it in the moment.

01:15:14.000 I've been a sort of a participant, of course, in the Spectacle.

01:15:16.000 And when you're doing something like the MTV VMA Awards, you know, and Beyonce is going to be on,

01:15:21.000 and maybe Jay-Z or Taylor Swift, and all of these sort of,

01:15:25.000 like you feel like while you're participating, that you're doing something important.

01:15:31.000 But I can't imagine other than the Kanye and Taylor Swift moment,

01:15:35.000 that anybody's ever going to watch any of that stuff ever again.

01:15:38.000 And I feel that this, this is, it seems more galling that that is true,

01:15:43.000 because what we're meant to be watching is a political movement,

01:15:47.000 but you need only look at it for a moment to see that even when it's talking about something

01:15:52.000 as serious as a school shooting or something as complex as abortion,

01:15:56.000 that it's still painting in primary colors, because it's talking to a willing congregation.

01:16:03.000 So I don't think it's about the inability of the audience to discern. 1.00

01:16:06.000 I can't believe that people are stupid and unable to assess it. 0.99

01:16:12.000 I think that it's actually more akin to faith than anything else. 1.00

01:16:15.000 Like, look, we have to believe in this.

01:16:17.000 Because actually, we don't have very much choice.

01:16:21.000 Why is it... Look at Mary Alexander, Neil.

01:16:24.000 Why is it a concert?

01:16:26.000 Like, uh, why is it a concert?

01:16:28.000 Why is it a concert?

01:16:30.000 Do you know what I'm actually aware of?

01:16:32.000 For every, from moment to moment I forget what it is.

01:16:34.000 forget what it is.

01:16:35.000 Yeah, like, what is this?

01:16:36.000 Yeah, yeah, we're waiting on... I'm already forgetting that we're waiting for Kamala Harris.

01:16:40.000 We're doing it.

01:16:41.000 You're doing it while you're talking about it.

01:16:42.000 That's the best speech I've ever seen in my life, Michelle Obama.

01:16:48.000 Whoa, Taylor Swift's plane has landed.

01:16:51.000 It's a spectacle.

01:16:51.000 I actually felt... Do you know, I actually felt a bit of excitement when you said that.

01:16:54.000 I mean, what's happened?

01:16:57.000 I'm a grown man!

01:16:58.000 Um, am I... What... I just... Can I smoke in here?

01:17:03.000 Do you mind?

01:17:05.000 It's because of its unusual circumstances.

01:17:07.000 Do you mind if I smoke in here?

01:17:11.000 Thank you.

01:17:13.000 I just thought I would ask all of you, and I'm very glad.

01:17:17.000 Otherwise I'd go out and smoke it out to the side.

01:17:21.000 And it's weird, actually, again, by the way, like, Taylor Swift, right?

01:17:26.000 You can see Taylor Swift is obviously an extraordinary, or actually an economy, it was announced to me.

01:17:32.000 She's like an economy. 1.00

01:17:32.000 She affects GDP. 1.00

01:17:33.000 She's a small country.

01:17:34.000 She's a small country.

01:17:35.000 Make sure you get all those syllables.

01:17:37.000 Now, like, the thing is, though, that you see Taylor Swift all the time.

01:17:41.000 So what's the meaning of Taylor Swift in that context?

01:17:44.000 Why is it valuable there?

01:17:48.000 I know that, woman.

01:17:49.000 I would say that we've got to be unburdened by what might be.

01:17:53.000 There's a semaphore that goes with that.

01:17:56.000 It's what can be unburdened by what has been.

01:17:59.000 That's what can be, over there.

01:18:01.000 And that's what's been.

01:18:03.000 That's what can be, things over there, on the left.

01:18:06.000 Oh, yeah, nice, thanks.

01:18:08.000 I actually don't think there's...

01:18:15.000 Thank you very much.

01:18:16.000 Why do you think, genuinely I ask, why would someone like, does Taylor Swift attend a thing like this out of any kind of sincerity?

01:18:30.000 Or does she, in some way that we're not quite able to understand, does she have no option but to attend a thing like this?

01:18:36.000 Because, you know, you can't imagine that it's good for a brand really.

01:18:45.000 There was a point, there was a point where Taylor Swift had to be extremely careful about the... that she wasn't divisive in the choices that she made.

01:18:54.000 And the same with some... like Sandler.

01:18:57.000 Do you think he can handle it?

01:18:59.000 Do we know how to... Oh, thanks guys.

01:19:02.000 I think it'll be fun if it goes off.

01:19:04.000 Yeah, it'll provide a real adrenaline rush.

01:19:07.000 Um... I thought I bought a letter.

01:19:11.000 Do you have a letter, mate?

01:19:12.000 Forgive me.

01:19:13.000 How to follow Michelle.

01:19:15.000 I had to follow Gabby in pink.

01:19:22.000 Gabby amazes me every single day.

01:19:30.000 She was able to walk out and address you tonight because she's a fighter. 0.99

01:19:38.000 It's quite nerve-wracking.

01:19:39.000 And thanks to a team of doctors, nurses, and especially her speech therapist.

01:19:51.000 We all need a team.

01:19:54.000 I've flown into space four times.

01:19:57.000 for keeping the order because we can I've flown into combat nearly 40 times

01:20:07.000 try over it faster once did I do that by my template It took a team to accomplish a mission.

01:20:18.000 It always does.

01:20:21.000 I flew in the Navy during the first Gulf War.

01:20:25.000 America rallied our allies to kick out a tyrant who invaded a neighbor.

01:20:35.000 That's brilliant.

01:20:41.000 That's what's so nerve-wracking because there's no way to predict what they're going to follow, what will follow what.

01:20:50.000 You know, they go from something, you know, desperately, whatever.

01:20:53.000 What's Trump's answer?

01:20:54.000 Our man, Gareth, makes a fantastic point.

01:20:58.000 Like, what did George represent when it was necessary for him to represent?

01:21:04.000 He represented an invasion into Iraq under false pretenses.

01:21:10.000 He was the Trump of his era. 1.00

01:21:13.000 He's an idiot. 1.00

01:21:15.000 And now, it's convenient. 1.00

01:21:18.000 He's invited in. 0.99

01:21:19.000 He's a fun killer.

01:21:20.000 He does watercolor paintings!

01:21:22.000 You know, nothing has any meaning.

01:21:23.000 Michelle Obama's speech could be the best speech in history.

01:21:25.000 George W. Bush can be reinstated as an elder and a hero because nothing has any meaning.

01:21:34.000 I'm saying this from a non-partisan perspective.

01:21:36.000 I'm not saying that the answer is for Hulk Hogan to come out and tear his shirt open.

01:21:40.000 I don't know either, but at least in a sense with the MAGA movement there is a kind of overt vulgarity.

01:21:49.000 This is sort of steeped in piety and certainty about itself.

01:21:56.000 Yeah, there's a kind of an I have a dream echo to the whole world that's supposed to be there.

01:22:03.000 But now you don't know from moment to moment where they're going to go.

01:22:11.000 I'm holding out for Dan Coyle, actually.

01:22:13.000 I think he would have a certain... Can we fall for that again?

01:22:15.000 I miss that guy.

01:22:16.000 Make him the commander-in-chief? 0.98

01:22:18.000 The only suckers would be us. 0.98

01:22:21.000 That's a fact check. 0.97

01:22:22.000 I think that it's been largely debunked.

01:22:25.000 Trump saying that.

01:22:28.000 Which one?

01:22:28.000 What did he say there?

01:22:29.000 He said that Trump called military veterans suckers and losers. 0.99

01:22:33.000 He didn't say that. 0.98

01:22:34.000 That's been utterly debunked.

01:22:36.000 There's not a shred of fact there.

01:22:39.000 But it doesn't matter.

01:22:42.000 It doesn't matter.

01:22:43.000 You just keep saying it.

01:22:44.000 George W. Bush, bring him out.

01:22:46.000 Billionaires are good.

01:22:46.000 Billionaires are bad.

01:22:48.000 You just say it.

01:22:52.000 The world laughs at Trump, literally.

01:22:57.000 But folks, it is not funny.

01:23:01.000 When he was president, that meant the world was laughing at us.

01:23:07.000 The threats we faced were too serious.

01:23:08.000 Sacrifices were a serious mistake.

01:23:15.000 There's a cat there, got Neil.

01:23:17.000 How's that treating you?

01:23:19.000 Do you want a bet?

01:23:20.000 I'd be... I'm something terrible, mate.

01:23:22.000 Would you have to say, like, a Scottish phrase, like, I feel peely wall-ey?

01:23:26.000 Some people would have to sort of say something absolutely Scottish.

01:23:29.000 I might say it and do that with my bottom lip, like you did with yours.

01:23:32.000 Peely wall-ey!

01:23:34.000 You didn't almost turn your mouth inside out, then.

01:23:37.000 It's been a while, Neil, but I can still do it.

01:23:41.000 What are you saying now?

01:23:43.000 What?

01:23:43.000 Rockets?

01:23:44.000 Trump didn't... Isn't it true, not that that matters, to say that the world laughed more at America when it was Trump than it's laughed at America with Joe Biden?

01:23:59.000 I mean, hasn't Biden been much more value in that regard?

01:24:04.000 Comedically.

01:24:06.000 He's been a better foil.

01:24:09.000 As fodder for casual, cruel laughter.

01:24:14.000 I did feel, like we used to discuss, why is this never coming up on late night talk shows?

01:24:20.000 Why are they never saying, that's a bit mad that he's done that, you know?

01:24:25.000 That it was never regarded as fodder except for in peripheral media spaces or online media spaces which could no longer really be called peripheral due to the changing dynamics.

01:24:36.000 Yeah, I think he was pretty funny.

01:24:38.000 Trump's funny.

01:24:40.000 Deliberately.

01:24:42.000 The incontinence meme was compelling.

01:24:46.000 You never got that with Trump.

01:24:47.000 The incontinence meme was compelling.

01:24:49.000 You won't get this kind of commentary.

01:24:51.000 with many other commentators in our space, I'll tell you that.

01:24:55.000 I always thought it was ironic that Trump's very name was on the map.

01:24:59.000 It's poetic in that regard.

01:25:01.000 The chief of staff, CIA director, Secretary of Defense.

01:25:07.000 This is actually what you expect at a convention, isn't it?

01:25:13.000 It's like, old guy, look, I've been doing this a while, but, like, not, like, pink, and a bunch of children, and the drummers have headbands on their eyes, and then, like, you just sort of get into how ridiculous it is, and someone, like, starts talking about an abortion, and he's like, I don't know what to feel anymore! 0.51

01:25:35.000 That's insane!

01:25:37.000 It's nerve-wracking.

01:25:39.000 I don't know how to receive anything.

01:25:40.000 I don't know if they're real people.

01:25:42.000 Should we come off YouTube?

01:25:43.000 I don't know.

01:25:44.000 Gareth, what should we do about YouTube?

01:25:45.000 Should we come off?

01:25:47.000 Do you think?

01:25:50.000 I'll do a little... I'll do an announcement.

01:25:52.000 Have I gone too far?

01:25:53.000 It's you again.

01:25:54.000 Well, I've told you!

01:25:58.000 I'll get my coat, shall I?

01:26:01.000 Now, firstly, YouTube, I'd like to apologise for Neil Oliver.

01:26:04.000 Just for being here.

01:26:06.000 Shouldn't be on here at all.

01:26:07.000 You know where he stands on the important issues.

01:26:09.000 I joined the wrong queue.

01:26:11.000 Sit still.

01:26:12.000 I'll tighten that neckerchief in a moment.

01:26:15.000 We're going to leave and we'll be doing this on Rumble.

01:26:18.000 Thank you for watching us.

01:26:19.000 Remember, we continually put our content up on YouTube, but our intention is that you join us to see the Wii monolith.

01:26:29.000 And I used the word Wii there for you.

01:26:31.000 That was culturally appropriate.

01:26:34.000 To your left, you see, that's the moniker of Rumble just by your mic stand.

01:26:39.000 Rumble is our home.

01:26:41.000 Rumble is what we believe in.

01:26:43.000 We're streaming on YouTube simply as a gateway drug.

01:26:48.000 And to invite you to the Cura High that's available on Rumble.

01:26:52.000 That's why we're leaving YouTube, because even that drug analogy is sort of getting bad.

01:26:58.000 I mean, look at the chat.

01:27:00.000 All right, so we'll be seeing you.

01:27:04.000 We don't need to do a countdown.

01:27:05.000 We're going to watch Carmen's speech.

01:27:09.000 Remember, we're in the UK doing this.

01:27:11.000 We don't feel very well.

01:27:12.000 I don't even smoke.

01:27:13.000 I mean, this is just an attempt to keep myself vivid.

01:27:17.000 So yeah, if you watch it on YouTube... Yeah, who knows where this cigar could end up.

01:27:23.000 In honour of Bill Clinton.

01:27:24.000 It is the DNC, after all.

01:27:30.000 Don't get swept up in it.

01:27:32.000 If you're going to start taking this seriously... We'll see you in a second.

01:27:36.000 Join us over on Rumble.

01:27:36.000 Click the link in the description, guys.

01:27:38.000 See you in a second.

01:27:41.000 Trump tells tyrants like Putin to do everything they want.

01:27:51.000 Not Mega Yankee. 0.96

01:27:52.000 Who's your God, Russell?

01:27:54.000 Jesus.

01:27:54.000 Not on my watch.

01:27:56.000 Amy G20.

01:27:57.000 Can I see your cat?

01:27:58.000 Not really.

01:27:59.000 The cat looks really happy.

01:28:00.000 I don't want to move the cat.

01:28:01.000 President Zelensky is going to rumble back against Russia.

01:28:06.000 Yes.

01:28:07.000 She knows.

01:28:07.000 It's but a small thing, but mine own.

01:28:09.000 Their democracy protects our democracy as well.

01:28:12.000 I can't believe Neil Oliver is on the sofa, I before he.

01:28:14.000 What is a Breton boy?

01:28:18.000 Where are you?

01:28:18.000 That's a reference that you might get.

01:28:20.000 A couple of long lock Breton boys popping the will to write.

01:28:23.000 Breton boys?

01:28:24.000 I feel like that's going to be a reference that you might get.

01:28:26.000 People from Celtic? 0.98

01:28:27.000 Does it mean maybe Britannia?

01:28:30.000 Brittany?

01:28:30.000 I'm not sure, maybe.

01:28:34.000 You guys are gonna see the sun come up before Kamala comes on and that was one of our fears when we agreed to this, wasn't it, Gal?

01:28:40.000 That it'll be in the sort of cold light of day.

01:28:43.000 How can that be?

01:28:44.000 What Wilde would call the shameful day.

01:28:46.000 You know, like, this all seems sort of fun when it's generally night time.

01:28:49.000 If it's light out there and we're watching us talking about being unburdened, what my vibe might have been.

01:28:54.000 I'm not gonna be happy, mate.

01:28:55.000 I can't take that.

01:28:56.000 That's gotta take place in the hours of dark.

01:28:58.000 That's how she does it. 1.00

01:28:59.000 It's what has been.

01:29:00.000 Over where you are.

01:29:04.000 Were you suggesting that you're somehow the future in Kamala's mangled mind?

01:29:08.000 And what might be.

01:29:10.000 It might be this.

01:29:11.000 Could it be that?

01:29:13.000 Unburden yourself.

01:29:15.000 That's what Biden does.

01:29:21.000 She'll keep America's military strongest in the world. 0.99

01:29:26.000 It's a tough mic stand to that.

01:29:31.000 It's weighed down by what might have been.

01:29:34.000 I'm worried I might get hysterical.

01:29:35.000 You've got the air of someone that could go hysterical at night time.

01:29:39.000 I'm seeing that now.

01:29:40.000 see that you've... we can stay, we can keep me in, I don't mind that.

01:29:47.000 You've got the air of someone that could go hysterical at night time, I'm seeing that now.

01:29:53.000 Well, you know, at this time of day I would normally be taking somewhere to be settled down.

01:29:59.000 You can settle down here.

01:30:01.000 I mean, look, we've got... Who knows?

01:30:02.000 We've got this guy.

01:30:03.000 We've got Taylor Swift.

01:30:04.000 We've got... The fact, actually, that Taylor Swift's arrived, I don't find that encouraging, because what I see is we're not going to bed till the milk floats are out.

01:30:14.000 And there's a reference from the British among you.

01:30:16.000 Is there an intention to keep the world hanging on, not knowing if Campbell is coming on or not?

01:30:23.000 Because they must have known when Taylor Swift's plane was landing.

01:30:28.000 If you'd invited her, you'd have factored that in, wouldn't you?

01:30:30.000 You'd know that she was either going to be on before Kamala or after Kamala. 0.86

01:30:34.000 I would say Taylor Swift has got to immediately proceed.

01:30:39.000 Be unburdened by Taylor Swift and enjoy what might be the Kamala Harris presidency.

01:30:45.000 I reckon, mate, that... Yeah, that's how it's going to roll out.

01:30:50.000 Do you think Taylor's going to do the last big crescendo?

01:30:55.000 Absolutely.

01:30:56.000 Because you can't do Taylor Swift and bring the energies up to that level and go, here's George W. Bush, remember when he did that war?

01:31:05.000 Remember that fella killed himself about his sexed up dossier?

01:31:09.000 No, it's Taylor Kamala.

01:31:14.000 That's the cadence of a... If I was producing this, I'd have Taylor dance Kamala wrong. 0.99

01:31:21.000 I think it could work equally well with Kamala and then, you know, party poppers.

01:31:28.000 Then Taylor Swift sings this out.

01:31:29.000 That could work just as well, depending on what she sings.

01:31:37.000 I can't name a single Taylor Swift song.

01:31:40.000 There's one called, um, it says that you're age appropriate in your interests.

01:31:44.000 No question about it.

01:31:46.000 Um, this is not for us.

01:31:49.000 I'm not sure I would recognize it on the radiogram either.

01:31:53.000 I want to show you this thing.

01:31:55.000 There's this rather lovely website that endlessly posits that almost all our culture is satanic sigils.

01:32:03.000 I enjoy it.

01:32:08.000 I slept on the floor.

01:32:10.000 I worked every job I could.

01:32:12.000 Meatpacking, construction, making pizzas.

01:32:15.000 And now I'm a billionaire.

01:32:16.000 I mean, like, where is he?

01:32:17.000 This could go anywhere.

01:32:18.000 No, that's what I mean.

01:32:18.000 Then we invaded Iraq.

01:32:20.000 What's going to happen?

01:32:21.000 You don't, you can't, you can't see anything flipping.

01:32:25.000 No.

01:32:26.000 That's when I lost my wrists.

01:32:28.000 My wrists were, I lost my wrists on that floor.

01:32:31.000 On a secretary's salary.

01:32:33.000 My hands are to be joined at my elbows.

01:32:34.000 I'm a kind of hoop now.

01:32:35.000 They called us.

01:32:40.000 This is the onset of hysteria that you predicted.

01:32:42.000 Our luck ran out.

01:32:44.000 We saw some of the heaviest combat of the war.

01:32:47.000 And when we got home, the government failed to help us readjust.

01:32:54.000 We have a duty to care for our patriots who serve our nation.

01:33:00.000 But other than a brief interlude of four years in 2016, the Democrats have been in power during the period that this man is decrying.

01:33:08.000 Trump's to blame for everything since the beginning of time, right up until now.

01:33:11.000 Then there's meteorites.

01:33:12.000 Killed the dinosaurs. 0.99

01:33:13.000 Trump. 0.99

01:33:13.000 everything since the beginning of time right up until now. 0.99

01:33:17.000 Then there's me, Jay Wright. 1.00

01:33:20.000 Kill the dinosaurs. 0.99

01:33:22.000 What's that reference for? 0.99

01:33:23.000 There's a reference.

01:33:25.000 Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are fighting for them.

01:33:28.000 Kamala Harris has delivered more benefits to more veterans than ever before.

01:33:35.000 Yeah, that's the thing, you see.

01:33:39.000 You don't even bother to ask yourself whether that might be true.

01:33:42.000 Well, actually, do you want to see the fact-check?

01:33:45.000 Should we do a bit?

01:33:46.000 Check this out now.

01:33:47.000 This is the 2025 fact-check.

01:33:52.000 Yeah, fact-checking in the USA.

01:33:54.000 Welcome to our new live item.

01:33:56.000 It's fact-checking in the USA.

01:33:58.000 And we know that the claim that a million jobs have been generated by Kamala Harris and Biden was untrue.

01:34:04.000 It got fact-checked.

01:34:06.000 Now, is it true that more veterans have had nice days out at Six Flags under Kamala Harris than any other commander-in-chief?

01:34:14.000 We know not.

01:34:16.000 But let's have a look at some of the fact-checking.

01:34:18.000 Let's have a look at CNN checking the facts for 2025.

01:34:22.000 That's interesting in and of itself.

01:34:26.000 Let's have a look.

01:34:27.000 Yeah.

01:34:28.000 I think they're both important false claims because both were on a central subject of Democrats' attacks, and that is Project 2025, a conservative think tank's proposals for a next Republican administration.

01:34:39.000 Listen to this claim from Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware about Project 2025 and former President Trump.

01:34:48.000 He has, with his friends, said the quiet parts out loud.

01:34:54.000 But not only said them out loud, he wrote a book about it.

01:34:57.000 What's it called?

01:34:59.000 Project 2025.

01:35:02.000 That is false.

01:35:03.000 Trump did not write Project 2025.

01:35:06.000 The project's big policy document, published by the Heritage Foundation think tank, lists dozens of people as authors, editors, contributors.

01:35:13.000 Donald Trump is not among them.

01:35:16.000 A Project 2025 spokesman told me tonight no candidate was involved with the drafting of the document.

01:35:21.000 Now, it is fair to say Trump has extensive ties to Project 2025, and CNN has reported that more than half of those authors, editors, and contributors worked at some point in his administration.

01:35:33.000 But that's different than saying Trump actually wrote it.

01:35:36.000 Now, let's also play something that Colorado's governor, Jared Polis, said about what's in that Project 2025 document.

01:35:44.000 Page 451 says the only legitimate family is a married mother and father where only the father works.

01:35:54.000 That is also false.

01:35:55.000 Project 2025 does not say there is only one kind of legitimate family, let alone say that families in which a mother works outside the home is illegitimate.

01:36:04.000 A Heritage Foundation spokeswoman, who's a working mom herself, told me tonight the governor's claim is a lie.

01:36:10.000 Now, if you read the page the governor mentioned, you'll see it does express a preference for a certain kind of family.

01:36:16.000 It says, quote, families comprised of a married mother, father, and their children are the foundation of a healthy society.

01:36:22.000 It then goes on to criticize Biden policies that supposedly subsidize single motherhood and focus on LGBT equity.

01:36:29.000 You can obviously debate all of that, but nowhere does Project 2025 say a family is not legitimate if the mom has a job.

01:36:36.000 Jake?

01:36:37.000 Some of the facts were so egregious that even CNN had to fact check them.

01:36:42.000 And we did that, of course, because some claims were made about veterans right there.

01:36:47.000 And I think one of the things you have to be alert to when you get sucked into, it seems odd to call it minutiae when it's so obviously grand, but when you get pulled into the tropes of American politics, is that while all of this is happening, There are American service personnel right now engaged in wars that are unnecessary and certainly on the brink of being further inveigled.

01:37:14.000 Certainly, you know, we know about the bases in Ukraine.

01:37:17.000 Certainly, it seems that there's an appetite for further conflict, for further involvement in various conflicts.

01:37:21.000 The botched Afghanistan campaign and withdrawal still kind of seems pretty recent.

01:37:30.000 It doesn't matter.

01:37:32.000 No.

01:37:32.000 It doesn't matter.

01:37:33.000 You just get to, they just get to, you can say anything.

01:37:37.000 Is it because they're just saying what ought to be true?

01:37:41.000 What ought to be true?

01:37:42.000 Do people just want to hear what ought to have been true?

01:37:44.000 Yes, I think that is what it is.

01:37:47.000 This ought to be true.

01:37:48.000 If you prefix everything with this ought to be true, it makes a lot more sense actually.

01:37:54.000 Michelle Obama's speech is the best speech ever because, you know.

01:37:56.000 It should be that, that would be good.

01:37:58.000 It would be good if it was.

01:38:00.000 Yeah.

01:38:03.000 It's 10 o'clock Eastern Time.

01:38:05.000 It's quite late.

01:38:07.000 I've given up any hope that I'll be smoking this cigar during Kamala's speech.

01:38:12.000 And I reckon that represents 30 minutes of our lives.

01:38:15.000 We've still got Taylor Swift to sit through.

01:38:18.000 That's some Generation X stuff.

01:38:20.000 I can't see that coming.

01:38:21.000 Neil, I'm going to smoke your neckerchief.

01:38:25.000 Shall we have a look at this?

01:38:28.000 Gareth's just given us this, mate.

01:38:30.000 This is clip 21.

01:38:32.000 It's a vibes election.

01:38:33.000 This is presumably the claim that we don't need to worry about policies or manifesto or even facts.

01:38:39.000 It's a vibes election.

01:38:40.000 We've not seen this clip before, Neil or I, but that won't stop us providing punditry of, I would say, a high quality.

01:38:46.000 I feel confident of that.

01:38:47.000 Do you?

01:38:47.000 I do.

01:38:48.000 How is it that you're maintaining so much traction on this couch and looking really quite erect?

01:38:56.000 Forgive me Neil, I don't get a lot of company among the Scottish.

01:39:01.000 Let's have a look at clip 21. 0.97

01:39:02.000 I don't know, I'm just pushing my butt down.

01:39:05.000 It's what I'm doing with my feet.

01:39:06.000 I'm anchored.

01:39:07.000 I'm anchored.

01:39:08.000 Let's have a look.

01:39:12.000 Oh, she has to do more interviews. 0.92

01:39:13.000 She has to talk about policy.

01:39:14.000 Interesting from insiders you're speaking to, they're sort of like, no, absolutely not.

01:39:20.000 Haven't needed to do it so far.

01:39:21.000 Why start now?

01:39:22.000 And that's exactly it.

01:39:23.000 Their concern about her doing that could potentially trip her up and give Trump some ammunition.

01:39:27.000 In fact, a lot of those Democrats I spoke to today said, avoid those policy prescriptions.

01:39:35.000 I haven't heard from many voters looking for white papers and policy papers.

01:39:38.000 What they want to hear is what her vision is for this country.

01:39:41.000 The American people don't vote on policy prescriptions.

01:39:44.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:39:48.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:39:52.000 I think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the minutiae

01:39:53.000 of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:39:54.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:39:55.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:39:55.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:39:56.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:39:57.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:39:58.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:39:58.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:39:59.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:40:00.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:40:01.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:40:01.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:40:02.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:40:03.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:40:04.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:40:04.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:40:05.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:40:06.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:40:07.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:40:07.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:40:08.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:40:08.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:40:09.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:40:09.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:40:10.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:40:10.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:40:11.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:40:11.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:40:12.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:40:12.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:40:13.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:40:13.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:40:14.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:40:14.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:40:15.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:40:16.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:40:17.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:40:17.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:40:18.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:40:19.000 I actually think the way the American people think about this choice is less about the

01:40:20.000 minutiae of policy and more about the direction of the country.

01:40:20.000 right then correct there i think si it mightve been a question as to

01:40:24.000 why play it because it is not necessary right protocol is

01:40:28.000 implemented constant so you put it up at some stage and it

01:40:32.000 happens so it is a marketing How was that speaker able to say that it's about the direction of the country?

01:40:41.000 Without policy, without even a suggestion of policy, that just becomes, well, let's just wake up in the morning and see where we are.

01:40:47.000 Maybe the writing was on the wall when we all just accepted that Do you think even they are bored with it?

01:40:54.000 Oh, do you know, I can't be bothered.

01:40:56.000 I'm rich, I'm loaded, I'm a proper billionaire, man.

01:40:59.000 Let's just see what happens.

01:41:01.000 us with a spectacle as gaudy as this one and say it's a vision, it's a direction of a country,

01:41:07.000 you don't need policy.

01:41:09.000 Do you think even they are bored with it?

01:41:11.000 Oh do you know I can't be bothered.

01:41:13.000 I'm rich, I'm loaded, I'm a proper billionaire me, let's just see what happens.

01:41:18.000 Is that it?

01:41:21.000 We're not even going to pretend to give the people something to hope for.

01:41:24.000 I don't know.

01:41:24.000 I feel like there will be zeal.

01:41:26.000 I just looked at Tim Walz.

01:41:27.000 He was so enthusiastic.

01:41:29.000 It looked like he could pop an archery.

01:41:31.000 I think he's just glad to be out.

01:41:35.000 Right now, before the crisis, is when we get to choose.

01:41:41.000 Why wouldn't we choose the leader who's tough, tested, and a total badass?

01:41:49.000 Yeah, that went over well, didn't it?

01:41:52.000 I liked the word badass.

01:41:54.000 She liked that word badass.

01:41:57.000 I know who I want as our commander in chief.

01:42:01.000 America, let's choose Kamala Harris. 1.00

01:42:06.000 I learned from the writing of the great genius David Foster Wallace the word phatic.

01:42:13.000 Information that does not need to be stated because it is self-evident.

01:42:18.000 So to say at the DNC I'm going to vote for Kamala Harris seems, after all of the drummers and endless abortions, somewhat superfluous.

01:42:30.000 Endless abortions. 0.56

01:42:35.000 Who do you think she's going to vote for? 1.00

01:42:38.000 Listen, I like this Trump guy.

01:42:40.000 He seems a bit like a renegade.

01:42:42.000 No, he gets criticized in the media, but if you listen to him, he's actually quite funny.

01:42:46.000 I first got into him by watching Shane Gillis' impressions of him, then I thought, actually, I like the real one as well.

01:42:53.000 You didn't bomb anyone.

01:42:55.000 Also, there's no bombing, but that doesn't matter.

01:42:57.000 You know, did you see, we saw it first on Rogan, then we did it on our show, A Common Pathway, where Joe Rogan pulled up Trump on the view prior to the announcement of his candidacy.

01:43:14.000 He's just a normal celebrity, Neil.

01:43:16.000 He's just like that, you know, sort of joy and all of the other cohorts.

01:43:20.000 Like, just like, oh, so you might run for president, and what do you think you'll do?

01:43:23.000 And it was so clear he was going to be Republican, because, you know, the Republican one was a little nicer.

01:43:28.000 But everyone was generally nice.

01:43:30.000 And I sort of can't believe that what... The people that hate him, though.

01:43:33.000 Yeah.

01:43:33.000 Visceral hatred for him.

01:43:34.000 Visceral hatred.

01:43:35.000 I can't believe that the subsequent hatred is based on events.

01:43:39.000 I think it's based on positioning.

01:43:41.000 Yeah, because he didn't... I mean, what is it?

01:43:43.000 I mean, you'd think that not having bombed anyone would score him some... 0.95

01:43:48.000 Brownie points, wouldn't you?

01:43:50.000 Some basics like that.

01:43:51.000 Yes.

01:43:52.000 And that smash and we walk that he went for with Kim Jong-un. 0.70

01:43:55.000 I mean, that was top television.

01:43:57.000 The nicknames.

01:43:59.000 Obama didn't like the nicknames.

01:44:01.000 I think that the nicknames is a big plus.

01:44:04.000 I know.

01:44:05.000 And as you say, didn't bomb anyone.

01:44:08.000 Keep saying.

01:44:09.000 Just didn't bomb anyone.

01:44:10.000 That's irrelevant.

01:44:11.000 Again, if I...

01:44:14.000 If there had been a Democrat president that during their tenure hadn't bombed anyone, like, you know, we know that Barack Obama droned more kids than George W. Bush, so we shouldn't be surprised that George W. Bush might be brought out along with Taylor Swift and maybe some drones as a sort of coronation of Kamala. 0.65

01:44:35.000 Exploding drones.

01:44:39.000 You're doing it again.

01:44:40.000 You've got such grip.

01:44:41.000 What it is?

01:44:42.000 I don't know what I'm doing.

01:44:44.000 Is it the DJ jazz?

01:44:46.000 That's giving you that kind of core?

01:44:51.000 I think I'm like pushing somewhat into the back.

01:44:54.000 I'm letting my heels anchor on this rather nice... Is it called parkour?

01:44:58.000 I think my ratio of thigh to cushion.

01:45:01.000 That's what's doing you.

01:45:02.000 They're being dragged forward at the knee.

01:45:04.000 Pamela Harris! 0.99

01:45:06.000 Say hello!

01:45:08.000 I'd like it if we came up on one of those screens, Neil.

01:45:12.000 I would join.

01:45:13.000 I'd hold up a sign.

01:45:15.000 You're doing well.

01:45:16.000 Keep going.

01:45:17.000 It's a very good show.

01:45:19.000 Is she coming on?

01:45:22.000 Drum, Neil!

01:45:22.000 This is your chance!

01:45:23.000 I've actually forgotten why they hate Trump so much.

01:45:25.000 into action between now and November 10th.

01:45:29.000 I've actually forgotten why they hate Trump so much.

01:45:31.000 I mean apart from some ill-advised things said, what's at the root of the absolute loathing? 0.99

01:45:41.000 Look, I can remember, when he first announced that he was running, the world being what it is, everything a matter of record, there's loads of videos of me going, you can't have Donald Trump as president, it's ridiculous, he's insane! 0.99

01:45:55.000 And when he said those things like, you can't have the drug dealers coming across the border, sex criminals... 1.00

01:46:01.000 I was like, fucking hell, this guy's out of control, man. 0.99

01:46:04.000 But like, you know, since Biden began to emulate his border policies anyway, the much-mooted cages were there prior to his tenure, it sort of just started over time to recognise it was a kind of a hatchet job. 0.99

01:46:16.000 It's a hatchet job. It didn't hurt any of it.

01:46:19.000 To defend truth, defend democracy and decency.

01:46:24.000 Again, vague, innit?

01:46:26.000 That's Vibe's election.

01:46:27.000 Democracy, decency.

01:46:29.000 Did you hear Mike Benz's analysis that democracy now doesn't mean electoral ballot or mandate.

01:46:37.000 It means a set of institutions that have to be protected.

01:46:40.000 It means The judiciary, the CIA, the deep state.

01:46:44.000 So when there's a war to defend democracy in Ukraine where there is no elections and only one TV channel, you still call it a war for democracy?

01:46:52.000 Ironically, it's not about the demos at all.

01:46:54.000 It's not about the people.

01:46:55.000 It's about the institutions.

01:46:57.000 It's not about the congregation.

01:46:58.000 It's about the church building.

01:47:00.000 Keep a roof on that.

01:47:00.000 That's what it does.

01:47:02.000 Into hell with the congregation.

01:47:04.000 Not demos.

01:47:08.000 They love this country just as much as we do!

01:47:16.000 Would you like a drink, mate?

01:47:17.000 I'd love one.

01:47:18.000 What would you like to drink?

01:47:21.000 You can drink alcohol.

01:47:22.000 What, you're going to give Neil alcohol?

01:47:24.000 He can drink alcohol.

01:47:25.000 You're not an alcoholic, are you?

01:47:27.000 May I?

01:47:28.000 You're going to get... I'm going to get what?

01:47:30.000 You're drunk.

01:47:30.000 at home and drunk as we conservatives have ever been.

01:47:34.000 I was relieved to discover that because I've learned something about my political opinion.

01:47:43.000 Something including the Republican Party.

01:47:47.000 Where are these red shoes?

01:47:48.000 equals CEDAW It has a split in Egypt

01:47:52.000 Where are these red shoes?

01:47:54.000 This dude, I think he came out with some A man who's almost wearing his

01:47:58.000 Is he wearing red shoes with a green tie though?

01:48:00.000 That's ill-advised.

01:48:02.000 Well, I'm more than that by some people's reckoning.

01:48:05.000 Red and green should never be seen except upon an Irish Colleen. 1.00

01:48:10.000 And little children of a certain age should not be with in your range.

01:48:19.000 He's a faithless man, pretending to be righteous. 0.99

01:48:24.000 Rat eyes. 0.99

01:48:25.000 Like, people, like, the brutality. 0.98

01:48:27.000 Sometimes I don't look.

01:48:28.000 It's just sort of such a dreadful mirror.

01:48:29.000 Because sometimes they may, they may turn on me.

01:48:33.000 Or you.

01:48:34.000 We're all... I'm afraid to read some of it out.

01:48:38.000 No, don't just read it.

01:48:39.000 Be careful.

01:48:40.000 We're not on YouTube anymore.

01:48:41.000 I don't know.

01:48:41.000 Lies in defending the vulnerable.

01:48:44.000 It's in protecting your family.

01:48:46.000 Madman193 sums it up nicely.

01:48:51.000 Yes, yes, succinct.

01:48:53.000 We're of course watching the comments on Rumble, but what about our Awakened Wonders on Locals?

01:48:58.000 Hello you guys, like NegligentBanana and BigMacTop.

01:49:03.000 There you go.

01:49:03.000 I mean, that wasn't an hour ago.

01:49:09.000 I don't think, don't take that personally, I think that's rather than the event itself. 0.90

01:49:14.000 Fat ears, rat eyes, just attack after attack. 0.81

01:49:21.000 I've forgotten, I've forgotten what he is there to be. 0.90

01:49:24.000 Let's see if you can tell what he's meant to represent, just based on military.

01:49:32.000 I stood witness to the proclamations issued in desecration of our sacred tradition of peaceful transition of power

01:49:39.000 I wouldn't miss that Harnessed by a man too fragile, too vain, and too weak to

01:49:46.000 accept defeat How can a party claim to be patriotic if it idolizes a man

01:49:56.000 who tried to overthrow a free and fair election?

01:49:58.000 Say that again How can a party claim to stand for liberty if it sees a fight for freedom in Ukraine?

01:50:06.000 An attack pitting tyranny against democracy.

01:50:10.000 A challenge to everything our nation claims to be.

01:50:13.000 And it retreats.

01:50:15.000 It equivocates.

01:50:17.000 An endorsement and a potential alliance.

01:50:22.000 Which is what people were saying.

01:50:23.000 Yeah, that would be good timing.

01:50:29.000 But shouldn't you have been like, you know, running me?

01:50:32.000 Well there was talk of it at the time, but of course isn't like again to house the sort of vertiginous and ludicrous g-force of the current news cycle.

01:50:44.000 What I heard is that they were discussing it and that he was even in Milwaukee at the time.

01:50:52.000 But that was like the Republican movement were riding high.

01:50:57.000 Trump's off the back of an assassination attempt.

01:50:59.000 You know, it's like he's still running against Biden.

01:51:04.000 My instinctive reaction to that is just, I think no matter whether you approve of him or like him or what you want to

01:51:16.000 see him as Prez, he could really do it.

01:51:20.000 Do you know, when he spoke, when he speaks, he's brilliant.

01:51:25.000 RSAJL.

01:51:26.000 He's great.

01:51:28.000 And him not being part of that firmament.

01:51:31.000 Oh, really?

01:51:31.000 I mean, I didn't, you know, it's hard to imagine that he was going to, you know, win.

01:51:37.000 Bring that in, don't be afraid.

01:51:44.000 This is a very forgiving medium we're streaming along.

01:51:47.000 Thank you very much, mate.

01:51:49.000 That's very kind.

01:51:49.000 I wonder where to top that.

01:51:51.000 See if Neil can balance it on his legs.

01:51:55.000 Thank you very much.

01:51:56.000 Thank you, mate.

01:52:00.000 I believe I'll have a bit of modesty.

01:52:03.000 You know those brands, do you?

01:52:05.000 I just like the color.

01:52:07.000 Are you an alcoholic, Neil?

01:52:09.000 Like, someone criticized me for dotting my ash too much, right?

01:52:12.000 That's how brutal it can be in the stream.

01:52:13.000 And they said, like, Hunter S. Thompson will be... He'll be spinning in his grave.

01:52:20.000 And I like that.

01:52:21.000 That's such a niche reference. 0.84

01:52:22.000 And I feel like that Hunter S. Thompson would have let, like, his fag ash really get loved. 1.00

01:52:29.000 And I'm so... I saw the comment, and I'm trying to keep this going. 0.85

01:52:33.000 It's a...

01:52:34.000 Is that because it might put the cigar out?

01:52:38.000 Or, why does it matter?

01:52:40.000 I think that some people are saying that this is the hobo version of the dealed Skinner unplanned.

01:52:46.000 Actually, you're an upgrade on that.

01:52:48.000 I do I do I do I do I do you're an upgrade on style you could be a hair gel model for aimed at the 40s market. Vote

01:53:02.000 for our Ben Rockman. Martin McGuinness looks like a clown without makeup. 0.98

01:53:16.000 Gareth, in your mind, I suppose that's... 0.98

01:53:19.000 Tautologist, because where else would it be?

01:53:21.000 But where do you still think 4.30?

01:53:24.000 So do I. I'm starting to think 4.30.

01:53:29.000 That number sort of came, didn't it?

01:53:31.000 You know that.

01:53:32.000 That's not random.

01:53:33.000 You somehow know that.

01:53:35.000 I don't know how I'm going to feel at 4.30.

01:53:37.000 This is like, the only reason you do stuff like this is because you're the only person around.

01:53:40.000 Boxing.

01:53:40.000 Sometimes, you know, like when you stay up for boxing.

01:53:43.000 I don't even do that very often.

01:53:46.000 I'm like, always doing that.

01:53:47.000 But the only times I've ever done this boxing, or when sort of computers were like, when I was little, and like, oh, I'll play on a computer all night with my cousin.

01:53:56.000 That's it.

01:53:57.000 Or drugs, of course.

01:53:58.000 But drugs, everything's different.

01:53:59.000 You can beat time with drugs.

01:54:02.000 You can't beat time with this.

01:54:03.000 Times.

01:54:05.000 A Superbowl.

01:54:06.000 You've done it for a Superbowl.

01:54:07.000 I always remember, not that I have any real... Or World Cups in their own country.

01:54:11.000 Personal experience, but it started with Withnell and I, when Withnell's in the bar, and he's talking about... As soon as you stop, whatever it is you're taking, all the frozen moments... Oh my God, that is so beautiful.

01:54:25.000 All the frozen moments come back, or something, and I thought, even though I hadn't... I couldn't exactly empathise, I thought, I bet that's right.

01:54:32.000 She raised us to believe that we could be and do anything.

01:54:34.000 And we believed her.

01:54:34.000 I don't know that line, but yeah man I love it.

01:54:39.000 She raised us to believe that we could be and do anything.

01:54:46.000 And we believed her.

01:54:48.000 You see...

01:54:51.000 There's been a lot of...

01:54:54.000 I think we didn't know how lucky we were with the drummers.

01:54:57.000 Yeah.

01:54:58.000 The drummers, I'd take them in an instant now. 0.69

01:55:01.000 I wish we had that as a clip.

01:55:02.000 I have talked about the drummers enough, I think, to make it patently apparent that they were my high point.

01:55:08.000 Because I can't forget them.

01:55:11.000 I miss those drummers.

01:55:12.000 We didn't appreciate them when they were there.

01:55:14.000 Oh no, you're going to be drunk in a minute.

01:55:16.000 And you've drunk wine already today, Neil.

01:55:18.000 Two sips.

01:55:19.000 Two sips.

01:55:21.000 The grain and the grape.

01:55:22.000 The grain and the grape.

01:55:24.000 With milk.

01:55:25.000 We may all have different histories.

01:55:29.000 Look, I'm putting it down.

01:55:31.000 At least it's company.

01:55:32.000 At least it's company.

01:55:33.000 You're not getting a fee.

01:55:34.000 You should at least be able to get drunk.

01:55:36.000 I won't.

01:55:36.000 I promise you.

01:55:39.000 Do you want to watch a clip?

01:55:44.000 Yeah, always.

01:55:45.000 Do you want to watch a clip of Wignall?

01:55:47.000 Definitely cannot, actually.

01:55:49.000 That'd be amazing.

01:55:50.000 Start watching with Now and I, and then miss it.

01:55:52.000 People would like people to say, they've just started watching with Now and I. Yeah, with being the crew in Crag, when she comes on.

01:56:01.000 Oh, I've got to keep this bit on.

01:56:04.000 Mate, I think we should watch, this is how almost every Democrat candidate So much optimism, so much joy throughout the nation and it

01:56:16.000 is why we need her leadership in this historic moment.

01:56:27.000 It's the DNC.

01:56:27.000 It's unlikely.

01:56:27.000 Why?

01:56:27.000 I think there is a strange irony about the party of Roe v.

01:56:34.000 Wade and abortion and it's the DNC. 0.73

01:56:37.000 It's unlikely.

01:56:39.000 Why?

01:56:41.000 Because abortion is dilatation and puritage. 0.60

01:56:45.000 Dilation and puritage.

01:56:47.000 and puritanical.

01:56:49.000 It's a D&C.

01:56:50.000 That is it.

01:56:51.000 Oh gosh, I didn't know those terms were right.

01:56:56.000 I see, so it's a sort of an irony of acronym.

01:57:00.000 I mean, it's like, what are the chances?

01:57:02.000 That's pretty niche.

01:57:04.000 But it's near.

01:57:06.000 Every time I hear someone say that, I actually think that's what I think.

01:57:09.000 There's so much bombast that you found your way to that.

01:57:14.000 Staggering.

01:57:15.000 We have so much more in common than separates us.

01:57:19.000 She knows the better of abortion. 1.00

01:57:22.000 Why don't we cheer ourselves up with the jolly spectacle of abortion. 0.85

01:57:29.000 I'm still trying to keep this because of the Hunt Thompson references.

01:57:32.000 Yeah, we'll check out a clip.

01:57:34.000 We may have 90 minutes before... Forget Kamala Harris. 1.00

01:57:37.000 Taylor Swift could be on the telly any minute.

01:57:40.000 Let's have a look.

01:57:41.000 I think abortion should remain legal, but it needs to be safe and rare. 1.00

01:57:47.000 And I have spent many years now as a private citizen, as First Lady and now as Senator, Trying to make it rare.

01:57:58.000 Trying to create the conditions where women had other choices. 1.00

01:58:04.000 I have supported adoption, foster care.

01:58:07.000 I helped to create the campaign against teenage pregnancy, which fulfilled our original goal ten years ago of reducing teenage pregnancies by about a third.

01:58:19.000 And I think we have to do even more.

01:58:21.000 You know, when I think about this issue, I think about the whole range of concerns and challenges associated with it, and I will continue to do what I can to reduce the number and to improve and increase the care for women, and particularly the adoption system and the other opportunities that women would have to make I do not view abortion as a choice in a right.

01:58:50.000 I think it's always a tragedy.

01:58:52.000 And I think that it should be rare and safe.

01:58:56.000 And I think we should be focusing on how to limit the number of abortions.

01:59:00.000 So I guess what the clip is there to demonstrate is how their position has evolved and how, as that point of difference has become more significant, as the parties have kind of merged, the emphasis on that point of difference has become, forgive the word, you will surely notice this, hysterical.

01:59:18.000 Because that's one of the few areas, because I can't say we're going to end war, or we're pro free speech, or end inequality, but we're going to really lean into reproduction.

01:59:31.000 Whoever scripted that, for either of those people, that's a reasonable thing to be heard saying about a very emotive topic.

01:59:43.000 Defendable.

01:59:44.000 Sort of honours the... It takes into account the gravity of what's being discussed.

01:59:51.000 Yeah.

01:59:52.000 And it acknowledges... Oh my God!

01:59:53.000 How'd it happen?

01:59:55.000 Fire!

01:59:56.000 Go on, now, go on.

01:59:57.000 I've changed my train of thought now.

01:59:59.000 No, you're saying it honours the... It honours the... It dignifies the matter.

02:00:04.000 It treats the matter seriously, rather than, as you say, the hysterical...

02:00:09.000 I've met these fams.

02:00:11.000 I don't know what they've been through.

02:00:12.000 And they deserve more.

02:00:13.000 She went toe-to-toe with some of the world's top talent.

02:00:16.000 Right through.

02:00:17.000 Let me think again.

02:00:18.000 Because I will fact-check you, Neil.

02:00:19.000 you know, in the car park or the venue, it's just not...

02:00:22.000 ...tracking me.

02:00:24.000 Well, it's nearby, yeah, the...

02:00:27.000 ...the what's it, the...

02:00:28.000 ...the Planned Parenthood Great River.

02:00:30.000 Because I will fact-check you, Neil.

02:00:31.000 The Planned Parenthood Great River.

02:00:32.000 I will fact-check you so hard.

02:00:34.000 And you think that's...

02:00:36.000 ...that's bringing in a...

02:00:37.000 ...that's making something that should be serious and is serious casual,

02:00:42.000 and just by the way.

02:00:43.000 Where back in 2008 both of those, both Clinton and Biden were investing the matter with seriousness.

02:00:54.000 You've got to stay on mic.

02:00:55.000 I think this, hey Liam will you help us with Neil's mic again?

02:01:03.000 Keeps drooping as he gets more drunk.

02:01:06.000 Someone said, and is my mic level okay in the chat, guys?

02:01:09.000 And someone said that they saw me in a Family Guy episode today.

02:01:13.000 I know that reference.

02:01:15.000 What are you?

02:01:15.000 I mean, I don't know about today, but I have seen it before.

02:01:19.000 And what it is, is when Peter says, Oh, I talk funny.

02:01:23.000 Give me some money.

02:01:24.000 That's how I was rendered.

02:01:26.000 I talk funny!

02:01:28.000 Give me some money!

02:01:29.000 He's sort of dressed up like me.

02:01:33.000 Did he say it before?

02:01:35.000 I talk funny!

02:01:36.000 Give me some money!

02:01:38.000 That's Seth MacFarlane's take.

02:01:40.000 That's how I want to be remembered.

02:01:41.000 Could happen.

02:01:45.000 Hmm.

02:01:46.000 Hmm.

02:01:46.000 We've drifted from the topic, haven't we?

02:01:49.000 Yeah, because it got boring!

02:01:51.000 Actually, I see why the drummer's now, because when they get out the sort of people you normally see, like, old white fellas, you do sort of think, hmm, this is boring, actually. 1.00

02:01:58.000 Yeah, I can see now.

02:02:00.000 I was... I like... I like... I want Taylor Swift.

02:02:03.000 Get... Swift 8!

02:02:05.000 I can't look forward to Taylor Swift, because I don't know anything she sings.

02:02:09.000 Yeah, but you know what Taylor Swift is, mate.

02:02:11.000 At the mention of her name, I don't hear anything.

02:02:14.000 I don't hear anything.

02:02:14.000 It's just a sort of a psychological abyss.

02:02:16.000 It's just a person moving back and forth across the stage, but I don't know what she might be singing, so I can't look forward to it.

02:02:24.000 Those are interesting pyjama trousers.

02:02:26.000 Look, don't judge those.

02:02:28.000 Look away.

02:02:28.000 Look away from my trousers.

02:02:30.000 Where's the camel bit?

02:02:31.000 Is that a belt you're wearing?

02:02:33.000 This bit, no.

02:02:34.000 I've got some shorts on.

02:02:34.000 This is maximum comfort.

02:02:36.000 And I could, if I do catch fire from dropping the cigar, I can peel off a layer.

02:02:42.000 This is Jim Jams.

02:02:44.000 This is Jim Jams, Neil.

02:02:45.000 There'll be no peeling off of that layer while I'm on this couch.

02:02:48.000 You're dressed like an archaeologist.

02:02:51.000 You're dressed like an Indiana Jones aficionado.

02:02:54.000 This is a ceaseless pitch to have an action figure.

02:02:55.000 You know in Indiana Jones at the beginning of the films he's at the university still

02:02:59.000 and he's got sort of horn rim specs on and like there's some reference to some

02:03:04.000 bauble that he's doubtlessly gonna have to steal.

02:03:06.000 The all like that bit.

02:03:08.000 This is a ceaseless pitch to have an action figure.

02:03:11.000 I'm trying to make it simple for the designer.

02:03:13.000 There could be no dubiety.

02:03:16.000 You can get one. I know someone who'll make you one.

02:03:17.000 There could be no dubiety about how my action figure would be dressed.

02:03:21.000 No, that's right.

02:03:22.000 That's your outfit.

02:03:24.000 Do you really want an action figure?

02:03:25.000 Because I can deal with that.

02:03:28.000 Or do you want it to be legit merch?

02:03:30.000 I don't want a vanity publishing action figure.

02:03:33.000 I want a real one.

02:03:35.000 I'm afraid there's unlikely to be a Coast Guy Star Wars figure at this point.

02:03:39.000 Why?

02:03:40.000 I just think it's the economics.

02:03:44.000 Thanks, mate.

02:03:44.000 Is this for clips?

02:03:45.000 She was raised by a working mom.

02:03:47.000 We taught her about standing up for what's right.

02:03:49.000 Right, actually, look, this is about... Thank you, mate.

02:03:51.000 This is backstory.

02:03:52.000 Kamala carries the lessons of our mother, the fighting spirit of our mother, the compassion.

02:04:00.000 She's coming from a normal background.

02:04:02.000 She was seven feet tall.

02:04:04.000 And our mother, if I'd ever come home complaining about anything, she wouldn't have it. 0.86

02:04:08.000 The first thing she'd say is, well, just stop the complaining. 0.88

02:04:11.000 Just tell me what you're going to do about it.

02:04:14.000 Do you feel somewhat burdened by what hasn't been, young Kamala, my mum used to say?

02:04:19.000 It's always stuck with me.

02:04:20.000 I like the image, I'll tell you that.

02:04:22.000 herself from standing up for people and standing up for what she thinks.

02:04:28.000 I like the image, I'll tell you that. The image, like the optics, I think is fantastic.

02:04:35.000 In what regard?

02:04:36.000 Well, like, if there were no other considerations other than would it be good to have a woman of colour be president who fought her way to the top through a tough legal system, if that was the only reality, and it is a reality, then I'd go that's really great, yes, if everything else was equal.

02:04:56.000 But the problem is, as I regard it, that these, ultimately the figures that appear before us

02:05:04.000 are the end point of institutional corruption. It's just a casting.

02:05:08.000 That whole colour element of the way in which people are pitched, she is pitched, hand on

02:05:17.000 heart, not only but partly because I wasn't paying particularly close attention, when

02:05:24.000 I was aware of Kamala Harris to begin with, I didn't notice what... 0.99

02:05:29.000 Her ethnicity didn't register with me at all.

02:05:33.000 Right, that's good.

02:05:34.000 I mean, I'm not saying love me, love me, I'm pure of heart or anything, but I just didn't, it never occurred to me that she was what she was at all.

02:05:42.000 I didn't think about it in that respect.

02:05:44.000 It was only when some other people made it an issue that I thought, oh, right, right.

02:05:49.000 And I didn't know, oh, I hadn't.

02:05:49.000 And I didn't know...

02:05:51.000 Oh, I hadn't...

02:05:53.000 She was good in them debates, you know.

02:05:55.000 You know the primaries, when the Democrats held primaries a few cycles ago,

02:06:01.000 she was most... she was promising.

02:06:06.000 She took down Biden on his record. 0.92

02:06:09.000 She did some pretty good stuff.

02:06:10.000 So why do you think she didn't get anywhere then?

02:06:12.000 Because she didn't.

02:06:13.000 I mean, she was absolutely not wanted.

02:06:16.000 Yeah, well, you know... Like, not wanted to the nth degree.

02:06:20.000 My understanding is that she was not appealing, but like, you know... 0.99

02:06:26.000 And yet, now she can walk on water.

02:06:29.000 Apparently.

02:06:30.000 Yes.

02:06:30.000 Look at that little dude.

02:06:32.000 Gareth would have liked this.

02:06:34.000 Look at the backdrop where she's giving that speech. 0.99

02:06:36.000 stand up to powerful interests.

02:06:38.000 Fewer rights.

02:06:39.000 Sometimes people will open the door for you and leave it open.

02:06:41.000 Whoa, look at that little dude.

02:06:42.000 Gareth would have liked this.

02:06:43.000 Look at the backdrop where she's giving that speech. 0.99

02:06:45.000 You can't even let that f***ing door down. 1.00

02:06:47.000 F*** you. 1.00

02:06:48.000 Excuse my language. 1.00

02:06:52.000 Like that, in a sense, in a single frame, you have what's discussed and what's not discussed.

02:06:58.000 There she is at AIPAC.

02:07:00.000 Silently over the right shoulder.

02:07:02.000 We just want fairness.

02:07:04.000 We want dignity for all people.

02:07:06.000 And we are a work in progress.

02:07:08.000 We haven't yet quite reached all of those ideals.

02:07:11.000 That's that in its truestation.

02:07:13.000 I see.

02:07:14.000 That's what she likes.

02:07:15.000 That's... and then...

02:07:17.000 And then I'm going to spray up.

02:07:19.000 Yeah.

02:07:20.000 What you could do... you know earlier, mate, you said like it's sort of, erm,

02:07:26.000 what did you say, sort of like it's detached from all meaning?

02:07:29.000 If you accept it on its own terms, and by its own terms I say it's meaningless,

02:07:34.000 you can just actually start to think, this is a good production.

02:07:38.000 I never speak.

02:07:39.000 The whole thing is a production.

02:07:41.000 That's what she'll fight for every day.

02:07:43.000 Freedom, freedom, where are you?

02:07:45.000 It's just telly though, isn't it?

02:07:48.000 Yeah, and that's sort of where I came in some years ago in British politics.

02:07:51.000 I was like, well, what's the bloody difference?

02:07:53.000 You know, when it was like, you know, when we were sort of squabbling over, you know, David Cameron or Ed Miliband, you know, like, it was like, well, what are we getting all worked up about?

02:08:03.000 Or even something more superficially meaningful, like, you know, Blair versus one of his many electoral devourings.

02:08:13.000 Please welcome the Democratic nominee for President, Vice President of the United States of America, Kamala Harris. 0.99

02:08:21.000 Wait a minute, where the fuck is Taylor Swift? 0.99

02:08:24.000 Who is this Harris woman? 1.00

02:08:27.000 We were waiting for Taylor Swift.

02:08:30.000 This is it, we should concentrate, this is what we're here for mate.

02:08:33.000 Wow right, gosh!

02:08:35.000 We're going in.

02:08:45.000 Quit on themselves.

02:08:47.000 Taylor Swift's gonna come on while she's gonna bring Swift on. 1.00

02:08:49.000 She's laughing.

02:08:59.000 So, oh the forest of camels ready with the signage yes

02:09:18.000 even they weren't pronouncing it right no be fair Where did they all come from?

02:09:38.000 They were under the seats.

02:09:41.000 Yeah, they obviously must have been.

02:09:46.000 You'll get in a car.

02:09:47.000 You'll get in a sign.

02:09:48.000 You'll get in a sign.

02:09:49.000 You'll get in a mouse mat.

02:09:51.000 Do you feel a threesome about her arrival?

02:09:58.000 very much.

02:10:00.000 Good evening!

02:10:10.000 Good evening everyone!

02:10:12.000 Good evening!

02:10:14.000 Can't wait for the first line.

02:10:16.000 Good evening!

02:10:17.000 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

02:10:21.000 Oh, it's nodding my head in rhythm again.

02:10:28.000 That happens to me.

02:10:30.000 Because in this part, this is good production.

02:10:32.000 The children with the signs, that's good.

02:10:34.000 Good evening.

02:10:38.000 Thank you.

02:10:41.000 Thank you.

02:10:43.000 Thank you, everyone.

02:10:45.000 Thank you.

02:10:48.000 Thank you all.

02:10:59.000 Okay.

02:11:00.000 We got to get to some business.

02:11:02.000 We got to get to some business.

02:11:05.000 Okay.

02:11:06.000 Thank you all.

02:11:07.000 Okay.

02:11:09.000 Thank you.

02:11:13.000 Please.

02:11:14.000 Thank you.

02:11:14.000 Please.

02:11:15.000 Thank you so very much.

02:11:17.000 Thank you, everyone.

02:11:19.000 Thank you, everyone.

02:11:20.000 Thank you.

02:11:21.000 Okay.

02:11:22.000 Let's get to business.

02:11:24.000 All right.

02:11:27.000 Okay, yes.

02:11:27.000 Let's start by thanking my most incredible husband, Doug, for being an incredible partner to me, an incredible father to Colin, Ella, and happy anniversary, Dougie.

02:11:49.000 I love you so very much.

02:11:52.000 to our president Joe Biden.

02:11:55.000 When I think about the path that we have traveled together, Joe, I am filled

02:12:05.000 with gratitude.

02:12:07.000 Your record is extraordinary, as history will show, and your contribution...

02:12:15.000 Doug and I love you and Jill and are forever thankful to you both.

02:12:19.000 This isn't business.

02:12:21.000 Thanking your husband and then pretending that Joe Biden wasn't cruelly ousted.

02:12:25.000 It's like an acceptance speech.

02:12:26.000 And to coach him on... Yes, what is being indicated?

02:12:30.000 What's the timbre?

02:12:34.000 You are going to be an incredible vice president.

02:12:38.000 And to the delegates and everyone who has put your faith in our campaign, your support is humbling.

02:12:51.000 So, America, the path that led me here in recent weeks was no doubt unexpected.

02:13:00.000 But I'm no stranger to unlikely people.

02:13:03.000 Not according to Vivek, not according to Nancy Pelosi.

02:13:06.000 My mother, our mother, Shyamala Harris, had one of her own.

02:13:09.000 And I miss her every day, and especially right now.

02:13:14.000 And I know she's looking down, smiling.

02:13:20.000 I know that.

02:13:21.000 So my mother was 19 when she crossed the world alone, traveling from India to California with an unshakable dream to be the scientist who would cure breast cancer.

02:13:39.000 When she finished school, she was supposed to return home to a traditional arranged marriage. 0.94

02:13:46.000 But as fate would have it, she met my father, Donald Harris, a student from Jamaica.

02:13:54.000 They fell in love and got married and that act of self-determination made my sister Maya and me.

02:14:03.000 Growing up, we moved a lot.

02:14:10.000 I will always remember that big Mayflower truck, packed with all our belongings, ready to go to Illinois, to Wisconsin, and wherever our parents' jobs took us.

02:14:27.000 My early memories of our parents together are very joyful ones.

02:14:32.000 A home filled with laughter and music.

02:14:38.000 This is unexpected, I would say.

02:14:41.000 It's not how I expected it to begin.

02:14:45.000 Sentimentality.

02:14:46.000 It feels like an acceptance speech at the Oscars.

02:14:53.000 This thanking people just for being... Or it's like a wedding speech.

02:14:58.000 Thanks for coming such a long way, you know, to see me here today.

02:15:05.000 I can't imagine that this is what like Jimmy Carter would have been doing or even Clinton but it's a pretty unique situation in so much as she's the sitting VP.

02:15:17.000 Biden's been extracted under really extraordinary circumstances so in a sense I suppose the elevation of sentiment is kind of required to obfuscate how odd the entire ceremony is.

02:15:34.000 Walking death rattles beneath Captain Custer's sails.

02:15:38.000 ...and construction workers.

02:15:40.000 All who tended their lawns with pride.

02:15:46.000 My mother, she worked long hours. 1.00

02:15:49.000 Scorpio to 6.50.

02:15:51.000 How is this business?

02:15:53.000 Let's get down to business.

02:15:54.000 How's this business?

02:15:55.000 Let's get down to business.

02:15:56.000 My mother hasn't cured breast cancer.

02:16:00.000 We've moved about a lot.

02:16:01.000 I love my husband.

02:16:02.000 Joe Biden didn't get nixed at the last minute in a terrible coup.

02:16:08.000 None of them family by blood, and all of them family by love.

02:16:15.000 Family who taught us how to make gumbo, how to play chess, and sometimes even let us win.

02:16:28.000 Family who loved us.

02:16:30.000 And told us we could be anything and do anything.

02:16:32.000 They instilled in us the values they personified.

02:16:34.000 I'm just gonna give you a family folksy vibe.

02:16:37.000 Vote for me because I'm me.

02:16:39.000 Don't worry about what I'm gonna do.

02:16:43.000 Just, you know, just enjoy the moment.

02:16:45.000 They instilled in us the values they personified.

02:16:48.000 Community, faith, and the importance of treating others as you would want to be treated.

02:16:57.000 Thank you.

02:16:58.000 With kindness, respect, and compassion.

02:17:04.000 My mother was a brilliant, five foot tall, brown woman with an accent. 1.00

02:17:11.000 And as the eldest child, as the eldest child, I saw how the world would sometimes treat her.

02:17:20.000 But my mother never lost her cool. 1.00

02:17:23.000 She was tough, courageous, a trailblazer in the fight for women's health.

02:17:29.000 And she taught Maya and me a lesson that Michelle mentioned the other night.

02:17:35.000 She taught us to never complain about injustice, but do something about it.

02:17:42.000 Do something about it.

02:17:47.000 That was my mother. 0.71

02:17:50.000 And she taught us, and she also taught us, and she also taught us, and never do anything half-assed.

02:17:59.000 And that is a direct quote.

02:18:05.000 A direct quote.

02:18:08.000 I grew up immersed in the ideals of the civil rights movement.

02:18:12.000 My parents had met at a civil rights gathering, and they made sure that we learned about civil rights leaders, including the lawyers like Thurgood Marshall and Constance Baker Motley.

02:18:27.000 Those who battled in the courtroom to make real the promise of America.

02:18:33.000 So at a young age, I decided I wanted to do that work.

02:18:38.000 I wanted to be a lawyer.

02:18:39.000 And when it came time to choose the type of law I would pursue, I reflected on a pivotal moment in my life.

02:18:49.000 You see, when I was in high school, I started to notice something about my best friend, Wanda.

02:18:55.000 She was sad at school.

02:18:58.000 And there were times she didn't want to go home.

02:19:01.000 So one day I asked if everything was alright. 0.72

02:19:05.000 And she confided in me that she was being sexually abused by her stepfather.

02:19:10.000 And I immediately told her she had to come stay with us.

02:19:14.000 And she did.

02:19:14.000 This is one of the reasons I became a prosecutor.

02:19:20.000 To protect people like Wanda.

02:19:23.000 Because I believe everyone has a right to safety, to dignity, and to justice.

02:19:31.000 As a prosecutor, when I had a case, I charged it not in the name of the victim, but in the name of the people.

02:19:48.000 For a simple reason.

02:19:50.000 In our system of justice, a harm against any one of us is a harm against all of us.

02:19:58.000 And I would often explain this to console survivors of crime.

02:20:10.000 To remind them, no one should be made to fight alone.

02:20:15.000 We are all in this together.

02:20:21.000 And every day, in the courtroom, I stood proudly before a judge and I said five words.

02:20:31.000 Kamala Harris for the people.

02:20:33.000 Oh, that's not what I did.

02:20:39.000 And to be clear, and to be clear my entire career, I've only had one client, the people.

02:20:48.000 I can believe that.

02:20:53.000 And so, on behalf of the people, on behalf of every American, regardless of party, race, gender, or the language your grandmother speaks, on behalf of my mother and everyone who has ever set out on their own unlikely journey, On behalf of Americans like the people I grew up with, people who work hard, chase their dreams, and look out for one another.

02:21:32.000 On behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on earth, I accept your nomination to be President of the United

02:21:50.000 States of America.

02:21:51.000 And with this election, our nation, our nation with this election has a precious,

02:22:20.000 fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism and divisive battles of the past,

02:22:31.000 a chance to chart a new way forward.

02:22:36.000 not Not as members of any one party or faction, but as Americans.

02:22:49.000 And let me say, I know there are people of various political views watching tonight.

02:22:54.000 And I want you to know, I promise to be a president for all Americans.

02:23:01.000 You can always trust me to put country above party and self.

02:23:09.000 to hold sacred America's fundamental principles, from the rule of law to free and fair elections

02:23:18.000 to the peaceful transfer of power.

02:23:24.000 I will be a president who unites us around our highest aspirations.

02:23:38.000 A president who leads and listens, who is realistic, practical, and has common sense, and always fights for the American people.

02:23:55.000 From the courthouse to the White House, that has been my life's work.

02:24:03.000 As a young courtroom prosecutor in Oakland, California, I stood up for women and children against predators who abused them.

02:24:15.000 As Attorney General of California, I took on the big banks.

02:24:21.000 I delivered $20 billion for middle-class families who faced foreclosure and helped pass a homeowner bill of rights, one of the first of its kind in the nation.

02:24:37.000 I stood up for veterans and students being scammed by big for-profit colleges.

02:24:46.000 For workers who are being cheated out of their wages, the wages they were due.

02:24:51.000 For seniors facing elder abuse.

02:24:57.000 I fought against the cartels who traffic in guns and drugs and human beings.

02:25:04.000 Who threaten the security of our border and the safety of our communities.

02:25:10.000 And I will tell you, these fights were not easy.

02:25:14.000 And neither were the elections that put me in those offices.

02:25:20.000 We were underestimated at practically every turn.

02:25:26.000 But we never gave up.

02:25:29.000 Because the future is always worth fighting for.

02:25:32.000 And that's the fight we are in right now.

02:25:40.000 A fight for America's future.

02:25:43.000 Fellow Americans, this election is not only the most important of our lives,

02:25:57.000 it is one of the most important in the life of our nation.

02:26:03.000 Thank you.

02:26:07.000 In many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man.

02:26:14.000 But the consequences But the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.

02:26:28.000 Consider not only the chaos and calamity when he was in office, but also the gravity of what has happened since he lost the last election.

02:26:43.000 Donald Trump tried to throw away your votes.

02:26:47.000 When he failed, he sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol, where they assaulted law enforcement officers.

02:26:57.000 When politicians in his own party begged him to call off the mob.

02:27:02.000 to call off the mob. Signify. Where's Taylor Swift?

02:27:09.000 And now, for an entirely different set of crimes, he was found guilty of fraud by a jury of everyday Americans.

02:27:23.000 Again, it's redolent.

02:27:24.000 I mean, she's moved on from biography.

02:27:29.000 She's the vice-president.

02:27:31.000 Right now, in this moment, and for the last four years.

02:27:35.000 You know, it's redolent of that.

02:27:37.000 It's like, why?

02:27:40.000 It's as if he's in the White House now and she's hoping to oust him.

02:27:44.000 She's there.

02:27:46.000 She's there now.

02:27:48.000 You know, you'd be forgiven for thinking that she was running as a kind of an underdog against an incumbent Republican president.

02:27:59.000 She's the Vice President of the United States of America and has been for four years.

02:28:03.000 She's the board mizarre and she's complaining. 1.00

02:28:06.000 ...our active duty military against our own citizens.

02:28:11.000 Consider, consider the power he will have, especially after the United States Supreme

02:28:22.000 Court just ruled that he would be immune from criminal prosecution.

02:28:30.000 Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails.

02:28:38.000 And how He would use the immense powers of the presidency of the United States.

02:28:47.000 Not to improve your life.

02:28:50.000 Not to strengthen our national security.

02:28:55.000 But to serve the only client he has ever had.

02:29:00.000 himself. And we know. And we know.

02:29:07.000 know.

02:29:09.000 And we know what a second Trump term would look like.

02:29:13.000 It's all laid out in Project 2025, written by his closest... Another reference is, he was president for four years, and it was relatively peaceful.

02:29:24.000 We are not going back.

02:29:29.000 We are not going back.

02:29:38.000 We are not going back to when Donald Trump tried to cut Social Security and Medicare.

02:29:45.000 We are not going back to when he tried to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, when insurance companies could deny people with pre-existing conditions.

02:29:56.000 We are not going to let him eliminate the Department of Education that funds our public schools.

02:30:05.000 We are not going to let him end programs like Head Start that provide preschool and childcare for our children.

02:30:13.000 America, we are not going back!

02:30:16.000 This is an interesting show.

02:30:28.000 We're not going back.

02:30:30.000 A new way of sentiment forward to a future with a strong and growing middle class because we know a strong middle class has always been critical to America's success and building that middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency.

02:30:55.000 But what have they done for that middle class for the last four years?

02:31:01.000 They've immiserated it.

02:31:05.000 My mother kept a strict budget.

02:31:08.000 We lived within our means, yet we wanted for little.

02:31:13.000 And she expected us to make the most of the opportunities that were available to us.

02:31:19.000 And to be grateful for them.

02:31:22.000 Because, as she taught us, opportunity is not available to everyone.

02:31:29.000 That's why we will create what I call an opportunity economy.

02:31:33.000 An opportunity economy where everyone has the chance to compete and a chance to succeed.

02:31:46.000 You live in a rural area, small town, or big city.

02:31:52.000 And as president, I will bring together labor, and workers, and small business owners, and entrepreneurs, and American companies to create jobs, to grow our economy, and to lower the cost of everyday needs like health care, and housing, and groceries.

02:32:13.000 We will provide Access to capital for small business owners and entrepreneurs and founders.

02:32:20.000 And we will end America's housing shortage.

02:32:24.000 And protect Social Security and Medicare.

02:32:32.000 As we say in Scotland, will you?

02:32:34.000 Aye.

02:32:34.000 Prepare that, Donald Trump.

02:32:38.000 Because I think everyone here knows he doesn't actually fight for the middle class.

02:32:43.000 He doesn't actually fight for the middle class.

02:32:45.000 Instead, he fights for himself and his billionaire friends.

02:32:49.000 And he will give them another round of tax breaks that will add up to $5 trillion to the national debt.

02:33:00.000 And all the while, he intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax—call it a Trump tax—that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year.

02:33:17.000 Well, instead of a Trump tax hike, we will pass a middle-class tax cut that will benefit

02:33:24.000 more than 100 million Americans.

02:33:28.000 Friends, I believe America cannot truly be prosperous unless Americans are fully able 0.93

02:33:44.000 to make their own decisions about their own lives, especially on matters of heart and home.

02:33:54.000 Thank you.

02:33:57.000 But tonight, In America, too many women are not able to make those decisions. 1.00

02:34:05.000 And let's be clear about how we got here.

02:34:08.000 Donald Trump handpicked members of the United States Supreme Court to take away reproductive freedom.

02:34:16.000 And now he brags about it.

02:34:20.000 In his words, quote, I did it and I'm proud to have done it, end quote.

02:34:26.000 Well, I'll tell you.

02:34:28.000 Over the past two years, I've traveled across our country, and women have told me their stories.

02:34:36.000 Husbands and fathers have shared theirs.

02:34:40.000 Stories of women miscarrying in a parking lot, developing sepsis, losing the ability to ever again have children, all because doctors are afraid they may go to jail for caring for their patients.

02:34:58.000 Couples just trying to grow their family, cut off in the middle of IVF treatments.

02:35:05.000 Children who have survived sexual assault, potentially being forced to carry a pregnancy to term.

02:35:15.000 This is what's happening in our country because of Donald Trump.

02:35:21.000 And understand, he is not done.

02:35:24.000 As a part of his agenda, He and his allies would limit access to birth control, ban medication abortion, and enact a nationwide abortion ban with or without Congress.

02:35:41.000 And get this!

02:35:43.000 Get this!

02:35:44.000 He plans to create a national anti-abortion coordinator and force states to report on women's miscarriages and abortions.

02:35:59.000 Simply put, they are out of their minds.

02:36:03.000 And one must ask, one must ask, why exactly is it that they don't trust women?

02:36:23.000 Well, we trust women. 1.00

02:36:26.000 We trust women. 0.79

02:36:32.000 And when Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom as President of the United States, I will proudly

02:36:41.000 sign it into law.

02:36:43.000 In this election, That's the policy then.

02:36:55.000 Many other fundamental freedoms are at stake.

02:36:59.000 The freedom to live safe from gun violence in our schools, communities and places of worship.

02:37:06.000 The freedom to love who you love openly and with pride.

02:37:09.000 The freedom to breathe clean air and drink clean water and live free from the pollution that fuels the climate crisis.

02:37:21.000 What would have stopped them doing that?

02:37:24.000 No.

02:37:25.000 What would have stopped them doing that now?

02:37:28.000 If there's a way around it, why hasn't she done it?

02:37:31.000 If she can just get in and do it, why hasn't she done it?

02:37:36.000 Is it the US Supreme Court?

02:37:37.000 Is it executive order?

02:37:39.000 All of it's within their gift today.

02:37:41.000 I don't understand.

02:37:42.000 It does seem odd to talk about policy as though it's out of her reach at the moment.

02:37:47.000 These are all available options and have been for the last four years.

02:37:53.000 It does seem odd to talk about policy as though it's out of her reach at the moment.

02:37:58.000 She's already there.

02:37:59.000 She's got all the levers of power that she would have in January next year. 1.00

02:38:08.000 Yeah, that is the logical problem that we confront, but I suppose it's an emotional and vibes-based event, and on that basis, it's...

02:38:21.000 This is the type of rhetoric we'd anticipate.

02:38:24.000 Hey guys, we've got to do something with the screen, just like something... Our screen's going to go into... We need the clicker.

02:38:29.000 A click on the screen.

02:38:31.000 So, telly's going to turn itself off.

02:38:32.000 Possibly.

02:38:33.000 Thanks.

02:38:33.000 Thank you.

02:38:33.000 Kelly's gonna turn itself off.

02:38:35.000 As president, I will bring back the bipartisan border security bill that he killed and I

02:38:40.000 will sign it into law.

02:38:42.000 I know, I know we can live up to our proud heritage as a nation of immigrants and reform

02:38:55.000 our broken immigration system.

02:38:57.000 Thank you.

02:38:58.000 Thank you.

02:38:59.000 We can!

02:39:01.000 But that's obstructed at the moment because the Democrats tried to fold in funding for Ukraine into the same oil.

02:39:17.000 If they were serious about, let's deal with one thing at a time, all they had to do was take the I don't understand why people don't just pick that up all the time.

02:39:24.000 That's what the Republicans were halting on...

02:39:26.000 ...negotiated with foreign leaders...

02:39:28.000 Again, she can do that! 0.98

02:39:30.000 ...strengthened our alliance...

02:39:31.000 She can do that now, she can do that tomorrow! 0.98

02:39:33.000 ...and engaged with our brave troops overseas.

02:39:35.000 I don't understand why people don't just pick that up all the time.

02:39:39.000 She is...

02:39:40.000 ...I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world...

02:39:46.000 ...and I will fulfill our sacred obligation to care for our troops and their families...

02:39:57.000 ...and I will always honor and never disparage their service and their sacrifice.

02:40:04.000 Thank you very much.

02:40:11.000 In the numerous forthcoming global conflicts that we are being ushered into.

02:40:20.000 It's tonal, I suppose, because it's interesting, isn't it, that what's preceded this are like homilies from ordinary folk, drummers, celebrities, so the sort of somber, serious tone in itself Passes for substance, unless you observe that this is a person who is already in office, that has had four years in office.

02:40:45.000 It's, I suppose, reminiscent of Biden's We Beat Big Pharma this year, which seems like an odd dynamic for a sitting president to evoke when sitting as commander-in-chief.

02:40:57.000 But as you pointed out Neil, the sort of presumed dynamic is we're outside of this and if you allow us to access the

02:41:08.000 levers of power, these are the things we'll do.

02:41:09.000 But these levers are already accessible.

02:41:12.000 Intentionally or not, the message...

02:41:17.000 Ukraine, NATO, more funding...

02:41:23.000 Yet tax cuts...

02:41:24.000 The message is that they were powerless because they already are the presidency now.

02:41:32.000 And if they haven't done any of these things, which she says are doable, then it begs the question, does the executive not have the necessary authority?

02:41:47.000 What's missing from your toolbox of getting these things done?

02:41:53.000 I will always stand up for Israel's right to defend itself.

02:41:59.000 And I will always ensure that Israel has the ability to defend itself.

02:42:05.000 Because the people of Israel must never again face the horror that a terrorist organization called Hamas caused on October 7.

02:42:18.000 Including unspeakable sexual violence and the massacre of young people at a music festival.

02:42:28.000 At the same time, what has happened in Gaza over the past 10 months is devastating.

02:42:36.000 So many innocent lives lost.

02:42:41.000 Desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety over and over again.

02:42:48.000 The scale of suffering is heartbreaking.

02:42:53.000 President Biden and I are working to end this war such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom, So that's the kind of key brinkmanship required to simultaneously support those two opposing ideas.

02:43:22.000 I will never hesitate to take whatever action is necessary to defend our forces and our interests against Iran and Iran-backed terrorists. 0.84

02:43:35.000 I will not cozy up to tyrants and dictators like Kim Jong-un, who are rooting for Trump!

02:43:43.000 Who are rooting for Trump!

02:43:47.000 Because you know, they know, they know he is easy to manipulate with flattery and favors.

02:43:56.000 They know Trump won't hold autocrats accountable because he wants to be an autocrat himself.

02:44:06.000 And as president, I will never waver in defense of America's security and ideals,

02:44:13.000 because in the enduring struggle between democracy and tyranny, I know where I stand and I know where the United States

02:44:23.000 belongs.

02:44:24.000 So, fellow Americans, fellow Americans, I love our country with all my heart.

02:44:48.000 It's a good start.

02:44:50.000 Everywhere I go, everywhere I go and everyone I meet, I see a nation that is ready to move forward.

02:45:02.000 Ready for the next step in the incredible journey that is America.

02:45:09.000 I see an America where we hold fast to the fearless belief that built our nation and inspired the world.

02:45:21.000 That here, in this country, anything is possible.

02:45:27.000 That nothing is out of reach.

02:45:32.000 An America where we care for one another, look out for one another, and recognize that we have so much more in common than what separates us.

02:45:49.000 That none of us, none of us has to fail for all of us to succeed.

02:46:01.000 And that in unity there is strength.

02:46:05.000 You know, our opponents in this race are out there every day denigrating America, talking about how terrible everything is.

02:46:16.000 Well, my mother had another lesson she used to teach. 0.99

02:46:21.000 Never let anyone tell you who you are.

02:46:26.000 you show them who you are.

02:46:33.000 America, let us show each other and the world who we are and what we stand for.

02:46:47.000 freedom, opportunity, compassion, dignity, fairness, and endless possibilities.

02:46:56.000 We are the heirs to the greatest democracy in the history of the world.

02:47:12.000 And on behalf of our children and our grandchildren and all those who sacrificed so dearly for our freedom and liberty, we must be worthy of this moment.

02:47:30.000 It is now our turn to do what generations before us have done, guided by optimism and faith to fight for this country we love, to fight for the ideals we cherish, and to uphold the awesome responsibility That comes with the greatest privilege on earth.

02:48:05.000 The privilege and pride of being an American!

02:48:09.000 Squirrel.

02:48:16.000 Yeah, but if you extracted this from any other understanding or appreciation of what's been happening for the last four years, and this is a person who's been in the office to some degree for the last four years, as rhetoric, it's like, oh, I understand tonally what we're doing, but it's easy to...

02:48:37.000 When all you are is a commentator, you know, then all you have are words, you know, because you don't have any... that's all you have.

02:48:46.000 But she's got power! 1.00

02:48:48.000 Right.

02:48:48.000 And if her words don't ever have to... if she just says things that don't matter, that don't have to be enacted, that don't have to be made manifest, Writing stuff like that's the easiest gig in town.

02:49:02.000 Yes.

02:49:02.000 You just say, you just say, I'm gonna make this the bestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestestest Less than none of it done.

02:49:20.000 It's amazing.

02:49:21.000 It moves between platitudes and superlatives, and you have to, I suppose, decode where there's a kind of inference that there would be a policy, whether it's we're going to reduce these tax cuts, we're going to perpetuate that war, we're going to honour service people because we're continuing down this road with NATO, the border's going to be fine, and the sort of odd brinkmanship required around, of course, what's happening in the Middle East.

02:49:48.000 Somehow, simultaneously, honour Joe Biden while saying that this is going to be a new start.

02:49:55.000 And also, we've got to recognise that this is a person that's not been nominated in any kind of ordinary or precedented capacity.

02:50:04.000 No.

02:50:04.000 that's been placed before us and Biden himself didn't participate in primaries.

02:50:08.000 So in a sense there's so much spectacle it's almost impossible to pull out meaning.

02:50:14.000 All you're left with is images and kind of endless strings of platitudes.

02:50:20.000 She's been crowned President of the United States without attending a debate,

02:50:27.000 without really coming forward with any kind of meaningful policy.

02:50:32.000 Oh, she was... 0.97

02:50:34.000 All she was doing there was painting a picture of an idealised, utopian country.

02:50:40.000 What do you want to hear?

02:50:41.000 That meets all of its obligations.

02:50:43.000 Everyone, without fear or favour, without exception, gets to get everything they want.

02:50:51.000 And you can only make that kind of speech with even your fingertips clutching at the edges of credibility if you're not in power.

02:50:58.000 Yes.

02:51:00.000 Signifier says a masterclass in a platitudinous oratory.

02:51:06.000 And now there's sort of recognisable descending balloons filled with air, going nowhere, much like what's preceded it.

02:51:14.000 And the message I got as well, is it deliberate that Michelle Obama did her thing about my mama you know taught us to be frugal and not to not to take more than you need which is you know fair enough but i myself decided to get as many hundreds of millions as i could possibly get and damn the consequences and kamala harris did more or less the same thing she invoked the spirit of her mother who was a you know who she described as a hard-working diligent responsible parent you know firm but fair

02:51:45.000 You know, taught our daughters to be proud and so on and so on.

02:51:48.000 But, yeah, but I didn't do any of that.

02:51:51.000 I've taken a different path entirely again.

02:51:54.000 Why did they both invoke a parent whose message they have set aside in the lives that they manifest?

02:52:02.000 Well, what a lot of people are calling this in the chat is Kamala Geddon to partner our British version Starmageddon.

02:52:11.000 I would imagine that the CNN pundits that lauded Michelle Obama will be Deeply satisfied with that as a speech.

02:52:21.000 She didn't consider what it's being compared to.

02:52:24.000 She didn't blunder or slip up or meander.

02:52:29.000 Because in a way, I reckon as a rebranding exercise, it's going to be considered a success.

02:52:36.000 Because in a way, unburdened of what might have been, i.e.

02:52:40.000 Joe Biden, it does seem like, oh well this is a coherent political machine.

02:52:46.000 But as you pointed out, Neil, and as the chat is throbbing with, this is a person that's already in office.

02:52:54.000 These things could be delivered immediately.

02:52:57.000 There's some complexity and contradiction in it.

02:53:00.000 And where the hell is Taylor Swift?

02:53:05.000 Is she just in Chicago shopping?

02:53:09.000 In the United Kingdom, it's quarter to four in the morning.

02:53:13.000 Quarter past four in the morning.

02:53:15.000 Oh my God.

02:53:16.000 Quarter past four in the morning.

02:53:17.000 Quarter past four in the morning, Neil.

02:53:19.000 OK guys, well, hey, shall we flip over and see how... Are we on CNN?

02:53:23.000 Yeah, let's check CNN because... Maybe Hulk Hogan's getting his shirt off there. 0.60

02:53:27.000 Hulk Hogan's, I think, sewing his garments back together now, ready for another moment.

02:53:32.000 Thank you for joining us for that.

02:53:33.000 Let's check out CNN.

02:53:36.000 And we'll get to work on packaging this.

02:53:40.000 Thank you so much for joining us, all of you.

02:53:42.000 We'll stay with you for another few minutes.

02:53:44.000 Neil and I, I would say, because you're invited to watch the whole thing as a kind of performance and spectacle, whether it's the drummers, the omelettes from, inverted commas, ordinary people or the

02:53:57.000 various warm-up exercises, the encouraging chants. In its own terms, it's a success. Like

02:54:03.000 any political speech can be regarded as a success if a person comes out and says things

02:54:08.000 that would be nice were they to happen or were they to be possible.

02:54:11.000 If all that matters is promising everybody a pet unicorn, then yeah, it was terrific.

02:54:15.000 Do you remember, like, you know, it's only recently that it's become clear that there's

02:54:19.000 a full resumption of selling arms to Saudi Arabia. When Joe Biden was at a comparable

02:54:25.000 moment in his own campaign, that was a pledge, there was a pledge that that would never happen,

02:54:30.000 that Saudi Arabia would remain a pariah, because that was a pledge. 0.95

02:54:33.000 That was the kind of thing that sounded nice at that time.

02:54:37.000 And now what sounds nice are the set of sometimes contradictory platitudes that we've been offered there.

02:54:44.000 Some of the things I guess we've got to follow up on is what does this mean about Ukraine-NATO?

02:54:47.000 What does this mean of the likelihood of escalating tensions with Russia?

02:54:52.000 What does it mean like many of the sort of allusions to tax cuts?

02:54:57.000 And what about the realities of the shifting polarities in the world?

02:55:02.000 What about the emergence of the BRICS nations?

02:55:07.000 What about the North-South trade corridor?

02:55:11.000 What about the demise of the petrol dollar?

02:55:15.000 You know, you need to stir some reality into that otherwise vanilla custard of nothing.

02:55:23.000 Yeah, the yielding of national sovereign power to global organisations, whether that's the WHO or the WF, there's so much has been obfuscated, but coming as it did in the midst of a festival of obfuscation, it kind of fitted in.

02:55:41.000 But if empty, vacuous bollocks is your bag, then that was a cracker.

02:55:47.000 She is interested in not just doing what the left or the right says you should be on, in terms of the ideological side.

02:55:58.000 She did a workmanlike job of delivering it. 0.58

02:56:01.000 I'll tell you so, in terms of delivery.

02:56:03.000 Yeah, that's sort of well-focused, I reckon.

02:56:07.000 Form and substance.

02:56:07.000 people not just what does she believe but how does she think about the decisions that she makes.

02:56:11.000 And of course it's always about a contrast right Jake? I mean this is her introduction as

02:56:17.000 as you know well Abby to filling out the contours of who she is and what she's going to do.

02:56:23.000 She treats Donald Trump as a threat. As a sitting president.

02:56:31.000 As a threat to democracy.

02:56:31.000 As the word freedom she uses over and over again. And other opponents whether it's been in his

02:56:38.000 primaries or you know running against him in a general election have treated him a little bit

02:56:46.000 more of a joke. And she has said she said in the speech that he's not a serious man but you have

02:56:53.000 to take it seriously and that clearly is going to frame the next 70 plus days. The speech was infused

02:57:01.000 That's true.

02:57:01.000 Another of the, I thought, problems was the immediate following of calls for unity and a pledge to govern for everyone with further incendiary rhetoric and amplification of the events of January 6th and Donald Trump's participation and involvement in them.

02:57:19.000 You've got to come to it with a lot of assumed knowledge.

02:57:22.000 I saw in one moment she said, like, she sent an armed mob.

02:57:26.000 to the Capitol. There was a lot of talk there in the chat from you guys about like armed,

02:57:32.000 what do you mean by that? And mob and right there's so there's in a way I suppose we've all

02:57:39.000 been pre-bunked so successfully if this is the type of media that you consume but I don't I don't

02:57:45.000 suppose that anyone's going to watch that that's inclined towards a centrist authoritarian sugar

02:57:53.000 coated form of government that's going to sort of startle them.

02:57:58.000 This is what you would anticipate, it's what you would expect.

02:58:02.000 What we were talking about earlier today, we were suggesting and talking about the opportunity to be statesman-like and it involves going further than, as you say, just continuing at every opportunity after promising unity to just shake the jar of ants again.

02:58:23.000 Am I just hopelessly naive in thinking that there's a further step to be taken that actually begins to do the job that they talk about, which is creating unity, by acknowledging that half of the country is terribly upset and hurt by the way it has been portrayed and the way someone that they absolutely idolise in the form of Donald Trump is vilified and threatened with jail time?

02:58:53.000 It doesn't seem to me to be a great leap of thinking.

02:58:57.000 I would step across that and say, we're done with that.

02:59:01.000 It doesn't help.

02:59:02.000 We've had years of it now, of division.

02:59:05.000 People could throw it back in your face, but then that's not your fault.

02:59:09.000 You could offer it, you could say we have to get beyond this and we have to treat each other with respect.

02:59:14.000 But at the first opportunity you're right back in basket of deplorables territory in the people that were at the Capitol building.

02:59:25.000 Well, it will indeed be an interesting 70 days.

02:59:28.000 Some of the things that we'll be looking at on tomorrow's show is the seeming likely cessation of Bobby Kennedy's campaign and a potential alliance with Donald Trump.

02:59:40.000 We'll of course be looking at the media analysis and presumed celebration of that speech that

02:59:47.000 we'll see in legacy media circles.

02:59:49.000 And we'll also take a closer look at what this means when it comes to policy around

02:59:53.000 NATO and Ukraine, what it means in terms of a reckoning around the peculiar events that

02:59:58.000 surrounded Joe Biden up to this point.

03:00:01.000 And we'll spend a little bit of time trying to understand how some of the things she alluded

03:00:07.000 to when it comes to the complexity of the situation in the Middle East and the evident

03:00:12.000 contradictory directly opposing challenges that have...

03:00:16.000 Ha ha, Russell's dead last time.

03:00:17.000 You better believe I'm tired, baby!

03:00:19.000 I'm going to get eaten by this couch that I'm on with a Scotsman. 0.92

03:00:22.000 Thank you guys so much for joining us.

03:00:25.000 I feel that, you know, this sets up for a fantastic lead to November, I would say.

03:00:31.000 Get ready for RFK to join Donald J Trump at his rally in Arizona.

03:00:36.000 So there we go.

03:00:37.000 Interesting prospect.

03:00:38.000 We will be with you tomorrow at 11.89 PT 5 GMT.

03:00:47.000 Until then, if you can, stay free.

03:00:51.000 Thank you so much for joining me, Neil.

03:00:52.000 It's been a pleasure.

03:00:53.000 What an unexpected spectacle to have been a witness to.

03:00:58.000 There was a point eerie, there was a point disturbing.

03:01:01.000 I think we could just fetch us a couple of blankets, tinfoil ones if they're available.

03:01:07.000 We'll use some for our hats that we usually wear and we'll settle ourselves down for a lovely sleep together and we'll begin again tomorrow.

03:01:16.000 Thanks guys for joining us.

03:01:18.000 See you tomorrow.

03:01:28.000 Man, he's switching.

Stay Free - Russel Brand - August 22, 2024

LIVE WATCH PARTY: DNC FINALE - KAMALA’S SPEECH (with special guest Neil Oliver)

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