1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 (people chattering) 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,000 (people chattering) 3 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:10,000 (people chattering) 4 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:45,000 (people chattering) 5 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,000 - Hello, hello chat, hi chat, wait. 6 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,000 Oh, are we live? 7 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:49,000 The speakers are live? 8 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:50,000 - Test, test, test. 9 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,000 (people chattering) 10 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,000 - Okay, let me get mine. 11 00:01:53,000 --> 00:02:06,000 (people chattering) 12 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:13,000 (people chattering) 13 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:34,000 (people chattering) 14 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:54,000 (people chattering) 15 00:02:54,000 --> 00:03:14,000 (people chattering) 16 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:34,000 (people chattering) 17 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:35,000 - Is that a chair? 18 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:36,000 - I think it was a chair. 19 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,000 - I think it was a chair. 20 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,000 - I'm gonna tell you. 21 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,000 - All right, all right, hey, what's up guys? 22 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,000 How are we doing tonight? 23 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:46,000 (people chattering) 24 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:51,000 - Thank you guys for joining us for our second day of canvassing here in Detroit. 25 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Me, Lucas, and Guy, we're gonna chat for a little bit. 26 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Thank you guys for coming out. 27 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:59,000 We're gonna do a little award presentation for our top door knockers. 28 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,000 And then we're just gonna have you guys come up and chat about your fun experiences 29 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,000 as well as another group of people that joined us today 30 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,000 that were at the No Kings protest filming some debates. 31 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Yeah, I guess before we dive too far into everything. 32 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,000 One thing that we talk about a lot on stream that I see a lot of people mention 33 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:21,000 is kind of how doomer and hopeless the political situation in America is. 34 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,000 I can't imagine where these feelings are coming from, but if you watch the news a lot, 35 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000 I can definitely understand how you have that vibe. 36 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 I feel like one of the most important things you can do 37 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:35,000 when it feels like everything is kind of doomed and hopeless is something. 38 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Anytime you are actively participating in anything, 39 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,000 regardless of how much the odds are stacked against you, 40 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,000 I think you always come away from that feeling better. 41 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:47,000 For all the canvassing events, for all of the organizing and activism 42 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,000 and everything that this community has been involved in, 43 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,000 I have never, my entire life heard somebody say they regretted going out 44 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,000 and not getting the result they wanted. 45 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,000 The only regrets I have ever heard with regards to any kind of political activism 46 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,000 is I wish it would have been. 47 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,500 on more of it. So it's super cool that you guys are out here and you are out there knocking 48 00:05:04,500 --> 00:05:09,500 on doors and putting in the work. It might seem insignificant, but I mean, you know, 49 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:13,800 there was somebody from a local elected officials campaign that came here too, well not local 50 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,500 actually. Somebody from a campaign that came here earlier and talked to you guys and said 51 00:05:16,500 --> 00:05:22,600 that some of these elections are literally decided by less than a point margin. So it 52 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,400 might be the doors that you knock. It might be us and somebody else combined. It might 53 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:30,900 be, you know, whatever small effort that doesn't seem like it's much could be the deciding 54 00:05:30,900 --> 00:05:35,300 factor. And even if it's not, there are improvements that you guys are making to the communities 55 00:05:35,300 --> 00:05:38,400 around you and your own lives. And there have been a lot of people that have kind of grown 56 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:45,400 from these events and have taken on more full time, politics oriented, activist oriented, 57 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:49,900 protester oriented, organizing oriented activities in general. So really proud of you guys 58 00:05:49,900 --> 00:06:00,900 for coming out. Thank you so much. We couldn't do these events without you. The way I like 59 00:06:00,900 --> 00:06:04,900 to describe it is it feels like canvassing is honestly good for the soul because you get 60 00:06:04,900 --> 00:06:08,900 to go out there and you get to see other Americans and how they're living and get to have nice 61 00:06:08,900 --> 00:06:13,900 conversations. Even if you have, you know, one crazy person come to the door and tell you 62 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:18,900 that there's $800,000 going to every illegal in New York City, you know, you move past 63 00:06:18,900 --> 00:06:21,900 them, you have a laugh and you keep on going and then you go to the next door and it's 64 00:06:21,900 --> 00:06:26,900 an old lady who's telling you that she's waiting for Trump to die, you know. You get a whole 65 00:06:26,900 --> 00:06:32,900 mixed bag and it's interesting seeing the neighborhoods and your neighbors being able to, you know, 66 00:06:32,900 --> 00:06:37,900 just coexist among each other and keep the rhetoric down and everything like that. 67 00:06:37,900 --> 00:06:42,900 Yeah, I'm enjoyed talking to you guys. So many of you showed up here with your first canvassing 68 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:46,900 experience. And I really tip my hat to you. It takes a lot of courage to come to one of these 69 00:06:46,900 --> 00:06:53,900 events and you guys did it. So big round of applause for that. But yeah, for sure. 70 00:06:53,900 --> 00:07:00,900 Yeah. And I, I'm, every time I canvas, I'm blown away by the positive energy I get from 71 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:04,900 the people I'm talking to. So I feel like I'm going out to canvas to help them, but really 72 00:07:04,900 --> 00:07:08,900 they're helping me too. So I hope you guys felt that and felt like the personal growth of 73 00:07:08,900 --> 00:07:13,900 getting over your uncomfortableness and then dealing with rejection and you dealt with some 74 00:07:13,900 --> 00:07:17,900 person yelling at you, calling you a dork or whatever. And here you are. You made it. So 75 00:07:17,900 --> 00:07:21,900 congrats and thank you guys all for coming out for sure. 76 00:07:21,900 --> 00:07:24,900 [Applause] 77 00:07:24,900 --> 00:07:29,900 So as is customary at the end of our canvassing weekend, we'd like to hand out a few awards 78 00:07:29,900 --> 00:07:34,900 to people who have been going above and beyond when it comes to canvassing. That might mean 79 00:07:34,900 --> 00:07:38,900 knocking on a lot of doors, it might be chatting up a lot of people. Apparently we had a segment 80 00:07:38,900 --> 00:07:43,900 for captured cat photographs, like you've, not that you've captured the cat, but that you've 81 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:48,900 captured a cat on photo. Because apparently there's a lot of cats that are wandering around 82 00:07:48,900 --> 00:07:51,900 on a photo, I don't know about this. Yeah, I don't know. Wait, did you really? Yeah, I took 83 00:07:51,900 --> 00:07:55,900 a photo of a cat. Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, apparently a lot of people were, there's a lot of cats around here 84 00:07:55,900 --> 00:07:59,900 and to try, or not to hurt, but I don't know why, but is that a Michigan thing or? 85 00:07:59,900 --> 00:08:03,900 I don't know. Oh, no, no, no. Okay. Well, it's cool. Um, well, yeah. Anyway, we are. 86 00:08:03,900 --> 00:08:10,900 You got it. You got a picture of a cat. Okay. I believe you. Okay. Um, yeah, so I guess we're 87 00:08:10,900 --> 00:08:16,900 going to move on to the award segment. Hopefully, um, I think you can see back there on that screen. 88 00:08:16,900 --> 00:08:21,900 You guys might want to turn around. We got a projector. We got a projector now. We got some cool stuff. 89 00:08:26,900 --> 00:08:31,900 Um, I think for the first thing we've got here, we have a video from Dr. Rashida Harrison, 90 00:08:31,900 --> 00:08:37,900 who is a candidate for Michigan's 28th state Senate district, and she's got a video for us 91 00:08:37,900 --> 00:08:43,900 that Andrew is about to hit play on. Come on, Andrew. Hey, digital conking. It's Dr. Shida, 92 00:08:43,900 --> 00:08:48,900 your Democratic nominee for state Senate here in district 28. Thank you, everyone, who has 93 00:08:48,900 --> 00:08:54,900 been working hard to make sure that this mid term election democracy prevails. Thank you for all 94 00:08:54,900 --> 00:09:00,900 your hard work knocking on doors, making phone calls, and just in general, making sure that your 95 00:09:00,900 --> 00:09:06,900 president's family and community members make their voices heard by voting, like many other 96 00:09:06,900 --> 00:09:13,900 elections. So much is at stake. But most importantly, the potential for our democracy, including 97 00:09:13,900 --> 00:09:18,900 voting rights are on the ballot. Be sure to remind everyone that we can only do this if we 98 00:09:18,900 --> 00:09:24,900 continue to work together to make sure that the people, the working people of Michigan 99 00:09:24,900 --> 00:09:29,900 decide what is best for Michiganders. Remember, your last day to vote is November 3rd. Go 100 00:09:29,900 --> 00:09:32,900 Green, vote blue. 101 00:09:32,900 --> 00:09:38,900 [Applause] 102 00:09:38,900 --> 00:09:43,900 And then for our next slide here, we've got a message from Harold A. Pope. He's a candidate 103 00:09:43,900 --> 00:09:47,900 for Michigan's 74th state house district. 104 00:09:47,900 --> 00:09:53,900 Hey, good morning. Harold Pope. I'm out here door knocking for Senator Anthony, myself, 105 00:09:53,900 --> 00:09:58,900 and Will Lawrence. And this is one to say, it's important and appreciate it for you individuals 106 00:09:58,900 --> 00:09:59,940 individuals to help us. 107 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:05,280 we're not. Your volunteer work is truly appreciated. We love it. We need to get 108 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:08,080 out the vote. We need to make sure that people are aware of the candidates, the 109 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:12,920 options they have. And hopefully they'll be knocking and voting down the ballot. 110 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:16,320 Democratic. Thank you. 111 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:24,800 All right on our next slide this is your achievement over the weekend. We were 112 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:40,160 able to knock 17,175 doors in 2 days from those 17,000 doors. You had 2,186 113 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:48,200 voters that were reached. We had a hundred unique canvassers showing up to 114 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:54,640 this event. Good job. And then for our math majors out there that means we have 115 00:10:54,640 --> 00:11:10,680 171.75 doors knocked on average per person. We have an award for the worst 116 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:17,160 food take. I don't remember seeing this up here. Congratulations Steve. Even if I 117 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:24,600 was campaigning I wouldn't be here. I can't read that. What do we got here? 118 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:30,360 Hold on. I'm gonna read. Oh wait. Is that Mooten? Hold on. I'm gonna read from we 119 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:32,800 got Sipper here saying and if you want the best Mexican food in the United 120 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:40,600 States, check out. I'm Takiara Mi Bueblo in southwest Detroit. Takiara Mi Bueblo. 121 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:43,680 Okay. I'm trying to make money. I'm just kidding. In southwest Detroit I did my 122 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:48,440 best. A bit of a hike from where we'll be but worth the drive. And then somebody 123 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:55,080 responded and said in the United States and then Sipper said yes of course. 124 00:11:55,080 --> 00:12:02,740 And then we have objectively wrong and simply do not believe this. Wow. Well okay 125 00:12:02,740 --> 00:12:07,040 hold on. Did anybody actually go there and try it? No. How do we know it's bad? 126 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:11,520 How do you know it wasn't the best? I mean the Midwest we have great Mexican 127 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:16,480 food. Oh boy. Sorry guys. Listen all of these people from Mexico take the team up to hear 128 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:20,200 the Midwest man. I'm telling you. Yeah. They're laughing at you. They're wrong. 129 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:28,240 Hey boo. Do we have a bracelet for the worst food take person? Just shame. Oh good 130 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:34,880 shame. Well just shame. For the next award we have the furthest distance traveled. 131 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,520 A lot of you guys come from out of town which is awesome. We had a group of 132 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:47,000 people that drove up here from Texas. Wow. If one or all of you wants to come up I 133 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,960 can give you your you have special wristbands that were made by none other 134 00:12:50,960 --> 00:13:09,640 than peach. Just just be careful of the cables on the ground. How do you 135 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:15,480 partners? How many? There are six of you. Oh three of you. Okay. Well here are three 136 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:18,560 wristbands. Limited edition special collectors. You want to trade a color? 137 00:13:18,560 --> 00:13:25,520 I've got pink and yellow here as well. Okay. You got it? Okay. Thank you very 138 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:34,960 much guys. Thank you guys. What city did you guys drive from? What city did you 139 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:40,920 guys drive from? Houston. All right. One thousand three hundred fifty four 140 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:48,800 miles. How many hours? Yeah. Twenty four. Are we going to see you in San Antonio? 141 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:52,560 Yeah. We're going to see you guys. We got to be in San Antonio then. Yeah. Two weeks 142 00:13:52,560 --> 00:14:02,760 will be in San Antonio guys. Two weeks. Oh we did. Okay. Well we have the cat 143 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:09,000 picture award. All right. Oh we've got a lot of cats. Apparently people were 144 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:12,000 seeing cats everywhere. They started taking pictures of them and yeah there we 145 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,720 go. We got. Well I don't know if I'm gonna say they're cats. What do you want me to 146 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:19,920 say? You can call you just what's the what's it say? I don't my glasses on. What does 147 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:26,080 it say? Pussy magnets. Nice job. All right. Good job guys. We got for the next one we 148 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:30,080 have the yapper in chief. The most conversations. I'm assuming with voters 149 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:32,520 at the door. Hopefully I was running around talking to random people. That is 150 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:54,240 Ashley T. Wow. If you're here I've got a yapper bracelet. Do what again. Why 151 00:14:54,240 --> 00:15:03,480 there. Wow. Wow. Did you have a name change? How do you keep missing? 152 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:13,240 his name up get fucked Ashley try harder we have our classic Antifa super soldier 153 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:18,640 reward this is for the most doors knocked and that goes to hexive underscore zero 154 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:28,600 three hell yeah cool name bro yeah that's a crazy name 155 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:35,440 were there two other hex hex is older siblings okay cool weird number bro 156 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:45,440 congr man thanks bro that's a beast mode all right and then I think we only did 157 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,200 really a couple awards this time we're gonna make time for you guys to come up 158 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,760 if anybody wants to come up and chat about I don't know any canvassing 159 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:57,280 experiences any crazy people at a door on the street anywhere yeah feel free to 160 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:01,680 I don't know Bryce wants to gather people and then also we had people that came 161 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:07,040 here from take back America if I don't know if Kyle or anybody else wants to 162 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:12,520 come up and chat about how your guys is run around come on down Kylo everybody 163 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:15,240 round of applause 164 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:28,240 nice bracelets are you wearing yours I look fine at home well how's it going did 165 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:32,160 you guys have fun we did did you have one we always have fun yeah yeah we had a 166 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:36,760 good time tell about the teller about the guy we met oh we met a final boss 167 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:41,320 raid boss right when we went out yeah this is our first guy first guy he was 168 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:47,200 inundated in all the maggot talking points yeah okay nice what was uh how 169 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:51,680 long do you debate bro him before he left his probably 15 20 minutes yeah we 170 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:55,120 could I kind of tried to tease in some stuff like you know how's Trump doing 171 00:16:55,120 --> 00:17:01,680 you know he's like I could tell you're a lefty I love it I love this man yeah he 172 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:06,480 was like I'll pay ten dollars for gas I don't care we gotta clean that up that's 173 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:12,680 great yeah he kept talking about how sorry I'm blue people on the right which 174 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:17,240 quite a little bit just a little bit if you can yeah okay he kept up never mind 175 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:22,520 fuck it you know what fuck it stop your you're getting one guy right now he's 176 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:26,360 getting one guy right now okay go he was talking about you so he kept saying 177 00:17:26,360 --> 00:17:30,000 you know I'm not racist or anything but these black people in this in the area 178 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,440 you know and he's like you got to go to a white neighborhood and you'll see how 179 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:37,440 it is I don't know the good news is as we were leaving he was driving off on his 180 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:43,640 motorcycle with no helmet on so - - one voter soon my might sort itself out on 181 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:48,600 its own yeah so we're here this weekend we take back America wave hello all the 182 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:53,600 creators yes many of you have probably seen some of the creators you'll see our 183 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:58,880 spiffy shirts big shout out to gunk gunk media who prints all of our shirts I 184 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:02,880 know he prints all of your guys and shirts - your guys and shirts are DGG also from 185 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:16,480 gunk media yeah gunk is amazing gunk is out there working overtime yep what you 186 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:19,880 guys went did you guys go to the no Kings protest yesterday we did oh we went to 187 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:23,960 several no Kings protest so there is fairly early voting and some protests so 188 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:27,880 we kind of hit all of it all across the city I heard the no Kings Instagram 189 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:30,840 account got taken down do you know anything about that yeah I've been seeing 190 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:34,600 posts about it and one of the people in TV is like a like closely like a 191 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:38,240 spokesperson for I don't know I have no idea what happened so it sounds like it 192 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:41,920 got paused and kind of went dark for a couple of hours happened to be on the day 193 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:46,360 of the no Kings day so that's a little weird but I don't know like the details 194 00:18:46,360 --> 00:18:49,720 of what's going on kind of crazy when you guys go to these protests you normally 195 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:53,160 run into crazy people or they normally chill cuz they're on camera what's the 196 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:55,680 yeah 197 00:18:55,840 --> 00:19:00,840 Trump yeah some of them are chill some of them are very sweet and nice like the 198 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:04,620 protest yesterday was like a big heterogenous group there was like no 199 00:19:04,620 --> 00:19:09,440 Kings moderate Dems being like your vote matters get Trump out and then there 200 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:14,600 was the revolutionist Communist Party there and the no Kings people like we 201 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:19,480 don't really fuck with them they never like we're not gonna do the leave like 202 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:23,680 they're big sign out and I'm not gonna lie I got like I was trapped I got 203 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:27,240 obsessively fixated and talking to this guy for like 20 minutes about communism 204 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:32,520 and being like so why democrats bad and he's like they hold crisis they hold the 205 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:36,560 gun to the people's head by using a crisis and then he went on he proceeded 206 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:39,400 to then tell me yeah we've been really ramping up our efforts for the 207 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:43,320 revolution Communist Party and I was like oh really like why and he's like well 208 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:46,400 there's so much crisis going on and I said seems like you're doing exactly 209 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:50,440 what you're accusing the democrats of and he goes look I'm gonna my job and then 210 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:54,040 he goes well it's different and I was like why and he goes because we're for the 211 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:59,880 workers always because we're not ontologically evil obviously so you hate 212 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:01,000 workers are here. 213 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:02,000 Yeah. 214 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,000 Hey, what are those hand kids? 215 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,360 So for the, are they generally, are they generally in alignment with like the moderate 216 00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:07,360 left of the Trump to these? 217 00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:10,320 Are they like counter protesting or what is the counter protesters? 218 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:11,320 Sort of? 219 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:12,320 I don't know. 220 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:15,840 There was like pro-Palestinian people, the communists and the no-kings and they're like 221 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:17,320 kind of all together. 222 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:22,280 The communists, I think we're mostly there to try to pull off people who are at the no-kings 223 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:27,040 for the no-kings purpose to be like, I mean, if you care about getting Trump out of power, 224 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:29,760 don't you just want the workers to have more power? 225 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:34,260 Like, we just want health care man and you're like, don't listen to them, don't listen to 226 00:20:34,260 --> 00:20:35,260 them. 227 00:20:35,260 --> 00:20:36,660 They want more than just that. 228 00:20:36,660 --> 00:20:38,700 So that was kind of crazy and interesting to see. 229 00:20:38,700 --> 00:20:42,840 And then there was not any counter protests, unfortunately, which would have been banger 230 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:43,840 content. 231 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:48,040 But there was a lot of people that drove by and like screamed like, fucking communists 232 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:49,040 at like the entire protest. 233 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:50,040 As they drove away quickly. 234 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,040 As they drove away quickly. 235 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:52,040 Yes. 236 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:57,320 And then when we were at the flea market, I talked to a guy who was a Trump voter, pretty 237 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:58,320 politically disinfectivity. 238 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,860 He was like, I kind of fuck with this Abdul guy though. 239 00:21:00,860 --> 00:21:04,440 Like, you know, I feel like he actually like, you know, I really like that he doesn't take 240 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:05,440 corporate PAC money. 241 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:06,440 That was like his big thing. 242 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,400 So it was cool to kind of see there was a lot of younger guys that I talked to that 243 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:13,040 are like pretty politically disinfected, but we're like, I voted Trump and I think I'm 244 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:17,240 going to vote Abdul this this year, which is super exciting to see a super fun. 245 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:18,240 Cool. 246 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:19,240 Anything. 247 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:23,360 You felt like you heard offline that you don't really hear online or do you think most of 248 00:21:23,360 --> 00:21:26,480 the concerns and things raised by the people in that crowd were pretty simple to stuff 249 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:27,480 you hear online? 250 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:33,800 It feels like the line between the internet and real life is so narrow now, like in a scary 251 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:39,680 way, frankly, there aren't a lot of opinions that I heard, even just like talking to the 252 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,480 general populace at the market that I wouldn't say I don't hear on the internet. 253 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:47,320 The biggest thing would be basically there's a lot of moderate swing voters who I think 254 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,400 have probably the positions you would expect them to have. 255 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:54,520 They're like, you know, the immigration ice stuff is not good, but I also want some immigration 256 00:21:54,520 --> 00:22:00,080 policy, like those, there was lots of that, which I think we see the least of on the internet, 257 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,080 so that was kind of cool to see. 258 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:03,080 Yeah. 259 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:04,080 All right. 260 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:05,080 Cool. 261 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,820 Well, hey, if people want to get involved or send money to you guys to support or follow 262 00:22:07,820 --> 00:22:09,380 your socials, we're going to find you guys out. 263 00:22:09,380 --> 00:22:10,880 Take back America tour everywhere. 264 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:11,880 We got a website. 265 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:12,880 We got Instagram. 266 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:13,880 Check us out. 267 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:14,880 All the creators. 268 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:16,800 They, most of the creators brought themselves this time. 269 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:17,960 They try to get filming content. 270 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:18,960 They're doing voter registration. 271 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:20,240 They're doing super great work. 272 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:28,040 And we will be at Amfest to fight with grippers and gry bets and Erica Kirk, please approve 273 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:29,140 my media pass. 274 00:22:29,140 --> 00:22:30,880 What date is that? 275 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:39,460 December 12th to 14th, I think, 17th, 17th, it's actually December 17th and 19th. 276 00:22:39,460 --> 00:22:40,960 That's going to be awesome. 277 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:43,920 So if you guys want to come out, we always need filmers and volunteers and stuff like 278 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:44,920 that. 279 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:46,640 It really, really helps get the content out. 280 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:50,080 Shout out Mercedes, who's kind of coordinating all of our media strategy. 281 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:54,480 I won't say all the names of creators, but we've got Ethan, and Oliver, and Miami, and 282 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,280 you guys are just great. 283 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:58,280 I didn't list them all. 284 00:22:58,280 --> 00:22:59,280 Okay. 285 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:00,280 Talk to me. 286 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:01,280 All right, cool. 287 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:02,280 Well, hey, thanks a lot for joining us. 288 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,680 Good job for doing your guys events and getting your media content and coming out here to support 289 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:05,680 us. 290 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:06,680 You guys didn't have to drop by, so we appreciate it. 291 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:07,680 Yeah, for sure. 292 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:08,680 Yeah. 293 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:09,680 Awesome. 294 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:10,680 Thanks for having us. 295 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:11,680 Thanks guys. 296 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:12,680 Thank you. 297 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:20,880 All right, our first canvassers come into the podium. 298 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:21,880 What's up? 299 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:22,880 What's up? 300 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:23,880 What's up? 301 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:24,880 What's up? 302 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:25,880 What's up? 303 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:26,880 What's up? 304 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:27,880 What's up? 305 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:28,880 Doing good. 306 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:29,880 Did you campus today and yesterday? 307 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:30,880 Yep. 308 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:31,880 Yep. 309 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:32,880 Well, tell us about it. 310 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:33,880 Wait, is this your first time? 311 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,680 No, but I joined DJG like maybe three months ago or so. 312 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:37,680 Okay. 313 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:39,080 Did you do a ground game or? 314 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:40,080 Digital ground game. 315 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:41,080 Yeah, okay, okay. 316 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:42,080 Well, tell us about it. 317 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:43,080 Yeah. 318 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:44,080 It went pretty well. 319 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:45,680 Republicans didn't really want to talk. 320 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:49,240 You know, they gave you a lot of no thank you and closed the door, but it was really 321 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:50,240 fun. 322 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,600 You know, a lot of good people, a lot of good talks, a couple of converts I think as well. 323 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:54,600 We had one. 324 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,320 I asked them, are you voting this year? 325 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:57,320 And they said no. 326 00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:58,320 And they said, "No." 327 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,800 They said, "We're really lazy and I don't think we're going to vote." 328 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:02,840 I said, "Well, actually, you can vote by mail." 329 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:03,840 And they were like, "Oh, really?" 330 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:05,840 And we showed them how to register and they're like, "You know what? 331 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:06,840 I'll vote by mail then. 332 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:07,840 I'll do it." 333 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:09,800 Wait, do you guys know who he was voting for? 334 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,920 Yeah, I'm just kidding, okay, that's good. 335 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,600 There's a surprising amount of voter related stuff that people sometimes aren't aware of. 336 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:18,560 Sometimes even just get out of the vote stuff can be helpful. 337 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,560 I know there was a website that was being promoted to make sure that you hadn't been 338 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:26,440 wiped from the voter rolls because I know in some states they'll just occasionally clear 339 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,520 them and you can get purged even if you still live there. 340 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,680 And then if you go to vote and you figure it out too late, you actually can't get back 341 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:32,680 on. 342 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:33,680 So, yeah. 343 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:34,680 Well, good job. 344 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:35,680 Good for you. 345 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,320 Yeah, I think they just encourage you to go to the Secretary of State's website, whatever. 346 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,660 Make your voter registration. 347 00:24:40,660 --> 00:24:43,240 What was one memorable thing that happened today? 348 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:44,640 Anything stood out to you? 349 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,200 Yeah, I had one guy. 350 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,280 His dog was barking at me so I left and he was quite upset that somebody was knocking 351 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:52,600 his door and he's kind of telling me off a little bit and he's like, "What are you out 352 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:53,600 here doing?" 353 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:54,600 And I'm like, "I'm canvassing." 354 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:55,600 And he's like, "What's a canvassing?" 355 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:57,600 I'm like, "I'm making sure you're going to vote." 356 00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,360 And he's like, "Why wouldn't I vote?" 357 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:00,000 I was like, "Yes!" 358 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,480 - Yeah, exactly, dude, that's why I'm here. 359 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,840 He was like, "Oh, have a good day then, have a good luck." 360 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:06,840 - Nice. 361 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:07,840 - It was a pretty good day. 362 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:08,720 - All right, well, hey, awesome. 363 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,840 Thanks for, what did you have a question for him? 364 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:11,680 - No. 365 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:12,520 - Well, thank you so much for coming out. 366 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:13,360 We appreciate it. 367 00:25:13,360 --> 00:25:15,000 You're going down to San Antonio, I heard? 368 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,500 - No, but I'll be in bucks, I'll be in bucks next weekend. 369 00:25:17,500 --> 00:25:19,480 Right, PA, people are gonna come to the bus, 370 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:20,400 honey, and come knock. 371 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:21,240 - Awesome, awesome. 372 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:22,080 - Yeah, yeah. 373 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:22,920 - Come to Bucks. 374 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,160 - If you've never canvassed, it's really easy, 375 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,440 it's really fun, you're gonna make cool DG jeers. 376 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:27,760 You don't have to be scared. 377 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,260 Wake is gonna be there, it's gonna be a great time. 378 00:25:30,260 --> 00:25:32,580 - All right, digitalgroundgame.org/midterms, 379 00:25:32,580 --> 00:25:34,320 if you're looking to sign up for Pennsylvania, 380 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,720 which is next weekend, and then the big event in San Antonio 381 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:39,520 will be the weekend after that. 382 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,280 - There's gonna be a dunk tank. 383 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:42,120 - Yeah, supposedly. 384 00:25:42,120 --> 00:25:42,960 - And Steve's gonna be in it. 385 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,960 - There will be a dunk tank. 386 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:47,840 Yeah, thanks a lot for joining us, and yeah. 387 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:49,320 - Thank you very much. 388 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:50,160 - Yeah. 389 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:51,000 - Hell yeah. 390 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,000 (audience applauds) 391 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,000 - The Cleveland Browns won today, everybody. 392 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,320 (audience applauds) 393 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:04,840 - One guy clapped. 394 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:05,680 You can't hear that much of it, 395 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:06,920 I got a one guy clapped. 396 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:08,680 Nobody likes sports, Mooten. 397 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:09,520 Shut up. 398 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:11,000 - That's not true. 399 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:11,840 - Thank you. 400 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:12,680 - Sports are great. 401 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:13,600 - Shut up, no one cares about your opinion. 402 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:14,440 - Okay. - What's your name? 403 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:15,800 - Hey, I'm Tyler. 404 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,880 - Tyler, is this your first time canvassing? 405 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,160 - This is my first time canvassing. 406 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:20,880 - Awesome, how did it go? 407 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:22,640 - It went really well. 408 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,960 It was very, very intimidating at first, 409 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,520 walking doorstep to doorstep. 410 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,400 You never really know what is going to open the door. 411 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,360 - Sure. - And everything. 412 00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:36,160 But you know, you get the reps in, 413 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,640 you get the rejections, you get the fun stories, 414 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,920 and then you move on, go next. 415 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,720 - What inspired you to come out this time? 416 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:46,760 - Well, one, I'm the tech director 417 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:50,160 of Digital Ground Game, so we handle the software. 418 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,520 I help get the dev team moving forward 419 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:54,840 with projects and everything, 420 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:56,400 make sure they're in line 421 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,680 and getting the things done that they need. 422 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:03,680 But what motivates me is just tired of liberals 423 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:05,600 getting the shit out of the stick. 424 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:09,440 I don't know, and it's like, the lying is OP shit 425 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,320 is just annoying, and it's nice to get out 426 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:17,320 and spread the good message and be a part of it. 427 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,440 - Did you have any memorable doors today? 428 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:20,280 - I did. 429 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,000 - Not today very much, but yesterday, 430 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,280 I was going through a really nice neighborhood 431 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:31,280 and knock on a door, wait the 30 seconds, 432 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,880 knock again, and it seemed like it wasn't going to be 433 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:39,360 a real door, getting ready to market as a no-show 434 00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:42,200 or anything, and then I started walking away 435 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,080 and the door opens, or I hear it unlocking, 436 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,560 and I turn back around and the door opens, 437 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:52,560 and there's a guy crouched over in a bath towel 438 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,680 no shirt, a razor in his hand, 439 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,600 and his face is half shaven. 440 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:01,440 - It's like a movie. 441 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,920 - Yeah, it was like a movie, and he just says, 442 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:04,760 - What? 443 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,800 (laughing) 444 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:08,440 - That's great. 445 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,800 - I didn't know what to say, so I just said, 446 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,440 there's a pamphlet, and I turned around 447 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,760 and I walked away, that's all I had. 448 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,520 - You didn't want to talk to that naked man? 449 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:20,480 - Yeah, yeah, you got it all the way out there, man, 450 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,680 and now you're just gonna, let's say there's a pamphlet. 451 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:26,000 I know I missed an opportunity, truly. 452 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,200 - That's hilarious. 453 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:28,440 - What, yeah, that was my story. 454 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:29,440 - All right, well thank you for coming out, 455 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,120 and thank you for canvassing, we appreciate it. 456 00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:32,200 - Thank you so much, thank you. 457 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:33,040 - Thank you. 458 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,200 (audience applauding) 459 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:47,160 - What's up, what's up? 460 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:48,520 - What's up, how's it going everybody? 461 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:49,680 - Pretty good, what's your name? 462 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,000 - My name is Brian. 463 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,080 - Brian, welcome, is this your first time canvassing? 464 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:55,240 - First time ever. 465 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,200 - All right, well, what was your most memorable 466 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,520 voter interaction this weekend? 467 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:01,840 Did you have a memorable voter interaction? 468 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,240 - There's a couple, but I gotta go with the big one, 469 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,040 is when you, when never doing these before 470 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,280 and having certain expectations come to you, 471 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:10,880 you think that there are some mean people, 472 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:12,520 but there are also some nice ones, 473 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,600 but for one guy to actually come out there 474 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,520 and talk to me and ask me questions 475 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:20,760 about what he can do to vote and make sure 476 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:22,600 that his vote is actually calmer for 477 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,720 and able to put it on the right person, 478 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,280 so that was also nice and occasional AF offs, 479 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:28,640 that was a lot of fun too. 480 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,640 - That's awesome, that builds on what I was saying, 481 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,680 that we get a lot from these people too, 482 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:35,240 so it's nice to interact with them. 483 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:36,280 - Yeah, yeah. 484 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:37,880 It helps with the doom and gloom to go to doors 485 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,640 and hear people really frustrated 486 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,000 about the same things that we are. 487 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,920 It is very refreshing. 488 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,120 - Oh yeah, and the fact is that you guys 489 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,720 have such a great community that allows people 490 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,000 from all walks of life or even people who are inexperienced 491 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,400 and politics can come out here 492 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,080 and just make a stand for what they believe in 493 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,920 and enjoy hanging out with like-minded individuals, 494 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:00,880 even get to chat up with their fans. 495 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,400 They're famous streamers if they want, so it's a fantastic thing to be a part of. 496 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:04,400 He means me. 497 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:05,400 He means me. 498 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,400 Well, were you thinking of backing out at any point, like, I don't know if I want to 499 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:09,400 do this? 500 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:15,920 Uh, kind of, when it was kind of in the sign-up period, it was like, can I, do I have the 501 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:20,720 confidence to meet you wonderful people in person and let alone live up to the expectations 502 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:25,840 that DGG upholds, and I'm surprised I was able to do it, thankfully, and I can't wait 503 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:27,200 to do it again if I can. 504 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:28,200 That's awesome. 505 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,100 That's what we like to hear. 506 00:30:31,100 --> 00:30:32,100 Thanks a lot for coming out, man. 507 00:30:32,100 --> 00:30:33,100 All right. 508 00:30:33,100 --> 00:30:34,100 Well, thank you guys so much. 509 00:30:34,100 --> 00:30:35,100 I appreciate everything. 510 00:30:35,100 --> 00:30:38,600 Thank you. 511 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:45,800 Birthday boy. 512 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:46,800 Is it really a birthday? 513 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:47,800 Yeah. 514 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:48,800 Oh, how old are you? 515 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:49,800 30. 516 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:50,800 30. 517 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:51,800 Amazing. 518 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:52,800 Pick up the mic. 519 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:53,800 What's your name? 520 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:54,800 Jonathan. 521 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:55,800 Jonathan. 522 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:56,800 30 years old. 523 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:57,800 Um, did you do anything special to celebrate besides canvassing? 524 00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:58,800 Just one canvassing. 525 00:30:58,800 --> 00:30:59,800 Oh, well, awesome. 526 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:00,800 Is this your first time? 527 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:01,800 Oh, no. 528 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:02,800 I'm in the Michigan canvassing house. 529 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:03,800 Oh, okay. 530 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:04,800 Awesome. 531 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:05,800 Awesome. 532 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,920 Well, yeah, I first met this guy on Reddit when he was talking shit about, uh, my hong 533 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,920 take and I was like, oh, then let's fucking debate then. 534 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:12,920 And then he was like, all right, let's do it. 535 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:13,920 And I was like, ah, shit. 536 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:14,920 I don't want to do this. 537 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,400 It's been ducking me, man. 538 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,160 We were already in the, um, we were already in the Michigan house when he fought you on 539 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:22,160 Reddit. 540 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:23,160 Yeah. 541 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:24,160 Oh, damn. 542 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:25,160 He was like, you know, I'm in the Michigan house. 543 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,160 And I was like, I don't want to do this shit, man. 544 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:28,160 Yeah. 545 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,160 Do you have any memorable voter interactions today? 546 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:35,360 Today, um, or yet today or yesterday, I guess I, uh, I helped one lady. 547 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,760 She, uh, sorry, Mike, right here now, like this. 548 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:39,760 There you go. 549 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:40,760 Yeah. 550 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:41,760 Okay. 551 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:42,760 Yeah. 552 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:43,760 So there's one lady today. 553 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:44,760 She, um, I talked to her about the election and everything. 554 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:48,080 And then she said she had a mailing ballot come in and she had just forgot about it. 555 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:49,320 She lost it. 556 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,920 So, uh, yeah, I feel like I helped her remember and she spent like 10 minutes looking for 557 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:53,920 it. 558 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:54,920 But that's a plus one. 559 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:55,920 Did you find it? 560 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:56,920 Yeah. 561 00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:57,920 She said she found it. 562 00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:58,920 Yeah. 563 00:31:58,920 --> 00:31:59,920 Yeah. 564 00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:00,920 Yeah. 565 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:01,920 Yeah. 566 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:02,920 Yeah. 567 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:03,920 Yeah. 568 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:04,920 Yeah. 569 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:05,920 Yeah. 570 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:06,920 Yeah. 571 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:07,920 Yeah. 572 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:08,920 Yeah. 573 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:09,920 She's like, here you go. 574 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:10,920 For me. 575 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:12,920 What's it like living in one of the canvassing houses? 576 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:13,920 It's, I mean, it's really amazing. 577 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:15,920 Honestly, it's a lot more fun than I thought it would be. 578 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,720 Um, it's, you know, it's, I mean, you're living with seven DG years. 579 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:20,720 It's, uh, it's really cool. 580 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,520 Um, these are like the only Democrats I know really. 581 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,760 So like, I'm from, I'm from Hirelya. 582 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:26,760 So it's very chatty. 583 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:27,760 Damn. 584 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:28,760 Okay. 585 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:29,760 Yeah. 586 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:30,760 Um, and you moved all the way up here for the canvassing house? 587 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:31,760 Yeah. 588 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:32,760 Damn. 589 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:33,760 All right. 590 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:34,760 In like two, three months now. 591 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:35,760 Yeah. 592 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:36,760 Who's the best at smash in the house? 593 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:37,760 Micah. 594 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:38,760 Definitely Micah. 595 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:39,760 Yeah. 596 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:40,760 Which one? 597 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:41,760 Which smash? 598 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:42,760 All the brothers? 599 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:43,760 Probably ultimate. 600 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:44,760 Yeah. 601 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:45,760 Yeah. 602 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:46,760 Yeah. 603 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:47,760 Which, which system is that even on it? 604 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:48,760 No one's playing melee. 605 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:49,760 Oh my God. 606 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:50,760 Switch. 607 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:51,760 Switch. 608 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:52,760 Yeah. 609 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:53,760 Switch out of here. 610 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:54,760 All right. 611 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:55,760 Yeah. 612 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:56,760 Yeah. 613 00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:57,760 Yeah. 614 00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:58,760 Yeah. 615 00:32:58,760 --> 00:32:59,760 Yeah. 616 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:00,760 That's really fun. 617 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:01,760 Um, definitely something I'm really passionate about. 618 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,760 Like before this, I was doing like marketing, which is like really soulless work. 619 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:05,760 So this is a lot better. 620 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:06,760 Yeah. 621 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:07,760 Awesome. 622 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:08,760 Cool. 623 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:09,760 Yeah. 624 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:10,760 I've had like so many weird experiences though. 625 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,760 Like, um, the first person I ever registered to vote was this guy. 626 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:14,760 Like I knocked on the door. 627 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:16,760 He just, he opened it up. 628 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,760 He had no shirt on like just covering in like weird like tribal tattoos and stuff. 629 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:23,760 He started talking to me about like all the different conspiracy theories he believes. 630 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:25,760 And I think he learned a really fun one. 631 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,760 Um, apparently every president, like every election is decided by like which candidate is 632 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:31,760 more closely related to King George. 633 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:33,760 From like the old and true. 634 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:34,760 So yeah. 635 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:35,760 And like that was a fun one. 636 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,760 I'm like, even Obama and he's even Obama. 637 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:38,760 Yeah. 638 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:42,760 Do you think he's on polymarket betting on the president through that? 639 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:43,760 Yeah. 640 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:44,760 I hope he's using promo code. 641 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:45,760 Yeah. 642 00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:46,760 Yeah. 643 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,760 But uh, he registered to vote and he said he was going to vote for Abdul. 644 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,760 So he's closer than we'll take him. 645 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:52,760 Yeah. 646 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:53,760 Yeah. 647 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,760 I had another dude who was also shirtless when he opened up the door. 648 00:33:57,760 --> 00:33:58,760 Michigan. 649 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:00,760 See in a pattern here, bro. 650 00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:01,760 Um, it was really funny. 651 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,760 Like he opened the door and he pointed to like the no soliciting sign on the door. 652 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,760 And I'm like, I'm not a solicitor. 653 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:07,760 You know, I'm not selling anything. 654 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:08,760 Then it looked down. 655 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:09,760 He's like holding a gun at me. 656 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,760 And I'm like, oh, all right. 657 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:12,760 Never mind. 658 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:13,760 I'm sorry. 659 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:14,760 And I just, yeah. 660 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:15,760 Why did you say put down your gun? 661 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:16,760 Pussy. 662 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:17,760 You're right. 663 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:18,760 You're right. 664 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:19,760 I should have tried them. 665 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:20,760 That would have been really smart. 666 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:21,760 Yeah. 667 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:22,760 Yeah. 668 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:23,760 All right. 669 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:24,760 Well, hopefully you don't get threatened anymore. 670 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:26,760 That's an incredibly exceptional experience and definitely doesn't happen. 671 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:27,760 Never. 672 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:28,760 Don't. 673 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:29,760 Don't. 674 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:30,760 Don't. 675 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:31,760 Don't be afraid. 676 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:32,760 Never happens. 677 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:33,760 Never one time. 678 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:34,760 Nobody's been shot yet. 679 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:36,760 So I mean, yeah, I'm out there eight hours a day, five days a week. 680 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:37,760 It's happened one time. 681 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:38,760 Yeah. 682 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:39,760 Why? 683 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:40,760 Thanks a lot for coming out. 684 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:41,760 Thanks for volunteering at the house. 685 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:42,760 Happy birthday. 686 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:43,760 Happy birthday. 687 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:49,760 You know, when you knock doors in Ohio, they wear shirts there. 688 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:51,760 Yeah. 689 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,760 What's up? 690 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:56,760 What's up? 691 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:57,760 Chillin. 692 00:34:57,760 --> 00:34:58,760 Chillin. 693 00:34:58,760 --> 00:34:59,760 What's your name? 694 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:00,760 I'm Alex. 695 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,080 is your first time doing acting? 696 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:02,000 - Yes, it is. 697 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:02,840 - Cool. 698 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:04,480 - Well, did you have any exceptional experiences? 699 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:05,320 - I had two. 700 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:06,160 - Two, okay. 701 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:07,080 - Very, very interesting ones. 702 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:12,080 So, first, I was knocking doors in an apartment complex 703 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,960 and this lady opened the door and I'm like, 704 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:16,600 "Hey, you know, did my spiel." 705 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:18,720 And like, she was like, "I don't know." 706 00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:20,160 She's like, "I don't know if I'm gonna vote." 707 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,200 Like, it just seems like it's not worth it. 708 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,000 And I was like, "No, no, like it totally is." 709 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,920 Like, she hated Trump. 710 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,200 And I was like, "No, it totally is." 711 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:33,040 If we can flip to Congress, 712 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:34,960 we'll grab two-thirds of the government, 713 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,120 that'll be able to hold Trump accountable. 714 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,320 And she was like, "Really? 715 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,120 "You really think it's gonna work?" 716 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,600 I was like, "Yeah, yeah, for sure, it really will." 717 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,040 And I showed her like, 718 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:51,520 she was like, "You can even vote early. 719 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:52,760 "You can vote by mail." 720 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,720 And she's like, "All right, I think I'm gonna do that." 721 00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:58,620 So like, yeah, like, you know, 722 00:35:58,620 --> 00:36:00,640 since any DG jurors are home watching, 723 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,560 like if you're coming out here and doing this, 724 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,160 like even if you just convert one person, 725 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,560 like you're really doing something. 726 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:09,840 - Yeah, sometimes it seems like there are people, 727 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:11,400 I think at least one other person has brought this up, 728 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:12,760 that it's like very low friction. 729 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:14,800 They just need like a little push. 730 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,480 The guy who's talking about the person who lost the ballot 731 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:18,520 and just hadn't searched for it. 732 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:20,520 So sometimes letting somebody know can be helpful, 733 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:21,600 especially for people that live on their own 734 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,440 or they don't have other people kind of pushing their vote. 735 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:24,920 So, good job. 736 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,560 What was your second memory guy with no pants or what? 737 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:28,720 - No, okay. 738 00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:31,640 So this one, I'm not going to do his door. 739 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,480 And I was like, started like saying like, 740 00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:34,840 "Hey, I'm not your camera's name for that." 741 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:36,720 And he was like, he was like, "Fuck off." 742 00:36:36,720 --> 00:36:38,760 I was like, "Oh, all right, all right." 743 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,400 'Cause I'm like, I'm like, you know, 744 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:41,700 I go down the road and I was like, 745 00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:43,080 at the end of the road, turn in the corner. 746 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:44,760 He drives by in his truck. 747 00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,160 And he's like, "Hey, I'm a Democrat. 748 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:48,800 "I'm actually voting Democrat." 749 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:50,680 And I was like, "What?" 750 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:51,520 What the fuck? 751 00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:52,360 - Pussy. 752 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,200 - This is so weird. - It's so bad. 753 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:56,040 - Well, that's good. 754 00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:57,200 That's how he treats Republicans to come to his door. 755 00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:58,040 So how? 756 00:36:58,040 --> 00:36:59,440 - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 757 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:00,360 - Base. 758 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:01,520 - Get out of here. 759 00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:03,000 - Yeah. 760 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,720 - Well, what did fun? 761 00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:06,560 Did you have fun? 762 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:08,120 - Yeah, no, I was a blast man. 763 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:12,520 Like, I kind of didn't really have an idea 764 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:14,760 what I was getting into, like a little bit. 765 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,680 But yeah, after doing it, after doing it, 766 00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,800 I was like, yeah, dude, like, this is fun, man. 767 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,000 I could do this all the time. 768 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:22,840 - Real. 769 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,040 - What inspired you to come out to this event? 770 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:26,080 - Oh, so, all right. 771 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:30,440 So I'm from Ohio, and I missed the Cleveland event. 772 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:31,440 I was paying attention. 773 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,320 And I was like, dude, that's so close. 774 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:35,880 Like, hour away from me. 775 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,160 And then I was looking at what the next one was. 776 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:39,000 I was like, "Oh, Detroit." 777 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,120 I was like, "Dude, that's close enough." 778 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:41,960 I could do it. 779 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,560 I was like, three hour drive, like, let's do it. 780 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:45,760 - Nice. 781 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:46,640 - Awesome, well, cool. 782 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:47,480 - That's cool, yeah. 783 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:48,320 - And then you said this is the first time 784 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:49,160 doing anything like this? 785 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:50,000 - Yeah, yeah. 786 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,680 - First, political action at all, ever. 787 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:54,720 - Awesome. 788 00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:57,080 (audience cheering) 789 00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:57,920 All right. 790 00:37:57,920 --> 00:37:58,760 - Well, thank you very much. 791 00:37:58,760 --> 00:37:59,600 - Yeah, we appreciate you coming out. 792 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:00,440 Hopefully we'll see you at future events. 793 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:01,280 - Yeah, absolutely. 794 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:02,840 - Yeah, 2028 will be knocking again 795 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:04,920 for whoever the wonderful Democratic nominee will be. 796 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:05,760 And yeah. 797 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:06,600 - Awesome. 798 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:07,440 - Thanks a lot, man. 799 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:08,280 - Thank you. 800 00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:09,120 - Thank you, bro. 801 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:12,120 (audience cheering) 802 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:18,400 Knock knock. 803 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:19,240 - Who's there? 804 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:21,600 - I don't know. 805 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:23,280 I don't know who. 806 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:24,120 Nobody answers. 807 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,280 - Hello. 808 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:28,160 - Hey, what's up? 809 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:29,560 - Hey, how's it going? 810 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:30,400 - It's going great. 811 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,800 What, hold on, my mind just got wiped 812 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:34,840 by this stupid fucking jogging just said. 813 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:36,240 - Every time. 814 00:38:36,240 --> 00:38:37,480 - What's your name? 815 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:38,920 - My name's Jane. 816 00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:39,760 - Okay. 817 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:41,680 - Oh, so God, I'm figured it now. 818 00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:42,760 I'm just, I'm sorry. 819 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:44,280 - Have you ever been canvassing before, Jane? 820 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,920 - I have once before in Cleveland, Ohio. 821 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:48,000 - Oh, you're at the Cleveland event? 822 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:48,840 - I was. 823 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:49,680 - Perfect. 824 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:51,120 - How did you enjoy Cleveland? 825 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:52,800 - I really enjoyed Cleveland. 826 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:54,600 I went to an amazing little Indian spot 827 00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:55,480 'cause I love Indian food. 828 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:56,840 That's why I moved to Detroit 829 00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:58,360 because they have some of the best Indian food 830 00:38:58,360 --> 00:38:59,600 in Michigan, in my opinion. 831 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,040 But, sorry. 832 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:02,360 - Not like a really competitive market, 833 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,960 best Indian food in all of Michigan, or? 834 00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,000 - We have a really large Arab community 835 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,040 in Michigan, yeah, so, yes. 836 00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:09,880 - Okay. 837 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:10,720 - I think so, I don't know. 838 00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:12,000 I think it is a competition, yeah, for sure. 839 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:13,840 - Who is better Indian food? 840 00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,160 Michigan or Ohio? 841 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:17,720 - Oh, that's a tough one. 842 00:39:17,720 --> 00:39:21,240 I'm from Michigan, I was born in Kalamazoo, 843 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:23,720 Ohio sucks in everything, so, yeah. 844 00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,080 - You're gonna take that? 845 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:28,280 - Yeah, I'm gonna fight her. 846 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:29,240 (laughing) 847 00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:30,840 - He's gonna fight me in the parking lot later, guys. 848 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,200 - All right, so, two hours from now, 849 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:33,080 we're gonna have another stream. 850 00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:34,840 It's gonna be outside, we're gonna be in the ring. 851 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:36,440 Let's go. 852 00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,000 - So, it was the first canvassing event you'd ever done 853 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,240 in Cleveland, or had you done political stuff prior to that? 854 00:39:42,240 --> 00:39:43,560 - Well, political stuff and canvassing 855 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:44,400 are two different things. 856 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:45,800 That was the first time I had done canvassing. 857 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,680 I also was super politically active in my community. 858 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,280 In Kalamazoo, I was an election inspector, actually, 859 00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:52,440 so I worked at the elections. 860 00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:53,280 - All right. 861 00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:54,120 - Nice. 862 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,120 - Yeah, and how was canvassing this time? 863 00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:56,960 - It was great. 864 00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,480 I think Clinton Township's pretty friendly, mostly. 865 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,920 overall. I don't know how everybody else was feeling out there. Like they were very willing 866 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:08,800 to have conversations with us and hope it's Clinton Township. Yeah. Yeah. It's Clinton Township. 867 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:14,640 That's awesome. We're not gonna do a good one. But yeah, they seemed really cheerful and mostly 868 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:18,560 like friendly and happy to have conversations with us. There were a few different areas. 869 00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:24,240 I will say mostly more rural areas where people were just like get the hell off my property and 870 00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:29,920 it was just like, okay. Sorry. I don't know. Those are the big grunge. I can't think of the word 871 00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:35,760 disgruntled Trump voters. Thank you. They're angry at Trump taking it out on you. Exactly. 872 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,960 And actually that leads me to what I did want to come up here to talk to you guys about. I had 873 00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:45,360 a man that I met and he seemed really like unsure and anxious about us being on his property at 874 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:50,880 first. And I couldn't figure out why until he said, I really regret who I voted for. I knew 875 00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,240 exactly what he meant when he said that. And I think everyone in this room knows exactly what he 876 00:40:54,240 --> 00:40:58,080 meant when he said that. I really want to know what you guys think we should all be saying to 877 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:02,000 people that say that to us because I did not know what to say to that man in that moment. 878 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:10,000 Good. Yeah. Shame. Shame on you, sir. No, I don't know. I just say look, this guy he lied about a 879 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:14,400 lot of stuff, you know. And I mean, it's not your fault. You heard winged half of America. 880 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:19,360 Yeah. Yeah. What I want to ask you, were there any differences between the Cleveland canvassing 881 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:24,960 and this canvassing that you noticed? I think they were very similar areas that we canvas. 882 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:30,400 So there was like a mixture of rural and like more urban areas in both. So no, I didn't really 883 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:34,800 notice like a huge difference in the people there were the you're odd person here and there that 884 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:39,280 has the no soliciting and it was like fuck off go away. And then like mostly just kind and 885 00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:43,440 democratic. I feel like you guys are choosing the areas though for more democratic like 886 00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:50,400 democrats type areas, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're not sending out debate teams for yet to go 887 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:54,080 fight Republicans. Please don't put us in the arena for this type of shit. I think that's 888 00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:58,480 important to note out to point out real quickly is we're not knocking on Republican doors. These 889 00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:03,120 are democrats and no party affiliation. So it's not like we're changing minds out here. We're just 890 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,720 doing customer service, trying to encourage people to vote. It springs me to a point I wanted to bring 891 00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:11,440 up earlier of sometimes I feel when you're on the app and you're going to go knock a door, it's like, 892 00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:17,680 okay, I'm going to go knock Kristi Julia. She's 19 years old and you get to the door and you knock 893 00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:22,160 and then it's like a 40 year old who answers. And it's like a 40 year old man who is obviously 894 00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:28,000 republican and you're like, am I about to out this girl as like a democrat? So then you're just like, 895 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:32,240 oh, hey, how's it going sir? You gonna vote? And he's like, yeah, hell yeah, I'm voting. I'm 896 00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:35,840 voting Trump. And then he's like, oh, well shit. Okay, have a good one. Is your daughter home? 897 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:41,760 No, I don't ask for her, man. I don't want to cause some drama. Lucas, please ask for someone's 898 00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:47,280 daughter at one of these houses. That's actually, yeah, we should talk about that after I'm curious. 899 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:52,000 What is the solution for? I don't know. I don't know. I don't I don't out them. I let them live 900 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:56,560 there live their life. I just want to see what happens. It's not because I yeah. Truly get down 901 00:42:56,560 --> 00:43:02,160 here. Yeah, like the crazy MAGA raid boss that we ran into at first, it was some 27 year old dude 902 00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:05,920 that we were looking for. And we mentioned that. Why does it say there's this guy here? He's like, 903 00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:10,160 he moved out. He looked kind of puzzled with his Lebanese girl now. Yeah, he looked a little 904 00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:14,320 puzzled like maybe he didn't know that his son or whatever was a democrat. So we might have caused 905 00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:20,800 some drama. Yeah, he got on his motorcycle. He might be going to his sons house. What was that? 906 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:27,440 Get this sissy out of here. Well, this was the so second canvassing event you've done. 907 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:32,080 I imagine after the first one, you had expectations or thoughts. You did the second one. 908 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:36,080 Do you regret it? Did it seem like a good idea? Are you further inspired to do more in the future? 909 00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:42,320 Did it live up to your expectations coming back a second time? I want to do this regardless of 910 00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:46,720 whether or not it's fun because I think that it's really, really important that we all start paying 911 00:43:46,720 --> 00:43:52,480 a lot more attention. So yeah, it's not about fun for me. It's about taking back my country. 912 00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:57,520 Whatever way I can. All right, awesome. Well, hey, you're coming out. Hopefully we'll see you at future 913 00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:59,840 events and yeah, thank you so much. Nice to meet you guys. 914 00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,840 Wait, do you remember Game of Thrones after the when they find Sir Devo Sea Worth or whatever and 915 00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:16,800 he's on the rock? Yeah. Sometimes when I hear you guys talk about how like somebody shouts like, 916 00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:19,520 fuck you, whatever. It reminds me of like when the guys on the boat get to him and they're like, 917 00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,960 who's king do you fight for? Whatever. And you have to say like, I'm a Republican or Democrat, 918 00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:27,120 so they know whether or not they hate you. Yeah, we were at, we were at lunch and the lady was like, 919 00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:29,680 oh, what are you guys up here doing? And I was like, oh, yeah, we're canvassing. And she was like, 920 00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:35,120 for who? And I was like, for El Céad? And she was like, oh, good. I was like, okay, 921 00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:40,320 pass the quick time event. Yeah. Why? What's up, man? What's your name? Hey, Patrick. Patrick. 922 00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:45,200 This is not your first event, is it? No, it's not. My first was in Cincinnati. Okay. Milwaukee. 923 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:50,240 And I'm here. Awesome. Revit. Well, what was your most memorable experience drawing on this weekend? 924 00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:56,640 One of my best interactions was I knocked on a door and lady answered and I asked, you know, 925 00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,920 if she's voting, and she said my cup is better. Yeah, go ahead. And she said, 926 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,400 said, not really, I don't know enough to really vote. 927 00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:04,400 I'm not informed enough. 928 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:06,280 And I was like, honestly, I love that answer. 929 00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,240 Because if more people did that, we 930 00:45:08,240 --> 00:45:11,400 want to have Trump as president. 931 00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:13,640 But I think people are more informed than they think. 932 00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:15,960 I just said, if we vote Democrats, 933 00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:17,200 we'll get out of the stupid war. 934 00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:18,640 We'll get out of these stupid tariffs. 935 00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:20,080 And I know it sounds crazy. 936 00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:22,780 But it sounds like we're getting ready to go war with Canada. 937 00:45:22,780 --> 00:45:23,600 And that won't happen. 938 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,280 And she looked at me and she said, that isn't some crazy at all. 939 00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,480 So maybe she wants to go war with Canada. 940 00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:30,440 And that's what she was saying. 941 00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:31,960 But I don't know. 942 00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:32,400 Awesome. 943 00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:34,520 OK, well, that's good. 944 00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:36,520 Do you think you'll do-- well, I mean, you've done a lot of these. 945 00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:38,200 You'll probably do these in the future as well, I imagine. 946 00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:40,360 Yeah, I've been joining like Democrats 947 00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:42,080 doing normal canvassing with them. 948 00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:44,840 And it's a lot of like older white ladies. 949 00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,760 And so it's good to have some youths represented 950 00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:49,360 in the Democrat offices. 951 00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:51,840 So did you have fun at this event? 952 00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:53,080 These are the most fun. 953 00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:54,760 These are unlike any other canvassing events. 954 00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:56,240 So yeah. 955 00:45:56,240 --> 00:45:58,400 [APPLAUSE] 956 00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:00,800 You said the other events were old ladies and stuff. 957 00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,400 Are they playing like bingo and stuff or what? 958 00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:03,800 Yes, they're all playing bingo. 959 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:04,680 They're all retired. 960 00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:06,960 All retired little ladies with their walkers. 961 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:08,760 They can barely move from door to door. 962 00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:10,520 And that is like 90% of canvassers 963 00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,680 when I go to like a normal Democrat office. 964 00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:15,360 And plus them, the little ladies doing God's work. 965 00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,640 But we need more young people to actually. 966 00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:21,120 So if you guys came here, join your local Democrat office. 967 00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:23,640 And you don't have to wait for a DGG event. 968 00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,240 So look around and find a place you make a difference. 969 00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:27,600 What would you say to someone who's 970 00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:29,280 sitting at home right now, kind of nervous, 971 00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:30,600 never been to one of these events? 972 00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:33,120 What would you say to that person? 973 00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:34,120 It's not that scary. 974 00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:35,480 And it's not that hard. 975 00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:36,120 You're just walking. 976 00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:36,960 You're knocking the door. 977 00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:38,200 Gaines fresh air. 978 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:40,280 Seeing some dope ass Halloween decorations. 979 00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,320 I mean, people go hard here. 980 00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:44,520 Do you want to know what is scary? 981 00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:47,240 Because if you stay home, you will not go on average. 982 00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:49,560 Just as many doors as the average is sound fan. 983 00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:52,600 So don't want to be like that. 984 00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:53,120 Wow. 985 00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:55,320 I'll say this weekend, I at least doubled my vote. 986 00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,480 I live in Illinois, and I got a vote in Michigan. 987 00:46:57,480 --> 00:46:59,220 So that's so powerful. 988 00:46:59,220 --> 00:47:00,080 Thank you very much. 989 00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:01,040 So thank you so much, Ben. 990 00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:01,520 Awesome. 991 00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:02,000 Thank you. 992 00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:08,840 You know, I notice a lot of the dem houses, 993 00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:10,120 because you can tell when they're Democrat, 994 00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:11,800 because they're going to tell you about it. 995 00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:13,160 A lot of the Democrat houses, they 996 00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:15,720 have like Halloween decorations and spirit. 997 00:47:15,720 --> 00:47:17,160 The Republicans, they don't really do that. 998 00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:18,320 I don't know why. 999 00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:20,400 I think they're depressed right now. 1000 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:21,360 They're just sitting inside. 1001 00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:24,120 This shit sucks. 1002 00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:25,220 Well, hey, what's up, Ben? 1003 00:47:25,220 --> 00:47:25,920 What's going on? 1004 00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:26,720 It's nice to be here. 1005 00:47:26,720 --> 00:47:27,480 Thank you for coming out. 1006 00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:28,200 What's your name? 1007 00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:29,280 My name is Dawson. 1008 00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:30,040 Dawson? 1009 00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:30,840 Yep. 1010 00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:32,760 What was your most memorable door knocking experience 1011 00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:33,760 this weekend? 1012 00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:35,760 I think the one that stuck out to me the most 1013 00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:37,520 was, obviously, they give you the age, 1014 00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,440 so you have a roughly a nice idea of who you're coming up to. 1015 00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:42,760 This one said 18-year-old, I won't say your name. 1016 00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:44,440 But I was like, OK, so I knocked the door. 1017 00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,320 This older looking person answers. 1018 00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:49,000 I'm like, hey, is this person here? 1019 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:50,520 They're like, oh my god, oh my god, that's my daughter. 1020 00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:51,040 I can't wait. 1021 00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:52,320 I'm a social studies teacher. 1022 00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:53,600 I love this. 1023 00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:56,720 Let me go get her, and I had to sit there for a minute. 1024 00:47:56,720 --> 00:47:58,600 She comes up to the door, and she's like, yes. 1025 00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:01,560 And he's like, hey, I'm with DJG or a digital ground game, 1026 00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:03,240 and I'm here to take some questions. 1027 00:48:03,240 --> 00:48:04,280 Would you be available? 1028 00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:06,000 And she's like, oh my god, can I watch the mom? 1029 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,760 And I was like, sure, yeah, I don't care. 1030 00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:10,760 And the daughter was like, I'd rather you not. 1031 00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:12,480 But sure, OK. 1032 00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,400 And then, yeah, she was just very looking at her. 1033 00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,360 I was like, are you ready to shoot the vote? 1034 00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:18,320 Well, don't look at me. 1035 00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:19,160 Yeah, of course you are. 1036 00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:21,920 Yeah, how are you guys mailing? 1037 00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:23,720 Ballot, we sent them in, we sent them in. 1038 00:48:23,720 --> 00:48:25,040 So there was that one. 1039 00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:26,000 There was also another guy. 1040 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:29,680 He had Abdul signs, Benson signs, all over there. 1041 00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,680 And his dad answered, and he was like, oh yeah, 1042 00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:36,160 my wife's been in this business, like the politics business, 1043 00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:37,560 for like 30 years. 1044 00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:41,680 We have photos with Haley Stevens, McMorrow, Abdul, 1045 00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:43,760 Whitmer, Benson, Kamala, Obama. 1046 00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:45,760 I was like, oh my god, is this the deep state right here? 1047 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:47,760 Holy-- 1048 00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,800 You're catching them all. 1049 00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:51,640 That's awesome. 1050 00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:52,880 Yeah, that's awesome. 1051 00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:54,040 What were you saying? 1052 00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:55,960 Have you canvassed before? 1053 00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:57,600 So this is my second time canvassing. 1054 00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:00,120 I did a little bit for McMorrow last time 1055 00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:01,560 during primary season. 1056 00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:04,800 There was low turnout and low activity and low energy, 1057 00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:05,840 but not compared to this. 1058 00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:07,840 This is insane. 1059 00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:09,080 Thank you for coming out. 1060 00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:10,400 Yeah, that's awesome. 1061 00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,840 [APPLAUSE] 1062 00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:20,200 All right, what's up? 1063 00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:20,700 What's up? 1064 00:49:20,700 --> 00:49:21,960 I think I've seen you before. 1065 00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:22,460 Yes. 1066 00:49:22,460 --> 00:49:23,760 He's the one who taught us the canvas. 1067 00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:25,720 Yeah, I taught him everything he knows. 1068 00:49:25,720 --> 00:49:26,520 The master. 1069 00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:27,080 Well, what's up? 1070 00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:29,800 Did you have any fun experiences this weekend? 1071 00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:31,240 I met a gay Republican. 1072 00:49:31,240 --> 00:49:32,240 OK. 1073 00:49:32,240 --> 00:49:35,160 You're not like your typical like, oh, goes to the RNC. 1074 00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:36,840 Like, he looked like he was from Duck Dynasty. 1075 00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:38,600 Less confusing than gays for Palestine. 1076 00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:39,100 OK. 1077 00:49:39,100 --> 00:49:40,240 Very less than you think. 1078 00:49:40,240 --> 00:49:41,720 OK, look like you were from Duck Dynasty. 1079 00:49:41,720 --> 00:49:44,160 Yeah, and I was like, oh, like, oh, you're David? 1080 00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:45,880 Like, yeah, like, does Patrick also live here? 1081 00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:47,400 He's like, yeah, that's my husband. 1082 00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:50,120 I'm like, OK, well, that's an accent 1083 00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:51,800 I didn't expect to hear those words. 1084 00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:52,960 All right. 1085 00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:56,400 But I actually came up here to talk about something specific. 1086 00:49:56,400 --> 00:50:00,000 The most consistent thing that I am able to tell 1087 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:05,200 people at door knocking is this one story that happens here in Michigan. It's about 1088 00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:11,600 this state rep, Emily Penelope Sonogru. She tried to open up an investigation into a 1089 00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:17,280 school called Interlochen, which took like millions of dollars of Michigan taxpayer dollars, 1090 00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:23,880 which means it's up to Michigan state to investigate. And when she tried to open an investigation 1091 00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:30,900 into this because, well, 70 sex trafficking victims from Epstein's whole affair came specifically 1092 00:50:30,900 --> 00:50:36,640 from this school. Every Republican voted no to investigate and then kicked her off of 1093 00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:41,720 all of her committees, just a snarker. And typically when I tell people this story, like, 1094 00:50:41,720 --> 00:50:46,720 it's really hard to be like, they must have been doing it for a good reason. It typically 1095 00:50:46,720 --> 00:50:55,620 shows that like, they really are like just sort of willing to defend any kind of degeneracy 1096 00:50:55,620 --> 00:51:02,400 or crime or corruption even here in Michigan. Yeah, and I believe we have a chance to flip 1097 00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:06,960 the Michigan House the cycle, right? The Democrats control the Senate. Anybody confirm that? 1098 00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:15,680 I think that's the case. The state legislature. Yeah. Yeah, that guy says confirm. So my 1099 00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:20,400 point is the state races matter just as much as the congressional races and such. Yeah. 1100 00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:25,600 And so if we do manage to win Michigan, that investigation will get off the ground. And 1101 00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:29,800 we will get answers because those 70 people are still alive and deserve justice. There 1102 00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:35,040 you go. We should talk about that more. I do. I haven't ever heard of that. It's shocking 1103 00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:40,240 to me that nobody's like reported on this. Jonathan, the birthday boy, has like was the 1104 00:51:40,240 --> 00:51:43,280 one that actually did like the research to reach out to her and we even did like an interview 1105 00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:48,620 with her, which is pretty cool. I think the the whole the whole reopening and explosion 1106 00:51:48,620 --> 00:51:52,800 of the Epstein stuff wasn't that like a random journalist and was it like 2019 or something 1107 00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:56,920 or 20 as down in Florida? Yeah, it was. Yeah. But this is like a time around then. Yeah, 1108 00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:00,600 it was like investigative journalists that ended up reopening everything on that. So I 1109 00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:04,520 didn't even know that maybe there just needs to be somebody else. So I guess nobody wants 1110 00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:08,080 to look into this. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. We need to get Nick Shirley on the job. Maybe 1111 00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:16,040 yes. That's our boy. Let's get him out there. Well, thanks a lot for coming up and thanks 1112 00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:19,980 for canvassing and I'm sure we'll see you at future events. See you in San Antonio. Oh, 1113 00:52:19,980 --> 00:52:33,360 my God, never mind. Well, thank you so much. Thank you so much. Hey, what's up? What's 1114 00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:40,120 your name? My name is Patty. I'm a little closer. I think. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. My name is 1115 00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:45,880 Patty. I'm from Cleveland. I was at the Cleveland event as well. Awesome. I had a very funny 1116 00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:50,560 story. Lucas, I did exactly what you said that you were never going to do, which is 1117 00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:55,480 get done. I knocked on the door. I knocked on a door where it was said like 22 year old 1118 00:52:55,480 --> 00:53:02,360 Lauren. Okay. So I 40 year old guy opens the door and he's like, what's up? And I'm like, 1119 00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:07,680 hey, I'm here for a Lauren and he's like, what do you want with Lauren? And I'm like, 1120 00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:11,080 well, I'm trying to get people out to register to vote. And he's like, Oh, she doesn't want 1121 00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:16,360 to vote. And I'm like, okay. And he's like, you're not talking to my daughter. I'm the 1122 00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:21,480 man of the house. Get off my property. And I was like, okay, dude. All right. Sorry, Lauren. 1123 00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:25,800 Bye. She's going to hear about that later. Hey, you're trying to vote, girl. You're 1124 00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:34,280 trying to vote. Yeah. So that was, that was interesting. My group that I was with, we knocked 1125 00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:40,160 a thousand doors, just just the seven of us. So that was pretty just today. That was, that 1126 00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:46,120 was, that was our day. That was what we set. And they got it. They got it done. I was, uh, 1127 00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:50,000 I was shuttling everybody around for, for a lot of it. What was this your second canvassing 1128 00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:54,440 event? After this, this is my second canvassing event. But since Cleveland, I have been knocking 1129 00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:58,440 for Brian Poindexter every single weekend. Oh, I actually got to meet the guy, which was 1130 00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:03,320 pretty cool. That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Gave us a shout out. He, when I, when I told him 1131 00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:07,000 that we knocked 12,000 doors with a hundred people from around the country, he literally 1132 00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:12,160 said, and I quote, holy shit. And his eyes just went like really wide. Right. He's the 1133 00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:16,520 Congret Democratic nominee for the house seat that we were knocking doors in in Cleveland. 1134 00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:19,920 Yeah. Have you been knocking doors with like the Cleveland digital ground game group or 1135 00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:24,360 just on? Um, a little bit of both. So I've been trying on one of the leads for the Cleveland 1136 00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:28,040 digital ground game group. So I've been trying to get people out. Um, and a couple of people 1137 00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:31,200 have showed up, which is pretty cool. But we're trying to like funnel them through like the 1138 00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:34,240 DNC stuff. So, well, if you're in Cleveland and you're looking for something to do, it's 1139 00:54:34,240 --> 00:54:40,040 like two more weeks, join the game dot org slash midterms and find the Cleveland group 1140 00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:44,600 in Ohio and help them out, which by the way, if there isn't an event in your city, you 1141 00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:49,080 should still speak up in the discord for digital ground game because they're, they're organizing 1142 00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:53,160 people in the same cities to get together and do stuff too. Yeah. And a lot of times it 1143 00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:57,960 might be that there's just no active presence in a place because there are 10 people there 1144 00:54:57,960 --> 00:54:59,880 that just haven't made themselves known. So, so 1145 00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,780 Just letting people know that you're there and knowing that the interest is there can get something off the ground, so yeah 1146 00:55:03,780 --> 00:55:08,500 Yeah, thanks a lot for coming out again, and hopefully we'll see you at another end of the future too. Yeah, cool. Thank you guys 1147 00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:17,480 Knock knock 1148 00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:19,640 Who's there? 1149 00:55:24,020 --> 00:55:29,220 Okay, what's your name? Hey, I'm Colin I joined the 1150 00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:36,560 The Ohio house at the beginning of October, so I've been knocking doors for like five or six days 1151 00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:44,880 Where were you you said in Ohio? Yeah, where were you living before? Illinois central Illinois? What's the transition like to being in Ohio? 1152 00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:51,040 Is it as bad as everybody else as it is everybody else like every really everybody else? No 1153 00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:55,480 Wait, does it really have the best Mexican food in the world? 1154 00:55:56,480 --> 00:56:00,640 I think I think that was a claim about Detroit right now as mr. Moten's claim about Ohio 1155 00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:04,820 He said it is the best Mexican food in the world. They have decent Taco Bells over there. Yeah 1156 00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:11,840 Sounds like you've assimilated completely to Ohio culture, so hey, I'm already from the Midwest 1157 00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:18,440 So it's not too different except for okay, Michigan the Michigan left's they gotta stop they have to stop 1158 00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:21,760 The Michigan left. Yeah, have you driven around here? Oh? 1159 00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:26,120 What's the Michigan left? Oh my god, Michigan you turn what's that? Oh? 1160 00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:31,120 It's the stupid u-turns that we have to do because each fucking side of the roads a four lane highway for some reason 1161 00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:37,040 It's so dumb. Yeah, you have to turn right and then you have to make a u-turn to go left on like a ton of the roads 1162 00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:41,020 It's ridiculous like it's like that's how the roads laid out or there's like an advanced driving techno 1163 00:56:41,020 --> 00:56:47,660 Like that's how you have to do it that way you can't turn left on a bunch of the roads. Damn. Yeah, it's gotta stop. It's gotta stop 1164 00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:50,480 but 1165 00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:58,000 Here here. All right. Well, uh, we'll get that on a referendum next time. Yeah. Wait, are there like medians blocking you from going left or yeah? 1166 00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:04,400 Well, and no left-turn signs and everything. The sign doesn't stop you for turning left and the cars the cars that you run into will stop 1167 00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:09,600 I mean, you know, that's how big your vehicle is but all right. Well, um, so you've been knocking in Ohio for five or six days 1168 00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:10,720 Yeah 1169 00:57:10,720 --> 00:57:15,460 So I I did about four days in Ohio and then two days here. Okay, five or six days total 1170 00:57:15,460 --> 00:57:21,560 Was this is this your first like official canvassing event? Yes. Okay. What was um, I guess what was it like doing this for? 1171 00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:23,560 You know two days full time 1172 00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:27,600 It was it was fun. Um, most of my time was spent driving around 1173 00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:33,020 But yeah, I think it's it's a lot of fun. I love when 1174 00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:37,960 Republicans answer the door and debate me for a half 1175 00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:44,160 What's it? Did you have any of those this weekend? Yeah, I had a two two of them today 1176 00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:49,240 One of them, I guess is more of like a blue dog Democrat who probably has been voting for Republicans for a while 1177 00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:54,080 The other one was the very last door that I knocked right before coming here 1178 00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:58,400 It was I mean, it was basically like other people were describing 1179 00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:04,760 It was like an older guy. I was there to canvas like a 19 year old girl older guy answers the door 1180 00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:09,440 And I'm like hey, you know, I'm calling here to you know talk about elections 1181 00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:15,200 Make sure people are gonna turn out to vote this year is whoever here and he's like, oh, no 1182 00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:18,760 She's not here, but she's actually gonna be a poll watcher and I'm like, oh, that's awesome 1183 00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:22,120 And he's like, oh, but you know, I I used to be a Democrat 1184 00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:24,800 I'm not really planning on voting and I'm like, oh boy 1185 00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:28,840 Shucks, oh, well, yeah, no, but this guy 1186 00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:34,800 It would be hard to call him a Democrat this guy was busting out all the Fox News talking points 1187 00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:39,600 He was talking about Obama's gay, you know talking about, you know 1188 00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:44,360 Who rules the US and like governs policy and I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa? 1189 00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:52,880 I was definitely like, well, we're a democracy man. We we rule the US. It's not Israel or whoever it's us 1190 00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:55,120 You know, that's why we got a vote, but 1191 00:58:56,280 --> 00:59:00,600 No, it's it's a lot of fun, and apparently I love the debates, so 1192 00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:04,600 All right, well, thank you for coming out very much. Thank you. Yeah, appreciate you 1193 00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:07,360 [applause] 1194 00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:27,720 We need to hand out packets for people to debate about me next to do you remember the was it a person who was phone banking for 1195 00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:31,720 I'll say it who was like I phone banked for this woman and she said she'd heard bad things about her son 1196 00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:34,360 So I argued with her for an hour on the phone. Yeah, we got to have that 1197 00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:38,520 We need to we'll print that next time so you guys could be arguing about all the the John Tron streams and everything else 1198 00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:45,600 Do it. What's up? How are you doing feeling good? What's your name Miami? Your name is Miami? Yeah, cool 1199 00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:47,600 I knew that okay, or nothing weird about that 1200 00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:50,160 Is this your first canvassing about? 1201 00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:56,520 First canvassing event, but I will say I didn't get the chance to canvas myself, but I just wanted to say that 1202 00:59:57,040 --> 00:59:59,960 Hanging about all the stories of my friends at TVA canvassing 1203 01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:04,280 their experiences and seeing a first hand being got a couple of the No Kings rallies 1204 01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:09,640 really did inspired me to get more politically active. Personally like for 1205 01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:14,320 the last five or so years I've been pretty doomer pale and like a lot of 1206 01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:17,120 Gen Z people are like we feel like our voice doesn't matter feel like both 1207 01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:21,760 some matter feel like both sides are corrupt. Like seeing all these super 1208 01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:25,400 compassionate people like I don't know everybody's just so nice in there out 1209 01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:29,960 here in the feeling like it makes me want to get back in the mix. So I 1210 01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:34,800 do plan on canvassing soon. One thing I will say is that to get more people like 1211 01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:40,160 me involved I feel like we got to make it fun. Maybe a little less self-critique 1212 01:00:40,160 --> 01:00:44,280 self-policing but just loosen up make it fun make politics fun again. One of the 1213 01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:47,080 main reasons I was super enthusiastic to come here was because Kyla mentioned 1214 01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:51,080 that she wants young people especially young men to be back involved and the 1215 01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:54,760 reason a lot of us aren't involved is because we just feel like it isn't fun 1216 01:00:54,760 --> 01:01:03,640 but this was really fun for me. So yeah I want to. 1217 01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:07,800 Were you were you out there doing like the interviews debate stuff with them or 1218 01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:11,120 how did you find them I guess what was your connection to to even trope with 1219 01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:14,640 them in the first place. Yeah so she reached out to my homie because he had a 1220 01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:21,120 viral video clown and some Trump supporter girls. He didn't want to come 1221 01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:24,040 out and do it because his parents are super far right so he told me about he 1222 01:01:24,040 --> 01:01:27,720 was just yeah. He's like they're gonna beat my ass. Literally like he exiled from the 1223 01:01:27,720 --> 01:01:32,960 whole family but he's he sold me and I'm like bro you're talking to Aradai like 1224 01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:38,920 he didn't even know. I'm like bro put me on bro like this. I'm like bro throw the 1225 01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:43,640 love I want to be a part of that. So he sold her my account and she was cool with 1226 01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:47,080 the content and she sent me the invite and honestly I didn't know what I was 1227 01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:53,480 gonna get into. I did honestly feel like I wasn't politically savvy enough to fit 1228 01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:59,800 in because I've been doing it for a while but everybody here has been dumb nice to 1229 01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:06,360 me and it was a right decision. What do you live just cares? I live in Miami. You 1230 01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:10,760 live in Miami. Like that's so obvious if I would have assumed that you guys would 1231 01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:16,000 have laughed at me. Fuck you. I will say that like every other we'll say like 1232 01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:19,400 more kind of like online or nerdy hobbies or whatever like know this to be true 1233 01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:25,000 that going to like a comic con or a cosplay con or whatever con to you guys 1234 01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:28,680 video game cons or whatever bliss con you know. It is hype like seeing a bunch of 1235 01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:31,480 people in real life because ordinarily it's all kind of behind the screen and 1236 01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:34,320 sometimes it's easy to get very cynical and you know a little bit 1237 01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:37,200 do-mer about your hobby because it's not the best game or it's not the most 1238 01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:40,400 popular game or people don't get into this and it's weird and I think sometimes 1239 01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:42,960 for politics we just for some reason because politics is everywhere we just 1240 01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:46,800 don't see it the same way but going to an area where there are a bunch of people 1241 01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:50,120 who are politically like-minded and then even going out and talking to voters is 1242 01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:53,700 like you see in the world there are actually people that you just don't hear 1243 01:02:53,700 --> 01:02:56,600 their voices all the time online and I do think it makes you feel more energized 1244 01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:59,520 and it makes you feel better and you're gonna go home with a little bit less of 1245 01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:02,600 a do-mer view of the world and you know brighter vision of the people around you 1246 01:03:02,600 --> 01:03:04,840 in the country and everything because yeah the online stuff if you just sit 1247 01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:08,080 there forever you can spiral and do-mer and it feels like you're completely 1248 01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:10,680 isolated from any kind of reasonable outcome that could ever happen in this 1249 01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:15,200 country anymore yeah. 100% like you were better than I could have been. Well 1250 01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:19,680 engagement comes from outrage people will respond right so the negative stuff 1251 01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:22,720 tends to rise to the top so this is like a breath of fresh air coming to stuff 1252 01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:26,480 like this. It's good for the soul. Did you have any interesting experiences with 1253 01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:33,600 the content you were creating this weekend? I'm smiling. Just say it. Bicep 1254 01:03:33,600 --> 01:03:39,120 curl. I curled a girl and got her to say it. Hey what does that mean I curled a 1255 01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:45,600 girl. I said let me curl you and every time I curl you say F-Trump and she's 1256 01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:49,840 like let's do it. How many did you get? Just three. Hey we'll take it. Hey come 1257 01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:56,360 on it's like at least a hundred pounds. Yeah that was a crazy thing. Well that's 1258 01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:58,720 awesome. Well hopefully you get to do more events with them. Hopefully you can do 1259 01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:01,280 some canvassing events with us and hopefully you get continued to be 1260 01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:06,600 involved and engaged. Awesome. I'm playing on it. Appreciate it. Thank you. 1261 01:04:09,120 --> 01:04:21,840 Careful with the courts. No. No. No. No. No. All right. Was this the 1262 01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:25,680 surrounding? Yeah final contestants for Jubilee. I guess we're a package deal. 1263 01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:29,040 Yeah we thought this was around. Is this is not surrounded? Is this not 1264 01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:34,600 surrounded? Yeah I thought this was Jubilee. If it's not. Okay. What's fun. Let me go. 1265 01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:37,320 What's up. How do you guys do you guys door knock it all? Did you just do a 1266 01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:41,240 little bit of door knocking? There were some particularly fun experiences. I 1267 01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:44,320 knocked on this one woman's door who said she was definitely voting seemed like 1268 01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:46,800 she was very passionate and they asked her if there were any issues she was 1269 01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:50,600 passionate about and she said no. So you know that that was an interesting 1270 01:04:50,600 --> 01:04:53,160 experience like because you know we're content creators so we had to like 1271 01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:56,640 figure out how to like get out of debate mode because my first response was so 1272 01:04:56,640 --> 01:04:59,920 did you just flip a coin or like how do you how do you decide it like you know 1273 01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:03,440 I'm not the best thing to say to someone, but you know it was definitely a fun time 1274 01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:06,400 I know I know you had one guy at the door, right? Oh look 1275 01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:13,160 I think from all the stories that we've heard we've heard some really interesting stories of some people being kind of Grinch's 1276 01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:18,000 But there's also some beautiful stories where we hear someone's experiences and how they feel 1277 01:05:18,560 --> 01:05:24,320 We met an older gentleman. He he definitely had health issues 1278 01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:32,760 But he saw the issues with the Trump administration and saw the things that L. Say had wanted to implement that would resolve 1279 01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:36,160 Issues with like his medical bills for example 1280 01:05:36,160 --> 01:05:43,280 He was standing for things that really any decent human would want to stand for and he had utmost support for L. Say Ed 1281 01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:48,160 So even though like yeah, we run in some Grinch's every now and then 1282 01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:51,960 We also run in some really beautiful people and we ensure that those people are able to vote 1283 01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:57,020 So it's important to also keep those people in mind. We love those people. Absolutely. I thought there was gonna be a punchline 1284 01:05:57,020 --> 01:05:59,180 I was gonna be like yeah, and he's still gonna vote for Trump 1285 01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:03,480 So was it the Medicare for all line that's resonating with him 1286 01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:07,880 So I definitely part of it was the medical for all for all peace definitely cared a lot about health care 1287 01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:09,240 We're definitely just a passionate guy 1288 01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:11,140 There's some people who you feel like lose their mind 1289 01:06:11,140 --> 01:06:15,340 But still remain in the right place politically and it was nice to see that he was one of those individuals 1290 01:06:15,340 --> 01:06:20,480 But yeah, we did a few other things as well. We did some content creation. We went to know King's protests earlier today 1291 01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:25,820 We actually went to a gun show and make them county. It was oh, yeah, there were a lot of a lot of cool people there 1292 01:06:26,400 --> 01:06:31,760 Until they didn't want us there. We were debate guy trying to debate them. What who was the guy trying to debate everybody and debate everyone? 1293 01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:36,880 Yeah, that was me. Oh, yeah, if you could have tell that was in fact me people not want to debate at the gun show 1294 01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:40,600 Some did but the organizers apparently didn't want it and they were kind of complaining 1295 01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:43,900 So when we were there actually 1296 01:06:44,680 --> 01:06:48,920 The problem that we ran into we held up a little sign and apparently 1297 01:06:49,240 --> 01:06:52,320 This a little type of sign right here. Maybe you should put it more in the center 1298 01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:57,000 Yeah, it sounds like that. I don't know what it is about this side of sign 1299 01:06:57,000 --> 01:07:02,560 But conservatives get terrified having open speech with people at least a gun show 1300 01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:05,960 So they ended up kicking a sound and calling the police, but we just want to talk to people 1301 01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:10,980 Look you care about the second amendment. Don't forget about the first amendment too. That's all I want to say on that 1302 01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:13,560 Yeah 1303 01:07:13,560 --> 01:07:16,160 Isn't the whole point the second amendment to protect the first amendment? 1304 01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:20,360 Yeah, I think they just skip over the first amendment anyway Stephen Cratter don't sue us for having this. Okay 1305 01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:24,040 It's our original thing. It was very fun. We did have one guy who walked out 1306 01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:26,080 We didn't get this on film biggest regard of my life 1307 01:07:26,080 --> 01:07:30,240 He literally looked at us and he said you're lucky. I'm not caring right now if I was here 1308 01:07:30,240 --> 01:07:33,600 I would shoot you guys for having that sign so you know that was pretty crazy 1309 01:07:33,600 --> 01:07:38,120 It was pretty pretty wild. I thought the left was the violent ones, but I guess apparently not 1310 01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:41,040 Some for sure, but it was a fun time 1311 01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:42,920 We definitely had a lot of fun knocking doors 1312 01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:47,640 But also getting these content creation opportunities letting people know that just having conversations is something that's really important 1313 01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:53,360 Did you guys go to the no Kings protests or any better? Yeah, we did we went to we went to a couple of them 1314 01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:55,840 It was pretty fun. We got to get some people who were signing up to vote 1315 01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:59,240 I'm kind of filling out that form and you know there were a lot of people who were super happy 1316 01:07:59,240 --> 01:08:01,960 I saw a bunch of a bunch of signs. I saw one of my favorites 1317 01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:04,320 It's my favorite sign I've seen it was a little old lady 1318 01:08:04,320 --> 01:08:08,560 She had a sign that said love dick love taters hate dictators 1319 01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:13,260 And I think that that is incredible and that's the energy that we need frankly need to have 1320 01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:22,400 Awesome. Well, yeah, I was just gonna say I saw furry who was encouraging people to actually go out and vote and wasn't like a communist 1321 01:08:22,400 --> 01:08:25,760 I think yours was a little funnier, but yeah 1322 01:08:26,440 --> 01:08:31,120 Shout-out to that furry at the no Kings event no Kings event. That's a mythical furry out there 1323 01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:37,240 All right. Well, hey, thanks a lot. Hopefully yeah, we see you guys have more events and more canvassing events and more take back America events 1324 01:08:37,240 --> 01:08:40,960 Yeah, can we go to take back America tour calm if you want to hear more about us and what we do 1325 01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:44,400 There's also an event with digital ground game that is happening in San Antonio 1326 01:08:44,920 --> 01:08:49,560 November or actually October 31st through the first I believe and you're gonna be in a dunk tank is that true? 1327 01:08:49,560 --> 01:08:53,480 I keep hearing about that. It might be happening. It might be happening. Yeah, I'll even up people sign up though 1328 01:08:53,480 --> 01:08:57,840 So true, so you got to sign up folks. Thank you very much. I'm game dot org slash mid-term sign up for senator 1329 01:08:57,840 --> 01:08:59,840 Thank you all. Thank you 1330 01:09:08,080 --> 01:09:10,680 Oh, we got one more got one more and then 1331 01:09:13,940 --> 01:09:16,400 I'm not talking to you. I was talking to I was talking to Mooten 1332 01:09:18,120 --> 01:09:20,120 Well, hey, what's up guys? I've seen you guys before 1333 01:09:20,440 --> 01:09:25,000 Yeah, how you guys done? We're doing great. I don't know if he's is he on camera at all and frame major what? 1334 01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:31,320 Yeah, scoot over here, buddy. You're missing her frame. You mess a chair. Oh my god. Don't cut your finger hurt your finger 1335 01:09:31,320 --> 01:09:36,840 You got it. We're good. We're good the chair. What about now? No, beautiful. What's up? Nice shirt 1336 01:09:37,240 --> 01:09:39,240 Yeah, it's a good shirt 1337 01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:48,240 I want to know you guys went on canvassing today, right? Yeah. What was it? How was the experience? Did you enjoy it? It was good 1338 01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:51,600 We had our Republican boss as we talked about at the start 1339 01:09:52,080 --> 01:09:57,880 Everybody else was pretty nice. There was one meek Republican who I hate so much more than like a Republican boss because as soon as 1340 01:09:57,880 --> 01:09:59,920 I knocked on the door, he was like, I don't talk politics 1341 01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:03,700 and just shut it, so everybody else was cool. 1342 01:10:03,700 --> 01:10:05,800 Few doors were just old ladies being like, 1343 01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:08,000 yeah, these guys gotta go, so. 1344 01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:09,480 - Yeah, there's a stark difference 1345 01:10:09,480 --> 01:10:12,400 between the Democrat houses and the Republican ones, 1346 01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:13,880 because the Republicans are pissed, 1347 01:10:13,880 --> 01:10:15,440 and the Democrats are so chill, like, 1348 01:10:15,440 --> 01:10:17,400 yeah, I already voted, looking forward to it. 1349 01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:18,320 - I already mailed it in, man. 1350 01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:19,480 - Yeah, they were Zen. 1351 01:10:20,600 --> 01:10:22,720 - That was great, and I hope that all of you guys 1352 01:10:22,720 --> 01:10:25,600 have had a really good time at the event as well. 1353 01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:28,720 It's really amazing seeing so many people out here 1354 01:10:28,720 --> 01:10:30,960 at an event like this. 1355 01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:34,440 And I do wanna say as well that what we do 1356 01:10:34,440 --> 01:10:36,480 at Digital Ground Game does not just begin 1357 01:10:36,480 --> 01:10:38,520 and end at these events. 1358 01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:41,360 We have members at Digital Ground Game 1359 01:10:41,360 --> 01:10:44,320 out every week doing political action 1360 01:10:44,320 --> 01:10:48,080 in their local area, and that's driven 1361 01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:50,200 through our regional squads. 1362 01:10:51,320 --> 01:10:54,520 For example, I'm the Northeast squad lead. 1363 01:10:56,160 --> 01:10:57,880 And our regional, yeah. 1364 01:10:57,880 --> 01:11:00,880 (audience cheering) 1365 01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:03,480 Our regional squads are organized. 1366 01:11:03,480 --> 01:11:06,160 We've got four in the United States. 1367 01:11:06,160 --> 01:11:09,280 We have the Northeast, the South, the Midwest, the West, 1368 01:11:09,280 --> 01:11:10,360 and then we have a fifth squad, 1369 01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:13,160 which is International Squad for Americans Broad. 1370 01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:17,800 Each squad is run by two to three squad leads, 1371 01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:21,040 with then city organizers who are under them. 1372 01:11:21,040 --> 01:11:22,080 So for example, in the Northeast, 1373 01:11:22,080 --> 01:11:25,720 we have organizers in Boston, New York City, New Jersey, 1374 01:11:25,720 --> 01:11:28,280 Baltimore, Philly, and DC. 1375 01:11:29,200 --> 01:11:31,040 And the point of all of this is to, 1376 01:11:31,040 --> 01:11:34,400 we exist here to, when you join Digital Ground Game, 1377 01:11:34,400 --> 01:11:37,160 to help you guys be able to connect to politics 1378 01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:39,760 in your area, be able to do something near you. 1379 01:11:39,760 --> 01:11:43,440 And so, if you want to be able to do cool things 1380 01:11:43,440 --> 01:11:45,760 and have Digital Ground Game be able to help you do cool things, 1381 01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:48,080 there's a QR code that has been coming up on stream 1382 01:11:48,080 --> 01:11:49,440 that'll come up on soon. 1383 01:11:49,440 --> 01:11:52,600 You can use that to go donate to help fund 1384 01:11:52,600 --> 01:11:54,840 our regional squads as we move into 2027, 1385 01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:57,600 where we're gonna be focusing on a lot of local action, 1386 01:11:57,600 --> 01:12:02,360 or you can go to digitalgroundgame.org/supporters. 1387 01:12:02,360 --> 01:12:03,720 You can donate there as well. 1388 01:12:03,720 --> 01:12:06,720 (audience cheering) 1389 01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:14,120 - Regional squads, local city organizers, 1390 01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:15,760 local organizing, that's the beating heart 1391 01:12:15,760 --> 01:12:17,200 of this whole organization. 1392 01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:20,720 Everything that we've done has been accelerated, 1393 01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:23,680 has been grown through the local organizers, 1394 01:12:23,680 --> 01:12:25,600 and through our regional squads. 1395 01:12:25,600 --> 01:12:27,560 That's what allows things to continue from week to week. 1396 01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:29,440 That's what allows people to feel like camaraderie, 1397 01:12:29,440 --> 01:12:30,680 and get to know each other. 1398 01:12:30,680 --> 01:12:32,760 And these events can't happen all the time. 1399 01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:34,680 So this is how things continue, 1400 01:12:34,680 --> 01:12:37,600 how the energy is kept up, and how the energy is elevated. 1401 01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:41,960 And in 2027, that's gonna be the year of state 1402 01:12:41,960 --> 01:12:43,840 and local organizing, because there's not gonna be 1403 01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:45,200 big national elections, but there's gonna be 1404 01:12:45,200 --> 01:12:47,480 very important state and local elections. 1405 01:12:47,480 --> 01:12:50,120 In Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, 1406 01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:51,960 there's gonna be very important governor races. 1407 01:12:51,960 --> 01:12:53,240 We're gonna need to contest those. 1408 01:12:53,240 --> 01:12:54,720 We're gonna need to get involved with those. 1409 01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:56,080 In Virginia and New Jersey, 1410 01:12:56,080 --> 01:12:58,240 the entire state legislators are up for election. 1411 01:12:58,240 --> 01:12:59,520 Those are state legislators. 1412 01:12:59,520 --> 01:13:00,360 Those are important. 1413 01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:02,080 If we have learned through this year 1414 01:13:02,080 --> 01:13:03,760 with the redistricting battle, 1415 01:13:03,760 --> 01:13:05,480 it's kind of important to have some control 1416 01:13:05,480 --> 01:13:07,360 in the state legislator that you can kind of get fucked with. 1417 01:13:07,360 --> 01:13:08,200 It's not great. 1418 01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:11,360 We need to be involved with these things. 1419 01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:14,640 We need to grow these regional and local groups, 1420 01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:17,320 and get to know each other, and start working day to day to day. 1421 01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:20,080 It's also how you get to know people, make good connections. 1422 01:13:20,080 --> 01:13:25,080 A great example in Pennsylvania, District 15, 1423 01:13:25,400 --> 01:13:29,960 Ray Bilger, he is a former NSA chief. 1424 01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:32,720 Now, we're running for Congress. 1425 01:13:32,720 --> 01:13:33,720 We were able to get to know him 1426 01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:34,800 through our local organizers. 1427 01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:36,000 We were able to interview him. 1428 01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:37,120 I don't know if you guys have seen it. 1429 01:13:37,120 --> 01:13:38,600 - That's a quality pick right there. 1430 01:13:38,600 --> 01:13:41,120 - Yeah, we have an interview on our YouTube channel, 1431 01:13:41,120 --> 01:13:41,960 Digital Ground Game. 1432 01:13:41,960 --> 01:13:42,800 - Nice. 1433 01:13:42,800 --> 01:13:43,640 - You guys should watch it. 1434 01:13:43,640 --> 01:13:44,560 It's great, he's an NSA chief. 1435 01:13:44,560 --> 01:13:46,600 He's a spy, it's really cool. 1436 01:13:46,600 --> 01:13:47,440 - Public servant. 1437 01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:52,960 - And there's a lot that we can do with our members 1438 01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:56,160 in the local areas, and it might seem intimidating 1439 01:13:56,160 --> 01:13:58,280 trying to go in and find the people near you 1440 01:13:58,280 --> 01:13:59,840 to actually start doing things, 1441 01:13:59,840 --> 01:14:02,360 but I will say you don't have to be an organizer 1442 01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:03,920 to start doing this. 1443 01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:05,880 When I stepped up to be Northeast squadly, 1444 01:14:05,880 --> 01:14:07,560 I'd never done organizing before. 1445 01:14:07,560 --> 01:14:09,280 The most I had done at that point 1446 01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:12,400 was I'd gone canvassing a handful of times before, 1447 01:14:12,400 --> 01:14:15,200 and Digital Ground Game and this regional squads, 1448 01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:18,160 we were set up to help give you the tools 1449 01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:21,040 and provide you the support to help you succeed 1450 01:14:21,040 --> 01:14:24,120 and to help you find the people in Digital Ground Game 1451 01:14:24,120 --> 01:14:25,920 in your area, as well as be able to connect 1452 01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:28,560 to the local politics and get involved. 1453 01:14:28,560 --> 01:14:31,280 - What did you do before Digital Ground Game? 1454 01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:33,000 - Before Digital Ground Game, it was mostly just like, 1455 01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:37,000 I'm a programmer, I volunteered to do like, 1456 01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:38,840 I'm a paid open source maintainer, 1457 01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:40,920 so I have some experience with volunteer stuff, 1458 01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:41,760 but it's unbelievable. 1459 01:14:41,760 --> 01:14:42,840 - That's cool, it took your job, huh? 1460 01:14:42,840 --> 01:14:44,920 - Yeah, a little bit. 1461 01:14:44,920 --> 01:14:47,840 - This is a lot different, that's cool. 1462 01:14:48,440 --> 01:14:49,640 - Well, yeah, that's really awesome. 1463 01:14:49,640 --> 01:14:52,800 I think one of the, I'm sorry, I'm not allowed. 1464 01:14:52,800 --> 01:14:54,880 Oh, yeah, okay, you cut me out, no, I'm just kidding. 1465 01:14:54,880 --> 01:14:56,760 One of the things I fight against a lot 1466 01:14:56,760 --> 01:14:57,760 is people always say they're like, 1467 01:14:57,760 --> 01:15:00,560 "Oh, the energy is with the DSA and with progressives." 1468 01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:02,280 and liberals have no energy and blah, blah, blah. 1469 01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:06,860 And I fight against that in terms of a national discourse 1470 01:15:06,860 --> 01:15:08,340 and where the elections are happening. 1471 01:15:08,340 --> 01:15:10,440 But just from what I've heard people tell me, 1472 01:15:10,440 --> 01:15:13,520 at the local organizing level, the DSA actually 1473 01:15:13,520 --> 01:15:15,280 is pretty well maintained. 1474 01:15:15,280 --> 01:15:18,440 They have actual mutual aid where they've got people 1475 01:15:18,440 --> 01:15:21,400 that can help you if you're having a rental dispute 1476 01:15:21,400 --> 01:15:23,480 or other types of services that they'll offer 1477 01:15:23,480 --> 01:15:24,880 if you're subscribed to their local chapters. 1478 01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:26,720 So one of the things that DSA is good at doing 1479 01:15:26,720 --> 01:15:28,620 is taking people and just mobilizing them 1480 01:15:28,620 --> 01:15:30,560 or getting them involved in some kind of political community 1481 01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:31,640 in some way. 1482 01:15:31,640 --> 01:15:34,520 And I think you guys have a really strong start 1483 01:15:34,520 --> 01:15:37,400 in getting something similar like that set up for liberals. 1484 01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:40,120 Because if you feel strong about politics, 1485 01:15:40,120 --> 01:15:41,680 regardless of their electoral success, 1486 01:15:41,680 --> 01:15:43,320 a DSA is highly visible. 1487 01:15:43,320 --> 01:15:44,800 And there's just not that much visibility 1488 01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:47,440 for liberal organizing or liberal stuff. 1489 01:15:47,440 --> 01:15:49,640 So if you want to get involved, I'd 1490 01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:51,720 be willing to bet that half of or maybe even more 1491 01:15:51,720 --> 01:15:53,320 of the DSA members would probably 1492 01:15:53,320 --> 01:15:55,360 get involved with a liberal organization. 1493 01:15:55,360 --> 01:15:57,280 There's just not really much to choose from. 1494 01:15:57,280 --> 01:15:59,200 So yeah, I think getting the organizing done, 1495 01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:00,600 like you guys said, at the local level, 1496 01:16:00,600 --> 01:16:02,240 because not everybody can just go volunteer 1497 01:16:02,240 --> 01:16:05,440 for a presidential candidate, is some of the most important 1498 01:16:05,440 --> 01:16:05,940 stuff you can do. 1499 01:16:05,940 --> 01:16:09,320 And it really lays the roots for world domination 1500 01:16:09,320 --> 01:16:11,640 or US domination when our deep state apparatus grows 1501 01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:13,720 and we can control the next presidential candidate 1502 01:16:13,720 --> 01:16:14,040 or whatever. 1503 01:16:14,040 --> 01:16:16,040 So yeah, and you guys have done an amazing job 1504 01:16:16,040 --> 01:16:18,360 in a relatively short amount of time 1505 01:16:18,360 --> 01:16:20,400 given the presence you guys have in a lot of different areas. 1506 01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:22,920 We had a-- it was lunch with the-- 1507 01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:24,800 what are they called the South Florida crew, or the-- 1508 01:16:24,800 --> 01:16:26,520 I don't know what chapter they were, but the-- 1509 01:16:26,520 --> 01:16:27,020 chapter. 1510 01:16:27,020 --> 01:16:28,720 Yeah, the South Florida chapter. 1511 01:16:28,720 --> 01:16:30,080 Yeah, so-- and then you guys, obviously, 1512 01:16:30,080 --> 01:16:31,320 a lot of you guys are getting connected 1513 01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:34,120 with pretty cool political people that are household names 1514 01:16:34,120 --> 01:16:36,600 across the United States, which sometimes 1515 01:16:36,600 --> 01:16:37,960 of influencers of South Florida people 1516 01:16:37,960 --> 01:16:39,940 were talking to, you know, Isaiah Martin when they were 1517 01:16:39,940 --> 01:16:41,200 canvassing and everything else. 1518 01:16:41,200 --> 01:16:42,920 Yeah, I think something really important that Ken Martin is 1519 01:16:42,920 --> 01:16:45,280 trying to do is the 50 state strategy where we always, 1520 01:16:45,280 --> 01:16:47,680 as Democrats, like have something kind of going on. 1521 01:16:47,680 --> 01:16:50,000 So we're not waiting for each, like, mid-term cycle 1522 01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:51,360 or, like, the presidency. 1523 01:16:51,360 --> 01:16:54,520 So I think digital ground game, like, gearing up for 2027 1524 01:16:54,520 --> 01:16:58,120 and getting local is a really, really, really good step 1525 01:16:58,120 --> 01:16:59,560 in the right direction. 1526 01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:03,120 Yeah, and speaking of world domination, 1527 01:17:03,120 --> 01:17:05,320 we are-- we've been doing things this entire year. 1528 01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:06,720 This is not just strategy. 1529 01:17:06,720 --> 01:17:08,800 We're not talking about what we want to do. 1530 01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:10,520 These regional squads, these local organizations, 1531 01:17:10,520 --> 01:17:11,440 have been doing a lot. 1532 01:17:11,440 --> 01:17:15,320 And as Sam said, every week there's people canvassing. 1533 01:17:15,320 --> 01:17:16,520 Really, every day. 1534 01:17:16,520 --> 01:17:18,640 And what we want to do is we want to go over a little bit 1535 01:17:18,640 --> 01:17:20,840 of the things I've done over 2026. 1536 01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:21,760 It's really high level. 1537 01:17:21,760 --> 01:17:24,160 It's just-- hit things a little bit further up. 1538 01:17:24,160 --> 01:17:25,160 Just a little further. 1539 01:17:25,160 --> 01:17:26,160 There you go. 1540 01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:28,800 It's just touch things that these squads and regions 1541 01:17:28,800 --> 01:17:31,840 have done just from region to region. 1542 01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:33,520 And we can't touch everything. 1543 01:17:33,520 --> 01:17:36,120 We're not going to be here for two and 1/2 hours talking 1544 01:17:36,120 --> 01:17:38,360 about every single canvassing event that was done, 1545 01:17:38,360 --> 01:17:40,680 every single meetup, every single get together, 1546 01:17:40,680 --> 01:17:42,680 because that's the other important thing with this as well. 1547 01:17:42,680 --> 01:17:44,320 It's not just political action. 1548 01:17:44,320 --> 01:17:45,840 Like, social events are important. 1549 01:17:45,840 --> 01:17:47,240 Like, camaraderie getting together. 1550 01:17:47,240 --> 01:17:49,600 There's a reason why we're having this after the canvassing. 1551 01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:52,640 We didn't have people just show up, knock some doors, 1552 01:17:52,640 --> 01:17:54,500 and then leave, because it's important for people 1553 01:17:54,500 --> 01:17:56,040 to talk with each other, get to know each other, 1554 01:17:56,040 --> 01:17:58,760 socialize with each other, become friends with each other. 1555 01:17:58,760 --> 01:18:01,000 And that's also really an important part of this. 1556 01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:03,720 So starting off with one of our underlucks, 1557 01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:05,960 but in critically important regions, 1558 01:18:05,960 --> 01:18:07,600 is the international region. 1559 01:18:07,600 --> 01:18:10,640 They've been working really, really hard with a group 1560 01:18:10,640 --> 01:18:12,320 called Democrats Abroad. 1561 01:18:12,320 --> 01:18:13,600 Has anybody heard of this? 1562 01:18:13,600 --> 01:18:14,520 Yeah. 1563 01:18:14,520 --> 01:18:15,120 You all should have. 1564 01:18:15,120 --> 01:18:16,720 We did a CTA for a while ago. 1565 01:18:16,720 --> 01:18:19,080 I know you all are doing our CTA's. 1566 01:18:19,080 --> 01:18:20,440 It's great. 1567 01:18:20,440 --> 01:18:22,000 But Democrats Abroad is an organization 1568 01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:25,080 that helps Americans Abroad register to vote 1569 01:18:25,080 --> 01:18:26,280 and get contacted. 1570 01:18:26,280 --> 01:18:27,800 And they don't usually get a lot of help. 1571 01:18:27,800 --> 01:18:28,960 They're very underlooked. 1572 01:18:28,960 --> 01:18:32,320 We more than doubled the amount of contacts that you get. 1573 01:18:32,320 --> 01:18:34,240 I actually use that to register to vote, 1574 01:18:34,240 --> 01:18:35,720 because I live in Canada now. 1575 01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:37,800 There we go. 1576 01:18:37,800 --> 01:18:38,240 And the flesh. 1577 01:18:38,240 --> 01:18:42,160 [APPLAUSE] 1578 01:18:42,160 --> 01:18:44,560 But these guys, our international squad 1579 01:18:44,560 --> 01:18:48,920 helped them get over 2,200 Americans Abroad registered 1580 01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:53,360 and get them information, which doesn't seem like a lot. 1581 01:18:53,360 --> 01:18:55,120 But for an organization that's small, 1582 01:18:55,120 --> 01:18:58,000 that underfunded, and that are underlooked, it means a lot. 1583 01:18:58,000 --> 01:18:59,480 And we do want to boost that more 1584 01:18:59,480 --> 01:19:01,280 and help them get even more and more juice. 1585 01:19:01,280 --> 01:19:03,040 International squad is really important. 1586 01:19:03,040 --> 01:19:04,560 Our West region. 1587 01:19:04,560 --> 01:19:05,920 Seattle, we've been doing a lot. 1588 01:19:05,920 --> 01:19:07,160 We have a lot of meetups. 1589 01:19:07,160 --> 01:19:08,560 We meet every Tuesday. 1590 01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:11,160 We canvas with our local leaders. 1591 01:19:11,160 --> 01:19:12,800 We have some of our local races. 1592 01:19:12,800 --> 01:19:15,200 In California, they've been consistently canvassing 1593 01:19:15,200 --> 01:19:16,760 for Derrick Train. 1594 01:19:16,760 --> 01:19:19,720 I think almost seven times at this point, they've been doing a lot. 1595 01:19:19,720 --> 01:19:22,040 They've been really, really working hard for Derrick Train. 1596 01:19:22,040 --> 01:19:25,480 Up in Alaska, we have our Alaska chapter, 1597 01:19:25,480 --> 01:19:27,560 knocking for Peltola in Alaska. 1598 01:19:27,560 --> 01:19:30,360 If they can do it in Alaska, if they can meet in Alaska, 1599 01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:31,200 you all can meet. 1600 01:19:31,200 --> 01:19:32,560 You guys don't have any excuses. 1601 01:19:32,560 --> 01:19:37,360 [APPLAUSE] 1602 01:19:37,360 --> 01:19:42,000 In Midwest, we have our first college chapter getting started. 1603 01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:44,520 One of our first college chapters getting started at MSU. 1604 01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:50,000 [APPLAUSE] 1605 01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:54,960 And as was said earlier by Patti, the Cleveland group 1606 01:19:54,960 --> 01:19:58,560 in Midwest has gone out canvassing for Brian Poindexter 1607 01:19:58,560 --> 01:19:59,960 outside of the Cleveland event. 1608 01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:02,880 we had three weeks ago, they've knocked a bunch of doors, 1609 01:20:02,880 --> 01:20:06,880 they got to meet Brian Poindexter in person as well, or, yeah. 1610 01:20:06,880 --> 01:20:09,880 - Yeah, yeah, they met him. 1611 01:20:11,800 --> 01:20:14,200 - Yeah, South Squad, you guys talked about Miami. 1612 01:20:15,240 --> 01:20:16,780 Our South Squad has been doing a lot of work 1613 01:20:16,780 --> 01:20:18,400 and been growing very, very quickly. 1614 01:20:18,400 --> 01:20:19,680 Florida has become a hotbed. 1615 01:20:19,680 --> 01:20:21,440 They're canvassing every week. 1616 01:20:21,440 --> 01:20:22,380 They're meeting politicians. 1617 01:20:22,380 --> 01:20:24,800 They have members who are becoming parts of campaigns 1618 01:20:24,800 --> 01:20:27,680 or actually working for the local Democratic Party. 1619 01:20:27,680 --> 01:20:29,560 - They were telling me people are writing off Angie Nixon, 1620 01:20:29,560 --> 01:20:32,120 but they think like she's actually got a chance. 1621 01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:33,260 - Well, and that's the other important thing 1622 01:20:33,260 --> 01:20:35,280 about these local groups is that they're on the ground. 1623 01:20:35,280 --> 01:20:36,920 You can get information that you usually can't 1624 01:20:36,920 --> 01:20:38,680 because you can either read headlines about it 1625 01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:40,400 or you can talk with people working on these campaigns 1626 01:20:40,400 --> 01:20:41,600 and see things that other people don't. 1627 01:20:41,600 --> 01:20:44,520 And that's one of the powers of power of these local groups. 1628 01:20:44,520 --> 01:20:48,080 They're intelligence, but also Texas. 1629 01:20:48,080 --> 01:20:49,240 We're going to have an event in Texas. 1630 01:20:49,240 --> 01:20:50,160 Texas is a big state. 1631 01:20:50,160 --> 01:20:52,000 Texas is going to turn blue. 1632 01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:54,120 If it doesn't turn blue, I'm going to be very sad. 1633 01:20:54,120 --> 01:20:55,600 (audience applauds) 1634 01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:59,400 But in Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio, 1635 01:20:59,400 --> 01:21:01,080 we now have city organizers. 1636 01:21:01,080 --> 01:21:03,400 If so, you're in Texas, you have people to reach out to. 1637 01:21:03,400 --> 01:21:05,080 You can join our Discord. 1638 01:21:05,080 --> 01:21:07,480 North Carolina, it's an important race. 1639 01:21:07,480 --> 01:21:10,320 We're going to get another senator over there. 1640 01:21:10,320 --> 01:21:13,360 Today, there were people canvassing in North Carolina, 1641 01:21:13,360 --> 01:21:15,040 in the North Carolina squad. 1642 01:21:15,040 --> 01:21:16,520 (audience applauds) 1643 01:21:16,520 --> 01:21:19,080 And they met Pete Buttigieg talking about earlier. 1644 01:21:19,080 --> 01:21:21,200 People meet, you can meet these political figures 1645 01:21:21,200 --> 01:21:23,360 at these events, these open doors and allow you to network. 1646 01:21:23,360 --> 01:21:24,200 They met Pete Buttigieg. 1647 01:21:24,200 --> 01:21:26,440 They were able to get information, swap information 1648 01:21:26,440 --> 01:21:29,880 with their campaign manager or grand or media person. 1649 01:21:29,880 --> 01:21:30,960 I don't forget who. 1650 01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:32,360 But that's how these things happen, 1651 01:21:32,360 --> 01:21:34,320 is people go and do these things. 1652 01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:38,640 - And in Northeast, as was mentioned before, 1653 01:21:38,640 --> 01:21:40,600 there was Ray Bilger interview we did. 1654 01:21:40,600 --> 01:21:42,520 We also interviewed Brandon Dukes, 1655 01:21:42,520 --> 01:21:45,840 who's running for the PA legislature in a special election, 1656 01:21:45,840 --> 01:21:49,520 where he won the district move by over 20 points. 1657 01:21:51,120 --> 01:21:55,120 And, first time that district's been held by a Democrat 1658 01:21:55,120 --> 01:21:59,080 over 30 years, we were one of two places 1659 01:21:59,080 --> 01:22:03,560 that gave him an interview, before he won that election. 1660 01:22:03,560 --> 01:22:04,400 You can also-- 1661 01:22:04,400 --> 01:22:07,400 (audience applauds) 1662 01:22:07,400 --> 01:22:09,800 - So he'll remember that. 1663 01:22:09,800 --> 01:22:11,120 - Now he's on CNN. 1664 01:22:11,120 --> 01:22:13,960 And also, during the run up to that special election, 1665 01:22:13,960 --> 01:22:15,700 they were taking clips from that interview 1666 01:22:15,700 --> 01:22:17,360 and they were posting it all over their social media. 1667 01:22:17,360 --> 01:22:18,200 - Oh, wow. 1668 01:22:20,840 --> 01:22:23,680 - So, and this race was won, it was a 20-point shift, 1669 01:22:23,680 --> 01:22:26,600 but this was still won by less than 100 votes. 1670 01:22:26,600 --> 01:22:29,640 So, it's like, every single vote out there matters. 1671 01:22:29,640 --> 01:22:33,040 And then, additionally, Northeast, 1672 01:22:33,040 --> 01:22:35,360 there was no canvassing event last week. 1673 01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:37,800 However, Northeast, we did a weekend of action. 1674 01:22:37,800 --> 01:22:40,920 We had over 30 volunteers out knocking doors 1675 01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:42,880 in Maryland, New York, in Maine. 1676 01:22:42,880 --> 01:22:45,840 We knocked over 1,000 doors with over 30 volunteers. 1677 01:22:45,840 --> 01:22:47,800 Like, we have people out there doing things. 1678 01:22:47,800 --> 01:22:49,280 (audience applauds) 1679 01:22:49,280 --> 01:22:53,280 - There is literally two to three weeks left in the election. 1680 01:22:53,280 --> 01:22:55,000 Get your asses out there in Canvas, 1681 01:22:55,000 --> 01:22:56,240 help everybody out. 1682 01:22:57,200 --> 01:22:59,240 - And just one last thing. 1683 01:22:59,240 --> 01:23:01,760 If you could not make it to this event, 1684 01:23:01,760 --> 01:23:04,840 and you want a canvassing event near you, 1685 01:23:04,840 --> 01:23:06,920 what you can create your own at home, 1686 01:23:06,920 --> 01:23:10,680 go to discord.gg/digitalgroundgame, 1687 01:23:10,680 --> 01:23:14,120 join into the channel for your regional squad, 1688 01:23:14,120 --> 01:23:15,120 and just post in there and say, 1689 01:23:15,120 --> 01:23:17,160 "Hey, I'm in this area. 1690 01:23:17,160 --> 01:23:19,680 "Are there any other people here near me?" 1691 01:23:19,680 --> 01:23:21,480 And our city leads, our squad leads, 1692 01:23:21,480 --> 01:23:23,400 will help you find the people in our Discord 1693 01:23:23,400 --> 01:23:25,080 who are near you, and help you get out there, 1694 01:23:25,080 --> 01:23:26,360 get organizing. 1695 01:23:26,360 --> 01:23:29,640 And if you are in the Detroit area here, 1696 01:23:29,640 --> 01:23:32,600 and you want to do more cool things like this, 1697 01:23:32,600 --> 01:23:34,040 please come talk to me after this. 1698 01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:37,560 And if you're watching from the Detroit area on stream, 1699 01:23:37,560 --> 01:23:40,480 go into the Discord and ping @samk, 1700 01:23:40,480 --> 01:23:44,520 and, 'cause I want to get you guys out there doing something. 1701 01:23:44,520 --> 01:23:46,080 - All right, thank you very much. 1702 01:23:46,080 --> 01:23:46,920 Thanks a lot. 1703 01:23:46,920 --> 01:23:49,920 (audience applauds) 1704 01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:54,640 - Thank you Mr. Mooten and IRI for coming out 1705 01:23:54,640 --> 01:23:55,480 and doing a show with me. 1706 01:23:55,480 --> 01:23:58,360 Thanks to all the digital ground game guys, 1707 01:23:58,360 --> 01:24:00,200 everybody that helped to organize this event, 1708 01:24:00,200 --> 01:24:02,600 the house, the guys that are doing long-term workout here, 1709 01:24:02,600 --> 01:24:04,720 you guys for all showing up, 1710 01:24:04,720 --> 01:24:05,840 both at home on the stream, 1711 01:24:05,840 --> 01:24:08,560 and here physically in person to knock on doors. 1712 01:24:08,560 --> 01:24:10,480 We're gonna have a good event next week 1713 01:24:10,480 --> 01:24:11,720 that I won't be at, unfortunately, 1714 01:24:11,720 --> 01:24:13,400 but it's in Pennsylvania. 1715 01:24:13,400 --> 01:24:15,880 And then after that, we're gonna have a big one 1716 01:24:15,880 --> 01:24:18,880 in San Antonio that's gonna be a dunk tank. 1717 01:24:18,880 --> 01:24:20,440 There's gonna be a dunk tank. 1718 01:24:20,440 --> 01:24:21,560 It's gonna be an amazing event. 1719 01:24:21,560 --> 01:24:24,240 We're gonna be doing a mid-term stream afterwards. 1720 01:24:24,240 --> 01:24:27,400 That's gonna be very great and inspirational, 1721 01:24:27,400 --> 01:24:29,160 and we're gonna be celebrating the whole time. 1722 01:24:29,160 --> 01:24:31,200 - We're gonna be watching Tallerico win. 1723 01:24:31,200 --> 01:24:32,040 - Yeah. 1724 01:24:32,040 --> 01:24:35,520 (audience applauds) 1725 01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:36,720 In fact, it's not even that big. 1726 01:24:36,720 --> 01:24:38,880 You can probably make plans at like 9.30, 1727 01:24:38,880 --> 01:24:39,960 'cause we'll already know by then 1728 01:24:39,960 --> 01:24:41,160 the outcomes of all the elections 1729 01:24:41,160 --> 01:24:42,480 that will have swept easily, 1730 01:24:42,480 --> 01:24:43,880 that will be called early in the night, 1731 01:24:43,880 --> 01:24:47,040 because we're gonna win there by such a monumental landslide. 1732 01:24:47,040 --> 01:24:48,240 Thanks a lot for you guys for organizing. 1733 01:24:48,240 --> 01:24:49,320 We couldn't do this without you guys. 1734 01:24:49,320 --> 01:24:50,440 We couldn't do this without you guys. 1735 01:24:50,440 --> 01:24:52,360 Donating to the projects. 1736 01:24:52,360 --> 01:24:54,040 That's been incredibly helpful 1737 01:24:54,040 --> 01:24:55,360 for the people that get involved in the discord, 1738 01:24:55,360 --> 01:24:57,280 for the people that show up here in person. 1739 01:24:57,280 --> 01:24:58,480 Yeah, thanks a lot to all you guys, 1740 01:24:58,480 --> 01:24:59,720 and we will catch you. 1741 01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:03,480 On stream tomorrow and then also at the next event. We'll see you in San Antonio and