In the biggest speech of her life, Kamala Harris gives a dazzling address making the case for herself and her vision, and absolutely torching Donald Trump and Project 2025. Jon, Lovett, Dan, and Tommy talk about why the speech was so effective and why it was so different than what we’ve seen at past conventions. Then, Gov. Gavin Newsom stops by the studio to talk about his his years-long friendship with Harris, and who she is as a person.
CHAPTERS
0:00 – Intro
0:40 – Kamala Harris speech
30:30 – Ad break
31:44 – Gavin Newsom Interview
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An assistant coach IS a coach! Geez, watch Ted Lasso already!!! 💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙
Kamala Harris is just incredible, perfect person for the presidency of the most powerful country in the world. An avid follower from the Philippines. God bless Kamala Harris, God bless America!
Did y'all come back and do this podcast before it was over? Or maybe during a rehearsal? I can hear music!😅
ETA: You don't think it was necessary to go through all the bad things Trump did?? First, she didn't. Second, this was the Democratic National Convention!
Look at all these bots and delusional people. The Democrats hate democracy, they appointed their nominee.
The speech convinced me not to vote for her. She won't be any different than Biden in their ghoulish support for Israel's genocide. She prioritized Israeli civilians as if they were the ones who are currently seeing 40,000 of their civilians murdered, and invoked debunked claims about sexual violence when as we speak, Israel is debating whether or not the IDF soldiers who raped Palestinian detainees to death should be allowed to. She's chosen a side, both by eliminating the Palestinian speaker from her speaking slot, then by simping for Zionist libs and warmongering about Iran. Anyone this craven will do anything for power. And once in power, she will do anything to keep it. The speech proved she simply doesn't view Palestinians as equal or fully as human as Jews or Israelis. They're just an aside. Their death and suffering is talked about in passive tense, with no mention of what's caused those deaths. But you and all the wine spritzer libs can dance the night away at the DNC all week while the most reasonable voices for peace are on the street, shut out of the "big tent party." Don't ever lecture me again about "preserving democracy" or protecting women's reproductive rights, when you don't even view a Palestinian's right to not be murdered as of equal value. And "prosecuting the case" against Trump or protecting "the rule of law" means nothing when you protect a war criminal like Netanyahu.
I was really hoping you guys would have more and more Kamala signs in each episode, gradually burying you by the final night so you had to do the show, neck deep in signs.
Does any of the idiots on the left know harris policies? Didnt think so. Yall brainwashed like no other. 😅😅😂
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
This is just another thing we can thank Biden for, the establishment dems didn’t want her to be the candidate, they wanted to open the process up, which would have been a disaster. We didn’t have the time to do anything except rally behind one candidate. Biden saw her as an electable candidate when others didn’t. His quick decision to endorse her sealed the deal, when in normal situations it may not have. Thank you Joe.
Vote 💙 if you love ❤🤍💙
Did I see a Green Jill sign?
Green Party / Jill Stein?
Am I hallucinating? Haha
These guys look like they’re about to start comparing business cards and lie about making reservations at Dorsia’s
Nobody voted for her, she was anointed by Hollywood.
Stopped listening at Gavin Newsom.
As a European im worried what could happen if Trump/Vance gets in the White House..America is SOOO important,its THE leader of the free world,of democracy,free trade,global economy,security etc..i have faith in America 🇺🇲💯🇸🇪👍
As an Australian I demand more Pacific Rim. ❤
This was one of the best DNC ever. I loved it, I'm seeing a different Democratic party.
Got an ad showing Obama asking for $5. Accidentally gave it to Trump instead. D'oh!
You talked about turning the convention around for the top of the ticket, but I want to call you out for doing an amazing job for crooked! The Friend of the Pod folks, myself included, got huge treats. And seeing you all energized and having a great time was a real treat. Thanks for your hard work, I, for one, appreciate the hell out of you.
Just say "Americans".
It's disgusting and repellant that they are laughing about the disenfranchisement of democrat voters to CHOOSE THEIR OWN nominee. But they will vote for whoever the F the DNC tells them to.
I thought her speech was largely pretty good. I take immense issue with her portion on Gaza as she codes it as caring about both sides equally but she never commits to calling that cruelty towards Palestinians what it truly is: a genocide. She also sounded more hawkish on foreign policy in general than my tastes, but considering we are moving to the general election, I expected some movement towards the center (aka center right) on this.
As long as she sticks to a more progressive economic platform like what Biden started, things are looking good. Biden impressed me with his handling on the economy even with a pandemic and corporate greed culminating in some rough inflation, and since Harris wants to bare minimum keep pushing that forward, I will be content.
Her section on Trump was master class. She was really able to lay it all out in plain terms and didn't make anything sound corny. I really hope she got through to some voters who were considering sitting out or voting for Trump but mostly begrudgingly.
Enjoyed all the guys BS'ing with Gavin! 🤣🤣🤣
I LOVE these guys!
The wall-to-wall glazefest is nauseating
My mayor, my governor, could have run for president but he always knows something and always chooses the right Road so he stayed in California to finish the great job he's doing, like picking up trash from tunnels in LA last week. His day will come💖 Great guy!
I wish Choir!Choir!Choir! could’ve been there with Patti Smith to sing People Have The Power ❤️👏👏👏
Tommy summed it up perfectly.
As a person with a brain it blows my mind that these comments below have really fallen for Kamala Harris. Maybe they di not have a brain.
I hate Gavin Newsom. He really doesn’t care about California.
Lovett is buzzed, right? Or is he in some kind of trouble?
Instead of people treating this as history making, people should be saying it’s about time! Why? Other countries have women presidents and prime ministers. We call this history making because of sexism. It should be it’s about time and normal!
Gavin Newsom looks HUGE sitting in that Goldy Locks chair next to y'all!!
Organic as hell… let's get it!!
I am a 14 Year old LGBTQ Latino/American living abroad and this is my first time paying attention to a convention. When I saw the crowd I saw America. When i watcjed the speeches I heard what America could be. For the first time in my life I believe in a candidate, for the first time in my life I have HOPE for America and hope that I can live in the America that was shown at this convention. When we fight, WE WIN! 🇺🇲💙🦅❤️✅
I bet you there’s people from other countries who’d like to volunteer for the Harris-Walz campaign
I would never vote for #45. I've known about him since the 80's. I'm looking forward to voting FOR the Harris/Walz ticket. Positive vibes from New Hampshire, remember to be kind to each other and yourself during these trying times.
But she never once talked about hannibal leckter or electric boats pr sharks ..what's she hiding 🤔🤔.. theres something fishy going on here 😅
i live in calif and have my whole life and i did love newsom especially during covid, he didn't raise the minimum wage for anyone except fast food workers basically to 20 an hour and no that has not produced more jobs for anyone or at least my city, they jhave cut down to around 3 people in them one taking orders one cooking and the other cleaning it takes forever to get food anymore if you can afford it. for my my son and his dad to eat at carls jr is over 50.00 and then you get home and you think how stupid is this we used to pay less than 30 so we don't eat fast food any longer.
Trump and Elon had a powerful interview. We look forward to Comrade Kamala and Tampon Tim getting trounced even with all the cheating from the dems. Bonus: Bless you RFK for speaking. Truth about the DNC. 😊
i will be voting for the felon and the hillbilly anytime over kamala who by no means deserves the nomination even gtf out
Kamala Walz for democracy. Vote Blue America 💙💙💙
great wrap up episode to a fucking amazing week of shows. you guys fucking killed it! the DNC killed it! Kamala killed it, walz killed it! LETS FUCKING GO! WHOOOOO!
A Kamala Presidency would be a dumpster fire. Don't know what hallucinegenic drugs Democrats are taking. But California is no future for the United States.