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Hey everybody. Tim O. From the Bulwark. I'm in New York for MSNBC and decided while I was here that I should do some political anthropology. Going to the Lion's Den a little bit. And so I visited the guys over at Barstool Sports for folks who don't know Barstool, unbelievably popular site that began as sports but now does sports, culture, some politics, reality shows, bunch of stuff. And yeah know they tend to have a reputation as being fratty. Some of their biggest names like Dave Portnoy had interviewed the President Trump and, and they've got some prominent folks that are pretty maga and, and so a lot of times people in democratic world look at Barstool and see it as, you know, I don't know what would be the pejorative. Just a bunch of, a bunch of fucking dude bros who just care about tits and, and are kind of crass and are not natural allies to the Democrats. And I, I've just, I can, I just reject that worldview. I, I always have. I think that a lot of these guys were Obama voters and I think that it's incumbent on the Democrats to try to get them back. And it doesn't mean that they just got to prioritize frat bros over every other demo, but it does mean that there's got to be like a concerted effort to reach out to them. Just like there was a concert of effort to reach out to any demographic. And so I went over there chat with this guy, kfc, Kevin Quincy. And KFC is one of the more visible guys over there and he had did this really compelling Instagram pushing back against the FCC efforts to bully stations into not carrying Kimmel. And, and I kind of did a deep dive on this and educated a lot of his followers about like the corruption that was really at play here in addition to the free speech threats. And so I reached out to him and he's like, yeah, come on by. So I was in the Barstool headquarters, you'll see me. I'm in the seat the KFC usually sits in because I'm interviewing him for our channel and I thought it was cool that they hosted us. I was really appreciative and I think this conversation should be a wake up call to a lot of people about a lot of Democrats, that is a lot of people in the pro democracy movement about just how many votes were left on the table by not actually trying to engage with a massive demographic in this country. And so anyway, I think it was interesting to hear KFC's take on what the Democrats could do. We also had some fun at the expense of these fucking free speech comedians who are going over to Saudi Arabia and doing comedy sets that are approved by the crown Prince. And, man, we talked about a wide range of issues. I thought it was gonna be, like, 20 minutes. I think we almost went for an hour. So I hope you guys enjoyed as much as I did. Gonna try to do a series of these, obviously. I talked to Kirk Benahan a couple weeks ago. If you missed that, we'll put a link in the show notes. Hopefully it's as valuable for you as it is for me. And let me know what you think in the comments. Subscribe to the feed. Thanks a bunch again to KFC for being willing to do this and for hosting me. And we'll be talking to y' all soon. All right, guys, this is a new one. I'm doing something different. I'm at Barstool HQ in New York. I didn't think I'd be here. I'm. I'm in the dad chair for the KFC show, and I want to talk politics with him. He's like, come do it in the studio rather than on Zoom. This is way better.
