GOP's Battle of Wits and Cunning (Debate Review)
Head in the Office
HITO Media LLC
5.0 • 801 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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The HITO boys cover the bombastic battle of wits that was the first GOP presidential primary debate and talk about one man's notable absence. If you enjoy the show make sure to check out our other social media, leave a five star review on apple, and peep the patreon for early access to new episodes.
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| 0:00.0 | If you've been paying attention to pretty much anything this week, you definitely know about |
| 0:03.4 | Richmond, north of Richmond. |
| 0:04.5 | One, we talked about it last week. |
| 0:06.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:07.3 | We talked about it on last week's episode. |
| 0:08.7 | Just a little bit. |
| 0:09.2 | I really didn't want to, but we had to. |
| 0:12.2 | All roads led to it. |
| 0:13.8 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:14.6 | And then naturally, we couldn't, we couldn't avert our eyes when the GOP primary debate hosted by Fox News starts off with |
| 0:24.4 | Richmond, North of Richmond. |
| 0:25.7 | Like 30 seconds of it. 30 seconds of it. Just playing on the speakers and on the big screen that's |
| 0:31.2 | in the stage in front of all the candidates to lead them into their first question about |
| 0:34.5 | Bidenomics. Yeah. It was a crazy moment, kind of surreal, super corny, and it's like, okay, yeah, this, I feel like this furthers the idea that he was astro-turfed. 100% because, like, if you hadn't heard that song before, now it's being played in front of, I'm guessing, tens of millions of people. Uh-huh. That's a fucking crazy thing to do, especially because I went back and watched |
| 0:54.6 | parts of the debate. The candidates didn't even like talk about the song in the responses at all. |
| 0:59.9 | It was just being boosted by Fox News. They were probably paid to put it there. They literally put it in |
| 1:04.5 | there to say, okay, Richmond North, what about inflation? Yeah. How about Bidenomics? How do we feel |
| 1:09.8 | about that, everybody? Let's get our economic policy out of the way. What a wild thing to do. Which was a weird thing to kind of rush through. Like, let's rush through the economic policy so we can get to the real meat of this. Trans people. Even, yeah, even when you look at like polling of the Republican electorate, the number one issue is usually always the economy. |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.4 | And right now it's inflation. |
| 1:29.8 | And we have some figures on that for later in the episode when we talk about the debate itself. But yeah, crazy thing to just get out of the way quickly. But anyway, anyway, debate itself, like you said, no, I want to talk about right here. I want to talk about Oliver Anthony, the man the myth, the legend, his response to seeing his |
| 1:44.9 | music video played on stage in front of the GOP candidates, because apparently he was mad about |
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