57. Guest- Brad Garfield- Private J-Boy, Trump Caravans, Post Election Speculation & Crazy Squirrels

The Chris Ham podcast

I start recapping Covid Halloween and talk about aggressive squirrels in my neighborhood and spider crickets.(0:00-7:09)

Recorded 11/1/20-My friend from town and around the corner neighbor Brad Garfield, mutli-talented creative media executive, and resident Trump hater joins the pod to talk about the upcoming election and what is at stake for the country.

We start talking about Brad's upbringing in Southern California in the 1960s including being a lone Jewish person among peers, his hippy parents, his Marine corp stint, backpacking around Europe in the 80s, how the best decision he ever made galvanized his political activism and awareness, and why it still matters to vote in solid blue and red states (7:10-25:17)

What would Brad say to swing a swing voter? One word and one attribute sum things up. We talk Trump supporter narratives, we discuss these Trump caravans leading up to the elections, and speculate post-election day results (25:17-48:00)

Brad talks about how internationally we are an embarrassment currently in spite of this attitude of American "exceptionalism" and why young politicians BOTH Democrats and Republican are important as we look ahead. We also talk about how policies matter OVER party. We touch on the fruitless Hunter Biden story and juxtapose it with Trump family nepotism. (48:00-58:00)

Why do we think 2020 will be different than 2016? How did we feel after Trump got elected in his first term? How Brad's young adult kids talked him off the ledge.(58:00-1:09:13)

Takes of All Temperatures(T.O.A.Ts)- Guys who don't follow ANY sports; espresso over coffee; voice distinction; election take and respective result predicitons (1:10:10-