Comedian Andrew Schulz and his "Flagrant" podcast co-hosts discussed former President Trump's recent appearance on their show. The Oct. 9 interview had Trump cracking jokes and keeping the hosts laughing. He bragged about his "genius" ability to "weave" during campaign speeches, which critics often call rambling.
A week later, Schulz kicked off the episode, stating, "Obviously, we’ve got to react to the Trump interview. My reaction is Trump is winning by a landslide. It's not close anymore. Is that the energy y’all felt?"
"You’re a prisoner of the moment," one co-host chimed in.
"You know that about me," Schulz replied with a laugh.
Co-host Mark Gagnon pointed out Schulz's shifting opinion before and after the interview. "Before Trump came on, you were like, ‘Yeah, it can go either way, it's very close,’" Gagnon noted.
"No, before he came on, I was like, ‘He don’t got a chance,’" Schulz quipped. He added that Trump must have been desperate to appear on "Flagrant." After the interview, Schulz noticed a different vibe.
"And you got 20 or 25 text messages and you were like, ‘This guy is winning,’" Gagnon recalled.
"Listen, it wasn’t the 20-25 text messages. You know what it was?" Schulz said. "It was the looks in the street." He described the positive reactions he saw in public post-interview.
The discussion then shifted to Vice President Kamala Harris. Gagnon suggested her recent media presence hasn’t been as strong. He pointed to her "60 Minutes" misstep and the "Call her Daddy" situation as factors.
On Friday, Charlamagne tha God, who co-hosts "The Brilliant Idiots" with Schulz, shared a story about a young Black man. He said, "A young, Black man, 20-something years old, I’m not gonna say his name. He comes to me this morning, he turns to me, he goes, ‘Flagrant is gonna get Trump elected.’"