Tony Kinnett joins

**Nigel** (0:04)
You're listening to The Hammer and Nigel Show. Hello, my name is Nigel, Jason Hammer, right over there with a very special guest on the hotline.

**Jason Hammer** (0:11)
From The Daily Signal and the Tony Kinnett Cast, Tony Kinnett. Tony, I was just talking to Nigel off the air about every time we post about you on social media, we put a picture of JD. Vance up there, because we always say you're like his slimmer doppelganger.
I never get tired, though, of the AI videos of fat caveman looking JD. Vance doing various things. Do you know what I'm talking about?

**Tony Kinnett** (0:38)
I'm actually pretty insulted that all of the fine folks who despise me in that one part of Hamilton County have never done that with me. I feel a little insulted that I've never been made 1980s hair with a perm JD. Vance. I feel like I could rock the mullet. You know what I'm talking about.

**Jason Hammer** (0:55)
Okay, I've got my assignment for tonight. I'm going to try to work on that and I'll post it next week.

**Tony Kinnett** (0:59)
But I put AI through that. They'll close data centers if you try to run that prompt through.

**Jason Hammer** (1:06)
If that's the kind of contents being pumped out of data centers, then you can build one right next door to me. You can build one right next to my house, Tony.
Let's get into it here. Tonight is the mid-term convention and I was complaining to Nigel, does nobody on President Trump's staff have a sports guy to tell them, hey, if you're going to do this, you probably don't want to go head to head with the opening of the NFL season. Like of all of the dates you could have done this, you could have literally picked any dead date on the summer calendar. And there's a lot of them. You chose the two nights where the NFL is coming back. I feel like this is a missed opportunity.

**Tony Kinnett** (1:46)
It is. It is a missed opportunity. And this kind of stuff happens from time to time. I look at it and I go, why didn't we do this on like a Friday into a Saturday kind of a thing? I mean, you have a little like everyone's kind of off, all right? It's convention. You still get the clips. You still get the speeches. Again, I thought this was a great idea. But yeah, I mean, slapping this up when I watch the Seahawks shift the Patriots and then turn around and watch California duke it out tomorrow. I don't know if I would have done that one, Paul. I don't think that's a really good idea.
Yeah, I think that someone in there should have been like, how about not doing that?

**Jason Hammer** (2:21)
This time last week, there was nothing going on. Nothing. Like we're counting down the days until midterms. We're counting down the days until football. There's always that dead time, like when baseball hits the all-star break where the Espies are on, because there's nothing else going on. You had all these dates and you chose to go head to head with the one thing, NFL football that actually brings this country together.

**Tony Kinnett** (2:50)
Yeah. I mean, again, that kind of thing made a lot of sense. Also, I mean, again, there were some things going into this midterm convention that I was looking forward to. The strategy was actually pretty good. I mean, they were going to have, again, the battleground really tough fight candidates get up and speak, which is fine. Ken Paxton started releasing ads that weren't complete dog crap. I mean, I was like excited. I was like, wow, this is going to be pretty good.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:13)
And then Donald Trump's like, I'm speaking for two nights, baby.

**Tony Kinnett** (3:16)
And I was like, I'm less excited now. And then it's then it's with the NFL. I mean, I don't know. We're going to have to do get Michigan to add some seconds onto the clock or something.

**Nigel** (3:24)
So for people that say that this midterm convention is like out of desperation. Oh, the Republicans, they're desperate. This is their way. This is some sort of like you mentioned, alluded to just a second ago, Hail Mary.
What do you say to those people? They say this is some sort of desperate move because the Republicans know they're in trouble in midterms.

**Tony Kinnett** (3:48)
Okay, so two things on that. Number one, we have been talking about doing this since Watley and Lara Trump just achieved a victory in 24 So they've been really, I've been talking about this. Hey, there's this talk of a midterm convention. No one's ever done that before. It's an excellent idea. It seems to really get the camera on people whose camera crews just want to take them to state fairs and vomit into elephant ears and all that crap. I'm liking this idea. It's a good idea. Plus, you get all the Republicans together. You know, it's nice to be in a room where not everybody is getting stabbed on the East side. It's kind of nice. You know, I'm here for it.