- Hi, I'm Stacey Abrams, host of the brand new crooked podcast, Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams. Each week, we'll work together to better understand one of those big issues that seems insurmountable. Whether it's the electoral college, America's loneliness epidemic, or the future of Hollywood post-strikes, I'll challenge you to dig in and ask, how do we get here? What obstacles lie ahead? And what can we do to get good done? Are you in? Episodes of Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams are available starting August 15th. Head to your favorite audio platform and subscribe now so you never miss an episode. - This week, we're going all out for the Democratic National Convention. Here at Crooked Media, we're giving friends of the pod subscribers access to a ton of behind the scenes content and community events, including a DNC subscriber live chat, a new subscriber exclusive segment featuring me, John Tommy, and Dan. Four, count 'em, four back-to-back ad-free episodes of Pod Save America, recapping the biggest convention news of the night, and brand new episodes of Inside 2024 and Polar Coaster. It's gonna be a hell of a week for content. And as a bonus, we'll have a Democratic Party nominee by the end. Pretty good deal. Get all of our exclusive DMs.

To see more when you subscribe to Friends of the Pod, head to Cricut.com/friends to sign up now. - Welcome to Pods Save America, I'm Jon Favreau. - I'm Jon Lovett. - I'm Dan Pfeiffer. - Tommy Vitor. - On tonight's show. ...and Michelle Obama rally the troops at the DNC, the one and only Julia Louis-Dreyfus stops by to talk about why she's involved in the convention and all those Veep comparisons with Kamala Harris, and our own senator, LaFonza Butler, a close friend of Kamala, talks about to love it in me about what the VP is really like and why she decided, like Joe Biden, to serve just one term.

She also called me pretty weird, but I really like her. Yeah, in fairness, it's because you called yourself weird first. But anyway, so good cover. - He's our JD Vance. - Tune in. - Hey, that sucks. - What did you do to that chair, buddy? - Look, you started the interview as JD Vance, you ended as Tim Walz. - Nice. - Okay, okay. - Nice, nice. - All right, so we're recording this at 11 p.m. on Tuesday night, better than last night. - Which is lovely, yeah. - We're doing better. - Oh, half an hour better every night. - Half an hour better every night, who knows what happens by Thursday night. It's just after night two of the convention. So tonight is traditionally the night when the big festive roll call happens to officially nominate the presidential and vice presidential candidates. This year, of course, the official roll call happened virtually to make sure we didn't run afoul of the state ballot deadlines, but you know what?

We're the party of fun now. So Democrats decided to do the ceremonial roll call anyway. It was actually really cool. It was a really cool part of the night. As usual, the delegates cast their votes state by state, but this time they played a state-specific song with at least one surprise in-person appearance from, obviously... Lil Jon who's from Georgia by tradition the nominees home state delegation California went last to put her over the top and then there was an unexpected move. Here's a super cut of