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Joe Trippi

lines on the record: 81
first: 2016-02-15
most recent: 2016-02-15
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Yes, exactly. And so I did really deep down was like terrified of getting sucked into doing another one. But at the same time, that thing inside of me saying, like, you know what, maybe you can make this internet. There's something, you know, if you're ever going to try, now's the time to do it. You don't get the opportunity that often. I did, you know, the first problem, though, really isn't know each other at all, which is you know it's tough doing it with somebody. Yeah, well, I learned that.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Why I have no care. It's a killer. I mean, you could be having the greatest experience of your life. And when it's over, you just say, please, God, don't let me do that again.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, he finally what happened was he started asking me if I'd run the campaign. And I really resisted it. I mean, I really did. I did not want to, I mean, first of all, you've been through these things.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, in most people, I mean, I think one of the reasons he was running, I think, I mean, early, early on, was he had done such a great job as governor and no one really knew. None of the John Kerry's or Dick Yepharts or John Edwards or any of those guys knew who he was and he wanted to still play, I mean still make a difference. I mean, I think he wanted to make his health.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Online internet. But I desperately did not want to do another presidential campaign. And about that time, there was a problem early on in the Dean campaign where Dean was deciding he wanted to change how he was running it. Back then he was talking about healthcare.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, this is now post-1988, post-1992. And I would still kept a very big interest in cybersecurity and e-commerce. But anyway, I got some insights working for those and consulting for those tech companies that by 2002, I want to say, I started thinking, you know, I think it's there. I think it's not quite right yet, but there's enough that maybe that same thing that happened with Jerry Brown in 92 within it.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We'll talk about that later. Go ahead. No, but we raised $8 million. So from that moment on, I started to try to, I knew there was something there that there had to be, that people wanted to engage with campaigns, but if you gave them a way to do it, they would. And so I kept trying to figure that out, but the technology just wasn't there And then frankly, after that campaign, I really had gotten kind of sick of presidential politics, just really didn't want to do it anymore. I didn't play a 96, 2000, any of those. And then, but along the way, and I started actually lean out of politics, I started to go back and work for an e-commerce companies as consultant, but e-commerce and cybersecurity. I got really interested.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean, there's sort of two, I think two moments politically or whatever that happened. And the first was in 92 when I was working for Jerry Brown's campaign for president against Bill Clinton and the rest of the field that year. I'd always thought that TV was just so restrictive and we could talk one way to voters, but they couldn't get any feedback. And so me and a guy named Joe Costello came up with the idea of putting an 800 number on the ads and having Jerry call out to people with the 800 number. Yeah, you used to.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It worked great. We raised a ton of money. We were targeted. We started to target specific people based on. Point and a third, but it was heartbreaking. It was just devastating.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was a pretty amazing campaign. He was an incredible candidate. We called him Buddha. Because you could just never read him. He would just former”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One in a third votes a precinct in a state with millions. I mean, come on, California, it was millions of people, and you're trying to get the first African American elected governor of any state since Reconstruction in 1982. We're not talking.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, of course, I'm voting for Bradley. And then, of course, on Election Day, he shows up 10 points short. And it was because people had been lying to pollsters, not because pollsters didn't get it right or something else. It was because of that. And it was actually the whole reason was the Republicans had run an absolutely amazing absentee ballot campaign that no pollster had been asking about hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots that had never been voted before were voted. And Duke Majian ended up winning. The thing about that was the biggest, probably still to this day, just a heartbreaking loss that I've ever been part of. There was 27,000 precincts in California. We lost that race by 35,000 votes. We're talking about”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was that voters were lying to the pollsters about Because they were worried about being racist or accused of it, so they would lie to the pollsters. Give him a police.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I went after Kennedy. Tom Bradley was running for reelection for mayor, and then he was going to run for governor in 82. And I kept trying to, I was the deputy campaign manager. I kept trying to, you know, at the time, I was like 23, 24, and I'm like trying to talk the campaign into installing a computer in the Bradley campaign. I mean, this is California. We've got to run all this data. We've got to build a database of who we're targeting. And they thought I was out of my mind. So I literally worked out a deal with the digital equipment to buy at the time. I think it costed $11,000. It was a PDP-11 computer, bought it on installments with my own money, I think like two. $251 a month or something like that and installed it.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, no, that's why it's the same thing. Lucky I got a, I don't even think I had this. I ended up leaving college in my senior year to go work for Ted Kennedy in Iowa. So at some point, I decided, I think erroneously, the technology wasn't going to change people's lives as much as politics was, but I think the cell phones done a pretty good job.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But we got her to the city council, and that sort of. That and at the same time, I was organizing Great Boycott students on campus to march in the boycotts that Caesar Chavez doing.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, is that right? And no, exactly. And it was during the whole seven up Jamaican guy doing the seven up the Ankola campaign. It sort of took the city. And she was an amazing candidate. And I think it was on her second try that we actually won.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I had no clue. I had no clue what I was doing or why I was doing. And she ended up on the city council to a lot of people worked on getting her there, but she got there. Pretty amazing thing. Paid to be uncomfortable.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At large. And the reason Joe Cola was going to be re elected was because, not because no one had filed against him. It was because one person had filed against him, a woman named Iola Williams, who was African American, and the story went on to talk about how San Jose was 3% black. And therefore, Joe Colo is going to be re-elected. And there may have been one other candidate in the race, but basically he was going to win because he was running against an African-American woman named Ila Williams. And something about it pissed me off. And the old Bobby Kennedy stuff that, you know, I'd grow up on sort of came into play and I went and volunteered and started walking precincts where I started getting every kid on campus I could to walk precincts. There were 243 precincts in San Jose.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Late 70s, I was reading a story in the local paper San Jose Mercury News and the headline was Joe Cola to be re-elected. And I read this, I don't even know why I read the story, but I read the story thinking what's going on here. It was a filing story who had filed for which seats. For what office?”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Lab on campus at 2 in the morning to mess around with it. So I just always had this interest in technology. But at the same time, I was really cognizant of what was happening politically.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, first of all, because for two reasons, I think because my dad was up in San Jose, I went to college at San Jose State University up in Silicon Valley. It entered as an aeronautical engineering major. But so now I'm up in Silicon Valley. I just started to do things. They had a physics laser lab where one of the professors was trying to teach kids how to make holograms with a red beam laser. And I would take, I was, I don't, I wasn't studying red beam lasers. I wasn't a physics. I'd get into that lab every chance I got. I was making holograms back in the 70s. I mean, before anybody really knew what one was. And I was breaking into the main, I literally was breaking into the IBM mainframe.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah. I mean, I remember, gosh, there was some like literally grade school science project where I came in with this, I tried to make some kind of Ray gun thing. It was just bizarre. I mean, now thinking about it that I could actually think I could do that. It didn't work. Probably good. Yeah. You know what?”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I always did. I mean, it was like I was this, I mean, hopeless early adopter before anybody had ever said that phrase. I mean, even as a kid before.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. No, so I just was big into civil rights and I don't explain why. It's what actually got me into politics later on because I was always trying to figure out. I had this sense that technology was going to really change people's lives in politics, people like Bobby Kennedy were going to change people's lives. And I was always trying to figure out which which one of those was going to change.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I didn't know. I never felt that way. I mean, I know we were. But it just, I just never felt. Felt that way. I always felt like, I mean, you know, I remember my mom coming home and just being livid because she'd worked so hard in some table of eight had left her 50 cents for a tip, which is why I'm still the most ridiculous overtipper on the planet.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But he probably didn't know you. No, I mean, I just remember being mesmerized by him by the way he was speaking from the heart and about poverty, about civil rights. You know, there was something just that just did you think of yourself?”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and then I ran track. I mean, I wouldn't even be here today. The one thing I can guarantee you is you had to have a C average to stay on the track team. And that's the only reason I had a C average was like, you know, so I go out and run another two zillion miles every week. To run on the track team. And so it sort of kept me going.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, taking care of my two younger brothers and two younger sisters. And then, but I mean, I was sort of weird interested in politics for some reason. Bobby Kennedy was the guy who got, I mean, I just couldn't stop watching him.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He was up in San Jose, California, and every once in a while I'd go up and see where he'd come down. But back then it's like an eight-hour trip. I had no money. We're talking about flying up on there. I can do now. But back then it was like scraping money for gas money if I could even do it. Even when I was old enough to drive.”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I grew up, my mom had five kids, and I was the oldest, but we grew up in Los Angeles. And, you know, she was a waitress. Basically worked two waitress jobs, one I think at a Denny's and then come home feed us and go off and waitress again at night. And it was mostly a”
2016-02-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 30 - Joe Trippi · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source