Chapter 1: How did Hope Walz's life change when her dad was chosen as Kamala Harris's running mate?
Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Find Out Podcast. And as I'm just starting... Rich has joined us. We're starting two minutes after two, so we always have to give Rich a little shit for being late. But anyways, the news has been crazy over the last couple weeks, and we're actually really, really excited about our guest today that I think you all will know.
You all know her from the 2024 campaign. It is, do we refer to you as the first daughter of Minnesota? Yeah, Minnesota.
If you want.
Yeah.
Hope Walls, everybody. Hope is with us. Thanks for joining us.
Thanks for having me. I'm so excited to be here.
Oh, we are excited as well. And actually, I asked our audience on social some questions for you, but the one that everybody wanted me to ask over and over again is, how are you doing?
Yeah, I'm okay. I think, yeah, I'm okay.
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Chapter 2: What challenges did Hope face after her father's political nomination?
It's obviously been, I mean, like an insane year and a half, I'd say at this point. And then the past month has been especially bizarre and heavy. And then even the, you know, this past week has just been, you know, a lot. So we're hanging in there. We're hanging in there.
Good. Well, I want to go back before we get to all of the stuff that is more recent. But, you know, A year and a half ago, you were the you were the daughter of a governor. So like, obviously, there was a bit of a profile associated with that. And then in August, your life, I assume, got turned upside down. So I just would like to kick off with like, what was that all like?
How much of it did you know? And like, how how did your life change the second that your dad was picked to be Kamala Harris's vice presidential candidate?
Yeah, I think. I mean, it came on like very fast. I remember like where I was when President Biden decided to drop out of the race. And then I remember like, you know, in the next couple of days getting a text from my dad and it's like, we've been asked to submit. paperwork or, you know, whatever, however that all works. I was in Montana at the time, um, and got like strep throat.
Chapter 3: How does Hope Walz feel about the murder of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent?
So I was like down for the count for veep stakes, just like doom scrolling, like all day, every day. Um, but it just like progressively got more and more real. Um, and then I remember like the day before we still didn't really know anything, but my parents are like, just come home, like just fly home, put the flight, you know, On on our card or on your credit card and we'll deal with it later.
And so I got home at like midnight the night before. My uncle picked me up from the airport and he's like, there's reporters outside your house and you can't be seen going into your house because we don't know anything. We don't want anybody to think we know anything because we don't. So you have to hide. So I'm like crouched in the front seat, like sneaking into my own house.
And then I get there and then the next morning we get the call from the vice president was like, do you want to join this ticket? And I was like sitting in the room with my dad. And then within like an hour, we're on a flight to Philly. And so it was just like devastating. One day I was in my little apartment in Bozeman, Montana.
And the next day I'm like watching my dad give this speech in front of, you know, thousands of people. And it just it all happened so quickly. And then it didn't slow down until after the election.
So. And correct me, I heard reports of this. You can confirm or deny.
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Chapter 4: What is Hope's perspective on the political attacks against her family?
My understanding is that the first time that the vice president called your dad, he actually either sent it to voicemail or just ignored it. Was that true?
He missed the first call. Yeah, he missed the first call. I think it was a little bit insane. My mom wasn't home. She was at an event. And I think... we were running all over the place and my, his, my dad's mom. So my grandma happened to be staying at our house. And so there was a lot going on, but he did indeed miss, miss the first call. And then he made the second one.
Thankfully.
Yeah. Yeah.
So what does he say to you with like, when he, after the call, is he like the vice president just asked me to be a running mate? Like, like it just must be such a surreal experience to be standing in the room when something like that happens.
Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, it was on speaker to be completely.
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Chapter 5: Will Hope Walz ever consider running for political office?
So I did hear it, but he, you know, kind of got off the phone and he goes, well, here we go. Like our, our lives are, they just, it just changed and let's do it. We're going to do what we're asked to do. And we threw things in suitcases and we're on the road. So there wasn't much time to really like think.
But I think, you know, after he got the call, he's like, all right, we're all in, let's do this.
And what, like, I mean, it's obviously some people I'm sure, but I was just like, what is your life like from that point in August through election day? Or is it just, do you even remember it? Was it just so crazy? Like, how does that experience go?
Yeah. I think I'm still like kind of processing it all. Um, but I remember we like get in the cars and we like pull out of our house and all of our neighbors and stuff are there with signs and stuff. And that was like very wholesome. And then they like drive us in this motorcade to an airport and there's a private plane. And I've never like, we're, we're coach, we're economy people.
So I'm like, Oh my gosh, we're in a private plane. Like this is the craziest thing. And I'm like taking videos and stuff. And then, you know, like two weeks later,
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Chapter 6: How has Hope's upbringing in Minnesota influenced her values?
weeks later, we're in a plane with our name on the side of it. So it was like just a big escalation of just everything, I think. And you're kind of, you know, all of a sudden we have Secret Service everywhere. Right. All of a sudden there's this entire, you know, infrastructure around you. Like, here's your briefing book. This is what you do. This is what you do. And like, I was around it all.
They called me like the morality captain. Yeah. Or what, no, what was it? Something, something, the morale captain. And because like, I kept my dad sane. They liked us, like we made things fun. And so just like having the entire infrastructure around you all of a sudden when you're, you know, I didn't know what it was like to be on the national campaign. Most people don't.
And then all of a sudden it was just there. And it was all like so quick.
Chapter 7: What does Hope think about the current state of political discourse?
And we're like, we have to do this, this, this and this in the next 90 days. So, yeah, it was very fast paced.
And then. Oh, go ahead, Rich. I was going to ask, like, I hope you've you've you were raised in politics, right? You were born in like 2001, correct?
Yes.
Yeah. So, I mean, that was a year to be born. Certainly one of the years of all time. One of the more prominent years. And yet I imagine it was still probably a bit of a like that was that's another step. Right. I mean, to go from.
Oh, yeah.
Being visible. And then and then for your the really powerful backstory around your coming to existence to be a central piece in his story.
By the way, I did not know. I came about in that way until my dad gave a speech on it. So that was the thing.
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Chapter 8: How does Hope practice self-care amidst public scrutiny?
So the birds and the bees for you was just like on a national stage. How did, how did you, how did you wrap your head around that? Like that's, that's probably a lot at once.
Yeah. I mean, I like thought I knew what it was like to be in the political sphere. My dad was a member of Congress since 2006 and, Um, but I never moved to DC. Like my parents kept us in my hometown. I grew up in the same house, you know, that I was born in. I went to the school my parents taught at, which was a public school. Like things were pretty normal.
Um, and then he became governor and that was like another step up.
Right.
but I moved out of the house like you know six months after he became governor and then all of a sudden like we're on this level and it was like an exponential change I think I did not expect what it was it's like I mean I I guess I sort of expected it but it was like it was different than I thought it was going to be well I would oh go ahead oh I'm sorry I I would I would think because we've
not on your level by any stretch of the imagination, but like all of us have gotten fairly large accounts. And so it happens every once in a while that somebody either shouts out your name or basically goes, are you the guy from this? Which happens more to these guys.
But like, so I assume pretty much, well, during the campaign for sure, are you just having people like, like, you know, yelling your name to get your attention and saying hello? Like I have to assume you had some of that when he was governor, but like on a national stage is obviously on steroids. Yeah.
Yes. And I think I remember this coffee shop. It's like a mile or two from my parents' house. I'm like, let's go get a chai. And I'm like going with Secret Service. And like that draws attention. So they pull out I pull up in this like armored SUV to go get my chai.
And everyone's like, oh, my gosh, that's hope that's, you know, and it's like, I think they maybe wouldn't have noticed me if I didn't show up with like, secret service agents, but that was just kind of what it was. Um, and we, I think changed our lifestyle a little bit because my, my dad's kind of philosophy with it was like, we don't ever want to ruin anybody else's experience.
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