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🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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0:00.0 | I am good. How are you doing all right? Yeah, just in Ottawa here. It feels like a good week to be unplugging from the news. |
0:22.3 | You want to know something fun. |
0:24.1 | It's been a while since we've recorded when the assassination attempt occurred on the weekend. |
0:29.1 | I don't think I have to specify which assassination attempt. |
0:31.7 | I think we all remember it. |
0:32.9 | I think we can assume a certain general knowledge on the part of the audience in this case. |
0:36.9 | I was driving from Philadelphia |
0:39.0 | to the Mahoning Valley, about a two-hour drive, and my traveling companion was looking at his phone |
0:45.0 | and said, there was an assassination attempt on Trump. And I thought to myself, boy, I'm really glad |
0:51.1 | I'm not going to be looking at my phone for the next two hours. I was just looking at the beautiful Appalachia's, just looking at the sunset. |
1:00.6 | And I don't know, I was pretty unplugged from a lot of it. |
1:04.2 | Yeah, I've been buried deep in archives. |
1:06.5 | And actually, I was working out of a storage locker on Monday and Tuesday where there wasn't even any cell phone service. |
1:12.8 | So that was perfect. |
1:14.1 | It's funny. |
1:14.9 | What I gleaned of the discourse about Donald Trump was there was that spectator op-ed that I'm sure you saw that was called We Are All Mega Now. |
1:23.9 | And there's a sort of script that usually happens when something like this happens, where a kind |
1:30.5 | of national unity is enforced. And I obviously saw that, you know, from certain higher echelons of the |
1:38.8 | discourse. But in the lower echelons of the discourse, where people like you and I, you know, inhabit, I mostly saw |
1:46.0 | conspiratorial stuff from across the spectrum. I saw people wishing death upon the former |
1:52.8 | president. I saw a lot of jokes. I saw a lot of fear that this could help him in November. |
1:59.0 | And just a general sense of not unity, as well as a |
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