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🗓️ 25 August 2020
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast for Tuesday, August 25th, 2020, Abe, |
0:29.7 | Biden in Israel. |
0:48.8 | We were all agreed that we were surprised at how authoritative it was, how unmessy it was, |
1:00.6 | how competent it was, given that the Trump White House and the Trump administration |
1:10.4 | often do their formal things quite messily. They issue statements with typos in them or |
1:18.0 | grammatical errors. The events are often sort of slapped-dash sometimes or seem almost |
1:25.9 | thrown together. I would say that technically and technologically, to my immense surprise, |
1:36.2 | this first night of the convention was vastly more professional seeming than the first night of |
1:45.6 | the Democratic convention, given that the Democrats have the entire world of showbiz and Hollywood |
1:52.6 | at their fingertips. Trump was working with a guy who helped him produce one of the producers |
2:00.4 | or talent wranglers of the apprentice. Yet at move like clockwork, the production values at |
2:08.1 | the melon auditorium where everybody was mostly speaking were very high. There wasn't a single |
2:14.7 | glitch. The films were well produced. In the sense that these conventions have a |
2:22.9 | try to give you a sense of being a staged version of what the administration is or will be |
2:35.5 | unconsciously or just in the presentation, you were like, well, we're in good hands here. |
2:44.1 | The exception of Kimberly Gillfoil screaming her lungs out, there was no moment in the two and a |
2:50.7 | half hours of the evening that made you think they don't know what they're doing. |
2:56.7 | Well, it felt like a convention. It didn't feel like a very special pandemic era episode of your |
3:02.1 | favorite sitcom where everybody's on Zoom. They weren't trying to do too much. They did a convention. |
3:08.5 | You have speeches, you have these filler videos in the middle, and that's what it usually is. |
3:13.2 | They didn't try to reinvent the format. That worked. Another thing they did, which was extremely |
3:17.8 | valuable, is have live people. It's not hard to have live people. The performative anxiety of the |
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