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The Conversation with Dasha Burns

Bonus episode: A tale of two conventions

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

News, Politics, Government

4.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Are we a country that's failed disastrously to respond to a global pandemic, or a country that's overrun by protests and violence on the streets? Democrats and Republicans painted wildly different pictures of America at their party conventions this month. For the double conventions, we're featuring a double host special: Nerdcast's Scott Bland joins Dispatch's Jeremy Siegel to discuss the biggest takeaways from the past two weeks.Scott Bland is the host of Nerdcast and a politics editor at POLITICO.Jeremy Siegel is the host of POLITICO's Dispatch podcast.Jenny Ament is senior producer for POLITICO audio.Annie Rees is a producer for POLITICO audio.Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Scott Bland, and today we're doing something a little different.

0:03.0

We're featuring Politico's Daily Show,

0:05.1

Politico Dispatch, because the special guest on this episode

0:08.8

is me, yours truly.

0:10.8

If you like what you hear, I promise you the other episodes without me are even better.

0:14.0

Just search for Politico Dispatch wherever you get your podcast and you can check it out.

0:18.0

Thanks for listening. Here's the show.

0:20.0

So it's nap time right now? Yes or I mean we still call it nap time.

0:28.6

Should I be whispering? No, no, no, it's fine. We're far enough away that we're in no danger.

0:35.0

If we wake them up, we can make the, we can pivot and make the show about the key baby

0:40.8

vote coming in 20 years. I think, I think we're in much more danger of getting

0:45.6

interrupted by a nap rebel than of causing trouble for them. I'm Jeremy Seagull. This is Politico dispatch and today well he's

0:59.8

avoiding interruption from one of his nap time rebel rebels as Bowie might have called

1:04.7

him we've got Scott Bland host of our weekly politics show nerd cast on the key

1:10.8

takeaways from the past two weeks of party conventions and what they can tell us

1:16.1

about what's next in the lead up to election day. Rebel, Ramble, it's on your dress.

1:24.0

Rebel, your face is a mess.

1:28.0

Rebel, Ramble,

1:30.0

Our great nation is now living in an unprecedented moment.

1:35.0

We're facing the worst public health crisis in 100 years

1:39.0

and the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression.

1:43.0

You know, both conventions, all conventions really come in with two goals in their programming.

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