Childproofing Democracy
The Damage Report with John Iadarola
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🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back. Welcome to both me and also Francesca, Francesca, how's it going? |
| 0:11.6 | Starting off the morning immediately with Francesca, how's it going? |
| 0:15.0 | It's good, it's good. I was pretending that no one saw me. I was hoping no one saw me. |
| 0:20.0 | You're just duck out of the cup. |
| 0:21.5 | Was that I was just going to duck? Yeah. |
| 0:24.0 | Well, look, spoiler alert, I am very happy that you're here because for fairly obvious reasons, |
| 0:32.8 | not a week I've been looking forward to this weekend. How about you audience? |
| 0:36.7 | You just happy to be alive and be a human today this week. |
| 0:43.5 | And of course, what I'm talking about and what we'll probably be talking about for |
| 0:47.1 | at least a few minutes is, how does the good place never get an Emmy? Like not one ever. |
| 0:53.0 | How is that possible? That show is so good. I'm not saying the fourth season is the best of |
| 0:57.9 | the seasons and I'm not saying that shit's Creek isn't good, but how does it not get the single |
| 1:03.2 | Emmy people, Jesus. Francesca, how are you doing as we enter into 43 days until the election? |
| 1:09.6 | Back and forth, real, real up and down. I think this is one of those moments to, as I think AOC has |
| 1:20.1 | said, and we will hear from her, I know, to not descend into cynicism. And it is so easy to do, |
| 1:28.3 | but to remember sort of the stakes. Remember who we are fighting for. Remember that we, |
| 1:34.4 | the powerlessness that we feel is actually most a lot in our heads. Like yes, it is in our heads. |
| 1:43.3 | It's in our heads. So yeah, I was telling you I had to do a comedy show the very night that I |
| 1:49.2 | found out that RBG had died. And not only that, it was a comedy show on Zoom. If anyone's seen |
| 1:55.7 | a Zoom show, I have one on Wednesday, you should attend, but they're not the best. They're like, |
| 2:00.5 | you know, it's not a great thing, but it was so healing and really fun. And so just to remember like |
| 2:07.9 | we can laugh, we can, there are still good things. And then last night I talked to Varshani |
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