Civil proceedings: America's presidential debate
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🗓️ 23 October 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:10.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:18.0 | South Korea's population is shrinking and government attempts to bump up the number of baby |
| 0:23.0 | bumps haven't succeeded. |
| 0:25.0 | So they're changing policies to get more women in work, and that seems to be redressing |
| 0:30.0 | other age-old inequalities. |
| 0:33.0 | And who's the greatest Formula One champion of all time? |
| 0:37.0 | In terms of career wins, it's now a tie between Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher. |
| 0:42.0 | But scour through 70 years of F1 data, and there's far more to consider than just checkered flags. |
| 0:56.0 | But first, the first time it was mostly noise. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm not going to answer the question because the question is, the question is, the question is, |
| 1:09.0 | the question is, will you shut up? |
| 1:12.0 | What would have been the second time it was split-screen America, two candidates holding two town halls on two different channels. |
| 1:20.0 | This president embraces all the thugs in the world. |
| 1:23.0 | I mean, he's best friends with the leader of North Korea and the love letters. |
| 1:27.0 | We're building our country stronger and better than it's ever been before. |
| 1:31.0 | And that's what's happening and everybody knows it. |
| 1:34.0 | And in the second actual presidential debate last night, there was some actual debate. |
| 1:39.0 | This was a much more normal presidential debate. |
| 1:42.0 | The first debate was pretty appalling to watch. |
| 1:45.0 | Donald Trump interrupted Joe Biden constantly. |
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