Convention Goes Electric
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🗓️ 6 August 2020
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Summary
Joe Biden is no longer traveling to Milwaukee for the DNC, and neither are other primetime speakers like President Barack Obama. A sized-down RNC will be held in Charlotte, with Trump planning to deliver his speech from The White House.
Six of the seven largest school districts in the country will begin the school year entirely online, with New York City as the only holdout. One Yale student is suing his school for charging full tuition for an online education he considers inferior.
And in headlines: today is the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, more updates on the disaster in Beirut, and Facebook blows minds by inventing TikTok.
Plus, Crooked's own Jon Lovett fills in for Akilah.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday, August 6th. I'm Gideon Resnick. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm John Loveett, filling in for Akila. |
| 0:11.2 | And this is what a day where we are really to accept gifts from anyone being reckless with their PPP loans. |
| 0:16.3 | The whole point of this money is to boost the economy by rending us a house in Malibu where you don't like feel the other houses. |
| 0:23.1 | There's no shortage of a prime real estate out there. And it's for the taking. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, the ever-changing state of schools, then some headlines. |
| 0:38.8 | But first, the latest, the Democratic and Republican national conventions are right around the corner. |
| 0:43.6 | And with each passing day, they are looking less and less like conventions. |
| 0:47.8 | Yesterday, we got more news on the DNC, which is up first and how it's being scaled back even more. |
| 0:52.8 | Gideon, take us through the greedy details. |
| 0:56.0 | Okay, so we now know that the presumptive nominee, that's former Vice President Joe Biden, |
| 1:00.0 | is actually not going to Milwaukee. And essentially what was already a really limited event is turning almost entirely virtual, |
| 1:06.8 | as is much in our daily lives. And Biden is going to deliver his acceptance speech from Delaware now. |
| 1:11.9 | And according to organizers of the DNC event, the other prime time speakers are also not traveling to Milwaukee anymore either. |
| 1:17.8 | And as you mentioned, John, this comes after Democrats had already significantly paired back their plans due to COVID-19. |
| 1:22.9 | And the risk that large events like this could have on attendees and the host city delegates had already been told not to come to the event, |
| 1:29.7 | which is set to begin on August 17th. |
| 1:32.1 | And in terms of the other big speakers that we know about thus far, there's President Barack Obama, |
| 1:36.0 | Michelle Obama, and Jill Biden. And according to the Washington Post, the plan had already been for them to record their speeches and or do them live, but remote. |
| 1:43.8 | There's also reporting that there will be a tribute to the late civil rights leader Congressman John Lewis. |
| 1:48.1 | And of course, Biden's yet to be named running mate is expected to speak as well during the course of this. |
| 1:53.2 | So yes, clearly going to be a lot different than anything we've seen before. And another reminder of how utterly odd this whole election season has been. |
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