Conventions Week: Seven Weird Conventions Moments (Part Two)

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🗓️ 20 August 2024

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Welcome to Conventions Week! From time to time this election year, we're going to do some special series that highlight the rhythm of an election cycle. This week, as the Democrats are meeting in Chicago, we are looking at conventions, which are very strange affairs!

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To mark conventions week, we thought we'd go through some of the weirder and more awkward convention moments in US political history. This episode, we continue the list, from a very awkward kiss between the Gores, to Clint Eastwood yelling at an empty chair...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:09.0	So this is part two of our survey of some of these stranger and more awkward moments from political conventions.
0:17.0	Go listen to part one if you haven't yet and a reminder that there is full video of this episode on our YouTube channel.
0:23.0	If you want to go see our faces having this discussion, why not?
0:26.7	Anyway, we did four moments last episode.
0:29.0	There are three to go.
0:30.4	Here is the rest of that conversation.
0:33.0	Let's get into it.
0:35.0	All right, weird moment number five.
0:38.0	We were just talking about Al Gore.
0:40.0	Returning characters.
0:41.0	Yeah, Al Gore, poor Al Gore.
0:44.0	Like, this moment, I remember, I watched this in real time
0:47.4	and I was kind of like, wait, what?
0:49.7	So Al Gore is at the convention.
0:52.2	He's walking up on stage as the candidates do.
0:54.6	And the first thing they typically do
0:55.7	is like greet their spouse and give them a big,
0:57.9	you know, embrace a hug, a peck on the lip,
1:00.3	something like that.
1:01.6	And as he goes into embrace Tipper he like gives her a kiss but
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