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What A Day
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🗓️ 31 August 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
One man is now dead after a weekend of violence in Portland, Oregon, in which pro-Trump demonstrators drove through the city’s downtown taunting Black Lives Matter protestors. Jay Bishop was a member of a group called Patriot Prayer, a far-right group with ties to white supremacists.
Massachusetts holds its primaries on Tuesday. Alex Morse is a 31-year-old, Justice Democrats-supported mayor of Holyoke, whose campaign against the incumbent Representative was hit with a false, homophobic smear.
And in headlines: Shinzo Abe steps down as Japan’s prime minister, Novak Djokovic starts an all-male tennis player’s union, and Bella Thorne says sorry for her OnlyFans.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, August 31st. I'm Gideon Resnick. |
| 0:07.8 | And I'm Erin Ryan, filling in for Akila Hughes, who is out on vacation for her birthday. |
| 0:13.1 | Happy birthday, Akila. Yeah, happy birthday. And this is what a day where we're reminding everyone |
| 0:18.4 | that birthdays in 2020 actually don't even count. You can still celebrate, but you will be the same age |
| 0:24.4 | on January 1st, 2021 that you were January 1st, 2020. The year doesn't count. |
| 0:29.6 | Yeah, I'm actually going to subtract a year, so I'll be 17. Okay. |
| 0:37.6 | On today's show, a deeper look at another progressive house challenge in Massachusetts than some headlines. |
| 0:43.4 | But first, the latest. We all know what it's like to be told that there is not a place for you to be |
| 0:52.2 | featured, yet you are young, gifted, and black. We know what it's like to be told to say there's |
| 0:58.4 | not a screen for you to be featured on a stage and for you to be featured on. We know what it's |
| 1:03.2 | like to be the tell and not the head. We know what it's like to be beneath and not above. |
| 1:09.2 | And that is what we went to work with every day, because we knew not that we would be around |
| 1:17.4 | during a war season, that it would make a billion dollars. But we knew that we had something special |
| 1:23.6 | that we wanted to give the world that we could be full human beings in the roles that we were playing. |
| 1:30.8 | That was Chadwick Boseman, accepting an award for Black Panther from the Screen Actors Guild |
| 1:34.8 | last year. Sadly, Boseman died over the weekend from Colin Cancer. He was only 43 years old. |
| 1:41.2 | Yeah, it's really terrible to think about all the stuff that he hadn't gotten a chance to do. |
| 1:46.4 | Like he very clearly was going to be a dominant cultural figure and actor for a really, |
| 1:52.8 | really long time and also seemed like a genuinely great person. So yeah, I mean, I think a lot about |
| 1:57.9 | role models and how many good role models there are out there right now. And I feel like |
| 2:03.5 | right in our country is led by a very bad role model. And to lose one of the very best is really, |
| 2:10.8 | really sad. Yeah, it's it was terrible. And overall, it was a tough weekend. And this next story |
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