The current president has cloaked American darkness for much too long.

Too much anger, too much fear, too much division.

Here and now I give you my word.

If you entrust me with the presidency, I will draw on the best of us, not the worst.

I'll be an ally of the light, not the darkness.

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.

I'm Matthew Glacias here with Ezra Klein.

We're recording late at night around 1 a.m. here on the East Coast earlier in California

after watching.

Yeah, this is a totally reasonable 10 p.m. where I am.

Yeah, you're good.

You're coasting.

We watched Joe Biden speak, wrap up the Democratic Convention.

I want to talk about that, of course, and be maybe a little nooseier than the Weeds.

Sometimes I sort of wanted to start by talking about conventions in general.

Up into a bunch of conventions, I think we met the first time we met was at the convention

in Boston.

No, not the first time, but it was a time after that, I think.

We met in New York first, but I went to stay with you.

I stayed with you at your dad's house during the RNC in 2004.

For, and right, and we hung out in Boston at the Democratic Convention there in 2004.

The first convention bloggers were allowed into.

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