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What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 24 August 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The Republican National Convention begins tonight, predominantly featuring speakers who are Trump’s employees or blood relatives. This weekend, Trump announced that the FDA granted emergency use authorization to a blood plasma treatment for COVID-19… we discuss what that means.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testified to the Senate on Friday in his first appearance since the abrupt changes to USPS's operations. On Saturday, the House passed a bill that would give the postal service emergency funding. DeJoy is set to testify to the House today.
And in headlines: police shootings in Louisiana and Wisconsin, California wildfires continue with less prison labor than normal, and Tennessee’s governor makes some forms of protest a felony.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of What A Day is brought to you by HBO. Watch the show Everyone Has Been Talking About. |
| 0:04.4 | From Misha Green and JJ Abrams comes HBO's Daring New Series Lovecraft Country. |
| 0:09.3 | This genre-bending drama follows a young man named Atticus who receives a strange letter from |
| 0:14.1 | his missing father inviting him to Lovecraft Country. His search and rescue mission turns into |
| 0:18.8 | a struggle to survive as he encounters the twin terrors of 1950s Jim Crow America and other |
| 0:23.6 | worldly monsters. Along the way, he forges his own path to reclaim his power and find his true |
| 0:28.2 | self. Lovecraft Country explores the themes of family, race, and history, taking viewers to |
| 0:33.0 | unexpected new places in time or space in each episode. Starting Jonathan Majors, Journey Smollett, |
| 0:38.4 | Courtney Bevance, and Michael Kenneth Williams Lovecraft Country airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on HBO |
| 0:43.5 | and stream it on HBO Max. Interested in diving deeper, you can be sure to listen to the Lovecraft |
| 0:47.6 | Country companion podcast hosted by Shannon Husson and Ashley C Ford available on all major podcast |
| 0:53.3 | platforms. |
| 0:58.5 | It's Monday, August 24th. I'm Keela Hughes. |
| 1:03.1 | And I'm Gideon Ressneck and this is what the day where we've discovered leaked audio of Trump's |
| 1:06.7 | sister saying I wish Gideon and Akila all the best. Yeah, she would all just say that we'd do a |
| 1:10.9 | better job of being president that Donald Trump, but all of this is like, you know, not the main story. |
| 1:16.3 | So everybody's gonna talk about Trump anyway. Yeah, I mean, but that's why you come here is to hear |
| 1:20.3 | the good real news that like other people are avoiding. So thank you. |
| 1:29.8 | On today's show, an update on where things stand with the Postal Service as we head into another day |
| 1:34.0 | of congressional hearings, then some headlines. But first, the latest. Okay, so last week was the |
| 1:38.9 | Democratic National Convention, a mostly virtual event that went remarkably smoothly. |
| 1:43.2 | If you've ever had to like hook your computer up to a projector for a presentation, |
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