Ep. 114: How Not To Run An Election During A Pandemic
The TPM Show with Josh and Kate
Talking Points Memo
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Josh, Kate and David take a look at the fiasco that unfolded in Wisconsin on Tuesday after state Republicans insisted on holding in-person voting amid the coronavirus pandemic. The group then talks about how to prepare for the November election. And finally: how to keep your sanity (and physical health) in these cooped-up times.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Josh Marshall. This is the Josh Marshall Podcast. We are on I think our |
| 0:09.5 | fourth episode when we are doing the show remote from our all of our homes and as is |
| 0:19.9 | the case for I guess the great majority or most workplaces that are not considered essential services. |
| 0:27.9 | We've been out of our offices in New York and DC for just about a month now, right? I guess March 11th was the... |
| 0:39.3 | Yeah, yeah, right. Our colleague John Light went into the office this week because he had an appointment in the city and |
| 0:44.8 | snapped a picture of it all dark and kind of empty and it was a little bit a little sad but kind of nice to see it actually at least in photos. |
| 0:53.5 | Yeah it was weird. |
| 0:54.9 | It's been a while. |
| 0:55.6 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:56.9 | No, it's it's uh, it's always been a kind of a funny thing because as an organization since we're based in New York |
| 1:05.0 | and DC we spend a lot of money on having physical offices like a lot of money right |
| 1:11.4 | and the and we don't have and just for our for our |
| 1:14.3 | listeners and our subscribers you know we don't have like kind of like you know kind of |
| 1:18.1 | of fancy white shoe law firm offices they're fine you know they kind of they do their job, but it's just you know real estate's really expensive in in in these cities |
| 1:27.8 | And just for a lot of reasons I've always been very |
| 1:36.8 | I think there are all sorts of pluses to having physical offices and bringing people together in one place but it is it's you know it's it's a at least for the moment it's a different |
| 1:45.8 | reality that we're in |
| 1:47.4 | uh... before we go any further let me just remind everybody that the josh marshal |
| 1:51.5 | podcast is brought to you by Grady's cold brew ice |
| 1:55.1 | coffee. They are still up and running as an essential service. They are |
| 2:00.2 | located in the Bronx, New York, so they are at the center of the storm. |
| 2:05.0 | And you can still order their product. |
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