Episode 101: 200,000 dead from COVID, how important is Big 10 football? TikTok sale meets China hawks
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
- The COVID death toll has surpassed the White House's initial window of expectations, how will that affect the election?
- Trump worked hard to bring back Big 10 football. Will white working class voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio St., Minnesota and Wisconsin reward him?
- Does the TikTok/Oracle deal pass the smell test with China Hawks?
- Dr. Joshua Scacco discusses how digital communication from the White House has evolved from the first website to the information machine it is today.
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| 0:00.0 | The following is brought to you by Andy Beach, Nick Wood, Paul Boyer, Michael Bullock, and Will Harris. |
| 0:16.7 | Politics, politics, politics, politics, politics, politics, politics, politics! Welcome to the show ladies and gentlemen it is your old friend Justin Robert Young |
| 0:40.1 | joining you on this September 16th edition of the Politics Politics Podcast. |
| 0:45.6 | We've got a lot to talk about. |
| 0:48.9 | I know that the name of this podcast would suggest that all we talk about are the various elements of politics, |
| 0:56.0 | but there are parts of these political elements that do indeed intersect with other elements of our society and so we're going to put on |
| 1:06.2 | our eye black we're going to get our hand in the dirt because folks there's a college |
| 1:11.9 | football conversation we have to have and I think it |
| 1:16.0 | might matter in the general election I'll explain that in a second. Is Donald Trump going to face a stare down with the |
| 1:27.0 | China Hawks on his Tik-Toc deal? And a little bit later a conversation about the digital avenues that not only |
| 1:37.5 | Donald Trump but also previous presidents have used to connect directly with the public. |
| 1:46.6 | We begin this introduction however with a grim milestone and one for which many of you have |
| 1:51.0 | asked me to revisit. |
| 1:56.9 | Today we are going to pass 200,000 people who have died from the COVID-19 virus. Months and months and months ago, I asked you guys to write down on a piece of paper a number. |
| 2:08.0 | A number for which you believed would die of the coronavirus. |
| 2:18.2 | Now I will admit that at the point |
| 2:20.8 | that I asked you guys to do this exercise and this was during the initial |
| 2:24.5 | shutdown of March and April. |
| 2:28.8 | In my mind I was assuming this was going to be something that would be around for say three months. |
| 2:37.0 | I was optimistic about this. I was optimistic about the idea that we would be back to normal. The virus has |
| 2:47.1 | proven me wrong on that. And indeed as we see spiking cases in Europe again, I do believe that regardless of what you, what |
| 3:00.8 | grade you would give the United States federal government and how they handled this. |
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