Episode 40: Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter and a Poet Fighting Cancer
The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
4.2 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There is only one choice in this election, Donald Trump. |
| 0:11.0 | America is an ideal, a simple yet powerful idea. |
| 0:15.6 | Freedom matters. |
| 0:23.1 | You're listening to the New Yorker Radio Hour. |
| 0:26.0 | Stand and speak and vote your conscience, vote for candidates, up and down the ticket. |
| 0:33.3 | Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Redmond. |
| 0:36.7 | This week in Cleveland, among all the multitude of reporters at the Republican National Convention, |
| 0:42.6 | the New Yorker deployed its own crew of riders to cover what happened inside and outside the arena, |
| 0:48.0 | a journalistic dream team, including Evan Osnos and Jill Lippoor. |
| 0:54.1 | Have you seen a vendor of Trump wigs at any Trump rally? |
| 0:58.0 | I've never seen a Trump wig for sale, actually. |
| 1:01.0 | Come to think of it, which is very suspicious, actually. |
| 1:04.0 | We had a, one of my kids was Trump for Halloween in the fall, |
| 1:08.0 | and it was a real struggle. |
| 1:10.0 | We had to use yellow yarn. What did you go with? Oh, you went with a bespoke product that you made. We did a bespoke. Like the real thing. That makes it something. He's not an off-the-shelf guy and neither should his wake-be. Evan Osnos has been focusing on politics and domestic issues lately, including an incredible piece about the gun industry |
| 1:28.2 | in the NRA. |
| 1:28.9 | Oh, I know. |
| 1:29.9 | Make sure to leave your gun outside. |
| 1:31.0 | But Evans also spent a lot of time reporting on and from China, years in fact. |
| 1:37.0 | And for another look at the Trump phenomenon, he caught up with Drang Yuan-Anan, a journalist |
| 1:42.6 | from the Chinese publication, Taishin. So, Tai Xin is a, we could call it like, |
| 1:49.6 | it's a combination of maybe business week and the New Yorker. Would that be kind of roughly? |
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