Episode 87: Susan Rice is the VP? Veepstakes ends Saturday? Biden on Portland. Political Memes through history
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
- Biden-heavy episode this week. Is Biden running for president or simply to eject Trump from office?
- Susan Rice is our last VP vetting candidate... but honestly... is it necessary? We all know who the real nominee is.
- Biden finally weighs in on Portland but is he playing into Trump's hands?
- The history and impact of political memes with Jamie Cohen (@NewAndDigital) who pioneered a degree in the subject.
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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. |
| 0:39.0 | Politics, politics, politics, politics, politics. Hello and welcome everybody to the July 29th |
| 0:44.2 | 2020 edition of the politics, politics, politics, podcast. |
| 0:46.9 | It's y'a boy, just from Robert Young. |
| 0:51.1 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. We have a Biden-centric episode of the show. Very Biden-centric |
| 0:59.6 | episode of the show and and I not just going to pick on him because he's actually doing |
| 1:07.3 | things so we can actually critique actions instead of fast-forwarding conversations that he's had with people over Zoom, |
| 1:17.0 | or deciding whether or not lack of action is indeed the best action. |
| 1:24.4 | We will discuss the latter days of the VP search. We will discuss how Joe Biden is handling the protester issue slash DHS response, |
| 1:42.0 | the federal response in Portland, Chicago, and Albuquerque, and some |
| 1:49.5 | more Biden stuff as well. |
| 1:52.2 | We also have an awesome interview and this is an interview for the |
| 1:56.9 | internet folk. I know some of you guys are internet people some of you guys aren't |
| 2:01.5 | but all of you have been affected by memes. |
| 2:06.6 | So we got ourselves an actual meme historian. |
| 2:13.0 | They are on, I had a great time with this interview. |
| 2:17.0 | I think it was excellent, so please, please, please go ahead and stay to the end |
| 2:22.9 | to listen to that. |
| 2:25.4 | Before we get started, I do want to just give you |
| 2:28.1 | a little Amuse Boos, Boos, a little |
| 2:30.7 | or Derv, canopays some might say for our Biden discussion and this is an |
| 2:39.8 | answer Biden actually took questions this was an answer that Biden gave yesterday that I both |
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