First Lady's Night
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
This year’s socially-distanced DNC began last night, with speeches from former First Lady Michelle Obama, Senator Bernie Sanders, and more. Joe Biden went into the convention with a 7-9 point national lead against Trump, but the next few months are still full of unknowns. Watch the convention along with us every night this week at crooked.com/convention
UNC Chapel Hill has decided to pivot to online-only instruction after 130 students test positive for Covid-19. Los Angeles' public schools start remote classes today, and are launching a large-scale testing system for students and staff.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, August 18th. I'm Achilles Hughes. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm Gideon Resseck and this is what a day where we follow Bernie Sanders' example |
| 0:12.6 | and conduct all our zooms in front of a pile of logs. |
| 0:15.9 | Yeah, straight up, if you don't have logs behind you, no one's going to take you seriously. |
| 0:19.8 | Own that meeting, own logs. |
| 0:22.2 | That's right. 2020. |
| 0:24.0 | 2020. |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show, UNC Chapel Hill cancels campus classes and more on school in the time |
| 0:37.0 | of COVID than some headlines. |
| 0:38.9 | But first the latest. It's officially democratic convention season, so let's get into it. |
| 0:43.0 | While it began last night and featured a ton of different speakers, including former |
| 0:56.0 | first lady Michelle Obama and Senator Bernie Sanders, there were montages, children singing, |
| 1:01.0 | musical numbers, and Zoom conversations with voters. |
| 1:03.9 | And this was historic in a number of ways. |
| 1:05.8 | There wasn't a huge hall with all the delegates and balloons falling from the ceiling. |
| 1:09.6 | This was experienced remotely like most things have been during the pandemic and even featured |
| 1:13.4 | some pre-recorded speeches in the CEO of Quibi for some reason. |
| 1:17.4 | So before we jump into the details, what did you think of this whole strange new experiment? |
| 1:23.1 | Yeah, I like that personally for consumption, I could toggle between this and other screens |
| 1:29.1 | playing things like NBA playoffs, perhaps. |
| 1:32.1 | But in all honesty, there was a lot of stuff to pick over in this. |
| 1:37.6 | I think one of the things that was really interesting was when they did actually have real people |
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