Hey, everybody. It is Thursday, August 24th. It was a late night here at Monews headquarters. We'll tell you about it in a second.

You're listening to the Monews podcast. I'm Mochewanunu.

Just kidding. And I am chill Wagner. This is the plate. It was so late. I'm still sleeping.

This is the place where we bring you just the facts and reread all the news and read between the lines so you don't have to.

So the debate went to 11 p.m. Eastern Time, way past Jill's normal bedtime, but nonetheless, we're here to tell you about the highlights, the low lights, everything in between and what former President Trump had to say.

But Jill, before we get into that and the headlines, I know you were running a poll over on your Instagram account asking the peeps if the podcast is too long or too short.

And I was curious as to the results you got on your poll there.

We call this Moshe's turn to gloat because I was extremely surprised like genuinely shocked.

37% said that less is more. 63% said more is more. I tend to think that our sweet spot in terms of the podcast length is about 30 minutes or less.

You cannot help yourself, but to add stories, you have zero self control.

So this is our debate. So just to have people background here, you know, for the better part of 15 months as we've been in this podcast, Jill is saying we've got to get the pod under 30 minutes.

I'm like, come on 40 minutes, 45 minutes. It's okay. We're giving people good information.

So Jill ran this poll and I promised not to cook the books and get all the hardcore mode newsers involved. So she ran it amongst her people on Instagram and got the more is more as opposed to less is more.

And I will say Jill, I did vote for more is more. That was one vote towards 60 something.

Oh, I saw.

Well, with that said, should we get rolling here? So we don't get too many minutes over 30 minutes.

Yes, interestingly, I did get a bunch of people who said they listen on maybe 1.8 2.0. Someone told me they listen at 2.8 speed, which seems insane to me.

But I guess that at that speed, we are coming in under 30 minutes.

I mean, I've received the criticism that I already speak too quickly at 1.0 speed. I don't know how you guys make out what I say 2.5, but you know, who does to you?

Okay, before this turns into an hour long podcast, Jill, the clock is ticking here. Let's get started.

All right, here are the headlines. We're going to start with the takeaways from the first GOP debate and Donald Trump's counter programming interview with Tucker Carlson.

Carlson asks him if he fears that he'll be assassinated.

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