from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Tuesday, August 20th.

Let me start today with a clip from maybe the surprise hit speaker at the Democratic Convention last

night, Steve Kerr, head coach of the

Golden State Warriors of the NBA and of the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team, which just

won the gold in Paris. A lot of buzz about this speech afterwards for it coming, not just from any

celebrity, if you want to call them a celebrity, like someone from Hollywood, say, but from someone who has experience in leadership, interestingly similar to Tim

Walls in the realm of sports. And for describing leadership, not in terms of, you know,

like bossing people around or being the big dog in every situation, but in terms of humility, listen to

this. I believe that leaders should be able to laugh at themselves. I believe leaders must care

for and love the people they are leading. I believe leaders must possess knowledge and expertise, but with the full awareness

that none of us has all the answers. And in fact, some of the best answers often come from

members of the team. And if you look for those qualities in your friends or your boss or an employee or your child's teacher or your mayor,

and shouldn't you want those same qualities in your president?

And then he went on to say he would be working every day to get people to vote for Harris and Wall,

Steve Kerr at the Democratic Convention.

Of course, as they sometimes say critically about basketball coaches,

the DNC kind of mismanaged the clock last night.

Things ran late.

They had to cancel James Taylor scheduled musical performance and one or two political

speeches to get to the headliner, Joe Biden, very late as it was, around 1130. Did you

stay up and watch it? When among other things, he got a second shot at the line he bungled so

badly at the June 27th debate that it became the symbol of why he had to drop out of

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