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Meet the people who describe the Olympics for visually impaired fans

Here & Now Anytime

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🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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We'd love to hear your thoughts on the podcast. Take the survey here or at wbur.org/survey. We get the latest on the prisoner swap between Russia, the U.S. and U.S. allies from investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov. Then, Paul Dans resigned as director of Project 2025, the conservative playbook he helped write for the next Republican president. Alec MacGillis, who has been writing about Project 2025 and its outgoing director, tells us what's next. And, there are announcers at the Olympics who specialize in describing the games to a visually impaired audience. Tony Ambrogio and Norma Jean Wick took time from calling the Olympics in Paris to tell us what it takes to do the job.

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It says a lot about the United States that we work relentlessly to free Americans who are unjustly

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held around the world. It also says a lot about us that this deal includes the release of the Russia since the Cold War. Today is out

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Today on the show, the head of Project 2025 is out but the work he did to prepare for a purge of career

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government workers if Trump wins that remains. There's been this two-year effort to really have this entire army, they call it an army,

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they use very martial terms, and so it's going to be a completely different sort of administration in Trump 2.0.

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Also, the broadcast of the Olympic Games includes descriptive narration of the events

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for people who are visually impaired.

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What's it like to do that job?

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So I would take it from, you know, Simone's stairs down the vault, then sprints down an 82 foot runway,

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