From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Thursday, August 22nd.

Kenan Thompson of Saturday Night Live Fame was at the DNC last night sporting a big heavy copy of the 900 page Trump

Allied policy playbook Project 2025.

You ever seen a document that could kill a small animal and democracy at the same time?

And Thompson briefly brought on a...

There it is. There it is. Thompson briefly brought on a few people by video to whom he cited specific passages from the Project 2025 book. Here's one of those exchanges.

You're married, correct? I am. Me and my wife have been together for about eight years.

Oh, that's amazing. Very fascinating. I am. Me and my wife have been together for about eight years. Oh.

That's amazing. Very, very cute.

Thanks.

But I have got some bad news for you.

I hate that. On page 584, Project 2025 calls for the elimination of protections for LGBTQ-plus Americans.

Keenan Thompson bringing the humor to wield the skewer.

But the main event last night was Minnesota governor and vice presidential nominee Tim Walz,

who talked among other things about being a teacher and a learner in his social studies classroom.

I wound up teaching social studies and coaching football at Mancato West High School.

Go Scarlet's.

We ran a 44 defense.

We played through to the whistle on every single play, and we even won a state championship.

Never closed the yearbook, people.

But it was those players and my students who inspired me to run for Congress.

They saw in me what I had hoped to instill in them, a commitment to the common good,

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