Q&A: Kamala, Climate, and Compulsory Fun? 👻

The Two Matts

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News, News Commentary, Government, Politics

4.4 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week, Matt Kelly and Matt d'Ancona dive into Kamala Harris's Fox News interview - smart move or not? Plus, why aren't we talking more about the climate crisis?! They also tackle immigration, those cultish Trump/Johnson fans, and the age-old debate: audiobooks vs. real books. Oh, and Matt d'Ancona REALLY hates Halloween.

Further reading/watching/listening

"The Uninhabitable Earth" by David Wallace-Wells

"The True Believer" by Eric Hoffer

"Lincoln in the Bardo" by George Saunders

"Sonny Boy: A Memoir" by Al Pacino

"Don't Look Up" (Netflix film)

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1:02.0	the new European newspaper. Let's kick straight off. Was it a mistake for Kamala Harris to do an
1:08.2	interview with Fox News this week? With so much at stake, why go deep into the belly of the beast? And that's from Jacko in Slough. It's a good question. The interview she did on Wednesday with Brett Baer, who's one of their news anchors, it was pretty combative. She talked too much about Trump. She landed a good line,
1:30.2	which was my presidency, will not be a continuation of Joe Biden's presidency. But I think it was a
1:36.6	good idea, and this is why. She knows, I mean, Harris knows she's not going to get a single Fox viewer
1:44.1	to vote for her.
1:45.4	Yeah.
1:45.6	She's doing it symbolically, semiotically, to signify to the world, and I mean the world, that she's up to the job.
1:54.4	Because Trump, one of the criticism of Trump recently has been he's, he's sticking in his comfort
2:01.2	zone, you know, you wouldn't do the 60 minutes, which she did on CBS, he won't debate
2:05.4	her again after the morning he got from her on the ABC debate in September. And I think
2:12.3	that what she's doing, and I think it's admirable, is she, she's absolutely determined not to leave anything on the pitch. So she's doing, she I think it's admirable, is she's absolutely determined not to leave anything on the
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