Shoutshow: Trump and Biden clash
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
America’s first presidential debate was unmitigated chaos, revealing little more than the rancour between the candidates. In Chicago a newish musical genre called drill has a strong relation to the city’s gang violence; we ask whether it is a causal one. And amid a global rise in hand-washing, we look at the fascinating, fragrant history of soap.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:09.4 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:17.8 | Chicago has always been a wellspring of music. |
| 0:25.6 | Lately, its big export is a genre of rap called drill. We speak to an author who spent time with drill artists |
| 0:28.6 | and ask whether the music simply reflects or actively promotes the city's gang violence. |
| 0:34.6 | And getting your whites whiter has come a long way since the Romans, who used |
| 0:41.5 | urine. We take a historical look at soap, crossing paths with Victorian values, sparking |
| 0:48.4 | the field of surface science, and now offering a clean win against COVID. |
| 0:56.7 | First up, though. |
| 1:04.4 | The Commission has designed the format, |
| 1:07.1 | six roughly 15-minute segments, |
| 1:12.1 | with two-minute answers from each candidate to the first question, then open discussion for the rest of each segment. |
| 1:15.0 | President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden took to the stage last night in |
| 1:19.8 | Ohio for the first American presidential debate, moderated by Fox News host Chris Wallace. |
| 1:25.8 | Despite the early attempt at rule setting, the end result was chaotic. I got rid of the individual mandate. Excuse me, I get rid of the individual mandate. I'm not here to call out his lies. Everybody knows he's a liar. But you agree. I just want to make sure. I want to make sure. Vice President, no. Can I be honest? It's a very important question. |
| 2:03.9 | Vittriolic. Don't ever use that word. Oh, give me a break. Because you know what? There's nothing smart about you, Joe Forty. Would you shut up, man? One of the big debates. Wait a minute. You get the final word, well, it's hard to get any word in with this clown. and unlikely to change many voters' minds, just five weeks before Election Day. |
| 2:07.1 | We have ended this segment. We're going to move on to the second segment. |
| 2:09.3 | That was really a productive segment, wasn't it? |
| 2:12.5 | The debate left even seasoned commenters in shock. |
| 2:17.4 | As someone who's covered presidential debates, that was the worst presidential debate I have ever seen. |
| 2:22.3 | And raised serious questions about whether President Trump would accept the outcome of November's election. I would say that watching the debate was like watching a car crash, but at least a car |
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