Some 2024 Veepstakes Thoughts (Plus A Special Announcement)

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🗓️ 4 August 2024

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Summary

Here in 2024, there is a lot of speculation about who Kamala Harris will select as her running mate. And the Veepstakes almost feel kind of...normal? So, today, Jody shares some thoughts about the nature of the VP pick, and we re-run our episode from "Veepstakes Week" about notable picks throughout history.

Also -- we just announced our first ever live show! In Boston, on Friday, September 13th. Tickets are available now!

For other episodes in the Veepstakes series, check out our conversation about Sarah Palin, and LBJ.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:09.0	And before we run this Sunday's episode, I have a couple quick thoughts and
0:14.8	updates that I want to share with all of you. First off, we'll talk about this a lot
0:19.0	more over the coming weeks, but we just announced our first ever live show in Boston on Friday September 13th.
0:26.3	It is at the W-B-U-R live event space, Nicky Kelly and I will be there along with some special
0:31.5	guests. There's a link in the show notes to
0:33.3	snag your tickets right now. Please spread the word to anyone in the Boston area
0:38.2	September 13th, the first ever live show for this podcast we are very very excited anyway today's
0:45.8	episode so as I'm recording this the big political story of the moment is who
0:50.4	Kamala Harris will select as her vice presidential running mate.
0:54.2	It's slated to happen any day now, maybe by the time you're listening to this, and somehow during
0:58.7	this very unprecedented election cycle after Biden stepped aside and Harris became the presumptive
1:04.4	Democratic nominee, we kind of slipped into a couple weeks of pretty familiar
1:09.0	veep stakes, speculation about who the presidential candidate will pick as their running mate.
1:14.4	And it feels kind of normal, right?
1:16.6	Our normal-ish, all the various governors being floated, the scuttle-bout about who will provide
1:20.9	an edge in what swing state.
1:23.1	There's a pretty long history, actually,
1:25.0	at least in modern history, of all of this.
1:27.1	So much so that earlier this year
1:29.2	we did a special series on the Veepsakes.
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