Style, Substance, and The Stage

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Jonah’s longtime friend Tevi Troy makes his second appearance on the program, this time to discuss not only the history of presidential debates, but also to share some info on how the sausage gets made from his time doing debate prep for George W. Bush. Beyond simply recounting some of the best zingers in the history of these debates (“The youth and inexperience of my opponent…” “You’re no Jack Kennedy.”), they discuss the degree to which these moments are actually staged, and how the pretzel-like overcomplicated logic of certain debate preppers actually contribute to their candidate looking pretty silly on national TV. Keeping this history in mind, Tevi also talks about what he’ll be looking for in the upcoming debates (both campaigns should be taking notes, honestly), and happily discovers that he has reached “Vin Cannato Equilibrium” in the canon of the REU (Remnant Extended Universe). Show Notes: -The Dispatch30-day free trial at -Fight HouseTevi’s latest book, -George H. W. Bush looks at his watch -“Conservatism as a Second Language” -Intra-American migration due to COVID -Quayle/Gore debate highlight -Bush headchecks Gore -Biden decides to be, uh, pugilistic towards Paul Ryan

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0:00.0	Oh
0:14.3	Ladies and gentlemen
0:16.5	Can I please have your attention
0:18.5	Hello
0:27.5	Ladies and gentlemen, this is Joan of over host of the Revenant podcast brought to you by the dispatch and dispatch media
0:34.4	go to the dispatch.com to get all sorts of things about all sorts of stuff and also about the other things and
0:42.0	We are doing this outside of the normal space time continuum sort of as if
0:50.8	Dr. Strange had used the Crimson bands of CITARAC to bring us outside of the space time continuum in our
0:58.0	Iraqi and null entropy tube or something so
1:02.4	I don't even know if this episode is going to have ads in it
1:05.6	but we wanted to get this in before the first debate and
1:09.7	Because my friend and repeat
1:13.9	Dispatch repeat remnant guest
1:16.4	Tevi Troy
1:18.2	Is a good guy to talk to about debate prep and the history of debates
1:22.0	He is a historian who studied the presidency among many other things and he's actually participated participated in the debate prep process for
1:31.3	presidential campaigns and
1:33.3	He is literally not figuratively
1:35.4	My oldest friend in Washington because I replaced him at the American Enterprise Institute almost three decades ago
1:40.4	So Tevi welcome back to the remnant great to have you here
1:44.0	Thanks for having me
1:45.2	The really important thing here is that I have now matched Vincanato because I think canado equivalence is very important
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