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G. Greetings everybody.

Greetings everybody. It's Monday August 26th and we've got some chapo coming at you.

We are back from our sojourn in Chicago. I want to thank everyone who came out and saw us at the Park West

Theater. It was a great time. Cheers to all of you who enjoyed that or listen to it and got to experience with me the lovely surprise appearance from one Matt

Christman via video but that was I would just like to say a very special moment for

me and I hope for you in the audience as well. That was a very fun and heartwarming moment for me.

But it's Monday now back in New York, nose to the grindstone. Let's pick up where we left off on the DNC and this upcoming presidential election.

Today Felix and I are joined by our political reporting and political analysis brain trust.

We've got Dave Weigel of Semophore

and Josh Ettingermentum back once again

to help break down where the election stands

in all of its constituent parts.

Josh, I'll begin with you.

Now that we've had a chance to take in the full scope of the DNC,

you put it in a certain way that I appreciated, that basically it was a successful but concerning

convention, in so much as they seem to do the things they needed to do from a sort of convention

standpoint, but you say like you're more

optimistic about Kamala taking power but more pessimistic about what you may do with it

than ever before. So just beginning with you like what did you think that like what

do the Democrats have to do at this convention did they do it and what was what

was lacking in your in your from your perspective? Yeah it was a pretty basic task

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