DNC SPECIAL: Is It Safe To Feel Optimistic?

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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On this week’s “Inside the Hive,” co-hosts Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan discuss the four-day extravaganza of Democratic hopes and dreams and the official coming out of Joe Biden as the nominee who will face off against Donald Trump for the future of the free world. From Joe and Jill Biden’s 70s sitcom-worthy biography to Barack Obama’s cold dismantling of Trump to Kamala Harris’s intersectional feminist vision, Fox and Hagan examine the spectacle and speeches (and the musical choices) for clues to the deeper storylines and the political battles ahead. With Republicans rolling out their own program next week, our co-hosts are poised somewhere between hope and nausea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Inside the Hive. This is Joe Hagen. I am here with Emily Jane Fox.
0:08.8	Hello Emily Jane.
0:10.0	Hi! Look at you on sort of vacation, Sun Tan, and all.
0:15.0	I did get a Sun Tan, you know, you feel vaguely guilty
0:20.0	enjoying yourself in the year in which everything is misery all around you, but you know you have to grab your moment.
0:25.9	There's nothing to be to feel guilty about you're allowed to spend time with your family in a safe way which you are doing and you are also
0:34.7	here with all of us in the middle of your time with your family in the sunshine because
0:40.1	how could you not be what a week in American politics American history I have
0:45.8	been riveted and you know heartened I will say as the you know Joe Biden comes out of the cocoon you know it's the it's the
0:58.1	moment we've been talking about you know he's been we've been talking for
1:01.4	episode after episode always playing rope a dope he's
1:04.3	staying underground where's Joe Biden we knew he was going to emerge it's been
1:08.6	beautifully carefully orchestrated and quite well done, I must say,
1:13.5	given the circumstances, right?
1:17.3	You know, tonight, as we record this,
1:20.8	Joe Biden will be giving his nomination speech.
1:25.0	That's right, we're speaking to you from the past.
1:28.0	Speaking to you from the past, and given the way things are unfolding, you know, Steve Bannon in handcuffs,
1:36.4	taken off a boat in Connecticut somewhere.
1:39.1	I mean, anything could happen.
1:40.5	You sort of always knew that it was going to end this way, right?
1:43.6	You saw from the second you saw him in the national stage,
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