A 4-hour debate?
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Maybe they could have Howard Stern do it - he could spend 4 hours trying to persuade them to take their top off. That would really improve things.
I was only joking
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@jon-nyc said in A 4-hour debate?:
I love the idea of Joe Rogan hosting the debate. But 4 hours? No thanks.
Recently I somehow found myself listening to a 2 hour podcast of Joe Rogan with Miley Cyrus. I know almost none of her songs and generally have very little in common with Ms. Cyrus, yet I somehow kept listening.
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@Horace said in A 4-hour debate?:
On that very night and in that very theater, one of the actors broke his leg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_a_leg
One popular but false etymology derives the phrase from the 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln, during which John Wilkes Booth, the actor-turned-assassin, claimed in his diary that he broke his leg leaping to the stage of Ford's Theatre after murdering the president. The fact that actors did not start wishing each other to "break a leg" until as early as the 1920s (more than 50 years later) makes this an unlikely source. Furthermore, Booth often exaggerated and falsified his diary entries to make them more dramatic.
@George-K said in A 4-hour debate?:
@Horace said in A 4-hour debate?:
On that very night and in that very theater, one of the actors broke his leg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_a_leg
One popular but false etymology derives the phrase from the 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln, during which John Wilkes Booth, the actor-turned-assassin, claimed in his diary that he broke his leg leaping to the stage of Ford's Theatre after murdering the president. The fact that actors did not start wishing each other to "break a leg" until as early as the 1920s (more than 50 years later) makes this an unlikely source. Furthermore, Booth often exaggerated and falsified his diary entries to make them more dramatic.
I thought I invented the notion for that post as a joke. Guess not.
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Maybe they could have Howard Stern do it - he could spend 4 hours trying to persuade them to take their top off. That would really improve things.
@Doctor-Phibes said in A 4-hour debate?:
Maybe they could have Howard Stern do it - he could spend 4 hours trying to persuade them to take their top off. That would really improve things.
Maybe for you.
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@jon-nyc said in A 4-hour debate?:
I love the idea of Joe Rogan hosting the debate. But 4 hours? No thanks.
Recently I somehow found myself listening to a 2 hour podcast of Joe Rogan with Miley Cyrus. I know almost none of her songs and generally have very little in common with Ms. Cyrus, yet I somehow kept listening.
@Klaus said in A 4-hour debate?:
@jon-nyc said in A 4-hour debate?:
I love the idea of Joe Rogan hosting the debate. But 4 hours? No thanks.
Recently I somehow found myself listening to a 2 hour podcast of Joe Rogan with Miley Cyrus. I know almost none of her songs and generally have very little in common with Ms. Cyrus, yet I somehow kept listening.
That's the whole point of it being 4 hours. For one, his audience doesn't watch or listen to him in the same way that they watch The Simpsons. It's not the same format at all. Clearly no one has a problem with the length of his podcasts, he's the most listened to person on the planet.
Second, any jackass can recite stock 90-second answers and 30-second rebuttals. But can you honestly bullshit for 4 hours when the moderator (and your opponent) can interrupt you at any point? It'd be a far better way to get to the bottom of who the candidates actually are. Far more informative than the political theatre we're usually subjected to.
I mean hell, it's a podcast, not Columbo. It's not like you have to tune in and watch the whole thing in one go.
