Ben Rhodes

You can help launch this book so that it gets kind of up into the orbit in an attention economy where books have a hard time breaking through.

I'm going to be talking about it from time to time.

I may even like delve into the Substackverse.

Oh, yeah.

to share thoughts on this, but also like other things that I think are going on in the country, things maybe we don't get to talk about in this podcast about where the hell America is going and how we got here.

So please keep your eye out.

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Possibly.

Is speech writing a lost art?

Do you think it's dead soon?

The last three are Reagan.

Obama-Trump, right?

And that was just, that little snapshot alone was fascinating because, like I, you know, spoiler alert, but the Obama speech is a race speech.

It's impossible to imagine a politician delivering that speech today.

Like a 45-minute speech

like brilliant meditation on multiracial democracy.

It was covered in depth too.

Yeah, that people watched the whole speech, people read it, engaged.

And actually that's part of the problem is like, we don't listen to each other.