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What the fuck was he giving a speech about for 27 hours?
I’d run out of communist talking points within an hour flat.
3rd hour and I would have absolutely nothing left in my brain, and you’re telling me this fucking corporate lib said something remotely relevant for 27 fucking hours?
I'm in no way saying it's easy and I think ~3 hours would be about my absolute limit for me too even if I had a horde of speechwriters at my beck and call. Not only am I not a talker - I've grown to hate talking. But I assume a few things about Booker's effort.
He's been planning this effort for at least weeks. Probably months. And he knew he'd have to speak for more than 24 hours to beat Thurmond. Beating Thurmond's record was vital for him.
He had his speechwriters, aides, etc break his effort down into hour long chunks or whatever. And then they wrote out huge amounts of text. I bet all he did was editing.
Booker practiced a lot on structuring the content.
Like a talented standup comic - he practiced a lot on the delivery. He needed to make his delivery seem alive and not canned. Booker made his practiced stuff seem improvised. As much as I loved Robin Williams - fantastic timing and deceive people into thinking the performer came up with it on the spot. Williams was a brilliant performer and fantastic at improvisation but he had lot of go-to canned material. Why do stunts without a net?
[Etc.] I'm certain if by tomorrow I could have at least three more list items.
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I googled for a transcript. Google found nothing. I'm sure at least AI transcripts exist. They must. Google is such garbage.
Did his channel not archive the stream? No idea is its would have a 27 hour long transcript.
His Youtube channel? - https://www.youtube.com/@senbooker/videos
It only has snippets. And I assume even if the entire speech was available - there would be no human edited transcript. And all that would be grabable is Youtube's closed captions. And those are very ugly even for a ~5 minute vid.
I saw a comment that the speech will eventually be in the congressional record. At first that cheered me but then I realized it will surely be a fucking pdf and I hate those with a passion.
Yeah that's annoying. I can't remember if YouTube still has that live issue where it dies after 24 hours, then you have to restart it. I can't remember if that limits archiving it.
You could check C-SPAN. They would have a machine transcription I think.
This is exactly the sort of thing that AI is supposed to do. I know it was dumb - but I asked Copilot to give me a transcript. It said the speech likely had a copyright. So I told Copilot to fuck itself and give me a transcript. And then it told me to be polite and repeated the same shit it gave me before.
~~Google~~ Microsoft junk reprimands you if you are rude to it? Oh man my bashin hand is itchin'
Ahem. Microsoft junk.
you missed one:
Im mean I do have enough pointless knowledge to talk for hours upon hours .....but at that point I woukd have to talk about stuff like Elden Ring lore to the audience.
At one point he was just reading letters from constituents.
Did people actually sit there for 27 hours? He didn’t go to the bathroom once? Or like drank water?
Catheters are a somewhat common practice for filibustering
what the fuck what the fuck