Why Should Candidates for High Office Talk for Three Hours?

Bill Thompson says candidates for high office should talk for three hours because three hours of conversation reveals who they are. A person cannot sit for three hours and talk without revealing themselves. If someone running for high office will not come on the biggest podcast in the world and speak extemporaneously about their principles, the way they metabolize the world, and why they are fit to change it, he would dispatch with them. They are not revealing themselves. They are probably a construct, promoting an image for the public to accept, and that image is not totally real.

He wants Bernie, Trump, and Kamala in that chair. Across three hours a person talks about what is going on even when they do not want to, and the nexus of who they are comes out. Fox News for 15 minutes lets a candidate read talking points. A slot that short does not give enough understanding of who the person is. A long podcast does.

He calls the instinct against platforming someone incorrect. He wants people he dislikes platformed. Candidates are already out there, and the interview is not going to make them more popular. They are who they are. The Trump interview was a good one because it showed him talking in a noncombative situation.