Yeah Nixon released transcripts, too. They also had glaring silences. Those silences contained oceans. And Nixon and crew are fucking Gandalf compared to this shitshow.

FUN FACT: Hollywood screenwriting format is highly particular because it has been precisely calibrated such that one page, properly formatted, will equal one minute of screen time. The five-page transcript, as released, uses more generous margins than strunk & white format so it's not a five minute conversation, but it's certainly not thirty.

Fukkit. I'ma run it through Final Draft.

kk I still know Final Draft. Reformatted into standard Warner Brothers screenplay format, this is a seven page transcript. According to Wikipedia, Zelensky speaks fluent English but I haven't found a video of him doing it in the two minutes I was willing to dedicate to this exercise. So presume there's an interpreter on either side, and double the time. We're at fourteen minutes. Add in another five minutes for mumblings and ramblings and the like. We're at nineteen minutes. Add in another few minutes for protocol and establishing the call. We're still not at our timeframe.