Corey Booker breaks Senate floor speech record |
Corey Booker breaks Senate floor speech record |
That said, the more tired you get, the harder it is to do that. You start straining your muscles, and your vocal cords start slamming together. For singers, who do this a lot, it eventually causes scarring, and it can end your career.
I don't think I could do 25 hours. And Booker is going to be out of commission for days -- he literally shouldn't talk for a week. He may just have learned all this by intuition and example rather than training, but either way, it's gonna rip him up.
I know that politicians speak a lot. And the art of oratory was studied and respected in ancient Greece.