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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The President is no longer allowed to Tweet. PJ and Alex sit down with their boss to explain what that means, how it happened, and what might happen next. Plus -- an upset listener berates our climate reporter. Click here to listen to How to Save a Planet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Gimlet, this is Rapil, and PJ vote.
0:08.0	And I'm Alex Goldman.
0:10.0	Hello, Alex Goldman.
0:14.0	Hi, PJ.
0:15.0	You okay?
0:17.0	No!
0:18.0	I mean, things are really fucked up, dude.
0:27.0	I just feel like the state of the world externally is permeating my every thought, and like,
0:34.0	I try to retreat into things that make me feel comfortable and safe.
0:38.0	And nothing's working.
0:40.0	Oh, you mean to hang out on the internet?
0:41.0	It's not helping.
0:45.0	Yeah, strangely, reading Twitter is not giving me the sense of column that it usually does.
0:50.0	Alex Bloomberg, you are also here.
0:52.0	I'm also curious how you're doing.
0:56.0	I'm alright.
0:57.0	Yeah.
0:58.0	So basically, we'd had this moment where we were sort of, we were, Alex and I were talking
1:02.0	and it felt like with everything that had happened with the riots at the Capitol, it might be nice
1:09.0	to do an explainer to you about sort of how the internet was responding to everything that happened at the Capitol.
1:15.0	So we brought you Alex in on Friday.
1:18.0	We recorded a thing.
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