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Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

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🗓️ 18 May 2015

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In the United States, the idea of having a conversation with the President is pretty outlandish. But in Latin America, it's a regular occurrence. The most accessible president on Latin American social media is Ecuador's Rafael Correa. But what's it like to get the attention of a head of state when you may not exactly want it? This story was adapted from a Spanish Language version that originally appeared on the radio show Radio Ambulante. Listen to that here: http://radioambulante.org/en/audio-en/correa-vs-crudo SPONSORS: Framebridge: http://framebridge.com (offer code "reply") Stamps.com: http://stamps.com (offer code "reply") Animoto: http://animoto.com (offer code "replyall") Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Gimla Co. founder Matt Lieber. So there's a couple F words in this week's show.
0:04.4	Which ones?
0:06.2	Which F words?
0:07.6	Yeah.
0:08.4	You're not talking about like fralties or foibles or friendship.
0:12.6	I think you can guess.
0:13.8	So should we have a language advisory?
0:17.0	At this point if you have to ask, then the answer is yes.
0:20.8	Listener you've been advised.
0:25.6	All right.
0:26.4	So let's say you're the one person in the country with a knowledge that in 24 hours,
0:30.6	aliens will invade the earth.
0:34.1	Your only hope of stopping them is warning the president in time.
0:38.0	How do you get the president's attention?
0:40.2	It was a question that my friend Sam threw out there.
0:44.3	I was basically a thought experiment like how would you get in touch with the president?
0:47.3	This is Daniel Alicone and this week's show comes to us by way of his radio show,
0:52.6	Radio Embulante.
0:54.1	My friend Sam, I think went to Harvard.
0:57.6	His entire strategy for solving the game was to work his way up the administration of Harvard.
1:04.4	To get to see the president of Harvard who would then presumably be able to talk to a senator
1:09.8	or someone in the president's cabinet and maybe the president himself.
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