Alien Balloon Invasion

Pod Save the World

Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.8 • 25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Tommy talk about Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu’s attack on Israel’s judicial system, the ongoing US war against Chinese balloons and UFOs, Kim Jong Un’s likely successor, Saudi influence peddling, the latest in Ukraine as we approach the one year anniversary of Russia’s invasion, potential Cuba policy changes, India’s Prime Minister Modi raiding the BBC, and Melania Trump’s unexpected visit to the Situation Room. Then Tommy talks to USAID Disaster Response Lead Stephen Allen who is on the ground in Turkey about the earthquake devastation and how people can help.

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.8	Welcome back to Potsay the World on Tommy Vittor.
0:12.7	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:13.6	Uh, Ben, can I read you some of my favorite commentary
0:17.2	about Joe Biden's state of the Union?
0:19.7	Shoot, yeah.
0:20.5	Okay, here's a quote.
0:22.0	If a Chinese military spycraft tried to violate US airspace days before
0:26.0	Ronald Reagan's state of the Union address,
0:27.8	I suspect that the Gipper would not only order a military to shoot it down
0:31.3	before it entered our territory, but also invite the pilot who took it out
0:34.9	to be his guest in the House Chamber, but Joe Biden is no Ronald Reagan.
0:40.2	How would the Gipper have known about the balloon before we discovered it?
0:43.0	That's really good.
0:45.4	Great technical question there.
0:46.6	Yeah, not to raise, you know.
0:48.1	Yeah, a couple.
0:49.1	Logic.
0:49.6	Yeah.
0:50.1	Uh, that is from Bush speechwriter and torture enthusiast Mark Fiesen,
0:55.5	who remains the great shame of the Washington Post and the employee that.
0:59.9	I just let him like, you know, pop off every now and then.
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