Ariel Levy Was Here

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Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Ariel Levy's 2013 New Yorker essay about losing her son, "Thanksgiving in Mongolia," was among the most recommended pieces of writing in recent memory. Levy expands on the essay in her memoir, The Rules Do Not Apply. In the book, Levy wonders if, in wanting to do it all, she set herself up for heartbreak over the things she could not have. In the Spiel, a unified theory of President Trump's policy reversals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:21.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:25.0	It's Monday, April 17th, 2017.
0:32.0	Oh, such synchronicity. From Slated to the Just I, Mike Pesca, Mike Pence went to South Korea and said out loud what we all knew to be the case.
0:41.0	The era of strategic patience is over.
0:44.0	Strategic patience out haphazard impulsivity in.
0:49.0	He sends that didn't we in military speak this would be no more strat pace.
0:53.0	We're on to more of a happim footing strategic patience.
0:58.0	Faggot strategic patience strategic patience out slap dash haste indiscriminate impetuality that is now being embraced.
1:07.0	Yeah, we gave you the strategic patience. Give it a run now. Have a taste of our erratic recklessness.
1:15.0	I said erratic recklessness not erotic recklessness. I Mike Pence still remember the concede here.
1:21.0	So erotic recklessness that would be as if I took a one on one meeting with the former South Korean president park.
1:27.0	Right? Yeah, but she's going to jail now.
1:29.0	Now look, I get it that the administration's pissed.
1:33.0	No one wants a North Korean nuke somehow finding its way more than you know, 180 yards out of a silo.
1:38.0	The sea of Japan has been this great IUD for these nuke so far hasn't it?
1:43.0	And the North Koreans they want to signal they have missiles. They even have the extra large missile casings in their parade.
1:50.0	They had the big parade and they had the containers for the missile.
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