Belarus hijacks a plane (and Samantha Power)

Pod Save the World

Politics, News

4.8 • 25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben discuss how the Belarusian president forced a plan to land so he could arrest a journalist, the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, a spike in coronavirus cases in Japan ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, more theories about the origins of coronavirus, a coup in Samoa, why John Cena had to apologize for calling Taiwan a country and more. Then USAID Administrator Samantha Power joins Ben to talk about her development agenda and how the agency can actually help get coronavirus vaccines into arms around the world.

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.7	Welcome back to Potsade the World, I'm Tommy Vythorn.
0:12.8	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:13.9	Ben, we got a hell of a good show for the listeners today.
0:17.2	Real quick, I guess you could have pulse check on your next
0:19.9	how you feel in it, and I guess took an L.
0:22.0	I don't want to rub it in or anything.
0:23.4	Oh, well, this is what you have to do after you got deconstructed by Jason on...
0:28.2	Uh-huh.
0:28.7	Take a line.
0:29.2	Oh, that's a savage.
0:30.6	I should be.
0:31.4	People should check that out if they haven't.
0:34.2	I feel really good, Tommy, because I, as a kid,
0:36.9	like there was no higher experience in my life
0:38.8	than going to like a 1990s Nick's Play-Off series,
0:41.9	which was also like the last time the Nick's were relevant,
0:43.9	because like it felt like the entire city of New York
0:46.2	was in the arena screaming at the same time.
0:48.6	And even though they lost, just to see that,
0:51.8	it was like such a catharsis as a Nick's fan,
0:54.0	but to be a little serious too, it's like the first post-vaccination
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