Biden’s Olympic Boycott
Pod Save the World
Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben cover the US diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics, Biden's call with Putin and rising tensions in Ukraine, Myanmar's ousted leader being unjustifiably sentenced to prison time, Justin Bieber's shady concert for the Saudis, El Salvador's crypto game, UK Parliament's cocaine problem, and a "Mambo No. 5" performance amid Poland's deadly migrant crisis. Then Ben talks with New Yorker reporter Ian Urbina about Libya's secret migrant prisons and his time detained in one.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Pad Tafedore, I'm Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:13.3 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:14.3 | Ben, I wish we both were Shiv Roy, Roman Roy, Kendall Roy. |
| 0:20.2 | Although the New Yorker profile of Jeremy Strong plays Kendall Roy kind of bummed me |
| 0:23.3 | out because they made him seem a little type A and a little like his character. |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah, well maybe it's method acting taken to the extreme. |
| 0:30.4 | But I mean, Shiv and Roman are the only two people that could go to that venue in Tuscany |
| 0:34.9 | and have such a miserable time. |
| 0:37.0 | That's a really good point. |
| 0:38.8 | I hope you all are watching a session because it's one of the most fun hours of my life |
| 0:43.5 | every week. |
| 0:44.5 | Kind of reminds me when we're in the dark depths of the pandemic and the MJ doc would come |
| 0:48.9 | on for like a couple hours a week and it just sort of took me away for a little while. |
| 0:52.9 | Speaking of taking our listeners away to a better place for a while. |
| 0:55.9 | Okay, we are going to talk about the Olympics, how democracies are fighting back against |
| 1:00.4 | authoritarianism, the latest unconcerns at Russia could invade Ukraine, the latest from |
| 1:04.7 | Myanmar, some points on the board for justice. |
| 1:07.5 | All right. |
| 1:08.5 | Just playing with that means gambling on Bitcoin and El Salvador. |
| 1:11.4 | Cocaine and parliament. |
| 1:12.4 | It's not a good time over there. |
| 1:14.2 | Boris Johnson looking at you. |
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