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Pod Save the UK

Chat Sh*t, Get Banged: the USA meets the UK

Pod Save the UK

Crooked Media

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The United States and Britain – two nations divided by a common language, until now. Nish Kumar and Coco Khan connect with Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett and Tommy Vietor to untangle what “chat shit, get banged” means, dive into what we can borrow from each other's systems and how to turn political outrage into action, and discuss what really happened to the Queen’s corgis. Pod Save the UK launches on the 4th of May, subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Nishkumar. I'm a stand-up comedian and I'm obsessed with two things, politics and myself.

0:20.0

And I'm Coco Khan. I'm a journalist who is maybe not so obsessed with Nish, but I do care about politics

0:26.0

and figuring out how it can work better for us.

0:29.0

How do you think it can work better for us, Coco?

0:31.0

Well, I think we need some solutions.

0:33.0

Yeah, we're going to talk to some of the biggest experts in our new podcast, Pod Save, the UK.

0:42.0

So we have borrowed this idea for this podcast from the United States.

0:48.0

I buy borrowed, I mean, wholesale style.

0:51.0

And if there's one thing British people like to do, it's go abroad and steal ideas and resources.

0:55.0

Yeah, but then we tell them that they liked it. It's their idea.

0:58.0

It's just what we're going to do now, really.

1:01.0

So the originators of this idea are the hosts of Pod Save America, a group of ex-aparmer staffers who have set up the podcast network that we are now part of,

1:13.0

impossibly in reaction to finding out they were living their worst nightmare after the lead-up to the 2016 election.

1:20.0

They are John Favreau, Tommy Vittor, and John Lovett.

1:23.0

Hello, everybody. Hello, America.

1:26.0

Hey, guys.

1:27.0

Hey.

1:28.0

This is exciting.

1:29.0

I think if you really were going to do it in this sort of true UK practice,

1:35.0

you would come to America, take our podcast, and then put it in one of your museums.

1:40.0

Wow.

1:45.0

You joke about that. Have you seen Mark Marren recently?

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