COVID Commander-in-Chief
Pod Save the World
Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
The foreign policy implications of Trump catching Covid, erosion of democracy in India, a possible coup in Kyrgyzstan, an update on fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, a major dam project in Ethiopia, then weird military music videos, Subway subs and soccer. Then former CIA Director John Brennan joins to talk about Russia’s 2016 election interference, Saudi Arabia, the CIA’s darker history and his new book, Undaunted.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome back to Potsay for World I'm Tom Evintor. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:13.9 | Ben, last week at this time we talked about how we had no idea how our listeners would feel about the debate |
| 0:19.0 | because it hasn't happened yet and it was hard to predict. |
| 0:22.3 | And I have to say, uh, there's no world in which I could have imagined it was going to be as bad as it actually was. |
| 0:28.9 | That was an abomination. |
| 0:30.5 | Yeah, it was a dumpster fire within a dumpster fire. |
| 0:33.7 | And I was just, you know, having done debate prep as you talked about. |
| 0:37.6 | I also don't know how you prep somebody for that, you know? |
| 0:40.8 | Like, I was so very sympathetic to Joe Biden because like, |
| 0:44.3 | I'm sure he went in there with some points he wanted to make and some, |
| 0:47.5 | you know, lines he'd practiced and how on earth you do with a raving lunatic spouting COVID at you from across the stage, you know? |
| 0:54.8 | I don't know, man, I don't know. And look, if you, if you can't get enough of this punishment, uh, |
| 0:59.8 | the vice presidential debate will happen this evening Wednesday. |
| 1:03.5 | If you're listening to the day this comes out as you should be, you can hear Kamala Harris and vice |
| 1:07.3 | president Mike Pence square off. |
| 1:09.8 | If you want to watch it live with us because we all need a little bit of humor, |
| 1:13.6 | go to crooked.com slash debate. |
| 1:16.3 | We're going to stream the whole thing. |
| 1:17.8 | We'll do our fun group thread crooked.com slash debate. |
| 1:21.4 | But man, I, if I'm Kamala Harris, I don't think I would do this thing. |
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