Explosions in Beirut
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4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben talk about the enormous explosions in Beirut, why Cuba has become an issue for Congresswoman Karen Bass in Biden’s VP selection process, Biden’s 2000(!?!) campaign foreign policy advisors, why US troops are leaving Germany, the upcoming election in Belarus, why the Department of Homeland Security was collecting “intelligence” on activists and journalists, why Spain’s former king is in trouble, how schools are coping with COVID, climate change and Bangladesh, Afghanistan and TikTok.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome back to Potsay The World. I'm Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:13.7 | Ben, we are guestless today because there's just so much going on in the world that I didn't even think we could fit it after the new section today. |
| 0:20.3 | So, the biggest thing that happened this morning, we're going to talk about this massive series of explosions in Beirut. |
| 0:26.2 | We'll talk about why Cuba has become a big issue for possible VP, hopeful Congressman Karen Bass in the VP vetting. |
| 0:33.6 | We'll talk about Biden's massive group of informal foreign policy advisors, why US troops are leaving Germany. |
| 0:38.8 | There's a big election coming up in Belarus, a place we don't talk about enough. |
| 0:42.9 | Trump goes around the Senate to install a truly awful person at the Department of Defense. |
| 0:48.2 | The House Intelligence Committee is investigating DHS and why they're collecting intel on journalists. |
| 0:55.0 | Spain's former king is in trouble. We'll talk about what's happening with schools around the world, some climate change news, Afghanistan, |
| 1:01.4 | and an update on TikTok, the most important thing of the day. |
| 1:05.4 | But, Ben, before we get to the news, we have even bigger news here at Potsay The World. |
| 1:10.2 | Your new podcast, Missing America, the trailer is live, it's about to be in the world. I'm very excited. |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah, no, I mean, for the world that's out there, first of all, I love that you guys let us do this every week. |
| 1:24.4 | And I would really love for you guys to check out this podcast. |
| 1:27.2 | So basically, what happened, as you know, listening, I'd pop up in different places around the world the last couple of years. |
| 1:33.6 | And what I did, Tommy, is I was meeting interesting progressive activists, political leaders around the world. |
| 1:38.6 | And everywhere I went, I got this sense of what was happening in America's absence, |
| 1:42.6 | and all these problems that we've talked about have been getting worse. |
| 1:46.1 | You know, this spread of nationalism, authoritarianism, and disinformation, and unaddressed climate change. |
| 1:51.9 | And I started basically just recording interviews before I even came up with a concept for this podcast. |
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