Fighting climate change, coronavirus, and capitalism
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Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Tommy and Ben discuss President Biden’s ambitious new climate goals, the coronavirus outbreak in India, American recognition of the Armenian genocide, Chloé Zhao’s Oscar win and censorship in China, leaked audio from the Iranian foreign minister and more. Then Ben talks to Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen about cultural depictions of the Vietnam War and the links between colonialism and capitalism.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Potsade of the World, I'm Tommy Petor. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:13.8 | Ben, we have a lot of good news on the docket today. |
| 0:16.8 | This is a feel good kind of show for Potsade of the World because we have, I know, we have |
| 0:21.6 | big news out of the Biden team about climate change, some good news out of the Biden team |
| 0:26.0 | about effort to help countries like India that are really suffering from COVID. |
| 0:30.0 | And then we have Biden's decision to recognize the Armenian genocide and why that was such |
| 0:33.3 | a big deal. |
| 0:34.3 | And we're also going to talk about why China was censoring coverage of the Oscars, another |
| 0:38.6 | big vaccine breakthrough, some interesting leaked audio out of Iran. |
| 0:42.7 | And then again, some rare good news out of Russia and Ukraine. |
| 0:45.9 | And then I have a little section I just called MAGA idiots that I hope you'll enjoy. |
| 0:50.6 | And then an update on the super league and some workplace heroes. |
| 0:54.9 | So look on balance, it feels like a weirdly positive show for us. |
| 0:58.5 | I mean, MAGA idiots could have been the name of the show for like two years, you know? |
| 1:02.9 | Yeah, maybe four. |
| 1:03.9 | Maybe four, yeah. |
| 1:05.2 | Maybe four, yeah. |
| 1:06.2 | And then you did our interview this week. |
| 1:07.5 | What are folks going to hear? |
| 1:08.9 | So this is like a very special interview. |
| 1:11.9 | I talked to Viet Thanh Wyn who is an author. |
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