Fighting for freedom in Iran
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4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Tommy and Ben discuss the latest news out of Ukraine, including the increasingly vocal criticism of the war effort from Putin’s allies and talk of nuclear weapons use. Then they cover the election results in Brazil, prisoner releases, trickle down economics get humiliated in the UK, a coup in Burkina Faso, and shorter updates from around the world. Then Tommy speaks with Yeganeh Rezaian from the Committee to Protect Journalists about the protests in Iran, her experience with Iran’s brutal morality police, and what Americans and the US government should do to support this movement.
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| 0:31.2 | Welcome back to Pads Day of the World, I'm Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:33.2 | I'm Ben Rhodes. Where's your jet lag on a scale from zero to |
| 0:37.0 | Bill Murray and Lawson Translation? So I will say as you get older this good |
| 0:40.9 | harder and so I got back from just to give you a little flavor of it. I got back |
| 0:46.0 | Friday night. Sunday night I fell asleep on the hardwood floor of my kids bedroom |
| 0:53.1 | after putting them in the bed and woke up at 12.30 and was up all day yesterday. |
| 1:00.0 | That's tough. So imagine we can, yeah it's pretty bad. |
| 1:03.4 | That's like a 24 hour day. But today I'm fine. Today, you know, |
| 1:06.2 | today, last night, I slept at the night, I'm fine. |
| 1:08.0 | We're good. Welcome back. We got a great show to welcome you back to welcome all |
| 1:12.1 | listeners back then. We're going to cover the latest news out of Ukraine, |
| 1:15.2 | including the increasingly vocal criticisms of the war coming from within Russia, |
| 1:19.9 | from Putin's allies. Yes. The chatter about the risk of nuclear weapons use. |
| 1:24.4 | Very fun light stuff there. Yeah. The election results in Brazil, |
| 1:28.3 | prisoner releases, trickle down economics, get humiliated in the United Kingdom. |
| 1:32.7 | So sad to see it. Akuh and Burkina Faso. Some shorter updates from around the world. |
| 1:37.1 | And then a fantastic interview that you really do not want to miss. |
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