Hey U.N. Secretary-General … You Got Served!

The Gist

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🗓️ 24 June 2014

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Can you sue the United Nations over a tragic cholera outbreak in Haiti? Well, first you have to figure out how to serve top diplomats with papers. Today on The Gist, lawyer Stanley Alpert says U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was served last week outside of the Asia Society, but U.N. spokesman says a security guard interceded. Then, Invisibles author David Zweig explains a path to professional success that doesn't involve relentless self-promotion. And forget Upworthy—in today's Spiel, everything's crapworthy. Get The Gist by email as soon as it's available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slate…id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Lionsgate Plus. The third season of the Lionsgate Plus
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0:10.0	Plus. Follow Catherine the second play by L-Fanning and Peter The Great, played by Nicholas
0:14.4	Holt, as they hilariously attempt to make their marriage work after some seemingly insurmountable
0:18.7	problems, from attempt to murder and the imprisonment of close friends to their never-ending
0:22.6	legal responsibilities. The Great Season 3 is available to stream on Friday July 14 exclusively
0:28.2	on Lionsgate Plus. The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:36.8	It's Tuesday June 24, 2014 from Slate It's the Gist I'm Mike Pasca, and tomorrow is National
0:42.9	Catfish Day, so quickly create a fake identity online, hook someone in, and tell them when you
0:48.0	meet them you're sorry, but you just didn't have the confidence to show them the real you.
0:51.7	No, not that kind of catfish, the swimming kind that don't actually make that sound.
0:56.7	I'm actually going to pretend I'm a defensive soccer player shoulder in an effort to catfish
1:01.6	Louis Suarez. Oh my god, did you see this? The Uruguayan attacker was engaged in another
1:07.0	bout of soccer fagi, soccer fagi, the eating of a soccer player, because he bit the Italian player
1:14.0	Kikolini, and then of course Suarez fell to the pitch and agony, claiming that the fleshy part
1:19.2	of the Italian players upper torso attacked his insiders. But hey, who doesn't like eating Italian?
1:24.9	Okay, let's check on Twitter to see if anyone else made that joke. And here it is,
1:28.3	man, child, 1077, to be fair, who doesn't like eating Italian? You know, too bad Kikolini was a
1:34.6	starter. Otherwise, we'd have, you know, Italian sub possible jokes. All right, what do you get when
1:39.0	you show up late for dinner at Louis Suarez's house? Tell us Twitter, and there it is, Dave W.
1:44.8	Inns 5, that'll teach Kikolini for giving Suarez the cold shoulder. Chewy Louis, Twitter was all
1:52.0	over that. Huff Poe contributed this one. Chewy Louis and the Blues, which actually people are
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