Is prosecuting presidents a good idea?
Pod Save the World
Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben are joined by Crooked contributor Max Fisher for a segment to discuss a possible Trump indictment and how common presidential prosecutions are around the world. Then Ben and Tommy cover Chinese President Xi Jinping’s trip to Moscow, the retirement age in France, the global implications of the SVB collapse, new reporting on Ron DeSantis and his involvement in Guantanamo Bay, and the latest coronavirus origin theory. Then Tommy is joined by Ethiopian journalist and activist Meaza Mohammed to discuss Ethiopia’s ongoing civil war and the lack of freedom of the press.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.8 | Welcome back to POD Save the World. I'm Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm Ben Reds. |
| 0:13.8 | Did you do a bracket? |
| 0:15.2 | Are you March Madness Day? |
| 0:16.2 | No, no. Once the better players started playing |
| 0:19.8 | zero to one years of college basketball, |
| 0:21.9 | I lost a little bit of a little effort. |
| 0:24.2 | Yeah, I love it. |
| 0:25.7 | I don't watch a singular regular season game, |
| 0:28.0 | so I don't care. |
| 0:29.2 | So I can't really even board the listeners with a take. |
| 0:31.4 | But no, the problem with this one is |
| 0:33.4 | that a casual college basketball fan, |
| 0:34.8 | the only college basketball content I've consumed |
| 0:37.2 | before this tournament is about the number of Alabama |
| 0:40.2 | basketball players who are like president |
| 0:41.8 | and like a horrible murder. |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, that was too short. |
| 0:44.0 | And some of them are playing in the... |
| 0:45.6 | I mean, this is fairly obvious take, |
| 0:47.4 | but it is a kind of sign something that's kind of wrong here. |
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