John Bolton’s sh*tty book

Pod Save the World

Politics, News

4.8 • 25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben talk through some of the explosive revelations in John Bolton’s book, from supporting the construction of concentration camps in China, to thinking it would be “cool” to invade Venezuela to his approach to North Korea and Iran. They also cover news about climate change, Chinese cyberattacks, the ongoing saga of Capt Crozier, the latest with the Coronavirus and an update out of Afghanistan. Then Tommy is joined by Hamed Sinno, the lead singer of one of the biggest bands in the Middle East, Mashrou’ Leila, and an influential LGBTQ rights activist.

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.7	Welcome back to PotSafe the World, I'm Tommy Dittor.
0:12.7	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:13.8	Ben, I think we're going to have a little bit of fun today.
0:17.2	John Bolton wrote a book.
0:18.8	He did.
0:19.5	To come out the day we recorded or the day after.
0:22.0	I think it leaked like the day or day after we recorded, yeah.
0:24.5	Who cares, he's an asshole.
0:25.8	Yeah, yeah.
0:26.6	So we're going to go through some of the biggest policy
0:30.7	explosions in that book.
0:32.8	We're also going to talk about some troubling news about climate change.
0:36.5	Allegations that China is mounting massive cyber attacks against the European Union
0:41.2	in Australia.
0:42.2	An update on Captain Crozier, the latest out of Afghanistan,
0:45.8	some coronavirus news.
0:47.7	And then we have a very cool interview today with a Lebanese
0:51.6	rock star named Hamid Zanou.
0:53.2	He is a singer.
0:54.7	He's a songwriter.
0:55.6	He's one of the biggest rock stars in the Middle East.
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