North Korea debuts a massive new missile

Pod Save the World

Politics, News

4.8 • 25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

The Trump administration argues with itself about troop withdrawal timelines in Afghanistan, Trump’s covid drug cocktail restarts a debate about the president’s unchecked nuclear authorities, K-pop stars BTS are criticized by China, questions about the New York Times’s reporting on terrorism, refugee policy, corruption in Angola, Facebook (finally) bans Holocaust denial, a Belarus update and new marijuana laws in Mexico. Then nuclear nonproliferation expert Jeff Lewis joins to explain what we should make of the gigantic new missile North Korea debuted over the weekend.

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0:00.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.7	Welcome back to Padsative World, I'm Tommy Vsor.
0:12.6	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:13.6	Ben, what are we three weeks out?
0:15.6	Three weeks out.
0:16.8	How's your anxiety?
0:18.3	Uh, I mean, like I'm at the stage now where I'm anxious because I'm not anxious,
0:23.4	which is I guess not a bad place to be.
0:26.4	Yeah, I'm constantly finding myself mad at myself for not being more waked out, but then
0:32.4	you look at the polls, then I think about 2016.
0:34.4	I go into like a shame spiral.
0:36.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:37.0	I'm kind of out of it today, but then like you are Favreau or somebody sends some text
0:40.4	about like a bad result in Arizona and I just spiral all over again.
0:44.3	Somebody is always, I mean, people, the world has heard us references, text chain, we're
0:48.6	out with Favreau and Dan Fyfer and the great Kodakinen.
0:51.8	Someone is always dark on any given day, so I think that keeps me grounded.
0:55.9	Yeah, it's a nerve-ing way anyway.
0:59.2	We got some fun light subjects for you guys today.
1:01.4	We got some updates on our true presence in Afghanistan.
1:04.8	Uh, questions, concerns about the president of the United States unchecked nuclear authorities.
1:10.4	I'll say, uh, the K-pop group BTS is a little trouble, Ben.
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