Private mercenaries and naked sunbathers

Pod Save the World

Politics, News

4.8 • 25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Tommy and Ben discuss updates on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the discovery of hundreds of bodies at former residential schools for Indigenous children in Canada, Saudi mercenaries getting trained in the US, Russian war crimes in the Central African Republic, the ongoing civil war in Ethiopia, Hungary’s latest attack on LGBTQ rights, Boris Johnson’s big boat boondoggle, a helicopter rescue of naked sunbathers in Australia and more. Then former US ambassador to the UK and Sweden joins Tommy to tell some of his best stories from his time abroad and talk about his approach to leadership.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Pad Save the World, I'm Tommy Vittor.
0:12.8	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:14.3	Ben, welcome back to the West Coast Heap Dome.
0:17.7	I'm not sure we're technically under it.
0:19.7	It was 98 in New York.
0:22.3	What else?
0:24.1	So you had your own Heap Dome.
0:25.4	This feels a little bit better than that, but it's still, yeah, it's going to hop.
0:28.7	Yeah, I don't know about you, but reports of 117 degrees in Seattle or Portland or Canada
0:35.7	like that gets me to the existential dread feeling sometimes.
0:40.8	Yeah, climate change.
0:42.1	We're going to have to bring some more climate content out of this, but it's more climate
0:46.1	content.
0:47.1	I'm going to move from a authoritarianism to climate change, Tommy.
0:50.1	I love that.
0:51.1	One cheerful subject to the next.
0:53.0	Yeah, I do.
0:54.0	We'll spare everyone on the show.
0:56.0	The infrastructure conversation that we've been having on Pots of America.
0:59.4	Today we got a lot of good stuff, though.
1:00.8	We're going to talk about news out of Afghanistan, the treatment of Indigenous kids in Canada,
1:04.8	news about Jamal Koshogi's murder, the international fight for LGBT rights, some Russian mercenaries
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