Putin invades (but not where you thought)

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Politics, News

4.8 • 25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Ben and Tommy talk about protests and power struggles in Kazakhstan, Boris Johnson’s garden party problems, an update on the assassination of the Haitian president, how Novak Djokovic's vaccination status caused a diplomatic crisis in Australia, when North Korea invented the burrito (huh?) a heroic bomb sniffing rat and much more. Then Ben talks with former Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk about tensions with Russia and how Ukraine plans to maintain democracy despite Putin's efforts to destroy it.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Potsy of World on Tommy Vittor.
0:13.3	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:14.4	Ben, the New England Patriots are in the playoffs.
0:17.8	Yeah, but not exactly with a huge head of momentum in my friend.
0:21.9	Yeah, losing the Dolphin's choice.
0:22.9	Oh, yeah, I think it's going to lose the Dolphin's choice and then roll back into Buffalo
0:26.8	where it's just kicked the shit out of us.
0:28.6	And very cold.
0:29.6	Yeah, we need to be like either negative 50 and driving wins or it's going to be tough.
0:38.3	Yeah.
0:39.3	The negative 15 driving wins could play to your advantage.
0:43.0	That we need.
0:44.0	Last time you only ran the ball, right?
0:45.0	Yes, yes.
0:46.0	I think back through the ball three times.
0:47.0	But anyway, the listeners hate sports banter.
0:50.0	Our global listeners love our discussion of American football.
0:53.2	We apologize.
0:54.2	We have a great show today. It's a fun, ranging, interesting set of topics in my opinion.
0:59.0	We're going to start in Kazakhstan because there have been protests which seem like they
1:03.0	turn into proxy fighting and then there were more Russian troop cranes.
1:06.0	Crazy story.
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