Russia's Lab Rat

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

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🗓️ 22 August 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Filmmaker Bryan Fogel had a simple hypothesis: The worldwide anti-doping system is a joke. To test his theory, Fogel wanted to dope himself and evade detection. A Russian anti-doping lab director agreed to help. Months later, Fogel's personal doping coach was blowing the whistle on Russia's piss-swapping scam to get around anti-doping rules. Fogel's documentary, Icarus, is available on Netflix. In the Spiel: The Instagram drama of Louise Linton, wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.4	It's Tuesday, August 22, 2017 from Slate.
0:10.0	It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:12.0	Donald Trump laid out his Afghanistan plan yesterday.
0:16.2	It was succinct and it was kickass.
0:20.2	We are not nation building again.
0:23.8	We are killing terrorists.
0:26.6	This did mark historians later noted the presidential pronouncement that came closest to a line
0:32.0	of dialogue said by Rowdy Roddy Piper in a John Carpenter movie.
0:36.6	I have come here to chew bubble gum and kickass.
0:41.0	And I'm all out of bubble gum.
0:47.0	Oh, shit.
0:50.3	Rowdy Roddy at least, like Trump, a former WWE personality, Rowdy Roddy did back up
0:56.0	both his plan to kick some ass as well as demonstrate a positive bubble gum.
1:00.4	Trump, on the other hand, contradicted that vow that he wasn't going to build nations
1:06.2	in another part of the speech.
1:08.2	Military power alone will not bring peace to Afghanistan or stop the terrorist threat arising
1:14.5	in that country.
1:16.1	But strategically applied force aims to create the conditions for a political process to
1:22.0	achieve a lasting peace.
1:25.9	America will work with the Afghan government as long as we see determination and progress.
1:33.7	Now, I could decry Trump's self contradictions, either within the speech or from those bold
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