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Serious Inquiries Only

SIO2: Trump's Cabinet: Filling the Swamp

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, Atheism, Skepticism, Democrat, Left, Liberal, Politics, News Commentary, Progressive, Religion

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Direct Download In this episode, we start taking a look Trump's picks for his cabinet members; beginning with his choices for Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury. Just to be sure we have some perspective, we go over the job descriptions and look at some of the individuals that held these positions during the Obama and G.W. Bush administrations. You might say we have some concerns... Will ‘drain the swamp’ be Trump’s first broken promise?- Politco Rex Tillerson, an Aggressive Dealmaker Whose Ties With Russia May Prompt Scrutiny- NY Times Trump’s Treasury Secretary Pick is a Lucky Man. Very Lucky. -ProPublica Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/seriouspod Follow us on Twitter: @seriouspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seriouspod

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0:00.0

You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only I'm your host Thomas Smith.

0:34.3

This is episode number two.

0:37.3

As you probably just noticed, hopefully we are so close to the name change being 100%. It is about 97%. The only holdout is Facebook.

0:49.5

I tried to change the name. They said, no do it rejected it I tried it said I could appeal so I did an appeal and

0:57.8

Didn't hear anything so then three days later I tried it again. It said not can't do this and said but you can appeal and I'm okay I'll appeal again and

1:04.8

apparently they just have a system where you appeal and nothing happens it's just

1:09.2

if I go if I go and look it just still says open like it doesn't nobody's looked at it nobody cares so I don't know if I can ever

1:17.1

change the Facebook page name I mean I'm trying I'll keep going back forth back and forth with

1:22.3

Facebook I guess or going back and forth with Facebook, I guess, or just back.

1:25.0

There's no fourth.

1:26.2

I'll just go back with Facebook and probably try again.

1:28.8

And we'll see.

1:30.0

Other than that, I think it's totally done.

1:32.2

Here's the important note.

1:33.6

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1:37.1

Everything is pretty much serious pod.

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1:45.2

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little note this is the only thing that's a little unfortunate and I apologize profusely, but there's no way around it.

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