Spinning The Insidious

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Phil Elwood was a marketer and strategist who helped the governments of Libya, Qatar, Nigeria, and not quite but almost Syria make their cases on the world stage. He was also involved in the Mueller probe, and had a toe touch with Cambridge Analytica. In other words, he's a fascinating, conflicted, but mostly contrite figure, and author of All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians. Plus, the overstuffed South African cabinet, and a pundit who loved Joe Biden's chances until she didn't. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to our ad-free and/or PescaPlus versions of The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mike’s Substack: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	It's Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:07.2	It's the gist, I'm Mike Pesca, and this happy fellow is South African
0:11.9	President Cyril Ramaposa.
0:14.4	So I'm a happy man today as president of this country and trust that our people have invested in all these men and women we will
0:26.2	not waste and we will work very hard to take our country forward.
0:31.0	The reason he's so happy is he founded a government. It took a lot. His ruling
0:36.5	coalition is made up of 11 parties, including seven with cabinet positions. His party's the ANC, the next biggest party is the DA. You put them all together. Ramaposa had talked about eliminating some cabinet positions. Impossible. There are now 32 cabinet positions in the South African government.
0:58.8	They include the Minister of Basic Education, the Minister of Basic Education of Higher Education
1:04.8	the Minister of Planning, monitoring and evaluation
1:08.1	that puts everyone else on notice including the Minister of Mineral
1:11.2	and Petroleum Resources, the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure,
1:15.8	the Minister of Tourism, the Minister of Social Development, the Minister of Transport,
1:20.2	the Minister of Water and Sanitation, the Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture,
1:24.8	who's an interesting character.
1:26.3	He wants to serve time in jail for armed robbery.
1:29.1	What can you do? The guy knows his cricket.
1:31.8	Germany, which is a country of 80 million people
1:35.6	to South Africa's 60 million,
1:37.8	has half the number of cabinet positions.
1:41.5	The record for
1:44.0	by any government, we're just talking cabinet positions, not all the deputies,
1:48.2	there are 73 including the deputies in South Africa, but the Sri Lankan government of about a decade ago had a very large
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mike Pesca, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Mike Pesca and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.