Ted Lasso with a bone saw
Pod Save the World
Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Tommy and Ben talk about why US special forces were on a training mission in Taiwan, the Saudi government buys a soccer team, Biden’s Syria policy, stealing US Navy secrets, a breakthrough in the fight against Malaria, what a $20 million home in Beverly Hills tells us about Afghanistan, Iraq’s election results, Ted Cruz and the far-right in Spain, an Ethiopia update and gift giving in the Trump era.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Potsay, the world on Tommy Vitor. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:14.7 | Ben, the Red Sox, or the greatest team in baseball. |
| 0:18.3 | Exciting for now. |
| 0:19.8 | Exciting game. |
| 0:20.8 | What a series. |
| 0:21.8 | What a series. |
| 0:22.8 | Two walkoffs in a row after beating the Yankees in a one game playoffs. |
| 0:25.9 | This is like 2004 level breakthrough. |
| 0:28.8 | So before you all turn off the pod, delete it and unsubscribe. |
| 0:32.4 | I apologize in advance for being a New England sports fan. |
| 0:35.4 | I know we are the most pampered, deplorable, horrible group of people in the planet for |
| 0:39.8 | the last 20 years. |
| 0:40.8 | You used to be sympathetic and no longer. |
| 0:43.0 | Yes. |
| 0:44.0 | But seeing the Red Sox beat the Yankees like that in October is the greatest feeling |
| 0:48.8 | in all of sports for a New England person. |
| 0:50.6 | And it had an nostalgic feeling of bringing me back to the days when we were lovable-ish |
| 0:55.2 | losers with that accent. |
| 0:56.6 | Well, I can kind of turn you into an underdog perspective because as a Metz, Jets, and |
| 1:02.0 | Nick's fan, I've not tasted a championship since 1986 against the Red Sox. |
| 1:08.6 | But that also means that because I know that the Metz, like I'm always going to end their |
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