The Best Advice If You Find Yourself In War

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The Arab League has welcomed back Bashar Al-Assad to the organization right as Volodymyr Zelensky pays that organization a visit. Is there a lesson to be learned? Plus, some of the odder names on the Russia Sanction list. And Howard Fishman, author of To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Monday, May 22nd, 2023, from Peach Fish Productions.
0:07.3	It's the GIST I'm Mike Pesca, and Russia has listed its list of sanctions there upset
0:13.0	with American sanctions imposed largely on oligarchs.
0:16.8	Why?
0:17.8	Because Russia started a war.
0:18.8	So Russia is sanctioning Americans.
0:21.6	Why?
0:22.6	Because some Americans objected to Russia starting a war.
0:26.6	These Americans will not be able to do business with Russia, to travel to Russia.
0:31.1	They're mostly elected officials, researchers, basically everyone at Rand and Brookings,
0:36.0	but also Jack Smith, the Justice Department Special Counsel investigating Donald Trump's
0:41.4	efforts to overturn the 2020 elections.
0:44.0	Why not?
0:45.2	And Michael Bird, not heard of Michael Leroy Bird, is, I'll just quote directly from the
0:50.8	sanctions list, the police officer who killed Ashley Babitt during the so-called
0:56.2	assault on the Capitol.
0:57.2	I mean, I think it was an assault on the Capitol, I would say that you could so-called it
1:02.6	an insurrection or a revolter and uprising, it was certainly an assault on the Capitol.
1:07.2	Here I am quibbling with the Russian sanctions list.
1:10.9	Also on the list, heavy hitters, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, but not
1:14.6	Fallon.
1:15.6	I guess they're still holding out for the possibility that Putin will play scatigories
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