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🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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With the help of historian Douglas Brinkley, this "Slow Burn" parody unpacks in painstaking detail what it was like to live through Barack Obama's "Latte Salute," the greatest scandal in presidential history. Originally aired January 27, 2020.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
0:02.0 | BAM! |
0:04.0 | Most people remember where they were when President Obama saluted a Marine while holding a latte. |
0:14.0 | It's considered by many of America's step-uncles to be the biggest scandal in presidential history. |
0:20.0 | The Daily Show Podcast Universe is proud to introduce the most definitive, most caffeinated history of Obama's latte salutes from the people who lived through it. |
0:29.0 | This is Shlobama. |
0:38.0 | Lauren Mills is a barista at the Pete's Coffee on 8th and K in Washington, D.C. |
0:43.0 | In many ways, she's a typical barista. |
0:46.0 | She wears a lot of camouflage vests. |
0:48.0 | She knows a weird amount about Bolivian politics. |
0:51.0 | She styles her hair in dreadlocks, despite being white. |
0:55.0 | Spiritually, I just feel Jamaican, you know? |
0:59.0 | On September 23rd, 2014, Lauren got to work, and she did what she does every day. |
1:05.0 | She made coffee. |
1:07.0 | A large drip with cream, an Americano with four scoops of sugar, and then, at 7.19am, Lauren received an order for a latte. |
1:19.0 | And though it was impossible to know it at the time, Lauren Mills was brewing a beverage that would change the course of presidential history. |
1:36.0 | This is the Daily Show Presents, Slobama, a podcast about the latte salute, the greatest American political scandal of the 21st century. |
1:45.0 | Everyone's talking about the disrespect away the president saluted a Marine yesterday with his latte in his hand. |
1:52.0 | There were two Marines after Marine One landed in New York with a cup of coffee in his hands. |
1:56.0 | That's bad. |
1:57.0 | The fall off from what many are calling President Obama's latte salute. |
2:01.0 | This salute by Obama makes serve as a useful metaphor for his entire administration. |
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