The Navy’s coronavirus clusterf*ck

Pod Save the World

Politics, News

4.8 • 25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

A coronavirus clusterf*ck in the Navy leads the Acting Secretary of the Navy to resign. The virus sends British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to the ICU while the Queen of England releases a message to the British people. Trump retaliates against an impeachment enemy by firing the Intelligence Community Inspector General. The White House has a new press secretary (sort of) while press freedom is under assault in India. Good news about efforts to stop the coronavirus in Austria, Denmark and New Zealand. And then Tommy connects with some Americans stranded abroad because of the coronavirus.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Potsay the world, I'm Tommy Vittor.
0:12.9	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:14.3	Ben, it's nice to see your face.
0:16.5	I really wish we were in the same condense.
0:18.5	This is getting old.
0:20.5	Yeah, yeah.
0:21.7	I see some nice, is that a drawing of a mermaid up on the wall there?
0:24.5	It is.
0:25.5	We got, I mean, the list of Wisconsin's at home, but we've got three mermaids and two
0:29.8	unicorns and we have Elsa.
0:32.2	How many times have you watched Frozen 1 and 2?
0:35.5	You know, the funny thing is I'd probably watched Frozen 100 times and Frozen 2 came out
0:40.3	rather recently and yet we've almost caught up.
0:42.8	We're a Frozen 2 household.
0:44.2	We prefer Frozen 2 in this house.
0:45.8	Listen, that's good.
0:46.8	I appreciate it.
0:47.8	I also love your Instagrams of, you know, too adorable but cooped up little girls, you
0:53.2	know, having fun in the house.
0:54.8	Yeah, that's definitely like our best selves.
0:57.1	Like I think my wife is like, well, where are the Instagrams of people strangling each
1:03.3	other and making messes?
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