The Scholarly Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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On The Gist, get your clutching pearls ready. Russia alleges that the U.S. is trying to interfere in its election. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been politically precocious since well before his own sports scholarship at UCLA. His latest column for the Guardian argues it's "time to pay the tab for America's college athletes." He says student players should unionize. In the Spiel, the tactics that responsible Republicans use to communicate their potential opposition: They speak in their home-state argot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let me be perfectly explicit in this podcast.
0:03.5	Okay, here it goes.
0:05.1	["Dream of the Moon"]
0:09.4	It's Monday, January 29th, 2018, from Slate,
0:12.2	it's the gist of Mike Pesca, Alexei Navali,
0:15.4	an opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin,
0:17.8	who holds the strange distinction of being currently alive,
0:21.5	was arrested today, protests over his disallowed candidacy
0:25.9	were taking place across Russia.
0:28.4	So to cool tensions, the Russian police grabbed Mr. Navali
0:32.1	off the streets.
0:33.0	The BBC's Steve Rosenberg saw it.
0:35.5	Then a group of Russian police moved in, grabbed him,
0:38.9	boggled him into a police van, and he was driven away.
0:44.1	So quite dramatic.
0:45.6	And when his supporters on Pushkin Square
0:48.1	heard that he'd been detained, they
0:50.5	were shouting freedom from the violently down with the crumbling
0:54.6	and Putin is a thief.
0:57.0	They raised an excellent and accurate point.
0:59.8	Now, earlier on Sunday, Russian police
1:01.9	raided Navali's anti-corruption organization in Moscow,
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