Tripping Balls with Janet Yellen
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4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben talk about a US hostage deal with Iran, a far-right frontrunner in the Argentina presidential election, a presidential candidate murdered in Ecuador, updates on the coup in Niger, and aid to Sudan. They also discuss Vivek Ramaswamy’s bizarre views on Taiwan, President Biden’s critical comments about China’s economy, Biden’s meeting with the presidents of South Korea and Japan at Camp David, the latest from Ukraine, Russia’s deteriorating economy and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s magic mushroom meal. Then Ben talks to Bobi Wine, a member of parliament in Uganda, a former pop-star and opposition leader about his presidential challenge to long-time authoritarian Uganda leader Yoweri Museveni. His wife, Barbie Kyagulanyi also joined the pod to discuss the National Geographic documentary about their campaign, Bobi Wine: The People’s President.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ben Road. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome back to Pirates of the World. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Ben Road. |
| 0:14.0 | Ben has the indictment magic sort of worn off yet or did all the Riko talks, so I'll |
| 0:18.5 | get you going. |
| 0:21.3 | It's kind of magic every time, I have to say. |
| 0:23.4 | The Riko, the kind of large scale, criminal conspiracy, mafia style indictment were satisfying |
| 0:32.7 | to read than the other ones, I think. |
| 0:34.2 | Yeah, it was. |
| 0:35.2 | I mean, I feel like the classified documents one is like open and shut, but this was, |
| 0:39.6 | this did sort of get at the broader scope of what they did and how disgusting and precious |
| 0:44.6 | was. |
| 0:45.6 | I think what was great about this is like the other ones, you know, have kind of centered |
| 0:48.7 | around these individualized crimes, right? |
| 0:51.2 | Like there was a payment to Stormy Daniels, I'll be at then this kind of complicated conspiracy |
| 0:55.3 | around it, stealing classified documents, some cover up around it, Jack Smith, by the book. |
| 1:01.6 | This is like, you know, we all know the call, the Georgia Secretary of State and oh my |
| 1:06.8 | God, they hadn't dead to rights, but the amount of detail, like, you know, like forging documents |
| 1:12.4 | and like leaning on people and hacking computers. |
| 1:15.4 | Yeah, hacking computers. |
| 1:16.4 | It felt very, yeah, very, very like mob movie. |
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