Trump lost, the world won
Pod Save the World
Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben talk about President-elect Biden’s win, Trump’s refusal to start the transition, how world leaders reacted and who Biden should talk with first, why British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a shapeshifting creep, some bizarre 11th hour Trump admin personnel moves and weapons sales, good news for science, civil war in Ethiopia, a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Iran and elections in Burma. Then former Mexican Ambassador to the US Arturo Sarukhan talks to Ben about the future of US-Mexico relations under a Biden administration.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome back to Potsy of the World, I'm Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:13.9 | And Ben, Joe Biden, is the president-elect of the United States, |
| 0:18.4 | no matter how mad it makes Donald Trump. |
| 0:21.3 | Man, that's nice to say, I'm loud. |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah, it feels really good. |
| 0:26.0 | I have to say, the finality of the call, |
| 0:28.8 | even though we all knew that was the outcome, felt even better than I thought. |
| 0:31.8 | Yeah, we saw each other for about an hour on Saturday. |
| 0:34.8 | I have not felt that good in four years. |
| 0:37.9 | It was a sense of relief that was just unimaginably great. |
| 0:41.9 | I was watching TV, the call came suddenly, I was shocked by it. |
| 0:46.8 | And then after a little while, I finally was like, |
| 0:48.8 | I'm driving to a liquor store and buying all the champagne I can find. |
| 0:51.7 | And there was this dude, sort of like an African accent on the corner of the street, |
| 0:55.3 | hyping everybody up on Santa Monica. So I just bought an extra bottle, |
| 0:59.8 | handed it to him on the way out. |
| 1:01.2 | It was just like a total irrational exuberance. |
| 1:05.3 | But it was maybe the best day of it. |
| 1:07.2 | I also really enjoyed watching you just mowing down MSNBC hit in that morning. |
| 1:13.9 | Yeah, I've never been happier to go on MSNBC. |
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