Tucker Carlson makes a fascist friend
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4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben discuss the latest news from Afghanistan, Tucker Carlson’s adventures with fascists in Hungary, the state of US-Iran relations, the shortcomings of the global coronavirus vaccination campaign, updates from Myanmar, the defection of a Belarusian sprinter at the Tokyo Olympics and more. Then Ben talks to German climate activist Luisa Neubauer about how Germany's summer of intense weather has impacted the politics of climate action there.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome back to Pazzoidworld, I'm Tommy Vitor. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:13.6 | Ben, I'm kind of in your hometown. |
| 0:15.3 | Uh, Brooklyn, not Manhattan. |
| 0:17.1 | But it is very nice to see this city very alive again. |
| 0:21.1 | I miss this place. It's been a bit long. |
| 0:23.2 | I think Hannah and I went here February before COVID. |
| 0:26.5 | That was my last visit. |
| 0:27.5 | Yeah, well, the family story for me starts in Brooklyn, actually. |
| 0:32.6 | So the normal Jewish emigrate, you start in like flatbush and you make your way to the |
| 0:38.8 | lowly side and then go up town. |
| 0:41.2 | So you're near the origin point of the Rhodes-general family. |
| 0:48.4 | Okay, nice. That is great. |
| 0:51.1 | Well, we got a lot of good news, a lot of good, interesting stories for everybody today. |
| 0:54.6 | Um, we're going to start with some grown updates from Afghanistan. |
| 0:58.4 | Then we'll talk about Tucker Carlson's global embrace of fascism, some news out of Iran, |
| 1:03.6 | an update on the efforts to vaccinate low and middle income countries around the world. |
| 1:08.3 | How Trump fans are actually somehow helping spread ISIS propaganda, and then we will do |
| 1:13.2 | all things Olympics. And then Ben, you got our interview this week. |
| 1:16.6 | What are folks going to hear? |
| 1:18.1 | You're going to hear from the young woman who started and really led the Fridays for |
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