Who is poisoning girls in Iran?
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Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben discuss the suspected poisoning of Iranian schoolgirls, new intel on Havana syndrome, the case for dismantling the DHS, potential Chinese election interference in Canada, South Korea’s plan to end their forced labor dispute with Japan, the deadly battle for Bakhmut in Ukraine, the worlds greatest wine heist in Spain, and another questionable summit in the UAE. Then, US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo joins Ben in the studio to discuss sanctions and their role in the Russia-Ukraine war.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Padstay the World on Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:13.8 | Ben, my mother is in town today. |
| 0:16.1 | State visit. |
| 0:17.1 | State visit. |
| 0:18.1 | The second of this curtain administration, she's meeting my daughter for the first time, |
| 0:21.8 | Lizette. |
| 0:22.8 | The Lizette administration. |
| 0:23.8 | The Lizette administration. |
| 0:24.8 | And she told me that if I didn't mention her on the show, that she'd kill me. |
| 0:28.7 | And there's proximity now so she could make that happen. |
| 0:30.8 | So, mom, do you really know it? |
| 0:32.3 | Glad you're here. |
| 0:33.3 | It's very nice of welcoming someone from Massachusetts to Los Angeles in March. |
| 0:38.2 | They just sort of like can't believe this world exists. |
| 0:40.1 | We feel it's like cold here. |
| 0:41.6 | Like people are freaking out that it's super cold here because it hits like, you know, |
| 0:44.7 | 50 degrees. |
| 0:45.7 | And then people coming from other places and they're like, oh, this is great. |
| 0:48.8 | It's six feet of snow. |
| 0:50.2 | Ben, you're going to DC next week. |
| 0:52.1 | What's going on? |
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