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Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben discuss the US withdrawal from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, why billionaires are racing to ride rockets, Xi Jinping’s speech celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, potential updates to American sanctions policy, the financial crisis in Lebanon, a meeting between Saudi and American government officials and more. Then Ben talks to journalist Rana Ayyub about why the Indian government is targeting her over a tweet and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s larger crackdown on free speech.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome back to Potsayv the world on Tommy Vitor. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:13.6 | Ben Happy Fourth. |
| 0:14.8 | Have the elicit fireworks over on the Venice side of Los Angeles. |
| 0:18.4 | Oh my god. It was like, I mean, it went all night over here. |
| 0:22.4 | Let's just say, like you don't get a lot of like Venice. |
| 0:25.2 | People need to know that so when we moved here, |
| 0:28.1 | once it became summer, like there were just fireworks all the time. |
| 0:32.2 | And people are like, oh yeah, that's just what happens in Venice. |
| 0:34.4 | People just set off fireworks all summer. |
| 0:36.4 | It's like a thing over here. |
| 0:37.8 | So. |
| 0:38.8 | Oh, that was a thing last summer too. |
| 0:40.1 | And I think a lot of cities. |
| 0:41.2 | But yeah, particularly so in Los Angeles, it looked pretty wild. |
| 0:45.7 | There's some cool aerial views of planes landing, |
| 0:48.3 | like as the fireworks are going off, they looked, you know. |
| 0:50.6 | I know the problems with fireworks. |
| 0:52.0 | I have a dog. She goes nuts. |
| 0:53.9 | I know they're hard on some people, but as a kid, |
| 0:56.3 | I was obsessed with fireworks and I will always love them. |
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