Zelensky's Plea To Congress
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4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben discuss the dire humanitarian situation on the ground in Gaza and the disconnect between the Biden administration’s words and deeds when it comes to protecting civilians in Gaza, including the veto of a UN Security resolution calling for a ceasefire and additional weapons sales to Israel. They also discuss Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Washington and plea for more security assistance, and republican efforts to tie Ukraine funding to border security, the mess at the UN’s climate summit, a territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana, a masked mystery candidate running for president in Ghana and Elijah Wood’s Russian propaganda blunder on Cameo. Then, Max Fisher joins the show to discuss trends in global elections in 2023, and how 2024 may be the biggest election year in history.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pise Save the World, I'm Tommy Vytor. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to Pise Save the World, I'm Tommy Vittor. I'm Ben Rhodes. Welcome home. |
| 0:14.0 | Thank you. How's the jet lag? It's a little rough. I've been waking up at like 4.30, you know. |
| 0:19.0 | That stuff. I thought it might be rough, so I wanted to read you a motivational speech to get you |
| 0:23.6 | pumped up for today's episode I hope that's okay this is from an article in the |
| 0:27.4 | athletic by a reporter named Tyler Dunn about a motivational speech delivered |
| 0:31.8 | by Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott I think in 2019 |
| 0:35.6 | This is from the article but Dermont's morning address began innocently enough. He told the entire team they needed to come together but then sources say sources say, he used a strange model. The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. |
| 0:46.0 | He cited the hijackers as a group of people who are all about to get on the same page to orchestrate attacks to perfection. |
| 0:53.2 | One by one, McDermott started asking specific players |
| 0:56.2 | in the room questions. |
| 0:57.5 | What tactics do you think they used to come together? |
| 1:00.2 | A young player tried to answer. |
| 1:02.1 | What do you think their biggest obstacle was? |
| 1:04.0 | A veteran answered, TSA. |
| 1:08.0 | I guess he was, was he before it was the cool thing? |
| 1:12.0 | Was he getting into the bin Laden fatwa or whatever it was a good |
| 1:16.4 | point he was probably on tic-toc yeah maybe it was like early days you know what you just |
| 1:20.8 | explain this whole thing that's like a parody of a terrible head coach motivational speech. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, like I if someone wrote that in a movie I'm not sure I would believe it. |
| 1:30.0 | I would not believe it. |
| 1:31.0 | I would not believe it. |
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