Ben Rhodes

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11,580 appearances 35 recordings 12 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 16 Sep

Ben Rhodes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Pod Save the World · Xi’s Just Not That Into You · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

gets people together. matched

It's still a convening force. matched

It's still a place where people can have dialogue on all these issues. matched

So it still matters. matched

But it's not, you know, you were there in the Obama years. matched

This felt like the center of the world. matched

deal. matched

Yeah, it felt like we were actually, you know, issue by issue taking on everything that was happening in the world. matched

And that wasn't unique to us. matched

I mean, that was the case for any U.S. matched

administration for most of the last 80 years. matched

Like now Trump parachutes in to insult some people, does a few meetings, probably raises some money and takes off. matched

Yeah, I mean, if you stacked Zohra Mamdani's approval rating against Bibi Netanyahu's globally, like, you know, this is not a close call. matched

And frankly, the percentage of people in the world that agree with Mamdani about Israel and Palestine and Gaza is got to be, I don't know, 80, 90 percent, you know, so... matched

Yeah, obviously Netanyahu is only speaking to like his shrinking sliver of audience among American elites and some smaller number of Americans than used to be the case. matched

But it's just so stupid and hackish and it's offensive, right? matched

Like I was offended to see the Israeli ambassador be like, they should arrest Mamdani. matched

Like what other ambassador of a foreign country would like call for the arrest of the mayor of the biggest city in Israel? matched

the country, you know? matched

And two other things about this, Tommy, like one is I, I, I was mentioning this to our producers before we came on, but like, I'm struck when I talk to audiences, like yesterday, I spoke to a group of kind of activists from around the world. matched

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