Susan Glasser

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1,391 appearances 11 recordings 6 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 7 Aug

Susan Glasser’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Tim, uh happy August.
It's so good to be with you.
I think it falls into the uh established genre of if I were a foreign correspondent, how would I cover this madness?
And I'll tell you, Tim, because you're not here, I had this like, you know, classic Washington in the age of Trump out-of-body experience the other day.
I was going across Memorial Bridge for the first time in a while.
And I was in an Uber and I was looking down at my phone and I happened to look up.
At the exact moment these two gigantic golden statues were literally inches away from my car window.
At the exact
And I I couldn't help myself.
I sort of shrieked out loud.
It was as like, you know, I got it.
I did and actually the Uber driver was like, Oh my god, are we getting in an accident?
And I said, No, I'm sorry.
It just trumps goldification uh, you know, of the city.
I wasn't gonna do it.
Uh, apparently it's the gold fingering uh of existing statues.
What we're living in here is the the gold maxing of Washington, I guess, by Donald Trump.
You know, it's really it's so sad because for me, the Brandenburg Gate and and just standing there in that plaza is a reminder of what I suppose in hindsight was probably the best moment of our lives.
We just didn't realize it at the time, which was the fall of the Berlin Wall and the you know, the sort of the final end of of in a way that World War II and the Cold War was
In that moment, I was in college when that happened.
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