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Bombshell

A Few Good Men

Bombshell

War on the Rocks

News, Politics, Military, War, History

4.8691 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

It's our 2nd annual Manniversary episode! We dug deep to find the most smoldering hot takes from the men in the national security arena. Join us for a far-ranging discussion with Stan McChrystal, Jeffrey Lewis, and Clint Watts!

 

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0:00.0

Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson.

0:12.2

I'm Lauren DeYoung-Schelman. And I'm Roda Ayncar. And it is our second

0:16.7

anniversary episode.

0:19.0

The one time of year that we let anyone with other kinds of sexual or gender preferences

0:26.5

or identification onto the show.

0:29.9

White chromosomes is really what we're talking about there.

0:32.2

In any number they may see fit.

0:34.4

So we have some excellent male guests for our listeners this week. Who are we going

0:41.1

to talk to on this episode? Well, we have General McChrystal, who will be joining us to talk a little bit

0:48.2

about leaders, public service, and what he follows like a sport that's not a sport.

0:55.6

Outstanding.

1:02.6

We have Jeffrey Lewis, the famous arms control wonk, to talk to us about the prospects for some kind of arms control deal with North Korea, as well as what he would pitch to Netflix

1:07.8

if he got the chance.

1:09.5

And finally, Clint Watts is going to talk to us about his experience as an FBI agent, various

1:15.9

threat actors, and the current crazy world of social media and Laferrous.

1:21.5

So, I mean, that seems like a pretty good lineup to me, ladies.

1:24.9

Yeah, it's pretty good.

1:25.8

I mean, it's hard to find qualified

1:27.7

men in national security, as everyone knows, but I feel like we've really made it happen here.

1:32.4

Yeah, it took some elbow grease. We definitely had to, like, do some wrangling to find three

1:36.3

qualified men to talk to us, but I think, I think we've cleared the bar. First, we, as folks may have noticed, last week, we have a brand new set of bombshell questions.

1:46.1

And of course, I know you have been salivating for the past two weeks to know what our answers are to these bombshell questions.

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