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Sirens: A Bombshell production

AI Deals, the (Breaking) Justice System, and the Optimist Economy

Sirens: A Bombshell production

Bombshell

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.8691 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Everyone's negotiating these days, with the Ukraine deal, recent AI deals, and the near final Schedule F (er Schedule Policy/Career) closing up (or not) as the year wraps up and the holiday party circuit in DC kicks off. In dumpster fires, we take a good hard look at the recent MBS visit to DC and just whose strategy this strategic partnership is operating under, as well as tying threads across recent news in the James Comey, Jeffrey Epstein, and Mark Kelly investigations. Optimist Economy's Kathryn Edwards helps us navigate where we are (or not) on the highway to recession and what the government should be doing about it. And to close: what is your favorite absurd holiday treat?

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0:00.0

This is Sirens, a new series brought to you by the ladies of bombshell, where we dissect the institutions of American power.

0:18.1

Join us as we sound the alarm on technology, governance, and national security

0:22.1

issues, and maybe lure some men to their deaths. I'm Lauren DeYoung Shulman. I'm Aaron Simpson.

0:28.0

And I'm Rod at I in Gartham. And this week, as our special guests, we're going to have one of the

0:33.0

co-hosts of Optimist Economy, which has some really absolutely fabulous regular beats that they do on

0:39.3

their show, one of which is terms and conditions, which is about the word that they've had to look

0:45.3

up recently. And the other is, I can't really call it, but it's like the executive orders that

0:50.2

they would institute if they have the chance. Sometimes they pick their own. Sometimes they have friends of the show who are writing in and supporting them, which you welcomes you to

0:58.1

suggest ones overall. So I, in borrowing from that before we get to chatting with Catherine

1:04.8

later, what executive order would you institute if you had the chance?

1:11.4

Rada?

1:12.2

I sort of love this question, and I will confess I went in two directions, which is one was

1:17.1

the extremely pedantic and one was the extremely sublime.

1:20.6

So I will start with the pedantic, which is I'd like to ban the word innovation in any

1:25.5

title.

1:26.1

Oh my God, it's incredible.

1:28.0

I love it. You just cannot use the word innovation in the title. It must be struck out of all organizational

1:32.8

names across the federal government. And I really feel like this would force heavy use of the

1:37.8

thesaurus. And that would be a fun, fun fact for everyone involved. The more serious one, and we will get to

1:48.4

talk to Catherine a little bit about this, is on changing how we actually measure the performance

1:53.6

of the labor market without using unemployment rates, because of course, unemployment books have

1:57.7

this denominator problem of people in the labor market, which

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