Welcome to Bombshell.

I'm Lauren DeYoung-Shallman.

And we have with us a very special guest this week.

Rebecca Listener is joining us to fill the fabulous shoes of Aaron Simpson, who is

in Kansas, in Iowa, L.A. I can't remember. She's somewhere in the middle of the country or

on the other side of the country. In a very errant fashion, we did get a detailed itiner. And to this

moment, I cannot in any way recall any of the information on it. Not in any way. So we are still distributed ops in the DC, California, and New York areas,

but couldn't quite nail down Aaron enough to actually get her on Skype for an hour or so.

So Aaron, if we scare it up, it's all your fault. So we have a fabulous agenda to talk through this week with all of our favorite best hits from Iran to Korea to the VA to sexual assaults.

And Mattis and Dunford and Pompeo, God knows what else.

But we'll start off with our introductory questions for Rebecca. So, Rada, do you want to kick those off?

Rebecca, let's start with what is your entrance music? Great. Well, first of all, thank you so much

for having me. I am thrilled to be here on bombshell and could never presume to fill Erin Chews,

but I'm happy to be taking her place for the day. So with regards

to entrance music, this one's actually difficult. In some ways, I have two answers. So my first answer

was California Love by Tupac. Many people assume that I am a native New Yorker from the East Coast,

but in fact, I'm born and raised in Oakland,

California.

So I think my life anthem, enter music would definitely have to be California love.

But when thinking about the answer to this question in a more bombshell specific context,

I recalled that I've had very specific fantasies about entering all-male

conferences with Beyonce's Run the World Girls playing in the background. And so I thought I would

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