Been Caught Steelin'

Bombshell

News, Politics, Military, War, History

4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week, the ladies of Bombshell welcome Sarah Margon, Washington Director of Human Rights Watch, to explore a side of the Syria conflict we discuss too little on this show: the human dimension. The ladies wade through three different political maelstroms in Italian elections, President Xi’s quest for immortality, and President Putin’s land of misfit nukes. Hairstyles, process, and wrongheaded beliefs about trade deficits explain the White House, and Radha plugs spoken word cookbooks (written by spies).

Economist, "Send in the clowns," Economist
Laura McGann, "When does Hope Hicks get to be a 'wunderkind' instead of a 'former model'?" Vox
Sarah Margon, "Giving Up the High Ground," Foreign Affairs
Marc Freeman, "'M*A*S*H' Finale, 35 Years Later: Untold Stories of One of TV's Most Important Shows," Hollywood Reporter
Evan Osnos, "Xi Jinping May Be President For Life. What Will Happen to China?" New Yorker
Philip Rucker, Ashley Parker, and Josh Dawsey, "'Pure madness': Dark days inside the White House as Trump shocks and rages," Washington Post
William J. Broad and Ainara Tiefenthaler, "Putin Flaunted Five Powerful Weapons. Are They a Threat?" New York Times

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson.
0:13.8	I'm Lauren DeYoung-Schelman. And I'm Radda Iyengar.
0:17.0	And we have another extreme distributed ops version, although not the distribution we originally expected for this show.
0:23.3	So welcome, ladies.
0:25.4	Welcome.
0:26.5	Hopefully we won't have too many technical difficulties with the recording this week.
0:30.4	If we do, it is 100% our fault and not our illustrious producer Trays.
0:34.5	The fault of the wind.
0:35.5	Oh, it is the wind's fault.
0:36.9	It is 100% the evil wind's fault.
0:38.8	We have lots of theories about the windstorm in D.C. this weekend and elsewhere on the
0:44.2	East Coast.
0:45.4	Are other people drinking?
0:47.0	We're not all together.
0:47.7	So we're all just drinking alone if we're drinking.
0:49.9	So I have a glass of rosé and I wish I could take the whole bottle to the airport with me in a couple hours.
0:55.7	I'm drinking some lovely champagne here, I guess, technically sparkling wine from some California wine tasting that we did yesterday.
1:02.8	I'm drinking a nondescript petite sarah, but as I told the ladies earlier, it's fun because it has a Ronald Reagan stopper on top.
1:10.7	Well, that is exciting.
1:11.9	Isn't it?
1:15.1	Well, I think we should, we've got a lot to cover, as always, this week.
1:19.8	And we're going to start with the wonderful Sarah Margon.
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