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🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Jung Pak, senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, joins Bombshell to discuss her fascinating and timely new book: Becoming Kim Jong Un. Radha, Erin, and Loren remind listeners that Afghanistan is still a thing even if the U.S. government would prefer it not to be. Also, did you know it’s possible to restart a trade war amid the pandemic? Or that the United States is a participant in the JCPOA? Neither did we. Plus, pop culture!
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Bonshell. |
0:10.5 | I'm Erin Simpson. |
0:11.7 | I'm Lauren DeYoung-Sholman. |
0:13.2 | And I'm Roda Aingar. |
0:14.8 | And we are back on a kind of lovely gray, chill Sunday morning here recording. You guys always get this a couple |
0:22.4 | days after we record so that our beautiful to producer Trey can work all his magic. |
0:28.0 | What are we drinking this morning, ladies? Rada, I'm looking through the video here and you |
0:33.0 | were drinking something fabulous. Please share. I am drinking a lovely champagne cocktail that as Erin and |
0:40.8 | Lauren saw, I premixed the mixers four. So when I came down, all I had to do was top up with |
0:46.3 | a nice bottle of bubbly that while I had limited time to prep on the substance, I was prepped |
0:52.8 | on the chilling the appropriate kinds of alcohol |
0:55.5 | to drink. And if that's not a great foreign policy lesson, I don't know what is. Thank you. |
1:01.5 | Priorities, ladies. On the flip side, I went to grab a Coke out of my fridge and discovered |
1:06.1 | that there were none cold. And for those of you who have ever lived with or worked with me, |
1:10.2 | you know, that that is a |
1:11.1 | near apocalyptic event because I'm completely incapable of drinking warm Coke over ice because |
1:16.8 | it's disgusting. I'm the opposite. I only like my Coke at room temperature. That's vile. Wow. Well, |
1:23.5 | you will never be in charge of keeping the emergency cold in the fridge. |
1:28.2 | That sounds right. |
1:29.0 | I'm willing to cede that. |
1:30.5 | So I reverted to LaCroix, because it's been a slow morning here, even after two full |
1:34.7 | batches of coffee. |
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