Candlesticks Always Make a Nice Gift
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Bombshell
4.8 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week on Bombshell we talk with Mieke Eoyang about, well, basically everything. We take a rapid fire tour of political dramas in Zimbabwe, Germany, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon. Stop for a bit to bask in the crazy sunshine of Turkish plots and then return to the United States just to ask: Exactly how many troops do we have overseas? Then just for kicks, we debate what a lawful order for a nuclear first strike would look like. We wrap up with Mieke's Twitter conversation with John Cusack and Erin's dream for a Master and Commander sequel.
Episode Reading
- Ben Freeman and Mieke Eoyang, "Public Opinion and Narrowing the Security Gap in 2016," Third Way
- Sisonke Msimang, "The Fall of Africa's Most Hated First Lady," New York Times
- Von Marcus Gatzke and Marlies Uken, "Relax, Germany Is Not Facing a State Crisis," Zeit Online
- Andreas Rinke and Madeline Chambers, "Merkel's CDU agrees to pursue grand coalition in Germany," Reuters
- Marwa Eltagouri, "What we've learned about the North Korean soldier whose daring escape was caught on video," Washington Post
- Erin Cunningham and Louisa Loveluck, "Hezbollah, on the rise in Lebanon, fends off Saudi Arabia," Washington Post
- Thomas L. Friedman, "Saudi Arabia's Arab Spring, at Last," New York Times
- Borzou Daragahi, "Saudi Arabia Has Shaken Up The Middle East - This Is How," BuzzFeed News
- Reuters Staff, "Turkey has completed purchase of Russian missile defense: defense minister," Reuters
- Alex Horton, "The Pentagon struggles to provide accurate numbers for deployed troops," Washington Post
- Luis Martinez, "Thousands more US military service members in Iraq and Syria than believed," ABC News
- Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal, "The Uncounted," New York Times Magazine
- Michael Barbaro, "Targeting ISIS, and Killing Civilians," New York Times, 'The Daily'
- Karoun Demirjian, "Trump's nuclear authority divides senators alarmed by his 'volatile' behavior," Washington Post
- Stewart Baker, Jim Lewis, and Brian Egan, "Interview with Mieke Eoyang and Jamil Jaffer," Steptoe, The Cyberlaw Podcast
- Chris Evangelista, "'Master and Commander' Sequel Still A Possibility, Says Russell Crowe," Slash Film
- Disney-Pixar, "Incredibles 2 Official Teaser Trailer," Disney-Pixar
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren Diyang Shalman. And today we are joined by the fabulous Mika Yo-Yang. Hello. |
| 0:21.2 | How are you? |
| 0:21.8 | I'm good. |
| 0:22.4 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:23.4 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:24.4 | Tell us what we're drinking. |
| 0:25.3 | We are drinking French 75s named after the World War I French Guns, which is champagne, |
| 0:34.3 | gin, sugar cube, and a little lemon. |
| 0:36.8 | And the champagne is courtesy of my lovely |
| 0:38.9 | former national security fellow, Gary Ashcroft, who as a Mormon doesn't drink, so he brought |
| 0:44.4 | me the alcohol that other people gave to him. Handy. Handy. Plug for Gary. If you're looking for a |
| 0:50.1 | really great National Security Fellow in National Security Law, Gary is available on the market. |
| 0:54.4 | And he brings booze. Exactly. We love it. We should all have somebody who brings us the booze |
| 0:59.0 | that they can't drink. I don't know why I haven't thought about that in job position descriptions |
| 1:02.1 | previously, but I'm going to. I think that certain agencies are already on to that. |
| 1:08.5 | We actually have a no alcohol policy like anywhere in the office at my work. |
| 1:15.6 | I'm sorry, are you kidding? |
| 1:16.6 | It's disappointing to say the least. |
| 1:18.6 | Whereas people, if you come by my office, there's like strange liquor bottles littered |
| 1:22.2 | all over the place. |
| 1:23.2 | I definitely look like... |
| 1:23.9 | Yeah, your office is like a weird clean at the liquor cabinet party. |
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