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Bombshell

News, Politics, Military, War, History

4.8691 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week the ladies of Bombshell return to regularly scheduled programming, re-introducing ourselves with our new Bombshell questions including everyone's favorite bars and least favorite books. Next we turn to our old friends Afghanistan and North Korea (wondering if we'll ever get a public debate on either), before wonking out to the Nuclear Posture Review and State of the Union address. Also, if you PT three times per day but don't log it in Strava does it even count, bro? Finally, a dazzling potpourri of pop-culture - even Radha weighs in.

 

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David D. Kirkpatrick, “Secret Alliance: Israel Carriers Out Airstrikes in Egypt, With Cairo’s O.K.,” New York Times

Max Fisher, “In Afghanistan’s Unwinnable War, What’s the Best Loss to Hope For?,” New York Times

Mia Bloom, January 27 Twitter status 

Thomas Gibbons-Neff, “Training Quick and Staffing Unfinished, Army Units Brace for Surging Taliban,” New York Times

Steve Inskeep, “U.S. Military Auditor Suggests The Afghan War Is Still At A Stalemate,” NPR

Anna Fifield, “North Koreans have tasted freedom through the markets. Sanctions could put that at risk.,” Washington Post

Victor Cha, “Victor Cha: Giving North Korea a ‘bloody nose’ carries a huge risk to Americans,” Washington Post

David Nakamura, February 1 Twitter status

James Acton, “Command and Control in the Nuclear Posture Review: Right Problem, Wrong Solution,” War on the Rocks

Patrick Tucker, “No, the US Won’t Respond to A Cyber Attack with Nukes,” Defense One

Patrick Tucker, “Strava’s Just the Start: The US Military’s Losing War Against Data Leakage,” Defense One 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson.

0:13.0

I'm Lauren DeYoung-Shullman.

0:14.0

And I'm Roda Ayngar.

0:16.0

And we are back. First, I want to thank everyone who came out to our awesome anniversary party, which was a month ago. No, it was in fact just last week, I think.

0:24.9

I was. But we had a great time and really appreciate meeting new fans and old supporters. And also, I think, as was maybe obvious, had a really fun time recording the anniversary show. So thanks again to Kyrisdahl and Ben Wittes

0:38.8

and Frank Gavin, but mostly Kyris doll. Mostly Kyris doll. Also, we enjoyed wearing tiaras and we have

0:44.6

now some tips on how to wear tiaras that Aaron helpfully shared on Twitter.

0:50.7

Yes. For everyone's future education. I wear mine in my office every once in a while.

0:55.3

I think we all should.

0:56.4

Yes.

0:57.5

Excellent.

0:58.8

Lauren, what are we drinking?

1:00.9

We are drinking leftovers from my son's third birthday party, which is some

1:06.0

Prosecco and Raspberry Cranberry Spritzer Mimosa situation. I need to come up with a better name for it by the end of the show.

1:15.2

I just feel like this is the kind of kids birthday party I can get on board with.

1:18.6

Roda, what are you drinking? Well, I, you know, because it's morning here, so I had to ease into the day. So I decided I would try to make myself an Irish coffee and I started and I poured some

1:27.9

coffee and I poured a generous helping of Jameson in and then I realized I didn't have any cream. So I put

1:32.7

ice cream in instead. And so now I'm calling it my Irish American coffee and there you have it. That's great.

1:37.5

I want one so badly right now. Like I think this is completely perfect. Delicious. And we should say that

1:42.2

we're in general big fans of putting ice cream and coffee because it's basically the creamer that never goes bad. Yeah. Yeah. Just watch the

1:47.5

flavors. Not all flavors go with coffees, folks. Not all flavors. So I think this week, as our listeners

1:53.1

have noticed, we have a new set of bombshell questions for this year, but we have not answered them yet.

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