Drink to the Foam
Sirens: A Bombshell production
Bombshell
4.8 • 691 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week we trek out to the U.S. Naval Academy Museum in Annapolis for a geek field trip of epic proportions (three words: Jack Ryan's couch). We drink some rum and Claude Berube's scotch, and ring up former Under Secretary of the Navy Janine Davidson to talk about service secretaries, readiness, and why there is no Santa Claus. Then we dive into the Iranian elections, Syrian proxy war(s), our many desires for special counsels and other investigations, good skin care, and the defense budget. Finally, a short tour of the best of Navy pop culture. Sink their bones to Davy Jones, hooray!
Episode Reading
- U.S. Naval Academy Museum
- Janine Davidson, Emerson Brooking, and Benjamin J. Fernandes, Mending the Unequal Dialogue, Council on Foreign Relations
- Ben Hubbard and Thomas Erdbrink, “In Saudi Arabia, Trump Reaches Out to Sunni Nations at Iran’s Expense,” New York Times
- Joshua Keating, “What’s at Stake in Friday’s Iranian Election,” Slate
- Jane Chong, Quinta Jurecic, Susan Hennessey, Matthew Kahn, and Benjamin Wittes, “Initial Reactions on the Appointment of Robert Mueller As Special Counsel,” Lawfare
- Ryan Lizza, “Why Sally Yates Stood Up to Trump,” The New Yorker
- Todd Harrison, “What to Expect in the FY 2018 Defense Budget,” CSIS
- Aaron Mehta and Joe Gould, “Trump budget to cut Foreign Military Financing, with loan option looming,” Military Times
- Dorian Merina, “When Active-Duty Service Members Struggle To Feed Their Families,” National Public Radio
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bomb Show, recording to you live from Commodore Perry's Desk at the United States Naval Academy Museum. |
| 0:18.8 | This is Aaron Simpson. |
| 0:20.6 | This is Lauren DeYoung-Shulman. |
| 0:22.0 | This is Radha Aingar. And we want to send a very special thanks to Claudeau, who's the director here, |
| 0:27.0 | and also a gentleman and a scholar, and has provided us with a variety of tasty beverages in |
| 0:32.7 | addition to some things that we brought with us. Ladies, what are we drinking today? |
| 0:36.0 | Okay. Well, we have an assortment, but it's all naval themed. All naval themed. We are drinking, so I have rum, a rum and |
| 0:44.8 | shrub, which is a way that you used to make rum that had been salinated, basically had been |
| 0:51.8 | dropped into the sea in order to hide it from customs inspectors. |
| 0:56.0 | So it took on a salty taste. |
| 0:57.5 | You added shrub to it to give it a slightly sweeter, more vinegary taste. |
| 1:01.8 | And the one we're drinking today is a grapefruit, all spice. |
| 1:06.3 | We also have ginger beer to make dark and stormies. |
| 1:09.2 | That's what I'm drinking. |
| 1:10.1 | That's delicious. |
| 1:11.2 | And I believe we also have a selection of scotch because why not. |
| 1:14.4 | Scotchy, scotch, scotch. |
| 1:15.3 | So we have Scapa, which I assume is a Scapa flow reference sticking on point. |
| 1:21.3 | And we have a couple of others here. |
| 1:24.1 | My well-known aversion to Scotch aside, we'll drink other people's scotch, generally |
| 1:28.7 | speaking. I have no problem drinking other people's scotch, I mean, but which we have had donated |
| 1:33.0 | to us from other fans of the podcast. We'll drink from then the future. Exactly. So donate our |
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