How I Learned to Start Worrying...
Sirens: A Bombshell production
Bombshell
4.8 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2017
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Erin, Radha, and Loren get the band back together and invite Laura Rosenberger to dish about the launch of the Alliance for Security Democracy (her new project aimed at countering Russian efforts to undermine democratic institutions), her love of the Steelers, and our open invitation to military listeners to help us land on a carrier. Then it's Groundhog Day in Keeping of Foreign Relations, with new antics and new histrionics around North Korea and Iran, and White House mayhem heads to New York for the U.N General Assembly. Finally, we look forward to the NDAA and the Red Sparrow movie.
Episode Reading:
- "Decoupling is Back in Asia," Mira Rapp-Hooper, War on the Rocks
- "Why Kim Jong Un wouldn’t be irrational to use a nuclear bomb first," Vipin Narang, The Washington PostT
- "The ABCs of Deterring North Korea," Josh Rovner, War on the Rocks
- "The Iran Deal is Keeping the Middle East From Going Nuclear," Richard Nephew and Ilan Goldenberg, Foreign Policy
- "The Case Against the Iranian Nuclear Deal is One Big Lie," Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
- "How Congress can Save the State Department," Dan Benaim, Foreign Policy
- "How Violence in Myanmar Radicalized a New Generation of Rohingya," Hannah Beech, The New York Times
- "Walking the Line Between Covering a Rohingya Refugee Story and Changing It," Hannah Beech, The New York Times
- Red Sparrow trailer
- "Outlander Season Preimere Recap," Nicole Cliffe, Vulture
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren D. Young Shulman. And I'm Roda Ayncar. |
| 0:18.1 | And we are here this week for an actual almost 100% in-person version of bombshell. |
| 0:24.6 | We have let one of us fly the coop out to California. And Rada will be occasionally dialing in from her new |
| 0:34.6 | position on the West Coast. We are super excited this week to have our guests with us, |
| 0:39.7 | Laura Rosenberger, who will introduce later in the segment. |
| 0:42.5 | But first, I want to tell you what we are drinking. |
| 0:44.6 | Yes, please tell me what I'm drinking, |
| 0:46.0 | because I'm drinking it, but I have no idea what it is. |
| 0:48.0 | It's delicious. |
| 0:48.4 | I know, I have a lot of fomo. |
| 0:50.5 | So much fomo from the West Coast. We are drinking a time for a salty dog, which is a grapefruit juice, a simple syrup infused with thyme, vodka, lime juice, and a little bit of salt on the edges. |
| 1:07.0 | And it is a delightful end of summer concoction. |
| 1:10.1 | We are drinking vodka in honor of our guest this week so we can do a little talk about |
| 1:14.1 | Russia disinformation. |
| 1:16.2 | And on that notes, unless anyone else has any news for the week, I want to turn it over |
| 1:21.7 | to Rada to do our guest questions for the wonderful Laura Rosenberger. |
| 1:26.9 | Hi, Laura. |
| 1:28.1 | Hey, Rada. |
| 1:29.7 | How's it going? |
| 1:30.7 | Good. |
| 1:31.3 | Really happy to be here enjoying my lovely beverage. |
| 1:34.4 | I know. |
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