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This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C.

And from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.

Hello and welcome to the latest DSR podcast. I'm your host David Rothkopf joining you from beautiful sunny spring like Washington, D.C.

Also here at beautiful sunny spring like Washington, D.C. We have the fabulous Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University Law School. How are you doing Rosa?

I'm very well, David. Thank you. You seem very muted for such a lovely day.

I'm sorry. I'm terrific. Thank you, David. Excellent. Now that's the kind of insincereity we look for on this show. Let's try to hear with Ed.

Of course, you can never tell with the British, but also joining us at Lucie of the Financial Times here in glamorous Washington. How are you Ed?

Enchanted, I'm sure. Very nicely done and very nicely done. Have you watched the diplomat?

I sort of gave up halfway through the first episode because I just couldn't imagine it.

It's a Charje, you know, running the world quite in that fashion. It was so stupid. Have you watched it Rosa?

No, but I read, I read three quarters of Fred Kaplan's review of it in sleep. So I feel almost as if I watched it.

Yeah, I tried to watch it. And it was a lot, it took me, it took me a lot less time to read Fred's review than to watch it.

Yeah, well, it took me not much time to work because I turned it on and it was like, well, I'm getting ready to go to be the ambassador in Kabul.

And I thought, well, we don't have an embassy in Kabul. And then she goes to the White House and the president says, I've made you ambassador to England.

You leave to the UK, you leave tonight. And she goes, what? And I was like, what about getting confirmed?

And then they fly her over on a private jet, which doesn't happen with ambassadors.

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