I Do My Hair Toss, Check My Emails
Bombshell
War on the Rocks
4.8 • 691 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week the ladies are back with a normal-ish episode, complete with special guest Nora Bensahel! She helps them dive deep on COVID-19 impacts on the defense budget. From there, they explore possible changes to the “global order,” Loren offers a tutorial on Hungary and Israel, and Radha schools us on trade issues. The ladies wrap up with a discussion of the most pressing issue of the day - haircuts. And issue a heartfelt socially distant hug to the Iyengar family.
Links
- “Coronavirus: Iran and the US Trade Blame Over Sanctions,” BBC, April 17, 2020
- Jessie Yeung, “The US is Halting funding to the WHO. What Does This Actually Mean?” CNN, April 16, 2020
- Thomas Y. Choi, Dale Rogers, Bindiya Vakil, “Coronavirus is a Wake-Up Call for Supply Chain Management,” Harvard Business Review, March 27, 2020
- David Barno and Nora Bensahel, “After the Pandemic: America and National Security in a Changed World,” War on the Rocks, March 31, 2020
- Thomas Wright, “Stretching the International Order to Its Breaking Point,” Atlantic, April 04, 2020
- Daniel W. Drezner, “The Most Counterintuitive Prediction About World Politics and the Coronavirus,”Washington Post, March 30, 2020
- Thomas Wright and Kurt M. Campbell, “If Biden Wins, He’ll Have to Put the World Back Together,” Atlantic, April 13, 2020
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Lauren D.M. Shulman. And I'm Roda Aingar. |
| 0:15.2 | And we're back with a little bit more of a traditional episode this week, although maybe we'll integrate some pieces |
| 0:22.1 | from our previous thoughts and feelings episode. Shall we start with maybe ladies to get us |
| 0:28.4 | back to normal? What are we drinking? I am drinking. Well, first of all, it's coffee I made |
| 0:33.9 | this morning, Erin. Less because I care about freshness of coffee and more because I'm drinking a lot more coffee |
| 0:42.0 | these days. |
| 0:42.5 | So I run out the day before. |
| 0:44.1 | Yep. |
| 0:45.3 | So fresh coffee that I stirred a tablespoon of hot chocolate, fancy hot chocolate mix and two |
| 0:51.2 | with some frangelico. |
| 0:53.3 | So it's kind of like a cocktail from the morning. |
| 0:55.1 | Yeah, it's like a mocha. Oh, that sounds delightful. Lovely. Rada, how about you? Yeah, I told Aaron when we |
| 1:02.4 | were setting up that I'm drinking all the alcohols. First, I made myself my normal morning coffee and I've |
| 1:08.3 | been practicing making vanilla lattes for myself with like shaking and vanilla powder right and then I was like well I might as well put a little whiskey in this and be kind of like a fancy English coffee like kind of tendency so I did that and then as I was coming downstairs my husband was like didn't you open that champagne to have with bombshell? And I was like, you're right, I sure did. |
| 1:27.6 | And so I just also poured myself a glass of champagne. |
| 1:30.1 | So that's where we are this morning. |
| 1:31.7 | And I didn't mix it with anything because I was just like, why? |
| 1:34.2 | Well, because you buy good champagne. |
| 1:36.0 | And as we all know how I feel about mimoses, don't go ruining my good champagne with your crappy orange juice. |
| 1:40.8 | So I am just drinking LeCroix. I'm trying to sort of readjust my relationship |
| 1:47.1 | with all the alcohol in my house. So I think we're, you know, it's it's the passion fruit |
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