Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson.

I'm Lauren DeYoung-Shulman. And I'm Radda Ayngar.

And this is the last of our summer vacation episodes, because you can probably tell from the audio,

we are once again distributed, not quite as far flung as we had been.

Rada, where are you today?

I am in beautiful and sunny Salt Lake City on an extended road trip across the country where we have

just seen Mount Rushmore, Grand Teton, Badlands,

Grand Teton, and Yellowstone. I highly recommend it as a summer vacation for everyone.

That's an excellent summer vacation. Lauren. I am back in the wonderful United States of America,

and I am so happy to have be able to have bad Mexican food,

barbecue, Cheerios, craft beer. Lisbon was amazing, but all of those things are what life

is really about. So I'm sitting here drinking my crappy mimosa this morning, just overjoyed to be American.

Oh, yeah. What are we drinking? Well, I am having a delicious caramel macchiato, which I

recently discovered as I don't know why all of these years I've been having stupid lattes

instead of having caramel macchiados. And I thought, be a delicious morning beverage.

It's like the most basic, hashtag basic

white girl problem ever. But I also thought, you know, I didn't need to mix any alcohol in it. And then I

started doing a timeline of North Korea events. And then I thought, man, it really could do with a shot of

bourbon in my caramel macchiato so future lesson.

Erin, what are you having? I'm having some grapefruit LaCroix, which is the breakfast of champions.

So it's just a little too much for me to like drink alone before noon on a long weekend.

Like that even for me, I think, seems to would seem to cross a line. So I'm going to at least hold off until until after lunch on on that front. So I mean, with the jet lag, I've been up for like six hours, seven hours now. So

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