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🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week the ladies return to regular programming and try to catch up after one of the more crazy weeks in recent political memory. They start off with the Coronavirus crisis before returning to an old-standby, Brexit. They also provide some color commentary on the recent Irish elections. And how could they forget the new Middle East Peace Plan! That’s before they get to impeachment, NSC firings, and White House Mayhem. Stick around and hear them gush about Little Women.

Links

Coronavirus

“Deaths in China Surpass Toll From SARS,” New York Times, February 9, 2020
Colleen Shalby, “Why Did the Government Mandate a Coronavirus Quarantine?” Los Angeles Times, February 8, 2020

Brexit

Dharshini David, “Brexit Divorce: Five Key Things the UK Must Navigate,” BBC, February 9, 2020
“Brexit: All You Need to Know About the UK Leaving the EU,” BBC, January 27, 2020

Irish Elections

Rory Carroll, “Ireland General Election: Sinn Féin Surges to 22% in Exit Poll,” Guardian, February 8, 2020

Middle East Peace

Peter Beaumont, “Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan: Key Points at a Glance,” Guardian, January 28, 2020

Irish Election

Riley Beggin, “Irish Election Yields a Three-Way Near Tie and a Sinn Féin Surge,” Vox, February 9, 2020
“Sinn Féin is the Most Popular Party Among All Age Groups up to 65,” Journal, February 09, 2020

Travel Ban

“Trump Travel Ban, Part II,” Wall Street Journal, February 07, 2020
“Trump Administration Adds Six Countries to Travel Ban,” New York Times, January 31, 2020

Pop Culture

Marlon and Jake Read Dead People, Podcast

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson.
0:12.1	I'm Warren DeYoung-Shallman. And I'm Radha Ayengar.
0:15.1	And we are back for a fairly regularly scheduled episode. We have no guests.
0:21.4	It's just the three of us.
0:22.8	There are no men.
0:24.7	It's kind of back to business as usual.
0:27.2	So welcome to 2020, ladies.
0:32.3	Guys, it's February.
0:34.4	Yeah, and the last week lasted a month after a January that wouldn't end. The first week of
0:39.2	February was like, I got this. It's been rough. I guarantee that if we disquised one of you, you would
0:45.3	have forgotten one of the things that happened this week. One of the like ginormous things that
0:49.3	happened this week. Look, margin of error, plus minus 3%. I've already forgotten that the State of the Union was this week.
0:56.1	Oh, my God.
0:58.6	Well, what do you say first?
1:01.6	What are we drinking?
1:03.3	I'm drinking fresh coffee.
1:05.4	Fresh coffee that my husband implores me to say is in a disappearing Bill of Rights coffee mug.
1:11.9	Thank you, Ross,
1:17.9	for providing Lauren with coffee, not from the microwave. I'm drinking slightly less fresh coffee.
1:23.9	It's not from the microwave. It is lukewarm and it was made an indeterminate number of hours ago, but hopefully it is in a now panic and freak out with an upside down crown mug.
1:29.5	I really like that. I think we may all may need some of those. Yeah. I'm drinking my second
1:34.9	round of coffee and some fancy, fizzy water that I've become addicted to from from Whole Foods.
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