Welcome to bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren D. Young-Shullman. And I'm Radhae-Iengar Plum.

Oh, wow. Okay. So we're doing this now. We're doing this. We are really recording an episode. It's been

over four years, guys. So welcome back, everybody. We are doing a very messy version of bombshell. A couple of caveats for

everyone to know. One, why on earth are we having to do this? Why are these messy bitches making us do

this episode now? Because of all their nonsense, Mike Waltz got fired literally today while we were

planning on doing this episode. What's old is new again.

Indeed.

Two, we are not editing this episode for a number of reasons.

So you get to enjoy us in all of our good of humor, bad humor every time we mess up.

It's probably going to be kind of long.

You're just going to deal.

And also, see, did I do one, two of C?

Whatever.

I've already had some cocktail. It's so good to be here with you guys again. This is awesome. We are all very excited to be here. But you mentioned cocktails,

Lawrence. Let me ask, what are we drinking? So I can't tell you what it is. Roda made it,

but it's pink and it looks very pretty. It's a paper plane.

I love a paper plane.

Yeah.

For technical reasons, we are recording a bit separately.

I am drinking a Vesper, which has very much become my warm weather drink of choice. And just so everyone feels good, we will be gathering together after this episode to drink together again. So we have a lot

to cover. But before we get started, I think it's probably worth telling our friends maybe what we've

been up to for the last four years. Saving the world from ourselves.

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