Not Bringing Rexy Back

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4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week, the ladies of Bombshell welcome Lindsey Ford, from the ‎Asia Society Policy Institute, to chat about this spring's Appointment in Helsinki: the US-North Korea presidential summit. Then, they set an Iran Deal death watch and puzzle through what happens when Red Sparrow meets real life in the nerve-agent poisoning of a Russian double agent in the UK. White House mayhem continues to say "hold my beer" with the firing of Rex Tillerson and what it means for Trump administration Kremlinology. Finally, the pop culture world is looking up, with the return of Occupied, the digital release of Last Jedi, and much more.

Karoun Demirjian, "Corker prediction: Trump will pull out of Iran nuclear deal in May," Washington Post
Ankit Panda and Vipin Narang, "The Trump-Kim Summit and North Korean Denuclearization: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," War on the Rocks
Ellen Barry, "Britain Says It Has Proof Russia Stockpiled Lethal Nerve Agent," New York Times
Andrew Jeong, "North Korea to Meet for Talks With U.S., South Korean Delegations in Helsinki," Wall Street Journal
Heidi Blake, Tom Warren, Richard Holmes, Jason Leopold, Jane Bradley, Alex Campbell, "From Russia With Blood," BuzzFeed
Derek Chollet and Julie Smith, "The Clock Is Already Ticking On Mike Pompeo," Foreign Policy
Ilan Goldenberg, "A Requiem for Rex's Redesign," Foreign Policy
Ilan Goldenberg and Elizabeth Rosenberg, "How to Save the Iran Nuclear Deal," Foreign Affairs
Alex Ward, "Trump finally decided to get tough on Russia. But did he go far enough?" Vox
Ellen Barry, "Britain Hints at Tougher Blow Against Russia: Stripping Tycoon's Assets," New York Times
Asia Society Policy Institute event, "Drones, Bots, and Smart Weapons: Artificial Intelligence and Asian Security"

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren DeYoung-Schelman. And I'm Roda Ayngar. And we have new recording rigs and everything that we're testing out this week. You guys really have no idea what incredible machinations we go through to bring you the high fidelity, insightful podcast every
0:25.8	week. We are wonks. We are not audio engineers. It involves a lot of fighting with Skype and wine
0:32.0	bottles, and it's a lot. Yep. So you're welcome. You should thank us.
0:38.9	Speaking of which, what are we drinking?
0:45.3	We're drinking a Spanish white from Aaron's fridge. That I put back in the fridge and so now we can't see what it, what it is. Exactly. And also we have a bottle of layer cake Shiraz, which I kind of
0:52.9	want some cake now. And Roda, I believe, is drinking two things.
0:56.4	I am. Well, I'm drinking coffee because, you know, it's only 10 o'clock at the morning here.
1:00.4	But I, in unpacking some boxes yesterday, discovered a bombshell cocktail shaker.
1:06.0	And so made myself a grapefruit, whiskey cocktail of some indeterminate nature, which is delicious and beautifully
1:13.7	colored. That looks fabulous. And it's actually spring on the West Coast. And it's like grapefruit,
1:18.7	which means it's okay to drink in the morning. That's basically my role. That's what I say. Yeah. That's my
1:22.5	theory as well. Outstanding. Okay. So I don't think we have a great deal in the way of announcements. Some folks
1:28.6	may have noticed that our Facebook page has had some book recommendations, and we have some
1:32.7	specially tailored books by, about, and for women, in honor of Women's History Month.
1:39.2	With a couple of authors who were Friends of the Pod and previous guests.
1:43.0	Yes, Corey Shockey and Mark Harlan.
1:45.7	I believe those are the only.
1:47.1	Caitlin Talmich who hasn't been on with us yet, but we hope to have someday.
1:49.9	And any number of those other ladies would be welcome to join us.
1:53.8	There's some really good work, both fiction and nonfiction.
1:56.5	So you guys should check all of those out. And I think we've got quite a lot to get through this
2:02.8	week, which I know we say every week, but it's actually extra special true this time around. So let's
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