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Sirens: A Bombshell production

Rage Against Alcibiades

Sirens: A Bombshell production

Bombshell

News, News Commentary, Politics, Military, War, History

4.8691 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, Loren, Radha, and Erin discuss the North Korean assassination (beware the perfume lady) and take questions from listeners (what is inter-service rivalry anyway?). Kori Schake joins to dissect the defense budget, H.R. McMaster's challenges at the National Security Council, Thucydides, and why she hates Moneyball.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Bombshell from War on the Rocks. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Radhae Angar. I'm Warren

0:16.0

D. Youngshelman. And we are here for once again for all your national security needs.

0:20.5

Let's start off just for a second.

0:22.0

What are we drinking today, ladies?

0:23.6

We are drinking some lovely, I'll just call it pink champagne.

0:27.1

It is technically some kava bottled in, I assume, Spain somewhere.

0:31.3

It was a gift from Kelly Maximin at a dinner party ages ago, and I found it on my counter,

0:36.5

and I just thought I just bring it to you guys.

0:38.3

Yeah, it was amazing. It was very exciting. It's like to find a $20 bill in your winter coat.

0:42.1

Oh, sparkling rosary. I mean, this is better than a $20 bill because it's cold and it's bubbly.

0:47.5

And it tastes splendid. Thank you, Kelly. Excellent. We also have some brownies and macaroons left over from an Oscars party last night.

0:59.2

We will hopefully get to a pop culture segment here at the end of our conversation today.

1:02.8

I remind people that Corey Shockey will be joining us later in the episodes.

1:07.2

She'll be here for a bit of an interview and hopefully stick around to discuss White House mayhem and all things with the National Security Council, which has, of course, been in quite turmoil, but maybe settled a bit since the last time we talked.

1:14.4

And we've got a couple other things up our sleeve as well.

1:17.8

So keeping up foreign relations.

1:20.0

This is, again, we have a variety of things we could go into in this segment, but I think

1:23.5

we're going to start with the assassination in Malaysia, which always makes me have some sort

1:28.9

of weird Zoolander kind of flashback.

1:31.3

The Prime Minister of Malaysia!

1:33.6

But instead, it was not the Prime Minister of Malaysia who was assassinated. It was the

1:37.9

half-brother of the North Korean president.

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