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Bombshell

Shove It All Into OCO

Bombshell

War on the Rocks

News, Politics, Military, War, History

4.8691 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week Paula Garcia Tufro joins the Radha, Loren, and Erin to discuss the brewing crisis in Venezuela. Then the ladies fashion an update on Brexit, explore uncharted waters in Iraq, and ask what is the point of a second North Korea summit when nothing has happened since the first! Radha unpacks recent trade negotiations with China before the group asks the unanswerable question: just how much money can you shove into OCO? Finally, Erin and Loren profess their undying love for Matthew Goode.

 

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Venezuela 

Keeping up Foreign Relations

Brexit

Iraq

North Korea

It's Aghast

China Trade      

White House Mayhem

Defense Budget

Fitzgerald

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson.

0:12.0

I'm Lauren D. And I'm Roder Ayn Gar.

0:15.0

And we have an extreme distributed ops version of this again. I guess we've actually done this last time we were we were distributed for the anniversary episode as well I'm in Kansas City

0:25.6

rata where are you are you at home in San Francisco I am at home in San Francisco

0:29.6

and I'm in Washington DC as you know where I normally am I think it's an open

0:34.9

question like which is like snowy and I see her at the moment Kansas City is a complete skating rake. And so it's been great fun walking to cars and scraping ice off of cars while also trying to like not fall down and break your elbows. So needless to say, I'm not drinking anything at the moment. I've got to go to the airport here in a little bit. Is anybody else drinking anything

0:55.6

exciting? I am. I have some hot chocolate that I added some vanilla bourbon to that my mother

1:02.4

made, which is kind of exciting. That's awesome. Your mother made vanilla bourbon? Well, I mean,

1:08.0

the bourbon was pre-made and she added vanilla to it. Yeah. Well, that sounds great tasty. I'm drinking ginger ale, but in fairness, that's to wash down

1:15.7

the cinnamon pop-tarts that I scarf down before we started recording. So, does that make it better?

1:21.3

Breakfast of Champions. Yes, indeed. Before we get started, I hope everyone enjoyed the

1:26.7

Mannerversary episode last time. And we do a very poor job encouraging folks to rate and review us on iTunes or Spotify, where you can now find our podcast or any number of other hosting services. So if you love bombshell and we think you all do, please tell the rest of the world and give us a

1:44.9

rating and review. It helps other people find us. It helps other people realize how awesome all of us and all of our fans are.

1:51.3

And we are at 99 written reviews on iTunes right now. So if you want to be a special number 100,

1:58.2

it's just waiting for you. You could get right in there and get on that.

2:02.5

So we have this week a very special guest, Paula Garcia-Tufro. Hi, Paula. Hi, nice to talk to you all.

2:10.5

Paula, you're the deputy director of the Adrian Arche Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council. Is that right?

2:16.3

That's right. Awesome. So we are going to talk to

2:19.3

you in just a minute about Venezuela. That was one of Rada wanted to talk more about Venezuela this year,

2:24.9

and we realized that we were all completely unqualified to do so. So we're excited to have a guest

2:29.2

to help us explore those topics. But first, we need to do the bombshell questions. So the first one,

2:36.6

if you could pitch a show or series to Netflix, what would it be? So I had a hard time with this

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