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Sirens: A Bombshell production

Shutdown, Southcom, and Pentagon Press

Sirens: A Bombshell production

Bombshell

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

4.8691 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Now that the Louvre jewel thieves have been caught, Sirens asks, what museum would you plan a heist for? On the cocktail circuit, we're chatting Tomahawks, no, sanctions yes on Russia-Ukraine, the new Japanese PM, and Trump's Asia trip. In Dumpster Fires, there's thousands unleashed across the US as the shutdown continues; plus, there is some strange strange stuff going on in Southcom. In warning signs, Breaking Defense reporter Valerie Insinna joins us for a discussion of what makes the Pentagon press corps unique amid Hegseth's recent actions against the media. Finally, what inflatable protest creature are you?

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Sirens, a new series brought to you by the ladies of bombshell, where we dissect the institutions of American power.

0:18.7

Join us as we sound the alarm on technology, governance, and

0:22.0

national security issues, and maybe Lursa men to their deaths, and or talk about unitary executive

0:29.1

power or any other weird Dick Cheney theory that you might have a weird obsession about.

0:33.9

If you really like those, you should listen to our last many with Laura Dickinson,

0:37.6

who give an incredible deep tie on that. I'm Lauren DeYoung Shulman. I'm Erin Simpson. And I'm

0:43.4

right eyeing dark plum. And we are back. And finally, just as we begin our episode, my dog has

0:48.9

finished eating her dinner and drinking her water all at one time, which I appreciate. Thank you,

0:53.1

Eliza. So we were recording today

0:55.9

on Monday, October 27th, when I was in the car this morning on the way to a doctor's appointment,

1:02.4

I learned that the French had arrested two of the people who had apparently broken into the Louvre

1:10.2

and stolen the crown jewels.

1:12.1

And much to my disbelief slash sladness, it was not the Pink Panther Gang or anyone else like weirdly famous.

1:17.8

It was like two randos.

1:19.7

But a more important question that I really have for everybody is if you were going to do an art heist, which museum would you target?

1:28.1

I mean, the smaller European ones, although not that the Louvre is small,

1:31.7

seem to have much less security, right?

1:33.9

Like people with some frequencies seem to just walk in and take things off walls and walk out.

1:39.2

That's how, like, Edward Munch the scream got stolen once upon a time.

1:45.7

Oh, I don't know. Maybe,

1:53.0

hmm, that's it. That's, that's, that's a good, that's a good question. I have to, I mean,

1:57.2

I guess I like Picasso, but like stealing Picasso's doesn't seem to have, it's kind of,

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