Stranger Than Fiction
Bombshell
War on the Rocks
4.8 • 691 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Erin, Radha and Loren reunite with author and general badass Nada Bakos to talk about her new book, The Targeter. Foreign relations are pretty lit these days: possible Russian funding of far-right politics in Italy, tiny steps of progress in Afghan govt-Taliban negotiations, and an unexpected political agreement in post-coup Sudan. The music hasn’t stopped in the latest round of DOD musical chairs and the UK ambassador to the US was defenestrated by tweet. All in all stranger than fiction - so do read more fiction!
Links
Sudan
- Nadine Awadalla, Eltayeb Siddig, and Khalid Abdelaziz, "Thousands Demonstrate in Sudan to Mark 40 Days Since Deadly Crackdown," Reuters, July 13, 2019
- Richmond Danso, "After Another Attempted Coup, What's Next for Sudan?" Washington Post, July 13, 2019
Italy/Russia
- Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli, "Italian Prosecutors Investigate Report That League South Russian Funding," Politico, July 11, 2019
Iran Tanker
- David D. Kirkpatrick, "U.K Offers to Return Seized Iranian Oil Tanker," New York Times, July 13, 2019
- Erin Cunningham, "Britain to 'Facilitate' Release of Seized Iranian Tanker – As Long As it Doesn't Go to Syria," Washington Post, July 14, 2019
Afghanistan
- David Zucchino and Farooq Jan Mangal, "Seeking Revenge Taliban Target Afghan Soldiers' Family," New York Times, July 9, 2019
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren Deanne Shulman and I'm Rada Aingar. |
| 0:14.1 | We are back for another exciting episode. We have all of our own actual recorders. Everyone has their regular equipment. |
| 0:23.1 | People are in their actual abodes. And we are drinking things. Ladies, what are you drinking? |
| 0:28.9 | I am drinking, as I told you guys, slightly lukewarm rosé. It is better than no rosé at all, |
| 0:34.5 | but it's lukewarm. Is it? Yeah. Could you put an ice cube in it? |
| 0:38.9 | I don't know. |
| 0:39.4 | I would have to leave and go downstairs. |
| 0:41.5 | So if you guys want to talk about like tariffs or something for a minute, I'll go get some ice cubes. |
| 0:46.8 | I'm drinking a nice chilled rosé that my kind and supportive husband, who I requested purchased some rosé for this purpose. And I was like, |
| 0:56.9 | oh, don't buy anything fancy, proceeded to purchase notorious pink, which I would just like to note, |
| 1:03.0 | because we're a classy operation here, is a product of France with a gold crown on it. |
| 1:07.6 | I was afraid that you were going to say he'd gotten you like Sutter home |
| 1:11.2 | Rose. I thought you're going to say that he got like rosé in a can, which is also not the |
| 1:16.6 | worst thing in the world. But we've learned. It turns out sparkling rosé in a can is actually not |
| 1:21.2 | that good. Sorry, guys. I mean, again, better than no rosé. Right. What are you drinking, |
| 1:27.6 | Garen? I'm, I'm nursing a hangover and. Right. What are you drinking, Garen? |
| 1:31.0 | I'm nursing a hangover and drinking La Croy, so. |
| 1:34.6 | What was the best thing you drank last night? |
| 1:37.3 | I had a really good margarita. |
| 1:37.9 | Okay. |
| 1:40.2 | And then a lot of Mexican beer. |
| 1:41.4 | Okay, that sounds great. |
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