This is Cyrus, a new series brought to you by the ladies' bonshell, where we dissect the institutions of American

power. Join us as we sound the alarm on technology, governance, and national security issues,

and maybe lure some men to their deaths. I'm Lauren DeYoung-Schelman. I'm Aaron Simpson. And I'm

Roda Iengar Plum. And we are back with our second real episode of Sirens. We are so excited. We have maybe

nailed down a few more details while opening up a few more possibilities here. But as always,

we're going to start with, I guess they're not bombshell questions anymore. They are

siren questions. And so I'll kick off with, if you had to run a coup in a fictional universe, which

fictional character would you choose as your coup leader?

Aaron.

Oh, goodness.

So, I mean, we've all just been watching Andor, and that sort of feels like there's some,

some rich possibilities there for us to choose from.

I would say for a true coup leader, gosh, that's such a tricky one, because coups are so

complicated.

Is this a military coup?

Is this like a putch? You know, there's a lot that we can

This is an academic dissertation. I think I'm going to stick with Andor. I think I'm going to go with

Luthin from Andor, which is maybe a little too recency bias.

But you just need somebody who, A, has like some real scheming, double-crossing tendencies

and be a good network of other people who are going to be able to help you pull this off.

So I also chose somebody from the Star Wars universe, but for very different reasons.

I chose Chewy for a number of

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