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Bombshell

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4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week Radha, Erin, and Loren reunite to drink eggnog (or not!) and talk about events in London, from interrupting violent attacks with narwhal tusks to interrupting NATO ministerials with middle school-esque drama. The ladies then turn to protests in the Middle East, predictions on China trade deals, and Hong Kong legislation. Rounding it out is a lively discussion of all the mayhem that ensued when Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer (not that Richard Spencer) resigned. After that, the ladies have a much-needed pop culture discussion on all the holiday movies they're looking forward to watching.

Links

London Terrorist Attack

Catherine Kim, "London Bridge Stabbing Attack: What We Know," Vox, December 1, 2019
Peter Bergen, "London Terrorist Attack Brings Home a Chilling Reality," CNN, November 30, 2019

Iran

Hannah Brown, "Why Economic Hardships Finally Sparked Iranian Protests," Vox, December 2, 2019
Farnaz Fassihi and Rick Gladstone, "Iran Strengthens Response to Protests," New York Times, November 26, 2019

China/Hong Kong

Yen Nee Lee, "US Law Backing Hong Kong Protests Could End Up Hurting Everyone: the US, China, and Hong Kong," CNBC, November 28, 2019
Gina Heeb, "In Latest Sign of Trade-War Pain, the Trump Administration Announces Tariff Relief for Dozens of Chinese Products," Markets Insider, November 29, 2019
Michael Bociurkiw, "Trump's Risky Move on Hong Kong," CNN, November 29, 2019
Keith Bradsher, Javier C. Hernandez, and Alexandra Stevenson, "China Condemns US Over Hong Kong: That Won't Stop Trade Talks," New York Times, November 28, 2019

NATO

"Funding NATO," North Atlantic Treaty Organization, June 27, 2018
Steven Erlanger, "NATO Offers a Budget Bonbon as Summit Nears," New York Times, November 28, 2019

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell.
0:10.5	I'm Erin Simpson.
0:11.9	I'm Lauren DeYoung-Sholman.
0:13.7	And I'm Roda Ahingar.
0:15.8	And we are back with a wonderful update for you all.
0:19.0	Ladies, what are we drinking? Alcohol. The answers are
0:22.5	drinking alcohol for this episode. I am drinking eggnog in order to start my regular eggnog
0:29.3	celebration. And this is my own varied concoction of multiple alcohols with eggnog mix to prepare
0:35.4	myself for when I go home and drink my mother's
0:37.5	actually excellent eggnog mix. It is your inner wasp, Rada, to drink that much eggnog. Yeah,
0:42.9	it's true. I am also drinking eggnog, which I had never really had before and was frankly
0:48.8	inspired by Rada's mother to start this myself. But mine only has rum in it and it's just like the safe
0:55.3	weight mix. So it's not very exciting. But it tastes perfectly adequate for my needs.
1:00.1	And I think eggnog is disgusting and therefore I'm definitely not drinking it, but I'm drinking.
1:05.5	I don't know if you guys know this, but I don't know anything about gin. Not all of it
1:10.2	tastes like pine cones. I was totally unaware. So I am drinking this, the know anything about gin. Not all of it tastes like pine cones.
1:11.3	I was totally unaware.
1:12.4	So I am drinking this, the botanist gin, which is from Scotland,
1:16.8	with a delightful Italian soda from Whole Foods.
1:20.1	It's like some lime, mint, elder flower concoction.
1:23.5	And it's fantastic.
1:25.4	There's a local gin in D.C.
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