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🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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This week, co-hosts Quinta and Scott were joined by co-host emeritus Benjamin Wittes to talk over the week’s big national security news, including:
For object lessons, Quinta shared an amazing development in the Menendez case. Scott pulled a musical hat-trick and endorsed the newish venue The Atlantis, the phenomenal Lydia Loveless (who he just saw there), and (since it is December) Ingrid Michaelson’s holiday album Songs for the Season—and specifically the sob-inducingly melancholy song, “Happy, Happy Christmas.” And Ben plugged the Romanian Madrigal Choir show he attended at the National Cathedral while also logrolling for the new (non-Lawfare) podcast feature he rolled out on his substack Dog Shirt Daily and related podcast “Read with Me,” which features readings of major filings and opinions in the Trump trials.
Also, we are beginning preparations for our end-of-year listener-submitted episode! If you have a topic you want us to cover, a question you want us to answer, or an object lesson you want to share, send it along to us at [email protected] no later than December 18!
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0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
0:16.4 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. |
0:28.6 | Well guys I received another missive from Beyond from Alan Rosenstein as I guess I missed up. He isn't dead. |
0:29.6 | When you say from Beyond. |
0:31.8 | We covered this last time. To for the next several weeks he might |
0:36.1 | as well be dead beyond the scope of this podcast evidently I said that he said that the Mac OS is based in Linux. |
0:49.0 | What he actually said, but he didn't renunciate. |
0:52.6 | So I had a problem with it, |
0:53.5 | is that it's based in Unix. |
0:55.8 | And I guess that justifies his decision |
0:59.1 | to switch to Maccoes? |
1:00.1 | So you can all stop emailing Alan now complaining about his inaccurate description. |
1:04.9 | Apparently he's received a very large number of angry notes from listeners who are upset at his tech illiteracy and it's not his |
1:16.0 | tech illiteracy it's Scots that's that's exactly exactly right it took me a while to figure out he meant Unix UN-U-N-U-C-H-S, which triggered a little bit of alarm on my part for a few minutes there, these poor Castrato marching around. |
1:35.0 | But I googled and figured it out and now I understand what he's talking about. |
1:38.3 | So my apologies to the listeners, to the |
1:43.4 | Linux community the broader Linux community my Linux brothers and sisters I have no fear |
1:49.7 | Alan remains well not in your camp still, he did switch to Mac, but I guess for Unix reasons, |
1:56.2 | again the U not the E, he's okay with that. He's cool with you guys. |
2:00.0 | And Scott, Scott is, he's apologizing and he is committed to doing the work. |
2:04.0 | I will do the work to listen more carefully to Alan's poor explanations next time. |
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