The "Beam Me Up" Edition
Rational Security
The Lawfare Institute
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past |
| 0:12.4 | it all, light and breezy, ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic, book your train |
| 0:21.6 | journey via AvantiWestcoast.co.uk, AvantiWestcoast, feel good travel. |
| 0:30.3 | So Ben, you look like you're like coming to us live from, it's not a train car, but it's |
| 0:38.4 | like a wood paneled room with a light, it could be a hotel. It's a hotel. It is a hotel. |
| 0:45.3 | It is a hotel room in New York City of the type that only New York has these kind of old |
| 0:53.0 | deco era, dingy, very small hotel rooms that get treated as quaint and therefore, you know, |
| 1:04.3 | desirable. Actually, it's not really quaint. You're really selling it. It's just a shitty hotel room. |
| 1:12.9 | That's why I love this trend in New York of having deliberately tiny hotel rooms, like there's |
| 1:19.7 | that one that you have to share a bathroom. It's basically like a youth hostel, but it's designed |
| 1:26.1 | to look really hip and environmentally friendly. Wow, hopefully you have a toilet. |
| 1:31.9 | This one, you know, is kind of first half of the of the century and they've filled it with, you know, |
| 1:40.8 | unattractive mid-century modern furniture. I like, I love mid-century modern furniture, |
| 1:46.4 | but this stuff is not here. I'm showing, I'm showing you the wardrobe here. |
| 1:54.5 | My eyes have seen enough. And, you know, and it's like, it's a good schick, but if the question is, |
| 2:01.6 | do I recommend it? The answer is no. Your little sleeper cabin on the Amtrak was much nicer. |
| 2:09.3 | Oh, yeah, yeah. |
| 2:15.8 | Hello and welcome to rational security. Be me up edition. |
| 2:21.0 | The addition that Shane has been waiting for. Oh my goodness. |
| 2:26.4 | For so long. For so long. This feels like a victory lap. It feels like a homecoming. |
| 2:33.5 | It's like, it's like Christmas and the fourth of July. |
| 2:36.8 | It just was the fourth of July. |
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