The "Beam Me Up, Santa" Edition

Rational Security

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News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

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🗓️ 21 December 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Robert Mueller gets hold of emails from the presidential transition. The Pentagon has been researching sightings of UFOs. And a US citizen is being held as an enemy combatant in Iraq.

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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.
0:16.5	Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply check the Uber app.
0:27.5	So twas the week before Christmas. We're not going to be here next week, so everyone, get your fill today. No rational security next week. No rational security.
0:30.5	Holiday hiatus.
0:31.5	Exactly. All your security will be irrational next week.
0:35.0	And maybe we'll start a little early.
0:38.0	What's everyone?
0:40.0	Do you guys have fun plans?
0:42.0	Well, a friend is making me a special 2017 snow globe for the baby cannons to blow up.
0:52.0	A snow globe? Yeah because whenever... Why do you hate Christmas?
0:55.9	So whenever I do like... Why do you hate snow globes? No, it's whenever I do a Twitter you know take requests for what to blow up for baby cannon people
1:07.7	always want a snow globe really yeah and we've looked and looked for the appropriate snow globe, but we feel that the appropriate
1:16.8	one would be one that represents the year 2017 somehow.
1:21.7	And so we haven't been able to find the appropriate one. So my friend Autumn wants to make one. And so she's hard at work making a 2017 snow globe and the baby cannons are quivering with excitement.
1:37.0	So I, you know, I'm okay with this, but the metaphor of a big explosion at the end of the year is worrisome to me given
1:46.9	going out with a bag.
1:48.1	You may be tempting fate then.
1:50.5	I'm thinking North Korea. Bob Mueller gets fired on Christmas Eve.
1:55.0	The Christmas Eve massacre.
1:57.0	It's just that 2017 sucks and we should blow it up.
2:03.0	Hello and welcome to Rational Security, the Being Me Up Santa Edition.
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