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Rational Security

The "Cruel Summer" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

Politics, Nationalsecurity, Government, Middleeast, News, Foreignpolicy

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Shootings in Kenosha and Portland raise new concerns about violent protests in the U.S. Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is not yet free of the justice system. And a prominent Russian opposition leader has been poisoned with a nerve agent. 

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0:00.0

This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats.

0:11.0

So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

0:28.6

All right gather round ye millennials, because the olds have something to talk to you about. The song Cruel Summer, which is very apropos for the time we're living in.

0:33.8

Just FYI is by Banana Rama and not Taylor Swift.

0:38.5

Can somebody back me up on this?

0:40.0

For sure.

0:42.0

Banana Rama, not an ice cream flavor by the way.

0:45.2

But would be a good one. As the resident millennial, Taylor Swift is not my first association with that song.

0:52.1

You know, who's Taylor Swift? I was about to say there's

0:56.7

hope but no there's not. Listeners might think Ben is joking but you never can tell.

1:04.6

So Shane, is it a cruel summer because you're back from vacation?

1:10.0

I feel like I never really went on vacation,

1:12.3

but yes, it's cruel that I am now back from vacation,

1:16.0

I will say that.

1:17.0

Coming back from vacation, feeling like you were never on vacation, is perhaps the definition of a cruel summer.

1:23.2

Hello and welcome to Rational Security, the Cruel Summer Edition.

1:34.5

We should probably have renamed this the Banana Rama Edition,

1:37.0

but I think if people saw that popping up in their podcast feed,

1:40.2

they would really think we'd lost our minds.

1:41.9

They'd be very confused.

1:43.0

It is also a bananas summer.

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