The “Everyone Is Wrong” Edition
Rational Security
The Lawfare Institute
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, Alan, Quinta, and Scott are joined by the fourth member of their Lawfare senior editor quartet, Brookings Institution Senior Fellow (and first-time Rational Security guest) Molly Reynolds!
They sit down to discuss: the legacy of 9/11 and whether we’ve really done everything wrong since (including in Congress); the last tragic drone strike in Kabul that now appears to have killed an Afghan aid worker and his family, and what it tells us about the future of the U.S. drone program; and what the fences going up around the Capitol in advance of the right-wing “Justice for J6” rally this weekend mean for the state of our democracy.
For object lessons, Alan mentioned this article in The Atlantic on "How Hollywood Sold Out to China"; Quinta highlighted Kim Kardashian's striking outfit at the 2021 Met Gala; Scott bore first-hand witness to the return of bald eagles to our nation's capital; and Molly recommended the new podcast "Bad Blood: The Final Chapter" on the Theranos trial.
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| 0:00.0 | I have it on good authority that Molly Reynolds, that this is not just her first time on the podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | This is her first time listening to the podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | That is so I should say that it's my first time purposefully listening to the podcast. |
| 0:21.0 | I did have the distinct pleasure of working next door to the jungle studio for quite some time. |
| 0:29.0 | In my subconscious, I certainly listened to the recording of many, many episodes of rational security. |
| 0:36.0 | But this is my first time on. |
| 0:39.0 | You learn French by putting the book under your pillow. |
| 0:43.0 | You have a subconscious knowledge of rationalism. |
| 0:46.0 | It is very similar to that. |
| 0:49.0 | It's like learning French with somebody scream it to you from across the room. |
| 0:53.0 | But it's been rid of his office. |
| 0:55.0 | Tammy laughing really loudly in French at you. |
| 0:58.0 | All of these things, all of these similarities. |
| 1:01.0 | This is what it was like to work next door to the combination Ben with us office jungle studio for several years. |
| 1:09.0 | The OG jungle studio, which truly was jungle like. |
| 1:13.0 | We used to joke that the jungle elements of the jungle studio were going to get so aggressive that they were going to like bust through the wall. |
| 1:22.0 | Cool aid man style into my office. |
| 1:25.0 | And I would just arrive one day to find that my office had been overtaken by plants. |
| 1:30.0 | Instead, we just took over the fourth floor, which is basically second best option. |
| 1:37.0 | Hello, everyone. |
| 1:39.0 | And welcome to rational security 2.0, 2 rational, 2 secure. |
| 1:44.0 | I am sitting here today in the virtual jungle studio with my friends, Quinta Jurassic. |
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