The "He Said, Xi Said" Edition
Rational Security
The Lawfare Institute
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2015
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:28.0 | Cancel any time, tease and sees apply. Hello and welcome to Rational Security, the He Said She Said Edition. I am Shane Harris of the Daily Beast. |
| 0:44.8 | Joined here in the Rational Security studio with my friend Ben Wittis. |
| 0:48.6 | Hello Ben, you're back. I'm back. You're back and feeling good? |
| 0:51.6 | Uh, yeah. Feeling rational. Feeling rational and |
| 0:55.6 | secure and very secure. We're glad that you're here. And we're also |
| 0:59.3 | joined this week by our good friend Cody Poplin of lawfare. Hey Cody. |
| 1:02.1 | Hey Shane, how's he going? |
| 1:03.3 | Good how are you? |
| 1:04.3 | Cody is your first time on the fact. |
| 1:06.0 | It is my inaugural experience. |
| 1:07.3 | Cody has been dragooned into being on the podcast this week. |
| 1:12.4 | From writing the news to talking about it. |
| 1:13.8 | About four minutes ago, I walked into Cody's office |
| 1:17.0 | and said, do you want to be on rational security this week? |
| 1:19.9 | And he said, and I said, of course you do. |
| 1:22.4 | Let's go. |
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