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Rational Security

The "Social Distancing" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Much of normal life has ground to a halt. We’ll reflect on the state of the pandemic and how it’s affecting us. What exactly happened to a White House office set up to respond to pandemics? And Congress kicks the can on an all-important surveillance law until the end of May.

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Transcript

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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.

0:15.0

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

0:20.0

So guys, what does your podcast studio look like today?

0:27.0

I mean I don't want to brag but I think I have a pretty good setup here.

0:32.0

Yeah. Yeah I mean I have I've got like the the blankets I'm in a

0:35.8

closet with a carpet I've got a sort of mishmash of blankets and scarves hanging on the wall and like a hair wrap towel over a standing

0:47.1

desk.

0:48.1

It sounds like Stephen Nick's a stressful room.

0:51.3

Very nice.

0:52.3

And when you're done using it for podcasts, your kids can use it as a fort.

0:57.0

Oh, or they can make a podcast.

1:00.0

Right. We're all sort of inspired by the pictures that are occasionally

1:04.3

tweeted by NPR reporters out in the field like huddling under a blanket fort

1:10.0

to record their intros and outros and Ben and I were inspired by a picture of Ari Shapiro recording under the covers a week or two ago and so we are recording from the bed. It's a John and Yoko bed-in situation.

1:27.4

Very nice, very nice. I am not recording inside a closet. I don't like going into closets, but I am recording in my basement

1:36.9

with lots of blankets that I didn't know I owned spread all over the place. So there we are.

1:44.0

It's cozy. Hello and welcome to rational security, the Social Distancing Edition.

1:53.6

I'm Shane Harris, podcasting from the Bloomingdale Studios of Law Fair.

1:58.9

I guess we have now a Capitol Hill studio and the John and Yoko studio as well.

2:03.0

I think we're calling this the virtual jungle studio.

2:06.0

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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