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🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 9, 12, 10, 28, 2, 23. |
| 0:17.2 | This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C., |
| 0:28.3 | and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello and welcome to DSR. I'm David Rothkoff, your host. This week, we are joined by two of our good |
| 0:41.0 | friends, Rosa Brooks, of Georgetown University Law Center, though she's not there because I see |
| 0:46.9 | snowy peaks in the background. How are you doing, Rosa? I'm good, David. And our friend, Ivo Dahlder, ambassador Evo Daldor, who is a senior fellow at the Belfar Center at the Kennedy School at Harvard University. |
| 1:04.1 | How are we doing Evo? |
| 1:05.4 | I am doing great. |
| 1:06.8 | Thanks so much. |
| 1:07.5 | Great to see you both. |
| 1:08.7 | Well, it's good to have you here. |
| 1:10.1 | This week is every week. We're going to talk about big issues |
| 1:12.7 | in international relations and national security. And of course, I'd like to begin right with the |
| 1:18.2 | news. As both of you know earlier today in a memo to the State Department, Secretary Rubio, directed U.S. diplomats worldwide |
| 1:30.1 | to use Times New Roman 14-point font for official documents reversing a Biden-era directive to use Calibri. |
| 1:40.6 | Just wanted your feedback on that. |
| 1:44.0 | You know, I'm just happy it's not Courier 12th point, which is what we used to use in the |
| 1:48.7 | White House back in the Clinton administration. |
| 1:51.2 | So I just feel really much better about it. |
| 1:54.9 | It's the 14.5 that I'm worried about, something wrong with the eyesight or something? |
| 2:00.0 | I was the surprise he didn't switch to like, you know, Gothic or something since goal here |
| 2:07.1 | seems to be to demonstrate manliness and respect for tradition. So I really would have liked |
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