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News, News Commentary, Politics, Military, War, History

4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week, the Bombshell squad goes shoulder to shoulder into the fray of referenda for the Iraqi Kurds and the Catalans in Spain, alongside a recap of the German general election. Like many women have before us, we ask "Why Chad?" and explore the merits of the new Trump travel ban. We wonder if it was painful for Secretary Tillerson to get cut off at the knees over North Korea, and contemplate the interagency fun of the Puerto Rico relief efforts. Finally, we spend some quality time pondering the existential crises brought on by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's Vietnam documentary on PBS - and also our love of Ross Poldark.

Episode Reading:

Lauren Frayer, “Violence Breaks Out During Catalan Independence Referendum,” NPR
Lauren Theisen, “Barcelona Play In An Empty Stadium After Attempted Independence Vote,” Deadspin
Julie Smith, “Merkel Will Spend the Next Four Years Battle Forces at Home,” Foreign Policy
Kevin Sieff, “Why did the U.S. travel ban add counterterrorism partner Chad? No one seems quite sure,” Washington Post
Helene Cooper, Michael D. Shear and Dionne Searcey. “Chad’s Inclusion in Travel Ban Could Jeopardize American Interests, Officials Say,” New York Times
Charlie Savage and Eric Schmidt, “Trump poised to drop some limits on drone strikes and commando raids,” New York Times
Dana Milbank, “Donald Trump's Dog,” Washington Post
Malcolm Gladwell, "Saigon, 1965” (Episode 2), The Revisionist History Podcast
Alyssa Rosenberg, “Ken Burns’s American War,” Washington Post
Nicole Cliffe, ”Poldark Season-Premiere Recap: Sunrise, Sunset,” Vulture

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren D. Young-Schelman.
0:15.7	I'm Radda Iyengar. And we are once again in our very fancy and elaborate distributed semi-setup.
0:24.0	And I feel like this is a place where we should note that none of us are sound engineers
0:27.6	or really engineers of any kind.
0:30.0	My ability to do math has no reflection on my ability to do things involving electronics
0:35.7	or other devices.
0:39.2	Process may be our Valentine, but process is definitely not our valentine when it comes to
0:43.7	sound engineering and having batteries or SD cards or a charged laptop or anything like that.
0:50.4	And I swear the people used to want to trust us all with national security secrets.
0:54.5	That's how you know we're not going to leak them. We don't know how.
0:58.2	We don't know how, but we would just forget the document in our other purse in the other
1:04.2	office on the wrong day. And so every, you know, we could have a whole really bad YouTube sitcom about the machinations that go into
1:14.3	each of these episodes. And that's even before we start drinking, which reminds me. Lauren,
1:19.2	what are we drinking today? Well, we are drinking, okay, if I can pronounce this, the Alighash
1:25.0	Curio, ale-aged and oak bourbon barrels,
1:28.9	which was a wonderful gift from a listener, Steve.
1:32.9	Thank you so much for sending us three bottles of this.
1:35.2	It tastes phenomenal.
1:36.6	I may have been sampling a little bit of it before we came here.
1:39.3	Apparently not enough to actually help with our sound engineering.
1:42.4	And I will see Steve O'Grady later this week up in
1:44.6	Portland, Maine. So we're at Monctober Fest. It's a big data science software geek fest, and I'm very
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