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4.8 • 719 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week Loren, Erin, and Radha are joined by the peerless Mira Rapp-Hooper. Taking a break from stalking her perfect oat milk, Mira walks the ladies through alliances and shifting demands with Japan and Korea. The ladies do a whirlwind review of Hong Kong, Bolivia, auto tariffs, and pardons. After 5 words (plus margin of error) on impeachment stories of note, Erin and Radha (yup Radha) discuss the new Star Wars series where to Loren's dismay Radha declares her love of Star Wars puppets (especially those teddy bears). Links Mira Rapp-Hooper, Shields of the Republic: The Triumph and Peril of America's Alliances, (Harvard University Press, 2020) Asia Simon Denyer and Min Joo Kim, "In South Korea, Military Cost Dispute and Trump's Moves in Syria Fuel Doubts Over US Commitment," Washington Post, November 4, 2019 Phil Stewart and Joyce Lee, "Pentagon's Esper Says it is Crucial South Korea Pays More for US Troops," Reuters, November 15, 209=19 Maggie Shum, "Hong Kong's District Council Elections Take Place on Nov. 24 Or Not," Washington Post, November 14, 2019 Anna Kam, Casey Quackenbush, and Ryan Ho Kilpatrick, "Day of Rage Plunges Hong Kong Into Turmoil After Police Shoot Protester," Washington Post, November 11, 2019 Bolivia "Bolivia Crisis: What's Next After Evo Morales' Resignation?" BBC, November 13, 2019 Natasha Bennett, "Bolivian Protesters Unseated a President. So Why Are They Still in the Streets?" Washington Post, November 15, 2019 Santiago Anria and Jennifer Cyr, "Is Bolivia's Democracy in Danger? Here's What's Behind the Disputed Presidential Election," Washington Post, October 30, 2019 Trade Ben White and Doug Palmer, "Trump Expected to Delay Auto Tariff Decision for 6 More Months," Politico, November 11, 2019 David Shepardson, "Automakers Around World Await Trump Tariff Decision," Reuters, November 15, 2019 Camila Domonoske and Avie Schneider, "Trump Delays Auto Tariffs for 6 Months," NPR, May 17, 2019 Reuters, "Trump Expected to Delay European Auto Tariff Decision: EU Officials," New York Times, November 11, 2019 Pardons Dave Philipps, "Trump's Pardons for Servicemen Raise Fears That Law of War Are History," New York Times, November 16, 2019

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Warren Young Shulman. I'm Roda Iengar. And I'm Aaron Simpson. And we are back with another
0:17.1	fabulous episode this week. How is everybody doing this morning?
0:21.3	Or afternoon, rather.
0:22.7	It is, it is early afternoon.
0:24.5	We've had some minor catastrophes,
0:26.2	brought as babysitter canceled, I fell down the stairs.
0:29.6	It's just a normal day in bombshell land.
0:31.6	I might have separated ribs climbing this weekend.
0:34.1	I mean, we're having a great time.
0:37.1	Fortunately, we have back on the show, of our first guests that we had, who I think
0:42.0	was one of our best guests of all time. I feel pretty confident in saying that.
0:46.9	Well, it's a pretty high bar, to be clear.
0:49.3	She told us a story about buying a knife that had been made out of a bomb or something like that.
0:55.9	It was kind of amazing. Welcome back to Mira Rep Hooper. Hi, Mira. Hi, friends. Thank you so much for
1:03.0	having me. It's wonderful to be here again. Before we get going on bombshell questions, is anybody
1:07.7	drinking anything interesting? I'm having coffee. It's not very interesting at all.
1:13.6	Yeah, we've got it. We've got to find a way to get back in the saddle and have me in a boozy episode.
1:17.5	Yeah, we do. We need some sort of like impeachment, booze fest, something or another. Absolutely.
1:22.2	We'll plan that. Roda, what are you drinking? I'm also drinking coffee and, you know, super healthy muffins that I tried to make with my son who then rejected them, even though I put chocolate chips in them.
1:35.4	But they're pretty tasty, guys. I've got an excellent healthy banana muffin recipe if anyone wants it.
1:40.5	Great. Aaron?
1:42.8	Coffee. Coffee.
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