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Zach Miller's avatar

A+ for the title of this episode

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kkmoresi's avatar

I came here to say this

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Kevin Adkins's avatar

Me too!

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S.H. Jacobs's avatar

H

Thank you for having him on! I enjoyed his calm, steady logic coupled with experience as a soldier and a professor. I had read his article written in response to the NYT op-ed by a scholar who had declared Gaza a genocide. I also enjoy that you ask him challenging questions. It's almost like real journalism: who knew!

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Anthony Bullard's avatar

Another banger of an episode. Thanks lads!

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Chet Archbold's avatar

This was a really helpful conversation. A lot of food for thought.

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Victor's avatar

Man, fuck the Times

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snek's avatar

Netanyahu just name checked John at the UNGA address AGAIN

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TheNuclearBlonde's avatar

One of the crossovers ive been waiting for! (Best Army!)

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Adam W's avatar

what an awesome guest I'm going to have to check out his podcast, as a vet myself I really appreciated John's precision of words and nuanced explanations for very complicated topics and it wasn't just entertaining but I learned some things I hadn't known as well!

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Adam's avatar

My leadership knew it was going to be at least 6 months. The Marine Corps stop lost’d people to stabilize the retrograde. We even shipped our equipment home. It sounds like the Army was terrible at planning. Hell, I have other gripes about the Army in Iraq… but I’m not surprised they only thought 90 days.

Let’s not forget about Jessica Lynch. They found her rifle still with packaging grease and full of dust so badly that they couldn’t rack the bolt back to clear it…

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Randolph Carter's avatar

The guest is fantastic but he sounds like Mitch Hedberg and I keep waiting for him to do surreal witty one liners

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The Other Michael's avatar

“I haven’t slept for ten years… because that would be just tooooo lonnnng.”

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John F's avatar

I came here to say this and I’m so glad someone beat me to it

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Not Sam Harris's avatar

I lurves him.

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snek's avatar

John "Concrete" Spencer is finally here

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Spencer's avatar

I think it’s interesting to note the difference between guerilla warfare, urban warfare, and what hamas is doing .

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Sionann Monroe's avatar

GET DOWN! (IYKYK)

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Andrew's avatar

Never send out a mobile YouTube link ever again.. impossible to get it to open in the app with that.

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Spencer's avatar

What’s the magic word?

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Desiree's avatar

This was great!

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