21:03 a dollar and now they're like two. Of course few people who are in New York are actually from New York No, and in fact they were smart money New Yorkers all live in Brooklyn. Oh even that's too expensive yeah anyway so but there's really no news per se from New York That's a disappointment It is it is a bit disappointing this just really...it's cold people are pissed you know the news is there's another cold front coming through I don't think it's snow necessarily but they're talking extreme very cold extremely cold temperatures Get out of there Yeah well yes tomorrow Tomorrow I'm out. So you're right again it is and now everybody's pronouncing it who these ah Yes You notice this yeah, no but I do recall where I said its h o u th is and who sees fees oh
21:59 And there was brown who teases as though the th was like spaniel who tease right ease, right? And no it's who sees everyone's pronouncing in who sees and there's a lot of news about them because they took over the place Mm-hmm. Yeah, this is Yemen we need to clarify yes, they took over Yemen mm-hmm I couldn't now what people should note about this little news item is that until they took over Yemen, we never heard of these people. This is the kind of how everyone's keeping us up to date all the mainstream media folks they're keeping us apprised of what's actually going on and it's such a joke now I have two clips i should have cut one down. Now the Houthis don't...they aren't necessarily our friends but oh okay that's the interesting thing about this one clip do they steal our weapons yet?
22:48 No, this is a... You gotta hear this. This is long. Alright I'm good. They're gonna break it up now first is this is the..this is....I got two reports. I got one from Democracy Now! but I have the one from PBS where they interview The New York Times reporter who is their man on the street right now It's not Richard Engel or one of these correspondents in one of the networks. It's a guy that's a writer And he tells a tale that is nothing that you've heard before, and it's long but is well worth listening to. He says that the Houthis are... You just have to listen to it. So play the clip that's just marked Houthis. In Yemen, Britain and France joined the U.S in closing their embassies as turmoil spread in the capital city. Crowds protested today in Sana'a against Shiite rebels who took over the government last week. The rebels patrolled
23:39 the streets and there were scattered reports of beatings and even stabbings. Rod Nordlund of The New York Times is in Sanat, and I spoke with him a short time ago." A question right there... When's the last time you heard a news report from the Middle East about stabbings? Who cares?! Yeah well that tells me- That seems strange! Well i think that who cares comment is apt what this tells me The level of violence is so low that they have to count stabbings. That they have to count stabbings, which could've come from any number of criminal actions. So that was the first hint I had that something was strange about this
24:24 But let's continue with the interview with this guy from The New York Times who pretty much, I think tells us the true story that we're not getting from anywhere. Rod Nordland welcome! We understand not only did officials at the U.S. Embassy close it down they've also abandoned cars at the airport in Sana'a left weapons in the cars What is the situation on the ground now? Well, they did but they also left in an orderly way. They went into the airport and got on commercial flights And the Houthis who are in control of things here say that they're just taking those cars for safekeeping and they're following Yemeni law and they're doing their best to try to prevent it from blowing up into any bigger incident than it actually is. Hey hello! Hello New York Times man this not scary
25:13 Well, this is why nobody else... How can it be a long report if he's not scary? He's not doing it right. The surprising thing is that it's actually really pretty calm on the streets inside of these states. No! Get this guy off the air! What would you say the attitude is of this new Houthi government toward the U.S.? Well they're trying desperately to reach out to United States and try to persuade them We're not talking to them. La la la, I don't hear anybody. The other report that came in on democracy now says exactly that. I love the la la la we're not listening Houthis! We only know Hoothies who don't know who these are. They want to be on friendly terms and they haven't had much success doing that i think the americans want to see a government in place and one that the Houthis agree with other parties and not one this is completely dominated by
26:06 by the way, how do we get along with Saudi Arabia? They don't have a bunch of different factions running their government. Why don't we just have a bunch of factions? Oh, we can't just have you. We have to have some of our... This is the problem with American diplomacy. These guys take over the place kick out these corrupt individuals including our buddy, the guy running the place and these guys say this is crap and they take over this as a real revolution of a higher... Yeah now this is a true coup. A true coup! And there in that taken over
26:44 I did get over and they but they you know, they're there. They're protecting property They're keeping the people's cars safe Yeah, I'm pissed because it was a clip that I think actually recorded maybe I have I think I trashed it And it was Jen Psaki and she was a I can't believe I tried. I'll see if I could find it." And she was saying, well you know they took some of our weapons and we're asking them to give it back to us It was very strange but in context of this would have been better to have it But I just wasn't thinking that was interesting because it kind of hanging out there Let's listen the rest is good This a very very astute report We know that the US and the Houthis are
27:25 on the same side of the fight against Al Qaeda, could that make for... Yeah we've already heard this. This is their whole thing that we're on the same- We hate each other but they want to get rid of al Qaeda too. Cooperation? Well we seem to hate them more than they hate us. Well, I think it's already making for cooperation. You know the Houthis have long campaigned against American drone strikes even though they're against their bitter enemies al-Qaeda and since taking control they've done nothing to interfere with those in fact They've dialed back the anti drone and anti American rhetoric so wrong with no US embassy there how are they trying to reach out to the u.s what is the message ham radio or they just go they tweeting are they just tweeting we want to talk this is what Isis does this ISIL doesn't IS does this al-qaeda does this
28:16 Everyone's tweeting, they're on the social media. Is it so hard? Email? Well I interviewed their leader here a couple days ago and he was very adamant about trying to have better relations with the US He even went so far as to pretty much repudiate their slogan which includes death to America What is the slogan actually of the Houthis? Death To America?! Wait a minute, he said their slogan which includes death to America. I'd love to know the whole... hold on what is the Huthi slogan? If you don't mind i just want to check this out. They're going to promote our site Here it is! I have it. Okay. Huthi official slogan Death To America Death to Israel Damn The Jews
29:02 God is great. God is great death to America, death to Israel damn the Jews power to Islam Look the curry Dvorak consulting group is available because this is not a catchy slogan No no and it's certainly nice if you're trying to reach out To I don't know America It's top of the list! Death to... oh no, I'm sorry. God is great that's the top death to America death to Israel damn the Jews power to Islam now there's a funny thing this guy now wanna talk? Wanna talk? Hold on, do they finish this up? Yeah well know the guys now it gets funny because he confronted him about the death to America thing This is very funny
29:49 Let me roll it back a second. He even went so far as to pretty much repudiate their slogan, which includes Deaf to America and say that's just the slogan we don't mean it literally. We want to be friends with the United States and other countries in the region. And he even played down their connection to Iran—it is widely believed that the Iranians financed them—but he said that wasn't true and they didn't want to see Iran make headway in Yemen either. So it's a very reassuring message, but it is hard for the Americans to take that seriously when first of all they don't have an actual government to deal with here. Whether its Houthi or other governments including the Houthis and I think they want to see that before they move forward. Outstanding! That's a great report. So we had like this screwball situation developing And he said go ahead you can drone these Al Qaeda guys It saves us money
30:42 And they're just anti-Al Qaeda and of course Shiites, so they're not...and the Al Qaeda guys are Sunnis. So that fits into the scheme of things. I'm sure that they're probably nativists. They really are Yemenis and don't want Iran to be coming in there and mucking things up. It's almost like a little slightly anarchistic operation and it sounds like a winner to me, but you know we're gonna be dicks as usual. There's a line in the Book of Mormon where Jesus comes down and says to one of the... Hey this is spoiler! He says, You're a dick