The host Alison Gill is out for the day. I'm Dana Goldberg, and I forgot the date. So we're going to start over.

Or we could just give this to the listeners now. It's Monday, March 23rd. I'm Dana Goldberg, and this is Bean's Talk.

See, everyone, you get to see how the sausage just made.

Literally what happened was my co-host, Allison, did not expect to be out today.

We had some troubles with the Wi-Fi.

So I jumped in, took over.

We want to make sure you have your daily, your beans talk for the day.

And hopefully you listen to the long beans already.

So we're going to cover a few things today that we didn't get on to the podcast. First off, Trump is preparing the 86th airborne for a ground war in Iran. That should surprise

no one, but it continues to lift sanctions on Iranian and Russian oil. This is where this whole thing

is just completely fucked up. He's lifting sanctions on Iranian-Russian oil, which is helping arm Iran

as Russia shares our troops' locations with them. Do you see what's happening here? Because no one

knows which way's up. But we want to show you what's gone on in the past two weeks with regard

to Russia. So here we go. On March 12th, special envoy, Steve Whitkoff, asked the Russians

if they were helping Iran. And he said, and I quote, US can take Russia at their word when they say

they aren't helping Iran. Can we take Russia at their word, everybody? Has it ever been something

we've been able to do in the history of taking

Russia for their word? No, no. Because four days later, Trump says, well, maybe Putin may be helping

Iran a little bit, a little bit, about the size of Trump's little bit, about that much.

That's how much, really? I think they're probably helping around more than that.

And then on March 20th, Putin came around and said he'll stop sharing intel with Iran if the U.S.

cuts off Ukraine. So now we've got blackmail going on. This is just a cluster fuck. They had no plan.

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