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first time listener today's show we're going to be talking about the book globemaster down

with the author todd robertson who has joined me welcome to the show thank you very much you're super

cool bro so hang tight i'm going to read your bio okay so stand stand by here go. Todd Robertson is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who has spent over 25 years as a foreign correspondent. He has covered wars throughout Latin America, the Middle East, Afghanistan, and has provided guest commentary for CNN, MSNBC National Public Radio, which is NPR, love NPR. Sky News, Telemundo, love Telemundo.

Robertson holds a master's degree in Arab studies from Georgetown University

and has won awards for investigative journalism and reporting on international human smuggling rings.

He has lived in Lebanon, Mexico, El Salvador, Panama, Columbia, and the United Kingdom,

and speaks Spanish and Arabic.

All right. Is that a good way to introduce you? Wow, you got it all. You got it all. Oh, well, uh, uh, Schu-kin. I think that's how you say thank you in Arabic. Shukran, shukran. Shukran. Shukran. How's going for it? All right, shukran. Well, thank you, okay? And thank you very much.

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