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Rational Security

The "Never Get Drunk with Australians" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A wave of anti-government protests grips Iran. Former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos may have been the impetus for the Russia investigation. And Defense Secretary James Mattis addresses the US role in the war in Yemen and civilian casualties.

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0:00.0

May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:08.0

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

0:22.4

So Ben I hear that you had drinks with an Australian the other day?

0:26.0

Yeah, I'm afraid I had a little too much to drink. I may have said some things that were a little bit in discreet.

0:33.8

You know, this is a hard drinking culture, Australia.

0:37.8

You can't go up against those guys and expect it come out clean.

0:41.0

No, you know, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, and then you tell them about your kind of interactions

0:46.8

with the Russians and all of a sudden, you know, you may have a problem.

0:52.5

There may be a whole FBI investigation.

0:54.6

And I, you know, I've been keeping this close to my chest

0:58.4

because I haven't wanted to tell anybody,

1:00.8

but I, you know, I just want you all to know that you know whatever you hear that you know

1:05.6

whatever you hear that you said in a drunken steeper to an Australian

1:12.0

including that your favorite movie is Crocodile Dundee Part 2.

1:15.3

It's all true.

1:16.9

Not part 2, Shane, not part 2.

1:19.1

And when the FBI comes and asks you about it. Lie.

1:24.0

I just like how, what easy marks these people are.

1:28.0

They sort of like they give themselves up.

1:30.0

Reminds you like one of these like training slides that you got you get early and I see onboarding

1:35.2

that's like the headline of which is basically like she's not into you she's a

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