It's Friday, January 12th, 2024.

America and Allies drop missiles in Yemen.

All eyes on Iowa.

And who could have seen this coming?

Next on the AM update.

Folks, I really truly apologize for my absence the last couple of days.

I was sidelined with what I believe was the flu and it knocked me on my butt.

Monday night had a cough.

Tuesday lost my voice.

Wednesday morning was barely functioning.

I think I'm on the mend and I have a full episode prepared for you today and we'll see how long my voice lasts. Also want to let you know that because the week has kind of been blown up, my beautiful

wife Bella has been amazing by the way. She's been kind of picking up a lot of the slack around

the house while I've been kind of knocked out. And so because of that, no suck Saturday will be delayed by

one day this week. It's going to be a no suck Sunday. Maybe we'll get it out on Saturday night,

but we're still going to have that for our subscribers here on Apple Podcasts. And now on with the

Friday edition. The United States and Britain carried out a series of air strikes on military

locations belonging to Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen early Friday in response to the militant group's ongoing attacks on vessels traveling through the Red Sea.

According to Fox News, there were attacks on more than a dozen Houthi targets by air surface and subsurface platforms.

The attacks were carried out with support from Australia,

the Netherlands, Bahrain, and Canada. A U.S. defense official says the UK contributed aircraft.

President Biden said he'd authorize the strikes in direct response to the, quote, unprecedented

hootty attacks against international maritime vessels in the Red Sea, including the use

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