Hey, y'all, it's Monica. I had such an interesting conversation. I have to share it with you,

of course, but I wanted to just give you a little introduction. It's somebody I met through

Twitter, and we've talked for a long time, a couple of years at least. He lives in the Middle East,

and just have had chats over the years.

And I asked him to come on to tell me his perspective on what's happening in Yemen now.

So he's from Yemen. He doesn't live in Yemen anymore, but he's very familiar with what's going on

there. He gave us some history. I think this is probably going to be a part one because, you know, it was just too much to cover in one episode.

So what we're talking about in this episode, a little bit of the background of Yemen, like biblical stuff.

Hopefully in the next episode we'll get into like revelations type stuff,

get biblical, come around the circle. But anyway, what we were talking about is

Yemen today is divided after 15 years of war and revolution, which basically started around

the Arab Spring, which had some authentic

elements. Of course, it was obviously promoted from without. So with this division, the

South and the East is controlled by what's called the legitimate internationally recognized

state. And that's just effectively run by the

United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Then there's the port city of Moka. That's controlled by the

regime's old guard, which now works with the United States and the United Arab Emirates.

And Mareb is run tribally, nominally tied to the Muslim Brotherhood.

So you might want to look at a map of Yemen to see where these different places are, but it's the north, which covers about 80% of the population.

So there's a plateau where Ansar Allah, which is we

call them the Hootis, but Mr. T, my international Mr. T, not to be confused with my domestic

Mr. T, he called it Ansar Ala, we call Hootis. And that is where Israel, the United States, and the United

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