True Anon Truth Feed - [PREVIEW] Episode 60: MEK-19
Aired: 2020-04-13
Duration: 04:40


=== Punked Again? (01:58) ===

[00:00:00]  Hello and welcome to the Hudson Institute's Insight and Iran podcast.
[00:00:05]  My name is Otto Scorzeni and I am joined here by Liz.
[00:00:15]  Hi.
[00:00:16]  Just fucking kid, baby.
[00:00:18]  It's Truanon.
[00:00:19]  Oh, you fooled them.
[00:00:21]  Uh-huh.
[00:00:22]  You like that?
[00:00:22]  See, I told you the other day that I'm becoming, in my hibernation, one of the top-ranked pranksters in the United States of America.
[00:00:30]  Yeah, you know what we need to do?
[00:00:33]  I think I was thinking about this.
[00:00:34]  I think we need to bring back punked.
[00:00:36]  Oh, yeah.
[00:00:38]  That would be, I can't believe it's not.
[00:00:40]  Dude, quarantine punked?
[00:00:42]  Would be so good.
[00:00:43]  Quarantine punked?
[00:00:44]  Just like you have like five guys in full, you know, full biohazard suits with like submachine guns burst into people's houses and be like, you're under arrest.
[00:00:55]  Yeah, like hazbat suits.
[00:00:56]  Yes.
[00:00:57]  That'd be cool.
[00:00:58]  Like disinfecting everything or, oh my God, fake EMTs.
[00:01:02]  Like, oh, you've got corona.
[00:01:05]  You're dying.
[00:01:06]  We're going to take you.
[00:01:08]  And then they're just like later.
[00:01:09]  And then they're just like, psych, you punked.
[00:01:11]  Yeah.
[00:01:12]  But actually, you do have to go into 14-day isolation now because we did take you outside and put you in a working ambulance.
[00:01:19]  But hey, you got nothing to do with anything.
[00:01:21]  Guess what?
[00:01:22]  You punked to the true and on Persian power hour, baby.
[00:01:52]  Hello.
[00:01:52]  How you doing?
[00:01:55]  That's a weird sign-on.
[00:01:56]  Let me try that again.

=== Seamus's Quarantine Odyssey (02:42) ===

[00:01:58]  Fantastic.
[00:02:00]  I liked it.
[00:02:01]  Welcome to the Persian Power Hour, where we are joined by Seamus.
[00:02:08]  All right, guys, prayers up.
[00:02:11]  Malaka Fazali.
[00:02:13]  Good enough for government work.
[00:02:15]  No, say it, say it, say it, say it.
[00:02:17]  Seamus Malikafzeli.
[00:02:18]  Malakathzeli.
[00:02:20]  Fuck, dude.
[00:02:21]  So sorry.
[00:02:22]  Listeners, you don't understand.
[00:02:23]  I've been trying to, I've been literally practicing and wasn't able to do.
[00:02:28]  But Seamus is a writer for the International Review and, of course, a go-to guy on events going on in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
[00:02:38]  How you doing?
[00:02:39]  I'm doing well.
[00:02:41]  I got out of quarantine a couple days ago after I got back from Lebanon and just enjoying what Oregon has to offer.
[00:02:48]  Oh, shit.
[00:02:49]  You were in like mandatory quarantine?
[00:02:51]  I was indeed.
[00:02:53]  How was that?
[00:02:55]  It was horrible.
[00:02:57]  I was stuck in my childhood bedroom, which I'm currently in right now, for the length of that time.
[00:03:04]  Oh, my God.
[00:03:05]  Like, not a footstep outside.
[00:03:08]  Not a footstep outside.
[00:03:09]  Thankfully, I have a bathroom here.
[00:03:10]  But other than that, nope.
[00:03:13]  Could not leave.
[00:03:15]  Christ.
[00:03:15]  So you were in Lebanon up until two weeks ago?
[00:03:18]  I was in Lebanon up until about two weeks ago until they I had been planning to stay at least for as long as I could until the funds ran out, but then I was kicked out of housing.
[00:03:28]  So I had no choice but to come back.
[00:03:30]  Do you mind if I ask what you were doing over there?
[00:03:35]  No, it's fine.
[00:03:38]  I'm a student at the American University of Beirut.
[00:03:40]  Okay.
[00:03:42]  So I was just studying there.
[00:03:43]  I was not undertaking any covert operations on behalf of any country, Eastern or Western.
[00:03:49]  Well, you should consider it.
[00:03:51]  It's lucrative.
[00:03:53]  It is lucrative.
[00:03:54]  I am kind of hurting for money right now.
[00:03:55]  So, you know.
[00:03:57]  No, if you're listening to, I know that our handlers that are listening to this, do not call this man.
[00:04:03]  Well, speaking of hurting for money, we wanted to have you on because we want to talk about Iran, who is also hurting for a little bit of money as they're facing down the horrible ramifications of the COVID pandemic.
[00:04:18]  And it's just, you know, we are talking and it seems like it's really difficult to get kind of a clear view of what exactly is going on there generally, but even more so in, you know, in the wake of Corona.
[00:04:34]  Yeah.
[00:04:34]  Iran has been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus outbreak.