Episode 40 - “Dude, Where’s My Kurdistan?” w/ Hart Uhl

Infinity License

Pretend you’re sitting dehydrated on a plane for 12 hours because the License is going to the Middle East! We chat with Middle Eastern affairs expert Hart Uhl about his time living in Kurdistan and the prospects of the US actually helping that to become a thing. 1m - We talk coxswain life and what the hell they’re doing up there. 5 - What Kurdistan is and why it cannot exist, despite the moral case for the US making this happen. 29 - Hart explains Iraqi politics to us, including the May 12 election that nobody believes 39 - We learn how to pronounce Qatar 40 - Memories of the Mubarak overthrow 44 - Speculation on North Korea, including John Bolton’s awesome outreach about Gaddafhi 49 - Could the US devolve into Civil War a la the Middle East? That’s the subject of a book that Brian is way too into for a non-sleeper cell American. Intro/outro: “Slip Kid” by The Who, a song about child soldiers, which are not actually covered in this episode.