Radio War Nerd EP186 — Media & Syria War + "Cannon Dan"

Recorded: June 21, 2019 Guest: "Cannon Dan" In this episode, the War Nerd does a bit of gloating over correctly predicting Yemen Houthi rebels' next target in Saudi Arabia . . . Nerd and Ames discuss Iran's downing of America's quarter billion dollar drone-boondoggle & talk about war . . . At 42:00 — we talk to RWN subscriber "Cannon Dan" who bought a real cannon and fired the damn thing. We learn there's a whole subculture of cannon buffs, and they can buy and sell these things with almost no regulations . . . At 1:14:00 — in response to reader requests to talk about "how to read media" the Nerd goes back through the Syria war and reporting on the Syria war, and lessons he learned about how to read media . . . Total time: 2:19:07