EP:66 - Saudi vs. Houthi Showdown II
Provoked with Darryl Cooper and Scott Horton
October 16, 2026
We discuss the Iran war, regional security, the limits of U.S. military options and the risks of a wider confrontation with Russia. We examine Israel’s security doctrine, its influence on U.S. politics and Jewish communities abroad, and the humanitarian toll of the war in Gaza.
Speakers Scott Horton, Darryl Cooper
Scott Horton (0:00)
Tonight, on the show, me and Darryl Cooper talk about the wars, just like we do every week.
Darryl Cooper (0:08)
All humans break. The difference between humans and gods is that gods can break humans.
Scott Horton (0:15)
Negotiate now.
SPEAKER_3 (0:17)
End this war. You're watching Provoked with Darryl Cooper and Scott Horton, debunking the propaganda lies of the past, present, and future.
Scott Horton (0:40)
All right there, Mr. Cooper. How are you doing?
Okay, good. I'm giving in. I'm wearing glasses.
Darryl Cooper (0:46)
I'm here. I was just responding to one of our chat folks.
Scott Horton (0:49)
Oh, good. And they called me out for a technical difficulty that they don't really know occurred before the show today. They're just assuming one. I'm assuming.
All right.
Darryl Cooper (1:01)
What's up with the t-shirt? I was really digging that professorial look you had last week and that you beat Wesley Clark over the head with earlier.
Scott Horton (1:09)
Oh, this, yeah, this is my-
Darryl Cooper (1:11)
I'm a cardigan guy. So like, I've got a freaking-
Scott Horton (1:15)
Who accused me of wearing a sweater last week, which is totally false.
Darryl Cooper (1:19)
I'm not accused, dude, cardigans.
I've got a whole closet full of cardigans. I've got cardigans with like the leather elbows, all kinds of stuff going on. You got to get on the cardigan train.
Scott Horton (1:29)
Look, if I was going to go like full elbow patches, then I guess I would. I've got the pipe, but-
Darryl Cooper (1:36)
You need like the tweed jacket, yeah. You at least need to have the option. You got to have one in your closet just for, you know, sometimes you just got to have one. Yeah.
So what up?
Scott Horton (1:47)
I don't know, man. I'm fighting the last war. I have no idea what's going on in the world. I did read the headlines at antiwar.com. They don't look good.
Oh, you know what I should do? I should introduce the expat money. I can't share screens because my browser wouldn't work. So I had these-
Darryl Cooper (2:02)
When was the last time the headlines at antiwar.com looked good?
Scott Horton (2:07)
Oh, you know, maybe September 10th. Actually, if we go back to September 10th, 2001 is like some horror show in the Balkans. You know, Delta Force trained Al Qaeda terrorists slaughtering Macedonians or something.
Anyways, I forgot what I was going to say. Oh, I know I can't share screens, man, because of browser stupidities. But what I can do though, is I can talk about expat money. They sponsored this show. And you folks may have missed their big money summit where they teach you how to invest down Latin America way. But you can go watch it. Just go to expatmoney.com/provoked.
And first of all, you can get your little booklet introduction to investing overseas. And then also you can find the archives of the great summit that they did over there at the beginning of this month. And so that's expatmoney.com/provoked. So they helped sponsor this show. And then we got a bunch of stuff to talk about. But first of all, oh man, I can't share the screen on this either. That sucks. I was going to show you. I went up against the Wesley Clark there, as you mentioned, on Pierce Morgan yesterday. And I have to say, it was worse than usual for me on my part, even though I'm always right about everything. But the thing of it was that, here's my alibi, Cooper, all right?
I have a lot of Scott Horton-flavored coffee in the morning from, you know, scotthorton.org/coffee.
Mundo's Artisan Coffees that sponsors this show and my other show too. I drink a bunch of that stuff in the morning because I wake up at like 4.3 in the morning because I got so much work to do. And I drink a bunch of that coffee. But then usually when I do the Pierce Morgan Show, it's not till like 11.3 or 12 And I've had time to smoke a bunch of weed and kind of come down from all that coffee. But this we had to record really early in the morning. And then they did this thing. They made me do this a couple of times with John Bolton and a couple of these others, where I gotta sit there and watch him interview somebody else. But I can't interject. And I gotta sit there and go, and you know who you're dealing with here, man. I don't have a temper for that. So I'm just squirming in my seat for like an hour, wanting to ask something. And then they picked me up against, you know, I mean, Morgan and Clark both are just want to talk about Hitler. They just want to talk about the 1940s.
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