UNLOCKED: Episode 546: Toboso

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
The Philippines were loaded up with ISIS and a lot of terrorists, and they were at very, very dangerous point. And during my administration, we went in and we wiped them out. Working with the Philippines, but we wiped them out.
But if we didn't go in, I don't know what would have happened. I don't know who would be your president right now, but we spent a lot of time and a lot of talent on going into the Philippines and wiping out terrorists. They had a tremendous problem during my administration. And we cleaned it up, we got them out, and now you really have a good, solid country again. I believe so, yes.

**Brace Belden** (0:59)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the show. My name is Brace Belden. I'm producer Yung Chomsky. And I know you're waiting to hear her voice. You're waiting to hear her voice. You're never going to hear it. We used to have a lady co-host, Liz Franczak, and now who appears to be missing. Well, if you wait till the very end, you might just hear a little bit of it, but you got to stick around. It is interesting that people stick around to the end. That's why I assume they do, because they want to hear that little, those sweet, melodious tones for however brief. They can just skip to it, and we don't know. We're still puzzled on what accent that is, but maybe someday we'll hear it again. The long national nightmare of Rachel Week has come to an end. Every year in some kind of Wicker Manian horrific ceremony, we await the arrival of Rachel Week. It comes, it leaves an indelible mark, a stain upon our souls, and then it departs like a night robber with some of our most precious goods that we'll never see again. That's true. And so finally, we can rest. And we have kind of a different sort of episode today. I am going to need, I am throwing myself on the mercies of our audience once more. I know you're making the face, and I know. I'm not making a face. You're kind of making a little bit of a face. The face was twisting into you. That was my face, brother. Well, it's... Well, I don't know what to tell you. Except I'm not going to be insulting. I'm going to keep it in. I know that I often throw myself upon the tender mercies of our vicious audience and ask them to please have a little bit of grace and forgiveness for episodes that are maybe Sans co-hosts or Sans guests. A little Brace grace. Yes.
But today, I am really, I'm working with several, as they say, engulf some handicaps here. Actually, I don't really know what that refers to in golf. Beats me. I assume that just meant a guy who had to be in the cart most of the time. I think it's like you get extra strokes or you subtract them.
Well. I don't know. Not a golfer. I'm going to need a little bit of handicaps today because I am... I am... Listen, I'm in Chicago, Illinois. I just got off a plane. I forgot I was flying here today. And so the episode is done remotely. This has not happened before. I don't think that there's been... I feel like a YouTuber or something right now. I'm looking at my own reflection. It reminds me of the Galena Maxwell trial when you would be from a hotel and I would be from here. Yeah. Yeah. Although you could have just taken the train over. Yeah. But it was like rapid... I was in the command center turning those things around.
Today's episode is not going to be about Rachel's. It's not going to be about...
Really, I think any of the things you're maybe expecting, it's going to be about an old True Anon classic. We're going to be talking about a little bit of land reform today.
Actually, I want to just talk about some things that have been bothering me in general, and they all kind of have to do with land reform. So right now, the United States is undertaking the Balikatan exercises, which is an annual joint military drill with the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the various branches of the US military. These are the biggest ones yet, they've been doing it for a number of years. These are the biggest ones yet, featuring more than 17,000 troops from seven different nations. Japan and Canada have joined in the Balikatan exercises for the first time. New Zealand, Australia, and France, for some reason, have also joined. French, if you are listening to this, I know it sounds a bit hypocritical as an American. Your soldiers do not belong in jungle environments. They have not traditionally fared well. There are really most environments. We don't really even know what they're doing in Africa, and I assume they're not doing very well there.