Ryan McBeth
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1,154 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 28 Feb
Ryan McBeth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So essentially these warlords would weld heavy machine guns to their pickup trucks.
And back then aid agencies who were bringing food aid into Somalia, they had to pay these warlords to escort them as security to where they're giving out their food.
And because you can't put down bribes to warlords on your expense sheet as a valid expense, the people would put down technical payments.
So these trucks became technicals.
So I think one of the fascinating things was the Chadian, Chad Army, who decided like, you know what?
We can't use these tanks.
We can't use armored personnel carriers.
Our population is not educated enough to use these things.
But we know pickup trucks.
We have plenty of shade tree mechanics.
We know how to use a heavy machine gun.
This is what we need.
You give us these things and we can win the fight.
Wow.
Yeah.
Look, I mean, the Taliban used to use Toyota Helix pickup trucks.
Think of a Toyota Tacoma.
Is it Tacoma?
It's a big car, yeah.
What's the smaller one?
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