Scott Jones
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's your religion.
Think about it.
But yeah, so I caught a fucking coaster from Erbil Airport.
out to the eastern flank of Mosul in a white fleet coaster.
One of those fucking Toyota.
Yeah, Toyota Hertz Hiker.
Yep.
Two American soldiers with like M4s on the dash, pumping beats, just driving through.
And I'm in the back just like fully kitted up, just like, oh, my God.
And it's just getting more and more sketchy.
The further we go into Mosul, every building's bombed out.
There's like women and children on the side of the road screaming and crying like isolated purse, like IDPs, refugees, right?
Their husbands are all dead and they're all just like, help me.
I'm Snapchatting it.
Bro, to be on my Snapchat in 2016-17, phenomenal.
It's sad that the memories don't go that far.
We'd have some good footage for the gram, but probably for the best that we don't.
get to Mosul and yeah, I'm straight to work.
So I introduced myself to like the CLJ tax and the strike sale, which is literally just an Iraqi dude's house in a suburb called Bartala, which is like a little Christian enclave just on the outskirts of the Eastern side of Mosul.
And I'll get straight up on the roof, put my antenna up, point it towards Mosul, go back down, turn the equipment on,