Some More News - Even More News: No War With Iran.... Please?

Episode Date: February 20, 2026

Hi. Katy's snowed in without internet so it's just Cody and Jonathan today! They talk about how it really looks like Trump's about to start a war with Iran, the fact that other countries are actually prosecuting their criminal perverts and insurrectionists, the CBS-Colbert-Talarico kerfuffle, and JD Vance's really good joke to the Board of Peace. Get the world's news at https://ground.news/SMN to compare coverage and see through biased coverage. Subscribe for 40% off unlimited access through our link.And as always, we recorded right before that big thing that happened.Check out our new show STREAMIN' MORE NEWS: https://www.youtube.com/live/a3OYcDbd_EcPATREON: https://patreon.com/somemorenewsMERCH: https://shop.somemorenews.comYOUTUBE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvlj0IzjSnNoduQF0l3VGng/join#Iran #NickShirley #evenmorenewsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hello, everyone. Today we talk about the so far to us right now, still potential war with Iran, the CBS Colbert FCC debacle, and Nick Shirley's latest bonehead video for boneheads. Hello. Welcome back to Even More News, the first and only news podcast. My name is not Katie Stoll. My name is Cody Johnston. Hello. I'm so sorry. Sorry to not be Katie. She is not here today. She's fine. There's a lot of snow across the nation in specific places. And she has no power or internet right now. So she cannot call in and join us.

But fortunately, as always, Jonathan is also here. Hi. I'll say more because I'm the only other person here. I can't just wait. Hi. Hello. That was good intro. Thank you so much.

Great job with a high and hello. You added a hello in there. Loved it. Perfect. We're doing great. We're wearing reverse hoodies apparently. Yep. We got some odd color coordination on the shirt hoodie situation.

For whatever reason, Katie not being here and us recording a couple hours later than we usually do. It's like, all right, all bets are off. Hoodie time. It's hoodie time. You know it. Yeah. Black, white, and gray. But we still have to talk about the news.

Yeah. Yeah, no, everything else is the same. But hoodies. I know, we got them. We have at least one each, so that's good. I probably have another one. At the beginning of the show, I'm used to, like, you and Katie talking, and I can, like, check something else or drink water or something, because I know I'm not on camera right away.

And then you started the show, and I thought, oh, my God, what if I'm on camera? I have to be fully engaged. Should we talk about the news? I guess. I feel like. Yeah. I feel like I never would have suggested it, but let's. Yeah.

It's my responsibility today, I guess. I got to. We'll start with the disclaimer. I think I give at the beginning of every episode these days, which is we may be at war with Iran by the time you hear this, but like really may be this time because there has been a significant buildup of boats and planes. And all the stuff you would send to an area if you were imminently about to attack it, not in a Trump is messing around, bluffing type way.

Just wagging his dick around, yeah. This is, this doesn't seem like that. One Trump advisor told Axios that while some in the administration were advising Trump against it, there is a, quote, 90% chance we see kinetic action in the next few weeks. Kinetic just means moving. They love that word so much. Why do they always say connect? Yeah, everything is kinetic.

Like their gambit. It sounds like so official and cool to them, I guess. Yeah. Like, is there any kind of war action that would not be kinetic? Planning war? Yeah, just like a still war. Thinking about it, thinking about doing a war would be not kinetic, I guess. At any rate, this is, I mean, this would not be.

So the leakers say one of these quick strike something and get out type things. this would be like a commitment of what they think would be several weeks, which as we all know means two decades, a couple of decades, several decades. In and out, a couple weeks in and out. Yeah. That's how it always goes. And it's, of course, very illegal. There's been no congressional authorization of anything like this. They're not even trying to make the case. I don't, I haven't seen Trump on TV or any, you know, Miller in front of Congress with doc, like diagrams or whatever. Oh, they haven't even like, they barely talk about this. Right. Every, like, every, like, five months is like nuclear deal.

It's like, okay, what like what the other's just doing it. They seem to know now that they can just kind of do it and not talk about it and have all this sort of motion in play and then just Congress will allow it. Yeah, they definitely feel invincible and at least like in the run up to the Iraq war, there was obviously an effort to like sell the American people, which was largely successful at first. Yeah. And I don't think many people were surprised when it happened. And I think if this happens,

it will take most of the country off guard. Like they, most people do not know that there is this huge buildup of military units very close to Iran, that it would be this joint operation with Israel that would cause mass destruction and who knows how many deaths for some unclear purpose given that Trump a couple of months ago said that Iran's nuclear facilities had been completely and totally obliterated. So if that, if you were so successful then, what's, what are we doing? We got to be more successful. We got to win more. We got to be the more successful ones. Yeah, because if also if they did attempt to do sort of an Iraq war type situation, it wouldn't go as well or smoothly as it did the first time or that time.

Are you saying it wouldn't go as smoothly as the Iraq war did? As the lead up to the Iraq war. I assume it would go just as smoothly as the Iraq war. But the lead up sort of like the process of convincing the nation and doing all the sort of stuff. I feel like if they even attempted to do that, it just wouldn't land the same way. Obviously, it's a different era, but also, and they're like different factions of like anti-war sentiment and stuff everywhere. But also they are so bad at this kind of thing. I think if they tried to make the case, it would kind of fall flat of their face and they would look, it would be obvious what they're trying to do. So they're just going to do it. And that, they'll get away with that part. I don't know if they would have gotten away with trying to be like, we got to go with this, this, this, this. this, this, you know? Yeah, I mean, I think there could be mass outrage from this because, you know, some people on the right did not care about the no new wars thing and didn't really buy it, but a lot of people did. Would they immediately impeach and remove him from office like they should? No, but I, the things are just going so poorly for them right now in terms of public opinion.

Right, I guess it's just like throw everything who cares now. We might as well do what we want if all of our advisors are telling us we're toast in November regardless of the shenanigans we try to pull we're kind of toast you're a lame duck might as well do the thing now and then if it happens that it goes well that you don't kill thousands of people that there is regime change and whatever rises from the ashes is good for the Iranian people as we would all hope it is

there's like a shot in the dark that I would get praise for this. It's the one chance, yeah, yeah. And it would distract from maybe some other stories that are going on in the news, maybe some other things that are being released and not released and re-released and re-released and unredacted and re-redacted and so on. Maybe the timing is really, really, really good for them to do something like this. Are you talking about his big board of peace meeting today that it would distract from...

I was talking about the board of peace, yep. Yeah. Yeah. We need to distract from the big board of peace that I believe is getting just 10 billion dollars he it's very strange because the board of peace is not like a united states government organization it's a thing that trump the guy started in kind of didn't do anything and so now he's there with all these world leaders kissing his ass and then he's like i am taking 10 billion dollars and putting it in a board of peace slush fund which i will run forever like i'm running the

Board of Peace even when I'm done being president, but he can't, I mean, I don't know what else to say. That's not how money works in America. Like he does it. Like, what's he going to do? I know people are like, well, he doesn't care about the law, but like, is he

going to sit at a computer? He's going to be like, transfer all the money. Get it over there. I guess he'll call Elon and be like, remember when you said that people create money on computers, go to the money creation computer, which you pretended that you discovered isn't how money works.

Yeah. And give the Board of Peace $10 billion for what? Crypto? I don't know. Do we? I mean... I assume to, honestly, to take the money eventually, right?

Yeah, I mean, obviously. For him, it's for the money. It's to have more of the money. I get it the money. Or to like, yeah, or invest in like a Trump fucking shit over there, right? Like, it's just for him and having the money. doing the things he likes to do with the money. You have it mostly.

Social Trump, crypto, Trump piece. I'm sure he'll sell Trump piece merch or something. Ooh, I don't want that. No, no, who does? I don't want to watch much from the Board of Peace, but I would love to watch J.D. Vance's introductory joke. Yeah, it was solid. You know, listen, as someone who's done comedy, worked in comedy for a while,

far be it from me to like trash another comedian's intro it's tough enough in this business but maybe you know we'd have some notes these like these crowdwork clips are an epidemic there's too many of these going around

yeah yeah all right here we go thank you mr president very much for your leadership but also for the kind words about me personally I knew exactly what I wanted to say but then after the president said that I was so smart and that I didn't want to repeat our congresswoman who froze for 20 seconds over in Munich. Now I'm tempted, sir, just to freeze for 20 seconds

and just stare at the cameras and maybe they'll say nice things about me like they do about Congresswoman Cortez. But... So, I mean, they loved it. The crowd there ate it up. Yeah, you can tell. I mean, the room is electric.

He had them eating out of his stubby little hand. The joke is, I thought about freezing here because the media praises Congresswoman Congresswoman Cortez he says You know what her name is Dude but they praise her for stumbling at the beginning of her Answer about China and Taiwan so maybe if he did that He'd get praise but also he said that he was being complimented for not doing

that right like he was so but then he's like so I should do it. I think. I mean, if that was a scripted line in that way, then it's not your fault. Fire the speechwriter. Hopefully he wrote it and hopefully he can fire himself. Yeah.

Then we're done with all this. Never do jokes again, never tweet again. Just show up on Fox News and talk to the friends, the friends on the news. Yeah, just talk to just like be a podcast guy. Go do your thing. No, wait. Don't. I hate when he does that. Just don't do anything, actually, I think would be the solution for him.

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We've done your homework. Prince Andrew was arrested this morning. Speaking of things we need you be distracted from by doing war, yeah, he's arrested. for his for his horrific behavior yeah it's almost shocking to see even the attempt at accountability for someone very deep in epstein's orbit who has been accused of so so many crimes like the only there's only a few people in our country the united states that really parallel in the epstein files, Andrew Mountbatten, Windsor's, evil proclivities.

One of them being the president, and then a couple other folks. Wait, the president of the United States? Oh, yeah, yeah. He's in, they, you know, they go the way back. They, like, had an email exchange, maybe one or two. Yeah. They're not like, he's not like, he's not like his best friend of a decade. They don't share, like, a wonderful secret. Yeah.

Or something like that. Not every day, certainly. They don't every day share another wonderful. secret and once he was arrested uh prince andrew that is um his older brother the king uh king charles the third go on put out a statement being like hey them's the brakes bro the law must take its course i mean it's astounding to think about what the parallel would be in the u.s um obviously Prince Andrew is not sitting the throne himself. Trump being arrested for the same crimes

of Prince Andrew is accused of would be a much bigger deal. Andrew already having been what cast out of royal duties. Been a black sheep for a long time. Maybe if like Clinton got arrested. I was going to say Bill Clinton would be the closest maybe. Just his connection to like those positions of power but not literally in them anymore. also like we know

you know it's not like oh maybe they didn't know each other like it's very clear what's going on it would be very very bizarre if that happened but it's the kind of thing that you wish would and not just in this case

obviously this is very important for accountability and justice for all these people who are in power still but it's the kind of thing like imagining this happening to pretty much anybody in these positions about anything is hard to do.

It would be as shocking as if you woke up and checked the news and it said Elon Musk arrested for a robotaxy fraud. He could. He has lied about that. They've broken the law many, many times over. Or the election stuff

like doing the fake lottery that he did for the election. Anything like that. Any of the things. A fantastical scenario. To wake up and see the news like, oh, we could just arrest Elon Musk for the crime he did would be shocking. Yeah, you can't do that here. I woke up and the first news story I saw was Prince Andrew and the second I saw was that the former South Korean president, Yunsook-Yil, got convicted and sentenced to life in prison for insurrection for when he declared martial law illegally not a year and a half ago.

and they just said, nope, we're not doing that here. You are out, you're convicted, you're going to jail. We are pretty pathetic over here. It is pretty shameful. Yeah. You can just do that.

You can just arrest, you can just charge people in power with crimes than they do. Even if they're rich and powerful, if they do one of those crimes, if they do like a sedition against the country, try to overthrow the government. Just like crimes like sedition, yeah.

God, what could have been? I mean, we'd probably have a shitty president now or whatever if we'd done that, but it would have been really great. Just 2021 was all about trying and convicting the former president for the crime of trying to overthrow the federal government of the United States. Or we could drag our heels and then he could run again. And then we forget about all the bad stuff he did. Forget about it.

We all knew. We all remembered. I would love to see who the South Korean Merrick Garland is. And if he had a chance to meet our Merrick Garland, he could be like, you guys really screwed up royally. Look what I did. I decided to prosecute the guy. Because you can do that. Yeah.

Did you not know you could do that? Yeah. You're the attorney general. You're the attorney general. You can do the, you know, you're the top process. Do you have like weird laws that make it so you can do that? Make it so you can't actually do that? No, we're just a corporate oligarchy type of thing, and we don't do that over here.

It's a political decision. It's more of a cultural political decision. Maybe one day. One day. This is the year. You know what? Let's go back to our prediction episode from the first of the year. That guy's going to jail.

Oh, the South Korean president? No, Trump. Trump's his prison. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's going, calling it. This year, he'll be in jail. Yep. Wow.

That would require. For crimes we don't even know about. None of those things that we think. I mean, I think he'd have to be impeached, removed from office, and then that day he commits an egregious crime. He's like, shoot a guy in the street. Yeah. Well, what do I got to lose now? Shoot someone.

It's like, well, you're not the president anymore. You don't have immunity from this. We think. We think. No? No immunity from shooting the person when you're not the president. We got to wait a couple years to find out if we can do that. And then we get to find out everything.

They're like, oh, no, he's had a, he's been peeing into a bag. whatever for years now. Finally. The truth. Yeah. Yeah. So that's good news that they arrested the guy. Yeah.

One of them. One of them. Got one. Zero Americans yet. Maybe there will be more information from that to come out about maybe other people who are involved. There's this news. I haven't even read this yet because this came out while we were recording.

But the top story on the New York Times now is Epstein built ties to U.S. customs officers prompting criminal investigation. Epstein cultivated friendly relationships with several customs officers in the U.S. Virgin Islands offering food advice and even musical gigs. Every

every villain of our present is connected to Epstein somehow. Like you're, oh, CBP was like doing illegal stuff with Epstein, you say? Okay. Good reporting.

You got there. It's every, It's all of them. Every day there's a new, like, oh, yeah, like in 2016, he was having all these dinners with Peter Thiel. Oh, yeah, 2018, all these dinners with Peter Thiel specifically. And it's just quite something that nobody, even today, you see so many people like, this is no, stop thinking about it.

This is no big deal. We don't care. We don't care anymore. We're over this. We're over these files. I'm even willing to believe that they didn't all know it was going on, that there wasn't one huge conspiracy. They're like, oh, Epstein's controlling everything.

And we're all doing it. Like, no, I, like, these guys just wanted to go to the wildest parties. These guys just wanted favors from this kind of thing. But, like, it's, it's Forrest Gump-esque. It is like a TV show that everything somehow is connected. Everything for the last, like, 25 years that is evil that has happened, has somehow connected back to this guy. Yeah, it seems like, yeah, he's.

just like that was part of his goal right like hands in as much pools of power as possible um make all those connections and make that network he apparently was like charming to some people and so he was able to do that with all these different types of people um even after notably years after he was convicted originally i keep seeing people like excuse that or like try to to lie about like well this they didn't know or like oh he begged them and whatever it's like no this is like in 2016 these meetings were happening in 2018 these meetings

were still happening they didn't care everybody like by then everybody knew for sure and yeah nobody cares well shall we move on to this hockey rink

shooting yeah this is a really tragic story that it now has to be dragged down into the online right humiliating itself. But there was a mass shooting at a youth hockey game in Rhode Island this week. The shooter appeared to target their ex-wife and adult son and a few family members.

Two killed, three injured. The shooter reportedly took their own life. And then, of course, immediately the online right becomes ecstatic because it appears. it appears that the shooter is a trans woman. You know, we got people like Matt Walsh saying that, you know, the trans violence we've seen so far is nothing compared to what's coming, saying that they've been completely vindicated in all the horrible shit that they've been saying. Then maybe hours after this like victory lap is going on,

we find out that this person was also a Nazi Trump supporter who said they were to the right of Hitler, had SS Nazi tattoos and a history of bad temper irrelevant it's all irrelevant

a troubled human being who committed an egregious crime while a lot of the online right kind of backed off when I was a Nazi big Trump supporter like clearly Trump supporter too not in the way

I found this guy who don't here or this or this no it's like very very no no they didn't have to look on whatever the donations thing they like I hacked act blue and I found a donation to yeah yeah a history of tweets and defending being uh both trans and maga which is something that I don't think most people would be able to do no this person is just a a far right Nazi and the Matt walshs of the world are just ignoring that and continuing on their crusade to demonize trans people. Just a really kind of sad

state of affairs and I single out Walsh specifically because he's like giddy, he's like happy. Oh yeah. He pretends he's like scared that there's all this violence coming but he's happy. He doesn't care.

He just needs his like way to attack and he is dancing up and down whenever something like this happens so that he can do. what he's doing right now. And some of these posts are, I mean, it's kind of exactly what you would expect, you know, mass shooter or not from the online right, just like not even surprising to have someone casually dropped 1488's, you know, to the right of Hitler multiple times.

Proudly, no shame, just like this is out, all this is out in the open nowadays. welcomed on specifically that website. Multiple replies replying almost every day to DC Drano. Like completely embedded in your world. When I say you're, I mean like Matt Walsh's world. I don't know if Matt Walsh knows DC Drano or whatever, but like, come on, you guys are, you guys are swimming in the same pool here. This is Elon's big party that he's throwing.

He's thrown a big Nazi party online and everybody is invited specifically the Nazis and most of them arrive for the party. Elon replies to a literal Nazi every day now. The same Nazi he gave a million dollars to or different? A different Nazi probably. Maybe the same sometimes, but he's got a wide range of Nazis he can reply to a lot of different kinds of avatars out there. And he will just reply with a thumbs up or a wow or this is important or like look at

the white races and etc. and so forth, and it's just all normal now. I think, I don't know if this is, if I'm ready to go with a full prediction now that this is a predictions episode, because Elon bought X on Twitter several years ago, kind of ruined it in many ways, promotes conservative white supremacist hate-filled content to the top of it. Advertisers left and came back,

but it is still the place where, like, the journalists and, commentators are there's you know there's been a migration to blue sky maybe the maybe is it threads I haven't I haven't been on threads but maybe they've migrated to threads I think I'm ready to predict that this year is when engagement on that way on X really just starts to dissipate because of the cultural losses the right is taking continuing to take yeah like the the flopping of all this kid rock stuff the people's

like genuine distaste that the White House accounts are run by a bunch of weird online Nazi frees all the nasty memes that they post all the callous disgusting shit it is like a genuine turnoff to maybe a normal person who still

is on this website even the you know the Erica Kirk stuff all the posts Charlie Kirk like pageantry and everything. Everything is just a huge, huge turnoff for them. And I'll accept that prediction. I accept. But I will say that when that happens,

he's just going to flood it with bots. He's just going to boost engagement artificially and pretend like everything is fine. And then, you know, make a post like, oh, we're actually upping revenue for posting. it's 10 extra dollars or whatever it is and he'll pick somebody and give them a million dollars maybe they'll be a Nazi

and that will get and get oh I can make a million dollars if I post or he'll just make it I mean it's going to be polymarket probably like it's going to be it's all these people he's like why am I going to let everyone jump off my site to because these are the same people going from X to vote to bet on Kalshi or whatever you just do it you can you can tell your developers or whatever Grock, hey, build the thing

where people can bet. They're already using us as their bank, right? Are they? Is anyone? I don't know if they're doing that yet, but yeah. Has the ex-bank launched? Yeah, that was a big thing. They keep talking about it.

Now, no, now it's just upload your medical records, not your banking information, so they'll build up to that. What was that in response to? I'll find it so we can put it up on screen, but, oh, it was literally just, I think, I mean, the original post

was Musk saying like, upload your medical information and you can get a diagnosis or upload your x-rays or whatever. Somebody responded and tagged GROC and GROC was like, don't do that. I'm not, I'm not HIPA compliant. You shouldn't be doing that. That's like dangerous to do with your data. Upload your like X-rays and we'll see what we'll see what the, just give it to me. We'll see what Mecca Hitler has to say about it. Yeah. Even like Sam Altman's been like, you know, you don't have confidentiality when you talk with chat, GPT. Rock is like, I am not your doctor. Like, I know.

You're responsible to do that. Like, it's like how the Trump administration always says a different thing in court when they have to tell the truth than they say on TV. And Elon doesn't know like, no, no, no, this is the TV thing that you say like, oh, yes, it's going to be better than your doctor. But like, in reality, it's like, no. You can't say that. Don't say that. No, obviously don't do that. Let me see if I'm up to date on the CBS, Stephen Colbert, James.

Tala Rico Saga. CBS, more like Colbert's BS. Oh, wow. I saw... Take that. I saw on a blue sky, someone's like, everyone, I call CBS the censorship broadcasting systems, you know, 10,000 likes. I was like, how do I get on the blue sky with just these 10 people that I like and

not the blue sky? That's just like, the orange felons going down today, six American flags. there's no good website is what I'm saying like I like blue sky because I still see the people with the takes I like and it helps me prepare for this show and get the news and does the things but it's not what I would want for my to do the dopamine. Oh yeah if you like had your choice of like a leisurely website to enjoy it wouldn't be either of them right now. If I could have my choice of leisurely websites to enjoy, I wouldn't go on social media at all. I'd have the good websites back. You'd have the good websites back, exactly. But we don't have those.

Okay. Quickest version I can do of this. Stephen Colbert conducted an interview with Texas Senate candidate James Tala Rico, but he couldn't air it, or at least he said he couldn't air it because CBS lawyers told him that they couldn't air it because of the equal time rule, which says that if you have a candidate and you give them time to talk about it. it you got to give equal time to other candidates in that race. There has long been an exemption for talk shows, but FCC chair Brendan Carr is like, maybe we get rid of that. And he already admitted that they're doing an investigation into the view also for having James Tala Rico on and not having Jasmine Crockett or Ken Paxton or whoever on. So Colbert puts the Tala Rico interview on his YouTube page, which does great.

It gets like millions and millions of views is seen by way more people than it would have been seen by on the late show, which does not have six, seven, eight, any of the years of night. But CBS disputes Colbert's version of events saying that the late show was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview with James Tala Rico, which is true. I don't think they're lying. The show provided legal guidance that the broadcast could trigger the FCC equal time rule, and we gave ideas for how that could be fulfilled. And Colbert's like, fine, I get that. But, like, I've never had to be pulled aside and told this before. I've had Jasmine Crockett on the show before.

It seems like you guys are just worried about a potential investigation that has not been announced and is not happening for a rule that hasn't yet been changed. What the hell? Yeah. It's obvious chilling effect. stuff that was going on and he reacted to that conversation of being pulled aside. But yeah, I had this lawyer conversation that telling me that maybe this is like not a good idea.

And the back and forth is really, uh, it's just kind of a mess. And it's very clear that it wasn't banned, but it was suggested that they shouldn't do it because the FCC clearly has these plans. I do wish that like Tala RICO, uh, wasn't going around or texting me saying, did you see my band interview on Colbert? It's very annoying. And I know it's effective.

I'm sure he's raised a ton of money from this. But, and, you know, I'm sure Tala Rico has a me on his team. Like, well, may, actually, you should say that it was not censored, but they suggested a TBS, the lawyers that I could make the equal timer, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, I get it. I get you can't do that. But also it wasn't banned. But it was, yeah, exactly.

I understand it's politics and stuff But it is I find it pretty off-putting Like there's even a video of him like talking to camera being like CBS banned my interview You can watch it here and yeah I need money blah blah blah It's like they didn't ban it man There is a chilling effect going on and they are They do have clear intentions

And they also it seems pretty clear That the GOP generally Really wants Jasmine Crockett to Be the candidate for the Democrats. I mean, there was reporting there, some various polling organizations that really, really pushed, like Republican polling groups that really pushed her before she announced she was running.

And this does seem like a thing to sort of gin up a lot of like fervor about like, oh my God, they banned him. But like, and Colbert doesn't want like this woman to be on. And sort of like creating this, this tension between these candidates that is maybe a, a little unnecessary, but, um, yeah, I mean, I guess it's a good sign in that typically in a Texas Senate race, they wouldn't care who the candidate is because they know the Democrats going to lose and they're a little bit concerned, I guess especially if Ken Paxton is the, uh,

candidate, they would want Paxton to go up against, uh, Crockett because they don't think she can win and they think Tala Rico might beat him. Uh, I, I mean, I don't know. I don't live in Texas. I'm not voting in that race, so I don't really have a general thought about who I really hope gets it and pushes it through. Obviously, it would be great if Blexus finally happens. We've been hearing about it for like 25 years. I think they're a little bit scared. I think they're trying to play things as best they can. But also, Brendan Carr's trying to act, again, like this is a big victory for him because he was tweeting or something like, oh, this was such a great day at work when this was going on. But also, it's a weird thing even for CBS to be like, hey,

you know, he might target you with this because Brendan Carr is just famous for having a huge loss to another late night show. Like a few months ago, he had to like fold in the face of Jimmy Kimmel staying on the air. Like that was his big victor who's getting Jimmy Kimmel off and it didn't work. And so now you're going to go after Colbert, who's, show might not be very popular, but Colbert is kind of a beloved figure. It's very galvanizing. Whenever this happens, even if it's like, oh, they didn't really ban you. Well, they are trying to do these things, and we shouldn't let it happen.

And they canceled your show to kiss ass to Trump. And now Trump has signaled, I guess, that he's going to shut down Netflix's bid for Warner Brothers, and Paramount, Skydance Paramount is going to get it. which would give them CBS and CNN and all, you know, like the Warner Brothers Library. Like they're going to, they're going to censor Daffy Duck, as if Warner Brothers hasn't censored Daffy Duck recently. They're going to make Space Jam 3. It's, I don't know how we haven't really talked about this on the show that much because

Paramount and the Ellison's leave such a bad taste in my mouth that I find myself rooting for Netflix, even though I think Netflix owning Warner Brothers would be horrible for all involved. But like, it's like our, these are our pretty poor options. It's just like every, so many times

it's like, okay, that would suck. But that would suck in like the normal world that sucks. Then there's this other option. It's like, well then you give it all to this one guy who's way like worse. You know, there's many, many reasons why. it would be bad.

So I'm not just talking about the surface level theatrical stuff, but I do still think that Netflix would put a new Batman movie in theaters for a couple weeks. Like you'd still be able to see the new Batman on IMAX. You're not going to just be forced to watch it on your phone in bed. If you watch it in the first couple weeks otherwise. If you watch it, right. But that's what, like, we've talked about this before.

Netflix thinks I have terrible taste and I don't want to watch their good movies because I see them in the theaters. Good luck to everybody. Good luck to Texas. We're not gonna we maybe we'll dig into that race a little more when Katie's back. Let's talk about another dumb guy. Oh, J.D. Vance again? I mean, sure. He's part of this, I'm sure.

Yeah, I bet he's actually sharing the thing we're gonna talk about and saying how many awards it needs to get. Nick Shirley, the investigative journalist YouTube prank guy. We addressed this in an episode of some more news that came out, I guess, two days ago, if you're watching this on Friday, we talk about Nick Shirley a little bit, and we don't talk about his origins that much because it's more about what he's doing now,

and we kind of sort of hand wave away his YouTube presence. But I do think it's relevant for any video you see from him, from now on, to understand that Nick Shirley, about, I guess, five to six years ago, before he was doing propaganda for the Trump regime was making videos, and I'm going to pull it up some of the first videos he made. All caps. 16-year-old flies to New York without telling parents,

sneaking into Jake Paul's wedding, not clickbait. Is that him? He's the 16-year-old. He was flying without his mommy and daddy. And the next video is exploring New York City in 24 hours alone. acting blind in public prank So we acts blind in public Pretty funny stuff from Nick Shirley Fake paparazzi prank on celebrities Awesome, we get to bother people for a living

Sneaking into exclusive Hollywood party Again bothering people Fake delivery man prank on Logan Paul and hype house So this is who we're talking about This is his origin The kind of stuff that he wanted to be doing with his life and the approach he had to content, to making videos, to going out in public and interacting with people

was, I would say, generally, acting blind in public prank is who Nick Shirley is. Who's he pranking, just the people who walk by? Just people who walk by? The blind? I'm going to be honest, Jonathan, I didn't watch it. I didn't even click on it. I saw it and I was like, well, that adds up.

There we go. But yeah, I assume he walks around and he's like, oh, I'm blind. I'm bumping into stuff because that's what blind people do, right? Why don't you help me, bro? Oh, you don't like blind people? Like, whoa, won't you help me? That's good stuff. Yeah.

I'd watch that. Comedy. So this guy, years later, has evolved into a right-wing propagandist for the dumbest fucking people in the world. He's exposing voter fraud. He exposed so much, well, he exposed, sorry, daycare fraud in Minneapolis. all the daycare fraud, which is partially the reason why thousands of federal agents had to go there and terrorize people. He's got a new video where he's exposing voter fraud in California.

Voter pod? Because he found that dog. Yeah, he found a dog. A woman who registered a dog to vote, which she did, I guess, to expose flaws in the voting system. And the dog successfully voted once. In one election, but not the next one. Yeah, tried to vote again. and they were like, no, this is a dog or whatever.

And it was a Republican woman, and she was charged with felonies. And then she, like, turned, like, turned herself in after she was, yeah. But that was, so that was reported more than a year ago already. This is, again, we mentioned this in the episode. Nick Shirley, much like Doge, does this thing. It was like, well, I found this fraud. No, you are recounting fraud that has already been. You Googled or chat GPT or whatever people do.

Found this example. It's Nick Shirley. He's grocking it, let's be fair. We're gonna watch a brief clip of this other video, and maybe we wanna blur the other man's face in here because Nick Shirley does not, but this elderly man does not ask to be a part of this at all.

This is him accusing someone of having a... Well, we'll watch the clip, and then we'll watch the clip, and then we'll read the caption because I think... Well, we'll read the caption first, and we'll play it, and then we'll read the caption again. Okay. So, caption, here is a prime example of California's messed up voter role.

This lady is registered as 125 years old and has no idea She is 80 years old and has apparently voted in 55 elections Yet she has no idea Do you not see the problem? We're gonna watch this clip and I will expect to see an 80 year old woman Who has no idea that she's voted 55 times Yeah, can't wait Alright, so let's say he's named Virginia

She's a hundred and twenty five years old She's voted over 55 times and she's active on the voter rolls here in California let's see if she's home hi how's it going sir doing good no I'm cooking okay well I'll be quick I'm just looking for Virginia 125 years old 125 years old yeah she's registered to vote at this location right here is Virginia here yeah but she ain't no hundred and twenty five years old really how old is Virginia then 80 80 well here on the state of California. She's a hundred and twenty five years old and she's voted in 55 elections.

Nope. Is there another Virginia? No, not here. Virginia? 10-4. There's only one in the whole world. Only one in the whole world. I hope she's voting good because so she's not 125? No. No. Well, is Virginia doing good at least? So, so. No, she's a year younger than me. And I'm 82. Say, go tell Newsom. She ain't 125.

She 81. Okay. Awesome. You do that. How good one. So that's a clerical error that appears to be. Yeah, it's very clear. This much like when Nick Shirley was walking through a hallway of businesses and was like,

why are all these businesses in this hallway? Because he doesn't understand like they're like buildings that have like multiple companies that rent out space to operate. And many of them would be like. like the same industry, like it'd be a bunch of healthcare companies in the same hallway. And he's like, what, isn't that interesting? What are we doing about that? Much like that.

He just doesn't understand stuff. Obviously, he doesn't really understand speaking very well. But if she's 125, it's important to know. So like what year would you say it is right now? What year? 2026 currently. Okay. So last year was 2025, right?

Yeah, sure. That makes sense. So 125-year-old would. probably be born. As he shows in the video, 1900 is the year. So as you said, it's a clerical error. The value was probably left blank by her, or some sort of, like, I don't know how the paperwork

was processed. And it defaulted, the null value defaulted to the year 1900, making her 125 on that record. It is just a clerical error. She's not like doing fraud. Also, if she is 81,

which he, which Nick Shirley seems to believe she is. If she voted in 55 elections, that's not weird. Well, because there's more than elections every four years. Do you think he knows that? I don't think he does. I think he thinks that when she voted in 55 elections,

I think that he thinks that she voted 55 times in like a few presidential elections. He doesn't realize there are elections every year. She could have been voting all this time and it makes perfect sense. It's just that it thinks. that the year was 1900 because of some sort of error. It's fine. What's he alleging that before Virginia was alive, because 80, she was born in 1945 or 46, whatever,

before then someone was voting as a person who was not yet, like, where's the fraud? Like, what is he saying that? Who's to say? Because if you were going to figure out a way to vote 55 times in the last, say three or four presidential elections, right? You're just hitting the button for Kamala over and over and over again. What does the being 125 have to do with it?

Like, how would that, right? Like, is he alleging that there was fraud in, to benefit Woodrow Wilson? It's super unclear. What are we talking about? Or, like, are you saying that, like, she's just, like, a fake person? Like, because no one's 125, and he's like, oh, I discovered she's a real person, but she's only 80.

So yeah, those like 40 years I'm not worried about anymore, but it's really unclear because he doesn't know. He's just going door to door doing his prank stuff to bother people and posting this clip as if he discovered anything. One could call it harassment that he's harassing people using the voter rolls to do so. Yeah, he is doing that. It's weird that he has the voter rolls. He shouldn't have those people's information. Also, I just, like, I just don't want that particular person to have that access. He's just a harasser.

That's what he does. I recognize that some information is public, but not to you. No, you shouldn't be getting that information. I'm sorry. Also, we have to go back because she is 80 years old and has apparently voted in 55 elections, yet she has no idea. Thank you. This is obviously the whole video is absurd But the caption

She's apparently voted in 55 elections Has no idea Nick, she's not in the video She's not in the video You didn't talk to her You have no idea if she thinks She voted in 55 elections Which would be fine

Because she's old enough to have done that Because we have more than One election every four years But also You didn't demonstrate That she doesn't know That she voted in those elections Because she's not in the video

Yeah You talked to who I assume is her husband, and he was way too polite to you. No, he, like, accommodating. He understandably closed the door in your face because you didn't, like, because he is like, who are you? What are you with?

And then he tries to be buddy, buddy, and be like, tell Newsom she's not 125. Tell Newsome. Okay, man. Fuck out of here. You, you clawed. Oh, absurd. just a perfect example of who he is and what he's doing

and I think the vibes are slowly arriving at this guy's full of shit and stupid and I hope that continues because he is you know it's interesting that because because his previous video about Minneapolis J.D. Vance said he was doing better work than anyone who'd won the Pulitzer Prize last year he hasn't this one this one

came out Wednesday morning I guess Vance hasn't seen it yet he's been busy at them Jadie's like still beaming

after that joke hit really hard he's just like throwing himself a party's going home was like hey Usha they loved it

I was you know I was coming up here thank you Mr. President for those nice words and I was coming up here thinking maybe you know

speech is going to be given and I thought maybe is it possible like because you know others in serves of silence and stumbling that other people get real

real crowd life like laughter and they praise on the CNN so maybe I would just stand here and do my own my own Ocasio and be like do a silence here and if I my silence goes forward that would be that would be great

dude that's so good oh my God you did it better than him like it's already like a golden bit but like you you brought it all the way up here you elevated that shit man Oh my God, it's so good. Next week, we have to do an episode that's just one extended advanced telling of a joke. It's just him doing the Norm MacDonald.

It's going to be absolute torture. You're right. A moth joke. Hey, have you heard about this Ocasio Cortez? Yeah, you heard about her? Held up her hands. The silence was deafening. It was a, yeah, they thought it was a, they asked her about Taiwan.

They asked her They asked about Taiwan She didn't know what to say She got a little tough On the world stage there wasn't it Yeah Yeah Taiwan on you know

Taiwan off right We've talked about so many people today I don't like I know Oh Trump got Nazis We got A cast of characters

It's an ensemble world We didn't talk about Robert F Kennedy Jr's soaking with jeans and Kid Rock. Yeah, we don't need to show that because copyright reasons. Also, it's so embarrassing and bad and funny

and then embarrassing again. But yeah, go check out RFK Jr. and Kid Rock drinking whole milk in a pool while wearing jeans because that's cool. And it's important and everything's so stupid. I'd say if you either put on a bathing suit or if you don't have one, don't do the shot where you get in the jacuzzi.

Well, at this point, it's like a bit, I think. Like, he knows, like, everybody thinks it's silly that I wear jeans. I've been asked about it a lot, and I've explained that I usually do push-ups and pull-ups after hiking, and I hike in jeans or whatever his excuse was. So at this point, they know,

and they're, like, leaning into it, but there's this leaning into it, but not with the right kind of irony. Mm-hmm. That it's just, it's just kind of embarrassing. I also have a sub take to this, which is connected to how they're losing culturally. I think the nonstop videos of them like working out, like Hegseth is posting working out videos every day, RFK, all these guys, I think they're like, this is going to really connect to our podcast

bros. I don't think they recognize that most people will watch that and they'll think, must be nice. I have to work every day. I can't just stop to go to the gym and have a sauna and then shoot a fun little video with the rock star pretending to like. No, it comes off as very out of touch for working people who got jobs and stuff.

So there's like a disconnect between like the movement and what they actually are and represent. Like if like a like a like a like a like a like a working man's like populist lived in a tower of goals and was like it's that it's exactly that it's just it's so stupid they don't and then we did it again and we're like let's do it a second time let's make it it worse and stupider there's there's no twist to these videos it's just Pete Hegseth working out I don't want to see it I don't care that you can do the pull-ups I'm at the airport now yeah I'd so prefer

that you do the pull-ups to your actual job where you're committing war crimes and it's atrocities. At least do it like in your office in a way it's like, I'm so busy all the time at my job that I do. And I'm gonna do push-ups like under my desk or whatever because my desk is huge.

But like, what are you? They just don't, they're really floundering. Yet they're still in power. So I guess it doesn't really matter that it seems like they're floundering. For now. For now. We got to have Katie inject a shred of humanity

Bring us down to Earth Because I hate these guys I know But people are good and decent And we are all connected Yeah And there was a cool picture from space Of a solar system

You can see the planets and the star That was really cool What awe we must feel They're gonna declassify All the alien stuff now Because Obama Spilled the beings And Trump was like, oh.

He shouldn't have said that. Well, like, yeah, sure, whatever. But. And then he went on to his whole answer where there's, we don't have aliens. There's no alien. Yeah. Trump should have heard that part before he said, oh, no, all the classified information has been released. Yeah.

He's like, well, he shouldn't have said that. He made a big mistake revealing the classified information. No, no, sir. He was just giving his general opinion about aliens. Uh, uh, you know what we should do? A war. So if you say, oh, Oswald Acton alone, there's no other JFK stuff there, is that classified? The official word from the government is we haven't had contact with aliens.

But saying that is classified? Yeah, everything's classified, except from him. He can say whatever he wants. No, well, he is unclassifying. He declassifies it by speaking. They're all just, they're all aliens. They're all weird alien people. Yeah.

Can't connect to single human being in the world. It's like the men in black screen where it's like Michael Douglas, oh, I knew it or whatever. Yeah. Nanny, nanoo. That's from alien stuff, right? Yeah, that's what he says. Yeah.

That's what he does. Yeah. When Michael Douglas is like nanu, nanoo in men and black. Yeah. It's a great scene. You know what, folks, I think we've accomplished quite a bit today. I think we've got through a lot of news. I think sugar water.

Yeah, a lot of sugar water. We wore a lot of Edgar suits. DeNofreone and Edgar suit. We found a lot of Orion's belts. And we talked about a lot of news. We can probably assume that Katie will be back next week, next episode. But we don't know. We'll see how the power internet situation works.

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