The Ben and Emil Show - BAES 105: Did Israel Just Start WW3??

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

Israel has bombed Iran and is trying to drag the United States into it. Netanyahu says they're closer than ever to building a nuclear bomb. Is he full of crap? Is WW3 about to kick off? Oh plus we talk about the absolute joke failure of an Army parade that happened over the weekend. Give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it! And please leave us a comment! It helps us! That's Cringe of Cody Ko: https://youtu.be/dTbEk0pVh2w Our PORTLAND VIDEO IS OUT! https://youtu.be/qX4pks0ASq8 Sign up to watch and support the show at https://benandemilshow.com ***LINK TO OUR DISCORD: https://discord.gg/CjujBt8g ***Subscribe to Emil's Substack: https://substack.com/@emilderosa ***Trade with Ben at https://tradertreehouse.com Our episode with *Kyla Scanlon*: https://youtu.be/cIHWkY35cuc Big Tech is out of ideas (ft. ED ZITRON): https://youtu.be/zBvVGHZBpMw Arguing with a millionaire (ft. Chris Camillo): https://youtu.be/1ZUWTkWV_MM We bought suits HERE: https://youtu.be/_cM1XqA9n2U __ CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE: Head over to https://bit.ly/EVraffleBenandEmil for your chance to win a Rivian R1T or R1S, a Lucid Gravity or Air, OR a Porsche Macan EV or Taycan - YOU CHOOSE! SHOPIFY: Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at https://shopify.com/baes MUD/WTR: Start your new morning ritual and get up to 43$ off your  @MUDWTR  with code BAES at https://mudwtr.com/baes #mudwtrpod __ This episode was edited by Connor Rousseau / @ conrad_roussrad Follow us on instagram! @ benandemilshow @ bencahn @ emilderosa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're talking about the two most sociopathic people in the history of the world. Yeah. It was a bad deal. We got ripped off. Trump was going to get us a better deal. Because Obama did it. Probably because he's the real negotiator daddy. He was saying, like, I talked to. We had nothing to do it.

I talked to Israel, and I don't want them doing anything. And then the bombs start flying. He's like, actually, this rocks. I'm choking you. Hey, dude, you got to stop. Why don't you make a deal with me? Make a deal. Make a deal.

Make a deal. Make a deal. Make a deal. We do this Thursday. those of both Booker Buster bulbs. And he just wants more and more. And these people want you to think you are at risk. This has nothing to do with you,

especially when so many people have lived through this and lived through the lies and heard the same script over and over and over again. The lucky thing is it does feel like right now people are not falling for this. Oh yeah, no, not at all. Not true. Someone can just go, you actually said that in 95, 96, 2006, 2008.

What a dystopia, dude. You've got hashtag F1 the movie turning on Twitter. normalization thing. Yeah, I hope to God that that's the cause of my chronic dandruff because I don't know what to do anymore, people. Tabada. Tabada. Um, Tabada. Um, Tabada.

We'll be here today. We'll be here, Tabada. Beep heads are about to feast. Oh. Oh. I'm not, no, no, I'm not. Welcome back. Oh, boy.

Yeah, it's going to be a big welcome back from me, my guy. It's going to be a huge shout out to everybody out there. Um, stop me if you don't want me to do this. Stop. But I'd like to. give my sincerest apologies to one Miss Taylor Lorenz for my comments last week

I don't know where that came from I'm sorry to everybody out there who whose comments I replied to and was really aggressive sorry about that I love you all very much Yeah if you want a little peek behind the curtain

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And we deserve it. We deserve it to us. We're like Jerry Connolly. We, you know, we've been in Congress this whole time, but, and sure,

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that's just the way it goes sometimes. Sometimes I'm lucky. I also want to give a quick, huge shout out to the gentleman who was out front of my apartment last week. Huge shout out to the people out front of remember his name. I'm so sorry. I was very sleepy weepy. And I walked up and he went, oh, oh, oh, oh. And I went, what's going on? Hello? And he was like, I love the show. And I said, oh, okay, okay. I thought that he was wigging out because for some of the reason. That wasn't actually Ben's apartment. That was, uh, it's a secret. He lives in a different place. It just looked like an apartment building. But it wasn't actually. Huge shout out to the guy at the restaurant. I ate on Friday. you ate at a guy and we sat at the bar

and he said I know you you're from the Ben and Emile show wow I got one at Checker Hall last week also shout out to Checker Hall the gentleman at Checker Hall who walked past

yeah we're veritable celebrities we get recognized here and there I have to tell you I'm like so there's this joke that we do an episode and then somehow

bigger news happens as we record the episode and it happens so regularly that at this point be I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure anyone watching is aware of the kind of precarious situation maybe the world is in right now so I feel like I'm in some kind of final destination like situation where I don't know if we just keep recording the big event can't happen and and I don't know we maybe won't be thrust

into some kind of awful situation which brings us into what this episode is covering. We are talking all about Israel attacking Iran, what it means, what's happening, why it's happening, the insanity that is Benjamin Netanyahu, everything that Donald Trump has tweeted today that's bananas. And yeah, all of that shit. So it's going to be a, it's going to be a, hopefully, Remember when the show used to be funny? Yeah. Well, remember when fun things used to happen? Yeah, remember when the world was kind of just fun? Yeah. The world's, yeah, there's always bad shit.

What gives me hope is hearing from old heads, unks, if you will, who say, oh, man, you should have been there in the 70s. It felt like the world was ending or the Cold War, whatever, yeah. It's like, it felt like we were going to die any day. And it's like, okay, all right, I guess everybody, every generation goes through their thing. but this feels different, doesn't it? It also feels like things just got rapidly and progressively worse after the 70s. Yeah. We got Reagan, everything was privatized.

The FAA. The FAA. I mean, he got the air traffic controllers. And then we just, I mean, any millennial who's lived through all of these things has just got nothing but constant war, financial crisis, recession. So if I see a motherfucker tell me the 70s was fucked up, I'll fucking kill you. Well, so let's put on our happy faces and start with the Army parade, shall we? It was pathetic. It was fucking stupid.

There was no, I thought that it was going to be showcasing all kinds of cool new tech. Well, that's how it was told to us. Anyone who was freaked out about it was like, oh, great. So we're basically an authoritarian regime, how we're doing a military parade. like, I don't know, China, Russia, North Korea. Turns out, no, we're not, because those are sick when they do it. Okay, I've seen the clips. They can march.

A lot of people were posting the clips because ours were pathetic. And it's like, okay, if you're going to do it, at least do that. I saw one clip. I couldn't find it, but I saw one where there's hardly anybody in the stands and there's just one pathetic little tank. I mean, it's like a squeaking wheel. It's like a World War II era tank. But it's still, it's going by and she's just going, eagle, eagle, eagle, eagle, eagle, eagle,

It's just... It's so good. It's so funny. I have one... We actually watched... I put it in the recording. We watched this actually on a trillionaire mindset a long time ago. Whoa.

And this is... Man, those were the days. We're going to do a military parade. I want to see stuff like this, all right? Not a bunch of dumpy guys. Can't even watch March in unison. Well, they got other concerns, I guess, is what I saw somebody say online. Warning, video content...

Oh, yeah. The North Korean guys. I mean... Oh, audio listener. really in for a treat because you can't put shit. Honestly, audio listener come because this

is what I love. Imagine a bunch of buff North Korean guys just like slamming, I don't know, is it like roof guys? Imagine if this is what

marched through the National Mall. God, you're breaking their hands. No, they're not because these guys are made of steel clearly. Jesus Christ. Breaking

cinder blocks over this guy's chest. Also, he's laying on a bed of nails. Yeah, laying on a bed of nails. He's got too much shit. He's on his oh, breaking bricks on their heads. Just like

this is psycho. How do I even, this is like what brothers do when they're bored. They're like, let's see if we can bend this fucking rebar sticking in our necks. This guy's breaking through chains. I mean, come on. Wow. Breaking through chains, doing God knows what. I don't know. His grass bottles. It's not going to be good. Oh, brother, don't. Don't. Don't eat it.

Oh, he's not eating. Oh, he's laying on glass. Wow. Good stuff, man. All right, we can get, oh, well, let's do one more break. Yeah, okay. Okay, good job, good job. I mean, we look...

Pathetic. Pathetic. Yeah. No missiles being paraded through the streets. Not a single missile, squeaky wheels, just like weird, uh, classic rock music playing in the background. Oh, covers of classic rock. Baracuda, I heard.

Sparsely attended. Yeah. Just as pathetic as against. I mean, cameras just panning around and just open field. Yeah. I mean, show us. There was one guy holding up a drone, just like walking through the crowd. Just like, check out this fucking drone, dude.

Like, okay. Cool. Coinbase was a sponsor, though. That was really fun. Yeah, that was a very bizarre moment. Yeah. We had Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, RAM. Oh, here we go.

Tank Squeaking. Yeah, there we go. That's pretty good. I love the, I love the subtitles. Thanks, squeaking. There's almost a part of me that thinks it's edited, maybe, and someone added it, but. Oh, it's Jimmy Fallon. Hey, what, what's that? What's going on with that? Iron Parade.

You know, oh, my God. Oh, my God, I can't believe they did an Army parade. Wow, that's wild. So, Coca-Cola, I don't know who the hell B-N-Y is. Lockheed Martin, you know, the usual suspects, except for this form energy, P-H-O-R-M. Palantir, you know Palantir going absolutely crazy on it. Scott's Miracle Grow. And yeah, man, this is the...

Scott's Miracle Grow, they really got their money's worth. I mean, they panned around to a perfectly manicured lawn. No one's stepping on that thing. A dad's absolute wet dream on that. I like this website because it's America250.org, which is for the America's 250th birthday next year. You know, it's annoying. Last year, I had America249.org.

And I just, who could have known they were going to do it this year? I love down at the bottom, though. It says official website of the U.S. semi-Quincennial Commission. That poor person who's got to answer the phones for that official office. U.S. Semi-Quintennial. Fuck.

U.S. Semi-Quintennial office. I may direct your call. U.S. Semi-Quintennial's commission. Fuck. And, yeah, about, there were estimates that there were 30 to 50,000 people attended. Trump, of course, claimed 250K.

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Her and her husband and there was other targets. I mean, honestly, a perfect example of like it doesn't matter. And the right wing is always going to do what they do. I mean, this guy's clearly a right-wing schizzo. Oh, and they were rolling over themselves. I mean, tripping over themselves to be like, he's a leftist. Doing all kinds of jokes. I mean, even once it was proven that he's this guy, it doesn't matter.

They're just running away with it. It's, uh, well, that guy Mike Lee, I believe it is. Yeah, I'm doing the nightmare on Walt Street as a, um, reference to it's one of Tim Walz's's, I don't know, cronies. Even though I'm pretty sure Tim Walls was on the kill list. it's getting exhausting folks it's getting exhausting I like this oh he deleted

absolute he deleted it though but this guy replied to it and said a 12 year old girl watched her mother shield her from bullets in a politically motivated attack she'll carry for the rest of her life and your first response as an elected official

is this because is this because you're an anti-American piece of shit oh they always act like the left is like some barbaric entity when

I mean it's just they're the most ghoulish people to ever exist I mean every you can go down the line I mean just look at some of the responses on to be honest though

the the war is probably going to be a bipartisan effort with the exception of a few so we'll see how that pans out but which by the way another just tacking on the things I was saying in the beginning a lot of people

made a lot of good points about focusing my ire toward the people in power, the fascists, and not the critique of critiquing of power. Duly noted. Anyway, oh, Jesus. I mean, where to even start?

Israel's a good place to start. We had a fucking nuclear deal with Iran. That's an important thing to remember. You know, I love to be hard on Obama. A lot of people will know that. It's one of my favorite things to do. But he did get the nuclear deal done with Iran

when and it was working. They were you know they were adhering to it. What year was this? 2013? It was probably like 2013 or 2014 and then Trump

ripped it up in I think 2018. Probably because it was just because Obama did it. Probably because he's the real negotiator daddy and he's and he wanted to step up to the plate. All right. Anything that anyone got us in before,

it was a bad deal, we got ripped off. The deal for bringing the Iranian nuclear program to heal in exchange for sanctions relief apparently was a bozo move by Obama. So Trump was going to get us a better deal. Okay?

And that's apparently what we're heading to. There was this like 60 day timeline to have a deal done. They had plans to meet in, I believe it was Oman. And then all the sudden, the bombs start flying. Bombs start flying. On what was that? Late Thursday? Thursday.

That was because it was right after our episode came out. Because that's what happens is things happen. Right, right. the day. So brace yourselves for by the time this comes out. Even as early as, and it's been very confusing trying to parse out what Trump and America's involvement is, there's obviously like all kinds of different things come. Even Thursday afternoon, I believe he was saying, like, I talked to, I talked to Israel and I don't want them doing anything. And then the bombs start flying and, uh, he's like,

Actually, this rocks. I don't know if you'd say actually that's right. I mean, it's very confused. So Rubio, I think, was one of the first things I saw where he was saying, tonight Israel took unilateral action against Iran. We are not involved in strikes against Iran. And our top priority is protecting American forces in the region. Israel advised us that they believe this action was necessary for its self-defense.

President Trump at the administration have taken all necessary steps to protect our forces and remain in close contact with our regional partners. Let me be clear. Iran should not target U.S. interests or personnel because, according to him, they weren't involved, unilateral action. But then Trump, he can't. He can't help. He can't help.

He truly can't. And then he said, this is from June 13th. I gave Iran a chance. I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them in the strongest of words to just do it. That's in quotes. But no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn't get it done. The negotiations were supposed to happen on Sunday.

They literally were saying they were ready to come to a deal for sanctions relief. I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated or were told that the universe... Wait, sorry. I told them that it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated or were told that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the world. By far. And that Israel has a lot of it with much more to come and they know how to use it. certain Iranian and hardliner spoke bravely, but they didn't know what was about to happen. They are all dead, all caps, now, and it will only get worse.

There has already been great death and destruction, but there's still some time to make this slaughter with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal come to an end. Iran must make a deal before there is nothing left and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire. No more death, no more destruction, just do it before it's too late. God bless you all. This is fucking God bless you all. I'm choking you. Hey, dude, you got to stop. Why don't you make a deal with me? Make a deal. Make a deal. What works too late? Make a deal. Jesus, God. And, you know, obviously in typical fashion, this is being covered in a very specific way in America. It's, I think if you weren't paying close attention, you probably thought that Israel was attacked first. It's been very strange watching this. They're calling it a preemptive attack.

I think that's... Well, because they're about to have nukes, dude. They're about to launch the nukes. That's the whole thing, you know. But I think anyone with a brain is calling this a preventive attack, which should be noted as illegal. Wait, preventive or is there a difference between preventative and preemptive? Yes, preemptive means that there's an imminent threat. Gotcha.

That's what they're saying. This is preemptive because we are an imminent threat of them creating a nuclear bomb and they want to use it. But there is no proof of an imminent. have not shown us any proof of an imminent threat. Therefore, it is a preventive threat of them trying to bomb their, any kind of nuclear facilities they have. Right. Oh, yeah, there you go.

Preventive use of force seeks to stop another state from developing a military capability before it comes threatening or to hobble or destroy it thereafter. It's important to note we have, we don't have any proof of an imminent threat, but we do have Tulsi Gabbard. This is Trump's own Director of National Intelligence. This is March 25, 2025. Let's see what she has to say. The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, and Supreme

Leader Kamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003. The IC continues to monitor closely if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program. And we actually have a follow-up. Trump has been asked about this, and let's hear what he has to say about that. Zoom on on Air Force One. He loves chatting. Iran should be able to have a nuclear weapon. But how close do you personally think that they were to getting one? Because Tulsi Gabbard testified at March that the intelligence community said Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon.

I don't care what she said. I think they were very close to happen. I don't care what my own. I don't care what my own cabinet member says. I don't care what they're very close. I don't care. I don't care what anyone says. It doesn't matter.

And there is a lot of stuff going around. The IAEA, the... IAEA... It's so hard to say. I don't want to say it again. I don't want to say it again. The International Atomic Energy Association or administration, they are...

There was reporting that Iran, you know, was out of compliance with, with some of their testing and stuff from the IAEA. Okay. But that did not mean that there was a nuclear weapons program. In fact, they had said the opposite. The IAEA said the opposite. There was no nuclear weapons program. So it's, it's, we have no evidence.

And not only that, I mean, we've lived through this. We've lived through this. Really? I knew this felt familiar. We've done this. Was it a country with a slightly different ending letter? Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, that one. And it's very, it's very bizarre reliving. this. I was, I mean, I was obviously a child when this happened. I was probably, what, 2002, 2003. I was 12 or 13. Yeah. Um, I did not have a great understanding of the world around me, I would say. I have been able to like retroactively through, um, you know, through reading and, uh, and engaging with the subject to understand what has happened. And I'm sure everyone has been exposed to all these clips and what a what a joke all this war on terror

the war in Iraq all this stuff was I'd be willing to bet though that there's not video of like Benjamin and Et Yahoo back then advocating for what he's advocating for now I don't think that that exists before it does I bet it's fake I bet it's AI fake shit

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for anything less than clean, delicious energy. Because yeah, his whole shit has been, yo, we killed all of Iran's top military, because that's what they did, folks. They killed all of Iran's top military leadership, nuclear scientists, and most importantly, the top negotiator for Iran whose job was as the title denotes he was the guy who was supposed to come in and negotiate a diplomatic solution to this shit and yeah yeah chief of staff of armed forces deputy chief of staff commander of the IRC multiple nuclear scientists and that was just that first night and then um there's reporting of multiple car bombs going off in Tehran. I didn't even see that. When was that yesterday?

No, it was the day after, I believe it was the day after the bombings. All the, all the ones that they didn't get in those. Yeah. And, but yeah, let's, let's, um, let's, let's, let's, you want to take me up on this wager that there's probably not any. Well, I actually just sent a clip. Let's see, let's see, um, if, you know, if we have a boy who cried wolf situation here. The Daily Show, I, I, I, the Daily Show compiled a nice, a nice, succinct, um, um, up.

Iran could produce a nuclear weapon. No, the audio listener were on June 12th, 2025. It could be within a few months. It could be. 2018. Preserve knowledge to make a bomb very quickly if they wanted to do it. Iran is so dangerous. Weeks away from having the fissile material for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs.

They're very close. 2012. Okay, so it's been quite well. His fucking hair looks like Neumica. Iran is gearing up In 2006 What? 25 bombs

Atomic bombs a year 250 bombs in a decade Ladies and gentlemen Time is running out Iran will be capable 95 By producing alone Without importing anything

Nuclear bombs Within three to five years Three to five years do-da-do-da-bo-da-bo-da-bo-do-do-oh-oh-do within three to five years you must listen to me maybe he was just wrong a bunch of times and maybe they're actually maybe they were actually weeks away now you know can I say he seems like a trustworthy guy there's something about this just aside from all politics and everything there's something about that man's voice that makes me so hungry hmm he's just got one of those

voices where he's like, lo, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, damn, I want some pudding or something. Like, specifically chocolate pudding. His voice just makes me, he sounds like he's got a mouth full of pudding. And I'm like, give me some of that. Bitch. And then choke on it.

Bitch. Yeah. So there's a lot of, everybody's got theories. I think it's pretty obvious what's happening, which is that Benjamin Netanyahu is clearly trying to distract not only his own people, but the rest of the of the world from what's happening in Gaza and what they are doing in Gaza, i.e. continuing to bomb Gaza and kill people and prevent aid from getting into Gaza. And also to, in a really, really futile effort, as we've seen many, many times before from these types of psychopaths,

is try to unite the country against a common enemy. And... But, yeah. I mean, here, let's play this other clip real quick because I do think, like, there's a part of me that thinks that maybe American Israel just want to rule over a Middle East that's just rubble and chaos. Yeah, so, I mean, this is Netanyahu in, this is 2002 before going to war with Iraq. He is talking to, he's talking to Congress here about why we need to go, you know, the House Committee. on oversight and government reform. Let's see what he has to say about the situation. The application of power is the most important thing in winning the war on terrorism.

If I had to say, what are the three principles of winning the war on terror? It's like, what are the three principles of real estate, the three L's, location, location, location. The three principles of winning the war on terror are the three Ws, winning, winning, and winning. The more victories you amass, the easier the next victory becomes.

The first victory in Afghanistan makes a second victory in Iraq that much easier. The second victory in Iraq will make the third victory that much easier. He's calling for war in Iraq, but he doesn't stop there. Afghanistan, yeah.

No, he starts with Afghanistan because we're already in Afghanistan. He's talking about when we win there, it's going to make our next... Pursuit. Yeah, our next pursuit. Conquest. Conquest easier.

And then he doesn't stop there. He says our third one. He knows, like, we don't want to stop. We want to keep going. He, like, back it up a little bit. Like, this is how they've been talking about this forever. Are the three Ws winning, winning, and winning. The more victories you amass, the easier the next victory becomes.

The first victory in Afghanistan makes a second victory in Iraq that much easier. The second victory in Iraq will make the third victory that much easier, but it may change the nature of achieving that victory. It may be possible to have implosions taking place. I don't guarantee it, Mr. Attorney, but I think it makes it more likely. And therefore, I think the choice of Iraq is a good choice. It's the right choice. It's like, I mean, what, I just, what were they thinking?

Just, hell, yeah, it's, it's that easy. You topple a regime and a new one gets placed in there, and then everything is hunky-doring, it goes our way indefinitely, and there's going to be no problems. And also victory is such a nebulous term. What does a victory look like back then? But this is what they've been doing, right? I mean, look at all of these places. I mean, Iraq is a perfect example. These are not, look, this is not a thing where we're going to defend Saddam Hussein, but I don't think people disliking their regime means we get to go in and do a regime change. I don't know. And get a little something,

something for it. I don't know if Iraqis would say they're better off since we're. we've come in. I think look at any of these other places where it's just an absolute mess, a failed state, Libya, Syria. I think this is what they want. They want just chaos. They don't want other powerful, stable administrations in the region. This has been their game plan for all of it. And in Iran, too. America coming in and fucking with that in the early 50s. Sure. I mean, yeah, I'm just talking about like most recently, But these, I mean, we've been doing that forever. I mean, we could list off all the, all the coups and regime changes we've done.

But sure, I mean, a large part of the situation in Iran is like, is the direct result of our own intervention. It's, I mean, and just watching them do all of, it's, you can find any clip to match what they're saying right now. The liberators thing, they're going to welcome us as liberators. We're going to slap. I remember the trope being all those people need is a pair of blue jeans and a coke in their hand, and they'll get it. They'll just understand. Do you remember that? Yeah.

I don't remember where that came from. These people, they hate us because... We're free. Yeah, they hate us for our freedom. And that's, I do think that is the difference from right now and back then. Back then it was working. I do think there were, like, the vast majority of people were pro. Post 9-11, people were pro-war.

They wanted to get this done. It was done with congressional support. But, I mean, that is just there's, I can't imagine. I mean, it's so early, but early polling looks like this is just overwhelmingly. This is from Pem Tacker. He pulled out this. Prem Tacker, he's a journalist. This is from the Economist slash UGov poll.

Do you think the U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran? 60% say no 24% say not sure 16% say yes but so that's at least that at least feels different it feels like ordinary people are like

what are you talking about I had I no including and especially the people I mean Trump ran on I'm an anti-war president I'm going to stop all of this I'll get this shit done in day one he's daddy negotiator yeah he's big he's the big negotiator

and, you know, awfully silent are the people who have been tweeting in light of the fucking grotesque ice raids who were saying, yeah, I voted for this. Where are you people? Where are you guys now? You know, it's interesting. Some of them have spines. I know that I have seen. Do you know that guy, Dave Smith? Oh, yeah. I saw, yeah, I saw his, he was like, I regret voting. Which I do find, which I do find, I mean, it's, I think now. surprising personally to him. I think it's just surprising in this day and age to

see anyone kind of come out and be like, I was wrong. I, you know, I got this one wrong and I regret it. Um, I kind of never know what to make of that guy. Like, I've seen a lot of clips where he seems very reasonable. He calls himself a libertarian. I kind of like always a little bit suspect for like any full blown grown man who like, are you telling me I need a lot. What's next? A license to make toast. Right. But he doesn't seem like that type of person. He does seem very reasonable. So maybe it's just a... I love, libertarians are so fun.

Maybe it's just an unfortunate label he's chosen to stuck with. But, but yeah. But even that, like him, he seems very reasonable. Every time I see him talk about a lot of this stuff. But how did you get duped like that?

You truly think this person is the... The biggest bullshitter in the world in the history of the modern world would bullshit? I mean, I do get it. Look, There's all kinds of clips resurfacing right now. And, like, he did do a good job in a lot of instances.

There's the one at the Republican primaries where he's, you know, he's calling out Jed Bush and all these neocons. And he's saying, you know, Iraq was a total disaster. I knew it was. You guys were all crazy. You're Warhawks, whatever. Like the movie Three Kings, Joe's. No, that was Desert Storm.

Oh, that was the first one. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Go on. Great movie. but but yeah I at first it did seem like I mean I'm sure you saw the Tucker Carlson stuff there there's like there's a little bit of a schism here it was you know Tucker Carlson Steve Bannon of

course Charlie Kirk even got in there Jack Posobic um I do think Trump has brought some of them to heal a lot of these people know a lot of these smaller creators I don't think I think Tucker Carlson can do whatever he wants I think he's a huge backing I think he probably comes from family money. I'm pretty sure he's some kind of like... He's the Swanson frozen dinner. Yes. Yeah.

So he's a sly on. But he's self-made. So I think he knows that he can kind of do what he wants. Yeah. But I do think, I think at least Charlie Kirk changed his tune a little bit and was like, actually, I trust Trump. I saw that. So yeah.

And Netanyahu, by the way, says that killing the Supreme... He believes that, and again, stop me, folks, if this sounds familiar. He says that killing the Supreme... leader of Iran would end the war. First of all, what war? I didn't realize there was an actual official war here, whatever he meant, but

despite the U.S. saying that they don't want to do that. And yeah, I think that he's desperate and thinks that everybody would rally around him. I mean, that's the only thing I can imagine is that he desperately wants to pull

America into this. and I think he knows if he... I think he knows if he garnered the response that he has from Iran. They have, you know, been able to break through the Iron Dome. Which part of me feels is intentional. Do you think? To break through the Iron Dome. Iran?

Like, are people are... No, no, no, like B.B. Maybe allowing some to slip through somehow. Oh, I would say 100%. To then be like, fuck. Even though there were, like, I think there was a couple, like, hyperstander. Sonic ones, which was wild. I did not know that that's how they looked.

Well, I just think Bibi knew that this would happen. Yeah. And with this, he can drag America into this war. Yeah. And, you know, you were like... And it seems to be working as of, as of fucking today, two days ago for you guys, what Trump is saying is like... I mean, that's the thing. You were like, what war?

I'm like, and people are going, is America going to be dragged into this war? The rhetoric coming from the president... I mean, some of this... This was yesterday. Iran should have signed the deal. told them to sign. What a shame and waste of human life. Simply stated, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. I said it over and over again. Everyone should immediately evacuate

Tehran. And this one today I mean... He said today a city of 10 million people by the way. Yeah. Oh, that's easy. You just evacuate. They are right now. I mean, as of this recording, I was seeing that they're man, fucking, what a dystopia

dude. You've got hashtag F1 the movie trending on on Twitter. It's the hyper-normalization thing. Yeah, dude. That's what I've been talking about. I feel crazy all the fucking time. That's probably, I hope

to God, that that's the cause of my chronic dandruff because I don't know what to do anymore, people. I haven't been putting the foam in. I got to do that. Anyway, Donald Trump tweeted today, we know exactly where the so-called Supreme Leader is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there. We are not going

to take him out. And in parentheses, kill with an exclamation point at least not for now but we don't want missile shot at civilians or american soldiers our patience is wearing thin thank you for your attention to this matter so weird what so weird to sign off on that fucking psycho it's not weird it's psycho it's like weird yeah you're right it's weird but okay let's look at the next one the next the next and just to be clear so what he's talking about is um israel not only israel but uh some very prominent Americans are urging for there are things that Israel does not have access to that they want the American military to deploy. One of them is this thing called the bunker buster.

Oh, the 30,000 pound bombs. Yeah. So he's weighing the decision to help destroy this deeply buried nuclear enrichment facility at Fordo. And we have the biggest bunker buster. And it would have to be dropped by the American B2 bombers. Mr. Neton, Netanyahu has pressed for the United States. Yeah. Excuse me. There's a lot going on. Mr. Netanyahu has pressed for the United States to make its bunker busters

available since the Bush administration so far to no avail. But people who have spoken to Mr. Trump in recent months say the topic has come up repeatedly in his conversations with the prime minister. When Mr. Trump has been asked about it, he usually avoids a direct answer. That's from the New York Times. Mr. Trump, we did these 30,000 pound bunker buster bulbs. So he's basically... Telegraphing. We know where he is. We know he's in a bunker. We could kill him at any time. We don't know if we're going to give him the bunker busters or not.

And then he went on to tweet, we now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran. Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment and plenty of it. But it doesn't compare it to American made, conceived, and manufactured stuff. In quotes. In quotes. What the fuck? Nobody does it better than the good old USA. This is like... And then lastly, he tweeted, uh, in all caps, unconditional surrender. I, I mean, is he unconditionally surrendering? Is that what he's doing? That was he could unconditional surrender.

Uh, I mean, it's worth knowing, noting that as of now, Egypt has led a group of 21 nations in issuing a joint statement that condemns his recent Israeli military attacks against Iran, calls for an immediate halt to hostilities and urges a return to diplomacy to de-escalate, regional tensions. This includes Algeria, Bahrain, Brunei, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Gambia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Mauritania, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somali, Sudan, Turkey, Oman, and the UAE. Jesus Christ. Yeah, the signatories highlighted the imperative need to halt Israeli hostilities against Iran, expressing great concern regarding this dangerous escalation, which threatens to serious consequences on the peace and stability of the entire region. Yeah, no fucking shit.

I mean, dude, also all this, like, the rhetoric they're using to hold against Iran, they're trying to scare the world. And they're saying, like, think about what could happen if these things get in the wrong hands, right? Meanwhile, the only two do, the, the people on the other side, America and Israel have nukes. Yeah. And if you're talking, like, are preemptive strikes allowed on us because we're talking about the two most sociopathic people in the history of the world who just want to rule over rubble

I mean are we legitimate targets there's a lot of people here who hate who hate the Trump administration maybe they'd be greeted as liberators this is obviously a joke I obviously have a lot of issues with the Trump administration I don't want to be bombed I would not welcome

that like I like what these people went on to say in this thing. A central demand in the statement was, quote, the urgent necessity of establishing a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, which it said should apply to all states in the region without exception. The country is also called for all nations in the Middle East to join the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons or the NPT. Yeah, Israel, you're one of those, you're one of those countries in the Middle East,

And there's this, there's this really annoying thing that they've been doing. Which Israel is not a signatory to that. Right. And they're also like, well, we, they don't openly admit to having nukes, but they have them probably most undoubtedly. Not, yeah, not even, they have nukes. But they have nukes. And they are not adhering to these rules. They've.

And again, like, like you said, the only, the only nation. It's also all in violation of UN Security Council resolutions. Right. They won't sign on to the MPT. These are things that Iran is signed on to. They don't submit to the IAEA and let them come in and are subject to oversight in those ways like Iran is. I mean... And it is interesting, again, that the only nation on Earth that has ever used...

Well, I guess they were atomic weapons, but weapons of mass destruction in this way is the United States. Yeah, we did it twice. In Japan. It was called World War II. Okay, so a guy we... Oh, Billy. A guy we always talk about on the show, purveyor of the worst takes...

Bill Ackman. Cry baby Bill. Also, huge defender of Israel over here in America. He spent the last 20 months really going about for them. So he had this to say, the parade was great. Our military is incredible.

and now Israel needs our help to destroy Iran's nuclear threat to the world. Israel's military and air force have sufficiently degraded Iran's defenses such that this is now the lowest risk. High probability moment. The lowest risk, highest probability moment to take out Iran's nuclear capability,

a grave threat to us all. All of us. It's a grave threat to all of us. We should not let this opportunity pass. But Israel does not have the equipment and armaments to complete the job. we do and it does not require boots on the ground the war israel has been fighting has been on behalf of all of us let's help them finish the job i love this is psychotic i love this first response you own millions in shares of the companies that directly profit from wars which is why you're so in support

of this crisis escalating and he wrote totally false i have no interest in any company that benefits from wars anyone who is trying to make this an issue about you and your safety here in america is a is a liar and is a psycho and um is bloodthirsty and everyone knows that like this is just not true i mean this guy has spent 20 months uh sticking his nose where it doesn't belong with like trying to get people trying to get kids fired who protested here in america legally uh you know he loves a regime change at a college you know he got presidents fired for um you know not listening to his demands. He's been doing everything he can while, you know, Israel bombs country after country.

I mean, Lebanon, Syria, you know, carrying out a genocide in Gaza, it just goes, a Yemen. I mean, the list is endless. And he just wants more and more. And these people want you to think you are at risk. You are not, like, this has nothing to do with you. We, and everyone is wondering why these people want to. want to push us into this, especially when so many people have lived through this and lived through the lies and heard the same script over and over and over again by bloodthirsty

neocons. It's just ridiculous. It's crazy. Sorry, go ahead. No, I just, there is nothing more I hate than this, like this saber rattling, trying to make it about like that this is for us, this is for me. I mean, it's... The lucky thing is it does feel like right now people are not falling for this. Oh yeah. No, not at all. And I don't think they will. Which is, which makes me curious how this will play out because right now is so, so, so much more, so different than it was going into Iraq in that we just had to kind of accept what the news was telling us. There was no real collective ability to respond to it. But now that we have social media. Going through it with Twitter is like, it's... It's way different.

It is way different. The rapidity with which people can be like, not true. Someone can just go, you actually said that in 95, 96, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2024. So it makes me wonder if... The problem is, though, I do... Do they even care? Politically, like, are politicians, I'm not seeing a huge amount of moving behind this. I think Thomas Massey, who...

the Republican from Kentucky. He's very anti-war. He very quickly, like, was denouncing this. He put out a poll on Twitter, should the United States be giving Israel weapons to make war with Iran. Overwhelmingly, 85% said no in the poll. And he was tweeting about that.

And he kept saying, you know, this is not our war. This is nothing. And there's a very popular map that's going around about Iran's capability. to how far they can send their missiles. America is nowhere near those... Wow, even with the hypersonicals. And lastly, he said,

which a lot of people have gotten on board, a lot of other politicians, he said, this is not our war. But if it were, Congress must decide such matters according to our Constitution. I'm introducing a bipartisan war powers resolution tomorrow to prohibit our involvement. I invite all members of Congress

to sponsor this resolution. And he's gotten, you know, some support for Rashid Talib retweeted, AOC retreated, saying signing on. Rokana said he also agrees. But there's not like a big coalescing, like, movement from Democrats. Maybe they're just gathering, they're figuring it out. Are they? Because, I mean, the last thing I heard, the last thing I heard the most powerful

Democrats say about Iran was them goading Trump to be harder on Iran. It was Chuck Schumer. In a little video, he put out on Twitter, peering over his glasses. I think Taco Trump always chickens out. And I think he's chicken and he out when he bends to Iran.

It's like, holy shit. You guys all cannot, you guys, I mean, and this is the same guy who said his, he views his entire job as keeping the left pro-Israel. So, I mean, it is no surprise that that is coming from Chuck Schumer.

But the craziest thing is the most forceful anti-war voice I've heard and this brings me no joy. Marjorie Taylor Green. Wow. That is certainly true. We're going to read this.

I have not heard a more... If I'm wrong, drop it in the... Which is wild, because she has bought defense stocks. If I'm wrong and someone else has come out harder. And look, there's a lot of issues I have with the statement. Go ahead. So everyone... Is this on Twitter?

Yeah. Everyone is finding out... It's a little bit long. Everyone is finding out who are real America First slash MAGA and who were fake and just said it because it was popular. Unfortunately, the list of fakes are becoming quite long and exposed themselves quickly. Anyone slobbering for the U.S. to become fully involved in the Israel-Iran war is not America-first, MAGA. Wishing for murder of innocent people is disgusting. Agree.

We are sick and tired of foreign wars. All of them. And this one will quickly engulf the Middle East, Bricks, and NATO as countries are required to take aside. Real America First MAGA wants world peace for all people and doesn't want our military killed and forever injured physically and mentally. We love our

U.S. military and love them helping to secure our borders. See, this is where I'm like, okay, well whatever, we'll get. And our cities and our cities, that's the thing. These people are calling for the troops to be like put out in Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York. So that's a whole other thing. They are friends, spouses, cousins, niece, nephew, sisters,

brothers, sons, and daughters. We have spent trillions in the Middle East, and we have dealt with the aftermath of death, blown apart bodies, never-ending suicides and disabling PTSD, all because they told us propaganda as to why we must sacrifice our own to defend some other country's borders and some other countries, some other countries borders. I don't want to see Israel bombed or Iran bombed or Gaza bombed. I don't want to see Ukraine bombed or Russia bombed. And we do not want to be involved or required to pay for any of it. We are $36 trillion in debt and have the mountains of our own problems. We have giant plank sticking out of our own eyes

while we complain about splinters in other eyes. Whoa. Every country... Every country involved and all over the world can be happy, successful, and rich if we all work together and seek peace and prosperity.

I know. Taking this position is not anti-Semitic. It's rational, sane, and loving toward all people. Taking this position of peace and prosperity for all is not isolationism. It leads to great trade deals

and great economies that help all people. It's what many Americans voted for in 2024. America first. America first. This is how we make America great again. And as I pointed out, there's some stuff in there where you're like... That's fine. But there is, I have not seen...

The overwhelming majority of that is so great. I can rally behind that. But it is a little hypocritical as you're calling for troops to be put into our own cities to be like, you know, whatever. But where is the Democrats talking like that?

This is what I'm getting at. It feels... All right. Care with me here. I'm sure I hopefully speak for a lot of people when I say it feels like we collectively as humanity are close to some kind of collective consciousness waking up breaking point. Like aren't we, don't you feel like we're just on the cusp? Like everybody kind of gets it. We all kind of like she's saying, we, there's no, why are we still doing this?

We're more connected than ever. It's not like it was 20 years ago, 30, back, back, back. where it took time for messages to get conveyed. The speed at which news traveled and world leaders communicated back then was a lot slower. And from that can arise a lot more problems. And in this day and age, when there is so much more open communication, open sharing of information, people are waking up to things that they were otherwise just totally wool pulled over their eyes in the first desert storm

and then with Iraq post 9-11 it's like what is the fucking what are you trying to pull here? The only thing you do is like watch news on the TV and read the newspaper and like the lead up to the war on terror, it was just you know, defense department officials anonymously leaking information to

the New York Times. And people have wised up to this fact. you know people have definitely gotten a bit more media literate i think they're like what are you talking about anonymous source said iran had whatever like it's it's much more difficult for for them to tell people to you know not believe their own eyes there's obviously another side of the coin though like we've talked about it all the time like the social media also has this other horrifying aspect to it where you can really uh supercharge some of these things but i do want to look at her follow-up tweet too she like she responds to this she said last week they said

Iran was days away from a nuclear bomb. Well, it's been days now, and Iran's nuclear facilities are not destroyed. So does Iran have a nuclear bomb now that it's been days? They've been telling us for decades Iran was only a few years, or only a few months and only a few days away. However, the truth is more countries than is public... What is that? The truth is more countries than is public have some sort of nuclear capabilities. It's not anti-Semitic to ask these questions. It's fair, critical thinking and honest dialogue. After all, innocent people are dying, and more will die if the U.S. gets fully involved. Yeah, wow.

She posted a handy timeline here. 1992, Iran is three to five years away from nuclear capability. I can't read all these. 93, 95, 96, 0,3, 04, 05, 06, 06, 07, 08, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 21, 12, 13, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. Basically, every time, them saying that Iran is closer than ever. Yeah, I believe it was George Bush, George W. Bush, you said, fool me once, shame on me. fool me I don't know

17 times maybe I've got fucking problems but this is I'm just yeah I do like I feel like

Democrats are being served up silver platters to do the right thing here and get you know we talked about a little bit last week

where you know you brought up that tweet where the guy was like Democrats get blamed for the stuff and I'm like you know they have a moment

they can they can choose to march with peaceful protesters and you know when When cops fire on people, they can talk about how they were there. I mean, you're seeing Brad Lander, New York City comptroller, who's also running for mayor,

has been doing, has been doing, you know, some of these things. He, not assists, like chaperones, people to their ice hearings and stuff. So, you know, as to say, like, everybody follow the laws here, don't just. And he's been doing for weeks, and today they grabbed him and arrested him. As he's saying, you know, what am I being arrested for? this is all legal. And but democratic

leadership is is either absent or cheering it on. And so it's, who's going to save us? But yeah, so I'm just... Superman.

Poor Batman. And look, I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea. This is not some kind of like, this is not some kind of broadly supportive thing of any Iranian regime. This is me saying,

I don't, their problem is not with me. I, you know, and I don't think bombing people is a way to, like, liberate them. I don't think it's ever worked. And you've tried it so many times and it's not going to work this time. Yeah. Unless, who knows? Maybe I'm wrong. And you guys have finally figured out the problem.

Also, people much smarter than me are just, like, calling how just impossible this is. Like, you cannot stop this nuclear program without, uh, without, boots on the ground. It's just going to continue. You're going to take out leaders, new ones will spring up. You're going to take out scientists, new ones will spring up. Diplomacy is the way. You had fucking, there was an negotiating table. Yeah. And then you hit it with a fucking bomb.

Yeah. My, I mean, I can't have said it more perfectly than that. Here's a nice example. Connor, I'm going to send you something. Here's a nice example of like the kind of shit we went through in 2002. As you're pulling that up, I want to point out what worries me also is China and Russia.

I mean, so now it's kind of the different countries are kind of everybody's posturing and taking sides and figuring out what's next. And what has me nervous is, okay, yeah, what are, because China and Russia have been pretty supportive of Iran. And it's like, okay, I'm worried that they're going to. going to pretty openly back Iran, which will, Taco Trump will be kind of in a position to like, okay, now I've got to get tough on this. And I just, I just hope that cooler heads all prevail and shit. I'm pretty sure China called all of their citizens home. I think Russia

did as well. I think Russia did in Israel as well, too. There's reporting, I don't know how true it is that, oh my God, that also reminds me, we got to bring something up. There's reporting that Mike Huckabee, the ambassador to Israel. and Netanyahu actually got into a shouting match over the over U.S.'s insistence that they pull out American citizens in Israel. Oh, Baby didn't want that.

Bibi didn't want that. And a lot of people think that is because he knows if Americans are on the ground in Israel that the U.S. is much more likely to get dragged into this. Yeah. But we need to, before we play that, we almost completely forgot. I don't know if you've seen this. this is uh i don't know what like the the the craziest thing is like it's like the i think you should leave me the the oh my god he admitted they're just like posting this shit so this is trump reposted a text he got from mikeucky ambassador to israel and he said mr president

oh wait that's going to be hard to read if it's i got it you want me to read it sure mr president god spared you in butler pennsylvania to be the most consequential president in a century, maybe ever. The decisions on your shoulders I would not want to be made by anyone else. You have many voices speaking to you, sir, but there was only one voice that matters, his voice. I am your appointed servant in this land, and I'm available for you, but I do not try to get in your presence often because I trust your instincts. No president in my lifetime has been in a position like yours, not since Truman in 1945. That's not good. I don't reach out to because, you know, that was when they dropped the bombs on Japan.

You never love invoking Truman in 45. He continues, I don't reach out to persuade you, only to encourage you. I believe you will hear from heaven. And that voice is far more important than mine or anyone else's. You sent me to Israel to be your eyes, ears, and voice and to make sure our flag flies above our embassy. My job is to be the last one to leave. I will not abandon in this post. Our flag will not come down. You did not seek this moment. This moment sought you. Oh my God. It is my honor

to serve you. I love you. He didn't say I love you. This is so crazy. And it's all, by the way, it's all one long text. How did he screenshot? I have no idea. That's when I first saw it going around, I was like, oh, it's fake. But then he thought he truthed

it. Because I was like, there's no, you can't like, we just find out Trump has a phone like this big. But he must have a iMessage set up on his laptop and he fucking, um, uh, command shift forward and screenshoted it. This is also impressive. Like, sir, I didn't know you knew that. So scary.

He's like, look, if you don't, if you're worried about, you know, us having a handle on this, I just want to show you this text from my craziest friend. Okay. He's in, he's in Israel right now. And sure, he's. But he's talking to God. He's clinically. Or God is as, yeah.

He's. clinically insane. And he's hearing voices. But he's got it under control. I mean, the, his voice, the fact that he thinks he was saved in Butler, PA to deliver in this moment, the invoking Truman, we are not in a good place, folks. Netanyahu wants to hold U.S. citizens hostage so he can make a big display of American carnage. I mean, if fiction, has taught us anything. It's that the people in power are more often than not utterly incompetent. And I'm talking about the

television show Veep. We all know and love you. Oh, sure, sure. And I think it's a lot worse than what that show portrays. That Donald Trump is the man in charge. Armando Ayonucci said, like that was kind of why they ended the show. He said, when Trump got in power, he's

like, this is just, this is stupid. You know, we're going to make a funny show about, about politics but this is a this is a I want to play this is a perfect example of I mean also look at this is the difference too I mean these guys were like these guys were like master manipulators I mean just the gall to go out there and do this let's just play it it's 20 seconds I love the graphics strike on Iraq what we are seeing is not the war in Iraq what we're seeing are slices of the war in Iraq we're seeing that particularized

perspective that that reporter or that commentator or that television camera happens to be able to see at that moment and it is not what's taking place so we're seeing so it's like so where's like a cake basically we're seeing a look we're just getting little slices very brave of him to just come out and say don't believe your own eyes don't believe what did he say particular play it again it's 20 seconds it's just absolutely bonkers not the war in Iraq

what we're seeing are slices of the war in Iraq. We're seeing that particularized perspective. That particularized perspective. That commentator or that television camera happens to be able to see at that moment. And it is not what's taking place. He's basically saying, like, look, there's a lot of journalists in Iraq right now covering the war. What you're seeing is only their weird, skewed, personal thing. You can't believe that.

You're looking at a size. slice. Slices, it doesn't represent the whole war, you see. What if I look at a bunch of slices, though? Am I now looking at maybe a full cake?

Look over there! Oh, Baboo. Oh, yeah, there's the graphic of how far Iran's missiles are capable of going. Do you see America on there? No.

No, I didn't see America on there. But I thought they were fighting it for us. They are, dude. They are. It's for us in case we go vacation over there and we don't want to get hit oh and i the supreme leader finds out that you or me is over there and they're like man fuck those guys i don't know i'm sorry there's it's it's

it's hard to make light of um uh it's hard to make light during dark times isn't it folks it's getting harder and harder i i i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm at a loss a little bit i uh i was i was on a zoom with uh with someone in Greece and, and they were, that was this morning and we were talking. And they asked how I was and I, you know, gave like a, uh, yeah, kala, which means good in Greek. And they were like, well, you kind of paused before you, uh, before you said good. And I was like, there's a lot going on right now. And yeah. And they were just lamenting their own worries about, uh, World War three and is, is really what's going to, I think best case scenario,

though, like if they try to go forward with this, I mean, is, you know, you have, you're talking about a boots on the ground situation where you're tens of thousands, if not more U.S. troops deployed. Whoa, whoa, whoa. They assured us that there wouldn't be boots on the ground, though. They said that with enough bombs, we wouldn't need to be able to put boots on the ground. Okay, or then best case scenario, they, they bomb the shit out of this country. That's right.

They take leaders out. You have, I mean, how many people live in Iran, 90 million, 100 million? You know, instability. They've done this in places where, like, much smaller populations, an absolute mess. Imagine, you know, just another failed state, you know, I don't see a lot of good outcomes, except for diplomacy. I mean, they wanted to come to a deal. And unfortunately, it feels ridiculous to, to, you now have to root for asking them to come to a deal after this insane. illegal preventive strike

after close to two years of just the insanity we've watched, the carnage. I mean, like, I don't even know. I don't know what to say anymore. One fun thing has been the, I've been enjoying

the pizza meter. Are you guys enjoying the pizza meter? Oh, the, the Pentagon. Are we having fun with the pizza meter? Pentagon Pizza meter, yeah. There's also the gay one, which is kind of the The gay bar that's, oh, it's normally crowded, but it's empty. I mean, my own little editorializing is, it's hard because I can't really lately practice what I preach with this, which is, you know, it's hard for us as human beings to see daily, hourly by the minute suffering in 4K on our phones. and then just, you know, you see the next thing and it's a fucking, I don't know, an ad or something,

which is funny because, you know, we've got ads in the show even. And, yeah, I don't know, man. I just encourage you all to do your best to take care of yourself and your own mental health. And as much as we feel so out of control and so helpless, the very few things we can control and can help are worth. are worth taking care of. And again, I got to speak for my... I have not been eating well or sleeping well. And, uh, yeah.

I will also say, take care of your mental health, but like, don't fall for this. Be vigilant. I mean, like, you know what you believe. You, like, you believe your own eyes. Don't, and that goes for, you know, I don't care if you voted for Trump, calma, didn't vote, stayed home, whatever. Like, you know, it's never too late to, you know, say you were wrong about something. It's never too late to be like, enough.

This is, you know, know, this is just, I don't believe that people, like, rock with this, just violence and, and, and death everywhere. Like, so, you know, believe your own eyes. Stay vigilant. All we are saying is give peace a chance. Uh, you're, you're going to like this. Did something just happen? No, no, no, but I just have to, it's after. Oh. I got worried that I got worried that there was a No, no, no, no.

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You'll get, we're offering free, free trials anyway. No, he's chilling. So you can come on. It's going to be, it's going to be more lighthearted. We're going to be chilling. But we got to, you know. Well, not quite lighthearted because we are going to talk about the area near crash. I am revisiting a couple things about Scooby, the big, the big buff tan gay guy.

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And then like his wife just came out and was like, yeah, he's an idiot. I don't know. I've basically been fucking my son's friends and we have an open relationship and he's a freak. And now this guy's like, I like pretty girls, girls, girls. Yeah, I might be able to get you on Vogue, babe. Keep going. By the way, a friend of mine just went on a date with a guy who's 6'8, 6'9, and she was like, Ben, you are so lucky you are just at the cusp.

Dude, I was going to say, like, literally any taller than you are gets into the, like, free-ish territory. Like, you might even be too, too. A lot, actually, you're a freak and should be destroyed. No, but, like, 6-4 is, like, It's just too much. It's like, sorry, buddy. Sorry to all you six-four guys. Stop looking at me like that.

It's too. What's the weather look up there? Fuck you. Right. Spin on you and I'll tell you. And honestly, it's probably like things are just not built for you anymore. Shows. Airplane bathrooms.

Oh, dude. Flying is a nightmare. The monkeys, Mickey Dolan said that when he was, when he tripped on LSD with Wilson, John Lennon and Harry Nielsen. Wow. Wilson played shortening bread on piano over and over again. Dream Blunt rotation, Harry Nelson, John Lennon, Brian Wilson. And Brian Wilson's just so bugged out, he keeps playing Jordan and Fred.

Enough, Brian!