The Jacqueline Monroe Show - 403- WW3 for Dummies: Iran, Israel, and America (Featuring Oil, Nukes, and the CIA)

Episode Date: June 22, 2025

The year is 2025, and the vibes are nuclear. You don’t know what Hezbollah is, you thought Ayatollah was a type of hummus, and now you’re spiraling because the U.S. just dropped bombs on Iran’s nuclear program. That’s okay. I made this episode for you.This is Middle East lore for people who slept through history class but are suddenly Googling “what is uranium enrichment” at 2AM. Today, we’re talking about Iran, Israel, America, and whether World War III is actually happening- like, for real this time.Topics include:• Why the CIA fumbled the geopolitical bag in 1953• Why Iran went from miniskirts to mandatory hijabs overnight• What Hezbollah actually is• How Israel and Saudi Arabia are basically sneaky-linking• What a “proxy war” is and why America won’t log off• Why every time we say “stability,” we really mean “oil”• And how this whole mess is lowkey sponsored by Lockheed MartinAlso: underground raves in Tehran, religious trauma, and the fact that yes- Iran and Israel are basically sending each other nukes in the group chat.By the end of this episode, you’ll know who hates who, who funds who, and who’s probably going to start WW3 - and you won’t even need a PhD or a Pentagon badge to understand it.Thanks so much for listening and supporting the show! If this episode untangled the chaos, drop a five-star review or send it to your smartest dumb friend who still confuses Iran with Iraq.REVIEW THE SHOW ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ https://open.spotify.com/show/4ijzUBunTIHgVmahB0ISEN BECOME A PATRON! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/tjms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ KEEP IN TOUCH!INSTAGRAM »⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/jacquelinemonroe/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TIKTOK » jacqueline.monroe EMAIL THE SHOW!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [e-mail]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ MY MUSIC GUY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://soundcloud.com/robmonmusic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ SPONSORSSpotify for Podcasters

I can't believe I'm doing this episode right now. Hi, what's up? It's Jacqueline. Welcome back to the show. So if you're watching this right now or listening, you're probably not a foreign policy expert, okay? But you're probably really good at, this is why it's the perfect episode for you.

You're probably really good at detecting toxic relationship patterns, okay? You might be worried about World War III right now, okay? But you're busy. Yes, you're college educated. No, you're not a foreign policy expert, but you're busy. You don't have time to worry about geopolitics. You don't even know what geopolitics mean.

means. You don't even know what Hezbollah means, okay? But something else you're probably really good at is detecting or being involved in love triangles, okay? So with that in mind, we are going to be discussing Israel versus Iran and the U.S.'s involvement at a goldfish brain level. Thank you. I thought that was a good idea. I'm going to dumb this down so much. I'm going to dumb this down so much, okay? Let me get the military music on. We're going to be discussing Israel versus Iran versus the U.S.

Or whatever. At a goldfish brain level. For you today. I'm going to be discussing this as if we're talking about a high school cafeteria fight where instead of throwing spaghetti, they're throwing nukes, okay? Now in this episode, there are no dumb questions, no dumb questions. There's no such thing. I think dumb questions are great questions. So we're going to ask a lot of dumb questions today. And I want to put a little disclaimer out there right now. And I want to let you know

that this episode is going to be giving chat GBT college PowerPoint presentation. Okay. As if I completed this at 3am last minute, and I'm reading word for word, it's going to be giving that in my opinion in 2025 if you're not exploiting robots to further the education of your audience to help erase their brain rot I consider you a terrible person okay I mean not to be dramatic but I don't see myself coming back to this microphone in the future discussing like Justin Bieber news or um you know my stupid the minutiae of my life like I currently have a a pipe in my bathroom that is uh putting a scent out that smells like a porta potty and um we are clean people here we do use the toilet in disgusting ways but we like the pipe should not be smelling this way um it's a

water pipe so I'm not sure what's infecting the water or making it smell like that but like I'm sick of talking to you guys I'm just saying I love feeling like I'm educating and I'm entertaining at the same time and it's actually worth it's good for your brain you know so um I'm literally saying this and at the same time I'm like I know that's I'm gonna go back to that stuff next week like I know it but just let me feel inspired by myself right now I I know I said this was giving last minute college presentation um where I crammed at the night before but like honestly I'm really proud of this I spent a lot of time on this I feel after all of my research like I actually understand it thoroughly like I genuinely do and you know how important that important that

is to me because sometimes or a lot of times I'm out in the world and I have conversations with people that are super well versed on this topic especially and I'll be like yeah yeah like I don't have anything to add and they'll they'll be like oh you should read this book or that book and then I sound like oh yeah yeah I'll read and I never read the books right so we uh we're changing it up today or you guys. Okay. Let's like set, should I set the scene or say each segment? I want to like get this crack in because I know if I don't, if I set the scene too much, if I talk about my beverages and my lip gloss too much, if I ramble about my disgusting dinner last night too much and how shitty I feel. And the fact that I woke up at 4 30 AM too much when I had to spend class

at six and I had this entire podcast to prep for and then record. And now it's 1 15 PM and my dogs need to go outside because they've been, oh my God. And then I've got gardeners here and then I've got construction next door. If I go on too much about that, this, I don't, it will be five hours. So, um, let me discuss like really briefly, briefly the segments. So, um, oh shit. We do have new sound effects here today. So these are the, uh, okay, let's take a breath. Here's like a teaser of a, of a sound effect, like a fun one for you. Okay. Like cute. These are like my first sound effects. Like don't make fun of me. Um, I want to make history and that's what this is. Okay. Anyway. So I had some fun with my Rodecaster Pro 2. I finally switched it up. So

these are the uh let's take a breath these are the segments today okay this is a little warm-up before I get into deep dive into each one we've got uh the friend group breakdown the besties versus the frenemies versus the the enemies okay we're going to discuss who hates who who likes who who's secretly jealous of who I'm talking about countries here okay so we're going to go into that to start that's good and that's going to be your appetizer okay then we're going to get into uh the the biblical the biblical biblical I can't even fucking okay we're gonna get into the biblical stuff okay really briefly we're gonna talk about the the biblical element of this conversation um then we're gonna speed up to their early 1900s talk about the Zionist

setup when everyone started coming back to the holy land um then we're gonna talk about the nakba in 1948 what the hell that was because I'm sure you've heard the word nakba and you're like huh? Like Nakba, what does that mean? Israel just became a thing in 1948. What? I thought that was in the Bible. I thought Israel has always been a thing. So we're going to discuss that. Okay. You're not dumb. You're actually smart. You just don't know the tea on that. And like the backstory that we're going to talk about the Islamic revolution. And when the, when I had told the ayatollah returns um the bikini area bikini area the bikini era the 70 era 70s era in iran and the shah era and um what sparked the snap why did the islamic revolution happen

um the current conflict the deep lore of that conflict the real tea and the real beef um the U.S.'s involvement and the political tea in the U.S. the uh what else here how serious is the situation we're gonna dive a little bit into the military industrial complex who's who's running Iran now what is the current climate in Iran what um how do people live there now and what's changed and we'll just at the end just discuss what we learned I should have been a teacher some days I'm like I should have been a nurse and then some days I'm like I should have been a teacher so I'm a podcast host it's fine I'm enjoying this life it's it's really fun I really enjoy this side of podcasting like the when I sit my ass down and actually

learn something for once where I'm actually like absorbing information and I'm not just talking out of my ass about again like pipes in my bathroom so let me uh get the plugs out of the way. What music do I want to play for this? Shit. Just go back to this. All right. So please hit that subscribe button wherever you're listening right now. I'm on Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Breaker. Is this even worth saying anymore? Stitcher, Breaker, Overcast, wherever you listen to podcasts, probably Apple or Spotify. Please hit that subscribe button and review the show five stars while you're there. If you know what Hezbollah means, review the show. Well, I feel like most of you won't. If you don't know what Hezbollah means,

review the show five stars right now um or geopolitics what else did i say um do you know what the word do you know what a theocracy is maybe you forgot what the word theocracy is or who we're going to be discussing that today please review the show five stars okay follow me on instagram and tiktok at jacqueline monroe and uh youtube subscribe to my youtube channel this is a video and audio podcast subscribe to my youtube channel um and patreon.com slash tjms if you want to support the show it's five dollars a month patreon.com slash tjms all right is this music getting annoying I feel like it's annoying if you're listening right now you're probably like just turn that shit off we just want to hear your soothing voice so really quickly I'm going to set

the scene so again it's way too far in the afternoon I skipped my nap I was wide awake at 4 30 I had a spin class at 6 I planned that spin class so I could spin class glam set up my studio and podcast, right? Uh, that didn't happen. So I decided I wanted to add more to the podcast than I had originally prepared for. I got in the rabbit hole and I couldn't stop. And now it's one 20. We're still, we're just getting started and that's fine. Um, Corey's golfing or he golfed morning I think he shot even par the dogs are sleeping actually they don't you're probably like you're a horrible person your dogs need to go outside like stop the podcast and go do that they're fine they were outside all morning while I was prepping so I think they're good now but I

always feel mom guilt because I'm like I know whatever it doesn't matter they're napping let me keep it moving um I'm going to a festival tomorrow I have an Amazon package that was delivered at my front door. That's how, you know, I was in the rabbit hole. I have a bunch of cute outfits, uh, getting delivered today. They've, they've been delivered and I haven't checked my front door step or brought them in yet. Cause I was just like head down into this, uh, research stuff. So I'm going to a festival festival this weekend, um, here in San Diego. What else is happening uh yeah okay like the the makeup and the lip gloss and the powder you guys know I always powder my upper lip during the episode so I don't look shiny on my clips we're doing the wet and

wild five in one essence primer powder okay on a little uh triangle sponge and then we're doing the mac syrup I think I need to apply more mac syrup uh lipstick this uh ulta brand plumped lip gloss. That's so dumb that I wear this because, or it's so dumb that I'm going to wear this because it's plumping and tingly. And I have a really bad blister on my upper lip that I want gone immediately because I'm going to this festival tomorrow, but I like the glossy lip on camera and I'm that insane. So I'm probably going to do it anyways. Diet Coke, bubbly cherry flavored, uh, sparkling water, uh, quad espresso on ice. Okay. Who's friends? Who's enemies? Who are frenemies? Who are the besties? Wait, let me reapply this. Let me get into this. You guys,

I have so many tabs. Fuck. Um, do you guys want jazz vibes again? Here's a different vibe for you while I apply my lipstick. I'm so excited about my new sound effects I've had this roadcaster for what a year and I haven't had any fun with it until now it's just so dumb it's like I'm so that kind of person where I like see something every day and I I like don't think there's like a better way to to use it or to whatever and I like see it and I don't do anything so like what else is like that in my house I feel like there's always something in my house where I'm like like I have this bin full of clothes that just sits there and I'm like I just there's like a return a tj maxx return at the bottom of it that's probably way too past

the time i can return it and i just had to think about what am i seeing in my house that i'm missing is this probably an adhd thing but and it's just anyways that's always there that damn bin full of clothes and stuff there's always a bin or a chair full of clothes for no reason um all right so lip gloss is on let's talk about who hates who who likes who and uh get into this this podcast we're doing it right now how many minutes are we and i feel like we did a good intro there that wasn't too long this music's too sweet for this topic we're just gonna go no music so iran am i gonna say here's the thing am i gonna say iran or iran

this entire episode. I need to pick a side because, or pick a lane or whatever, because I'm going to be saying it a lot in this episode. And I feel like if I remember Obama says Iran, am I going to do how Obama says it? Or Iran. Now, one time back in the day when I had YouTube, when it was fun and you would watch stupid videos, I was really into one time back in the day. What am I saying? This is like, seventh grade when I got my MacBook for the first time and I had a YouTube and my friends in middle school and I would like watch stupid YouTube videos all day. And I remember being obsessed with, um, fuck not the Saturday night live sketches was like mad TV. Was it called mad TV

or something? Anyways, they had this, am I getting that right? Mad TV. Maybe it was like Saturday night it was like Saturday night live but not whatever anyways there was this stupid um not stupid I don't remember it's probably funny but they had a again getting into the weeds we need to get on the topic but they had there was this video and there was a shoe and you know how the iPhone and the app what was everything was I I um iMac iPhone I what else is there iPod everything was I and so they had this segment about Iran but they called it was like I ran I ran so I think I've always said I ran because that stupid video but like I think it's Iran and I listened to um is it Patrick but David PPD isn't he Iranian Iranian fuck I think he says Iran I always hear

it because he's from Iran right anyways I'm gonna just kind of freeball it I might say Iran I might say I'm probably going to say Iran and Iran Iran who cares I'm not trying to be okay another thing is like I literally consulted chat GPT about like what I'm wearing how I should do my hair I mean this is insane it's like listen to your own intuition like make your like you don't like that's insane I had to go this far but I was like what should I wear discussing this topic today so I don't look like I'm not being insensitive or overly provocative or like I am wearing a last strip I feel and I feel like that's pushing it a little bit but um I'm not I'm trying okay here's the thing I'm trying to learn about this in a light way where like yes it's serious yes I've

seen all the videos and I've seen the massacre and I've seen the genocide and I've seen the explosions and I've seen the horrible baby images and kids and all of that and I've seen what's going on I have a heart I'm not a shitty person I just want to keep this pretty neutral and neutral light okay so I'm trying to like I'm not making fun of countries here I'm not making fun of people cultures religions I'm just I'm trying to do objective unbiased journalism here should I give you my real thoughts so stay until the end of the episode to find out my honest thoughts and like where I stand on the issue maybe should I just fully take my ponytail out and just tell you because I think I have a changed heart on the situation after doing the research and um yeah

I don't I didn't know what I didn't know let's just put it that way and it's very eye-opening So let's like get there, right? Like you might come, come to a new conclusion in your head while you listen to the, to this yourself. So Iran, we're going to say Iran, the vibe, Iran's vibe. Let's get into it. Too light of music to here's my other music. Wait, no, no, that's too, I just think I got to like do no music. No. Yeah. We got to, sorry. I'm too excited about my new, my new music. Sorry. Iran, the vibe. Okay. Who is she? What's she like? We're going to kind of refer to these countries as women. I know I said that said it's a love triangle. Okay. This is a three-way lesbian love triangle on the episode today. All these countries are going to be discussed as if

they're women. Okay. Iran is that goth bitch at school. Okay. She has nuclear ambitions. She's gothic she's also got deep daddy issues and uh a secret only fans for weapons tech okay so that's iran that's the vibe now she's besties with russia russia arms her and they bond over anti-west vibes and trauma okay these are her besties okay so we've got russia china syria and hezbollah and hamas china's her sugar daddy okay china buys her oil and doesn't ask any questions okay she kind of likes that there's tension between Iran and the U S China does. Okay. Like they're kind of like secretly into that. Um, because it helps like it acts as a counterbalance to, um, China and America. It's like a, yeah. Um, I'm doing my best. We're in the first segment. Okay.

Okay. So Syria's Assad regime. Syria and Iran crash on each other's couches. Okay. Just remember that. They're like homies like that. Okay. They smoke weed together. They're chill. They chill on each other's couches. Now Hezbollah, this is where we're going to learn about what is your, I started the episode by saying you're busy. Yes, you're college educated, but you're busy. You have bills to pay. You don't know what you hear the word Hezbollah and you're like Hezbollah, Like what is Hezbollah? I think before I did my research, I knew it was a military group and I was correct. So they're from Lebanon. They're Iran's military BFF. They are funded by Iran, armed by Iran, codependent, very emotionally codependent with Iran. And they

started, Hezbollah started as a resistance to Israel or Israeli occupation. Okay. And this makes sense that iran is like we fuck with you hezbollah because they literally border lebanon borders hezbollah lebanon it's kind of we're going to kind of blend the two lebanon's the country but they it borders israel okay and iran doesn't border israel they're kind of out there in the middle and that's they're like their uh geography is like dead center in the middle east So Hamas besties. Okay. Obviously Iran's fucking Venmo. These are my analogies here. So Hamas is in Gaza. They're besties with Iran because they basically Venmo each other for rocket parts. Okay. That's the vibe. Um, Iran, that's why Israel fucking hates them. Okay. Now who are Iran's enemies? so this is like again the appetizer we're gonna get into like who hates like the friend group who we need to know like who hates each other who likes each other who's in bed with each other

who's jealous of each other right so like that's why we're starting out with this then we're gonna get into some history but first of all number one enemy of Iran Israel okay they want Israel gone okay like literally off the map so like they don't acknowledge that it should be a place at all and they want to fucking destroy it. So number one enemy of Iran is Israel, Saudi Arabia. They're a religious rivalry and it's like they sexed the same dude. Okay. That's a chat GBT reference. There's going to be a lot of obvious chat GBT references. If you read my prompt, what I told it, I'm clinically insane. I mean, that's why you're going to get some of these goofy like references. Okay. So they don't like Saudi Arabia or the U S we've sanctioned the hell out

of them. We have this CIA history meddling in involvement. We'll discuss operation Ajax in a second. Okay. And what that means. Okay. Cause I learned all about operation Ajax and basically how we honestly just like fuck this shit up for ourselves in my opinion we'll just kind of say that um in my in my opinion I mean there's so many ways you can this is very complicated so um it's messy they hate the U.S. um I think they call us it's like Satan what do they say like we're basically Satan so um Israel now who are who does Israel like who does Israel Israel hate let's get to my old sound effect that you guys all know and love here. Um, I think it's, uh, this one cute, right? Okay. I miss her. She's kind of on my other tab over here where I don't really

get to click her anymore. Okay. Israel, the vibe. She's a girl that transferred mid year. Okay. Um, it's like, wait, what's the mean girls thing? It's like, uh, she doesn't even go here. Right? Like that's the vibe. Israel's like, she doesn't even go here. That's how she's seen. Okay. In the Middle East. Is Israel in the Middle East? No, I feel like what's, I feel like it is. I have a map here of the Middle East. I literally have it. Yeah. It's got, uh, honestly, it even includes these African countries, Egypt, Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia was considered Middle East. So yeah. Israel's part of it, right? So she doesn't even go here.

That's the vibe. She got rich fast. Israel got rich fast. She joined a modeling agency, aka the UN, and now everyone's suspicious of her. So that's Israel. She's besties with the US, of course. Besties with benefits. We give her money, weapons, global protection.

She's also besties with the UK. The UK's got a weird uncle energy about her. but she's still supportive uh he she all like making all these women but like UK's the weird uncle okay he's fucking weird but he's supportive of Israel um Germany is a guilt-sponsored friendship obviously for obvious reasons um so they're besties with Germany as they should be at this point um if you know you know like obviously I'm talking about the holocaust what happen Nazis Hitler okay enemies Iran number one obviously um Hezbollah and Hamas obviously we discussed that um they're frenemies with Saudi Arabia so this is interesting they're like friendly

but like don't want to be there's like tension there so they both hate Iran um and they're annoyed that they're both Gulf Gulf countries and rich and unbothered. Well, so they, why do they like, or why are they frenemies of Saudi Arabia? They both hate Iran. There's something here about the Abraham accords. I didn't research. Honestly, I don't know what that means. I've seen Abraham accords, but I don't know what it means. Um, basically there's like secret jealousy with Saudi Arabia. I don't know the tea on that. Let's put a pin on that. If I remember at the very end, after the fourth hour, maybe I'll go back to it, but like, just know they're frenemies of Saudi Arabia. I think that's good enough. All right. Moving on to the biblical, uh, angle of all of

this really quickly. Okay. Because I remember I went to Catholic school. I keep bringing this up. Like the last like few episodes, I keep telling stories about Catholic school. And I remember like the Israelites, Israel's in the Bible, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel. And then when October 7th happened and all this chaos has been ensuing I've I've heard the word Nakba 1948 Israel became a state in 1948 and I'm like is that a what do you call it is that a Mandela effect I'm like does everyone remember Israel from the Bible and yet it's actually it actually only or it's actually only been a thing since 1948 like literally my I was going crazy and like I could have looked that up. Right. Like, I feel like I, I knew that there was something right

with 1948. And I was like, that's good enough for my brain. Like it became a state. I didn't really understand why. Okay. So, um, but let's just clear this up. So Israel is both a Bible character or like a, okay. I'm not going to call it a character. Um, is it, the question is, is it, is it from the Bible or is it actually a country is what, okay. You get it. Um, how am I doing? You guys want to like give me a little debrief right now. I feel like I need, okay. I w I was gonna, I was gonna take talk live this entire episode to like get feedback while I was doing it for the first time. I never do live streams, but I've been exploring the idea of being a live streamer recently because I can hold the attention for so long and do this nonchalantly with no

issue um okay no second guessing just fucking plow forward so ancient ancient israel think the kingdom of the jewish people old testament king david king solomon the first temple etc okay it existed around 1000 bc to 586 bc and it's been conquered and reconquered by empires the Assyrians, the Babylonians and the Romans, right? So it's been around since a thousand BC Israel. So you're not by, so it's, so if you were like, wait, I'm hearing 1948 and Jacqueline's telling me, no, it's been around since a thousand BC. Like, yes. Like it's always been a thing. I'll explain 1948 in a second. Um, and when it became a state officially and what that even means. So after the Romans crushed a Jewish revolt around 135 AD, they renamed the land

Palestina. It's actually like a really pretty girl's name, Palestina or Palestine to him, to humiliate, humiliate Jews and erase Jewish ties. Jews were scattered. That was called the diaspora, but many stayed or it's called the diaspora. I don't know. I think it's It's like a dispersed, disbursement of the Jews, but many stayed late or later returned. So yes, Israel is an ancient term, but the modern state of Israel didn't exist until 1948. Are you guys clear? Does that, okay. So there's, so we'll get to the 1948 thing because it's important to the story and the lore, But it was, so they renamed the land Palestine to,

when the Romans crushed a Jewish revolt around 135 after Jesus' death, they renamed the land Palestine to humiliate Jews and erase Jewish ties. The Jews were scattered, but many of them stayed or later returned. So they were there. The Romans came in and were like, like, fuck you, basically, and then we're calling this Palestine, so technically, they were there, it's, like, very complicated, I know, that's, like, the thing, it's, like, well, they've always been there, what's, why do they, you know, so let's talk about, let's speed it up to the early

1900s and the Zionist setup, okay, you probably hear the word, you hear Zionism, Zionist, zionism zionist uh what what does that mean should we do this i just want to like you know keep it light and chill so this is when everyone started coming back okay in the late 1800s jewish intellectuals in europe started the zionist movement calling for Jewish homeland and their ancestral land. We just discussed why it's ancestral, because it's been there since 1000 BC. These people, these, yeah, okay. The land is under Ottoman control, aka the Turkish Empire, and is already populated by most Arab Muslims, mostly Arab Muslims and Christian

Arabs. Uh, Britain, Britain takes over after world war one in 1917 via the British mandate for Palestine. This is important. British, excuse me, Britain promises both Arabs and Jews that they'll get a state. Okay. So world war one, Britain takes over the land via the British mandate for Palestine and they promised both Arabs and Jews that they'll they'll get a state so what is Zionism it's a political movement to re-establish a Jewish homeland in what was historically Judea and Israel it's a reaction to anti-semitism in Europe aka the holocaust aka you know what happened there so it's like trying to think of an analogy here

it's like if two families it's literally like okay you're renting an Airbnb and another family rents it the same exact Airbnb at the same place at the same time and no one cancels like you're both going to show up there and you're like, I'm staying here. I booked this. And they're like, I'm staying here. I booked this. It's like, what do you do? That's the vibe. Okay. So let's talk about the Nakba. Okay. We're moving forward to 1948. So we talked about the early 1900s post-World War I and the British mandate for Palestine. They'll both have a state. Moving forward to the Nakba. You've probably heard the word Nakba let's get into it so this was both the hard launch and the fallout so after the holocaust

the world started uh just in general the reaction of what happened in the holocaust was we want to support a Jewish state we want to support Jewish people there was you know a lot of support for that and so the UN proposed a two-state solution you probably heard that two-state solution thing in 1947 both a Jewish state and an Arab state the Jews accept the Arabs reject and they because they feel like it's their land and in May on May 14th 1948 Israel declared its independence Arab states Egypt Syria Jordan Lebanon and Iraq immediately invade okay Israel wins so there's a war, the Nakba. Israel wins. The war expands, it expands its territory and 750,000 Palestinians are expelled. They're displaced. So you've probably heard of that, right? Um, and it's

known as, so the Palestinians, so the Nakba is known as, I think that's a word, uh, for, it's a word for catastrophe. Nakba is catastrophe. So the Palestinians are displaced. Israel declares its independence May 14th 1948 and the Nakba so the definition of Nakba yeah is the displacement and dispossession of Palestinians after Israel's founding so that's literally when it became an official state because they won the war and declare their independence I don't know how many people died in that I fucking that was one thing I was gonna look up like how how deadly was the Nakba. How deadly was the Nakba in 1948? Just really quickly, guys. We got to layer some things in that I missed, okay? Can you clarify what you mean by, oh, Nakba? Oh, here we go.

So it displaced, yeah. Estimated death toll and violence. Estimated 13,000 plus Arab deaths, both both military and civilian including palestinians and soldiers roughly 6 000 jews were killed about one percent of the population at the time dozens of massacres occurred um yeah like just a full-on massacre war death situation um horrible so it's just like crazy to I don't know why for me it's really hard to wrap my head around the war I don't know like the the barbaric or the the hatred I mean I get it but like it's just so like it's so hard it's very difficult I always like to put myself in people's shoes but like I don't know I just like to go to the level of death and destruction that they're both going

to right now is like it's so foreign to me and I and I but it's it's so like they're they're just that's how they're it's just how they're raised it's how they think it's what they've their people have been through they have no other I feel like they have no other choice that's how they feel I don't know what it I don't know what it feels like as an American to get to that point where you're like I have no other choice than to fucking hate these other people and want to literally kill them and I'll risk my own life like I see these women in Gaza that are like ready to sacrifice themselves like because like for the cause like it's crazy like I I'm so um it's something I'll you know God willing never have to understand or get to um mentally but anyways uh so we did the

Nakba all right the lore let's get into Operation Ajax the Shah what even is the Shah the lore of the Shah. So let me just like put it this way. Iran used to be hot and chill. Okay. It was basically in the 1970s, Tehran was like, it was like the real housewives of Tehran. Okay. Women wore bikinis. Uh, there were, you know, nightclubs and just, it was sexy. Okay. It was a sexy place to be. You've probably seen pictures, right? I even asked, was that all propaganda or is that, was that legit? It was, it was legit. Okay. Literally that's how Iran looked. That's how the people dressed. That's how the women, I mean, they weren't covered. Yeah. So I'm going to explain like why it used to be hot and chill and why it's not now. In my opinion, it's not hot and

chill. Like if you, maybe you think Iran is hot and chill and perfectly fine now. I, it's hard for me as a Westerner to see that. Again, just difference in belief and religion and values, morals all of that like I just it's hard for me as an American to like really like see it that way um that's what's so wild to me like I always deep think right like I'm getting really into my brain right now but I'm so fascinated by the polarity between how westerners think and live in opera versus like these countries we consider radicalized and you know destructive and uh oppressive in the middle east you know but they're they're thinking like that's the vibe and we're like fuck that you know they're the same with us though they like hate us for

the way we are and it's just like how did our creator whoever made us or whatever's going on the background like spit that out like you know what i mean especially in modern times like it seems like why are we still doing this you know um actually the answer for everything I just answered the question like okay there's difference in belief whatever but like at the end of the day all of this has to do with fucking money so we'll get into that um peace is not good for business it never has been and so uh just know that I will I'll probably in my in the course of my career here on the podcast I'll be I'll be reporting on a lot of wars and a lot of is this gonna be my new niche am I gonna be a war correspondent an independent work guys my mom was a news reporter

I don't know if you know that and she was like on the way to being who's like the 60 minutes chick who will go out in the field in the Middle East during the war in Iraq and wear like the fucking bulletproof vest and she was just like blonde and like just out there you know like my mom like that's probably if she like that was probably her if she didn't like you know have us three kids and like you know switch careers or whatever like she probably was gonna that was probably the end goal um so I'm kind of like living that dream out for her right now for you hi mom I know you're listening um she sent me a picture she was listening to my podcast and she's like I she sent me a picture of her clothesline back home at my um my childhood house she sent a picture of

the clothesline she was like hanging towels and she's like I listened to your podcast you were talking about how you miss that smell of laundry hanging on the the line I'm like I literally like throw our sheets and shit outside over our deck it's so tacky and my like whatever I don't care it's like no one can see it but um just to like smell that like fresh air smell um anyways moving on so the lore of the shah operation ajax what the hell happened in the 70s why was it so hot and chill so let's just start off with this so iran had a prime minister named muhammad Mohamed Mossadegh. Mohamed Mossadegh. Mohamed Mossadegh. Cool. So he wanted to nationalize Iranian oil. What does nationalizing oil mean? Let's get into the weeds here. So it basically

means the government takes back control of its resources to benefit citizens, not foreign companies so they wanted to keep that shit for themselves um and they wanted to take control away from British oil companies the US and the UK freak out okay this hurts their wallets when this prime minister is like I want to nationalize our oil in Iran you know shit hits the fan basically so in 1953 so that's the thing it's all about money right but like we're so fucking like why are we so obsessed with Iran their fucking oil it's like their their location is like dead center in the middle east that's important geopolitically I think from what I read and the fucking oil we're so obsessed with Iran's oil and we like we freaked out okay when they wanted

to nationalize their oil we freaked out the UK freaked out and this is where shit gets messy and shady and of course the U.S. got involved in a fucking shady way proud of being American God bless America also fuck America like honestly I don't know if this was the right move Operation Ajax and what we did in 1953 so in 1953 the CIA stages a coup okay a coup is a sudden often illegal overthrow of government usually by military or foreign interference you probably learned that in your world history class in high school there's your refresher okay i need to use more sound effects i feel like i'm not using them to their full potential today

um okay so there that's what a coup is and the coup is operation ajax basically so and the goal was to overthrow uh muhammad Mossadegh they're Mossadegh they're I'm probably saying that so wrong I think it's Mossadegh um their prime minister the whole goal of it was to overthrow their prime minister who wanted to nationalize the oil um okay so they install uh Muhammad they literally were like okay we're gonna overthrow this prime minister and install someone we want his name was Muhammad Reza Shah uh, Pahlavi, Pahlavi, a Western friendly monarch. Okay. And he was the king of Iran for, or so he was this, uh, Pahlavi guy that they installed, um, during the coup was the king or king of Iran

from 1941 to 1979. So he was already there. They had the prime minister. I'm not, there's like an an overlap but then when the CIA came in and they like they basically overthrew Mossadegh they put that guy in full power after 1953 so the Shah Pavli Muhammad Reza Shah Pavli uh was in full power after 1953 okay he was very pro-western uh modernizing um but he increasingly and we'll get to this he became increasingly an authoritarian authoritarian authoritarian okay we're just we're going at the level I'm at okay if I'm struggling with pronouncing a word we're going to go at the level I'm at and we're not going to judge me okay we're learning together at my pace okay he loved fashion planes western glam he hated democracy

how does that work um before 1979 people wore bikinis Tehran had nightclubs women were doctors and movie stars it was modern wealthy and aligned with the west aka our favorite shit so um we basically turned Iran into like LA like it was just it was like literally like people live their life like there's some tea to that though we'll get into the tea but it was very it looked like if you see these pictures and videos from the 70s it was um in that shah era it was very almost looked like Italy like I guess like especially like the pictures of the beach like it was so like it was such a vibe and so when I think those pictures came out initially or I saw them for the first time a couple years ago they've been around I didn't know about that it was such

a mind fuck because the way I look at Iran now is like you know sharia law and the fucking hijabs the women are they can't even laugh or they literally it's like you can't have a tick you can't shake your ass on a tiktok or of course you can't it's like it's I mean that's like the worst offense I think you'll you know that's a jail you'll be that's lifetime in prison in Iran right now so um to see the that juxtaposition where you're like how is it like this in the set in the shot era in the 70s and but again there's tea on that it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows and freedom and you know luxury like it looked okay so the CIA's role in this Operation Ajax situation where they overthrew the prime minister basically they

paid mob mobs to riot they ran fake news in Iranian papers and bribed generals to flip um so basically the guy the prime minister was trying to help his people um by nationalizing their their oil he's trying to like you know contain the money help or whatever like that that cut off our our or our supply or that fuck shit up for our wallets so um and the UKs and so we put a guy in a new guy in that was very pro-western or he was a previous king he's still the king but now he's in charge and the place turns into LA and it's a vibe there's nightclubs women wear bikinis they're doctors and they're free and everything's happy snappy and

basically we did all of that so we could manipulate them basically so we could get more money there's like did I yeah yeah I'll get into the realty I do have notes here it's like there was a under the underlying motivation of that was for monetary purposes like the us's involvement the cia going in there and doing what they did was literally a money thing obviously but um i'll explain specifically why turning iran into a western looking western um aligning country like or our culture excuse me um was good for us and what um the like the purpose of that like what's the purpose of that you know so I'm trying to think of an analogy it's like it's like imposing your

it's like a really good analogy I feel like it's it's like imposing it's like you go into someone's house and you're like and I don't know I'm trying to think of um their decor is all super mid-century and like funky and cool and you're like no beige everything bitch like you're you come in and you're like no now everything's beige and now everything's aesthetic and now everything's like a neutral tone and you're like going it's like we went into their house we just like completely they already had this beautiful culture this beautiful um art culture um everything about Iran before that under the prime minister's rule and the past dynasties and everything was this beautiful culture like

there wasn't it wasn't how it is today okay let's just put it that way it's definitely progressed into something it didn't look like before and then so it was all of a good and well and then they're like the prime minister's like we're gonna nationalize our oil then the US and UK freak out and then we're like beige fucking everything right like we go into their house that was beautiful artistic mid-century modern gorgeous like amazing art on the walls and we're like no that's not the vibe it's bad for our nervous system to look at color so we're gonna you know get all the shit out of your house and we're gonna neutralize everything like that that we basically imposed our way of life onto a country for our own benefit at the end of the day like

it was for our own benefit for our wallet um that's what that whole operation ajax shit was about um so okay let's go into like the realty the deep lore here so what happened in 1979 um is everything okay that's when the party shut down and um this is gonna be this segment is gonna be let me get to my stupid jingle wait fuck where is it can you hear that bang noise this is like not this like is my desk warped something's like warped whatever so this is when the party got shut down 1979 this is the islamic revolution and when the ayatollah returns so after years of corruption censorship and torture under the shah the people snapped now when i read that i

was like wait a minute i thought it was this utopia in iran under the the shah's power i thought women were in bikinis and life was good and there were nightclubs and it was a vibe and it was like what did i call it the real housewives of tehran vibes like it was thriving like i thought iran was thriving like apparently the people snap because they're under the the shah's power there's actually a lot of corruption censorship and torture um huh like that doesn't lineup. So yeah, here's the real tea. So this is what we see. This is the bikini area. I keep saying area. Oh my God. I said that earlier. So what we see, right? We see women in miniskirts, nightlife in Tehran, imported American goods, universities, and liberal dress codes, right?

Especially in the elite circles. So the wealthy people were living that way, right? And why that happened was because the Shah, backed heavily by the U.S. and Britain, especially after that 1953 CIA-led coup, pushed aggressive modernization and secularism to turn Iran into a Western-style nation-state. So in that era where it looked like a utopia, the people who benefited were a small elite class in cities, especially those aligned with the monarchy or Western corporations. OK, so there was a gap, a huge wealth gap, a huge lifestyle gap between the rich, the rich elites dancing in European gowns and the starving masses. OK, the disparity became impossible to ignore. So while we were seeing these images of Iran's utopia, people are fucking starving. okay um and then there was religious backlash I think I think people were like waking up they're like this isn't Iran like what the fuck you know like we this isn't how we've been living and what is going like they kind of like the dust settled and they like their eyes opened people were

starving there was corruption the richer were getting richer the poor were getting poorer kind of like our country it's kind of giving America in 2025 um uh anyways there was let me just move on. The religious backlash. So Western values like bikinis and alcohol in public were seen by many as an attack on Islamic identity and morality. Enter, let me powder my upper lip before I introduce Ayatollah Ruhola Khomeini. We're going to have to pronounce that 15 times to get it down. Ruhola Komeni. Ayatollah Ruhola Komeni. He returns from exile in France, okay? He's like, fuck this shit. I've been called on by God to save her on, okay? This bitch, no, I'm kidding. Honestly, his intentions were good. Like, you got to give it to him. Like,

again it's like they fucked up or they they went into that they went into the the u.s the u.k fucking meddled got their hands in the pot erased the culture of iran and what it was and basically imposed the western way of being on a country that wasn't western okay and this guy this priest basically who was exiled in france i don't know what he did but um he comes back And he's like, God told me I need to save Iran basically. So, um, this is the, this is the Islamic revolution. Okay. This is what happened. So Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ruhollah Khomeini. I think he goes by Ali. He's the guy you're seeing on the news, the older man with the beard talking a lot okay um he leads a religious revolution to turn iran into an islamic

republic a return to religious law islamic values and justice and the end of foreign imposing and domination so women go from miniskirts to mandatory hijabs overnight the u.s goes from bestie to enemy okay and iran becomes deeply anti-west anti-israel and anti-anyone telling them how to live so this is a reaction to u.s involvement and westernizing a country that wasn't western in the name of because money because money and oil because of resources in iran that we're fucking obsessed with and need and my sister's facetiming me to text her on podcasting worst time oh shit podcasting she's probably got a wedding planning question for me I really feel bad because her wedding's in like a month and I'm like I'm I'll call her back after this um

I should ask her like what her take is on all of this um yeah we did that shit because we needed money like everything else in the world that just it fucking rules the world you know we're in so much debt I don't know how we're gonna get out like what in the like what are we gonna do is this what the general is this why everything's so apathetic now and like no one fucking has hope about anything in the future like it's just sad I don't know I like don't want to spiral spiral right now but we cannot go to war okay like as a society no like literally keep the boots on the ground in america and have them fight for our country in our like let's improve let's focus on the people at home for god's sake um we started this shit we don't need

to finish it we won't finish it it's not gonna end pretty and a lot of fucking american troops are gonna die so keep their fucking boots on our land please keep their boots on the ground at the beach I love that video I love Justin Bieber Okay. So, uh, okay. Anyways, that was my, that was my little, uh, rant there. Cool. We're going to move on. So Ayatollah Ruhola Khomeini, Ruhola Khomeini returns from exile in France.

He leads this revolution. Women go, okay, we did that. Um, overnight Islamic law values, anti-West values, anti-Israel, everything's anti anyone trying to fuck with them or change how they're living, okay? Now, at the time, this was in 1979, okay? The Islamic Revolution. U.S. embassy workers are taken hostage for 444 days. This happens right after the revolution. Now, who was this guy? Komeny. Komeny. I can say it. Komeny. Komeny. Komeny? Komeny. Komeny. I know that's annoying sorry Khomeini he was a religious leader aka like a priest um a cleric a cleric a cleric um exiled by the Shah for preaching against westernization westernization did I say that weird westernization so the Shah was pro-western okay he you know he was part of that utopia vibe

was installed by the U.S. by the CIA you know like we talked about that so he was exiled by the shah for preaching against westernization he spent 15 years in exile in iraq and france before turning like a messiah figure um he became the supreme leader of iran until his death in 1989 wait a minute oh god we fucked up no no no there's another ayatollah shit okay the guy on the news is not this guy god damn it do i have to re-record this segment now to clear that up go at my pace okay we just fucked up but we're gonna like retract retract and get back on the rails okay so Ruhola their names are so like potato this sounds so I'm not being insensitive they just sound so potato to potato to me there's a new guy okay the new guy now is uh

god damn it and he's got an he's got a son who's gonna be there um Wait, did I say he died? Wait, I'm getting, I'm confusing myself. Became Supreme Leader of Iran until his, oh, wait a minute, their names aren't the same. okay, Ko Ali, okay, so since 1989, so that guy died, the first Ayatollah, Ayatollah is like a leader, there's a definition for it, but let me see if I have that definition, actually, because I think I wrote it down, I don't think I do, so Khomeini died in 1989, this new guy,

the guy you're seeing on the news is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. I'm just going to go with it. He's like 86, I think. And I think he has cancer. We'll get into that. That's who the guy on the news is. So Islamic revolution, 1979, this Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns from exile in France. Okay. He was exiled because he spoke out against Westernization by the Shah. Okay. He comes back and he's like, you know, we want our country back. I don't know if God told him to do this. I think it's the next guy that told him to do that. Anyways, we'll get into that. But anyway so then he dies in 1989 new guy comes in okay now let's get into like why we care our involvement did I skip a step here um

I just want to make sure I explain I think you guys get the vibe that I told the new one I want to say the new one from what I read was like God told me to do this yeah let's just move on um okay let's get some jazz music back so why does the U.S. care why are we like so obsessed with their own let's take a breath do I need to open a Diet Coke what time is it it's 2 12 I feel like we're on a good pace right now we're about we're about three quarters of the way through if you're like how long is this gonna go all right so it's giving toxic x we can't block our relationship with Iran why are we so obsessed with them obviously because of oil location and control we want to control

the world as a as a country and here in the U.S. we want to control everything we want to put our hands in every every society we every country every part of we want to be we're just what's that kind of is that a um it's kind of psychotic to like it's like good for like like optically it's like okay that makes us seem powerful like we want to be I guess we need like I don't know it's like good for our safety if we're like in control of everything I guess then people hate us because we get overly involved okay so oil control oil location and control that's why we're obsessed with them Iran is a huge country with massive oil reserves it's it's right on the Persian Gulf and is the influencer of many smaller groups across the Middle East the U.S. hasn't been

obsessed with uh or the U.S. has been obsessed excuse me we've been obsessed with containing iran since they ditched the west in 1979 so when that ayatollah guy came in and immediately everything became an islamic state overnight the women were like bikinis bikinis in 78 79 hijabs okay when that happened we were like uh-uh like we want to contain this shit we want to you know we want to get back to what we were doing before with the westernization of it all which is so like again with like turning their house beige like a mommy blogger mommy tiktoker influencer in the U.S. it's like that's not how they live you know but like why were we so obsessed with westernizing this country um I think I get into that a little more there's like the lore of

I did I not I think I I think I have notes on it there was a reason why or I read about it I don't know if I included in this but it was um it's it's almost like it's a psychological thing like if they live like us dress like us by similar um like we I think what also so it was an economic decision or the purpose was um like if we could put our companies our western companies in Iran because they bought the products that we brought so that was good for our money or our business that was good for business I think it's you know if we had a bikini shop in Iran that was good for the bikini store the bikini companies in the U.S. if that makes sense you get it so like that was like

the reason I'm like but it just seems so like insane it's like it's like forcing someone to become trans who's like, I'm not, I don't feel, I feel, I am a woman. I don't want to change. I don't want to be a man. Or like, what's a good analogy? Like, yeah. Like it's like literally forcing a sex change, a sex change on a country. They don't like for no, for no, like for a reason. But the reason is like, can't, can't we figure out a different way to make money and to source oil? Like, come on like isn't there like a fucking well under our country we can i mean like where's the oil who are our allies and are they willing to give us oil so we don't have to fucking deal

with these countries that hate us all right okay so iran has funded and armed groups the u.s doesn't like think Hezbollah in Lebanon Hamas and Gaza and various Iraqi militaries to us that's terrorism to Iran it's resistance we don't like the terrorism of it all we don't like the radicalization of it all okay we don't like the the barbaric ways they fucking kill people like just chopping body parts off you know like it's not a it's not the vibe we're like super against that okay we we see that as terrorism these groups okay and they're fucking with israel our bestie okay and we're not like cool with that so let's go through the beef checklist the u.s beef checklist okay we're mad at iran because we put in a puppet government situation with the shah the king

the western the pro-western guy okay and they took that puppet government away from us during the islamic revolution overnight bye i don't know if it was like immediate sharia law but it was like the vibe was like islamic values it became a religious state i mean like it was no longer a democratic was it a democratic state under the shawl what was that it was called something else anyways um beef checklist they took our puppet government away they keep threatening our allies and they hate us and call us the great satan okay they refer to us now as the great satan we fucking hate them now because we're like no we're trying to i don't know it's not like we're trying to help it's like it's it's

like a sick it's so sick so it's so toxic like we're not we're trying to help ourselves we're not trying to like we think we're helping their people but like we kind of are because yeah it became extremely like there's a lot of brutality after the islamic revolution towards the people a lot of struggle you know like we were trying to like reduce that police that so um so this is the money angle we've sanctioned them hard okay no trade no money no money transfers no international bank access but they still sell oil mostly to china okay um if you're like what is sanctioned sanctioned mean what does sanctioned mean it's a threatened penalty

for disobeying a law or a rule cute um so we sanction them hard okay just no no ties okay to iran in the um from the u.s no we cut the umbilical cord okay um current conflict let's getting to Israel versus Iran. Fucking chat GBT right here. It's basically, I can't even read this out loud. Okay. Like it's basically the bachelor, but with, uh, nukes, um, that's the vibe. Iran's trying to get the final rose, AKA the nuclear weapon. Uh, but in reality they're only about 80 85 to 90 percent of the way to building a nuke aka the final to getting the final rose um it's a flex it's a threat and a bargain bargaining chip to have a nuke um Israel's like not on my watch bitch and they're snitching to daddy America okay that's the vibe um I'm not

gonna say that's the vibe again on this podcast that's the last time I'm saying it try to keep this girly and light neutral light so like if they get a nuke Israel's like we're dead that can't happen and they snitched they snitched to uh the U.S. and they're like hey fucking help us out over here they're about to complete a nuke and and who knows where that's gonna go they know where it's gonna go it's gonna go on their fucking their fucking land and kill kill them all okay but um basically that couldn't happen no nukes allowed in Iran according to the probably a lot more there's so many countries that are probably against that

it's not just the U.S. and Israel like um obviously the U.N. the Europe I don't know like all the other countries that are besties with Israel. Is Russia down with it? Like, I feel like they're secretly down with it. I don't know. Um, okay. So let's break it down. Iran's nuclear nuclear pro fuck. Do I need to hold on? Iran's nuclear progress is about 85% there. Now, this is a recent event. You've seen the videos of missiles firing into Tehran from Israel and rockets penetrating Tel Aviv. And you've seen World War III fucking TikTok videos. People are like, is this world is world war three starting okay missiles are firing between two countries

um you know the u.s like we thought trump was anti-war and he's basically saying like not on my watch like they're not gonna fuck with israel so we're gonna fucking you know we got to do what we got to do i think he's pro like drone strikes and like strategic uh, targeting instead of like our troops being over there. That's like modern war. That's how modern warfare is now. It's more like, is that what like Obama did too? He was like known for that. Really? Like he really used those, those drones at the time he was in office. I don't know. It's all crazy. It's basically, okay. Basically the batch bachelor, but with nukes. Cool. Um, Israel launched airstrikes on Iranian targets.

They assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists and bombed Iranian targets in Syria. Now, remember, Syria and Iran are besties, and they crash on each other's couches. So there are targets, Iranian targets in Syria. Israel bombed those people. They bombed the nuclear facilities in Iran. basically they targeted the sensitive areas and people that were involved in building a nuke and again they were 85 of the way there i think under biden he was like yeah we're they don't they can't have a nuke but there wasn't like a was he more passive about it like i don't know

what's the difference now like that trump's in office because why are they fucking around and trying to find out with Trump and now I feel like Trump's more hardcore like I think I think I think they got to 85% under Biden because it was so passive like they got away with it we're now Trump's in and he's like pull you know that's not happening so um US is involved because of course we are if they get a new it destabilizes the region it's already destabilized in my opinion Like, has it ever been stable in the Middle East? Like, you know what I mean? So, all right, this is the real tea, the deep lore. We're going deeper into the lore. We already went deep earlier with, um, what do we discuss? Like, like the history side of this, but we're going deeper.

So is Ron, is Ron, oh my God. What time is it? 2 25 PM. I got it. I got it. I can do it. We're going to, I'm deflating, we're going to crack open a bubbly and inflate a little bit here. I'm going to cross, cross ingest Diet Coke in a bubbly. I'm going to cross chug. I'm so sorry, guys. This is probably the most annoying sound. how are we looking on the lips? Do I need to, I feel like I need to reapply something. We're just going to do a little, a little lip gloss break.

Thank you for staying with me up until this, this time of the show. I think today's the first day of summer. Happy summer. I think it's also the longest day of the year, so that's cool. All right. The deep lore, a.k.a. the real tea. So, Iran is a Shiite Muslim theocracy. Remember earlier when I was like, I'm going to tell you what a theocracy is? It's a form of government where Shia Islamic religious leaders or clergy, I love that word, clergy, hold ultimate authority and rule based on Islamic law, a.k.a. Sharia law.

so it's a religious government instead of a secular is that what it's called government um I think that's what it's called when it's not okay whatever democracy which is you know we separate religious religion and state here in the U.S. like I know that it's not that way in Iran it's religion and government is all one situation so Israel is a Jewish democratic state. So right off the bat, they don't see either religiously, culturally, or politically, but that's not even the main thing. Okay. Let's get into this. This is the real beef. Iran does not believe that Israel should exist. Iranian leaders have literally called Israel a cancerous tumor. Okay. They've pushed this idea of liberating Palestine and

wiping Israel off the map. They do not recognize Israel as a legitimate country. You probably know this this is just a little refresher like this is like the main thing like the the vibe anyone who's like against or or or not even there's a mindset out there that it should not exist period so Iran is like very pro delete Israel off the map okay um Iran backs anti-Israel groups we talked about this earlier they give money to and weapons and they train hamas which is based in gaza we all know that and hezbollah based in lebanon lebanon bordering israel lebanon bordering israel um both are sworn enemies of israel these groups frequently launch rockets or attacks into israel israeli israeli territory october 7th for example like we all know i think this is

more of a refresher segment i'm happy to say or i'm oh fuck i'm um not happy to say any of this to be honest this none of this is a happy topic but i feel like this is the stuff you probably before listening to this podcast like you already knew um so congratulate yourself on remember like knowing this say up segment okay um you know about these these two military groups that hate Israel and frequently attack them, okay? So we're very, we're familiar with that, cool. So Israel obviously considers them terrorist groups. Iran considers them resistance fighters.

They're fighting the good cause to erase Israel from the map. And honestly, like, I'm not gonna say like, none of it I'm not gonna like okay I'm not gonna say like rightfully so I don't think any of this is right or just or anything but like I it fucking Israel is doing some really crazy shit okay and it's not helping it's not helping them like it's I think it's hurting them more than it's helping them at this point and I get it like I get what I know what they have to, I get what they have to do, but it's so insane to see these

massacres on a regular basis in Gaza. And I'm just like, okay, like, you know, and then I'm like, why can't they just, is this all about the hostages? Like, is that just like the final straw? Like once they're all back, like 50, I think it's like 50 some people right now, like this all just ends. Like, no, of course not. It's just, it's more than that at this point um so it's I it's almost too far gone to save or to I don't know like I I feel like you guys are all thinking the same thing same thing like how the fuck does this end like how like actually how does it end in world war three I mean does it end in nuclear

um like i don't i i honestly like i hear like oh nuclear war nuclear war and it's not that i don't take it seriously but i'm like are any of these countries actually gonna like actually gonna hit that button like for real hit that button like i feel like like it's such a powerful thing like it's like obviously it's a nuke but like to know another country has that and they could use it at any time like but I don't feel like it's uh I don't know I think it's gonna be I don't know how it ends anyways let's move on um so basically Israel retaliates with targeted airstrikes every time iran builds a weapons factory ship ships missiles to hezbollah or

funds a hamas tunnel building budget israel bombs it they also bomb other things like apartment buildings and fucking kids um they didn't include that here on the chat gbt i think they're um so they don't usually say they did it but everyone knows um think of israel like the petty older sibling who always claps back with precision not always precision let's again chat LGBT. I think I should have had it elaborate more on the other entities, people they're targeting and how they're, yeah, it's just really fucking sad. Analogy for the, okay, here we go um so yeah they're fucking each other up basically and October 7th was some bullshit we all know that like that didn't need to happen I don't know if it was bound to happen

I don't know like I really have no idea but like that was a very that was the catalyst for all this shit obviously and I think it I wonder what the region would look like today had that not have happened do you know what I mean like it definitely it's costing a lot of lives on both sides and I think it's just it's all very sad and I'm like I just I wonder like what I almost it needs to be I don't think it will ever be resolved and I don't know how like I don't know what I'm gonna see in my lifetime in that region like I don't know I almost feel like yeah it's just they're gonna bomb the fuck out of each other until neither place exists like literally it's just gonna everything's gonna be flattened

there's gonna be no I mean it's like I'm sure there's gonna be some sort of peace something deal or some I don't know like I hope like something ends this but Iran's and Iran Iran's involvement Iran Iran I'm second guessing that again um now that's stirring shit up even more so um bonus context here Iran uses okay this is the U.S. political tea so I kind of mentioned Biden earlier so Biden's stance was stop Iran from getting nukes but also avoid World War III Trump wants less war but is also threatening or he's okay he he want he was like the anti-war president that's why people

voted for him he was like very against war he wants people like people to stop dying that famous quote um but he's also threatened to bomb Iran before um I think I don't know like I honestly think there's a difference between like yeah targeting certain facilities that are part of building the nukes and these leaders that are butchering people and shit because that also is a thing there's a difference between that and like full-on like boots on the ground American troops on that soil and fucking war and you know I just watched by the way I just watched warfare holy fuck I mean I knew it was going to be hyper real hyper realist hyper realistic is that realistic that um the betrayal of uh you know what were they marines was it marines

over in what country were they in iraq um it was the entire warfare movie was based on the memory that's all they had the memory of the guys that did this mission that completely went sideways and they had to get rescued and it was like it was really chaotic and crazy and these guys their legs were fucking blown off and they're trying to keep them alive and they're trying to get rescued and then tanks get fucking blown up by IUDs and there's so many people shooting them and it seemed like an impossible mission but they ended up I'll just spoil it they ended up getting out of there I think one guy died really sad but um we don't we don't need that shit again I know like we don't need that we don't need a round two okay we know what I mean look what happened for in Iraq it was

like for what you know what it's just like obviously so whatever we do it's like keep our troops safe keep them here stop getting fucking involved in like we have to do what we have to do in terms of, I guess, supporting our bestie is real, but, um, I just, I don't know. It's not good for business though. Like peace isn't good for business. Um, all right. So here's the chat GPT corny hot take for you. Let's just do a little palate cleanser, something kind of light and fun um oh shit we're talking about war but the hot take from chat gpt on this is everyone claims they want peace but votes like it's a

call of duty lobby night that just I just flashed back to like 10th grade and um when I used to think I was cool because I played call of duties like the boys in high school that I crushed this on so I'm very I'm well versed in what a lobby night is okay um everyone yeah so that's the chat gbt cute it's trying to chat gbt is so cute like it's so like fun and like it was down to make light of a very serious situation when it helped me pump out this itinerary here today okay let's talk about how serious um how serious this situation is really like how serious is it is world war three actually gonna happen okay so um good news uh full-scale full-scale war is unlikely unless

Iran actually launches a nuke or hits Israel hard so what's more likely are proxy wars cyber attacks airstrikes and shady sabotage so um it's kind of one of those things where it's like i said earlier it's very the region is unstable anything like any little tiny flicker of a match is gonna fucking light a fuse and blow shit up like it's that sensitive right now or it feels that way at least um like yeah so probably not it could i i feel like it's I mean, are we going to go to, like, is it going to be a world war? I don't, we're due, right? Isn't that how it works? Like every history repeats itself. It's 19 or it's a two it's 2025. Like we're coming up on, you know, the birth or the birth, the birthday,

the birthday, you know, when people say birthday, Oh my God, I'm not, Oh my God, I am not. Okay. I just gagged on the word birthday. Oh my God. I keep playing it over. I'm trying to stop it. There we go. Birthday, birthday, birthday. That's how you say birthday. Oh my God. Do you ever do that? Where you're like, you get stuck on a word and you're like, that's gross. Birthday. My birthday is on July 7th by the way it's coming up um oh my gosh I just got a text from my mom she's like be a comedian I'm laughing so hard and she's watching my latest episode I think oh my last episode was so dramatic the title the myth of marriage money and modern femininity

that's sweet my sister called me the other day and she was dying at the thing I said about Stockton Rush she's like oh my god that part when you that always warms my heart whenever it's family giving me you know compliments on my podcast it always like hits different than friends or strangers like it always like makes me feel the best because I don't know just it like we all like love and support each other and I just feel really like when I started this thing I don't know what they thought of me at the time because I was a fucking mess if you look at my like early episodes my early podcasts like YouTube videos they were probably like oh my god she's this is like fuck you know like I don't know if this is like the

right thing for her to do right now like she needs to get her life together here she is on a microphone seven days a week. That's literally insane. Um, so I dunno, it's just nice to see or whatever. I need to keep moving. Um, okay. So basically, um, let's like kind of like break it down in terms of a bar fight between women, like ratchet, like, do I need to like allude to a certain culture right now? We've all seen the videos online. Okay. Basically it's like Iran beat the shit or no Iran. Okay. So your best friends with Israel, your besties, Israel, you're at a bar and this bitch across the bar starts throwing hands at your girl, Israel. And Israel's like pulling her earrings off she's like you know throwing punches back and you're like slipping

her brass knuckles on the DL like that's the U.S.'s involvement in what's going on right now it's like here are more missiles here are like here you go we're supporting you I don't even think it's on the DL honestly but that's the vibe okay let's just let's discuss the military industrial complex. Um, we're going to talk about money. Let's get that. Let's get the hype music going. Military industrial complex one-on-one for you today on the show, because we're educating ourselves about a topic that we don't know about. What's the military industrial complex? Why does it matter? Why is war good? Why is peace bad? If I'm talking to you, then I'm standing on business, isn't it?

All right. I just love the clapping sound. All right. Welcome to the first episode of The Real Housewives of Raytheon. What's Raytheon, you ask? i can't do this seriously all right so these private companies like raytheon boeing northrop nor i can't say these like okay northrop northrop northrop northrop i asked cory i literally was pop quizzing him while i was doing research and i'm like what's northrop

uh grumman and he like said it so quickly and so easily i'm like he's just like no he like He's like, oh yeah, they like make jets and shit. And I'm like, huh? You are, you know that? I'm like, wow. Impressive. Um, Northrop, Northrop, Grumman, Grumman, Raytheon, Boeing. What's the other one? That's huge. They make the F-35s and shit. The fighter jets and, um, Lockheed Martin, Lockheed Martin. Okay. These are war's billionaire besties. Okay. They build the bombs. They build the jets, they build the tanks, the drones, et cetera. Okay. Basically every time a bomb drops, they make money. Now, America. Let's wait for the beat drop beat to drop before I say this. All right. I'm really trying to like live and get turned or come, come to life. All right.

sorry i'm like okay i can do this america great america has a huge defense budget let's call it a trillion dollars it's really like 90 billion i think that's what it was in 2024 but basically raytheon is sephora for the pentagon okay they get to spend that fucking budget on the drones on the jets they get to take that money and buy shit like it's fucking sephora okay that's where all the money's going all right okay it's essential to have weaponry and um defense um machine like um objects in your military to defend your country and so it's like those are

essential items okay that the pent the they use the pentagon uses they take that and um they take that budget that huge defense budget if you're like where's the money going they're buying shit with it to keep you safe okay that's the that's i'm gonna say that's the vibe again that's the vibe understand that it is a lot of money but jets are expensive i think a jet is literally a billion dollars so um now basically raytheon lockheed martin boeing north northrup northrup um they donate to politicians influence defense policies and push more conflict to justify more weapons okay so again when bombs drop they make money war is a good thing peace is a bad thing the more the bombs drop the more the money is made okay

how bullshit is that like honestly like I think you already knew that before you listened today but like these companies that supply our militaries with weaponry and shit need to stay in business they're bajillion dollar companies and so it's kind of like the whole system is like it's so corrupt it's like okay let me like really wrap my head around this I want to like focus right now and like think about this about like how like human life lost is essential to keeping a company going like let me dumb this down all the way like they need constant conflict constant like literally if they wouldn't be in business like what's the purpose

of a fucking drone or a tank or a or a missile it's to kill people like it's to keep it's to defend help it's to help defend a country um and literally so it's like okay the purpose let me dumb it down the purpose of being a company where you make defense machinery and shit is to supply military so they can defend themselves from other countries and to protect them it's a it's essential it's honestly like essential because people are fucking crazy people want to kill their people Iran thinks we're satan we got to defend ourselves from that because that's not cool um Israel or Iran wants to delete Israel from the map you have to like defend right it's

like we have to defend so like it's really complicated but like at the end of the day that's why they exist like I'm sad like I just how the fuck you know the more i talk about this the more i'm like war is so pointless like it's so point all of it is so pointless like can we all just fucking grow up how many mushrooms can we drop on fucking iran like how many psychedelic but like i feel like we just need to shower them with mushrooms and like mdma and fucking blast rave music all over their country and just get everyone

to like start loving and embracing and colliding their hearts with one another we need to um we all just need to fucking party like we all need to fuck all these countries that hate each other you need to do some molly do some mushrooms you know go to a go to a rave together we can do it and um where's a good location for that we can do it in um let's do it in israel let's uh let's heal gaza let's fucking do it in gaza god damn they need a rave they need some fucking molly and they need to rave and they need to you know what I mean like why can't it like whenever I'm on drugs you know when you're like fucked up maybe you're on drugs okay I've done everything but like um you're like you just want to love people like when you're especially like

okay drinking like let's make it simple like alcohol fine you just want to love people you realize like we're all connected all that you know spiritual shit and my little pea brain my little American pea brain is so distraught by war it's so distraught by this situation happening where it it can't calculate like the point of it all like I understand now after the miles of research I've done the deep lore the the early like ancient history of it all and the comp how complicated that is but damn you know so who's running Iran Iran now um yeah this was okay let's You know how I mentioned earlier the Ayatollah guy that was Khomeini, right, Khomeini? This new guy is Ali Khamenei, basically the same last name, but different.

He became the supreme leader of Iran. After the Islamic revolution, there was the initial Ayatollah that was exiled from France, or exiled to France, and then he came back and overnight it became an islamic state and um that's when the women started wearing hijabs instead of bikinis he talked about that now in 1989 he died and this guy is who's still in uh power now um is ali he's the guy on the news you're seeing is ali Khamenei. I'm just going to call him Khamenei. Khamenei. Khamenei. He wasn't elected. He's basically a religious monarch. It's a lifetime position. And he says that God gave him authority to rule. Here's some lore. The president was Abraham Raisi as of 2021. He was called the

butcher of Tehran due to his role in mass executions that's the president now the president doesn't have as much pull as Ayatollah Ayatollah is he's got the final say on shit there is a president he was this guy um was ricey ricey was the president as of 2021 butchered a bunch of people. Okay. He died in a helicopter crash in May of 2024. But this Ali Khomeini guy is still running the show. And apparently he has cancer. Rumors of him having cancer has been swirling for years. And he's got a successor, his son, that will take his place. Again, it's a lifetime position not appointed or not elected basically god told him to do it and he's like okay so he's in it he's leading it and he's um he wants israel gone so so this is life in iran

today culture and restrictions um mandatory hijab for women no public dancing singing or showing hair they can't attend this is specific they can't attend men's soccer matches morality police patrol the streets um here's something that happened in 2022 Masha Masa Amini 22 dies after being detained by morality police for improper hijab um that's when I there was a huge protest I remember that um thousands of women were arrested dozens killed um here's a cultural content contradiction for you iran has one of the most educated female populations in the region but they have zero freedom um here's something crazy there are secret underground raves in tehran influencers posts with vpns so they risk being arrested basically um

so they can dance and shake their ass and post tiktoks which is honestly so fucking cool um so what did we learn oh man a lot what did we learn in conclusion i need to wrap the episode i'm proud of this timeline i feel like did we stay it's three it's 255 um I feel like yeah that was a good amount of time do I want to I'll probably ramble after after this but for like two minutes about my life and what's going on with me because I know you're probably like I tuned in for you and you and you totally like shoved some crazy information down my throat today but it's important that you know that I'm trying to erase your brain rot I'm trying to do my public service here now that we have AI as a tool in our back

pocket 24 7 I would be I just think it's a influencers I'm gonna start a revolution like I know there's a lot of educators out there on online thank god god bless and there's a lot of people that just entertain and talk about nonsense on their fucking podcast like me okay and imagine what the world would be like if everyone just like did they just taught people important things and that's all we ever consumed like I don't know that's kind of fucking boring honestly sometimes you just need to release you need to hear someone talk about their stinky pipes in their bathroom like my situation right now I honestly thought Corey was missing when he was peeing at night and peeing on the walls because it was starting to smell like a

porta potty. And I feel like in porta potties, it's a lot of just piss everywhere that doesn't get cleaned. That's the smell. But I know it's the pipe because I put my nose to the pipe that's like coming out of the wall where the water goes in and out. The pipe stinks. So I'm like, what's going on? So in conclusion, what did we learn? The Middle East is messy, ancient and full of real human pain, but also layered in so much propaganda and trauma that most people don't even know where to start. If you feel confused, that's normal. At the end of the day, this is about power fear memory and trauma all playing out on a land people keep calling sacred um iran used to be hot and chill now it's complex dangerous and heavily surveilled

the u.s is deeply entangled because of oil control and a history of meddling israel and iran are in a standoff that could go nuclear nuclear the military industrial complex complex profits heavily from keeping it all messy. And yeah, basically shit's fucked. And now you know why it's fucked. Great episode. I think we'll exit with a jingle here. thank you so much for listening today I was gonna talk wait am I gonna talk about my day oh my gosh oh my god you know when you're excited and you're like I don't know why I'm excited but I'm excited today and you're like wait I know there's something exciting for me right now it's those outfits on my doorstep I forgot to or I didn't pick up those boxes on my

doorstep when they got delivered because I was deep in the research in the, in the rabbit hole for this episode. So like right now, butterflies are, is that, is that like when you, is that like a dopamine spike? Now I'm excited. Had a great episode. Life is good. Had my caffeine. I had my conversation. I did my thing. Now I'm going to go rip open boxes, let my dogs out, lay in the sun, get a little tan try on my new outfits and uh pray for the people in the middle east honestly like god bless them this is all so sad uh you know i'm i'm happy to say i i understand it now and i learned a lot i hope you learned a lot today i hope you took away something new here that you didn't know i think that was my goal

maybe you knew 90% of this but you learned you know two new things that's great um that makes it worth it to me that I spent all this time I was gonna do it anyways a lot of a lot of the times it's like hey I want to educate myself and I know if I do that it's gonna help you too so we can learn together and that's beautiful so um I think with that please hit that subscribe button wherever you're listening right now I'm on apple spotify google podcast stitcher breaker overcast wherever you listen to podcasts I hate this spiel just subscribe the podcast wherever you're listening right now follow me on Instagram and TikTok at Jacqueline Monroe subscribe to my YouTube channel this is a video and audio podcast subscribe to my YouTube YouTube channel the Jacqueline Monroe show

over on YouTube and if you want to support the show uh patreon.com slash tjms patreon.com slash tjms and finally if uh you understand what the hell hezbollah means now give me a five-star review i think in the beginning i said give me a five-star review if you don't know what hezbollah means now that i've taught it to you give me a five-star review if you know what it is now that you know what it means because I had I put that in your brain that it's a military group in Lebanon that's like besties with Iran because they fucking hate Israel and they want to delete it off the map and how fucking crazy is that did I reveal my take on this I didn't you know how I said I was

gonna like leave that for the end just know that i always knew the u.s got involved in other people's shit but the more i read about this and the more i um you know did my research and explained it here to you like the more i realize how like while our intentions are intentions are good i guess because it's going to help us be a prosperous country by doing what we do in other countries like what's the point it's got to be a beneficial thing for us right but like the more I read about it I'm like I feel like we just fuck shit up for ourselves and other people when we do that when we get involved that's probably why they fucking hate us so like I don't know what I know it's more complex than that but it seems like U.S. involvement and policing the world constantly

is not a good thing in my lifetime and from what I've witnessed I don't see it I don't see how it's positive like I think it seems like a you know what I mean like come on can't we just take care I mean eggs are $13 you know can we work on that problem can we work on what's going on here and stay out of people's shit cool I'm falling asleep I'm gonna go open those packages and get a dopamine surge and try on cute outfits and um edit this episode and post it I hope you have a great weekend uh happy first day of summer thanks so much for hanging out and I'll talk to you next week. Bye.