The Pour Over Today - Olympic Updates, Japanese Snap Elections, SpaceX’s Lunar City, & More | 02.11.2026

Episode Date: February 11, 2026

Today, we’re talking about Team USA’s Olympic highlights; Japan’s new supermajority in parliament; SpaceX’s plans to build a “self-growing city” on the moon; and other top news for Wednesday, February 11th. Stay informed while remaining focused on Christ with The Pour Over. Looking to support us? You can choose to pay ⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out our sponsors! We actually use and enjoy every single one. Cru Wild Alaskan HelloFresh Safe House Project Gloo QAVA CCCU Filament Bible Upside Mosh LMNT Not Just Sunday Podcast Bible Gateway Plus TPO Corrections Page

Hey there, this is Bailey at the Porover. And this is Zan at the Porover. Today we're talking about Team USA's Olympic highlights, Japan's new supermajority in Parliament, SpaceX's plans to build a quote, self-growing city on the moon, and other top news for Wednesday, February 11. Stay informed while remaining focused on Christ with the Porover.

Here's your quote of the day. Start where you are with what you're, have. Make something of it. George Washington Carver. Let's get started with some espresso shots. The Winter Olympics are heating up. While Norway and Italy are duking it out for the most medals, Team USA has slid into fourth. On the snow, Americans meddled in men's cross-country, men's freestyle skiing, and women's team skiing. On the ice, the Stars and Stripes won its first ever silver, in curling mixed doubles and picked up bronze in women's luge. Ice dance duo Evan Bates and Madison Chalk currently in second are hoping to skate past France in tonight's final,

and women's hockey is advancing to the quarterfinals after besting rival Canada 5 to nothing yesterday in prelims. Meanwhile, podium hopefuls are being cautioned of falling hardware after several Olympians' medals fell off their ribbons. officials say they're giving, quote, maximum attention to the delicate decorations and are working on a stronger solution. Here's the verse to consider whether you feel like you're skating through life or like you're trying to waddle across the ice without slipping. I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise will always be on my lips. I will boast in the Lord. The humble will hear and be glad. Proclaim the Lord's greatness with me. Let us exalt his name together.

Psalm 34, 1 through 3. Japan's Prime Minister, Sinai Takaichi, just won a landslide victory. The Land of the Rising Sun's first female prime minister called for snap election Sunday. The risk paid off. 90% of her party's liberal Democratic candidates won, securing 316 out of 465 seats for the actually quite conservative liberals. With her two-thirds supermajority, Takaichi aims to tackle the world's fourth largest economy's massive debt

and sluggish growth in aging population and tensions with neighboring China. The, quote, Iron Lady made waves in the Pacific by promising to check Chinese threats to Japan's islands, including those near Taiwan. Central to Takaichi's plan for a, quote, strong and prosperous Japan is major defense spending. President Trump praised her, quote, quote, conservative, peace through strength agenda,

while Beijing said Tokyo is on the, quote, wrong path toward militarism. Just as many Americans view the outcomes of foreign elections with a certain level of detachment, Christians view earthly political outcomes as secondary to the campaign of our eternal home, where we hold our truest citizenship. 2 Corinthians 5 says, From now on then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. In Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us.

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us. Mars has been eclipsed by the moon on SpaceX's Intragalactic to-do list. CEO Elon Musk said Sunday that SpaceX is pausing its long-held Martian ambition in favor of building a, quote, self-growing city on the moon within a decade. Claiming Earth's plus one offers a faster path to securing humanity's future. This is a departure from Musk's 2025 insistence that the moon was, quote, a distraction from its red planet plans. The lunar shift orbits the company's recent X-AI merger, fueling talk of using the moon's cheese, we mean resources, to build space-based data centers,

and it aligns the company with NASA in its race with China to get more footprints on the moon by 2028. In more terrestrial business, YouTuber Mr. Beast took one small step for Gen C, buying the team-focused banking app to boost young people's financial literacy. When space is in the news, it's a good time to ponder the beauty of God's mind-blowing transcendent,

and his tender nearness. In light of that, join us in praying through Psalm 8. Let's pray. Lord, our Lord, how magnificent is your name throughout the earth? You have covered the heavens with your majesty. When I observe your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you set in place, what is a human being that you remember him, a son of man that you look after him? You made him little less than God and crowned him with glory and honor. Lord, our Lord, how magnificent is your name throughout the earth? Amen. Imagine a snack bar with more protein, less sugar, ingredients that support your brain, and a mission that gives back. Meet Mosh, the power snack designed to fuel both mind and body. Each bar is packed with Mosh's signature brain blend, including omega-3s and vitamins B-12 and D,

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Another bruise, here's a rapid round of updates. Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu is visiting Pennsylvania Avenue today to talk about principles for U.S.-Iran nuclear talks. Meetings were moved forward a week after President Trump's delegates opened to negotiations with Iran on Friday. In Wednesday's, quote, strategy shaping session, Israel reportedly plans to share intelligence, prepare contingencies for failed talks, and push for, quote, limits on ballistic missiles, in addition to nuclear weapons.

The Super Bowl halftime scoreboard is official. According to Nielsen, Bad Bunny's much-discussed halftime fiesta or wedding singer gig was the fourth most watched halftime show ever, averaging 128.2 million viewers, 3.3 million more than the game itself. Meanwhile, TPUSA's counter-programming option, the All-American halftime show, drew 6.1 million concurrent viewers on YouTube. The group called it a, quote, massive success, vowing to repeat, in 20, Yesterday, the FBI released footage of a subject in the investigation into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance. Images show a masked, gloved, and armed person tampering with the 84-year-old's door camera on February 1st, the morning she went missing. The FBI uncovered the images from, quote, residual data located in back-end systems and is seeking the public's help to identify

the person. Cuba is running on fumes. On Sunday, Cuban officials announced that aircraft wouldn't be able to refuel on the island emitted jet fuel shortage, forcing airlines to reroute or suspend Cuba-bound flights. The diesel deficit has worsened following the U.S.'s capture of former Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro, which severed Cuba's access to Venezuelan oil. Galane Maxwell is pleading the fifth. The former Epstein associate declined to answer questions during a closed-door congressional

deposition Monday. Maxwell's lawyers said she'd talk if granted clemency by President Trump, and that both Trump and former President Clinton, quote, are innocent. The House first subpoenaed Maxwell last July as part of its ongoing probe into federal handling of the Epstein case. That's all we have for today. much for listening, PPO fam. If you're listening on the Apple Podcasts app, give us a five-star rating and drop a review. If you're listening on Spotify, give us a follow and hit the notification

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