Yannis Pappas Hour - Unconquerable Persian Pride: The Inconvenient Revolution of Iran | YP Hour

Episode Date: January 17, 2026

Yanni is called back by the Iranian Revolution to inject some sanity into the insane and confusing takes surrounding it. As the progeny of Anatolian Greeks, this topic is close to home for Yanni, and he explains the parallels between the Greek and Persian experiences under Arab and Islamic subjugation. Support our sponsors: To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit https://Hims.com/YANNIS. https://lucy.co/yannis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, everyone. Guess who's back? It's me, Janus Pappas, with the niche Janus Pappas Hour for you people who will be discovering this. Oh, I got an alert. What's going on? Yonis Pappas just released another Janus Pappas hour. What an inventive title for a podcast.

Yeah, it's not stray breast milk, baby. It's the Yonis Pappas Hour. Just, it could be a serious show. Welcome to the Yannis Pappas Hour. Today we're going to be talking about Iran hosted by George Stephanopoulos. The Janus Pappasour could be hosted by George Stephanopoulos. Very recognizable Greek names. The thing about Greek names is you have to give them credit for being recognizable,

for raising the alarm for certain ethnocentric xenophobic groups immediately until they see you and they go, you're fair-skinned. but sometimes we're not, right? Because that's how civilizations work. Who got in there? Who got in there? Right? The Turks, but Turkic were Central Asian.

They're a little whitish, so who got in there? Indians, who gets in there? Why is my cousin Viceli look like a Hispanic? I don't know. But people have been moving around and shuffling around like ain't nobody's business. And this whole moral thing. of all, pretty much a Greek concept, right? Philosophy, pretty much a Greek concept. Woo, we're going to have a sense of humor about ourselves. Pretty much a Greek concept.

What is Greek concepts? Here's the thing. Greek concepts, Hellenicism, ain't really a nation. For a millennia, it was, it meant you were civilized. It was, it meant you were civilized. It was more civilizational. It was like, are you Greek? You know? Meaning like, are you not an animal? Are you not an amale? Barbarian, what does that mean?

It means not Greek originally. It means it's not Greek. But what they were really saying is wink, wink, you know, wink, wink, wink, and animale. Right? It's sort of like when you hear a black, when you hear a, a Greek now call a black person mavri. It just means black, the word. But when a Greek says mavri,

the sentence around it is usually not good. The same way barbarian just meant not Greek, but the sentence around barbarian shows you that the word not Greek is usually not good. Because Greeks, Greek concepts was civilizational. thing with Persians. They've been around for a long time. Greeks and Persians been around. The Greeks and Persians, former rivals, Celtics and Lakers, you know, we're American,

so you know it from the 300 movie. But both Greece and Persia are very similar because what they've done throughout history has been being conquered. by many different barbarians, many different mavri. A kid, a kid, a kid. It only means black. It's the color black, like Negro in Spanish, just black. Been conquered by many different aggressive forces that aren't so civilized in a lot of ways, repeatedly conquered after their glory years.

And what ends up happening is culturally, Persia and Greece conquers the conquerors. The old expression, right? Rome conquered Greece, but Greek conquered Rome. What does that mean? It means Rome conquered Greece, but culturally, the Roman elites spoke Greek, They adopted all the Greek knowledge, the gods.

Culturally, Rome was Greek. To be Roman meant you were culturally Greek. You know, Alexander the Great went in there. He Hellenicized. People go, Alexander the Greek was, Alexander the Great was Greek. And then Macedonians, you know, these like people who live in Macedonia, where he was from, say he was Macedonian. They're both right. He was from the area of Macedonia, but he was a Greek.

Because Greek meant it wasn't confined or circumscribed by borders. It just meant you weren't on Amale. You weren't on Imale. A lot of people don't know this. Like they don't know the Persians are not Arabs. A lot of people don't know these things because we grew up in America and the human brain just likes to, especially in America, we like to just make sense of a very complicated word

with very simple symbols and archetypes, right? By going over there is a sandstorm. And I get it because it is kind of one big sandstorm over there. But they are different people. It's crazy. Assyrians, what happened to them? The Kurds, what are they doing? I saw them protesting in Calgary.

I was going, why are you protesting? in Calgary. They were protesting in Calgary. Did you know that? So we drove by and I saw, and first of all, I saw some swarthy lookers. So my first instinct is always, you know, maybe some Peruvian kids are, you know, they haven't got their wood or their maple syrup that they're promised, and maybe they're protesting the Canadian government in Calgary, the government of that

province, Calgary. So that's what I first thought. Must be some, and I was about to call them Mexicans. See, even I'm doing it. I was about to go, those Peruvian, they're Peruvian, but those Mexicans over there are protests. The same thing we do with the Iranians. We go those Muslims over there, those Arabs, it's all, you know.

But when you get into it, you know, like when you put a ramen noodle under a microscope, you see there's a lot of different lip-exam. things in there and you shouldn't eat it. So they were protesting in Calgary, which I thought was funny because they're protesting against Turkey, right? The Kurds hate Turks because the Turks were threatened by Kurd. Kurd wants, you know, the Kurds want to carve out their own state and Turkey goes, get out of here and Turkey bans their language, slaughters them a little bit, just trims off the top,

you know? Not everyone's slaughtered. Ruling, ruling countries like they just trim off a little off. that they go in and give you a little haircut. I think the Israelis actually, that's what they call it. It's a little haircut. And I didn't even think of that when I was saying that. But it's a little haircut.

They trim. They trim down the Kurds a little bit. But they were protesting against Turkey in Calgary, which shows you just like, when emotions run wild, reason takes a back door. You know, the nervous system, what it likes to do is shut.

down your neocortex when it gets emotional. And we know that from interacting with ladies. And in my mind, I was going, what are they doing? They're in Calgary. What do you want the Canadians to do about it? The Canadians can't do anything about it, even if they wanted to. They'd have to ask us. And right now, it's like, you know, they're in a toxic relationship with us. Canada is a woman who was raised by an abusive father, who is attracted to a man who is abusive, us. but she can't get away, okay? Right? Because if we started storming the Canadian border,

how's Canada going to protect itself against us? I'll tell you how. They'll call us and say, can you protect us from you? You ever think about that? We defend them. What are going to have four mounties roll up on mooses and say stop?

A, it ain't going to happen. A couple guys would hockey masks and sticks, going, you want a fucking gold bod? You want to drop the fucking mitts and goreepad? You can use a couple of Mounties to maybe exterminate the Black, the Blackfoot Indians. But you can't stop the American War machine. We decide we want to make you the 51st state. Guess what, baby?

You're the 51st state. We're going to beat you, beat you about the arms and make you wear a sweater in summer. So it's a complicated world. But back to the original point, the Kurds, the Assyrians, you know, Armenians is another one. I like to call these miscellaneous whites or white question marks. They're white question marks. Turks, white question mark. A lot of Turks, they're from Central Asia, the Caucasus Mountains or whatever.

They look white, a lot of them, especially the ruling classes. over that time or they looked asiatic or something, you know. We're trying to fit all this into the American definitions of race. Are you white or you not? Right? Or whatever. So much has been mixed in the stew over times. Conquests, cultural convergence, the mushing together of cultures because of conquest,

sometimes just friendly, friendly neighbors, you know, as they call it in Calgary, a TP rating, you know, where a descendant of some Brit or whatever will go bang out an Indian and then the kid becomes half Indian. So if he marries a white, then the kids lose their reservation privileges. Did you know that? So yeah, I mean, the Indians, unfortunately, Blackfoot Indians up there, in Montana. They got a reservation that kind of maybe crosses the border, you know, they threw them

over there. They said, you go over there. We got oil over here in Calgary. You go over there. There's corn over there. You can play with the corn all you want. We'll give you three Buffalo. But the oil's over here.

And supposedly their numbers are really dwindling because of a lot of TP raiders. A lot of white guys going in there and getting themselves an Indian wife. You know, I met a few when I was up there in California. You see a lot more natives in Canada. The booze must not be as strong. Like everything. Everything's a little more pure in Canada. The food, higher regulated.

They may not have that 90 proof. They may not have that Mad Dog 2020 that the natives really love in the United. So you see a lot more. Often, you know, often unfortunately you see them on the street. A lot of them aren't drunk. They don't have the M-Zine. alcohol. It's a bad thing because they're Chinese originally, right? So they were originally Asiatic. Supposedly they walked over to Bering Strait and then they started becoming Tanner.

They didn't get taller. I'm not sure if the penises grew. Don't know. But the phenotype changed a little bit, although you can kind of see in Mexicans, which is all South America, all Mexicans, you can kind of see the Asiatic look. They shared DNA. S-L-K-S. So just leave me alone. Everybody, leave me alone. I'm doing an episode because we got ads.

So what I want to focus on is that area changed a lot, right? Then Alexander, the Great Concord for a while. And then it was ruled, much like Egypt was ruled by Greeks, right? Cleopetra was a Greek ruling Sandra's, Sandra Dees, Sandys. We call them Sandra Dees means, you know, Northern African Arab. I mean, the Arabs come from the Arabian Peninsula. Are you telling me that there's no North African there? I mean, you know, ship routes, you know, trade, things just moved around a little bit.

But Alexander the Great had it for a little while. And it became very Hellenic. The thing that I want to focus on is the cultures, the parallels between the cultures of Persia and Greece and how, like I said, two resilient people who constantly get conquered but conquer their conquerors and eventually knock off the yoke against all odds. the Greeks famously and lastly did it to their Turkish overlords and I'd like to take a sip of tea for that and guess what?

Burned a few mosques. Go figure. I see a lot of action on X going it's got to be the Mossad because Muslims would never burn mosques. And that's what you think if you're an American sitting at your head. are they called tweets or excretions at this point at your ex account making excretions from

Seattle or Denver or if you're sitting in Amsterdam or wherever your parents moved you so you can tweet in English you know you could be uh I don't know Sunni Shi Shi Shi I sufi whatever the hell you are living in England that's what you'd think especially if you hate Israel you really, really want that to be the Mossad, right? Because it's all archetypes now. Who's the hero? Who's the villain? It's all simple. Where's your Sandra's? Where are your Mexicans? It's all very simple. You really want it to be the Mossad. And it may be, I doubt it. I don't know if you thought about that too much. I don't think they're, you know, getting in there to do arson. I don't think that's the first thing. all right, we've got to burn them on. I don't think that is like the number one priority if they're in there.

They're in there. The Americans are in there somewhere. The Mossad is in there somewhere. Both countries know like Iran, but a lot of other countries also don't like Iran, right? Not just Israel and the United States. Now, Israel obviously has the most to gain immediately because it's a content. Contiguous country with Iran. Next door neighbors. And they, you know, they put up a lot of Arvavides. They live next door and they put up a lot of Arvavides trees just to blockouts. They don't have to see their neighbor.

They've had disputes. They're not really fond of each other. So what you do is you get a bunch of Arvavides. And Arvavides are year-round Christmas trees, basically. You're not, you don't live in the country so you don't know what I'm talking about. You don't even know what an oil bill is. You don't know what a fireplace looks like. But this is country stuff now.

You put the Ravavides up and it gives you a little privacy because the year-round plants and also deer's don't eat them. This is shit I know now. So let's just say Israel and Iran have thrown up some Ravidis. But the problem with Ravidis is it takes a while from them to grow and get big and block out your neighbor. So right now I'd say they got the Ravidis a couple years ago and they can still see over, especially with drones.

But Iran is not homogenous. That's the thing. You got some stuff in there. Just like Israel is not homogeneous, right? People want to believe that the Jews over there look like the Jews who rashes under their beards in Brooklyn. There's a few of those, but that's not the majority. You know?

You got your Ashkenazis, yes. the right to return. So a lot of Ashkenazs, a lot of Russian Jews. All they've all come, some of them have come back. Yes. And people go, what other country has like a right to return? Greece. I remember I told that to one person, they were like, what? I was like, yeah. Yeah. If my mother was born there, then you can, I have, I can get a passport. Just how it is. A lot of countries have that. Um, um, and you got your two million Arabs. And you got your Sephardic Jews. You got, you know, you're Iranian-looking Jews, right? Those are the Jews you see in Beverly Hills,

who you could easily, you know, mistake for a muzzie. So it gets complicated in the weeds, is what I'm saying. It gets complicated in the weeds. But Persia, much like Greece, was a powerhouse of a civilization, not just the borders of Iran. So let's go back. Let's go back.

You know, this is the beginning of humanity, right? In that area. The Iranian plateau, 10,000 plus years ago. You see, you know, we've dug up pottery, signs of agriculture. And the first civilization there was called Elam. And the capital was Susa. And this is one of the earliest literate civilizations. They had a distinct language culture.

And they were eventually absorbed by rising Iranian people from the peninsula, Iranian peninsula. Then you had your Indo-European tribes that migrated there. And they split into Indians. Booty booze? Booty booze, not house. The original booty booze. and the Iranians.

So the Indians walked south and did boody-boot-de-boo, and the Iranians stayed put on the Iranian Peninsula. And they introduced a warrior aristocracy, horse culture, and we get the beginnings of the oldest and first monotheistic religion. Can you believe that? They were the first Zoroastrianism, which hasn't been completely wiped out. but for the most part

it was once the state religion of this great civilization what happened? We're okay? And I'll give this to the muzzies. They're very convincing. They know how to stamp shit out because it was there and then it's mostly gone.

So then we get to like the 700 BCs and there was some Assyrians were dominating and they got overthrown by Medes. Then you had the Median Empire. These are all different types of peeps. Then you had the Ahmed-Acha-Mah-Nid Persian Empire. So that's where the greatness really starts under a guy named Cyrus the Great, right?

Cyrus the Great introduced human rights like one of the first guys in the quote unquote East because back then it became two rivals right it was Greece and Persia and then Rome

and Persia and those were the two it was a it was a bipolar two superpowers you know Russia United States, China, United States It's back then it was Persia Greece, Persia Rome. Guys, let's talk about Hymns for a second.

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Right? And I used to meet them and they would say, you meet them in the States and they go, I'm Persian. And to an American's ears, you're going, where's Persia? And they go, well, it's Iran. So you go, you're Iranian. And they always kept this like Persian pride, right? Very prideful. Like the Greeks.

These are the parallels I'm drawing. Right? The Greeks. Right. They act just like the Greeks going, now we're Persian from the great Persian Empire. So Cyrus de Grey, like I said, one of the earliest to start recognizing human rights. He starts a big empire and it becomes the largest empire that the world had ever seen at that point. They're the top dog.

They are the top dog. And you got your famous rulers. You know them from movies. Some of them that weren't really realistically. portrayed. I think what, was it, was it Darius or Xerces? It was Xerces, right? Zer, and the 300,

and he was like a giant, and he had this thing, and he was bald, and, you know, he looked Dominican or whatever, or an Arab, I don't know. You know, a little more son in that region, but he was a giant. And so you got Cyrus de Grey, Darius,

Xerces, these are Persian, rulers. And this is where the, you know, the conflict between the Greece and Persia was at its height, the Greco-Persian wars, you know, the marathon story, Thermopyla, and you got East and West Giants. Then a little Macedonian, who like I said, was Greek because culturally they were Greek, but the Greeks looked at them. It's like they were American, right? It would be like we conquered by, I don't know, a group in America that lived a state, right? And we looked at, we looked down at them, but then they were like tough, but also had Greek culture at the top,

and then they conquered us, right? They conquered the rest of America, just like Philip Alexander's pops did to Greece. The only time Greece was kind of unified when they conquered it for like 10 seconds. But Alexander the Great comes in and he whoops that Persian ass. He whoops that Persian ass the fucking Floyd Mayweather of generals, undefeated, never lost a battle. Fucking bisexual hero, just like holes. Didn't matter what it was attached to.

We're trying something different tonight and he was all game. He conquers the whole fucking thing. And that begins after he dies, of course. His generals, that begins the Greek rule over Iran. And those two great cultures fuse. And you get cities like Seleuicia. I don't know how to pronounce these things. You correct me if you're Persian.

Seluicia? Sounds like a Spanish girl's name. And Greek elites run it, much like in Egypt, right? During that era, Cleopatra, the Tolley, The Ptolemy dynasty, much like that. Greek, they rule it, but not for long. That's from 330 BC before Christ. So that's why.

Nobody was saved yet to 247 BC. And then you get the Parthian Empire, which is the Persian culture pushing back. Much like the Greeks. You can't stamp it out. So you have an Iranian revival and they push back. And then we get to the Sassian. Samian Empire. Now this is where it all changes. This is the last Persian Empire. Zoroastrianism during this empire. And it lasts for a while, 224 to 651 C.E.

Zoroastrianism becomes the state religion. We start to get a national identity there, advanced laws, architecture, medicine. They're flurialism. Russian, right? Their rival, Rome. It's a two superpower world now. Rome and Persia, Iran, the Sasanian Empire. And then they're constantly fighting with Rome, the Byzantium Rome. And because of that, they're on all fronts and a wild bunch of folks from the Iranian Peninsula. Isla inspired by, uh, peace be his name. What's the expression to go? Holy Be his name? What is it?

You know what I'm talking about. The Mogad. Come and conquest. Um, and they fall and the Persian empire is ovajani. But Persian culture is so great. so advanced, much like the Greek culture. The Arabs take it over. They start hitting you with Dad Giza,

some forced conversions, which is kind of lost in history. It's kind of like, how did this all happen so far? Like, how did the whole thing get stamped out? I'm not sure how nicely they asked. But next thing you know, zero-astrianism is all but gone. Everyone's muzzy.

And that's what happens. Islam spreads, Persian political class falls, and you ruled, much like the Greeks ruled Egypt, and the Greeks ruled Persia for a quick second, not, I don't know, 20 years,

whatever the hell it was. It's Persian people ruled by Arab Litas. And Persia, adopts Islam. But Islam becomes very Persianized there. The culture is so strong, just like what the Greeks did to the Romans. The Persians are doing to the Arabs. And a lot of people don't know this.

This is the thing that's very interesting when you get into the weeds. Is the Islamic Golden Age, you know, where they come up with algebra and math and science and all this stuff, Persian dominated. These are Persian, culturally, ethnically, whatever you want to call it, they're Persian, dominated by Persians. And they were Islamified. So they controlled, they were under the control of Islam, but Persians are the ones that, much like Greek philosophy and math

and science carried Rome. Persia carries the Islamic Empire in the region. Most of those guys are Persian. And they contributed medicine science, guys like Al-Farabi, al-Beruni, Avicenna, Abin Sina, Persian guys. Then you get a little Persian revival after that

for a second, 500 years. But under Turkish rulers, still Muslim, Persian culture with the Seljuk Turks. The Turks get in there and they're coming from my country as well and my people. But pre-Islamic Iranian identity is preserved. Then we get the Savavad Empire for 200 years. and that is when Shia Islam becomes the state religion. Different from the Sunnis, everybody else.

So they've always been a little different. They've always been just a little different. They've always been asserting themselves as different. They become different from all the Sunnis surrounding them. They're surrounded by Sunnis. And they go to war a lot with other. Muslims, right? They have, there's civil wars that always happen in all these countries.

When the civil wars happen, guess what happens? Muslims don't burn mosques that is absolutely correct, except for the Muslims that burned other Muslims mosques during civil wars. And there have been countless examples of that. It's not, you know, Protestant Catholics, baby. It's not all unified. and the Iranians get dominated a little bit by the British and Russians for a little while, lose some territory, get their, get exploited a little bit,

and then they have a constitutional revolution, and we get to the pertinent, immediate history, which is the Shah, who looked, he really looks like my mother's friend Polizois, Polizos, from the island of creed. I mean, these people are all just down there. They're just down there. They're all mixed around. I mean, the dude looked exactly like my mother's friend,

Polizois, Polizos, Desha. And Desha does what he does. He wants to align with the West. We see infrastructure growth, secularization, chicks are hot, and forced modernization. They're trying to come into the West. You know, like St. Petersburg, baby.

Like what Ukraine wants to do now. They try it. They want to be us. They say, we're going to align with you. And there he is. Polizos, Polizos. And he comes in and the problem is he's a little authoritarian. Now, he suppresses the religious leaders a lot, the muzzies.

And of course, we get inequality. And that's always a recipe for bad. And then, of course, we get the CIA, the infamous CIA Baku in 53 against the, I think the Shah installed this prime minister, right? Mosadegh? I think the Shah installed them. And then the students hate the Shah and the students are full of piss and vinegar. and they elect

their Zoran Mamdami of the day. Right? They want a revolution. So a lot of the students supported the overthrow of the Shah. Am I right about that? I'm looking at Operation Ajax. Yeah, the British were in there too.

Yeah. The British were, M16 was in there too. because he nationalized Iran's oil industry and we don't like that because that was previously controlled by the British-owned Anglo-Iranian oil company now BP and so Britain retaliated with an oil embargo

and eventually sought U.S. help for regime change. But was he installed by the Shah or am I completely wrong? It was Mosadegh. Yeah, was he installed by the Shah? I hope so. Otherwise, I'm just stupid, which I probably, this is a complicated, I'm trying to give us a quick and dirty here.

Maybe he was. But then we, then, you know, then we grew up. It was the Iran-Rack war, Sunni Shi'i Muslims fighting it out. He was not. He was not. I was wrong. He was elected prime minister by Iran's parliament in 1951, championing oil national.

Okay. So he, so I was wrong. I was wrong. He was a little bit more of a commie, according to us, right? So that's right. He comes in and, and then, you know, then we got sanctions on them. We overthrow. It gets messy over there.

And the next thing you know, we get the revolution. Ayatollah comendi. And he clamps it all down. At first the students are really big fans, and then they go, whoops, what did we do? Because things change. Becomes very anti-Western, anti-imperialist ideology.

Everything's nationalized, but religion, baby, becomes, strong. Strong and you can't do nothing. You can't do nothing anymore and you got to cover up. And, you know, we support Iraq. At that time, then we ended up hurting Iraq, but we were supporting them then because we hated Iran.

We hated, is he called the Supreme Leader? Something like any Supreme Leader. You know you got problems, but you can't call somebody a Supreme Leader. Supreme lawyer, leader, supreme, the word supreme, you got a problem when the word supreme's in there. But we get to today, right? Very religious, Shiite Muslim, they speak Farsi, the Persian language or whatever. And can you make sure that? I'm pretty sure they speak Farsi.

And Persian, they speak Persian. Wait, just hit the arrow. Yeah, okay. Persian is synonymous with Farsi, so I was correct. Over half the population, spoken by over half the population using government media and education through various minority languages, Kurdish. It's a mess over there, Arabic, Azeri, but Persian is the national and official language. I am correct.

So there you go. evidence of the Persian culture dominating Iran, mixed with, I think the Mongols got in there for a second to and conquered as well. I left that out. They conquered everybody. So the Mongols were in there too, but the Persian culture persisted and it is still dominant today. And a lot of people don't know that. But there's a Muslim veneer over it. But the religion of Islam comes from the the Arribulian Peninsula, and it came from the conquerors that came and conquered the land. And we're quite convincing, as they were in many other places, right? The Pakistanis weren't originally Muslim.

How about the Chinese Muslims? They weren't originally Muslims, the Uyghurs or the Malaysians or whatever. Are they Muslim? Yeah, I mean, it just spread. It spread. And they just asked. They went over and they said, hey, what do you guys? think about this. I know you're conditioned to have your own religion and whatever.

But here's this. And everyone just chose immediately. There was no extortion tax or threat of violence, nothing. There was no, you can't beat them, join them energy at all. It was all willful conversion. So we have a deeply Shia, Persian mix going on. But underneath the youth, again, they look over and they see the Corey Hay movie. And they say, I too want palm trees and a sedan. I too, I too want to hear what Gwyneth Paltrow is up to. And basically, I think the chicks over there, you got to give them credit, dude. Yeah, it's getting ugly there.

the chicks over there have just felt way too hot to be wrapped up and I think they want to flaunt it a little bit because they are smoke shows whatever mix of all these people we've talked about the conquests and cultures of that region has made for a smoke show of a lady but unfortunately they got to be wrapped up and these chicks don't want to be wrapped up

so we are at the point where they're trying to shake off the yoke. You're hearing things like we're Persian, we're not Arab, you know, some people, Zoroastrianism, our culture, Zoroanastrianism is just like, I don't know, is there five people who follow that anymore? It's like kind of been stamped out, very small minority. And they know that all their conquerors have adopted their culture

so they're very proud about their culture. They view it as very civilized. They view it as dominant, which it is. They view it as superior, which you can't argue, right? In a lot of ways. So, you know, much like the Roman elites became Greeks, the Arab elites became Persian in Iran. So culturally, they've always.

always want. And they're trying to shake off the yoke. Much like the Greeks shook off the yoke of their Turkish Muslim rulers. Seems like the Persians are trying to shake off their yoke. But it's being, everyone's got different opinions on it and it's very messy. I don't know personally what to support because Mark Ruffalo hasn't made an official statement on it yet.

And this one's a little inconvenient. This one's a little confusing for people because technically they want to shake off the Muslim rule. So if you speak up about that, you may come off as Islamophobic. So that's scary. So I implore the Iranian people, can you stop, please? Because you're making a lot of Western people with platforms uncomfortable. because they are scared to be Islamophobic. Did you think about them?

The Iranian people, when you did this, did you think about Mark Ruffalo and his need to be consistent? And this is very confusing coming on the heels of the Gaza-Israeli situation. It's very confusing for everybody, right? Because you're supporting Muslims there, because they're the weaker of the two,

and now you've got to support against the Muslims because the Muslims are the stronger were the two and I ran and you just don't, your brain is fucking breaking. And I understand and I have sympathy for you because it is a confusing situation when you find out that these people are not a monolith. It's very inconvenient. When you find out that the Muslims always in fight with each, it's very convenient. It's very inconvenient.

These things are inconvenient. When you find out that the, when you find out that, um, Kuwait kicked. out 500,000 Palestinians because they aligned with Saddam Hussein and just kicked them out, made them homeless, probably killed a few. It's inconvenient. That sucks. When you find out Egypt fucking locks the border down and you can't get in there, that sucks. It sucks. Those are their Muslim brothers. And Egypt even says they go shame, shame, shame Israel, but then they lock the fucking thing. They won't even let refugees in. That sucks. it sucks because there only can be one bad guy.

I'm not saying Israel is a good guy. I'm just saying it's a complicated world. You got good guys and bad guys all over the place. Because it's not a comic book. But when you put a pin on your fucking jacket, you want the world to be a comic book, right? Just like that ice shooting. You watch it, right?

First of all, it was very funny because the whole world threw a challenge flag onto the field on that one. and was like, we got to go to the booth. And then everybody started replaying frame by frame to see if his foot was inbound, outbound, was he headed? You know, was it a touchdown? Was it not? Was she looking at him?

Was she not? Was he in front of the car? And the side of the car? Was his foot facing this way? What happened before? I mean, it was a real review. And I have to say, I think the ruling on the field stands. And that ruling is whatever you wanted to represent is true.

because when you watch the film you go, oh, this is a third thing. It's not this, it's not that, right? Because what you wanted to believe is fucking ice and this, he's a murderer, you know, but that was not first degree murder. And then you find out he got run over a week ago or whatever. So he was bringing his trauma in a situation. Then you find out she was an antagonizing protester and her wife who was the one, it looked like she was the one who wore the dildo.

I was going to say pants, but she was definitely the one that wore the strap on. Was kind of telling her what to do and out there, you know, yelling at the ice, tell him, come get me, big boy antagonizing them. And then she's also the one that told her to drive, drive, drive, and get away. Obviously she was scared because the other aggressive guy was coming over, getting out of the fucking car and he was. So she got scared and spooked. So she tried to drive off because she's scared of this guy who was.

too aggressive, and then her fucking wife is going drive. So it's a split second thing. This guy happens to be standing in front of the car. He gets scared. He didn't have to pull his fucking gun. This woman should not have been killed. It's a woman in a car posing no threat. He got out of the way, you know, as soon as she backed up, he should have fucking moved.

Because she didn't just go forward. So you know she wasn't trying to hit him. She reversed a little bit, turned her wheel. So it was a tragic accident. based on historical forces and fucking Franks and beans people, emotions running high. That's what happened. If God, when they both go up to heaven and God goes, God knows what happened. But the two sides need to, just like a school shooting, they need to make it about a bigger thing.

That's what I'm saying. is it becomes very complicated when you get into the weeds. So now the Muslim government, the ruling class in Iran, is slaughtering these protesters, right? The Mossad is doing a terrible job because they're getting slaughtered. At this point, there's reports anywhere from 2000 to 12,000. The scary shit is it's only been. in like a couple days.

That's the scary shit. They knocked out the internet, so it's gone black. And they're saying more than 2,000 people at this point, an Iranian official toad rotors, 2,000 people have been killed. I saw estimates maybe up to 10, 12. And Iranian official also toad Reuters that 2,000 people have been killed, but that terrorists were to blame. Now those, so that's an Iranian official.

I don't know what that means. Obviously not representing the Ayatollah. So I don't know which Iranian official that is. But this isn't... That's representing the Ayatollah. That's the Ayatollah? Yeah. Oh, it is.

It's not us. It's terrorists. You were doing it. Oh, I get it now. Oh, okay. So an official Iranian official said that terrorists were to blame. Not them. So it was just a third group in there of terrorists.

He didn't specify. He didn't say Zionists. Because that would make no sense. So he can't blame the Jews there because the Jews wouldn't want to kill the protesters. And he can't say jihadists because that's essentially what they are. So it's just a, it's just a general,

and this is a direct quote, terrorists. Got it now. So it's not them. So he wants the world to know it was just a general group of terrorists. So they're admitting to 2000. So that means it's a lot more. We're going to see some bad numbers here.

The protests are widespread, 180 cities and towns in all of the country, all 31 provinces of the country. And some mosques have been burned. and officially they're angry over the collapse of the arranging currency and the soaring cost of living. It's just like Manhattan. That's all.

That's all they're protesting. That's all there. That's why they're ripping off their... What is this from? BBC? Yeah. That's why they're ripping off their hijibs and burning pictures and torching shit. It's just like Manhattan.

They're like, why is it rent so high? Why is it rent? And the only reason they're taking off their hijibs, Nike, don't worry, is because they're hot. It's very hot this time of year, and they're just hot. And that's why they're ripping off their hijabs. That's why. Because it's a choice.

It's a cultural choice. Be sensitive. So Nike, do not worry. But, of course, the currency has plummeted and the cost of living is high. It's worthless. Food is hard to get. the currency has plummeted, losing significant value. This year alone, rates exceed 1.4 million reels to the dollar.

I mean, their country's over. It's over. Now, of course, blame the CIA, sanctions, the usual. But I always wondered, if these systems or these leaders were so good, why are they so easily derailed? We have to do business with them? We have to play by their. Why? If you're so powerful, how come you always crumble and we don't?

Food and essential goods have been seen particularly, have seen particularly sharp increases with some report citing a 72% rise compared to the previous previous year in prices. So food is expensive. This is just Manhattan. All they got to do is elect mom dummy and this will be fixed. That's all. I think my nose gets itchy when I get scared because I get scared

because I get into territory where I'm not 100% sure. I'm not an expert on this. I'm just, what I do is I use my gut, which is what you have to do. And you always had to do that. It's not just the internet, right? Because two things people don't understand is evil people or powerful people

never say what they mean. You have to use your gut. You know? Like I said, Jeffrey Dahmer doesn't go, hey, can I bite your tit off? You have to use your gut. to see through the bullshit. And the only thing that does that is street smarts,

which is lacking today. People believe whatever's fucking thrown in front of them. Or what their relatives believe. So it's a complicated thing. And this is very difficult. There's been a lot of critiques from people going, why are you so silent now? You were so vocal for the Gazans.

And then a lot of people, who were vocal for the Ghazan saying things like, I hate Komemi, but, but don't let this happen because Israel and U.S. want it. So I think they want the people to continue to suffer because they just don't want. It's like when you break up, when your girl breaks up with you or you break up with your, you break up with your girl, so you don't want her, but you don't want anyone else to have her either because you want her to suffer. So I think a lot of people just don't want the Ayatollah to fall because they don't want Israel to get what it wants.

They don't want the United States to get what it wants. And that is because they don't want to be wrong. And that's human nature. That's what street smarts tells me. Right? Right? Is that why the T. Mujohn Stewart? What's that Egyptian?

What's the guy's name? Who's always railing? Basim Yousef. probably a very funny guy you know the Egyptian the Egyptian comedian commentator Palestinian activist

good looking dude kind of jacked handsome guy probably related to him you know my family I have family in Alexandria you know he also had problems explaining why his country

seals off the border so tightly when he was asked once he makes a lot of good the points, don't get me wrong. It's hard not to when Israel's bombing the shit out of defenseless people. It's a, you have moral authority, but it's a complicated world over there. You know, the Middle East has been bloody. This is the same old story.

These people have always been fighting. And they fight with each other. But he tweeted, if Iran falls from the inside and there's a complete regime change. The Iranian people should expect that Israel, the United States, will bomb the entire infrastructure and military structure. Just like Saddam Surak, Assad, Syria, and Libya, they are waiting for this moment. Yeah, Russia innocent, Assad innocent, Saddam innocent. I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, what kind of comic book world have this is what happens when these are our new intellectuals are me. It's a comedian.

I'm a comedian. I mean, people got to get their fucking head out of comic books. Right? Just like he did this. Oh, Saddam was fucking just a beauty. Assad was just a beauty. And America and Israel came and fucked it up. And boy, be careful because that's what they're going to do.

Like, things were just rosy before the crime. Creation of the United States of America and Israel. It was so just. You can't pull this bullshit with me. I'm a Greek from Anatolia. You can't pull this bullshit with me. Your religion enslaved my ancestors. Murdered some of them.

You can't pull this bullshit with me. Where you had a ruling class who could just go to a home and pull a kid out of the helm and turn him into a genocide. and pull another woman out and throw her in the fucking herrum for some Sultan's delight. You can't pull this bullshit with me. You had a slave trade that lasted 1,400 years and you cut the balls of a black man. You can't pull this bullshit. You can't act innocent.

You don't have a moral authority when you quote one side bad, one side good. You're ignoring the back and forth that's been going on. Okay? Just now? Right now? All these countries were formed at a time in blood when there wasn't moral police and cameras, but now there's cameras.

And it's so easy to do from first class. Just like Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Yeah, the victim Saddam Hussein and Assad Syria. The victim Assad. Oh my God. And Persian people. people, Iranian people, you heard them. Stop.

Have you thought about your dictator's weapons and his infrastructure? You don't want those to get bombed. Is anyone thinking about the military infrastructure of the Ayatollah in that regime? Are you people on the streets ripping off your jobs? Are you thinking about the military infrastructure? You're not. And Basim Yusuf wants you to think about the military infrastructure. and the infrastructure, which they will not do.

Because it's not Libya, it's not Iraq, it's not Syria. You want it to be bad. You want it to be so bad. You need it to be. You need it to be so bad. You need those mosques to be burned by a guy with the last name Finkelstein. So bad. You need it to be.

to be. You need to not mention that Muslims have been burving other Muslims mosques for a long time. You need to ignore that. You need to ignore that fucking borewall between Gaza and Egypt. You need to ignore that Kuwait kicked out 450,500,000 Palestinians from their home. You need to. You need to call Israel an ethno state. You need to ignore. You need to ignore. or the fact that Turkey is also an ethno state, and so is every Muslim fucking country in the Middle East. You need to ignore that. How is Turkey not an ethno state dominated by one religion?

How not? Where are the 1.5 million Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians, and Kurt, where are they? Do they get equal say? Were they ripped from their homes? Were they forced out of their homes? They lived for sometimes thousands of years? Yes, they were.

Guess whose parents? Guess whose grandparents that was? Fuckface? It was mine, fuck face. I mean, what are we talking about here? We're acting like this is some new ball game? Oh, no. Hands up.

It's like the Germans, right? Oh, no. Oh, he said nothing. It was, I didn't believe any of that. I didn't believe any of that. I'm just the shop. people who happened to be SS God, who while I was winning, was doing what I did, but not I'm losing.

I have to say, I don't believe any of that anymore. It's the oldest thing in the book, man, power. I wish we were all evolved and cultures were all equal. And we just talked about the food and the clothes and the traditions. and we didn't have different laws, and we all respected international law, and we all had individual rights. I wish we could agree on some standard around the world.

But until we can, the United Nations is just a wrestler and a W.W.E. Wrestling match, right? And law's not enough. Consequences are, unfortunately, nobody's paying attention to international law, right? Because if they were, if they were Basim Yousif, then 80% of the women from the age of 18 to something would still have their clits in your country. Correct? Are you from Egypt?

Is that where they take the clits off? I think it is. Right? I can't wait to hear your monologue on that one. Are they taking the clits off? We can't release this episode. But am I saying anything that's wrong? Am I right about that?

Don't they take the clits off? Female circumcision in Egypt? Recently there's been some human rights trying to... Recently, like now! Like now! Like now, dog! Like now. Not 500 years ago.

Not 100 years ago. Now. They're trying to make some changes. Now. Right the second. So, So yes, Israel's been naughty. Yes, very naughty.

Benjamin Netanyahu, I think, is a war criminal. Yes, I do believe that. I do believe his strategy not only was stupid, I think it was immoral, and it's horrible what has happened to a lot of innocent people. I also blame Hamas. And the people outside the country fund them, I blame the unfortunate situation of the people fighting over land, but that's no different than what it's been.

It's no different. People come in, they take it. Where did these guys come from who rule Iran? Are the Arabs who rule Iran? Are the Muslims that, are they from Iran? I ask in questions. The Turks that ruled over Greece and all those areas. Where were they from?

Where were those colonizers and conquerors from? why is it only the 400 years of European colonialism? Why is that the only thing discussed as being good and evil? Why? Is it because everyone hates, is it the same reason why they hate the Patriots? Just because they're winning now? They're the motive.

The United States is winning now. Is it the Patriots effect? Are we the Yankees? I think so. But at the end of the day, day, as I know I've done a good job of cutting through a lot of bullshit. I'm a lot more confident now that we're just doing this once a month because I can hide for three weeks.

I'd like to end this episode by quoting the great giant Steinbeck. And if this isn't where we all stand at some point, then this will just continue. And these grifters and content creators and people who really just don't get into the weeds of what's going on and aren't honest about it will continue to flourish and emotions will run high and they'll appeal to your need to be on a team and to be right, your negativity bias, and they'll all pretend like they're not checking their like count. John Steinbeck, when he received the Nobel Peace Prize or for literature or whatever, gave a speech. And in that speech, he said a bunch of stuff and then this is an excerpt.

from that. And this I would fight for the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes undirected. And this I must fight against any ideas, religion or government, which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. How about we give a shout out to our good friends at for the free.art. They're still here. Check out their website for music, bands, and Hawaii shows coming up. Very cool site to peruse. Let's also give a shout out to our friend Nate Linder. Okay?

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