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Side Stories: Stories with Friends II

13 May 2026

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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?

1.111 - 13.907 Henry Zebrowski

There's no place to escape to. This is the Lost Podcast. On the left. Side stories? That's when the cannibalism started. Side stories. Yes.

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19.594 - 29.986 Eddie

All right, you guys are good. We're good? We're ready? Yeah, you're ready. Oh, side stories. I'm Henry Zebrowski, and I'm getting too big for my clothes.

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32.279 - 51.942 Eddie

How you doing? I'm joined, of course, I'm not Henry Zebrowski. He's out and about. He can't make it in today, but I am joined here with the wonderful, my confident, my efficient, my hero, top five smartest friends, host of the Foreign Report, fraudsters, Sina Ghaznavi. How you doing, buddy?

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51.962 - 55.806 Sina Ghaznavi

Oh, that's so great. I'm so happy you have very few of five friends. Yes, yes.

56.9 - 63.208 Eddie

You're my lawyer, my psychiatrist, my IT guy. What do you think of this computer? How dirty is it?

63.348 - 69.275 Unknown

It's pretty good. Oh, my God, look at that screen, Eddie. I know it would make you upset.

69.375 - 76.243 Sina Ghaznavi

Eddie, the white on the Google Doc, you can't even see. It's changed. I was looking at the keyboard, and then I saw the screen.

76.383 - 78.826 Eddie

Yeah, yeah, you don't know. The keyboard's bad, but the screen's bad.

Chapter 2: How does the situation in Iran impact global perspectives?

833.781 - 843.134 Sina Ghaznavi

It's going to be insane. It's going to be crazy. Yeah. But it's entertaining. Everything is about attention now, and it's going to get attention. I'm giving it attention currently. Yeah.

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843.154 - 843.935 Unknown

Good thing.

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844.555 - 849.622 Eddie

Even though I hate it and it goes against everything in my being, I am morbidly curious.

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Chapter 3: What are the Enhanced Games and their implications?

849.662 - 862.16 Sina Ghaznavi

This is how it happens. It's wrong to... Well, of course, these are people that will never be able to compete in the Olympics or in a proper sporting event.

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862.18 - 877 Eddie

But they're going to get paid. Why would they want to do the Olympics? Yeah. If you're going to fucking make these people practically homeless, and you have to win a gold medal just to get sponsors, just so you can make some fucking money, why would you want to be an Olympian and not an enhanced athlete?

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877.821 - 879.403 Sina Ghaznavi

Oh, man. And then they're going to make it global.

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880.104 - 880.925 Sina Ghaznavi

They're going to make it global.

880.945 - 899.351 Eddie

Already, they got athletes from all over the world. I'm looking over here. They got the athletes. They give them all their own page. And there's guys from all over the world. There's Brazil. I'm looking at fucking... Ireland, you know, it's everywhere. You know, these guys, look, they're from everywhere.

899.371 - 916.535 Sina Ghaznavi

And, you know, the next step is actually, it's going to be a human versus a robot. We're going to have that. Why not? It's going to be Elon's, like, whatever, his, like, robot thing versus one of these guys, and they're all going to make bets. It's going to, oh, yeah, I mean, Kalshi's going to pop off on this. This is all prediction markets, sports betting.

916.856 - 921.342 Eddie

Dude, it's like, also, they're going off on how it's, like, you know...

921.322 - 949.563 Eddie

american american excellence yeah there's like 10 americans out of like 40 athletes by american excellence they mean late stage capitalism end of the empire thank you this is it this is this is a real signal things are spiraling yeah man so this is fucking where we're at we are we're going full idiocracy yeah this is how how we're dealing which day are we going We got to make content for it.

Chapter 4: What is the significance of performance-enhancing drugs in sports?

1339.964 - 1342.007 Sina Ghaznavi

I do what I can. Pick your things.

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1342.087 - 1352.262 Eddie

I went to the Nike store, the employee store recently when I was in Portland. And not one child working there. No. You believe that? No, they got him in the basement.

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1352.282 - 1356.949 Henry Zebrowski

I was like, this is good. They got him in the basement. Oh, they keep him where I can't see. Someone's got to put the laces on his shoes.

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1356.969 - 1357.209 Eddie

Dimly lit.

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1357.269 - 1358.01 Henry Zebrowski

Tiny hands.

1358.891 - 1366.762 Eddie

Working. Well, all right. That's going to be an interesting thing. Now I want to move on to upsetting stuff.

1367.342 - 1369.505 Sina Ghaznavi

Oh, that wasn't upsetting. That was actually fun.

1369.545 - 1370.807 Eddie

That's actually kind of...

1371.428 - 1377.315 Henry Zebrowski

Inside Stories World? That's actually very fun. That's a blast. That's the rom-com of stories?

Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Enhanced Games and journalist safety in conflict zones?

2538.985 - 2539.626 Sina Ghaznavi

I get it.

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2539.867 - 2540.308 Unknown

I get it.

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2540.488 - 2542.292 Sina Ghaznavi

But the thing is... They're not allowed to go to the Olympics.

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2542.453 - 2550.903 Henry Zebrowski

Yeah, exactly. I say invite them. They have a great badminton team.

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2550.923 - 2554.027 Sina Ghaznavi

The Hamas badminton team is top notch.

2554.948 - 2570.708 Eddie

Oh, man. And it's crazy because we're watching and it's hard to see what's happening because so many journalists are getting killed. In 2025, Israel killed 84 journalists out of 129 that were killed worldwide. So that's a big portion of it.

2570.949 - 2585.942 Eddie

And so what they're banking on is people just being scared to report on this stuff and not being able to because not only are they doing that there in Gaza, but in Iran, they're shutting off the internet, they're shutting off the power, and people aren't able to get the word out.

2586.395 - 2607.878 Sina Ghaznavi

It is so fundamentally, I think the biggest, and there's a lot of things to be upset about, but the thing that really upsets me, and this is very personal for me, that upsets me, and like, you know, don't at me, but like, Israel and the United States have made the Islamic Republic regime likable And there's I will never forgive anyone involved for doing that.

2607.999 - 2628.909 Sina Ghaznavi

I've spent decades trying to tell people how brutal these people are, how they kill people, how they've, you know, the brain drain that's happened. They get educated and then people leave like it's destroyed the place where I want to take my kids to one day. Yeah. But no, we're so bad here that we make the other people look cool.

Chapter 6: How does the discussion shift to the impact of the Epstein revelations?

2634.479 - 2638.667 Eddie

It's hard. And I hate talking about this stuff because, you know.

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2638.687 - 2641.933 Sina Ghaznavi

I love doing it every week on Last Podcast Network. Yeah.

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2643.466 - 2655.27 Eddie

You know, because you're talking on a personal level, a personal level for me is I don't like saying anti-Israel stuff because half my family is Jewish, a lot of my best friends are Jewish, and anti-Semitism is very real.

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2655.531 - 2659.078 Sina Ghaznavi

And that's the other thing. The anti-Semitism is insane right now.

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2659.058 - 2679.784 Eddie

yeah and so it's like and like my goddaughter her school at a fucking bomb threat she's five yeah you know like what are we fucking doing and so i get scared about talking about this shit because i don't want people to just blindly attack jews because that's what fucking happens historically but it's like well what then what am i supposed to turn a blind eye to what's happening

2679.764 - 2700.813 Sina Ghaznavi

Well, I grew up going to Seders and Passovers of my best friends growing up. And to me, this this also this whole war puts them in an unsafe position. Yeah, this is just disgusting at the end of the day. And so I'm worried about them. And frankly, a lot of my Jewish friends don't have a relationship with Israel. Because, again, they talk about the kingdom of Israel. Right.

2701.514 - 2710.666 Sina Ghaznavi

But it's a nation state. We're talking about countries. We're talking about like the Bible wasn't just like, you know. like the country of Israel. It was like a kingdom.

Chapter 7: What happened to the notorious poacher trampled by elephants?

2710.686 - 2718.997 Sina Ghaznavi

Do you want to go back to that? I mean, do we just, is the Bible or the Torah, like everybody's Zillow now, that you could just go and just be like, this is actually mine?

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2719.037 - 2728.029 Henry Zebrowski

Whenever people talk about the Bible or the Torah or any of that shit, I'm like, oh, so your argument is nonsense? That's what I hear.

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2728.089 - 2741.315 Sina Ghaznavi

And number one, the Persian Empire was when Egypt to India, if we want to go back in time, we can go back in time to those days. Everyone was happy. Religious freedom. We had a great system of roadways, a postal service. It was very nice.

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2741.375 - 2765.441 Eddie

Chicks were in bikinis and shit in the 60s in Iran. It was fucking awesome. And they're hot. They took that from us. These beautiful women. They're so gorgeous. You're my Prince of Persia. Thank you for talking about this with me. I've taken so much shit for never even bringing this shit up on the show. I don't feel like Henry and I have any right talking about pontificating on all this stuff.

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2765.481 - 2767.123 Eddie

It's crazy.

Chapter 8: How do the hosts reflect on the ethics of big game hunting?

2767.884 - 2779.38 Eddie

But when the death toll reaches this number, we have to. I want to fart and cum joke my way through life, but I'm bound to talk about death.

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2779.36 - 2802.715 Sina Ghaznavi

It is. And again, I think just to like put a pin or a bow or a cherry or a bomb on top of it, it is you can be against this war and understand the complexity of it. And we talk about this on The Foreign Report all the time. Hold the complexity of this in your heart and in your head that the Islamic Republic is a brutal regime that kills its own people.

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2802.935 - 2806.06 Sina Ghaznavi

And the United States and Israel are being brutal victims.

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2806.04 - 2835.54 Sina Ghaznavi

brutal actors in this war that never needed to happen a war of choice innocent people are being killed and the fact that this president has the audacity to go out and say we did regime change is nothing more than the biggest betrayal to the iranian people you could ever imagine and at the end of the day i'm a kid that grew up in pittsburgh and this helps zero people in pittsburgh although it cost me 70 fucking dollars to pump gas in my car today and i even went to costco wow

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2837.242 - 2838.064 Sina Ghaznavi

God damn it.

2838.084 - 2841.61 Eddie

Costco, you're supposed to have it.

2841.63 - 2847.421 Sina Ghaznavi

It is supposed to be cheaper, but I'm like, what? This is, you know? Anyways. Thanks for letting me do this.

2847.441 - 2855.516 Eddie

No, I appreciate you. Because I don't feel right talking about it without someone who's directly involved. Yeah. I want to talk about another massacre.

2856.298 - 2856.398

What?

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