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Chapter 1: What is the overarching theme of this episode?
This is Interrupted by Matt Jones on NewsRadio 840 WHAS. Now, here's Matt Jones.
Episode 32 of Interrupted by Matt Jones. And we are here on kind of a rainy day right before Christmas.
you know conference tournament week get started matt jones and drew franklin and billy we're going to do some news drew we haven't had news in a while i don't know if you've noticed since we haven't had it a lot of stuff has happened i've just been walking around aimlessly like where is the news what is going on this is all going to surprise you But Billy has gone through the news headlines.
He has picked, he only found nine things that he thought were newsworthy. In Billy's opinion, there are only nine news stories.
It tells me we have room to bring up our own topic.
Oh, do you have, well, but you don't know anything because there hasn't been any news. I just mean like, would you literally just ramble about anything in the 10 spot? That's true. That's true. Maybe news will happen in the next hour. I'll tell you what. For the 10th spot, whatever is the first thing I see on Twitter will be the 10th piece of news.
If I were to have done it right now, it would be that NBC Sports has hired Jason Benetti as its play-by-play baseball announcer. I'd have a hard time with that one. That would be the 10th piece of news. But maybe there's still time for something bigger to break.
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Chapter 2: What are the biggest news stories discussed this week?
Do you even know who Jason Bonetti is?
No, respectfully to him, congratulations. I just don't have a lot to offer to that conversation.
I'm sure it's an awesome move for him. But that's not the 10th piece of news. Thank God. All right, so let's get started, Billy. I'm going to guess that the biggest topic is Iran.
Am I right?
It is. But I do want to say Jason does a great job on the White Sox broadcast, and I'm glad he's coming to NBC.
I know who he is now. The name didn't get me. I know exactly who it is.
How do you know what he does on the White Sox broadcast?
Are you watching a lot of White Sox? No, but he's pretty popular as announcers go, and I know that's kind of where he does his bread and butter. Did you say that in case on the off chance he would hear this, he wouldn't hold it against you? No, no, but I'd love to meet him someday.
Seems like a really nice guy. Hand him a business card. A digital business card. Handing him nothing. He's the guy with the glasses, right?
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Chapter 3: What happened with the coordinated strikes on Iran?
All right, what is the first piece? But yeah, starting with the news, it has to be with the war with Iran. The United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes at Iran, known as Operation Epic Fury, on February 28th. Their attacks targeted military bases. What do we think of that name, by the way?
Good name? I like the movie Fury, a war movie back in the day. I thought Fury was there. Who was in that? Brad Pitt. I don't remember that. What war? It was one of them.
Okay. I don't remember Fury. You're saying it's good though, aren't you?
The name is intimidating.
Epic Fury. That sounds to me like a video game. I think they ended up just getting somebody at the department of now war to go, what sounds alpha? Epic fury. I think they had just seen the Brad Pitt movie. Maybe so. All right, so keep going.
Yeah, so they attacked military bases, nuclear sites, and Iranian leadership on that day and included the death of Iran's supreme leader. But in response, Iran launched missiles at several neighboring countries in the Middle East. Six U.S. troops have been killed, and Andy Beshear announced that some of the soldiers were based in Kentucky that were killed in the conflict.
I didn't know that.
President Trump announced that this operation would take about four to five weeks, but the U.S. is prepared to go longer if needed.
We are at war right now, Matt. It's funny. They go back and forth on whether or not we're at war. Sometimes they come out and say, we are at war. But because the Constitution requires Congress to approve war, then it's like other people are like, well, wait a minute. We're not at war. It's a conflict. So Hexeth comes out with his muscles and his hair, and he's like, we're at war.
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Chapter 4: How does the panel view the implications of the U.S. involvement in the Middle East?
And then there'll be another nerd come out and go, we're actually not at war. We're in a military operation. And so what's the difference? It's very different. So, you know, all right. There's a lot of ways you could go about this. First of all, no one should have any sympathy for the Iranian leadership. They have been awful and have killed tens of thousands of their people.
So as we discuss this, I'm in no way pro the Iranian leadership, and it will be better for Iran in theory if they were not the leaders. But one thing history has showed us is that going to war in the Middle East has never really worked going back to Napoleon. I mean, really, you go through history. All great powers have thought they could control what would happen in the Middle East.
And it has never worked ever in history. So and we learned with Iraq the last time that you can dominate a country. But unless you know the answer to what's next. I mean, we're still in Afghanistan and they actually attacked us. And we're still there. And we may be there through eternity. We're not there as much as we were. So I think this is a terrible decision. I think a lot of America does.
Last I saw, 60% of people are against it. What do you think?
Yeah. None of us like war in a lot of the sites we're seeing. A lot of these casualties, maybe even kids. I saw today they released a video of like we torpedoed a ship. Hadn't been done since like World War II.
I mean, this feels like... Well, if you're torpedoing a ship, it's hard to say it's not war.
Yeah, in international waters, it feels a lot bigger than some of the conflicts we've had in the last few years. Spreading across the region.
Wasn't the whole reason people who voted for Trump, part of why they did it is he said there would be no new wars? Peace party. Which was always ridiculous. I mean, the Republican Party, I'm not saying the Democrat Party nowadays is a peace party, but the Republicans are not a peace party. Trump claimed to be the peace president.
I think he's going to have a hard time with that Nobel Peace Prize now.
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Chapter 5: What are the consequences of the recent school shooting case?
He criticized Biden for doing it. You know, this is going to be we're going to be dealing with this for years. Also, they claim that they obliterated Iran's nuclear weapons in 2025. And then they came out and said, well, we had to make sure they don't have nuclear weapons. But then they came out and said, no, wait a minute. They didn't have nuclear weapons.
We had to do it so that they won't have nuclear weapons.
They won't make nuclear weapons.
Well, I mean, but you could use that as a reason to do it in perpetuity. Because they always could. The moment they start to build a factory. And then Rubio comes out and says, we did it because we knew Israel was going to attack Iran and they would respond by attacking our bases.
So we had to preemptively respond to their response, which made it look like we just do whatever Israel wants, which people didn't like that. So then he came out and said, no. We were going to do it, but Israel did it first, but we were going to do it, so we did it. Which, of course, then that means we attack, which means you have to go to Congress. They can't get their story straight.
And it's because... Here's my guess. There are people that really wanted to do it. Lindsey Graham is the most war hawking human being that has ever walked the earth. He convinced Trump to do this. Trump did it. And now they're scrambling going, OK, how do we justify what was basically just his change of mind? And you get all these different explanations.
And the guys that quietly lean towards going into war, they can't just come out and be pro-war. No one's. Lindsey Graham is. But I mean, some of the things that have happened, I mean, you can't like celebrate any of this going. Even if you think it should be happening, it's still awful and tragic that you're having to go through this.
So that's why their messaging is just all messed up because none of them have the right way to explain.
And this doesn't feel like a war America wants. It doesn't to me. And it feels like I've always thought that the whole America is told by Israel what to do. I've always thought that that not only was not particularly true, it was also there's anti-Semitic tones to some of that. And I still think that's not 100% true, but I do think Netanyahu clearly talked Trump into this.
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Chapter 6: What are the latest updates on the search for Nancy Guthrie?
What about you, Billy? I've said this before. You are kind of what I use for... young, podcast-y American male, a lot of whom went for Trump in 2024. What do you think about it? Because I get the sense your group of people really think this is a bad idea.
I think it's a bad idea. I'm confused on why they started the war. We talked about regime change. We've talked about them being an imminent threat to attack. Nobody believes that. They haven't given us any evidence for that.
And they've backed off from that because they know they don't have any evidence of that.
So I just feel like I'm getting the runaround on why we're in this war. I mean, let me support or not support it based on the actual reasons, not for reasons I don't know.
Do you care the argument that Democrats are always like, we have a process? Do you care that they didn't go through Congress?
I could go either way on that one. I think the president should have powers, but Trump feels like he's got too much power right now. And I feel like he does not care about the processes that are already in place.
I mean, they haven't gone through Congress for a war in a long time. And so to some extent, that constitutional requirement has just been ignored. Are they symbolic? Well, I think the last one was, what, World War II or the Korean War? But part of the reason you have that requirement, Drew, is so that you don't get into these never-ending conflicts.
And at some point, the American people get to vote on whether or not they want to do it, you know?
Yeah, I think we're getting farther and farther away from our checks and balances and our Constitution. So I side with that. I would like to think we still go by the necessary procedures, but I think that's been a charade a long time.
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Chapter 7: What is the significance of the recent Daylight Savings Time discussion?
Does anyone believe we're about to be attacked? Part of the problem is the president lies so much that we can't really believe anything he says. So he said in 2025 we obliterated their nuclear regime. Well, if that's true, then we didn't need to do this. Then we're good. If that's false, then why did he say it? And that's a pretty big lie. Exactly. So, like, I have no idea.
I mean, I've seen people say, well, Matt, you don't know what the president knows. Exactly.
fair but do you believe what he says no matter anyway even if you like him does anybody really believe him it's a reality show every day do you but i mean do you believe anything he said i take everything with a grain of salt yeah everything and i think honestly every american does even his supporters well that makes it hard to then make a judgment drew of whether or not this is a good idea
Yeah, I mean, just the example of, all right, we're good, they're not a threat, we got it all, to, all right, they're a threat again, and that ain't been a calendar year. That's a pretty big talking out of both sides of your mouth.
Yeah. Well, you know, the, I don't know, at least when we fought Iran in the 80s, the Iron Sheik came out of it.
as a wrestling we used to really lean into those characters back they don't do that anymore they used to basically whoever we i mean sergeant slot well the iron cheek by the way in the 80s was iranian but then when the gulf war happened he just became colonel mustafa an iraqi and there's anyone who knows the middle east iraq and iran don't like each other he was both he was and they just expect well i mean he used to be iranian now he's iraqi
Who doesn't like us tomorrow? It'll be that. We'll just keep changing around. They don't do that as much anymore. I think the last time they did it was after 9-11. They had a Muslim wrestler. Have you ever seen that story? No, I don't remember that one. Bad idea. That would have been when I was watching, too. Oh, it was a bad idea. It was more like 2003, 2004. I can't remember the guy's name.
He came through OVW. It's awful in hindsight. You look at it and you go, I cannot believe they did that. Because they would come out and his entrance music were prayer chants. Wow. I'm serious. Look up his name. Look up WWE when they had... It's been a documentary, I think, about this. WWE wrestler... Is it Muhammad Hassan? Muhammad Hassan. Yes, that's it. And he was an American.
He was from Syracuse, New York. Yes, he was in OVW. So he from 2004, 2005. He played a Middle Eastern American and it coincided with the bombings in London. It was terrible. If you watch it, you would go, I can't believe they did that. I mean... And he would literally, he would come out to like Muslim chants and people would just boo. And he was wearing a, what is it?
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Chapter 8: How do the hosts feel about the changes in college sports legislation?
Maybe we should get him on the show.
I could have guessed all day. School principal would not have come up.
I didn't have that either. Good for him. His picture is hanging backstage in our OVW Hall of Fame. As he should as a champion. Yeah, former champ. Well, anyway, I don't know what's going to happen with this. And I pray for all the people involved because it's going to be ā it's very scary. And I don't think any obvious end is in sight.
What's next?
The battle for Congress and the Senate is on, Matt.
I love the way you say that. I love the way you say that.
Well, I'm just trying to get you fired up for the news. Okay, thank you. The first primaries of the 2026 midterms were yesterday in several states, including Arkansas, Texas, and North Carolina. Not all the results are finalized, but there are some interesting takeaways. Give me some of them.
Including in Texas, where the Republicans will have a runoff in the Senate primary as no candidate got above 50%. But what may make you happy, Matt, is that Texas Democrats voted James Tallarico over Jasmine Crockett. He will look to be elected later this year.
Well, first of all, He won, and a few weeks ago he was 15 points behind. But the not being on Stephen Colbert probably helped him. I've liked this guy for two years. I would love to get him on a podcast. I've tried. It's hard to get in touch with. I love the fact that as a Democrat, he speaks about religion. He lives his faith. I've sent you, Billy, you've heard me talk about him for a while.
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