Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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KC-135, those are those strato tankers, those big fuel aircrafts, the refueling crafts, one of them went down. We believe it went down over Western Iraq. There was an incident involving another KC-135. The information is fuzzy. We know that on these KC-135s, there are six crew members, and those six crew members are unaccounted for.
This is not a plane that you can really eject from or there are parachutes. We don't know the status. CENTCOM is not giving us a lot of information. Sadly, the Trump regime lies about everything. They're saying that this incident over Western Iraq does not have anything to do with
hostile fire or friendly fire but we'll be keeping you updated throughout the day we also learned i believe from a cbs report about another medevac involving multiple other service members i believe 19 or so who are being transported to the hospital in Germany. And we're seeing the injuries mount.
And I believe that, again, I don't trust the numbers coming from the Trump regime, but the amount of wounded continues to uh increase by significant amounts also the amount of those uh ships in the uh strait of hermos continue to be attacked by iran iran said if you don't get permission we will strike you now iranian oil is moving easily through the strait of hermos
so are chinese cargo ships they're going through in fact more than ever they're big beneficiaries of this war as is china um but we are seeing lots of other uh ships that have been struck in the strait of hermos also if you look off the coast of iraq uh there was a ship to ship transfer involving a malta flagship i believe belonging to greece and a marshall island flagship
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Chapter 2: What are the latest developments in the U.S. war in Iran?
Oh really, that's interesting when you have absolutely zero allies. Donald Trump has turned the entire Arab nation alliance against the Trump regime. arab nations are now working on security arrangements powerful security arrangements with Iran, that's right. The Arab nations no longer trust the U.S. at all. Further, our Asian allies no longer support the U.S.
and we're taking away our THAAD and Patriot systems from South Korea, just snatching them back in order to move them to the Middle East as we are running out of munitions, as our generals and admirals and everybody warned the Trump regime, as the Middle East nations warned the regime. So the Middle East nations now working on trying to build security guarantees with Iran.
Iran, China, and Russia never been stronger. A global reordering taking place a la World War II, except out of World War II, the United States was the most powerful. Now the United States is coming out as the weakest the biggest loser. Donald Trump's been a loser his entire damn life, bankrupting this casino, that casino.
If you ever wondered how Donald Trump bankrupt all of these casinos, well, he's doing it right now in real time, except with the United States. And of course, the US had the most powerful military. But when you're unprepared,
when you are demented when you don't work with your allies this is the natural result of it all um and again we are uh seeing while all of this is taking place donald trump just making uh ridiculous posts i mean he's posting about uh jerome powell lowering interest rates this What the hell are you even talking about?
This is Trump's post today with all of the things that I just discussed happening, right? This is what he posts. Where is the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome too late Powell today? He should be dropping interest rates immediately.
not waiting for the next meeting donald j trump what do you mean not waiting for the next meeting okay they're not dropping interest rates you idiot inflation is about to surge it already has been surging but it's about to reach stratospheric levels as a result of this disastrous war it was already rising also donald trump threatened the life of the iranian national soccer team
It's like everything he's trying to do is unite and bring together the Iranian nation closer to the Ayatollah. And as the BBC and others reported, right, there were lots of groups who could have been sympathetic to the United States. I mean, we saw the protesters that Donald Trump betrayed in January.
But with everything he's been doing, I mean, blowing up the elementary school, killing 150 little girls or 165 little girls, and then blaming it on Iranian tomahawks, whether it was attacking desalination plants, whether it was working to Israel to blow up oil rigs. creating these like nuclear winter-like circumstances in Iran.
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Chapter 3: How did the closure of the Strait of Hormuz impact global shipping?
And so we are just seeing right now these... the effects of this war kind of hit home with this terrorism here in the United States ramping up in these horrific ways as we disrupt the entire world. And it's increasing also this anti-Semitism within the United States, which also breaks my heart as people
uh, conflate, you know, uh, Jewish people who are innocent and aren't doing anything with the actions of a state, with the actions of a government like Israel. This is all honestly just so horrific to watch. And we have truly just the dumbest, most incompetent, most reckless people who are running the ship right now. And it is just, it's all just so incredibly disturbing.
I know we've got a lot to break down. Jordy, what's the latest on your end? What's up, brothers? What's up, Midas Mighty? Look, we were told that this would be a quick win, right? We were told it was about strength and American exceptionalism, MAGA. But a week into the Iran war, the bill is coming due and American soldiers and our wallets are paying the price.
because of the lack of preparation, because this Trump regime, Brett, to your point, is full of these incompetent buffoons. I think nine American service members are dead that we know of, and roughly 150 are wounded. And the kicker with that 150 number is that the Pentagon didn't even want to admit how many were hurt until reporters leaked the truth. It's not shrank.
That's an active cover-up that we're witnessing. For those who think that the war is far away, check the gas pumps. By turning a global shipping lane into a war zone, Donald Trump just handed you, the American people, a massive new war tax. Oil prices are skyrocketing, and that means the price of everything, from your groceries to your Amazon packages, they're going right up along with them.
we've traded potential i say potential their economic stability for a conflict that we didn't even need to start and because we've been acting like buffoons for so long under the trump regime and embarrassing ourselves time and time again on the global stage we're going at this totally alone like we have isolated ourselves leaving us without our allies and have invited cyber attacks on our power grids and an increased threat of domestic terror instead of making the world safer
The Trump regime has unified our enemies against us while leaving us, the American people, holding 100% of the bill. This isn't policy. This isn't leadership. This is a disaster, Ben. It's time for the Trump regime to just stop gambling and start protecting Americans.
Right, think about the post-World War II global reordering that put the United States of America as the leader of the, quote, free world, right? That's over.
donald trump ran that into the ground just as he did with all of his casinos and we just saw it take place with the fast forward on the remote control right now because trump spent the first year destroying things breaking things ruining all of our alliances whether it was the tariffs against the world or what doge did here at home
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Chapter 4: What was the significance of the Iranian drone attack on the French base?
That's what they're saying. They're saying, see you later. And we're going to try to form an alliance with like Iran.
or china or russia because you can't help us this was all about you being tough but you were the blowhard who in a food fight didn't even throw the grape you cowered you just talked about how powerfully i'm so powerful i'm so powerful powerful people don't need to go around talking about how damn powerful they are that's a sign of weakness
And by the way, these Arab nations should have seen it, but I guess they thought, based on all the things that America was able to build still, that Trump would be able to wield this machinery at least semi-effectively. But no, he's broken everything. And then you've got our Asian allies. I mean, think about if you're South Korea right now.
We just snatched their THAAD missiles that we promised them. We just took them. because we're running out of munitions in the Middle East because they've been targeted by Iran. And so what does North Korea do? Kim Jong Un starts trolling. He starts posting photos of himself, you know, showing new missile tests that he's doing as a way to give the middle finger to South Korea.
What do you think South Korea thinks about us? What do you think Japan thinks about us right now? What do you think Taiwan thinks about us right now? If this is how America is responding to Iran, you think America is going to be able to protect Taiwan from China? Well, the U.S. has already made clear that it ain't going to do that.
We have not given Taiwan the military aid that was promised to them. We haven't given them the missile systems that we promised them. And we've left them very vulnerable. Look, three days ago with the Chinese embassy to the U.S. posted, they posted Taiwan is ours. We want to be very clear. They are ours. Taiwan is ours. And that's it.
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Chapter 5: How is Trump reacting to the escalating war and its consequences?
And what's Trump doing with all of this? Trump is going to run over to China to do a state visit with Xi Jinping, while Xi Jinping is mocking Donald Trump for being too disorganized to even plan a state visit. That's what you have, like Xinhua and all the Chinese media mocking Donald Trump for not being able to even coordinate a state visit.
You've got China and Russia helping Iran right now destroy the US world order, and they're doing an effective job at it. I might add.
And Trump wants to go and meet Xi Jinping because Trump has this deranged vision of himself standing there with Xi Jinping while the Chinese soldiers march in lockstep and Donald Trump can peacock and feel very tough next to Xi Jinping while they're all laughing at what a damn loser he is. And just as he said, oh, you know, everybody's laughing at us. Yeah.
Literally everybody's laughing at us right now, by the way. I'll talk about Russia in a moment, but you wanna see how they're laughing at us? I'll just watch this cartoon that the Iranian embassy in The Hague put out mocking Donald Trump's connections to Epstein. And I mean, by the way, when you watch this cartoon,
It is not too different from what Donald Trump actually said to the press, like they actually kind of used Donald Trump's actual press interview and like, yeah, this is propaganda, sure. But they're actually using what Donald the way Donald Trump is communicating with the press about killing the one hundred and sixty five little girls, little girls in Iran.
And by the way, the Epstein class that did the Epstein war that spent decades being predators against little girls, the first thing they do in this war is kill little girls. Should tell you a lot. It's consistent with their MO. They're predators and they're behaving as such. And now they've rallied everybody in Iran
could have been supportive who may have been supportive against the us and in favor of the auto watch this watch this ad or whatever they're just mocking trump they're laughing at him watch what iran's embassy in the hague put out here play this clip we have no issue with civilians why did you attack the manov school go on lie lie lie
We didn't hit the Manav school. America doesn't have Tomahawk missiles at all.
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Chapter 6: What role does social media play in the current meme wars?
We care deeply about the Iranian people. You see what it said at the end? Epstein. Now I'll show you- Inside out, Epstein's client for the audio listeners. Epstein's client, yeah. And I'll show you the one that China put out. Here's what China put out mocking Donald Trump's shields of the Americas. Here's the one that China put out.
let me keep everyone safe sounds great maybe not now there we go relax sometimes security comes with a little control that's what's going on and by the way if you want to watch donald trump's speech i mean i'll show you the speech that he gave in kentucky where he says uh epic fury what a name what a name we're winning the war we've won we've won it's over we won really i mean
you so we can observe what is happening throughout the middle east right now like we see the fact that iran is using unmanned vessels these umvs to strike these ships we see the residential properties in kuwait and in bahrain and all these other areas uae that are getting hit we see the frequency now of iran striking northern Israel, also using these cluster munitions.
We see the French base being struck in Iraq. We see. And Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben, it's not just we see it. They see it. They see it. And they're right there doing all these actions. They are seeing everything that happens.
So when Trump goes out there and he just says all of these lies about what's happening on the ground in this war and says, we won, everything's going great, ha ha ha, we're crushing them. it just makes us look weak. Like that gaslighting makes him look extra weak. And so I'll play this clip of Trump saying what Ben was saying.
We won Operation Epic Fury because it just shows how weak Donald Trump is, how weak he is making the United States look, and how he is putting our country in even further danger. Watch this. Paducah. And as we take decisive action to stop the threat posed by the terrorist regime in Iran with Operation Epic Fury.
Is that a great name? Well, it's only good if you win, you know, you can only go. And we've won. Let me say we've won. You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won. We won the bet. In the first hour, it was over.
Let me just, I just hate this so much. I just hate, like, it is so comically stupid. Like, it is so beneath the office. It is so beneath what I grew up knowing this country to be. And it is so deeply upsetting on so many levels that he's out there acting like he's some WWE announcer. Sorry, Brad, I didn't want to interrupt. What did you say last episode, though? Do you remember what you said?
You said Donald Trump is gonna have a mission accomplished moment, right? That's coming any second now. And I said, dude, he's having a mission accomplished moment every time he opens his mouth or writes on Truth Social. And sure enough, that right there, I mean, he said, we won. How much more of a mission accomplished moment do you have? Does he need the banner to be up as well?
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Chapter 7: How is the international community responding to the U.S. actions in Iran?
re-arming themselves after ukraine has launched a successful counter-offensive this is putin's dream right now this is xi jinping's dream right now i think the one thing that they're just shocked about is just how quick it's come about i think they knew it was coming but i think they're like whoa whoa like We just, what do we do now?
Like this is kind of sped up a little bit quicker than we thought it was going to happen, but that's the reordering of the world right now. You ready for this stat right here, Ben? I just think this brings the point home. Russia is now making an extra $150 million per day from its oil sales due to the rising prices.
So the Russian government right now is set to receive up to $5 billion in extra revenue by the end of this month, all because of Donald Trump. So when Trump posts those Truth Social posts that says, oh, high oil prices, they're good now. We're all getting rich, right? We're getting rich. High oil prices, aren't we great now? Who's getting rich? Your oil baron friends and your Russian buddies.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of Trump's administration on U.S. foreign policy?
where the audio feed for the last 48 hours just was not loading new episodes so obviously during this time we're trying to get out crucial information to as many people as possible that's really an issue and it's just the whole thing feels weird because here's another thing that i noticed too people were leaving comments positive comments thank you guys so much who do that but then they were also telling me that like fox news like a week before started targeting our show so let me just get out and and let you guys know we would never take
We would never be like, yeah, let's do a deal with Fox News. No, they targeted us. We have no control over those programmatic type ads. The ones that we control are the ones that I read. And so for the commenters who did that, obviously never do that. So I just wanted to clear that up. And now a week after that, our feed was just shut down. Something weird is definitely happening. So please,
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Huge bummer.
Huge bummer. Benji, what's your next? Let's get into the news, folks. So the USS Gerald Ford, that big aircraft carrier, there are two aircraft massive aircraft carriers right now that surround Iran. One is the Abraham Lincoln and the other is the Gerald Ford. Well, the Gerald Ford had a pretty major fire on it earlier today, and apparently it originated in the laundry spaces.
According to the Trump regime, it was, quote, non-combat related, and it got contained relatively soon thereafter. Two sailors were being medically treated in this fire. And I think what's important to note is that this Gerald Ford ship, this aircraft carrier, it's $13.3 billion, one of the flagships of the American naval power in the Middle East.
It's also not meant to be deployed for the amount of time that it's already been deployed already, nearly a year. So lots of the members of the Navy who were on this ship They've missed weddings and births and funerals and key events.
And so you may recall several weeks back before the war started, I was doing reports where I was talking about sources who were telling other kind of military families back at home how low the morale was. There's been problems with the plumbing, sewage leaks, like literally like the feces and the urine would kind of come out. They'd have to go in and fix it.
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