Rex Jones and Tim Tompkins dissect the Miami nightclub scandal involving Andrew Tate, Nick Fuentes, Sneeko, and others—performing Nazi salutes for clicks—while Tate claims ignorance, blaming "shock-value" content. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson warns of U.S. missteps in Iran tensions, citing carrier groups near the region and Netanyahu’s push for regime change despite Trump’s stated opposition. Seismic activity near Israel’s Dimona nuclear site fuels speculation about covert threats, with Wilkerson arguing nuclear deterrence is rational. The episode critiques mainstream media’s reliance on government sources and highlights alternative experts like Nima Alkhorshid and Judge Napolitano to expose geopolitical realities. [Automatically generated summary]
But I reacted to that and I was because I thought it was going to be fun.
That's what people wanted to see.
And I still think we had a fun time.
But the thing everyone knows about right now that's circulating on Twitter and whatnot, it's kind of the peak of the peak IRL streaming slop is the Fuentes, ex-Sneeko, ex-Andrew Tate, ex-Tristan Tate, ex-Justin Waller, ex-Myron, ex-Walter Fresh, all of them.
And like the thing I look at is like, I got a lot of people in the chat, like over the course of doing the solo show on the weekdays.
A lot of people are like, react to Fuentes, react to Sneeko, react to this XYZ.
And I'm like, look, I consider it honestly, like, not Fuentes, not his show, which I do respect.
I consider the IRL streaming culture to be the lowest of the low.
Seriously.
And that's not, I'm not dissing anyone's profession.
I'm not dissing how you make money or how you're able to get the Lambo or whatever.
Good for you.
Good for you.
The point is that I always reference is that the Arab tribes used to have a myth where if or not a myth, legend, if you got a photo taken of you, you lost a portion of your soul.
And I don't necessarily believe that in its entirety, but I do believe it's unhealthy to be on camera for like 12 hours a day, every single day, for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks, because ultimately you would act like a Kai Sanat, like just constantly on the air.
That's, that's different, like even him he's like usually, like in a room or something where you're like walking around, like interacting with people in a way where you wouldn't.
You would not act like that if there's not a camera there.
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No, you're not like, but it becomes your identity.
time you guys used to not hear it he's like what does look so uncomfortable Well, I think 20s is uncomfortable because it's his first time going to the club.
It would be hold on, it would be just a song, man, every if Myron didn't just go and like do this salute and they just make it like super mainstream.
Like, you had the Avengers of like streamers of like the red pill Avengers is what I would call them.
So, like, it's it's a high, like there's a lot of people there watching you, and they knew what they were trying to do in order to get clicks out of it.
Now, that from that standpoint, I'm like, but I still think it's slop.
Like, he's like, you're better than that, essentially, is what they're all calling him out for.
He's like, why do you even associate with somebody like Sneeko who's literally dragged your name through the mud over and over again?
And then you're sitting here with him.
And he's like, honestly, if somebody had told me this was going to happen, I would have never gone because he's receiving flack not just from the internet, but his private circles of people who are talking to him.
And just to clarify, guys, you know, I don't like when we go around and saying like everything's like anti-Semitism and, you know, just being critical of genocide going on makes you anti-Semit and anti-Semite.
Like those types of things like have nuance to where like people just want to report what's going on and just stop like killing.
I don't, I don't push back on those.
But like for what they're doing where they're playing the song, doing the salutes, having a good old boy time.
I mean, it's like they know what they're doing for the clicks.
I don't truly believe that Sneeko or, you know, Fuentes or the rest of them are like truly anti-Semitic, right?
Like just like Fuentes goes on to Pierce and he's like, you're a racist.
No, I don't think Fuentes is truly a racist.
It's just the role he's playing.
But again, these things.
You put it out there, you're actually gonna pull the people who actually might be in that demographic of like anti-semitic or racist.
That's that's where my issues come up and you're just like giving them like more fuel of the fire for the people who actually genuinely have those positions.
He's in there dancing like the rest of us, we're all having fun and it's like hey, i've never been to one and it's like it's basically like almost like a club for like kids and you're just listening, like Katie Parry, and you're like you're jamming out.
But, like i'm saying, like these people all turned like 13 at that point.
So like he knows all of these people and he's not actually anti-semitic.
He has friends that are Jewish, so he doesn't hate Jews.
I don't, I don't.
I don't put that on the table, it's just, I don't also like the fact of like you remember when little Nas X has like blood or like makes a mockery of Christianity or something like that and has blood in the NIKE shoe and they had to like take the shoe off.
It's like there's certain things that are just polarizing and unnecessary, that can anger an entire population for no reason.
So saturday night, Sneeko and Nick Fuentes end up at this so-called wait for it European Elegance nightclub, which is a tourist trap that three Arab owners uh have.
And like you think about this and you're like, little column A, a little column B, get banned from all nightclubs, whatever, do awesome cocaine with Andrew Tate, listen to How Hitler music.
And so like my whole thing is, is like, okay, fine, but you can't play victim after you receive consequences for your actions specifically.
You know, like he goes on and like, you, you'll see the video, and we're not going to cover this, but like he's almost like gaslighting the guy that's on the phone with him and being like, oh, so you don't just like me because I'm playing just a song.
It's like, no, you're playing a specific song to elicit a specific reaction.
Beyond even that, it's like if your culture or like your streaming culture is to go to the club, you're going to do something that prevents you from going to the club.
Also, just keep in mind, these people have families.
They have friends.
They have people that associate with them.
They don't care when they go on there and who it affects at the end of the day.
Like people pay attention to who you spend time around and who you're interacting.
And it always comes back on the people that you actually care about.
So that is another thing that I have an issue with.
And then just on the macro level, when it comes to power, when it comes to money, when it comes to being in business with people, often the race, religion, all these other things, they don't care about.
They just care about like respect in general, right?
Like that doesn't mean they don't have healthy discord and talk about certain things and have tough conversations.
That doesn't mean that they don't do that.
They always have those types of conversations.
It just means like they don't do unnecessary damage.
And it's not even damage because it sounds like pretty soft, but it's like unnecessary, like derogatory things.
It's not like, you know, Jeff Bezos is in a meeting talking to this black guy and he's like calling him the N-word.
Like there's, there's like, I don't know for sure.
People just respect each other for the purpose of like the business transaction in itself.
And as an individual, you can still disagree with somebody and still respect them at the same time.
Right.
And the last thing I'll say specifically on this is we always talk about the Jews being in power.
Fine.
There's a lot of powerful people who are Jewish, but there's also more people who are white Anglo-Saxon and are super powerful.
And if you do certain things in the Christian aspect where you like mock or do something crazy ridiculous that would upset a bunch of Christians, you're going to receive a reparation.
You're going to be reprimanded for that.
Right.
Like I don't see people going around the streets burning crosses and stomping on the Bible and stuff like that.
Imagine if that happens, what ends up what the outrage comes from.
And like we cover the Muslims praying and people bring over the bacon, like, huh?
It's just, it may not be illegal, but it is, it's, it's antagonizing.
Here's my thing.
I, I don't have an issue with them going to the club and doing this.
It's, it's whatever.
I look at it kind of like, I don't know, like a dog eats its own poo and it's just kind of what it does.
But at the end of the day, I look at it and like, we're not talking about important stuff.
We're talking about this.
And like, we're covering it now because you have personal connection to it.
And like one of the chatters said, like, this is like a global story right now, but it's a global story because it's, it's as inflammatory as possible.
They had to control the narrative because there was a lot of Christians that were upset.
And if you go to Saudi Arabia or some of these Middle Eastern countries, you're not going to do certain things there.
Like we just tolerate it here, but like no one's going to tolerate you like making a mockery of the Quran or just like saying like, you know, Muhammad was doing this.
You go into LA or like some of these like media companies and like the social scene and you do certain things around the black community.
You're going to upset people who are in power, like who have real like a 50 cent or like a snoop dog who run those industries and certain things like that.
It's just why it's unnecessary.
You want to play let's go ahead and play PBD.
And then after that, I will talk about Sneeko specifically.
And by the way, I spoke to all the club operators.
They are not welcome in their club.
How they got into this club?
Open arms.
I want to know how.
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The videos are from Saturday night.
This one inside the club Vendome at 743 Washington Avenue.
The club releasing a statement on social media that reads in part: We want to be unequivocally clear, Vendôme and our hospitality group do not condone anti-Semitism, hate speech, or prejudice of any kind.
It goes on to state, we are deeply disturbed by the harm caused by this incident and the circulation of this footage.
The post explains that business is looking into safeguards and procedures to make sure this doesn't happen again.
As for the men in the video celebrating the song, the mayor has it at the step.
We're going to get into Andrew Tate's response with this.
But like, oh man, it's like, you understand that like people like Nick Fuentes, Sneeko, Clav, like they'll never be able to wipe this away from their reputation.
And they've lost on the aspect of just even being able to do good business with good people or just being able to like, there's other ways to make money and have reputation than just be like controversial and contribute to society.
And like for me, you know, I see this and I'm like, there's a reason why, like, if I'm upset with something or I have a point to make about a certain community or what people are doing, I'll say it in a logical manner that doesn't have to be something that like gets clicks.
And you can say things in a way that like says it with conviction in which you mean it without like being intentionally insulting.
So that way you actually make somebody pissed off.
Like Suleiman came on here, right?
Suleiman came on here.
He has a lot of positions about the Quran.
He has a lot of positions about Muslims and Iran.
And Rex and I were sitting here listening to him, right?
But we didn't necessarily agree with every single thing that he had to say on those particular issues.
But we were respectful.
We didn't sit there and be like, oh, you like bacon, piggy, and like all these different things.
No, we didn't have to do that in order to have a good conversation because out of that, you got to actually have some real talk, real conversations, real context, even beyond.
Had we started attacking and we just like went for it and been like, all right, let's just make this super spicy, you lose all the value.
You lose all the value that you could have got out of that conversation in which that one moment of like clickbait worthiness ends up ruining the rest of the conversation.
So like that's why when I go and I talk specifically on these issues, I just try to come at it from the gray area perspective.
Everyone thinks their truth is their truth.
They think they're completely right about this aspect or that aspect.
And like you say the things like, I'm not afraid to step on toes, but it doesn't mean I have to be a dick.
Like there's a huge distinction between those two things.
And like growing up with Sneeko specifically, and you know, one day I am going to meet him.
I mean, we're doing this.
We're in, we're in mutual circles.
We'll have conversations.
I'm not going to be like, dude, I hate you.
How dare you?
Like, I understand the macro of what he's doing here.
And he's paying the price for it, right?
Like, he is not making as much money as he used to when he had his YouTube, unnecessarily.
Whenas you can see other YouTubers that are making a crap ton of money and they actually give good content and they can have funny moments and do all those different things without actually like inciting something, you know.
Now, when it comes down to growing up, like I said, I know his dad.
I know his mom.
I know his, uh, I know his sister.
I know his brother.
His real name is Nico Kendabalantazi.
It's very hard to spell.
It's very hard to write out, but like you, you see the word and the name attached to him that goes back to his father.
That goes back to his entire family.
So anything he does is direct, can come back on his entire family.
And that is the problem as well.
His mom is like one of the nicest people ever, by the way.
Super nice, hospitality.
Like we were just playing like Black Ops 2 back in the day, and his mom's like bringing us snacks and food and stuff like that.
Fantastic woman and his dad, too.
But now I guarantee you, they're watching the news just like everything else.
And they're like, what's going on with this?
What it's unnecessary.
And then that's a stain on their reputation.
And by the way, Asian cultures are very big on reputation too.
His mom and dad are his mom's side is Filipino.
So that's where he's like half and half.
But I'm going to show you guys the Andrew Tate response to this.
Straight smoke, I know this isn't a topic for you.
I'm bringing this up because I'm just tired of the slop in general of just people thinking it's funny.
And like, you got to separate the issues of being Israel versus Zionist.
Like those are two different things.
Being Jewish does not mean you're Israeli.
Like separate the two issues.
Now everything's getting lumped together and it's just out of control.
Like I'm critical of Israel when it's necessary, but then there's a point at which there's an inflection point to where it just crosses the line to where it's like, it's where, where are you going with this?
At that point, it just seems like Qatar paid you a bunch of money in order to go and do these things in order to put Israel in a lower position and make the Jews feel some type of way.
So, like, again, you can be critical of Israel without being critical of the Jewish people because Jews live everywhere and they're not just from Israel.
You can say your positions and whatever you want without being insulting.
Simple as that.
And people can call me a libtar.
They can say X, Y, and Z.
I don't do things for clickbait.
It's as simple as that.
I want to provide value in the marketplace.
And I have a ton of business that I do outside of here with some very powerful people where I talk to people in contexts where it's just about business and it has nothing to do with your race or religion.
Firstly, but I want to be very careful here because I don't want to deflect too heavily.
I don't want to be blaming other people, etc.
A whole bunch of songs were played that night, none of which I requested.
None.
I walk into a nightclub and songs are played.
Unfortunately, if anything happens anywhere near me, it gets tied to my name.
If someone got shot in that club, they would have said, Andrew Tate's in a nightclub where this man got shot.
I didn't shoot him.
I didn't pull the trigger.
I don't know who the fuck he is.
I was there and the song was played.
The actual conversation I think that's interesting to have when it comes to this is the nature of the internet and the nature of influencing in general.
Because I think we're living in a world now where only shock value seems to get anybody's attention for any significant period of time because everyone's dopamine receptors are completely fried.
So all of these young influencers or anyone on the internet who's trying to make any name for themselves is trying to be as controversial and shocking as possible as quickly as possible.
And that's why the song was played because it gets views.
That's why I didn't play it.
I didn't ask them to play it.
I didn't dance.
I didn't sing.
In fact, the only time you see me on there is me storming out of the bus saying this is ridiculous and leaving.
But I know why it was played.
It was played because of this.
It was played because it gets traction in a world where everybody is bored of everything all of the time.
And that's why these young people are encouraged constantly to try and do the most shocking thing possible.
You see this, not just with this song.
You see this on all their streams.
They're running people over, doing retarded shit constantly.
That's a fair argument, but I'll, you know, to the average person that's watching it, you know, back in the days when I'm younger, I'm in a car with a guy who I get out of the military.
It's December 23rd, 97.
The guy's got a bunch of pot in the back of his trunk.
Cops come out and I'm in the army and my guy's calling me telling me, hey, you got to figure something out.
You can't be involved in something like this.
So guilty by association, it's the first thing they're going to say.
When I watched the you guys are going to see, like, the only reason why Tate was with them that night was because Fuentes has never been to a bar, by the way.
And like, you didn't, they didn't, he did not expect that this song was going to be played or these actions.
Like it was explicitly stated that Sneeko did it.
Sneeko was the one that played the song.
He kind of threw him under the bus.
It is what it is.
You know, whatever.
Like he, he basically goes on to here and says, well, I don't want to throw people in the bus, but Sneeko did it.
Like, that's exactly what he does.
But like, he's right.
PBD is like, you are the company that you keep in guilty by association.
Now, if we jump here, I think he says something other that's also very important.
It was six or seven hours in which for two minutes of it.
Someone got a phone and put a song on.
It wasn't me.
And now it's all over the news.
So I just think that the main reason this is being done is because shock value is what people are optimizing for with their content primarily.
And then we can have another conversation entirely about why anti-Semitism is on the rise in the first place, because I have a theory about that also.
And I think that the main reason anti-Semitism is on the rise across America, because there's no doubt about it that it is, is because young men are being told that Jews control the system and young men are being screwed by the system.
It doesn't mean it's true.
I'm not going to sit here and say that Jews completely and utterly control the system.
I'm not saying that.
What I'm saying is if you tell young men that and they believe that, even if it's not true and they're getting screwed by the system, that's why people are anti-Semitic.
There was no anti-Semitism when a man could afford a house.
And there was no anti-Semitism when a man could get a wife.
And there's no anti-Semitism when he looked around and felt part of his community.
But people are so disenfranchised now with the places they're living in and the society they're forced to live within.
His he said one of the reasons why he thinks anti-Semitism exists is because people are being told that Jews control everything is what his first thing was.
And then he said, because they're angry, they're saying, well, they're angry at the man in charge.
And they think the man in charge is the Jews.
And he says it is on the rise.
And by the way, he's not a paid actor.
He literally practices some form of Islam, right?
Like he has no incentive to be on there.
It's like, if I were to go on there and just start talking and giving like based opinions or their opinions anyways, or just speaking factual, people would also say the same thing about me.
He's no, he's really not like he's changed since i've known him.
I'm not gonna sit here and say he hasn't like everyone hasn't.
I'm not the same guy I was 10 years ago either, but what i'm saying is is that everything he was raised around and part of like he went to a private school, for god's sake, like these aren't.
He was around Jewish people he's not really Anti-semitic, but like these things are playing out in real time and he's giving himself a bad rep and it just sucks to see when I know a completely different side of him.
They rent, rented out the entire Aquarium right, how fun.
And we're out there in the dance floor like I mean, that's the closest thing you can get to a club when you're in seventh grade and you're just listening and banging out to Katy Peri.
I want to get into something serious in the second hour.
I want to talk about geopolitics.
So a lot of people ask me and I think it was, I think it was Pumpste that asked me in the stream last night.
He goes Rex, who are people that you admire, and I had a hard time with that because I was thinking and it's harder to do with living than dead, because you can think of a whole bunch of like really cool, like dead people from history, like Magellan or something like did something really quick sail around the planet.
But I I was thinking of people like Nil Magni.
I was thinking people like Do Dissidents, I was thinking of just like people I respect and kind of arrears and career and careers and fields.
I get my news primarily from two channels.
I get my news primarily from Dialogue Works, which is a guy named Nima runs it.
He's Iranian but he lives in Brazil.
He's in Iran.
Now for this broadcast.
I'm about to play and Judge Napolitano, who used to work at FOX NEWS, used to be actually a co-host with Pete Hegseth.
Pete Heckseth became secretary of war.
Judge Napolitano started doing the best news show ever.
So I highly suggest that you subscribe to both.
Dialogue Works and Judge Napolitano and I wanted to share with you guys a video that I found very interesting and we're going to react to it um, we're going to let it play as well.
Just let some of the points sink in.
This is colonel Lawrence Wilkerson I want to introduce you to.
He was the chief of staff for Colin Powell, who's secretary of state for George Hw Bush.
I believe he was always, or also, involved in the W administration, i'm just not sure in what respect, but this is a very serious guy.
This is a Washington alum, this is a guy who knows what he's talking about, and you've, got a lot of these guys.
You've got a lot of these old State Department DOD UM CIA, FBI guys that are coming out now and really just outright opposing the government and what's going on, because they understand how how much the system has been degraded and how ridiculous it was, because even when they were in charge or when they were running things quote, unquote things were still bad.
We've reached a point of epic decline.
So I just wanted to preface that and give you a little bit of information.
We're going to have fun with this tonight, january 20th 2026, and our dear friend, our brother, our great friend i'm not going to say Colonel Wilkerson, is here with us.
But to, you know, to use the to connect with outside is difficult when you're not in, for example, somewhere like Press TV.
They have the access and the people don't have.
Ordinary people don't have that.
And many people, all of the people, this society doesn't have that because of these external manipulations, as you know, has happened during these last week and the week before.
Larry, let me start with the reality of what has happened here in Iran, because I was in Iran, you were in the United States.
We both were witnessing something big happening, even a war breaking out between the two countries, which was of major concern, in my opinion, on my part, because I don't see anything good coming out of a war between the United States and Iran for anybody, not for the United States, not for Iran, not for the region.
What's your assessment?
What's your evaluation of what has happened and what is happening right now, considering the policies for Iran?
It's almost impossible to ferret out what strategy, if there is any strategy whatsoever, in the current U.S. administration's mind, or I should say, minds.
You see combat power, carrier battle groups, most indicative of it, steaming towards the region.
You see, ostensibly at least, I've heard there have been feelers from Tehran, answered by feelers from Washington, that they should resume talks.
And that's scary because, you know, the precedent we set for that.
On the other hand, the non-combatant evacuation operations from the areas that Iran might strike, like Al-Yudid or some other place like that, Bahrain, have, as I understand it, ceased and they didn't really take that many people out.
There aren't that many people to take out in some cases, but in Bahrain, for example, I would have expected that the fleet headquarters and the supporting places around it would have been evacuated.
So we're not evacuating people from the military bases, at least not large numbers of them like this guy with his decades and decades of military experience.
Are we just posturing in preparation for more dialogue?
Or are we putting dialogue aside completely?
Or are we doing both and using the dialogue as we did before to lull the Iranians into thinking something positive is going to happen other than war?
And then we're going to strike.
And then comes the question of if we strike, how will we strike?
Will it be what I think would be absolutely ineffective other than maybe killing a few people and making a lot of people truly angry again?
Airstrikes.
That's all I can see that we would be bringing to bear.
And what does that mean?
That means Iran has a significant decision to make because the airstrikes are not going to do that much damage unless they're around the clock, seven or eight or 14 days.
And that means three carrier battle groups minimum.
It means flying squadrons into the existing airfields in the region.
I don't know, Nima.
I don't know how to answer your question.
It looks like a bunch of children playing around in my mind.
I don't pretend to know what Exeth is thinking and doing.
And I don't pretend to know what Trump now is thinking and doing because he's been all over the map with regard to Iran.
Everything from saying that he's a non-war loving person to doing what he did before with regard to the B-2s and with regard to the diplomacy that was going on at the time he struck.
There's a very, maybe this is part of his strategy is to keep the Iranians completely on their heels, not to know what's coming or when it's coming.
And then you've got to factor in Netanyahu.
You know, I was looking at the so-called ceasefire and the experiment phase one the other day, and they've killed 30 to 40 to 50 Palestinians a day.
Throw in the West Bank and the turmoil there, maybe close to 100 a day.
So what are we going into in terms of phase two?
And now Netanyahu is saying that because of the cooperation of the Palestinian Authority and the West Bank, things are calming down somewhat.
I don't know how to read that situation anymore either.
We are embarked on what to me looks like a fool's errand with this peace group.
We even have people turning it down.
A billion dollars, I think, to buy your way into being on the peace board.
I don't know, Nima.
I can't.
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Gonna be a billion billion with the B. If we get a billion, we should be on the peace board too.
What was so obvious to me here in Iran, the war, it was the way that the Trump administration and those people who are running the show behind the scene when it comes to the, you know, to the mainstream media, to alternative media, X, all of that.
They were pushing somehow to bring the, you know, the son of the former Shah of Iran as an alternative to bring it back, you know, to Iran and seeing that this is an alternative for the future of Iran to somehow convince not only Iranians, but also all these, you know, the Arab states in the region that this is going to be a good option for you as well.
Okay, so like when Suleiman came on, he talked about like how Shah is unpopular, people don't really want him.
Like, yeah, I don't agree with America like handpicking a guy that they've groomed for the last, you know, 10, 15 years or no, really longer than that since he's fled and his family's fled.
But like they've been so far removed from the culture, it's like, well, you need to put somebody who's from there.
From what he said, I don't think he buys it either.
I don't think that is in his plans at all.
In fact, I think he would say that was nonsense.
That he's going to do something Connecticut, Connecticut.
I think I'm fairly sure depends on Bibi Netanyahu.
I don't think Trump really wants a war with Iran.
I don't think he ever has.
I think much of his action is programmed by Miriam Adelson's money and Bibi Netanyahu as a consequence.
I think he would probably like to come to some kind of settlement with Iran that would ricochet across the chambers of the world and be a testimony to another, the ninth war he stopped or whatever.
But Bibi is the unknown in this.
I go back to my previous statements from which I have not withdrawn.
Bibi will not rest until he has attacked Iran in a significant way and brought about, in his mind, regime change and made Iran a vassal state to Israel because it's the only real power.
If you discount Turkey and you discount the other Arab countries that besides Egypt and if Egypt is an Arab country and Jordan and others, if you discount them, the only obstacle to Israel's doing what it wishes to do whenever it wishes to do it in Netanyahu's eyes is Iran.
And he wants it gone.
He wants it a vassal state.
He wants it a subservient state, or if not that, then in disaster, just falling apart, civil war, whatever.
And I don't think Twump can back away from that.
So he's got that to do.
I think this, I don't know if you read about it, but this seismic activity near Demona and some people speculating in the press that it might have been an Israeli nuclear test in some respects.
Okay, so you got the Israeli military gathered in Demona, and you got a seismic event, and it's not a big one, it's like a 2.2 or a 2.5 on the Richter scale.
Yeah, but very interesting.
Whenever you see something like that, what they do is underground nuclear testing.
That's how you test a nuclear weapon is you blow it up underground.
I mean, this guy spent 20 years in prison for espionage against the United States, gets a pardon, flies to Israel, meets Netanyahu on the tarmac, and then a month after is doing interviews about the threat of a nuclear.
This is the negative in this, what was it, 2KT or not 2KT, but two on the Richter scale or whatever seismic event in the negative.
It was in very awkward timing, if you will.
I mean, the Israelis were at Demona.
They were doing things at Demona, and all of a sudden this occurs.
I don't know.
I don't know, but I wouldn't put it past Netanyahu.
I'm told that previously, the reason he got Trump to do what he did with regard to the nuclear weapon sites in Iran and other things that we did, like help Israel make its strikes, its airstrikes.
And I'll say the last thing on this specifically is the people that were in power then during 1973, it's a whole different ballgame now in which there's more at stake in which countries would make different decisions now.
Well, I mean, Netanyahu facing corruption charges, facing the dissolution of his government, October 7th happens, Gaza war happens, boom, now he's in power.
Well, one other thing is, is yes, if he keeps the war going on in Gaza and such, he doesn't have to, but you know, he was unpopular before he actually started the conflict, right?
Like they were looking at getting rid of him.
So I'm saying like the new positions of powers and whoever is in the government system are not the same people that were in power during the 70s, in which they would have even considered doing that.
I think the stakes have changed now to where they wouldn't consider that.
It is either a wholesale proponent and doesn't even know it in some cases of the government and shields its line like it was a grifter itself, or it's completely out of touch.
And it's, as we've discussed before, it's completely out of touch because they no longer have international sections.
They no longer have people on the ground.
I was interested this morning in seeing a piece in the online New York Times about Venezuela by someone who actually knows and has lived in Venezuela.
They found him.
I think he's a Russian, but he's been in and out of Venezuela a lot.
So he wrote a piece for the Times this morning.
That's the first time the Times, the gray lady, the newspaper with all the news that's fit to print, has said anything cogent about Venezuela because they have no one on the ground.
And that's true of every media source in America virtually.
So they don't know what's going on.
So what do they do?
They take the CIA, they take the government, they take whatever spokesman comes out and gives them the story at their word and they print it.
So we don't have a media in this country.
We don't have anything in this country in terms of a media other than what you're doing now, what podcasts do and alternative.
That's one of the guys I suggest y'all check out alongside of Ray McGovern, alongside of Pepe Escobar, alongside of Judge Napolitano, and just all kinds of people like this, who am I trying to think of Larry Johnson, my favorite Larry Johnson.
So Dialogue Works, Josh Napolitano's channel, that's where I find a lot of the true news.
You can disagree with what people say, but the point is they have pundits on from U.S., from overseas, from anywhere and everywhere.
And it's like Wilkerson says, we don't have a media here.
Really do not.
So, in order to get a real perspective on global geopolitical things happening, you really do have to go either outside of the country or you have to go to someone that was involved in the country and like NEMA.
He's outside of the country.
He's Brazilian, Iranian.
And then you have Wilkerson, who, of course, served under George H.W. Bush and under George Bush.
Ella Malding will be on here in about like a couple of weeks as well.
So we are working on getting these people on the pipeline, but I'm really excited for Alex Stein coming up on Sunday specifically.
You guys need to, you know, get some people to join us on that night as well.
Tell your friends, tell your people about it.
That would be awesome from everybody watching the stream.
But yeah, I really like these types of people because they give you context, because they've been in the experience, especially people have been in previous like office positions to where they like actually know details that the average.
Well, he was the chief of staff for the secretary of state.
Yeah, that's a re, that's a.
You know, that's not a minor position to hold.
So I I I really like that.
I found it to be informative.
I suggest you check out Dialogue Works.
We will be here thursday and sunday doing a three plus hour show for you guys.
Like we said, we're going to interview Alex Stein, I believe that 730 p.m central.
He may join us at eight or a little bit after, but you're going to want to be here for that interview and it's like Tim said, you're going to want to share it, repost it.
We really appreciate it when you do yes, we do yes, we do indeed, and uh, on the show, like we said, you know, at the beginning, you know there's certain things that, like we joke about in general, the gray area just we're, we're just about just having conversations and, as you see, Rex and I don't agree on everything, but it never stops us from having the conversation discussions, debates.