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24:50And then we have the instrument of surrender by the Japanese, September 2nd, 1945. And in order to implement the Potsdam Declaration and get them to surrender to the terms that the Allies wanted, we dropped two atomic bombs. Now, I'm not encouraging it. I'm asking about the law. Is that legal today under the law of the war or not? Yeah, so the calculation is a bit different when it comes to weapons of mass destruction. because those are munitions that have a strategic level effect. And so for us, it would be the president of the United States who decides whether to launch nuclear weapons, which was also the case back in World War II.

25:38The considerations are probably a bit different now, but this law of armed conflict still applies. It's just the decision-making process for weapons of mass destruction is elevated because of the strategic nature of the impact of those weapons. So I take that as a possible yes. I'm not encouraging it. You know, the left goes crazy and they try to put words in our mouths. I'm just trying to get the law nailed down here. I think it would be very helpful to go back and read the terms of surrender for the Japanese, for our envoys to read it, because the Japanese were dug in, even after the dropping of two atomic bombs.

26:18and it took a lot of pressure, even after that, to get them to surrender. So, as you can see there, Mark Levin continues to pound the drum. A lot of ahistorical stuff. Damn. Whatever it comes to his entire reading of Potsdam and all that, but I'll save that for another lecture. Oh, you're gonna save it? No, we have too much stuff to do to get through. People don't wanna hear it. Oh, I thought we were gonna get it. Maybe one day, maybe. See, I'm tempting you. Friday, yeah, I know. You're pulling on the strings, but we would have to go much, much deeper. You also flagged this, Emily, from Nikki Haley, if you want to set it up.

26:52Yeah. So Nikki Haley was on Sunday shows. This was CNN talking about she gets asked directly about boots on the ground. And you could probably predict her answer, but still worth noting. This is A6. So do you believe that the U.S. military special forces and those who support special forces just need to go in and extract the enriched uranium? I think that's probably what it's going to come down to. I mean, this is a special force mission. It would take about a week to 10 days to get done. They know how to do it. It's dangerous. It's not something that we can just sit and think is casual. I think they have to do it.

27:31But once they do that, they're taking away literally one arm of the Iranian regime to where they no longer can threaten any of our allies or threaten us anymore. I think they've already known. It's a small special operations force that they would have to do to be able to extract that uranium. Not just any military man or woman could do this. This is special forces for sure. Break this down. What do we listen to? So Dana Bash says boots on the ground, and Nikki Haley doesn't want to say yes. She doesn't want to give the yes answer to that. You'll notice she also said, well, it's not something that's just casual.

28:05But it is special forces. They're trained to do this. So I think that's probably, Sagar, you and I have both heard this from different people, is Delta Force going and digging up the enriched uranium. Nikki Haley is saying that's, quote, probably what it's going to come down to. It would take a week to 10 days. No big deal. It's not casual, but it's no big deal. But she is in a position where obviously the Israelis have their zero enrichment line that they're pushing over and over again. that is likely not making J.D. Vance's job any easier or the peace negotiations any easier at all. But this has really become the conventional wisdom in neoconservative or maybe even just, what's the right word, interventionist circles, is that you're at some point going to see actual boots on the ground, not just CIA or whatever else, but an actual boots on the ground operation to retrieve the enriched uranium.

28:57And when Nikki Haley says she thinks that's, quote, probably what it's going to come down to. I think that's correct. I think that's probably true, Sagar, that Trump can only resist the temptation to do that for so long as the war continues to go this way. And I think it is important also, last thing that we'll put in here, honestly, kind of a stunning admission from the US vice president in an interview on Fox News, vice president saying, Iran tried economic terrorism, so that's what we're going to do. Let's take a listen. The only thing the Iranians have been able to do, they haven't, of course, beaten us militarily.

29:31They've had their military been decimated. They haven't been able to prosecute the case when it comes to weapons of war. What they have done is engage in this act of economic terrorism against the entire world. They basically threatened any ship that's moving through the Straits of Hormuz. Well, as the president of the United States showed, two can play at that game. And if the Iranians are going to try to engage in economic terrorism, we're going to abide by a simple principle that no Iranian ships are getting out either. We know that's a big deal to them. We know that applies additional economic leverage.

30:02And again, Brett, the president wants the Iranian people to thrive. So two can play at that game. Yeah, I mean, look, you know, you're not usually supposed to describe these things in the truth, but I guess that's what we're talking about here. Two can play at that game. That probably strikes very clear to Donald Trump's heart. But it definitely, I think, undermines the entire purpose of it. I mean, it just shows the preposterous nature of it is they close the Straits of Hormuz and are interrupting international waterway. That's why we're going to blockade the Straits of Hormuz and disrupt an international waterway.

30:35Also, we can do restore the February 27 status quo of free passage through the international waterway. What are we doing here? The whole thing is crazy. It reminds me a lot of last week when Trump posted his Easter, closed the fucking straits or open the fucking straits, you crazy bastards, and then threatened to wipe out an entire civilization, never to return again, whatever he said, just trying to paraphrase the insanity there. You heard so many of his defenders say, oh, you mean just like Iran chants death to America? It's like, are you saying that justifies the president of the United States who the entire point of your argument is should be held to a higher standard?

31:13Because we are, again, their argument is predicated on the idea that we are the good guys. Therefore, we aren't the ones that are threatening people with an entire civilizational genocide. And then here you have them being like, no, he's just, it's just death to America. It's just J.D. Vance saying, well, if they're going to do economic terrorism, we're going to do economic terrorism too. And it's an example of threatening to stoop to the level that their argument is predicated on them being better than. Like that is the argument, that we are the good guys here because we don't do that. We don't do the economic terrorism.

31:43We don't say, oh, you do it too, can play at that game. And that was the entire purpose of the Western agreements after World War II. Yeah. All right. So there you go. It is definitely a little bit of a shocking development, but demonstrates kind of the tenuous and dangerous nature that this entire thing has devolved into. Where will things go? We have no earthly idea. They say that they want to talk. They're not talking. Maybe they are talking. We have the blockade, but it's not really a blockade. We have countries that are being involved, but we have other countries that have said that they're not going to be involved.

32:17Ships are not allowed to translate, but ships are transiting. Economic terrorism not will be tolerated, but we are tolerating and perpetuating economic terrorism. The only people who are losing is us. What's the price of gas right now? Let's take a look. National price of a gallon,$4.11. California at$5.88 a gallon. God bless you all out there. And the price of diesel, let's see,$5.65 a gallon. Yep, a little bit of a nightmare. Let's get to Bebe. I went and sat on the little ottoman in front of him. I was like, hi, dad. And just when I said that, my mom comes out of the kitchen and she says, I have some cookies and milk.

32:56This is a badass convict. Right. Just finished five years. I'm going to have cookies and milk at my mom. Yeah. On the Sino Show podcast, each episode invites you into a raw, unfiltered conversations about recovery, resilience and redemption. On a recent episode, I sit down with actor, cultural icon Danny Trail to talk about addiction, transformation and the power of second chances. The entire season two is now available to binge, featuring powerful conversations with guests like Tiffany Addish, Johnny Knoxville and more. I'm an alcoholic and without this trouble I'm gonna die Open your free iHeartRadio app Search the Cino Show and listen now When you listen to podcasts about AI and tech and the future of humanity the hosts always act like they know what they're talking about and they are experts at everything Here at the Nick Dick and Paul Show we're not afraid to make mistakes What Coogler did that I think was so unique he's the writer director who do you think he is i don't know you meet the like the president you think it was the president you think canada has a president you think china has a president the law crusade god i love that thing i use it all the time i wrap it in a blanket and sing to it at night it's like the old polish saying not my monkeys not my circus yep it was a good one i like that it's an actual polish saying yeah it is it is an Better version of play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

34:32Yes. Which, by the way, wasn't Taylor Swift who said that for the first time. I actually thought it was. I got that wrong. Listen to the Nick, Dick, and Paul show on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you're watching the latest season of the Real Housewives of Atlanta, you already know there's a lot to break down. Norsha accusing Kelly of sleeping with a married man. They holding K. Michelle back from fighting Drew. Pinky has financial issues. I like the bougie style of Housewives show. I think it looks like it's going to be interesting. On the podcast, Reality with the King, I, Carlos King, recap the biggest moments from your favorite reality shows, including the Real Housewives franchise, the drama, the alliances, and the tea everybody's talking about.

35:17As an executive producer in reality television, I'm not just watching it. I understand the game. As somebody who creates shows, I'll even say this. At the end of the day, when people are at home, they want entertainment. To hear this and more, listen to Reality with the King on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Turning now to the status of negotiations. A little bit of a troubling message here from the Israeli Prime Minister, Prime Minister Netanyahu, speaking before the cabinet, talking about the negotiations and how the vice president, quote, reported to me in detail.

35:57Let's take a listen. I spoke yesterday with Vice President J.D. Vance. He called me from his plane on the way back from Washington. He reported to me in detail, as the people of this administration do every day, on the development of the negotiations. In this case, the explosion in the negotiations. The explosion came from the American side, which was not willing to tolerate the blatant violation of the agreement to enter negotiations by Iran. Essentially, the agreement was that there would be a ceasefire and Iran would immediately open the crossings. They didn't do that. The Americans were not willing to accept it.

36:37He also conveyed to me that the central issue on the table from the perspective of President Trump and the United States as the removal of all enriched material and ensuring that there is no more enrichment in the coming years, and this could be for decades. So there you have it. Also, before we continue, this has become a matter of some controversy. So I will tell you that that video that we just played you is from the government press office with the translation, snap translation, which was provided by the Israeli government. I did not dub it. Nobody else dubbed it. That was an Israeli government translation.

37:10They did change the translation later on, and I'm going to go ahead and read it to you. They say, he briefed me on the negotiations. I tweeted about this yesterday. It's become a matter, apparently, of some controversy. So I will give you the fact that their snap translation said reported to, which, of course, to me, immediately makes me go reported to me in detail. As for this administration does every day, they change a translation from that translation to brief me. If you speak Hebrew and you want to decide otherwise, that's up to you. Me, I'm going to go with the snap translation. But I'm just saying, and I want to make clear, that it is apparently of dispute.

37:48And apparently this tweet has become, my own personal one, has become a bit of a controversy inside of the country. So I want to present that to everybody. It's on their website like that, right? Okay, so the government press office of Israel aired that live with that snap translation. It was posted to YouTube. that was taken, that clip, from the Israeli government's YouTube channel. Again, I want to be extremely clear about where that came from. It's not BBC, not Sky News, not some third-party translator. It's the Israeli government's translator. They then changed their translation to brief me, and other people are now claiming that it is differently.

38:23So I just want to be very clear about that this has become, apparently, a matter of some dispute. I don't speak Hebrew, so I cannot be the arbiter of this decision. I will choose to go with what the government's initial translation was. Emily, what do you think? Well, I mean, yes. Which one do you want to go with? The distinction between report and briefed is meaningful in the sense that if Netanyahu was speaking in a way where he wants to convey that J.D. Vance is reporting to him. It's different than briefing. Reporting to has obviously a very particular connotation that you are in some way the inferior and you are reporting to the superior.

39:00It's, you know, the boss relationship. Which is why I think that it became a matter of some controversy. Of course. So anyway, they are very desperate to try and to tell me that I am wrong or that their initial translation was wrong. Maybe that's true. If the government of the state of Israel wants to come out and say that their official translation, again, official initial translation, was incorrect and that they change their official translation, I will air it here on the show. But as of right now, that is where things stand. Well, the reason that it jumps out to you as well is that it's this pattern of Netanyahu, especially speaking Hebrew, boasting about his, not authority, but his sway over the American government.

39:38Right. Which is the reason that it, when you saw it, it jumped out at you. Of course. I read that and I said, wow, as an American, I'm outraged that this person is saying reports to me in detail as this administration does every day. Now, it's theoretically possible, I guess, that he said or meant talked to me every day or briefed me. So I will assess it in the totality of the evidence of why we went to Iran of the initial snap translation from the government. I will assess it in terms of our relationship with this country, the fact that there was no ceasefire with Lebanon, that it was immediately broken.

40:12And I will allow this audience to do so with all the information that I just gave you to make up your own mind. The New York Times story that Netanyahu was, this was the Maggie Haberman, John Swan story from last week that Trump was not sitting at the head of the table in our own situation room, that they were across from each other almost as equals in the situation room when he was briefing Trump on why we should go to war. Right. Exactly. All right. So there you have it. That's where things stand as of right now. All right. Let's continue then in this about where the talks actually are and what the status of them.

40:44Let's put the next one up there on the screen from the Financial Times, mediators are pursuing an Iran-U.S. deal in back-channel diplomacy. So this one basically alleges that behind the scenes, the U.S. and Iran continue to exchange messages about a deal to end the war through back-channels despite the failure of the weekend talks. The marathon negotiations in Islamabad ended with the U.S. vice president blaming Iran for its unwillingness to commit to not developing a nuclear weapon. But two diplomats said that there were active talks ongoing through mediators to extend the ceasefire and secure a more permanent deal.

41:21Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran's negotiators had called and want very badly to reach a deal with the U.S., something that we played earlier. People briefed on the discussion said that intermediaries were seeking to convince the parties to hold lower-level technical talks to hammer out disagreements over issues such as reopening the streets of Hormuz and Iran's nuclear program. So that takes us to B3, and this is what really we should talk about, is that the alleged disagreement all stems from this uranium enrichment freeze. The United States apparently demanded 20 years. The Iranians offered five years.

41:57Now, that five year, I'm told, was the same freeze that was offered in February. So they haven't moved at all as a result of the war. They offered this in February in those initial talks with Steve Wyckoff and with Jared Kushner. Now, what we're basically told here is that this is just like one of many disagreements over the nuclear program. What the U.S. wants is a 20-year commitment of a freeze and they want to go in, take all the uranium out and take it out of the country. The Iranians, again, I'm not a nuclear expert or any of this stuff. They want to, I forget exactly how it works, but they want to like dilute it effectively is the way that has been described.

42:35Rather than destroy. Rather than have the U.S. come in and take it out and or destroy it. Now, remember, we were told that this was all obliterated, so it's a little complicated, but this remains like the single biggest sticking point. But what everybody is missing is this still doesn't address all of the original demands of the US. Ballistic missiles is completely unmentioned, right? Ballistic missiles is completely unmentioned. You also have the so-called proxy group is totally unmentioned. Regime change is like a fantasy at this point. Now, we did change the regime, right? because we replaced the doddering old Ayatollah with the fatwa on nuclear weapons with his son whose entire family was basically killed and himself has apparently been injured and who doesn't have a fatwa yet on nuclear weapons use.

43:21So not great whenever I look at all of this. And this is why when we think about all the poison pills that the US or the Israelis or even the Iranians might put in, it's very difficult to see where things are gonna go. Remember, Lebanon was a big talking point. Today here in Washington, the Lebanese government and the Israeli government will hold, I think, trilateral talks with the U.S. as a broker on those talks specifically, and that those will be, I mean, look, we don't know where that's going to go. It's also the Lebanese government situation is complicated because they want to ceasefire, but it's not like Hezbollah is necessarily a party to those talks.

43:57So that's where things stand right now. Yeah, I mean, it's a complete mess for the administration. That's not surprising to your point about that particularly being or about the five-year window being what was already offered and was already on the table in February. That is such a good example of exactly what's been accomplished over the last six weeks, which is things seem to have been even worse or things seem to be getting actually even worse for the United States throughout the negotiations. And the enrichment question, we should talk about that. We can put B3 up on the screen, this Axios tear sheet.

44:32This is, yeah, so this is the Barack Ravid story that we were just talking about on the enrichment. U.S. proposed Iran except 20-year moratorium. Okay, so Sagar, they want a single digit period. If Trump can get them to 15, if Trump can get them to 15, which I don't know that he can, But if he can get them to 10 or 15, that's, I would say that's, it's still a loss because of everything that's happened over the last six weeks, the blood and treasure of the last six weeks, and the possibility that there was something on the table in February. That could potentially end the war. Potentially it could end the war.

45:15But not with the U.S. in a much stronger position. Well, Murtaza Hussain made a great point where he was like, you know, they should just agree to 20 because it's not exactly like the current government or the international institutions will be around in 20 years to be able to guarantee some sort of a deal. But I mean, look, this stuff does matter because if they technically violate in the future, then that could be an excuse for the Israelis or for Trump to bomb them. So I understand why they wouldn't want to do it. But this also and this is kind of my bigger point about the technical experts.

45:44This was, in my opinion, the real reason why the February talks were designed to fail. And now that we have all that New York Times reporting about how Trump was determined to strike beforehand, it's true. So I talked to some people who were in the government at the time of the JCPOA. And you don't have to be a fan of that to also know that the way it was negotiated, it was a serious endeavor. You don't have to agree with it. But I'm saying it was a two and a half year deal that was negotiated over literally years, not only at the highest levels between the Iranian foreign minister and the U.S.

46:14secretary of state, John Kerry, but also if you are. Was he secretary? Yeah, he was. Yeah. Anyway, so the secretary of state, John Kerry, and you also had the Iranian foreign minister in a two and a half year relationship. The more important talks had nothing to do with those two. It was all about the technical experts. So the U.S. had nuclear experts along with all the other P5 plus 1 powers, I believe, and Russia and China, right? They were all at the table and what they were all – they had nuclear experts who were hashing out exact quantities of uranium, what they were allowed to enrich, what they weren't.

46:49The Iranians were there on the other side. It was all nuclear scientists bilaterally, right, or whatever, in some sort of roundtable. None of that occurred with the initial talks of Jared Kushner and Steve Wyckoff. They don't know what they're talking about, right? So if Iran starts saying stuff like, well, what about 3.67 % highly enriched uranium, which is useful for, you know, they're like, no, zero enrichment. They're like, yeah, but what about medical grade? Right. So they don't even know. I mean, I don't know the difference either. I'm not a, you know, like a nuclear scientist. I have to go and ask one.

47:19I like how you started saying I'm not a genius. And then you stopped. Because you were like, no, I am actually a genius. I went through the word. I am absolutely not a genius, which all viewers of this program can attest to. However, I think that the nuclear expert, not even being at the table. And remember, even they disagree with each other on all this stuff. That is why, that's why in some ways, the deal's not really even serious because traditionally, the way that U.S. diplomacy and deals of this type work is you have endless meetings between these nuclear scientists, and then once they agree, they brief respectively to their principles.

47:56And then those principles meet for some ridiculous handshake ceremony, which is totally fake. Nothing's actually being negotiated. And you sign on the bottom line and everybody walks away and they're all happy. That's what the, you know, traditional process is. This is like the inverse. And that's part of why I'm very, very skeptical about all of it. Even ballistic missiles. What do they know about ballistic missiles? And the number. And the range. We're going to cap the range? Like the whole thing is ridiculous. And they could lie, you know? And we could lie too. Because that's how, that's why these types of like slap shot agreements are bad.

48:28Well, and we're, again, I mean, you and Crystal and Ryan make this point all the time, but we are also, our ally in these negotiations is Israel, which is not clear about its nuclear weapons. Yeah, very good. So all of that. A literal NPT non-compliant state, which is crazy. So how are you supposed to come to that conversation with Iran and make this argument? And this is, I mean, your point about how the experts are negotiating against each other, they're debating against each other, is just about world destruction, like the capacity for world destruction. Nuclear geopolitics have been a disaster for the human race, even though we haven't had a post-World War II nuclear explosion yet.

49:03Just wait. That's like the most bleak prediction I have for the future. Look, you may be right. I think an atmospheric nuclear test is not out of the question by any of the nuclear powers, especially at this point and considering what's happened. I also think there will be mass nuclear proliferation in the next 25 years, not only as a result of Iraq. So if you have Iraq, Libya, and now Iran, all three together, what's the lesson? You better get a nuke. There's only one country in the axis of evil which survives today, North Korea. Yep. And Iran now has this incentive where the public is, like, is the public supportive of the IRGC?

49:41No, a section of the public is supportive of the IRGC. But the United States started the war by bombing a school of girls. And if you think that's not going to have a radicalizing effect on some not insignificant portion of the Iranian public, you're just wrong. And that's what we see happen with these interventionist conflicts in the least over and over and over again. So if they start racing to enrichment, it won't be a surprise. Yeah, it certainly will. Now let's continue down this line about enrichment. And again, this is where it all really matters and about latent nuclear deterrence. So, you know, not to get too complicated about it, but basically they don't want to fully enrich to a bomb because they know that that would mean war.

50:22They don't want to give up any of their enrichment because that would mean Libya and sodomization on camera and complete decapitation by the West. So they want to keep some level of latent nuclear deterrent. That's why they want to have some enrichment. You can understand that. I think everybody can rationally understand that. And we don't like it, but of course, if we could topple them, we would have. We just spent a month in a war. And our president said he was going to wipe out the civilization. And our president said he was going to wipe out the civilization. So the zero enrichment line is an Israeli line, which was adopted by Mike Pompeo in 2018.

50:52But it's been very ambiguous. When you say no nuclear weapon, it's not the same thing as zero enrichment. The zero enrichment standard has remained here and being pushed by, of course, the biggest neocons in the government. Let's put B4 up there on the screen. Lindsey Graham says, I appreciate President Trump's resolve to end the Iranian conflict peacefully and through diplomacy. However, we have to remember who we're dealing with in Iran, terrorists, liars, and cheaters. If this reporting is accurate, the idea we would agree to a moratorium on enrichment rather than a ban on enrichment would be a mistake.

51:29Would we agree to a moratorium for Al-Qaeda to enrich? No. The only difference between Al-Qaeda and the Iranian regime is that one is a Sunni terrorist organization and the other is a Shia terrorist state. Both have the same goal when it comes to the U.S., Israel, and the civilized world. No enrichment means no enrichment. Over 20 nations have peaceful nuclear power programs without enrichment capability. You can have peaceful nuclear power without enrichment, but you cannot make a bomb without enrichment. Again, no enrichment for Iran. They want a bomb and they cheat. So this actually, ironically, is an even more maximalist position than the initial conversation that was laid out by J.D.

52:08Vance, allegedly, for some 20-year ban. He's saying, no, no 20 years, no enrichment ever, forever, which, of course, is a declaration of war. Last thing, B5, let's put it up there on the screen, some kind of troubling reporting. This is from the South China Morning Post. They report that Iran, Islamabad, after the peace talks finished, that nine Pakistani Air Force fighter jets escorted the Iranian delegation's aircraft all the way back to Iran after they fear a potential attack on the delegation. They're speculating, presumably fearing an Israeli attack. I will just say fearing potential attack.

52:46It's not like it's not just the Israelis who would want to kill them. Right. You've got Saudis, the UAE. There's a lot of other people that they've made very, very angry, and that is why those Pakistani jets had to escort them. But beginning with what we did about Bibi Netanyahu and some of his comments, again, which you can take that translation whichever way that you would like, you can just see how there is the problem of the pro-Israel lobby here in Washington, the Israeli government and its own lines, the talks by the United States, the lack of experts in all of this. The deck is just stacked against getting anything like this done.

53:47I invite you into a raw, unfiltered conversations about recovery, resilience, and redemption. On a recent episode, I sit down with actor, cultural icon Danny Trail to talk about addiction, transformation, and the power of second chances. The entire season two is now available to binge, featuring powerful conversations with guests like Tiffany Addish, Johnny Knoxville, and more. I'm an alcoholic. And without this trouble, I'm going to die. Open your free iHeartRadio app Search The Sino Show And listen now When you listen to podcasts about AI And tech and the future of humanity The hosts always act like they know what they're Talking about and they are experts at everything Here at the Nick Dick and Paul Show We're not afraid to make mistakes What Coogler did That I think was so unique He's the writer-director Who do you think he is?

54:42I don't know you meet the like the president you think it was the president you think canada has a president you think china has a president the law cruzette god i love that thing i use it all the time i wrap it in a blanket and sing to it at night it's like the old polish saying not my monkeys not my circus yep it was a good one i like that it's an actual polish saying yeah it is it is an Better version of play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Yes. Which, by the way, wasn't Taylor Swift who said that for the first time. I actually, I thought it was. I got that wrong. Listen to the Nick, Dick, and Paul show on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

55:23If you're watching the latest season of the Real Housewives of Atlanta, you already know there's a lot to break down. Norsha accusing Kelly of sleeping with a married man. They holding K. Michelle back from fighting Drew. Pinky has financial issues. I like the bougie style of Housewives show. I think it looks like it's going to be interesting. On the podcast, Reality with the King, I, Carlos King, recap the biggest moments from your favorite reality shows, including the Real Housewives franchise, the drama, the alliances, and the tea everybody's talking about. As an executive producer in reality television, I'm not just watching it.

56:00I understand the game. As somebody who creates shows, I'll even say this. At the end of the day, when people are at home, they want entertainment. To hear this and more, listen to Reality with the King on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Let's move on to a very funny story. Very interesting story. This one is about an Italian magazine. Didn't think I would be reading an Italian magazine, but here we are in 2026. Let's put this one up here on the screen. So this was an Italian magazine. It has a cover. It says Labuso. I'm not going to try and read this, but I am going to give you a quick translation.

56:47The headline is, Abuse, What is in the New Issue of L 'Espresso? Which, again, is an Italian magazine, which had that cover, which shows an Israeli soldier. It does seem like something you would read. Huh? It does seem like something you would read. Absolutely. I don't read Italian magazine or Italian press. So you have an Israeli soldier there with a phone in his hand, seemingly filming what looks like a Palestinian woman. And the sub-headline there is it is about settlers in the West Bank. Okay, so that was the cover. Now, what ended up happening is that, let's put B8 up here on the screen, is that the Israeli ambassador to Italy, Jonathan Pellet, put out a statement saying, We strongly condemn the manipulative use of the recent cover of L 'Espresso.

57:34The image distorts the complex reality with which Israel must coexist, promoting stereotypes and hatred. Responsible journalism must be balanced and fair. Hashtag media responsibility. Now, as people know, I'm not a fan of community notes, but I guess I will. You can say of media responsibility. Sure. People know. Screw that. But of this community note, they say the image on L 'Espresso's cover is a real photograph that was taken by an Italian photographer, Pietro Mastruzzo, as part of a West Bank settler's reportage. The same man appears in other photos by the Associated or the Agence Frey Press.

58:12So, again, just to show you all that photo, let's put B9 up here on the screen. Here we have from the Middle East eye. It says Israeli settlers uproot hundreds of trees belonging to Palestinian and West Bank. You can clearly see the same individual, which is there actually in the photograph. We also have video, which has been released now. This video was via a, I believe, an Italian journalist. And we're going to go ahead and play some of it here for you. Let's go ahead and take a listen if you want to. You can see actually on the screen, there he is. This is presumably when the photograph was taken, him as well as several other soldiers in the IDF.

58:57And they are, I mean, there's some sort of confrontation happening. This Palestinian woman is there on the right. These Israeli soldiers are there on the left. He is filming the incident. He did make some sounds. It was unclear exactly what he was saying. But if you want to go and take a listen to the full video for yourself, at one point you can hear him shouting the word goy, goy, goy at her. And so, yeah, it's clearly not only a true incident, but it is illustrative, obviously, of what a lot of Western governments, including our own government, allegedly opposes, which is this really de facto settlement and control of the West Bank.

59:36But it is, yeah, it's been a fascinating controversy, isn't it? Well, so interestingly, under the thread of the post from the ambassador that we put up, this is the Israeli ambassador to Italy, Barack Ravid responded. So former IDF reporter at Axios, he goes, the photo is not real. It's AI. The ambassador responds, hard to prove. So there you have a tacit admission that he actually has no idea whether or not this was responsible media, right? That's his hashtag, media responsibility. Yeah. He actually has no idea. I want to post with the hashtag ambassador responsibility because how dare you say that this journalistic outlet was being irresponsible when you have absolutely no proof that this was somehow AI generated.

1:00:22In fact, the evidence is to the contrary, that this was from a video. So he's out there just - No, it's look, it's obviously - Shooting off his mouth. It's real, right? It's very obvious. To the point where he can't even say it's not. Yeah, he didn't even deny that it was real. Let's continue. There was this B10, please. This was Rabbi Popko. His biography says, 11th generation rabbi, speaker and writer, host of the Jewish World Podcast. He says, Italy's magazine, Espresso Online, is publishing anti-Semitic. Der Sturman was a Nazi publication. Worthy imagery that should clarify where they got this image from.

1:01:03The military vest worn here is no longer in use by the idea. The wedding ring and bracelet are never worn by ultra-Orthodox men. The formation of the beard and kippah are outlandish. And, of course, the very bizarre smile and showing on teeth are unnatural. So as they again point out, that photograph was taken by this Italian journalist in the West Bank. And the soldier in question has been photographed in other news outlets, which included the New York Times. A lot of this actually goes back to the olive tree controversy, which we covered here actually on the show with journalist Jasper Nathaniel.

1:01:34So you can go and check our coverage on that in the past, but did certainly want to highlight that. And I do think, you know, considering our last story on the show, which we're going to talk about, which is AI, that one of the problems in our modern media age is that you have all of these people who can claim legitimate images are AI in order to cast out. And, you know, not everybody's going to watch this segment or, you know, actually take a look at what happened. They're all going, you know, some people may have initially seen that and have said, oh, my God, of course it is AI. or something like that.

1:02:04And yeah, that's all you have to claim nowadays. And vice versa, AI images, which people think are real. Like after that pilot rescue mission, there was a completely AI-generated image of the pilot being rescued that went viral to the point where the governor of the state of Texas was so beautiful, I will never forget this. He didn't say this, but somebody else did. I will never forget this image the rest of my life. It's like, dude, it's literally AI. You should forget it. Yeah, forget it. It's not even remotely real. So there we go. That's that controversy. It's a helpful propaganda tool to just be able to muddy the waters and be like, and this is exactly what we saw from the ambassador.

1:02:42Actually bookmark this because it'll come back in handy in the future because this is a great example where he shoots from the hip and says, this is AI. It's irresponsible. And then one tweet down in the thread, he's like, well, it's hard to prove that it's not. That's how it's going to work in the future. Yes, certainly is.

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