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Wait - We Bombed Iran?? plus LA 'Riots', and Immigration (Part 1) - recorded June 22, 2025
"Wait—We Bombed Iran?!"
That was John’s actual reaction after getting hit with a barrage of American flag emojis. No clue. Zero context. The U.S. had bombed Iran, and he was completely in the dark. That moment kicks off a brutally honest convo about what it means to be disconnected - and whether staying plugged in even helps anymore.
We get into it: how media manipulates perception during protests, why LA wasn’t actually burning (despite what the chyrons said), and who really benefits when chaos gets amplified. We also break down the myth of the “$6,500/week paid protester” (spoiler: we’re still waiting on our checks) and how real organizing works behind the scenes.
This isn’t a thinkpiece. It’s a gut-check. If you're tired of the noise, but still want to know what’s really happening underneath the headlines - this one’s for you.
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Hello again, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Whiskey and Donuts. I am your host, trey Scott, and we are going to go ahead and dive right in today. One of the things we talked about was how, once everyone's money kind of got fixed and you know, inflation is what it is, but people were really watching their 401ks, right, it's like, okay, there was a huge collapse and then all of a sudden, the money's back within 30 days. Okay, you know, the complaints went away, right, so the or the complaint shifted to some other thing, um, and I didn't really have any more complaints after that. There was other stuff going on, obviously, but you know I was like, okay, as long as my money is right, I'm gonna I'll figure the rest out.
Speaker 1:Right, there's always gonna be little things, yeah, you know. Um, so I wanted to ask then did you have anything, anything big, or you know, that was sort of like eating at you, that you wanted to sort of touch base on tonight oh, not really.
Speaker 2:I mean, you know it's funny because I I went out, I spent all day yesterday uh wine drinking with my father -in-law, and then we ended up back at the house we had some friends over drinking and then we went to uh breakfast this morning and uh, my friend, adam, texted me the guy that remember the restaurant that the four of us went to that restaurant, that that was the restaurant, the guy that I was talking about. He's like he sent me some american flags and I'm like, did I miss? Fourth of July.
Speaker 1:Why is he sending me flags?
Speaker 2:I look at the date and I'm like we're not even in July yet. I'm like, hey man, what's up? Buddy? Good to hear from you. He's like, oh, it's so much better since we took care of Iran. And I'm like, wait, what? I had no idea. That's how far disconnected I am. I had no idea. That's how far disconnected I am. I had no idea we even bombed Iran last night.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I didn't know that was coming. I know that we fought Iraq like a long time ago for no reason, and so it looks like we're kind of doing that same shit again with Iran. I don't have any context other than all this is all I have. There was apparently I'm going to say everything wrong, but there was a strike on Iran by Israel or something like that, and then Israel was then the target of an attack from Iran. That's all that I heard with regard to. That's the reason we decided to strike Iran. Do?
Speaker 2:you know, something different.
Speaker 1:Have you heard anything about that?
Speaker 2:Here's. Here's the little bit that I know, which is not much more than you. I know that Israel and Iran have been fighting for a long time. I know in Trump's first administration he said these guys can't have nuclear power. You can't, you can't let terrorists have nuclear weapons. And so then they struck a deal I guess his first administration, kind of the end of obama and that's where the four billion dollars or whatever 400 billion dollars comes from. They gave him a whole bunch of money. I guess uh, biden lifted some embargoes on them to keep them from getting shit.
Speaker 2:Well, I guess they've pursued nuclear power since trump left office now. I don't know if they have nuclear weapons, but they've definitely been working towards nuclear stuff. So, trump out and I don't know how much this has really to do with israel, as much as it has to do with trump saying, hey, you guys can't do this. And uh, so you know, israel comes along, they start fighting again with with iraq or iranian, and uh, and basically trump said, hey, you guys can't do it gave them 30 days to to comply, because I guess they weren't letting the inspectors in again. And that's kind of what I think they did to Obama was they weren't letting the United Nations guys or whoever it is that's in charge of that either the UN or the NATO, whoever's in charge of that crap going and making sure that these countries are maintaining what they say they're going to do. And they weren't letting those guys in. So Trump dropped're going to do and they weren't letting those guys in. So, you know, trump dropped a bomb on them.
Speaker 1:I, I, I don't know what it means from here, Um, but it definitely sends some sort of message, for sure.
Speaker 2:Well, they're already like tearing down train stations in New York. Oh, yes, you know so well. They went from Ukrainian flags to Palestinian flags, to Mexican flags, to Iraqi flags. You know what I mean. I think it's all the same people, because the guys that I've seen running through the New York train station, they look really white to me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know what I mean. And kind of familiar. Hey, some dude came on the Facebook a couple weeks ago and said that he's not that smart, obviously, but he said that there were people being paid to protest $6,500 a week to be a protest. I'm like, then go get that job. Believe me, I would absolutely run around with a flag for $6,000 a week to be a protester. I'm like, then go get that job, believe me, I would absolutely run around with a flag for $6,000 a week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would. I would do it even if I didn't support the exactly.
Speaker 1:You said much y'all do direct deposit, so yeah, no a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 2:you know it's funny because the AI now is so good about stuff and everybody's posting the trigger craft to get people to feel away or act away or say that this is happening. And if you just take a lot of those articles and just click them into your AI and say, is this true, it'll break the whole thing down for you and uh. So I guess there was some. There was a little bit of credibility to hired actors not a lot, just credibility but there was no credibility to people getting paid I guess, I guess it's something that craigslist is known for.
Speaker 2:Uh, for people wanting to put together a protest and it's more to get the word out is what was what grok said than it is to, uh, actually pay people so there's that, and people love running pranks.
Speaker 1:There's that part. What's that? People love to do pranks.
Speaker 2:So it's like yeah, you can make 10 grand a week. Man trust me yeah, yeah, so it's. It's just to get people to show up. You know. So, whether you know, I do believe you know when. When I say things like if those, those protests are paid for by, like, the soros, or even even if you want to go the other side and say, like musk is paying for it, or trump's paying for whoever's paying for it, I believe that there are people that are paid to organize those things oh, without question, yeah and they may be running the ads in in the craigslist.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean, but it's they're not paying those people to show up, they're just paid to make people show up. You know what I mean. So I think you have very few paid people. And then they have the antagonists. I'm sure one or two of those antagonists are being paid, the guys that will actually run out there and throw the first rock or throw the first Molotov cocktail to kind of get that ball rolling.
Speaker 2:And then it's just mob mentality. You just have to sit back and watch it happen. All you need is one person that will do it.
Speaker 1:And a lot of times, what we know about those particular the rock throwers. They're often people from someplace else who have no connection to anything. They don't have any belief whatsoever. They just want to see chaos.
Speaker 2:Yep, and that's what I'm saying. So you get one or two of those guys and those guys may be being paid.
Speaker 1:They show up for free. They show up for free.
Speaker 2:Right, well, well, some of them may, but they'll do it and it's just like I said, it's just to get the ball rolling. And the people that are organizing these moms, they know what.
Speaker 2:They know what they're doing, they know what they're going to get yeah you know, and and I think that I like, uh, what was it the week? So they had the the la thing went on for what like four days, four or five days, and then they did the LA thing went on for what like four days, four or five days, and then they did the the no Kings protest, and I truly believe that that was more of a protest. That was an organized protest because they were all over and there wasn't one riot, there wasn't windows smashed. I think they stopped some traffic, but it was more of an inconvenience because they had uh, they had routes that the protest had to march and I think it delayed some traffic in some towns somewhere. But, like, that's the type of protest that they should be focusing on and saying this is, this is why we don't want you there. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:These other things that they're doing that are just, you know, riots. That's not. You're not going to get any. You're not going to get any. You're not going to get any sympathy from people like me doing crap like that and you're not going to get me to pay attention to you because you're just, you're a, you're a riot. You know what I mean. You're an out of control mob of people that are just destroying people that may, may even agree with you. You're just destroying their shit for no reason, mm. Hmm, you know what I mean? That's not a riot, that's not a protest, that's just a riot. I think that they need to be more clear, especially in the media, on what that really was Right.
Speaker 1:And so you know, and this is interesting because I mean, obviously I wasn't there and I wasn't really following at all, cause I'm just kind of bored with a whole bunch of things Uh, but it seemed to me like there was so much ado about nothing Like I was hearing. I was hearing more in, like whether it was tweets or whatever posts on social media that I was actually seeing, like there wasn't a or whatever posts on social media than I was actually seeing, like there wasn't a lot of there there. And then I think I mentioned to you on text when I saw Arnold go on and say hey, look guys, yes, there is this, you know, civil disturbance, civil disruptions there in LA, but it's like this tiny, like four block area or some, some really small area.
Speaker 1:It wasn't like the entire town was on fire making it right and the you know they kept talking about what the president said. This the president said that I'm like, don't listen to him about what's going on in california. That's just not what you do, right, um? So once you know, you kind of like take a step back and realize it's really not that bad. You're not seeing bodies aren't stacking up, right, right. So how bad was it really? But yeah, no one wants to see our police, uh, their vehicles being attacked, even if it's just with paint. We don't want to see that, because you know how far is. Is paint from a cinder block, right? So right.
Speaker 2:Well, and I think another, another thing. Not only that, but I had talked to a friend of mine. Well, he's a friend of cory's, he does the escape room stuff for us, um, and he and he was like right down in that area and he's like it's nothing like what the media is making it out to be yeah, like it's it was happening.
Speaker 2:He wasn't saying that it wasn't happening, but like if you looked at the media, it was all that was happening. And you't saying that it wasn't happening, but if you looked at the media, it was all that was happening. And you just seen the same clips over and over and, and you know, when you're throwing rocks at moving police cars, like you just need to be arrested, like that's. You know, like I'm all for you guys standing up for your right to hate this country, even though you won't go back to your own country. Like I understand that you don't want to go back to your own country and you want to have the rights to. You know, be an idiot, but you don't if you're here illegally. That the problem is is you don't really have those rights. You know what I mean. You're not an American citizen, so you don't have the same rights that me, being an American citizen, has.
Speaker 2:I have the right to protest and freedom of speech, and so you're here illegally breaking our laws, throwing a fit, breaking more laws and then hiding behind the rule of law, which you're not entitled to, and it's just chaos like what you said there. It's just chaos. And you have the left-leaning politicians telling them that they have right to due process, when they absolutely don't have right to due process. The only thing they have the right to do is be kicked out of the country. So that's what they're fighting about. And it just doesn't make sense. So that's what they're fighting about.