Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94.

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray and I'm here in the Eye Studio with Helen Lewis, Ian Hislop and Richard Brooks.

So we have just had an American import to the UK in the form of Saturday Night Live UK.

It's a big American show that's come here after kind of 50 years,

but we have just announced a really successful new export to America, which is the idea of

having a mad king. America's taken that on and they've been running with it. And Helen, I believe

you've been following just how well it's been going. Yeah, I mean, so much, so much winning.

So obviously Donald Trump, I mean, I'm hesitant to say anything about the Iran war because it's existing in this sort of quantum superposition of whatever Donald Trump says is currently happening with it. He currently says he's negotiating with the Iranians. The Iranians say, we don't know what you're talking about. He did announce that just after the markets had opened, after a pretty grisly couple of days.

So who knows where we'll be by the time this goes out.

But essentially, what we now know after four weeks of war is that they didn't have any contingency planning about what would happen if the Strait of Hormuz got closed.

They assumed, per report in the New York Times, that based on Israeli intelligence it looked

like, that Iranian protesters would rise up and overthrow the regime, which has so far not

happened.

Yeah.

And that they wouldn't at any point have to put kind of boots on the ground.

Boots are now kind of sailing over from...

Boots are hovering over the ground,

I would say, at the moment. So, you know, that, and that is an incredibly symbolic thing for

America to do. But the main thing about it is the fact that it has really revealed there is no one

in this White House who can say no to Donald Trump. And why is that? Because they were all

hand-selected to be people who wouldn't say no to Donald Trump.

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