Epstein Leverage, Iran Strikes & AI Warfare: Nick Koumalatsos Unfiltered | Ep. 283 | Pt. 3

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Mike Ritland

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🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Nick Koumalatsos, Marine Raider, returns for the final segment of Episode 283. The discussion examines the Epstein case as a form of systemic leverage, followed by a critical assessment of U.S. strikes in Iran—questioning underlying motives, strategic interests, and broader implications. They address the rapid integration of AI in warfare, including autonomous targeting and the diminishing role of human judgment in combat. The conversation also considers the potential for SOCOM to operate as its own branch, along with emerging ideas around energy and recovery that remain outside mainstream focus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, we've got Simon on the line. Simon, young people, they're just all a bit, a bit lazy, aren't they?
0:09.0	What are you for?
0:10.0	Good night.
0:11.0	Welcome to McDonald's.
0:12.0	Have you to get the six minutes, please?
0:13.0	Some say young people are work shy, but at McDonald's, we hired 47,000 of them last year.
0:19.0	How's your night?
0:20.0	Like George here, who keeps things running during a Friday rush.
0:25.1	Resilience, making it happen at McDonald's.
0:30.7	But again, like I'm not just talking about get your own house in order.
0:35.3	I'm talking about everybody get their house in order.
0:37.4	Right. And if everyone actually did that and stopped looking at get your own house in order. I'm talking about everybody get their house in order.
0:42.5	Right. And if everyone actually did that and stopped looking at the shiny object that they're putting in front of us, it's like the Coliseum thing. Just entertain the masses. Yeah. Give them wine,
0:48.2	give them entertainment. That's the bitch of it, I think, is it's been millennia. Yeah.
0:53.7	That that's been taking place.
0:56.0	And it's not that I don't care.
0:57.6	I care deeply.
0:59.6	I care deeply for the country.
1:01.4	I think that, I mean, you and I have been to war, man.
1:04.4	It's like, war is hell.
1:08.3	It's horrible.
1:09.8	The stuff that happens there is awful awful so I do give a shit
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