What's up, unfuckers? Mani Faces here. Sorry to bug you on a Sunday. I'm not even sure if you've

made your way through part two of Amazon, the Unfulfillment Company yet. But I wanted to drop a quick

teaser for our new feature I'm cutting up right now is dropping tomorrow. It's called Phone a Friend,

and it includes new music from Tom McGovern, which in of itself should be enough incentive to tune in.

Now, the idea behind PhonaFrand is to break out of our scripted comfort zone to collaborate with luminaries in the political pod ecosystem.

To expand our understanding of the world, fill in some blanks we're needed, or pursue our own questions that are outside of our socioeconomic purview.

So we're excited to announce the guests for our inaugural show.

Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison from the American Prestige Podcast.

These guys are next-level intellectuals and experts in foreign policy.

Now, over the course of the show, Max got a chance to ask Daniel and Derek questions

that unfuckers have posed to us on mostly lighthearted topics, you know, like Israel, Palestine, the war in Ukraine, the future of our relationship with China.

You know, just easing it in with some easy-peasy topics just to get us started.

Here's a preview of what's in store.

U.S. policy has always been to favor Israel and to favor in particular these kinds of agreements

between Arab states and Israel that normalize relations, that improve trade, because that makes

things nice and tidy for the U.S. and the region.

It puts everybody on the same page.

Nowadays, it puts everybody on the same anti-Iran page, which is really the region. It puts everybody on the same page. Nowadays, that's, you know, it puts everybody

on the same anti-Iran page, which is really the dominant factor here lately for the United

States. So in some sense, this is the strategic problem confronting any American administration

that wants to maintain hegemony over East Asia, is that they are so coupled with China that you can't really decouple in a structural sense without doing enormous harm, not only to the Chinese economy, but to the American economy, which will have enormous political consequences.

And no leader, particularly after Biden, who's about to get trounced in November for rising gas prices, No one is going to, the Democratic Party is about to get trounce.

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