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Mike Drop

Is Iran a Distraction From the Epstein Files? | Ep. 283 | Pt. 1

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

News, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Politics

4.96.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Marine Raider and combat vet Nick Koumalatsos breaks down the current U.S. strikes in Iran and answers the hard question: are these precision attacks the opening moves of a real regime-change campaign, or just the latest massive distraction timed perfectly with the Epstein file drops and the sudden mainstream “aliens are real” push? We dig into the first torpedo sinking of an enemy ship since World War II, the recurring accusations of Israeli influence, and whether America is once again being played as a proxy in someone else’s game—while the bigger upstream truths stay buried. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The current strikes in Iran, what do you think the real objective is and does it line up with what we're being told? The first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II. Just huge distraction. From the Epstein stuff, you think? 100%. The fact that all of a sudden aliens are real, oh by the way, we're starting a war with Iran at the same time, it seems a little bit too on the nose to me now are

0:21.5

they a problem yeah they're a problem I'm not so naive to think that Venezuela's

0:26.3

not a threat to the United States I think Iran's a threat to the United States

0:29.5

but I it's just it's hard for me to believe that the way it's going about it is

0:33.6

the only way to go about it it's so hard for me to think anything other than

0:38.6

distraction. There's definitely a recurring theme in terms of accusation of Israel

0:44.2

playing a huge role in us doing it. Do you have an opinion on that? If it's true

0:49.6

that we are literally just being a puppet for Israel, that's unsettling.

0:55.0

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welcome my next guest back to the podcast.

1:46.5

He was back, or he was here, way back, episode 45 in 2019.

1:52.6

Former Marine Raider veteran, founder of the Raider Project, founder of Agogi, which is a fitness and personal development coaching for men that we're going to dive heavy into. Co-founder of Johnny Slicks, which is a men's organic grooming products company, author of Excommunicated Warrior, which recovered in depth on the last show, and he's the host of the Nick Kumalazzo show. Ladies and gentlemen, the last time you were here, you had way better hair, but welcome

2:17.9

to the stage, Nick Kumalazzo's. Thanks for having me. So first question is, A, what happened to the

2:23.8

hair, and B, was it difficult coming out to your parents? First question, you know, that happened

2:32.6

during COVID when the gym got rated. Yeah. And I was going on the news and stuff. And, you know, I felt like, you know I that happened during COVID when the gym got rated yeah and I was going on

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