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Today, Explained

Meme warfare

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Have you seen the video of the US military bombing Iran spliced with clips of SpongeBob Squarepants? It’s an official video released by the US government and represents a new kind of wartime propaganda. This episode was produced by Dustin DeSoto and Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Andrea Lopez-Cruzado, engineered by Patrick Boyd and David Tatasciore, and hosted by Noel King. A screenshot from a White House X post about the Iran war titled "Operation Epic Fury." Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The White House is tweeting videos of the Iran War as a Nintendo game.

0:07.9

Holy what?

0:09.1

As a scene from Braveheart.

0:10.4

What will you do without freedom?

0:13.1

The Iranians are tweeting videos of the American and Israeli war featuring Lego Trump and

0:18.3

Lego Bibi, Lego Strait of Hormuz.

0:22.4

Propaganda is a part of every war. It has not always been this dumb, but there are other

0:27.0

differences this time around that might matter more.

0:29.4

Quite often, the moral aspects of war are laid out before the American public, before

0:35.0

any American shooting has begun. That was the case for World War I, World War II.

0:39.9

The case was being made around Vietnam before anything happened.

0:44.2

That's coming up on Today Explained.

1:06.0

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1:49.1

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