News - Israel Bombs Lebanon, Iran Halts Hormuz Traffic, Orban Faces Election Defeat

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

News, History, Politics

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Subscribe now to skip the ads and get all of our episodes. Danny “Hollywood” Bessner and Derek “Bethesda” Davison are back with the news. This week: Israel bombs Lebanon and kills hundreds (2:09) as Iran halts traffic through the Strait of Hormuz in response (5:43); the U.S. and Iran prepare for peace talks in Pakistan (8:26); Trump threatens to resume the war if talks fail (13:02); the Gaza Board of Peace demands Hamas provide a disarmament response (14:56); Afghanistan and Pakistan pause talks and agree to avoid escalation (17:16); Myanmar’s parliament elects junta leader Min Aung Hlaing as president (20:04); Vietnam’s National Assembly elects Communist Party chief To Lam as president (21:14); KMT leader Chiang Li-wun visits China to pursue closer ties (22:59); Burkina Faso’s junta leader extends military rule (27:06); Hungarian polling projects Viktor Orban to lose power to the opposition (31:51); Chadian forces deploy to Haiti under a UN-backed mission (34:54); Haiti postpones voter registration amid ongoing violence (37:15); Trump pressures NATO to secure the Strait of Hormuz (41:51). Don’t forget to subscribe to the Marx Prestige miniseries. New episodes out on Tuesdays! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to American Prestige.
0:02.7	To listen ad-free, you can subscribe at Americanprostagepod.com.
0:08.4	Find the link in our show notes. Hello, Prestige Head and Hello, Prestige heads, and welcome to America Prestige.
0:35.6	I'm Danny Bessner, here as always,
0:38.2	my friend and comrade, Derek Davidson, and we are excited to bring you the news. But before we
0:43.4	review some quick things, if my audio is a bit of an echo, please forgive me. I'm in a bathroom
0:49.8	at a hotel in Spokane, Washington, for various family and the other room reasons.
0:56.8	But things will be okay.
0:58.1	We'll get through it together.
0:59.2	Just a couple of quick reminders.
1:01.1	We have an Iran special on the Seasfire where we really get into a detail.
1:05.9	So if you haven't yet checked that out, please do so.
1:08.8	You can subscribe at Americanprocisepod.com, get access to all
1:12.5	of our specials. And at this point, years of haywold content that we think most of it, or a lot
1:20.0	of it at least, not everything, but really a lot of it stands to test some time. We've got series
1:25.0	and other things like that. Also, for this weekend, we thought
1:28.2	it might be fun to do a little bit of a less depressing episode. So we've got Fred of the
1:33.1	pod, Daniel Imbervar, back on to talk Star Wars. We talk Star Wars. Then we really focus on
1:40.4	basically the first trilogy and then the Phantom Menace. So if you want to do some homework and prepare for that,
1:46.7	rewatch the Phantom Menace.
1:47.9	It's for quite a trip.
1:50.2	And then also don't forget to check out Marks Perstige,
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