News - Lebanon Moves to Disarm Hezbollah, Netanyahu Announces Gaza Occupation, 80th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing in Hiroshima

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Subscribe now to skip the ads. Don't forget to purchase our "Welcome to the Crusades" miniseries! The AP team will wear formal Tevas to the new White House ballroom. Otherwise, in this week’s news: Danny and Derek reflect on the 80th anniversary of the US dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (1:46); in Israel-Palestine, Netanyahu announces his “full occupation” plan (8:24) as the US expands the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (13:58); the Lebanese government moves to disarm Hezbollah (16:48); the US looks to host an Armenia-Azerbaijan peace summit (20:51); Trump punishes India for purchasing Russian oil (24:20); Thailand and Cambodia agree to the deployment of ceasefire monitors (27:49); in Sudan, the RSF carries out a new atrocity (29:50) and the military accuses the United Arab Emirates of hiring mercenaries (32:37); a new report details sexual violence in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia (35:06); in Russia-Ukraine, Steve Witkoff visits Moscow ahead of a Putin-Trump meeting (37:28) as the US nevertheless plans to impose tariffs on Russia (40:34); El Salvador’s legislature removes presidential term limits (41:57); and in US news, America makes a new “third country” trafficking agreement with Rwanada (43:15), the State Department starts a new program forcing travelers to pay bonds to the US government (45:23), and NASA plans to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon (46:50). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to American Prestige. To listen ad-free, you can subscribe at Americanprostagepod.com. Find the link in our show notes.
0:11.0	Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs. Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run, and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand,
0:23.6	marketing tools that get your products out there.
0:25.9	Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time.
0:28.6	From startups to scale-ups, online, in-person, and on the go.
0:33.1	Shopify is made for entrepreneurs like you.
0:35.6	Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. Hello, Prestige Head, and welcome to I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davidson,
1:09.1	and we are excited to bring you the news.
1:10.6	But before we do, two quick reminders. If you haven't yet, please check out, Welcome to the Crusades at Welcome to the Crusades.com. We're going to be releasing a bonus episode. And if you want some good fun Crusades content, that's a little bit escapist, but also provides insight into the world we live in today.
1:29.0	Check that out. That's again, welcome to thecrisades.com. And we're... And we're... One bonus episode. Maybe more than one. Who knows? Maybe more. Oh, my God. Derek. I, you know. Everyone... I mean, I'm not... I don't want to limit people to one bonus episode. I mean, you got to buy it, but you know, you could be getting 20, 30.
1:28.8	Who knows?
1:29.4	Oh, my God. able to one bonus episode. I mean, you got to buy it, but you know, you could be getting
1:45.3	20, 30, who knows? Oh my God. This promises, these are not contractual promises,
1:52.2	everyone listening to be like the micro machine guy. But in addition to that, we are so close to
1:58.2	getting 1,000 reviews on Apple. So if you haven't yet,
2:02.0	please pause this wonderful episode, take a moment, and review us on Apple Podcasts.
2:08.2	Then I will stop asking everyone once we hit 1,000. We really appreciate that.
2:13.2	And it's something you could do, especially if for whatever reason you can't afford to
2:16.7	subscribe to the podcast right now.
2:18.1	We get that, but you can help us out by reviewing us at Apple Podcasts.
2:22.1	So it really takes a couple minutes and really does a lot for us.
2:25.3	So if you haven't yet, please do that.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 12 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.