“No one is willing to trade lower gas prices for Iran becoming a nuclear state.”
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
Useful Idiots, LLC
4.5 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to Useful Idiots Monday morning. |
| 0:03.8 | We'll watch the Sunday morning news show so that you don't have to. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm Katie Helper. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Mary Mate. |
| 0:08.5 | Thanks so much for being here. |
| 0:09.5 | Great to start the week with you and a parade of liars from corporate TV. |
| 0:14.7 | Our website is Useful Idiots Podcast.com. |
| 0:17.1 | Go there to support the show and get bonus content. |
| 0:28.1 | We are now in the so-called ceasefire phase of Trump's aggression against Iran. |
| 0:34.9 | The ceasefire was reached last week right before Trump's deadline to wipe out Iran's civilization at the last minute. |
| 0:39.3 | And we just had talks in Pakistan, 21 hours. |
| 0:42.6 | J.D. Vance was there with Jared Kushner and Steve Wickoff. |
| 0:45.5 | And what a surprise when you have Jared Kushner and Steve Wickoff, |
| 0:49.8 | and really anybody from the Trump administration that the talks didn't work out. |
| 0:51.5 | But they are ongoing. |
| 0:52.8 | They are ongoing. |
| 0:56.7 | But in the meantime, Trump has decided, hey, why don't I go ahead and announce a full-on blockade of the Strait of Hormuz after complaining about Iran, partially blocking the Strait of |
| 1:02.5 | Hermuz. |
| 1:03.4 | But now Trump is saying, yeah, let's go for a full blockade and raise global commodity prices |
| 1:07.7 | even higher and threaten the outbreak with the renewed outbreak of war |
| 1:12.0 | at any moment. |
| 1:13.1 | So that's the genius. |
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