It's Thursday, October 16th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the gist.

I'm Mike Peska, and it's a not even mad day.

We have Jonah Goldberg.

We have Z. Cohen-Sanchez on.

And they will discuss the three topics I'm going to explain to you.

My choice of topics was a little bit hard this week.

The number one topic, I think on most people's minds, is the Hamas hostage release.

But it's very hard to get the questions you want answered answered. And the questions are,

well, what happens now? And since the future is unknowable, and Hamas is inscrutable.

Maybe they're not. They like to kill enemies,

who they define as everyone but Hamas. Anyway, you're not going to get an answer about the future.

And the other big questions I have is, why exactly did they sign the deal? But the people who

know that are probably holding guns to their enemy's heads in town squares in Gaza as we speak.

All right.

We still will discuss analysis.

Here are the other two big topics.

One is the Trump autocracy.

And maybe in the show, it will help if I do a little more laying of the predicate.

I was reading a blog by Ben Raidersdorf. What's the end game here? And it starts,

most political scientists agree that Trump is attempting to build a competitive authoritarian

dictatorship like Buckele and El Salvador or Ben in Hungary or Erdogan in Turkey. I don't know if

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