The 2025 News Stories that Just Won't Die (with Kevin Ryan)
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Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
A short update this week while I’m on the road. Trump will join European leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, for an emergency virtual summit Wednesday ahead of his Friday meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska. The talks, organized by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, will focus on pressuring Russia, addressing seized Ukrainian territory, securing guarantees for Kyiv, and sequencing peace talks. Merz insists on a ceasefire before any negotiations or land swaps, and Europe is pushing for stronger sanctions on Russia’s banking sector. Three sessions will bring together EU leaders, NATO chief Mark Rutte, Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Ukraine’s military backers. I’ve been struck by how closely Europe and NATO are aligned with Trump here — but we’ve been down this road with Putin before. He’s not a trustworthy guy. My bet is Zelensky ends up in the summit, and Trump pushes for a wrap-up.
Meanwhile, the Teamsters Union, long a Democratic stronghold, is broadening its political giving under President Sean O’Brien, donating to Republicans as well. It’s a big story — a sign that Democrats’ hold on organized labor’s money and loyalty is eroding, and it’s going to be something we need to watch as we move forward.
Finally, a judge denied the DOJ’s request to unseal grand jury material in the Ghislaine Maxwell case, saying the public would learn little new. The DOJ’s handling — including interviewing Maxwell, transferring her to a less restrictive prison, and not notifying victims — has sparked outrage. The public want more answers, but it’s unclear what new revelations could satisfy that demand. Would naming names in exchange for a pardon be worth it? That’s the moral trade-off now on the table.
Chapters
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:00 - Interview with Kevin Ryan, pt. 1
00:30:00 - Update
00:34:24 - Interview with Kevin Ryan, pt. 2
00:57:46 - Wrap-up
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| 0:00.0 | On this edition of the program, the summer days may be slow, but it's just the right time to talk about everything that's happened with the one and only Kevin Ryan. |
| 0:13.4 | An early episode of PX3 for you. Let's get into it. |
| 0:20.6 | The following is brought to you by Just Another Pilot. |
| 0:27.7 | Politics, Politics, politics, politics, |
| 0:49.3 | I'm a four. |
| 0:50.3 | This is you tech, technically, this is the Wednesday, August 13th edition of the program, but we're now |
| 0:57.8 | released a little earlier, a little earlier. Easy for me to say. I am at the butt end of a |
| 1:04.4 | trip in Vegas. I've been in DefCon for the last three days. Man, I don't know what happens, but nothing, no city is more hostile |
| 1:17.1 | to me than Vegas. It wrecks my voice. It wrecks my skin. I am just not built for the desert, |
| 1:26.1 | dude. I am not. I'm, uh, I'm, I'm, I'm a swamp creature. I'm a, |
| 1:32.8 | I'm a little frog. And, and when you dry me out, you dehydrate me. It just doesn't, uh, doesn't do you |
| 1:39.8 | boy good. That being said, uh, a lot of moving pieces. And so we are going to do an early episode. |
| 1:47.6 | It's going to be really fun. It's a conversation with Kevin Ryan, which is always a blast. |
| 1:53.0 | So let's go ahead and get into it. |
| 2:00.4 | You know, there is a lot going on, but in many ways, it's kind of the same stuff. |
| 2:05.3 | We've had a few stories that have just overextended their welcome. |
| 2:08.8 | I think we are in the dog days of summer. |
| 2:10.8 | And so we're going to recap a little bit. |
| 2:13.8 | We're going to look at the bigger picture, and there's nobody that I like to do that better with. |
| 2:23.3 | Then the one, the only, the cosmic Kevin Ryan. How you doing, buddy? Good. How are you man? I am tired. Hanging in there. You know, so I've been trying to wake up early because of the kid. |
| 2:36.7 | And so when I'm home, I go to bed at 9.30. |
| 2:39.9 | I wake up at 4.30. |
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