I'm Justin Charity. I'm Kate Nibbs. Welcome to Damage Control on the Channel 33 Network,

a podcast where we impact what upsets, excites, and divides us in popular culture.

The newest addition to Weird Twitter is especially weird. Former Iranian president and generally

esoteric person, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been tweeting and we have feelings about this.

But first, John McCain died last week. A huge portion of the country mourned but there were some

notable exceptions, like Donald Trump. We're going to talk about how people are processing this major

American death. Okay, it's okay. John McCain served six years in Vietnam. He served 31 years

in the US Senate and last week John McCain died. He died at the end of a year-long, slightly more than

year-long battle with an aggressive form of brain cancer. So McCain's death and his legacy are notable

for a lot of different reasons. But he spent the last couple of years of his life and political

career nursing this very bitter and spectacular feud with Donald Trump. Donald Trump mocked

McCain's military career right at the start of his presidential campaign. He said something

basically to the effect of John McCain got shot down in Vietnam and captured. And I prefer war heroes

who weren't captured. Such an enemy. So fucking rude. Yeah. And it's like one of those early

Donald Trump saying something moments, saying something about someone moments that everyone thought

would be the end of Donald Trump's career as a Republican politician and tell he went on to win

the Republican nomination and then the presidency obviously. But it's weird. I think McCain's

feud with Trump gradually underscored a lot of people's favorite qualities about McCain.

Because McCain has this, he has a temper for one. He is sort of this this brawling, bruising guy

who will trade insults like real ad hominem with this political rivals. And he does have this sort

of righteous unpredictability that contrasts with Trump's vicious unpredictability.

They seem like McCain and Trump seem like these faded rivals. And so McCain's death is this

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