The Iran War: Shock & Awe, Again

Vibe Check

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Vibe Check, Saeed and Zach are joined by returning guest, journalist Afeef Nessouli, reporting live from Beirut, Lebanon. He breaks down what’s really happening in Iran and across the Middle East — and what life on the ground looks like amid rising tensions. Then, Saeed and Zach unpack the flashbacks this moment is triggering from the post-9/11 era, and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Plus, they share their latest picks for “the vibes are on” and “the vibes are off.” ------------------------------------------------------ Saeed’s Poem of the Week: “I don’t usually talk to strangers” from DON’T LET ME BE LONELY (2004) by Claudia Rankine

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0:00.0	Girl?
0:04.0	Girl.
0:05.0	Not loving the vibes.
0:07.0	No.
0:08.0	I'm glad we're here.
0:09.0	Sure.
0:10.0	I'm glad we are here.
0:11.0	I'm not glad we are here.
0:13.0	You know what I'm saying?
0:14.0	Yeah, yes.
0:15.0	You and I versus the collective.
0:18.0	Yeah.
0:19.0	That is so real.
0:20.0	I hate we.
0:21.3	Same.
0:21.7	And it's now become a bit of a black Twitter trope.
0:24.2	Like, we, who?
0:25.1	Yeah.
0:25.5	For so much of what we're talking about today, I was going on a rant about what we did in the Middle East this weekend.
0:31.9	And Craig snapped at me.
0:33.2	He never snapped at me.
0:33.6	He goes, that's not we.
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