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Hello. You know, and Sparion. And you guys are in for a solo show today.

Jank Uyuger will be out today and tomorrow, but he will be returning on Thursday.

But we've got a lot of great stories to share with you.

I mean, when I say great, I don't mean that it's good news, of course.

But of course you're going to get details, deep dives, and perspectives that you are unlikely to hear in the legacy media, corporate media, or overall mass media in the United States.

Luckily, there are independent sources that are cutting through the BS and the narratives.

And luckily you're going to get a lot of that on the show today.

We're going to start off with a deep dive on Lebanon. There have been some updates in regard to

direct negotiations between Israel and the Lebanese government, which I am going to make the case

happen to be incredibly irrelevant and will not lead to an end to Israel's brutality and mass

slaughter that's going on in Lebanon as we speak. Later, we'll also talk about the reality of

Trump's so-called blockade on the Strait of Hormuz. Like, what is the reality behind that?

I'm going to give you the details. And then later in the show, I really want to do a

deep dive into something that I don't think I've noticed with many other groups of people

before, right? Like this cope, peak cope that I see going on with, you know, supporters of

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