Valuetainment - April 09, 2026


“Send Your Kids To DIE” - Iran State Media EXPOSES Brutal War Propaganda


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Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

192.88339

Word count

1,890

Sentence count

174

Harmful content

Misogyny

4

sentences flagged

Hate speech

28

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Summary

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In this episode of the podcast, we discuss the latest in the Iran crisis and the possibility of a civil war between the U.S. and Iran. We also talk about the impact of the midterm elections and the potential impact on the midterms.

Transcript

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00:00:30.000 Yesterday I was talking to Jiang, the guy that's, you know, he made the prediction with, I said, so tell me what it's like, the climate in China.
00:00:38.880 I said, what does China say when it comes down to COVID?
00:00:41.520 He says, China's position is that U.S. funded a bioweapon and they dropped it, and that's what the mainstream media said in China.
00:00:49.120 I said, really?
00:00:49.940 Yeah, the state media, because he's in Beijing right now.
00:00:52.500 I said, how many Chinese question that narrative?
00:00:55.700 He says, you don't understand, that's not the culture in China.
00:00:58.120 What the state media says, guess what you do?
00:01:00.900 You buy, okay, because that's the culture that is in China.
00:01:04.940 So in Iran, the state media says what?
00:01:08.160 Do you know the state media?
00:01:09.260 There's a clip of a guy on state media saying, hey, parents,
00:01:12.440 send your kids to get killed in the war, okay? 0.94
00:01:17.460 Send your kids because it's the right thing to do. 0.99
00:01:20.520 Rob, I don't know if you have it in the notes or not.
00:01:22.400 I send it to you.
00:01:23.700 Maybe you have one of the two.
00:01:24.860 One of them is very aggressive.
00:01:26.860 The other one is, here, let me send this to you.
00:01:28.940 I just texted it to you, Rob, if you want to go to it and find it.
00:01:32.260 But it's in my note.
00:01:33.140 There you go, that one right there.
00:01:34.360 Watch this.
00:01:35.400 This is footage earlier, but look how they're speaking.
00:01:37.720 Go back a little bit.
00:01:38.460 Go ahead.
00:01:41.060 Mothers and fathers.
00:01:43.180 Take your children's hand by hand.
00:01:44.820 Come to the streets. 0.99
00:01:45.980 Do you want your sons to be a man?
00:01:49.400 Do you like a hero? 1.00
00:01:50.000 Send your children at night to the road.
00:01:57.820 Your child will turn into what?
00:01:59.680 What was the last word? 0.98
00:02:00.900 Men. 0.92
00:02:01.640 Turn into men. 0.87
00:02:02.920 That's state media. 0.93
00:02:05.620 That's state media.
00:02:07.580 So you think a civil war is going to work in Iran like the way you think,
00:02:11.280 even with weapons? 0.92
00:02:12.420 The government will gladly kill their own people.
00:02:15.620 So if there's, if you, listen.
00:02:18.120 The debate of if you're going to do it or not, we're past it.
00:02:22.280 We're here now.
00:02:24.120 If you want to get the job done, you either have to show up and get it done. 0.93
00:02:28.900 If you don't, you just emboldened Iran in ways we've never seen. 0.54
00:02:32.980 Because if IRGC is still in charge, there was not a regime collapse, there was not a regime change. 0.62
00:02:38.000 They're still in control.
00:02:39.600 And if you think they're going to, they're thinking six months, they can't wait for Trump to be out.
00:02:43.840 Somebody else will come in 5, 10, 15, 20 years from now.
00:02:47.260 It'll be a 9-11 times 10.
00:02:49.140 And then they're going to sit back and say, well, let me tell you,
00:02:51.160 we should have finished a job 20 years ago.
00:02:53.240 They're not going to stop.
00:02:54.320 They right now feel so confident.
00:02:56.980 They right now feel so confident about themselves.
00:02:59.740 What does going all the way look like to you, like 10 out of 10,
00:03:02.060 like extreme in terms of trying to take it out all the way?
00:03:04.120 Because that's what I'm stuck on.
00:03:05.580 I agree with you.
00:03:06.600 I don't think there's winning here for him. 0.99
00:03:08.740 I think whatever he does, I think if they go out and take out Iran,
00:03:13.880 Republicans lose midterms.
00:03:16.120 AOC is going to be the president in 2028 or Newsom. 0.99
00:03:19.280 Newsom's wife, the more she speaks, the more she hurts him. 1.00
00:03:21.580 She's horrible.
00:03:22.940 But I think winning, you're winning for 20 years from now.
00:03:26.500 You're not winning for the next 6, 12 months.
00:03:28.680 If the president is doing what he's doing right now for midterms,
00:03:32.540 then you're thinking marketing and PR-wise.
00:03:34.640 You're not thinking long-term America.
00:03:36.320 You're not thinking long-term war.
00:03:38.900 Can you win this war long-term?
00:03:40.660 I mean, this is a war that's been going on for thousands of years, basically.
00:03:44.020 With IRGC, Iran used to be very peaceful under Mohammad Azhar Shafalavi.
00:03:48.920 They were allies with everybody.
00:03:50.020 They got along with everybody.
00:03:51.500 There was no issues in the Middle East when it was Mohammad Azhar Shafalavi.
00:03:54.820 Nothing.
00:03:55.220 There was no issues.
00:03:55.860 Go look at the death toll.
00:03:57.160 Nothing.
00:03:57.500 They weren't picking on anybody.
00:03:58.960 Have you seen the historical pictures of the citizens? 0.99
00:04:01.200 They were not wearing hijabs. 0.98
00:04:02.580 It looked like a Western country, and it was actually Hollywood people like Frank Sinatra used to go there on vacation and ski.
00:04:09.960 It's just interesting to me because historically you look at the region,
00:04:13.160 there's always been a conflict there.
00:04:14.860 Isn't there always going to be a conflict there?
00:04:16.940 There is always going to be a conflict there.
00:04:19.360 Because this is a different adversary.
00:04:20.760 When you see clips like that, they're fighting a different war
00:04:23.820 than the war that we think of.
00:04:25.260 I know.
00:04:25.780 To us, this is an economic war.
00:04:28.200 This is a war for our living standards and things like that.
00:04:31.420 This is theological to these people.
00:04:34.600 To the extremists, which is the one out of five.
00:04:37.900 Yeah.
00:04:38.060 The 80% don't want this.
00:04:39.620 The 80% are begging for this thing to be done.
00:04:42.220 The 80% are begging for the IRGC to be gone.
00:04:45.220 By the way, look at Gulf states.
00:04:47.560 In UAE, you can't act like that.
00:04:50.000 You're going to jail.
00:04:51.680 Crime is low in UAE.
00:04:52.860 Crime is low in Dubai.
00:04:54.120 Crime is low in these steps out.
00:04:55.620 They're not going to tolerate this behavior.
00:04:57.680 So even the Gulf states have now said, look, we want to have a good relationship with the West.
00:05:02.260 Even Turkey wants to have a good relationship with the West. 0.88
00:05:05.420 Iran is a different animal in a big way. 0.98
00:05:08.060 And if they continue and they keep getting stronger, 0.99
00:05:10.740 like this event comes out and they stay stronger,
00:05:14.120 you're going to have this issue to come up for decades to come,
00:05:16.480 and I don't think it's going to slow down.
00:05:17.700 I think they're going to get tougher.
00:05:19.840 But, again, short-term, I don't think there's a win.
00:05:23.580 The win is only a long-term win, 10 to 20 years.
00:05:25.560 I don't think there's any short-term win.
00:05:27.420 And the noise in media is so loud.
00:05:29.600 The noise in media is so flipping loud just to see the power of the message.
00:05:34.740 Every time somebody comments something negative,
00:05:37.560 The first thing I do is I go to their account and I say, no, this guy's real.
00:05:41.220 He started his account nine years ago.
00:05:42.900 And then I go, this guy started his account a week ago in April of 2026.
00:05:46.300 You're a bot.
00:05:46.980 No followers.
00:05:47.880 And by the way, it's not everybody.
00:05:49.300 So it's not like you can cop out and say everyone's a bot.
00:05:51.760 No, no.
00:05:52.060 Some people are converters of the bot's influence that their brain got rotted to believe that it's happening. 0.86
00:05:59.200 But my concern is this thing, if ceasefire goes, Iran's going to come out and say, 0.88
00:06:03.540 we beat the biggest empire in the world. 0.81
00:06:06.060 and against Israel. 0.86
00:06:08.240 Imagine you're on TV and you're going to say,
00:06:10.180 Israel and U.S. try to take us out, and they failed. 1.00
00:06:14.540 We were right. 1.00
00:06:16.180 And the Iranian people are like, oh, shit. 1.00
00:06:19.040 Now what do we do? 0.93
00:06:20.260 We have to listen to exactly what they're going to be saying now moving forward.
00:06:23.220 If you thought they were extreme, they're about to double down on their extremes.
00:06:26.580 I don't think people realize how much of a stranglehold Iran has over the global oil market. 0.71
00:06:30.580 I mean, that was really the crux of why this ended up being as difficult as it was, 0.90
00:06:35.660 is because people woke up and realized, like, holy cow,
00:06:38.660 they don't even have to actually drop bombs in the strait.
00:06:42.360 They just have to threaten to drop bombs in the strait,
00:06:44.880 and you can shut down the global oil market to a large degree.
00:06:47.480 And they're thinking deeply about the future.
00:06:49.020 Financial Times reported this morning that in addition to the toll booth
00:06:52.060 that they want to put together, and Oman says, hey, I can help you with that,
00:06:55.680 they want a dollar per barrel of oil that goes through the Strait of Hormuz.
00:06:59.000 That's the toll that Iran says it wants.
00:07:02.040 And it doesn't want euros. 0.61
00:07:03.240 It doesn't want U.S. dollars, petrodollars.
00:07:06.120 It wants crypto.
00:07:07.500 Why?
00:07:08.240 Because you can't seize crypto later.
00:07:10.540 You can't tolerate that.
00:07:11.360 You can't freeze assets.
00:07:13.340 You can't tolerate that if that's actually true.
00:07:15.160 What do you mean you can't tolerate?
00:07:16.140 Don't you think that's strategic on their behalf?
00:07:18.040 Yeah, it is.
00:07:18.520 There it is.
00:07:19.120 That breaks everything, though.
00:07:20.360 What do you mean that breaks everything?
00:07:21.760 Well, now you can't freeze the bank account and it's crypto.
00:07:24.600 That undermines the petrodollars.
00:07:25.620 This tells me that they're thinking a step ahead.
00:07:27.540 Guess what?
00:07:27.980 They're going to be like, look, you guys in the U.S. are all about crypto.
00:07:31.220 Now, why not just pay some crypto?
00:07:33.140 Why are you not doing that?
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