Jimmy Lai, the 78-year-old Hong Kong media tycoon, receives what his son calls a death sentence. Plus: Starmer's government in crisis over Epstein fallout, Iran jails another Nobel laureate, Cuba's airports run dry, and Bad Bunny makes Super Bowl history entirely in Spanish.

The Washington Post loses its publisher days after mass layoffs, raising questions about whether billionaire-owned media can sustain accountability journalism. Plus: the Pentagon cuts ties with Harvard, Iran's foreign minister draws a hard line before the Netanyahu-Trump meeting, and EPA enforcement hits historic lows.

Trump posts a racist video and claims he 'didn't see it.' The State Department is deleting its entire pre-Trump social media history. And a South Korean crypto firm accidentally sends forty-four billion dollars in bitcoin. Today we're talking about what happens when powerful people and institutions get caught -- and the creative ways they find to avoid taking responsibility.

A trillion dollars vanishes from tech stocks as AI disrupts the disruptors, nuclear arms control enters pinky-swear territory, and the hosts debate whether market carnage is tragedy or long-overdue triage. Plus: why narwhals are going quiet.

As US-brokered peace talks continue in Abu Dhabi, the last nuclear arms control agreement between the US and Russia quietly expires. Elliot and Riley debate whether losing New START is a tragedy or an opportunity for a multilateral reset—and whether raw fear can replace the frameworks that kept the Cold War from going hot.

The last US-Russia nuclear treaty expires tomorrow while diplomats meet in Abu Dhabi. Nvidia's $100 billion OpenAI deal turns out to never have existed. French police raid X headquarters over AI-generated child abuse images. And the Epstein documents are quietly ending careers you've never heard of.

SpaceX swallows xAI to become the world's most valuable private company while French police raid X's Paris headquarters on the same day. We dig into what space-based AI infrastructure actually means—the physics problems, the regulatory vacuum, and why this might kick off a sovereign compute arms race. Plus: why Buddy Holly chartered that fateful plane 67 years ago.

The Epstein document dump reveals institutional chaos as the DOJ exposes nearly 100 victims while powerful figures scramble. Meanwhile, SpaceX's acquisition of xAI creates what may become the world's most valuable company, raising uncomfortable questions about concentrated power over rockets, AI, and orbital infrastructure. Plus: body cameras after shootings, offshore wind wins in court, and a nebula that puts it all in perspective.