We pitch conservative turnout for the Melania film and even float the "buy tickets anyway" tactic as cultural counter-programming (03:27). We mourn Catherine O’Hara and use her work to prove great performers can make slapstick feel human (07:52). We torch the politicized halftime-show pipeline and argue culture got weaponized into tribal sorting (10:02). We cite "politics is downstream of culture," praise right-leaning cultural production and point to institutional fixes like revamping the Kennedy Center and adding a proper White House ballroom (12:49). We joke about missing avocado-toast-era feeds while blaming algorithms for rage-baiting society into division (16:09). We pivot hard to Iran, dismiss the "dialogue" posture as time-buying and back decisive pressure while noting force build-up and defenses (17:39). We map the Middle East and Iran’s scale, explain why invasion is brutal and separate the Iranian people from the IRGC while describing protests "going to ground" as strategy (23:40). We shift stateside, slam California mismanagement, critique the Don Lemon arrest as a narrative trap and demand enforcement aimed at organizers and financiers, not headline bait (35:09). We argue DOJ must operate in court, not the court of public opinion, and call for embedded crisis-PR discipline inside agencies (40:02). We elevate the Minnesota response by spotlighting targeted jail-notification workarounds and the fear-factor credibility of real law-and-order leadership (43:52). We dismiss Epstein-file dumps as chum, warn about contextless name-smearing and insist on indictments over spectacle (49:24). We expose the Gaza "70,000" coverage as headline laundering that pretends Israel validated Hamas numbers, then contrast selective outrage with mass killings elsewhere (54:52). We cheer the UN’s financial collapse and argue the institution earned its own insolvency (59:41). Finally, we long for culture without purity tests, ending on movie and TV talk that also takes a turn for the sentimental, just in time for the weekend (1:01:16).