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While in the Miami area over the past week, I thought it would be amusing to pay a visit to Destiny, whom I once “streamed” with in the past, and was astonished to discover after the fact that he was simultaneously playing video games the entire time. This naturally piqued my curiosity about the streaming lifestyle — meaning, guys like Destiny who live-stream themselves many hours a day, virtually every single day. So I asked him some questions about that. We also got into Iran, Trump, Democrats, Epstein, my personal voting choices, and the usual slate of other topics. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mtracey.net/subscribe

Hooman Majd is a journalist and commentator with some unique insights on Iran, by way of his personal background, so I thought I would ask him the question I posed to myself last week, and which will presumably go down in historical infamy: “Why did Trump go to war with Iran on February 28, 2026?” We also got into various other dimensions of the war — the nature of Trump’s second-term ideology, the structure of his administration, the purported “negotiations” led by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, issues around US and Iranian public opinion, Iranian diaspora dynamics, and so forth.Here is Hooman Majd’s recent article in the Guardian, and here is Hooman Majd on X. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mtracey.net/subscribe

Let me know if you received a notification for this livestream while it was going on earlier tonight? I might have screwed up the promotion. Anyway, feel free to watch at your leisure, if you please. Also feel free not to watch. There are plenty of other things you probably could be doing with your time that don’t include consuming yet another podcast, even if my intent is to make this, as much as possible, the “anti-podcast podcast.” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mtracey.net/subscribe

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I happened to come across Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian of “The Young Turks” discussing my appearance this week on the Piers Morgan show, and predictably, they wasted no time rattling off a slew bogus assertions, one after the next, with such sublime and unshakeable confidence. As is so often the case, the pair have just unthinkably absorbed this whole weird Epstein mythos — the actual evidentiary basis for which they’ve clearly never bothered to check. Instead, they just instinctively assume every little mythological datapoint to be true. Most of which is probably derived from social media or Netflix.So I figured what the heck, I’ll produce my own dumb little commentary video cataloguing their various errors and misapprehensions. There’s not much surprising here; Cenk and Ana’s factual follies are thoroughly typical — almost banally so. I could spend 24/7 correcting bogus Epstein coverage across the political and media spectrum, and never even get through 1% of it. But at least this particular example happens to be pegged to me, Michael Tracey, so I thought hey, why not give it a whirl. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mtracey.net/subscribe

Based on my recent Compact Magazine article. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mtracey.net/subscribe