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Today I did an interview with Joe Kent, the former Director of the National Counter-Terrorism Center, who you might recall made a big splash when he resigned from the Trump Administration on March 17, in opposition to the Iran War. While I thought Kent displayed unusual integrity by resigning, I also found the substance of his accompanying letter a bit questionable, especially insofar as it seemed to displace all decision-making agency away from Trump and onto Israel. Which is an argumentative move lots of right-leaning critics of the war have been trying to make for the past six weeks. To me, this gives woefully short shrift to Trump’s clearly-expressed Second Term ideology of global conquest and resource extraction.Anyway, following his resignation, Joe Kent jumped immediately onto the Podcast Circuit. Which is rife with epistemic problems, as we’ve often discussed. So I wanted to get into some things with him that maybe he has not addressed yet, or at least hadn’t addressed from the angle that I wanted to approach from.Matt Taibbi was supposed to co-pilot the interview, but his hotel Wifi crapped out and he had to abort. Don’t fret though, because Joe Kent has graciously agreed to join the two of us on a forthcoming expeditionary mission to Greenland.Let me know what you think. 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

An unpleasant, but unpleasantly necessary, discussion. 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

After being effused with excessive praise, I get a chance to ask Batya about something that’d been bugging me for the past year. Namely: does she care to revise her April 2025 description of Trump as the “21st century FDR,” because Trump, like FDR, is purportedly “socially moderate, anti-interventionist, and committed to America’s blue collar workers as the backbone of this country.” Because that description never made much sense to me! 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

I’ll have more to come soon on my encounter yesterday with the famed Epstein lawyer consortium. David Boies himself spoke to me for a surprisingly long time. I even had a decently extensive chat with the man, the myth, Bradley Edwards. The only problem was you can’t bring any recording devices into the federal courthouse, so I had to scribble on some haphazardly assembled scrap papers. 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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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

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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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.mtracey.netI’m in Miami, and yesterday recorded this hot new “March Madness” tournament intro with Matt Taibbi, as well as a 2-hour discussion with Ben Swann — the guy who’s probably most responsible for popularizing “Pizzagate” in 2016, and recently claimed vindication, given how the Epstein Files prove Pizzagate, or something like that. Amusingly enough, the con…

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

I honestly can’t recommend watching this, because it’s so petty and tedious, but I figured I might as well post it here, in case any of my Substack subscribers are pure masochists with nothing better to do. You can also watch on YouTube, if you want, but again, I really don’t recommend it. 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 keep saying I’m going to start modulating my podcast appearances at some point, and then I never do so. I have a proper article coming soon on the Prince Andrew nonsense. Watch my full appearance on the Unherd appearance here, if you want. I was also on the “All In” podcast, joined by Saagar Enjeti, who popped in for the first half hour or so. I have also done a bunch of other stuff, but it’s all starting to blend together at this point. 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