
Henry was busy on a gig this week, but hakuna matata - Eddie stepped up and brought some friends along for this week's biggest stories and worldwide news - FIRST Seena joins the show to help Eddie wrap his mind around The Enhanced Games - the new billionare funded pro-enhancment drug olympic style tournament, as well as exactly what is going on with the current situation in Iran, THEN Amber Nelson joins the show to watch a notorious poacher get stomped out by Elephants, and to give us her take on the recent Epstein reveals...
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Henry Zebrowski
What they did to your family. You're lucky to make it out alive.
Sina Gostavi
Streaming on Peacock.
Amber Nelson
These men are going to come after me.
Henry Zebrowski
Taking them out is my only chance. Put a bullet in her head. From the co creator of Ozark. Looks like a family was running drugs.
Amber Nelson
Execution style killing.
Henry Zebrowski
It's rare for the Keys.
Sina Gostavi
Any leads on who they might have been running for?
Amber Nelson
The cartel killed my family. I'm gonna kill them. All of them.
Sina Gostavi
MIA Streaming now only on Peacock. There's no place to escape to.
Henry Zebrowski
This is the lost on the left side stories.
Amber Nelson
That's when the cannibalism started.
Henry Zebrowski
Side stories, yes. All right.
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Henry Zebrowski
We're good. We're ready. Oh, side stories. I'm Henry Zabrowski and I'm getting too big for my clothes. How you doing? I'm joined. Of course. I'm not Henry Zabowski. He's out and about. He can't make it in today. But I am joined here with the wonderful, the my confident, my efficient, my hero top five smartest friends. Host of the foreign report fraudsters, Sina Gostavi. How you doing?
Sina Gostavi
Oh, that's so great. I'm so happy you have very few of five friends. Yes.
Henry Zebrowski
You're my lawyer, my psychiatrist, my IT guy.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
What do you think of this computer? How dirty is it?
Sina Gostavi
Is. It is pretty good. Let's see. Oh, my God. Look at that screen. Eddie, I know you on the Google Doc. You can't even see it's changed. I. I was looking at the keyboard and then I saw the screen.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, yeah. You know, the keyboard is bad, but the screen's bad. I don't know how to clean it.
Sina Gostavi
I am shook.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, I knew you would be. I knew you would be. But now, like, I feel like if I clean it, I wouldn't be able to, like, read it. Now I. I've learned how to.
Sina Gostavi
You can't read it now. You're, like, reading through, like, the woods.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, it helps me because, like, all the awful. It's a blur.
Sina Gostavi
Does the dirt cover the word genocide when you're scrolling through an article?
Henry Zebrowski
Oh, yeah. So I want to talk about some. Some fucked up shit with you today.
Sina Gostavi
Wait, can I just Say, I was talking to Rob before the show, and I was like, you know, he's like, I'm surprised you came back, or something like that. And I was like, you know, last time I remember being here, and I was thinking about it last night, I was like, oh, Eddie showed me a woman getting electrocuted.
Henry Zebrowski
Yes.
Sina Gostavi
And then today we're going to talk about arguably worse stuff.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah. And you know what's funny about that? I don't remember that. I think it was Henry.
Sina Gostavi
Maybe it was just Henry.
Henry Zebrowski
Oh, good. I'm glad I miss it. Thank you for taking that one for me. But before we get started, I definitely. You know, the Foreign Report is, like, one of the best shows. It's where I get my news. Oh, and you're great. Travis is fine.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
And he's great. I'm just kidding. I love everybody. But you are the father, the surrogate father of a serial killer. Roomie.
Sina Gostavi
Oh, yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
Rumi Cena's dog has killed nine squirrels.
Sina Gostavi
Ten squirrels.
Henry Zebrowski
Ten squirrels.
Sina Gostavi
Three birds. Three birds. And he has attacked multiple opossums. But they.
Henry Zebrowski
He's played dead. He's never beaten a possum yet.
Sina Gostavi
No, no, no. Because they.
Henry Zebrowski
He's.
Sina Gostavi
You know, he's a dog. They play dead, and he's like, I did it. Look at me. I'm the man.
Henry Zebrowski
So what kind of dog is Roomy?
Sina Gostavi
He is a Jack Russell mix with a lot of different terriers and 20% Chihuahua. That's where.
Henry Zebrowski
That's where the ferociousness.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah, Betty.
Henry Zebrowski
So you gave him a test?
Sina Gostavi
We got the test done.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah. Yeah.
Sina Gostavi
For sure.
Henry Zebrowski
23.
Sina Gostavi
Well, Marcus did whatever Marcus did.
Henry Zebrowski
Okay. Yeah.
Sina Gostavi
When Marcus does something, I'm like, that's a good one. I'm. I know it's verified because I know he did his research. So I'm gonna do it.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, No, I. I did one on Tootsie to come back as Grim Reaper. Yeah. So it's good. 20. So up to 10.
Sina Gostavi
10 squirrels.
Amber Nelson
He.
Sina Gostavi
He's.
Henry Zebrowski
So how bloody is the squirrel deaths? You sent me a video of one of them from your ring camera.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah, one was. One. I think one was bloody. But it's like, you know how a dog plays with those toys, the stuffed toys? Oh.
Henry Zebrowski
Because immediately, as soon as they pick it up and shake it.
Sina Gostavi
They shake it.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah. They said.
Sina Gostavi
And then you think, oh, it's so cute. Oh, it's so cute. He's like. He's just practicing. That's a war game. Okay. He is warming up to go out there, and he just waits. And we have A palm tree in our backyard, and there's a fence. And what he does is, is he just waits. He barks. But he's also waiting for the squirrel to make a mistake because it goes on the fence and jumps to the tree. And if they. If they miss or they go from the palm tree to the fence and they miss, oh, buddy, he is there.
Henry Zebrowski
That's crazy.
Sina Gostavi
And he really. So much of this work that we do is showing up, and I'm inspired by him because he shows up every day without fail. If it's raining, he's out there.
Henry Zebrowski
Does he like it, or is he, like, upset after he does it?
Sina Gostavi
You know, the jury's still out on that. He does get a little like, daddy, what did I do? But that daddy is like, you're my baby boy.
Henry Zebrowski
I'm so proud of you. It's weird. Like, it would make me so sad if Harley killed squirrel, but also, I'd just be so proud of her.
Sina Gostavi
Oh, that's what he's supposed. He's bred. I mean, they bred this dog.
Henry Zebrowski
They're supposed to be mongoose, right?
Sina Gostavi
You know what they're supposed to kill small varmints. You know what I mean?
Henry Zebrowski
Dude, take his ass to Hawaii filled with mongoose, right? Yeah, yeah. Because they brought in the mongoose to kill the rats, but then the rats were nocturnal and the mongoose were up during the day, and so they wouldn't kill each other. And so the mongoose just got out of control. Then they brought in the cats to kill the mongoose. Now there's cats everywhere.
Sina Gostavi
This is. You can't mess with nature.
Henry Zebrowski
Can't with nature.
Sina Gostavi
You shouldn't do it.
Henry Zebrowski
It's all invasive spec there in Hawaii. But I love roomie and I love you. And before we get into the horrors of the Iran war, which I don't want to talk about, but we have to just because of the sheer death toll. The Enhanced Games.
Sina Gostavi
Oh, my God. So incredible.
Henry Zebrowski
All right. I don't even know how to deal with this. Like, I found out about it this morning. I immediately just sent. I threw the. The show away. And I'm like, sent this to Cena. I was like, this is insane. So the Enhanced Games will take place in Las Vegas later this month at May. I think it's at the Cosmopolitan. I'm not 100% sure, but May 21st to May 24th. It's an Olympic style event that allows for the use of performance enhancing drugs.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
So they're basically. They have athletes that are Going to show up and juice. Juice to the gills.
Sina Gostavi
Yes.
Henry Zebrowski
And they are. They're going to do swimming, track, weightlifting, strongman. I don't know what the difference between weightlifting and strongman.
Sina Gostavi
Don't they just throw a keg in the strong man?
Henry Zebrowski
I guess so. I guess so. Yeah. So they're starting off with these events. It's the first time ever there's gonna be a concert afterwards.
Sina Gostavi
Are they gonna be just like on.
Henry Zebrowski
The Killers are gonna play. Yeah, the Killers. The band, the Killers. Really? They're gonna play, like, the. The opening concert.
Sina Gostavi
They're gonna rip lines on stage.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah.
Sina Gostavi
We are enhanced.
Henry Zebrowski
And so basically what it is is Peter thiel, Donald Trump Jr. And the guy who helped Hulk Hogan sue Gawker. Aaron d'. Souza.
Sina Gostavi
Oh, the. The lawyer.
Henry Zebrowski
It's. Yeah, it's his. It's his baby.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
He was just like, what if we just let them do the drugs and see what happens? Yeah. And he pitched this to Peter Thiel on a New Year's Eve. Peter Thiel's like, let's do it.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
And so now they're just full on going for it. It is insane that this is happening. It is certain fucking disaster.
Sina Gostavi
I went from wanting tickets to wanting to run the other direction.
Henry Zebrowski
I know. I was just like. I was like. I really, like. The morbid curiosity in me is like, I really want to see this. But now that I know that it's just going to give Peter Thiel more
Sina Gostavi
money, is it the curiosity that they're going to, like, break a world record or that their heart's going to stop or explode?
Henry Zebrowski
Because it's. They're training. Like, it's similar to F1. It's like. I think it's owned by some of the same people, too. And so I think there is that. Like, we watch it to see someone die.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
You know, like, it's. You know, it's. Yeah. The Killers are playing. The mountain from Game of Thrones is going to be. Oh, of course he is. Yeah. He has to do the weightlifting. He's probably the one celebrity that they got to do this thing. It's very dangerous. I don't understand how it's allowed, but it's. So there was an issue when it came to funding for the Games because there's so, so much money on the line. They're going to be paying these athletes exorbitant amount of money. There's. I think there's $25 million, like, promises to. To athlete compensation.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
Which is more than the Olympics.
Sina Gostavi
I would do I would do a couple rounds of roids. Are you kidding me?
Henry Zebrowski
Exactly.
Sina Gostavi
Many rounds.
Henry Zebrowski
And they like, if they break a swimming record or a track record, they get a million dollar bonus. Oh, my God. These athletes, these Olympic, Olympic athletes. Clean Olympic athletes, they don't get paid anything. No, they get paid, dog. I mean, they get paid some money, but they get paid, dog.
Sina Gostavi
Oh, yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
And I just, I don't know about you. I did the, the raffle for the LA Olympics.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah. I didn't get it. Did you?
Henry Zebrowski
We got it. You should be lucky you didn't get it. It cost me thousands of dollars.
Sina Gostavi
I.
Henry Zebrowski
It's like one.
Sina Gostavi
I heard it's so expensive.
Henry Zebrowski
It was so. It was so expensive. It's like a whole nother rant.
Sina Gostavi
What do you see in badminton?
Henry Zebrowski
No, I wanted to see Batman, but it was, it was sold out. But I did, I get, I got baseball gold. That was the big one. I got.
Sina Gostavi
Oh, that's great. Wow, you did spend a lot of money.
Henry Zebrowski
So I'm going to. And I'm going to see beach volleyball.
Sina Gostavi
Have this man do a live read right now. He's going to pay for these Olympic tickets.
Henry Zebrowski
So basically what's going on here is there's an issue with funding for the Games, which is largely coming from Peter Thiel. We know him from Palantir. You know, he wants to replace the human race with AI, using the blood
Sina Gostavi
of young people into his body.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Donald Trump Jr. Also a quote from Donald Trump Jr. About the games. He says the enhanced games represent the future. Real competition, real freedom and real records being smashed. This is about excellence, innovation and American dominance on the world stage. Something the MAGA movement is all about. That's a quote From Donald Trump Jr.
Sina Gostavi
It's not even breaking a record because you're not in, in the arena. Yeah. With everyone else to break a record.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah. Why not have a home run competition?
Sina Gostavi
Oh my God.
Henry Zebrowski
Producing this thing.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah, yeah, that aluminum bats.
Henry Zebrowski
I want to see wrestling.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
Like real wrestling.
Sina Gostavi
What with roids? Yeah. Roided wrestling.
Henry Zebrowski
Why not?
Sina Gostavi
When is this, if you're gonna do
Henry Zebrowski
it, go all out.
Sina Gostavi
This is all running, man. This is just a spin off of
Henry Zebrowski
whatever version of running into that. Yeah. Also there's like, you know, obviously heavy right wing influence up top. All the competitors will be categorized based on their chromosomal sex. So no, basically to appeal to the worst fucking audience possible, they. They have to throw in the anti trans stipulation. That would not be applied to any of your competitors anyway.
Sina Gostavi
Well, because I guess what happens if one of the female athletes takes a bunch of testosterone?
Henry Zebrowski
Yes, it's the weirdest thing. Like, it's like we you to do all these drugs, but if you're the wrong gender, it's not allowed. They also are so stupid. Supplement company Enhanced, which I didn't realize these like GLP1 things and all that kind of. On their website. Yeah.
Sina Gostavi
So, okay, so it's an. It's a really on the nose type of an event.
Henry Zebrowski
Right now. You know where they are. All the athletes are training over in the uae. They're like currently getting bombed at their training facility. They're talking about this. It was invented Sanity fair. They're all like literally like training while bombs are hitting the building and shit.
Sina Gostavi
That's why they got all these air defenses there.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because. And then they're gonna fly them all to Vegas soon. While they're done. Their goal is to challenge the traditional sporting models acting as a Formula one for the human body.
Sina Gostavi
This is so insane. The formula, first of all, formula. It's a car. It's a car, not the human body. If the engine fails in the car, you replace the engine. Yes. If your body fails, you're dead.
Henry Zebrowski
Well, you know, Chaney got a couple of hearts.
Sina Gostavi
He did. I think he got like a quintuple bypass. And then he got shot in the face or he shot that guy.
Henry Zebrowski
He shot his friend and shot his
Sina Gostavi
friend in the face.
Henry Zebrowski
And they did everything they could to not make that murder. That poor guy lived on a ventilator for months. Oh, man. So they're saying like you. They're only allowed to do drugs that are FDA approved. You know, like some HGH and stuff like this. But they also said that they're not going to drug test.
Sina Gostavi
I was just going to ask. Are.
Henry Zebrowski
Are.
Sina Gostavi
They're definitely not going to drug test these people. So how are they going to know?
Henry Zebrowski
Exactly. Exactly. Because I'm guessing they want to promote the goddamn enhanced company. I guess that is so they're. So they're going to. Basically. It's going to be crazy. It's all like our buddy Pat Barker who works with us, he showed me. He reminded me of the great SNL sketch.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah, Kevin.
Henry Zebrowski
Kevin Neal and Dennis Miller about the. The all drugs. And then Phil Hartman's the weightlifter and then to like break the record and then he's like. And he just rips his arms off and it's like the. At the end of the sketch, it's so funny. It's perfect sketch. But yeah, no, this is crazy. And this is all like. The people who are putting this together are the same people who are scared of vaccines.
Sina Gostavi
Oh God, yeah. Yeah, well, you know, that's how that goes. It's going to be. They're building their own little. Their own little like, you know, enhanced Olympics, their own little Mecca Olympics and people are going to be merging with the machine. That's what the next step is, by the way. Yeah, it's going to be like Bionic man type stuff where it's just like he has X ray vision or he has like he can fly, he could jump. He's part in like a, like an exosuit and he's going to be able to like lift things. It's going to be insane.
Henry Zebrowski
It's going to be crazy. Yeah, it's just amazing.
Sina Gostavi
But it's entertaining. Everything is about attention now and it's going to get attention.
Henry Zebrowski
It's the. I'm giving it attention currently.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
I like. Even though I hate it and it goes against everything in my being. I am morbidly curious.
Sina Gostavi
This is how it happens sense.
Henry Zebrowski
I.
Sina Gostavi
It's wrong to. Well, of course they're never going to. These are people that will never be able to compete in the Olympics or in a proper sporting event.
Henry Zebrowski
But they're going to get paid.
Sina Gostavi
But they're.
Henry Zebrowski
Why would they want to do the Olympics if you're going to fucking make these people practically homeless and like, like you have to win a gold medal just to get sponsors just so you can make some money. Why would you want to be an Olympian and not an enhanced athlete?
Amber Nelson
Oh man.
Sina Gostavi
And then there's good. They're going to make it global. Yeah, they're going to make it global.
Henry Zebrowski
Ready? They got, they got athletes from all over the world. I'm looking over here. They got the, the athletes, they give them all like their own page. And there's guys from all over the world. There's Brazil, I'm looking at Ireland. You know, it's, it's, it's out, it's everywhere. You know these, yeah, these guys look, they're from everywhere.
Sina Gostavi
And you know, the next step is actually for. It's going to be a human versus a robot. We're going to have that.
Henry Zebrowski
Why not?
Sina Gostavi
It's going to be Elon's like, whatever, his like robot thing versus one of these guys and they're all going to make bets. It's going to. Oh yeah. I mean, Kyle, she's going to pop off on this. This is all a prediction markets. Sports betting, dude.
Henry Zebrowski
It's like also, they're going off on how it's like, you know, American, American excellence.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
There's like 10Americans out of, like 40 athletes.
Sina Gostavi
By American excellence, they mean late stage capitalism, end of the empire.
Henry Zebrowski
Thank you.
Sina Gostavi
This is it. This is. This is a real signal spiraling.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, man. So this is where we're at. We are. We're going full idiocracy.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
This is how. How we're doing.
Sina Gostavi
So which day are we going? Is this. We gotta make content for it.
Henry Zebrowski
I gotta, like. I was like, if you see a guy in the audience with the bag on his head, that's.
Sina Gostavi
That's me.
Henry Zebrowski
It's just like, it's just like, just so you don't think it's me. But yeah, no, I, I, Yeah, I'm definitely not gonna go just because I have to have my moral code.
Sina Gostavi
But God damn, that sounds like a man whose moral code is about to break. You want to see the freak? That sounds like, you know, I mean, if they got stone Cold Steve Austin in there, I would go. If he's like, yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
Hgh.
Sina Gostavi
I think they didn't really test those guys. I mean, whatever they had, they don't give a stone. Steve Austin's knees are all jacked up, so I think they probably gave him a ton of cortisone shots and everything. I'm sure there's people in the audience that know a lot more about all that stuff than I do. But, you know, obviously, we all know Randy Savage and all those guys, the ultimate warrior. I mean, they were all roided up.
Henry Zebrowski
All right, so I. I wanted you to turn your fraudster's brain on for two seconds.
Sina Gostavi
Let's do it, baby.
Henry Zebrowski
All right, so the whole thing is valued at $1.2 billion.
Sina Gostavi
Okay.
Henry Zebrowski
For an event that hasn't even happened yet, has no TV deal, the Games are going to be watched on YouTube. It's only happening in a 2,500 seat venue, and it promises over $25 million in athlete compensation. How does this work?
Sina Gostavi
So how. Where. Who said the valuation.
Henry Zebrowski
It's just. It's the project. They went public. The. The firm named the paradise acquisition went public and projected the valuation at 1.2 billion.
Sina Gostavi
Oh, so they. Okay, so they probably did like a reverse public thing. So there was probably an entity that existed, and then they, like, bought this entity, and then that was, like, how they went public. I guess that's my guess. It's all speculation. So you could say this is what we presume to be making. Yeah. And then after it happens, it'll be very clear. But they could sell pay per view, they could sell streaming online.
Henry Zebrowski
This is happening in a couple of weeks. We didn't even fucking know about it.
Sina Gostavi
I know that's. I think that's the issue here. It depends.
Henry Zebrowski
It doesn't matter because there are also. Because the reason I stumbled on it is I was reading the Guardian this morning and there was an article, an opinion article written by one of the Guardian journalists who requested access to the press event. And they were like, nah, you can't come. You asked too many questions.
Sina Gostavi
Okay, well that's a flag. That's a real flag. When you don't let the press in, you kind of like do this like reverse public thing and you get out there. I think this is going to be. I mean that valuation has got to come down. What is it? 1.2 billion?
Henry Zebrowski
1.2 billion?
Sina Gostavi
No, no.
Henry Zebrowski
Right.
Sina Gostavi
No.
Henry Zebrowski
2,500 seats.
Sina Gostavi
I mean if you think about that's
Henry Zebrowski
the size of the places that last
Sina Gostavi
podcast plays, like a small sports team is in like the hundreds of millions of dollars. Right.
Henry Zebrowski
But do you think it's more of like a future like 10 years down the road they see this to stadiums,
Sina Gostavi
that's what they're going to project and probably why they're doing it this way. But I mean you could this, it could be like xfl, but at the end of the day this is more of a spectacle.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah. So Susan Eaff, she speaking of badminton, is a badminton player, said that it cannot and will not work. The danger is massive.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
Do you know how many drugs you'd have to be on to take for badminton to become massively dangerous?
Sina Gostavi
Yeah, it's like it's going to be insane. I think these people are going to hurt themselves and that's only going to make more people to watch.
Henry Zebrowski
No, they supposed to hurt themselves. Yeah, that's the fucking thing. I mean that's, you know, basically why we watch football. We get excited when people get hurt when we want on the other team.
Sina Gostavi
Well, remember, it's also like this, the memification of stocks and businesses. Right. So you got Donald Trump Jr. You got Peter Thiel. Like retail investors will look at that and they'll say, oh, you know what, let's do it. And then they'll buy into it and then you could project something out. Whatever, 10 years, you project whatever, whatever the hell you want. Remember we work. They said we were gonna like raise the consciousness of the world. It's like, bro, you're an office based company yeah. And you rent the office spaces. You don't even own the real estate. So it's like you could say whatever you want and then things kind of settle out. But, I mean, XFL didn't work and they took away the fair catch rule.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah.
Sina Gostavi
Right. And like, still didn't. Wasn't enough of a spectacle, busting and all.
News Reporter
Yeah.
Sina Gostavi
People didn't want to see people get spinal cord injuries.
Henry Zebrowski
We're done with it.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
We've, like, we've evolved as humans, but this going way backwards.
Sina Gostavi
Well, this is going into, like, the dystopian cyberpunk future.
Henry Zebrowski
It really is. And of course, because it's got teal behind it, which is like the biggest demon and I got going on in
Sina Gostavi
this country, that's what you got to also be afraid of, is that these guys don't lose a lot. They end up finding ways to squeeze more money.
Henry Zebrowski
This is their entertainment they want. If they lose money, it's like what they're paying for entertainment.
Sina Gostavi
It. Oh, my God.
Henry Zebrowski
They enjoy it, so it doesn't even matter. It's like when you and I, we lose money when we go see the Lakers. Yeah. Or whatever. This is their Lakers. You know, this is what they're doing.
Sina Gostavi
When the mountain has to wrestle a lion. You know, we've really, really.
Henry Zebrowski
Mountain wrestles the lion that killed Siegfried. That's what I want to say.
Sina Gostavi
I want to see that they have
Henry Zebrowski
Olympic medalists in the Enhanced Games. Of course they do.
Sina Gostavi
They don't. They need the money. Those live golf guys that took the live golf money, those are all like, guys that were in the last phases of their career. They're like, I'm gonna get paid and then I'm gonna bounce. And that's what they're doing. It's crazy when you live in a capitalist society like this when. When money. When cash rules everything around you.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah.
Sina Gostavi
And that is what. That's the moral erosion that you're gonna get.
Henry Zebrowski
Dude, the Olympic athletes, they. They make nothing if their training is like a hundred thousand dollars. So, like, forget, like, it's just. They need. We need to be. This is. All this shows me is that we need to be paying our Olympic athletes a livable wage if you're going to be charging the money I paid for those tickets. Yeah, we need to be paying.
Sina Gostavi
Where is that money going?
Henry Zebrowski
Where? To the city of la? I don't know.
Sina Gostavi
I don't think it's going to the city.
Henry Zebrowski
You don't think so?
Sina Gostavi
I don't. I don't. That is. That is going to be. That is going to be funneled. There's a whole Olympic committee. That's very problematic. I was reading about it.
Henry Zebrowski
Oh, yes, absolutely. No, the one guy, he was up on the Epstein list. Yeah. Still bought into it. I'm an.
Sina Gostavi
But he.
Amber Nelson
You don't.
Sina Gostavi
He doesn't get to ruin you going to the Olympics.
Henry Zebrowski
I want to enjoy some stuff.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
I can't protest everything. I'm already not going to Starbucks anymore.
Sina Gostavi
There's also no conscious capitalism. What are we. What are we doing here? This conscious consumption. What do we do? Everything. We'd be walking around naked without a phone. You know what I mean?
Henry Zebrowski
Do what I can pick your.
Sina Gostavi
Pick your things.
Henry Zebrowski
I went to the. To the Nike store, the. The employee store recently when I was in Portland. And not one child working there.
Sina Gostavi
No.
Henry Zebrowski
Believe that? No.
Sina Gostavi
They got me.
Henry Zebrowski
I was like, this is good.
Sina Gostavi
They got them in the basement.
Henry Zebrowski
Oh, they keep them where I can't see. Someone's gotta put the lace.
Sina Gostavi
Tiny hands working.
Henry Zebrowski
Well, all right. That's gonna be an interesting thing. Now I want to move on to upsetting stuff.
Sina Gostavi
Oh, that wasn't upsetting. That was actually fun.
Henry Zebrowski
That's actually kind of inside stories work. That's actually very fun. That's a blast.
Sina Gostavi
That's the rom com of sorts.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, that's actually great for us. You're lucky we're not doing any family Annihilators.
Sina Gostavi
That's what I call roomie.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there were several in the news this morning. I was like, ah, by the time this comes out in two weeks, it'll be old news.
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Henry Zebrowski
But I wanted to talk about Foreign Report. Amazing show on the last podcast network. And your involvement in that is instrumental. You are. You are unbelievable human being. I'm so glad that you're doing this.
Sina Gostavi
Thank you.
Henry Zebrowski
But it is hard because you are. You're a first generation Persian American.
Sina Gostavi
Iranian American.
Henry Zebrowski
Iranian American. And right now we're at war with Iran after. Well, no, we're not. It's a. It's. What is it?
Sina Gostavi
You know, an excursion.
Henry Zebrowski
An excursion.
Sina Gostavi
A bit of a disagreement.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah.
Sina Gostavi
Bad Q1 is what I've been calling it.
Henry Zebrowski
A nocation. Yeah. And so. But this all stemmed from if in the beginning of the year Iran killed many protesters. There was an uprising in their country that killed up to 30,000, maybe more. We don't really probably will never know how many people they killed. And then this is in response to that.
Sina Gostavi
Sure. Kind of. Not. Yes and no.
Henry Zebrowski
So I think it's important that while we, a lot of people, especially liberals, and a lot of liberals obviously watch this show. Please don't hate me. It is hard to root for America and Israel right now.
Sina Gostavi
Stop sending me Lego videos, though.
Henry Zebrowski
The Lego videos are very cute. They're killing it. They're very good. I know that they're all AI and But I think, think people are forgetting how evil the government of Iran is.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
And I'm not saying I condone this war, but I don't think that anyone should be happy for them because what they did, the mass killings at the beginning of the year, the number of 30,000 is debatable. A lot of people say it's way more. I don't think there's any way we'll actually ever know the num. The real number of what happened there.
Sina Gostavi
Well, right now, now at least when it comes to that, 7,000 are confirmed by like this human rights agency that. That's reporting it. And people are like, that human rights agency is blah, blah, blah. They, that human rights agency operated in Iran came out and then they were like arrested by the Iranian government. That's why they're based out of the United States now. Yeah. And so they've been reporting there's another 12,000 or more that they're investigating. And that's as of like I think a few weeks ago when we checked.
Henry Zebrowski
Okay.
Sina Gostavi
And so the numbers go up. People are saying there's a ton of Mossad agents that were in that. Or the Mossad agents were the ones killing the people. But I think we have to remember, just like when we talk about October 7th or we talk about anything with Israel and Palestine, we can't just talk about it in just a vacuum of that one day. Right. Or just what happened in January. When I was a kid in 1999 is when I first saw the protests. I was living in Pittsburgh and I was like, oh, my God, there's protests in Iran that are, like, crazy. I was, like, conscious. I think I was probably in middle school or something like that. That was the first time I started seeing real uprisings in Iran. And so then you start seeing it more and more. And you could go back and look, and every single time there are protests in Iran, they come out. It looks like they got some momentum, and then the government kills one, two, maybe a few, maybe more, more dozen people, and then they eventually go away. SAP In 99, 2009, the Green Movement. I remember sitting in law school and a friend was like, hey, do you see what's going on? I was like, yeah, it'll probably last a couple weeks. They'll kill people and then. And then they'll go away. So they've been killing their own civilians, their own constituents for decades.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah.
Sina Gostavi
And they have the highest execution rate in the world. We're trying to catch up. United States is always trying to catch up, but it is brutal. And I could get into.
Henry Zebrowski
They killed three protesters yesterday, man. Actually, you know, they executed them. Yeah. Why don't you say, could you. I'm going to fuck these names up.
Sina Gostavi
So Rasooli, Mohammed Rezamiri and Ibrahim Dalat body.
Henry Zebrowski
Yes. So they were killed fucking yesterday. These are people that were arrested back in January. They have been killing political prisoners every day since. It has stopped.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
So we don't even really know what's actually fucking happening over there.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
And that's what's going on is now I'm going to play fucking armchair dictator here.
Sina Gostavi
Sure.
Henry Zebrowski
I think that when these killings started, if you remember, Trump was telling them to go to the streets.
Sina Gostavi
Yes.
Henry Zebrowski
He was telling them, go fight your regime. We're going to come save you. I think that it was our plan and Israel's plan to have these people killed. Because when they put in a new regime, eventually they don't want these guys protesting that. And so they were happy to see them go. And this is my personal opinion, they were happy to see them go. In order to completely take over and get all the oil down the road.
Sina Gostavi
Interesting. So, I mean, you can look at a few things. First, I think let's just talk about why the protests even happened in the first place.
Henry Zebrowski
Yes.
Sina Gostavi
And so in Iran, it's not just the, you know, the brutal kind of, like, social policies they have, but because of sanctions, they have a terrible economy. And that's not just because of sanctions. They've mismanaged the. Their economy a lot as well.
Henry Zebrowski
But don't they have all the oil?
Sina Gostavi
They have tons of oil.
Henry Zebrowski
How are they poor?
Sina Gostavi
Well, they're poor because if you watch during this war, they got rocket launchers and missile launchers everywhere. They're like sweeping sand. It's underground. They're, you know, they're funding their proxies.
Henry Zebrowski
Are they making those or are they buying those?
Sina Gostavi
No, they're making them.
Henry Zebrowski
They're making.
Sina Gostavi
They're making drones. Those drones. They have, like, thousand. 85,000 drones when this war started. And they all cost the cost of like, a Honda Civic. No, no. Hate on the Honda Civic. But that's. It's like a. That's how much much they're turning them out.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, no, we. We're. We hate on the RAV4 around here.
Sina Gostavi
Okay, good. I can support that.
Henry Zebrowski
Do you want to take it again? No.
Amber Nelson
So.
Sina Gostavi
So that's the thing. And then the mismanagement of their economy has led to. Hold on. I have a prop.
Henry Zebrowski
Brought a prop. Oh, this is great. I love this.
Sina Gostavi
Okay, so, you know, and everyone, I think, knows my father passed away in February.
Henry Zebrowski
Yes.
Sina Gostavi
And then I was home and I was, like, going through his stuff, and I was, like, looking for things that. I wear his ring now. And I found an old briefcase with a bunch of Iranian money.
Henry Zebrowski
When people die, you can just take their shit. I learned that from my buddies.
Sina Gostavi
My dad didn't leave me much. I got his kebab cures, this ring and this money. This is Iranian Riyaz.
Henry Zebrowski
Okay, that's a lot.
Sina Gostavi
It's a lot. Okay, let me just. Audio listeners.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, it's a bunch of money.
Sina Gostavi
Is this. Thanks. Thank you, champ. So this is 317,000 Iranian Riyadh dollars. Rob, Eddie, can you take a guess? I feel like I'm the mentalist. Yeah, you take a guess at how much this is in US Dollars.
Henry Zebrowski
Well, because you're making me guess. I'm going to imagine it's low, but I'm going to say $100.
Sina Gostavi
Rob.
Henry Zebrowski
50.
Sina Gostavi
24 cents. Damn.
Henry Zebrowski
24 cents.
Sina Gostavi
24 cents.
Henry Zebrowski
That's what.
Sina Gostavi
That's 1.3 it might be 1.4 million reals to $1 right now.
Henry Zebrowski
So it was impossible to live in Iran.
Sina Gostavi
Inflation, people. The eggs here at my Trader Joe's went up 30 cents. Yo, Tuesday in Iran, your, your, your eggs are like $8. The next day they are $20. This is what's happening. So the people came to the streets. They're like, we're done. 50 to 75% inflation. They're like, you can kill us. You're already killing us.
Henry Zebrowski
We don't have a chance.
Sina Gostavi
This is what, what brought people out onto the streets and what happened was they were unified. Both the people in the bazaars, the merchants, even some clergy were coming out in the streets. And then the students, right? And they have a very young population
Henry Zebrowski
watching them like dance in the street, play music in the street like the days before.
Sina Gostavi
Because that's illegal.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah.
Sina Gostavi
So like, that's why you even see at their funerals, they were dancing and at the funerals, because that's illegal. So this is the form of protest that they're doing now. Of course, Trump said, says, I'm coming to help you. And they're like, all right. Because frankly, the Democrats have just sold out the Iranian people time and time again by doing deals that they don't like that are not helpful to the people of Iran. Now, I say this as a guy from Pittsburgh. That is an American first. Okay. I'm not, you know, you could say I'm America first, but at the same time, it's like, Iran, what's in your name?
Henry Zebrowski
First generation.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah, I'm here, here. This war should not have happened. It does not help. They were not a threat to the United States in any way. They were a threat to Israel and interest of Israel, but they weren't a threat to the United States at all. And so we got convinced, when I say we, the Trump administration, and Trump got convinced that this was a good idea, that he could get in there and get out. But like every other American president, they mess up the military and the political object objectives. The military guys come in like Hegseth, and they say, we could get this done real fast.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah. And you got to remember who exactly was killed in this massacre. It wasn't just like any old Iranian. It was the people who were standing up the tallest. It was like all the, all the biggest resistance fighters because they were the ones on the front line. And so they're the ones. So basically they're, they were. The head was cut off of all these, like, great protesters, of all these great activists.
Sina Gostavi
Well, Even normal people were coming out in the street, too. I mean, thousands of people. And there's like.
Henry Zebrowski
The videos of the bodies is ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Our buddy some on our Bobby was posting some stuff that, I mean, I'd never seen anything like that. I mean, we're talking like they did Gaza numbers in a couple days.
Sina Gostavi
Oh, yeah. Is like Rwandan genocide, rate of murder.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, I think that, like, so every time that you get excited about a fucking Lego video, remember who these people are.
Sina Gostavi
Well, there's going to be people obvious. I can feel it. Now, as the host of the For Report, I don't read the comments, but I can feel the comments coming in, whatever, that it was fake, that the. The numbers are fake. But let me just again tell you this, if you want to support a regime, because again, I understand, you may hate Israel, you may hate the United States so much.
Henry Zebrowski
I hate Netanyahu, I hate Trump, but that's what I hate.
Sina Gostavi
If you hate them, that's fine. God. You know what? Sure. Here, I'm just letting you know. Know the way the Iranians torture their prisoners would make you, would take your breath away. Okay. And I'll be a side story. So give me. Let me give you a couple.
Henry Zebrowski
Please.
Sina Gostavi
I'm talking electrical wires beating your feet. I'm talking. They take you into a room with a bag over your head. With a bag over your head. Put you on a chair first.
Henry Zebrowski
Electric foot thing probably feels all right.
Amber Nelson
It's like a little tickle.
Henry Zebrowski
It's like when they put you on the rack, you know, it's like for
Sina Gostavi
the first 10 seconds, oh, this is nice. I should have done this years ago.
Henry Zebrowski
Sorry.
Sina Gostavi
They take you into a room and then they put you on chairs and they put a noose around you. There's three people. And this happened to Ahmed Talibi. I think I messed up his name. But the guy that was on the COVID of the economist in the 2009 protest, they took him in a room, put a noose around his neck and put a noose around necks of people next to him. Yeah. And then they kicked out the chairs of the people on either side of him and they took out his bag over his head and they said, look, this could be you. And they'd send him back. They played. They put him in a room with daylight all day so he couldn't understand what time of day it was with a recording of his mother saying, please come home. Please, please. So they forced these confessions for people to make.
Henry Zebrowski
Jesus Christ.
Sina Gostavi
I mean, it is excruciating. What people have gone through there. And again, again, there's a lot of people in the diaspora here that are just like, man, I hate the Iranian government so much, but it's like, I get it, and they're terrible. But your trauma as an Iranian American, as a person that's an immigrant from Iran that came here, is not the basis for American foreign policy. It is not the basis. Yeah, my family's getting bombed, but I'm an American. And it is not the basis for American foreign policy to go into another country and also not even do a good job. Yeah. When he said regime change and he didn't change the regime at all, I think a lot of people in our community were hopefully awoken from the spell that they had.
Henry Zebrowski
Didn't he kill a bunch of the leaders?
Sina Gostavi
Killed him. But the regimes in place, when you have a hierarchical regime. Right. When you have a terrorist regime or any regime, regime that's very hierarchical. So Hezbollah, Hamas, the Islamic Republic, the irgc, if you knock out a bunch of guys, even the top 10 rows of power, more come up because there's an organized structure. Here's a place where decapitation does work. Tpusa, Charlie Kirk got off, and I tell you what, there's no one going to those events anymore. And so when you have a figurehead leader that gets killed. Right.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah.
Sina Gostavi
That is how things like. That's the decapitation strategy. It fundamentally does not work if there's an actual organized military like structure to your organization. And that's what's happened here. And they're finding out that the type of defense the IRGC was doing, where they were all spread out throughout the country and they all had their orders before the war started, so that when, you know, the supreme leader gets up, they all were just firing their missiles. They knew what to do.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah.
Sina Gostavi
And so great job, everybody. Great job. You went in there, you thought you were going to do it real quick, but you ruined. This is the worst case scenario for everyone involved. The people of Iran, people of the United States, the troops that are going in there, they're going to. They're going to be killed.
Henry Zebrowski
Iran is huge. I don't know if people really understand. It's one third the size of America.
Sina Gostavi
Yes.
Henry Zebrowski
It is gigantic population and like land.
Sina Gostavi
92 million, something like that.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah. No, we're 385, something like that. Yeah. So it's like they are gigantic. And so now we're watching US and Israel go in there, blow up schools, do all this stuff, kill all those girls first, like, first hour of the war. They just killed a bunch of girls. So we're committing war crimes. They're committing war crimes. Everyone's committing war crimes. And it's a. I feel like I've heard the word war crimes.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
More times in my life in the past two years than the rest of my life put together. So if everyone's committing war crimes, crimes all the time, how do you enforce it? Who's the. Who is the un the one in charge? Like, what do we. What. Who steps in?
Sina Gostavi
No one.
Henry Zebrowski
Right?
Sina Gostavi
Nobody. There's no one doing anything. When you don't.
Henry Zebrowski
Is it us? Are we the ones who are supposed to.
Sina Gostavi
No, there's the International ICJ and then the icc. The ICJ is like, basically like your grand jury. They do the investigation, they recommend a thing, and then the ICC does the actual stuff. They do the. But if you don't adhere to international law, if you're like, no, we're not going to do that, then, like, it doesn't. What does it matter if you don't participate in, like, for example, you would
Henry Zebrowski
have to declare war against US and Israel in order to stop them or arrest Netanyahu or Trump, Right.
Sina Gostavi
No, I mean, you don't. Apparently, you don't have to declare war either. We didn't declare war on Iran.
Henry Zebrowski
It's a good point.
Sina Gostavi
We didn't do any of this. We don't have to declare anything. Any. Anymore. People in power. Israel has nukes. We have nukes. Russia has nukes. North Korea has a lot of nukes. Really? Oh, my God. North Korea has nukes that could reach the United States now.
Henry Zebrowski
But they don't know how to shoot them.
Sina Gostavi
Oh, they do. They're practicing, but they have like, I think like 40 of them now.
Henry Zebrowski
Man, all this chaos. We've just forgot about them a little bit.
Sina Gostavi
Oh, yeah, and they. They didn't forget about us. Pakistan, India, India. Those are all countries that do whatever they want.
Henry Zebrowski
And Iran has no nukes.
Sina Gostavi
They don't have a nuclear weapon. They have 60% enriched uranium. And the thing was that the. The argument was they're going to have a nuke. And buddy, there's great clips online of Bibi saying since, like, 1995, Iran is two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon. The thing is, the old supreme leader, who, by the way, I'm glad the United States killed him. Him. But you know what? He would have died from, like, a strong wind. Okay. You gave him the martyr death. Okay, thank you. Great. That's like you gave him Everything he wanted. That was the dumbest possible thing. He actually was not into having a nuclear weapon. He wanted to just use the idea of it as a deterrent because they could have sprinted to a nuke multiple times. And they're not making fancy new nukes, they're making, like, Oppenheimer nukes.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah.
Sina Gostavi
So it's like, I mean, those work, they do again, bombs work, drop them, they explode. It's everything afterwards that the United States and Israel don't need to think about. Israel has completely different goals when it comes to this thing. They're going to try to continue this war, and they're obviously clearly doing it in Lebanon right now. They're continuing this war. They do not want a peace process. They have completely different goals than the United States.
Henry Zebrowski
What is their end goal? Kill everybody. You take the land.
Sina Gostavi
Their end goal is what happened to. Basically my opinion is, is what Syria was for a long time, a completely failed state and they posed no threat to Israel. Right. There's not. There couldn't be like really even a staging ground for other proxies to use. And so when that happens, if Iran's a failed state, then there's like, not big. They're not. They can feel like comfortable. And then there's the other argument of like the Greater Israel Project, where they want to just expand the borders of Israel for, you know, take your pick of whatever reason. Reason, which is why they've moved into Lebanon, which is why they're spreading out to the Golan Heights. It's why they've, you know, obviously everything in Gaza. Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
And then they're doing crazy over there. The Israel just last month was caught spraying white phosphorus all over Lebanon, which was destroying all the crops, obviously, and then like killing people as they try to get rid of it. It's. What is it, 800 degrees Fahrenheit? Some like that. It's. It's crazy.
Sina Gostavi
It's the Dunia doctrine, which is like this old thing they did in 2006 where they basically level entire. Entire city or village. And they did this to this village, this town called Dunia, If. I'm sorry, if I'm mispronouncing it, but basically the idea is if you level it completely, I mean, civilian infrastructures and all, then the. Your adversaries aren't able to stage a counter attack. Yeah. And so great militarily, but also war crime also you're cutting off food, you're cutting off water, cutting off supplies. So this is what's like fundamentally wrong with the. To your original Question. Question of how do we adjudicate international order when we have actors out there, us, Israel, take your pick. To even the Islamic Republic. You can take all the Hamas, Hezbollah, everyone's violating international laws. The thing about the Geneva Convention is it's about countries doing things to other people.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah.
Sina Gostavi
So non state actors like Hamas, they're. They're on a different kind of criminal thing. Right?
Henry Zebrowski
Criminal because they're a terrorist group.
Sina Gostavi
They're a group, not a government official. Yeah. And you're gonna. People in the comments say they're a resistance movement. I get it, I get it. But the thing is, they're not allowed
Henry Zebrowski
to go to the Olympics.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah, exactly.
Henry Zebrowski
I say invite them.
Sina Gostavi
They have a great badminton team. The Hamas badminton team is topnotch.
Henry Zebrowski
Oh, man. And it's crazy because, like, we're watching and it's. It's hard to see what's happening because so many journalists are getting killed. 2025, Israel killed 84 journalists out of 100, 2029 that were killed worldwide. Yeah. So that's a, you know, a big portion of it. And so if people are. What they're banking on is people just being scared to report on this stuff.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
And not being able to, because not only is are they doing that there in Gaza, but in Iran, they're shutting off the Internet, they're shutting off the power, and people aren't allowed. Aren't able to get the word out.
Sina Gostavi
It is so fundamentally, I think the, the biggest. And there's a lot of things to be upset about, but the thing that really upsets me, and this is very personal for me, that's me. And like, I, you know, don't at. But like, Israel and the United States have made the Islamic Republic regime likable. And there's. I will never forgive anyone involved for doing that. I've spent decades trying to tell people how brutal these people are, how they kill people, how they've, you know, the brain drain that's happened, or they get educated and then people leave. Like it's destroyed the place where I want to take my kids to one day.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah.
Sina Gostavi
But no, we're so bad here, here that we make the other people look cool.
Henry Zebrowski
It's crazy. And they're the worst I've ever seen.
Sina Gostavi
It's just, it's blowing my mind over here.
Henry Zebrowski
It's. It's hard. And I hate talking about this stuff because, you know, I love doing it
Sina Gostavi
every week on last podcast Network. Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
You know, personally, because you're talking on a personal level. Personal level for Me is I don't like saying anti Israel stuff because half my family's Jewish. Jewish. A lot of my best friends are Jewish. And anti Semitism is very real.
Sina Gostavi
And that's the other thing. The anti Semitism is insane right now.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah. And so it's like. And like, my goddaughter, her school at a bomb threat. She's five.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
You know, like, what are we doing? And so I get scared about talking about this because I don't want people to just blindly attack Jews, because that's what happens historically. But it's like, well, what then? What am I supposed to turn a blind eye on to? What's happening?
Sina Gostavi
Well, I grew up going to seders and passovers of my best friends growing up. And to me, this. This also. This whole war puts them in an unsafe position. Yeah. This is just disgusting at the end of the day. And so I'm worried about them. And frankly, a lot of my Jewish friends don't have a relationship with Israel because, again, they talk about the Kingdom of Israel. Right. But it's a nation state. We're talking about countries. We're talking about, like, the Bible wasn't just like, you know, like the country of Israel. It was like a kingdom. So want to go back to that? I mean, do we use. Is the Bible or the Torah? Like, everybody's Zillow now that you could just go and just be like, this is actually mine.
Henry Zebrowski
Whatever. People talk about the Bible or the Torah or any of that. I'm like, oh, so your. Your argument is nonsense. That's what I hear.
Sina Gostavi
Persian empire was what, Egypt, India. If we want to go back in time, we go back in time to those days. Everyone was happy. Happy religious freedom. We had a great system of roadways, a postal service. It was very nice.
Henry Zebrowski
Chicks were in bikinis. And in the 60s in Iran, it was awesome. And they're hot. They take. They took that from us. These beautiful women. They're so gorgeous. Yeah. You're my prince of Persia. Yeah, I. I think. Thank you for talking about this with me. I. I've taken so much for never even bringing this up on the show. It's just like, I don't feel like Henry and I have any right talking about pontificating on all this stuff, you know, it's. It's crazy. Crazy. You know, but, like, when the death toll reaches this number. Yeah, we have to. Yeah, I want to fart and come joke my way through life, but I'm bound to talk about death.
Sina Gostavi
It is. And again, I think just to like put a pin or a bow or a cherry or a bomb on top of is you can be against this war and understand the complexity of it. And we talk about this on the Foreign Report all the time. Hold the complexity of, of this in your heart and in your head that the Islamic Republic is a brutal regime that kills its own people. And the United States and Israel are being brutal, brutal actors in this war that never needed to happen. A war of choice. Innocent people are being killed. And the fact that this president has the audacity to go out and say we did regime change is nothing more than the biggest betrayal to the Iranian people you could ever imagine. And at the end of the day, day, I'm a kid that grew up in Pittsburgh, and this helps zero people in Pittsburgh. Although it cost me $70 to pump gas in my car today. And I even went to Costco. Wow.
Henry Zebrowski
God damn it. Costco. You're supposed to have.
Sina Gostavi
It is supposed to be cheaper, but I'm like, what? This is, you know. Anyways, well, thanks for letting me know.
Henry Zebrowski
I, I appreciate you. I. Because I, I, I don't feel right talking about it without someone who's, like, directly involved. Yeah, I want to talk about another massacre. It's just upsetting. A little cuter, though.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah, a little cuter.
Henry Zebrowski
All right, so in. All right, all right, here we go. People are going to hate this. All right. In Orlando, the death toll keeps rising from Sloth World.
Sina Gostavi
Oh, God. I saw this.
Henry Zebrowski
Yes, yes, yes. This. A second sloth has died after a transfer of planned attraction. The number is up to 31 now. Oh, my God. So 31. So sloth world.
Sina Gostavi
We have a sloth genocide that just happened.
Henry Zebrowski
Yes. Yeah. So they actually. Well, they were sold into slavery, and then they were. And then they were genocided. I put, I hit you. Can you, can we play that news clip that I sent you? Sure. The Instagram one.
Ad Read Host
Sure.
Henry Zebrowski
It sums up perfectly.
Sina Gostavi
So sad.
Henry Zebrowski
This is very sad. So basically, Sloth World was a tourist attraction in Orlando that was set to open in April. And they were. They built this giant atrium that was temperature controlled, and it mimicked Guyana and Peru. And so it have been perfect for Sloth. You can go. You hang out with the sloth. Sounds wonderful, right? I want to go to Sloth World. I love Sloth.
Sina Gostavi
Are they friendly?
Henry Zebrowski
Yes, they love humans.
Sina Gostavi
But they have the claws.
Henry Zebrowski
They got the claws, but you can kiss them so slow.
Sina Gostavi
I don't know.
Henry Zebrowski
No, you can get, you'll get scratched, and I don't want to get scratched. I Want to get scratched? I won't get scratched, but fast lock. But I want to do it in Peru. I don't want to do it in Orlando because what happened was. I forget the report. So you got it. All right. All right. Let's play it for Cena.
News Reporter
This new attraction that isn't even open yet in Orlando on International Drive is at the center of a disturbing discovery. At least 31 sloths are now dead. This is that report from FWC. In it they say 21 of these sloths came from Guyana, 10 from Peru. The 21 were inside of this warehouse on a cold December night, according to investigators. And the building had no electricity, it had no heat. There was no supervision overnight. And investigators say ultimately those 21 sloths died from cold stunt. When it comes to the other 10 from Peru, two of them, according to FWC, were dead by the time they got to Florida. The other eight passed away from some sort of illness, though it's not confirmed what illness they may have suffered from. One family from Brevard county told me they spent $300 getting tickets for their 11 year old son who loves sloths. He was so excited to come here to Sloth World. Now they just want their money back.
Sina Gostavi
Well, I don't care about the kid.
Henry Zebrowski
Well, I think it's important because like, you know, I, I, as a Disney fan, it's like I feel like there's like a weird. Because obviously sloth's popularity went through the roof after Zootopia. Because that character was so funny and lovable. Everyone wanted. And this is what happens time and time again after Finding Nemo. Those clownfish almost went extinct. After finding. When I went and saw Finding Dory in the theater, there was a PSA beforehand. It's like, don't buy this fish.
Sina Gostavi
Oh my God.
Henry Zebrowski
We almost killed all the other fish. Everybody wants it after they see the movie. Movie. And this is what happens. Just because something's cute and something wonderful doesn't mean that you should have it in Orlando. That you should have that. It should be a tourist attraction. Yeah, you should be able. If you want to see a sloth, go to Guyana, go. Go to a real zoo. Not this goddamn like random international drive.
Sina Gostavi
The parents buy the kit for the kids.
Henry Zebrowski
What do you mean?
Sina Gostavi
Like the, like the fish, like talking
Henry Zebrowski
about the Finding Nemo. Yeah.
Sina Gostavi
Or like. Yeah, this stuff.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah. I feel like this is a Gen X problem.
Henry Zebrowski
This is defin. I mean. Well, this is. That used to go undetected. Yeah, I remember like going to like. What was that? Town next to Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge. I remember going to Pigeon Forge when I was a kid and there were no rules back then. There was like, I went to a T shirt shop that had a bunch of bears in the back. They like, you know, like, yeah, give us $5, we'll give you apples to throw at the bears. Like it's like literally what used to be. And so we evolved past it and now we're backtracking again because there's taking away all these restrictions. Restrictions. And now we see guys like opening the Sloth World need to be this guy. A criminal investigation has opened. Good news is Sloth World as of last week is officially not opening. It was going to open, but now they took it away. But then. And all the sloths were transferred to the. The Central Florida Zoo, which is a good thing, but they're still dying because they were diseased. They're a tropical climate animal and they put them in Florida, which is a tropical climate. It. But when the temperature from global warming goes down into the 40s and they, they can't handle it, they immediately die because it's got to be at least in the 80s. And these just because you want to kiss a sloth, I. You think I don't want to kiss a sloth? Yeah, you know, like, it's like it's so fucking aggravating. And so I hope these motherfuckers get locked up because they are fucking the. Peter Bondre and Ben Agresta were the guys who wanted to start Sloth World with probably the best of intentions.
Sina Gostavi
Sure, sloths are great, let's do it.
Henry Zebrowski
But your fucking capitalism murdered these goddamn beautiful creatures. And you can go fudgeing. Go to hell. I really hope that they lock them up because Florida, you know, say what you want about the Santas, they started like an animal abuse registry. And so hopefully this would be like some of the first dudes who go on that shit. And they. The permanent record is fucking destroyed.
Sina Gostavi
It's going to be interesting when they try to sell the real estate there. We have a wide open space. It's an atrium. Some animals here before, but they're not anymore. They moved on to another place.
Henry Zebrowski
The slowest ghost is a discount in the world. All right, one last story. Cena. I wanted to talk about fraudsters. Go listen to fraudsters. You just had that amazing expose you did on the war of drugs. How many episodes was that?
Sina Gostavi
Oh, I think over 20 over. Don't worry, we're gonna come back next month. This. What is this? This Is coming out a couple weeks in June. We're gonna come out with new episodes. We got a new season. I'm so excited. It's been a while. I was traumatized from doing that season.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, no, it's a lot. But I want. I. Fraudster.
Sina Gostavi
Okay.
Henry Zebrowski
That I really wanted you to get your opinion on. All right, this comes out of USA Today. Chick fil a employee makes 80 grand in Mac and cheese refund scheme. The employee of a Chick Fil A in the Dallas suburb of Grapevine, Keyshawn Jones, 23, was arrested on April 17 and charged with property theft, money laundering, and evading arrest also, I gotta say, dude. All right, so they have him on footage, like, working and then doing all these things. It showed Joe Jones using the register to ring up 800 orders of Mac and cheese trays before refunding them to his personal credit cards.
Sina Gostavi
It's incredible, you know? So let me channel my inner Ariel here and just say, I love this man. Give this man a gold medal. Protect this man at all costs. He is an inspiration.
Henry Zebrowski
It's one of those things where it's like, I should be mad at him, but why? But like, Chick Fil A. Yeah. You know, I mean, it's tasty.
Sina Gostavi
It's very tasty.
Henry Zebrowski
But them anyway. And, like, it's like, yeah, I. I wish you would have got away with it. But you know that if he did, I didn't have.
Sina Gostavi
We don't really cover the little guy taking one over the big guys. We go for the big guy going down. But, like, this guy. I mean, that's an incredible, incredible story.
Henry Zebrowski
Oh, yeah. Yeah. So Jones is. Is in custody.
Sina Gostavi
He could have done a fraction of that and gotten away with it. I don't know why he went for the 80, the B.
Henry Zebrowski
His bail is 110,000.
Sina Gostavi
Wow.
Henry Zebrowski
That's the thing. When these guys get greedy, that's when you get caught. Well, if you would have done $8 over and over and over again, you would have never got caught.
Sina Gostavi
That or he should have done 8 million. And if you had 8 million, I'm like, this guy's a great businessman.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah. 8 million straight to the airport. 800 times.
Sina Gostavi
800 times.
Henry Zebrowski
It says he did 800 trays of macaroni.
Sina Gostavi
That's incredible.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, that's a lot of macaroni.
Sina Gostavi
I in.
Henry Zebrowski
So I'm going to be in Pittsburgh at the end of the month. Hopefully, I'm going to try and take your mother out for lunch. It's not an insult.
Sina Gostavi
Nasty, man.
Henry Zebrowski
Where. Where should I eat? In Pittsburgh. What's a good place for me to eat, Per. Have you been with it? Put the fries on the sandwiches. I went with you.
Sina Gostavi
Oh yeah, we did.
Henry Zebrowski
You did? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What else is there? What else is there? I don't think I want to. Yeah. So it's May. May 29th.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
You eat.
Sina Gostavi
You eat clean now.
Henry Zebrowski
I. I cleanish. Cuz even the salads are permanes. They put fries on the salads.
Sina Gostavi
Fries are. It sounds.
Henry Zebrowski
Is there like. Is it just white people?
Sina Gostavi
No, it's. Well, it depends on which one you go to. They have suburban ones that are very white. But if you go to the down in the strip district, it's very diverse.
Henry Zebrowski
Stop talking about Permanis anymore. Like, do you have good Thai food? That's what I'm trying to figure out here. Like, is there a good Persian restaurant I should hit up?
Sina Gostavi
I don't think so. I mean, when I go back to Pittsburgh, I eat permanent like 80% of the time.
Henry Zebrowski
Permanis warm up the Friars. Henry and I are coming in. That's it. That's all I needed. Cena now on Instagram, go listen to frog monsters. And of course the foreign report with our buddy Travis Irvine. I love you, Cena. Thank you for coming in here.
Sina Gostavi
Thank you.
Henry Zebrowski
You're the man. I'll see you soon. I'll see you almost every day.
Sina Gostavi
Every day.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah. All right guys, coming up next, I'm bringing in my buddy Amber Nelson to talk about some up. I hope you guys stay tuned. All right. I am now being joined by my comedy partner of 15 odd years. On the brighter side, the wonderful, the beautiful, the hilarious Amber Nelson. How you doing?
Sina Gostavi
Hi.
Amber Nelson
I'm so great. It's interesting that you said 15 years because I was looking at things to do and there's this early 2000s dance party and I was like, click. I'll go for free before 11pm and then I look at the club, you know, Cause you can see it on Instagram. And I was like, oh, the people going to this club were born in the 2000s. They weren't dancing to this in the 2000s. I'm gonna be the creepy lady.
Henry Zebrowski
No. It's like when we used to go to 80s parties.
Amber Nelson
Y.
Henry Zebrowski
Yes. Isn't that sad?
Amber Nelson
I don't like it. Don't like it.
Henry Zebrowski
It is so good to see you. I love you. We are on HGX2. We are here to promote. Watch that. It is on YouTube.com tv every Thursday at 7pm Watch HDX2. Amber and I's futuristic game show where positivity is legal for one hour. It takes place in the future of the year 2027. Give it a watch. It's so much fun. You won't regret it. It is true. True. Murder Fist. You were in Murder Fist for a while. Yeah, it is like the return to death and stupidity that I miss.
Amber Nelson
Yeah, it's chaos, but it's controlled. In a game. In a game format. I am the queen of pain. My favorite role I've ever played. And speaking of pain, I was telling you that guy I saw die.
Henry Zebrowski
So what. What is this?
Amber Nelson
I thought I told you this. This is like the gnarliest thing I
Henry Zebrowski
feel like I would remember, but go ahead. So you watch someone die.
Amber Nelson
So I'm walking from the grocery store. I live in Hollywood, California, and I can walk everywhere, so. Which I do. And I see some guy standing up and on the phone and I see some guy laying down and a lot of blood around his head. And I'm like, oh my God. So I'm like walking up and I'm like, do I have water? And it's like, no, I only have wine and beer. Cause I'm about to throw a party. I can't give this dying man beer. I mean, maybe he might like that actually. And so he's like blood pooled around. And this guy's on the phone, he's like, oh, on hold with 911. And he. This guy sits up and he. He's like. The back of his head is just like black and like cuz blood is kind of blackish and he just kind of folds it and it like moves.
Sina Gostavi
Oh God.
Amber Nelson
I think he like did that on the ground.
Henry Zebrowski
No, no. Oh, Jesus Christ.
Amber Nelson
And then like the front of his nose was busted. So I think when he did that, it like caused a shock wave. Whatever. And then, so he sits up and then does this. And the guy was like, are you okay, sir? And he's like, fuck you. And then just like lays back down on the ground with his eyes open. I was like, I think that I just saw a man's dying words.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, you can't live.
Amber Nelson
Your brain was. He was just like doing this with his head.
Henry Zebrowski
Oh my God. Yeah, I've seen. I saw. I saw something like that once in New York.
Amber Nelson
What was it?
Henry Zebrowski
It was that I was. When I was working at the cheesesteak restaurant, 99 miles to Philly. And then we were next to that horrible bar, Bar None. Do you remember that place? They used to have a mic in there every Tuesday Yeah, it was a nightmare zone. It was an under Girls on tap. You know, it was really bad.
Amber Nelson
I mean, it's called Bar None. Yeah, it's just like, no expectations here. Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
And so there was a big fight that came out of there and there was like a bunch of dudes jumped this guy and then he. They knocked him down. He cracked his head open on the sidewalk right in front of my restaurant. And so like, their fight, like, became my problem. And then I was just like. As soon as I was like, I'm like, I'm not jumping in because like, I was like, stop it, stop it. But I'm not getting my ass kicked. I don't know what happened.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
And then finally when the guy cry, finally was like, get out of here. You're calling the cops. Like, I'm like, literally held up the phone. I'm like, cops are called. You better leave. And then, I don't know, I think he might have lived. I cleaned up the blood.
Amber Nelson
What did he look like?
Henry Zebrowski
It was. There were a bunch of white boys, bunch of frat boys.
Amber Nelson
But like his, his face. Was it all like beaten in or something?
Henry Zebrowski
No, no, no, no. He cracked the back of his head open when he got knocked over on the sidewalk and blood was like pouring out of his head.
Amber Nelson
That'll do it.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah. And he. He stood up really fast and like got up and like, like, like, like he was like in charge. And I was like, yo, bro, you need to sit down.
Amber Nelson
That's adrenaline kicking in.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I made him just sit on my front stoop of the restaurant until the cops came and the ambulance came and they took him away. And I don't know. Could be alive, could be dead.
Amber Nelson
Oh, well. Well, it's nice to be here on the show. Thank you for having me.
Henry Zebrowski
Good to have you. Good to you. I remember that. Yeah, I remember you. I remember you telling me that because
Amber Nelson
it was at the party.
Henry Zebrowski
You had a party? Cuz Amber was on Hacks. Yeah, yeah, we had a party and we watched Amber's appearance on Hacks Episode 4. Yes, the jail. The appropriate, appropriate jail.
Amber Nelson
It was a good scene for me. I was in there because I had a dui. Don't. Don't drink and drive.
Henry Zebrowski
That's right.
Amber Nelson
And I got to play like a creepy little weird lady.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, If Amber ever gets a dui, it'll be while she's walking.
Amber Nelson
That's when you're really fucked up with. W. Wait, w u I walking while intoxicated.
Henry Zebrowski
WWI www.com so you are a part of not just the brighter side, but another great, great show here on the last podcast network someplace underneath with the wonderful Natalie Jean, Henry's wife. It's a great show about missing women. Very upsetting. But you're doing a job that needs to be done. And you recently had a whole YouTube series just about Epstein and the Epstein files. And the first person you covered was Ghislaine Maxwell. And so I figured that who better than to do this week's f date with than the wonderful Amber Nelson Rob it.
Sina Gostavi
It's an island adventure.
Henry Zebrowski
It's an island adventure.
Sina Gostavi
Heck yeah. It's Jeffrey time.
Amber Nelson
Oh, we got to keep it light or else we'll got to keep it light. You know, whenever women like go through a horrible breakup, I'm like be it's time for your villain era. But I'm like, oh, she's been in her villain era. Like she they hate you.
Henry Zebrowski
Yes.
Sina Gostavi
Salad.
Amber Nelson
Spill it.
Henry Zebrowski
Beans do it. I I'm with you.
Amber Nelson
Why is she still like holding back and be like, I have one extra name. I don't know.
Henry Zebrowski
Well, because she's waiting to get released. You know, she's got a million names. She's got everything. No, you can't trust the thing with Gane is that's. Yeah, that's part of the new news is she's like, I got one more name. I'm going to drop it and they're going to let me out. It's like, then do it already. What are we doing here?
Amber Nelson
Sick of all these people being like, I have a name. I have a name and I'm not going to tell you until you give me this. Like you would just say it if you had. Give me the name.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
If you're holding on onto it, you are culpable. You're part of this now. Exactly.
Amber Nelson
Line them up and shoot him in the head.
Henry Zebrowski
So there's a little new not we're not on the island time today we're going to desert time because Zorro Ranch back in the news it was just discovered that it was actually built by a military contractor back in the day in 1993. Is the guy who built the the company is a Bradbury Stam Construction. They built such classified facilities as Los Alamos National Laboratory and the current land Air force base. So they are the ones who built this 10000 acre property and the mansion and everything that's on is crazy. Zorro Ranch we've talked about a little bit on the show but it is crazy. It used to be Called the Playboy Ranch, which gross.
Amber Nelson
Yeah. Playboys in the desert, someone's gonna die.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah.
Amber Nelson
Playboys on the beach is like we're gonna get in our bikinis. Maybe someone's gonna od. But like in the desert your body's going underground.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, there is. In the. In the drop there was so much disturbing info on Zorro Ranch and now it is starting to come out more and more ever since we found out what's happening. The January 30th Epstein file drop contained a lot of disturbing info on Zorro Ranch and is now the scrutiny has int. Major bombshell from the drop was an email that had been sent to New Mexico radio host Eddie Aragon who spent a lot of time reporting on Epstein. In November of 2019, three months after Epstein died. The email was sent by redacted shocking and contained info that is said to provided by a former staff member at zoro. One of the pieces of the info was the bodies of two foreign girls were buried out in the hills behind the ranch after both girls had died of strangulation during rough fetish sex.
Amber Nelson
Can you imagine just going there and like needing a job? Like I just want to fold clothes, clean the pool.
Henry Zebrowski
Also I imagine when you show up, it's this beautiful sprawling ranch. You like, you think you made it.
Amber Nelson
I made it.
Henry Zebrowski
You know, you think this is the big time.
Amber Nelson
Sweet tea on tap.
Henry Zebrowski
Oh God.
Amber Nelson
And then it's just like you don't go in that room.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah.
Amber Nelson
You just hear screams.
Henry Zebrowski
Cuz there was. It was lots of big rooms. There was an incinerator. There was a incinerator barn. Who even knows what they were doing? They had. They had these three computer rooms. Each computer room was the size of a house. He was doing all kinds of crazy evil we don't even really know about down there. What have you heard about Zorro Ranch? What? In your. In your studies with Nat.
Amber Nelson
I know there's a guy that bought it and he looks like Beavis and Butthead if they were a marionette. Like the guy that bought it. Look at his picture. He looks like a wooden marionette of butthead.
Henry Zebrowski
Oh my God. Yeah. No, he recently but he.
Amber Nelson
Don Huffin.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, he is actually saying that like go, go look. Go check out the ranch. He's giving every. He's giving full. He's giving the ranch over basically. So he's saying go investigate, dig up whatever you want. Try to find what you can. So he may not be a good guy because he is a billionaire, but he is helping people. Check out the property.
Amber Nelson
Okay.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Amber Nelson
They were conducting. They were trying to find the perfect human. So they were getting little girls that they thought were perfect and then breeding them and then taking the babies away.
Henry Zebrowski
We don't. We will. I don't think we'll ever really know how evil the shit that was actually happening in places like this.
Amber Nelson
Yeah.
Henry Zebrowski
Because he was trying to build a perfect human. He was doing genetic experiments, which makes no fucking sense. Yeah.
Amber Nelson
Because this is the most flawed, evil person making the most perfect person.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah. He bought the ranch in 1993 from New Mexico Democratic Governor Bruce King. And then he hired a construction company to build the mansion. And that company was the Bradbury Stam Company. They also built the National Los Alamos and Kirtland Air Force bases, as we said. Said. And that particular choice, the construction company, is suspicious enough on its own, but once you add Burberry, Stan's connections to Ghislaine Maxwell's father, Robert, it raises eyebrows even more. Robert Maxwell. As you remember, he was a Mossad spy for Israel. One of the companies that he was able to penetrate in the mid-80s using spy software was, you guessed it, Bradbury Stam. Now this could be a coincidence and nothing more, but it seems like one of those where there's smoke, there's fire type of deals. Smoke that's probably coming from the top secret barn. Incinerator.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Amber Nelson
Do you think it's like if you're incinerated, is it like a slow death or is it like a quick.
Henry Zebrowski
Well, you're dead before they put you in there usually.
Amber Nelson
Really?
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, usually you were accidentally killed during sex. And then they're like, oh, yeah, you throw her in the incinerator.
Amber Nelson
Oh. And it just like. And then you just ash immediately.
Henry Zebrowski
Well, yeah, it's like what they have in funeral homes kinda. You know, it's just like it goes up to like 2000 degrees and it burns your body. I'm not a no more dream.
Amber Nelson
I've seen the thing, the scene from Scrooge where he's like burning and he's still alive.
Henry Zebrowski
Incinerator.
Sina Gostavi
Yes.
Amber Nelson
Is it like that?
Henry Zebrowski
Yes, but not as nice, probably. That was a very nice one. That was. It was beautiful with the. The big room. I was. Scrooge is, you know, that was spent, no spare, no expense on this.
Amber Nelson
I wish three ghosts visited. Epstein wouldn't be great.
Henry Zebrowski
I always thought about that every Christmas. I hope that for Trump, but yeah. So there's going to be a lot.
Amber Nelson
Do you have any friends to come visit him?
Henry Zebrowski
So we need to start looking into the Bradbury Stam Construction Co. A little deeper as they are the ones who helped him modify this home facility. I don't know how to really put it, but yeah.
Amber Nelson
Imagine the bunkers though. Like if we turn to like if the nuclear bomb drops, you probably want to go there and then go underground.
Henry Zebrowski
I mean, I'm sure it's fine over there. Or you go to the wonderful Lockheed Martin in right outside of Denver. All right, so that's going on. And then the other one is the only reason I really wanted to bring this up. Son of a diplomat, of a Norwegian diplomat who's 25 years old, unfortunately killed himself yesterday, committed suicide. He was the son of two high profile Norwegian diplomats. But the reason I want to bring it up, his name's Edward Larson. And that just kind of like reading article. They mess with me. I was just like, so this guy, this kid, I mean, I'm essentially a kid, 25 years old. His parents, they were very close to Epstein. And then in Epstein's will he put. This kid gets $5 million. So this kid got money from Epstein, couldn't deal with it. And I'm guessing is part of the reason he committed suicide.
Amber Nelson
Do you think he was one of the little boys, Boys that were abused on the Zora Ranch? Because there were also little boys abused on the ranch.
Henry Zebrowski
I'm sure of it. But he, it doesn't seem like he was a victim of sex trafficking through Epstein, but Epstein did like help him get into better schools and stuff like that.
Amber Nelson
Because of a resume letter.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah. So unlike other powerful people who maintained enough plausible deniability to say I was only the guy a couple times in a picture, you know, this is not what's going on. His parents were Turj, Rod Larson and Mona Jewel. The Epstein file drop in January connects the three of them very closely. Not only does one email have Turj telling Epstein how much he loved the island, he's also quoted within the files describing Epstein as a thoroughly good human being and my best friend.
Amber Nelson
So they went to Zorro ranch and they were like, it's fine.
Henry Zebrowski
They were, they were everywhere. They were just friends with them. So they were in New York, they knew him in the island. They were all over. They're even saying that they were. They were probably involved in the trafficking. In addition to being close personal friends with Epstein, it's possible that Turjay was also assisting in the trafficking. In 2019, Norwegian authorities notified the FBI to tell them that Turjay. That Turjay's think tank, the international Peace Institute had been doing something very peculiar. Despite having extensive Norwegian state funding, the Institute allegedly brought in young and unqualified women from Eastern Europe on a very short visas and shared their pictures with Epstein. That's weird, right? Norwegian authorities thought so. The FBI of course, didn't care to investigate because why would they?
Amber Nelson
It's the Peace Organization. Why would they? They're peaceful.
Henry Zebrowski
And that's Turjay. That's his dad, his mom, Mona Jewel. To summarize her, I'll say her. Wikipedia has the following subsections. Controversies as State Secretary, controversies in second command, controversies as ambassador, and of course association with Jeffrey Epstein now. So basically they got a bunch of money when he died because they got a bunch of secrets. They were in bed with him. This kid in inherited $5 million from the death of Epstein and obviously couldn't handle it and he committed suicide. We don't know much about the reason for the suicide, but the lawyers for Turge and Mona released a statement blaming the pressure caused by the reckless way in which the media sp speculated about the Epstein involvement.
Sina Gostavi
Which you.
Amber Nelson
It's not the media. It's his own stupid parents.
Henry Zebrowski
That's right. Because they're trying to deflect.
Amber Nelson
No, these people. Because they're friends with Epstein. Of course they're deflecting because they're bad people.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah. Because they were obviously involved in the. On the whole.
Amber Nelson
They had to. How do you go to Zora Ranch and be like, it's fine. That's like walking into like a school shooting to just investigate the school and be like, it's nice in here.
Sina Gostavi
Why is it?
Amber Nelson
It's so nice. Look at him. It's just studying. They're studying underneath the cafeteria tables. That's so like, you know what's going on.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah. So hopefully Norway will do what some of these other countries are doing and lock these people up. TJ and Mona, I hope you're done. You, you look what you did to your family. Look what you did your son. I mean, it is disgraceful. You guys suck. You're gonna go down. Everyone's going down in this. It's just a matter of time.
Amber Nelson
It's so weird because. Never mind.
Henry Zebrowski
What were you gonna say?
Amber Nelson
I say something woo woo.
Henry Zebrowski
I wanna hear woo woo.
Sina Gostavi
Yeah.
Amber Nelson
Cause it was gonna redact everything of my whole Persona. But apparently astrology wise, like we're in the era of things being revealed. And I always thought it meant, for example, like when Obama was in office and he got the white hair, I was always like, they know something. And I bet it's aliens. But now, or like they know something and everybody's a pedophile.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah.
Amber Nelson
And that's why his hair went white.
Henry Zebrowski
Man. You know what the thing is like they. Biden could have easily investigated this ranch too, you know, and all this. And so everybody is kind of where I'm at. But here's a funner story. Let's move on. Let's get past. Let's get past that of f. S. C. But let's still. Let's talk about some millionaires that need to be taken down.
Amber Nelson
Okay. And how are we going to take them down?
Henry Zebrowski
By hypothetically, by elephant. Yeah. Ernie Doio, 75 years old, was trampled to death by elephants in Gambon. Why am I cheering? Because he is a big game hunter. That's right. He was out. He was out there in Gambon. He's from California. He's a vineyard owner of the Pacific Argolands llc. They make wine all over. This is the guy.
Amber Nelson
You were just in Santa Barbara. I wonder if you had some of his wine.
Henry Zebrowski
I wonder if I did. I wish I was trying to figure out which wines exactly are his wines because I wanted to make sure I didn't buy it. But you know, that's okay.
Amber Nelson
I like to go and be like, who is your cruelest master? Yes, let me sip that wine.
Henry Zebrowski
But Ernie, he's killed elephants, lions, rhinos, buffalo. He's got a huge room, huge trophy room in his house. It's disgusting. He like literally travels to world to murder rare animals. He was on safari to kill the nearly endangered yellow backed duke year. Look at me. See the duke here? Look at this guy. He's so cute.
Amber Nelson
Now some people argue, they say, well, they. They do big game hunting because of the funds that go to the park. Hey, I don't know. How about you fund the park and then leave the animals alone? Alone?
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah.
Amber Nelson
Why is it like, I'll give you money if I can kill one of your finest.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, the ant. The animals hunt themselves. Just take a corpse and stuff it. Put that in your house.
Amber Nelson
Steve Irwin it or something.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah. No, it's. It is crazy. This thing's so cute. They're out there trying to kill him because he needed to add it to the list of animals that he's killed. But Ernie was trampled on safari and Amber, if it's okay, there's footage of him I want to see getting trampled by elephants.
Amber Nelson
I want to see the trample in the south because I'm from Louisiana and there's a Lot of people, they have the trophies.
Henry Zebrowski
Oh, yeah, no, that's a. That's an old man just getting tossed around by an elephant rag doll.
Amber Nelson
Oh, sorry.
Henry Zebrowski
Oh, man, it is bad to laugh at death, but this motherfucker.
Amber Nelson
Maybe you should have killed all those animals, sir.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, dude, you go. I mean, that's the thing. You went out there looking for a fight. You knew, you went, you went to. You flew across an ocean and picked a fight with nature. And you lost.
Amber Nelson
And you had a gun.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, you had a gun. And you've been fighting nature for how many decades? This is how. This is such beautiful comeuppance. I can't even tell you how sweet this shit is to me. Look at the tour guide's face.
Amber Nelson
Elephants are really smart. Wasn't there a woman that like wronged an elephant and then an elephant found her grave site?
Henry Zebrowski
We talked about it. I had a whole episode about elephants. We talked about it. She. It was more of a wrong place, wrong time scenario. She was at a watering hole. And usually if you're close to a watering hole, animals get very territorial. And so the elephant killed her at the watering hole and then she had her. Then she had her funeral. And then the elephant came back and destroyed her body at the funeral because it hated her. And so that's. It was a rogue. Elephants, they call them Bin Laden's. There's a whole episode about it.
Amber Nelson
Oh, interesting. But see, our aura is so pure that if we went by the watering hole, it'd be like, oh, I love you.
Henry Zebrowski
Hello, I want to kiss.
Amber Nelson
Because don't they look at humans as like, we're like, we look at the little puppies?
Henry Zebrowski
I think so. I mean, as long as we're not trying to kill him. This one obviously didn't look at him like it was a puppy.
Amber Nelson
You.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah. No, this is on repeat, man.
Sina Gostavi
This is.
Henry Zebrowski
It is wild. Just letting it go.
Amber Nelson
Yeah, just let it go. People will decorate their homes with these animals. And I've been in the homes and it just feels like I'm like in the saddest graveyard.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, the elephant should get this guy's head to put on his wall, kick around the skull.
News Reporter
You.
Henry Zebrowski
I don't know, like, what happens to a person where you get so much money that you're just like, I want to go kill beauty. Like, it's like, why is it legal?
Sina Gostavi
Why?
Henry Zebrowski
It doesn't make any sense. I understand that they're trying to raise money and all that stuff, but that
Amber Nelson
killing beauty, hurting children, they just like, they find the most precious Innocent thing and like, how can I hurt it?
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah. And it's just like recently like you not to like toot my own horn, but like ever since I started making more money, I've never donated more. I've never like done all these things. Like, it just wants to help people. What the is wrong with all these goddamn people?
Amber Nelson
See, I donate to the Making Children More Hungry Foundation.
Henry Zebrowski
Well, that's, that's, that's how you sell more pizza.
Amber Nelson
We got to sell more pizza.
Henry Zebrowski
But before we wrap this up, I wanted to just tell you I got a new hat.
Amber Nelson
I like it.
Henry Zebrowski
And it's the Lehigh Valley Squonk. And I wanted to tell you about the Squonk because this is. I've learned a lot since joining last podcast these last couple years. And this is a squon and he's my favorite cryptid.
Amber Nelson
Why is it sad?
Henry Zebrowski
It's a sad. It's. I like. That's why I like him cuz sad. The Squonk lives in the Lehigh Valley in the. In Pennsylvania and it inhabits the forest. And basically back in the day, loggers would hear weird noises. They didn't know how to explain it. And so they came up with this creature who's a big fat, loose skinned, sad creature that just cries in the forest.
Amber Nelson
Oh yeah, it looks like a grub like the, the. The Kun matata guys ate.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, but it's huge. It's a. It's a mammal. I'd say if it was like an. If it was. Was real. But yeah, it's just of all the crypt. It's just. It just sits and cries in the forest and it's just sad and it's just. Oh, poor squad. And it shoots out little. Little dumb gooey out of its butt.
Amber Nelson
Is it sad because the forest industries taking everything down?
Henry Zebrowski
I think so. I think it's losing its trees and it doesn't like it squawk. Yeah, so I got my new squawk hat because the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs are changing their name. They're a AAA baseball team to the Squonk for one game. And everyone knew that I love the Squonk and so they told me I had to buy this hat and then I fell for it and I did it. And I just wanted you to know about the Squonk because he's so cute and he's got little fat rolls just like me and I love him so much.
Amber Nelson
Can I pet him?
Henry Zebrowski
You can pet the Squonk. That's why it's our Squonk that's for the. That's for the whole. That's for the whole. When is the Squonk Festival again? Let's give these guys a shout out. Took that out. Yeah. There's a whole festival dedicated to the Squank out in the Lehigh Valley.
Amber Nelson
What's the food there?
Henry Zebrowski
Squank a Paloa. Squ Palooza. Cheese steaks. Philly cheese steaks.
Amber Nelson
Really? Yeah. Let's look at the menu here.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah. August 1st, 2026. Oh, my God. I'm gonna be in the Lehigh Valley like two weeks before that. A missing Squaka Palooza. Damn. Oh, yeah, cuz I'm gonna be in Bethlehem on July 10th. So go see that show out there and bring your Squank memorabilia. Anyone who went to Squank Fest is a friend of mine. Squank a Palooza. We love you over here at the last podcast on the left. Amber, thank you so much for stopping by the show.
Amber Nelson
Thanks for having me.
Henry Zebrowski
I, I, you know, you, you're one of the funniest people I've ever met. You're, you're doing such great things. I love everything. HGX2 every Thursday, 7pm YouTube.com tv it's right after last stream on the left. Come check us out. It's honestly one of my favorite things that we've ever, ever done together. And I think people are gonna love it. So make sure you're tuning in all kinds of great guest stars. Henry, Marcus, Julie. Also, the Brighter side is now available to watch on YouTube. You go to YouTube.com@the Brighterside LPN. Go subscribe. Check us out. We're there and it's me and Amber one week, and then the next week it's Amber with Ashley Brook Roberts and the wonderful, beautiful, perfect, unbelievably sculpted bodied Julie Rosen.
Amber Nelson
It's his wife.
Henry Zebrowski
It's my wife.
Amber Nelson
She's currently on a long hike right now.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, she's in Catalina. Hopefully she comes back to me. She's walking across Catalina like she's got. I don't know what she's trying.
Amber Nelson
I had no idea. She was like, yeah, I'm out. Catalina island hiking 60 miles.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, there's Buffalo 34, but you know who's counting?
Amber Nelson
You can't.
Henry Zebrowski
I have.
Sina Gostavi
I know.
Henry Zebrowski
I got her location. I'm watching every step of the way. But yeah. So Juice, June 7th, you, me, and Julia, actually, we're gonna be in Phoenix at the Desert Ridge improv. Come see us there. It's gonna be the three of us doing some stand up, having a great time. And then every Friday in Silver Lake at the clubhouse out here in Los Angeles, go to Slamber's Comedy Jam. That's 7pm It's a free show every week. Go and check it out. It's so much fun. I did it last week. We had a blast. And then, of course, someplace underneath here on the last podcast, Podcast network with Natalie Jean all. It's all in house, baby.
Amber Nelson
It's all in house. It's wonderful. Yeah. Let us know if there's stuff we can do in Phoenix and let us stuff something I can do in. I might go to San Diego.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, I love San Diego.
Sina Gostavi
Maybe.
Amber Nelson
When is this coming out?
Henry Zebrowski
It's coming out next week.
Amber Nelson
Yeah, I'll be there, like in a week.
Henry Zebrowski
Oh, okay. You'll be there when this comes out?
Amber Nelson
Oh, fuck.
Henry Zebrowski
Well, no, it comes out on a Wednesday.
Amber Nelson
Write to me. Yeah. Cause I'll be. Well, yeah, write to me. Let me know where I should go to go hang out.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, the Lafayette. You can go to the zoo, check out the pandas. Panda ladies. I'm coming to San Diego. I want to come hang out with the pandas. I know you listen.
Sina Gostavi
Go.
Henry Zebrowski
You give me. Hit me up. I love everybody at the end of the show that we like to hail Satan and hail something wonderful. I'm going to hail the Squonk. What would you like to hail?
Amber Nelson
Hail something wonderful.
Henry Zebrowski
Yeah, something you like. Something that. Something that makes it.
Amber Nelson
I made some soup the other day. Day hail soup.
Henry Zebrowski
You can hail soup.
Amber Nelson
Can we help? Soup.
Henry Zebrowski
Hail soup.
Amber Nelson
Thank you.
Henry Zebrowski
Hail soup, everybody. We'll see you next week. Bye.
Date: May 13, 2026
Hosts: Henry Zebrowski, Sina Gostavi, Amber Nelson
Main Theme: Dark humor analysis of bizarre, horrifying, and absurd recent news – ranging from the Enhanced Games (doped-up Olympics), the Iranian regime and Middle East conflicts, sloth genocide at an Orlando attraction, Chick-fil-A fraud, and musings on justice and comeuppance.
This episode continues the Side Stories format: hosts Henry Zebrowski and guest Sina Gostavi (Foreign Report, Fraudsters) mix horror, true crime, and comedic takes on current events. “Stories with Friends II” jumps between animal mayhem (from murderous dogs to big game hunters getting trampled), dystopian sporting spectacles, grim international politics, scams, and the ever-percolating presence of the Epstein conspiracy. Later, Amber Nelson joins for characteristically dark anecdotes and Epstein updates.
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What are the Enhanced Games?
Philosophical & Social Take:
Notable Quotes:
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Sina’s Perspective: As a first-generation Iranian-American, deeply personal reflections on ongoing violence and upheaval.
History of Repression:
Current War Dynamics:
Broader Political Analysis:
Personal Impact:
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The episode deftly navigates between bleak world news, true crime, economic madness, and absurdist Americana—always with gallows humor, empathy for the marginalized (and animals!), and pointed critique of late-stage capitalism. Whether discussing the Enhanced Games or Iran’s repressions, “Stories with Friends II” remains both educational and riotously funny, reminding listeners how essential humor is to navigating a grim world.
Hail Satan, hail soup, and hail the Squonk!