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Sep 30, 2026
Tony CrowGUEST
And, and, and I did a press tour with Mark and Kurt, and [laughs] people, we had the goodwill of the entire planet, basically.
Tony CrowGUEST
Uh, a- a- and, uh, and, and then, uh, George Bush gave the Axis of Evil speech, and all that changed.
Tony CrowGUEST
[laughs]
Dakota BrownHOST
Every time I think-
Shane SmithGUEST
So I'll tell the story as quickly as I can.
Shane SmithGUEST
But basically, there was a guy named Ben Anderson who did a thing called Holidays in the Axis of Evil.
Shane SmithGUEST
It was an amazing, right when the internet was just, like video was just starting, Holidays in the Axis of Evil.
Shane SmithGUEST
He might even done it for BBC, I don't remember.
Shane SmithGUEST
But he basically, you know, there was five countries in the Axis of Evil, and he figured out you could go to any of them, like you could just go.
Shane SmithGUEST
And so he went to North Korea and, um, when I met him, I was like, "How the fuck did you get into North Korea?" And he's like, "Okay, you go to this town called Shenyang in Northern China, and there's like a North Korean embassy, and you give them some money and whatever." And, um, at the time it was hard to do, but you could do it around the Arirang Games, which is the mass gymnastics, like where they, you know, they have the flip cards and there's like 180,000 people.
Shane SmithGUEST
So we went to Shenyang, kind of bribed a few people, stayed at this weird North Korean hostel, and then one morning at 4:00 in the morning they, they said, "Come on." And we went, and I had bought in Dubai a, a sh- a point-and-shoot camera with a big, uh, like a large, uh, c- a memory card, and so you could do video on it for the first time.
David BennerHOST
And Nick's exactly right about the mentors that J.D. Vance had.
David BennerHOST
It was first David Frum, the arch neocon, who drafted the Axis of Evil speech for George W. Bush that served as a mentor toward Vance.
David BennerHOST
Vance did write about a half a dozen essays that you can still find on David Frum's forums, including those that supported...
David BennerHOST
The Iraq War and those that said that, hey, John Huntsman is the answer in the GOP.
David BennerHOST
J.D. Vance is a charlatan who had his first mentor as David Frum, the arch neocon speechwriter for the Bush administration draft.
David BennerHOST
the Axis of Evil speech, and then his second mentor is Peter Thiel of Palantir.
David BennerHOST
Now, so many people call him a restrainer, that he's against wars like this, but if you look at his first words in the limelight after receiving the vice presidential nomination at the RNC in 2024, what he told Fox News was, the presidents in the past made mistakes by not striking Iran hard enough, not hitting them hard, punching them hard.
David BennerHOST
You can find this video.
Brian Dean WrightHOST
As Fox News reports, this is part of the so-called Palestinian resistance.
Brian Dean WrightHOST
Part of the Axis of Evil, as it were, comprised of Hamas, Iran, and its other terror proxy, Hezbollah.
Brian Dean WrightHOST
In fact, as I shared with you back in August, all three of those guys in that alliance are now targeting not just the Israelis or Jews, but Americans and U.S. military bases in Europe as well.
Brian Dean WrightHOST
As Germany's outlet DW reports, the German government is very late to this Islamic threat.
Miles GrayHOST
Bad guys
Jamie LoftusGUEST
... with the al- the Axis of evil, evil.
Jamie LoftusGUEST
So okay, the Minions are feds.
Jamie LoftusGUEST
That's already a tough pill to swallow.
Tim DillonHOST
There was no new foreign policy doctrine, the Bush Doctrine.
Tim DillonHOST
We will draw no distinction between, you know, the leaders The terrorists and the leaders of the countries that harbor them, the Axis of Evil, it was none of that.
Tim DillonHOST
That all came post 9/11.
Tim DillonHOST
The '90s was kind of, uh, this was America, peak America was the '90s.
Frank GardnerGUEST
Yeah
Asma KhalidHOST
... referred to Iran as part of the Axis of Evil.
Frank GardnerGUEST
Indeed.
Frank GardnerGUEST
There were plenty people in, close to President Bush in the US centers of power saying, "Now it's time to clean out the Middle East." And there was a real fear in Iran that they were next, but they ultimately benefited massively in the end from the 2003 US invasion.
Matthew YglesiasHOST
It's gonna survive the deaths of people and terrorism, because it doesn't matter, right? But like, no.
Matthew YglesiasHOST
Like, they, they went in on it, right? And, and, you know, you look at, like, the famous infamous, um, Axis of Evil-
Jerusalem DemsasHOST
Mm-hmm
Matthew YglesiasHOST
... speech, which, you know, was written by David Frum, who's become, like, a great anti-Trump warrior-
Brian TamakiHOST
Now we're paying a high price.
Brian TamakiHOST
So I want to get that very clear to you as we talk a bit more about this, and I want to go a little bit more here because there's an axis of evil.
Brian TamakiHOST
that's been planted in South Auckland.
Brian TamakiHOST
That's the beginning place.
Brian TamakiHOST
That Axis of Evil is the new Islamic, of course, mosque.
Brian TamakiHOST
And then right next door is the Buddhist temple that's there.
Brian TamakiHOST
That's Chinese.
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