Today’s Headlines: Russia is having a great week. It's sharing satellite imagery, intelligence, and drone technology with Iran, sending a tanker of 700,000 barrels of crude to Cuba in direct defiance of the U.S. blockade, and watching oil approach $110 a barrel. Israel assassinated Iran's intelligence minister, Iran's new Supreme Leader vowed revenge, and th ... Show More
Yesterday
Wednesday, March 18th, 2026 - Top intel chief quits over Iran; Israel kills senior official; Trump wants Cuba; Pam Bondi subpoenaed
Today’s Headlines: The Iran war claimed a notable casualty on the home front: Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned and posted his letter on Twitter, writing that Iran posed no imminent threat and the war was started due to pressure from Israel's lo ... Show More
10m 10s
Mar 17
Tuesday, March 17th, 2026 - Iran war: $12B in as gas hits $5; Minesweepers MIA; Epstein files updates; Judge blocks RFK's vax overhaul;
Today’s Headlines: Four weeks in, the Iran war is getting more expensive, more chaotic, and more geopolitically cursed by the day. The US has lost 13 service members and spent $12 billion — and according to U.S. intelligence, Iran's regime is not only still standing but consolida ... Show More
11m 16s
Mar 16
Monday, March 16th, 2026 - No ceasefire in Iran, 5k marines and 3 warships deployed; DOGE bros exposed; TikTok deal nets Trump $10B
Today’s Headlines: Three weeks into the Iran "excursion" — Trump's word, not ours — and there's no end in sight. Trump claimed Iran asked for a ceasefire; Iran said that didn't happen. Either way, 5,000 more marines and three more warships are headed to the region, joining the 50 ... Show More
13m 50s
May 2025
Tracking Trump's Global Grift
Tommy and Ben are on the Trump corruption beat, including Vietnam’s fast-tracking of a Trump golf project for favorable treatment, the administration pushing Elon Musk’s Starlink on foreign countries, the president’s grotesque dinner for buyers of his memecoin, and Cory Booker’s ... Show More
1h 40m
May 2025
Is Trump’s Trade Messaging Working?
🚨 Get ready for a 🔥 banger of an episode from the Ruthless Variety Program! 🎙️ Join Josh Holmes, Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan, and John Ashbrook as they break down the latest on Trump’s trade strategies, tariffs, and the economy with a sharp, no-nonsense take you won’t fin ... Show More
1h 48m
Feb 2025
Trump's War on the U.S. Government
Donald Trump and Elon Musk continue their all-out assault on the federal government, shuttering USAID, rooting out and firing workers linked in any way to diversity initiatives, and breaking and ignoring laws as they go. Jon and Dan hash out all the latest, including Trump's plan ... Show More
1h 29m
Jan 2025
Trump's early whirlwind: Jan 6 pardons, WHO exit and DEI targeted
U.S. President Donald Trump’s first days in office have seen many key announcements, including pardons for those jailed over the January 6 riots. He has also announced that the U.S. will leave the World Health Organization, touted a multibillion dollar AI project and escalated hi ... Show More
12m 20s