Episode 1856 · Thursday, 2 April 2026

CIS Lunar

A new lunar race intensifies as NASA pushes into cislunar space while the Trump administration deploys B-52 bombers to break an Iranian blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.

By The No Agenda Show | 2h 40m listen | 1 chapters
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The No Agenda Show · No. 1856

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NASA launched four astronauts from Kennedy Space Center aboard the Artemis 2 mission, signaling a strategic pivot toward a permanent presence in cislunar space. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and Dean Chang of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies highlight the urgency of this mission as China targets a manned moon landing by December 2030. This renewed space race focuses on securing a lunar economy and establishing American technological superiority over Beijing.

President Donald Trump threatened strikes on Iranian civilian infrastructure following a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, while U.S. B-52 bombers deployed 2,000-pound bunker-busters against an ammunition facility in Isfahan. Secretary Pete Hegseth declared the conflict has entered a decisive phase as the U.S. searches for 600 pounds of enriched uranium dust. Simultaneously, Senator Marco Rubio and Mark Rutte are navigating a fractured NATO alliance where key members like France and Turkey have restricted U.S. military basing rights.

In a bizarre turn of events, Senator Lindsey Graham faced social media scrutiny after being photographed at Disneyland with a Princess Ariel bubble wand. The episode also tracks the recovery of a host from heart surgery, including a harrowing hospital experience involving a collapsed lung and a strict no-water policy. John C. Dvorak and Adam Curry also examine the satirical Gays of Hormuz man-on-the-street segment.


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CHAPTER 36 / 47 Discussion

US-Iran Meme War, AI Propaganda Videos

The White House and the Iranian regime are engaged in an online "war of memes," using AI-generated content and edited movie clips to troll each other. The U.S. has posted videos combining airstrike footage with Spongebob Squarepants, while Iran has produced animations depicting Western leaders as Lego figures. These deepfake videos and AI memes are blurring the lines between real military events and digital propaganda.

propaganda· memes· ai· iran· spongebob squarepants· deepfakes

1:47:10 I'm convinced of it. You've got to stop that, we can't have people making their own propaganda movies... In fact i got a clip here where's this from? This is from Global the Canadian guys and they're talking about the propaganda which is done with AI by both Iran or Iranian actors and America or American actors or Jews! The propaganda war over Iran has taken a strange turn The White House and the Iranian regime are trolling each other online in a war of memes, posting videos like these on their official social media channels. It started with the White House posting videos of real air strikes on Iran edited together with clips from American action movies and video games even Spongebob Squarepants

1:48:00 You wanna see me do it again? With captions such as, Justice the American Way and Wake Up Daddy's Home. This obscene focus on lethality in a celebration of violence this focus on a gaming culture where victims have vanished from moral consideration is an utterly immoral. Tehran is now firing back By the time a satellite finds me I'm already gone The regime's propaganda studio producing these animations Many depicting Lego figures of the US president, Israeli Prime Minister and the devil plotting attacks on Iran to distract from the Epstein scandal. A lot of this stuff would seem silly if it wasn't obviously such a serious situation. Is this actually effective? I mean i think its effective in functioning as rallying cries we are talking about content that's been viewed

1:48:53 in the billions. What started as a propaganda war between the American and Iranian governments has now spiraled into an online free-for-all, with other apparently ordinary users deploying AI technology to produce not only memes but deepfake videos of the war This video purports to show an Iranian attack on the US Navy in the Strait of Hormuz Well, this one claims to show Israel's airport being struck by an Iranian missile. Both are fake. The use of AI is just shedding doubt everywhere so it's making things more believable but it's also making things not believable in the sense that anything and everything can be edited or fully AI generated This parallel information war is blurring the lines between real and fake

1:49:46 So this is the real issue at hand. And the video stuff, yeah... Movies is definitely the way to go. Remember, the CIA was all over the Moscow Music Peace Festival and I didn't even know it at that time! Other than I got interviewed by some dudes who came into my manager's office and said, oh you're going to Russia. Stay away from hookers they're all KGB stay at the hotel you don't want to go anywhere else you want to be careful but as it turns out that was you know, listening to the Winds of Change podcast. That whole thing was a psy-op to get kids to get ready to bust out when the wall came down and they... we all know that it was David Hasselhoff who premeditated that but the real psyops is social media