Topic: Uss John S Mccain

Dr. Steve Pieczenik challenges the heroic narrative of John McCain, alleging that McCain was a "spoiled brat" who crashed multiple planes due to incompetence. Pieczenik claims that McCain's injuries were sustained during his ejection rather than through torture and that fellow POWs in the Hanoi Hilton viewed him as a collaborator. He further alleges that McCain's father, an Admiral, protected him from military discipline throughout his career.

Liz MacKean, the BBC reporter who exposed the Jimmy Savile pedophilia scandal, has died at age 52. Meanwhile, the USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker near Singapore, leaving ten sailors missing. This marks the second major collision involving a U.S. Navy destroyer in two months, leading to the dismissal of the commander of the 7th Fleet and a worldwide pause in Navy operations.

A producer whose stepson was aboard the USS John S. McCain reports that the ship suffered a "power failure to critical components" before the collision. The hosts speculate that the recent string of Navy accidents could be the result of experimental directed energy or EMP weapons being tested against U.S. vessels. They question how "mil-spec" hardened components could suffer such catastrophic failures in multiple incidents.