091 - Gas Price, Iran, and Marrying Your Cousin

Trump promised “no new wars” and “cheap gas,” but now the U.S. is bombing Iran, gas prices are spiking, and even his own MAGA counterterror official resigned saying there was no imminent threat and the war was pushed by Israel’s lobby. Jimmy and Alyssa dig into how we got here, how much of this is about distraction from Trump’s Epstein‑adjacent scandals, and why his base doesn’t seem to feel the consequences of any of it.​

They also talk about debate culture and platforming: why shows like Jubilee put literal Nazis on camera, how “hate‑watching” once accidentally revived dying Christian reactionary channels, and why The Line is trying to be a counter‑force with a new debate gimmick Jimmy spent all weekend “vibe coding.”​

Alyssa then tells the story of getting slapped by YouTube for a totally standard vulva/vagina medical diagram in a sex‑ed video—only to be forced into a policy training that showed even more explicit diagrams than the one she used. That launches a bigger conversation about America’s fear of real sex education, why so many people don’t know where the cervix actually is, and how creators who teach responsibly get nerfed while porn‑adjacent content thrives.​

Finally, they hit the Florida story: a bill to ban first‑cousin marriage failed, leaving Florida as one of the states where marrying your first cousin is still legal, even as other red states can’t pass basic child‑marriage bans. Along the way they talk about attraction to people who look like our relatives, why that gives them both the ick, and what it says about a culture that will protect cousin weddings before it protects kids or sex ed.​

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