Four The Record: What The F@#k Is Wrong With These Countries

Published Jun 25, 2025, 2:05 PM

This week on Four The Record:

Tim and Joe break down the U.S. airstrike on Iran, the (not so) ceasefire that followed, and Donald Trump's surprisingly spot-on take on the chaos unfolding in the Middle East.

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Welcome Joe Hildebrand to episode two.

We made it.

We actually did incredible.

I thought this is by saying no one likes Iran and stuff last week, that we might get canceled.

But welcome to the second episode. For the record, I'm too blackwell and every week we're going to be.

Asking you, Joe hild around the question four big questions, four big questions for the record about the news of the world.

News the world, great great newspaper incidentally sat see.

It News of the World.

Oh yeah, that is that what world series baseball is named after?

Being serious? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's exactly. It was named after a newspapers named after newspaper.

Everyone can go if there is a world series, that's right, it's just America.

Yeah, right, there you go. End of episode two. See later.

Yeah, glad we got that. Sordid now.

I had all these kind of grandiose ideas, like where do we go next, you know, like do we talk about social media for sixteen year olds and all that stuff, or budget repair or you're at a beautiful news south Fields budget dilectitude.

But no, it's World War three.

It's World War three again. Two, that's World War three again. Again.

So let's talk about the US bombing Iran and question number one for you, So how significant was this intervention?

It was about It depends who you ask, because there's just been there's just been a report came out of the Pentagon that was leaked conveniently to CNN and the New York Times, who are not known for being pro Donald Trump, and it says it's only set Iran's nuclear program back by a few months. Is that right, Well, no, it's not, according to Donald Trump, and he is very very cross at this.

He says, fake news. It's fake news. It's CNN, but their fake news. Again.

So Trump and the Defense Secretary Pete Haigseth say that that they've absolutely obliterated Iran's nuclear program as soon as it happened.

There was a ceasefire.

As soon as the ceasefire was announced, it was broken by both right at Israel.

But we'll get to that later.

And Iran and the US are now in negotiations about its nuclear program, about Iran's nuclear program, So it's actually it seems to have achieved all of its objectives. Assuming that this report is written by some churlish anti Trump spot and the intelligence agencies and Donald Trump are not really the best of friends. They haven't got in his intelligence intelligence intelligence and Donald Trump not particularly and even then there's that internal cavit. So this was just based on basically looking at the damage, right this intelligence. Have you seen any damage?

No, because it's all underground.

That's what I'm saying. We are really just taking everyone's word.

That's right, and you can't actually, like unless anyone who's going to show you the damage is either the Iranian government who is telling its own citizens that nothing happened.

Everything's fine, guys that don't know what you're talking about. So that's all fun.

Because I'm still I'm forty three, I'm still in the picks to prove it.

Era, like you're kind of like, can you show me?

That's right?

So if it's not the Iranians who are actually like the Pentagon saying nothing happened, it's all fine, yes, guys, business as usual. And other than that, it's obviously the Americans who want to say that yeah, it's completely and utterly obliterated, there is nothing left, which I would think it probably is.

I mean, I don't know, like I don't know why.

Firstly, I suppose there's Donald Rumsell used to say the known knowns and the known unknowns, and the unknown knowns and unknown unknowns. So the unknown unknown is all the secret nuclear stuff that Iran's doing it that we just don't know about, but all the stuff.

Which they're very good at keeping things unknown. Iran.

I've noticed, especially in the last few weeks, because I haven't really known much about it.

Ran do not know much about.

It, right, that's right, although that could also be because it is just a completely backward hermit state. It's a theocracy run by people who think that the end times are coming and that there's going to be the return of this great prophet who's going to have a big giant war with good and evil and all Iran's enemies will be smitten and smoked and blown to smithereens and wiped off the face of the earth, and then the chosen ones go to heaven. That is not the kind of mindset you want someone to have. Where they have a nuclear bomb.

They have a countdown clock right in the center of town.

Yep.

And for the end of Israel.

Yeah, that's right. That's Palestine Square.

Yeah, I believe it is.

And it's and it's basically and Palatine that was one of the targets that Israel knocked out, so it's not there anymore.

Good.

I have another question for you, because this leads us into a grab I have a grab voice.

Is it wrong to love the out of this? Basically, have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing? Oh that's I loved it.

So it's the best, isn't it?

And I know I probably shouldn't and should I should? Okay, okay, why should I?

This is Trump doing what Trump does best. This is Trump being who and what he was made to be, which is that every man guy who just looks at this situation and says, quite literally, what the heck is going on? What are you guys doing? Yeah, like I've just come in. So this is just quite the micdrop moment. Tore about to walk onto a plane from a helicopter. He loves going to a plane. Yeah, that's exactly Okay.

It's exactly right.

So Trump loves doing stuff in front of the helicopter, in front of Marine one on the White House lawn where it's like, yep, I'm off into action.

You know, I'm springing into action.

Yeah, you're going to go, you know, blow up another country now, and you're welcome, world. And it also means that he can run off and pretend he doesn't hear questions he doesn't like, or he can pretend he's running late, and.

So he says, yeah, I gotta go and see the world. Guys love to talk about the budget.

But yeah, yeah, yeah, but yes, that is exactly what he should be doing and should be saying, because in this conflict, you've got two sides who are completely intractable. Right, they will never ever see eye to either have completely different views of history, like literally the entire history of the world. They do not have a point of common agreement. They they think, you know, again, we've got Iran, which thinks that this Shia Islamic Messiah is going to come back and sort them. Israel obviously thinks a Jewish messiah is going to come back. We sent the last one. They didn't think he was legit, so whatever, fair play. But but you get all these arguments, and that's obviously just the religious stuff, but the history. You know, people argue over whether Israel, you know, it's nineteen forty eight that wasn't fair? Or is the Balfour Declaration before that that wasn't fair? Or the boundaries aren't fair because they don't. Do you know the borders of Dawn wrong? Or is the ninety sixty seven six Day War? Or is the Young Kippul War blah blah? And it's like, no, you took this, now you took that, but you took it first. Now it was the Romans. The Romans came in and you know, seventy a d and they exiled all the Jews and level Jerusalem and you know, so it was ours first two thousand years.

So again, when do you go back, right, You can't.

You can't fight modern wars to fix history like that is just one of my golden rules. And so Trump has come in, right, he's done what net and Yahu wanted him to do. Bring out the bunk combusters, blow up Iran's nuclear capability.

It's done.

Iran is obviously shut itself into it, right, Okay, hands in the air, cease fire, seas fire, seas fire. And as soon as that happens, Iran sends some pissy little missile into northern is.

I think it was.

I think they actually shot it out of the sky, so I didn't even make land.

For which I didn't really know until all this you could really do. Everyone's like someone's bombed someone, but.

It's been interceptive like this is I think Israel's got called the Iron Dome.

And so they've had this for ages.

Now launching and missile. That's because it's just going to be intercepted nine times out of ten.

Yeah, that's what happened.

So so the way Iran gets its missiles through is to just launch a bazillion of them. So that's we're just going to launch a thousand missiles and maybe ten.

Will get through it.

Yeah whatever, just random number out of mite. But anyway, and so this missile is shot down, right, doesn't even make the moment. But Israel always it almost has to overreact to everything because it's so small, so out numb, so out gun, it's completely surrounded by people who historically have not wanted it to be there. To put it mildly, it's got to do that real sort of you know, you break my little finger, I'll break your head. You bring a knife, I'll bring a gun. And so again we saw that with after October seven and so Israel says, oh, you just broke the ceasefire with that little missile was shot down. Fine, and they send over a whole bunch of planes to bomb the Jesus out of Iran again. And that's when Donald Trump loses it. And it's like, it's like angry dad coming home.

So what So he's started it Dad? He hit me, no, she called me name. It's like, I don't care, just shut up.

It's also, this podcast was supposed to simplify the news in fifteen minutes.

He's done it in seven seconds.

That's exactly right.

Two countries.

There's what everyone. And again this is like, say what you like about Donna. This is Donald Trump being good. This is the first good thing that he's done. He's brought the ceasefire in, He's blown up Iran's nuclear capability. This is when everyone should on his side. And then he just said, all right, what the are you guys doing?

If only everybody took a leaf out of his book.

Yes Week It's opportunity yes Week, or maybe.

People who ruled it in the American dreams, I haven't.

I mean, maybe one more, one more done? The beaches on the landing run in the Field Hill, this has an impact?

Can you say it like World War two would have been over in nineteen thirty nine?

Like you're right, alright?

Question of Drake? Can we be sure? I mean, I think you might have answered this, but can we really be sure that I run has no more nukes? No? Okay? Cool? Question number four?

You might have already answered it. But did the US finish the job? Or? I mean, I guess more more importantly with this question, have the US just shit stirred a bit too much?

Here?

Have because I have heard and this question is not very articulate. But are we looking at potential more attack September eleven style things potentially on the horizon, not based on this intervention by the US.

I don't think so, because the Ayatolla.

Of course, as soon as Trump does it right and he wipes out all their nuclear facilities or not, But looks like them, look at look at the way Irana's ponded. Firstly, they go, he go, ah, you know, don't worry Iranians, nothing's happened.

It's all American lies. It's satan.

And also, even though nothing happens, you're going to pay for this terrible attack on our soil, and we are going to kill you, and we're going to send our agents all over the world to attack you, and we're going to attack all your bases in the surrounding Arab states.

So they attack an air base in Qatar.

And again, all the Arab states surrounding Iran are Sunni Islam and Iran Shio. So Iran is very much the outlier, and all the other Arab states hate it, as discussed on episode by everybody hates a Runans, they hate their own government should.

Uh.

So they attack this air base, this military base in Qatar, right, And the Iranians say to Kitar, this is not an attack against you, this is an attack against the Americans.

The Katari government says, beag to disagree.

We actually do see this is an attack of us, and we hate you because everyone hates a Run And the Americans say, what are you doing.

So the Iranians, you know, get up.

And say, we have struck at the heart of the Infidel We have bombed their planes, we have bombed their you know, Infidel soldiers, and blah blah, and the Qataris and the Americans say, yeah, there was an attempted strike on the air base no damage was done.

There were zero casualties, and next thing you know, Iran is coming back to the table.

It's immediately agrees to a.

Cease fire and it's back in talks with the US about actually it's what it's nuclear program is allowed to do or not do. Now, that doesn't seem to me a regime that is hell bent on destruction revenge, that is only suffered a flesh wound and is prepared to rise like a tiger and crush it's enemies, like this is a regime that has just folded like a house. Guys, all right, ceasefire, yep, Okay, he's on nuclear program.

We'll do whatever you want.

So you're potentially saying that episode three is not going to be World War three Part three.

I look, I mean, that's that's a forward teast.

It's disappointing because it could be a slow newsweek, but it is possible that we may still be alive.

And we may not be just radioactive wraiths in a post nuclear apocalypse.

Final word goes to George W.

Bush.

There is an old saying in Tennessee, this is only once. Shame on you. I love your work.

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