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  Host 1: Your morning briefing for Thursday, September 3, 2026 starts right now.
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  Host 1: And uh, right now there is an aircraft carrier sitting in a port in Thailand,
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  Host 1: and its crew is just completely exhausted.
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  Host 2: Yeah, I mean a record 286 consecutive days at sea.
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  Host 1: Which is wild.
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  Host 1: And meanwhile, you know, thousands of miles away from that,
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  Host 1: a dictator is essentially redrawing the global oil map
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  Host 1: using a thousand trucks just barreling across the desert.
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  Host 2: Right, because if you look at the front pages today,
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  Host 2: the global map is basically cracking.
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  Host 2: You know, physically and politically, it's just under so much pressure.
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  Host 1: The fatigue is just palpable everywhere.
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  Host 1: I mean that aircraft carrier you mentioned, the USS Abraham Lincoln,
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  Host 1: it's been the backbone of the naval blockade in the Middle East
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  Host 1: for almost a year now.
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  Host 2: Yeah, and the sailors are burnt out,
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  Host 2: the whole US-Iran conflict that it's supporting
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  Host 2: has degraded into this really brutal, stalled war of attrition.
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  Host 1: Right, like nobody is moving forward,
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  Host 1: but nobody is willing to retreat either.
• 0:57
  Host 1: Iran is lashing out at US allies in the Persian Gulf.
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  Host 1: And state media actually confirmed one of those strikes
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  Host 1: tragically hit a wedding party.
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  Host 2: It's awful.
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  Host 2: And internally, I mean, Iran is buckling.
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  Host 2: Their currency is plummeting to 2.2 million rials
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  Host 2: to a single US dollar.
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  Host 1: 2.2 million.
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  Host 2: Yeah. So for the average citizen there,
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  Host 2: that means your life savings simply evaporate overnight.
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  Host 2: Basic imports just become impossible to afford.
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  Host 1: And the American strategy to counter this is caught
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  Host 1: in this profound uh, messaging loop.
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  Host 1: Like President Trump is concurrently calling for the Iranian people
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  Host 1: to rise up against their government
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  Host 1: declaring total victory over the regime,
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  Host 1: and then also threatening apocalyptic military strikes if they don't comply.
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  Host 2: Right. He even took to social media to poll his followers
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  Host 2: on whether they should rename the Strait of Hormuz the Trump Strait.
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  Host 1: Which is just jarring.
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  Host 1: The disconnect between that political theater
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  Host 1: and the actual military reality on the ground is huge.
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  Host 1: I mean, the sources show some serious stress fracturing
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  Host 1: the military establishment behind closed doors.
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  Host 2: Yeah, the Washington Post just detailed how senior officers
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  Host 2: are highly alarmed by the trajectory of this war