And Another Thing with Dave · Dave Smith

#465 Send in The Asteroid part 1 of 2

March 31, 2026·1 hr 2 min·5 clips

Dave and Boston Nick Berry ask where the bottom is as the world feels like it's falling apart with endless catastrophes.

1. And Another Thing with Dave, episode 465, 'Send in The Asteroid Part 1 of 2,' is a two-person panel between Dave and guest Boston Nick Berry covering the Iran war, Epstein files, and domestic policy failures. 2. Dave is the primary host; Nick Berry is described as a friend from Boston who appears as a recurring guest discussing current events. 3. The episode's framing question is 'where is the floor?'—both hosts describe an inability to keep pace with what they call an unrelenting series of daily catastrophes. 4. The opening exchange names two competing crises the hosts can't decide between: 'our war for Israel over in Iran' and 'who's the pedophile of the day,' with the hosts joking darkly about choosing between 'baby eating or World War III.' 5. Nick states the Iran conflict has approximately 20% approval across Republicans and Democrats, and cites video clips from 2015 of Trump himself calling Middle East wars bad ideas. 6. Nick offers what he calls 'one decent argument' he's heard for the war: that the US needs Iran's low-viscosity oil to blend with Venezuelan high-viscosity crude. 7. The hosts argue that US troops and drone strikes killed over 100 children at a girls school in Iran, and connect this to the My Lai massacre in Vietnam as evidence that US military conduct has not changed. 8. Nick states Iran spends $250 million per multi-drone launch while the US counter-launch costs $4 billion, predicting Iran has been preparing for this conflict since the Iraq invasion and will bleed the US financially. 9. Dave predicts a 10-year US military presence in Iran, comparing the trajectory to every other Middle East conflict including Afghanistan and Iraq. 10. The hosts argue the US will install a pro-Israel leader in Iran, that this leader will be overthrown by a new militant organization, and that the US will then have to return to fight the organization it indirectly created—the same cycle they describe for ISIS and Al Qaeda. 11. Nick states the Epstein files describe Al Qaeda, ISIS, Al Nusra, and other groups as CIA and Mossad operations, with only the Houthis excluded. 12. The Bill Clinton deposition is described with Dave saying Clinton appeared to have 'happy flashbacks' and grabbed a photograph back from his lawyer. 13. Dave and Nick describe a stock-tracking service following Nancy Pelosi's trades that reportedly generates 20% average annual returns by copying her positions, citing her market performance as evidence of insider access to non-public information. 14. Dave names Lockheed Martin, BlackRock, and Vanguard as safe investment bets because they are 'manipulating the market in the first place' and benefit directly from ongoing wars. 15. Nick cites Albert Pike, described as the founder of the Freemasons, as having 'predicted' all three world wars, with Dave reframing the prediction as a plan rather than a forecast. 16. Dave states that 40% of enlisted US servicemen have reportedly been told the current conflict is a war to 'bring about the return of Jesus,' describing this as an 'end times cult running our foreign policy.' 17. The hosts close with domestic infrastructure failures: Flint, Michigan's unresolved drinking water crisis and a PhD student's finding that lead pipes remain in use in South Central Los Angeles poverty areas. 18. The tone throughout is heavily editorial and darkly comedic, with recurring profanity and sarcastic framings like 'that was a benevolent bomb' for the girls school strike. 19. Listeners who follow alternative media commentary on US-Israel foreign policy, political corruption, and domestic inequality will find the episode densely packed with claims. 20. Listeners seeking moderated debate, sourced claims, or balanced political perspective will find the episode one-sided and largely unsourced.

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A blunt, loose hangout that treats upheaval as a live subject.

Dave and Boston Nick Berry spend the episode in a loose, wandering conversation about a world that feels like it is coming apart. The sound is a little rough at the start, though it is easy to see why it was left in.

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Press play if you want a messy, rolling conversation about collapse, power, and where the bottom is.

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