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Dick Con 2025

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Newt Gingrich posted a plan to use "a dozen thermonuclear detonations" to make a canal through the Strait of Hormuz.

1. The Bob Cesca Show centers on Donald Trump’s Iran escalation, NATO complaints, and a March 17, 2026 St. Patrick’s Day opening bit. 2. Bob Cesca hosts the episode with Jody Hamilton from "Politics Bar" and David Ferguson, who is also called T-Rex, because both guests react in real time to the day’s news. 3. The episode asks whether Trump’s Iran policy, Epstein-file developments, and NATO rhetoric show a presidency losing control. 4. The show opens with NBC 15’s Mobile, Alabama "leprechaun" report and Bob’s "goth ninjas" jokes about St. Patrick’s Day. 5. Bob says the leprechaun story is "an actual thing" from Mobile and uses it as a comic preface before the politics. 6. The episode then turns to Rep. Suhas Subramanyam’s comments on the deposition of Richard Khan, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime accountant. 7. Subramanyam says the House learned about "another head of state" in Epstein-related financial transactions and a Trump accuser who "was given a settlement by Jeffrey Epstein’s estate." 8. Bob and the guests stress that the testimony came from a Republican-controlled House Oversight process, not from outside speculation. 9. The discussion shifts to Trump’s Iran war and Bob describes it as having reached "quagmire status." 10. The hosts say Iran can still use drones and pressure points like the Strait of Hormuz while the U.S. keeps escalating. 11. Bob quotes his own Facebook post about Russia helping Iran target U.S. military interests and ties that to Trump’s lifting of sanctions on Russian oil. 12. The show then reads Newt Gingrich’s X post proposing "a dozen thermonuclear detonations" to create a new canal through the Strait of Hormuz. 13. The hosts note that Gingrich linked to a china-talk.media article later described by a community note as satirical. 14. Bob highlights a resignation letter from Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, who says he cannot support the ongoing war in Iran. 15. Kent writes that Iran "has posed no imminent threat" and says the war was started under pressure from Israel and its American lobby. 16. Bob and the guests contrast that resignation with Trump’s reaction that Kent was "weak on security," even though Trump had appointed him earlier in 2025. 17. The tone moves between comic riffing and alarm as the hosts discuss Trump’s saliva-heavy public appearances, his impulsive statements, and the possibility that he is not understanding the consequences. 18. The format is conversational and fast-moving, with sponsor reads, local-news parody, and extended back-and-forth among Bob, Jody Hamilton, and David Ferguson. 19. People tracking Iran, NATO, Epstein-file developments, and Trump’s foreign-policy instability would likely follow this episode. 20. People wanting a calm, narrowly focused policy briefing or no St. Patrick’s Day banter may skip it.

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