Project Freedom, Podfluncers, Funding Racism, Surveillance Tech in Cars, and Biometric Dust

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 Welcome back to another World of Blaze recorded this day, the 4th of May, 2026.

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 Or as they say, may the 4th be with you.

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 Been gone a while.

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 I apologize for that so that I know this is a bit of a late release, but I have actually

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 been on a bit of a podcasting tour.

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 I myself have been a guest on many other podcasts.

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 Some are bigger than others.

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 That doesn't really matter.

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 The fact that they're giving me an opportunity to speak on their shows is great.

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 And honestly, when those are made available, I'm going to share those with you and where

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 I'll even include those as a bonus episode on my own feed just so that you have access

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 to the conversation.

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 But again, trying to stay on this, apologize for the bit of a break here.

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 But even though I have been a guest on other shows, I am lining up great guests for you

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 as well.

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 So there's going to be a, you know, still a mixture, a smattering of both solo episodes

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 with me as well as guests.

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 But look for those guest episodes soon as they are released.

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 I actually am recording with a few this week.

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 So again, just be on the lookout.

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 Some of these people are pretty much very, very prominent social media figures.

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 They have very large followings, very large voices.

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 I have an Intel expert, another Intel expert.

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 You know I love my Intel experts, right?

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 I love the intelligence people.

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 But another person has agreed to come on the show.

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 We're still working out dates right now.

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 The man is very busy, given everything he does, I'm not surprised.

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 But that person who cannot be named right now, I wish I could, will be on the show.

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 But I have another Intel expert coming on.

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 So basically that's what you need to know.

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 It's going to be a great episode.

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 That being said, let's also talk about the increase in listenership.

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 Primarily what I've seen is a spike in some new areas.

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 Now I do want to give a shout out to Iceland again.

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 It seems like we're growing there.

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 They've shown up on the radar again, as I've said a few episodes back.

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 But it seems like it's getting more consistent.

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 And the amount of listeners, the amount of downloads coming from Iceland.

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 Thank you very much, everybody over there.

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 Appreciate it.

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 Vietnam is staying strong.

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 They were a newcomer and they seem to be consistent as well.

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 And here's a new one for me.

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 This has never been consistent for me, by the way.

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 But Japan, Japan came out of nowhere.

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 Very significant downloads out of Japan.

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 Thank you so much.

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 Not sure what sparked that, but I will take your listenership.

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 I will take your support.

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 And I hope that I continue to deliver on whatever it is

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 that attracted you to the show in the first place.

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 But thank you very much.

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 So there is a nod to Japan as well.

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 And outside of that, listen, everybody, thanks for supporting the show.

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 I want to remind everybody I'm trying to grow my substacks.

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 So if you have a substack account, if you're on substack,

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 remember to follow me.

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 My handle is at Fonce of Blaze.

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 Pretty much the same thing it says down here on the ticker.

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 Right down there, pretty much everything's at Fonce of Blaze.

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 So if you follow me on substack, I will appreciate it.

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 I am contributing more articles, more written articles.

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 Some of them are assessments or basically like a look back

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 So I'm trying to do more of those.

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 I've already started.

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 So be on the lookout for more articles, more assessments

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 and written form on my substack.

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 If you're not following me on X, I don't know why it makes no sense,

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 because, hey, if you're into politics, I'm sure you're on X.

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 Again, handle is at Fonce of Blaze.

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 I am on Instagram.

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 And a new one for me, I'm not very big on this whatsoever,

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 but I have been contributing shorts and whatnot to TikTok.

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 So if you're on TikTok, again, same thing at Fonce of Blaze.

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 So my handle is pretty much the same on all the social

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 medias at Fonce of Blaze.

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 And before I get going, I want to see this cup here.

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 It's filled with something good.

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 Of course, it's coffee.

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 That's what I drink.

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 Come on, you silly.

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 This is Colocumcraft coffee, though.

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 So the owners, Bill and Dana, were very kind.

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 And we've been talking back and forth.

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 And they wanted to send me a sample.

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 Say, hey, let me know if you like the coffee.

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 Because I'll just say this.

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 They pride themselves on the quality of their coffee.

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 They pride themselves on integrity.

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 And they're not looking for a handout in terms

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 of relationship with anybody.

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 They're like, look, if we're going to do anything together,

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 and by the way, it still isn't finalized.

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 This is just me giving a big shout out and a thank you.

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 So let's not get ahead of ourselves.

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 But the conversation I had was basically, look,

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 before we do anything here, I want you to taste our coffee.

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 You have to actually like it before we

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 can come to any agreement.

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 Because the reality is, I get it.

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 Like, why would you want someone to endorse your product

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 if they truly haven't used it?

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 But I'm going to tell you this.

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 Colloquium Craft Coffee.

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 It literally is some of the best coffee I've ever had.

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 This is not a lie.

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 And the package that Bill and Dana sent me was ridiculous.

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 I thought it was like a sample, you know,

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 of every dang blend that they make or every roast.

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 And I mean, damn, I did not expect that.

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 And I'm going to tell you what.

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 I've tried every single blend.

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 And so far, I can say the consistency is crazy.

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 And it's really like some of the lowest acidic coffee

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 So anyway, hats off to you,

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 Bill and Dana at Colocum Craft Coffee.

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 These things are small batch produced.

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 I really am a fan.

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 The stuff's great.

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 So there you go everybody.

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 So support Bill and Dana at Colocum Craft Coffee.

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 I'm going to do something.

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 I'm going to be honest.

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 I'm tired talking about is Iran.

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 We got to talk about Iran.

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 It's not going away, right?

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 I have given so many assessments based on much,

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 I mean, facts are facts, right?

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 Dave Smith and Tim Dillon.

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 Tim Dillon, got him.

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 that nobody, nobody that I know of anyway,

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 over controlling the Strait of Hormuz.

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 the aggressor?

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 Do they have any real claim,

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 to the control of the Strait?

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 Interesting questions, right?

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 We're going to get to that and do the best I can anyway.

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 So that's something we're going to discuss,

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 which nobody has brought up,

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 And then we're going to get away from the Iranian War.

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 Hey, yeah, a little something different.

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 So there's been a few things.

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 I haven't touched on,

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 that's probably old news for you guys, right?

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 But Southern Poverty Law Center.

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 I have not discussed that, haven't touched on it.

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 So I'm going to discuss that for a little bit.

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 And then we got two things that are interesting here.

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 We're going to talk,

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 and this has been on my desk for a while.

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 I just haven't been able to discuss it.

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 Well, that's not true.

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 First off, let me just get to what it is.

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 So it's about the vehicles

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 that are going to be sold in the United States

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 starting 2027.

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 So any new model is going to have systems in place

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 which basically read your biometric data.

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 We're talking about infrared cameras, scanners,

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 voice recognition software, lip reading software.

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 They're going to be able to determine

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 whether or not you're fit to drive.

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 There is the controversial claim of a kill switch

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 that is basically going to be embedded into the vehicle.

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 It's going to be able to tell

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 if you have alcohol in your breath, for example.

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 It will judge whether or not you're overly excited,

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 whether you're too emotional to drive, et cetera.

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 I know it's a lot of crazy things,

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 but this is law now, it's been mandated.

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 And we didn't get the choice.

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 We didn't vote on this, not that I know of.

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 I never saw it, never had the opportunity,

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 but here you go.

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 The government's looking out for you

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 because they know what's best.

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 So there's that, kind of scary, right?

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 Here we are, here we are,

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 in the age of governmental control.

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 And here's another crazy thing.

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 So there's patents, this is another subject here.

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 There's patents by Google, I believe.

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 And I think Wells Fargo, I'm not quite sure the tie-in,

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 but Wells Fargo has something to do

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 with the patent portfolios.

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 But there is a biometric aerosol spray, that's right.

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 A spray, which has like nanoparticles or nanometals

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 that will be able to penetrate your skin,

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 which will be able to read your face,

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 your heart rate, et cetera.

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 Something that Wells Fargo has thought about implementing.

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 I believe it was going to be a way

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 that they can use to identify someone

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 for being able to use their service,

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 let's say like at an ATM or whatnot.

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 Now, this is a little strange

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 because while the car thing, right,

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 you can choose to buy a used car for as long as it can.

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 But I think that one, you know, it's more like,

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 it's more like you may have a bit more control

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 as far as the Wells Fargo thing,

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 what they want to or try to do.

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 And it's not just Wells Fargo.

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 I mean, this is a technology that has been talked

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 about being implemented by many others,

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 but you don't see it.

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 You're not really aware of it.

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 You can be walking through anywhere,

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 security gate, whatever.

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 And you may not even know you're walking

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 through this aerosol spray.

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 You may not know you have nanoparticles

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 absorbed into your body or skin.

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 And there you are.

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 And now instantly, whether you're in a vehicle

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 that is reading your biometrics or not,

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 no matter where you go,

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 there's a potential for you

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 to be constantly monitored, scanned,

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 your profile updated,

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 your information recorded.

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 And yeah, so that's interesting.

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 So we're going to get into that too.

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 And yeah, so it's going to be a pretty packed show.

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 I hope I can get to everything the way I want to.

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 Definitely going to try to stay on course

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 and talk about it all.

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 But let's go ahead and start with Iran.

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 Let's talk about the current state of Iran.

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 But before we do that,

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 let's play a video from

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 one of my favorite political podfluencers.

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 By the way, podfluencer, I'm trademarking.

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 That's my thing.

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 I came up with that.

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 And I've been saying it quite a bit.

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 And I know a few people have been trying to claim it,

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 but sorry, buddy.

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 That's me, podfluencer.

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 You heard it here.

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 I know you heard it here first.

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 Or you read it one of my posts.

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 And that's mine.

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 So anyway,

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 so one of our favorite political commentator podfluencers,

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 Mr. War is Bad and There's Always a Moral Argument,

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 Dave Smith was recently on Piers Morgan.

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 And according to Dave,

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 everything that we're doing in Iran is going to be,

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 or is the largest US failure in history.

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 So what I want to do is this.

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 I'm going to play Davey Boy Smith.

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 And we're going to move on to

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 kind of debunking them a little bit,

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 or putting things into perspective for Dave.

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 Because the thing with Dave

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 is I do facts and data,

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 like research, like real research.

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 And Dave Smith primarily relies on like

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 great Scott Horton's pseudo PragerU

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 library of cherry picked facts and twisted information.

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 And so there's that.

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 And anyway, let's go ahead

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 and get to good old Davey Boy Smith.

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 All right, here you go.

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 Give this a listen.

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 Not good.

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 And I think that at this point,

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 Trump is in between a rock and a hard place.

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 And if you remember Piers,

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 about three weeks ago,

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 when Donald Trump gave a speech after the markets,

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 this was shortly before some of the more unhinged

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 tweets and threats.

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 And he had been signaling then that,

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 well, essentially he was setting it up to say,

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 hey, listen, we don't really need the strait.

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 Other people's stuff flows through the strait,

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 not ours.

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 And then he said, it'll just naturally open up.

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 It'll be a matter of time.

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 And other people, other countries,

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 he was basically signaling that we can walk away from

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 this with Iran still having control over the strait

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 and who passes and other people can work that out.

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 I think the major problem there,

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 and this is something that Marco Rubio just said

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 in his interview yesterday, excuse me, on Monday,

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 that, well, actually we can't walk away

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 if the status quo is Iran gets to decide

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 who comes in and who doesn't.

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 And Iran gets to decide what currency they're trading in

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 because Piers, if we do that,

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 the reality is then this is a loss

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 unlike any other loss in American foreign policy

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 history.

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 Even if you count Vietnam or Afghanistan

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 or those as losses, I mean,

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 we didn't transform them from a relegated,

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 sanctioned, crippled country into a global power.

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 And if you control 20% of the world's oil,

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 then you are by definition a global power.

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 Dave sounds intelligent, right?

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 On the surface, the guy sounds like he knows

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 what he's talking about.

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 He makes a good argument based on whatever

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 he's trying to convey to you.

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 But let's talk about a few things there.

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 Trump never signaled to anyone

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 that we can just walk away

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 and the straight will work itself out.

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 The point was that we're doing this

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 and we're involved in this conflict

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 even though the oil or supplies

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 or whatever product it is that comes out

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 of the straight of Hormuz or the Persian Gulf

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 doesn't really affect the U.S.

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 in terms of our needs, right?

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 Now, we both know that, yes, Dave, even you,

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 I know, I know, even Dave knows,

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 we all, okay, we all know that if oil goes up

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 because those who do rely on oil

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 and products from that region,

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 if that goes up, then transport of goods go up

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 and then it just exponentially raises the cost

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 of everything all over the world.

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 So yeah, that is understood.

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 And I think Dave has made that point

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 and he's correct in that.

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 But he's wrong in the assessment that Trump was signaling

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 that, hey, we can just walk away and this isn't our problem.

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 There's a bigger issue with Iran

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 and there's a reason that we're there

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 that Dave doesn't understand

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 because for him, there's always a moral argument

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 and it's not our problem,

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 but you literally have an evil regime

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 who's bent on taking over the world

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 and wants to topple the United States of America.

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 And they've also signaled that they want to destroy Israel.

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 And I'm not gonna get into the whole Israel thing

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 because everybody's doing every damn podcast

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 where it's like, oh, it's Israel's fault.

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 Israel, Israel, Israel.

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 You know, I'm not going there

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 because yeah, it's just not worth it.

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 It's just not worth it.

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 And to me, it's just a cop out.

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 It's a non-argument.

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 It's not a real rebuttal.

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 I think it's a talking point people use

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 because they don't know anything about the conflict.

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 They don't have any real historical data

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 that they can pull from

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 because they didn't bother to do any research

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 about the area and past conflicts and what's going on

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 or the intricate relationships in the region.

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 No, they don't know anything.

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 So their fallback is, well, it's Israel's fault

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 and we're only there because of Israel.

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 And I'm not even gonna keep feeding this machine.

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 All right, I've already said enough.

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 So I'm just gonna say, if you continue to think,

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 if you yourself absolutely think

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 that this is all Israel and Israel's fault,

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 listen to me.

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 And if you're watching it like me, you're wrong.

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 Okay, so getting on to rebutting Dave Smith,

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 this is not going to be or is not a failure of the US.

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 There's a couple of things going on here

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 that needs to be addressed, right?

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 But let's talk about the state of Iran right now.

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 So Dave says that this is going to be the biggest failure

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 or military failure ever for the US.

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 We're not achieving our objectives, okay?

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 And there's a couple of factors here.

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 One, before I get into it,

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 much of what Trump wants to do,

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 I think is based on time.

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 I think Trump's plan was to overwhelm

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 and force Iran to come to heel within a timeline.

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 I think he wanted to get out of here

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 or out of Iran in a month.

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 And it wasn't because he was afraid.

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 See, what he fails to understand is Trump has a history

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 and he said it many times.

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 He does not accept the loss of US life.

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 He does not accept the loss of US soldiers.

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 And he doesn't want to get into a major kinetic conflict.

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 I think what Trump wants to do

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 is he wants to achieve policy through strength,

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 through posturing of military strength.

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 Now, we all know that the US military

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 is extremely strong and effective

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 and we could have already wiped Iran out

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 and even Dave Smith has said that himself.

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 But the reason we're still there

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 is because Trump is hesitant.

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 Trump is afraid to take that next step

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 because he doesn't want to get into

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 an ugly drawn out kinetic war.

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 A war where you're facing soldier

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 against soldier on the battlefield.

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 Problem is we may be coming to that soon.

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 But before we dive into that, in fact,

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 I might even just save that for another episode.

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 Let's talk about what did happen

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 and what's the state of Iran right now.

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 Because Dave seems to think that Iran has been untouched.

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 Iran is resilient.

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 There's nothing going on

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 and we've failed at everything we've done.

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 And honestly, I mean, I gotta just say it,

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 Dave, you just sound so fucking anti-American.

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 It's just pathetic, dude.

507
00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:13.300
 It's fucking pathetic.

508
00:23:13.460 --> 00:23:15.000
 I'm sorry, you are pathetic.

509
00:23:16.300 --> 00:23:18.800
 Your war is bad argument

510
00:23:18.800 --> 00:23:20.840
 and the morality of this and that argument

511
00:23:20.840 --> 00:23:22.320
 is just, it doesn't work anymore.

512
00:23:22.420 --> 00:23:23.700
 I think people see through it.

513
00:23:24.380 --> 00:23:26.000
 And if you go to Dave's comment sections

514
00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:28.220
 on social media, you're starting to see more and more

515
00:23:28.220 --> 00:23:30.340
 people call him out and push back

516
00:23:30.340 --> 00:23:31.820
 because they're done.

517
00:23:32.360 --> 00:23:35.160
 Not everything is a war bad Israel's fault

518
00:23:35.700 --> 00:23:37.060
 slash moral argument.

519
00:23:37.380 --> 00:23:38.360
 I mean, this is war.

520
00:23:38.380 --> 00:23:39.100
 These are conflicts.

521
00:23:39.260 --> 00:23:41.200
 I mean, there's more to it

522
00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:42.760
 than just a black and white,

523
00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:44.180
 we do or do not do this

524
00:23:44.180 --> 00:23:45.320
 or we engage this way

525
00:23:45.320 --> 00:23:47.380
 or we don't engage, it's not like that.

526
00:23:48.040 --> 00:23:49.960
 And Dave doesn't seem to understand that.

527
00:23:50.900 --> 00:23:52.900
 So let's talk about state of Iran.

528
00:23:54.180 --> 00:23:56.980
 Let's talk about where we're at right now.

529
00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:00.860
 So let's talk about the leadership crisis.

530
00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:03.580
 So one of the things that was a goal of this operation

531
00:24:03.580 --> 00:24:06.280
 was to dismantle the leadership

532
00:24:06.900 --> 00:24:09.960
 that primarily being with the Islamic regime,

533
00:24:10.320 --> 00:24:11.800
 which has been done.

534
00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:15.980
 It was an operation that was meant,

535
00:24:16.060 --> 00:24:18.600
 Epipheri was meant to dismantle the leadership,

536
00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:20.020
 cause confusion,

537
00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:24.320
 and basically fragment their decision making.

538
00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:27.060
 And this has absolutely been achieved.

539
00:24:27.760 --> 00:24:30.520
 So I'm gonna be reading from my assessment here.

540
00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:35.160
 Leadership crisis and the rise of the barracks state.

541
00:24:35.240 --> 00:24:37.260
 So the internal political landscape of Iran

542
00:24:37.260 --> 00:24:41.300
 is currently defined by fragmentation

543
00:24:41.760 --> 00:24:43.880
 and the erosion of traditional

544
00:24:43.880 --> 00:24:46.120
 civilian clerical authority.

545
00:24:46.120 --> 00:24:47.960
 And that's very important because right now,

546
00:24:48.020 --> 00:24:51.380
 the decisions seem to be made from a military standpoint,

547
00:24:51.900 --> 00:24:55.740
 primarily by the IRGC.

548
00:24:56.340 --> 00:24:58.440
 So the succession and fragmentation.

549
00:24:58.520 --> 00:24:59.160
 So let's start there.

550
00:24:59.180 --> 00:25:02.020
 And this is primarily to do with the Islamic regime

551
00:25:02.020 --> 00:25:04.540
 and their sense of power

552
00:25:04.540 --> 00:25:07.120
 or the lack of power they have now.

553
00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:10.000
 So here's the Khamenei vacuum.

554
00:25:10.300 --> 00:25:12.860
 So the assassination of Ali Khamenei

555
00:25:12.860 --> 00:25:15.020
 on February 28th, 2026,

556
00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:19.000
 removed the central arbiter of the Iranian state.

557
00:25:20.160 --> 00:25:22.340
 His successor, his son, by the way,

558
00:25:23.860 --> 00:25:25.380
 Moshtaba Khamenei,

559
00:25:25.500 --> 00:25:28.900
 who was elected on March 8th, 2026.

560
00:25:29.500 --> 00:25:33.060
 He doesn't have his father's religious authority.

561
00:25:34.780 --> 00:25:36.400
 He doesn't have a stature.

562
00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:42.060
 And he's leading to vanished discipline

563
00:25:42.060 --> 00:25:45.860
 among competing power centers, okay?

564
00:25:46.680 --> 00:25:50.440
 So because he lacks the religious authority,

565
00:25:50.520 --> 00:25:54.240
 the stature and everything that his father had,

566
00:25:55.460 --> 00:25:57.820
 it seems that the Islamic regime

567
00:25:57.820 --> 00:26:01.320
 is slowly losing control of power

568
00:26:01.320 --> 00:26:05.580
 to other players right now, okay?

569
00:26:06.460 --> 00:26:09.400
 Now there's another interesting fact though.

570
00:26:09.980 --> 00:26:12.980
 Moshtaba Khamenei has not been seen.

571
00:26:13.340 --> 00:26:15.360
 It is rumored he's already been killed.

572
00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:19.560
 There was a mural that was up on one of the walls

573
00:26:19.560 --> 00:26:23.900
 that was put and it showed the past leaders

574
00:26:23.900 --> 00:26:25.300
 of the Islamic regime.

575
00:26:26.280 --> 00:26:29.480
 And Moshtaba Khamenei was actually up there.

576
00:26:29.620 --> 00:26:30.520
 His picture was up there.

577
00:26:30.520 --> 00:26:32.820
 Now that could have been AI.

578
00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:36.440
 Again, I've said that I did not confirm that,

579
00:26:36.440 --> 00:26:37.440
 but I'm just gonna keep bringing it up

580
00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:39.000
 because we haven't seen him.

581
00:26:39.340 --> 00:26:40.880
 There's rumors that he's been disfigured.

582
00:26:41.020 --> 00:26:43.560
 He lost a limb, whatever the case is.

583
00:26:43.600 --> 00:26:44.820
 Some say he's been in a coma.

584
00:26:45.040 --> 00:26:45.940
 We don't know.

585
00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:48.300
 We do know that he was being treated

586
00:26:48.300 --> 00:26:50.800
 in a Russian hospital for his injuries.

587
00:26:51.020 --> 00:26:52.340
 But aside from that,

588
00:26:52.520 --> 00:26:53.980
 we're not quite sure if he is dead.

589
00:26:54.040 --> 00:26:55.560
 Regardless, he hasn't been seen.

590
00:26:56.040 --> 00:26:57.520
 A leader that is not seen,

591
00:26:57.520 --> 00:26:58.800
 that is not showing his face

592
00:26:58.800 --> 00:27:02.420
 to his people and his followers can't lead.

593
00:27:02.980 --> 00:27:04.500
 You can't lead from a closet.

594
00:27:04.560 --> 00:27:06.200
 You can't lead from the darkness.

595
00:27:06.840 --> 00:27:08.700
 So the Islamic regime in and of itself

596
00:27:08.700 --> 00:27:13.160
 is losing its credibility and losing its power.

597
00:27:13.680 --> 00:27:15.640
 Now, moving on to the second point here

598
00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:16.980
 in the fragmentation succession

599
00:27:16.980 --> 00:27:18.680
 or the succession and fragmentation.

600
00:27:19.460 --> 00:27:21.280
 The decapitation attrition,

601
00:27:21.300 --> 00:27:23.540
 and yes, there is an attrition going on in leadership.

602
00:27:24.680 --> 00:27:26.080
 So let's talk about this.

603
00:27:26.080 --> 00:27:27.140
 High-ranking officials,

604
00:27:27.380 --> 00:27:28.660
 including the Minister of Defense,

605
00:27:28.860 --> 00:27:30.320
 Minister of Intelligence,

606
00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:33.660
 Secretary of the SNSC,

607
00:27:34.080 --> 00:27:35.080
 they've all been killed.

608
00:27:35.480 --> 00:27:38.080
 They're resulting in a paralyzed leadership

609
00:27:38.080 --> 00:27:40.440
 and disrupted decision-making,

610
00:27:40.500 --> 00:27:42.000
 which we have been seeing.

611
00:27:42.620 --> 00:27:45.900
 So from the non-clerical,

612
00:27:46.800 --> 00:27:49.840
 from the civilian leadership roles, right,

613
00:27:49.980 --> 00:27:51.340
 from that sector of leadership,

614
00:27:51.760 --> 00:27:53.380
 it's been very fragmented.

615
00:27:53.780 --> 00:27:55.000
 They can't make a decision.

616
00:27:55.720 --> 00:27:59.000
 But in the end, everybody knows that the Islamic regime,

617
00:27:59.260 --> 00:28:00.420
 the clerics themselves are the ones

618
00:28:00.420 --> 00:28:01.680
 who really pull the strings.

619
00:28:02.420 --> 00:28:04.180
 And so between the Islamic regime

620
00:28:04.180 --> 00:28:06.900
 and the lack of any civilian structured leadership,

621
00:28:08.580 --> 00:28:11.580
 that leaves the IRGC.

622
00:28:13.720 --> 00:28:16.580
 So with that being said, there's an elite divergence.

623
00:28:16.640 --> 00:28:18.560
 So there's an intense internal power struggle.

624
00:28:19.720 --> 00:28:22.600
 It's led to a breakdown of diplomatic cohesion.

625
00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:28.160
 Pragmatists like President Massoud Pesachian,

626
00:28:28.160 --> 00:28:29.700
 I think I mispronounced it,

627
00:28:29.700 --> 00:28:32.540
 but regardless, have been sidelined by, as I said,

628
00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:35.040
 the IRGC with military hardliners

629
00:28:35.040 --> 00:28:38.080
 frequently overriding civilian diplomatic initiatives.

630
00:28:38.100 --> 00:28:39.840
 So exactly what I was just saying, right?

631
00:28:41.420 --> 00:28:43.020
 So what's up with the IRGC?

632
00:28:43.120 --> 00:28:45.500
 Well, the regime has evolved into a barrack state

633
00:28:45.500 --> 00:28:47.240
 where the IRGC exercises

634
00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:49.860
 decisive control over governance.

635
00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:51.780
 So right now it's really the IRGC

636
00:28:51.780 --> 00:28:54.880
 making the decisions or calling the shots

637
00:28:54.880 --> 00:28:57.080
 based on their military capabilities

638
00:28:57.780 --> 00:29:01.760
 and from a strategic military assessment

639
00:29:01.760 --> 00:29:03.820
 of what's happening and how things are progressing.

640
00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:06.720
 The IRGC has been the gatekeeper, right?

641
00:29:06.860 --> 00:29:12.120
 So they're the major general, Ahmad Vahidi,

642
00:29:13.020 --> 00:29:14.860
 has emerged as the primary gatekeeper

643
00:29:14.860 --> 00:29:17.680
 to the new Supreme Leader, which is interesting

644
00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:21.360
 because Mostaba Hamenei hasn't been seen.

645
00:29:22.020 --> 00:29:24.160
 And it seems like anything that has to do

646
00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:26.760
 with Hamenei right now

647
00:29:27.820 --> 00:29:32.520
 has to go through General Ahmad Vahidi.

648
00:29:33.520 --> 00:29:36.900
 And he's like the primary mediator

649
00:29:36.900 --> 00:29:39.660
 between the Islamic regime leadership,

650
00:29:39.980 --> 00:29:43.180
 primarily Mostaba Hamenei,

651
00:29:43.400 --> 00:29:46.520
 and I guess anybody else, right?

652
00:29:47.360 --> 00:29:53.440
 So the internal security also is facing a hyperinflation

653
00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:57.340
 and there's a potential popular uprising.

654
00:29:57.460 --> 00:30:00.580
 The regime maintains a near total internet blackout.

655
00:30:00.600 --> 00:30:03.280
 To this day, still complete internet blackout

656
00:30:04.340 --> 00:30:07.420
 and relies on, again, the IRGC

657
00:30:07.420 --> 00:30:09.340
 to suppress dissent through force

658
00:30:09.340 --> 00:30:11.360
 and controlled propaganda.

659
00:30:11.420 --> 00:30:13.520
 And I've already discussed this many times.

660
00:30:13.540 --> 00:30:16.020
 In fact, I'm just gonna put this out there.

661
00:30:16.020 --> 00:30:21.800
 I have been talking about Iran for a long time.

662
00:30:22.420 --> 00:30:23.560
 A long time.

663
00:30:24.460 --> 00:30:29.260
 I've talked to many people from Iran

664
00:30:29.260 --> 00:30:31.100
 whose families were from Iran,

665
00:30:31.360 --> 00:30:32.540
 journalists who were from Iran,

666
00:30:33.760 --> 00:30:34.820
 resistance leaders from Iran.

667
00:30:34.900 --> 00:30:36.540
 I have talked to many people.

668
00:30:36.560 --> 00:30:39.320
 I've talked to intelligence professionals

669
00:30:40.150 --> 00:30:42.460
 who are still in the intelligence community

670
00:30:42.460 --> 00:30:45.080
 that know the Middle East.

671
00:30:45.520 --> 00:30:48.280
 And I've gotten some information from them as well.

672
00:30:48.740 --> 00:30:50.340
 And I'm gonna tell you right now,

673
00:30:53.320 --> 00:30:56.680
 I don't think Iran is gonna give in.

674
00:30:58.100 --> 00:31:01.840
 Now, while we have had a success

675
00:31:02.560 --> 00:31:04.200
 in dismantling their leadership,

676
00:31:05.400 --> 00:31:08.420
 the IRGC is gonna be a tough nut to crack

677
00:31:09.160 --> 00:31:12.740
 because it is a militant arm,

678
00:31:12.780 --> 00:31:15.580
 the militant arm of the Islamic regime.

679
00:31:15.580 --> 00:31:19.160
 In fact, they're taking over and taking control of Iran

680
00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:22.860
 at this very moment, as far as leadership goes.

681
00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:25.800
 They're very well-trained, they're armed,

682
00:31:26.120 --> 00:31:29.440
 and they're going to fight,

683
00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:31.220
 fight long and fight hard.

684
00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:35.180
 I think that the Islamic regime themselves

685
00:31:35.180 --> 00:31:39.220
 may be willing to make a deal before the IRGC gives in.

686
00:31:39.440 --> 00:31:43.240
 The problem is the IRGC seems to be calling the shots.

687
00:31:43.660 --> 00:31:47.720
 So this leaves any negotiations,

688
00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:51.580
 any deals that may be on the table,

689
00:31:52.100 --> 00:31:56.080
 I think we're just gonna see a constant state of,

690
00:31:57.320 --> 00:31:59.680
 show me yours, I'll show you mine,

691
00:31:59.760 --> 00:32:01.500
 but we're not gonna come to terms.

692
00:32:01.660 --> 00:32:05.920
 We're just doing this because it puts people at ease

693
00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:07.080
 for a week or two or whatever.

694
00:32:07.580 --> 00:32:09.180
 But I don't think it's ever gonna happen.

695
00:32:09.760 --> 00:32:13.180
 Now, as far as the leadership,

696
00:32:13.180 --> 00:32:15.300
 Dave Smith, getting back to Davey Boy,

697
00:32:16.340 --> 00:32:21.280
 the leadership crisis, the toppling of the leadership,

698
00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:26.240
 the dissent, the disorganization, the lack of control,

699
00:32:26.300 --> 00:32:29.820
 the lack of any clear cohesive policy

700
00:32:29.820 --> 00:32:32.420
 or decision-making on behalf of Iran,

701
00:32:33.900 --> 00:32:35.080
 that has been achieved.

702
00:32:35.760 --> 00:32:37.440
 That has happened, that is real.

703
00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:40.120
 So Davey Boy, you're wrong on that one.

704
00:32:40.570 --> 00:32:47.860
 The other point of this conflict, Dave Smithy,

705
00:32:48.080 --> 00:32:52.100
 Davey Boy, is that we were trying

706
00:32:52.100 --> 00:32:55.880
 to economically squeeze the Islamic regime.

707
00:32:56.320 --> 00:32:56.740
 Why?

708
00:32:57.100 --> 00:32:58.420
 Glad you asked, Dave,

709
00:32:58.440 --> 00:33:02.960
 because if we take away their source of funding,

710
00:33:03.880 --> 00:33:06.400
 we take away their ability to operate.

711
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:09.140
 They can't manufacture weapons.

712
00:33:09.140 --> 00:33:10.780
 They can't buy weapons.

713
00:33:10.900 --> 00:33:12.060
 And more importantly,

714
00:33:12.820 --> 00:33:16.420
 they can't fund their terrorist proxies.

715
00:33:16.560 --> 00:33:17.920
 Money runs the world,

716
00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:19.760
 but in the case of the Islamic regime,

717
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:24.280
 it truly does make operations run smooth.

718
00:33:24.340 --> 00:33:26.900
 And in fact, without it, there are no operations.

719
00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:32.340
 So point number two, Dave, another achievement,

720
00:33:33.600 --> 00:33:36.360
 the economic stranglehold or strangulation

721
00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:38.320
 of the Islamic regime.

722
00:33:39.060 --> 00:33:40.200
 Let's read some of that.

723
00:33:40.360 --> 00:33:42.480
 So here's the economic implosion.

724
00:33:42.860 --> 00:33:46.220
 At the moment, they're in survival, life support.

725
00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:50.820
 The US naval blockade and the economic fury campaign

726
00:33:50.820 --> 00:33:54.060
 have triggered a multi-dimensional economic collapse.

727
00:33:54.380 --> 00:33:56.760
 Oh, say it ain't so, Dave Smith, say it ain't so.

728
00:33:57.380 --> 00:33:58.240
 So here's the metric,

729
00:33:58.620 --> 00:34:01.680
 current status as of April, May, 2026, okay?

730
00:34:02.020 --> 00:34:05.440
 So GDP losses are at 40%.

731
00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:11.620
 They're losing $144 billion in under two months.

732
00:34:12.100 --> 00:34:15.080
 And it's estimated they're losing about that much

733
00:34:15.080 --> 00:34:19.460
 nearly at a month at a time.

734
00:34:20.380 --> 00:34:23.080
 So I would say that's pretty significant, Dave.

735
00:34:23.380 --> 00:34:25.100
 The inflation rate also.

736
00:34:25.500 --> 00:34:30.159
 So it has forced inflation in Iran up to 53.7%,

737
00:34:31.080 --> 00:34:34.100
 which is the highest since World War II.

738
00:34:34.100 --> 00:34:39.460
 Food inflation is greater than 115%.

739
00:34:41.420 --> 00:34:49.639
 Currency value, 1.84 million rials or rials per US dollar.

740
00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:56.520
 So it takes a million of theirs to equal one of ours,

741
00:34:56.880 --> 00:34:57.160
 Dave.

742
00:34:57.240 --> 00:35:00.780
 I would say that's another major, major blow economically.

743
00:35:01.520 --> 00:35:03.120
 And here's the big one,

744
00:35:03.120 --> 00:35:05.660
 the daily revenue loss, Davey boy.

745
00:35:06.500 --> 00:35:11.340
 The daily revenue loss, 435 million every single day.

746
00:35:11.400 --> 00:35:12.800
 Every single day,

747
00:35:13.020 --> 00:35:18.120
 the Islamic regime is losing $435 million, Dave Smith.

748
00:35:18.700 --> 00:35:19.520
 And here's another thing,

749
00:35:19.560 --> 00:35:21.240
 Dave Smith that you never talk about.

750
00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:23.820
 You know that that money,

751
00:35:24.640 --> 00:35:27.100
 like the money that they get from the oil, by the way,

752
00:35:27.180 --> 00:35:29.360
 that is being controlled

753
00:35:29.360 --> 00:35:31.340
 by blockading the Strait of Hormuz,

754
00:35:31.900 --> 00:35:35.040
 that money funds over 45% of their government,

755
00:35:35.540 --> 00:35:39.040
 which they can't access because they're not getting it.

756
00:35:39.080 --> 00:35:40.700
 There is no revenue right now.

757
00:35:41.060 --> 00:35:45.120
 And in fact, their storage on Karg Island right now,

758
00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:47.620
 it's full or very damn near,

759
00:35:48.300 --> 00:35:50.880
 which also means they're gonna be in trouble

760
00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:52.140
 in terms of producing oil

761
00:35:52.140 --> 00:35:54.680
 because where's that oil gonna go and be stored?

762
00:35:55.940 --> 00:36:00.280
 So Davey boy, seems like we achieve two objectives

763
00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:04.820
 so far, which is the toppling of their leadership,

764
00:36:06.060 --> 00:36:08.640
 the disarray in decision-making.

765
00:36:10.040 --> 00:36:15.200
 And we've also created a bit of an internal power struggle

766
00:36:15.200 --> 00:36:20.480
 by removing major heads of leadership in Iran.

767
00:36:22.120 --> 00:36:23.580
 So objective one achieved,

768
00:36:23.640 --> 00:36:26.280
 objective two, the strangulation

769
00:36:26.280 --> 00:36:29.440
 of their economic situation basically,

770
00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:32.560
 strangulation of their economy, objective two achieved.

771
00:36:33.060 --> 00:36:35.380
 They're losing $435 million a day.

772
00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:39.160
 They can't access the money they need from the oil sales,

773
00:36:39.260 --> 00:36:43.120
 which contributes to 45% of the budget they need

774
00:36:43.120 --> 00:36:45.440
 to run their actual government.

775
00:36:46.040 --> 00:36:48.120
 Without the money, they're also not able to fund proxies.

776
00:36:48.140 --> 00:36:49.540
 They're also not able to buy weapons,

777
00:36:49.860 --> 00:36:52.100
 manufacture weapons, grease any palms, et cetera.

778
00:36:52.700 --> 00:36:55.880
 So I would say objective two achieved, Dave Smith.

779
00:36:56.240 --> 00:37:00.560
 So that's my two to your zero, gotcha.

780
00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:05.640
 Now let's move on to the fractured alliances

781
00:37:05.640 --> 00:37:06.640
 and external support.

782
00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:10.480
 So the axis of resistance is adapting

783
00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:13.460
 to the financial logistical suffocation of Tehran.

784
00:37:14.060 --> 00:37:15.940
 There's a proxy self-sufficiency,

785
00:37:16.220 --> 00:37:17.520
 which I kinda touched on.

786
00:37:18.220 --> 00:37:20.740
 So funding strains, the Iranian regime

787
00:37:20.740 --> 00:37:22.600
 is struggling to meet basic domestic financial

788
00:37:22.600 --> 00:37:25.140
 obligations leading to a reduction in stipends

789
00:37:25.140 --> 00:37:30.620
 for foreign militias or, what is that, Dave?

790
00:37:31.420 --> 00:37:32.140
 What?

791
00:37:32.140 --> 00:37:33.960
 Terrorist proxies, that's right.

792
00:37:34.520 --> 00:37:38.520
 So it looks like we're achieving objective number three

793
00:37:38.520 --> 00:37:39.980
 or a third objective here.

794
00:37:41.780 --> 00:37:44.780
 I mean, look, Dave, if there's any failure,

795
00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:51.200
 the failure will be Congress handcuffing Trump

796
00:37:51.780 --> 00:37:55.620
 from being able to push further militarily.

797
00:37:56.500 --> 00:37:59.260
 Once we get to that time, I believe 60, 90 days,

798
00:37:59.340 --> 00:38:00.700
 or we're already at about the 60,

799
00:38:00.780 --> 00:38:01.780
 I think it's around the 90.

800
00:38:02.180 --> 00:38:02.900
 And I feel like an idiot

801
00:38:02.900 --> 00:38:05.040
 because I should absolutely know the actual date,

802
00:38:05.040 --> 00:38:05.920
 but I think it's 90 days.

803
00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:10.020
 There needs to be an extension approved by Congress.

804
00:38:10.860 --> 00:38:13.060
 Congress needs to either say this is a war

805
00:38:13.060 --> 00:38:15.940
 or you can continue military action,

806
00:38:16.260 --> 00:38:18.120
 military operations, et cetera,

807
00:38:18.260 --> 00:38:19.480
 whatever you wanna coin it.

808
00:38:20.100 --> 00:38:21.660
 And Congress is gonna be the only thing

809
00:38:21.660 --> 00:38:25.500
 that's gonna stand between Trump and the Islamic regime.

810
00:38:26.640 --> 00:38:29.140
 The only thing that's gonna save Iran's ass

811
00:38:30.660 --> 00:38:34.960
 is US Congress, if we're being honest with ourselves.

812
00:38:36.960 --> 00:38:41.120
 So it seems like all the objectives,

813
00:38:41.720 --> 00:38:45.160
 as of now, the objectives, Dave Smith,

814
00:38:45.620 --> 00:38:48.040
 the biggest failure that the US has ever had

815
00:38:48.040 --> 00:38:51.180
 militarily or strategically in a conflict,

816
00:38:52.600 --> 00:38:56.200
 our ability to do what we say,

817
00:38:56.540 --> 00:39:01.140
 to actually achieve something, Dave, has been achieved.

818
00:39:02.420 --> 00:39:03.720
 Iranian leadership topple,

819
00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:08.080
 Islamic regime's economic status,

820
00:39:08.600 --> 00:39:12.560
 the money they need to operate, choked, gone.

821
00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:17.240
 The ability to fund external militias, military,

822
00:39:17.240 --> 00:39:20.620
 namely, their proxies, gone.

823
00:39:22.080 --> 00:39:23.160
 And even their allies.

824
00:39:23.260 --> 00:39:28.360
 Now, we know that Russia is helping Iran with intelligence.

825
00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:30.240
 They may even be sending them

826
00:39:30.240 --> 00:39:33.220
 some additional weapons, et cetera.

827
00:39:34.320 --> 00:39:37.980
 But we also know that Iran is like,

828
00:39:38.120 --> 00:39:41.760
 they've lost 40% of their attack drone force.

829
00:39:42.180 --> 00:39:44.840
 Like, they're down 40%.

830
00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:47.540
 And that's significant.

831
00:39:48.140 --> 00:39:49.640
 And they can't reproduce them

832
00:39:50.560 --> 00:39:52.500
 because everything that they needed,

833
00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:55.840
 their major facilities to reproduce these drones,

834
00:39:56.320 --> 00:39:59.460
 these Shahed drones, been wiped out.

835
00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:03.440
 Their air defense is almost like nothing worthless.

836
00:40:03.520 --> 00:40:04.900
 They don't really have one.

837
00:40:05.420 --> 00:40:07.580
 Russia's trying to help them out with some of that,

838
00:40:08.620 --> 00:40:10.360
 but it's damn gone.

839
00:40:11.260 --> 00:40:12.580
 And let's talk about their Navy,

840
00:40:12.640 --> 00:40:13.940
 which a lot of people don't understand.

841
00:40:15.500 --> 00:40:17.300
 Everyone's always online, including Dave.

842
00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:18.860
 I thought their Navy was wiped out.

843
00:40:18.900 --> 00:40:21.200
 They said it was wiped out and they're lying to us.

844
00:40:21.480 --> 00:40:23.240
 No, they're not lying, Dave Smith.

845
00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:24.960
 So what happened is,

846
00:40:25.300 --> 00:40:27.720
 all their major large-scale ships

847
00:40:27.720 --> 00:40:29.600
 are at the bottom of the ocean.

848
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:35.000
 What they have left are their small speedboats,

849
00:40:35.060 --> 00:40:37.920
 which is, I would say, what do you call it?

850
00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:40.100
 Like, their mosquito force, right?

851
00:40:40.480 --> 00:40:42.220
 And so what they're relying on right now

852
00:40:42.220 --> 00:40:44.720
 is being able to swarm large vessels

853
00:40:44.720 --> 00:40:49.760
 with multiples of this type of high-speed attack boats,

854
00:40:49.820 --> 00:40:50.660
 these small attack boats.

855
00:40:51.080 --> 00:40:52.580
 Now, is it an effective strategy?

856
00:40:52.660 --> 00:40:53.420
 Yeah, it can be.

857
00:40:53.540 --> 00:40:57.080
 I mean, can you imagine running through a bunch of trees

858
00:40:57.080 --> 00:40:58.220
 and hitting a beehive

859
00:40:58.220 --> 00:41:00.600
 and then you got 1,000 bees on you, stinging you?

860
00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:02.340
 That's a bad situation.

861
00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:03.940
 You could die from that.

862
00:41:05.220 --> 00:41:08.700
 And in turn, this swarm tactic that Iran uses

863
00:41:08.700 --> 00:41:11.480
 with these speedboats could absolutely be effective

864
00:41:11.480 --> 00:41:12.100
 as well.

865
00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:15.020
 The problem is, they gotta get close enough

866
00:41:15.020 --> 00:41:16.600
 to any of our vessels to do anything.

867
00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:19.720
 And before they get there, we have air superiority.

868
00:41:20.280 --> 00:41:22.900
 Don't forget, we have aircraft carriers out there.

869
00:41:24.040 --> 00:41:27.900
 So, you know, things like, I don't know, F-35s,

870
00:41:30.160 --> 00:41:31.420
 helicopters, et cetera.

871
00:41:31.500 --> 00:41:33.800
 We still have the A-10 Warthog out there.

872
00:41:34.500 --> 00:41:36.180
 It's gonna be very highly unlikely

873
00:41:36.180 --> 00:41:38.980
 that their speedboats are gonna be very effective,

874
00:41:39.020 --> 00:41:40.040
 although they could be.

875
00:41:40.040 --> 00:41:41.020
 It could be.

876
00:41:41.360 --> 00:41:44.400
 So I'm not saying they aren't entirely defenseless,

877
00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:45.780
 but they do have that.

878
00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:48.600
 So let's keep going here, Dave.

879
00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:50.780
 So what does Iran really have?

880
00:41:51.360 --> 00:41:52.580
 What do they really have right now

881
00:41:52.580 --> 00:41:53.620
 when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz?

882
00:41:55.300 --> 00:41:59.060
 They have a shore to sea missiles.

883
00:41:59.740 --> 00:42:01.060
 So they do have that.

884
00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:03.180
 They still have a decent stockpile of those

885
00:42:03.180 --> 00:42:04.460
 and launchers.

886
00:42:05.200 --> 00:42:08.340
 But again, not really much

887
00:42:08.340 --> 00:42:14.180
 that the U.S. air capabilities can take care of.

888
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:16.860
 And here's the thing.

889
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:18.180
 Here's the thing.

890
00:42:19.520 --> 00:42:21.340
 What will really secure the Strait,

891
00:42:21.380 --> 00:42:23.460
 and I hate to say it, is gonna be boots on the ground.

892
00:42:23.520 --> 00:42:25.140
 The one thing President Trump

893
00:42:25.140 --> 00:42:27.580
 is absolutely trying to avoid.

894
00:42:28.300 --> 00:42:28.900
 Why?

895
00:42:29.260 --> 00:42:31.880
 Because as I said earlier in the show already,

896
00:42:32.860 --> 00:42:37.400
 Trump doesn't wanna see U.S. military personnel die.

897
00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:39.960
 He doesn't wanna see them fight face to face.

898
00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:41.760
 He doesn't wanna see them on the battlefield.

899
00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:45.460
 He would rather take care of this at a distance

900
00:42:45.460 --> 00:42:49.340
 using superior technology, superior armaments,

901
00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:50.640
 superior targeting.

902
00:42:51.160 --> 00:42:52.920
 That's what he's trying to do here.

903
00:42:55.680 --> 00:42:59.300
 So, Dave, do me a favor.

904
00:43:00.500 --> 00:43:03.900
 Do at least like a Google search or something.

905
00:43:06.020 --> 00:43:08.080
 You look good when you give your argument.

906
00:43:08.080 --> 00:43:11.380
 You do because you look confident

907
00:43:11.380 --> 00:43:13.520
 and you talk very well and you're eloquent,

908
00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:17.400
 but I mean, your assessments have been pretty off, man.

909
00:43:18.340 --> 00:43:19.680
 I like your domestic takes.

910
00:43:20.580 --> 00:43:22.240
 I like when you talk about domestic politics,

911
00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:24.820
 but the geopolitics is not your bag, baby.

912
00:43:24.840 --> 00:43:26.660
 You just need to leave that alone, all right?

913
00:43:26.840 --> 00:43:27.920
 You really just don't know

914
00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:29.100
 what the hell you're talking about.

915
00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:31.900
 And speaking of people who don't know

916
00:43:31.900 --> 00:43:32.720
 what they're talking about,

917
00:43:33.220 --> 00:43:34.860
 I got another one for you guys.

918
00:43:35.340 --> 00:43:36.580
 I got another one for you guys.

919
00:43:37.020 --> 00:43:39.920
 The good old Tim Dillon.

920
00:43:40.240 --> 00:43:41.640
 Tim Delano.

921
00:43:43.040 --> 00:43:48.240
 So Timmy, who I refer to as the adult version of Cartman,

922
00:43:49.580 --> 00:43:51.060
 you don't believe me?

923
00:43:51.140 --> 00:43:52.360
 All right, watch this.

924
00:43:52.940 --> 00:43:54.880
 If you're watching the video here,

925
00:43:55.840 --> 00:43:57.680
 here's Cartman, right there.

926
00:43:58.020 --> 00:43:58.920
 There's Cartman.

927
00:43:59.100 --> 00:44:00.500
 That's the real life grown-up Cartman.

928
00:44:00.560 --> 00:44:02.560
 Even his voice sounds like Cartman, right?

929
00:44:02.700 --> 00:44:04.220
 Not as whiny as a little kid,

930
00:44:04.240 --> 00:44:05.740
 but like the adult version of Cartman.

931
00:44:07.180 --> 00:44:09.060
 What's with the fucking sunglasses, Tim?

932
00:44:09.380 --> 00:44:10.840
 Now, a lot of people like this guy.

933
00:44:10.900 --> 00:44:12.300
 I don't know why.

934
00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:13.580
 I've tried.

935
00:44:13.940 --> 00:44:15.480
 I've tried to listen.

936
00:44:16.100 --> 00:44:19.260
 And the problem with Tim is all of his assessments,

937
00:44:19.460 --> 00:44:22.780
 all of his opinions are based on feelings.

938
00:44:24.040 --> 00:44:26.160
 Like literally feelings.

939
00:44:26.600 --> 00:44:27.140
 Like they are.

940
00:44:27.560 --> 00:44:29.600
 I feel this way, and America feels that way,

941
00:44:29.600 --> 00:44:31.500
 and you know, if it wasn't for this, and what?

942
00:44:31.780 --> 00:44:33.460
 Oh, and of course it's Israel's fault, I know.

943
00:44:33.600 --> 00:44:34.820
 Israel, another one of those dudes.

944
00:44:34.820 --> 00:44:39.640
 And so it's like Timmy, Tim boy.

945
00:44:41.280 --> 00:44:44.020
 I don't know what it is about you comedians

946
00:44:44.020 --> 00:44:50.080
 that think that you're God's gift basically

947
00:44:50.080 --> 00:44:53.740
 to political commentary, but I mean, you're just not.

948
00:44:54.220 --> 00:44:55.580
 And no one's gonna tell you this.

949
00:44:55.820 --> 00:44:57.020
 No one has told you this,

950
00:44:57.020 --> 00:44:59.920
 which is why you're still up there with your sunglasses

951
00:45:01.240 --> 00:45:04.220
 and your feelings, talking shit.

952
00:45:05.160 --> 00:45:06.400
 When you clearly don't know

953
00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:08.360
 what it is exactly you're talking about.

954
00:45:09.160 --> 00:45:10.840
 But I know you got a lot of fans,

955
00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:12.220
 and I'm sure people listening to this

956
00:45:12.220 --> 00:45:14.260
 are already hating me for talking about good old,

957
00:45:14.360 --> 00:45:15.800
 I mean, Tim Dillon.

958
00:45:16.560 --> 00:45:18.060
 So here's what's gonna happen.

959
00:45:18.640 --> 00:45:19.760
 I'm gonna play this,

960
00:45:21.200 --> 00:45:24.340
 and we're gonna listen to him talk about his feelings.

961
00:45:26.900 --> 00:45:27.580
 Here we go.

962
00:45:27.820 --> 00:45:29.480
 Because we're not getting out of this.

963
00:45:30.640 --> 00:45:31.720
 This thing's not gonna go,

964
00:45:31.740 --> 00:45:33.420
 this thing's not going our way.

965
00:45:34.020 --> 00:45:36.360
 And you know that, you can feel it.

966
00:45:36.820 --> 00:45:39.860
 It's, you can feel that it's not going our way.

967
00:45:39.860 --> 00:45:41.360
 You can feel that it's not working.

968
00:45:41.820 --> 00:45:45.240
 You can feel that Trump wants out of it.

969
00:45:45.900 --> 00:45:47.720
 You can feel it.

970
00:45:48.220 --> 00:45:50.300
 This is not what he does.

971
00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:51.740
 He's not a real fighter.

972
00:45:53.970 --> 00:45:55.790
 I didn't count, but I mean,

973
00:45:55.830 --> 00:45:57.270
 how many times did he mention

974
00:45:58.690 --> 00:46:01.850
 everything is based on what you can feel?

975
00:46:05.780 --> 00:46:10.940
 So basically, Tim believes that we're not getting out,

976
00:46:11.000 --> 00:46:12.360
 like this whole thing's a mess

977
00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:14.780
 because he feels it's a mess.

978
00:46:15.460 --> 00:46:17.620
 But let's keep listening to Tim's feelings.

979
00:46:18.600 --> 00:46:20.440
 He's like a shit talker.

980
00:46:20.660 --> 00:46:22.720
 He's a casino kingpin.

981
00:46:23.000 --> 00:46:24.740
 He's a reality star.

982
00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:26.880
 And if you like reality stars,

983
00:46:27.340 --> 00:46:28.800
 which selling actually pretty well

984
00:46:28.800 --> 00:46:29.940
 there at the Wiltern Theater.

985
00:46:31.020 --> 00:46:31.780
 That's interesting.

986
00:46:31.780 --> 00:46:33.720
 So he's criticizing Trump saying,

987
00:46:33.940 --> 00:46:36.220
 oh, he is a shit talker, reality star, et cetera.

988
00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:38.120
 Kind of rich coming from a shit talking,

989
00:46:38.180 --> 00:46:41.660
 sunglass wearing comedian whose whole schtick

990
00:46:41.660 --> 00:46:44.240
 is shit talking and stirring the pot.

991
00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:46.360
 Cool, gotcha.

992
00:46:46.980 --> 00:46:49.060
 But that's what he does.

993
00:46:49.480 --> 00:46:52.160
 This is not Patton.

994
00:46:52.220 --> 00:46:53.660
 He's not a general.

995
00:46:54.240 --> 00:46:55.720
 He's a reality star.

996
00:46:55.780 --> 00:46:57.080
 He's a shit talker.

997
00:46:57.240 --> 00:46:59.700
 He's very comfortable in that game.

998
00:46:59.700 --> 00:47:03.300
 Late night, firing off tweets at Elizabeth Warren.

999
00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:05.080
 That's his game.

1000
00:47:06.220 --> 00:47:09.580
 Talking shit with Mika and Joe, morning Joe.

1001
00:47:09.940 --> 00:47:13.060
 He's comfortable doing that all day long.

1002
00:47:13.560 --> 00:47:14.560
 No, a rally?

1003
00:47:15.100 --> 00:47:16.080
 Forget it.

1004
00:47:16.640 --> 00:47:18.420
 Standing there for three hours talking,

1005
00:47:18.620 --> 00:47:20.260
 extemporaneously off the cuff.

1006
00:47:20.660 --> 00:47:22.280
 He's all in.

1007
00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:23.960
 And that's what he does.

1008
00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:26.980
 This is not where he shines.

1009
00:47:27.420 --> 00:47:28.900
 And he feels uncomfortable.

1010
00:47:28.900 --> 00:47:31.580
 You can tell he's not happy about this

1011
00:47:31.580 --> 00:47:33.280
 because this is not what he does.

1012
00:47:34.900 --> 00:47:40.380
 Okay, so Tim's criticism is all based on his feelings.

1013
00:47:42.060 --> 00:47:46.000
 And Tim believes that Trump is not effective

1014
00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:49.140
 because he's a shit talking talk show host,

1015
00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:52.860
 which is pot calling the kettle black here.

1016
00:47:52.860 --> 00:47:54.700
 I mean, Tim's not really a talk show host.

1017
00:47:54.720 --> 00:47:55.700
 Well, I guess he is, right?

1018
00:47:55.700 --> 00:47:56.580
 He has his podcast.

1019
00:47:56.840 --> 00:47:57.920
 That's being a talk show host,

1020
00:47:58.120 --> 00:47:59.200
 just what they are these days.

1021
00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:01.380
 Tim Dillon talks shit.

1022
00:48:01.600 --> 00:48:03.280
 Tim Dillon doesn't understand politics.

1023
00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:05.980
 Tim Dillon's assessments are based on his feelings.

1024
00:48:06.700 --> 00:48:08.800
 Kind of like the bowel movements he has in the morning

1025
00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:10.880
 or the texture of the jelly donut

1026
00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:12.560
 going down his throat that he can feel, I guess.

1027
00:48:12.960 --> 00:48:15.660
 But regardless, I mean, Tim, sorry.

1028
00:48:16.320 --> 00:48:17.840
 I don't know why I keep wanting to say Cartman.

1029
00:48:18.300 --> 00:48:24.300
 But Tim Dillon is a popular, extremely popular,

1030
00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:27.400
 I don't know how, but political commentator

1031
00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:30.160
 who puts feelings before facts.

1032
00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:34.620
 He thinks Trump is not gonna make it.

1033
00:48:34.620 --> 00:48:36.780
 He thinks Trump doesn't know what he's doing here.

1034
00:48:37.900 --> 00:48:40.940
 But Trump is being very effective,

1035
00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:42.040
 as I just read earlier.

1036
00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:44.240
 He's already achieved some objectives.

1037
00:48:44.320 --> 00:48:46.540
 Now, I'm not gonna get in the argument

1038
00:48:46.540 --> 00:48:49.180
 as to whether or not we should still be there.

1039
00:48:49.280 --> 00:48:50.880
 Should we have ever been there?

1040
00:48:51.300 --> 00:48:53.340
 I have my own feelings and opinions on that.

1041
00:48:55.040 --> 00:48:57.420
 But Tim represents, Tim Dillon represents

1042
00:48:57.420 --> 00:49:01.760
 what is often said, way too often,

1043
00:49:02.640 --> 00:49:08.280
 and by these podfluencers and these online influencers,

1044
00:49:09.140 --> 00:49:10.240
 whatever you wanna call them,

1045
00:49:11.020 --> 00:49:14.220
 they have half-baked understandings

1046
00:49:14.220 --> 00:49:17.100
 of what is actually happening in the world.

1047
00:49:18.560 --> 00:49:20.240
 And I mean, it's one thing to talk about

1048
00:49:20.240 --> 00:49:22.700
 what's in your own backyard, what bar you go to,

1049
00:49:22.740 --> 00:49:24.140
 what you drink, smoke, et cetera.

1050
00:49:24.140 --> 00:49:28.300
 I mean, great, how it felt going to work today,

1051
00:49:28.740 --> 00:49:29.780
 driving your car, et cetera.

1052
00:49:29.860 --> 00:49:33.820
 These are things that you have real interaction with,

1053
00:49:33.820 --> 00:49:34.820
 things that you can control.

1054
00:49:35.400 --> 00:49:38.200
 But I mean, you get outside of that small little world

1055
00:49:39.060 --> 00:49:42.500
 that these guys like Tim Dillon, Dave Smith live in.

1056
00:49:42.740 --> 00:49:47.140
 I mean, I gotta be honest, it goes south very fast.

1057
00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:52.220
 So let's talk about project freedom here, okay?

1058
00:49:56.410 --> 00:49:58.630
 So project freedom

1059
00:49:59.590 --> 00:50:02.930
 and straight-a-form-oos navigation initiative.

1060
00:50:03.750 --> 00:50:06.310
 So this was announced by President Trump on May 3rd,

1061
00:50:06.310 --> 00:50:07.470
 which was yesterday of this recording.

1062
00:50:07.630 --> 00:50:08.610
 So May 3rd, 2026.

1063
00:50:08.890 --> 00:50:09.910
 Project freedom is characterized

1064
00:50:09.910 --> 00:50:13.470
 by the administration as a humanitarian process

1065
00:50:13.470 --> 00:50:16.350
 designed to restore navigation for neutral parties

1066
00:50:17.030 --> 00:50:19.070
 affected by the ongoing conflict.

1067
00:50:19.950 --> 00:50:22.250
 Now, that being said, I'm gonna interject here

1068
00:50:22.250 --> 00:50:23.050
 because I already know what someone

1069
00:50:23.050 --> 00:50:24.230
 like Timmy Dillon would say.

1070
00:50:24.510 --> 00:50:25.610
 Like, well, we wouldn't have had a problem

1071
00:50:25.610 --> 00:50:26.750
 if they didn't make it a problem.

1072
00:50:27.830 --> 00:50:29.430
 Well, I'm gonna get to that too, Timmy,

1073
00:50:29.790 --> 00:50:32.270
 when we talk about Iran versus Oman.

1074
00:50:33.230 --> 00:50:34.470
 Hang in there, Mr. Dillon.

1075
00:50:35.170 --> 00:50:36.970
 Okay, so regardless of a cartman,

1076
00:50:37.090 --> 00:50:40.710
 I mean, Tim said, regardless of his feelings,

1077
00:50:41.170 --> 00:50:43.470
 here's the operational scope and execution.

1078
00:50:44.030 --> 00:50:45.370
 So the target demographics.

1079
00:50:45.530 --> 00:50:48.970
 The initiative aims to rescue 20,000 seafarers

1080
00:50:48.970 --> 00:50:51.030
 and hundreds of commercial ships stranded

1081
00:50:51.030 --> 00:50:54.710
 in the Persian Gulf since February 28th, 2026.

1082
00:50:55.610 --> 00:50:57.050
 One-way transit policy.

1083
00:50:57.350 --> 00:51:00.690
 So the navigation under this project is strictly outward.

1084
00:51:01.690 --> 00:51:03.770
 Okay, vessels escorted out of the Strait of Hormuz

1085
00:51:03.770 --> 00:51:07.610
 are prohibited from returning until the waterway

1086
00:51:07.610 --> 00:51:11.970
 is officially declared safe for general navigation.

1087
00:51:13.410 --> 00:51:14.470
 Mine clearance operations.

1088
00:51:14.870 --> 00:51:15.970
 So they've already performed

1089
00:51:15.970 --> 00:51:17.270
 a few mine clearance operations,

1090
00:51:17.490 --> 00:51:19.770
 but Iran keeps going out there,

1091
00:51:19.890 --> 00:51:21.130
 or the IRGC keeps going out there

1092
00:51:21.130 --> 00:51:22.730
 and putting more mines out.

1093
00:51:23.690 --> 00:51:26.870
 So beginning April 11th of 2026,

1094
00:51:27.450 --> 00:51:30.570
 the US Central Command utilized guided missile destroyers

1095
00:51:30.570 --> 00:51:32.510
 and underwater drones to clear naval mines

1096
00:51:32.510 --> 00:51:35.050
 previously deployed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

1097
00:51:35.710 --> 00:51:36.910
 They've got a lot of them,

1098
00:51:36.950 --> 00:51:39.030
 but they're gonna continue to do so.

1099
00:51:39.190 --> 00:51:41.130
 Since April 11th, they've been doing this.

1100
00:51:41.570 --> 00:51:42.990
 IRGC keeps putting more out.

1101
00:51:43.450 --> 00:51:47.070
 So this operation involving clearing mines

1102
00:51:47.070 --> 00:51:48.090
 is going to continue.

1103
00:51:49.430 --> 00:51:50.930
 So let's talk about the military assets.

1104
00:51:51.350 --> 00:51:54.270
 Although initially framed as a coordination framework,

1105
00:51:54.430 --> 00:51:55.430
 the operation now involves

1106
00:51:55.430 --> 00:51:57.950
 the full military weight of CENTCOM.

1107
00:51:58.830 --> 00:52:04.650
 Now, it was not the full weight of CENTCOM before.

1108
00:52:05.410 --> 00:52:09.950
 Right now, we're looking at the ability for CENTCOM

1109
00:52:09.950 --> 00:52:12.430
 to tap into 15,000 service members,

1110
00:52:13.190 --> 00:52:14.650
 over 100 aircraft,

1111
00:52:15.330 --> 00:52:18.670
 and multiple guided missile destroyers.

1112
00:52:19.410 --> 00:52:22.310
 And here's the strategic and economic objectives.

1113
00:52:23.250 --> 00:52:24.310
 So mark a stabilization.

1114
00:52:24.710 --> 00:52:28.230
 The announcement of the project led to a 2% drop

1115
00:52:28.230 --> 00:52:29.690
 in global oil prices

1116
00:52:30.350 --> 00:52:32.610
 as the release of trapped crude oil

1117
00:52:32.610 --> 00:52:34.930
 signaled a partial restoration of the corridor.

1118
00:52:36.550 --> 00:52:37.650
 Counter-blockade.

1119
00:52:38.030 --> 00:52:41.030
 The initiative seeks to undermine Iran's ability

1120
00:52:41.030 --> 00:52:43.470
 to collect tolls from transitioning ships

1121
00:52:43.470 --> 00:52:45.610
 and challenges its dominance

1122
00:52:45.610 --> 00:52:47.570
 over the strategic choke point.

1123
00:52:48.270 --> 00:52:50.270
 And here's the security enforcement.

1124
00:52:51.230 --> 00:52:53.130
 The US has issued formal warnings

1125
00:52:53.130 --> 00:52:55.570
 that any interference with project freedom

1126
00:52:55.570 --> 00:52:57.910
 will be dealt with forcefully.

1127
00:52:58.490 --> 00:53:00.250
 So as I said previously

1128
00:53:00.250 --> 00:53:03.150
 that Trump is afraid of any major kinetic conflicts,

1129
00:53:03.670 --> 00:53:06.930
 it may seem that after not getting what he wanted

1130
00:53:06.930 --> 00:53:10.550
 by posturing by basically just a show of force,

1131
00:53:11.090 --> 00:53:14.750
 it sounds like he's considering the inevitable,

1132
00:53:14.970 --> 00:53:16.130
 which seems to be the inevitable,

1133
00:53:17.130 --> 00:53:19.630
 which is a kinetic conflict,

1134
00:53:20.450 --> 00:53:21.690
 an all-out kinetic conflict.

1135
00:53:21.970 --> 00:53:24.410
 Not just strategic missiles and bombs,

1136
00:53:24.410 --> 00:53:27.290
 we're talking about face-to-face troops.

1137
00:53:27.970 --> 00:53:29.630
 We're talking about an increase

1138
00:53:29.630 --> 00:53:31.550
 in the use of military assets

1139
00:53:31.550 --> 00:53:36.450
 to enforce the Strait of Hormuz,

1140
00:53:36.910 --> 00:53:40.330
 enforce the operations right now

1141
00:53:40.330 --> 00:53:42.830
 by the US against Iran.

1142
00:53:44.510 --> 00:53:48.070
 And so here's what's important here.

1143
00:53:49.390 --> 00:53:52.030
 The US and Iran are not coming to an agreement.

1144
00:53:52.070 --> 00:53:55.330
 So this is also what sparked the announcement

1145
00:53:56.710 --> 00:53:58.830
 of the project freedom here.

1146
00:54:00.490 --> 00:54:03.190
 You see, the US has, well, let's start here.

1147
00:54:03.210 --> 00:54:05.850
 Let's start with the Iranian 14-point peace framework.

1148
00:54:05.950 --> 00:54:06.630
 Let's just do that.

1149
00:54:06.650 --> 00:54:08.110
 So they had a 14-point plan.

1150
00:54:09.350 --> 00:54:11.650
 It was separated in three phases.

1151
00:54:12.830 --> 00:54:16.930
 And this was presented via Pakistani mediators in May, 2026.

1152
00:54:18.370 --> 00:54:19.650
 And I'm gonna read phase one.

1153
00:54:19.830 --> 00:54:23.130
 So phase one was the immediate de-escalation,

1154
00:54:23.470 --> 00:54:24.830
 non-aggression.

1155
00:54:25.070 --> 00:54:27.050
 So a formal pact between Iran,

1156
00:54:27.130 --> 00:54:28.610
 the United States, and Israel.

1157
00:54:29.390 --> 00:54:31.650
 There would be an end to the blockade.

1158
00:54:32.050 --> 00:54:35.430
 So immediate cessation of the US naval blockade

1159
00:54:35.430 --> 00:54:38.450
 and economic strangulation of Iran.

1160
00:54:39.090 --> 00:54:42.350
 So even in this 14-point peace framework plan

1161
00:54:42.350 --> 00:54:44.530
 or this plan that Iran has presented,

1162
00:54:45.110 --> 00:54:50.030
 they have admitted to being economically strangled.

1163
00:54:53.250 --> 00:54:58.650
 So they're already admitting in this 14-point framework,

1164
00:54:58.730 --> 00:55:01.950
 this 14-point plan that they have proposed

1165
00:55:01.950 --> 00:55:04.010
 that some of the objectives

1166
00:55:04.010 --> 00:55:06.590
 that Dave Smith said we're not achieving

1167
00:55:07.120 --> 00:55:08.050
 have been achieved.

1168
00:55:08.130 --> 00:55:12.530
 And Iran is feeling the weight of the US military.

1169
00:55:14.010 --> 00:55:15.290
 That being the blockade,

1170
00:55:15.450 --> 00:55:19.510
 which is choking off their economic abilities, okay?

1171
00:55:19.910 --> 00:55:21.490
 And they don't want any more aggression.

1172
00:55:21.790 --> 00:55:24.670
 They want to not be involved in any more aggression

1173
00:55:24.670 --> 00:55:31.030
 between Iran and Israel against each other

1174
00:55:31.030 --> 00:55:32.790
 and the United States, by the way.

1175
00:55:33.030 --> 00:55:35.210
 So they don't want to be able to anymore

1176
00:55:35.210 --> 00:55:37.010
 get into anything, any conflict

1177
00:55:37.010 --> 00:55:37.990
 with the United States and Israel.

1178
00:55:40.170 --> 00:55:41.330
 Okay, so the Strait of Hormuz

1179
00:55:41.330 --> 00:55:42.770
 is all still part of phase one.

1180
00:55:43.110 --> 00:55:44.670
 They wanna reopen the waterway

1181
00:55:44.670 --> 00:55:45.950
 to international commerce.

1182
00:55:46.010 --> 00:55:46.930
 Of course they do, why?

1183
00:55:46.970 --> 00:55:48.150
 They need the money.

1184
00:55:50.360 --> 00:55:52.340
 I feel like I just keep repeating myself here, right?

1185
00:55:52.620 --> 00:55:54.900
 So phase two of Iran's proposed plan,

1186
00:55:55.320 --> 00:55:56.500
 nuclear and economic settlement.

1187
00:55:58.240 --> 00:56:01.800
 So Iran said they'll enter into a 15-year freeze

1188
00:56:01.800 --> 00:56:03.100
 on uranium enrichment,

1189
00:56:03.540 --> 00:56:06.700
 followed by a permanent cap of 3.6%.

1190
00:56:06.700 --> 00:56:09.700
 Iran explicitly rejects the dismantlement

1191
00:56:09.700 --> 00:56:11.940
 of any nuclear infrastructure.

1192
00:56:13.840 --> 00:56:16.660
 Also part of phase two, financial redress.

1193
00:56:17.220 --> 00:56:19.760
 So the full lifting of all sanctions,

1194
00:56:20.260 --> 00:56:21.900
 the release of all frozen assets

1195
00:56:21.900 --> 00:56:24.520
 and the payment of war reparations for damages

1196
00:56:24.520 --> 00:56:26.400
 caused by military and economic pressure.

1197
00:56:27.560 --> 00:56:28.820
 That's not gonna happen.

1198
00:56:29.460 --> 00:56:31.160
 But that's part of phase two.

1199
00:56:31.200 --> 00:56:33.560
 And they also want to manage the stockpile.

1200
00:56:33.600 --> 00:56:37.040
 So the dilution of existing enriched uranium

1201
00:56:37.040 --> 00:56:38.780
 to civilian grade levels

1202
00:56:39.080 --> 00:56:42.120
 or transfer to other countries.

1203
00:56:42.440 --> 00:56:45.560
 They wanna manage that uranium.

1204
00:56:45.680 --> 00:56:49.320
 They wanna have a hand in either the dilution

1205
00:56:49.900 --> 00:56:51.040
 or the transfer.

1206
00:56:51.100 --> 00:56:53.140
 Because what they would want

1207
00:56:53.140 --> 00:56:55.520
 is they'd wanna see that uranium transferred

1208
00:56:55.520 --> 00:56:59.460
 to their allies, namely Russia or China, for example.

1209
00:56:59.740 --> 00:57:02.280
 So that they can then still have access

1210
00:57:02.280 --> 00:57:04.240
 to that said uranium.

1211
00:57:05.380 --> 00:57:08.020
 Phase three of Iran's proposed plan

1212
00:57:08.020 --> 00:57:11.400
 is the regional security and diplomacy.

1213
00:57:12.080 --> 00:57:16.220
 So the US withdrawal, that's not gonna happen either.

1214
00:57:16.800 --> 00:57:19.600
 They want the US to remove all military forces

1215
00:57:19.600 --> 00:57:22.040
 from the region surrounding Iran.

1216
00:57:22.840 --> 00:57:24.560
 Again, we already know that's not gonna happen.

1217
00:57:26.260 --> 00:57:27.800
 They look for regional peace.

1218
00:57:28.220 --> 00:57:30.980
 So an end to the hostilities on all fronts,

1219
00:57:31.560 --> 00:57:33.700
 specifically including the conflict in Lebanon,

1220
00:57:33.700 --> 00:57:36.620
 which is crazy that they would specifically want

1221
00:57:36.620 --> 00:57:37.740
 that to end.

1222
00:57:38.100 --> 00:57:38.440
 Why?

1223
00:57:39.080 --> 00:57:43.080
 Hezbollah, that's right, one of their proxies

1224
00:57:43.080 --> 00:57:46.120
 who is now under fire and attack by Israel.

1225
00:57:47.060 --> 00:57:49.460
 They want to be able to ensure

1226
00:57:49.460 --> 00:57:54.660
 that their outward military partners in the area,

1227
00:57:54.800 --> 00:57:56.840
 namely the terrorist proxy groups,

1228
00:57:58.040 --> 00:57:59.180
 they still have access to them,

1229
00:57:59.260 --> 00:58:02.260
 that they're still standing for them to be able to,

1230
00:58:02.460 --> 00:58:03.980
 I mean use, let's just be honest.

1231
00:58:04.440 --> 00:58:07.040
 So that's why they're specifically saying

1232
00:58:07.040 --> 00:58:08.820
 we need to stop the conflict in Lebanon

1233
00:58:08.820 --> 00:58:13.420
 because, well, Hezbollah's their most skilled,

1234
00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:17.220
 trained and armed proxy.

1235
00:58:18.860 --> 00:58:22.720
 And here's the other part of the third phase three.

1236
00:58:22.960 --> 00:58:25.040
 They want international oversight.

1237
00:58:25.340 --> 00:58:26.620
 Now they want it,

1238
00:58:26.620 --> 00:58:28.620
 but they want a new management mechanism

1239
00:58:29.820 --> 00:58:31.100
 of the Strait of Hormuz

1240
00:58:31.100 --> 00:58:34.080
 and a strategic dialogue with Arab states

1241
00:58:35.280 --> 00:58:41.200
 with Russia and China acting as enforcers of the agreement.

1242
00:58:41.540 --> 00:58:44.200
 So they want to remove the U.S. completely

1243
00:58:44.740 --> 00:58:46.380
 from being an arbitrator

1244
00:58:46.380 --> 00:58:51.900
 and or having any kind of oversight in the area.

1245
00:58:52.840 --> 00:58:54.560
 They want that to be managed by their allies,

1246
00:58:54.940 --> 00:58:55.740
 China and Russia.

1247
00:58:56.000 --> 00:58:57.020
 Well, why would they want that?

1248
00:58:57.040 --> 00:58:58.500
 Because it will all go in their favor

1249
00:58:58.500 --> 00:59:01.340
 and with the strength and might of Russia and China

1250
00:59:01.340 --> 00:59:04.720
 behind them, they can strong arm their Arab neighbors

1251
00:59:05.280 --> 00:59:08.900
 to do exactly whatever it is that Iran wants.

1252
00:59:10.200 --> 00:59:13.360
 And so this whole 14 point plan that was presented

1253
00:59:13.360 --> 00:59:16.160
 was rejected by President Trump,

1254
00:59:17.220 --> 00:59:21.960
 which led to the announcement of Project Freedom.

1255
00:59:22.520 --> 00:59:27.520
 Now, Project Freedom is also supposed to be there

1256
00:59:27.900 --> 00:59:30.700
 as it stated earlier, to guide ships out,

1257
00:59:30.700 --> 00:59:31.820
 the ones that have been trapped.

1258
00:59:31.860 --> 00:59:33.000
 They want to get them out of the area.

1259
00:59:33.040 --> 00:59:34.140
 They want to remove them from harm.

1260
00:59:34.300 --> 00:59:35.520
 Look, whatever you got, you got,

1261
00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:38.760
 take it home, get out of here, but don't come back.

1262
00:59:40.080 --> 00:59:41.200
 And in doing so,

1263
00:59:41.320 --> 00:59:43.880
 he's getting rid of any potential collateral damage

1264
00:59:43.880 --> 00:59:46.540
 if a major conflict does break out in the area.

1265
00:59:48.700 --> 00:59:53.260
 He doesn't want the tankers that are sitting there

1266
00:59:53.260 --> 00:59:58.540
 from other countries to basically be damaged

1267
00:59:58.540 --> 01:00:05.160
 or to add to the situation between the US

1268
01:00:05.160 --> 01:00:08.660
 and its allies and other nation states right now.

1269
01:00:08.660 --> 01:00:11.560
 Because if any of these tankers were destroyed,

1270
01:00:11.580 --> 01:00:15.540
 if any of their personnel killed, et cetera,

1271
01:00:16.040 --> 01:00:18.380
 it's very easy to point the finger at the US,

1272
01:00:18.780 --> 01:00:22.500
 this conflict and basically say it was the US's fault

1273
01:00:22.790 --> 01:00:26.840
 and that in and of itself could turn these other nations

1274
01:00:26.840 --> 01:00:31.180
 towards China, Russia, and maybe even Iran.

1275
01:00:32.300 --> 01:00:37.120
 So there's the reason that Project Freedom was announced

1276
01:00:37.120 --> 01:00:43.580
 and this is why Project Freedom has been proposed.

1277
01:00:45.820 --> 01:00:48.180
 And so to counter Timmy Boy,

1278
01:00:49.580 --> 01:00:51.120
 his feelings don't matter

1279
01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:53.940
 because we got to deal with the facts.

1280
01:00:54.800 --> 01:00:55.960
 And the facts are this,

1281
01:00:57.820 --> 01:01:00.600
 the Strait of Hormuz, technically, legally,

1282
01:01:01.140 --> 01:01:04.440
 is not Iran's to control, by the way, okay?

1283
01:01:05.560 --> 01:01:08.120
 The truth of the matter, the facts over feelings,

1284
01:01:08.420 --> 01:01:11.700
 I mean, Tim, God, keep saying Cartman, Tim Dillon,

1285
01:01:12.960 --> 01:01:15.680
 the facts over your feelings

1286
01:01:16.580 --> 01:01:19.940
 is Iran wants to aggressively control the area

1287
01:01:19.940 --> 01:01:22.060
 by bringing in its strategic partners,

1288
01:01:22.260 --> 01:01:23.600
 namely Russia and China,

1289
01:01:24.080 --> 01:01:28.480
 as the two major nations who carry out

1290
01:01:28.480 --> 01:01:29.880
 the oversight of the area,

1291
01:01:30.300 --> 01:01:34.040
 which they can use to strong arm their Arab neighbors

1292
01:01:34.040 --> 01:01:38.400
 to bend the knee to Iran and pressure them

1293
01:01:38.400 --> 01:01:40.200
 to continue to do whatever it is

1294
01:01:40.200 --> 01:01:42.440
 that Iran wants to Iran's benefit.

1295
01:01:45.720 --> 01:01:48.160
 Also, facts over feelings, Timmy,

1296
01:01:48.160 --> 01:01:51.500
 is that Trump knows that Iran

1297
01:01:51.500 --> 01:01:52.760
 can never have a nuclear weapon.

1298
01:01:52.920 --> 01:01:56.180
 And if Iran, based on their 14-point peace framework here,

1299
01:01:56.580 --> 01:01:59.940
 has any kind of oversight as to how the uranium

1300
01:02:01.220 --> 01:02:04.640
 is diluted or distributed,

1301
01:02:05.360 --> 01:02:07.200
 Iran's absolutely going to say,

1302
01:02:07.260 --> 01:02:10.020
 well, we want all the uranium to go to Russia or China.

1303
01:02:10.300 --> 01:02:10.700
 Why?

1304
01:02:11.200 --> 01:02:13.260
 Yeah, well, so they can get it back.

1305
01:02:13.280 --> 01:02:14.100
 Let's just be honest.

1306
01:02:14.800 --> 01:02:17.220
 So regards of how you feel, Tim,

1307
01:02:17.220 --> 01:02:19.960
 the only thing I can tell you based on your feelings

1308
01:02:19.960 --> 01:02:22.040
 and as to whether or not Trump has the stomach

1309
01:02:22.040 --> 01:02:25.480
 is that might be the only point you have

1310
01:02:25.480 --> 01:02:27.080
 because Trump, again,

1311
01:02:27.160 --> 01:02:29.460
 and I've said this already a few times,

1312
01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:35.300
 doesn't want to see American military personnel die.

1313
01:02:35.640 --> 01:02:37.660
 He wants to limit the casualties.

1314
01:02:38.060 --> 01:02:41.380
 He's never wanted to see US military personnel die.

1315
01:02:41.440 --> 01:02:42.780
 He said it many times.

1316
01:02:43.060 --> 01:02:44.440
 The one thing he's trying to avoid.

1317
01:02:44.800 --> 01:02:48.040
 And again, he was hoping that this show of force

1318
01:02:48.680 --> 01:02:51.160
 was enough to bring Iran to heel.

1319
01:02:51.780 --> 01:02:54.420
 But unfortunately, unfortunately,

1320
01:02:55.280 --> 01:02:57.000
 we may have to take the next step.

1321
01:02:58.060 --> 01:03:04.760
 So Tim, your feelings don't give a fuck, care about.

1322
01:03:07.720 --> 01:03:11.280
 So Timmy boy, facts don't give a fuck

1323
01:03:11.280 --> 01:03:12.160
 about your feelings.

1324
01:03:15.600 --> 01:03:17.960
 So continuing on the Iran train

1325
01:03:17.960 --> 01:03:20.480
 and fuck, I mean, Tim, Dylan, whatever.

1326
01:03:20.500 --> 01:03:21.480
 You like him, good, whatever.

1327
01:03:21.820 --> 01:03:24.380
 I'm just tired of hearing these blow hard motherfuckers

1328
01:03:24.380 --> 01:03:27.600
 like Davey Boy Smith and Tim Cartman, Dylan,

1329
01:03:28.700 --> 01:03:31.740
 and chunk, I mean, Cenk Uygur.

1330
01:03:31.960 --> 01:03:33.280
 Like all of these guys,

1331
01:03:33.420 --> 01:03:35.960
 even Owen Schreuer has been a whiny bitch these days.

1332
01:03:36.500 --> 01:03:40.380
 They're all saying the anti-American thing.

1333
01:03:40.800 --> 01:03:43.940
 They're all lockstep, patting each other on the back.

1334
01:03:44.800 --> 01:03:47.620
 America bad, Trump idiot, et cetera.

1335
01:03:48.520 --> 01:03:51.080
 And I don't agree with everything Trump says or does,

1336
01:03:52.060 --> 01:03:53.320
 but none of these fuckers,

1337
01:03:53.920 --> 01:03:55.160
 none of them, none.

1338
01:03:55.420 --> 01:03:59.160
 Chunk, or I'm sorry, Cenk, Tim, Dylan,

1339
01:04:00.100 --> 01:04:03.040
 Dave Smith, Owen Schreuer,

1340
01:04:03.560 --> 01:04:06.360
 none of them know what the fuck they're talking about.

1341
01:04:07.900 --> 01:04:08.660
 Yes, even you, Owen.

1342
01:04:09.280 --> 01:04:10.640
 You guys don't know what you're talking about.

1343
01:04:11.260 --> 01:04:16.920
 You cherry pick and twist history and some facts

1344
01:04:17.520 --> 01:04:19.300
 to make yourself shine

1345
01:04:19.300 --> 01:04:21.000
 and look like you know what you're talking about,

1346
01:04:21.000 --> 01:04:23.300
 but you don't understand what's happening here.

1347
01:04:23.520 --> 01:04:25.260
 And when push comes to shove,

1348
01:04:26.140 --> 01:04:29.660
 all you say is war bad and it's Israel's fault.

1349
01:04:29.720 --> 01:04:30.480
 And that's all you got.

1350
01:04:30.680 --> 01:04:34.140
 You don't have any deep understanding of what's happening.

1351
01:04:35.060 --> 01:04:37.340
 So do yourselves a favor.

1352
01:04:39.080 --> 01:04:41.820
 Reach out beyond your little bubbles you've created.

1353
01:04:43.900 --> 01:04:46.300
 And maybe, just maybe,

1354
01:04:46.700 --> 01:04:48.080
 through interacting with other people,

1355
01:04:48.140 --> 01:04:50.680
 maybe even people who are actually from Iran,

1356
01:04:51.180 --> 01:04:52.420
 people who are from the area,

1357
01:04:52.540 --> 01:04:53.400
 maybe some intelligence.

1358
01:04:53.480 --> 01:04:54.600
 Oh, you guys don't know any.

1359
01:04:54.920 --> 01:04:55.520
 Oh, nevermind.

1360
01:04:56.040 --> 01:04:57.600
 You don't have that ability,

1361
01:04:57.840 --> 01:04:58.660
 which is crazy,

1362
01:04:58.660 --> 01:05:00.760
 because you guys are all like bigger than I am.

1363
01:05:01.660 --> 01:05:03.940
 But yet I can do the due diligence

1364
01:05:03.940 --> 01:05:06.700
 and do the work to get the information out.

1365
01:05:06.700 --> 01:05:10.160
 But yet you guys are so fucking sloppy and lazy

1366
01:05:10.160 --> 01:05:12.680
 that you continue to push these talking points,

1367
01:05:13.300 --> 01:05:15.540
 this fucking coordinated narrative

1368
01:05:16.040 --> 01:05:17.520
 to keep yourselves relevant

1369
01:05:17.520 --> 01:05:20.280
 because all you're doing is playing on emotion

1370
01:05:20.820 --> 01:05:22.300
 and you really don't care

1371
01:05:22.300 --> 01:05:23.860
 about the facts of the situation.

1372
01:05:25.870 --> 01:05:26.470
 That's it.

1373
01:05:29.510 --> 01:05:31.890
 That being said, I'm done with those guys.

1374
01:05:32.110 --> 01:05:35.070
 That being said, let's continue on to the next point

1375
01:05:35.070 --> 01:05:36.330
 I was gonna make about the Strait of Hormuz,

1376
01:05:36.330 --> 01:05:41.070
 which, again, addresses Timmy's feelings,

1377
01:05:41.170 --> 01:05:41.990
 Tim Dillon's feelings,

1378
01:05:42.930 --> 01:05:46.090
 and addresses Dave Smith's half-baked,

1379
01:05:46.090 --> 01:05:48.370
 well, not even half-baked, very wrong assessment,

1380
01:05:48.830 --> 01:05:49.950
 geopolitical assessment here.

1381
01:05:51.330 --> 01:05:53.070
 Nobody's been talking about this, by the way, guys.

1382
01:05:53.390 --> 01:05:54.310
 Nobody's been talking about this.

1383
01:05:54.370 --> 01:05:55.790
 I do not know why.

1384
01:05:56.830 --> 01:05:58.690
 But when we're talking about the Strait of Hormuz,

1385
01:06:00.090 --> 01:06:04.770
 there's a joint custody there on the enforcement, okay?

1386
01:06:05.530 --> 01:06:08.210
 And the reality is the Strait of Hormuz,

1387
01:06:09.490 --> 01:06:11.530
 you know what, let me bring up a graphic here

1388
01:06:11.530 --> 01:06:13.450
 that'll help me explain this to you.

1389
01:06:14.730 --> 01:06:15.670
 So the Strait, oh, I'm sorry.

1390
01:06:15.750 --> 01:06:17.870
 For those that are listening, I'll do my best to explain.

1391
01:06:18.270 --> 01:06:20.110
 I encourage you to watch the video version.

1392
01:06:20.530 --> 01:06:22.750
 You can go to YouTube, my channel,

1393
01:06:23.350 --> 01:06:24.430
 I mean, Fonts of Blaze,

1394
01:06:24.730 --> 01:06:26.030
 at Fonts of Blaze is my handle.

1395
01:06:27.070 --> 01:06:28.610
 World of Blaze with George Fonts, just look it up.

1396
01:06:28.630 --> 01:06:29.990
 You should be able to find it.

1397
01:06:30.210 --> 01:06:33.810
 If you prefer to watch Spotify,

1398
01:06:33.810 --> 01:06:35.370
 I mean, I do load the videos on Spotify,

1399
01:06:35.750 --> 01:06:37.490
 but anyway, I'm starting to ramble.

1400
01:06:37.630 --> 01:06:38.890
 I just want you to know,

1401
01:06:39.490 --> 01:06:42.650
 you can find the visual version of this, the video.

1402
01:06:43.210 --> 01:06:45.230
 So I encourage you to watch it.

1403
01:06:45.410 --> 01:06:46.850
 But anyway, here's a graphic.

1404
01:06:47.130 --> 01:06:49.230
 This is gonna explain a few things here, okay?

1405
01:06:52.300 --> 01:06:54.260
 So here's the Strait of Hormuz,

1406
01:06:54.360 --> 01:06:57.140
 and what you see here is you see a 21-mile

1407
01:06:57.140 --> 01:06:58.940
 right here choke point, right?

1408
01:06:59.400 --> 01:07:01.480
 Between Oman and Iran.

1409
01:07:01.480 --> 01:07:05.940
 Now there's an overlapping 12-mile claims,

1410
01:07:06.260 --> 01:07:09.480
 which leaves no international waters, okay?

1411
01:07:10.980 --> 01:07:16.340
 And it looks like what the deal is,

1412
01:07:16.340 --> 01:07:20.680
 is Iran, because they have the military prowess,

1413
01:07:21.020 --> 01:07:24.080
 they have been antagonizing everybody

1414
01:07:24.080 --> 01:07:25.900
 that goes through this strait.

1415
01:07:26.680 --> 01:07:28.700
 Now the transit passage here,

1416
01:07:31.140 --> 01:07:35.080
 the reality is most of the shipping lanes,

1417
01:07:35.240 --> 01:07:36.660
 the major shipping lanes here,

1418
01:07:36.660 --> 01:07:37.920
 I don't know if I'm gonna air over here,

1419
01:07:38.240 --> 01:07:39.360
 the major shipping lanes,

1420
01:07:39.360 --> 01:07:42.420
 they reside in the Omani territory.

1421
01:07:43.120 --> 01:07:47.440
 Yet Iranian forces frequently intercept vessels there.

1422
01:07:49.080 --> 01:07:53.280
 And the issue we have is Oman is really just

1423
01:07:53.280 --> 01:07:56.180
 kind of like the Switzerland of the Middle East.

1424
01:07:56.920 --> 01:07:59.520
 And so because they are passive in nature

1425
01:07:59.520 --> 01:08:02.080
 and they wanna have these amazing relationships

1426
01:08:02.080 --> 01:08:05.540
 with both the West and as well as with Iran

1427
01:08:05.540 --> 01:08:08.760
 and everybody else, they allow Iran

1428
01:08:08.760 --> 01:08:10.060
 to just steamroll them.

1429
01:08:10.520 --> 01:08:13.240
 The reality is, again, the major shipping lanes

1430
01:08:13.240 --> 01:08:14.880
 through the strait actually go through

1431
01:08:14.880 --> 01:08:17.060
 Omani territorial waters,

1432
01:08:17.180 --> 01:08:18.939
 or the territorial waters of Oman.

1433
01:08:19.460 --> 01:08:20.880
 Oman does have a military,

1434
01:08:21.000 --> 01:08:23.399
 but they choose to be very passive in their approach.

1435
01:08:25.540 --> 01:08:27.760
 Iran has a military capability

1436
01:08:27.760 --> 01:08:31.240
 through their speedboats and their missiles and launchers

1437
01:08:31.240 --> 01:08:35.140
 to drive all the way into the Omani territory

1438
01:08:35.140 --> 01:08:37.140
 or the Oman territorial waters.

1439
01:08:37.660 --> 01:08:41.800
 And so they have been bullying everybody

1440
01:08:41.800 --> 01:08:42.700
 through the Strait of Hormuz,

1441
01:08:43.240 --> 01:08:44.960
 even though they have no claim

1442
01:08:44.960 --> 01:08:46.580
 to the territorial side of Oman,

1443
01:08:46.920 --> 01:08:49.399
 even though all major shipping lanes travel

1444
01:08:49.399 --> 01:08:52.359
 through territorial waters of Oman.

1445
01:08:52.840 --> 01:08:54.520
 But Oman will not push back.

1446
01:08:54.939 --> 01:08:56.740
 What's crazy about this is

1447
01:08:56.740 --> 01:09:02.120
 Oman also has relationships with Britain, France, et cetera,

1448
01:09:02.680 --> 01:09:05.600
 who also are strategic military partners

1449
01:09:05.600 --> 01:09:08.580
 who both have done shit all or a fuck all.

1450
01:09:08.660 --> 01:09:12.439
 They haven't done anything in all the years

1451
01:09:12.439 --> 01:09:14.040
 that Iran has existed,

1452
01:09:14.060 --> 01:09:16.140
 or at least the Islamic regime has existed.

1453
01:09:16.460 --> 01:09:18.700
 They've done nothing, nothing.

1454
01:09:19.240 --> 01:09:23.160
 There's a level of complacency from Europe,

1455
01:09:24.120 --> 01:09:30.240
 from the European allies of Oman for whatever reason.

1456
01:09:30.359 --> 01:09:32.779
 And it's really not clear as to why,

1457
01:09:32.779 --> 01:09:34.580
 other than they're just afraid

1458
01:09:34.580 --> 01:09:37.779
 to enforce the area with Oman.

1459
01:09:39.399 --> 01:09:41.660
 And Oman is very passive, okay?

1460
01:09:42.100 --> 01:09:45.140
 So the thing about the Strait is

1461
01:09:45.140 --> 01:09:47.880
 does Iran have any legal claim?

1462
01:09:48.319 --> 01:09:52.080
 Do they have the right to actually enforce

1463
01:09:52.760 --> 01:09:56.340
 a blockade or a $2 million toll

1464
01:09:57.880 --> 01:09:59.640
 or stop any vessels?

1465
01:09:59.800 --> 01:10:03.280
 And the answer is no, they don't, they literally don't.

1466
01:10:04.560 --> 01:10:08.300
 So let me go ahead and open up my assessment here.

1467
01:10:08.360 --> 01:10:09.840
 We're gonna read through some of this here.

1468
01:10:12.630 --> 01:10:14.630
 Okay, so here's the strategic dynamics

1469
01:10:14.630 --> 01:10:17.670
 and sovereignty challenges in the Strait of Hormuz, okay?

1470
01:10:18.910 --> 01:10:20.470
 So I'm just gonna read through this

1471
01:10:20.470 --> 01:10:22.090
 because it took time to put it together,

1472
01:10:22.090 --> 01:10:23.870
 and so I'm gonna read it for you.

1473
01:10:23.870 --> 01:10:24.750
 So here you go.

1474
01:10:25.130 --> 01:10:26.490
 Here's my executive summary on this.

1475
01:10:26.910 --> 01:10:28.590
 So the Strait of Hormuz remains one of the world's

1476
01:10:28.590 --> 01:10:30.610
 most contested maritime choke points

1477
01:10:30.610 --> 01:10:32.470
 characterized by a complex interplay

1478
01:10:32.470 --> 01:10:35.390
 between the Omani territorial rights, as I just said,

1479
01:10:35.950 --> 01:10:39.370
 and Iranian military assertiveness.

1480
01:10:39.810 --> 01:10:42.390
 So despite the primary international shipping lanes,

1481
01:10:42.810 --> 01:10:45.730
 which again, go through Omani

1482
01:10:45.730 --> 01:10:47.790
 or Oman's territorial waters,

1483
01:10:48.890 --> 01:10:51.390
 Iran exercises significant de facto control

1484
01:10:51.390 --> 01:10:52.810
 through military leverage.

1485
01:10:52.810 --> 01:10:56.090
 Aggressive patrolling and the imposition

1486
01:10:56.090 --> 01:10:59.130
 of unilateral regulatory regimes.

1487
01:10:59.950 --> 01:11:01.970
 Current intelligence from 2025 to 2026

1488
01:11:01.970 --> 01:11:05.610
 indicates a worsening trend of Iranian encroachment

1489
01:11:05.610 --> 01:11:07.910
 on Omani sovereignty.

1490
01:11:08.970 --> 01:11:12.770
 And again, challenging Oman's territorial waters

1491
01:11:13.310 --> 01:11:15.850
 is challenging Omani sovereignty.

1492
01:11:17.830 --> 01:11:20.150
 But moving on, this includes this seizure.

1493
01:11:20.590 --> 01:11:22.830
 This is interesting, I forgot about this.

1494
01:11:23.110 --> 01:11:25.150
 This actually includes the seizure of a vessel

1495
01:11:25.150 --> 01:11:26.550
 within Omani waters.

1496
01:11:26.890 --> 01:11:29.590
 The implementation of unauthorized transit tolls,

1497
01:11:30.230 --> 01:11:33.190
 which that's where the $2 million toll comes from,

1498
01:11:34.230 --> 01:11:35.230
 which is per vessel,

1499
01:11:35.270 --> 01:11:37.770
 and the deployment of a military doctrine

1500
01:11:37.770 --> 01:11:41.270
 designed to completely surround the waterway.

1501
01:11:41.790 --> 01:11:44.890
 Oman, maintaining a policy of active neutrality,

1502
01:11:45.050 --> 01:11:46.090
 balances these pressures

1503
01:11:46.090 --> 01:11:49.690
 through a multifaceted defense architecture

1504
01:11:50.210 --> 01:11:54.430
 involving long-standing Western alliances,

1505
01:11:54.570 --> 01:11:58.450
 the UK and US, and of course, France as well.

1506
01:11:59.290 --> 01:12:02.410
 And there's also emerging Indo-Pacific partners,

1507
01:12:02.810 --> 01:12:04.090
 such as India.

1508
01:12:04.750 --> 01:12:07.110
 And there's the functional security ties

1509
01:12:07.110 --> 01:12:08.590
 with Tehran itself.

1510
01:12:10.430 --> 01:12:12.410
 So the security ties with Tehran

1511
01:12:12.410 --> 01:12:14.690
 is really an appeasement to Iran

1512
01:12:14.690 --> 01:12:16.850
 to avoid any major conflict.

1513
01:12:18.450 --> 01:12:21.090
 Because Oman doesn't wanna get into any major

1514
01:12:21.090 --> 01:12:22.870
 kinetic conflict with Iran,

1515
01:12:23.170 --> 01:12:25.690
 being that Iran has a much more superior,

1516
01:12:25.830 --> 01:12:27.530
 a much bigger military,

1517
01:12:27.950 --> 01:12:29.750
 and their capabilities are much stronger.

1518
01:12:30.050 --> 01:12:32.770
 Although Oman has strategic military relationships

1519
01:12:32.770 --> 01:12:34.550
 with the UK,

1520
01:12:34.970 --> 01:12:38.630
 which is honestly their oldest Western ally, by the way.

1521
01:12:39.350 --> 01:12:42.370
 Yet we haven't heard a peep from the UK

1522
01:12:42.370 --> 01:12:44.990
 in any conflict, any encroachment,

1523
01:12:45.270 --> 01:12:48.430
 anything that Iran has done to challenge Oman's sovereignty.

1524
01:12:48.950 --> 01:12:50.230
 The UK has been silent.

1525
01:12:51.190 --> 01:12:53.630
 And I'm not just talking about the conflict here in 2026.

1526
01:12:53.750 --> 01:12:55.550
 I'm talking about throughout history.

1527
01:12:55.650 --> 01:12:58.850
 They haven't really done much shit to back Oman.

1528
01:13:00.010 --> 01:13:01.830
 So I'm gonna keep reading this here.

1529
01:13:02.630 --> 01:13:03.990
 And so let's keep going.

1530
01:13:04.390 --> 01:13:05.750
 Let's talk about the geography,

1531
01:13:05.870 --> 01:13:08.250
 the geographic and territorial framework here, okay?

1532
01:13:08.510 --> 01:13:09.370
 So this is important.

1533
01:13:09.370 --> 01:13:11.650
 The Strait of Hormuz is defined

1534
01:13:11.650 --> 01:13:14.190
 by extreme geographic proximity

1535
01:13:14.190 --> 01:13:16.210
 and overlapping legal claims

1536
01:13:16.210 --> 01:13:18.310
 that complicate unilateral control.

1537
01:13:18.750 --> 01:13:20.710
 So there's the width and the overlap here.

1538
01:13:21.090 --> 01:13:21.870
 At its narrowest point,

1539
01:13:21.930 --> 01:13:25.190
 the strait is only 21 nautical miles wide.

1540
01:13:26.450 --> 01:13:30.970
 Iran and Oman claim 12 nautical mile territorial sea,

1541
01:13:31.010 --> 01:13:31.650
 okay?

1542
01:13:32.050 --> 01:13:34.870
 Resulting in a total overlap of 24 nautical miles.

1543
01:13:35.310 --> 01:13:37.590
 Consequently, there's no corridor

1544
01:13:37.590 --> 01:13:40.370
 or high seas or international waters

1545
01:13:40.370 --> 01:13:42.150
 in the middle of the strait.

1546
01:13:42.450 --> 01:13:44.070
 So there's no international waters,

1547
01:13:44.190 --> 01:13:46.230
 no like non-territorial waters.

1548
01:13:46.310 --> 01:13:48.150
 There's an overlap of territory, right?

1549
01:13:48.150 --> 01:13:48.830
 I don't know if you can see this,

1550
01:13:48.830 --> 01:13:49.610
 I'm kind of blocking my face,

1551
01:13:50.570 --> 01:13:52.650
 but you know, you have Oman,

1552
01:13:52.750 --> 01:13:54.050
 sorry, I got the background, okay.

1553
01:13:54.330 --> 01:13:55.410
 Oman, Iran.

1554
01:13:56.610 --> 01:13:57.910
 These are their territorial waters.

1555
01:13:58.310 --> 01:13:59.530
 And you can see where they meet.

1556
01:13:59.890 --> 01:14:02.050
 But there's a part of the strait

1557
01:14:02.050 --> 01:14:03.490
 where they actually overlap,

1558
01:14:04.750 --> 01:14:07.190
 which makes it complicated, okay?

1559
01:14:08.190 --> 01:14:12.290
 So in 1974, there was a boundary agreement.

1560
01:14:12.730 --> 01:14:14.030
 The maritime border was established

1561
01:14:14.030 --> 01:14:15.310
 via a 1974 agreement.

1562
01:14:15.410 --> 01:14:16.810
 It was ratified in 1975.

1563
01:14:17.490 --> 01:14:21.810
 And it actually regards the continental shelf itself.

1564
01:14:22.270 --> 01:14:24.590
 So the boundary consists of 22 turning points

1565
01:14:24.590 --> 01:14:28.910
 extending almost 125 nautical miles.

1566
01:14:29.050 --> 01:14:31.410
 It's 124.85 nautical miles.

1567
01:14:32.490 --> 01:14:34.550
 It follows a median line generally,

1568
01:14:35.510 --> 01:14:39.390
 which is a specific three nautical mile overlap

1569
01:14:39.390 --> 01:14:42.470
 that exists between Iran's Larak Island

1570
01:14:42.470 --> 01:14:45.670
 and Oman's greater Khoan Island.

1571
01:14:46.110 --> 01:14:48.410
 So the island control situation here though,

1572
01:14:48.830 --> 01:14:50.870
 Iran does control seven or eight major islands

1573
01:14:50.870 --> 01:14:52.230
 in the strait,

1574
01:14:52.290 --> 01:14:57.710
 as well as some strategically vital other islands

1575
01:14:57.710 --> 01:14:59.810
 that where they're positioned at.

1576
01:15:00.490 --> 01:15:04.010
 So aside from like Hormuz itself,

1577
01:15:04.010 --> 01:15:05.830
 Kesham, and Larak,

1578
01:15:06.470 --> 01:15:09.310
 they also have the strategic vital Tuns

1579
01:15:09.310 --> 01:15:10.790
 and the Abu Musa,

1580
01:15:10.790 --> 01:15:12.570
 and I'm sure I mispronounced all those,

1581
01:15:12.750 --> 01:15:15.030
 but they have these other islands

1582
01:15:15.030 --> 01:15:17.310
 that allow Iran to project surveillance

1583
01:15:17.310 --> 01:15:19.030
 and military force directly

1584
01:15:19.030 --> 01:15:21.790
 over the navigational of the channel.

1585
01:15:24.160 --> 01:15:24.920
 That's a lot, right?

1586
01:15:25.120 --> 01:15:27.280
 So far, what you're hearing,

1587
01:15:27.560 --> 01:15:29.320
 I hope you're hearing, I hope you're getting,

1588
01:15:29.600 --> 01:15:32.240
 aside from me not pronouncing half these names

1589
01:15:32.240 --> 01:15:32.900
 probably correctly,

1590
01:15:33.460 --> 01:15:39.500
 is that Iran has a history of encroaching on Oman.

1591
01:15:40.120 --> 01:15:43.100
 Iran has a history of challenging Oman's sovereignty.

1592
01:15:44.060 --> 01:15:47.860
 So far from what I've read and what I'm telling you,

1593
01:15:48.220 --> 01:15:51.380
 is Iran doesn't have a right to patrol,

1594
01:15:52.200 --> 01:15:54.340
 restrict or close off the Strait of Hormuz.

1595
01:15:55.740 --> 01:15:57.240
 They just don't.

1596
01:15:57.320 --> 01:15:59.060
 It's not theirs.

1597
01:16:00.420 --> 01:16:02.420
 The major shipping lanes don't even go

1598
01:16:02.420 --> 01:16:03.980
 through their territorial waters.

1599
01:16:05.320 --> 01:16:07.560
 But because Oman is so passive,

1600
01:16:09.460 --> 01:16:11.780
 they rely on their relationships,

1601
01:16:11.920 --> 01:16:13.480
 their Western allies and their relationships,

1602
01:16:13.560 --> 01:16:15.500
 their oldest one being the UK themselves.

1603
01:16:16.640 --> 01:16:19.520
 Yet nobody wants to challenge Iran or push back.

1604
01:16:19.960 --> 01:16:20.400
 Why?

1605
01:16:21.060 --> 01:16:22.800
 Because they're afraid of the conflict.

1606
01:16:23.500 --> 01:16:26.280
 Bottom line, that doesn't mean Iran has the right.

1607
01:16:28.690 --> 01:16:30.730
 All right, so let's keep going.

1608
01:16:31.750 --> 01:16:32.950
 I kind of touched on it a little bit.

1609
01:16:32.950 --> 01:16:35.690
 Let's go over the navigational control in shipping lanes.

1610
01:16:37.510 --> 01:16:41.490
 So the physical, and if you're watching,

1611
01:16:41.650 --> 01:16:42.490
 I'm highlighting right here,

1612
01:16:42.490 --> 01:16:43.750
 I'm using my cursor right here.

1613
01:16:44.070 --> 01:16:45.670
 The physical location of shipping lanes

1614
01:16:45.670 --> 01:16:48.950
 is a primary point of contention

1615
01:16:48.950 --> 01:16:52.570
 as they reside almost exclusively

1616
01:16:53.310 --> 01:16:55.270
 under Omani jurisdiction

1617
01:16:55.270 --> 01:16:58.810
 at the Strait's most critical juncture.

1618
01:17:00.690 --> 01:17:03.490
 The internationally recognized TSS,

1619
01:17:03.710 --> 01:17:06.250
 or the Traffic Separation Scheme,

1620
01:17:06.570 --> 01:17:09.470
 adopted by the International Maritime Organization,

1621
01:17:09.750 --> 01:17:13.730
 or the IMO, organizes safe passage for large tankers.

1622
01:17:14.230 --> 01:17:15.510
 At the Strait's narrowest point,

1623
01:17:15.690 --> 01:17:17.350
 both the inbound, which is the northern,

1624
01:17:17.390 --> 01:17:20.230
 which is more towards Iran,

1625
01:17:20.310 --> 01:17:22.070
 and the outbound, southern channels,

1626
01:17:22.170 --> 01:17:25.910
 which lie entirely within Omani territorial waters,

1627
01:17:26.090 --> 01:17:28.470
 or sea, this is due to the greater depth

1628
01:17:28.470 --> 01:17:31.250
 of the water near the Musandam Peninsula.

1629
01:17:32.610 --> 01:17:35.670
 So again, the major navigational channels here

1630
01:17:35.670 --> 01:17:38.950
 go through Omani territorial waters here.

1631
01:17:39.950 --> 01:17:42.450
 Now there's been a shift during 2026 because of the crisis,

1632
01:17:42.510 --> 01:17:45.210
 so the heightened tensions have forced significant changes

1633
01:17:45.210 --> 01:17:46.530
 in maritime behavior.

1634
01:17:47.130 --> 01:17:50.990
 The avoidance of Iran by mid-2025 and into 2026,

1635
01:17:51.610 --> 01:17:54.110
 the shipping patterns shifted further south,

1636
01:17:54.150 --> 01:17:56.990
 so vessels began hugging the Omani coastline

1637
01:17:56.990 --> 01:17:59.690
 and moving into the Emirati territorial waters

1638
01:17:59.690 --> 01:18:02.890
 to avoid Iranian territory entirely.

1639
01:18:04.090 --> 01:18:05.670
 And then there's the competing schemes here.

1640
01:18:05.890 --> 01:18:07.930
 So Iran has attempted to challenge Omani control

1641
01:18:07.930 --> 01:18:10.150
 by unveiling its own competing.

1642
01:18:10.870 --> 01:18:12.810
 So there's Iran, again, making it up, right?

1643
01:18:12.830 --> 01:18:15.590
 Like, no, no, we don't agree with any of it,

1644
01:18:15.590 --> 01:18:16.650
 so we're gonna do it this way,

1645
01:18:16.650 --> 01:18:18.210
 and you're all gonna just fall in line, okay.

1646
01:18:18.610 --> 01:18:19.630
 But anyway, they're unveiling

1647
01:18:19.630 --> 01:18:23.490
 its own competing TSS situation in Iranian waters,

1648
01:18:24.090 --> 01:18:25.910
 threatening ships that do not coordinate

1649
01:18:25.910 --> 01:18:29.430
 with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or the IRGC.

1650
01:18:30.350 --> 01:18:32.590
 And then there's the encroachment in lawfare.

1651
01:18:33.090 --> 01:18:35.030
 So Iran utilizes a combination of physical force

1652
01:18:35.030 --> 01:18:37.770
 and legal maneuvering to undermine Omani sovereignty

1653
01:18:37.770 --> 01:18:40.230
 and extract economic concessions.

1654
01:18:40.490 --> 01:18:44.090
 So those being the tolls, the $2 million toll fees,

1655
01:18:46.010 --> 01:18:48.150
 the challenge of Omani sovereignty

1656
01:18:48.150 --> 01:18:50.590
 by encroaching on their territorial waters

1657
01:18:50.590 --> 01:18:53.450
 and trying to enforce their own policy,

1658
01:18:53.450 --> 01:18:56.490
 their policing in Omani territory.

1659
01:18:57.510 --> 01:18:59.890
 And here's the violations of the Omani jurisdiction.

1660
01:19:00.190 --> 01:19:01.810
 So there's been the vessel seizures,

1661
01:19:02.190 --> 01:19:03.450
 Iranian forces have a history

1662
01:19:03.450 --> 01:19:04.730
 of intercepting foreign vessels

1663
01:19:04.730 --> 01:19:07.030
 within Omani territorial waters.

1664
01:19:07.570 --> 01:19:12.870
 Notable precedent from 2019 seizure of the Stena Imperial,

1665
01:19:13.710 --> 01:19:16.290
 which Iranian authorities later admitted

1666
01:19:17.360 --> 01:19:20.550
 that it occurred outside of their waters,

1667
01:19:20.850 --> 01:19:21.830
 outside of Iranian waters.

1668
01:19:22.730 --> 01:19:24.390
 There's a bouncing tactic.

1669
01:19:25.030 --> 01:19:28.690
 So the IRGC Navy vessels frequently approach merchant ships

1670
01:19:28.690 --> 01:19:29.670
 in Omani waters.

1671
01:19:29.710 --> 01:19:31.490
 So what they'll do is a rush out, come back,

1672
01:19:31.550 --> 01:19:33.410
 rush out, come back in a way to threaten

1673
01:19:33.410 --> 01:19:35.370
 and intimidate these ships

1674
01:19:35.370 --> 01:19:37.710
 and get them to accept them to board

1675
01:19:37.710 --> 01:19:39.790
 and conduct inspections,

1676
01:19:40.490 --> 01:19:43.450
 which basically just ignores entirely

1677
01:19:43.450 --> 01:19:44.990
 the established maritime borders.

1678
01:19:45.550 --> 01:19:47.550
 And then there's the unauthorized tolls.

1679
01:19:47.630 --> 01:19:50.890
 So Iran has recently institutionalized a Tehran toll,

1680
01:19:50.890 --> 01:19:52.710
 charging up to 2 million per vessel

1681
01:19:52.710 --> 01:19:55.710
 because ships must use lanes in Omani waters

1682
01:19:55.710 --> 01:19:58.430
 to trans the choke point.

1683
01:19:59.110 --> 01:20:06.020
 So the problem here in responding to, again,

1684
01:20:06.280 --> 01:20:08.860
 Dave Smith and Tim Cartman Dillon,

1685
01:20:09.620 --> 01:20:13.200
 is that Iran doesn't even have a right

1686
01:20:13.200 --> 01:20:15.960
 to enforce anything in the street as it is anyway.

1687
01:20:16.560 --> 01:20:19.840
 Iran has been acting illegally for, I don't know,

1688
01:20:19.860 --> 01:20:21.260
 maybe 47 years or so

1689
01:20:21.260 --> 01:20:24.040
 ever since the Islamic regime has been in place.

1690
01:20:24.620 --> 01:20:25.800
 They have never had a right.

1691
01:20:25.880 --> 01:20:27.640
 Let's just say since 1974,

1692
01:20:28.240 --> 01:20:30.280
 since the agreement of the separation

1693
01:20:30.280 --> 01:20:31.060
 of the territorial waters.

1694
01:20:31.080 --> 01:20:31.800
 Let's just say that.

1695
01:20:32.180 --> 01:20:34.220
 Let's just say since 1974 at least,

1696
01:20:34.540 --> 01:20:37.180
 Iran has been challenging Omani sovereignty.

1697
01:20:37.600 --> 01:20:41.980
 Iran has been militarily antagonizing

1698
01:20:41.980 --> 01:20:46.140
 and bullying Oman by antagonizing ships

1699
01:20:46.140 --> 01:20:49.960
 that primarily travel through Omani territorial waters.

1700
01:20:50.600 --> 01:20:53.620
 Iran has no right whatsoever, never did.

1701
01:20:54.180 --> 01:20:55.260
 So for those who are arguing

1702
01:20:55.260 --> 01:20:59.340
 that we shouldn't be there because it's Iran's choice,

1703
01:20:59.460 --> 01:21:02.640
 it's Iran's right to control their own strait,

1704
01:21:02.780 --> 01:21:04.180
 it's not their fucking strait.

1705
01:21:04.380 --> 01:21:05.580
 No one's talked about this.

1706
01:21:05.900 --> 01:21:08.800
 That strait is supposed to be a joint custodial

1707
01:21:09.960 --> 01:21:11.600
 relationship between Iran and Oman.

1708
01:21:12.160 --> 01:21:14.800
 And the fact that the major shipping lanes

1709
01:21:14.800 --> 01:21:17.900
 actually travel primarily through Omani territorial waters,

1710
01:21:17.900 --> 01:21:19.400
 territorial waters, sorry,

1711
01:21:20.220 --> 01:21:23.900
 really furthermore enforces the fact

1712
01:21:23.900 --> 01:21:29.620
 that Iran has been the illegal aggressor the entire time,

1713
01:21:29.920 --> 01:21:35.460
 at least since 1974 when the boundaries were established

1714
01:21:35.460 --> 01:21:36.860
 or ratified in 1975.

1715
01:21:38.140 --> 01:21:42.190
 So you all don't have an argument here.

1716
01:21:43.030 --> 01:21:46.890
 Oman's major Western allies are the UK and the US

1717
01:21:46.890 --> 01:21:49.270
 and thus far the UK has done fuck all.

1718
01:21:49.910 --> 01:21:52.390
 The US is doing something, okay?

1719
01:21:53.470 --> 01:21:55.390
 The argument of whether we should be there or not

1720
01:21:55.390 --> 01:21:59.330
 doesn't hold any actual water, it doesn't.

1721
01:21:59.630 --> 01:22:03.170
 We should be there, we should be there

1722
01:22:03.170 --> 01:22:05.870
 because the UK isn't, the UK hasn't been doing anything.

1723
01:22:06.450 --> 01:22:10.530
 The UK was fine to be complicit and let Oman

1724
01:22:11.050 --> 01:22:16.150
 and their sovereignty be challenged by Iran constantly.

1725
01:22:17.010 --> 01:22:19.110
 Oman is trying to stay neutral

1726
01:22:19.110 --> 01:22:21.490
 because they don't have a large military force.

1727
01:22:21.930 --> 01:22:24.010
 They cannot compete with Iran's military.

1728
01:22:24.110 --> 01:22:25.870
 They know this, okay?

1729
01:22:26.490 --> 01:22:28.910
 They're trying to be or remain to be

1730
01:22:28.910 --> 01:22:30.330
 the Switzerland of the Middle East.

1731
01:22:30.790 --> 01:22:33.770
 And while that's a position that many people

1732
01:22:33.770 --> 01:22:36.570
 like Dave E. Boy Smith advocate for the US

1733
01:22:36.570 --> 01:22:39.570
 and being neutral, let's take care of ourselves

1734
01:22:39.570 --> 01:22:42.050
 and let's not have engaged in any conflict,

1735
01:22:42.550 --> 01:22:44.970
 the dangers in that particular policy

1736
01:22:44.970 --> 01:22:47.390
 put you in a position to be just like Oman

1737
01:22:47.390 --> 01:22:50.610
 where you have to constantly be the nice guy

1738
01:22:50.610 --> 01:22:55.070
 just so that you're not overrun, attacked, and dismantled.

1739
01:22:56.090 --> 01:22:58.450
 And unfortunately, Oman's position

1740
01:22:58.450 --> 01:23:00.770
 has put them where they're at

1741
01:23:01.360 --> 01:23:03.890
 by constantly trying to appease the larger,

1742
01:23:03.910 --> 01:23:08.130
 more powerful evil aggressor, Iran, to keep peace.

1743
01:23:09.250 --> 01:23:10.370
 And that's what's happening.

1744
01:23:10.750 --> 01:23:14.050
 So basically, where I'm going with all this

1745
01:23:14.050 --> 01:23:18.150
 and what I have said is Iran has been illegally,

1746
01:23:18.150 --> 01:23:21.110
 illegally encroaching on Omani sovereignty

1747
01:23:21.110 --> 01:23:23.970
 and illegally antagonizing ships

1748
01:23:24.510 --> 01:23:26.150
 and illegally boarding ships

1749
01:23:26.150 --> 01:23:30.130
 and illegally inspecting ships since at least 1974

1750
01:23:30.130 --> 01:23:34.170
 or let's say 75, when it was ratified,

1751
01:23:34.290 --> 01:23:36.810
 when the territories, the waterways,

1752
01:23:37.030 --> 01:23:38.790
 the territorial waters were established

1753
01:23:38.790 --> 01:23:41.430
 between Oman and Iran.

1754
01:23:41.830 --> 01:23:42.710
 And with that being said,

1755
01:23:42.790 --> 01:23:44.550
 I think I'm done with Iran right now

1756
01:23:45.610 --> 01:23:49.310
 because I feel like I'm just talking into the void.

1757
01:23:50.410 --> 01:23:52.570
 How much facts and data I present

1758
01:23:52.570 --> 01:23:54.310
 and how many times I debunk

1759
01:23:54.310 --> 01:23:56.230
 all these fucking idiot's arguments,

1760
01:23:56.630 --> 01:23:58.730
 it doesn't matter because these guys

1761
01:23:58.730 --> 01:24:01.510
 have the audience for whatever reason

1762
01:24:01.510 --> 01:24:05.390
 because they're just appealing to feelings.

1763
01:24:05.950 --> 01:24:10.810
 They don't have any real substance behind their arguments.

1764
01:24:11.230 --> 01:24:14.810
 They don't have any real facts and data

1765
01:24:14.810 --> 01:24:18.250
 to back up anything outside of their feelings.

1766
01:24:18.930 --> 01:24:21.390
 And it's unfortunate that people are being misled.

1767
01:24:22.430 --> 01:24:24.690
 Now, does our pocketbook hurt right now?

1768
01:24:24.810 --> 01:24:25.670
 Fuck yeah, it does.

1769
01:24:25.790 --> 01:24:26.630
 Do I like it?

1770
01:24:26.630 --> 01:24:27.530
 No, I don't.

1771
01:24:27.810 --> 01:24:30.650
 But should Iran continue to do what they do?

1772
01:24:30.990 --> 01:24:31.410
 No.

1773
01:24:31.770 --> 01:24:33.910
 Should the Islamic regime continue to exist?

1774
01:24:33.910 --> 01:24:35.270
 Fuck no.

1775
01:24:36.690 --> 01:24:37.790
 Something has to happen.

1776
01:24:38.330 --> 01:24:40.210
 There hasn't been peace in the Middle East

1777
01:24:42.130 --> 01:24:47.550
 at least since the Islamic regime came into power in 1978.

1778
01:24:50.230 --> 01:24:55.930
 And so the reality is that they have

1779
01:24:55.930 --> 01:25:01.710
 the last 47 years challenging Omani territorial waters.

1780
01:25:02.650 --> 01:25:03.210
 Okay.

1781
01:25:04.810 --> 01:25:10.030
 These territorial waters have been ratified in 1975

1782
01:25:10.630 --> 01:25:12.750
 before the Islamic regime came to power.

1783
01:25:13.930 --> 01:25:16.770
 And Iran has been antagonizing and encroaching,

1784
01:25:16.930 --> 01:25:18.490
 at least the Islamic regime has.

1785
01:25:19.470 --> 01:25:20.790
 They have been bullying Oman

1786
01:25:20.790 --> 01:25:22.890
 and everybody who uses those waterways.

1787
01:25:24.410 --> 01:25:27.530
 And Iran doesn't like that they no longer have control.

1788
01:25:27.630 --> 01:25:29.010
 I know everybody thinks they have control.

1789
01:25:29.110 --> 01:25:31.170
 They're saying Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz.

1790
01:25:31.170 --> 01:25:32.810
 No, they actually don't.

1791
01:25:33.650 --> 01:25:36.630
 Because if they did, they'd have money.

1792
01:25:37.630 --> 01:25:39.690
 They'd be able to pay their proxies.

1793
01:25:40.030 --> 01:25:41.590
 They'd be able to buy weapons.

1794
01:25:41.670 --> 01:25:44.710
 They'd be able to continue to produce their drones.

1795
01:25:45.050 --> 01:25:48.170
 They would be able to remain in power.

1796
01:25:48.230 --> 01:25:49.590
 There wouldn't be a power struggle

1797
01:25:49.590 --> 01:25:53.110
 between the Islamic regime and the IRGC.

1798
01:25:53.730 --> 01:25:56.810
 And so now I'm really gonna wrap this up.

1799
01:25:57.450 --> 01:25:58.610
 With all that being said,

1800
01:25:58.610 --> 01:26:02.030
 Timmy Dillon and Davey Boy Smith,

1801
01:26:02.590 --> 01:26:04.190
 you guys need to just stick to comedy

1802
01:26:04.190 --> 01:26:05.510
 and shut the fuck up.

1803
01:26:06.910 --> 01:26:09.590
 All right guys, we're now at the home stretch here.

1804
01:26:09.670 --> 01:26:10.230
 All right.

1805
01:26:10.390 --> 01:26:14.570
 So let's move on to some other kind of far out there

1806
01:26:14.570 --> 01:26:16.370
 things that we didn't think would ever happen,

1807
01:26:16.390 --> 01:26:17.990
 what are happening.

1808
01:26:18.470 --> 01:26:21.570
 And I'm talking about the cars,

1809
01:26:21.690 --> 01:26:22.850
 the vehicles that you're gonna be buying

1810
01:26:22.850 --> 01:26:25.750
 in 2027 moving forward.

1811
01:26:26.730 --> 01:26:27.570
 They're all gonna be,

1812
01:26:27.570 --> 01:26:29.530
 basically you're gonna be driving a vehicle

1813
01:26:29.530 --> 01:26:32.870
 that is imposing a surveillance state on you.

1814
01:26:33.070 --> 01:26:34.410
 We're talking about vehicles

1815
01:26:34.410 --> 01:26:37.190
 that will be implementing biometric systems

1816
01:26:37.610 --> 01:26:39.490
 that are gonna analyze your behavior.

1817
01:26:40.110 --> 01:26:42.310
 They're gonna analyze your emotional state.

1818
01:26:42.670 --> 01:26:44.870
 They're gonna actually test the alcohol in your breath

1819
01:26:44.870 --> 01:26:46.910
 without you even knowing they're doing it.

1820
01:26:47.450 --> 01:26:49.370
 It's going to do all these things

1821
01:26:49.370 --> 01:26:51.450
 and it's going to be recording your data.

1822
01:26:52.050 --> 01:26:54.810
 And so let's kind of go over that a bit.

1823
01:26:55.490 --> 01:26:56.810
 So let's start here.

1824
01:26:56.810 --> 01:26:58.110
 I'm gonna start with the biometric

1825
01:26:58.110 --> 01:26:59.890
 and behavioral monitoring systems.

1826
01:27:01.270 --> 01:27:04.310
 Okay, so starting with biometrics.

1827
01:27:05.090 --> 01:27:07.110
 Modern vehicles utilize a multimodal approach

1828
01:27:07.110 --> 01:27:08.250
 to monitor occupants,

1829
01:27:08.430 --> 01:27:09.210
 often employing sensors

1830
01:27:09.210 --> 01:27:11.650
 that require no active participation from the driver.

1831
01:27:11.970 --> 01:27:13.790
 So basically meaning like you don't even know

1832
01:27:13.790 --> 01:27:15.630
 it's happening, it's just, it's happening.

1833
01:27:15.750 --> 01:27:16.390
 It's already doing it.

1834
01:27:17.090 --> 01:27:18.730
 A lot of ways they do it are this.

1835
01:27:19.630 --> 01:27:21.810
 So let's talk about camera-based driver monitoring,

1836
01:27:21.830 --> 01:27:22.850
 which is also called DMS.

1837
01:27:22.990 --> 01:27:24.950
 It's a standardized in vehicles

1838
01:27:24.950 --> 01:27:26.630
 with advanced automation.

1839
01:27:27.170 --> 01:27:29.610
 Infrared cameras are the primary tool

1840
01:27:29.610 --> 01:27:31.150
 for assessing driver's state.

1841
01:27:32.110 --> 01:27:36.450
 So they do this through visual attentiveness, sorry.

1842
01:27:37.270 --> 01:27:40.930
 Systems track eye gaze, all right?

1843
01:27:40.990 --> 01:27:43.570
 So eye gaze, blink rate, okay?

1844
01:27:44.050 --> 01:27:48.010
 And perclose, which is percentage of eyelid closure

1845
01:27:48.010 --> 01:27:50.330
 to identify fatigue or distraction.

1846
01:27:50.630 --> 01:27:52.150
 So just based on your eyes,

1847
01:27:52.170 --> 01:27:53.830
 how your eyes look and what they're doing,

1848
01:27:53.830 --> 01:27:55.190
 if you blink too fast, whatever,

1849
01:27:56.230 --> 01:28:00.090
 they can determine that you're either not paying attention

1850
01:28:00.090 --> 01:28:01.270
 or you're sleeping.

1851
01:28:01.870 --> 01:28:03.350
 There's also gonna be physical indicators.

1852
01:28:03.550 --> 01:28:06.950
 So cameras from manufacturers like BMW, Ford, and Genesis

1853
01:28:06.950 --> 01:28:09.770
 ensure the driver is focused on the roadway.

1854
01:28:10.490 --> 01:28:12.250
 Facial and emotional analysis.

1855
01:28:12.770 --> 01:28:16.230
 So advanced algorithms analyze facial features

1856
01:28:16.230 --> 01:28:17.390
 to detect stress,

1857
01:28:18.130 --> 01:28:20.830
 sudden illness or high level emotional states.

1858
01:28:20.910 --> 01:28:22.790
 Now the high level emotional state's an interesting one

1859
01:28:22.790 --> 01:28:26.730
 because that's going to lead into later

1860
01:28:27.630 --> 01:28:29.670
 where we talk about the kill switch.

1861
01:28:30.730 --> 01:28:34.090
 Because if your emotional state is too high,

1862
01:28:34.390 --> 01:28:36.490
 it could be deemed that you are not fit

1863
01:28:36.490 --> 01:28:39.530
 to drive a vehicle and your vehicle won't even start.

1864
01:28:40.650 --> 01:28:42.470
 And I got a scenario for you on that one.

1865
01:28:43.190 --> 01:28:46.470
 So let's talk about the physiological in cabin clinics.

1866
01:28:47.430 --> 01:28:49.310
 So there's gonna be vital sign cameras,

1867
01:28:49.630 --> 01:28:51.850
 systems developed by Philips to use color changes

1868
01:28:51.850 --> 01:28:56.730
 in the skin to monitor heart and respiration rates

1869
01:28:56.730 --> 01:28:57.930
 without physical contact.

1870
01:28:59.270 --> 01:29:00.530
 This is trippy.

1871
01:29:00.590 --> 01:29:02.570
 They're gonna start using also radar-based sensing.

1872
01:29:02.790 --> 01:29:05.690
 Companies like Kerasys use micro radar

1873
01:29:05.690 --> 01:29:08.110
 to monitor heart rate, variability,

1874
01:29:08.310 --> 01:29:10.570
 and respiration for all passengers.

1875
01:29:11.490 --> 01:29:12.690
 And they're gonna be integrating this

1876
01:29:12.690 --> 01:29:14.490
 into the seats, steering wheels.

1877
01:29:15.170 --> 01:29:17.690
 And there's also like what they call brain waves.

1878
01:29:17.850 --> 01:29:21.010
 So experimental projects like Jaguar Land Rovers

1879
01:29:21.570 --> 01:29:25.670
 Sixth Sense will explore using EEG sensors in the seat

1880
01:29:25.670 --> 01:29:27.690
 and wheel to monitor alertness.

1881
01:29:28.970 --> 01:29:32.890
 So, so far they're gonna be just using these systems

1882
01:29:32.890 --> 01:29:34.250
 to make sure that you're alert,

1883
01:29:34.570 --> 01:29:36.130
 aware, paying attention to the road.

1884
01:29:36.790 --> 01:29:38.530
 But I already see a few flaws here.

1885
01:29:38.570 --> 01:29:39.770
 If you'll blink too much,

1886
01:29:40.130 --> 01:29:42.870
 if your eyes don't open all the way to a certain level

1887
01:29:42.870 --> 01:29:44.530
 that it deems that you're actually

1888
01:29:44.530 --> 01:29:46.570
 like not sleeping or paying attention,

1889
01:29:47.250 --> 01:29:51.770
 there could be evasive maneuvers taken by the vehicle.

1890
01:29:52.490 --> 01:29:54.070
 Basically probably a shutdown.

1891
01:29:54.350 --> 01:29:56.050
 I don't know, but let's continue to read this

1892
01:29:56.050 --> 01:29:57.750
 or I'll read it to you.

1893
01:29:59.290 --> 01:30:01.570
 So here's the passive impairment

1894
01:30:02.210 --> 01:30:04.910
 and alcohol detection system that will be integrated.

1895
01:30:04.930 --> 01:30:06.010
 And I know that this is something

1896
01:30:06.010 --> 01:30:09.170
 that they wanted to put in 2024,

1897
01:30:09.170 --> 01:30:10.450
 but they missed the deadline.

1898
01:30:10.530 --> 01:30:12.610
 So this is absolutely mandated as something

1899
01:30:12.610 --> 01:30:14.730
 that has to be in vehicles in 2027.

1900
01:30:15.610 --> 01:30:19.570
 So here's the major focus of the automotive safety

1901
01:30:20.130 --> 01:30:22.470
 is the passive detection of alcohol.

1902
01:30:22.470 --> 01:30:24.650
 Moving away from active breathalyzer test

1903
01:30:24.650 --> 01:30:26.630
 to seamlessly integrate sensors.

1904
01:30:27.310 --> 01:30:28.330
 And here's how they could do it.

1905
01:30:28.410 --> 01:30:31.090
 They got infrared spectroscopy,

1906
01:30:31.170 --> 01:30:34.570
 which will measure BAC in skin capillaries

1907
01:30:35.430 --> 01:30:36.930
 or exhale breath.

1908
01:30:37.570 --> 01:30:40.270
 They'd have breath-based sensors inside the car.

1909
01:30:40.270 --> 01:30:45.330
 They'll analyze naturally exhaled air within the cabin.

1910
01:30:45.610 --> 01:30:46.570
 Sweat analysis.

1911
01:30:46.630 --> 01:30:49.530
 So this will be done by detecting levels

1912
01:30:49.530 --> 01:30:52.310
 through the skin by contact on control.

1913
01:30:52.530 --> 01:30:55.730
 So like steering wheel, shifting knobs, buttons,

1914
01:30:55.910 --> 01:30:57.170
 like ignition, all that.

1915
01:30:57.750 --> 01:30:59.830
 And then there's what's called an approach gate.

1916
01:31:00.250 --> 01:31:03.170
 So there's cameras that would read the exterior

1917
01:31:03.170 --> 01:31:05.770
 that would monitor you the way you're walking

1918
01:31:05.770 --> 01:31:09.670
 and determine as to whether or not you're drunk

1919
01:31:09.670 --> 01:31:12.190
 based on how you're walking or how you're handling yourself.

1920
01:31:13.230 --> 01:31:16.890
 So this one here is kind of hard to argue with, right?

1921
01:31:17.070 --> 01:31:18.950
 I mean, the only thing I can say is

1922
01:31:19.830 --> 01:31:22.090
 there are certain products you consume

1923
01:31:22.090 --> 01:31:25.650
 that use certain alcohol sugars, for example,

1924
01:31:26.250 --> 01:31:28.490
 or certain products or food to eat

1925
01:31:28.490 --> 01:31:33.710
 that would exhibit or lead to a false positive

1926
01:31:33.710 --> 01:31:36.950
 because your breath can be read as having alcohol

1927
01:31:37.390 --> 01:31:41.630
 on the breath, as in you drank alcohol and consumed it

1928
01:31:41.630 --> 01:31:43.530
 and you're drunk or impaired.

1929
01:31:44.030 --> 01:31:46.790
 But we know that there are false positives out there.

1930
01:31:46.790 --> 01:31:48.630
 And we also know that there are certain things

1931
01:31:48.630 --> 01:31:52.990
 you consume that can lead to a detection of alcohol

1932
01:31:52.990 --> 01:31:55.530
 in the breath when you actually haven't physically

1933
01:31:55.530 --> 01:31:56.610
 drank any alcohol.

1934
01:31:57.170 --> 01:31:58.790
 So there is a little issue there,

1935
01:31:58.790 --> 01:32:03.950
 but it is hard to argue against drunk driving,

1936
01:32:04.290 --> 01:32:05.710
 as in allowing drunk driving.

1937
01:32:06.250 --> 01:32:09.610
 Listen guys, it's 20 fucking 26.

1938
01:32:09.630 --> 01:32:11.430
 At this point, if you're still trying to drink

1939
01:32:11.430 --> 01:32:12.550
 and drive, you're a loser.

1940
01:32:13.590 --> 01:32:14.710
 Use an Uber, man.

1941
01:32:14.810 --> 01:32:16.950
 Get a cab, stay home, call a friend,

1942
01:32:17.030 --> 01:32:18.690
 whatever the fuck it is, make arrangements.

1943
01:32:18.750 --> 01:32:20.390
 If you're gonna go out on the town and drink,

1944
01:32:20.950 --> 01:32:23.290
 there isn't really too much of an excuse.

1945
01:32:24.350 --> 01:32:26.610
 And I say too much because there could be

1946
01:32:26.610 --> 01:32:30.410
 some crazy weird world ending emergency, I guess.

1947
01:32:30.890 --> 01:32:33.230
 But that aside, which is very rare

1948
01:32:33.230 --> 01:32:34.610
 and probably will not happen,

1949
01:32:35.710 --> 01:32:37.730
 you shouldn't be getting behind a wheel if you're drinking.

1950
01:32:37.950 --> 01:32:39.110
 So there's that.

1951
01:32:39.570 --> 01:32:42.550
 Now, this leads to the kill switch.

1952
01:32:43.490 --> 01:32:44.530
 The HALT Act.

1953
01:32:45.050 --> 01:32:47.110
 The HALT Drunk Driving Act.

1954
01:32:48.070 --> 01:32:49.750
 It mandates that new passenger vehicles,

1955
01:32:50.010 --> 01:32:52.170
 including technology, to prevent or limit

1956
01:32:52.170 --> 01:32:55.610
 motor vehicle operation if impairment is detected.

1957
01:32:55.990 --> 01:32:57.030
 And here's a timeline.

1958
01:32:57.690 --> 01:32:59.890
 So again, the mandate was this.

1959
01:33:00.130 --> 01:33:02.390
 It requires passive monitoring of driver performance

1960
01:33:02.390 --> 01:33:03.550
 and BAC levels.

1961
01:33:04.050 --> 01:33:08.510
 It was supposed to be initially implemented in 2024,

1962
01:33:08.530 --> 01:33:10.010
 but they missed that deadline.

1963
01:33:11.030 --> 01:33:13.750
 It's because that vehicles and whatever,

1964
01:33:13.890 --> 01:33:15.970
 it just wasn't ready commercially, the integration.

1965
01:33:17.390 --> 01:33:20.130
 But it has been mandated,

1966
01:33:20.230 --> 01:33:23.230
 is now mandatory to include this

1967
01:33:24.130 --> 01:33:27.110
 and is currently targeted for the 2027 model year.

1968
01:33:27.950 --> 01:33:28.630
 So it's happening.

1969
01:33:30.170 --> 01:33:31.870
 And so this is what's gonna happen.

1970
01:33:31.970 --> 01:33:32.970
 This is the interventions.

1971
01:33:32.970 --> 01:33:35.250
 If there's alcohol detected.

1972
01:33:36.050 --> 01:33:36.170
 Okay.

1973
01:33:37.810 --> 01:33:39.030
 There will be a no-start condition.

1974
01:33:39.270 --> 01:33:41.430
 So locking the transmission or disabling the ignition

1975
01:33:41.430 --> 01:33:42.370
 while the vehicle's parked,

1976
01:33:42.410 --> 01:33:44.270
 it's gonna be a limp home mode.

1977
01:33:45.010 --> 01:33:48.250
 So this can restrict speed and increase following distance

1978
01:33:48.250 --> 01:33:50.050
 so that it's between you and another car.

1979
01:33:51.070 --> 01:33:53.130
 And it'll do this via adaptive cruise control.

1980
01:33:53.170 --> 01:33:55.290
 So the vehicle will take over via cruise control

1981
01:33:55.290 --> 01:33:56.810
 and basically kind of drive for you

1982
01:33:56.810 --> 01:33:58.150
 or will drive for you.

1983
01:33:58.490 --> 01:33:59.950
 And there's also an emergency stop.

1984
01:34:00.030 --> 01:34:01.710
 So the vehicle will start to steer the vehicle

1985
01:34:01.710 --> 01:34:04.330
 to the shoulder and we'll bring it to complete halt.

1986
01:34:05.070 --> 01:34:06.650
 And then there's the assistance request

1987
01:34:06.650 --> 01:34:09.930
 where this is basically, they call emergency services,

1988
01:34:09.990 --> 01:34:11.730
 which will lead to the police

1989
01:34:12.390 --> 01:34:16.990
 and it can unlock doors and activate flashers.

1990
01:34:20.000 --> 01:34:21.220
 Crazy, right?

1991
01:34:21.800 --> 01:34:25.060
 And then here's the other part of all this technology

1992
01:34:25.060 --> 01:34:26.660
 that to me is a little more concerning.

1993
01:34:28.000 --> 01:34:31.620
 So there's gonna be surveillance technology,

1994
01:34:31.620 --> 01:34:33.440
 stuff that you would only see

1995
01:34:33.440 --> 01:34:36.000
 in probably a James Bond movie like spy tech

1996
01:34:36.000 --> 01:34:38.260
 that's gonna be also used against you.

1997
01:34:39.060 --> 01:34:40.400
 So there's gonna be sensors in there

1998
01:34:40.400 --> 01:34:45.560
 that are gonna be able to determine your emotional state.

1999
01:34:46.700 --> 01:34:50.520
 Okay, emotional state and also read your damn lips.

2000
01:34:51.840 --> 01:34:53.780
 So let's talk about the emotional state.

2001
01:34:56.100 --> 01:34:58.920
 There's going to be excitation mapping.

2002
01:34:59.320 --> 01:35:02.280
 There's patents from Denso and other explicitly,

2003
01:35:02.960 --> 01:35:06.400
 explicitly categorized excitation

2004
01:35:07.500 --> 01:35:09.740
 as a monitorable state.

2005
01:35:10.800 --> 01:35:12.360
 So God, I cannot read.

2006
01:35:13.720 --> 01:35:15.560
 It's getting long in this episode, guys.

2007
01:35:15.900 --> 01:35:18.100
 But anyway, there's gonna be excitation mapping.

2008
01:35:18.600 --> 01:35:20.520
 There's also gonna be emotion recognition.

2009
01:35:20.900 --> 01:35:23.260
 There's gonna be disabling operation.

2010
01:35:23.440 --> 01:35:25.060
 Now here, here's interesting.

2011
01:35:25.380 --> 01:35:28.400
 If a driver is deemed unfit due to extreme agitation,

2012
01:35:28.620 --> 01:35:30.760
 the halt act framework could allow the vehicle

2013
01:35:30.760 --> 01:35:32.000
 to disable itself.

2014
01:35:33.720 --> 01:35:36.040
 But the problem with that is there's a debate

2015
01:35:36.040 --> 01:35:37.400
 as to whether or not there will actually

2016
01:35:37.400 --> 01:35:38.600
 be an emergency override

2017
01:35:38.600 --> 01:35:40.380
 because imagine you're getting chased

2018
01:35:40.380 --> 01:35:43.280
 by a fucking ax murderer, someone with a gun,

2019
01:35:43.540 --> 01:35:45.600
 and your car's like right fucking there.

2020
01:35:45.800 --> 01:35:46.780
 You're like, I'm gonna get in my car

2021
01:35:46.780 --> 01:35:47.720
 and get the hell out of here.

2022
01:35:47.940 --> 01:35:49.820
 But you're emotionally worked up.

2023
01:35:49.860 --> 01:35:51.820
 You're too agitated and too excited.

2024
01:35:52.460 --> 01:35:55.100
 So you get in your car and your car's like,

2025
01:35:55.300 --> 01:35:56.040
 can't fucking drive.

2026
01:35:57.300 --> 01:36:00.160
 No, you're not in a condition to get behind this wheel

2027
01:36:00.160 --> 01:36:01.000
 and drive this car.

2028
01:36:01.460 --> 01:36:03.140
 You need to calm the fuck down.

2029
01:36:04.100 --> 01:36:05.520
 And while you're waiting and arguing

2030
01:36:05.520 --> 01:36:07.260
 with your damn car to start,

2031
01:36:07.980 --> 01:36:11.620
 said ax murderer or guy with gun will just unalive you.

2032
01:36:12.200 --> 01:36:15.080
 So I see lawsuits coming.

2033
01:36:16.380 --> 01:36:18.400
 Given that scenario, that situation,

2034
01:36:18.500 --> 01:36:20.080
 like you're in danger and you need to get away,

2035
01:36:20.100 --> 01:36:24.000
 of course you're gonna be emotionally excited or whatnot.

2036
01:36:24.400 --> 01:36:25.920
 So yeah, I don't know about that one.

2037
01:36:26.420 --> 01:36:27.120
 And here's the other one.

2038
01:36:27.520 --> 01:36:29.600
 Here's the continuation of spy tech, right?

2039
01:36:29.600 --> 01:36:32.980
 So this emerging surveillance lip reading technology.

2040
01:36:33.240 --> 01:36:36.520
 This has been developed by Ford.

2041
01:36:36.640 --> 01:36:41.040
 Ford has filed a patent for in-car lip reading technology.

2042
01:36:41.300 --> 01:36:42.520
 And they're trying to say that,

2043
01:36:42.560 --> 01:36:43.920
 well, you know, if the cabin's noisy

2044
01:36:43.920 --> 01:36:45.560
 and the microphones don't pick up,

2045
01:36:46.180 --> 01:36:48.880
 then we can read your lips using other technologies.

2046
01:36:48.940 --> 01:36:50.580
 And I have a problem with even microphones

2047
01:36:50.580 --> 01:36:51.620
 listening to me anyway,

2048
01:36:51.620 --> 01:36:52.640
 so that shouldn't be happening.

2049
01:36:52.980 --> 01:36:54.800
 But here's the operational trigger.

2050
01:36:54.860 --> 01:36:58.420
 The system activates during high ambient noise, okay?

2051
01:36:59.850 --> 01:37:02.080
 And this is how the mechanism works.

2052
01:37:02.420 --> 01:37:05.220
 So the machine will use,

2053
01:37:05.300 --> 01:37:07.660
 or it will use machine learning

2054
01:37:08.130 --> 01:37:10.100
 trained on lip movements.

2055
01:37:11.280 --> 01:37:13.560
 It may also emit inaudible sound waves.

2056
01:37:13.640 --> 01:37:16.000
 Basically it's gonna use radars,

2057
01:37:16.140 --> 01:37:19.000
 it's gonna analyze echoes that bounce off your mouth

2058
01:37:19.550 --> 01:37:22.120
 to determine what you're fucking saying.

2059
01:37:24.960 --> 01:37:26.680
 What the fuck?

2060
01:37:27.860 --> 01:37:28.260
 Hello?

2061
01:37:29.400 --> 01:37:33.220
 Well, the spy tech is gonna be used against you

2062
01:37:33.220 --> 01:37:34.460
 in your own fucking cars.

2063
01:37:35.820 --> 01:37:40.220
 And then there's the data and privacy concerns.

2064
01:37:40.600 --> 01:37:46.490
 You see, everything about you that's being read,

2065
01:37:46.550 --> 01:37:47.770
 your emotional state,

2066
01:37:48.850 --> 01:37:51.930
 the time of day you drive, how fast you drive,

2067
01:37:54.050 --> 01:37:55.690
 you sweat too much, blink too much,

2068
01:37:55.770 --> 01:37:57.130
 look away maybe, whatever,

2069
01:37:57.310 --> 01:37:59.450
 all of this data is gonna be collected.

2070
01:37:59.450 --> 01:38:05.070
 And there's been talks of this being provided

2071
01:38:05.070 --> 01:38:08.330
 to the insurance companies and even law enforcement.

2072
01:38:10.860 --> 01:38:13.080
 Insurance companies will now be able to charge you

2073
01:38:13.080 --> 01:38:15.640
 a custom rate based on your driving

2074
01:38:15.640 --> 01:38:19.760
 or what it determines to be erratic driving,

2075
01:38:19.780 --> 01:38:20.560
 or if you're a person,

2076
01:38:20.600 --> 01:38:23.140
 they determine to be in a high emotional state

2077
01:38:23.140 --> 01:38:24.580
 every time you're behind the wheel,

2078
01:38:24.860 --> 01:38:28.980
 or you have more elevated emotional states

2079
01:38:28.980 --> 01:38:30.520
 than the next person,

2080
01:38:30.520 --> 01:38:32.100
 you'll get charged more,

2081
01:38:32.660 --> 01:38:35.500
 or you may be deemed to be uninsurable.

2082
01:38:37.060 --> 01:38:39.000
 And then the law enforcement implications.

2083
01:38:39.540 --> 01:38:41.180
 I mean, isn't that part of the fucking fun?

2084
01:38:41.360 --> 01:38:42.800
 Like, come on, speeding?

2085
01:38:43.560 --> 01:38:43.820
 Really?

2086
01:38:44.820 --> 01:38:46.760
 We already know that if you didn't see it,

2087
01:38:46.780 --> 01:38:47.460
 it didn't happen, right?

2088
01:38:47.960 --> 01:38:49.240
 There's nobody on the road.

2089
01:38:49.560 --> 01:38:52.100
 You're driving a few over the speed limit, whatever.

2090
01:38:52.360 --> 01:38:54.340
 I mean, this is America, man.

2091
01:38:55.340 --> 01:38:58.180
 We created the sense of freedom on the road,

2092
01:38:58.240 --> 01:38:59.660
 the muscle cars, right?

2093
01:38:59.660 --> 01:39:02.180
 Home and land of the muscle car, Route 66,

2094
01:39:02.360 --> 01:39:03.320
 all of that shit.

2095
01:39:04.380 --> 01:39:07.800
 Like, at what point did it become acceptable

2096
01:39:08.300 --> 01:39:11.540
 for the government to implement a surveillance state

2097
01:39:11.540 --> 01:39:13.880
 within the privacy of our own fucking vehicle?

2098
01:39:15.280 --> 01:39:17.100
 Like, that's what this is.

2099
01:39:18.760 --> 01:39:19.800
 Your vehicle,

2100
01:39:21.140 --> 01:39:23.520
 the cars that America is so proud to own

2101
01:39:23.520 --> 01:39:26.100
 because it represents freedom of travel,

2102
01:39:26.340 --> 01:39:29.600
 go anywhere, do what we want, right?

2103
01:39:29.600 --> 01:39:31.140
 You're driving to and from the job,

2104
01:39:31.220 --> 01:39:32.880
 you're on vacation, whatever it is,

2105
01:39:32.880 --> 01:39:33.760
 you're going to the beach.

2106
01:39:34.440 --> 01:39:38.140
 You will do so under a state of surveillance

2107
01:39:38.140 --> 01:39:40.960
 implemented by a fucking state.

2108
01:39:41.580 --> 01:39:43.820
 Your data will be collected and sold

2109
01:39:43.820 --> 01:39:46.040
 to insurance agencies and law enforcement

2110
01:39:46.040 --> 01:39:48.180
 and government entities, I'm sure,

2111
01:39:49.480 --> 01:39:53.240
 to further assess your viability,

2112
01:39:53.940 --> 01:39:56.340
 your ability to exist, probably.

2113
01:39:56.340 --> 01:39:59.380
 I mean, it feels like communist China

2114
01:40:00.800 --> 01:40:03.220
 is going to start to be,

2115
01:40:03.760 --> 01:40:04.940
 like the way they do things

2116
01:40:04.940 --> 01:40:06.880
 is going to start to be implemented here in the US

2117
01:40:06.880 --> 01:40:09.380
 and they're going to start with our cars.

2118
01:40:10.300 --> 01:40:11.260
 We're going to start with our cars.

2119
01:40:11.780 --> 01:40:13.920
 But that's not all because,

2120
01:40:14.280 --> 01:40:15.460
 aside from that,

2121
01:40:16.840 --> 01:40:18.160
 I'm not going too deep on this,

2122
01:40:18.180 --> 01:40:19.640
 but there's patents out there.

2123
01:40:20.760 --> 01:40:22.520
 I believe Google owns the patents.

2124
01:40:22.640 --> 01:40:23.840
 You can fact check me on that.

2125
01:40:24.280 --> 01:40:28.540
 But anyway, Wells Fargo has in their patent portfolio,

2126
01:40:29.820 --> 01:40:32.900
 what they want to do is use what has been patented

2127
01:40:32.900 --> 01:40:36.040
 and I believe developed to be a biometric dust

2128
01:40:36.440 --> 01:40:39.420
 that contains all these nanoparticles, right?

2129
01:40:39.940 --> 01:40:42.620
 So what they're saying is they're going to use this

2130
01:40:42.620 --> 01:40:43.960
 to identify you.

2131
01:40:44.800 --> 01:40:46.360
 This dust, this biometric dust,

2132
01:40:46.420 --> 01:40:49.040
 can identify you through your facial recognition,

2133
01:40:49.100 --> 01:40:51.940
 like how it analyzes your physical appearance

2134
01:40:51.940 --> 01:40:53.840
 based on how the dust interacts with you,

2135
01:40:54.380 --> 01:40:57.640
 your heart rate, everything.

2136
01:40:58.560 --> 01:40:59.680
 You won't even know it's there.

2137
01:40:59.840 --> 01:41:02.780
 You can just walk into this mist

2138
01:41:02.780 --> 01:41:04.200
 and you probably won't even see it.

2139
01:41:04.360 --> 01:41:05.960
 It'll absorb into your skin.

2140
01:41:06.600 --> 01:41:08.860
 Wells Fargo thinks that they can use this

2141
01:41:08.860 --> 01:41:12.860
 or they want to use it to be able to identify you

2142
01:41:12.860 --> 01:41:15.160
 so that they can deem you're the person

2143
01:41:15.160 --> 01:41:17.100
 that's supposed to be using their services,

2144
01:41:17.180 --> 01:41:18.920
 like an ATM, for example.

2145
01:41:19.860 --> 01:41:21.180
 What if you're just making a payment?

2146
01:41:21.180 --> 01:41:22.040
 I don't know.

2147
01:41:22.600 --> 01:41:27.080
 Anyway, I think this is a bridge too far,

2148
01:41:27.300 --> 01:41:29.300
 especially for a financial institution

2149
01:41:29.300 --> 01:41:30.200
 who is doing nothing

2150
01:41:30.200 --> 01:41:32.860
 but holding your own hard-earned fucking money.

2151
01:41:33.280 --> 01:41:34.700
 I mean, all the bank is supposed to be

2152
01:41:34.700 --> 01:41:38.000
 is a place that safely stores your money,

2153
01:41:38.360 --> 01:41:41.880
 but the bank thinks that you're just an asset

2154
01:41:41.880 --> 01:41:45.540
 and that they need all of your data,

2155
01:41:46.160 --> 01:41:47.460
 everything about you.

2156
01:41:47.600 --> 01:41:50.420
 They want to inject into you through aerosols,

2157
01:41:50.420 --> 01:41:54.880
 penetrate your skin with some kind of biometric device

2158
01:41:58.200 --> 01:42:00.920
 that they're gonna use on you.

2159
01:42:01.180 --> 01:42:01.940
 And once it's in you,

2160
01:42:01.980 --> 01:42:04.000
 does it come out or is it there permanently?

2161
01:42:04.400 --> 01:42:05.640
 Are you now being tracked?

2162
01:42:05.780 --> 01:42:08.660
 Are you being recorded every single move you make,

2163
01:42:09.040 --> 01:42:12.600
 everything you do, everything that you say,

2164
01:42:12.660 --> 01:42:15.400
 where you go, like your patterns?

2165
01:42:16.440 --> 01:42:17.480
 Think about it.

2166
01:42:17.660 --> 01:42:19.380
 All through this biometric dust

2167
01:42:19.380 --> 01:42:20.980
 that's going to be implemented.

2168
01:42:22.200 --> 01:42:24.920
 And Wells Fargo wants to lead the charge in doing this,

2169
01:42:25.060 --> 01:42:26.960
 a fucking financial institution.

2170
01:42:28.260 --> 01:42:30.660
 The surveillance state that we've all been warning about

2171
01:42:30.660 --> 01:42:31.920
 seems to be here.

2172
01:42:32.280 --> 01:42:33.240
 It is coming.

2173
01:42:33.760 --> 01:42:36.380
 And it's starting with our fucking cars, guys,

2174
01:42:36.640 --> 01:42:38.960
 our cars, our vehicles, any new vehicle.

2175
01:42:39.720 --> 01:42:41.720
 And look, buy used, do whatever you can,

2176
01:42:41.840 --> 01:42:44.460
 find someone who's savvy, rip that shit out if you can.

2177
01:42:45.140 --> 01:42:47.980
 I think maybe just go back to kit cars.

2178
01:42:48.480 --> 01:42:50.560
 I'm sure the government will eventually deem

2179
01:42:50.560 --> 01:42:51.980
 all these other vehicles illegal

2180
01:42:51.980 --> 01:42:53.340
 and they're gonna force us to buy new ones

2181
01:42:53.340 --> 01:42:55.300
 or implement these technologies somehow.

2182
01:42:56.200 --> 01:42:59.840
 But until then, do what you can to fight the system.

2183
01:43:01.140 --> 01:43:02.520
 This is the land of the free, man.

2184
01:43:02.540 --> 01:43:03.380
 This is America.

2185
01:43:03.460 --> 01:43:04.880
 We're not gonna stand for that bullshit.

2186
01:43:06.680 --> 01:43:09.600
 So look, I'm gonna end it there.

2187
01:43:10.120 --> 01:43:11.200
 I'm gonna end it there, guys.

2188
01:43:11.980 --> 01:43:13.080
 This was a long episode.

2189
01:43:13.180 --> 01:43:14.260
 I know, I know.

2190
01:43:14.440 --> 01:43:15.480
 We talked about Iran.

2191
01:43:15.980 --> 01:43:20.360
 We fact-checked Davey Boy Smith and Tim Cartman Dillon.

2192
01:43:22.240 --> 01:43:24.380
 We discussed a few things,

2193
01:43:24.380 --> 01:43:26.660
 all the way to the surveillance state technology

2194
01:43:26.660 --> 01:43:27.600
 that's gonna be implemented

2195
01:43:27.600 --> 01:43:30.700
 and things that you do not have a choice to deny.

2196
01:43:33.560 --> 01:43:34.900
 Crazy world we live in, right?

2197
01:43:35.100 --> 01:43:37.000
 Crazy fucking world we live in.

2198
01:43:37.200 --> 01:43:37.800
 Really is.

2199
01:43:38.420 --> 01:43:40.740
 Listen, everybody, continue to like, subscribe,

2200
01:43:40.760 --> 01:43:41.500
 and share the show.

2201
01:43:42.140 --> 01:43:44.420
 Please leave me a damn five-star review.

2202
01:43:44.420 --> 01:43:45.120
 And I'm gonna say this.

2203
01:43:45.120 --> 01:43:47.820
 I have a lot of people who direct message me,

2204
01:43:47.820 --> 01:43:49.540
 who tell me, hey, great episode.

2205
01:43:49.640 --> 01:43:51.120
 Loved what you said, et cetera.

2206
01:43:51.780 --> 01:43:52.520
 Do me a favor.

2207
01:43:54.000 --> 01:43:55.320
 I appreciate your reaching out,

2208
01:43:55.660 --> 01:43:58.700
 but put that in a review on Apple, Spotify,

2209
01:43:58.780 --> 01:43:59.580
 whatever it is.

2210
01:43:59.740 --> 01:44:00.780
 You watch them on YouTube.

2211
01:44:00.920 --> 01:44:01.660
 Leave a comment.

2212
01:44:02.180 --> 01:44:03.160
 Leave a recommendation.

2213
01:44:03.840 --> 01:44:04.980
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2214
01:44:05.560 --> 01:44:06.820
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2215
01:44:06.900 --> 01:44:08.000
 Let's grow this thing together.

2216
01:44:08.140 --> 01:44:09.420
 I appreciate everybody.

2217
01:44:09.780 --> 01:44:13.920
 And with that being said, have yourself a good day.

2218
01:44:14.640 --> 01:44:17.460
 Devils hide behind redemption.

2219
01:44:18.020 --> 01:44:20.900
 Honesty is a one-way gate to hell.