SHNEAKO - March 31, 2026


Inside the Strait of Hormuz

Hosted by
Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy
Mentioned
Hormuz Island Twitter Beef Dot Robert Dean Madhab Going Neon Chet
SNEAKO Gets Into HEATED IDF Debate with Israeli Soldier Professor Jiang： Greater Israel Formation

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In this episode, the crew of the MV Liberator dives deep into the Strait of Hormuz, a strategically important shipping lane between the Persian Gulf and Persian Gulf, to document the latest in the ongoing battle between the U.S. and Iran over oil convoys passing through the Strait.

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00:00:00.000 why are they getting better and more important footage than anybody part of these major
00:00:03.600 organizations because they don't want to see yeah you're right they don't want us to know this
00:00:06.880 they want to think that it's closed is it always this busy bro look at all those ships it's two
00:00:12.640 million per ship right two million usd right here what is there it's like 20 boats they are making
00:00:18.400 bank right now that's why they're so jealous they are cashing in this is the most expensive toll in
00:00:24.000 the world. They have not shut down the Strait of Formos, but they're controlling it. It's not
00:00:30.560 shut down, they keep saying that. It's just closed for Epstein people. Everyone else, they could pay
00:00:34.960 the toll. Pay the Shia toll. They just got to slap a chest. I don't know, how do they know who is 1.00
00:00:40.240 allowed and who isn't? I hope this video shows. How are they able to tell which tanker is good and
00:00:44.960 which one's bad? Okay, I'll show you from a map. This is important. So this is the Strait of Formos.
00:00:50.400 So I think they're right here.
00:00:51.860 Yeah, this is the strait.
00:00:53.260 It's three kilometers from Hormuz Island to Iran.
00:00:56.540 I think this would be three kilometers.
00:00:57.980 And then this, the main part of the strait,
00:00:59.720 if I'm not mistaken.
00:01:00.620 Why don't you tell us...
00:01:01.720 Hey, Robert Dan and Co.
00:01:02.880 ...what your feelings are about this voyage.
00:01:04.080 If it happens, it happens.
00:01:06.560 Well, I just want to clarify
00:01:07.380 that this is not a suicide boat.
00:01:10.500 All right, this is a civilian vessel. 0.96
00:01:12.740 Dude, he's going to have so many...
00:01:13.940 Insha'Allah he doesn't,
00:01:14.840 but bro, imagine that conversation
00:01:16.500 back at U.S. Customs
00:01:18.040 when he comes home to America.
00:01:19.680 But this is dope.
00:01:20.400 We're actually seeing footage of the Strait of Hormuz, which is saying it's closed.
00:01:23.580 No, it's open for just non-Epsi and affiliated countries.
00:01:26.680 So this breaking down that propaganda.
00:01:29.360 Going out into the Strait of Hormuz to document what could be history.
00:01:34.680 That's super dope.
00:01:35.760 They've closed down the Strait of Hormuz and there's a new economic order shaping in which they are allowing vessels to move through with certain permissions based on whether or not they are conducting oil transactions in the dollar.
00:01:48.240 Now, I think that's a big deal.
00:01:49.400 I think you do, too.
00:01:50.040 So that's why we're on this hustle and we're going to go over this.
00:01:52.100 So they're trading off the yuan dollar instead, and it's equivalent to 2 million USD per tanker that's going through.
00:01:58.120 2 million!
00:01:59.680 But in yuan, not using the petro dollar.
00:02:02.360 This is shaking up the global economy.
00:02:04.740 Something that Americans don't want you to know.
00:02:06.540 See it for ourselves.
00:02:07.960 So in the past 48 hours, we've had some spicy experiences.
00:02:11.040 I want you to summarize for us what led up to this particular...
00:02:13.920 You've got the Casey Neistat camera.
00:02:15.180 I'm the perfect person to tell the story because I was the most freaked out about it.
00:02:18.240 so we were in boucher two days ago and every location we went to we discovered later on
00:02:25.440 got bombed at a certain point now these are locations that we visited initially because
00:02:29.680 they had already been bombed so you think there's no point to bomb it again one of the places we
00:02:34.520 went to a weather station you posted a video about it completely demolished there's nothing
00:02:38.660 to bomb there again well when we leave we find out it got bombed and on top of that the hotel
00:02:43.260 we were in right outside of it maybe a hundred feet outside of it wow right after we left the
00:02:49.020 hotel right after we had left the hotel a couple of hours so we're i was paranoid at least i was
00:02:53.740 thinking maybe it's either a coincidence or there's a message well yesterday we get to
00:02:58.780 bandarabas uh minab actually which is right outside bandarabas and we visited the little
00:03:04.940 girls school actually it's a for boys and girls the little school at minab that was bombed by
00:03:09.260 tomahawk missile 168 people died we filmed it we documented it was very emotional and impactful
00:03:14.860 five or ten minutes after we left it got long so now the team is like okay so are they thinking
00:03:21.420 that maybe the military strikes they're trying to target journalists as they're doing in lebanon
00:03:26.860 five to ten minutes after it got hit this is targeted of a coincidence we're potentially
00:03:32.380 being targeted and this coincided with the news they got to be careful journalists in lebanon
00:03:36.380 were targeted and killed by the israelis just said so he left out something that happened on
00:03:39.660 the way to minab from the other bus remember the antenna yeah does he look a little bit too happy
00:03:44.860 that he might be targeted by military obviously it's good hum to love you get
00:03:48.620 martyred doing what you're supposed to do but man i want to be this happy under the threat
00:03:54.620 of death all the time when we were out there there was all right right right
00:03:59.740 so we saw a civilian or we saw what remained no fear some kind of antenna facility it was
00:04:04.620 completely demolished and while we were out there it sounded like a drone strike uh it wasn't in our
00:04:09.260 immediate vicinity but it was close enough for us to hear it yeah it was very loud and i started
00:04:13.180 running you didn't you're a little too calm but yeah it seems like everywhere we were going just
00:04:17.100 kept getting hit you know so uh yeah we felt like we're being targeted and so we had a crazy drive
00:04:22.540 home we had to like abandon our phones we got off the bus grabbed random cars and had a really long
00:04:27.820 journey home that's right yeah well the only way to protect free speech is to keep speaking that's
00:04:33.260 right no fear our brother ali is with us today now they could you tell us what we're supposed
00:04:41.340 to go to important from that fortune but i think after this media tour it is somehow i can say
00:04:48.060 nearly for 10 days we are here and this is the first time that zionists are ahead of their 0.98
00:04:51.980 schedule because they used to bomb the place that we were there before but now they targeted the 1.00
00:04:57.340 location we are supposed to go there so this is the first time they are ahead of their schedule
00:05:02.220 but uh fortunately the kind of a and a vessel that we are going getting close to the uh oil
00:05:07.500 tankers and some cargo vessels and you can see them right they're getting close to them to see
00:05:11.660 what is the current situation in this train of hormones and the fabric even narratives about it
00:05:17.100 have you uh managed to figure out if these ones are going to change after or are they waiting for
00:05:21.980 I think so, and I got some information that the whole Strait of Hormuz is some 33 kilometers wide, but the shipping lane is actually very narrow.
00:05:33.060 Of course it's 33 kilometers, huh?
00:05:35.080 Stay strong, sneak to keep her mental peace from Twitter Beef Dot, which air sickness, get better love.
00:05:40.760 Thank you a lot, I appreciate you. Love. Thank you.
00:05:43.940 flows to the oman and this is straight almost it connects iran from the north and oman in the south
00:05:50.580 so it is a key waterway and as i did some research i can say 20 percent of the world's oil consumption
00:06:00.500 passes through this key waterway so it can have a very strong impact on world economy
00:06:07.060 and a large portion of lng mostly produced by qatar also passes from these key waterways 0.63
00:06:12.740 And now 30 days into the U.S. is winning war on Iran. 0.82
00:06:17.820 Still, Iran maintains the control of the strength of hormones. 0.83
00:06:20.680 W? 0.60
00:06:21.240 Maybe you would see that some news agencies say that the strength of hormones... 0.88
00:06:25.800 Maybe they could swim the barrels.
00:06:27.020 If they're going to block the tankers, they should just get the Marines being deployed,
00:06:31.000 strap a barrel of oil on their back, and swim through.
00:06:34.280 Then our economy is not going to go in the crapper.
00:06:38.220 Shut down. Nobody is under control.
00:06:40.040 And as Iranian officials kept saying that it is open for allies and friends and those who are not involved in this war.
00:06:47.540 But it is absolutely close to the U.S. and Israeli regimes and their allies. 0.54
00:06:53.600 And those countries, they let their soil to be used on the attacks on Iranian nation.
00:06:59.240 Whoa, there's a lot of ships.
00:07:04.560 Focus. 0.97
00:07:07.400 That's a lot of ships.
00:07:08.560 why are they copying me just within on this side of the vessel there's several
00:07:16.060 listen
00:07:27.460 bro dang imagine the pollution in that water
00:07:34.380 And that island off in the distance, is that Hormuz Island behind them?
00:07:40.840 Let me ask them.
00:07:42.500 You know, there's people that live on Hormuz Island.
00:07:45.900 Saw they had a barricade showing solidarity.
00:07:50.180 They're not afraid of martyrdom.
00:07:57.460 30 days into the U.S.-Israeli war and Iran.
00:08:00.420 Now we are in the street of Hormuz in southern Iran.
00:08:03.660 bro look at all those ships maybe one kilometer away from the port is southern iran and those
00:08:10.460 are massive iranian vessels most of them are here there might be some vessels that uh they might not
00:08:17.580 be iranian but they got some distance from iranian port hormones uh because there is a risk of these
00:08:24.140 vessels getting targeted here and because of that they got so it's two million per ship right two
00:08:29.580 2 million USD well in yuan right here what is there it's like 20 boats they are making bank
00:08:36.860 right now that's why they're so jealous they are cashing in this is the most expensive toll in the
00:08:42.540 world uh key uh points of discussion after u.s israeli war on yuan they got some information
00:08:48.900 that this is where the horrors it has some 30 kilometers wide but the shipping lane is so narrow
00:08:54.540 So you can just only use three kilometers for shipping lanes, one closer to the U.S. border and the other one close to Oman in the south.
00:09:04.700 And Strait of Hormuz connects in the north to Iran and in the south to Oman and UAE.
00:09:10.980 And I got some information.
00:09:12.040 You know, someone like Arab, he wants to go viral right now and do a video. 0.97
00:09:14.740 I swam across the Strait of Hormuz with the thumbnail, with the waves splashing and missiles flying over from Oman to Iran. 0.94
00:09:24.540 You know he's thinking that right now.
00:09:54.540 straight and foremost but they're controlling it so there is much difference that yeah so it's not
00:10:00.140 shut down they keep saying that it's just closed for epstein people everyone else they could pay
00:10:05.100 the toll pay the pay the shia toll they just got to slap a chest that's the i don't know how do
00:10:11.020 they know who is allowed and who isn't i wonder i hope this video shows how are they able to tell
00:10:16.940 which tanker is good and which one's bad is open to the iranian allies and all those countries 0.90
00:10:24.020 the flag they fly that's got to be the dumbest thing you don't think that trump tried that
00:10:40.940 already why don't we just put why don't we just put an iranian flag on the tanker and we can get 0.86
00:10:47.740 the you think they didn't think about flying a flag on it we'll put the brown flag the inferior
00:10:54.060 flag on the boat this is one of those countries to target their attacks on the iranian nation 0.99
00:11:00.320 They go off vibes, if it's a vibey boat they can pass, wonder how hot it is there, it doesn't 0.92
00:11:20.320 look too bad.
00:11:23.320 club's yacht can pass
00:11:41.740 can you imagine like a miami of thought yacht going through it's playing i'm looking for the
00:11:49.980 It's just
00:11:52.980 You get the OF and IG thoughts twerking
00:11:55.480 And there's like a clob stream
00:11:57.000 And Neon's off to the side
00:11:58.760 Chet! WRL Strait of Hormuz 0.62
00:12:01.040 I'm looking for the heart 0.90
00:12:02.760 UK you could pass
00:12:05.160 You could pass 0.99
00:12:05.900 Someone just said more hoes
00:12:13.400 Going through Hormuz 0.74
00:12:14.460 Really bro?
00:12:16.360 I'm pretty sure is Kamesh Island
00:12:19.000 the largest island in the virgin gulf uh you can see well i thought they i thought we can go through 0.95
00:12:25.480 it's called the straight of whore moves hey sorry sorry it's uh quite rugged uh there's
00:12:32.920 high elevations on that island and resistance channels report that it is heavily fortified
00:12:38.280 uh and uh fully prepared for any uh attempted amphibious landing
00:12:42.680 I personally am skeptical that the United States military is going to attempt any kind of amphibious landing on that island.
00:12:51.520 If it does attempt any amphibious landing, it's likely to be on a very small island that is further away from the Iranian coastline.
00:12:59.420 And that is of little to no strategic importance to the Islamic Republic. 0.92
00:13:04.800 But they all look different sizes 1.00
00:13:10.860 So the report saw that it's 2 million per tanker
00:13:13.360 Every single ship that we've seen here looks different
00:13:16.800 So we're now to the waters of the Strait of Hormuz
00:13:21.180 I would say we're about time
00:13:23.320 We're here in the Strait of Hormuz
00:13:25.200 This war is over in 24 hours
00:13:27.960 I'm Top Goy reporting live from the Strait of Hormuz
00:13:32.040 i ran look at that they're saying i ran away from the strait a couple of kilometers from the shore
00:13:39.320 and uh or is this fuzzy we were told we're only to get 20 minutes out here because there are 0.97
00:13:44.180 drones in the sky and uh the genocidal israeli entity has a long and sordid record of murdering 0.80
00:13:52.720 journalists with lethal impunity so unfortunately we're not going to be able to spend too much time 0.99
00:13:56.900 But I'll give you a good panoramic view right now of what we can see.
00:14:03.900 It's not Lucas Gage.
00:14:26.840 That is Hormuz Island, where we were hoping to go crazy.
00:14:29.680 This is crazy footage, bro.
00:14:30.480 the port facility so youtubers are doing better journalism than mainstream media it's like cnn
00:14:36.280 does not have this footage fox news msnbc this is something that everybody should see this it's
00:14:41.900 incredible that they're able to be here right you don't see this from anywhere youtubers have
00:14:48.220 honestly taken over media content creators in general why are they getting better and more
00:14:53.680 important footage than anybody part of these major organizations we have to remain on the water
00:14:58.000 because they don't want us to yeah you're right they don't want us to know this they
00:15:05.920 want to think that it's closed is it always this busy
00:15:28.000 Press TV microphone has fallen overboard.
00:15:30.880 Really?
00:15:33.340 Right when I start glazing them for being better than the mainstream news.
00:15:36.760 Look at this, bro.
00:15:38.940 Who's going in?
00:15:40.740 Ali, I think that's your microphone.
00:15:42.260 You have a duty to make this act.
00:15:43.900 Yeah, don't jump in.
00:15:45.180 There might be a mine.
00:15:47.140 Please don't.
00:15:48.200 I would not go in that water, bro.
00:15:52.860 Bro, you jump in there.
00:15:53.940 The IRGC flies out, slapping their chest.
00:15:58.000 The emergency operation to save the rescue of your microphone from certain death
00:16:27.000 it's definitely broken right it's definitely broken why would they do it's definitely broken
00:16:35.200 look at those mountains i think that's oman over there this is the island of
00:16:48.740 woods. You can see it's quite rugged, mountainous. I think that would pose a challenge to anybody
00:17:02.820 who's trying to... Ground evasion. Ground evasion control of it from the Iranian military. Yeah.
00:17:07.220 And over here is the much larger island of Kamesh, the largest island in the Persian Gulf.
00:17:18.740 someone in the chat just said where is this did we not say it like 50 million times this video
00:17:32.600 like do i really need to keep explaining this
00:17:34.440 it's china yeah
00:17:41.740 This is the Miami Beach River 0.98
00:17:47.260 We're watching a Klav Yacht Party stream 0.98
00:18:08.360 Okay
00:18:08.880 I'll show you from a map
00:18:10.460 Just said this is important. So this is the Strait of Hormuz. So I think that they're right here. They say that overall, a lot of it's over here. It seems like the separation, it goes to 33 kilometers. But this, well, it doesn't look like that would be equivalent.
00:18:24.840 Habibi come to Oman where all Madhab pray in the same masjid. 0.89
00:18:54.840 That's a weird border from Oman, huh? 0.98
00:18:56.740 It randomly goes off like that.
00:18:59.240 But this little three kilometer strip right here controls 20% of the world's oil.
00:19:06.020 Therefore, one of the most important little straits in global economy.
00:19:13.500 And Karg Island, which this is the speculation that they're going to invade, is...
00:19:20.040 Where is it?
00:19:22.000 Where is Karg Island?
00:19:22.900 Let me go see.
00:19:33.000 So Karg Island is right here, a lot further northwest, all the way in that straight.
00:19:41.500 This is where people are speculating the U.S. Marine invasion will be.
00:19:50.560 It definitely set up tons of traps. 1.00
00:20:01.480 You ate used to Oman. 1.00
00:20:03.000 That is why it is weird like this. 0.99
00:20:04.060 We're now heading back to shore.
00:20:05.700 We've actually been given more time.
00:20:06.820 You ate used to Oman?
00:20:08.000 What does that, what do you mean? 1.00
00:20:08.920 Out here that we had anticipated.
00:20:10.320 We told 20 minutes.
00:20:11.420 We've been out here for about an hour.
00:20:13.760 So why invade that island so far away?
00:20:15.740 Well, because that's where a lot of the oil refineries are.
00:20:20.300 And also, it's an important aspect in the economy.
00:20:24.320 It's close to Iran.
00:20:25.800 Maybe they think it's not as heavily guarded.
00:20:28.360 Could be a lot of different reasons.
00:20:30.940 Thankfully, we've seen a fair bit, at least as much as we can on this vessel.
00:20:36.100 I just couldn't count of the number of oil tankers and cargo ships out here.
00:20:41.040 These are just ones that are visible to the naked eye, and I counted 90 of them.
00:20:45.780 And, you know, some are pointed northward.
00:20:48.440 Others are pointed southward.
00:20:49.780 so there appears to be quite a bit of two-way traffic, you know, close to the Iranian shore.
00:20:58.740 In any case, assuming that we don't get blown out of the water between here and the port,
00:21:04.900 this will be my report to you from the Strait of Hormuz on March 29, 2026.
00:21:19.780 Nice.
00:21:23.420 Great journalism.