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00:00:17.620 War affects supply chains.

00:00:19.800 And right now, one of the most important shipping routes in the world,

00:00:22.860 the Strait of Hormuz, along Iran's southern border, is under massive strain.

00:00:27.800 About 20% of the world's oil passes through it, and when conflicts in that region happen, it is effectively closed right now.

00:00:36.460 Consequences will ripple out fast.

00:00:38.580 Air freight costs have already soared by as much as 400%.

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00:01:15.960 discount jace.com promo code beck today uh the condensed version of the podcast is really good

00:01:25.480 It has some really useful things in it, but get a full perspective and understanding of all of it.

00:01:30.140 You should listen to the full podcast.

00:01:32.140 You can get that, you know, right here and also at glennbeck.com slash torch.

00:01:36.540 Get the full thing today.

00:01:38.140 But if you only have time for the edited version, six stories today that tell you exactly where we are as a nation.

00:01:44.460 Twelve things that you can do to make sure you're not part of the problem and practice one of the most important things that we need in our country.

00:01:54.720 and that is courage. Also, why, if we are energy independent, are we spending so much money at the

00:02:01.580 gas station? Why do we care what's coming through the Straits of Hormuz? Carol has that answer.

00:02:08.640 You don't want to miss it all on the edited version of today's podcast.

00:02:19.260 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:24.720 you know we always see things and we read history and we're like how did these people miss this

00:02:31.580 how did the people living at that time not see that what was coming their way because people

00:02:35.620 say the same thing every time it will never go that far not this time it's different this time

00:02:40.560 and it's usually not so let me tell you the things that you need to watch for and all these things

00:02:45.300 are happening right now let's start with um cultural pressure to conform is that happening

00:02:52.380 not legally, not legally, socially, when silence becomes safer than speaking, okay?

00:02:59.760 Or the next step, language that removes legitimacy from any opposition. They're not wrong,

00:03:07.120 but they shouldn't be allowed. Then the normalization of unequal justice. Similar

00:03:12.800 actions produce wildly different consequences depending on the political alignment. You're

00:03:18.080 seeing that in chicago right now guy with a gun kills a woman on a pier you know how that ends

00:03:25.160 in chicago not this time because he's an illegal so now he's the hero then the last one indifference

00:03:34.760 from the public this is the final stage before i believe acceleration so what do you do about it

00:03:42.800 i don't know who i'm going to talk to in the audience here because not everybody will think

00:03:48.040 this way not everybody will understand it but it's going to take enough of us there has to be

00:03:52.100 enough of us that are willing to say that is unthinkable but possible and i cannot be the

00:03:59.360 quiet one in the crowd when the crowd starts crying for blood left right indifferent it doesn't

00:04:05.280 matter when the world truly goes insane and we have lost it because the crowd is indifferent

00:04:13.360 How do you round up a bunch of people? You lie to them and you convince other people that your lies are true and they shrug. They don't show up for one reason or another. They just don't show up. And then the boots come marching in.

00:04:29.240 so how do you prepare because you're not going to be the hero you want to be unless you are living

00:04:36.880 it right now and doing everything you can to live this right now so let me give you and i don't know

00:04:43.700 if i can get to all 12 i'll post these but let me give you a few that you can do right now always

00:04:49.380 tell the truth even in all of the small things not the grand not the heroic truth just the daily

00:04:56.980 truth. Always tell the truth. Don't repeat something that you haven't verified. Don't

00:05:05.740 nod along in a group when you disagree. Don't soften the reality to avoid discomfort. Now,

00:05:13.900 that doesn't mean you have to be picking fights with people, but you're in a group of people.

00:05:18.820 Just live not by lies. You're in a group of people, and they're starting to tell you how

00:05:25.720 charlie kirk was murdered by you know i don't care space aliens you don't have to say you're 0.99

00:05:31.020 stupid you just say that's not true that's not true um and um here's why it's not true or if 1.00

00:05:39.080 you don't know that it you don't you can't you haven't done your homework on it you can say 1.00

00:05:44.100 i highly suspect that is not true i would love to hear your reasoning behind that because i'm

00:05:52.360 going to do my own homework on this, but I doubt that is true, okay? You must be a road bump,

00:05:59.400 okay? Every time you bend the truth to make your life a little bit easier, you are rehearsing for

00:06:06.220 surrender. And every time you speak it calmly and clearly, you are rehearsing courage.

00:06:14.920 Next thing you have to do, build a tolerance for social friction.

00:06:18.740 Most people don't fear jail because they don't see themselves going to jail.

00:06:24.060 They fear being disliked.

00:06:27.660 Start there.

00:06:29.720 Say something mildly unpopular in a calm setting.

00:06:33.480 Not to cause trouble, just to rehearse.

00:06:36.280 Disagree without raising your voice.

00:06:38.580 Hold your ground without needing approval or to win.

00:06:42.260 Just, that's not true.

00:06:44.000 If you can't endure an awkward conversation, you will not be able to endure real pressure.

00:06:52.540 And this must be, courage is a muscle.

00:06:55.620 You must practice these things, but you must do it in a peaceful way.

00:07:01.840 Next thing, separate your identity from your tribe. 0.70

00:07:06.280 The moment your beliefs are tied to your group's approval, you're owned, you're dead.

00:07:11.360 That's stacked justification.

00:07:13.240 You may come in with one viewpoint that you think is reasonable, but this society now makes it so you must agree with all of it because you're a traitor if you don't, and you will be forever afraid of being exposed, so you go along with it.

00:07:33.500 separate yourself from your tribe. Criticize your own side when they're wrong. Defend fairness for

00:07:42.500 people you disagree with. Refuse to cheer for something just because it benefits your team.

00:07:49.380 This builds independence, and that's the core of moral stability. You have to be independent.

00:07:55.900 You have to think for yourself, and you have to have the courage to say it.

00:07:59.280 number four strengthen your understanding of first principles not talking points principles

00:08:08.320 know things deeply like why free speech matters especially for views you dislike

00:08:16.500 you've you've probably said it a million times if you're my age i'll i strongly disagree but

00:08:22.720 i'll defend with my life your right to say those things why why would you do that why is free

00:08:28.460 speech important? Why is equal justice important even when it's really inconvenient? Why does due

00:08:37.940 process matter for everyone, including the guilty? If you don't understand why something matters,

00:08:45.240 you will trade it away when it's tested, because you won't be able to defend it.

00:08:49.420 next limit your consumption of outrage this is something i am trying to limit my

00:08:57.840 vomiting of outrage on you i am trying to give you perspective and things that you

00:09:03.140 can actually use in your life because i do believe troubled times are coming

00:09:06.980 outrage outrage feels like action but it's not it exhausts you it distorts you it makes

00:09:16.060 it makes it feel like everything is urgent and yet if everything is urgent nothing really is

00:09:22.660 urgent or important so set boundaries on news intake seek primary sources over commentary

00:09:30.520 i say that understanding that i'm a commentator you're much better off if you could find primary

00:09:38.720 sources. To get the news, you should get the news from a primary source over me

00:09:46.100 or anybody else. But if you do listen to commentary, try to listen to the ones that

00:09:54.200 are not pouring gasoline. They're trying to be fair and know that you can't really trust them

00:09:59.480 either because everybody has their own thing, okay? Ask, does this affect my actual behavior?

00:10:10.720 Clarity is strength. Constant agitation is weakness. Six, build real-world relationships.

00:10:19.240 Isolation is the breeding ground of fear. You are far less likely to stand alone. You are far

00:10:26.260 more likely to stand with others that are around you that you trust so know your neighbors have

00:10:33.340 conversations outside of your echo chamber build relationships bared on built on shared values

00:10:40.620 not just shared opinions we are building a society on shared opinions that's death we have to be

00:10:48.520 shared values and principles freedom has always been defended in communities not in comment

00:10:54.800 sections. Practice self-discipline in unrelated areas. This seems totally disconnected, but

00:11:03.540 the more I think about this one, the more I think it's true. You have to keep your commitments

00:11:08.880 because you remember courage is a muscle. Everything is a muscle. And if you don't

00:11:13.460 exercise it when you're not needing it, it's not going to be there. I can't go run a five-minute

00:11:18.380 mile. I can't go run a 25-minute mile, okay? Because I'm not exercising. I'm not in shape for

00:11:25.660 it. You got to wake up when you say you will. Don't hit the snooze alarm. I did this this morning. I

00:11:33.060 ate that. Do difficult things that have no reward, no external reward, because discipline in small

00:11:41.240 areas becomes the backbone in large ones. If you can't control your habits, you will not be able

00:11:47.300 to control your fear. And fear is going to play a big role, I believe, in the future. Look how it's

00:11:53.680 already shaping the markets. Nobody knows what's going to happen to the oil markets, and it's

00:11:59.140 shaping the markets. Get comfortable with risk incrementally. Courage is not recklessness. It's

00:12:08.140 calibrated risk. Start small. Say what you believe when it costs you just a little bit.

00:12:14.740 take his position without knowing the outcome.

00:12:20.220 Accept that not everybody in the room is not going to approve,

00:12:23.780 but don't make enemies.

00:12:26.160 You have to train your nervous system to understand,

00:12:29.680 I can survive discomfort.

00:12:32.440 I'll be okay.

00:12:34.060 Nine, refuse dehumanization on all sides.

00:12:37.360 The fastest way a society loses its moral footing

00:12:40.320 is when people become categories. 0.74

00:12:43.100 It's the Jews. 1.00

00:12:44.740 it's the democrats it's the trumpers don't reduce people to labels don't assume motives without some

00:12:53.340 evidence demand evidence when somebody says something outrageous it could be true and if

00:13:01.140 it's true it's a huge news story but if it's not true it's completely reckless and dangerous

00:13:06.480 demand evidence don't celebrate punishment without due process especially on your own side

00:13:15.240 The moment you justify it for them, it will be used on you.

00:13:20.440 Ten, anchor yourself in something higher than politics.

00:13:23.240 If politics is your highest value, you're going to justify anything to win.

00:13:28.740 History is filled with people who did terrible things for the greater good.

00:13:33.640 Anchor deeper faith, moral philosophy, some code that doesn't change with elections.

00:13:41.280 that's what will keep you crossing lines that you cannot ever uncross

00:13:46.600 11 study history not the headlines study history i have been trying to take all of the stories

00:13:55.420 every day and i look at them before i come up i go and i search is there anything parallel in

00:14:01.220 history what does this story tell us if it happened historically before because patterns

00:14:05.560 repeat. Details change, but patterns repeat. Make it a habit to understand how societies lost their

00:14:14.720 freedom, how ordinary people rationalized crazy things, how quickly it accelerated, not to become

00:14:21.780 cynical, but to become aware so you don't fit in that pattern anymore. Awareness shortens the

00:14:28.780 distance between warning and action. And 12, decide who you are right now. Decide in advance

00:14:35.920 what lines you will not cross. This is probably the most important one.

00:14:40.400 Because in the moment, you're going to negotiate with yourself.

00:14:44.280 Wow, it's just this one time. Well, it's not so bad. So decide right now, what will you never,

00:14:51.600 ever say what will you never ever support what will you never ever turn a blind eye to

00:14:59.400 pre-decision removes all hesitation and hesitation is where most people are lost it's that moment

00:15:08.080 where you're like ah and somebody goes come on okay don't hesitate in the end it's not going

00:15:15.780 to come down to one grand cinematic moment it's going to come down to thousands of quiet decisions

00:15:22.800 made by people who no one ever expected to matter

00:15:27.260 you can either be somebody who shrugs and goes well nothing i can do about it so i'm not paying

00:15:33.460 attention to it uh it doesn't matter everybody's doing it or people one of the people who practiced

00:15:40.040 when it was really easy so they could stand when it wasn't easy because when that moment comes

00:15:46.300 you will not rise to the occasion you will only fall to the level of your preparation

00:15:54.800 you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program

00:15:57.760 carol roth is uh with us um she has her newsletter every day you want to understand

00:16:06.360 the economy she speaks your language carol roth.com slash news um carol there's several

00:16:12.220 things i want to talk to you about but first one that i don't understand is why oil dropped so

00:16:18.400 dramatically why everything is uh as stable as it is when really we have no news we don't know who

00:16:25.880 we're negotiating with um iran came out with horrible demands that seem insane we came out

00:16:33.500 with our 15-point plan for peace, but the world kind of went, okay, you know what, this is good,

00:16:39.600 and the price of oil went down, which is great, but what are they basing this on?

00:16:44.820 Well, first, Glenn, I'd just like everyone to know that in addition to a background in finance,

00:16:49.780 business, and economics, I have seen both seasons of Landman, so I feel like this is

00:16:55.420 right in my sweet spot to be able to explain to everybody. Right, no, I got it, I got it, good,

00:17:01.040 So the headline that is hitting the markets, and you have to remember that markets react to immediate news, you know, they look out long term kind of, but they do tend to go kind of minute to minute, you know, when you're looking at it at any point in time.

00:17:19.620 So the news that came out on CNBC is that Iran signaled safe passage for, quote, non-hostile ships through the Strait of Hormuz.

00:17:29.960 So the market is interpreting that, whether it's true or not, but in this moment of time, that there is going to be more opening, and particularly for countries that it may be well aligned with, especially Asia, who is very much affected by the non-travel of ships through this critical junction.

00:17:52.800 there has been at least the interpretation of a signal that that is going to open up somewhat.

00:18:01.060 So they're perceiving that is okay, things are moving in the right direction,

00:18:05.900 that there may be more transportation going through,

00:18:09.280 and that is what is feeding into prices across the markets today,

00:18:14.460 starting with that drop in oil, whether it's true or not.

00:18:17.860 Okay, so here's where, you know, I said earlier today,

00:18:21.160 look there's nothing you can do because we don't know so this is something be aware of but just

00:18:26.160 don't worry about it because you don't know if it's going to get really bad or it's going to

00:18:29.760 get really good we have no idea everybody is just speculating and so when you look at the price of

00:18:36.740 oil i just don't want to be on this roller coaster every day going oh it's good it's good everything's

00:18:41.000 getting better and then tomorrow it's no it's all going to fall apart it's going to be 250 dollars a

00:18:45.580 barrel because they don't know what they're talking about there is just speculation is that accurate

00:18:51.000 It is entirely speculation. And you have all of these Wall Street houses that are coming out with their predictions, which are forming the consensus of what people are thinking on Wall Street. And it's based on a guess. And that's going to move from moment to moment based on what happens.

00:19:10.820 And by the way, it's like a choose-your-own-adventure book, but there's like 17 different paths to go down, and depending on which path one person goes down, another 17 open up.

00:19:22.200 So we don't know.

00:19:23.480 There's a great clip that's going around social media this morning with people asking kids on spring break about what's going on in Iran.

00:19:30.020 They have absolutely no idea.

00:19:31.960 That's kind of everybody's best bet, at least for the short term, because it's going to drive you crazy otherwise.

00:19:37.460 Can I tell you, do you remember you remember the Gulf War, the first Gulf War? And I remember what was his name? Bernie, somebody on CNN, the anchor Bernie. He was I think he was over in Kuwait when that started going and they were showing the footage and the green missiles and the lights and everything else.

00:19:58.720 it was night vision and we were watching it on tv the difference between what we see on tv now

00:20:04.980 and what we saw back then we were actually getting news i don't think we're getting news we're just

00:20:11.440 getting opinions all the time and opinions i'm so sick of a bit i'm an opinion guy carol i am so

00:20:18.280 sick of people like me who are just talking out there but they have no idea they're guessing like

00:20:24.280 everybody else but it's not fair for you to put yourself in the same category because you actually

00:20:29.960 you know give caveats use information you educate yourself so they're at least informed opinions

00:20:36.680 the the difference that we have between back then i think i was in high school back then

00:20:41.300 is that we didn't have social media so now everybody who was an expert on tariffs last

00:20:48.920 week is now an expert on iran and geopolitics this week next week they're going to be an expert on

00:20:55.400 ai and you're just hearing all of the noise that everybody feels empowered to just put out into

00:21:02.940 the universe you know we used to have diaries write down our thoughts now we just say hey we

00:21:08.360 want everybody to know everything we're thinking there is there is there is no off filter and it

00:21:13.440 is it's overwhelming it really is yeah it's really not it's really not helpful i mean we

00:21:18.360 do it to herself i'm not talking about you know regulating anybody or anything like that i'm just

00:21:21.680 like regulate yourself there's this i just turn it off because it's like it's not useful it's just

00:21:26.560 not useful um i love that line regulate yourself right um so the one question that i keep hearing

00:21:35.040 from uh from insiders is we are supposedly energy independent we are supposedly drill baby drill

00:21:43.720 why is this affecting us so much why do we care about the oil that is coming through the strait

00:21:50.620 we are supposedly independent yeah explain that there are two reasons for it and i'm going to use

00:21:57.580 an analogy to explain the first so basically the headline is that we're oil independent on paper

00:22:04.100 but not in reality and the analogy i would use yeah i'm going to use a we're going to be baking

00:22:10.280 apple pies. Do you like apple pie, Glenn? I love apple pies. Okay. So we're going to be baking

00:22:15.660 a hundred apple pies for our business. And it's going to require about eight medium-sized apples

00:22:21.380 for each of our pies. So we need 800 apples. Okay. And we just took in a delivery of 800 apples. So

00:22:28.800 are we set to bake our pies? Wait, I was, I'm sorry. I literally was just thinking about pies.

00:22:37.040 I'm sorry, you caught me really off.

00:22:38.980 I started thinking about pies and how much I love pies.

00:22:42.180 So I'm sorry, repeat it one more time.

00:22:44.640 We got our delivery.

00:22:45.840 We need 800 apples.

00:22:47.440 We got a delivery of 800 apples.

00:22:49.500 Can we bake our 100 pies?

00:22:52.180 If they're the right apples, then they're all good.

00:22:56.520 Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing.

00:22:57.740 So that's it.

00:22:58.320 So we got a delivery, and we got about 400 Granny Smith and Honeycrisp, which are great.

00:23:04.200 They're going to go in.

00:23:04.920 Your pie is going to be delicious.

00:23:05.980 but for the other pies, the other 400, we got Red Delicious. And Red Delicious apples aren't

00:23:12.740 really good for anything. They're definitely not good for baking. They get all mealy. You

00:23:17.420 wouldn't want to use them. Nobody would ever buy our pies again. So unfortunately, we have 800

00:23:22.720 apples, but we can't use them all for the pies. We have to use some of them for something else.

00:23:27.960 So it's the same thing with oil. There are different grades and types of oil. They have

00:23:33.380 different properties. And the refineries in the U.S. are set up to handle efficiently only certain

00:23:41.280 types of oil. So we have a mismatch between what it is that we're producing and what the refiners

00:23:48.880 can handle, which means that even though on paper it looks like if you look at the numbers that

00:23:54.900 we're energy independent, we are still producing heavily, we're exporting heavily, and we are

00:24:01.960 importing at the same time okay so so we make are we mainly light sweet crude so we are we heavily

00:24:12.240 produce the light and sweet crude but our refineries the majority of those are set up to

00:24:19.260 most efficiently process the heavy and sour the light which is what we get from the middle east 1.00

00:24:26.040 yeah well i think we get a lot of it from canada we get it from venezuela you know we get it from

00:24:31.460 different places. But, you know, it's the density is the light versus the heavy and the sweet versus

00:24:38.540 the sour is about, you know, how much sulfur is in it. So the corrosiveness, the processing and

00:24:44.760 all of that. So there's this mismatch, just like we had the mismatch for the apples in our pie.

00:24:50.060 Now, that's only one piece of it. The other piece of it is that there is global market pricing.

00:24:55.040 So even though we have this, you know, theoretically proprietary oil supply, the pricing happens on a global basis.

00:25:04.900 And so somebody who's over, let's say, in Asia, if the oil in their region, let's say, is $30 higher than what it is here,

00:25:14.820 and it costs them like $7 a barrel to transport it, they're still going to be better off.

00:25:20.460 there's a $23 difference between that $30 and the extra to transport it.

00:25:25.880 So that means they're going to bid up the lower prices,

00:25:28.160 and you're going to close the gap due to financial arbitrage.

00:25:32.860 So basically, if you think about it, the price is global,

00:25:36.300 the refinery needs are very specific, and who loses on both sides of that?

00:25:41.740 The consumer.

00:25:43.840 Okay, so this would be, I mean, if you're a Marxist,

00:25:46.380 this would be an argument you would make and say,

00:25:48.420 well that's why the refineries and the oil itself have to be owned by the united states because then

00:25:54.600 it's not in that that free market system and we can keep the oil at us you know all of this is

00:25:59.840 a lie you'd still have the mismatch so it still wouldn't work out anyway right okay all right um

00:26:06.280 um can i ask you i read somewhere that uh texas is the oil industry i got this from landman too

00:26:15.780 I love that. But Texas, it's not it's not it's not gearing up like it's a big, crazy, you know, run on oil.

00:26:25.340 And we're about to see a big oil boom in Texas. Is that true? And if it is, why?

00:26:32.140 Yeah, so that's true today. If you are a seasoned oil professional, just like a professional in any other industry,

00:26:39.100 you're going to make your long-term investments based on long-term decisions, not based on a

00:26:46.000 crisis situation. You want to look at the long-term trends. And things have shifted a lot in the last

00:26:52.280 15 years in terms of capital discipline, the desire for cash returns, focuses on balance

00:27:00.600 sheets. So the reward comes from that discipline, not growth at any cost. So before you may have

00:27:08.120 seen, you know, kind of that wildcat mindset, like, let's just go drill everywhere. Right now,

00:27:14.520 the, you know, the powers that be the investors, the management, they're trying to drive their

00:27:20.760 gains through efficiency and technology, instead of just having a drilling frenzy. So there is,

00:27:27.820 has been this shift. And so they're going to take a long term view on this. Obviously,

00:27:32.060 if this is something that, you know, God forbid, you see a lot of oil infrastructure that's damaged

00:27:37.860 around the world and things shift substantially over time. I think that that calculus will come

00:27:45.000 into play. But, you know, again, we've watched Landman, so it looks very easy there. We're just

00:27:50.520 going to go out and wildcat and get it done. But in reality, you know, they're really running the

00:27:55.220 numbers, being disciplined and focusing on, you know, cash capital discipline and balance sheet

00:28:00.340 control. You know, it's funny because I got the exact opposite message from Landman. I got the

00:28:05.660 gas is so unbelievably cheap for what it takes to get that out of the ground what these guys do i am

00:28:11.820 one of my you know my nephew worked as one of the guys on the rigs and i'm like i call him all the

00:28:17.940 time was it like this and he's like oh my gosh every bit and more like that wow

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00:29:30.420 You're listening to the best of Glenn

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00:29:34.220 the full show podcasts anywhere you download podcasts story number one um power quiet invisible

00:29:42.080 power let me tell you about what delta airlines just did they just adjusted its vip treatment

00:29:49.280 for members of congress thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you delta

00:29:56.760 thank you again did i say thank you delta thank you

00:30:00.520 so what does this mean well for years our elected officials just glide past all of the things that

00:30:11.140 you have to do at the airport they skip the line they avoid the friction they avoid you you know

00:30:16.180 the little people because they're special and now delta thank you delta says you know what we're

00:30:22.340 pausing that. We're not eliminating it. We're not debating it. We're just adjusting it for right

00:30:27.360 now. And they call it a perk. Delta, I think you're using the wrong word. It is a perk. You

00:30:35.580 look at it as a perk, but it's insulation. Because the moment our leaders feel what you feel,

00:30:42.700 where they stand, where you have to stand, their decisions change. And history's really clear on

00:30:48.720 this. The ruling class always separates itself first, and then it forgets what it's like to be

00:30:53.520 a normal person. Rome did it. Versailles did it. Washington is doing it right now.

00:30:58.960 And when that separation grows, accountability dies.

00:31:04.120 There's story number one. Story number two, the border and the meaning of a nation.

00:31:09.420 The Supreme Court, there's a story in the news today that appears the Supreme Court is ready

00:31:14.900 to side with enforcement, allowing limits on asylum claims processed from outside the U.S.

00:31:23.000 Okay, strip away all of the politics here. This is the real question. Does a nation have a right

00:31:28.580 to define itself? Of course it does, or it's not a nation. How can you be a nation if the world

00:31:36.600 gets to define you? This is not a modern debate. This isn't complex. This is easy. Every civilization

00:31:44.700 that loses control of its borders, loses control of its identity, not overnight, but inevitably,

00:31:51.740 and it's over. And here's why it matters today. What you're seeing with the Supreme Court and

00:31:58.900 warning, because this could change, we lose control of the House and the Senate. You're

00:32:03.000 going to lose control of who's coming up because we got a lot of old conservatives.

00:32:08.040 but right now you're seeing reality no the law catch up to reality they're not creating it

00:32:17.080 they're catching up to reality story number three lawfare and the weaponization of justice

00:32:25.080 there are a few stories out there now that are shocking and should be shocking and horrifying

00:32:34.400 I'm going to get into this next hour. Shocking and horrifying should shake the country to its

00:32:40.720 core. New reports are out now show that efforts to obtain records tied to political figures

00:32:48.180 were far more expansive than anybody admitted. Okay, let me translate that into plain English.

00:32:56.820 After 9-11, we all were panicked and worried and freaking out. We're like, God says patriot

00:33:03.860 in the act. It must be patriotic. And so we passed a bunch of tools in a toolbox that we were told

00:33:12.500 were designed to protect the public. Okay. Those tools are now aimed inward, not outward, inward.

00:33:22.500 And once that line is crossed, once law becomes a weapon, you don't have equal justice anymore.

00:33:28.500 you have leverage and a banana republic and history has a lot to tell you about that

00:33:34.860 when governments begin investigating citizens differently based on political alignment

00:33:40.960 that does not stabilize a country it fractures it every single time story number four

00:33:48.660 iran and the illusion of control just told you we sent a 15 point proposal to iran iran responds

00:33:57.100 with demands that it's not negotiation it's more like victory terms close all your bases you know

00:34:03.200 pay reparations I mean it sounded like I was on a college campus when I heard that one at the same

00:34:08.360 time inside Iran the story that nobody's talking about hundreds are being arrested for speech for

00:34:15.600 cyberspace activity well there's an old-timey word that only guys with big gray beards would use

00:34:21.720 so i want you to understand the contradiction on this one externally they're negotiating

00:34:28.760 internally there is no negotiation they are tightening control that is not a regime

00:34:36.220 preparing for peace that is a regime managing instability and this is the part that i think

00:34:43.460 most of us miss there are credible signals that iran is weaker than it appears

00:34:49.440 When you have an animal in a corner, they become more dangerous because they're cornered and they're cornered. Again, weak regimes don't go quietly. They either collapse or they lash out. We'll see which one is going to happen.

00:35:11.840 Story number, they're lashing out internally.

00:35:14.820 Story number five, the economy, and what I believe is a false calm.

00:35:20.920 Oil dropped today, gold rises, markets breathe.

00:35:24.960 Based on what?

00:35:26.940 What?

00:35:27.540 People are saying it's stabilizing.

00:35:29.380 Based on what?

00:35:30.740 This is the problem with our entire stock market.

00:35:33.120 It's not based on anything real anymore, okay?

00:35:37.640 Warnings of a recession tied directly to geopolitical shock.

00:35:41.840 Hey, we've seen this movie before. We saw it in 1973 with the oil shock. We saw it with the credit shock in 1974. This is different. This time it's different. Yeah, is it? Because the pattern is identical.

00:35:54.000 The global system, stretched too thin, meets disruption, it can't absorb, and then things start to break.

00:36:02.700 And it doesn't break evenly. It breaks where you live.

00:36:07.740 It doesn't break necessarily for those who get the VIP treatment at the airport.

00:36:13.600 It breaks on you, groceries and jobs and vacations you suddenly can't afford.

00:36:20.720 Which brings me to number six, story number six.

00:36:24.000 ai and the quiet revolution all of this stuff is happening and the labor department just launched

00:36:32.480 ai training and when i read this story i thought oh just just what we need the government trying

00:36:38.720 to tell us how to use ai my gosh i have briefed people in the government i have okay that's how

00:36:45.640 that's how bad things are i have briefed them on ai and they they i mean it's it's it's like

00:36:54.220 you're talking to a caveman they have absolutely no understanding most of them some do most of

00:36:59.880 them have no understanding i mean they're still at the pager system so would i get this would

00:37:06.960 can I get ChatGPT on my pager? No. Anyway, companies are openly saying massive job cuts

00:37:16.540 are inevitable and they're coming. And your home, your house is being integrated into the power

00:37:22.820 grid to feed AI infrastructure. This is really, really, really bad. Let this sink in. Your job

00:37:32.460 is going to be replaced in the next few years. Your energy is being repurposed

00:37:38.220 and you're being offered a course to adapt. It's not going to go over well.

00:37:47.060 These server farms cannot take a drop of energy, not one piece of energy that we are now producing

00:37:55.740 for the public. They must be forced to produce their own energy because they will end up sucking 0.99

00:38:01.840 all of the energy and we will be paying we'll be paying skyrocketing prices for energy

00:38:07.760 this is the early stage of a complete economic rewiring that will happen if donald trump

00:38:15.840 somehow or another is not allowed to finish the job on these on these ai um server farms where

00:38:24.420 he is saying i'm giving you the green light you build your own power plant that has to be codified

00:38:30.740 Okay, so step back. Let's look at all six stories here. What do they all have in common? One, power is separating from people. Borders are being redefined. The same time justice is being questioned. War is destabilizing and the economy is already fragile and technology is shaping everything underneath all of it.

00:38:58.000 this is not chaos i mean some of it is war is chaos but this is not chaos this is a world in

00:39:07.580 transition there's a word for that realignment old the old systems that don't work new systems

00:39:17.960 aren't fully built and the people down at the bottom and the middle they feel that first

00:39:23.880 that's you so what actually matters to you today none of the politics none of the outrage cycle

00:39:33.460 okay the the votes that are happening in congress they absolutely mean something but listening to

00:39:39.560 the pinheads argue back and forth that is a waste of time watch for these things watch for the

00:39:46.600 things when leaders stop or are being forced to stop living in their palace and start living like

00:39:53.800 citizens. Did I mention Delta Airlines? Thank you. When laws are applied unevenly, big danger. We're

00:40:02.840 going to get into that next. When negotiations sound like ultimatums, when markets calm down

00:40:08.420 too quickly for no apparent reason, and when technology moves faster than the culture can

00:40:16.100 absorb. Those are not headlines. Those are all warning lights. And one last thing. There was a

00:40:23.380 line buried in all of this. In our newsletter today, there is a story about preparing the way,

00:40:30.180 even if you're not perfect. I think this is the most important story of the day, okay? Because

00:40:36.600 none of this is going to be fixed with perfect people. History doesn't turn on perfect people.

00:40:43.260 it doesn't history turns on people who see clearly and act even though they're not perfect

00:40:51.080 not violently not recklessly but deliberately they see it they know what they're supposed to do

00:40:57.240 and they act and they don't allow excuses to get in their way like i don't have the power i don't

00:41:03.400 really know this i'm not the one i'm not smart enough it won't really make it they just do what

00:41:08.840 they're supposed to do and they're not perfect and most times that's just teach your children

00:41:14.720 that strengthen your community that's and i'm saying this like a broken record to

00:41:20.820 members of my family right now get back to church refusing to be manipulated by every headline

00:41:29.060 those things collapse in a society doesn't begin with the loudest voices it begins with the quietest

00:41:35.940 bystanders and is stopped the same way by people who decide they're not going to be a bystander

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