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Ep: 70 $40 Trillion_$3 Billion a Day in interest_and loss faith in the Dollar · The Sense and Senseless Podcast

• Bryan: is it open? It's cracked, you know, and shit's getting out. Jason: That's correct. It's got a leak in it, but it's not open. It's leaky. Bryan: It's not really open. Well, if you just it depends on what your definition of open is. If your definition of open is being back to business as usual, then the straits not open, right? If you def if you define an openness you come up with ways to get oil out of the strait without getting shot, then I guess the strait's open. eventually you would think that some of the major players in the world are gonna call us out. You know? Not that they want a Jason: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Bryan: war with us, but hey, look, you know, we we got to put you Jason: For all we know, they're all having secret meetings about us or whatever. Bryan: No, they they gonna have to put us in check. We we look Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: we look like we're out of control right now. You know, we Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: we're having to do all this shit with our money. We we we stopped fighting, you know, Iran. We we keep saying that we won, but yet we gotta keep our people over there. We keep saying that Jason: Yeah. Bryan: the strait is open, but we have to bring oil out in the middle of the night. It doesn't look like we postured as a powerful country right now. You know, Jason: No. Bryan: we we told these countries if you keep helping Iran. We're gonna put sanctions on you. Russia comes out and says, you know what? Look, we we just we're gonna keep continuing with ideal to build this twenty five billion dollar nuclear power plant for Iran. China pretty much tells you to go fuck yourself. This doesn't look good, dude. It just don't. Jason: Yep. Bryan: Hey, welcome back to the Sensen Sisters podcast. I am Brian. Jason: And you can't see me, I'm Jason. Bryan: It's Jason. It's first time joining us. Welcome to the family. We're just two guys discussing shit in a way that everyone can understand. We're six months into a three day excursion in Iran. Does that make sense? We started a war with Iran six months ago that was only supposed to be a three day excursion. And this week, actually today, Friday August twenty eighth, twenty twenty six, we had the six month mark of the three day excursion. The three hour tour. Jason: Three hour turret. Bryan: So tonight we're gonna look at how bad Iran's economy actually is and then turn the camera on us. there we had forty trillion dollars in debt in climate, which we spend billions a day in interest. We have a treasury Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: that may be buying its own debt and a dollar that lives on faith and oil. We'll hit on Scott Bessant's warning. The Treasury Ponzi scheme. We'll talk JD Vance comparing the dollar to the Appalachian resource curse. We'll also discuss the buy, borrow, die plan that the rich use. And whether Washington is running a version of that same game on the whole country. Then we're gonna go to the Strait of Hormoose. Pete says we control it. Trump says we see every inch. The numbers say a lot of ships went dark. We got blockades. Seized oil, higher prices worldwide. We got Trump that said, go get your own oil. And we'll discuss whether 30% support is enough to keep this war going. Please like, share, follow, and subscribe. We appreciate every single one of you. Please stick with us. We're going somewhere with this. Jason? Jason: Roll it. Bryan: All right. So in case you was not aware, We're six months into a three day excursion with the Iran War. If that makes sense. We at the beginning it was gonna be a three day excursion. We was gonna go in, knock the shit out of them, was coming back. Six months later, we're still there. I just didn't know if you knew that. I just want to make sure everybody knows that. Six months. Jason: Well, it it reminds me when my dad says, Hey, you wanna go to Walmart and six months later we get home because he had like forty other places he wanted to stop. So Bryan: He was going on a excursion. Jason: Yeah, so Trump's like my dad. You can't trust him when he says, Hey, we're just gonna be over there for three days Bryan: I hope you I hope your dad likes Trump if you compare your dad to Trump. No, it does, because if you Jason: I'm just saying it d it doesn't matter if you like somebody or not. That's just how my dad is. Bryan: compare him to him and and he's like a a Biden fan, he might disown you. Okay, okay. just making Jason: No, my dad's not a Biden. I don't yeah, no. Bryan: sure. Jason: I he's probably not happy with Trump now either. I'm but I know no, I know he didn't Bryan: no, I'm not happy with Trump. I get that. I Jason: like Biden. I mean shit, dude. You had to be damn well that whatever. I don't care what anybody thinks. Bryan: Fifty percent of this country like Biden. Jason: whatever, dude. Fifty percent of damn Bryan: Man. Fifty percent Jason: Pack votes. Bryan: of this country love that man. That's what they told us. Shut up, believe it. Damn it. Move on. All Jason: Move on, please, before I say something I don't wanna say. Bryan: right. So I wan I want to mention that Iran is not in good shape economically. And so everything I heard and seen is that the people of Iran are hurting for fuel and food. Now, how true is this, I don't know, but That's what I've seen this week. So I wanted to get this out there. Now before I talk about what I the data I found, I've also seen a lot of videos of how great the people in Iran are doing. But one thing I've noticed reading into it more, do you think our economy's good right now? Jason: I still don't know no because Bryan: D when you go out in town, does it look like our economy's good? Does it look like anybody stopped shopping? Jason: No, they're still shopping. People are still shopping. Bryan: Yeah. But everybody says the economy sucks, right? Jason: Yeah. Bryan: So that don't what I'm getting at, that don't make sense, does it? Jason: Right, and we still do I mean that's just human nature, man. We continue to do shit because we've always done shit, whether it's good or bad. Bryan: Okay, the reason I saying that is because a lot of reports I read and the numbers I'm about to go over says the economy in Iran sucks. But when you look at pictures Jason: In Iran or us. Bryan: in Iran, and when you look at pictures and videos, you still see a bunch of people shopping. Jason: In Iran? Bryan: In Iran. Yes. I Derek, Jason: Why are we worried about Bryan: I was asking about our economy so I can compare it to it. Because when we talk about our economy sucks all the time, right? Jason: Yeah. Bryan: But when you go out in town, you can't find a fucking place to park. Jason: Right. Bryan: You know? So when I was looking at the numbers, I mean, you look at the numbers and the numbers look really bad for Iran. But there's a lot of videos Jason: Right. Bryan: out there showing people are still shopping and people are going around. And then when you dig a little deeper, you find out, yeah, they're still out there doing what they have to do during their daily life, but they're not buying as much. You know, so it Jason: Right. Right. Bryan: looks like everything's great. And I just wanted to put that out there as a reference because we see the same thing. We Jason: Right. Bryan: always complain about our economy, but yet when you go, if you go look out today and see how everybody's shopping, the economy's Jason: Uh-huh. Bryan: great. Jason: Yeah. It looks that way. Yeah. Bryan: I mean, it looks that way. But when you look at your pocketbook, you can't get that much for your money. Okay. Jason: No. Bryan: I just wanted to put that out there before I went over these numbers because somebody's gonna sit here this and hear these numbers and say, but I seen a video and they were all out there partying. Yeah, I get that. I seen the videos too in Iran and all that. Jason: It doesn't mean nothing. Bryan: No, there's just so much fucking shit out there. You don't know what to believe. So I wanted to put both of them out there. Yes, they both can be true. They could be suffering from economic problems. And yes, they can also still be out there shopping. They still need things, just like us. You know, our economy is not. Jason: Right. Yes. You instead of coming out with thirty bags at Walmart, you only come out with ten now because your money don't carry. But you still gotta go to Walmart. Yes. Bryan: Yep. But you still need to go out and get exactly. All right, so the data I found food and drink inflation in Iran is around a hundred and twenty eight percent year over year. Meat and poultry is up around a hundred and forty five to a hundred and forty nine percent inflation. Jason: Is bad. Bryan: Cooking oil was reported to be as high as four hundred percent inflation. So therefore you can imagine that the people of Iran are having a rough time. It said unemployment is sighted around 9.1%, with more than 1 million jobs lost in the first three months of the war. fuel and food is being subsidized and they are not at a famine state as of yet. but it's being reported that outside of the basics that are available through food lines, food is turning into a luxury in Iran. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: A government spokesperson said that the people of Iran should not expect these conditions to improve over the next coming year. So they're looking at at least another year of this shit. According to the New York Times, the mood from inside Iran is exhaustion, shame, anxiety, and trapidness. Not a single unified political program. People tell reporters they have given up fruit, protein, leisure, and weekends. Parents talk about being ashamed in front of their children. The New York Times interviews from midsummer use language like trapped in hell, no control over my life, and planning for future feels absurd. A more recent line from the street everyone is depressed. Marriage is later, divorce is up, fertility is down. That is what prolonged economic stress plus war does to a society. Therefore, the people in Iran are suffering, according to the reports coming out of Iran. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: Now, is this enough for an uprising? You know, from the Iranian people? I don't know. But I wanted to point this out before we get into issues of our country. Okay. So it's not like I'm saying that our country sucks and you know Iran is much better. I don't support Iran. By no means. I mean, don't get that twisted. And I don't want to say that Iran's doing great because of this war and we're suffering. We're all suffering. You know what I'm getting at? Jason: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Bryan: Where n the people of both of these countries are getting nothing out of this war. I just don't see it. You know? Is your life better since we started this shit? Right. Now before we get into our debt, I want to share with you a montage from MS Now of our Secretary of War telling us how good the war is going. For those of y'all listening, this montage starts on March second of twenty twenty six, and then that was basically three days after the war started, which would have been the end of the original three day excursion. Then they jump to April eighth and then May fifth, June fourteenth, and July twenty fourth, twenty first, and then it ends with August twenty fourth. So let's listen to old Pete Headset on how we What yeah, Pete? What you at Pete? You Jason: Hmm. Come on, Pete. Come on, Peter. Bryan: little bitch. Jason: Peter Peter Punk ander Bryan: Not against economic pressure though. I mean, that saves life if it works. Jason: But damn, you know what? That cat done had like three different operations in six months. Bryan: Who's that? Pete? Jason: Heads headset, yeah, old Pete there. He named off three different operations. So you can't yeah, though all the wars ended real quick, Brian. Bryan: did I I didn't catch that. Well, see they had to change w 'cause what it is, I think sixty days or whatever that the president can authorize the battle or war or whatever. Jason: I thought it was tax reasons like companies changing their names and shit for a Bryan: no no, well I think no I think the problem is is if the the president can he can go to war without the Congress approval for like sixty days. And then Congress Jason: Right. Right. Bryan: has to approve it. And I think that's why they keep moving that shit around. It's not a war. That's why it's an excursion. That's why it's yeah. Jason: It's an excursion. Where are we on a cruise? Bryan: Yeah, that that's that's the dumb shit that they do. It's it's a fucking word game, you know. And again, I'm not I'm not against economic pressure. Jason: Like we're like we're idiots, dude. Bryan: We kinda are. Jason: We're idiots. Bryan: We can't know. Jason: Did did they f and y maybe you're like I said, I don't have your agenda. I'm free flying tonight. So anybody wants to crack on me for being a little idiot tonight, that's fine. But did they did get that aircraft carrier out of there though, right, didn't they? Bryan: Yeah, they moved it. It went to was it Thailand? Jason: Thailand. Yeah, you know what them boys are doing. Bryan: yeah. They all coming back with the clap. Yep, they gonna have pipe laying ceremonies. Jason: They're getting their pipe fitters certifications Bryan: Yeah. They all became plumbers. They all doing pipe fitting. Ha ha. Jason: I'm the cable guy, I'm here to check on your box. Bryan: Enjoy yourselves in Thailand, guys. Enjoy yourselves in Thailand. Jason: Yeah, yeah. You've earned it. Bryan: Yep, you earned it. Jason: Stop flushing clothes down the damn toilet on the aircraft carrier to get off the ship. Bryan: I don't know if you wanna you wanna just go to Thailand and just flush some more clothes down the aircraft toilet. All right. Jason: What's that? Geez. Bryan: So we're gonna discuss some of the issues that we have, you know, in our country right now. We're gonna start with the US debt, because the US debt just went over forty trillion dollars. What for four fo forty tr to trillion. Here's a little short video Jason: Trillions? For forty trillion trillion. Bryan: to to get us started. Stop there it is. All right. Jason: Damn. Bryan: Damn it, Jim. See Jim got in trouble again. Fucking Jim. Fucking Jim. Jason: Damn it, Jim, I'm a There's Jim again. Damn damn it, Jim, I'm a podcaster, not a doctor. Bryan: That's fucking I got all these numbers all fucked up because of when I was doing the video I had all these videos everywhere. And how I was writing the thing, I was like, we're just gonna Jason: It's at purple ink, dude. Bryan: All right, Jason: Is that methanol? Bryan: check this shit out. Think we're doing a good thing with our money? Jason: D we are frugal. Bryan: We're very frugal. I I think we learned a lot from you know, like what what was it what was that fucking when they had all the people who lost all their money. What the fuck was that called? In the twenties and shit. The Great Jason: the Great Depression. Bryan: Depression. We learned a lot from the Great Depression. Jason: Damn dude. All right. Sorry. Bryan: But I told you it was gonna be a rough night. Jason: I was about to say I'll buy a vowel. I'd like to buy a vowel. I'm trying to get more Bryan: So look how this shit just jumped way the fuck up. The blue line is the gross federal debt, and the red line is the net interest So that's what we're chasing right now. We're chasing the debt. All right. Now, Jason: Crazy. Bryan: I'm gonna give you some numbers to just to put all this shit in perspective because I just like doing that. All right. You ready for this eye opening shit? Jason: Yep. Throw it at me. Bryan: We are paying roughly three to three point two billion dollars a day on interest alone. Three billion dollars a day we're paying on interest loan. All right. The good news is is the federal government collects roughly fourteen point four billion dollars a day. So that's pretty good, right? Jason: Well, who they collecting that from? Bryan: Well, that's just that's based off of Jason: Us Bryan: the annual intake of five point two six trillion is I'm breaking it down in days. And this is a the last fiscal year that was taken all this data and from USA facts. So based off a f Jason: So it just sounds like to me they don't I mean, here they are trying to tell us how to handle our money and all this stuff and they can't handle their own. Bryan: Yeah, I I haven't pissed you off enough just yet. Because just like what you Jason: I'm sure it's coming. Bryan: just said, but since the government can't balance a fucking budget, we run a deficit, right? So our great Jason: Yeah. Bryan: government spends about 19.3 billion dollars a day. Roughly seven trillion dollars annually. All right. So we're taking in 14.4 billion dollars a day, and our government's spending nineteen point three. Jason: Well hold on. I'm gonna get off here. I'm gonna go apologize for my to my wife for getting on to her the money she spends. 'Cause that ain't shit. That's like that's crumbs, huh? Bryan: Did does that math up? Jason: No. Bryan: we we we are borrowing roughly $4.9 billion every day to make up the difference. I mean, so does this bring in shit a little more balance? Can you under when we look at forty trillion dollars, I think looking at it by day helps you visualize how much fucking money we're spending. Jason: That's crazy. Yeah. Bryan: And I mean we have a fucking spending problem like no other. And based off of these numbers, I'm sure they conservative estimates. You know? Jason: Right. Bryan: Now, according to Grant, if we continue at the current pace of spending, it's estimated that in 10 years our national debt will be around sixty-four trillion dollars. And our interest costs on the debt would double to around two point one trillion. And in twenty year estimates, around eighty to a hundred and twenty trillion dollars in debt. How do you keep up with that? Jason: You don't, it gets away from you real quick. Bryan: Look at when we looked at the graph, it's gotten away from us. Jason: yeah, it's like freaking like it's took some Viagra or something, you know. And we're not sponsored by them by the way. But anyways, I mean it's going straight Bryan: Now when you look at this Yeah, they definitely took some. Jason: dude, it's going straight up like some Coke, maybe Bryan: Well. Jason: an eight ball. Bryan: When you look at the state of our monetary system, I it doesn't look like we're the n economic superpower of the world. Jason: No, we look like the Yeah. Bryan: It it's weird, ain't it? Now don't get me wrong, Jason: Yeah. Bryan: I don't understand economics and they say that you you're supposed to have debt and you suppose I mean I don't understand all that. I just understand if I'm bringing in ten dollars and I'm spending twenty dollars a day, I'm poor. That's what I understand. Jason: Right. Bryan: You know what I'm getting at? Jason: Well, here's the deal. You would think at our age, fifty one and fifty-two, if say we never borrowed money before and we go to a dealership to buy a car and we never borrow money. We'd always pay cash, but we want we want to see what all this hype is about, borrowing money, right? You think we'd have a perfect credit score. If we came in there and showed them proof of employment and our the last three pay stubs. And we make good money, right? So we can more than easily pay for the monthly bill for this vehicle. And they go and pull our credit report, dude, we're gonna be horrible. Why? You think we'd Bryan: 'Cause you don't have any Jason: be at the top? Bryan: Well, you would think, but you don't have anything on file anywhere. Jason: I know. But you think that'd be a good thing. But it's not. It's not. It's not. Bryan: So it would be a good thing think of it this way though. It used to be until would it again we talked about this before. What if they use your credit score as a way just as a ploy to watch your spending? Jason: You're spending yeah, they know what you're buying and all yeah, it's different. I think they're doing it for different stuff, but I still think they want you a slave. Bryan: they definitely want you a slave. Jason: So they tell you in order to have a credit score, you have to borrow money. And in order to borrow money, you're borrowing stuff against stuff you don't have. Like you don't have the money to pay that. A lot of people that borrow money don't have the money to pay them off. Like I said, my grandparents would buy they they'd want to buy a car. Well, they would save up to buy that car, cash. And then my grandpa would go in there and finagle with the the dealer, right? Dealers hated seeing my grandpa come around. Bryan: What does Fanagle mean? Funagle mean. Is that like sexual acts? Jason: You're gonna take grandpa there. Bryan: Sorry gr sorry grandpa. You don't know you Jason: My grandpa passed away in ninety nine. Yeah, geez. No. Bryan: don't know I eat finagle finagle. Jason: Dude, he wasn't doing that nasty stuff. Now come on, Brian. Yeah, I do know. I know my grandpa. Grandpa got a lot of hits on his credit card hack, so sh Yeah, no. Yeah. Bryan: You don't know. You don't know? You don't know. You don't know. You might be going in just straight butt fucking the salesman and knocking the damn price down. I'll just fucking with you. Jason: You're messed up tonight. But anyways, he it's fucking Bryan: Here comes the buttfucker! Sorry grandpa. I hope you Jason: yeah. Bryan: feel good and good in heaven. Love you. I'm sorry. I do Jason: Sorry, geez. So anyway, he would go in there and Jew, let's throw let's throw a Jewish yeah, he'd Jew it yeah, Bryan: He would Jew? He's gonna Jew Jason: Jew him down, and then he would find out what the payment would be. And so Bryan: Mm-hmm. Jason: this dealer thinks that my grandpa's gonna borrow money and pay. Bryan: Mm-hmm. Jason: So they go in there and work out a payment thing and they tell my grandpa what the payment was on it, and my grandpa's like, What's the what's the total cost? And they tell him. And my grandpa'd write a check and they're like, What are they what are you doing? He said, I'm writing you a check. Well, I thought you were gonna do payments. He said, No. I just wanna know the payment Bryan: Yeah, one. Jason: because after I write you this check, I'm gonna make that payment to myself. Bryan: Yeah, there you go. Jason: And put it back in my own account. they get mad at him. Cause the dealer don't make shit until they get finance. That's where the money is made in a dealer is the financing. They hate Bryan: Yeah, just Jason: when you come in there with your own financing or or cash. Bryan: What I do and what I just did, I just like it we got just financer. Jason: And no, grandpa wasn't taking it in the butt or slamming people in the butt trying to get a car. Jeez. Bryan: No, I'm sure he was a top. I don't I'm not saying he was a bottom. I'm pretty sure he was a top. My bad. Sorry, Grandpa. Love ya. Jason: Go ahead. Yeah. Yeah. How many times have you said I'm bad in like the last twenty or two minutes or whatever the hell we've been talking? All right, well let's move on. Yeah. Let's get off grandpa because grandpa got off them. Bryan: Alright, let's move on then. Let's get off grandpa. Grandpa only got me once. Jason: Yeah. He said he loved me and nobody needed to know about this, Bryan: Yeah. Jason: but go ahead. Bryan: Yeah. I asked him why both his hands were on my shoulder and I just couldn't figure Jason: His shoulders. Bryan: it out. He j it was just a tip. It wasn't too bad. At that age that's all he had left in him was to tip. Jason: That reminds me of a joke now I don't know if I can tell it. Bryan: Man, I gotta get off you grandpa You know I love you bud. I'm not it's not your actual grandpa, it's just a metaphoric joke. shit. Jason: That's why people we didn't go into stand up. But anyways, go ahead, Brian. That's where we were. Where were we at? Talking about credit. Bryan: Yeah no. No, we weren't talking about credit. We're talking about the world being the US being a super e economic superpower. And it doesn't look that way. Jason: That's what I'm getting at though. It's slavery, it's money, it's bad it's I don't I don't understand it. Bryan: So, what gives the dollar its value? Yeah, well, we talked about this, Jason: Right. Yeah, oil. Bryan: yeah, oil, one of them. So we talked about the petrol dollar and how the world oil is traded in the US dollar. This gives the dollar value as countries need our dollar to purchase oil so they can have energy. And then the biggest thing that gives the dollar value is the faith in the US to back the dollar. Right? Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: So it's as long as we were the the true economic power. And they've seen all this money we're making and shit. You have faith that, hey, look, if I buy if I if I loan them money, they're gonna they got enough money to pay me back. Right. Jason: Mm. Yeah. Bryan: But now I think we got a couple issues. The war with Iran has put a strain on the petrol dollar because other countries are starting to figure out how to move energy without doing it in the US dollar. That's not good. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And it seems like countries are starting to lose faith. in us and back in the US dollar. And the reason I say this is because the national debt just keeps growing and Bessett Yeah, you know who Bessett is, right? He's a secretary of Treasury, Scott Bessett. Jason: Yeah, sec yeah, yeah, Secretary of Treasure. Yeah. Bryan: He wants to take a trillion dollars. I don't know where he gets this fucking Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: trillion dollars from we just showed Jason: Dude, he's at the Treasury. He just he goes to that ditto machine, dude, and he dittoes them bills. Ditto, bitch. Bryan: No sh Ditto. That's right. That's right. Come make some copies. Jason: Ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto. He tell he tells the Brian Mayons of the Treasury Department, you're gonna be, you're gonna still be get stuck in here until you ditto a trillion times. Go ahead. Bryan: This a yeah, it's a he this this motherfucker found a trillion dollars somewhere. We we with forty trillion dollars in debt, we're paying one point. And Jason: Are they purple? They're purple in code. Bryan: he's gonna use this money to buy back our own debt. Jason: Okay. Bryan: To a normal person, that don't sm sound like anything reasonable, right? That Jason: No. Bryan: I'm gonna it that's no different, in my opinion. Is if I had a credit card that I couldn't pay and I took another fucking credit card to pay that note. Hey, I found a thousand dollars Jason: Okay, yeah. Hey Discover, you're fixing to pay Capital One's Yeah. Discover you're fixing to pay Capital One's debt off. Yeah. Bryan: That's right. That's what I see. It don't make any sense to me. Again, I'm not an economist, so this might be the right thing to do. Jason: Do you tell Capital do you tell Discover that? Say when they call for their money, you're like, Hey, you need to call Capital One, they got it. Bryan: That's right. I wouldn't tell you. But think about that. Jason: You gave it to me, Capital One took it from me, so they got it. So go after them. I'm done. I'm not the Bryan: W we're having problems s selling bonds, right? So we basically buying our own debt. Jason: I giggle every time I hear bonds. My grandma used to buy this shit. Now you're gonna get on my grandma too, but go ahead. Yeah. Bryan: No, I'm not getting on your grandma. Your grandpa did enough of that. Jason: He wore that out, didn't he? Sweet grandma. Jeez. Gosh, dad. Bryan: I hope your parents don't watch this. Jason: Dad, if you're listening, I'm sorry. Bryan: I'm sorry, man. Jason: It's not my mom's parents, it's my dad's parents I'm talking about. And I'm pr sorry, Dad, if you hear this. That's Bryan: All right, I'm gonna get off your grandparents. And here's Taylor Kinney. She's gonna explain the faith in the US dollar. Okay. Before we get into what she said, I want I was just thinking about something. I know e e economics is boring. I know I'm not an economic person, but the reason I like to bring this shit up is because the normal person does not see this shit. And what ends up happening is your dollar value just goes the fuck down. And then you end up in a Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: store and you can't buy what you used to buy with your money. You don't understand why. This is why. You know what I'm saying? Because Jason: Mm-hmm. Right. Bryan: we don't want to deal with the boring shit and you know and read this kind of shit. And trust me, me neither, because it is it's like watching paint dry. But we have to know this shit because we're about it's about to get bad. Jason: Well, it's kinda yeah, it's so and I I'm bad about it too, seeing a dollar, a five dollar, a ten dollar, a twenty dollar, a hundred dollar bill and thinking that's one, five, ten, twenty, a hundred. And it and it never changes. And it's a number. Numbers don't change, right? So if it says that number on there, that's that number. Well, you gotta think of that. piece of paper like a car or or a a baseball card or something like that. You know what I'm saying? What's the value of that? Yes. Right. Bryan: Yeah. Yeah. The value. Yeah. What what is that what can that thing actually get you? Yeah. What's the purchasing power of that? Jason: So so my my my truck out my driveway, like during COVID, that truck was worth a lot of money. I'm telling you, dealers would have paid me a mint for that vehicle. Because the COVID vehicles were struggling. They were running out of chips. You know what I'm saying? They were being poorly built. Used Bryan: They had infections. Jason: yeah, used used vehicles were coveted. I I had some buddies making handover fish trading their their their used vehicles in and they actually were like almost trading straight up for a brand new vehicle with a used vehicle. Bryan: You think that's why theft went up? People were stealing vehicles to sell because they Jason: Maybe. Bryan: no. Jason: It was crazy. So but now that we're out of COVID, my truck isn't worth what it was during COVID. It's weird. So it's up and down, up and down, up and down. And that's what you're that's what the di and people gotta understand. Stop thinking, Well, I got six hundred dollars in my bank account right now, I'm rich. No, you're not. I mean, maybe back twenty years ago that'd been a lot of money. Bryan: And that's the worst thing is to understand. And I'm, you know, fifty-two years old and just starting to understand that how much purchasing power my money's losing just sitting in the bank. You know, just just losing. It's doing nothing. Now I it's making a little money, you know, because of the the shit I put it in, but it's still losing. If it's demoralizing when you look at it that way. And right now, Jason: It is. Bryan: our government is borrowing money to buy back debt to lower interest rates because the world has lost confidence in our money. And that's it in a nutshell. And I think what's really hurting us right now is the way we're weaponizing the US dollar. So the US dollar is the world reserve currency, right? So we sanctioned Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: all these countries. And again this week and we're going to go over in little bit how Scott Bessant comes out and says, you know, if you help Iran, we're going to sanction you and we're going to cut you off. So that's pretty much telling them that they can't use our money. And we're weaponizing our money. Now, if you keep doing that, eventually people you're gonna find another way. And Jason: gonna find another way. Right. Bryan: don't get me wrong, I want to beat myself in the chest because we're the motherfucking United States of America. Jason: Right. Bryan: But sometimes when you have power, you know, it's not the thing to fucking, you know, push on people. You you have power to help people. And right now we're not even helping our own people. Now, here's an explanation of the buyback. I call this the Treasury Ponzi scheme. I named it cut fifteen, but I ain't cut fifteen. I Jason: Yeah, don't be putting that nasty shit up there. Bryan: got let me type this in. Yeah, it is. It's cut fourteen. And if you own assets, then yeah, the asset value goes up and you're getting rich. Jason: Mm. Bryan: How much how many assets you own? Jason: The one I'm sitting on. That's about it. Bryan: That's the problem. Most of us, that's what we own. We don't we don't have, you know Jason: I don't even know if I own my own ass. Bryan: Yeah, y how you gonna protect your money owning assets when you can't afford a fucking asset? Jason: Powerau. Bryan: So now we have countries losing faith in our dollar, and then we have our Treasury Secretary coming out this week, and like we saying earlier, he's just threatening the world to stay away from Iran. So here's Scott Bassent. Jason: That's it. Bryan: Basent. Again, we back to a binary choice. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: that is the economic D Day. And Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: yeah. So he says Jason: D'year all them big ass words he was throwing out, dude, I bet Bryan: you get Jason: you I bet you couldn't throw that down and scrabble. Guarantee it. Bryan: I don't know, he probably could. He seems like a smart man. He you know, he he he's he's well read. He's not like me. You know, I I know like four words and three of those are cuss words. Jason: I'd rather your ass get up here and talk about that stuff than than listen to him like ambiguity and dude, me neither. Bryan: I don't even know what that means. So Jason: Stop stop using that big crap and just speak layman's terms. Bryan: So he said anybody that helps, right? So how about China? If China helps Iran, what about China? Let's listen to what he says about China. And no one is above the sanctions. Jason: No one to blame, but nobody's above it. Except us. except for Bryan: Nobody's above the sanctions except Jason: us. Bryan: we have all the money. Jason: Has anybody ever sanctioned us? Bryan: I don't know if it would have really mattered, honestly, if they would have. 'Cause some you sanctioned us and we the world re currency. I'd be kinda like I mean, that'd be like Jason: Is is Iran over there talking about sanctioning us? I mean the Bryan: me telling telling the owner of my company that, you know, yeah, I'm I'm sanctioning you. Jason: Did they got Jihad Bassett over there going, The ambiguity of American will sanction you? Bryan: no. Well, we have the power to sanction people. Well, we had the power and we're gonna go over that. And here here's something. He's not he didn't I think this was Tuesday. He didn't impose the sanctu or it might have been Monday. He didn't impose the sanctions right then and there. He gave him a timeline on when to sanction because he wants Jason: Right. I thought he said the clock started now. Bryan: right. Well, he wants to give people a time the countries a time to go ahead and understand. You know, hey look, you don't do this shit, we're about to fuck you up, right? Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: So here is Besson explaining why he has to give these people, these other countries time. Jason: Give them to him. Bryan: So he doesn't want to blow up the global financial system. So he knows that if he puts sanctions on all these people, it's gonna cripple the world. That's what he's Jason: Yeah. Bryan: saying. Jason: Yeah. Don't make me do it. Bryan: That is Iran that important Jason: Don't make me do it. Bryan: to us? I mean, seriously. Jason: Yeah. It is the Israel. Bryan: That's a problem that we're unwavering and I and I didn't put this in here, but I did look. I mean, I I I went through multiple AIs to find out what the world really thinks about us in Iran. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And based off of multiple AIs, they all in agreement that w us back in Israel is having getting the rest of the world to be pissed off at us because we're fucking up their economies. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: You know, with this war, we we we taking all this oil away from them and it's costing these motherfuckers more money and it's pissing them off. Jason: Right. Bryan: You know, we don't see it because we just go on with our days. But we're we're losing allies. Well, I can't I can't say that that I know that, but based off of what I'm reading and all it's looking like we're you know, we're starting to lose faith of our allies. Faith. So Jason: Mm. Mm. Mm-hmm. And if people lose faith in us, then our economy goes to hell in a handbasket. Bryan: Yep. Well, here's a lady explaining how the world reacted to Scott Bessant's forceful You're gonna get in line fucking speech. And like I was telling you before I got on, Russia and Iran had got together on their nuclear deal for energy. So Russia's still helping Iran and they they still pushing forward with that deal. And that was what, $25 billion? Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: So do we actually have the swing that we used to have? Jason: No. Bryan: It's not looking good. Jason: No. Bryan: And whenever I I seen them come on and they were talking about, you know, we're gonna sanction you and and all this other stuff, all I can think of was there was there was a comedian, I don't remember which comedian it was, and he used to talk about the British police, and I don't really know British police, but I always remember this comedian. And he would say that the British police only carried batons, they didn't carry guns, and it would be like, you know, they'll just yell, Stop. I'll say stop again, you know, 'cause 'Cause they had no way to take down, right? Jason: Yeah. Bryan: But that that got me thinking of Erica Kirk. And this is must be how Trump and Scott Besson are looking at the rest of the world. Check this out. Stop. Just stop. Now this is scary on multiple fronts. We're pissing the world off over our unwavering support for Israel. And if the new sanctions don't work, well, we have one more intervention according to Trump, the military intervention. Listen to Trump. So if we have to use our military, we'll use our military. If the sanctions don't work, military it is. So in that case, I hope the sanctions work, honestly. Because I don't want our military back Jason: Is this dude Bryan: out there. Jason: it well, it's his last four years. Is is he going handbone? Bryan: I don't know what's going on with him. I don't know what's going on with him and his cabinet. I I don't know. And I and trust me, I try to find good things with him 'cause I I don't know who to support. You know what I'm getting at? It's not like I have I don't know. I don't know what to think about the dude. Well then we got JD Vance. He he was talking about how we need to get the dollar off the global currency, global reserve currency. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: He was comparing the US dollar to the Appalachian Resource Curse. And if y'all don't know about the Appalachian Resource Course, I'm gonna play a video after I'll let you listen to JD Vance. And we borrowed ourselves in some serious fucking debt. Jason: Mm-hmm. Hey, Bryan: So before we go ahead. Jason: real quick, you earlier you said er that that reporter w was talking about Trump saying that he was or with Kim Jong un and all that, and then Bryan: Yeah. Jason: Kore North Korea said, No, I meant I was with Kim Jong un too. Bryan: I don't think he was with him last week, but he was just showing pictures of it. Jason: I mean me we well we yeah, he was showing pictures. Like me and him were out we were hanging out. I mean, wonder if Trump sits at in his office with AI and creates all these pictures of him with people and doing stuff and and he puts it out there. Bryan: I would think he wouldn't have to do that. I would hope he wouldn't have to do that. But that right there is creepy as fuck. Jason: Well, if he's making if w it what's funny is he says him and Iran have come to an agreement or they're talking and then Iran comes back and said, The hell we were Bryan: Yeah, that shit right. I I don't know if he just does that, try to keep the stock market moving up and down, or people are just in his ear telling him shit that he wants to hear. Or or maybe he's losing it. I don't fucking know. It don't make any sense. Jason: Why would you say shit when you know this country or this damn dictator or whatever is gonna say we didn't talk. Bryan: 'Cause maybe he doesn't know that. Maybe he's not the one talking. I I and I'm not protecting him. Jason: He'll he'll say it in a damn when he's walking to the damn Air Force One or to Air Force Two or whatever or out in the damn East Garden. Bryan: I think he'll just I think they give him so many lines of day to say and he's he he used to be Jason: Well he needs to fire whoever the hell's telling him that because he looks like a damn lion Bryan: his spokespeople suck. Jason: yeah. It's horrible. Bryan: I I don't know, man. I I really I don't I don't even know how to fucking answer any of that stuff 'cause I don't know what to think about it anymore or don't. Jason: I'm fixing to call Kim and talk to him and say, Man, you and Trump Yeah. What's up dude? You eating ramen? Bryan: Yeah, I think you had I think you Kim Jong Well, you saw that that we cut our our training with South Korea shard also, and we had other issues that would support with South Korea. I remember exactly what it was, but we we we got the outs with South Korea. It's like how many fucking people can we piss off at once? I mean, seriously. I believe that Jason: Yeah. I Bryan: yes, we all world power. We're the superpower of the world. And but I don't give a fuck how big you are. If you got enough people beating on you, there ain't nothing you can fucking do. You just can't. Jason: Yo. No. It's like picking on all the little band geeks. If all the band geeks come at you at once, you can't take them on. You can take Bryan: You you can't do it. It Jason: on one at a time, but not together. Bryan: And even at one at a time, it depends on how many there are, you eventually you're gonna get wore out. You know what I'm getting at? Jason: I ain't standing up for that crap either, man. I'm not picking these fights. Bryan: No. So Jason: Nan. Bryan: before we get any further, I'm gonna go ahead and let y'all in on what the Appalachian resource curse was. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: Did you know any of that? Jason: yeah. Bryan: I didn't I didn't know that. I didn't know that's w how they pulled, I mean, everything away from that area. I mean, they got nothing, no schools or anything out of that. They got nothing. I Jason: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Bryan: mean, they just took all their resources. Jason: A lot of coal mining I live in a coal mining community. My little neighborhood here, which never fully developed, was supposed to be a coal mine neighborhood. And coal mines would come in and promise all this stuff and people would start trying to build neighborhoods for the workers and next thing you know, they get what they got and they get out of here and shut down and then everybody was left with nothing. And they were like Bryan: Yeah, and none of the taxes went to those people or nothing. Jason: Under underdeveloped housing areas and yeah. Bryan: They didn't give a fuck about them people. Y'all or anyone. They don't just they don't give a fuck. Jason: No. People's houses settling because of the coal mine underneath you would settle and you don't get nothing. Yeah. Bryan: yeah, because yeah, 'cause you got missing earth under there. They they didn't backfill it with anything, huh? Jason: No. Bryan: So is is JD Vance saying that the current dollar system is draining our resources and just making us weaker? Are we allowing our country's monetary system to drain our resources? Which I would assume in this case would be the work and tax of the US worker. I mean, is that what he's saying? I I don't know. I'm not sure. But I just thought I'd throw this in there to show the visibility of what the Appalachian resource curse was. You know? Jason: Yeah. Yeah, I don't I don't know. It's almost like maybe he's getting at the fact that, Well, we don't ruin this, we we need to find another currency. You know what I'm saying? Bryan: Yeah, we need to f need to find something that's backed by something. Well, I think the dollars taint Jason: Yeah, we done tainted the dollar so bad that Bryan: it. Jason: Well, what makes me nervous is that the talk of a worldwide currency Bryan: Yes. Jason: Because if you go into Revelations and stuff, you'll start reading that. That's kinda signed into times. Bryan: Well, but if you think about it right now, I mean, we're not worldwide, but we all worldwide at the same time. You know, most countries w accept US currency. Jason: Yeah, but they're talking about it like a digital currency. Bryan: Yeah, I yeah, that's one thing I don't want to see. Now, one thing I did read, this was a few years ago, about BRICS and all and how they're gonna do their digital currency, it's Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: more transparent to where you can see exactly what's going on. So Jason: Right. Bryan: it'd be chance of less fraud. So in that case Jason: Yeah, but they're talking about peop I'm talking about where you get chipped. Bryan: yeah, like the market of beast that everybody talks about or whatever. Jason: Yeah. Well, nobody knew about it until technology started coming out. And then they there was actually a commercial that I seen on TV and it may have been around the Super Bowl or whatever. It wasn't a funny commercial. It was a serious one of the technology they have where it showed a guy looking like he was stealing stuff in a grocery store and he walked out the door and it said, Thank you, Mr. Sutton. $64 and 34 cents has been deducted from your account. It scanned everything on him and took it straight out of his account. Like there's no getting out of that store with shit in your you don't even check out. You just walk out and it scans it that fast that you you can Bryan: Probably like that Palantir video I showed ya. When you know, they gotta have so many credits a day and if you do this wrong or you do that, you can't get your credits and you can't drive Jason: Yeah. Bryan: or Jason: Yeah, there was a Justin Timberlake movie, something like something about time or whatever. And people people had that clock on their on their arm right here. And you could transfer time by holding each other's hands or whatever, because he would he would get in these competitions and bars to see how low he could get or whatever and then if he won he'd get more time. And you never grow you never grew old either. Like it stopped growing or whatever. I you I start talking Bryan: I'll check it out once. Jason: about something I'll look yeah I always bring a movie up but it's scary man. Bryan: Yeah. Jason: It's scary the technology that's out there. Bryan: So right now we can easily see that we're chasing our our debt. I mean that if you can't see that, this you're just blind. And to me, like I said earlier, this is no different than when you have credit card debt and you can't make the payments and you use another credit card to pay the bill. It just don't make sense. I I and that's the simplest way I can put it. I I'm not smart enough to understand it any other way, you know, and and this in my opinion. It'll get you by for a while, but eventually somebody has to pay the fucking Piper. Somebody has to pay the debt. The debt always comes up. And if they just d you know, get rid of the dollar, or whatnot, I'm sure us, the the taxpayers, the ones that's gonna feel it the hardest, you know, we're the ones that's gonna take the ass whoop. So is the US close to a debt spiral where we're steadily chasing just the interest in the debt? Are we getting to a point to where we have to keep borrowing money just to keep up with the fucking interest? Is that or is that where we're at? And I know I'm simplifying all this shit and there's several caveats to all the financial stuff. I get all that. I'm not smart enough to understand all that. But I think I there's enough information out there to understand that we're not in good shape. You know? Can we agree to that? No. Jason: No I there's a the writing's on the wall, you just have to read it. Bryan: Your purchasing power is steadily fucking just dropping Jason: Is horrible. Bryan: and these people don't give a fuck. You found your movie? In time. Justin Timberly. Jason: Yeah, it's called end time. It's where it's where yeah, it's where time is taking the place of currency. Instead of paying you with money, they pay you with time. And when your time runs out, you just drop dead right there where you're at. Bryan: some does like a street sweeper come up and pick you up. Jason: I Foom, foom, foom, foom, foom, foom, foom. Bryan: You know how you would get dirt like on the cartoons or something. Somebody would like get Jason: Yeah. Bryan: and then somebody come sweep them up and they would leave like Donald Duck or something. Not Donald Duck, Daffy Duck. And they come Jason: Yeah. Bryan: and sweep them up. All right. So this past week I was looking at more financial shit because of all this stuff. And I ran across What's called buy, borrow, die strategy that wealthy people use. And it was it was interesting to me, but there's a lot of nerdy shit that's interesting me. And most of us, I think we've we've heard of people borrowing money against assets and using that money for daily expenses while your assets grow. Right. I mean, that's pretty much what it is. For this to work, your assets have to make more in capital gains than you're paying in interest, though. Right. So that's Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: one of the reasons to keep interest rates down. So here's an explanation of Buy, borrow, dot. About that shit. You ever knew about that? Jason: That's weird. No, I never heard of it. Bryan: You know you can do that. You can do that with your own assets. All the assets that you got, you can borrow money against and use it to live, you know. Jason: Gotta have assets, Brian. Bryan: You got a bunch of assets. Don't you have like a lawnmower and maybe like a shovel, you know? Some tools. You know. Jason: I got that stuff but I don't think you can borrow money on it. Bryan: Yeah, you can go to the bottom shop. They'll they give you some money. Yeah, I mean that that's that's just fucked up. You can't, but legally you can do that with your assets. So if you got assets and you you need a way to to shaft the fucking government, buy, borrow, die. So after after looking into this, it was I started thinking is the government using a similar strategy of the buy, borrow, die? For monetary system because how fucked up this shit is, right? So what I found Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: is the difference is a wealthy person using buy, borrow, die does this. He holds assets that were supposed to grow. He borrows against them for cash, avoids selling them so the nest egg keeps compounding. plans to never settle up during his lifetime, then the assets move on to someone else, you know, and the tax burden is reset. Pretty simple, right? The federal government, though, they do this. So they rely on a growing economy and future tax base. And they borrow every year by selling treasuries. It rarely pays the debt down, it just rolls it. And when the bonds mature, it issues new ones. It counts on the GDP growth, inflation, and continued demand of dollars to make the burden manageable. So a simple analogy is closer to a homeowner who never pays off the mortgage. He takes out a new loan. When the old one comes due, it hopes the home value and income rise faster than the rate of the loan. So that's basically what we're doing with our government. Washington is trying to fund spending without collecting enough taxes now. The bet is that the dollar stays the world's reserve currency. Investors keep buying treasuries, which they're not. Growth plus some inflation keep debt to GDP from exploding, and interest does not permanently outrun growth. So basically, we selling our future for today. You know, just thought that was interesting. I know, Again, economics is is not the greatest thing to to talk about. But I think Jason: I just wanna make sure my bill's paid. I'm not gonna lie. I'd I never got into economics and I know it's important, but Bryan: And most people won't, but just understanding that your value, your purchasing power is plummeting. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: Every time, you know, they take out more money and they they move the interest rates, the shit that they do. Print more every time they print more money, your value of your dollar goes down. Jason: Mm. Bryan: So every time that we increase the debt, the value of money goes down. What you have sitting in the bank goes down. Your purchasing power goes down. That's like when I showed you last week how to. You know, the purchasing power and the groceries and how all that moves. It's because our purchasing power never grows because we work everything in cash. We our we have liquids. We don't have fucking assets. And we're getting poorer by the day. And a lot of people don't realize that. You know. All right. So just a couple more things before we go. Pete says the straight is open. Pete Heck says our Pete, Jason: Pete? Bryan: you know old Pete. The Secretary of War Pete? He says it's open. Repeat. Pete Pete. Yep. Jason: Yeah, Pete. Yeah, Pete Pete. repeat. Pete or repeat. P Pete, repeat. Bryan: He says the US controls the strait. So let's listen up Jason: What's right? Bryan: the strait of homose. moosh. Jason: Sor Moose isn't it didn't Trump say he was just gonna take that shit? Bryan: yeah, he just took it. Can't control it. I think it was this week or it might have been yesterday or today that Iran and Oman signed an agreement on how they're gonna control a street of hormoose and do fees and payments and shit. But we control it. Now check this out. This if you listen and you'll see it, there's a I'm showing a graph and there's a line, and you see how high it is right here. This was right before the war. So the Strait of Hormous, you know, you're looking at 80 plus boats coming through. The Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: blue is the total vessels, and the yellow is the tankers, all right. The all tankers. So you can see right before the war peak. So what I'm assuming is they all knew that they got to get in and get the fuck out. Something's about to go, right? The war pops out, see it tanks. We have a couple little spikes, but here we are now. If you look at this shit over here on the left, running at about eighty to a hundred boats a day, and over here we're running less than twenty. Does that look like the straits open? Jason: Not really. Bryan: Okay, yeah. All right. So that that in itself Jason: Ma hey, we put it down to one lane. That's probably what it is. I think we're working Bryan: That's what it is. Jason: on that other lane. They put some orange barrels out there. Bryan: You got some construction. You know, you you might actually have a point there. How many ships they've shotten out there that you gotta go around now? Now that Jason: Yeah. Bryan: Trump did say that they cleared all the mines this week, but how many ships are just stuck out there? You know? So they might be building it up with just trash. Yeah. Jason: Yeah. Yeah. It backs traffic up. Traffic's backed up out there and that next thing you know, they'll have a helicopter with the news reporter reporting traffic for the Strait of Home Roosevelt. We're showing Bryan: Yeah. Jason: bottleneck here in the mile sixty five marker over here, right here. Yeah, we got a couple of ships backed up. if you're trying to get your oil, you might want to leave a little bit early this morning. John, back to you. Bryan: Well here here's Trump on the Strait of Harmoosh. Jason: Moosh. Bryan: So there you go. It's open. It's beautiful day. Jason: It was beautiful too. Bryan: They're watching every inch of it through Space Force. No, they they they are getting some vessels through there and according to Gulf News, there's estimated sixty to eighty percent of the total traffic have been dark ships running without transponders. Kepler reported between August 1st and the 19th of 2026, of the 236 ships tracked, 148, or 63% of them went dark or used unknown routes. For the 112 oil and gas carriers of crude LPG and LNG in that window, 89 of them, 80%, were dark and unclassified. So the straits open, but you just gotta do it in the cover of the dark. And Jason: You got a ninja that shit. Bryan: you know, I found out also this weekend I I was just thinking that they were just getting the ships out. They're using smaller shuttle boats to run in the cover of the night because they're faster to get the oil out. That's the Iran and you know the other countries around there. So Iran can get around like the the ironclad blockade. And the other countries Jason: Right. Bryan: can get around Iran shooting missiles at So yes, we do have oil getting out. Again, I think we're just all talking half truths, you know, they because they're using it's it's not is it open? It's cracked, you know, and shit's getting out. Jason: That's correct. It's got a leak in it, but it's not open. It's leaky. Bryan: It's not really open. Well, if you just it depends on what your definition of open is. If your definition of open is being back to business as usual, then the straits not open, right? If you def if you define an openness you come up with ways to get oil out of the strait without getting shot, then I guess the strait's open. I I Jason: Is that can you use that for bed talk? Like, honey, is the straight over arm moose open tonight? Bryan: That's right. But before Jason: And she's like, no. Bryan: all this shit started, they were getting fifteen to twenty million barrels out a day. Now they're getting about three point five to eight million barrels a day. So it's a it's a slow drip. It's got declap. It's got gonorrhea. Jason: Mm-hmm. A slow drip has got to collapse. It's got the clap. Yes. Clap on, Bryan: Your straight has the clap. Jason: clap off the clapper. Bryan: Now, I the I did read because I tried to look at positive stuff, and the the naval blockade has been a success. And it's reported Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: by CENTCOM that the blockade has stranded or blocked tens of millions of barrels of oil from reaching buyers. One blockade Jason: Dang on. Bryan: figure was about was sixty nine million barrels on 41 tankers. Some figures show a hundred million plus barrels of stranded oil. All right. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: It was also reported that we seized roughly five to eight million barrels all. We're now pirates. Jason: Sweet. Hey, we learned something from the Somalias over in what Michigan or Wisconsin. Bryan: Yeah. Jason: I forget what state it was with the daycares. They taught us how to be pirates. Bryan: You laughing, but they said I knew I forgot about this and you said that I read earlier this week that Somali pirates are picking up wherever the fuck they're at because we don't Jason: Yeah. Bryan: have any navy over there to stop them. Jason: Damn Gittin's good for pir or pirating's good for them right now, isn't it? Bryan: yeah, man. So piracy everywhere. You know, what what what Jason: Damn. Bryan: was Tom Hanks? What movie was that? Then he had to fight all the Somali pirates and shit. Captain Dan. Jason: shoot. Yeah. Lieutenant Dan. Bryan: shit. Well, anyway, this war with Iran, it hurt the world economy. Much of the world, especially energy important countries in Asia, Europe, and developing nations, attributes current economic pain of the high oil fuel fertilizer food and shipping costs to the U.S. led war with Iran that began in late February 2026. Now, back in March, Trump told these countries to go get their own oil, which I don't disagree with you know, I don't because I don't disagree with us to stop helping other countries. Jason: Yeah, we talked about that. Bryan: But I'm not sure that the stance is good after your actions what's caused the all shortage for these countries. You know what I'm getting at? Jason: Yeah. Yeah. Bryan: Like you you caused the problem, you're like, you know what, go get your own fucking shit. So here's Trump back in March of twenty twenty six. Go get your own fucking oil. Yeah, I I know Jason: Yeah. Bryan: I created a problem. That's not that's not my problem. I have oil. Go get your You know what I'm saying? Jason: He's Bryan: I don't know. It almost sounds like we're happy that we we fucked up the world energy market. I I I I don't know. I I Jason: Yeah. It's like getting that girl pregnant and telling her to deal with it, right? Bryan: Yeah. And when you cause the problem and then you tell Hey look, I know you got a problem. No. You know who got oil? We have oil. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: Check Trump out. All right. Jason: That's funny. Who was all them Hispanic dudes behind him? Okay. Not dogging Bryan: I have no idea. I don't even know where that was from. I just I found that video. Jason: on I just didn't know I mean, were they like doing yard work and seen him come out and they all huddled around him like Yeah. Yeah, a team meeting. We're gonna have our Bryan: Team meeting. Team meeting. Jason: weekly meeting over here, guys. Bryan: And don't get me wrong, I'm not against us selling our oil. I mean, make as much money as we fucking can, you know, drill, baby, drill. I'm good with all that shit. Yeah. I don't think that we need Jason: No. Yeah. Yeah. Flood to market. Bryan: go cause a problem to sell oil. You know what Jason: No. Bryan: I'm saying? That kind of makes us look bad. I mean, look like and I hate to even say that, but we kind of look like tyrants, you know. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: And Jason: I don't I don't know. That's scary, Bryan: I'm I'm worried that Jason: dude, because if we keep pissing people off, Brian, they're eventually, man, everybody's just gonna come at us. The hell did I get on my arm? But anyways, everybody's gonna come at us and we can't defend ourselves, man. Bryan: No, it's gonna be us and Israel. It's gonna be us 'cause Israel ain't gonna stand but yeah. Jason: Up Isra yeah, Israel turned their backs on us, they'll run. Bryan: I mean, if eventually you would think that some of the major players in the world are gonna call us out. You know? Not that they want a Jason: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Bryan: war with us, but hey, look, you know, we we got to put you Jason: For all we know, they're all having secret meetings about us or whatever. Bryan: No, they they gonna have to put us in check. We we look Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: we look like we're out of control right now. You know, we Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: we're having to do all this shit with our money. We we we stopped fighting, you know, Iran. We we keep saying that we won, but yet we gotta keep our people over there. We keep saying that Jason: Yeah. Bryan: the strait is open, but we have to bring oil out in the middle of the night. It doesn't look like we postured as a powerful country right now. You know, Jason: No. Bryan: we we told these countries if you keep helping Iran. We're gonna put sanctions on you. Russia comes out and says, you know what? Look, we we just we're gonna keep continuing with ideal to build this twenty five billion dollar nuclear power plant for Iran. China pretty much tells you to go fuck yourself. This doesn't look good, dude. It just don't. Jason: No. Bryan: And the issue I have is the mu if the majority of country agreed with this war, I'd be like, okay, you know, I'd I do my best to support this shit. You know, even though I don't like it, I would do my best to support it. But roughly 30% Jason: Right. Bryan: of people in this country support this war. You know, I think the government needs to take a step back, just take a deep breath and figure out, hey, look, you know, why do why our people don't support us? Something, you know, something's not right. I don't care who's telling me what. But you know, majority of our country does not support what we're doing. Why? Let's figure that out. And then maybe, maybe we can understand this a little better. But we know why they're not doing it. It's because they got the Holy Land over there can telling them what the fuck to do. Jason: then and other businesses making money off this that don't make money unless Bryan: yeah, they're making money in. Jason: we're doing it. Bryan: And the people over there is suffering. We aren't suffering. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: Okay, we got high gas prices. It sucks. Our meat fucking Jason: Yeah. Bryan: sucks. You know, they put in all this fucking Argentina meat. You know, they're gonna bring us all this other shit. They're gonna do all Jason: Right. Bryan: this shit to fuck us up and our life sucks, right? We're not getting Jason: Right. Bryan: bombed. You know what I'm getting at? Those people over there fucking Jason: Yeah. Bryan: bombing and shit like that. That's gotta suck. We've never had to live through anything like that, you know, over here in the United States. Jason: No, yeah. No. Nope. Bryan: All right. So last thing I'm gonna show y'all is it's called Wake Up to the Machine. And it's a little quick clip. We all know that the government sucks. We all know the government don't have our best interests in mind. But I wanted to end with this just to show put just to emphasize it, because I love this country. I do. I love this country. More than I can tell you. You know, I fly my flag proudly. I'm a proud American. Having said that, I'm worried about our country. I'm worried about Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: our, you know, where we fall. I really am with everything that's going on right now. Now, I'm not trying to scare anyone. I don't know anything. This is just based off everything that I see and read, how it makes me feel. And right now I just don't feel comfortable with the state of our country. So check this out. It's that. Jason: Yep. Bryan: And even waking up and seeing the game, what you gonna do? We can talk about this all I mean until we all decide that, hey, look, we're gonna meet on Front Street at six o'clock, and you know, it it's nothing. It's just all talk. I mean, that's all we do is talk. I just hope that we can reach someone and somebody that hasn't seen this or heard this, you know, just open their eyes a little bit. What you do about it, I have no fucking idea. No fucking Jason: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Bryan: idea at all. All right. You got anything, Jason? All Jason: Nope. Bryan: right. Well, thanks everyone for joining us tonight. It was a pleasure spending time with you. Until next time, this is the Sense and Senseless Podcast. I'm Brian. Here's Jason. Peace. Jason: I'm Jason. Peace.