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- Bryan: Iran has hit U.S. bases across the Middle East while choking oil traffic through the Strait of Homeuse. The Houthis are locking down Saudi Arabia's alternative oil routes. Both Iran, the U.S. are destroying energy infrastructure. We keep the U.S. bases in the Middle East to stop this kind of chaos. Yet here we are. And that's not even the whole story. Do you remember the other war we supporting? The other war that it's going exactly as we planned it? We'll discuss this and other shit tonight on the Census Podcast. Stick with us. Welcome back to the Sense and Senseless Podcast. I am Bryan.. It's Jason: No Jason. Bryan: Jason Ch ch. Is your first time joining us? Welcome to the family. We're just two guys discussing shit. It is Halloween. Jason: Happy Halloween, Bryan.. It is. Bryan: Happy Halloween, all you fuckers out there. Hope you're Jason: Yeah. Bryan: having a good time tricking and treating. Happy Halloween. Jason: We didn't wear any costumes today. We should have worn costumes. Bryan: I am dressed up, I'm a racist white guy with a beard. Jason: Yeah, bald with glasses and a beard. Bryan: That's me. Can't see me. Can't see Jason: Yeah. I got camouflage on, so I'm probably racist too. Yeah. Bryan: me. All right. If this is your first time joining us, welcome to the family. Happy Halloweeny. Tonight we're going to discuss the war in Iran and the war on energy. But I wanna open up with a clip of JD Vance at his Detroit town hall on gas prices. I don't know if you've seen this, Jason, but Jason: So I can only imagine. Bryan: Here's JD. All right, so that's part one. I'm gonna play the last the second part at the end of this episode, but I wanted to show you why the gas prices are so high. we gotta get our refineries back up. Jason: I totally agree with that. That part that we can't are are one thing that our presidents have to stop doing when they come in Is stop shutting down our shit. You know what I'm saying? To me, we should be becoming energy efficient without having to deal with the rest of the world. Agree? Bryan: I agree. Jason: Okay, that pipeline from Alaska down. What's the first thing Biden and then I'm just I'm just saying, I'm not I'm not jumping blue and red and all I d just take that out. It's it's in the proofs in the pudding, right? Who shut it down? Or the Keystone Pipeline. Yeah, who shut that down? Bryan: Are we talking about the Keystone pipeline when he shut down? Yeah. But yeah, he shut it down. Jason: Okay. Trump fired it up, didn't he? Bryan: I I don't remember but yeah, I think he he started it back up. Jason: Okay. So you see what I'm saying? You can't sit there and shut stuff down and then point fingers at other people. Bryan: I agree with that, but you said whoa whoa no. Jason: And any time w something in the Middle East happens, we gas price go up, right? If somebody farts wrong in the Middle East gas prices go up. And it's because we're so damn dependent on that over there. Like you said, the petrol dollar. Bryan: We're not yeah, again, we're not dependent so much on their oil for us. It's the petrol dollar. That's what I was about to get at. So even if we refine more, can we bring the price down? Yes. But that's because people are making more money. And I'm not against either one of that. We're just be we'll just be refining more oil into gas in the United States than we do now. Basically, what that would come up to. Right. So as long as the demand is up for us to refine oil in the United States, we will be able to to make that money by doing it. If that demand goes down, what do we do with those plants and those refineries? You can't keep open if you ain't making money. Now, I'm not saying it wasn't making money, but what I was gonna go back to is you when you said that Biden and I'm just playing devil's advocate because I agree Biden shouldn't have shut the Keystone pipeline down. But when Biden shut down the Keystone pipeline, how did that affect gas prices back then? Jason: They did come up. Bryan: Okay. I agree with you. Now the pipe but Jason: Because you're not the the market doesn't have the amount of fuel or or oil in it, so the prices go up. Bryan: But now the pipeline's back open and the gas is still up. Jason: Because we don't have the refineries to Bryan: But the gas was down Jason: To produce it. Bryan: before the war. We didn't have the refineries then either. Jason: Yeah, well, because there you're you go again because the we're now we're just like nine eleven. When nine eleven happened, what happened? Gas was down before nine eleven happened. Once nine eleven happened and we went overseas, then gas prices shot back up because there's turmoil in the Middle East. Dude, there's always Bryan: Yeah, it Jason: turmoil back and forth in the Middle East. it'll quiet down, there'll be peace in the Middle East, then there'll be turmoil in the Middle East, then there'll be peace in the Middle East, and there'll be turmoil. And every time there's turmoil, gas prices go up. And I feel like the only time it didn't is when the first administration was in when that Keystone pipeline got, you start flooding the market, it comes down. That them gas companies are still making or oil companies are making handover fist. No matter if it's a dollar fifty a gallon or if it's four dollars a gallon. Agree? Bryan: I agree, but they're making money handover fists no matter if they buy it here in the United States or if they buy it in the Middle East. Jason: Right. Bryan: To them, it don't matter. They don't care. Jason: Right. Bryan: They're the ones making handover fists right now. We'll talk about that later. So it's not like they're Jason: Yeah. it's Bryan: doing anything to benefit you. They're doing what benefits them. And that's what I'm trying to get at with the politicians. These people aren't Jason: Okay, so Bryan: doing nothing to benefit you. This ain't to keep Jason: No, they're not. Bryan: your gas prices down. This ain't to help you. Jason: No, it's not. And don't think that these oil companies don't lobby Bryan: The refinery if the refinery's open Jason: the politicians, right? Just like these packs or whatever. All these packs are designed to buy people off, man, for their companies, right? Are they not for the businesses, the big businesses? Bryan: Mm-hmm. They are. Jason: We have one. Our our company has one. Does your have one? Bryan: I don't fucking know. Jason: Well, we do. So I'm just saying it's what is a PAC? It's to buy votes, is it not? Bryan: It is. Jason: It's to get people the companies can't the company itself cannot donate money to a PAC, but their employees can. That's the screwed up thing about it. So Bryan: No. Jason: what I'm getting at is you got I mean it this is a whole damn mess. I've watching that guy and I wish I had him. You played him before. That Iranian. over there that was saying, they want to say that we're that our economy is that you know what I'm saying? That we don't have any food, that we don't have that. And he went to the supermarket. He went to the gas station and showed their gas prices and he showed all that stuff, right? He was debunking what Trump is saying. And I do think Trump speaks out of his ass sometimes, right? He says shit that's not true. well we okay, why are we still over there if we took out their nuclear plant? If they have no navy, why are we still having issues over there? Why isn't there why aren't these ships just frolling or flowing freely through the Strait of Hermoose? You see what I'm saying? Come on, you're not telling us everything. Something's going on over there. But anyways, what it you told me during that segment, I think you played that dude, that their government controls their their their oil prices or whatever, right? Bryan: Their government subsidizes their food and their fuel from what I read. I don't Jason: Okay. Bryan: know if they control it, but they subsidize it. Jason: I know that that's a tricky situation, right? Do we want the government having their hand in that? But at the same time, I think that the government ought to I think to protect the people, when it comes to shit that you're that you need to survive, I mean, dude, we need gas I mean, unless we're Amish and we want to get back to the horse and buggy, right? We gotta have fuel. you agree? Diesel and gas? Well well mobil and Exxon and all these bastards know that, right? And they can charge whatever the hell they want. I think that's bullshit. There should be some government regulations on that to keep that down so we can work. Bryan: Okay. So what I was Jason: Do you not agree? Bryan: basically trying to show you was is before this war we didn't have this problem. Now this war started, we have this problem. But the problem Jason: Every Bryan: is the refineries. Jason: That's what he's saying. But I think we're back to Bryan: You were saying too. Jason: too much dependent on Eastern or or or Middle East Bryan: I think we are, but I think we are because our politicians and our big companies make a lot of money that way. It's again, it's not to help you. They don't give a shit if we survive Jason: Right. No. Bryan: as long as they're making money. Now I want you to keep all that in all in your head while we're going through what's actually happening out there. Okay. Again, we're gonna play the rest of his answer at the end of the show. And so now we're gonna go talk about the eight month excursion in Iran. Jason: Excursion. I wish I could Bryan: So I got Jason: get an eight month excursion over on Carnival Cruise, but you only get like a two hour, three hour excursion. Bryan: Yeah, I couldn't find I I didn't want to have to give y'all a complete summary of everything that was going on. So Brad Cooper, Admiral Bradley Cooper, the commander of Centcom, I think he put this out Thursday or yesterday. Where is he at? He's gonna give us a complete overview of what's going on over there in Iran. Jason: you're so welcome. Bryan: Yep. So there you have it. Admiral Bradley Cooper. Brad Cooper from Centcom giving you the update. Jason: okay. I thought it was the one with Lady Gaga in that one movie. and he was on the hangover too. I loved him Bryan: It Jason: there. Bryan: it was this was posted by Ecker Geopolitics. And for those listening in the video, Echor Geopolitics had some posted some stats. It said Iran war costs forty five point one billion as U.S. consumers have paid roughly an extra 147 billion on gas and diesel since late February twenty twenty six. Quantifiable gains are overwhelmingly private. But the all industry profits exceeded at least 130 billion Over six months. so I I checked multiple AI sources and all have stated that these figures are correct or at least largely accurate. And in some cases, the numbers cited in the video are conservative to those estimates. So there's that. Everything's going great. Just listen to Bradley Cooper. And the latest reporting that I've seen shows that yes, the U.S. is roughly 50,000 military personnel in the Middle East. there's another 9 10,000 sailors and Marines heading that way, expected to be there around the end of November. This will bring that total up to close to 60,000 service members in the region. There's also reports from Israel National News.com of quiet relocations and reductions of personnel at bases in places like Jordan, Qatar, and Kuwait, plus further reductions in staffing at diplomatic posts, including the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia. By the end of November, the U.S. will have three carrier groups in the Middle East. Having three carrier groups in one area isn't the norm. This was last seen in a sustained basis in the early phases of the 2003 Iraq war. Now I'm not saying we're gearing up for an invasion or an escalation of war, but this show of force is for something. Maybe it's just posturing. I don't fucking know, but they're doing it for something. Jason: That's a lot of carriers. Bryan: Yeah, why should you why would you need so many guy groups? And I and I thought about that. And Jason: you can fly a lot of sorties off of one aircraft carrier. Bryan: Yes. But you also have to re Jason: But you're not going to do a big war off one. You'd need multiple to do something big. But what they're doing, you could easily do that from one. Bryan: But you also have to Jason: So I see Bryan: remember we don't have any bases over there that we can actually use in the Middle East. So everything's gonna be from the sea. Jason: Yes. Bryan: So that's why I think they need all that over there. Jason: Which is weird because you think we could do that shit from Kuwait or Saudi. Bryan: Well, from what I've read and from what I've seen on the destruction of our bases, Iran has the capabilities to hit our bases in the Middle East within minutes. Jason: yeah. Yeah. Bryan: And then we running out of defense missiles to shoot all that shit down, right? Jason: Yeah, 'cause we're we're burning through our ship pretty quick. Excuse me. Yeah. Bryan: So yeah, so now those bases they were designed to protect that area, right? And to give us access to where we could ward off Jason: Quick strikes, yep. Bryan: yep. And evidently that shit ain't working. Jason: Mm yeah. Bryan: Well, they said that these bases were designed to protect the US power in the Middle East region and to help support our allies and protect the US interests in the area. However, Iran has missile capabilities that our previous adversaries in that region didn't have. And the close proximity of those bases to Iran only give the base and the region a short warning prior to attacks. Now, this not only makes it hard to protect the base's supplies and equipment, it also makes that country that the base is in a magnet for these damn attacks. And of course, this is not the only issue for our service members, but it's an issue for the citizens of these countries that these bases reside in. Jason: Yeah, they probably don't want to support us too well, do they? Bryan: I wouldn't think they do. Jason: Y'all y'all bringing some luggage with y'all that we ain't really w wantin'. Bryan: No, if we could protect those bases it would be a non issue. Jason: Th they were all fine with us being over there to protect but now that we're causing somebody you know what I'm saying? We done picked on that poor kid that don't care to swing. Does that make sense? W we've talked about that too. Iran's that kid that ain't got shit that just said, you know what? F it. Come on. They were born for Bryan: Yeah, fuck it. Let's let's see what does Jason: this. It's like the Bryan: Yeah, I Jason: the outsiders, that movie with all the the Rob Lowell and Tom Bryan: Yeah. Jason: Cruise and all that, the outsiders versus the the socias. I meant the socias got all yeah, Bryan: Mm-hmm. The Greases versus the Socius. Jason: the Greasers and the Soshas. I meant the socias got all the money and all that, but when it comes down to that, money don't mean shit. It's whoever can Bryan: No, it's grit. Jason: take an ass beating and get back up. That just like Rocky. That's what made Rocky's so good. Bryan: Yep. Well, that's what I think. That I was I was joking about that the other night with Jennifer about Rocky. About this is like Rocky and Drago. Drago goes out there and he's just beating the shit out of Rocky and Rocky's just standing there, just taking that ass whooping, like, come on. It's not human. Jason: Yeah, he's not human. Yeah, it's that's what Iran is. They Bryan: Yeah. Jason: were just brought up rough and it don't hurt. You know what I'm saying? Bryan: Well, I can tell you it doesn't seem like these bases were were set up to defend the Middle East against Iran. or at least not the way they fight now because Jason: We thought it was. We thought it was. Bryan: Think so? Jason: dude, you gave the you gave the poor kid drones? Them little ass drones, dude, they pack a punch and you're sitting there, what did we say? Well, you you brought up the amount of money that it costs them to make a drone versus the amount of money that it costs for the missile to take it out. It's crazy. Bryan: Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's like fifty thousand to a hundred thousand to fucking twelve million, four million to twelve million. Yeah. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: It's huge, huge difference. Jason: Yes. So who's gonna win that? Bryan: Yeah, it depends on we have to throw a lot of haymakers. and they throw a lot of jabs and those haymakers are just weighing us out, I guess. Jason: Dude, I I never wanna go here, I swear to God, because everybody and their brothers got a button now, right? Back in the day when we dropped those two bombs on Hiroshima and and Nagasaki People didn't have that shit, right? That was state of the art stuff right there, loaded in them planes, them atomic bombs, correct? Okay. But you had to do something to Japan because them bastards would have fought to the last dude. Agree? I think there was a story Bryan: Yeah, I don't know. I I I would I as from what I understand now, yes, I agree. Now, do I know would they have fought to the last guy? Yes. Could there have been a that but y Jason: There was a guy that was still did you hear that story? Bryan: yeah, I heard I know his story you're gonna say, but that doesn't mean that they they live on an island. So my point is is if you just don't let off that island, what what can they do? So they there could have been other options. Having said that, we just went through a hard war. That we was fighting also in the in Europe, that you you gotta stop that shit at some time. Yep. Jason: Yeah, they were just trying to get a quick stop and that was the only way they seemed feasible to get the quick stop. Okay, so Bryan: Yeah, I don't think you just draw that shit out. We lost enough fucking people in that war. Jason: Yeah, we did. And they were probably they I ain't gonna lie, per if you look at the amount of time spent in each area, each campaign, I guarantee us fighting the Japanese, we probably lost more if you did the math, right? The percentages or whatever, we probably had a higher percentage of loss to them than we did the Germans. Bryan: Probably I d I don't know. Jason: But anyways, I don't wanna have to do this. I don't wanna have to drop drop where are you gonna nuke Iran anyways? It's a big ass desert. But d is this what you have to resort to? Bryan: No, I don't think you have to resort to that either. Jason: It it's like I think we effed up. We we effed up. We we picked a fight. Bryan: Why do you have to drop a nuclear weapon? And and and we'll get into this later, but now I got a question. Why do we have to drop it? Why do we have to drop a nuclear bomb? Jason: I don't think you can back out of this anymore. Huh? Bryan: Why? Why can't you back out? Jason: I d I don't know because I think it's gonna make us look weak now. Bryan: Well, it make us look weak, but that don't mean that we don't ha we can't back we could back out at any time. Jason: I know we can but I'm saying that's just gonna open the door for everybody to say, All right, they ain't as bad as we thought or they ain't the badass that we thought they were. Bryan: No, I it doesn't mean that we're not badasses. We made a mistake. Hey, look, you know what? The only way we think we can win this on, bitch, is to drop a nuclear bomb on you. We not willing to do that. So we're gonna back the fuck up. We're gonna leave y'all the fuck alone. But if y'all get out of line, we're gonna nuke you. Jason: Okay. Bryan: You I'm getting that we don't have to do that. Jason: I just think that they I just think that we we're in we're are w we screwed up getting in this. And I think Israel got it I think Israel Bryan: No, I think you're right. But we don't have to be Jason: got us in this shit. You know what I'm saying? Bryan: I don't think that you're wrong what you're saying. What I'm saying is that's not the only option though. It's the only option they have because of posturing. They have to look a certain way. They have to posture a certain way. I get Jason: Yes. Yes. Yep. Bryan: that. But that's you can be humble enough even as a leader, even as the ruler, mean the fucking the superpower of the world. You can be humble enough to say, look, I made a mistake. Take the fucking step back and say, Look, look, that's not weakness. We can still fuck you up. We wanted to. But look, we made a mistake. There's no reason to keep doing this. We we fucking up the world economy. We're gonna go through that in a little bit too. Let's take a step back. Let's make all this shit right. Jason: Well, and I think we need to go over there and handle our er Israel. I think I I'm just sorry, I think we need to it no that's another story. Bryan: I don't think you need to. I think if you back up, leave it alone. Jason: And back out of this that that's enough to smack them around. Bryan: No, you don't support and whatever they do over there will be handled by the people that live in that area. Jason: Ooh, ooh. If we just turn our backs and be like Bryan: Yeah, you just walked away from said, look, I'm not dealing with this shit. Y'all wanna run your fucking gums? Jason: I didn't see nothing. I didn't see nothing. Bryan: Yeah, look, Iran, I'm done. Look, we made a mistake. Israel, you're on your own. Jason: Yeah. Yep. Bryan: Middle East, y'all do y'all do you. Y'all do you. We're not losing no more of our people, Jason: Yeah. Y'all handle y'all's own shit over there. Good luck, Israel. Bryan: Yeah and yeah, you you do your shit. All right. So this war as well as Jason: So anyway, I'm sorry. Bryan: the Ukrainian wars resulted in damage to energy infrastructure due to direct attacks. For example, in this report from KahanLife dot com, based from a Reuters investigation that Iranian linked strikes damage five of Saudi Arabia's nine biggest refineries. And three major oil processing hubs, including facilities described amongst to be the world's largest. Production fell from over 10 million barrels a day pre-war to below 7 million for much of the first half of the conflict. Refineries and fuel facilities in the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Baran, how you say that? Baran, Baran. Bahrain, Bahrain, and elsewhere were also hit. Houthi and other proxy attacks added further pressure on Red Sea linked and southern facilities. There were also L and G facilities hitting Qatar. Iran has also suffered extensive damage to its refineries and gas processing sites. Now, all of this shit is costly for the economy and a drain on the energy needs of not only this area, but of the world. Yeah, everybody. Jason: But everybody. Yeah. Bryan: We're all fucking feeling this shit. Then you add in Iran imposing his will on the Strait of Hormouth, the U.S. Naval blockade, and the Houthis closing off Saudi's alternative trade routes. And we have a complete war on the energy in the Middle East. Do you see my point? Jason: Yeah. Bryan: we're. Jason: We're not Bryan: We're doing it. Jason: we are all this is contributing to the whole world, which we don't under simple minded Americans just question why is our shit so expensive. They don't understand what goes on outside of our borders affects our cost. Agree? Bryan: Mm-hmm. I agree. Because we just worried about us. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: We just like you said, we self-centered. Jason: Yes. Bryan: You know what's fucked up though? It don't even stop there. You remember that Jason: Keep going. Bryan: other war we got going on in Europe? The one that the US is supporting? Yeah, the Ukrainian one. I don't. Jason: The Ukrainian war? You don't hear a shit about it no more, but I'm sure it's still going, right? Bryan: yeah, it's still gone. So we're gonna go squirrel for a second and look over here now. I should Jason: Damn, we were young in this when we were talking about that 'cause we were showing them drones chasing that dude into that man. Bryan: Ha ha ha Jason: Woo. Bryan: Well, according to the reporting I've read, Russia's conducted a sustained campaign against Ukraine's grid, substations, generation facilities, and oil and gas sites aiming to disrupt electricity, heating, and civilian life before winter. Since mid-July 2026, Russia has carried out more than 2,000 strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Ukrainian officials describe near daily targets. Impacts include rolling blackouts, temporary loss of power and water in cities, and pressure on repair crews. Ukraine has improved resilience through decentralization generation, repairs, and air defenses, but faces shortages on interceptors, especially Patriots, against ballistic missiles. All right. So Russia's evil as fuck. Jason: Is that what was going on in California when we were having rolling blackouts? Was Russia attacking us? Bryan: Maybe so. So Russia itself, they they evil because they're attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure. But with Ukraine's doing the same thing. So Ukraine has used its long range drones and some missiles in deep strike campaigns against Russian oil refineries, terminals, depots, and related sites to degrade Russia's refining capacity. Fuel supply and export revenues. This is framed as self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter. Ukraine paused strikes on Russian refineries for a few days after Trump request, but resumed them after continued Russian attacks on its own grid. All right. Now Trump criticized Ukraine's strikes on Russia's all sites for contributing to higher diesel prices and called them a disgrace in the context of US midterm politics. in the diesel deal with Moscow. Russia has downplayed the effects of these strikes. So, but before I move on, I want to bring something to light. We've been hearing about the war in Ukraine for years, yet we don't hear about the casualty numbers and why. I I I don't know. But it's quite odd that we don't hear about them. So I'm gonna share some of them with you. All right. The UN has verified at least seventeen thousand three hundred Ukrainian civilians have been killed. The UN believes the do yeah. Jason: Geez. That's civilians, dude. That's not military. That's civilians. That's un Bryan: Civilians. Jason: that's Bryan: The the UN believes Jason: Whatever. Go ahead. Bryan: that number is really high, but that's that's Jason: Probably. Bryan: what they have verified. Russian civilian deaths are estimated to be between a few hundred and a thousand. Ukrainian military deaths are estimated to be between 125,000 and 150,000, with some estimates close to 200,000. Estimated total casualties for Ukrainian military is 525,000 to 625,000 people. All right, so that's the hurt and dead. Over a half a million fucking people did hurt or dead casualties. Now there are estimates that the Russian military have lost between four hundred and six hundred and twenty thousand soldiers. The Ukraine General Staff reported about 1.54 million total Russian casualties as of October 2nd, 2026. In total, it is estimated that the total casualties from this war is between 1.9 million and 2.5 million people. Jason: Wow. Bryan: To put this into perspective, that is close to the population of Houston or Chicago. The deaths alone match populations of cities like Detroit and Baltimore. All right. So I just wanted to touch on that because I don't I don't think we we think enough about casualties of war. they don't get enough attention. War is sold to be some kind of glorious fucking thing, And it might be when you aren't in the middle of it, but for the people that are living in this shit, I can only imagine that it's just pure fucking hell. That's a lot of fucking people, man. Jason: Dude, when I used to be when I was in Iraq and we were staying at these camps, the higher you slept on top of your trucks, the less likely sand fleas and mosquitoes to get you. Which was weird. But one night I slept on top of the top of the truck. You could fit your cot up there, right? Them trucks were huge. Them semis were the ones that hauled the tanks, the heads. But anyways, one night and I didn't give a shit. But I d I was on my cot and I looked over and I could see houses. And I just in my mind I thought how are these people feeling with this shit going on over here? How would you feel if a conflict was going on in your your area? you didn't a ask for that shit. Bryan: We glorify the fuck out of it though. Jason: It it's weird the the thoughts you get in your head, that just you get out of the the mentality of being like, I'm a badass duh. Man, I bet you they really wish we weren't here. You know what I'm saying? Bryan: no doubt. I I could if you there and they know that you there to help them and protect them, that's one thing. If you there and you bring in a wrath or a destruction to their place, Jason: Right. Bryan: that that's totally different. You know? But what they're gonna make you believe or the people believe that support this shit is that you there for the best reason in the world. And that's for freedom. That is for the best of the United States. And without them, if these people are allowed to live, the world's gonna end tomorrow. Just like this next election's always the, the most important. Jason: gonna fall apart. Yeah. We're gonna fall apart if it don't vote the right way. Bryan: All right. So I'm not the smartest man, but this is what I see as the big picture. And I can't figure it out, but this is and I can't rationalize why it is this way, but this is what I think is happening, or what I see is happening. And let me explain. So currently we have higher fuel prices because we're creating a supply shortage of world energy. Right. Jason: Uh-huh. Bryan: This is driven by Ukraine attacking Russian refineries, Russia attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: The US and Israel attacking Iran and its energy infrastructure, while Iran and the Houthis are attacking Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure. We don't know how many refineries have been fucking damaged, all this. We don't know what the cost of all this is going to be, how long it's going to take to repair this shit. And the sad part is we can stop both of these fucking wars. are we not the superpower of the world Jason: Yeah. Bryan: or at least a superpower? the biggest, one or the other. Jason: That's what they say. Bryan: Yeah, and we're s we're supporting both of these fucking wars, either with our own military money or or weapons or Jason: Yeah. Or with weapons or yeah, yeah. Sub yeah. Support in some way or another. Yeah. Bryan: So so therefore if we really wanted to stop it, couldn't we stop both wars? Just Jason: Cut it off. Bryan: just stop support, boom, no more war. So with that being said, would the logical thought be that the US government is responsible for the attack on the world's energy infrastructure? Whether it be directly or indirectly? Jason: We're supporting it. Bryan: And if that was the case, why why would we do that? Hmm. Jason: Make it rain, baby. Make it rain. Bryan: And and back to your part, now that we started this shit or at least supported it, can we safely stop it? Or is it this shit going on for deeper nefarious reasons? Is is this a money grab, like you just said? Is it a power grab? Are we trying to steal somebody else's resources? Jason: just don't understand. I really don't. Why does Russia need Ur Ukraine? Bryan: I don't think they need Ukraine. What it was from what I understand and I could be completely wrong is that the the territory that they want was Russia. Jason: Okay, I I don't give a shit. Why do you need it? There's Bryan: Well Jason: a need there. Bryan: I don't know. All I know is that at the beginning of this war, when all this shit started, from what I've read, the people that was in the area that Russia was trying to get, they were of Russian descent and probably would have went there. Jason: Okay, but let me back it up. Where Bryan: What why do they need it? I don't know. Jason: where I live, I got a lot of farmers out here, so sorry I'm on name drop some farmers. If the Greenwells go after the Hagadorn's land, it's because of yield production. You see what I'm saying? Bryan: Right. Yeah. Jason: There's gotta be something in that Ukraine territory that they're wanting. Bryan: It probably is. Jason: One or two things. I've always heard a rumor too that a lot of bad shit was coming out of Ukraine. And Russia trying to shut it down. Bryan: That's possible too. I know that Jason: trafficking and does Bryan: Before Zelensky and this war, there was a lot of talk about how corrupt Ukraine was. A lot of talk about how corrupt Ukraine was. Yeah. How corrupt Ukraine was. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: You don't hear it that much anymore. You can dig and you can still find it. Jason: Right. Bryan: But you don't hear about it much anymore. What what exactly is going on at all? I have Jason: But wonder why Putin wouldn't bring that to light exactly why I'm over there, why I'm trying to take them out, because they're they're the devil. Bryan: Which one? Jason: Ukraine. Bryan: See, I I don't know how Jason: Why isn't Putin why isn't Putin it made it known why he's after that? Bryan: Well let me now that you s asked that question, I wanna ask a different question 'cause now you Jason: Okay. Bryan: opened my thought up to this. That's whatever they want in Ukraine, all of Ukraine or whatnot, look how many lives it's worth to Russia. Look at the lives they lost, the hundreds of thousands of lives Jason: Yeah. Bryan: they lost, and the millions of people that are hurt. Jason: Yes. Bryan: There's some investment in that now. Jason: There's something there that they're wantin'. Bryan: It's part yeah, I can see that. What exactly it is, I don't know. Jason: So why is nobody digging into that? Bryan: Well I'm sure somebody is, but just you not hearing about it. Jason: Okay. We already we already established why we think that we're going Israel wants us against Iran. Why? 'Cause they were the only person that Iran didn't have in check, correct? Bryan: That Israel didn't have in check. Jason: That's what I'm saying. Bryan: Yeah, you said Iran. I was just making sure that was on the same page. Jason: No, that Iran was the only person Israel didn't have in check. Bryan: Correct. Jason: They had all them other Middle Eastern places in check, except for Iran. Bryan: That and think Yemen. Jason: Okay, but Iran's the biggest. We we feel like if Bryan: Yeah, Iran's the biggest. Jason: we get Iran, Yemen will fall into place. Okay. Bryan: Yep, I agree with that. Jason: I just trying to understand, man. If we could if we can find the why, that's Bryan: No, I agree. Yeah, it's you it's hard to understand any of this. First of all, you gotta dig for the information. Second of all, you don't even know if the information you find in it is right. No Jason: Right. Bryan: no one's gonna tell you anything because they don't want you to know anything. But I do know this. If we stop these wars, all the money that these motherfuckers are making is gonna stop, and we can't have that. You know. Jason: well dude, Northrop Grumman, you name all of our Bryan: Yeah, exactly. Jason: big military defense places in United States, they don't make money unless we're doing shit. Do they? Just regular Bryan: no. Jason: regular deployments that we used to do at CACS and WTI and all that stuff, they don't make money in that shit. Bryan: No, so you now I'm a just an un old, uneducated white dude, but I would assume that you Yeah, you would agree Jason: No, you're racist too, but anyways, go ahead. Bryan: that this shit's a lot deeper than what we what it is what it seems to be on the surface. They just not at war for this little simple task. Jason: No. Bryan: Well let's keep moving on. So let's see what Trump thinks about what's going on. Jason: Mm. Bryan: All right, so the the people are getting rich from this shit and it it's the oil and gas producers and defense contractors, like we're saying. It's also reported that large banks Jason: Mm-mm. Mm-hmm. Bryan: have performed pretty well, during all this shit. But who's making a fortune? Is it you? Jason: No Bryan: Do you think it's wrong for anyone to put a headline that Trump says about all his friends making a fortune and you suffering at the pump? Jason: They're gonna come down, though, Bryan.. Bryan: Yeah. But is that not what that man just said though? Jason: Yeah. Bryan: So if you put that as a headline, does is that fake news? And I trust me, I I always like Jason: It's not. Bryan: to defend him against fake news because he's brought that to light and there is a lot of fake news up. Jason: Dude, th yes. No, the media told you what what they wanted you to hear, not what the truth was. And that's why I don't like the media, is it's not unbiased. But I don't give a fuck Bryan: But when you say something Jason: about the media right now. So here's the F-bomb coming out of my mouth, right? All I know is what that pump says. $399 a gallon. and I wanna know this. Why is there three fifty four fifteen or twenty miles in between three ninety nine and three fifty four? Bryan: the price? Jason: In the same state. Bryan: I've I've read multiple reasons, but one of the biggest reasons I've found is is the property value. So if how much is your rent? Do you own the building? All that stuff goes into the cost of the price of your gas at if every station. I didn't even think of it in that way. Jason: well all I'm gonna say there's two gas stations in this little town and there's it's three ninety nine a gallon, but you go up to Henderson that's north north of this area, and it's three fifty-four a gallon. Bryan: I I where I live. Not Jason: I know where you live. Bryan: even a mile from me at the Circle K. That Circle K might be a mile or a half mile away from the the refinery where the trucks come from. And that fuel Jason: Yeah. Bryan: right there is cost you more than if you go right across the interstate. So yeah, it it it's it's it's a lot of different factors that come in that you know Jason: I know. I don't understand. It makes no damn sense. Yeah. Bryan: you would have to be in the business. It but just from looking at it from the outside, looking in It makes no fucking sense at all. I understand exactly what you're saying. But I'm just letting you know I looked into it and it was just all these people were arguing about it. It was no, it's this and this, this, but you don't factoring in the cost of this and okay, yeah, I didn't look at all you're right. I'm just looking at why the fuck you selling gas like that, Jason: Yeah. I don't understand it, but he keeps saying it's gonna come down. It's gonna come down. It's not coming down. Bryan: As soon as the war's over, it's not over yet. No, no, sorry, sorry, Jason: Well it's Bryan: sorry. Damn it, Bryan. is not a war. Soon as soon Jason: It's an excursion. Bryan: as this excursion's over with, Jason, it's gonna come Jason: Cheese. Bryan: down. This three day excursion. Yes, it's a little longer than three days. Don't you understand that? Jason: It went longer than what we wanted. It did. They're proud people. Bryan: We got rid of they got rid of the nuclear weapon. Jason: They're proud people, there Bryan.. Bryan: All right, real quick, if any of this is making you think, do us a favor, like the episode, share it with someone, and subscribe so you don't miss the next one. We really appreciate every single one of you. All right. So let's get back to this. So is this war and in energy infrastructure the new way of warfare? You know, could it work? I like I just said, I live by a refinery. Could they target refineries? Jason: You better move. Bryan: No, I I was thinking about this and I don't think that you would need a nuke, to take these things out. you you just gotta destroy it a little bit, make Jason: Direct hits. Yeah. Bryan: disrupt it. Jason: No, you're not gonna nuke it. Just direct hit. Just Bryan: Yeah, you just got I don't want any of that to happen. I'm just saying you don't have to hit it with such a big weapon in order to disrupt the flow of whatever you're doing. Jason: No no No Bryan: Now, when you look at that, if if if they decide, you know, this is the new way of war that we're gonna do warfare on energy infrastructure and you factoring, that we already have low levels in our strategic oil reserves, and it wouldn't take long to put a crisis on our Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And I hate to even to say it, but attacking refineries, it it's a pretty good option for countries fighting a war. It is. you Jason: no. Bryan: you could take a lot out. You you take their refineries out, you take out, way for them to get fuel. You need a lot of fuel for war. Now all this brings me to the US announcing the Fortress America initiative. This is where the US will be set up to be self-reliant for all its needs, like water, electricity, food, medical. Basically each base will be its own functional, self reliable, fortified city. Here's Fox News giving you a little bit about the Pentagon doomsday. Don't you hear about that? No? Jason: No. I didn't know about that part. I just knew about the ninety day thing. Yeah. That's why we were talking about earlier before the show started. Bryan: So yeah, they they saying Jason: Love all the doomsday people in there too on TikTok. I'm just being honest. I meant these dudes just come right out the closet. They've been hiding Bryan: Who's that? Jason: these doomsday people. Bryan: About what? Jason: Sitting there talking about all the stuff that's gonna happen and the predictions and Bryan: Yeah. Jason: come on, man. Y'all been doing this shit for years. Shut the hell up. Nobody knows Bryan: Yeah, I I don't think it's Jason: what's gonna happen. Bryan: I don't think it's a panic situation. I I I could tell you this though. This is how I feel. If you was waiting for a sign from the government to try to get some shit together, I this is probably your sign. You know what I'm saying? If you if you thought before that you probably should have no, I'm serious. If think about it, when the I really believe that the the bases already should be self reliant, period. Jason: Yeah, they should have been beforehand. Bryan: They should have been before. Having said that, Jason: Sorry. Bryan: if the government now is gonna say, hey, look, we're gonna make sure that we're self-reliant in case there's a problem, you should be self-reliant also. You just should. because you can't depend on them to protect you. What there's at that point, they're saying that look, they expect something to happen on soil, whether it's cyber or whatnot, they expect something to happen. A power grid going down doesn't have to take a war. tainting your water doesn't have Jason: An EMP or whatever, yeah, an EMP can take out a lot of shit. Bryan: Well, they said even an EMP is very l unlikely compared to cyber attacks with someone just getting into the computer systems and, shutting shit down. Yep. Jason: Yeah, because a lot of power grids are controlled by computers and stuff like that. It's not old school stuff like it used to be. Bryan: Exactly. So if if you were waiting, if you was on the fence about Jason: Right. Bryan: if you should get a few things for your house for something like this, in my opinion, this is this is your sign. If you if they if you don't ever think about this shit, and I wouldn't panic about it. You just you just not someone that wants to be prepared and time. And I get it, you you you you're the same person that waits to the last day of the storm to go get his needs. in our area. I get that. I'm not arguing how how you are as a person, because Jason: Right. Bryan: I don't think this is a panic situation. Jason: Right. Bryan: But if you are someone that likes to, be ahead of something and you was waiting for a sign, I think this is your sign. Jason: Right. Bryan: So I'm not saying you gotta go out and buy a bunker and shit, but I'm gonna show you what the ultra wealthy is doing. Let's check this shit out. Jason: That's crazy, dude. Bryan: Fucking crazy, yeah. Why they spending so much money Jason: For f Bryan: on shit like that? Jason: well, for five million you can have one, Bryan.. Bryan: I think that's a room inside of that for five billion. it's badass. Jason: shit. I mean that was badass, I'm not gonna lie. Bryan: It's fucking awesome. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: I I think you yeah, you can just go down there as a retreat. Jason: But people like me and you, they're we're not sorry. We're not we're not gonna be able to we're on our own. Bryan: Exactly. And that's that's my whole point. And this is again, they they've had bomb shelters back, years ago and all this other shit. People went crazy before. So you to do what you need to do to make yourself feel safe, right? Jason: Right. Bryan: My whole point of showing this is but this is what the elites are doing. This Jason: Yeah. Bryan: guy wouldn't have built this shit if somebody didn't want it. You know what I'm saying? Jason: Yeah, somebody's yeah, somebody's funding that. Bryan: Yeah. So that's that's pretty crazy, man. Pretty fucking crazy. Jason: They said all the r like Zuckelberg and all that shit was building underground bunkers and all that. Bryan: I'm sure they are. And Jason: they knew something's gonna come down eventually. And it might, Bryan: Well the Jason: but what were we talking about at before the show? Get right with God. Bryan: yeah, you ha you better be right with God. but that's just for everyday shit. Just be right with God. Jason: Yeah, because you're not guaranteed your next breath. Bryan: Nope. Never. So if you make sure everybody that you love know you love and be right with whatever you think the Lord is to you, be right. Jason: Yeah. Forgive people. Stop holding on to anger and hate and discontent. Forgive those that bothered you. Ask for forgiveness to those that you bothered and just get right. Bryan: the UK also released similar shit. They they got the Be Ready campaign they released on October 22nd. And and and this goes on and on. Germany's done it. Norway, Sweden, France, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, the whole European Union basically is telling to be at least three days. Yeah. So a lot of people are trying to be prepared. And it's not just for war. storms. it it's good to have stuff at your house when there's a storm. you lose electricity and all. The panic of people running Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: out causes more problems than if you can if you can just hunker down at your house when the storm's over. You got the electricity, you got water, you got food at your house. You you're not fighting everybody out in public. just think about it, it was like trying to get fucking toilet paper during COVID. That's the only thing you gotta think about. If you want to have to deal with that same fucking aspect, but with food, that's what you're looking to deal with in the first few days of some dumb shit going up. Because everybody's going to lose their fucking mind. So if you got a little few dollars to set aside and you can, you know, buy a little bit here and there. I mean, I would do it. Again, I'm not saying go out and panic, buy or anything, but I'd get some shit. All right, so now that we discussed how this shit can affect us in the homeless, let's go back to the Middle East. All this shit we got going on in the Middle East, it led to some of the countries in the Middle East having their own summit to try and figure this shit out because all the effects it's having on, them and their s their citizens. According to the South Jason: I think this is smart. This is smart. They should have their own little shit going on. Bryan: yeah. So according to South China Post, let me On October twenty-sixth, twenty twenty-six, top officials from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan flew to Tehran to talk to Iranian leaders. Their goal was to try to calm things down and stop the ongoing war involving Iran with the US and Israel from flaring up again and spreading further. it was stated that Qatar was also there to be the mediator. CNN was also reporting on this. They met Iran's president and other senior officials. Both sides said the talks went well and agreed to keep talking about peace and security in the region. No final deal or ceasefire was announced yet. And this was part of the Mecca Pact and what the Mecca Pact was designed for. The Mecca pact is a defense deal signed in August of 2026 in the city of Mecca by three countries: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan. It's basically like NATO. if one of them's attacked. The other promises to help and defend each other. This pack was also created because of the instability caused by the Iran war and concerns of regional security. And here's the UAE. Let me check this out. I don't have all these numbers, so give me a second. To add to this, Reuters reported on June 12th that the UAE had agreed to unlock billions of Iranian money. Some estimates are around 10 billion, with 3 billion already delivered and up to $20 billion. The UAE allegedly paid Iran to stop attacking them. However, the UAE denies this. it was reported that Saudi was also an offering money to the Houthis through Iran mediation to stop the Houthis from attacking their oil infrastructure. This offer was reportedly around $1 billion. So Iran is hitting U.S. bases that are located in the Middle Eastern countries while also making it hard as fuck to move oil out of the Strait of Hormuz. Then the Houthis are locking up Saudi for moving oil the way they want while blowing up pipelines and ships. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: The US bases the US has bases in the Middle East to stop all this shit from happening. Again, yet here we are. So you think that the countries of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan have a warm fuzzy that the US is gonna protect them if they're Jason: Mm. Bryan: gonna have to go to Iran to solve this shit themselves? Jason: They're sick and tired of it, dude. Bryan: Think so? Jason: why wouldn't they? Bryan: I I agree. I'm just trying to see if Jason: Iran can hit them. Iran can't hit us right now. Or or supposedly they can't, but they hit them. So you start fighting with all you start hitting our damn allies that we're supposed to protect and we can't protect you. What does that make us look like? Bryan: But they already doing it. Yeah. Jason: I know they did. They fucked Saudi up. Right? They were hitting them with shit. Bryan: Well, they were hitting our bases in Saudi and then well then the Houthis are the ones blowing the airports and shit. Jason: Dude, they were hitting regular Saudi shit over there too. Bryan: Yeah, the Houthis are tearing their shit up. Jason: Yeah. Damn Hoofies. Hoofies Bryan: Yeah, that's damn Hoofies. Hoofies ain't fucking around. Hoofies and the blowfish. The Roofies. Jason: What yeah, or Roofy's fucking Bill Cosby pills, the Roofies and the Houthies. The Roofies. Bryan: Well how about how about Iraq? Well check this one out. Where is it at? It's reported that Iraq sold 10 million barrels of oil at a discount of $25 to $28 per barrel, mostly to India. This was reported October 25th, based on Iraqi sources. To the Jason: Why can't we get that shit? Bryan: well, listen, because this these motherfuckers aren't making the money that everyone else is making. That's why they can't get that money out. They can't get their oil out because of where they're sitting in the Strait of Hormouth and shit. So basically, the cost that it's taken to get The oil out, the extra insurance they get, they're having to eat that cost in order to sell their their oil. The Jason: Cheese. Bryan: re some of the reports are showing that they even had to have larger discounts of $32 to $37. And they never was able to sell above $100, even when the the oil was at $117 a barrel. Well, Matt, here it is, they're right here. The state oil marketing organization source said. Iraq had recently been unable to sell crude for more than about $85 a barrel, even when the oil prices were around $117 per barrel. Jason: Damn it. Bryan: It was also stated that Iraq has not sold any oil above $100 a barrel since the Iran War started. So they're getting squeezed. Everybody else is making money hand over fist and they having to put discounts on their all. So how do you think that makes Iraq feel? Jason: Not good. Bryan: I I don't know how many fucking countries we gotta piss off, but I don't see us making a whole lot of friends right now. Jason: Yeah, I'm telling you right now, if we're just gonna make one country out of the ten or fifteen or twenty countries over in the Middle East happy, that's not good odds. Bryan: No. Then then it's the smallest. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: And has no fucking value to it 'cause they have no minerals or whatnot. I can't say no minerals, but they don't have what we looked at it was industry. They didn't have much of a industry. It was mostly like paper pushing and jewelry. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: All right, so let's not forget about that little fucker over there, though. The government that got us bent over a barrel for some reason. I read about this the other day. It happened a couple weeks ago. BB and the IDF was testing Iranian government by flying close to Iran, and trying to get an Iranian Jason: Hey, you gonna take that down? Bryan: airspace. Some even say that they flew close enough to cross into their airspace. And Can't believe I still got this one up. Here's Daxios. Jason: Yeah, there you go. All right. Bryan: Some think this was a last-itch effort from Israel to restart the war prior to the Israeli election. The official narrative is according to Axios, around October 19th to the 21st, 2026, dozens of Israeli Air Force fighter jets plus refueling aircraft flew a long-range mission through Syrian and Iraqi airspace towards Iran. They followed a route similar to one that could be used for strikes, got near the Iranian border. Then turned around and returned to Israel without entering Iranian territory or conducting strikes. And then you have Israel dot com. They informed the U.S. in advance. It says Israel informed the U.S. in advance and described the flight as a training exercise and power projection meant to deter Iran ahead of Israel's October 27th election. U.S. officials noted that Israel knew Iranian air defenses would detect the aircraft. Some U.S. sources told Axios they suspected Israel might have hoped Iran would fire at the jets, which could then be used as justification for Israeli strike. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: The IDF didn't comment but publicly on the missions cited in these reports. So now was that little BB baiting Iran to shoot one of his IDF aircraft down in hopes of making Iran look like the aggressor? But Iran showed some discipline and didn't take the bait. Think that's possible? It's Jason: Yeah. It probably is. Bryan: a little devious little fucker, ain't he? Jason: He is, dude. I'm telling you, man. But that's God's chosen people. That's God's chosen Bryan: That's right. Jason: people. Come on, man. Get in your Bible, man. It was what did I tell you? I know you don't believe Jesus is the way through God, but the Israel Bryan: No, I didn't say Jesus wasn't a way through God. You s d what I don't believe is that Jesus Jason: He's the only way. If you don't believe in Jesus, you don't get to God. That's what I told you. And you're like, I don't believe that. Bryan: No, I don't believe that is the only way through God. Yeah. Okay. Jason: Yeah, that's he is the only way. That's what the Bible says. So, anyways, God had to protect the Is Israel people in order for him to be become, right? Because he was coming through that lineage of David. You see what I'm saying? From Abraham on, that's where Jesus came from. He had to protect that. If it was Palestinian, Canaanites, Amorites, all them ites that The Israels beat up because Bryan: Alright, alright, aye. Jason: aight, aight, aint. So, anyways, then God would have protected them. Once Jesus came and did what he did, then Israel no longer, because they're the ones that hung Jesus on the cross. Bryan: Mm-hmm. Jason: The Pharisees did. You see what I'm saying? So people need to get off. Bryan: B B did himself. Jason: Okay, the people need to get off of, we got to back Israel's plate. No, we don't. They're not in our best interest. They're not. Bryan: I agree. I concur. I concur. Jason: Thank you. I concur. And stop reading the skull. You better, you better check your Bible and make sure it ain't Schofield back because that one was what did we find out? It was reworded to put Israel propaganda in there, right? Isn't that what they said? Thank you Bryan: Yep. Yeah. Jason: for bringing that to my light. I had no idea about that. Bryan: Here is what Trump thinks about all this. This was last Sunday, so I'm sure his mind changed a lot since then. But here's him last Sunday on Fox News. We're either gonna cut a deal or we're gonna finish it off. I don't know what finish it off means, but that's what we're gonna do. And then I didn't plan to put these next two in here, but I seen them before we come on the show, before we started recording, so I decided to grab This one next one is from General Matt Keene, just to so we can show where other people support Trump. This is also from Fox. You could take some casualties. It ain't gonna be many, but you can take some. It's just a small price to pay. Jason: We gotta keep from having a nuke, Bryan.. Bryan: Fucking people evil, dude. Fucking people evil. And what happens after the midterms? I mean, do we go back to war? Jason: I don't know, dude. Bryan: I don't know. Do we go back to war before the midterm? We still got a couple of days before the midterm. I don't know what they're gonna do. Maybe they come up with a peace plan. It's Tuesday, Jason: When is the la it's it's next week, isn't it? Yeah. Bryan: yeah. Jason: Or Tuesday, yeah, 'cause we're we're not doing our we're not cutting anything Monday night, Tuesday morning. Bryan: And here they got Iran. They said on Fox was making threats. if if if this does happen and we're gonna retaliate with this, and so it's it's still a lot of posturing back and forth, and I'm not gonna play that cut, but I want to take us back to where we were with JD Vance. And this is the the second part of the video that we watched earlier. So we went through everything that to show you what's actually happening over there and how I think that it's affecting we're we're affecting the energy str of the world. You know, it we're Jason: Uh-huh. Bryan: affecting the cost of it. You know, we fucked in we fucking with the energy infrastructure and the shit that we support. And JD Vance said earlier that we need refineries opened back up in our country, which I don't disagree with. I think we do need refineries opened up in our country. I'm not arguing that at all. But you can't Jason: But right now you can't mess with the world's energy because it affects us. Bryan: Yeah, you can't go over there and blow all this shit up and tell me that the whole reason the price of gas is up is because Joe Biden closed the fucking energy of refineries when he was president. But the gas wasn't that high before you struck him. And so here's this second part of his answer. Jason: Or working on it. Bryan: And and I'll and I liked JD Vance, but man, I I don't know. I don't know with that one. I just Jason: He sounds like a used car salesman. Bryan: Yeah. It's easy to criticize what we did, when we went to war. I we it was it's fucked up that we did it. Jason: What what's Said say saying he's gonna do about it? Bryan: Yeah, yeah. Don't don't criticize what we did. Well, how yeah, how Jason: What are you gonna do to fix it? Bryan: he's gonna fix it? The only way to fix it the way we tell him you're gonna fix it. But you caused it. Why you criticizing me for causing something? No, it's not my fault that we still there. You see, if we do this and this enough. It's like what the fuck? he's very good at talking. I ain't gonna lie. he he could talk circles. Yeah, very good. very intelligent person. Jason: Who J D. yeah. Yeah, he can. Yeah, he could sell he could sell ice cubes to an Eskimo. I'm telling you right now. He is. He's very well spoken. Bryan: Yeah, he's very good. But seriously? Jason: So was Obama. Obama was well spoken. He worked change. We're gonna have change. Bryan: Yeah, I Jason: He never did tell you what change was. Was it was was it breaking a dollar and giving you change back? Or Bryan: No Jason: Or was there something gonna Bryan: hope and change. Jason: change change or whate he never did say what it was, but he said there was gonna be change. I know. And he Bryan: He didn't have to. And you were hung on every word. Jason: he he captivated a lot of people. Bryan: Yeah. I don't know. I'll never I'll Jason: Did he not? Bryan: I'll I'll never have that kind of charisma ever. No. I just I just I can't do that. Well if you have any thoughts, pushback, Jason: No, you're pretty straightforward asshole, so I know. You're screwed. Bryan: or or something we should cover next, email us at the Senson Sisters Podcast at Outlook dot com. there's a couple other things I was gonna go through, but we're running pretty late, so I'm I'm not gonna go over But it was basically South Korea. It's been put on notice by Iran by November first, basically telling the the Korea ship companies to get your ass in line or we we're gonna take care of you. Cause evidently they're not paying their taxes or whatnot going through the street. And then also I seen that Reuters Has was it at they they published and they found Iran had imported at least two billion in military-related hardware explosive missile drone components and heavy duty trucks since January 2025 by a large hidden network of the Ministry of Defense linked agencies. Let's check this out. Let me pull up that clip. Yeah, despite the waste Western sanctions and the U.S. naval blockade, this is not an official Iranian government announcement. Iranian entities did not respond to Reuters' request for comment. But it states that more than 5,000 numbered procurement agencies, starting with the MOD for Ministry of Defense. One agency, MOD 346428, alone. Brought in about 2.3 billion between January 2025 and June 2026. So what did they bring in to the Iran? Rocket propellants, chemicals used including precursors for solid rocket fuel fuel, explosive detonators, aircraft engine parts, precision machinery, weapons component critical for missiles and drones. And heavy trucks that can be adapted as mobile missile launchers. How'd they get this shit? Much recorded as coming from China, Russia, Germany, and other European sources. Deliveries continued by land, sea, and air, even during the war and blockade. The imports help explain how Iran was can has continued replenishing missile and drone production capacity under those pressure during the current war. China stated is unaware of the reported activity and opposed linking it to regional hostilities. There's that. So Jason: Mm. Bryan: that's how they able to keep their war going. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: Well, that's my current take on the situation in the wars and that we the US taxpayers are funding two separate wars that affect our pocketbooks and destroying the lives of the people that live in the war torn areas. Whether you support the wars or against the war, either way, we are feeling the effects of both wars. Fortunately, as now, as of now, we are only feeling the monetary effects, but that could change. And honestly, I don't think we're ready for that. In my opinion, the simple fact remains, if we wanted to stop these wars, we could, but we aren't. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: So that tells me the true answer. Right? We don't want to stop. Jason: Somebody's getting fat on this, is what I always say. Follow the money, isn't that what we always say? Bryan: Follow like two can say, follow my nose. It always knows. Jason: Follow my nose. It always knows. Bryan: You got anything, Jason? Jason: No, I'm good. Bryan: All right, guys, thanks for sticking with us. We really appreciate it. Until next time, this is the Sense and Sensors Podcast. I'm Bryan.. Jason: And I am Jason. Bryan: He's Jason. Peace. Jason: Pages