Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
so the market has been pretty wild gas prices were uh there was a fear it was going to skyrocket because crude oil had shot up so high did the closing of the strait of hormuz and then trump comes out and says the war is basically over they got no navy they got no air force they got no missiles left so uh we're looking like it's pretty done he said that the original timeline for four weeks actually were going much much more quickly than that and then instantly the market turned around and uh the
Price of crude oil dropped 30%. The biggest drop, the fastest drop we've seen, I think, ever. Just because Trump said, I think I'm done. So this could be nearing the end of the war, however you want to describe it. But the interesting thing is, the Ayatollah's son reportedly survived an assassination attempt.
However, while the reports say that he was wounded, there are rumors circulating that he actually didn't make it. We don't know for sure. There's no official confirmation on this, but that is the rumor right now. And oh boy. It's coming home. There's a really crazy story, guys. Over the weekend, Islamic extremists lobbed IEDs, improvised explosive devices, at protesters in New York City.
Now, that in and of itself is absolutely insane. And then you add on top the depravity of the media, who has repeatedly misled the public by framing this as though the protesters planted bombs at Mamdani's house. It's ridiculous seeing these headlines they're putting out saying suspicious devices found near Mayor Mamdani's home.
When the real story is, with video, Islamic extremists threw nail bombs at protesters. Absolutely insane stuff. We're going to talk about all of that, my friends. Before we do, we've got a great sponsor for you guys. It is Venice.ai. Check it out, my friends. Sam Altman said ChatGPT will get to know you over your life.
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Chapter 2: How do recent events impact oil prices?
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We're not out of the woods yet, but we completed the one goal that we had in the very beginning, which is getting the rhino Tony Gonzalez out of office. We're pretty proud about that. And so you are not yet the actual Congressman-elect. You won the primary, and now you're going to the big race in November. But it's a red district, so you're considered to be a heavy favorite.
Other than that, who are you? What do you do?
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Chapter 3: What happened during the NYC bombing incident?
Well, so outside of that, my day job is I'm a business owner here in the district, District 23. I'm a firearm manufacturer, firearm designer. I do YouTube, own a host of different businesses and co-own it with business partners of mine. But the biggest thing was I just was very unhappy with the actions of my congressman. and the things he was voting on. And so that was my primary issue with him.
And so I ran against him last cycle, narrowly lost by 400 votes, hoped he would be better. He clearly wasn't. And so I decided to run against him again, where for the first time in his political career, he lost. He lost us. I think it has to do with a lot of factors. You came really close the first time around, within a couple hundred votes, I think, is the reporting.
This time around, aside from the fact that people already were questioning, you know, his choices... We got this other story in which people really questioned his choices about this affair and everything like that. So we'll get into this later on for sure.
But, you know, in all honesty, I'm more interested in what you want to like your story about what you want to bring to to Congress, which is particularly dysfunctional. So, oh, boy, that'll be fun. Dysfunctional is a good word for it. Yeah, I always joked on the campaign trail. If I ran my businesses the way that, you know, Congress runs the government, I would be homeless three times over.
Yeah, isn't that funny how that works, huh? All right, man. Well, thanks for hanging out. It's going to be a lot of fun. Let's just jump into the news here. We've got this from Mediate. Trump declares Iran war is nearly over. The war is very nearly complete. It's very complete, pretty much. He said pretty much. In a phone interview, President Trump told me the war could be over soon.
I think the war is very complete, pretty much. They have no Navy, no communications. They've got no Air Force. He added that the U.S. is very far ahead of its initial four to five week estimate. Estimated timeframe. Now, I don't know what that really means for Trump to be like, it's very much pretty much complete. But you take a look at oil prices.
When Donald Trump comes out and says, I think we're done. Oil drops from 97. It was it was it was over 100 before down to 84. just a few hours later. So it's looking like the market is reacting to this may be the end right now. And I will stress this.
Based on my conversations with people in the Beltway, a lot of these fat cats and bigwigs, the big money, they've been acting as though they fully expect this to be wrapped up in a couple of weeks. Not an exaggeration. So it really does sound like there's people putting their money where their mouths are.
But I'm curious what you think about, is Trump just bloviating or are we actually getting this thing to end? I think that he's always bloviating, but it's been awesome. It's hilarious. Look, if this actually does get wrapped up, say, on a fast timeline within two weeks, and the U.S.
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Chapter 4: Why are Trump officials buying doomsday bunkers?
I should just pull it up. But he said, think about how bad it would be if like a nuclear device was lit off by Islamic extremists, all the poor Muslims or whatever would face all that hate or something like that. And yeah, that's the way the media operates. So the question is, what is the job of the press? It's to inform the public so that they can make the correct decisions to better
better lead their country through the democratic processes. That means you tell people Islamic extremists threw an improvised explosive at protesters and they say, okay, let's assess that and figure out how we should adapt our country, our city, our state, or otherwise. When you put the headlines like this, what are they gonna think? Oh, wow, white supremacists are scary.
That's what Mamdani said. Mamdani did the same thing. Zoran Mamdani tweeted, Jake Lang, a white supremacist, blah, blah, blah. And then he said, what happened next is even worse. It is wrong to use violence and explosives. He made it sound like Jake Lang showed up and his guys threw explosives.
How dare you peaceably assemble, as is guaranteed your right under the First Amendment, and give an opportunity for one of our people to do that to you? Like, that's really how that came off. Yeah, it's like the, Sultan Hitson said in that passage about a soldier was about to be murdered, stabbed, and then he fought back, grabbed the knife and stabbed the attacker, criminally charged for it.
And when he was in court, they said, why didn't you flee? And he said, he was trying to kill me. And they said, you could have run away. And so it's the poor criminal. Why didn't you? You know, actually, a really great example, one of my favorite episodes of Made with Children, a show I'm not a big fan of, because Al Bundy's always losing. Except, no, man, they had their successes.
But I love the episode where he punched a guy in the face and then sued the guy for hurting his hand on his face. And I guess the point of the story was it was always, something was always backwards or whatever, or the point of the show, it's always going wrong. But this is basically how they operate with these terror attacks.
Like you just said, how dare you create the opportunity to entice these poor young men You know, and I assure you right now, there are lefties in New York saying that I guarantee this because I've been in their meetings. They're probably saying things like, well, you got to understand they're internalizing white supremacy and victimhood and they're lashing out at the only way they know how.
Yeah, I mean, they take away the agency of the people that are actually carrying out the crime. They say, well, these poor people don't know better or they can't help it or what have you, which is completely and totally taking away their agency and the fact that they are human beings that actually make their own decisions. They lay the blame on someone else all the time.
You were talking about the role of media and journalism particularly, and I feel like it used to be find out what happened and then tell people about it. Now it's find out what's a lie and then tell people so they know which one's the lie. And then you kind of leave it up to everybody else to go find the truth.
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Chapter 5: What insights are shared about the Iranian people and their government?
Someone was telling me stats earlier. They are. Is it literal majority over 51%? Oh, yeah, yeah. The government is? It's the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yeah, the government, the government. But the people themselves are like, they were free, you know, until 79. They were fairly secular for a good amount of time. Like, if you look back at pictures of, you know, Iranian colleges in, like, 50s, 60s.
Dan Holloway was telling me it's that they're Persian first. Most of them are Persian first and Muslim second. Their religion is Islam, but they're generally secular Muslims. They're not particularly religious.
So I'm kind of dancing around this question, which I was going to ask you before Tim asked me to remember it, is you said we got to do this and we need to protect American lives at all costs. But like that can get very broad, the at all costs metaphor, because would you incinerate a million Iranian civilians? Well, I think you're kind of mistaking what I was saying.
I was saying if we have to do this, let's do it quickly to the least amount of American lives. If it was up to me, like if I had to vote right now based on the information that I have, which granted is less than they have. Not sure if that changes anything. I would vote no.
If I was asked if we were going to declare war in Iran, if we would go in ground invasion or like declare an official war, I would vote no. I think we've, you know, I'm typically an anti-Warhawk kind of guy. Not the way I'm going to do it. However, I feel like my policy on it is very much to make a weird analogy. It's like the Bill Burr bit about like no reason.
It's like, well, okay, should, should we do it? No, but no reason. Yeah. It's like, I think I'm more irritated by the arguments against it where they're saying, well, these are just poor, they've never done anything to us. I'm like, well, all right, well, I'll get to you in a minute. That was retarded. Yeah.
It's a rock and a hard place because the issue is, and I think, you know, I like to bring this up, it's not just the Strait of Hormuz. It's also that Iran's been funding the Houthi rebels in Yemen who have been bombing the Red Sea.
Down here, where the ships are trying to come on in to the Red Sea, where they head up through the Suez, get to the Mediterranean, Iran has basically been disrupting a massive amount of global trade, and Obama tried bribing them. Yep. If we give them some money and tell them to chill out, but they have not chilled out. Attacking us in Iraq, I get.
The United States should not have been in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I got to be honest, I think the point of going to Iraq and Afghanistan was largely to stage a pincer strike around Iran. You know, we've got military bases all along the edges. But Iran has been, look, at any point, if Iran was like, no, no, no, we're not going to interfere with global trade, no one cares about Iran anymore. Yep.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of declaring war on Iran?
But they wanted to build a canal that would compete with the Panama Canal. And this was some 10 years ago. They ultimately abandoned the project after it just like cost an insane amount of money. The reason why Trump wanted Panama back The reason why Trump wants control of the Strait of Hormuz, he wants Iran shut down, basically.
The reason he wants Greenland, it's all about controlling international waterways for trade, for oil. The United States tells the world one thing. You will use the U.S. dollar for all oil purchases, which means our economy is going to be great no matter what because you've got to use our money to buy oil, which means you've got to come to us first.
However, they say in exchange, you will be able to freely trade around the world without someone blowing you up. We'll go after the pirates. We will police the seas. This is I'm not saying it's a good thing. I'm saying this is the mechanism of the United States and why we have a strong economy, despite not producing as much as other countries do. Relatively, we have the petrodollar system.
So when you get countries complaining, we can't ship goods to the Red Sea anymore because of the Houthi rebels. Trump goes to Iran and says, are you going to stop?
arming these guys who are blowing up civilian transport and they go maybe give us money and trump says no i'll kill you when they threaten the straight of hormuz trump's not playing a game like obama says no i'll kill you now if you're not a fan of the team america world police stuff that opinion was always allowed i am not telling you you should support any of this i am telling you this is the mechanism by which all of this is happening the reason why they're doing it
Yeah, I mean, I think that it's pretty clear that America lives... The living standard that Americans have is because of the petrodollar. And if we were to change that system, it would be a massive change in the living standard of all Americans. And as much as people say, oh, I don't want to see the U.S. to be the world police, as long as the U.S. is the world police...
We should continue to do things that will try to keep the U.S. living standard as high as possible, because you think that poverty is bad in other countries. If the petrodollar goes away, you're going to see a significant decrease in living standards. That means the poor are the ones that are going to be hurt the most here in the U.S.
And I've got to give a shout out to my boy Nick, the fat electrician, real quick, because he had a very good video breaking down the history of why America went after Greenland.
And just the long-storied histories since just after, I believe, the Civil War, attempting to purchase the Greenland territory and the reasons that we had interest there, especially with the strike capabilities later on and decreasing our strike time to places like Russia and everywhere else and just having that ability. Because I think we came to an agreement after the end of World War II
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Chapter 7: How does Trump aim to control international waterways?
It's been 80 years of no world war, limited. The internet, the amount of food, people are Child sex trafficking. There hasn't been a famine in like 80 years. I don't think there's been a famine in like 150 years in the United States, if that, maybe even more ever in the United States. So it's pretty impressive.
Like if we can stabilize and, you know, develop our drone delivery systems so that we can spread resources out, I think this system could work. Well, so I actually was having this conversation the other day because I'm like, look, is America perfect? No, absolutely not. Nobody, nobody ever has been.
But I think that right now the United States as it stands in possibly the history of humanity has the most power, like the most might to good ratio. Like to freedom of its individual citizens, to how little we leverage it against the world for nefarious purposes. I think this is probably, again, the most power to good ratio that has ever existed on planet Earth.
Yeah, I mean, essentially, if you put the kind of military might that the U.S. has in the hands of, oh, I don't know, the Huns, you know, I think there would have been a significant difference. I have a question. I brought this up this morning. It was a hypothetical on Reddit. They have these hypothetical scenarios. They ask, then you comment. And it is this. The question is for you, Mr. Herrera.
You wake up one day with all the powers of Superman. You are super strong. You can fly. You can shoot lasers and breathe cold for whatever reason. And all that good stuff. However, once per year, a random person on Earth, could be in any country, anywhere, will also get these powers. You are informed a full year in advance who that person will be.
And the only way to stop them from getting the powers is to kill them before they do. What do you do? Does that save... Does that stop it from going to a random different person after that? So the idea is, on January 1st, a random person in the world will get these powers as well. You always know who it's going to be. After that person dies, the next January 1st, there'll be one more person.
So it's one person per year. Got it. And the hypothetical scenario is, Will you kill them to prevent them from getting Superman powers as Superman?
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Chapter 8: What are the potential consequences of U.S. military actions in Iran?
Do you also have those powers while they have them? Yes. So people will just start popping up and getting them all over the world if you do nothing. I don't like that. That's a very, very rough moral question. Because the obvious, I mean, the mathematical answer to that is At some point, somebody's going to have those powers and use it to kill thousands of people.
So it's like all this is is like a Reddit version of the trolley problem. Right. Exactly. Yeah, that's about it. It is an interesting question as it pertains to war and superpowers because you look at it from the perspective of not Superman, but you're a global world dominating hegemonic power. You know another country is rapidly gaining power.
You can blow them up right now to prevent them from doing it. However, if you don't, they will rival you then. And now there will be, that's essentially what the scenario is meant to be. The challenge with this, the Superman question is that what if it's an Islamic extremist? And now he's immortal, invincible, and he's going to start massacring not thousands, but millions of people.
And you can't stop him because you only match him. You'll be locked in a fight endlessly, and the collateral damage will probably still make the millions. And so the ultimate question is, I feel like this is a question to try and explain geopolitics at a grand scale to children, a.k.a. Redditors, adult men who have the mentality of children. The Funko Pop breed. Yeah, indeed.
It would be a good plot for a supervillain. Oh, bro, Ian would just cut. He would be like, I'll kill him. And they're like, why are you doing this? And it's like, you don't understand. I have to. And he's psychotic. He's lost his mind. I have to. I'm saving the world. You have to believe me. You're Superman, meaning you're super speed. So it's two in the morning, whatever country they're in.
You flash into their room, laser beam into their eyes, and then flash out. And then people come in in the morning, and the person's just dead. When you're Superman, you don't have to explain yourself. I would try. But then at the end of my life as Superman, they'd be like, oh yeah, by the way, it was all a lie. They were all going to be just normal people.
Well, now you're changing the- You're ruining the plot twist of your own movie. I should do that in the movie. Actually, that is a great plot twist where the guy tells people you don't understand if I don't do this They will develop powers and then we will have superpowered terrorists. You can't control them three weeks away from Superman powers Yeah, and then finally in his deathbed.
He's like I made it all up I just wanted to kill somebody just like to kill him there. He's gotta be Okay, let's do it. That's a funny movie now. He'd be like the villain he wouldn't be the main character, but that would be his motivation and The villain, he's just a serial killer. He makes a fake excuse. Well, that's what the United States basically has been doing.
They stomp down on anybody that's starting to rise up. And then if they get too far too fast, like North Korea, they just don't stomp down because they got intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles. Let's jump to this real quick and let's talk about that, Ian. Trump floats friendly takeover of Cuba, but says it may not be friendly either.
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