Gray Area - Rex Jones & Tim Tompkins - Iran ESCALATION! Pentagon Asks for 200 BILLION | Gray Area LIVE #58
Aired: 2026-03-20
Duration: 01:13:05


=== Welcome to Gray Area (10:33) ===

[00:03:36]  Okay, go ahead and take a Episode 58 of the Gray Area.
[00:04:04]  How are you doing, Tim?
[00:04:05]  I'm doing fantastic.
[00:04:06]  Today is a good day.
[00:04:07]  Cannot complain.
[00:04:09]  You know, filled up my tank and it was $50, even though I'm driving a four-cylinder, you know?
[00:04:15]  Yep.
[00:04:15]  I was not complaining now.
[00:04:17]  That's right.
[00:04:18]  You know, that's from President Blump.
[00:04:20]  Thank you, President Blump, for all the good questions.
[00:04:24]  So now we got to make a bunch of those stickers with the I did that.
[00:04:28]  You know, we saw that in.
[00:04:29]  I ran up your gas prices is really funny.
[00:04:32]  I ran up your gas prices.
[00:04:33]  Oh, that's good.
[00:04:34]  That's good.
[00:04:34]  And here's the thing.
[00:04:35]  Like, he is the new Biden.
[00:04:36]  So we're going to make fun of him like that.
[00:04:38]  I personally need to order some of those stickers.
[00:04:40]  I've been telling myself that I would do it.
[00:04:42]  It's so insane.
[00:04:43]  It's so crazy.
[00:04:43]  They just hit more oil infrastructure.
[00:04:45]  Yes, they do.
[00:04:46]  And we're going to get into that.
[00:04:47]  We're going to talk Netanyahu, his new press conference statement.
[00:04:50]  He's alive.
[00:04:51]  Everyone's saying, oh, Netanyahu's dead.
[00:04:52]  Netanyahu's dead.
[00:04:53]  Spoiler alert: the world doesn't get that lucky.
[00:04:56]  He is alive and well, and he is angry.
[00:04:58]  And he's talking about boots on the ground.
[00:05:00]  I wonder whose boots those would be.
[00:05:02]  But he made a bunch of crazy statements today.
[00:05:05]  We got Trump making a bunch of crazy statements comparing what he's done in Iran to Pearl Harbor to the Japanese prime minister's face.
[00:05:13]  He's like, well, you did the Pearl Harbor, so we can hit the elementary school.
[00:05:19]  But now we're seeing they really don't have a plan.
[00:05:22]  I didn't expect Trump to tweet that out.
[00:05:25]  I didn't expect Trump to tweet that one out.
[00:05:27]  And that actually showed me that Israel is operating pretty independently right now.
[00:05:32]  The dog is off the leash.
[00:05:33]  Well, that's the thing, right?
[00:05:35]  It's like we're going up the escalation ladder.
[00:05:37]  And to Trump's credit, Trump has demonstrated that he wanted to stay at air power and he wanted to stay like trying to do the targeted strikes and trying to assassinate people, whatever.
[00:05:46]  Israel just said, okay, we're going to hit the oil infrastructure.
[00:05:49]  And you think about it from this level, it makes zero sense.
[00:05:52]  So Iran is this massive country.
[00:05:54]  Their big oil field that Israel hit, they share it with Qatar.
[00:05:59]  The natural reserves there.
[00:06:01]  Right.
[00:06:01]  So by hitting that, you also hurt Qatar.
[00:06:04]  Yes.
[00:06:04]  And Qatar is like, stop it.
[00:06:06]  Why are you doing this to us?
[00:06:07]  And then Iran hits their side of the thing.
[00:06:12]  The poor Qataris, man.
[00:06:13]  Poor Qataris.
[00:06:14]  Well, not even just that.
[00:06:17]  There are rumors going around that Iran is trying to hit the Saudis region where they have the crude oil coming from out of the Red Sea.
[00:06:29]  And that is the main source that they've moved everything out of.
[00:06:32]  So if that happens, we're all cooked.
[00:06:34]  Because they have to replace, I think it's like 8 million barrels a day that was the supply before it got cut off.
[00:06:42]  And now the Saudis are able to replicate.
[00:06:43]  I think it's like 1.7 to 2 million barrels a day if they're going to move it out through the Red Sea.
[00:06:49]  And that little compromise, if that gets disturbed, it truly is over.
[00:06:52]  I mean, it's already over because people don't realize.
[00:06:55]  And maybe we should do a deep dive.
[00:06:56]  Talk about this on Sunday.
[00:06:58]  People do not realize how many other things are made with these petrochemicals.
[00:07:02]  All the fertilizers.
[00:07:04]  I'm actually doing that.
[00:07:05]  Yeah, we got to do that.
[00:07:06]  That's a good, that's a good one.
[00:07:07]  Phenomenal.
[00:07:07]  I was thinking about that today.
[00:07:09]  That's a very good deep dive.
[00:07:10]  Like, people have no idea what's coming.
[00:07:12]  And I watched an excellent segment on my dad's show.
[00:07:14]  My dad is on vacation.
[00:07:15]  He's at the beach with my little sisters and my grandparents.
[00:07:18]  So he's been having other people host the show and whatnot.
[00:07:20]  It was Mike Adams, and I believe it was, oh, I'm going to get the other guy wrong because I always get him confused.
[00:07:26]  It wasn't Ivan Ranklin, but it was another balder, shorter, like a special forces guy.
[00:07:32]  So it was these two dudes and they were talking about like the controlled collapse or like not controlled collapse that's about to happen because of this situation that we're in.
[00:07:40]  And like no one understands the ramifications of this yet.
[00:07:42]  No, they don't.
[00:07:44]  And at the end of the day, you look at it, it's going to come back to us at the end of the day.
[00:07:50]  I mean, but no, Yeah.
[00:07:53]  Shut up, Tim.
[00:07:54]  You know what, Tim?
[00:07:55]  You have to shut up because here's the thing.
[00:07:56]  When the oil prices go up, we make more money because we're an exporter of oil.
[00:08:01]  Okay.
[00:08:01]  Well, no, don't ask a pay five for this.
[00:08:04]  That's all you need to pay attention to.
[00:08:06]  Don't pay attention to that gas tank being like $20 or $50 higher.
[00:08:10]  So when you hear Trump talk to you or you hear Bondi talk to you, you have to shut up.
[00:08:14]  Like I have to shut up if you're talking like Bondi and then you have to shut up if I talk like Trump because these are our gods, right?
[00:08:19]  They control the economy somehow by like sacrificing chickens or something.
[00:08:23]  They keep it alive, the stock market.
[00:08:24]  Like, do you know this is a cartoon?
[00:08:27]  It is a cartoon.
[00:08:28]  There's no reason to go this far.
[00:08:30]  And getting involved in this conflict, you know that they would do this.
[00:08:32]  Like this was war gamed out.
[00:08:34]  It's like, hey, like, that's the one thing they have.
[00:08:35]  They're going to shut down the straight.
[00:08:37]  Well, and the best part is, you know, that Pentagon budget getting bigger and bigger.
[00:08:41]  Oh, 200 billion.
[00:08:43]  200 billion.
[00:08:44]  20 million.
[00:08:45]  Like, you got some spit change.
[00:08:47]  It's not even real, man.
[00:08:49]  It's not even real.
[00:08:50]  Like, we can't feed the kids here.
[00:08:51]  We have homeless people everywhere.
[00:08:53]  The roads are falling apart.
[00:08:54]  200 billion.
[00:08:55]  And I also dropped an article about this.
[00:08:58]  We have a new newsletter that has come out for Gray Area specifically.
[00:09:02]  Wes, could you get that pulled up real quick?
[00:09:04]  Because this is something.
[00:09:06]  Gray Area Files.
[00:09:07]  This is something new.
[00:09:08]  We're trying to provide value to you guys at the end of the day.
[00:09:11]  I know I do a lot of deep dives here, like on Sundays, but then I was like, there's a lot of things that are happening throughout the week that we're not being able to cover.
[00:09:20]  So I'm like, okay, well, how do we give value to people where they get like a digestible version of the newsletters?
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[00:09:34]  And this is what we came up with.
[00:09:36]  And you can kind of scroll down here a little bit, Wes.
[00:09:39]  Let's go to one of the articles.
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[00:09:52]  We're going to get a lot of contributors for this as well.
[00:09:54]  Go ahead and talk about it.
[00:09:56]  Yeah.
[00:09:56]  Go to the other articles.
[00:09:57]  That's the one that dropped today.
[00:10:01]  But like, again, like this is an article that wrote today, spent a lot of time on this one.
[00:10:06]  It's kind of just a deep dive, but in a different way.
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[00:10:43]  Wes, can you pull up our X account and we'll show people where it's at and give us a second here.
[00:10:50]  But we're going to pull this up for you guys.
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[00:11:00]  It's a 360 win because everything that goes into this goes back into the show to give you guys more value, to give you guys more content.
[00:11:09]  And that is the biggest thing for me.
[00:11:10]  It's like, there's a lot of slop out there.
[00:11:12]  Is there not?
[00:11:14]  And so that's the biggest thing for me is like, how do we distill down the information and give you guys things that you didn't think about context?
[00:11:20]  So go ahead.
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[00:14:02]  Let's get into the news.
[00:14:03]  Let's get into it.
[00:14:04]  Let's go to the first one.
[00:14:06]  Are we starting at the top here with the troops?

=== Pete Hegseth Defense Strategy (11:34) ===

[00:14:09]  Let's start with the troops because let's play that Iran oil strike thing during the, like, like once we get down past Fox News host claim Iranians want to be bombed.
[00:14:18]  Let's just run through this really quick.
[00:14:19]  This will take 15 minutes.
[00:14:20]  Okay.
[00:14:20]  Don't go to the YouTube one.
[00:14:22]  Go to this X link underneath, Wes.
[00:14:26]  When I say my son, you die for me, Netanyahu in the Middle East.
[00:14:31]  I say Prague.
[00:14:32]  Send me the front line, sir.
[00:14:34]  Send me a magazine.
[00:14:36]  Tell me I saw you.
[00:14:38]  Come on, people.
[00:14:40]  Hey, he looks cool, though.
[00:14:41]  Yeah.
[00:14:42]  Okay.
[00:14:42]  So this is a new amphibious readiness group, AGR, A-R-G.
[00:14:47]  Sorry.
[00:14:47]  Ain't this nice?
[00:14:48]  New.
[00:14:48]  The Boxer Amphibious Readiness Group and its embarked 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit have deployed early from the U.S. West Coast.
[00:14:56]  They're expected to sail directly to the Middle East via the Indo-Pacific region.
[00:15:00]  I believe this is another 4,000 troops to accompany the 5,000 that are already being moved into position there.
[00:15:07]  I mean, it's a drop in the bucket.
[00:15:08]  The Iranians have a million-man army, but I think that they are really going to try to take that island, even though it's stupid and really doesn't achieve anything.
[00:15:16]  Trump wants some sort of military victory.
[00:15:18]  And then what I predict about all this is that there'll be a horrific battle.
[00:15:23]  A lot of Americans will die.
[00:15:25]  They'll take the island, whatever.
[00:15:26]  And then Trump will say, if you want the island back, you have to end the war.
[00:15:30]  And that'll be the deal.
[00:15:32]  You see what I'm saying?
[00:15:34]  Because then he can lie about, like, I took a lot of their land.
[00:15:37]  I took their most valuable site.
[00:15:39]  I took it away.
[00:15:40]  I took it away from the stinking Iranians.
[00:15:42]  And then, like, to make a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to end the war, we'll just give you the island back.
[00:15:48]  And then that's us like having to give away nothing.
[00:15:50]  Yeah.
[00:15:51]  I mean, but we're not giving away nothing.
[00:15:53]  I mean, everyone's going to be paying for this.
[00:15:55]  That's the best part about it.
[00:15:57]  They're all going down with the ship.
[00:16:00]  Isn't this all fun?
[00:16:01]  It's a big, beautiful iceberg.
[00:16:03]  I said, I have to touch it.
[00:16:04]  I have to run the ship right into it.
[00:16:08]  I said, Melanie, look at the size of that ice.
[00:16:10]  Can you believe it?
[00:16:11]  How clear it is?
[00:16:12]  Wow, really up close to it.
[00:16:16]  Okay, I'm sorry.
[00:16:17]  I'm sorry.
[00:16:18]  It's just, it's fun.
[00:16:19]  We like to have fun.
[00:16:20]  I saw Jack on the front and I just said, we have to do it.
[00:16:23]  I said, I'm coming.
[00:16:29]  Okay.
[00:16:29]  Okay.
[00:16:30]  All right.
[00:16:30]  Let's go to the next one.
[00:16:31]  Anyways, let's go to the next article where we're at.
[00:16:33]  Okay.
[00:16:34]  So Pentagon, are we going to go into Pentagon 6200 billion?
[00:16:37]  In chronological order, it all works together.
[00:16:38]  So the Pentagon is seeking an additional $200 billion in order to fund this war.
[00:16:43]  So keep in mind, they're spending an average like $3 to $5 billion a day.
[00:16:47]  They've spent like over $25 billion already.
[00:16:50]  We talk about this authentic.
[00:16:50]  These numbers are just not real.
[00:16:52]  And that's the whole point.
[00:16:53]  It's like, if the number is not real, why couldn't we have spent half the number at home at least?
[00:16:58]  100%.
[00:16:58]  It's so crazy.
[00:17:00]  I bet you a few billion of that would have got us like the state-of-the-art Metroplex line.
[00:17:06]  Not even that.
[00:17:07]  I'm going to look up how much it would cost to give a free lunch to every child in America.
[00:17:11]  I guarantee it's not expensive.
[00:17:13]  It's like, well, you know why I've been voting for Trump and Little Jr.
[00:17:16]  You know, we can't afford to feed them no more because of the gas prices.
[00:17:19]  But, you know, if Trump could have used some of that money to feed Little Junior, maybe we wouldn't have this problem.
[00:17:24]  Like, it's just, it's, it's so crazy.
[00:17:25]  It is so crazy.
[00:17:26]  Well, we'll go ahead and go to it now.
[00:17:27]  The Pentagon is seeking 200 billion.
[00:17:29]  I think it's a Pete Hegseph.
[00:17:31]  Oh, we love Pete, Secretary of War.
[00:17:37]  $200 billion.
[00:17:38]  I think that number could move, obviously.
[00:17:42]  It takes money to kill bad guys.
[00:17:44]  So we're going back to Congress and folks there to ensure that we're properly funded for what's been done, for what we may have to do in the future, ensure that our ammunition is, everything's refilled, and not just refilled, but above and beyond.
[00:17:56]  I mean, President Trump, as he said, rebuilt the military in his first term.
[00:17:59]  Didn't think he'd use it as dynamically in his second, but he had.
[00:18:02]  So thank goodness he did that.
[00:18:03]  And an investment like this is meant to say, hey, we'll replace anything that was spent.
[00:18:07]  And now that we're reviving our defense industrial base and rebuilding the Arsenal of Freedom and cutting deals like our great deputy secretary here is doing long lead times on exquisite munitions.
[00:18:15]  We're going to be refilled faster than anyone imagined.
[00:18:18]  And I think, you know, we're also still dealing with the environment that Joe Biden created, which was depleting those stockholds and not sending them to our own military, but to Ukraine.
[00:18:29]  Which is when you, every time we reach back and look at any sort of a challenge we have, it goes back to, well, send it to Ukraine.
[00:18:35]  Ultimately, we think this should be these munitions are better spent in our own interests.
[00:18:40]  Okay, so this is not clash of clans.
[00:18:42]  This is not Dragon Vale.
[00:18:44]  You do not get to buy the gyms and then speed up the time to build the town hall or whatever.
[00:18:49]  That's not how this works.
[00:18:50]  The missiles don't grow on trees.
[00:18:52]  You can attest to that.
[00:18:53]  No, they don't.
[00:18:54]  So let me follow just like the chain of events that just went, that Pete Hegseth just took us through.
[00:18:59]  So Trump's first term, he rebuilds the military.
[00:19:02]  Biden, we don't talk about Biden.
[00:19:04]  Trump comes in the second time.
[00:19:06]  Oh, it's so great that Trump can use the military that he built up.
[00:19:09]  But oh, wait, addressing Biden.
[00:19:12]  Biden depleted the military in Ukraine, which is why it's so good that President Trump is now starting the new weapons contracts to get the new missiles.
[00:19:19]  We only make a few hundred to like closer to 1,000 a year.
[00:19:23]  And it was crazy because we were talking about it back in 2024, 2023, and our munitions levels were going down to the point where we didn't have reserves.
[00:19:33]  Yes.
[00:19:33]  And that was, and Lockheed Martin was salivating.
[00:19:36]  That's what they read.
[00:19:37]  Oh, yeah.
[00:19:38]  Like your products always like almost are sold out.
[00:19:41]  Yeah.
[00:19:41]  It's like, oh, we got to reorder.
[00:19:43]  No shit.
[00:19:43]  Yeah, 100%.
[00:19:45]  And here's the worst part about this, guys.
[00:19:48]  I was doing the deep dive today as I've released this article.
[00:19:51]  If you want to go, you should read it.
[00:19:53]  On our, on our gray area files.
[00:19:55]  But basically, here's what you need to know.
[00:19:58]  We've failed the audit of the Pentagon every single time that we have done it for the last eight.
[00:20:05]  Oh, we don't need to do that.
[00:20:07]  Shut up, it's not important, it's not, it's.
[00:20:10]  There's no gold in Fort Knox Tam, we don't talk about so.
[00:20:13]  So you and I Rex, we don't have good credit.
[00:20:17]  Oh, we walk into a bank and ask for a loan for a particular vehicle right yes, they'll be like, sorry sir, we don't trust you with that money, we can't give it to you because you have bad credit or you did something bad that allowed you to not pass certain metrics.
[00:20:33]  Yes, but when the government and big old Pete says hey, we need, you know, not even just 200 million, we forgot about the 50 that they asked for last week.
[00:20:42]  Okay, so let's say 250, and they failed every single audit in which they lost 800 billion already that they have unaccounted for.
[00:20:51]  So we're giving them an additional 250 to also potentially, so it's another trillion unaccounted for, a trillion dollars in total.
[00:20:58]  That's right okay right, and so the worst part about this for me is just the hypocrisy.
[00:21:05]  They can do it.
[00:21:07]  We don't get any credit card, cash back on the loans that they're taking against us when we pay our taxes.
[00:21:12]  But you know that this is the game.
[00:21:14]  It's to have knots and have yachts and have tomahawks.
[00:21:18]  You know that's, that's a good way to put it.
[00:21:20]  Yeah, it's to have tomahawks versus the ones that don't have tomahawks and like, it's just.
[00:21:25]  Here's the thing.
[00:21:25]  It's so crazy.
[00:21:26]  We'll just go through another example really quick and we'll go to the next thing after this, citizens upset clip, citizens upset.
[00:21:31]  He's out there, Hegseth is out there, talking about maximum lethality, talking about no mercy, talking about like, we're going to like obliterate, destroy them.
[00:21:41]  This is the type of language that Trump uses.
[00:21:43]  Okay well, we've killed a lot of their leadership, we've hit a lot of their military infrastructure, we've destroyed their navy.
[00:21:48]  That's all true.
[00:21:49]  Uh, we also obliterated elementary school.
[00:21:52]  So like, is that a part of the obliteration, no mercy, whatever or is that just a tragic, tragic accident?
[00:21:59]  When I talked to the Boomer, the boomer just phrased it as a tragic accident.
[00:22:02]  I'm just like that's the number one war crime is a war of aggression.
[00:22:05]  Like when you embark on a war of choice and do something like this, all the other things are wrapped up into it by default and like everyone on the internet and i've seen this like, whatever your stance is, just listen to me and hear me, especially if you're on the pro-war side people that are making justifications, well, we'll be out in a couple of weeks.
[00:22:20]  So we killed the ayatollah Ron's about to fall.
[00:22:23]  Blah um, like you don't get to decide the length of the conflict, so you can say, you can say those things like you know those things.
[00:22:31]  What i'm saying is more true by its very nature.
[00:22:33]  I'm saying I don't know when it's going to stop.
[00:22:35]  We don't know.
[00:22:36]  That's the problem, you understand.
[00:22:38]  No, but you know the, the grown-ups are in the room making the decisions and and they like to talk with conviction.
[00:22:43]  Sure you know?
[00:22:44]  You don't have to have intelligence to get a specific position inside of our government.
[00:22:49]  I think it's very clear.
[00:22:51]  It might, it might be uh, it might be harder for you.
[00:22:53]  You know Pete, Pete Pete's secretary of Defense, but he's never been a higher position than some military guy.
[00:23:01]  I mean, oh, yeah, he was at FOX NEWS.
[00:23:04]  Okay, sorry.
[00:23:04]  Yeah, let me take it back.
[00:23:05]  Yeah, you're right.
[00:23:06]  He did come from Fox even as you feel the truth for 10 years.
[00:23:12]  That's even worse.
[00:23:12]  So he goes from like some position in the military that wasn't that high up to Fox News.
[00:23:17]  And they were like, that's the guy.
[00:23:19]  That's the guy that needs to decide what happens with our defense and how much we spend at the Pentagon.
[00:23:24]  It's a thing that Trump often says.
[00:23:26]  He goes, this guy is straight from Central Casting.
[00:23:28]  Would you look at this guy?
[00:23:29]  He's straight from Central Casting.
[00:23:31]  Best guy in the receiver.
[00:23:32]  So it's like, okay, you select people to be actors.
[00:23:36]  That's what this is.
[00:23:37]  It's a yes man thing.
[00:23:38]  Absolutely.
[00:23:39]  Because you can control the guy if he doesn't know enough information.
[00:23:42]  Well, and that's, and they're also like the yes men are also actors, right?
[00:23:45]  Like they're this, oh, please Trump.
[00:23:47]  We must please papa Trump.
[00:23:49]  Must please.
[00:23:50]  They probably have to rub his belly with like bacon grease.
[00:23:53]  Who knows what goes on?
[00:23:55]  You don't want to know.
[00:23:56]  Someone said, more interview with warmongering boomers, please.
[00:23:59]  That was fantastic.
[00:24:00]  Here's the thing.
[00:24:01]  It's super hard.
[00:24:02]  That was like finding a shiny Pokemon.
[00:24:04]  Like that was like finding a Gyarados or something, right?
[00:24:07]  Like that, you're not often going to come across one of those.
[00:24:10]  I've been thinking about it, like places they congregate or hang out at.
[00:24:13]  I think it would be like, I think it would work really well to go to like a Florida mall to go to Florida.
[00:24:18]  I mean, there's places even here that you could find.
[00:24:20]  Oh, right.
[00:24:22]  Well, I guess, you know what?
[00:24:23]  The ones by Lake Travis would be super angry neocon, but they might attack.
[00:24:27]  They might get pitched forward.
[00:24:29]  So I don't know if I want to get like beat up by an old person on camera or I'm just trying to interview.
[00:24:34]  You don't support Trump.
[00:24:37]  I can totally see that happening.
[00:24:39]  Okay, let's go ahead and play this clip.
[00:24:40]  Go to the next one.
[00:24:41]  Citizens upset.
[00:24:42]  This is the real cost of the war on the ground for America.
[00:24:47]  What are we really doing there besides raising our prices?
[00:24:50]  Make America great again.
[00:24:52]  We're tearing America apart right now.
[00:24:55]  And it's sad because it's the working class people that are suffering the most.
[00:24:59]  Pause it.
[00:24:59]  Pause it.
[00:25:00]  Can you just like go back to it real quick and just go to like a cut where you can see his face?
[00:25:08]  I just want to, I had a, I had a thought.
[00:25:10]  Yeah, go ahead and show that.
[00:25:14]  Okay, so look at this guy.
[00:25:17]  He is the definition of what I would see as like MAGA.
[00:25:22]  And for him to speak out like this, this guy looks like a working class guy, hard.
[00:25:27]  Salt of the earth.
[00:25:29]  I mean, this is like as much as Trump's base as you could get.
[00:25:33]  And for him to be speaking about these things says a lot about the times that we're in.
[00:25:37]  And I would have never thought that I would see people in droves turn against this movement.

=== Defining the Trump Base (03:35) ===

[00:25:43]  But I think we're all coming to that same consensus that this isn't working.
[00:25:47]  Yeah, no, it's not working out.
[00:25:48]  And when something doesn't work out, you change course and you look for something else.
[00:25:52]  You don't double down the thing that isn't working.
[00:25:53]  That's literally the definition of insanity, Tim.
[00:25:56]  It's doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
[00:25:59]  And the people on the ground, they're not stupid.
[00:26:01]  They're in a hellish situation having to work in this damned economy with the damned prices and the damned inflation and the damn mortgages and all of that.
[00:26:08]  But they understand what's happening.
[00:26:10]  And they elected you, not because they liked you, Trump, not because they believed in your aura or whatever.
[00:26:15]  It's because you actually, and this is why you voted for him as well.
[00:26:19]  He promised, and they may not have been perfect.
[00:26:21]  He promised solutions.
[00:26:22]  He did promise solutions.
[00:26:24]  So maybe talk about that a little bit.
[00:26:26]  The only one that I can give him credit for was he shut the border down.
[00:26:30]  Yeah.
[00:26:30]  I mean, that was the sixth thing.
[00:26:33]  That was the main thing for me.
[00:26:34]  I was like, hey, shut the border down.
[00:26:36]  He did that.
[00:26:37]  But, you know, everything that else that came, I was like, how are you any better than Biden at this point?
[00:26:43]  In the chat, can you guys, what's gas like where you're at?
[00:26:46]  I want somebody in California to tell me.
[00:26:48]  Great question.
[00:26:48]  I want somebody in California to tell me what gas price is because I'm in Texas as well as Rex here, and it's getting to 370.
[00:26:57]  What do you put in yours, though?
[00:26:58]  I put regular dude.
[00:26:59]  Okay, you put regular.
[00:27:00]  I put the middle one because that's what the manual says.
[00:27:02]  Regular, regular at 370 is crazy.
[00:27:05]  It's $4 middle option.
[00:27:06]  And I got the Tacoma or whatever, but I.
[00:27:08]  Oh, and you got no gas mileage.
[00:27:10]  It's pretty bad.
[00:27:11]  I mean, Tim, you're very efficient.
[00:27:14]  Okay.
[00:27:14]  You're very efficient.
[00:27:15]  You've got the gas mileage and all of it.
[00:27:17]  I've got a little bit of, but less than that, okay?
[00:27:20]  All right.
[00:27:21]  But we don't judge.
[00:27:22]  Yeah.
[00:27:22]  In the chat, I'm genuinely curious what's gas like where you guys are at and give the state as well.
[00:27:28]  Okay, we got $6.
[00:27:31]  Wow.
[00:27:31]  Damon's got $6 for premium, $5.29 for unlead.
[00:27:37]  $5.99 in Seattle is a crime.
[00:27:39]  That's insane.
[00:27:40]  New Orleans is $370.
[00:27:43]  Alabama's $370.
[00:27:44]  How is Alabama higher than ours for $83?
[00:27:48]  Ain't even $87.83.
[00:27:50]  It ain't even $87.
[00:27:51]  I didn't even know they sold 83.
[00:27:53]  Yeah, we have good gas.
[00:27:54]  We have good gas here.
[00:27:55]  You guys are getting robbed out in Alabama.
[00:27:57]  I'm not going to lie.
[00:27:57]  The highest you've seen is $5.95.
[00:28:00]  By Pasadena.
[00:28:01]  Oh, she's like in South.
[00:28:02]  Dude, we used to tar and feather people, man.
[00:28:05]  This is crazy.
[00:28:07]  We used to burn shipyards for 2% taxes.
[00:28:11]  You think about this, and when I was out on the street interviewing people, I must have asked like 100 people, like, your thoughts on the Iran war, positive, negative, no judgment.
[00:28:20]  Doesn't matter.
[00:28:21]  The vast majority of people are just like uninterested and they got like their work and they got their family life.
[00:28:26]  And they're like, who is this asshole on the street putting a microphone in my face?
[00:28:30]  But when people begin to care about their wallet being impacted, you bet they're going to have something to say.
[00:28:36]  So I'll be tracking this.
[00:28:38]  Hopefully, we'll do some stuff together in the future as the weeks and months go by.
[00:28:42]  People are really not going to be happy about this.
[00:28:44]  And I'm going to report that news to you.
[00:28:46]  Oh, the one that you guys should be paying attention to is diesel prices because that comes down to trucks.
[00:28:51]  Yeah, that comes down to trucks.
[00:28:53]  It comes down to a lot of the things that actually hit the transportation industry.
[00:28:58]  And that doesn't go and they don't absorb that cost that goes directly to the consumer.
[00:29:03]  That's the whole trickle down.
[00:29:05]  So, you know, inflation may have quote unquote come down to 2%.
[00:29:10]  I don't know what number they're going to fabricate over the next few months, but prices don't come down.
[00:29:17]  They only keep going up.

=== Truth Amidst Conflict (06:56) ===

[00:29:18]  Well, you know, it's like Trump's 112% approval rating.
[00:29:21]  You know, you don't question these things.
[00:29:23]  It's just real.
[00:29:23]  You don't question.
[00:29:24]  You know, like he's 102% the peace president, right?
[00:29:28]  Like in some poll because they ask someone, they go, do you think Trump is 102% the peace president?
[00:29:33]  And if they say yes, they add him to the poll.
[00:29:35]  And if they say no, they don't agree.
[00:29:36]  Because 100% of MAGA Republicans support Trump.
[00:29:39]  Are you a MAGA Republican?
[00:29:41]  I know.
[00:29:41]  I saw those numbers then, and somebody else was saying, like, you know, Republicans, 87% of Republicans still support Trump.
[00:29:48]  I'm like, where are you getting these numbers?
[00:29:50]  It's not real.
[00:29:51]  It's just like when they said Hillary was going to win.
[00:29:54]  It's just like when they said Kamala had a chance of winning.
[00:29:57]  These are these are clue.
[00:29:58]  Our poll of 3,000 people.
[00:30:00]  That's the thing.
[00:30:00]  It's like none of these people care about election security.
[00:30:02]  Okay, let's go to the next one.
[00:30:03]  They all want to rig all the elections.
[00:30:04]  Like everyone that's like gets involved, whether it's like Biden or Trump or whatever, it's like, well, how do we, how do we do it this time?
[00:30:09]  How do we get that little margin of error that we can do better?
[00:30:13]  They all do it.
[00:30:14]  They all do it.
[00:30:14]  And we're sitting here, it's my trauma.
[00:30:16]  Matt, I would never do it.
[00:30:17]  It's my president.
[00:30:18]  But let's, I'm sorry.
[00:30:20]  Okay, so what is this reporter's hit by missiles?
[00:30:22]  This is crazy.
[00:30:23]  So this guy, I think he's like a Greek guy or like a British guy by nationality/slash ethnicity, but he works for RT and he's in southern Lebanon right now.
[00:30:33]  And they get hit by a strike.
[00:30:35]  That's insane.
[00:30:35]  You're lying and watching this crazy video.
[00:30:37]  Further rocket attacks were reported against Nahariya, and a minute Can you replay that?
[00:30:55]  I'm sorry.
[00:30:56]  I got to get a second look at that.
[00:30:57]  That was insane.
[00:30:58]  Further rocket attacks were reported against Nahariya, and admit it.
[00:31:08]  He's still alive.
[00:31:10]  He's still alive.
[00:31:11]  Why?
[00:31:11]  Wow.
[00:31:12]  He got treated.
[00:31:12]  He got at a hospital.
[00:31:14]  He's alive, but they've got hit by some shrapnel, I bet.
[00:31:17]  Yeah, but the Russians have come out and they've condemned this and they're very upset about it.
[00:31:20]  So is this an Israeli story?
[00:31:21]  It had to be Israeli strikes.
[00:31:22]  They don't even have fighter jets.
[00:31:25]  Well, yeah, and it's just like, well, like, who decided to strike this dude?
[00:31:28]  Like, what was it?
[00:31:29]  Look at that slow-mo.
[00:31:30]  Look at that slow-mo.
[00:31:31]  He's pretty fast.
[00:31:32]  He's like, shit, it's going in.
[00:31:33]  Boom.
[00:31:34]  Damn.
[00:31:34]  Dude, my, you know how on top of the rebar?
[00:31:37]  Oh, that's that's nice.
[00:31:38]  Do you know how this like changes your whole perspective on life?
[00:31:41]  Just knowing that you were like quite literally feet from being blown away from an Israeli missile.
[00:31:48]  I would move so far away from everything that made loud noise.
[00:31:52]  Like for the rest of my life, I'd live out in the woods.
[00:31:54]  Oh, he's going to have PTSD, man.
[00:31:56]  Oh, yeah.
[00:31:56]  He's going to have PTSD.
[00:31:58]  He was the target.
[00:31:58]  He was the target.
[00:31:59]  Shit.
[00:32:02]  This shit.
[00:32:02]  Unsuccessful.
[00:32:03]  I mean, how much money did they waste doing that, too?
[00:32:05]  It's just another example.
[00:32:06]  Like, what is that?
[00:32:07]  It didn't hit anyone.
[00:32:08]  Yeah, you're right.
[00:32:09]  Exactly.
[00:32:09]  Okay, let's go to the next one.
[00:32:11]  We got more winning, I guess.
[00:32:13]  More winning.
[00:32:14]  Fox News host claims Iranians want to be bombed.
[00:32:17]  This is crazy.
[00:32:18]  You got a bunch of crazy Zionists sitting around the table talking about how the Iranian people are grateful for the bombs.
[00:32:24]  We're going to go ahead and play this now.
[00:32:26]  This is what your grandparents or parents are watching.
[00:32:28]  So be prepared.
[00:32:29]  This is protect your brain.
[00:32:31]  Put a lead sheet on.
[00:32:32]  Okay, well, I mean, it tells me everything just looking at the guy in the middle.
[00:32:37]  Well, hey, no, You got to understand that the girl on the right, she's also got a necklace and whatever, but you have to trust, you know, the Washington, D.C. establishment Zionists about what the Iranian people want.
[00:32:48]  Like the Iranian people, they want a giant poison cloud of oil rain to drift over two subcontinents.
[00:32:54]  Yeah.
[00:32:55]  They're happy about it.
[00:32:57]  And this is the thing.
[00:32:57]  It's like, I'm sure plenty of them actually did want to rebel.
[00:33:01]  The treatment of them is not making them want to do that.
[00:33:03]  I know.
[00:33:04]  And that's what I was literally saying this to somebody the other day.
[00:33:07]  I'm like, well, you know, for the ounce of actual courage that these people actually wanted to have their regime changed, cutting off their oil supply and making them go into like this black mode of depressed, their inflation's already out of control.
[00:33:23]  Like that's not helping the incentive.
[00:33:25]  The whole country looks like when Frodo puts on the ring in Lord of the Rings.
[00:33:30]  It's like vapor, smoke, like death everywhere.
[00:33:32]  Well, we're saving you with these bombs.
[00:33:35]  That's right.
[00:33:35]  The peace president, the mostly peaceful fires.
[00:33:38]  We must thank the peace president for his mostly peaceful fire.
[00:33:41]  Go ahead and play this.
[00:33:43]  You have the people who were talking to Iranians in Iran saying, you know, they're most afraid of the bombs stopping because if the bombs stop, they believe the United States might be done.
[00:33:52]  Absolutely.
[00:33:53]  And when they have the moment to tweet, they're tweeting and saying, please don't stop.
[00:33:57]  Because the worst thing that could happen to us is if you leave this regime in place, which means who is going to pay the price we, the Iranian people, are.
[00:34:03]  They're going to torture us more.
[00:34:05]  They're going to kill us.
[00:34:06]  They're going to throw us in prison.
[00:34:07]  You've got to finish the job.
[00:34:08]  They are celebrating every time a bomb goes on.
[00:34:10]  Just imagine, Trace, for a moment that you'd be celebrating when you hear a bomb go off because that is a freedom mission.
[00:34:15]  It's a freedom mission for them.
[00:34:16]  This is not a war.
[00:34:17]  They are finally going to be free from their oppressors that have held them hostage for the past 47 years.
[00:34:23]  All right, let's just do a little thought experiment.
[00:34:25]  Say you lived in a city and everyone in the city and government was Mormon, and they enforced that there was no coffee, that there was no energy drink, no pornography, whatever.
[00:34:35]  You lived in a Mormon society, and you were able to walk around and do whatever, but you know, everything's Mormon.
[00:34:40]  And then one day, the Mormon city is completely on fire and they're assassinating all the leadership.
[00:34:45]  And they're like, rise up, rise up and take over your city.
[00:34:48]  And you're like, well, you know, I may have even hated the Mormons or not like the Mormons, but everything that they built, the place that I lived in, is on fire.
[00:34:54]  So who am I going to support?
[00:34:56]  The invader from like 30,000 feet up who's in a B2 bomber in a plane, some guy in a black mask, or the person who was martyred for the country.
[00:35:05]  What changes your mind?
[00:35:06]  Like, you're not going to support the people who bomb you.
[00:35:09]  Hitler did.
[00:35:09]  Hitler did this.
[00:35:11]  He did this to the British people.
[00:35:12]  He did this to the British people.
[00:35:13]  It didn't work.
[00:35:14]  You're right.
[00:35:14]  It didn't work at all.
[00:35:15]  But I will say that there probably is a good percentage of the population that is stuck between a rock and a hard place now because no pun intended.
[00:35:24]  Yeah, no pun intended.
[00:35:25]  I-R-A-Q.
[00:35:26]  A-Rock.
[00:35:27]  Rock.
[00:35:29]  I'm sorry.
[00:35:29]  Sorry.
[00:35:31]  Quick with him.
[00:35:32]  He's quick with him, huh?
[00:35:33]  Yeah, sorry.
[00:35:34]  You know, so like it's like the Iranian government does crack down on their civilian population.
[00:35:43]  They rule by fear.
[00:35:44]  I mean, guys, the average American would not want to live in that type of regime, especially during these times where people are protesting and people aren't happy.
[00:35:56]  Whatever the true number is of protesters that they actually killed, it is a big number, right?
[00:36:01]  And I don't buy into the 30,000.
[00:36:07]  Yeah, I don't know about 30, but I mean, even more than a thousand is astronomical.

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[00:37:44]  We're not like, no one's holding a gun to anybody.
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[00:37:46]  And at the end of the day, everything that we put into the show go or get from the show goes directly back into the show itself because everything that you're seeing from this backdrop to the props to the people who are trying to help us behind the scenes to the video editing, like all of that stuff, and not even just that, the subscriptions.
[00:38:06]  The biggest thing is, is like, I want to keep doing things bigger and better and bigger and better.
[00:38:11]  Build a media company.
[00:38:13]  Okay.
[00:38:13]  And if you want to help us build a media company, a media enterprise, you can do that.
[00:38:17]  If you don't, you don't.
[00:38:18]  But I think it's really cool what we're working on.

=== Weaponized Financial Systems (04:26) ===

[00:38:20]  Yes.
[00:38:20]  So thank you guys.
[00:38:21]  And I got to say, like, we're going to plug more.
[00:38:23]  And that, like, that's going to be a part of the show.
[00:38:25]  So thank you for indulging us in that.
[00:38:28]  We'll go ahead and get on the next thing.
[00:38:29]  This is a phenomenal, great one-minute breakdown on the current oil situation.
[00:38:33]  Then let's get into your video.
[00:38:34]  This ties into it well.
[00:38:35]  Yes.
[00:38:39]  Okay, so is this one?
[00:38:42]  Yeah, go ahead and play that, Wes.
[00:38:43]  I think that's the clip, right?
[00:38:45]  Okay, go ahead and play that.
[00:38:46]  I think it's hugely significant.
[00:38:49]  And I think the fact that President Sorry.
[00:38:54]  From St. Jesus, you have to support the channels you like if you want them to stay around.
[00:38:58]  Stuff takes time and money.
[00:38:59]  The way we're going to do it in the future, I was thinking about this.
[00:39:01]  We're going to mute the super chat sound and then we'll do like an hour and a half and three hour or two hour, however we want the brakes to work.
[00:39:07]  We'll read them in bulk.
[00:39:08]  Yeah, that's it.
[00:39:09]  That's how everyone else does it.
[00:39:10]  Yeah.
[00:39:10]  So he's got to figure out how to mute the sound.
[00:39:12]  I haven't been able to figure out how to do it.
[00:39:13]  And isn't this endearing?
[00:39:14]  Here's the thing.
[00:39:14]  We're two guys are sitting in my dining room, the Osam bin Laden studio of fame and notoriety.
[00:39:19]  And like, we're just trying to make things work.
[00:39:20]  Yeah.
[00:39:20]  We're just trying to make things work.
[00:39:22]  Let's rewind it from the beginning.
[00:39:23]  Excellent breakdown from John Mearsharmer.
[00:39:27]  I think it's hugely significant.
[00:39:30]  And I think the fact that President Trump issued this post where he made it clear how angry he was at the Israelis for doing this is evidence of that.
[00:39:43]  Look, President Trump is doing everything he can to keep oil prices under $100 a barrel.
[00:39:52]  And that is not easy to do.
[00:39:55]  And I would note that he has taken sanctions off Russian oil and he has allowed Iran to sell its oil.
[00:40:04]  It's very important to understand that Iran is selling its oil on world markets.
[00:40:09]  Iran has been allowed to send oil through the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:40:14]  And the reason that.
[00:40:15]  Okay, so we've talked about this.
[00:40:17]  We covered this on the show far before the actual conflict, the war kicked off.
[00:40:23]  This reverses about half a decade of U.S. foreign policy, a little less than that, but about half a decade, you know, maybe like three or four years.
[00:40:30]  We have been sanctioning the hell out of Russia in an effort to bleed them dry in the war in Ukraine to make sure they didn't have funds for their military.
[00:40:37]  We have been sanctioning them over and over and over again.
[00:40:40]  We blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
[00:40:43]  The Ukrainians did it, but we did it.
[00:40:44]  Preventing Germany and Europe from getting cheap LNG, and we make them buy it from us at three times the price.
[00:40:51]  Not only that, how many sanctions packages have we passed?
[00:40:55]  Just throw out a number.
[00:40:56]  Too many to count.
[00:40:57]  Yes.
[00:40:58]  It's got to be well over like 50.
[00:41:00]  No, it's not that high.
[00:41:01]  It's not that high.
[00:41:01]  20 are conservative to 20.
[00:41:03]  19.
[00:41:04]  Ooh, 19 sanctions packages.
[00:41:06]  None of it's worked.
[00:41:07]  And now it's the complete and utter reversal.
[00:41:09]  So you see Biden who weaponized Swift against the Russians.
[00:41:12]  You see this weaponization of the Western financial system.
[00:41:15]  All of that pissing away our power was worth nothing.
[00:41:18]  Oh, dude.
[00:41:18]  They're doing it anyway.
[00:41:19]  Oh, we have a track record of reversing things.
[00:41:22]  Just think about it.
[00:41:22]  Oh, no, no.
[00:41:23]  Just think about when we had the Russian-Ukraine war, right?
[00:41:27]  Sure.
[00:41:28]  Still going on, but oil prices at that point went insane.
[00:41:32]  And then at that point, Biden had to step in and had to be like, okay, India, we need you guys to stabilize the market and we need you guys to buy Russian oil.
[00:41:40]  Okay.
[00:41:42]  Not even two years later, we then punished the country of India for having 60% of their oil coming from Russia where it was 0.2% prior to that, in which we asked them, hey, we need you to do this for us.
[00:41:55]  And then we punished them with 50% tariff after already telling them we need your help.
[00:42:00]  And then we wonder why people don't want to do business with America anymore.
[00:42:04]  Right.
[00:42:05]  And you look at the India situation.
[00:42:07]  India actually had a real smart agreement with Russia where they were buying oil for like $54 a barrel at discount.
[00:42:12]  They're saying like, we'll ignore the sanctions.
[00:42:14]  The U.S. needs us.
[00:42:15]  They're not going to do whatever.
[00:42:16]  So they're buying oil at discount.
[00:42:17]  Now all of this kicks off and Russia's like, hey, India, you still need that oil?
[00:42:21]  We're going to charge you $4 premium over asking price.
[00:42:24]  So it goes from $54 to when I last checked, I'm sure it's higher now, $94 a barrel for India.
[00:42:30]  Oh, it went up from $54 to $94?
[00:42:32]  Yep.
[00:42:32]  Wow.
[00:42:33]  I'm sure it's higher now.
[00:42:34]  That's insane.
[00:42:35]  Well, liberal, liberal, liberal.
[00:42:37]  Now, let's go to the video that I had at the very top here.
[00:42:42]  Iran Oil Strikes YouTube.
[00:42:44]  Yeah, this is a very good clip.

=== Escalating Middle East Tensions (14:49) ===

[00:42:46]  And after that, it'll be the Qatar stuff because it'll all have come off the leash.
[00:42:54]  you let the dog off the leash and this is what kind of happens because they did this in i think they did this without well they did it with somewhat u.s consent but they probably went over overboard to be honest but Go ahead and play this clip real quick and we can talk about the escalations here.
[00:43:23]  It's an undersea natural gas deposit straddling the maritime border between Iran and the nation of Qatar, and with both nations' shares added together, South Paz is the largest natural gas deposit in the entire world.
[00:43:34]  On Iran's side of the border, there's an estimated 51 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, trillion, with a T.
[00:43:41]  But although Qatar chooses to take most of its share and convert it into liquefied natural gas, or LNG, for export, Iran uses the South Paz deposit very differently.
[00:43:50]  Iran's domestic energy infrastructure is heavily dependent on natural gas, and the vast majority of all natural gas that Iran uses to keep the lights on comes directly out of South Paz.
[00:44:00]  For that reason, it's arguably Iran's single most important energy deposit of any kind.
[00:44:04]  Strike an Iranian oilfield or a refinery or even Karg Island itself, and as catastrophic as the impacts might be, you'll still essentially be targeting the Iranian economy.
[00:44:13]  But attack South Paz and you attack a facility that makes daily life in Iran possible.
[00:44:18]  It's the sort of target that Iran's enemies would only ever target in one of two situations.
[00:44:22]  Either they were willing to escalate the entire conflict to an unprecedented level of intensity, or they didn't understand the gravity of their decision.
[00:44:30]  As for which of those options applies to this scenario, you will have to be the judge, at least until more information comes out of Jerusalem and Washington.
[00:44:37]  But what we do know, as of the time of writing, is that Israel carried out the airstrike on South Paz alone, but with the awareness and most importantly, the approval of the United States.
[00:44:47]  According to White House insiders, speaking to the national press, US President Donald Trump intended the strike to be a sort of warning shot, punishing Iran for its decision to blockade the Strait of Hormuz and warning of the consequences if Tehran didn't reverse course.
[00:45:01]  Unfortunately for the Donald Trump of Wednesday morning, the Donald Trump of Thursday afternoon has the benefit of hindsight, and in hindsight, it seems that Iran didn't receive the message in the way that Trump intended.
[00:45:10]  Instead, Iran responded with what seems to have been its most significant missile strikes since the start of the war.
[00:45:16]  Those strikes were concentrated primarily on the installation that handles Qatar's side of the two nations' shared deposit, the liquefied natural gas facility known as Ras Lafan Industrial City.
[00:45:26]  We've actually discussed Ras Lafan on a couple of recent Warfronts episodes, but the key details are worth reiterating.
[00:45:32]  This single facility supplies roughly 20% 20% of all LNG exports on Earth.
[00:45:38]  It also exports about a third of the purified helium that the world needs to build advanced semiconductors.
[00:45:44]  LNG is a source of energy that is in extremely high demand, especially in Asia and Europe.
[00:45:49]  And Iran has already threatened the LNG facility at Ras Latham on multiple occasions.
[00:45:55]  But while Iran has hit the facility before, its strikes have only been enough to force a temporary shutdown, with Qatar committing to shutter Ras Latham through the end of the war, plus the two weeks it'll take to restart production afterward.
[00:46:08]  So when Israel chose to escalate the Middle East conflict with a strike on Iran's most important natural gas reserves, Iran focused its retaliation against the same source of energy and against a target that would hurt the rest of the world as much as a strike on South Paz would hurt Iran.
[00:46:22]  Paz bombarded.
[00:46:25]  And it's like you just think about it.
[00:46:28]  Surely they had to know.
[00:46:30]  Honestly, you know what they calculated?
[00:46:32]  They were like, oh, if we do this, they'll just gonna go belly up and just take it.
[00:46:36]  They're just gonna take it.
[00:46:38]  Well, and you think they're just gonna bend over and take it.
[00:46:40]  It's the same exact logic with killing the supreme leader, right?
[00:46:43]  Because killing the supreme leader makes absolutely no sense unless you're Trump and they tell you that it does and you're stupid enough to believe it.
[00:46:51]  Yeah.
[00:46:52]  And here's the thing.
[00:46:53]  I did a show with Anthony Graffio last night, the conspiracy talk show that we do together once a week.
[00:46:57]  And I was talking to him and like, here's the thing.
[00:46:58]  Like I, with how crazy things are, I'm willing to like hear anything and consider it.
[00:47:03]  And like, I think it's more rational to like say like this is all like preordained and set up than saying it's totally random because like these people are really really weird.
[00:47:11]  Okay.
[00:47:11]  But at the same time, like Trump is a fool and Trump was fooled into this conflict.
[00:47:17]  Like that's it's like Occam's razor.
[00:47:19]  Like the simplest the simplest cause is usually like the cause of the event, right?
[00:47:25]  Yeah.
[00:47:25]  Great, great point.
[00:47:27]  It's just it's idiot stuff.
[00:47:29]  It's like, well, if we hit the island, they're going to crumble and they're going to unblockade the strait of Hormuz.
[00:47:34]  Well, all their operations are not on this one island.
[00:47:38]  Sure, you destroy their economy and really hurt their ability to make money.
[00:47:41]  The strait is still going to be blockaded.
[00:47:43]  And it's a matter for them.
[00:47:44]  It's like, literally, they are like what Iran is like, they're like a person hanging on a pull-up bar.
[00:47:49]  And if they let go of that pull-up bar, then the person sitting in front of them with the gun is going to shoot them and they're going to die.
[00:47:55]  But that person standing in front of them is 90 years old, 400 pounds, has locked arteries everywhere, and is literally in like the middle of like a diabetic coma and is about to lose control of the gun.
[00:48:06]  So like, will Iran hold on to the pull-up bar longer or will the U.S. be able to?
[00:48:12]  They are, because here's the thing.
[00:48:14]  Iran is playing an attrition game.
[00:48:16]  They know, just like Russia knew with Ukraine, that they're in a position of power almost.
[00:48:22]  Because the moment this, yeah, the moment that this hits home for every single person, you're going to start seeing riots in the street.
[00:48:31]  Either that or protests will be the first thing, honestly, before riots.
[00:48:34]  You're going to start seeing political pressure because not just that, you're going to start seeing companies and corporations and that pressure.
[00:48:43]  And when that pressure hits, that's the one that moves the needle.
[00:48:46]  And that is probably why you're seeing Trump sending out that tweet now being like, right, yeah, Israel is not going to be doing any more attacks going from here out.
[00:48:57]  Right.
[00:48:58]  Because they knew it was too far.
[00:49:00]  And you don't think that there's conversations happening behind the scenes where they're like, okay, you guys have taken this too far.
[00:49:05]  Land this plane.
[00:49:06]  Will they listen?
[00:49:07]  I don't think that they're going to listen because like what interest do they have in listening?
[00:49:10]  Their interest is in like causing the conflict to engulf the U.S. to the degree that the U.S. has to put ground troops in there.
[00:49:17]  Like that's Israel's win condition.
[00:49:19]  Israel's win condition is successfully getting the empire involved in the conflict.
[00:49:23]  Iran's win condition is keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed.
[00:49:27]  Now, which one is more easy?
[00:49:28]  Which one is more difficult?
[00:49:30]  To Trump's credit, and I hate him now.
[00:49:31]  I'm anti-Trump now.
[00:49:32]  Like, I should be getting all the alt girls lining up at my door now, all the ones that hated me for years because I don't like Trump anymore, okay?
[00:49:38]  Benefits of not liking Trump anymore.
[00:49:40]  That being said, even though I don't like the guy, he has been like, if he was true, like bloodthirsty, like, I'm ready for the entire world to die, like, we would already, we'd already be in the ground war.
[00:49:53]  He's being, even if he's inevitably going to get pushed into it, he's still getting pushed into it.
[00:49:57]  You know, even if he's corrupt and evil and whatever, I don't think he wants this.
[00:50:01]  I think he knows.
[00:50:02]  No, he knows.
[00:50:03]  Let's go ahead and finish out the very last of this video real quick.
[00:50:06]  Okay, and then I want to go to Iranian strike.
[00:50:08]  Ain't no Kurds putting their life on the line.
[00:50:11]  They're smarter now.
[00:50:12]  They're done getting jerked around by all these countries in that region.
[00:50:15]  I don't believe it, bro.
[00:50:16]  Yeah, I'll be doing a deep dive on the Kurds.
[00:50:19]  Every country has used them for their own personal gain because they've wanted their own independent country.
[00:50:25]  Yeah, every time and they've been dick-slapped every single time.
[00:50:30]  Go ahead.
[00:50:31]  Sorry.
[00:50:33]  In Ras Latham with a barrage of ballistic missiles and appeared to score multiple direct hits, sparking fires and explosions on a scale that goes far beyond most of the destruction in this conflict.
[00:50:43]  Qatar Energy, the state-owned company that oversees Ras Lathan, indicated that the site suffered, quote, extensive damage.
[00:50:50]  Or in other words, damage that went far beyond what the facility had previously endured.
[00:50:54]  Nor was that the extent of Iran's retaliation.
[00:50:57]  Although this hasn't been confirmed, as of the time this episode was written, Iran claimed to have struck a critical Saudi oil processing plant at a port city called Yanbu, not on the coast of the Persian Gulf, but on the coast of the Red Sea.
[00:51:09]  Over the last few weeks, Saudi Arabia had been urgently shifting its crude oil to start exporting out of Yanbu, a place that all sides had seemed to agree was far away from the epicenter of the conflict.
[00:51:20]  The United Arabs took hits at a key gas processing complex called Habshan 5, one of the world's largest installations of that kind, and at its bourbon Bab oil fields, the largest onshore source of oil in the country.
[00:51:33]  Even within the context of this ongoing conflict, the scale of Iran's retaliation was exceptional.
[00:51:38]  Not only did Tehran reveal that it's still in possession of highly meaningful missile launch capabilities, but it chose to respond to the South Pars airstrike in a way that couldn't possibly be misunderstood.
[00:51:49]  If South Paz was a legitimate target, then Iran was willing and more importantly, able to cripple global energy to an extent that the world had been hoping to avoid.
[00:51:57]  For America's Barnes Washington clearly got Iran's message as intended.
[00:52:01]  Of course, when it comes to this version of the White House, there's always a layer of bluster and bravado that we've got to filter through to see what's really going on.
[00:52:07]  But far and brimstone aside, it took Donald Trump practically no time to announce in all caps, no more.
[00:52:14]  Okay.
[00:52:15]  Didn't you have this clip here somewhere?
[00:52:18]  Yeah, no, I have it, but I can go ahead and read this here.
[00:52:21]  It's fine.
[00:52:22]  Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out of a major facility known as South Pars gas field in Iran.
[00:52:30]  A relatively small section of the whole has been hit.
[00:52:33]  The United States knew nothing about this particular attack, and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape, or form involved in it, nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen.
[00:52:44]  Okay.
[00:52:44]  Unfortunately, Iran did not know this or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar's LNG gas facility.
[00:52:54]  No more attacks will be made by Israel.
[00:52:56]  No more attacks.
[00:52:57]  Okay.
[00:52:58]  So that's what Trump said last night.
[00:53:00]  Okay, so he's saying no shape or form.
[00:53:03]  The United States knew nothing about it.
[00:53:05]  Are you serious?
[00:53:06]  We knew nothing?
[00:53:07]  Are we sure?
[00:53:08]  Well, the thing is, of course we know about these things.
[00:53:10]  We're powerless to stop them.
[00:53:12]  And that's the problem.
[00:53:12]  That's the problem.
[00:53:13]  And here, cut back to us for a second and pull up that Iran strikes on a U.S. radars thing to have up next.
[00:53:19]  That's the thing about all of this.
[00:53:20]  How did this conflict start?
[00:53:22]  Because we're already three weeks into it and people just want to go, hello, Trump.
[00:53:25]  Hello, Trump.
[00:53:26]  How did this conflict start?
[00:53:27]  The Israelis were going to do the operation.
[00:53:30]  They were going to start the war.
[00:53:32]  We knew that American soldiers and American bases would get hit when that happened.
[00:53:36]  So we needed to contribute to the strike to make it big enough that it would work.
[00:53:39]  Yeah.
[00:53:40]  Strong arming is definitely one of the strategies that I think played out.
[00:53:43]  And that's just me being objective.
[00:53:44]  I'm not a necessarily like, oh, I hate Israel or I hate Iran.
[00:53:49]  Objectively speaking, Israel has had a very big problem with that entire region for a very long time.
[00:53:56]  And Bibi, I know.
[00:53:59]  I'm starting as I've, as we had the guests on last weekend, Nate.
[00:54:03]  Sure.
[00:54:04]  Phenomenal guest.
[00:54:05]  You guys should go check out that clip.
[00:54:06]  Go check out that video.
[00:54:08]  Super great.
[00:54:09]  He was an Israeli citizen.
[00:54:11]  But as I kind of understood and I've been researching and getting the ground understanding from people who live there, Bibi seems to be the problem more than anyone else.
[00:54:20]  Like, it's not the Israeli people themselves.
[00:54:22]  It's like Bibi has always had an agenda, it seems, where he wanted to exert that control.
[00:54:29]  And even before the original prime minister that was before BB, he was on stages speaking about, you know, moving these people and doing all the things that he currently is enacting, you know, almost two decades later.
[00:54:44]  The people that are shrewd enough to get into Israeli government at the highest levels and stay there for decades are like the most monstrous people we've ever seen really on the global stage.
[00:54:52]  Well, this is really incredible that like this, this guy, this Netanyahu is able to warp the government over like a 25 plus year period of time to where it's his country.
[00:55:04]  He made it his country.
[00:55:05]  Yeah.
[00:55:06]  And then it's getting very hard not to see how October 7th wasn't just something that they let happen because it's like green flag operation.
[00:55:14]  Because Nate said it himself.
[00:55:15]  He's like, it takes less than an hour to like drive across that.
[00:55:20]  Right.
[00:55:20]  And you know, Ivan Ranklin on my dad's show talked about it.
[00:55:23]  And he's like, yeah, I mean, like, I know where their helicopter base is.
[00:55:26]  Like, I've been there.
[00:55:26]  It's, it's like 20 minutes away from the border.
[00:55:28]  Like, it's, it's, and they have the same Apaches, the same everything that we have.
[00:55:32]  And it's just, it's very clear what's what's been going on.
[00:55:34]  And they are desperate.
[00:55:35]  Netanyahu is desperate to continue this conflict.
[00:55:38]  That's why they hit the oil field.
[00:55:39]  It's because they, what they want to do, it's, it's like they're poking Iran.
[00:55:42]  They're like, we need you to overreact.
[00:55:44]  We need you to overreact.
[00:55:45]  We need you to overreact because keep in mind, we're at war, right?
[00:55:49]  But there is even the fake bullshit, like we run everything type of war.
[00:55:53]  There is still, you know, respected rules and things that you were supposed to do and not supposed to do.
[00:55:58]  And the number one thing you're not supposed to do is you're not supposed to go up the escalation ladder.
[00:56:03]  Yeah, you're not.
[00:56:04]  And at the end of the day, like this is if you're trying to stop the comp if this is a competition for power.
[00:56:10]  I mean, this is not how I wanted it to turn out.
[00:56:13]  And at the end of the day, I don't want Iran in control of that region.
[00:56:16]  I don't want, you know, Sharia law being out there and them ruling by an iron fist.
[00:56:21]  And women now.
[00:56:22]  Oh, and now women have to walk around with the jobs and they can't actually have basic things.
[00:56:27]  It's like, no, but I'm just saying, like, they have their own internal problems.
[00:56:32]  And the whole point was like, okay, if we're going to stop their spread, stop it there.
[00:56:36]  But we're going past a point where like, I don't know how much power they can really exert on the rest of that region.
[00:56:42]  It's not our business.
[00:56:43]  Let Israel and Iran fight.
[00:56:44]  Let them do whatever.
[00:56:45]  Ultimately, Israel feels like they have like the magic button where they can summon Superman to fight the bad guys for them.
[00:56:51]  And like, we can't exist in that state anymore because we're broke.
[00:56:54]  Our people can't eat.
[00:56:55]  Our soldiers are dying.
[00:56:56]  Our military is degraded.
[00:56:58]  And all of this is just if they can make the statement, if the U.S. government can make the statement that we're getting involved in Ukraine and we're backing Ukraine so that we can deplete Russia's military, wouldn't the Russians and the Chinese get involved with the RO they could deplete our military?
[00:57:14]  Like, don't you think that's the same thing?
[00:57:15]  Do you see like here?
[00:57:17]  China is playing chess right now, 4D chess.
[00:57:20]  Okay.
[00:57:21]  If you look at what's happening right now in the straight, they are telling Iran is telling specific countries, hey, you're allowed to go through the strait if you pay in the Chinese currency, right?

=== The Cost of War (13:56) ===

[00:57:35]  You don't, they didn't come up with that idea in a vacuum.
[00:57:38]  That was China.
[00:57:38]  Well, they just stole it from us.
[00:57:39]  It's the new petro dollar.
[00:57:41]  Welcome to the new system.
[00:57:42]  Like, China is behind the scenes negotiating and having backdoor conversations because they see this as a way of like, hey, we don't have to send missiles.
[00:57:52]  We just have to silently siphon power away from the West by allowing these situations to play out and let the monster hurt itself.
[00:58:00]  Dude, we are like, it's 250th year of the country.
[00:58:03]  We are so embarrassing, dude.
[00:58:05]  Like, America is so embarrassing.
[00:58:06]  Imagine having everything and then being like, yeah, we're going to screw our own domestic population.
[00:58:11]  We're going to enrich like the ultra wealthy.
[00:58:14]  And then like the nation's going to blow up because we can't stop going to war.
[00:58:17]  Well, like, why would you, why did the boomers do this?
[00:58:21]  Okay, I hate to throw the blame.
[00:58:23]  I know we got older audience to the boomers that are awake and aware, you guys.
[00:58:26]  You're like, you're like the survivors are like, you're like the Walking Dead movie.
[00:58:30]  Like, you're like, what's his name?
[00:58:32]  The guy, the sheriff with the gun.
[00:58:33]  You're talking about, why am I blanking out on his name?
[00:58:36]  Dude, Rick, Rick, something.
[00:58:39]  Yeah, y'all are like Rick.
[00:58:40]  Like, y'all made it through.
[00:58:41]  But like, the vast majority that got inoculated with the propaganda, like, you talk to the boomer on the street, and like the main thing is, like, don't you think it would be a better idea not to get involved?
[00:58:50]  And he goes, oh, that's a pipe dream.
[00:58:51]  And it's like, it's a pipe dream.
[00:58:53]  Like, but so it's more realistic to wish for a biblical apocalyptic war in the Middle East than to wish for like pro-America stuff.
[00:59:02]  Because someone else is going to do it if we don't do it.
[00:59:05]  And I feel like that's the great lie.
[00:59:06]  Like, it's, it's like, you know, like someone getting abused and then you abuse other people because where I see it is like if we just talk about the history itself, it kind of bunny hopped.
[00:59:16]  Iran was never the point of interest for a while.
[00:59:20]  And when it, well, they were.
[00:59:21]  I'm sorry.
[00:59:21]  I lied.
[00:59:22]  But it was a whole region.
[00:59:23]  It was a whole region.
[00:59:24]  It's just last puzzle piece.
[00:59:25]  They can't.
[00:59:26]  That's why they want it really bad.
[00:59:27]  Yeah, because they did something about Afghanistan.
[00:59:29]  They did something about Libya, Sudan, Iraq.
[00:59:32]  Yeah.
[00:59:33]  Yeah.
[00:59:33]  Iran has been the one that has kind of stood the test of time.
[00:59:36]  I mean, now in the 50s, they did replace the British went in there with the Americans and replaced the original regime.
[00:59:43]  And they got that like 30-year golden period.
[00:59:46]  Golden.
[00:59:46]  Well, their version of it.
[00:59:48]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:59:48]  The West is happy.
[00:59:49]  The West was happy during that time period.
[00:59:51]  But, you know, as soon as the Shah got replaced by, you know, Khomeini, this is why we're at the problem.
[00:59:57]  As soon as the music starts going like, hello, and it's like, uh-oh.
[01:00:01]  It's like, uh-oh.
[01:00:02]  And we didn't like that too much.
[01:00:03]  And here's the thing.
[01:00:04]  They took a bunch of our people hostage.
[01:00:05]  They've killed Americans.
[01:00:06]  They made IEDs that kill Americans.
[01:00:08]  Not a fan.
[01:00:09]  Okay.
[01:00:09]  Not a fan.
[01:00:09]  Like, I like America.
[01:00:11]  I'm not like a foreign, like, you know, like expatriate type of guy.
[01:00:15]  Yeah, you just probably just don't want intervention.
[01:00:17]  No, no, no.
[01:00:18]  Well, the thing is, is like, fuck all these people.
[01:00:21]  Like, trying to get us involved in these wars, you make me like the other side because I just don't want to be involved.
[01:00:26]  It's like you're dragging us in to fight someone who isn't ultimately trying to fight us.
[01:00:30]  And everyone says, oh, well, they're going to hit us.
[01:00:32]  They're going to develop a nuclear weapon.
[01:00:33]  That's bullshit.
[01:00:35]  Well, I will say, I'll give you credit.
[01:00:37]  I think this is more of Israel's problem and them pushing than us.
[01:00:43]  It belongs to them.
[01:00:44]  And it really came down to the whole Palestine issue and that not being resolved and the conflicts going, and the United States has not been selling.
[01:00:51]  It's the genocide.
[01:00:52]  Yeah.
[01:00:52]  So let's go to the next clip.
[01:00:55]  The next clip is going to be Trump talking about Israel strikes on Iran.
[01:01:00]  No, that's the tweet.
[01:01:01]  That's the tweet.
[01:01:01]  We don't need to do that.
[01:01:02]  Actually, you know what?
[01:01:03]  Please do that.
[01:01:04]  I think it has a video in it.
[01:01:06]  If it has a video in it, let's do that.
[01:01:08]  You know what?
[01:01:08]  You have to leave soon because you got to go to an event.
[01:01:11]  Sorry to throw multiple things at you, Wes.
[01:01:12]  We scroll down really quick.
[01:01:14]  We scroll down.
[01:01:15]  I want to play some of the Netanyahu because Netanyahu was around and he's waddling about.
[01:01:20]  Where is it at?
[01:01:21]  Okay.
[01:01:23]  This is just a Trump tweet.
[01:01:24]  We actually, we already read this before, but if you all need to take it, look at that.
[01:01:27]  Mostly peaceful fire.
[01:01:29]  Look at that.
[01:01:29]  Mostly peaceful oil fuel that supplies 20% of the world.
[01:01:35]  No, just check now.
[01:01:37]  It's pretty.
[01:01:38]  Well, it's not anything I wouldn't doubt that he would have said, you know, just to make everybody feel like everything's okay.
[01:01:44]  No, 100%.
[01:01:45]  Let's go to the next clip.
[01:01:46]  We scroll down in the doc.
[01:01:47]  Yep.
[01:01:47]  See what it is.
[01:01:50]  Yeah.
[01:01:52]  Iran hits Qatar.
[01:01:53]  We'll do the Iran hits Qatar and then we'll do Qatar Makes Statement.
[01:02:01]  How many Marines dying will it take to get Trump impeached?
[01:02:05]  Over 100 will have to die in the demonic death humiliation.
[01:02:11]  I don't think he would even get impeached at that point.
[01:02:13]  Dude, it's coming.
[01:02:14]  Dude, if I want it to happen, it's like I just have to think about it.
[01:02:19]  Here's the thing: if my opinion, I defended Trump for literally a decade.
[01:02:23]  My opinion now is like pitchfork and torch.
[01:02:26]  Like, I just see how you're going to lose.
[01:02:30]  I know this makes you a Democrat now.
[01:02:32]  You Democrat.
[01:02:33]  You support Joe Biden.
[01:02:35]  I bet you wasn't saying the same thing when Biden was doing it.
[01:02:38]  I get these comments and I'm like, I've been around doing this since I was eight.
[01:02:42]  I have my political ideology.
[01:02:44]  I can't wait till a Democrat gets in, and you guys are going to see how much we're going to be criticizing them when they start.
[01:02:49]  Demon Rat, it ain't even a Democrat.
[01:02:52]  Demon Rat is what I call them, Rotan.
[01:02:55]  We're going to start seeing Gavin Newsome roll out his new homeless program to get homeless people in your house.
[01:03:02]  A federal mandate that a home you must house a homeless person in every single person's house.
[01:03:08]  Yeah, you have to buy a government-approved pill press.
[01:03:11]  You have to help them make fentanyl.
[01:03:14]  Government's like, well, you know, we're going to have this person live with you.
[01:03:17]  And, you know, it's your welfare now.
[01:03:19]  You got to help them with their career.
[01:03:20]  What's their career?
[01:03:20]  Oh, they sell drugs.
[01:03:21]  Yeah.
[01:03:22]  Just showing.
[01:03:23]  But this is, again, this is a non-partisan show, so we don't care at the end of the day.
[01:03:27]  We're going to criticize every single person.
[01:03:29]  So, very true.
[01:03:30]  The only people we don't criticize are the Mormons who were bought and paid for by the Mormons.
[01:03:34]  Damon says, hey, it ain't funny.
[01:03:36]  It's really bad here in Cali.
[01:03:38]  Yeah, I know, man.
[01:03:39]  I know, man.
[01:03:40]  There's homeless people everywhere.
[01:03:42]  I've seen it.
[01:03:43]  Okay, let's go ahead.
[01:03:45]  Yeah, let's just do the Iran hits Qatar.
[01:03:48]  Yeah, go ahead and play that.
[01:03:57]  Wes, you got it?
[01:03:59]  Since...
[01:04:00]  Since you were eight, you got an exaggeration, Gene.
[01:04:04]  Absolutely not true.
[01:04:05]  It's verifiably true.
[01:04:06]  I've been doing this since I was eight.
[01:04:07]  I got people that watch.
[01:04:08]  He actually has.
[01:04:09]  I've got people that watch the show.
[01:04:10]  I will say, I've seen, I went when I go to the studio, you could see where Lil Rex used to sit and do his thing.
[01:04:16]  And all the guys validate.
[01:04:18]  I mean, like, we got the platform in 2018, bro.
[01:04:21]  2018 was eight years ago.
[01:04:24]  That's so wild to think about.
[01:04:26]  And your dad's had that studio for like what, 14 years?
[01:04:29]  No, like 17.
[01:04:30]  17.
[01:04:30]  A little bit longer than that.
[01:04:32]  Oh, speaking of that, sorry, not to interrupt.
[01:04:34]  Come back to us.
[01:04:35]  You know, let's just close off with this.
[01:04:36]  I think this is a good place to close off.
[01:04:38]  Yeah, before I go.
[01:04:39]  You got to wrap up.
[01:04:40]  We have a huge announcement for you guys.
[01:04:43]  We have a huge announcement.
[01:04:44]  We'll post this to the Gray Area Socials.
[01:04:46]  We want to let everyone know we are going to be hosting the American Journal, guest hosting it, whatever you want to call it, until the network goes away.
[01:04:53]  Aren't you excited about it?
[01:04:54]  I'm super excited.
[01:04:55]  That means you guys are going to be seeing us, our beautiful faces, every single morning on InfoWars.
[01:05:02]  8:21 a.m.
[01:05:04]  We will be live for your viewing pleasure.
[01:05:06]  Should you choose to indulge us with your presence?
[01:05:09]  We'll be happy to have you.
[01:05:10]  We're going to be doing a deep dive.
[01:05:11]  We're going to be doing things with like a massive crew and a lot of technical help, be able to try new projects, new programs.
[01:05:17]  And if you're interested, we're going to be doing call-ins, okay?
[01:05:20]  Because they got a great call.
[01:05:21]  Yeah, they got a good call-in system.
[01:05:22]  They got a phenomenal call-in system.
[01:05:23]  So that'll be really exciting, right?
[01:05:26]  Super exciting.
[01:05:27]  Honestly, surreal.
[01:05:28]  I'm not even going to lie.
[01:05:30]  Super surreal.
[01:05:31]  Because it's pretty cool.
[01:05:32]  Because at the end of the day, like I know that that has been your home.
[01:05:36]  That has been the people that you have associated with your entire life.
[01:05:39]  But for me, I'm new to this game.
[01:05:40]  Well, here's my perspective with it.
[01:05:42]  I'm honored to do it.
[01:05:43]  I'm super happy we're doing it.
[01:05:44]  I want to do it primarily to help Gray Area to help us grow.
[01:05:47]  Here's my thing.
[01:05:48]  I always grew up filming things in those studios, doing things in those studios.
[01:05:52]  I'm very comfortable doing it now that I'm an adult and I have some time to reflect.
[01:05:55]  But doing stuff there as a kid, I didn't want my entire media personality or image to be known as just someone that was like glomming on to something or someone that's kind of like a vestigial part of an organization.
[01:06:07]  I did my pieces.
[01:06:08]  I got out of there.
[01:06:09]  I went off and did my own thing.
[01:06:10]  You know that.
[01:06:11]  But going back there for me, I'm just excited to get to do our show on a bigger platform because that's what it really is.
[01:06:17]  We're not going in there to like replace someone and like right now we're going to be perfect.
[01:06:22]  We're going to go in there and do the same phenomenal show that you guys have learned to expect from us week after week on the gray area.
[01:06:28]  That dynamic is still going to be doing is still going to be there.
[01:06:30]  We're going to still be doing deep dives.
[01:06:32]  We're still going to be having jokes, having fun, because at the end of the day, we still want to provide value to not just you guys, but now the wider audience of InfoWars itself.
[01:06:42]  And we're hoping to carry that momentum even after this segment and whether what happens to InfoWars, there will be a new network.
[01:06:49]  We hope to be on the new network as well.
[01:06:51]  We're going to do it.
[01:06:53]  We're going to try to earn our stripes.
[01:06:54]  Absolutely correct.
[01:06:55]  So if you guys want to catch us, go ahead and tune in on that Monday.
[01:06:59]  That is the first day that we are going to be live.
[01:07:02]  And this is why, this is why it's such a good time now to subscribe, to follow, to follow the newsletter, to just check on all the amazing things that we're working on that are in progress right now, because you get on the ground floor what we're doing and you're going to get to see a real evolution and quality and ability and the growth of our media.
[01:07:19]  We're really looking forward to doing it.
[01:07:20]  Yes, we are looking forward to doing it.
[01:07:22]  And before I leave, the last thing that I want to throw the newsletter up again real quick.
[01:07:26]  Yeah, can we throw the newsletter up?
[01:07:27]  Because this is something that's dear and near to my heart.
[01:07:30]  Because I'm actually producing a lot of content for this now.
[01:07:33]  He's making a lot of content.
[01:07:35]  A lot of the biggest thing for me is giving you guys value at the end of the day.
[01:07:41]  And for me, I do deep dives because deep dives are important to me because they give you guys more context than the news, than other shows.
[01:07:49]  And now I want to be able to provide that in a form that's easy for you guys to digest and you're learning something.
[01:07:56]  So go ahead and pull this up, Wes.
[01:07:58]  We got to have some rappers on the show.
[01:08:00]  Rappers?
[01:08:00]  Yeah, we got to get some before InfoWars is over.
[01:08:02]  We still got the clout.
[01:08:03]  We got it.
[01:08:03]  We got to see if Big X wants to come on the show.
[01:08:05]  Hey, dog.
[01:08:06]  I love the interview, big guy.
[01:08:07]  I was thinking about this today.
[01:08:08]  Okay.
[01:08:09]  So you guys see, this is the Gray Area Files.
[01:08:12]  This is something new that we launched literally two days ago.
[01:08:15]  It is a newsletter that you can subscribe to only $5 a month.
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[01:08:23]  If you can scroll down, we just came out with one today specifically on the $4.6 trillion that is missing from the government's Pentagon specifically and how it actually affects you at home.
[01:08:38]  And we're asking for an additional 200.
[01:08:40]  It's insane.
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[01:08:45]  We're also going to be having other people come on and be a contributor at the same time.
[01:08:50]  We're working on getting people that you guys might actually love, people who are going to build this out.
[01:08:55]  We're going to have so much stuff on here.
[01:08:57]  I'm going to contribute a lot of great contributors.
[01:08:59]  I'm talking to already as well.
[01:09:01]  Someone in the chat says we need to get Afro Man on.
[01:09:03]  Did you see that story?
[01:09:05]  Okay.
[01:09:05]  So like he got like a police raid on his house where they like stole money from him or whatever.
[01:09:09]  So he made a series of songs over like the years, like dissing them and whatever.
[01:09:12]  And they took him to court and he won.
[01:09:14]  So it's a big positive news story right now.
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[01:09:16]  I'll send it to you after.
[01:09:18]  But he's a cool guy.
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[01:09:26]  Oftentimes, when I'm trying to pitch supplements, like at GoPrimacore.com, I say, like, look, are you going to DoorDash some horrible donut melted cake creation and regret it and feel bad the next morning and have a horrible time on the toilet?
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[01:09:45]  With this, it's literally a no-brainer.
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[01:09:56]  We want that energy because it's not free.
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[01:10:04]  My biggest thing, like there are other people that want to charge like $20, $30 and like do some crazy stuff.
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[01:10:30]  But at the same time, I know there's some people that don't want to, that aren't heavy hitters that want to, you know, contribute as much as other people.
[01:10:36]  Maybe you want some return on your investment.
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[01:11:04]  People are loving the articles already.
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[01:11:23]  So.
[01:11:24]  Can you run for president from prison?
[01:11:26]  Because he's saying Sugar Knight announcing his run for presidency on Gray Area would be dope.
[01:11:30]  I didn't know he was running for president.

=== Great Time on Gray Area (01:34) ===

[01:11:31]  He cannot.
[01:11:32]  Yeah.
[01:11:33]  You can't be a convicted criminal and run for president.
[01:11:36]  I don't think those two things coexist in the same way.
[01:11:38]  Interesting.
[01:11:39]  Like you can't be Canadian, but you can be a felon.
[01:11:42]  Yeah, but I got to take off here.
[01:11:43]  No, no, you're good.
[01:11:44]  You know what?
[01:11:45]  I think this has been a phenomenal show.
[01:11:46]  I'll be back in the chair tomorrow and we'll save this Netanyahu stuff for next week.
[01:11:51]  I just want to thank the phenomenal audience and the switchers, the producers, editors.
[01:11:56]  Also, we're having Chase Wes and Damon.
[01:11:58]  We're having Chase Geyser on Sunday, right?
[01:12:00]  Yes, we're chasing the geyser, as they say.
[01:12:03]  The chase with geyser, all sorts of puns.
[01:12:05]  Guys, Chaser is my favorite one.
[01:12:07]  Yes, pretty much.
[01:12:07]  Okay, so you guys get two days back to back.
[01:12:10]  You guys get Chase on Sunday, and then you get to guys get to see us on Monday morning on InfoWars.
[01:12:16]  It is just a great time.
[01:12:18]  So thank you.
[01:12:19]  Great time to be on the gray area.
[01:12:20]  Thank you all for being here tonight.
[01:12:22]  All right.
[01:12:22]  Take care, guys.
[01:12:43]  Modern life has left us out of balance.
[01:12:47]  Long ago, it was once said, certain remedies could grant a man the vitality of a horse.
[01:12:57]  For over 6,000 years, these natural remedies have been harvested and tested by generations.
[01:13:05]  What?