April 6, 2026 - American Journal - Breanna Morello
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The American Journal: Iran Rejects Temporary Ceasefire As Trump’s 48-Hour Deadline To Open Hormuz Strait Comes To An End & POTUS Vows To Unleash “Hell” On Tehran - FULL SHOW - 04.06.2026
Gary Cardone joins the show to dissect Iran's rejection of a ceasefire as Trump threatens "hell" on Tehran, while simultaneously revealing alleged secret space programs and whistleblower disappearances. The episode exposes how AI data centers in Virginia and Arizona consume massive water supplies, displacing housing and raising utility bills, even as billions fund overseas wars. Cardone argues that global elites manipulate data to hide crises, predicting Bitcoin will surge amidst this chaos while ordinary citizens face energy shortages and toxic environments. Ultimately, the discussion frames current geopolitical and technological shifts as a coordinated attack on humanity by those who prioritize profit over public safety. [Automatically generated summary]
Eight brilliant minds, each one inching closer to unlocking zero point energy, plasma fusion that could render fossil fuels.
Fuels obsolete or the anti gravity secrets allegedly reverse engineered from crashed non human craft have met mysterious ends or vanished without a trace.
Their deaths and disappearances clustering in recent months amid rising whispers of massive revelations.
This is why Congress is working hard for whistleblower protections because.
We want people to feel safe to come out and have a conversation.
And right now, they don't feel overly safe.
They've seen some of the tactics and techniques that were applied to try to keep people quiet in the past.
Let me say this in general terms.
People say, oh, well, the government would never kill anybody to protect a secret.
Try going to Area 51 and look at the signs on that chain link fence where it says lethal force authorized.
You cross that fence, and they can kill you dead.
Okay?
So the government can, under certain extreme cases, under certain extreme circumstances, situations and conditions, they can do whatever they need to do to protect national security, and they will.
And then I got back on X, I guess it's called, but I still refer to it as Twitter, whatever.
And you start getting in these spaces, you start hearing these people talk, right or wrong, like they're in there all the time, they're making predictions, they're actively involved.
And you'll get to a point like right now where it seems like, and it doesn't just seem like there is, we're about to get into it.
There's breaking news every five seconds.
But we get kind of used to in the kind of like the lull, slow down period where we were actually on our show breaking down causality going decades back.
And I was saying, just wait for it to happen.
Just wait for it to happen.
Now you were actually more correct.
Because you predicted it would be happening in the new year.
He wants them to attack, he wants them to do something that gives him the excuse to do ground troops.
The threats from both sides were lobbed just as Iran and the U.S. Received a draft proposal late Sunday calling for a 45 day ceasefire and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Now, here's the thing.
When you hear about stuff like this, I see it promoted on Twitter all the time.
They're like, the Iranians, they want to make a deal.
They're all being murdered.
And it's like, no, all the other nations like the UAE, like Turkey, like Pakistan, they desperately want both peace so that their markets can be good and they want the credit for ending this.
Though, Tim, that you see, like, maybe you think people are on the left or whatever, people crazy blue hair, like 29 genders, maybe that's a little kooky.
Then you look over here now on quote unquote our own side, and you have people that literally call for countries to be glass, countries to be destroyed, ultimately civilians to be killed.
And you're like, well, I know that a lot of Americans, hopefully the majority of Americans, are peace loving and sane and want a good future for everybody.
But there is this large minority of the population, and it's both left and right, that are just nutballs and they don't see the consequences of the actions of their policies.
And that's what it is.
They go, Well, you're attacking my favorite sports team.
You're attacking my favorite movie star.
You know, Trump's the guy I like.
It's like that guy that called in, My buddy Trump is in a fight.
And it's like, Okay, well, like, when has he ever been your friend?
When has he been a friend to us?
He promised to be our friend.
But just because someone says they're going to do something nice for you doesn't actually mean they've done the thing.
In the onesie, you put on your little twinkle toe slippers, and then you get in like the giant loaded F 250 and you go to Chick fil A and you get like 10 sandwiches.
Well, I mean, look, simping for Iran means you have to be for the war.
You have to be for bombing civilians.
You have to be for escalation of this conflict.
And the thing that I was talking about yesterday, and I made a comment, I'm like, guys, the bigger picture here is if we don't deescalate soon, the larger implications are going to be felt at home.
You're not even thinking about the people who are already struggling from all the mess that the Biden administration did just four to five years ago.
Those prices haven't come down.
The only thing you saw come down were the gas prices that's on the gas station sticker tag.
But everything that happened with food, everything that happened with the inflation of the housing market, none of that has actually come down to a level.
So we're only going to keep going up and just keep piling and compounding the mess that we're already in.
And I feel like a lot of the time, like we hate empire, of course, and we don't like illegal wars, but a lot of the time people are just like, we're going into the black pit of hell.
And so, I think why your dad has been commenting on the state of Trump's physical health is because there's no logical conclusion to how somebody could just continue to double down and triple down and just continue to bring us closer and closer.
And say different things.
And it's like, Borderline schizo in certain aspects, not calling him schizophrenic.
Somebody's making money off of just the fear mongering and getting you to like feel anxiety and go and panic buy.
So when people are speaking out and trying to get you to like wake up, smell the roses, realize this isn't a good thing, it goes against what the dark side of the internet wants you to do.
Really is about taking control over your own life and giving yourself the power of having the information so you don't actually have to rely on one of these tainted mainstream media news sources.
And that empowers you in every aspect of life, physically, mentally, everything.
Because you're a free human being out there in the world living your life, doing what you got to do, not what some government tells you to do or not what some company tells you to do.
Yeah, well, they're saying if there are further attacks.
So, this is the thing, they're already putting up with a lot.
But I think this is following the ultimatum.
Maybe we can show some images from here because I've already read this one.
We can look at what they've done already.
If we can look at that tanker system there that's been destroyed, as well as smoke billowing from a vessel following explosion from the port of Bandar.
The president has so far been cautious about hitting power plants in Iran amid fears it could inhabit or inhibit the country's ability to recover after the conflict ends.
But they come out and say, We didn't even have the tweet for today.
They come out and say, We want to send it to the Stone Age.
Well, how is that legitimate?
How does that make other people around the world want to make deals with us, think that we're friendly and safe?
If I'm an American and I want to go vacation somewhere, if I go vacation over there, the people are going to hate me because they know they're probably going to bomb their country.
In the same way, when the Israelis go around, like a lot of the times they're getting shun from places because they're like, You know, like, hey, there's your oil embargo.
Yeah, it's the unfinished B1 bridge in Karaj, Iran.
It was attacked by the U.S. with two missiles, causing it to partially collapse.
Eight people were killed, and at least 95 were wounded.
That's a light day for us.
According to the Iranian news agency, it was a double tap attack, and the double tap attack occurred once first responders had arrived to assist victims of the first strike.
This is not a military landing zone.
They're not bringing missiles across there.
This is an unfinished bridge, and it's the tallest bridge in Iran.
It's a civil engineering masterpiece.
That's the purpose of it.
Like, they targeted their tallest bridge for a reason.
And that's why your dad is making the equivalency to the Golden Gate Bridge because, I mean, one, it looks like the Golden Gate Bridge, but it's also a status for these guys.
We're talking a lot about the Iran side of things and the retaliation, but I want to bring this conversation to what the impact is across the world because it's getting really serious and it's getting real.
So let's play that because this is going to put this into perspective for you guys.
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This is a map of global oil flows put together by JP Morgan.
Don't worry about all this text, we'll explain it in a minute.
These red lines show the oil coming out of the Middle East, going out to the rest of the world.
This is the stuff that's been cut off.
Here it is back in December before the war.
There it goes, the oil is flowing.
But remember, it moves at the speed of a bunch of bicycles.
So now it's January, and the oil is just finally breaching parts of Asia and Europe.
And we're into February before it hits the US, and then it hits refineries in South Korea that then sends it on down these pink lines to Australia and New Zealand.
So when the war starts and the oil stops flowing, there's actually still a ton out there taking its long, lazy little bike ride around the globe.
That's a big part of why things seem weirdly normal.
For most countries, the oil shutdown has not reached us yet.
We're still getting shipments that were sent out before the war started.
So, when do those shipments stop?
If you look at that map again, it says most deliveries to the US will stop around April 15th.
In Europe, they stop around April 10th.
Asia, April 1st, so it's just getting started.
But here in parts of Africa, there's March 20th.
We're already well into it.
And to be clear, these places aren't out of oil.
Every country has emergency stockpiles.
So, let's see what that looks like.
Gas lines are the first thing to show up, not enough fuel at the pump.
And these are already everywhere South Africa, Pakistan, Vietnam, a bunch of places.
In Laos, they ordered schools closed for one day a week so there'd be fewer people on the roads.
The Philippines and Ethiopia did the same thing for government offices.
And Sri Lanka is making everybody take every Wednesday off of work now.
There are also restaurant curfews, mass flight cancellations, air conditioning shutoffs.
It's not that these countries are running out of oil.
I mean, they are, but that's not the real issue exactly.
But if you catch what he said at the beginning, these oil tankers are not like speed boats, they're moving at the speed of a bicycle, like no more than like 15, 20, super tankers.
So, I mean, you're talking about months.
And so he's right.
Like, we just haven't felt the impact, and people aren't hitting panic because there's still oil that's still traveling.
So, when I look at this whole thing, Rex, I'm thinking, okay, we need to get out of our ignorance in the bubble and realize that, you know, just because we're a little comfortable here at home, yes, does not mean that the rest of the world is not suffering.
And here's the thing everyone got behind the US dollar as the reserve currency and let us be at top because it was safe, right?
But they didn't expect.
For everything in their country to be dictated by an outside circumstance.
So, just let's take a hypothetical.
Imagine if the roles were reversed, right?
And suddenly people said, Oh, you're going to have extremely long gas lines here in America.
You're going to have schools shutting down.
You're not going to be able to fly to see your family this week because jets don't have enough fuel.
What do you think happens to the average person and what they're going to say?
Let's think about India for a second, because India is really getting slacked by this.
They were kind of getting.
Over on the Russians.
They're buying the cheap oil to get around sanctions.
They're paying like, I think, like $54 a barrel.
And then the other oil they're getting from the Straighter Hormuz, that goes away and they have to start buying it at a premium from Russia at over $100 a barrel.
But even though we have the Iranian oil and we have the Russian oil and you have Oil reserves that are being released to the rest of the world, that only delays it.
How we emerge from this crisis will define us for a generation.
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Let me give you a few specifics that are already starting to manifest.
Airlines say they cannot afford to operate and are shutting down many of their flights, so it'll be harder to explore the world.
European governments are telling their citizens not to travel for vacation this summer.
There's just not enough fuel for it.
A number of factories are already closing worldwide, especially in Asia.
Semiconductor factories in particular are closing.
Both for lack of power and because semiconductors use helium, which is a byproduct of natural gas production, so is also going away.
Importers expect it to become prohibitively expensive to ship some things abroad, so we'll have fewer foreign goods, less off season produce, and we'll export less too, so fewer jobs.
Construction supplies like lumber are getting too expensive to harvest or import, which means fewer homes getting built, which means existing homes getting more expensive and harder to afford.
Many of the essential components to fertilizer.
Also, come through the Persian Gulf.
Things like phosphorus.
There are already fertilizer shortages in Asia.
So, yeah, there will also be less food in the world.
All of these things also contribute to inflation.
Prices go up, harder to afford things, our standard of living goes down.
And the thing is, even if the war ends today, this process, this demand destruction, is actually going to continue.
That's because American, Israeli, and Iranian missiles have left much of the region's energy infrastructure in ruins.
Things like refineries, gas terminals that will take years to rebuild.
Which means years before that oil and gas comes back online.
This winter is probably going to bring the first big wave of hardship.
Right now, spring and summer is a time of year when countries are usually stockpiling oil and gas so that they can get their people through the cold months.
But instead, those countries are burning their stockpiles down to zero.
That means December and January are likely to bring a whole new oil shock when a billion people across Europe, Asia, and North America go to turn on their winter stoves or heaters and find that there is not enough gas to go around.
And, well, we do have a clue as to what the implications are going to be like.
You know what happens during cold weather?
Cold weather tends to kill 10 times as many people as hot weather does, right?
So, the real danger, of course, is the winter and the energy supply.
Especially for these European countries, places like Germany, places like the UK, where you can barely afford, if at all, to heat your home when it's like sub zero temperature.
It's the price of everything going up, but then you also have speculative futures spending in which they proactively price in oil and what the supply will be at specific points.
So, the entire equation is all messed up right now.
It is a privilege to be granted a green card to live in the United States of America.
If we have reason to believe a green card holder, Poses a threat to the U.S., the green card will be revoked, said Lauren, a DHS spokesperson.
The 47 year old was spotted by the Post Saturday outside her two bedroom, Tujunga area abode, hastily stuffing designer handbags from Louis Vuitton and Hermes into her.
Model three Tesla sedan, hours after her arrest was publicly announced.
Inmate deaths linked to paper laced with toxic drug in Cook County jail.
When guards at Cook County Correctional Facility found 57 year old inmate Thomas Dixkin dead, slumped out over his cell's toilet in January 2023, investigators were left scratching their heads.
They couldn't figure it out.
There is no evidence of foul play or a fall that could have killed the prisoner.
The only thing out of the norm, tiny strips of singed paper littering around his cell.
I said, we need to test this and find out what's going on with it.
Cook County Sheriff's Office Chief of Staff Brad Curry recalled about that moment.
Eventually, a Virginia lab would confirm that the strips were soaked in a synthetic cannabinoid called Panaca, which proved lethal when Diskin smoked the paper before authorities could stop it.
Other inmates were dropping dead under eerily similar circumstances.
So this is not a new thing.
The use of the designer drugs on the paper.
But I want to play this clip that I have.
I'm not sure where it is on the rundown here.
It's a little error on my part.
I want to play clip number five Grady Judd drug paper because this is not a new problem.
They've been smoking Raid and Roach Motel in the prisons.
Pope Leo, in his first Easter message, Pope Leo warns the world is becoming indifferent to violence.
Pope Leo warned Sunday that the world is becoming accustomed to violence in his Easter message from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, delivering a rallying cry against war and hatred to the tens of thousands as conflict rages in the Middle East.
In his first Ubi et Orbi to the City and the World address or message, the traditional apostolic blessing and message to the world, the American born Pope called upon humanity to abandon every desire for conflict, domination, and power, and said the world risks becoming indifferent to the deaths of thousands of people, and that hatred and division that conflict so.
Let those who have weapons lay them down, he said.
Let those who have power to unleash wars choose peace, not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue.
We cannot continue to be indifferent, he continued, and we cannot resign ourselves to evil.
I'm not a Roman Catholic, but I totally agree with this.
I have the house on the hill because it was promised to me.
It's just, it's wild that we live in the country where people like that, it's not just like some segment of society or whatever, they're in the White House.
Jesus cares about the little kids and the children you're supposed to have as a human, and also the children we're all supposed to keep alive are on the planet.
We're not supposed to bomb them and kill them.
But if these people, here's the thing if this guy's running around getting the $1,000 seed, but he's also against the war, go ahead.
The U.S. is a net exporter of fertilizer, but we have big fertilizer problems in the United States because remember, even if you're exporting it and the price has gone up.
So if you're from Iowa, where I'm from, you're paying a lot more for fertilizer this planting season, assuming you didn't buy it ahead of time, which, by the way, most of the farmers didn't.
They've been in a little bit of a tight squeeze.
Often they buy.
Inputs, seed and fertilizer, prior to a year in advance of planting.
Well, this year they didn't.
So they're buying it basically not forward, but buying it on the spot market.
Urea prices from the Middle East have surged from under $500 per metric ton to around $700 or higher, with overall fertilizer costs up more than 50% year over year.
Spring wheat planting could hit the lowest levels since 1970.
China has restricted key blends to protect domestic prices.
And India faces gas shortages threatening its urea output.
With 318 million people already in acute hunger, analysts warn another 45 million could slide into crisis if disruptions last beyond June.
Layer on the pharmaceutical strike, Iranian missiles hit Israel's Niyat Hovav industrial zone.
Home to Tiva Pharmaceutical, the world's largest generic drug maker, and Adama Chemical Facilities.
Tiva supplies affordable generics for cancer, heart, respiratory, and neurological treatments, relied on by hospitals worldwide, especially in third world nations.
Pre existing shortages were already severe.
Prices will rise, access will tighten, and chronic patients could face rationing or expensive switches in the months ahead.
Iran's closure stranded Qatar's Northfield output, 33% of global helium.
That also left 200 cryogenic helium containers at risk of total boil off within weeks.
No helium means no chips for AI GPUs or data centers, while India's 70,000 MRI machines and semiconductor memory supplies face immediate pressure.
Jet fuel has at least doubled in the U.S., with airlines warning of dry inventories, cancellations, and rerouting, while diesel tightness grips Australia and South Korea, prompting Wartime economic measures.
The just in time global system that was built on cheap energy, fragile choke points, and the illusion of endless efficiency.
Has had its table flipped over.
Stock what you reasonably can, demand real domestic resilience over globalist fantasies, and build tolerance for uncomfortable truths that are imminent.
I thought it was AI at first, but most people experience AI through a screen, uh, you know, a chat bot, maybe a search bar, maybe a writing tool, maybe like a feature inside of an app they already use, but they don't see the physical system behind that.
And this is part of that physical system, right?
Okay, a large industrial building right next to the normal neighborhood, like you're seeing here.
And so, you know, using AI feels digital, but the building is a very physical and big project.
And it takes land, it takes power, it takes cooling, it takes backup systems and a lot of infrastructure.
And the impact doesn't stay inside of the tech world for very long.
It starts trickling out into the rest of society.
And so, if we pull up number two here, let's pull up the picture of this like heat map of where all the data centers are because it is shocking.
So, if you take a look, At the top right corner, you're going to see this giant bubble of data centers that exist in Virginia and kind of West Virginia in that area.
There is a reason why that's happening.
And so a lot of this build out is happening in Northern Virginia for practical reasons.
So this region had a lot of strong fiber connections, reliable power, major customers nearby, open land, and they also had tax advantages that allowed them to get like bids.
And then you also look at the fact that once it happened, The region became even more attractive because the next builders, the people who wanted to be close to the existing networks and existing infrastructure and existing customers, that's why they started flocking there.
So, this county, Loudoun County alone, already has 200 data centers built or approved around it.
So what happened here is now we have the spreading into the other communities in the state and before getting the bill uh, into the bill of like what it looks like when it hits your pocket, we've got to look at what these buildings actually do.
So let's look at this video that shows us what the inside of a data center looks like.
It was very hard for these people to get this video because most of the companies, like AI, Meta, they're secret.
They were like, we can't allow you in this building.
So they went into this smaller one that I think was in Wyoming that allowed them to see it.
And this is only like 10% of the size of some of these bigger ones.
So let's go ahead and roll the clip.
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Hey, Gordon.
Welcome to Wanabe.
Come on in, I'll show you a tour.
This 35,000 square foot data center is tiny.
Compared to the largest ones in the US, those can stretch to well over a million square feet.
Lunavi offers cloud services to customers like betting apps, mapping companies, insurance, and healthcare businesses.
Zoom out, and you can see that the location is no accident.
Cheyenne, the capital of Wyoming, sits on an east west internet superhighway.
The city is also well connected to renewable energy generated by these wind farms.
Wyoming is only a small player compared to Virginia.
And to attract more, the state is offering generous tax breaks to encourage the big tech giants, like Microsoft.
This large data center began emerging from the map south of Cheyenne in 2021, and this is a site belonging to Meta, just over the road.
You're currently within the critical infrastructure space of Data Center 2, designed to have 800 cabinets roughly at full capacity on that side.
So, we take the air from the above ceiling grid, we feed it down through the computers, they heat the air up, comes back out the back and up through the chimney above ceiling, and then just continually circulates the air on that perspective.
Lunavi has the space to scale up to the more energy hungry GPU processors used to train AI algorithms.
So, this big white space is future computing.
The cabinets in this facility now have a capacity of something like 5 to 10 kW.
If they want to build The ones that are going to do AI with graphic processing units, GPUs, that'll go up to something like 70 to 100 kW.
GPUs do need more power, but they can complete more tasks than a regular processing chip and in less time.
The lower ambient temperatures in the high plains of Wyoming mean data centers use less energy and water to cool themselves.
Lunavi say they use around 500,000 gallons of water a month when at full capacity.
That's roughly the amount of water used by 200 people.
We've always had data centers, and your email, your cloud storage, your photos, and your streaming have already depended on that physical building, but the AI takes it to another level.
Well, and what the difference between the normal internet and AI is your internet already uses computing power, but the AI uses something that's more demanding.
And so they're training these large models on higher volumes of data.
And those data models run constantly for millions of users because millions of users are querying every single second of the day.
And OpenAI has like a billion or two users daily.
That's not even counting the rest of the industry.
And so, what this means is you're going to see data centers popping up left and right, left and right, left and right, and they're going to hit a city near you.
I mean, we're not that far.
We're in a very dense, populated area.
You're going to start seeing data centers trickled throughout.
You know how you see big spot plots of empty land?
What you need to pay attention to, and I encourage every single person to go pull up, is something that you just get an electronic bill sent to you and not everybody's looking at it.
Well, you should start taking a look at it because the first sign that people are looking at is this delivery charge.
Okay.
So the delivery charge is the cost of the electricity itself and the cost of moving it to you and maintaining the systems around it.
So there was a utility model that we built here in the United States where it's over like 100 years old.
It was basically we were going to socialize the cost and spread the cost across an entire area for the utilities and the infrastructure it took to supply the power to people's houses because we couldn't get around it.
So, you know, this works better when the growth is kind of like shared and it's kind of slow, but there is a small number of these giant corporations who need an extreme amount of data in order to run it.
And they're not paying their fair share, even though they're causing most of the demand.
Most of the demand is actually flatlined for people.
They say they want to have it run on a meter, right?
Just like electricity, just like water.
They want to run intelligence on a meter, but they want all of us to publicly subsidize their ability to use millions of times the computing power versus what we would use already just in average everyday life.
Let's play number five of what Meta has been doing behind Americans' backs.
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One recent example is happening right now in Louisiana with a data center being developed by Meta.
Last year, a utility company in Louisiana proposed to spend $3 billion on a new power plant to meet electricity demand from a Meta data center.
The full terms of its deal with Meta are secret, but redacted regulatory filings have revealed that the public is on the hook for Meta's power plant.
Meta has signed a 15 year deal, and it only obligates them to pay for about half of that $3 to $4 billion of infrastructure, which means that there's a big risk that Everyone else in Louisiana will get stuck with the rest of that bill.
Temporary because when you build something, you're not building it forever.
Once the building is done, it's done, and those guys are moving on to a new project.
Second thing is, you have AI coming into the equation where it's able to maintain a lot of the things and the jobs that you would expect there to be.
So people are already getting replaced in the job market, and you only need a handful of people, or not a handful, but like let's say a few hundred or so, to maintain some of these data centers with all the new technology and the systems that they have in place.
But the thing that is the biggest slap in the face is these AI companies and tech companies have been sitting on a boatload of cash.
I'm talking billions of dollars when they sold their shares back in 2023 when the stock market was at all time highs and the S&P 500, they were silently taking cash off the table from their stocks when they were artificially pulling them up.
So let's take a look at this.
You've got Microsoft, which is about, they've got $95 billion approximately.
They'll call you a liberal socialist if you want any sort of governmental or congressional or just citizen oversight over any or all of this entire process.
They'll say that you're a socialist, that you don't support capitalism.
And here's the thing the people who are in positions of power, They are trying to say, well, we've got your best interest in mind, but they're also bringing more money into the city budget.
But then it's like, well, what are you spending that money on, too?
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Yeah, so a lot of the things that I was talking about earlier on the segment had to do with the physical infrastructure, the costs that are coming in terms of a monetary standpoint, but then we got to look at the physical aspects and what it's having impact on people's physical health.
Right, right.
There are marriages.
That are already living, you may be one of these people that are living near a data center.
I'd actually be curious to DM me on X and tell me if you live near a data center.
Well, it matters because if you just look at it, when you go to buy your house and you try to get the American dream, they didn't say in the fine print that you would have a data center that doesn't allow you to enjoy that American dream.
And what you're seeing is okay, so you know how sometimes you might have like your house in a cul de sac and there'll be some surrounding neighborhoods?
Well, often what happens is that land is zoned and it's zoned for more residential building.
So that they can build more people, people want to live on earth, yeah.
So they can build more houses, right?
And so you'll see these giant plots of land that used to be residential, and they're converting those into uh commercial plots of land for people to build data centers now, and that's being done at the city level.
Wow, and that's easy when you have the lobbying and you have the money and you can incentivize the city and say this will be good for you.
This is all kind of like a retreat to the suburbs, really, Tim, because you look at the collapse of.
Commercial real estate inside of these cities, right?
We have these empty office buildings that no one wants to be in, and these people are over leveraged.
A lot of foreign people own these buildings.
They go into bankruptcy, whatnot.
But you look at someone like Elon and how he's really treated Austin, sure, he's already got the Tesla factory way out there, but now away from the city, over in that area that's still close enough to be connected to the infrastructure, the power lines, and all of it, that's where they're choosing to strategically build these things, much like that Wyoming town that we saw.
So I spent a little over a year out in East Texas living in a house with non potable water.
And let me tell you, when you're living off of using like, uh, Water bottle or like a gallon jug to like shower or brush your teeth or do any of these things.
It's not a fun way to live, okay?
And it's a lifestyle, unfortunately, that a lot of these people are having to adopt.
You look at the infrastructure, instead of putting in water resources for these people that live out in the boonies or whatever, like I have, not dissing anybody, instead, they're going to funnel all the resources to these massive companies and then you get screwed even worse.
We're going to ask for $200 billion and we're going to go overseas, throw Tomahawk missiles, close the strait, make all your gas prices go up, and we can't even get people the water and the help that they need back at home.
61,000 people is the equivalency of what they want to do every single year just to run this Microsoft.
And so then you've got more than 43% of the largest track. data centers are in areas with high or extreme stress like you were talking about.
Wow.
And so this is not only a question of how much electricity these facilities use, but it's also a question of what resources they draw on, where they're being built and what happens.
Now, I'm not sitting here.
There's people who are going to make the counter argument here, Rex, right?
They're going to be like, well, you use AI every single day.
You use all of these systems that we have in place.
Why are you complaining?
It's not about the infrastructure.
It's about location of where it's being built and the fact that we are not coming up with creative ways.
These should be like parked super far away from any residential areas.
Everything is with the God of money in mind and not for the American people.
Here's the thing we talk about it with every sector of the economy that we criticize.
We got to live in a world where these huge companies actually have to pay their fair share and it's not passed on to you, the American citizen, because it would be one thing if all these things were being implemented, not even in a benevolent way, just a benign way, right?
And you would think with Meta sitting on that much cash and they only have to pay 50% of the cost to build that infrastructure.
Well, at least pay more money to have at least the lines go further away from the people so that there's like, if you've got it like, okay, one of the arguments they're probably like, oh, well, we need to be close so that way we can connect into these main lines and all these things.
No, I want you to build the infrastructure that it takes to have that 100 miles away, maybe 50 miles away where you're not going to feel that impact.
We can come, we have the brightest minds in the entire world here in America.
And you're telling me we can build alien space technology that doesn't allow you to show up on a radar, but we can't figure out how to get water to these AI data plants without making Americans suffer?
Because keep in mind, Tim, they never actually have to pay even to build these things.
They either get a loan off their capital or they get a loan from the government, right?
So it's just, oh, we're a oodles, oodles, billions and billions, hundreds of billions of dollar company.
We can do whatever we want.
Money isn't real to us.
And if the money isn't real to you, why wouldn't you just go out of your way to make things better for the people and make them like what you're doing?
I mean, these projects are usually sold as economic development and jobs and investment and growth and tax base.
And, you know, some of that is real, but the full trade off is rarely presented clearly.
And the communities can give up that land.
I mean, the communities.
Can give up that land, but they might have that could have gone for other uses.
So you can take the noise, uh, they can take on the visual change and the strain on utilities, but then they're also giving up tax revenue through tax incentive in the packages that are going to look generous and give those to the AI companies.
When are they going to give you a tax dividend to have a kid?
Yeah, you know, when are they actually going to help you out?
Oh, oh, oh, we'll give that to you, but only if your family's destroyed, if you're a low income single mother.
You see how all these programs that we get that are designed to benefit us actually hurt us, and in the programs that these companies get, they benefit them to the moon.
Part, I mean, out of the 37 states that offer incentive programs for data centers, Virginia alone gave projects nearly a billion dollars in tax savings in one fiscal year.
And I am sorry at home if you are somebody who is already struggling to pay your electricity bill, if you are already struggling with the things that we've talked about, about the housing and the water and all the strains that you are putting on on a day to day basis.
There is a single mom, there is a household that is struggling that is actively going through this.
Now, I am at the end of my deep dive, but I do want to hear from you guys back at home.
If you are somebody who lives near a data center, if you are someone who experiences this in life, I want you to call that number after the segment, after we have Gary on.
If you're in a rural area and they're trying to be sneaky and force one of these things on you, we want you to call in, tell us about it, tell us about the construction, how long it's taking, if it's affecting you and your water, your power, all of it.
Because here's the thing they're trying to make us pay a new grid tax.
They're trying to say to use the same grid these AI data centers use.
You got to, you got to, you got to.
Pay for the transfer of that energy, you got to pay for the increased infrastructure, they should be the ones paying for it.
It's black and white.
That cost shouldn't be passed on to you, that cost should be passed on to them, but they're cost adverse, you see.
And I actually know the people in the government.
I want to go to this Gunther Eagleman meme tweet now that we're done with the deep dive.
And I want to make things clear for you, Tim, because maybe you don't understand.
Maybe you don't understand what's going on.
I want to go to Gunther Eagleman meme tweet.
And we're really going to find out what's going on.
This is what we're talking about, Tim, about the concept of political capital, and you have to be very judicious with how you're going to spend that political capital.
Trump has spent his political capital on the war.
And the reason why you still see people supporting all this is because of the narrative that you just laid out.
It really is a hero's journey, Odysseus, returning home to Ithaca level thing, where you have this mythical champion of the American people who wins all these battles, and it turns out that he's mythical.
From Gunther Eagleman, what are the odds Trump drops another epic F?
F bomb post in the next 24 hours responding to Cat Turd saying, I want meaner Iran tweets today with Trump with more F bombs.
Let's go ahead and get into clip number four because I want to pay some homage to the real OG, the guy who kind of really, besides Pat Buchanan, started it all.
Ron Paul, I want to play clip number four.
Ron Paul booed 12 years ago for wanting no war with Iran.
Eight brilliant minds, each one inching closer to unlocking zero point energy, plasma fusion that could render fossil fuels.
Fuels obsolete or the anti gravity secrets allegedly reverse engineered from crashed non human craft have met mysterious ends or vanished without a trace.
Their deaths and disappearances clustering in recent months amid rising whispers of massive revelations.
They've seen some of the tactics and techniques that were applied to try to keep people quiet in the past.
Let me say this in general terms.
People say, oh, well, the government would never kill anybody to protect a secret.
Try going to Area 51 and look at the signs on that chain link fence where it says lethal force authorized.
You cross that fence, and they can kill you dead.
Okay?
So the government can, under certain extreme cases, under certain extreme circumstances, situations and conditions, they can do whatever they need to do to protect national security, and they will.
This is something that we really wanted to make happen.
So, pleasure for you to take time out of your day.
Before we get started, I kind of want to just go through your background, some of the things, who you are.
A lot of people probably know you for your brother, as well as the only things that you've done.
I don't want to make this about Grant.
I want to make this about you.
And so we know you're related to Grant Cardone and everything like that, but you've got your own story to tell.
And let's focus on that.
So just tell us about like your childhood, maybe some of just the background of like how you got to where you are today, because you are wildly successful.
Well, look, I grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana in an energy refining town.
I have an economics and marketing background.
My brother, my twin, he's Grant's my twin brother.
So we're identical twins.
We both took very, very different paths in life.
I went corporate, went to work in the oil and gas industry when I was 21.
And under that, in that age, there was the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, was bringing in a new order.
I think it was called FERC Order 474, 473.
And that would revolutionize the way energy was transported and accessed across the United States.
So it basically, It was called open access, where I, as an individual or a small company, could buy energy in the same way at the same price that Exxon or DuPont, they were all trading together.
So it really opened the market for a very competitive market.
And it has worked exceptionally well.
There's probably 200 men and women that changed the way energy traded natural gas, electricity, and crude oil in the United States.
That market today, we have a sub $3 natural gas price in the United States.
When I started, In the industry, the natural gas prices just show you how cool competition is if you leave the markets undone and don't intervene with them.
The price of natural gas when I was first buying it in the 80s was $7.63.
And now it's $3.35 plus years later.
So competition really works, it creates innovation.
Now, how did you go from kind of you talked about being in corporate and then now you've been in the industry, you've got your own business, you've got your own companies and everything.
How have you gotten to that transition?
What was that transition like for you, in which you just decided I'm going to double down and do what I got to do?
I was working for a large oil company that people would know their name in Houston, Texas.
And I was 26 years old.
And I looked at the management team and I looked at the disruption that was occurring through this new FERC order.
And I was like, I don't think these guys, although they own all the oil and gas and they've got big teams and they've got a big building, I could not imagine spending my whole life doing that.
So I went to work for a startup.
I think I was the 12th commercial employee.
It was called Natural Gas Clearinghouse.
I took a huge risk.
I left a Big company with a big brand, a little bit like maybe what you guys have been going through.
Hey, what am I going to do when I grow up?
And I took a big risk.
I went to work for a place where the platform or the ball field, if you think about it as an athletic team, they allowed me to exercise the muscles that I had.
And I wasn't required to wear a white shirt and a gray suit.
I mean, I weren't constantly controlling my creation.
And that would be once I went to work for that startup, I would never work for a company again.
Look, this is a most spectacular event in world history.
And I have a really, probably a different view than most people.
I understand quite a bit of energy has been disrupted.
And had we not gone through COVID, I would probably be a bit more concerned.
And by that, I mean, COVID was an instant, immediate, Demand shutdown, which it was also supply shutdown.
The experts are going to say it was all demand driven, but the truth is, it was also supply.
You couldn't get to work.
So we spent what four years figuring out how to get logistics all re engineered, changed.
I mean, from toys to energy to gasoline to automobiles, manufacturing processes.
I think that made us really strong.
It's a bit, it's an anti fragile.
Exercise, right?
Where you go through a huge shock and the whole system figures out how to fix it may not be the most elegant fix, but that was six years ago.
And we have gone through that process.
I suspect I have two viewpoints.
One, I suspect that we will get logistics back online quicker than we think we can, assuming we don't go any further, which is a big wish, in my opinion.
Secondly, I think that we will find that there is a good 35% of all energy that is used.
No one wants to talk about this, but it is a big subject.
35% of all energy used, and 35% of the energy that has not been terminated yet, 35% of all the energy I use is convenience energy.
Like I don't have to use it.
I don't have to have my AC at 69.
I don't have to travel in a car every mile.
I can start being discerning in the way I'm spending money.
I think that's actually really good for Americans.
It's being forced on you, but we will learn to really value energy in what it does and we will waste less of it.
Like I should be charged on my demand, not on everything that I transact on.
I should be, in my opinion, if you started pushing the consequences on energy use instead of everybody pays a flat rate, the world would be a much, much more efficient place.
For instance, a car, an automobile is used 4% of the time.
That is a massive waste of energy.
And you have to build a house to put the car in.
And then you got to clean the car.
So there's just a lot of things as we move into what I call the digitization of planet Earth, the digitization of planet Earth that we are moving into a fully digital world.
We're going to find that a very efficient way to live.
Let me interject here because it sounds like a lot of what you're talking about is the great reset.
And we've talked about this a lot on this show and other shows on the network about the 50. 15 minute cities, about kind of everything being on a meter, including intelligence, all of that.
You're in a lot of these elite rooms.
You're having a lot of these elite conversations with people.
I wanted to ask you the question what do you hear people talking about?
Is it really going to be this globalization where everything is run off of ultimate efficiency?
Is it the death of kind of consumer culture where we can use as much as we want?
Yeah, I have a lot of financial friends and I think all these metrics are broken, quite frankly.
But the first one comes up is GDP, right?
And look, GDP is a funny number because I don't know how many more T shirts Americans need, but that drives GDP, man.
I mean, I have a lot of T shirts.
I'm wearing my favorite T shirt today for world peace.
But I just think it's a little bit like the 35% convenience factor on energy.
We eat too much too.
By the way, like, you know, all Americans, if we ate one half the meals that we're eating today, if we were driven into a depression and only had to eat half the meal, no one's going to die of underfood, right?
Not in America.
So, like, you really start thinking, I think this is going to be, I don't like how we got here, but I think this is going to really drive people to start thinking about.
Where they're living, what they're paying for energy, and how they're using the resources around them.
Because I know a lot of people, they're terrified right now.
I mean, flat out terrified.
They own private businesses.
They don't know where their income is going to come from.
They see major disruptions.
Their employees now are freaking out because they're paying $4.50 for gasoline in Florida instead of $3.00.
And, you know, we're just told these are increases we have to take.
I think the average American, especially people in the private business sector, people that employ people, are asking, you know, where's the room for us to breathe?
Yeah, I mean, there's not a lot of room to breathe.
But then, you know, I look at what you're saying here, Gary, and I do agree in certain aspects.
Like, yeah, I mean, we do need to look at, you know, how much people are overusing or overconsuming and, you know, the waste that's happening with not just energy, but food.
Like, I used to work as a server for, A very long time.
I mean, after the day, you would see just trash and piles and piles of trash from food that people weren't eating.
And people would have like one thing on the plate and eat it and then throw out the rest of it.
And it doesn't go anywhere but the trash.
And then, but I also look at another argument here.
And it's about how we have created the systems to where we don't have public transportation to allow people to offload the aspects of like vehicle trash.
So, like, if you live in California, Most likely, you might be working at a job that's closer to downtown because that's where the infrastructure is, but you may not be able to afford to live any closer than like maybe an hour away.
And that requires you to have a vehicle in order to travel that far out of necessity.
And you could look at it and be like, well, that person should be charged more because they're using more.
But it's not like a simple binary equation there because we're not giving people alternatives like a high speed rail to where they could drive to their local train station and get the same transportation into the You know where they work, and that would work if we had those incentives in place.
That's the reason why I do the deep dives on the show, because the history and the context is important to the entire equation.
And more often than not, people just look at the headline, they look at the surface level information, and then they argue on that instead of understanding there's a whole.
A bunch of complex systems.
So, like, one thing I want to talk about is you know, you and I often go into like a space like Suleiman.
And so we hear a lot of people in those spaces just arguing, and they represent the average person around the world.
What do you, I know sometimes you're probably just listening, you're probably chuckling to yourself because the narratives that go on in that eco space versus the rooms that you're in are probably two very different things.
I'm pretty sure that the same people that are running this fucking show ran the 2020 COVID thing.
Okay, it's not cool.
That was a mass.
Aggressive act against humanity.
It's not cool.
And I'm not going to stop saying it was not cool until the perpetrators are brought in front of a judge and they're put in prison for the military tribunal.
And this is the thing global disruptions, global famines.
And the point I wanted to make when you and Tim were going into the discussion of being sure to analyze everything you see and getting alternative sources the thing the politician will do is the same exact thing the bank man will do or the businessman will do.
They'll have a line graph that's going like this, that's going straight down.
And they'll find one point where it jumps up again.
And they zoom in on the point and they're like, we're doing great.
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Keep in mind, we want to hear from you if you live near a data center, if things are developing, if you've got on the ground knowledge of that.
Yeah, so Gary, this has been a great conversation.
And there was something that you were touching upon earlier, and you were saying, I've lost a lot of business deals.
I've lost a lot of things just from holding positions or making these tough statements.
And what I wanted to ask you on that is what I'm seeing is there's probably a lot of other people that are in high positions of power, let's even say government, in which they have to take a position.
And there are people that they're willing to sacrifice themselves or not willing to sacrifice themselves, let me clarify, to.
Actually, say the right things.
And so I want to ask you about that is that what you're seeing?
There are people, there's just a lot of yes men, aren't there?
And I think, especially in the government, is that correct?
Yeah, we're seeing a lot of radio silence, and it's that investment behind the scenes the guy who has the real power, the guy who holds whoever has the money holds the power.
And so if somebody's not happy with a narrative that is being pushed, they have the ability to say, hey, well, you need to change that or you need to go along with that.
So if you're an American, but you're involved in these global markets and the global markets are getting impacted, if you're an American, you're hiding behind that, it's time for you to come out and speak up.
Maybe you're going to find a way around it, whatever, but the average people, the ordinary people on the ground aren't.
And Gary talked about this a little bit earlier.
He's wearing the t shirt for peace, right?
And I just think being anti war, being pro humanity in all respects, being anti death, that's such a core human message.
And if someone like Zuckerberg, the lizard man, if he wants to not look like a lizard, the idea is not to go do jiu jitsu and become tough.
The idea is to say, hey, We want to end the wars.
We want to help people.
Why aren't people like that, you know, getting the free, infinitely free political capital off of, you know, just having human positions?
And then also, well, here's the thing you have the richest man in the world, Elon, tried to help humanity, not just by saving X, but also all the things he was trying to do with Doge.
One thing that was profound to me was if the richest man in the world doesn't have the ability to drain the swamp and change the systems, even though he has the ultimate amount of power.
When it comes to monetary, then who can switch it, right?
Does it require a conglomerate of like the richest people in the world getting together to battle the George Soros's that just want pure chaos?
Yeah, look, I just think, I mean, I'm just questioning where they are and that I'm getting phone calls and texts and, hey, you know, do you really need this heat?
Look, I see us at war.
And we are at war.
I think we're, this is not a regional war.
This is, and if it's not a regional war, what do you call 20 countries being involved in a conflict?
I don't call it a regional little spit, spat, or divorce.
This is the global chessboard being moved around.
And this has happened for centuries.
And for us to not understand it's happening again on our watch.
So, you see, the part about it's happening on our watch is the important piece because I now have, I did not expect this to be happening at my age and in this century on this event on this planet today, but I'm here, I'm alive.
So, I have to play a role here.
Or I get to go hide in my little bank account and pretend like it's not happening, but I'm one of the leaders on this planet.
I can't pretend like I don't have, you know, you're either a leader or a follower.
If you're a leader to me, you have to step up here.
And I tried to step up and do some political stuff.
It's not.
Conducive to productive, creative solving of problems.
It's just so messed up.
I spent some time with this administration.
I've never been political and I will never, ever be political again because I think the system is so suppressed and so the motivations for being in politics today are the incentives are asked backwards completely.
But with all this technology, okay, this is why I go into these spaces.
People go, hey, why do you spend time on these?
This is a massive education opportunity for global planet, however many people there are on this planet.
We're going to discover more artists, more creative people, more solutions than we have ever found in history.
And not to connect all these pieces and have some of the best brains and minds in the world talking about how we prosper in the future instead of fighting with each other.
I think we have plenty of resources on this planet.
To all those places, and some of this energy may not be in the most perfect position, but maybe the population of those people aren't in the best position.
There's been migration for centuries where people follow the resources.
And I, for the first time in my life, am seriously looking at hey, what do I need to do to go to another location that provides me and my family more security and an easier way of life?
So, for the first time, I'm now thinking about moving out of America.
This is why I invested in this in 2020 in a big, big way.
I feel extremely comfortable going to bed every night, contrary to, I think, a lot of my buddies with the world and the conflicts going on with my portfolio of Bitcoin.
It is the only asset I have that I feel comfortable with.
Yeah, we love having the opportunity to be on the network and show people like this to a wider audience and have these conversations and make things go around because it's what people want to see in the morning, fast, hard hitting news.
But we do a show Thursday and Sunday called The Gray Area.
That's a two to three hour show.
And on Sunday, it's always a three plus hour show where we have a guest, we have a deep dive, and sometimes we take calls.
And it's one of those things that if you guys want to continue to hear us outside of the show, if you like the information that we're giving, this is kind of like our bread and butter.
The University of Michigan, they're asking taxpayers for billions and billions of dollars to build this AI supercomputer data center in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Well, it's about two miles from my house, but it was a farm.
It was a family farm.
I don't know how many generations deep it was, but when the grandkids got it, kind of like the Oliver Northstone went, they got the land and they sold it immediately.
I did notice one thing I did notice because I went and Spoke at a lot of the town stuff when they were trying to remove the statues.
And a lot of the people from the town, from the area that came out and spoke against it and was all for the Black Lives Matter and for this, that, and the third, those people were the same people that came to these town halls for the data centers and spoke for the data centers.
Yeah, but it's like they try to build these giant tombstones around these towns to bury them under the electrical costs, under the grid costs of all of it, under the infrastructure costs.
And, you know, we're all rightfully upset.
You say in the town of 20,000 people, like 7,000 of them, nearly half have kind of risen up against this and have signed petitions to ban it or get it postponed or whatever.
Isn't it crazy to you, Tim, and also to the caller as well?
Isn't it crazy that the entire popular will of the people can be against something and it's still just going to get railroaded through?
This is the same data center that we were talking about on the deep dive where Meta was only going to be paying 50% of the cost.
This was the thing that we were getting pissed off about.
And for you, Kevin, you and the surrounding people, because you're only four miles away, you might be subsidizing some of those costs without realizing it.
Have you thought about that?
Have people been talking about that?
Has anyone in your town let you guys know or made you guys aware?
It used to be the priority was the town or the city and the people that lived in it and the businesses relating to it, even the Amazon Fulfillment Center.
Like you say, that's not a temporary thing where the jobs are going to go away.
You need people to help with the robots and the boxes and whatnot.
Well, this is why the format of what my dad called 32 years ago radio talk show on TV is so important because we actually hear from the people that call in and we give you a high level overview with Gary Cardone, who's involved in a lot of these high level business circles and things.
And this is the whole reason why you got to understand the information, why you need to be exposed to the information is so that you understand what you can do at the end of the day.
And you should be aware that way.
Yes, you, when they come to your town and they say, Hey, you want a data center here, you say, Uh uh, not in my backyard.