Health Ranger - Mike Adams - BVN, Mar 31, 2026 - Trump SURRENDERING to Iran? Plus David DuByne...
Aired: 2026-03-31
Duration: 01:45:04


=== Trump Surrenders to Iran (14:23) ===

[00:00:14]  Okay, this saga of Trump's war against Iran just gets more and more pathetic by the day.
[00:00:22]  Now it's being reported by the Wall Street Journal and other sources that Trump is willing to end the war on Iran without reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:00:34]  According to the media reports, his advisors and Trump have reportedly concluded that forcing the waterway open would prolong the conflict beyond the administration's preferred timeline.
[00:00:48]  Okay, in other words, Trump is surrendering to Iran, essentially.
[00:00:53]  That's what this is.
[00:00:54]  He's surrendering to Iran.
[00:00:56]  Remember what we were told at the beginning of all of this?
[00:00:59]  You know, it's going to be fast and we were dominating and we were going to win and we were going to control the strait and Iran's Air Force has been totally wiped out and Iran's Navy has been destroyed and we've destroyed all their missile launchers and killed all their people.
[00:01:18]  It's just on and on and on, right?
[00:01:21]  So then, if that's the case, if Iran was totally destroyed, then how come the U.S. couldn't dare sail the Abraham Lincoln or the USS Gerald R. Ford within striking distance of Iran?
[00:01:34]  How come the U.S. Navy isn't in the Strait of Hormuz right now, escorting tankers out of the Persian Gulf?
[00:01:40]  How come that's not happening?
[00:01:42]  Well, the answer, of course, is because it's the U.S. that has been defeated.
[00:01:48]  Because Iran still has reportedly two-thirds of its missile inventory.
[00:01:54]  And it's manufacturing missiles and drones at a rate faster than it's shooting them.
[00:02:02]  It's the U.S. that has run out of air defense interceptors, or very nearly so.
[00:02:08]  It's Israel that has run out of anti-air defenses, or very nearly so.
[00:02:14]  Israel's probably begging Trump to find a way to end this war because Israel can't survive much longer.
[00:02:20]  Israel is being decimated.
[00:02:22]  And also the Gulf states are being decimated.
[00:02:25]  Their infrastructure, their oil facilities, natural gas facilities, water desalination plants, etc., are all taking damage.
[00:02:34]  Cities like Dubai are being largely abandoned and the reputation is destroyed and so on.
[00:02:42]  Iran's winning.
[00:02:44]  It's just like I said weeks ago.
[00:02:46]  I said the Strait of Hormuz will never be open until Iran wants it open.
[00:02:51]  Remember me saying that?
[00:02:53]  I repeated it numerous times in this podcast.
[00:02:56]  And now eventually that reality is sinking into Trump's thick skull.
[00:03:04]  And Trump is trying to find a way to exit this without taking over the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:03:11]  Or the alternative is that this is just more lies and propaganda from Trump to try to trick Iran into thinking that there won't be an invasion by U.S. troops.
[00:03:25]  You know, try to catch them off guard, which won't work because Trump does this every time.
[00:03:30]  So I should say that these are the two possibilities.
[00:03:34]  Either A, Trump has realized that we've lost and he can't control the Strait of Hormuz and he's just going to have to declare victory and leave.
[00:03:46]  And he's also saying then that Europe would have to take the lead on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Wall Street Journal.
[00:03:55]  Well, good luck with that.
[00:03:56]  Yeah.
[00:03:57]  So that's option number one.
[00:03:59]  Option number two is it's all, you know, just smoke and mirrors to try to catch Iran off guard as we land thousands of U.S. soldiers, who will mostly probably die, of course, if Trump is dubbing enough to do that.
[00:04:13]  Colonel Daniel Davis said that Trump is facing a massive humiliation, or what was it, a military humiliation with the defeat that is coming if he tries to invade Iran with U.S. soldiers.
[00:04:30]  And I think that's true.
[00:04:31]  I think that's true.
[00:04:32]  Daniel Davis is correct about that.
[00:04:34]  So Trump is looking for an exit ramp.
[00:04:38]  The stock market is getting hammered badly.
[00:04:41]  Gas prices continue to rise.
[00:04:43]  Oil keeps going up per barrel with dramatic rises coming in the next few weeks, obviously, if the strait remains closed.
[00:04:54]  And remember that over 30 days ago, the strait was open, that ships could sail right through it without any problem at all.
[00:05:02]  And the only reason the strait became closed, which is just a figure of speech, it just means Iran telling ships you're not allowed to pass, and if you try, we'll blow you up, which they have done.
[00:05:17]  But now it's closed because Trump started the war.
[00:05:20]  So this is Trump's fault, and the whole world is blaming Trump.
[00:05:24]  People in the Philippines blaming Trump.
[00:05:26]  People in India blaming Trump.
[00:05:28]  People in Thailand, in Korea, blaming Trump.
[00:05:33]  Rightfully so, because this is Trump's doing.
[00:05:37]  Trump is destroying the world.
[00:05:38]  He's burning down the world to appease his Zionist masters, the Epstein class of pedophiles and genocidal mass murderers who control Trump.
[00:05:50]  And so Trump is willing to burn down the whole world to appease his Zionist masters because of whatever dirt they hold over him, blackmail or what have you, or something else, who knows?
[00:06:02]  Or maybe all of the above.
[00:06:05]  But Trump is clearly willing to burn down the world in order to achieve all of this, whatever this is.
[00:06:13]  I mean, it's nothing but a loss.
[00:06:15]  It's a loss for the whole world.
[00:06:17]  It's a disruption.
[00:06:18]  It's a loss of fertilizer during a growing season.
[00:06:22]  It's going to make food prices much higher.
[00:06:24]  And it's going to destroy the chances of the GOP in the midterms.
[00:06:28]  The GOP is toast politically because of what Trump has done here and the fact that there's nobody in the GOP calling for the impeachment of Trump.
[00:06:37]  Frankly, they should all be calling for Trump to be impeached at this point because he's so damaging to the GOP brand.
[00:06:44]  And Trump's approval rating is just plummeting in the polls by the day.
[00:06:50]  It's catastrophic, actually.
[00:06:55]  So if you think about it, again, this is Trump very likely surrendering to Iran.
[00:07:02]  Trump saying, well, we were never going to control the strait anyway, so we're just going to leave.
[00:07:08]  Remember that.
[00:07:10]  Even Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, he's started changing his language as well.
[00:07:15]  A couple weeks ago, it was like, oh, we have obliterated, we've decimated the missile launch capability.
[00:07:23]  Now he's saying that our goal is to diminish the missile launch capability.
[00:07:29]  What?
[00:07:30]  How did you obliterate it two weeks ago and now you've only, quote, diminished it?
[00:07:38]  Because they're lying to you two weeks ago, obviously.
[00:07:41]  And they're lying every day, but they're starting to change their language to have an off-ramp.
[00:07:47]  That's what it looks like.
[00:07:49]  And in fact, I've said that the fastest way to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is for the U.S. to leave.
[00:07:56]  Just leave.
[00:07:56]  The Navy and leave.
[00:07:59]  And frankly, the U.S. military bases in the region are already largely destroyed, so the U.S. won't be there.
[00:08:06]  And Israel just the other day said, well, we welcome the U.S. to build military bases in Israel since you have no more bases in the Gulf states.
[00:08:15]  They're all destroyed.
[00:08:16]  So yeah, you can build bases with us.
[00:08:19]  And Iran's like, great, that just makes a more dense target.
[00:08:24]  You know, can get them all with the same missiles.
[00:08:28]  It's unbelievable.
[00:08:29]  So the U.S. would be out of the Middle East and away from Iran, away from the Strait of Hormuz, and then there might be some peace.
[00:08:39]  There might be some peace.
[00:08:41]  With Iran controlling the strait and probably charging a toll, you know, one or two million dollars per ship as a kind of restitution to repay all the war damage that Iran has suffered as the U.S. has waged this war, this war of aggression against Iran.
[00:09:01]  So what's that going to do?
[00:09:03]  It's going to make energy more expensive, obviously, for everybody else.
[00:09:06]  The whole world is going to end up effectively paying this toll thanks to Trump.
[00:09:10]  Fertilizer will be more expensive.
[00:09:12]  Helium will be more expensive.
[00:09:14]  Sulfur, natural gas, oil, you know, everything that comes out of there will be more expensive thanks to Trump.
[00:09:21]  And it'll probably remain more expensive for a decade or longer because that's how long it will take to recoup the losses from the war.
[00:09:31]  So again, as you're shopping for food in the grocery store and you're paying double by the end of this year, you can thank Trump for that.
[00:09:38]  Or if you're paying double for your gasoline or diesel, you can thank Trump for that because he's the one who did it.
[00:09:46]  Now then, if this is indeed Trump's plan, and again, we're not sure, he might be lying again.
[00:09:53]  There's a pretty good chance of that.
[00:09:55]  But if Trump is actually looking for an exit ramp because he realizes that there's just too much domestic political damage associated with this, and if he leaves the area, then you're going to see Iran say to the Gulf states, here's the new deal.
[00:10:14]  You will no longer host U.S. military bases at all.
[00:10:17]  If you do, your ships will not pass through the strait, period.
[00:10:23]  And we, Iran, we will continue to bomb any U.S. military bases that you try to repopulate in your countries.
[00:10:31]  So that message will go out to Kuwait, to Iraq, to Bahrain, etc.
[00:10:38]  No more U.S. military bases.
[00:10:41]  And with that leverage and the control over the Strait of Hormuz, Iran will be able to ensure the eradication of the U.S. terror military forces from that region because that's what the U.S. has been for a long time now, just a terror regime inflicting terror upon the world.
[00:11:02]  And once the U.S. is evicted from the Persian Gulf, then that will actually be good for the entire region.
[00:11:09]  That'll be good, much better for the world.
[00:11:12]  And eventually, after a lot of rebuilding, then energy prices could come down.
[00:11:18]  But that will take many years to accomplish because of the damage that has already been inflicted as a result of Trump's war.
[00:11:25]  So the situation is that Trump looks like he's going to leave.
[00:11:32]  Again, he could be lying.
[00:11:35]  Maybe he's lying.
[00:11:36]  But he's looking for an off-ramp.
[00:11:38]  Iran would be handed a near total victory because, number one, Iran wins by simply existing, surviving the regime change.
[00:11:50]  Iran wins by not surrendering its right to build nuclear weapons.
[00:11:55]  Clearly, Iran will be building nuclear weapons.
[00:11:58]  I mean, how could you not after all of this?
[00:12:00]  And thirdly, Iran will maintain near total control over the Strait of Hormuz if Trump has the U.S. military forces leave.
[00:12:09]  So in other words, a total loss for Trump, a total humiliation for the U.S. military, and in particular the U.S. Navy, which has proven to be almost entirely ineffective, couldn't accomplish the mission.
[00:12:24]  Can't even really define the mission any longer, but at least we heard along the way that one part of the mission was regime change in Iran.
[00:12:34]  That didn't happen.
[00:12:35]  And then the U.S. has to control the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:12:38]  That's not happening.
[00:12:40]  That's not happening.
[00:12:42]  Even if this is all some kind of distraction by Trump and the U.S. lands troops somewhere near the Strait of Hormuz, those troops can only temporarily assert control over a very limited amount of space.
[00:12:58]  Even if it's 10,000 troops, they're not going to last very long.
[00:13:03]  Because Iran has over a million military men and they've got drones and they've got landmines and they've got rockets and missiles.
[00:13:15]  And did I mention the million men?
[00:13:18]  I mean, if you send 10,000 U.S. troops in there, you better send along 10,000 body bags.
[00:13:27]  Maybe you don't need them all, but you're going to need the majority of them because those troops aren't coming home living.
[00:13:33]  Iran will slaughter them.
[00:13:36]  And these are some of the best U.S. troops, the special forces, Army Rangers, Navy SEALs, etc.
[00:13:43]  These are the ones that are actually capable and not obese.
[00:13:46]  They can actually get things done and they're going to get slaughtered.
[00:13:50]  Because they're not supermen, you know.
[00:13:53]  You can't change the laws of physics, right?
[00:13:56]  I mean, even if you're really, really good and really fit, if you're up against a million enemy soldiers, there's not that much you can do, especially when you're cut off by the sea behind you and there's no resupply coming because the U.S. resupply ships are getting, you know, destroyed with Iranian missiles and drones and maybe submarines and all that.
[00:14:20]  So it would be a suicide mission to go ashore.
[00:14:24]  It's possible that somebody finally has told Trump the truth about that and has told him it's a suicide mission and if you do that, this is going to turn into Vietnam and it's incredibly unpopular with the American voters.

=== Israel's Nuclear Future (10:32) ===

[00:14:37]  You're going to lose the midterms.
[00:14:39]  You're going to get Democrats elected all up and down the ballot.
[00:14:44]  Plus, you'll lose the Senate.
[00:14:45]  On top of that, you'll be impeached 100 times next year.
[00:14:50]  I mean, every week for two years, you're going to get impeached 100 times.
[00:14:58]  Maybe Trump is finally realizing, oh, I can't do everything I want to do.
[00:15:02]  I can't just do whatever and try to sell it to the American people who are still dumb enough to believe anything Trump says.
[00:15:12]  Possibly Trump is having a moment of reality, like smacking them upside the head.
[00:15:17]  Oh, you know, the cold, hard slap in the face of reality when the world says to you, you can't do that, or there will be consequences that you don't want to deal with.
[00:15:32]  So we'll have to wait and see what's happening, but here's my take.
[00:15:38]  Number one, it's clear that Trump is also working to manipulate markets and try to keep them boosted with good news proclamations.
[00:15:48]  This might just be one of those.
[00:15:52]  Secondly, it's pretty clear that Trump is an egomaniac lunatic.
[00:16:00]  I don't know what happened to Trump.
[00:16:01]  He didn't used to be this way, but something changed, and he is now so full of himself.
[00:16:08]  He literally thinks that the world worships him or should worship him and that he can do anything he wants and he's subject to no law whatsoever.
[00:16:20]  Well, you are subject to the laws of cause and effect.
[00:16:23]  Even if your DOJ won't prosecute you for your war crimes, you're still subject to cause and effect.
[00:16:30]  And if you invade Iran, then Iran gets a vote.
[00:16:35]  They get to react in whatever way they wish, and you don't control that.
[00:16:40]  And that's what Trump is finding out.
[00:16:42]  I think that, you know, despite all the claims of total victory, I mean, how many times has Trump claimed to have completely defeated Iran?
[00:16:50]  Has it been like 25 times now?
[00:16:53]  But none of them are true.
[00:16:55]  Every single time, it was a total lie.
[00:16:58]  Iran is still launching missiles, still launching drones, still fighting, and also not negotiating with Trump.
[00:17:05]  I don't know who Trump's negotiating with, some like Nigerian scammer or something.
[00:17:11]  It's like, if you just transfer, you know, $1 billion to this account, then we will have peace.
[00:17:18]  And Trump's like, send him a billion, you know.
[00:17:21]  Oh, it's a Nigerian scammer, Trump.
[00:17:23]  You got punked.
[00:17:26]  But if, look, the best case is that Trump's getting a dose of reality.
[00:17:32]  He backs off.
[00:17:34]  He declares victory somehow for anybody dumb enough to believe it.
[00:17:38]  And then he pulls the military out of the region.
[00:17:41]  We can live with that.
[00:17:43]  I don't care if Trump wants to have a parade of a giant inflatable Trump balloon, like the stay-puffed marshmallow man in Ghostbusters.
[00:17:53]  You could just have the stay-puffed Trump man, you know, giant orange hair floating in the sky.
[00:18:00]  He can have a Trump parade.
[00:18:01]  I don't care.
[00:18:03]  Go for it.
[00:18:04]  Have your Trump parade.
[00:18:06]  I don't want to see civilization destroyed, which is where things are headed if this escalation continues.
[00:18:13]  But Israel seems to absolutely want the total destruction of our world.
[00:18:18]  That's why they keep launching bombs and missiles, even without Trump's knowledge, seemingly, or approval.
[00:18:24]  And Israel, you know, is just, Scott Ritter describes Israel as, I think, a cancer on the planet.
[00:18:34]  And he says they have to be utterly eliminated as a nation.
[00:18:38]  And I think that the entire world should halt all diplomatic recognition of Israel and should halt all trade with Israel because Israel is a rogue nation that is incompatible with human civilization.
[00:18:56]  They are the greatest danger to our world and to humanity.
[00:19:00]  And Israel needs to be not just stopped, but absolutely, you know, dismantled.
[00:19:08]  All that land should be given back to the Palestinians from whom it was stolen in the first place by Israel, a genocidal Zionist regime.
[00:19:19]  And it's interesting that that may be where this is going, because the destruction of Israel continues to accelerate.
[00:19:27]  And Turkey appears to be siding with Iran.
[00:19:31]  And I'm guessing that Egypt is itching at the opportunity to revisit its own, you know, the six-day war and all that.
[00:19:43]  Israel's existence is a threat to our planet.
[00:19:47]  There's no question about it.
[00:19:48]  And as you can see, it's also a threat to the United States of America.
[00:19:52]  Because through Israel's influence, Trump has been dragged into a losing situation here that's going to destroy the GOP politically.
[00:20:02]  And it will destroy Trump's legacy or reputation if there's anything left of it.
[00:20:08]  So Israel's just, all they do is destroy everything.
[00:20:11]  They destroy cities.
[00:20:14]  They destroy economies.
[00:20:15]  They destroy reputations.
[00:20:17]  They destroy nations.
[00:20:20]  But, oh, they want you to go die for them, though.
[00:20:23]  By the way, Israel is not going to send any soldiers to fight in Iran.
[00:20:27]  That was already made clear by Netanyahu.
[00:20:29]  No, he wants your children and grandchildren to go fight and die and bleed out for Israel.
[00:20:36]  Yeah, that's right.
[00:20:37]  U.S. soldiers are supposed to go die for Israel.
[00:20:42]  Really?
[00:20:43]  Yeah, that's how insane it is.
[00:20:46]  So, we'll see where this goes.
[00:20:49]  But I'm praying for peace.
[00:20:51]  I'm praying for de-escalation.
[00:20:53]  And I'm praying for a restoration of normal energy flows, for one thing, because that's what we need to get our world back on its feet.
[00:21:01]  And, you know, we can survive the chaos and disruptions that will already occur.
[00:21:07]  They will be bad.
[00:21:09]  Food scarcity is going to happen.
[00:21:10]  Energy scarcity is already here.
[00:21:12]  Energy lockdowns are in place.
[00:21:14]  And that's not going to get solved overnight.
[00:21:17]  Even if the war ends tomorrow.
[00:21:19]  That's not going to get solved overnight.
[00:21:22]  We're going to be dealing with supply chain disruptions and chaos through, at minimum, the rest of this year, and no doubt well into 2027 as well, even if the war stops tomorrow.
[00:21:35]  But I kind of doubt it's stopping tomorrow.
[00:21:38]  I don't think Trump is going to stop.
[00:21:41]  And I know Israel's not going to stop.
[00:21:44]  And so probably this goes nuclear at some point in the not too distant future.
[00:21:49]  And probably Israel is the one to initiate that.
[00:21:53]  And then when Israel launches its first nuclear weapons, then the nuclear retaliations begin against Israel.
[00:22:02]  And at that point, it's a question, will Russia get involved?
[00:22:05]  Will China get involved?
[00:22:06]  Will Pakistan get involved?
[00:22:08]  Does Iran already have access to nuclear warheads that it could launch to detonate over Israel?
[00:22:18]  One nuclear warhead over Tel Aviv, and that's pretty much it for that rogue nation.
[00:22:24]  And the only sad thing about that is it would render that land unusable by the Palestinians from whom it was stolen.
[00:22:32]  I don't want to see any more Palestinians hurt by this, even a nuclear weapon over Israel.
[00:22:39]  I don't want to see fallout radiation or anything like that.
[00:22:43]  But that's where this is going because Israel is run by satanic lunatics who are really death cultists who want to see the entire world destroyed because for some reason they believe that's going to result in the return of their Messiah who doesn't exist because it's just a myth, actually.
[00:23:07]  They just made it all up.
[00:23:08]  They just made it all up.
[00:23:10]  And they used it to control people's minds all these years, but it's all fiction.
[00:23:15]  It's all brainwashing.
[00:23:17]  Like multi-millennial brainwashing.
[00:23:20]  That's what it is.
[00:23:22]  So, no, there's no Messiah coming to save Israel.
[00:23:25]  And if they think that there's a God coming out of the sky, it's probably an Iranian nuke.
[00:23:32]  So they should maybe calibrate their actions accordingly and maybe try not to escalate this anymore is my advice.
[00:23:41]  But we shall see.
[00:23:44]  In the meantime, get prepared for what's coming because it's going to get harder from here forward.
[00:23:50]  There's no question about that.
[00:23:51]  It's going to get a lot more difficult with food supplies, food prices, scarcity, energy, etc.
[00:23:59]  So, of course, lots of things you can do to get prepared.
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[00:24:50]  So thank you for listening and pray for peace.
[00:24:53]  Pray for peace.
[00:24:53]  I pray for peace for everyone, by the way, everyone involved.
[00:24:57]  But I also pray for the complete defeat of the Epstein Empire.
[00:25:02]  So, you know, actually both of those things are very compatible.
[00:25:06]  If we defeat the Epstein Empire, then we have peace, you see.

=== America Falls Behind China (03:36) ===

[00:25:10]  So who was it that said today?
[00:25:14]  Someone said, oh, yeah, it was Galloway.
[00:25:18]  He said that Iran is doing the world a favor by defeating the Epstein Empire.
[00:25:22]  Yeah, that's pretty insightful, isn't it?
[00:25:27]  Yeah.
[00:25:28]  I think that's George Galloway.
[00:25:29]  Yeah.
[00:25:30]  All right.
[00:25:31]  Thank you for listening.
[00:25:32]  Take care.
[00:25:34]  Look, this commentary won't be long, but all of a sudden we're being inundated with this propaganda about NASA and how they're going to launch this Artemis II mission to fly four astronauts around the moon.
[00:25:47]  Whee!
[00:25:48]  I mean, what's the point?
[00:25:50]  What's the point?
[00:25:52]  I mean, here we are, like, what, 55 years or something after the Apollo missions where NASA claimed to land people on the moon, and we still can't land anybody on the moon all these years later?
[00:26:08]  What are we going to do?
[00:26:09]  Fly them around the moon?
[00:26:14]  What a joke.
[00:26:15]  What a total joke.
[00:26:16]  What's the point of any of this?
[00:26:18]  Now, clearly, the propaganda is being pushed as a distraction.
[00:26:23]  And in my mind, it's very simple.
[00:26:25]  This is designed to convince the American people that America still has it, that we're still great, even though we can't beat Iran in the war.
[00:26:36]  Obviously, Iran is effectively winning because it still controls the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:26:42]  We don't have technology that can protect Israel from Iran's missiles.
[00:26:47]  Obviously, the Iron Dome is a total failure.
[00:26:49]  We can't beat Russia, obviously, because everything we've sent over there has been destroyed from, you know, high Mars and the tanks, you know, the Abrams and everything else.
[00:27:02]  In fact, America, you know, this is a declining empire.
[00:27:07]  And this rocket flight is supposed to say to the American people, oh, we're still great.
[00:27:13]  We still have technology.
[00:27:15]  How come we don't have hypersonic missiles in the military?
[00:27:20]  How come Russia is 20 years ahead of us?
[00:27:23]  How come China has the lead in like 60 out of 65 technologies?
[00:27:29]  How come China is better at manufacturing everything compared to the United States, including robots and drones and cars and appliances and technology and soon microchips too?
[00:27:42]  The U.S. is falling behind in almost everything.
[00:27:46]  The one thing where the U.S. still has the lead is in heavy-lift rockets.
[00:27:51]  That is beating China, but I don't think beating Russia.
[00:27:55]  I think Russia actually has far better rocket launch technology than does the United States.
[00:28:03]  And at the same time, this is happening, the U.S. military is proving to be totally obsolete, the Navy obsolete.
[00:28:08]  The aircraft carriers are fleeing Iran.
[00:28:11]  The USS Ford got hit by a drone, obviously, and it's now facing 14 months of repairs.
[00:28:17]  The Abraham Lincoln had to flee because it was under fire.
[00:28:21]  Trump admitted some of this the other day, saying that it was under attacks from Iran from 17 different angles, and all the sailors were screaming and running for their lives or something like that.
[00:28:33]  Trump accidentally let all that slip out.
[00:28:36]  Look, the U.S. is falling behind in almost everything, and pretty soon in AI technology as well, as China is taking the lead in AI.
[00:28:45]  So what does the U.S. do?

=== Fake Moon Landings Exposed (09:15) ===

[00:28:47]  Oh, let's launch a rocket.
[00:28:49]  And let's just tell everybody we're so great because we can launch a rocket.
[00:28:53]  Oh, are you going to land anybody on the moon?
[00:28:55]  No.
[00:28:58]  Why can't you land somebody on the moon?
[00:29:00]  Yeah, because I'm doubtful they even did the first time.
[00:29:04]  Who knows?
[00:29:05]  I mean, so much of that looks fake to me.
[00:29:09]  I don't doubt that they've had unmanned craft land on the moon and put a reflector up there or whatever.
[00:29:19]  I don't doubt that they've had the International Space Station orbiting the Earth.
[00:29:24]  I don't doubt that they even tried to fly humans around the moon before and maybe it failed.
[00:29:29]  But I'm telling you, I don't think they landed anybody before.
[00:29:36]  And the way we know that is because the video of the returning, what was it, a command module, whatever it's called, that took off from the moon.
[00:29:45]  Yeah, somebody took that video.
[00:29:47]  Did they leave that guy behind?
[00:29:49]  Because that video had to pan up in real time to capture the thing taken off and the takeoff doesn't even look right.
[00:29:57]  It looks like just a bunch of sparks.
[00:30:00]  Looks totally fake to me.
[00:30:02]  And if you look back at NASA, especially in the 1960s and 1970s, so much of the stuff they were putting out was knowingly fake in the sense that it was supposed to be a depiction, but not reality.
[00:30:17]  But they would fake so many scenes, like they would fake a spacewalk with like a puppet astronaut hanging out over the space capsule.
[00:30:27]  And by today's standards, it looks hilarious.
[00:30:30]  It looks like a comedy skit.
[00:30:32]  But they ran that.
[00:30:33]  They broadcast that.
[00:30:34]  And they said, oh, this is real.
[00:30:36]  And people thought it was real because you think about it, the TVs back in the 1960s and the early 70s, the TVs sucked.
[00:30:45]  They were black and white.
[00:30:46]  They were tiny little screens.
[00:30:48]  They had horrible resolution.
[00:30:50]  You couldn't really tell.
[00:30:50]  It's like if you squint, yeah, it's an astronaut walking in space.
[00:30:55]  Who knew?
[00:30:57]  Back then, you couldn't see anything on TV.
[00:31:00]  Hardly.
[00:31:01]  You could barely make it out.
[00:31:02]  So that all passed as reality and documented fact.
[00:31:08]  And then NASA later on admitted, well, we lost all the telemetry recordings of the Apollo missions.
[00:31:15]  And you said, well, what happened, NASA?
[00:31:16]  What happened?
[00:31:16]  Well, we overwrote those tapes.
[00:31:19]  You overwrote the tapes of what you claim is the most important historical event in the history of space exploration?
[00:31:28]  You just overwrote the tapes.
[00:31:30]  Yep.
[00:31:31]  That's what they say they did.
[00:31:32]  They overwrote the tapes.
[00:31:34]  So, huh, what a coincidence.
[00:31:36]  nobody can independently review the telemetry of the Apollo missions, which would tell you if they actually landed on the moon or not.
[00:31:45]  What a coincidence.
[00:31:48]  I mean, come on.
[00:31:51]  There are so many questions about NASA and all their claims and their space flights and everything.
[00:31:59]  Even just a few years ago, they were claiming that they launched helicopters on Mars.
[00:32:05]  And I forgot the name of the helicopters, but for a while they were running all this propaganda blitz like, we're flying helicopters on Mars, you know.
[00:32:13]  I think one of them was called Scout, actually.
[00:32:16]  I'm trying to recall that.
[00:32:17]  That was back around 2019, 2020, something like that.
[00:32:22]  They said we're flying helicopters on Mars.
[00:32:25]  You can look it up.
[00:32:26]  I claimed it over and over again.
[00:32:29]  The thing is, Mars doesn't have much of an atmosphere.
[00:32:32]  0.6% of the air density of Earth at sea level.
[00:32:38]  So they claim they're flying helicopters around in less than 1% of Earth's atmosphere.
[00:32:44]  Yeah.
[00:32:45]  Not buying it.
[00:32:47]  They're just flying drones around some desert somewhere and calling it Mars.
[00:32:52]  That's all they're doing.
[00:32:54]  They're so fake.
[00:32:57]  Everything's fake from NASA.
[00:32:59]  I think half the claims they've made over all these decades have been just complete fiction.
[00:33:04]  I think it's a money pit.
[00:33:06]  It's a massive money laundering operation.
[00:33:08]  There's all this money goes to NASA and it disappears into people's pockets.
[00:33:12]  And every once in a while they launch something that people can see.
[00:33:16]  Like, look, it's taking off.
[00:33:17]  You know, it launches up into the sky.
[00:33:19]  And from there, you got to take NASA's word for it because you can't see it.
[00:33:24]  You know, just probably just orbiting around the Earth, you know, for a few days.
[00:33:28]  We went to the moon, you know.
[00:33:29]  And then after the astronauts' diapers are full, then they have to splash it down, you know, in the ocean and say, we returned from the moon, you know.
[00:33:39]  No, you didn't.
[00:33:40]  I don't think you did any of that stuff.
[00:33:41]  You just made all that shit up.
[00:33:44]  Because that's NASA.
[00:33:46]  And, you know, the whole thing about space exploration is that nobody else can independently verify whether they're telling the truth.
[00:33:52]  And do you trust NASA?
[00:33:55]  I mean, come on.
[00:33:57]  I mean, NASA was founded on Nazis, Nazi technology, Operation Paperclip.
[00:34:03]  They brought a bunch of Nazis after World War II and said, hey, run our space program.
[00:34:07]  And our pharmaceutical program, too, by the way.
[00:34:09]  Oh, and the FDA.
[00:34:11]  Let's just put the Nazis everywhere in government.
[00:34:15]  That's what we have now.
[00:34:16]  And then every once in a while, they launch a rocket so that everybody can think that whatever they're doing up there, whatever they claim must be real.
[00:34:26]  I saw the rocket.
[00:34:27]  You didn't see the rocket do anything other than launch for 60 seconds.
[00:34:31]  And after that, you have no idea what that rocket did.
[00:34:36]  You have no idea what happened to the astronauts.
[00:34:40]  Frankly, for the most part, you don't even know if they're real.
[00:34:42]  It's like AI astronauts, like avatar astronauts launched into simulated space so that Trump can make a bunch of big claims.
[00:34:53]  Oh, we're still the greatest in the world.
[00:34:56]  We have the best technology.
[00:34:58]  Well, then how come you can't build railroads in America that function on time?
[00:35:04]  How come you don't have high-speed rail?
[00:35:08]  I mean, they have it in Japan.
[00:35:11]  They have it in China.
[00:35:12]  They have it in Taiwan.
[00:35:14]  You can't build high-speed rail, but you can fly around the moon.
[00:35:17]  Yeah.
[00:35:17]  I don't believe it.
[00:35:18]  I think they're full of shit.
[00:35:21]  NASA is nothing but a clown show and a money laundering pit, as far as I'm concerned.
[00:35:26]  So you're going to see a lot of propaganda about Artemis II.
[00:35:31]  And oh, they're going to show you video from space.
[00:35:34]  Huh, suspiciously looks like AI-rendered video or CGI.
[00:35:40]  You know, what an amazing coincidence.
[00:35:43]  And they're going to say how great they are.
[00:35:47]  I don't believe any of it because our government does nothing but lie all the time.
[00:35:52]  They just lie.
[00:35:54]  So that's my take on it.
[00:35:57]  And besides, what's the point of flying around the moon and coming back?
[00:36:01]  What's the point?
[00:36:03]  I mean, who cares?
[00:36:05]  Seriously, who cares?
[00:36:08]  We've got problems here on Earth.
[00:36:09]  You know, we got mass energy infrastructure destruction taking place from two to four billion people might starve to death if we don't reopen the gas trains in the Persian Gulf for natural gas and fertilizer, etc.
[00:36:25]  We got problems right here on Earth.
[00:36:28]  Yeah, you know what?
[00:36:29]  Screw your moon trip.
[00:36:31]  You know, nobody cares.
[00:36:34]  And that's why I don't want to spend any more time on this either.
[00:36:37]  Nobody gives a crap about NASA and astronauts and moon trips.
[00:36:41]  You know, F them all.
[00:36:43]  We need to stop the suicide of human civilization that's taking place right here on Earth.
[00:36:50]  That's what we need to stop.
[00:36:52]  Otherwise, we have no future.
[00:36:54]  We have no future on any planet.
[00:36:58]  Nor the moon.
[00:36:59]  Elon Musk talking, oh, we're going to have cities on the moon.
[00:37:02]  No, you're not.
[00:37:02]  You're just making that up because you're just a propagandist and you're just a stooge for the military industrial complex.
[00:37:09]  So that's all this is.
[00:37:10]  This is just a bunch of, you know, rah-rah, bullcrap cheerleading by a collapsing empire to try to get you to believe that we're still capable of great things.
[00:37:22]  Yeah, you can't even fix the St. Louis airport, you morons.
[00:37:27]  If you can fly to the moon, how come you can't make the plumbing work?
[00:37:32]  So, you know, how come you can't build a bridge anymore in America?
[00:37:35]  Build back the freaking bridge that a ship ran into what was a couple years ago.
[00:37:42]  Just can't, if you go to the moon, can't you build a bridge?
[00:37:46]  Could you do that first?
[00:37:47]  Could you fix the potholes in Chicago, maybe?
[00:37:50]  How about that?
[00:37:51]  No, that's apparently not possible.
[00:37:53]  That defies the laws of physics, but we're going to fly around the moon just for fun.
[00:37:57]  I don't believe it.
[00:37:58]  Screw these people.
[00:38:00]  Screw NASA.

=== Collapsing Empire Lies (07:43) ===

[00:38:02]  We've got more important things to focus on.
[00:38:04]  So thanks for listening.
[00:38:09]  All right.
[00:38:09]  Welcome, everyone, to this audio-only podcast interview.
[00:38:13]  And today I'm joined by David Dubine from Adapt 2030 and Civilizational Cycle podcast.
[00:38:21]  Welcome, David.
[00:38:22]  It's great to have you on today.
[00:38:24]  Yeah, thank you.
[00:38:25]  So changes in the world are so swift right now.
[00:38:28]  You know, it's almost like we're living through COVID 2.0 in the same way that everything's copy-pasting so fast at lightning speed this time.
[00:38:38]  Yeah, isn't it?
[00:38:40]  In fact, that's a lot of what we're going to talk about today: some of the incoming impacts, especially supply chains and energy and so on.
[00:38:48]  And you, are you okay to share where you are right now?
[00:38:53]  Oh, absolutely.
[00:38:53]  I'm over.
[00:38:54]  What city?
[00:38:54]  Yeah, I'm in Taipei in Taiwan.
[00:38:56]  So originally, when I first arrived a few days back, our news back in America was saying, oh, this place is falling apart.
[00:39:05]  There's fuel rationing.
[00:39:06]  There's shortages.
[00:39:07]  Look at the lines.
[00:39:08]  I came here and business was as usual.
[00:39:11]  There wasn't a single line, a single, it's as if you dropped into a normal everyday, you know, compared to what would be going on with the fuel.
[00:39:20]  So what you're seeing in America, please be discerning with the news.
[00:39:23]  They're trying to sell you fear when in actuality, you know, this country is operating just fine as if nothing has happened.
[00:39:30]  There's been not even a single talk of anybody doing anything with fuel rationing or doing anything at all to, it's just live your life as normal.
[00:39:40]  And I just can't believe the opposite of what we're seeing in the American news for everywhere.
[00:39:46]  Okay, but hold on.
[00:39:48]  I got to maybe answer that a little bit.
[00:39:52]  Rationing has been declared in South Korea, rationing in Thailand or shortages of diesel fuel in Thailand, rationing in India, etc.
[00:40:01]  And as you and I both know, the mainstream people of Taiwan, just like mainstream people in America, they are oblivious to how much fuel is in the pipeline.
[00:40:12]  And they don't have that much natural gas remaining for their energy grid.
[00:40:16]  So isn't it true that even though things may look calm right now, that they're actually facing quite a very rough ride if they don't get more fuel?
[00:40:26]  Yeah, that would be the same with every country on the planet.
[00:40:29]  Now, this is all deciding or hinging on Russian gasoline deliveries, which Russian gasoline deliveries are the number one for Taiwan.
[00:40:41]  So that just got banned by Russia.
[00:40:44]  Yeah, but there is some talk of a backtable trade deal here to continue to supply gasoline to certain nations, not everybody, not a wholesale stoppage, but at least some deliveries to some nations that are on Russia's preferential treatment list for specific products, whether it be diesel or whether it be A1 jet fuel or whether it be gasoline, and what kind of blends are in the gasoline.
[00:41:09]  It's very murky when they say gasoline because you and I know how many types of gasoline there are with the ethanol blends from E20, E15, the different octane ratings on that.
[00:41:19]  So when you just say gasoline, again, if you want those out there listening, the research needs to go deeper than just one category of fuel.
[00:41:30]  But why would Russia export to Taiwan given that Taiwan is a strong ally of the United States and Taiwan is a strategic enemy of, in essence, of mainland China, which is an ally of Russia.
[00:41:43]  Yeah, you tell me the geopolitical map and the, I guess, layering within that goes deeper.
[00:41:53]  I don't have the answer for you.
[00:41:54]  I really don't.
[00:41:55]  I'm just trying to put together what the Russian media is saying out of TAS and then what some trade agreements here are talking about.
[00:42:02]  You know, if you're looking into the economic and business news, you can find some of this trickling through now.
[00:42:07]  But if you just go to regulars, I say Taipei Times and you jump on the front page, it's still some Korean groups down here having a concert, you know, that kind of stuff.
[00:42:16]  Otherwise, you have to dig out for the research.
[00:42:21]  True.
[00:42:22]  But as I know, the Taipei Times, for example, is that's kind of like the CNN of Taiwan.
[00:42:28]  And they are not known for telling the truth about anything that is controversial.
[00:42:33]  It's run by either the CIA and sometimes influence from mainland China, a lot of influence from mainland China.
[00:42:40]  So I don't consider Taiwan's domestic press, and I'm, you know, I have some familiarity, to be credible on anything about, you know, what's actually coming.
[00:42:53]  I think the Taiwan people are oblivious, just like the American people are oblivious to, or, you know, the people of Japan are also, you know, I'm talking about mainstream people.
[00:43:05]  They are oblivious to what's happening.
[00:43:06]  And what I want to get from you is your assessment of what it means if the Strait of Hormuz stays closed and these fuel deliver extremely scarce.
[00:43:19]  What's that going to look like?
[00:43:21]  Yeah, in time it will play out because I was tracing the fuel supply chain from Taiwan and it does flow through Malaysia and through Singapore.
[00:43:30]  As in, Singapore delivers 9% of gasoline and diesel back to Taiwan.
[00:43:36]  But at the same time, Russia had stopped those deliveries to Malaysia and they stopped the deliveries over to Singapore.
[00:43:43]  And at that itself, that's like 16% of the total deliveries that are inbound.
[00:43:47]  Which, you know, I look at this whole supply chain thing, Mike, and I'm like, I mean, you're telling me Russia sends gasoline down to Malaysia and to Singapore, and they just basically rebox it and then send it back to Taiwan in some sort of maniacal trade deal when everything could come directly here.
[00:44:03]  You know what I mean?
[00:44:04]  So you look at all these different things.
[00:44:05]  Yeah, that would be just political, right?
[00:44:07]  Yeah.
[00:44:07]  And Abu Dhabi was one of the main exporters, about 15%.
[00:44:13]  So that's at zero.
[00:44:15]  And, you know, as long as this Russian gasoline keeps getting delivered, there'll be some pullbacks.
[00:44:20]  But you know, as well as I, the Cohesive Society will do what is asked.
[00:44:25]  You know, maybe they won't drive and it'll just go to 100%.
[00:44:28]  Everybody, you know, use public transport.
[00:44:30]  And that would be an easy one.
[00:44:31]  People would obey that and be like, okay, yeah, sure, that's awesome, man.
[00:44:33]  We can work like that.
[00:44:35]  But, you know, in our divided society, that just won't.
[00:44:37]  It'll be like, give me mine comparatively.
[00:44:40]  So I'm here to live the shortages.
[00:44:41]  I'm here to dive into the deep end and really see what is happening and how this manifests because it'll manifest out here, just like COVID.
[00:44:49]  It happened in Asia first.
[00:44:51]  And although, you know, it's not going to come here, it won't affect us.
[00:44:54]  We're energy producers.
[00:44:55]  And then, you know, it did.
[00:44:57]  We got the best.
[00:44:58]  Remember back in the COVID day where they were saying, oh, it's never going to affect America.
[00:45:02]  We got the best medical system on the planet.
[00:45:04]  And it just steamrolled through everywhere on purpose, of course.
[00:45:08]  Right.
[00:45:10]  Well, it looks like, I mean, I think you're going to be in it because the new law signed by, well, announced by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, okay, that goes into effect April 1st says that all gasoline exports are banned out of Russia to the whole world.
[00:45:35]  So there won't be any gas going to Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, anybody.
[00:45:40]  And that starts, you know, what, in two days.

=== Drastic Global Changes (15:48) ===

[00:45:45]  And what overlaps with that?
[00:45:47]  And what overlaps with that is the last deliveries of the tankers that had left the Strait of Hormuz at that time that are finally arriving and unloading in Asia, that's the last ones.
[00:45:57]  There's no more.
[00:45:58]  Like once the ones that are here or very close to reaching port or in port at that point, that's it.
[00:46:04]  There's no more.
[00:46:06]  Right.
[00:46:07]  And what we know is that people everywhere, whether they're Taiwanese or American, they don't prepare and then they panic at the last minute when the supply is gone.
[00:46:17]  So I wouldn't expect very many people to be preppers in Taiwan.
[00:46:22]  You know, Taiwan, I mean, you and I both know Taiwan culture quite well.
[00:46:26]  It's not a prepper culture.
[00:46:27]  I don't think I ever met a single prepper in Taiwan, ever.
[00:46:32]  You know what I mean?
[00:46:33]  Except myself buying food here and putting some in the drawer.
[00:46:36]  Right.
[00:46:37]  It's just like you, you don't run into preppers anywhere in my experience in Taiwan.
[00:46:42]  I mean, there are some farmers out on the east coast, et cetera, but it's not, you know, the vast majority of the population live, obviously, in the cities, and they don't prep.
[00:46:53]  They depend on the system.
[00:46:56]  Yeah, and that's going to be a great case study to see how this system here handles the fuel shortages when they arrive and how quickly they arrive, how quickly the government's going to remove taxes.
[00:47:06]  They had a fuel supply rise out here, or actually a price increase, but the government absorbed about half of that.
[00:47:12]  So 15% went up just a few days back, and government took some taxes away and absorbed about half of that 15%.
[00:47:21]  Otherwise, it would have been a 30% increase in fuel.
[00:47:24]  So that was the first measure.
[00:47:25]  Obviously, the fishing fleets are still going out.
[00:47:27]  So there's been no disruption like Thailand and the Dutch.
[00:47:30]  And, you know, allow me to, I had some information ready to throw offhand here.
[00:47:36]  I was following the fishing fleets because I think it's incredibly important to know that our protein source is from the oceans.
[00:47:42]  You know, again, but that checks the 2030 goals at the end, doesn't it?
[00:47:45]  Like, you're going to only eat farm-raised fish and aquacultured fish.
[00:47:49]  The ocean's got to be left alone from harvesting.
[00:47:51]  So this checks another box of the end of the decade goals there.
[00:47:55]  So it does.
[00:47:57]  Yeah, Thailand, half their fishing fleet's not going out.
[00:48:00]  United States, the shrimping fleet is now being affected.
[00:48:03]  So Gulf Shrimp, those of you who love shrimp, price is going up.
[00:48:06]  Netherlands, almost all their fishing fleet is in because their fuel cost went from $13,000 to $35,000 just in a matter of a couple of days.
[00:48:17]  So most of their fleet's inside.
[00:48:19]  The UK and Guernsey, the Channel Islands, local fishermen, they're not going out, Bangladesh.
[00:48:25]  Philippines, Australia, fishing fleets, they're already getting hit by diesel shortages anyway.
[00:48:30]  And then India.
[00:48:31]  Yes.
[00:48:31]  So think about the imports of whatever nation you're listening to this from.
[00:48:35]  Are you getting fish from any of these countries?
[00:48:38]  Because if you are, there's going to be a fish shortage.
[00:48:41]  I can't even believe this stuff saying this.
[00:48:43]  Fish is off the plate.
[00:48:47]  Yeah, well, I bet the fish in the ocean are, though, they're going to have a nice recovery because of all the overfishing that's been taking place.
[00:48:57]  So like maybe not fishing for a year would actually make the ocean much healthier, but you're right.
[00:49:05]  Humans are not going to have much in the way of the normal ocean fish that they get or shrimp or lobster or what have you.
[00:49:13]  Yeah, because I remember in COVID, I think it was, I forget what news station it was, but it was a big headline there for a while with all the videos where huge amounts of deer and huge amounts of wildlife were coming back in the cities because people weren't driving and business as usual stopped and there was hardly anybody on the roads.
[00:49:28]  Everybody's locked in their house.
[00:49:29]  So nature kind of came back into the neighborhoods and thing.
[00:49:32]  Remember that?
[00:49:32]  I'm just wondering how it'll be with the oceans recovering and such things.
[00:49:38]  Yeah, well, that's a good question because global fuel shortages would impact lots and lots of things, including transportation domestically, air transportation.
[00:49:50]  I think, well, I'd love to know your guess, but I think in Australia, the airlines are going to have to start grounding their planes from lack of fuel.
[00:49:59]  That's probably coming.
[00:50:01]  I mean, do you get any sense or any information there about what this would mean for transportation?
[00:50:08]  And let me add, you know, Taiwan has a wonderful, you know, monorail system that connects the cities that's very convenient.
[00:50:17]  But that kind of system doesn't exist in Australia, right?
[00:50:21]  Or many other countries.
[00:50:22]  So Taiwan could get by better.
[00:50:24]  So could Tokyo, right?
[00:50:26]  In terms of loss of personal transportation.
[00:50:28]  But that's not true everywhere.
[00:50:29]  So what are your thoughts on that?
[00:50:31]  Yeah, the grounding of the flights, again, that is a 2030 goal specifically stated.
[00:50:35]  You are going to fly once a year, and that is it from this point forward.
[00:50:38]  So end of the decade goal check.
[00:50:40]  That's two already.
[00:50:41]  We've checked in the boxes.
[00:50:42]  You're going to let the oceans recover.
[00:50:44]  You're going to eat farm-raised fish and like lab-grown meat.
[00:50:47]  And remember, that's what the whole plan of this was at the end of the decade, 2030.
[00:50:51]  You're not going to fly either.
[00:50:52]  And then here we are.
[00:50:53]  The Philippines was saying very much the same thing, Mike, that you, as a long-haul carrier, need to bring your return fuel source with you on the plane, or we can't refuel you.
[00:51:03]  Right now, and the Philippines are like, we can't refuel you.
[00:51:05]  So Australia is going to be at the very same thing.
[00:51:08]  So two countries are already saying we can't refuel to fly back.
[00:51:12]  You only can bring enough fuel.
[00:51:13]  So what's the limitation on a Trans-Pacific on that?
[00:51:17]  There's not.
[00:51:17]  There's no trans-Pacific return haul your own fuel back.
[00:51:21]  This would be more inter-Asia.
[00:51:23]  So we're already at that point, at least two nations.
[00:51:25]  And Australia is a long way from everywhere.
[00:51:28]  So considering where they're in Australia and they're starting to widths of the same, yeah, bring your own fuel for the return.
[00:51:35]  That's going to be very limiting in terms of, and we're going back to like Amelia Earhart days where every fuel stop is going to be very short between something like this.
[00:51:46]  I feel we're rewinding the clock back into the 1930s on, I hope the trade deals do such a thing too, because I can't believe in America, we got all these refineries, we got the biggest energy production in the world, yet our diesel price went up 41% since the beginning of this conflict.
[00:52:01]  We don't even get energy from there.
[00:52:04]  So this something has to be redone with the way fuels produced from the ground in terms of oil or natural gas.
[00:52:12]  The way it's refined and the way it's delivered has to come really regional again.
[00:52:16]  I can't believe we destroyed so much of our infrastructure on this green madness over the last 20 years.
[00:52:21]  I mean, at least here they can turn back on the thermal plants again.
[00:52:24]  You know, Thailand's real, you know, they had two thermal plants mothballed and they're going to, you know, they're bringing those back up, but it takes about 30 days to get them back online.
[00:52:32]  But in Australia, they actually dynamited them and took them to the ground and hauled away all the metal as scrap.
[00:52:37]  They don't even have the choice to backstop to even fire them back up again.
[00:52:41]  They're gone.
[00:52:42]  They're gone.
[00:52:42]  Same in Germany.
[00:52:43]  They're gone.
[00:52:45]  So then what?
[00:52:48]  Yeah, then what?
[00:52:50]  I mean, I'd like your analysis because everything coming out of the White House right now about the Strait of Hormuz is just flat out lies, just delusion, fantasy.
[00:53:02]  Claims that, oh, we're going to control the strait, and Trump is going to call it the Strait of Trump.
[00:53:08]  I don't think that's credible at all.
[00:53:12]  I don't think it's possible for the U.S. to alter the laws of geography and suddenly control the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:53:20]  And if that's the case, then this could be closed for the rest of the year and longer, even multiple years.
[00:53:28]  So what, you know, how does the world function without all that energy that comes out of the Gulf?
[00:53:35]  And, you know, the ammonia, I mean, the fertilizer with the urea, with the gas turned into ammonia, et cetera, the helium, the sulfur, the sulfuric acid, the oil and the natural gas, all that.
[00:53:48]  How does the world, how does the world function?
[00:53:53]  Yeah, you know, game that one out, everybody, in your mind for a second.
[00:53:56]  The first thing, next thing is going to go down is plastics.
[00:53:58]  Like they're turning down the plants out here to minimum production throughput just to try to stretch what they have for supplies coming into the factories out here.
[00:54:09]  So just in a very basic sense, like plastics are starting to dwindle, but not to zero.
[00:54:14]  That's their first backstop is, all right, we're not going to go with full production.
[00:54:18]  We're going to just keep the minimum throughput to keep this facility open, whatever it is, could be blow-mold injection, whatever.
[00:54:26]  There's going to be a slowdown in plastics.
[00:54:27]  But the way our world is so reliant on plastics for packaging, it's just even to wonder how our foods are going to get packaged and delivered on that last mile to the stores.
[00:54:36]  You know, that's a bottleneck in itself to think about.
[00:54:39]  And then the economy.
[00:54:41]  You know, it would not surprise me if the stock markets went down 80 or 90%.
[00:54:45]  I mean, the economic activity is going to be almost nil going through this process here.
[00:54:50]  And, you know, the helium, that's all about the computer electronics and semiconductor production here, like TSMC.
[00:54:58]  They're going to start slowing down production, although they have months and months of backstop of their own and they recycle helium and all this.
[00:55:05]  But there's a fair few others like Intel would take a hit, Micron Technologies, Samsung.
[00:55:11]  They don't have the vast resources as TSMC does to get everything.
[00:55:15]  So you're just going to start to look for all these things in your life that you take for granted start to dry up.
[00:55:22]  Now, working and going to work, everything's going to have to go online.
[00:55:28]  But there's only some things that can go online.
[00:55:30]  Like you can't have a plumber go online.
[00:55:32]  You can't have a factory worker go online.
[00:55:36]  You know, perhaps some of that could be done and maybe they'll retool something where it's more computer oriented through the factories, but the whole AI was taking away jobs anyway.
[00:55:45]  This is just the nail in the coffin to take away the rest of the jobs, keep people at home, and again, introduce UBI, which is everybody was kind of wondering, like, how are they going to get people to accept UBI and digital rationing cards without putting up a big fuss?
[00:55:59]  Well, here's your answer.
[00:56:00]  It's delivered on a golden platter.
[00:56:02]  And you have to wonder if this whole thing was planned through, again, the 2030 goals, end of the decade, as this is like the one last package to drag everybody across the finish line that didn't go quietly during the COVID era.
[00:56:15]  You know, because there's too many things that are lining up for all this.
[00:56:18]  And these disruptions you're talking about, these are permanent.
[00:56:21]  You know, you look at some of these plants and storage facilities, pipelines, you know, loading ports.
[00:56:27]  It's destroyed.
[00:56:28]  Like it'll take five years plus to bring it back online again.
[00:56:31]  This is a permanent disruption in many ways and forms.
[00:56:34]  Not going to just, just because the straight opens again, like there's so much destruction of energy and energy delivery systems and like you say, different things that take natural gas, put it into those precursors to then take it on somewhere else in the production because there was no NIMBYs in the Middle East.
[00:56:50]  Everything's over there just as China.
[00:56:52]  The production's there.
[00:56:53]  No NIMBYs in the Middle East and no NIMBYs in the desert.
[00:56:57]  It's all there, all the production.
[00:56:59]  So, you know, take away 30% of the world's fertilizer.
[00:57:02]  We're going to have the food disruption.
[00:57:03]  Things are going to get expensive on the food side.
[00:57:05]  Even if they've already blown all of this up, like put it in your mind, people out there listening.
[00:57:10]  They have destroyed this infrastructure.
[00:57:12]  It does no longer exist.
[00:57:14]  We're going to have to rebuild it if they ever do.
[00:57:17]  And, you know, I think the world's going to adjust to this as it is.
[00:57:21]  And I just think there'll be less people around.
[00:57:25]  Okay, so that's a key question I wanted to ask you.
[00:57:28]  You mentioned, in some cases, maybe five years of a rebuild time.
[00:57:32]  And I've seen estimates that if all the LNG infrastructure is destroyed belonging to Qatar Energy, that that rebuild time would be 10 to 15 years.
[00:57:45]  But we're not there yet.
[00:57:47]  You know, it hasn't been completely destroyed yet.
[00:57:49]  It's only been partially destroyed.
[00:57:50]  And they've said they have a three to five year rebuild time for the two trains that have been destroyed.
[00:57:57]  But in your view, you just mentioned there will be fewer people around.
[00:58:05]  If there's a five-year rebuild time and then we suffer energy and fertilizer and food scarcity for five years, what does that look like?
[00:58:16]  I mean just mass famine, civil unrest?
[00:58:23]  What happens during that time while we're trying to rebuild the system?
[00:58:28]  Well, the first steps are going to be, at least in this, now, if you're in country, whatever, Egypt has ordered energy saving measures and all stores and restaurants need to close by 9 p.m.
[00:58:39]  All right, so this is going to be the first thing.
[00:58:40]  We're going to do like a COVID 2.0 again here on these lockdowns.
[00:58:43]  There'll be energy lockdown, but it's going to come really fast because we've already been trained.
[00:58:47]  So when they say stores close by 9, because remember, there's no 24-hour stores anymore.
[00:58:51]  Remember back before COVID, like Walmart would be open 24 hours.
[00:58:54]  Some supermarkets like Kroger would be open 24.
[00:58:57]  There was a lot of things that were 24 hours that you could always go in at any time.
[00:59:01]  After COVID, nothing was 24 hours after that.
[00:59:03]  Nothing.
[00:59:04]  Everything had specific, you know, maybe 12-hour windows of being open.
[00:59:09]  Now, they're even shrinking those again.
[00:59:11]  Now, if you can't drive to go get it, the next thing would be you're going to be able to drive one or two days a week, depending on your license plate.
[00:59:18]  And then there's store closures.
[00:59:20]  There's been some theoretical analysis on how they're going to work on this.
[00:59:24]  Well, these store hours are going to shrink, and then the days being open are going to shrink because getting the workers in there on ration days on license plates, they're going to have to overlap these.
[00:59:36]  And you're just going to hope that your day to drive overlaps on a day that supermarkets are open.
[00:59:42]  I would say just think pioneering lifestyle.
[00:59:44]  Go back to the bulk goods.
[00:59:45]  Those are the things that are going to be available because the plastics are getting, well, they're going to get more and more and more restricted until they just have to shut the plants.
[00:59:53]  They won't have enough throughput.
[00:59:54]  And those take months to come back on again, even if they unsnarl everything.
[00:59:59]  So the plastics for the food itself is something you're not considering.
[01:00:03]  We're going to have to go back to bulk for a lot of things.
[01:00:05]  And then you're going to have to start thinking about 1860s lifestyle and how do you prepare all this from home cooking because that thing in the bag is not coming.
[01:00:13]  It'll be very, I'd say, hard to come by, these thin plastics that we use.
[01:00:19]  And you can't just repackage something in a month.
[01:00:22]  That takes years to plan this packaging alone for different products.
[01:00:26]  So maybe they'll stop the shrinkflation where they give you something that has, you know, you look inside and it looks like a big bag and you get in the bottom and it's, you know, only 20% of the bags full of a product.
[01:00:36]  And maybe it'll actually do it where it actually shrinks down to the size of the product.
[01:00:41]  You get five bags of that if they were realistic instead of trying to hide the shrinkflation in a big bag.
[01:00:47]  But as you walk through this, just think, digital rationing card, things are going to get more expensive.
[01:00:52]  You're going to have to, you know, rethink on how you cook and how you procure your foods.
[01:00:57]  And I think it's going to gravitate toward bulk for sure.
[01:01:01]  And that's the only way it can be because the world, again, as we knew in 2015, 16, after COVID is like a distant memory.
[01:01:09]  So the post-COVID world, as we go through this set of fuel shortages, will be just a distant memory at the end as well.
[01:01:16]  So things are going to change drastically.
[01:01:18]  And people will fight.
[01:01:19]  And some people just check out on their own because it's too much to deal with.
[01:01:24]  I would just say understand that the changes are here and just adapt to the changes as they come.
[01:01:29]  Don't bitch gripe and complain.
[01:01:30]  Just, it's here.
[01:01:31]  Things are going to change.
[01:01:32]  Just roll with the changes.

=== Food Rationing and Scarcity (04:04) ===

[01:01:34]  And I think you'll be way better off if you're like, all right, this is the way it is now.
[01:01:38]  Okay, great.
[01:01:38]  I'm not going to try to fight and hold on to that old world or the old way it was.
[01:01:42]  I'm just going to quickly snap my fingers and adapt.
[01:01:44]  Okay, well, things are open on Tuesday.
[01:01:46]  Great.
[01:01:46]  Let's readjust everything to get ready for Tuesday.
[01:01:48]  Instead of, oh, that's you know, just cut those things off and just move to the next step.
[01:01:55]  You know, those are the people I think are going to do best.
[01:01:58]  Okay.
[01:01:59]  Well, what if the stores are open on Tuesday, but the shelves are empty?
[01:02:04]  That would be a great to say that you should have been growing some of your own food and had at least a double triple backup plan with your neighbors, your families, knowing your farmers, raising some of your own proteins.
[01:02:14]  I like Bantam chickens myself.
[01:02:16]  You know, we still have the homestead just out here and then can swing back to that as well.
[01:02:21]  So if you have land and you have to be able to grow food and you have these plans in place and you know people, at least you could alleviate some of that.
[01:02:29]  You know, getting that meat source is going to be a huge and also having those oil stockpiled.
[01:02:34]  You know better than I how your brain can you run through it for a second?
[01:02:37]  Like how does your brain function disrupted without proteins and oils?
[01:02:40]  That's a big one too.
[01:02:41]  Like if you're just stopping veg and you're going to grow veg, you're kind of missing the point of it.
[01:02:47]  Well, yeah, just calorie restriction actually strongly takes away from cognition.
[01:02:53]  And people's personalities change dramatically after about two weeks of no food.
[01:03:00]  What happens is the higher level human cognition functions fade away and they become more animalistic.
[01:03:09]  And what you see across the board is a dropping of societal norms, morals, and values.
[01:03:16]  And instead, the lower brainstem, reptilian type of function, kill, steal, survive, eat.
[01:03:25]  That's what happens in societies.
[01:03:26]  And you get into about 45 days of no food.
[01:03:31]  Then those traits come out extremely strongly.
[01:03:34]  And then your society is collapsing at that point.
[01:03:39]  I mean, people start dying after three weeks of no food.
[01:03:43]  And then after six weeks of no food, people just start mass killing each other and cannibalism.
[01:03:51]  They start eating babies.
[01:03:53]  It's like full-blown Epstein files, but everywhere.
[01:03:57]  So that's what happens when you have no food for an extended period of time.
[01:04:02]  Cannibalism is an obvious, I mean, that's been documented throughout history.
[01:04:07]  When there's been famine, they start eating each other, clearly.
[01:04:12]  Yeah, so I'm wondering with an added amount of food where, let's say, calorie restriction, you lose half your food source.
[01:04:19]  Now, you still have food, but it's restricted in terms of what you used to be used to.
[01:04:25]  So, you know, walk me down that.
[01:04:27]  If you have half the calories you're used to functioning on, but you still do have food, like, would you accept some lab-grown meats at that point?
[01:04:34]  Would you accept lab-grown proteins to fill the belly?
[01:04:37]  I would say almost everybody would say yes.
[01:04:40]  Yeah, absolutely.
[01:04:42]  And they would accept, you know, cricket protein bars.
[01:04:44]  Yeah.
[01:04:45]  They would accept swing and green.
[01:04:46]  They were trying to force on them.
[01:04:47]  And everybody rejected it.
[01:04:48]  But if you're hungry enough, you'll eat anything.
[01:04:51]  Absolutely.
[01:04:52]  If you're hungry enough, you'll eat grasshoppers.
[01:04:54]  And it's interesting.
[01:04:55]  See, you're in Taiwan right now.
[01:04:57]  And I know because I used to live there and I would talk to the old timers.
[01:05:00]  And back in post-World War II, it was a common thing in Taiwan for people to catch grasshoppers and pan-fry them in a walk with some seasoning.
[01:05:12]  And they would just eat grasshoppers.
[01:05:13]  It was a well-known source of protein.
[01:05:17]  That'll probably happen again.
[01:05:18]  Well, the snails here, too.
[01:05:20]  There's these wild snails that are all over the place.
[01:05:22]  Super delicious.
[01:05:22]  If you go to the real Tao Dian, which is kind of this fun restaurant type environment, they always have those snails that are so common around here as well.
[01:05:32]  I mean, there's natural food sources, but the carrying capacity here, there's a lot of people.
[01:05:36]  And would there be enough natural food source to carry?

=== Eating Grasshoppers for Survival (15:37) ===

[01:05:39]  No.
[01:05:39]  Yeah, that's what the imports coming in.
[01:05:43]  And that's the thing is that every city that we can think of around the world, except perhaps not Russia.
[01:05:50]  Russia would be well insulated against this.
[01:05:53]  But most cities, especially Western cities, are highly vulnerable to food scarcity for that very reason that you mentioned, because they import so much food and you can't grow it locally.
[01:06:07]  I mean, I know people have talked about, well, we can have vertical farms inside these buildings.
[01:06:11]  Okay, great.
[01:06:12]  Build it because they don't exist.
[01:06:17]  If it doesn't exist, it can't grow food.
[01:06:19]  I'm pretty sure it works like that.
[01:06:21]  So just talking about, oh, we can have vertical farms.
[01:06:24]  Yeah.
[01:06:24]  Yeah, good luck.
[01:06:25]  You can't eat your idea.
[01:06:27]  You actually have to have the food.
[01:06:29]  So the cities are screwed.
[01:06:32]  This is the way I see it.
[01:06:34]  That is, if the Strait of Hormuz stays closed for several more months, the cities are screwed.
[01:06:41]  What do you think?
[01:06:42]  Yeah, if that's the plan, it is going to stay closed because I'm looking at it more of this thing seems to be gamed out and planned for these disruptions.
[01:06:49]  Now, is the plan to keep it closed for a certain X amount of months?
[01:06:53]  What's the target on this?
[01:06:55]  You know, once the target's achieved, and I'm not talking about Trump's goals, I'm talking about this 2030 agenda goal here.
[01:07:01]  Like, how long would they really need to keep it closed to achieve these goals or get people moving to a completely different economy that's now digitized, where people will accept the biometric IDs to be able to eat and then also to get into the digital system to swap over?
[01:07:14]  Because the economy is, you know, four months more of hormoise closure or six months more, then like the economy, as you understand it on the planet, won't be functioning.
[01:07:23]  At that point, it'll have to switch into something else.
[01:07:25]  And they already have the replacement for it.
[01:07:27]  I mean, if you look at the World Bank documents, the International Monetary Fund, and the Bank for International Settlements, the BIS websites, I mean, there's thousands of these, what they have already planned for this digital economy on how they're going to switch over and how, you know, all the different distributed ledger and liquidity, on-demand liquidity through XRP, through that whole, you know, ripple on-demand liquidity.
[01:07:48]  I mean, there's rails for payments and settlements and everything has been all right.
[01:07:54]  And then they got regular money for the people and the stable coins.
[01:07:57]  Like there's an entirely different system ready to go at literally a push of a button.
[01:08:02]  But you can't having two parallel systems of money and movements of money on the planet, it just doesn't work.
[01:08:09]  It can highland or there can be only one.
[01:08:11]  So this would be a great time to allow that to stay closed long enough to disrupt the economy long enough to introduce the new system.
[01:08:19]  Because just as a fact here, I pulled up this one.
[01:08:22]  Peak COVID lockdown led to 8 million barrels per day oil destruction for demand.
[01:08:28]  This one is double, twice as large.
[01:08:31]  So even everything that was done for a COVID-style lockdown and measures, work from home all day, it's only going to be 50% effective.
[01:08:39]  They're going to have to regame this, rethink it for another 50% fuel savings off of this.
[01:08:44]  So even if he thought it was harsh wherever you were, because some areas were lighter than others in terms of the lockdowns, the COVID.
[01:08:51]  But this seems to be unanimously equal around the planet because we all use energy.
[01:08:56]  So the way you say, well, it's too hard.
[01:08:58]  You know, like in Tennessee, we weren't that restricted in East Tennessee in terms of masks.
[01:09:03]  But I had some guys come out from New Mexico and visit me.
[01:09:05]  And we were at a coffee shop down in my little tiny town, no mask or anything.
[01:09:08]  Like, I can't believe we'd be arrested for not wearing a mask.
[01:09:10]  You go around sitting out here in a coffee shop and you guys got no masks.
[01:09:13]  I can't even believe it.
[01:09:14]  You're right.
[01:09:15]  But other places were like, you don't have a mask, you go to jail or you get fined or whatever.
[01:09:20]  But so this is going to be twice as large as anything that occurred during COVID for disruptions of energy.
[01:09:27]  So then walk that through.
[01:09:29]  How do you get 50% extra savings of all those crazy things we did during that time?
[01:09:34]  Like, how do you squeeze another 50% out of the stone here?
[01:09:40]  Well, right.
[01:09:41]  But there's also, there's a really important difference here that during COVID, it was demand destruction, not supply-side destruction.
[01:09:49]  Yes.
[01:09:50]  And the supply side, we had so much energy that oil prices went negative.
[01:09:54]  Remember that, David?
[01:09:55]  Oil went to a negative.
[01:09:56]  I wish I would have been an oil trader because I would have swooped up a bunch of those contracts.
[01:10:01]  Yeah, but you had to take delivery of it, right?
[01:10:03]  So you had to have a way to store the oil, and very few people did.
[01:10:07]  So there was so much, there was an oil glut back then.
[01:10:10]  There was an energy glut.
[01:10:11]  And today it's exactly the opposite.
[01:10:15]  And whereas back then you said there was about 8 million barrels of oil per day of demand destruction.
[01:10:21]  Today there's over 20 million barrels of oil a day of supply side destruction.
[01:10:26]  So, I mean, you're right.
[01:10:27]  It's more than twice as big, but it's far worse because it's supply side, which means that now there's a forced shutdown, not by decree, not by governments saying, you know, close your shop, right?
[01:10:43]  Or don't travel or stay home, you know, lockdowns.
[01:10:46]  Rather, there's forced lockdowns because the energy doesn't exist and forced shutdowns of industry manufacturers, even in places like Taiwan, where you are, they won't have the energy to keep the factory open.
[01:11:03]  So that just sends everybody home in a way that's far worse than the pandemic.
[01:11:09]  You know, the energy doesn't exist, or at least doesn't exist here.
[01:11:13]  You know, it's stuck in the Persian Gulf.
[01:11:16]  So I don't think we've faced anything like this since the 1973, 74 oil embargo.
[01:11:26]  Yeah, or well, that was World War II rationing, but you know, the infancy of what we have today in terms of a world, you can't really compare the two.
[01:11:35]  I mean, the interconnectivity and globalism.
[01:11:38]  But this one here, another thing that's going to happen for a lot of people first.
[01:11:42]  Now, I don't know if America will do this, but in Cambodia currently, the government's reducing import duties and taxes on petrol and diesel.
[01:11:48]  So they're removing every single tax off the fuel to keep it cheaper.
[01:11:52]  Problem is when they try to put the taxes back on, you know, it's going to be very obvious how much you've been getting scammed off of everything.
[01:11:58]  Secondly, if like Mike just rightly said, factories close, they send you home, all goods are going to just stop.
[01:12:05]  So Walmarts will start to, you know, be very visible that there won't be things on the shelves because it just won't be manufactured.
[01:12:12]  So the first thing, obviously, there's going to be an order and a magnitude of importance of goods being manufactured, like TSMC on the chips, they're going to be, you know, prioritized.
[01:12:22]  And you could also say pretty much the main industries through all countries.
[01:12:27]  But ones that won't be prioritized are like plastic toys, right?
[01:12:31]  Christmas ornaments, these kind of things that are just making trinkets of junk to send across the ocean.
[01:12:36]  Yeah, buy two, save global warming.
[01:12:38]  That kind of stuff is going to be the first.
[01:12:40]  Yeah, right.
[01:12:41]  That's so crazy.
[01:12:42]  They always yaff about global warming, but around Christmas, buy two, they're on sale.
[01:12:46]  You know, yeah, okay, whatever.
[01:12:48]  But think about that level of importance to keep military operating.
[01:12:54]  Obviously, the semiconductor chips are like right at the top.
[01:12:57]  Mining would be in there, refining.
[01:13:00]  Because a lot of these shortages, what I'm looking at here is some of the oil flows are still going in, but it seems like the government's taking most of it and stockpiling it, and they're just giving the crumbs to the serfs out here.
[01:13:10]  So I would say, just in what the research I've done, that it seems the governments are taking their lion's share out of it and stockpiling themselves to refill their strategic reserves.
[01:13:21]  And I don't care what country you're in, even in Cambodia, they are pulling fuel off to the side for their own militaries, police forces, and what is left they're giving to.
[01:13:31]  So some of this, I wouldn't say, I hate to use the word artificial, but it is to an extent artificial where the amount of fuel coming in is not being 100% delivered to the public like it was previously.
[01:13:43]  There is a middleman for a better term that is now scurrying some of the fuel off to the side for their own needs in the future.
[01:13:52]  So, you know, how long will that be before the true shortages start?
[01:13:56]  And yeah, these factories that close, what's going to come off the shelf first?
[01:14:02]  And my big thing is plastics, plastics, plastics.
[01:14:05]  We can't package a lot of our food.
[01:14:06]  Our food delivery is dependent on that stuff being wrapped in plastic to get it to you.
[01:14:12]  Regardless of the price of diesel goes five times, 20 times higher, there will be a truck that will deliver it if the price point is high enough.
[01:14:18]  But for most people, it won't be.
[01:14:20]  It'll be out of their range.
[01:14:21]  So again, we swing back to the UBI.
[01:14:23]  Government's going to have to pay for a lot of people to live.
[01:14:26]  You know, you get into this circle, and it all revolves around 2030.
[01:14:29]  And we're right back in this DNA strand moving again.
[01:14:32]  Every time you talk, it brings you straight back to the end of the decade goals.
[01:14:37]  Well, yeah, but you just mentioned universal basic income.
[01:14:41]  If governments end up having to pay UBIs to the population that isn't working, and then also the government has to figure out how to provide food and electricity for the masses that are not working.
[01:14:55]  I mean, it seems obvious that sooner or later the government's going to say, well, we've got to get rid of these people.
[01:15:00]  Otherwise, we become insolvent as a government entity.
[01:15:04]  Because, you know, look at the U.S. debt right now, $39 trillion.
[01:15:08]  If you start adding a trillion dollars a month, which is what it would take to put, you know, half the country on the UBI, then you end up in a currency collapse pretty quickly, hyperinflationary collapse.
[01:15:20]  So, right?
[01:15:25]  Yeah, unfortunately.
[01:15:26]  And then walk through the fertilizer wall with me for a second until we get to the feed chain fracture.
[01:15:32]  This is another one a lot of people are not seeing, but you know, the information's out there.
[01:15:37]  So, we're getting this fertilizer, which you talked about with the ammonia and nitrogenous fertilizer.
[01:15:42]  We need a lot of natural gas to produce that.
[01:15:45]  Qatar is offline.
[01:15:46]  So, we lost about 30% of ammonia and urea production.
[01:15:50]  So, 30% of global fertilizer is gone.
[01:15:53]  It's not coming.
[01:15:54]  So, you could think and do your own compost, but that's going to take a little bit of time.
[01:15:58]  You're going to about a year out.
[01:16:00]  But then we get to the feedstock wall because most of that fertilizer used, at least let's walk through American production, goes into either corn or something like this.
[01:16:10]  It's either produced in ethanol, a lot of it goes to animal feed.
[01:16:13]  Now, if that's not grown and we get, say, a 50% crop yield reduction, then the available animal feed is going to hit that wall too, which then leads to meat and dairy shortages, vanishing livestock herds.
[01:16:26]  And then there's going to be that sort of disruption unless you've got a contract grow going on.
[01:16:30]  The feed chain is going to fracture off of that.
[01:16:33]  But then again, it brings you back to the plastics.
[01:16:35]  Most of those meats, most of the foods we get are in some sort of plastics.
[01:16:39]  And then that last mile to get it there, the diesel price is going up.
[01:16:42]  Like everywhere you look, fertilizer is going to cost more, meat's going to cost more, packaging is going to cost more, and the diesel to deliver is going to cost more.
[01:16:50]  So you tell me how everything is going to stay the same price for your daily life.
[01:16:53]  I just don't see it.
[01:16:54]  And Americans aren't going to be able to afford it.
[01:16:56]  Damn, they're like living paycheck to paycheck.
[01:16:59]  One paycheck will bankrupt a family if they miss one paycheck.
[01:17:02]  And you're looking at three or four things going up in price here.
[01:17:06]  At least that could just take everybody out that's on a paycheck to paycheck basis.
[01:17:13]  Yes, 60% of American families have no savings, paycheck to paycheck.
[01:17:21]  And that, yeah, that means just even a 25% increase in food costs makes them start to experience famine.
[01:17:30]  You know, they just can't buy food.
[01:17:33]  But I guess for a while, they can shift to more basics, you know, buying bulk beans and rice and things like that on the shelves instead of ordering Uber Eats, right?
[01:17:44]  Or restaurant food, which people tend to do a lot, even people who can't afford it.
[01:17:49]  But there's a limit even to that, right?
[01:17:52]  At some point, the scarcity is so great and the costs are so high that it seems like just the lower income masses end up starving.
[01:18:07]  I don't know any other way to say it.
[01:18:11]  I think we end up in a national crisis here of mass starvation with the government trying to tell us everything's great, that there are no lines, that no one's hungry because, you know, we just, we have a White House that just lies constantly.
[01:18:25]  I guess they all do.
[01:18:28]  But yeah, no one's hungry.
[01:18:30]  They're eating each other.
[01:18:34]  Is that going to be the new press conference from the White House?
[01:18:39]  Yeah, and I'm wondering the health implications too of this because during COVID, people switched over to fast food because it was cheaper than all the other foods.
[01:18:46]  And if you were locked on, you could get it delivered.
[01:18:48]  Like fast food, eating that much fast food continuously on your toll on your body, because I watched that movie supersized me.
[01:18:55]  And I was just, you know, just laid back on my chair after watching that, going, no, that's a what about people trying to save money?
[01:19:02]  Now the fast food's gotten quite expensive comparatively during the COVID days.
[01:19:06]  So if you're going to try to exist on something that's really, really, really cheap in the store, it's going to be 1,000% just chemical and, you know, manufactured GMO foods.
[01:19:15]  Like the toll on the human body, Mike, like you're, you're better equipped to answer that question.
[01:19:21]  But how long can you really eat those substandard foods before your body either shuts down or your mind behaves differently?
[01:19:28]  You know, you get into those personality changes.
[01:19:30]  I mean, can you walk me through that for a moment?
[01:19:33]  Well, I think the gist of your question is if people shift to cheaper food sources, what is the cumulative effect of the nutritional deficiencies and also, you know, processed calories?
[01:19:51]  And it's, yeah, it's severe, but I think we're already experiencing that.
[01:19:56]  You know, we have rampant obesity.
[01:19:58]  We have a rampant decline of cognition.
[01:20:01]  We have, you know, turbo cancers and widespread type 2 diabetes and heart disease, etc.
[01:20:08]  These are already the results of Americans living on processed foods.
[01:20:12]  I think that the real question is going to be when they can't even afford the processed foods.
[01:20:19]  And I guess at that point, obesity gives people a little bit of a buffer time.
[01:20:26]  You know, like, hey, my neighbor could eat or could not eat for three months and still be okay.
[01:20:31]  And that's actually true.
[01:20:33]  You know, obesity is stored calories.
[01:20:36]  So that gives obese people a little bit of an extended time to not die.
[01:20:41]  But it doesn't mean they're going to be in good health, obviously.
[01:20:44]  And, you know, suddenly fasting for 60 days for someone who's never fasted is a death sentence for a lot of people.
[01:20:54]  You know, especially if they have weak hearts and et cetera, right?
[01:20:57]  Bad nutrition.
[01:20:58]  So, you know, forced fasting.
[01:21:03]  I bet you like Trump's religious advisor will say, we all have to fast now for Jesus or something, you know.
[01:21:09]  And then that'll be, oh, you're not supposed to eat for 30 days.
[01:21:12]  So some nonsense like that.

=== Forced Fasting and Death (16:49) ===

[01:21:16]  Cutting down to two meals a day.
[01:21:18]  Yeah, fasting too.
[01:21:19]  Like if you're going to get into a fast, it's more of a mental game where you get yourself prepped and you're super excited about it.
[01:21:24]  All right, I'm going to go through.
[01:21:24]  I'm going to cleanse.
[01:21:25]  Like you're getting your mind ready for it as well.
[01:21:28]  If you just were your normal days going along and then suddenly, whoom, you don't get food for three days, that's a very different type of mind frame than if you're preparing yourself with the proper hydration and getting ready.
[01:21:39]  And then, you know, you get those three days and you're really working through it to try to cleanse yourself.
[01:21:43]  Those are, you know, those are two different worlds to exist in.
[01:21:46]  It can be done.
[01:21:47]  But, you know, again, that trauma of going through that, just instantly hit with no food, not out of expectation versus expecting it and enjoying the experience and getting ready for it as a rite of passage, if you will.
[01:22:02]  I just don't know how they're going to sell it to people.
[01:22:04]  Eat two meals a day and fast one day a week or two days a week.
[01:22:07]  You'll get through the food thing.
[01:22:08]  It's all good.
[01:22:10]  I just think coming up.
[01:22:13]  I don't know the timeline on it for America.
[01:22:15]  Each individual nation is going to have a different timeline hitting this same exact wall.
[01:22:22]  Right.
[01:22:23]  Well, and clearly we'll have grocery store rationing the same way they did in Venezuela years ago, where you have to sign in with your biometrics in order to buy food, and then you're only allowed a certain amount of food.
[01:22:37]  And you might have to wait in an eight-hour line to be allowed into the grocery store to get your minimum, you know, or your quota of food, so much rice, you know, one chicken a month, whatever.
[01:22:51]  But that's going to be tied to your account, which is controlled by the government.
[01:22:55]  So effectively, it's kind of an enforced CBDC with food rationing, especially if that's free government money, like a UBI hybrid CBDC.
[01:23:08]  You know, it's like, here's your free money, but there's a purchase quota.
[01:23:13]  You can only buy so much stuff, and we're going to track you.
[01:23:16]  We're going to enforce it centrally.
[01:23:18]  So that's how they walk millions of people into a controlled wallet system is through famine.
[01:23:27]  Yeah, that's the greatest driver, isn't it?
[01:23:29]  Because I know in Thailand, they're putting license plate readers out at the petrol stations now.
[01:23:33]  So when you go through, you can get your supply, but you cannot return the same days.
[01:23:40]  And then your license gets flagged into the system.
[01:23:44]  And they're putting out that if you're trying to cheat the system and go multiple times and bring your motorbike or your car through and then go home and siphon it off and then come back and continuously do this loop that you will be arrested for doing that.
[01:23:55]  So they're already on to it and using technologies to try to prevent other people from hoarding gas, even though it appears you're just going to get your quota of filling, that's it.
[01:24:04]  And then you return the next day, you're already on record as doing that.
[01:24:07]  So the technology is at that level where they're, you know, and we're talking about Thailand petrol stations.
[01:24:13]  They're already using advanced technology to make sure you don't go and continuously buy fuel and hoard it.
[01:24:20]  So we're already at that level anyway.
[01:24:23]  Right.
[01:24:24]  Thanks.
[01:24:25]  Exactly.
[01:24:29]  I said flock.
[01:24:30]  Yeah.
[01:24:30]  Thanks, Flock cameras.
[01:24:31]  You're used worldwide.
[01:24:32]  So you can see how this technology.
[01:24:34]  Now, the only thing I might say that could be a godsend on this is if there is a helium disruption to the largest extent, then a lot of these semiconductor chips and things that make all of this apparatus move might be disrupted or pushed back a few years and give us a longer window before the implementation of everything, as well as some of the data center slowdown because of the materials inputs won't be there based on this disruption.
[01:24:59]  That's the only positive looking at this coming out that could be, I guess, if you're looking at it in a wider view here.
[01:25:10]  Interesting.
[01:25:11]  Well, I think maybe the other silver lining is that there will no longer be denial of the agenda.
[01:25:20]  As people are dying, hopefully they will realize that that was the plan the whole time was to engineer a way to shut off the world's energy system.
[01:25:30]  In other words, see, I don't know about you, David, but I think that this war, you know, it doesn't make any rational sense because the Strait of Hormuz was open before Trump ordered the attack on Iran.
[01:25:43]  But the only way it makes rational sense is if they want global famine and mass depopulation.
[01:25:49]  You see what I mean?
[01:25:51]  Yeah, and destroying the infrastructure.
[01:25:54]  To simply destroy, not just close it, but to destroy everything that makes our world work out of that area is, you know, that's the final linchpin there, I think.
[01:26:04]  Right.
[01:26:06]  So if the war is the cover story for this, then there's no incentive for Trump to end the war.
[01:26:18]  He would want it to continue, but it just keeps telling the public that we're going to seize the strait and reopen the strait just to kind of string people along while the actual plan is to starve half of you to death or maybe more.
[01:26:35]  Yeah, if I could add one point.
[01:26:36]  Now, those of you who are surfing the news a little bit, now understand the disruptions currently are like around 17 to 20 million barrels, depending on what metric you're using.
[01:26:46]  The Yamal East-West pipeline in Saudi Arabia is currently at max, and they've verified 7 million barrels a day in Saudi Arabia now loading in the Red Sea from the Yamal pipeline.
[01:26:59]  If that were to be hit, that would be the absolute end of the economies of the planet because that 7 million barrels would go offline instantly.
[01:27:08]  The pipeline would have to be shut down, obviously, if it was destroyed in sections.
[01:27:12]  And if you hear anything in the news about the Yamal pipeline being destroyed, then that truly would be such a devastating moment for humanity that if it goes to that point and they take that out, then you know that's the plan truly to starve the planet because there will be not enough energy for even basic operation from almost everything.
[01:27:34]  That pipeline, that 7 million barrels a day, is truly the lifeline coming out.
[01:27:39]  If that were to be destroyed, then, yeah, we're going to have to rethink a lot of things.
[01:27:50]  Yeah, yeah.
[01:27:56]  And we might have only 4 billion people left living on the planet by that time, is what I'm saying.
[01:28:08]  Yeah, I think the carrying capacity is a little bit lower than that.
[01:28:10]  I think it's probably around 2.8 billion.
[01:28:14]  If you take it back and you look how the Industrial Revolution allowed us to ramp up to certain benchmarks that we hit in population, coal brought us some place, steam brought us others.
[01:28:24]  The oil finally was the trigger that brought it up from 1 billion and above.
[01:28:29]  It was oil.
[01:28:30]  Coal and all that other thing that was pre-Industrial Revolution or included in that timeframe when we switched over to using fossil fuels and being able to crack that and get in different distillates and the gas and the diesel and that sort of thing.
[01:28:43]  That didn't occur until the early 1900s, really at a mass.
[01:28:47]  And then it really didn't get adopted and used widely until, say, the 1920s.
[01:28:52]  So then you start to take that benchmark of population and where did it go from 1920s to World War II?
[01:28:57]  And then kind of right there at that, all right, that's truly where we would be sitting if we lose this much oil, roll it back to the World War II days of production.
[01:29:07]  And then, you know, you put there, and all right, it's around 2.8, 2.9 max, and that was it.
[01:29:11]  And then we grew from there.
[01:29:12]  And those other 8 billion people, those 5 billion people arrived in the last 100 years or less.
[01:29:18]  So if you're going to walk the clock back 90 years to World War II, then that's kind of where we would sit in population based on oil production from that era.
[01:29:28]  And the numbers would match up with what that would be if we start losing more out of the Middle East.
[01:29:33]  I know America could wrap it up, but they're not.
[01:29:35]  So something, there's a disconnect here of these countries that are supposedly having these vast oil reserves and they have the refineries, but they're still having shortages.
[01:29:42]  So there's a huge disconnect in what's going on.
[01:29:45]  It's got to be a purposeful turndown or just half these things don't make sense anyway on how they're going to be massive shortages in all these producers with the refineries.
[01:29:54]  It's just, I don't, I just, I'm missing something.
[01:29:59]  Yeah, yeah, exactly.
[01:30:01]  But if you think about what's actually happening right now in the war, it's that, you know, Israel keeps bombing infrastructure in Iran, and then Iran responds by bombing, you know, permanently destroying energy infrastructure in the Gulf states.
[01:30:17]  While the U.S. says we're not bombing, but Israel does.
[01:30:21]  And so Iran keeps retaliating.
[01:30:24]  Regardless of who might be assigned the blame for this, the net effect is that the energy infrastructure, the gas infrastructure, fertilizer infrastructure that feeds our planet is being destroyed, you know, essentially permanently or for years to come.
[01:30:42]  This dynamic, I don't see any off-ramp to this dynamic.
[01:30:47]  Do you?
[01:30:49]  I don't because it's just going to keep going this back and forth.
[01:30:53]  And taking out a desalinization plant just yesterday, you know, that in itself would cause migration out of the area.
[01:31:01]  So if you wanted to, you know, people that are working in these plants and in these oil industry in the Middle East, they're there because they have desalinization and they have food deliveries.
[01:31:12]  If you're even able to disrupt the water source enough to make it move, now look through history, how many remnants of great cities do we see in the deserts around the world?
[01:31:22]  They left because there was no water.
[01:31:25]  And if you wanted a population to leave, so the actual workforce would leave to even operate those facilities, you would just take away the water.
[01:31:34]  And there would be nobody there to operate the facilities, even if they were not destroyed.
[01:31:38]  The only way they ever come back online again is if they bring a water source back in there.
[01:31:42]  True.
[01:31:43]  So if you're going to game it out, you would remove the food and the water to allow all those millions of people to live in the desert in an area and an inhospitable location that they could not live with without that technology of desalinization.
[01:31:56]  So if the desal plants continue to get destroyed, the population will have to migrate out.
[01:32:01]  There will be no way for them to even live without water.
[01:32:04]  So then that adds another whole complexity.
[01:32:06]  Yeah, the plant maybe was partially destroyed.
[01:32:08]  There will be nobody there to repair it because they can't live there because there's no water.
[01:32:12]  You can only bring in so much water.
[01:32:13]  You know, water's heavy.
[01:32:15]  You know, they're trying to fly in emergency air deliveries into what was it, the UAE.
[01:32:20]  They're trying to bring in 180,000 pounds of food per flight.
[01:32:24]  And I'm just thinking, you guys are insane.
[01:32:25]  You know how vast the population, 180,000 pounds at a time?
[01:32:29]  And you're taking breaks because the runway is being bombed and Iran's going, okay, you can bring in two planes today.
[01:32:35]  I'm like, wait a minute, that's not even half a million pounds of food for Dubai.
[01:32:42]  And I think, well, that math doesn't work on that.
[01:32:45]  Nor does the water.
[01:32:46]  No, it doesn't.
[01:32:47]  Airdrops aren't going to work in the long run, you know, for food deliveries.
[01:32:53]  Just like driving oil on the road also doesn't feed the world.
[01:33:01]  It's not possible.
[01:33:02]  You have to transport oil by ocean.
[01:33:08]  Right.
[01:33:08]  The economics don't work.
[01:33:11]  So you have to have, I mean, what I'm trying to get at here is that we've built, as a species, we've built an infrastructure that has allowed us to expand to 8 billion people with all these needs for desalination of water and artificial constructs called cities that import food and that import power, et cetera.
[01:33:38]  And this is all dependent on infrastructure that is now being just day by day obliterated.
[01:33:48]  This just seems like a suicide cult to me.
[01:33:51]  And I'm just curious.
[01:33:52]  I mean, we're almost done with the interview here, but I'm just curious, like, what's your big takeaway from all of this?
[01:33:57]  What does this make you think about?
[01:34:00]  Well, I think there's a larger cycle in play.
[01:34:02]  You know, when you look at some of these rainfall patterns across the deserts in North Africa and the Middle East, there are substantially more rainfall.
[01:34:09]  So if you're looking back in terms of large cycles, I would put this one on a once in a 4,000-year cycle.
[01:34:15]  And I was talking with Michael Yon yesterday.
[01:34:17]  We were talking about different maps.
[01:34:18]  And even if you go back to the 1600s and you look at some of these maps, it shows desert where they are now are forests on the 16, 1500s maps.
[01:34:27]  It shows green in the Gulf of Oman.
[01:34:31]  It shows green across swaths of Saudi Arabia.
[01:34:34]  It shows deserts in places like southern Egypt and southern Libya.
[01:34:40]  There were still deserts that are on the maps with waterways flowing.
[01:34:44]  So if you can get such a turnaround of the economy in just a few hundred years, perhaps they know there's a much larger cycle coming in that will disrupt the very world that we have anyway in terms of food production and locations that things and food and these sources of life can be produced on the planet to where an assessment is like it's unsalvageable anyway.
[01:35:04]  Let's just try to extract wealth, move it to areas on the planet that probably will survive and then we'll reset up.
[01:35:10]  And I am absolutely of the volition that North Africa is going to be a new grain growing area.
[01:35:15]  They can tap all those sandstone aquifers beneath from the Seuss aquifer to the Nubian sandstone aquifer and then all the above ground, you know, rainfall patterns are shifting.
[01:35:24]  So you're getting double rotation crops on lightly used soils.
[01:35:30]  The entire shift of a planet.
[01:35:31]  But to try to explain that to people and say, hey, you know what, we knew this thing was coming for about 50 years.
[01:35:36]  We didn't warn anybody, but we all want you to move to different locations because it's just not going to work the way the world's structured right now.
[01:35:44]  That's the 30,000-foot view.
[01:35:45]  I'm looking at this thing, that there's a much larger cycle impound here, and it's truly going to affect the world to that point of disruption of food production anyway, that now there's a culpable excuse like, oh, well, the fertilizer failed.
[01:35:58]  No, it wasn't because the jet stream shift on a magnetic field depletion event that was causing that.
[01:36:03]  No, we didn't teach you to grow your own food.
[01:36:05]  No, it was because the Middle East fertilizer disruption.
[01:36:08]  Like something at this grand scale of monumental shifts on the map here that are occurring.
[01:36:14]  And that's kind of the way I'm assessing this whole thing.
[01:36:18]  It's a much larger cycle in play that's driving most of this on a timeline.
[01:36:25]  Wow.
[01:36:25]  Wow.
[01:36:26]  Okay.
[01:36:27]  So we know that you're tracking this.
[01:36:29]  You're going to be reporting.
[01:36:30]  Tell our audience about your sites and your podcasts and your channels, et cetera.
[01:36:35]  Yeah, the Adapt 2030 channel.
[01:36:37]  This is going to be my main thing from now.
[01:36:39]  In addition to porting on some of the weather events, obviously.
[01:36:43]  Excuse me, Mike.
[01:36:45]  But I am going to be doing the fuel and the fertilizer reports out here for most of Asia because I scrape through the news every day, try to figure out what's going on, where the shortage is hitting, where they're not, what's still not disrupted, and then give a little timeline on it moving forward as, okay, well, it's anticipated that this might happen and this delivery dates because it's going to be hitting here first, and then it will move around the planet as just it did with COVID.
[01:37:10]  So it's going to be in certain locations that are going to be more greatly affected first.
[01:37:14]  See how that plays out, how it changes society, how the behavior patterns, food choices, this sort of thing.
[01:37:21]  I want to live in it while it's happening.
[01:37:23]  And then how is that going to sweep around the rest of the world?
[01:37:26]  Because that should give you an indication on how you can brace for impact, basically.
[01:37:30]  So that's it.
[01:37:32]  Adapt 2030 channel and the Civilization Cycle podcast.
[01:37:35]  Every Thursday night, 10 p.m. to midnight, two-hour live show.
[01:37:38]  And I'll be putting up more podcast, 30-minute shows as we move forward here to try to just show you or show people out there what's really happening beyond the news that you're being fed with this AI curation.
[01:37:53]  Like what's really happening on the ground with a guy with two eyeballs looking at it compared to pretty images that AI is generating to try to get you to believe that there's more of this, that, or the other happening.

=== Adapting to Societal Shifts (03:13) ===

[01:38:06]  So what are the websites where people can find your channels?
[01:38:10]  The civilizationcycle.com, or you could just put in short, civilizationcycle.com and oilseacrops.org.
[01:38:18]  That has the media player for the newest episodes of the podcast and also the YouTube channel.
[01:38:26]  Okay.
[01:38:27]  All right.
[01:38:28]  Well, David, thank you for your thoughts.
[01:38:30]  And, you know, I wish we had more positive news for the audience, but it just, it is what it is.
[01:38:35]  This is a global famine that's being engineered, it seems.
[01:38:41]  And there's no off-ramp to this at the moment.
[01:38:45]  Is there just anything you want to wrap up with here before we end the interview?
[01:38:51]  No, but also Brighteon as well.
[01:38:54]  I'm loading all the videos over there.
[01:38:55]  So, you know, anywhere I can get videos out.
[01:38:58]  Yeah, and I appreciate you having that up, censorship free, which I really like because sensors are down.
[01:39:02]  And just understand the deeper this thing goes, the more censorship there will be in terms of sharing information or not.
[01:39:09]  Because when it gets to a certain point, as in every single conflict across the planet that's happened in probably the last thousand years, information is going to be controlled.
[01:39:18]  So keep your eyes peeled for that.
[01:39:20]  And also just get ready to adapt to changes.
[01:39:22]  If you're going to get stuck in a certain way of thought or life, you're not going to really go through this too well.
[01:39:27]  You just have to be able to flow with the changes as they occur.
[01:39:29]  They could occur by the minute, by the hour, by the day, but just get ready for that because you know that's going to be part of this.
[01:39:35]  And that mind frame, it's going to be a mental game too, you know, as much as a physical game.
[01:39:39]  So well said.
[01:39:42]  Okay, David Dubine, everybody.
[01:39:44]  Thank you, David, for spending your time with us here.
[01:39:46]  And keep me posted on your adventures there in Taiwan.
[01:39:50]  Have a great trip to where you headed to.
[01:39:53]  We're going to be going to Japan and then Indonesia after this.
[01:39:57]  Oh, so you're headed to the airport?
[01:39:59]  Well, not currently.
[01:40:00]  We're going to head down south set up.
[01:40:02]  I need to get my base set back up.
[01:40:03]  But then, yeah, I'm going to start traveling through these Asian nations as this is going on.
[01:40:07]  That's the whole point of it, to be able to truly see how difficult it is to get in and out of an airport, how easy it is.
[01:40:13]  Is there still the pricing structure available?
[01:40:15]  Can we get flights to go somewhere?
[01:40:17]  How easy is it to get trains?
[01:40:18]  Can we get transport itself?
[01:40:20]  I'm really get into the middle of the disruption and see what is going on and how easy or not it is to move around during these disruptions.
[01:40:28]  That's the whole point of it.
[01:40:29]  Great.
[01:40:30]  Yeah.
[01:40:31]  So are you going to Taichung today?
[01:40:34]  No, Kaohsiung.
[01:40:36]  Oh, Kaohsiung.
[01:40:37]  Oh, okay, great.
[01:40:38]  Ah, beautiful, beautiful area.
[01:40:40]  I think you'll have, I mean, as you know, you're going to have a lot of fun.
[01:40:44]  Yeah, and then from there, we're going to head down to Indo.
[01:40:47]  We're going to try to not really stay in Jakarta, but get a little further out, central Java, and then move through some of the islands and then up to Japan as well.
[01:40:56]  We're going to start south and then see how easy it is to take trains and journey forward going north, probably up to Hokkaido, and then see how that transit of Japan is going to be during this time.
[01:41:08]  So those two countries are earmarked because Indonesia has oil reserves, they have refineries.
[01:41:12]  Wonder what's going on down there.
[01:41:14]  Japan, more dependent on imports, 99%.
[01:41:16]  So that's going to be two different things to contend within itself there.

=== Stock Up on Emergency Supplies (03:43) ===

[01:41:20]  So we're going to get two different flavors of the same, you know, some.
[01:41:23]  So I'm just curious how it's going to play out.
[01:41:24]  So this is going to be my thing for the next couple of months is being out here and seeing how this unfolds.
[01:41:32]  Okay.
[01:41:33]  All right.
[01:41:34]  Well, have fun.
[01:41:34]  And again, thank you for all your time today.
[01:41:36]  And we'll talk again soon.
[01:41:37]  All right, Mike.
[01:41:38]  Thank you for having me on.
[01:41:38]  Bye for now.
[01:41:40]  All right.
[01:41:40]  Don't disconnect yet.
[01:41:41]  Stay connected.
[01:41:42]  Let me end this.
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