Iran negotiations are done, what's next for America? | ZFS 74

I shot this one as an emergency broadcast. Iran has officially backed away from the negotiating table. Their deputy head of central military command said it plainly. Without surrender, war is inevitable. And we are not surrendering. So here we are.

On top of that the CEO of Exxon is now calling oil at $150 to $160 a barrel within weeks. We are currently sitting at $91.50 as I shot this. For context we were at $62 to $64 before the Strait shut down on February 28th. Do the math on what that means for your gas, your groceries, your fertilizer, and everything that moves by diesel in this country.

There is also a report out of Axios that Trump called Bibi Netanyahu and screamed at him. Called him crazy. Told him everybody hates Israel because of this. I do not believe that phone call happened the way it is being described and I will tell you exactly why. Because the day after that call Israel attacked Lebanon and killed six more people including two children. That is not what a steamrolled man does the morning after getting chewed out.

I also break down the Axios funding question, the Glass-Steagall repeal, why crises never happen immediately but always trace back to a single moment, and why February 28th 2026 is going to be in the economic history books.

And I close this one with three things you can do right now. Hold assets. Invest in yourself. Disconnect.

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What are you grateful for? Hard cut. Hard cut. Thanks, producer, that's not there. Welcome in. Good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon. Whenever you're taking the time to take this in, thank you for making our show a part of your day. Very grateful for you. Hope you have something grateful in your life that you see right now, that you feel right now. But we're bringing this in as a quote unquote emergency broadcast. This is a show that we're not normally shooting Tuesday, fresh in the morning, right after the Jimmo. I needed to make this video because we have a large update to give. There's actually a few updates within the last 24 hours we're going to walk through today from Axios News and a phone call between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, quote unquote. A statement by Iran defense ministers that they are officially done negotiating with America. And now multiple economists and even the CEO of Exxon stating that we are only weeks away from a recession, if not a depression. How are you? Welcome in. It's almost summer. The weather's getting warm. See some bees buzzing around in the garden. My potatoes are growing. You guys got some potatoes in the ground? I got some potatoes in the ground. Love you. Also, I found out from a couple people that this is their favorite quote unquote leftist podcast because they listened to the first few minutes and said, this leftist, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Why is it whenever we talk about any political figure being a part of a pedophile ring that I'm automatically associated with the other group? Can we just get out of the tribalism in politics? Can we get out of that's that would be incredible to me if we got out of the tribalism of politics, but that's for a whole nother episode. Today, I have three things I'm going to be giving to you at the end of this podcast to better set you up for the coming economic troubles that will ripple off of this war. Okay. We are going to have economic problems because of this skirmish, because of this war, because of the Strait of Hormuz that began being shut down on February 28th, 2026. We will look back in the history books, we will look back at the economic text, and we will watch this unfold, stemming right from that moment. Real enough to remember 2008? If you are, okay, hear me. Did 2008 and the great financial crisis start in 2008? No. No, it did not. In fact, home prices started dipping by Q3 of 2026. Did the problem start in Q3 of 2026? No, that's when it started to affect the pricing of the housing. Many people actually point it back to 2004 and 1999. There was a SEC margin rule change that allowed for investors and banks to invest with a bunch of money they didn't have. And then in 1999, we had the repeal of Glass-Steagall, one of the original New Deal tenants from 1933. FDR put those in place. We ripped those out and allowed banks to be whatever they wanted. Allowed banks to be whatever they want, allowed them to invest money that they do not have. All of a sudden, economic crack. I can see how that can happen. The point is, crises is crises, crises, croissants don't happen immediately. They happen from ripple effects of other events. My argument is I believe at this point there's a 99% chance that we're sitting through those events. So I want to tell you at the end what you can do to hedge. But let's get into the subject matter at hand. Iran has officially backed away from the negotiating table. Guys, since the beginning of this skirmish, what did they call it originally? A two to four week uh just endeavor, I think they called it. An endeavor. Using any word they can that's not the three-letter word war. Because what's a war, by the way? Can you define that for me in your brain? Comment if you have a better definition than I can someone pull it off Wikipedia. What's the definition of a war? Is it congressional approval? Is it troops on ground? I always thought it was deaths on both sides and two countries being at odds. It seems like two different countries, three different countries, are at odds and deaths, have been told. So I don't know. I don't know nothing. I don't know what a war is. I would think it's a war. And the negotiations have been going on ever since. Now, here's where we're at today. Two things have happened. Number one, we have a report out of MSNBC that came out at noon yesterday, Monday, stating that Iran was backing away from the negotiating table. They're done negotiating with America. In fact, uh senior officials uh with the Iranian military said this morning that the United States demands our total surrender and the Iranian nation will never surrender, said Mohammed Jafar Asadi, deputy head of Iranian, Iran's Central Military Command. He said, without surrender, war is inevitable. Basically stating they want us to surrender. We're not going to surrender, so war is inevitable. Now, this comes at a time when Exxon CEO has already come out and stated that he believes barrels of oil within the next three weeks are going to be at 150 plus. $160 was his call. $160. For perspective, we currently sit at $91.50 per barrel as I shoot this. As I shoot this. We were below 90. The new news popped in up above 90. Now, even the stock market pumping up above 7,600, the SP 500 index. The SP 500's been performing incredibly all throughout the skirmish. So the SP 500 is playing in its own reality. We're going to put that to the side. Oil is sticking around this 90-ish range, really hoping for a deal. And everything I'm reading says there's not going to be a deal. So why aren't the markets reacting properly? Because they are just hoping and praying something changes. But here's why I believe nothing's going to change. Donald Trump, in reaction to Iran stating they will be exiting negotiations. They are done negotiating with America. They quote unquote said they cannot trust our words or guarantees anymore. What does that mean to you? They can't trust our words or guarantees anymore. Have you ever been in a relationship where someone said they were going to do something and then it didn't happen? Your girlfriend, longtime girlfriend. She says, honey, if you go and fix this project, you get get down this honeydew list item within the house, within the apartment, your one-bedroom, 400 square foot apartment. There's one window that's creaky. She says, you know, you fix this one window that's creaky, and we can go out and get some ice cream. You love ice cream. You say, Great, me love ice cream. I fix window. So you go through and fix the window, you watch some YouTube tutorials, you get it fixed up, and when it's done, she's like, ah, it's late, I'm tired. What if we did ice cream another day? Like, all right, yeah, things happen. That's cool. Week goes by, no ice cream. Next weekend comes along. Now the door is creaky. You get some WD 40 in the back, so it's gonna be an easy fix. And she says, Hey, I know what I said last week, we didn't end up making it, but if you can fix the door, if you can fix the door, me and you, ice cream. And you like ice cream, so you fix door. Get the WD 40 out, easy. Sits 15 minutes, no more creak. You look at her wide-eyed, bushy-tailed, ready to go get some cream. She's like, actually, my show's about to start. Can we do it another day? Now, this time you're like, come on, what are we doing? This again? Now, let me ask you, how many times, how many weeks would have to pass? How many how many times would you have to fix something within the home? Promised the luxurious lifestyle of licking on some beautiful cookies and cream ice cream on a waffle cone, two scoops. And it never happens. How many times would that have to happen before you stop trusting her word? Two weeks? Four weeks? Three months. Iran wants some ice cream. We keep promising them peace. We keep promising them reparations. We keep saying that, yeah, we can negotiate, but yet we don't give anything in the negotiation. Here are the three things they want, by the way. If you're unfamiliar with the three things Iran wants, I'm gonna read them out for you. These are the three main line items that are preventing a deal. Number one, assets unfrozen. Number two, reparations for infrastructural damage. Number three, peace in Lebanon, their inclusion in the ceasefire. So, have we beckoned to their will and said we're gonna unfreeze their assets? No, we haven't. Apparently, they want a minimum of 12 billion on frozen, originally talking 24 billion. So maybe they're coming down. Maybe they're coming down. 12 billion. Now, if you're curious when these assets were frozen, they started become uh becoming frozen in the 70s, late 70s. On and off, it's been added to and taken away from. Of course, the Obama deal uh had to do with that. Uh there are rumors it's hundreds of billions worth of frozen assets at this point. They want about 12 billion on frozen. Number two, they want reparations for the infrastructural damage caused by this war that, of course, we started with Israel. They did not start. So, by their own logic, they say we didn't start the war. Now you want to end the war, fix what's broken. And the idea for how they're going to gain those reparations are through this maritime travel, maritime security through the strait. We've been, we've heard it a few different ways, but it's a toll. They want to set up a Strait of Hormuz toll. A dollar, I believe, per barrel of oil transacted in Chinese currency on any vessel that is leaving the Strait of Hormuz with barrels of oil. They want to use that money toward rebuilding their infrastructure. And the third thing that they want is they want peace in Lebanon. Lebanon is one of their allies. So the 2,000 deaths in one day, I believe it's 1,800 or 2,000 deaths in one day, maybe it's confirmed different numbers, in Beirut, southern Lebanon, was not on Iran's bingo card for peace. It was not the ice cream they were promised. And now the deaths in Lebanon are above 3,300. Which for perspective, for perspective, because we hear these numbers by the way of like death tolls. Um, and Americans have this, myself included, this sociopathy in maybe that's caused by the muzzle velocity of insane atrocities happening all the time, corruption happening all the time, live in front of us. Like we've watched shorts put in on oil to the tunes of millions, if not billions, multiple times around tweets that came out to be nothing from Donald Trump. They just want some ice cream. They just want to feel like they're being listened to at the very least. And you may say the Iranians are not to be listened to. They're a tribe of cavemen brown people. We can't listen to them. They're terrorists. Okay. Whatever. Have your take. There is more deaths right now in Lebanon, just in the last month, than we had from 9-11. 25 years ago, that thing you still remember is the reason we need to just go, oh, the red wine and blue, you know, the statue of liberty started shaking his face, like all that. Like the reason you feel that way, 9-11, they had more deaths. Are they worth more or are they worth less because they're from Lebanon than Americans? Maybe that's a moral question you can toss around in the old cerebral. They want peace for their ally Lebanon. Now, here's what I believe, by the way, because this is what we're gonna walk away from this podcast with. I love you so much for tuning in. Thank you for being a part of this. Um, the two things I'm gonna tell you right here is I believe Israel has a very distinct chess move that they're playing. And I think Iran has a very distinct chess move that they're playing in this situation, and America's kind of playing second fiddle to both. We're kind of behind the eight ball on both of these. Let me explain. So Israel wants us to be at war with Iran. This is all about greater Israel. This is all about land expansion. This is all about Zionist billionaires having their will orchestrated in the Middle East. Let's get this episode shadow banned, shall we? Like and subscribe to make sure the algorithm hits it. Hit the hype button. I just realized there's a hype button on YouTube. I don't know what that is. Hype it up, baby. Zionist billionaires are orchestrating their ideology in the Middle East at this moment, and Israel is being very strategic, though evilly such. I don't know if that's a proper way of saying that. Evilly such, they are conducting a strategy. They are playing chess. Here's what they're doing. In my opinion, what they're doing right now with these attacks on Lebanon is they're putting America in a position where we're in a catch-22. Here's why. Let's say that America just unfroze those assets. Let's say America said, yeah, set up a toll. Now, would that be a loss for America? I think by most people's standards. I think myself included, I think by most people's standards, we walked into this war February 28th and talked about regime change and social revolt and that we we had won by March 3rd. It was a one-day war by March 4th, and it was only gonna be two to four weeks by March 5th. And here we are in June. So to say that we have control over these negotiations would be, I think, a very far stretch. Very far stretch. I think you're crazy if you think we're in control of these negotiations, to be honest with you. So with that being known, that this negotiation is not in our hands, what is Israel doing? Well, Israel is putting us in this juxtaposition, this catch-22, that even if we were to unfreeze their assets and set up this toll system, they have their hands on the one thing that will keep a deal from ever being had, and it is Lebanon. In fact, Lebanon was quoted as one of the main reasons for why Iran is backing away from negotiations, stating that a ceasefire has been broken multiple times in Lebanon. So, here were the unfolding events, and then I'll tell you exactly what I think Iran is doing to play chess. The after effects of that were an interview with Donald Trump yesterday with CSNBC, where he was asked, Hey, Iran said they're done negotiating. How's that make you feel? His answer, quote unquote, I don't care. If they're over, honestly, I really don't care. In fact, I couldn't care less. Unquote. Let me read that for you again. By the way, this comes a couple weeks after, before getting on Marine One discussing Americans' finances in terms of this war, stating, I don't think about their finances at all. It's just kind of echoes that statement. Again, when asked about Iran backing alpha from negotiations, his statement was, quote, I don't care if they're over. Honestly, I really don't care. I couldn't care less, unquote. Now, you'll be excited to know that by last evening, that quote came out at lunch. By the same day's evening, Trump will put out a truth social post saying, just so you know, negotiations are moving at a rapid pace. And all shooting in Lebanon will stop. Whoa. All shooting in Lebanon will stop. That's interesting. Because there happens to be a truth social post that exists from you from April 18th, Donald Trump, that says, I just had a conversation with Bibi Netanyahu. I told him that we would support this battle against Hezbollah, but that Lebanon needs to not be struck anymore. Enough is enough. Those are the words he uses. Enough is enough. The attacks in Lebanon are done. April 18th. Month and a half later, there's been another thousand dead. So did that work? Do we have control? Again, I would think you're a little crazy. I would think you're you're watching this through a really shaded lens. Pick your color. Okay, pick your color. I would think you're watching this all unfold through a very particular lens and not the clear lens that shows that we're clearly not in control of these negotiations on any front. And Israel knows that. Bibi Netanyahu knows that. And they're utilizing an opportunity to not only destabilize one of the fronts of the wars that are a part of their greater Israel expansionist program by also making sure that it's a chess piece that's moved in the right position to ensure we can't get out of this Iran skirmish quickly. Whatever you want to call it. I call it a war. I gave you three things at the end of this to prepare yourself for this wartime economy as it continues to unfold. So stick around for things you can tangibly do. We'll be quick today. All right. So here's the other thing. It came out last evening as well, right before this tweet, where Donald Trump said that negotiations are actually progressing at a rapid pace. All shooting will stop. Can we just stop there? How do we go from in the morning? I don't care. Honestly, I really don't care. I couldn't care less, which is a lie. It's a lie. It's a PR lie. So it's like an acceptable lie, I guess. It's a PR lie. Public relations wants to look good. But it's a lie. You care. You care a lot. They have to. You're leading the country. For you to say you don't care is crazy. For you to say you don't care is crazy. Now, can you say, man, I think they're fibbing. I I think they don't really have a horse in this race. I think we got it. I don't really care if they back out. If that were the case, maybe. But they do. They're winning these negotiations in pretty much all respects. And I'm not an Iranian apologist. I'm not an Iranian apologist. I'm not an Iranian apologist. Okay. My parents were dual military. My mom got back in after 9-11. I joined in 2012. I deployed overseas, went to Afghanistan, protected the poppy fields. I've met with Afghani civilians. I've met with uh high-ranking military officials. I've been connected with the circles that love this military industrial complex, of which I used to love as well. I loved it. Missiles, yay, grenades, awesome. Pop, pop, pop. Let's do it. That's not my mindset now. It can be yours. It's fine. I believe we do have to have a strong military to have a strong defense to keep our country great and thriving. But it does seem that our military industrial complex expands much further than just defense, especially if we look at the last, I don't know, 70 years. I think it expands way past defense. And maybe traipse is a little bit more into offense. The point being, we started this skirmish. We were the ones that just recently launched self-defense attacks in the strait. What does that mean? What's a self-defense attack? Usually means someone has to attack you first. Regardless, what happened before that tweet? Well, two things happened. One oil basically completely recovered. Oil at the initial notice of Iran backing up from the negotiating table, oil would spike from $89.50 a barrel to about $94.10 per barrel. And then it would fall back down to about $90.50. Why? Why'd that happen? Well, there was a report last night that came out that there was a phone call between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. Did you hear this? Did you read about this? Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu had a phone call last night. Now, Axios reported this first, and I'm just gonna read it to you verbatim, and then we'll describe what might have actually happened here. Okay, listen up. It says last night, U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly fumed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call, calling the prime minister, quote unquote, fucking crazy, telling him that everyone, quote unquote, hates Israel and demanded that Israel agree to a ceasefire with Lebanon and the Hezbollah terror group. Axios cited a U.S. official who summarized Trump's message to Netanyahu as follows, you're fucking crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this. While U.S. officials told the news sites that Trump was aware Hezbollah has been firing repeatedly at Israel and that Jerusalem has a right to respond, they said he believed the IDF had responded disproportionately in recent days, risking Washington's effort to secure a ceasefire extension with Iran, which is conditioning a deal on a truce, a ceasefire in Lebanon. Trump, quote unquote, steamrolled Netanyahu on the call, and U.S. official told Axios, BB said, okay, okay, just make sure everything is taken care of. And that is it. Guys, do you think this phone call really happened? Do you really think this phone call actually happened the way it's being described? By the way, Axios is the news program, the news outlet, the media source that I'm beginning to realize might truly be the fake news. We need to look into Axios a bit. We need to look into where Axios is receiving its funding from because they're also the ones that have reported that there's a ceasefire, that there's a 10-point peace deal, 15-point peace deal. They're the ones that have been reporting on it, saying we're right around the corner, guys. Everything's okay. Everything's okay. And then it's not. But Trump, Trump called Benjamin Nanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel. The same man that he told on April 18th to stop attacking Lebanon. Enough is enough. And then it didn't. It continued on every day. Please don't step on Iran's toes. And they did. It's also obviously happened in Damascus. They said, don't do it. Trump said, don't do it. And he did it. I'm Damascus. We've got several different opportunities to see that when we say don't, BB says, I don't care. So forgive me when I read a planted story that is somehow making it out to be that Donald Trump is leading our country ferociously and aggressively against the tyranny that is Benjamin Netanyahu. And I love the quote in here that says that he steamrolled Benjamin Netanyahu on the call. That's cute. And BB responds saying, okay, okay, just make sure everything is taken care of. Okay. Um, we can all believe what we'd like to believe, but Trump again stating, quote unquote, you're fucking crazy. Valid. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. Maybe. I mean, he's not in prison because he's currently at war and he's not being tried from his 2021 charges of fraud against his own country. So yeah, he would be in jail if they weren't a war, but he could cause his own. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Dog, you think everybody hates him now? You think now is the pivotal moment? You him bombing Lebanon is the moment that everyone's looking up at Israel and beeping at the other and thinking, wow, this guy might just be a crook. This guy might not be just as as as wholesome and virtuous as I had once thought when I stood by Israel because my American nationalist pastor at my little church here in Delaware told me to. Hmm. Maybe, maybe the bombing of Lebanon is what sent boomers into a spiral to realize that the Israel that they've been following is not that of which is mentioned in the Bible, and instead, actually just a Zionist economic plan for expansionist efforts. Maybe this was the moment, maybe it was. I don't think it was. I think maybe that was Gaza. I think maybe, just maybe it's the mass murder that's been going on to the tunes of well over a hundred thousand for the past three years. I mean, maybe it was in 1995 when he had Hitzakh Rabin, the current prime minister he was running against at the time, murdered the day after he led a rally to have him assassinated. Maybe it was then. Maybe it was when he got Jonathan Pollard, the spy for Israel that was charging America, released and back to America from Bill Clinton. Maybe it was any one of these times. Maybe it was any one of the bombings. Maybe it was any one of the subjecting the people of Palestine to being homeless under rubble. Maybe it was one of those times, but no, it's right now. Israel, they hate you now because of this. BB, they don't like you because of this. I'm saving your ass. I I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I don't I don't think it's a real story. I think it's a planted story. I and the other interesting thing I I found in looking up this article, which forgive me for utilizing my phone for resources today because I don't have our laptop up. Everybody who's responding to or republishing this story is ensuring that right in the title, if not the little subtitle under the article, you know, big words and the small little words right under to kind of summarize it. Nearly every single one is ensuring they're saying that Axios reported this. Axios. No one's reporting it as if it is absolute fact, just that it is a report from Axios. To see whether or not there's some evidence toward that, I decided to go to Al Jazeera, which has a great live update feed on what's going on, all things Middle East, to see. As reported earlier, citing the Lebanese civilian defense, an Israeli attack on the town of Mar Marwani, which is M-A-R-W-A-N-I-Y-E-H, probably pronouncing that wrong, district on Monday, killing six people. Public Health uh has said that those people included a woman and two children in the attack wounded another woman, another woman and four other children as well. Israel attacks on Lebanon have killed more than 31 people, 3100 people just since March 2nd. So if there was an attack on Lebanon last night after that phone call, does it sound like that phone call was legit? All I'm saying is I don't think it is. Now, what does this mean? What does this mean right now in this position? Because this is this is right now the the crux of everything we've been talking about for the past two and a half months about this war. Is that we continue to be in a catch-22. Here's what I mean by that. And for those that haven't heard my take on why this war began and what is happening right now, let me just quickly brief on it. Then I want to tell you exactly how Iran is playing this game of chess, and then we're gonna finish with the three things you can do to prepare. You with me? Love you. Number one, I think America and our leadership was tricked. I think our leadership was tricked into thinking that this war in Iran, this excursion, this mission, was gonna be quick, it was gonna be seamless, and we're gonna cut the head off the snake. I believe that between the Pete Heggs and the Mark Levins and the others, they were able to convince Donald Trump and others that this war would be fast. Because remember, when this war began, before we started launching this thousand-missile onslaught for a few weeks on Iran, the mission was very simple. They stated, we want regime change. We want to create social revolt from within. We want to destabilize everything that is Iran. That hasn't happened. Okay, didn't happen quick and it hasn't happened now. So it's probably not going to happen. That was the initial win that we laid out on the table. Slowly but surely, then it became about nukes. It was mentioned before, but it wasn't really mentioned as a win. We started going into nukes. And have we prevented any nuclear advancement in Iran? Have we have we have we collected anything? Have we destroyed anything? Maybe. But honestly, I thought that's what Operation Midnight Hammer was back in June. Zach, those were ballistic missile facilities. No, they weren't. They were nuclear facilities. We stated we brought their nuclear program down to quote unquote dust. We decimated their nuclear facilities and their ability to create it. And yet they somehow then came out in February and said, actually, they're probably only a month away from building all that back. We gotta go back now. Pardon? All that money we spent back in June on Operation Midnight Hammer, all the money we're spending now? And we have no progress on the nuclear front. We're probably gonna have to unfreeze billions and assets. We're probably gonna have to allow them to have some form of tolling system. Where's the win? I think we thought that this was gonna be quick. That quickly destabilizing their leadership, we killed about 30 of their leadership. We killed their head on the first day. I think that they thought that that was gonna cause a full crack in their ecosystem. They were gonna completely fall apart. I think that we thought by funding weaponry that could go into Iran for the citizens of Iran that it was gonna lead to a social revolt. That didn't happen. And now we're stuck. Now we're stuck looking for an exit ramp that doesn't A, make us look really weak, which there aren't many exit rams. I see that have that opportunity. Two, we want an exit ramp that maybe Israel can co-sponsor with us so we can kind of get out and slightly make it a win. You know, we protected Israel. Great. Or number three, we continue the war and we try to beat them the smithereens to walk out of this war. I don't know which option we're gonna go with, but it neither one is a good decision. Boots on ground, awful decision. Keeping this war going, awful decision. A uh a very well-respected economist or two has already come out and say that we might be a week away. A week, seven days from the shooting of this right now, maybe less from when you're listening to it. Seven days away from the beginning of an energy crisis here in America. You're on American soil. We're running out of oil. Plain and simple. And by the way, I know that the right side will argue, well, hey, China's gonna be destabilized too. China needs Iranian oil. They'll also say all these other countries that typically were going to Iran are now coming to America. These are wins, Zach. These are wins. This is economic chess that we're playing, and we're winning. Well, two things. One, I love America getting business, especially international business. Like, that's great. That's great that we can be relied on for a source uh of anything that is required fuel, obviously, a necessity worldwide for any country, any economy, at least at this moment. But uh, we ourselves are running out of oil. We we do not create nearly enough to support the demand that has now been put on our own oil supply. We already see prices going up for the regulatory day person, all while, don't worry, companies are profiting millions and billions of dollars off of being able to sell this oil here domestically. But we're running out. We're running out. China, by the way, also reportedly before any of this began, back in June, interestingly enough, had started to accumulate oil. Reports were they had at the beginning of February 28th, beginning of March, nine months worth. Now, that nine months worth, are they lying? Could be. Are they gonna run out sooner because they're also helping support Southeast Asia countries like the Philippines? They've they've stepped in and helped. Are they gonna run out sooner? Maybe. But to say this isn't going to affect us directly, and that China falling apart, A is possible, B is plausible, or C is somehow a win, uh, all while we suffer, I think that's a stretch. I think it's a stretch. And it's also a stretch that we don't know to be true. We don't know what China is capable of withstanding, we don't know their true oil supplies. And by the way, they're one of the only major countries in the world, one of the major economies in the world that have started to sift away from these fossil fuels and are actually slowly leaning down. Whereas countries like us and others are going up in their oil usage, they're going down as solar and wind comes into play. Does that have a large effect? I don't know. I'm not an energy expert. I'm a real estate agent sitting in the basement telling you about a war. You can go listen to anybody about this. This isn't this isn't a topic that's hard to find conversation or commentary about. But what we've stated from the very beginning is that America got tricked. America lost from the start. Because we thought this was gonna be quick. We thought it was gonna be another Venezuela, and it is not. I think that they were ready to already be working on Greenland by this time, but we're not. So here's what I think Iran is doing, okay? And this is gonna lead directly into what I'm going to advise you to do moving forward through 2026 into 2027, because yes, what is going on right now is going to affect 2026, 2027, and beyond market, clip it, whatever you do these days. Here's what I think Iran's doing. So we just mentioned the fact that I think Israel is, which by the way, I've used that word like 11 times now. This this episode is going to be shadow banned absolute heck. Please, if you if you love the show in any way, shape, or form, like, subscribe, hit the button, hit the hypes, uh, leave a comment, tell me what you think, tell me where you think I'm wrong. We can debate. I love it. We ultimately none of us are in the room that make it happen. We're all speculating, but we're speculating around a topic that means a lot. You know, I served in this military. I do take pride in our country. I do love this country. I do want to succeed in this country. I do want us our country to be safe. I want our country to be uh thriving. I want people within it to be happy and proud that they're a part of it. But I do feel myself and many others, especially within the younger demographic, don't quite feel as strongly in a patriotic sense about this country than maybe they did just three, five, or ten years ago. And maybe that's not you. Maybe you're more patriotic. Great. Okay. I love this country. I'm not a I'm not a masochist. I'm not a, I'm not a uh a what's the word? Uh there's a word archaeist, archist, and anarchist. I'm not an anarchist, okay? I'm not gonna be signed up to sharpen the pitchforks and light up the torches for millions of people to go to Capitol Hill. I'm I'm not gonna be that guy. Now, when that day happens, I might participate, not leading the charge. I think there's legislative ways that we can solve a lot of the problems we have going on in this country. The problem is money and the problem is power, is shape-shifting all of that. So here's what I think Iran is doing with that being known. I think Iran is gonna keep their feet exactly where they're at for at least the next given weeks or months. Why? Because they want to collapse our economy. That's what I think. I think Iran wants to collapse our economy. And it's not a crazy thing to think when you think about the strategic moves they've taken. So, for one, shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, lining it with mines, stating no one going in, no one's going out. Is that a is that a form of of traditional militant uh just hit down on my books. Boom, bam, bam. Is that a form of of typical militaristic, you know, death toll warfare? Is that a is that a typical strike? Is it killing anybody? Is there any missiles? No. It's an economic move. It's a piece of economic warfare. They're shutting off the global supply of fuel, 20 to 25% of it. They're shutting off food supply through fertilizer, ureas, nitrogenous fertilizers. They're also cutting off semiconductor production. Do you know that? We need helium. And most of the helium comes out of the ground from the GCC countries. We're not getting helium. I also learned helium isn't something we can store too well. It's got to get used. It's got to get used quickly because it just seeps away and floats up. Go figure, helium floats up. And so, just like that balloon that floats to the top of the building and slowly but surely leaks and then falls back down, that's helium. So we can't store it. And semiconductors are made utilizing helium. Ask me how? No clue, but it is. I think Iran wants to collapse the American economy, and they're gonna do it by simply standing still. Now, do I believe that Iran would be very happy with being able to run a toll and getting their 12 billion, 24 billion in frozen assets and have peace in Lebanon? I think they'd sign that deal tomorrow if they think it would be true. I think they would sign the deal tomorrow. I think they would have signed the deal two months ago. But we're at a stalemate, and their move against that stalemate, they're like, cool, we'll just collapse your economy and wait until the people within your own country are struggling so badly that the pressure from within your own country forces you to make a deal. Do you catch that? I think that Iran is sitting pretty. And by the way, I know their economy and their job market and everything isn't sitting pretty. I get that. I I I 100% get that, but I I think that they are willing to sit in the shit long enough to ensure they drag us into it. Because if they can drag our economy down, that gives them a humongous card to play in negotiations. If you want this all to end, just do this. If you want the straight back open, just do this. That's honestly where I think we're heading. Now it could just be we go back at the full out war. That could happen. The cost will go up, we'll probably print money, we'll probably bail out, we'll probably do all these other things. If we go back into war, I hope we don't do that. I hope we don't send boots on the ground. Nobody should be on the ground for the likes of Israel. Which by the way, anybody who would go under the ground in Iran in an American uniform would be there on behest of Israel. We can have our debates around the logistics and nuance of that, but come on. And if Iran just can continue to wait this out for maybe just like some economists are saying, a week. Other CEOs of oil companies like Exxon saying in as little as a month that we're gonna see six dollar plus at the gas tank. That barrel of oil that I just told you is sitting at about $91.50 would be above $160. These are oil executives, by the way. They understand the pain that could be caused to the market by that. Even Larry Fink, back in March, I think it was, maybe, maybe, maybe early April, said if this lasts until summer, we are going to go through a worldwide recession. No doubt. It's just the math. So what do you do about this? What what what does a normal everyday American do when they see that their country is biting its own tail? Like we're we're jacking ourselves up. Our economy is already unaffordable. You go to the grocery store and wonder, what do I need to put in my grocery cart today to not spend $400? You're the one who's probably looking at Chipotle as a treat nowadays instead of the $10 slot bowl that was very easy to obtain and get your macros from. You're probably the same person who at one point viewed childcare as just something that you'll do when the time comes. And now that the time is coming, you're like $1,400 a kid per month. What? You're the same person going to the pump paying $60, $80, $100 to fill your tank, wondering if one day, one glorious, beautiful day, that the housing market might allow for you to have something as simple as a shelter, a luxury now, shelter. All these things going on. And we're still messing around internationally, throwing our money everywhere across the world for missiles, welfare, and otherwise. And you expect me to believe that Donald Trump got on the phone with Benjamin Netanyahu and said, You're a fucking crazy guy. No, I don't. Call me crazy. I don't. I believe that's a psyop like many other things. And as we stated on our last episode, talking about how the Pakistani intermediaries were told that Trump's tweets were to be quote unquote ignored. Ignored. Why? Because we said that those tweets and those statements from the executive branch are merely quote unquote domestic media. Tell me what that means to you. Domestic media. What it sounds like to me is that it's it's branding. It's PR. It's branding. It's PR. Like there has to be a moment in your life you can remember where somebody was trying to save face and it just wasn't working. Because that's what I see right now with our country. And that sucks. That sucks. I don't like that. I don't like that. I don't want that. I don't want that. I don't want to sit here and tell you that things are gonna be more expensive, that it's gonna be more difficult to fulfill up your gas tank, that it's gonna be more difficult to afford food, that third world countries might go through famine, that the supply of food across the world might be so little that the children and families are gonna have less food for themselves. I don't want that. But I see the ripple effects lining up right in front of us that are gonna cause it. You remember Tiger Woods? Are you are you old enough to remember, what was it, 2008, 2009? The first DUI? Do you remember that? If you don't, let me let me let me bring up the speed. So around I think it was 2008, where Tiger Woods took some sleeping meds, went to sleep. His wife knew he was fooling around. So when he fell asleep, she grabbed his phone, saw he was cheating, had just been texting with her, apparently grabs a golf club. She's yelling and screaming. Reports go this, that, and the third of like she was swinging or what. I don't know. Yelling, screaming, had a golf club. He decides to run out of the house, gets in a car, he's still sleepy from the drugs, he crashes. Then a couple days later, he gets up on a podium on a stage. He gives his little PR briefing. He shows up in like a sweater vest, I think it was. It was like the most untier woods outfit you'd ever seen in your life. He starts talking about how disappointed he is in himself, and he starts talking about, you know, actually, it's really not that crazy. Here's what actually happened. And, you know, by the end of the 30, 40 minutes, no one believed him. No one believed him. Now, in the coming years that would follow, his career would kind of fall apart on top of injuries and mental distractions. He'd never really locked back in. He'd get one more green jacket, but we saw what just happened a few months ago. The pain is still somewhere in the soul as he flips a car in a residential area, claiming I was on the phone with the president. Crazy. Crazy, right? Now, a lot of people could see through the PR at the moment that this guy wasn't really a changed man. He wasn't really a changed man. This isn't the tiger I thought I was going to be getting. And to be frank with you, that's what I view this as. This is a Tiger Woods moment for our country where I'm watching all of our statements. I'm watching these stories that we're talking to Israel, like we're the boss. I don't believe it's bad PR. It's a PR moment. They're going through their PR from their crisis PR team. Like, what can we do to make the American people think this war is under control? Let's tell them they had a really mean phone call with PBN Yao. Yes, do it. We're in late stage PR crisis. We're just we're just trying to figure out stuff to make it keep rolling. This is a war that we've quote unquote won 18 times before the mid-April. It's June. This is a war that four different times, no, I'm sorry, five because of this phone call. Now, five different times we've said, stop Israel, stop attacking. It's not helping anything. And all five times it hasn't worked. What am I supposed to believe? When I'm watching the lies unfold, I see Iranian media that seems to match reality way more than the media we're receiving. They say they're fighting the Epstein class. I'm somebody who wants to fight the Epstein class. What am I supposed to believe? Need a sip of bubbly. Now, the thing about Tiger Woods, and then I want to give you these three things, and then we're gonna head off for the day. The thing about Tiger Woods is I've read a couple books. Um for those that don't know, big entrepreneur guy. From the age of 23 on, started real estate, got the grind in, got in content really early, like 2017, 2018. Started learning the content world, was starting to get involved in teaching other people how to sell homes, teaching other people how to set up their marketing systems, teaching other people how to do this digital marketing thing, teaching people about branding. I was learning a lot about it myself, was taking courses, reading books, going to seminars, masterminds, was starting to get involved in the people that were doing this at a really high level. And I got to speak on stages. I was getting sent out to different states to consult with big million dollar businesses. Wow, this is crazy. Um, I got to study a lot of what makes business work, and most of it's psychology, FYI. Most of it's psychology, especially in real estate. Because think about it. Especially if you're a real estate professional, close your ears. But 99% of real estate professionals suck. Maybe it's 97%. Most all of them suck. Because at the end of the day, a home is going to sell for a given price based off the market, the buyer and the seller agree upon, and the realtor in the middle doesn't really make a huge difference. Some will quote different stats. Well, for sale by owners make less money, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, they're not marketing it as well, right? They're, they're, they're not getting in front of as many people. Maybe it's not on the MLS. Got it. You can get on the MLS for 250 bucks. My point being, is in studying of of PR and marketing and the psychology that goes into all of it. I remember reading one book that talked about what if Tiger did it right? What would that have looked like? I'm a big sports head. Had been all my life. And I, plus pretty much every living, breathing sports fan on the planet in 2008 and before wanted to see Tiger just break every record. He was fun to watch, he was different, he had an edge, he was competitive. Unlike most golfers out there, he showed his emotion. We loved it. We loved it. So much so that even after this whole debacle, when he would eventually, about eight years later, win a green jacket at the Masters, we all loved it. We all loved it. And I say 2000, it was more than 10 years later. It was a while after. But I read this book and it sticks with me on how Tiger could have changed things. And it all goes back to that moment where he got on the stand in his little sweater vest and just was like, yeah, well, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. When instead he should have done exactly what the United States is not doing. He should have stepped up there and he should have said, Look, I made a mistake. I've made several mistakes, actually. I've cheated multiple times with multiple women across multiple countries. I've had an addiction to sex for as long as I can remember as an adult male. I'm competitive. I want to win. And I think a part of that bleeds into my chase after women. Now, my wife and I's situation is just that. It's going to remain between myself and my family as we go through this very difficult time that I 100% caused. But I'm a golfer, I'm the best golfer in the world, and I have a tournament to train for this weekend. So I'm going to get to that. As for this situation, I will be a better man. I will be a better husband. So if we can stay together, but ultimately, you know me as the greatest golfer on the planet, and I'm going to continue to do so at a high level. Any questions? And maybe not that verbatim. Maybe not that verbatim. But the point is owning it. Owning it. Owning the issue, owning the problem, and then stepping right back into your role. Being honest about mistakes, huge. In today's day and age, I think our country could have a little dose of that. I think our country could have a little dose of Carolyn Levitt stepping up as a White House press secretary and not all the time saying how the economy's doing so great. I think we could use a dose of every time somebody brings up the economy not being great, that they just say, Well, the stock market's doing great. I think we could use a little dose of talking about how the job market is absolutely being absolutely encumbered by the thought process of AI ruining an individual's job or an entire an entire company's line of j jobs. The entire wage infrastructure is gonna change because of AI and automation over the years. I wish we could get a little bit more reality from our administration, but we're not. We're not. So what do you do about it? Well, I did make a video called How to Survive a Wartime Economy. I believe it was three episodes ago. Feel free to tune into that. We did eight different topics. I'm gonna summarize most of those eight into just three right now. Okay, it's H A D. H. Hold assets. If you own a home, if you own stocks, if you own crypto, if you own gold, if you own silver, if you own, and I'm not a financial advisor, by the way. I'm just I'm just walking walking with the facts, okay? The historic facts line up to state that if you continue to hold assets through an ever-inflating economy, that that is what will drive you out from being at the bottom shape of the K. The K being this K-shaped economy, this bifurcated economy where one group seems to be doing exceedingly well and the other, the majority, seems to be struggling. The difference is who holds an asset versus who does not. Does that mean go and buy a home that you cannot afford, you can't afford the mortgage payments on it, you're never gonna build up equity on it, it's just gonna be a liability for you? No, it does not. Hence why the big problem with this current market uh is high prices and high rates, keeping people from being able to obtain that asset and have it make sense. All right. Stocks. Zach, it's bubbled. Maybe it could completely collapse, but do you think it's gonna stay collapsed? I don't think so. You may think Mad Maxi, cool. I'll design a cool car and put a gun on top. Sounds dope. I'm playing Fallout 4 as we speak. Sounds dope. It doesn't, but I'm romanticizing it a bit. But doesn't it sound cool? Doesn't like okay, pause. Am I the only one that kind of romanticizes apocalyptic landscapes? Am I the only one who thinks, man, if all the electric and water and everything turned off and we just got to, you know, just survive and get into little tribes and set up security and have somebody just gathering the food and this person's the carpenter and that person's the men like maybe I'm romanticizing it. I am, but I've always loved a good survival game. Maybe, maybe Minecraft survival got into my brain too early as a child. I don't know. But the thing about it is, I think it all ends up recovering, even if it does collapse. And the point of it being, and the reason I'm giving you this advice is I'm giving you this advice not to hold for a couple years to get rich. I'm hold I'm telling you this because you're gonna want to hold it for 10, 20, 30 years. Now, are you in a standpoint right now where you're romanticizing what America looks like in 30 years? Maybe you're not. And maybe that's why you should invest in things like gold, silver, things that hold national uh transnational value, international value. Maybe you should look into index funds that aren't just the S P 500, but other index funds that are in Australia, the market of Japan, China, the EU, there's there's lots of different places you can put your money. But holding assets is pivotal. Why? Because here's the deal. If everything were to collapse, if everything were to fall on its face, can I tell you one thing that is going to be true between me and you? If everything were to fall flat on the ground, if everything were to crash, collapse, crack, they're gonna print money. They are going to print money. So what does that mean? It means the monetary base would expand. What does that mean? Well it means that the dollar will weaken. What does that mean? It means there's more of them. It means the dollar in your pocket's worth less. What does that mean? Well, it means if you're an income-dependent individual, your income is worth less. You may have felt this over the last five, six years. Many people reporting they make more but feeling broker. It also means that we can rely on the Canteen effect. Canteen effect is an Irish French economist who stated that any time the monetary base is expanded through a country, that only three people benefit governments, banks, and asset holders. So I want you to hold an asset. Uh, number two, the number one asset. Okay, so the first one's the hold asset. Number two is the number one asset. Number two is you're the number one asset. We're gonna get corny for a second, okay? Let's get a little esoteric, let's get a little mystical. I think you're the number one asset in your life. Your body, your brain, your spirit. What you feed it is what you will receive. What you tell yourself in your brain are the thoughts that will end up reverberating into your life. Your thoughts will become your actions, your actions will become your habits, your habits will become your life. It's just how it works. In a time where things look crazy, the last thing you can do or should do is succumb to it. Quit. Lay down. Smoke all day, drink all day, scroll all day, argue all day. I want you to protect you. The number one asset in your life is you. You are the thing you have a hundred percent control over. You. I want you to protect you. I want you in the gym. I want you taking walks. I want you looking at nature. I want you sitting in silence to reset your dopamine. I want you to put your life in perspective and understand you were either created or showed up on this earth along with every single other person on this earth, and you all probably want slightly similar things as you float around on this marble in space for 70 to 80 years. What are you gonna do with it? It's your call. Everything around you may feel crazy, don't get me wrong. But what feels crazy, hear me, is the monopoly board that America has created. America created the monopoly board in which you sit on that feels expensive and crazy. The monopoly board is the problem. What it sits on is beautiful. The earth, the infrastructure that was created, the nature that exists is beautiful. It's incredible. You can exit the game to an extent and at least enjoy life. You can come around people that are around you. You can pray, you can meditate, you can do yoga. There's a lot of different ways you can like mentally get yourself back locked in. I love the gateway tapes from the CIA. I have those. I can share them with you if you want. They're free, they're unclassified. It's not crazy. I like it. Wim Hoff Breathing, uh, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Tony Robbins, Andrew Huberman. There's there's so many people that you can all take with a grain of salt. Sure. I'm sure they have their pros and their cons, but there are people you can follow that'll put you in a mindset that makes you feel like I can. Because guess what? There are going to be less people that succeed out of this economy. My goal, my goal is even though there's going to be less people that survive and thrive throughout this economy, that the people who happen to listen to this show have a better chance of being in that small demographic of people that succeed. And that success, I want to be very clear, isn't just money. Mental health, okay, physical health, okay? Spiritual health, family strength, tight friends, local bonds, a virtuous life. The capitalist life is a lie. It's a lie you've been fed for years. It's a lie your parents were fed for years. It's a lie that their parents were fed for years. Yes, you need money to survive. I get that. But nothing thrives in your life if you aren't thriving yourself. You'll never exceed any level of financial wealth, then you have personal growth. And that might sound corny, might be like, Zach, if I read a book, it's not gonna make me richer. I'm just telling you right now, someone who's dove into probably well over a hundred books in the last four or five years, someone who's attended so many different seminars, gone to so many different masterminds, gone to so many different things that were positioning my brain to improve itself in one skill or another, it's valuable over time. And it can start today for you by choosing to put away the scrolling device, by putting away the thing that makes you angry, by putting away that person that shouldn't be in your life and focusing on you. And you may think that's selfish. No, it's not. You cannot fight for the people to your left and your right one day if you're not ready to go. And one day, for one reason or another, people in your community, people in this country, might call on you to help. And if you're not ready, you're not ready. Get ready now. Prepare yourself now, mentally, physically, spiritually, to be the greatest man, greatest woman, greatest mother, greatest husband, greatest sister, greatest friend that you can possibly be. Starts with you. Number three, disconnect. This kind of goes along with number two, and it can definitely help number two get started. Number one's hold assets. Number two is you're the greatest asset. Number three is disconnect. I sincerely want you to disconnect. I sincerely want you to disconnect. I I I want you to have time every day. You could start with just 30 minutes. We go sit outside. Maybe you're in an apartment, you don't have a porch, go walk. Go to a park, go to a national park, go to a state park, go to a county park. Don't go to the park at the local elementary school. That might be creepy. Go look at a tree. Journal. There's power in the pen, by the way. There's power to putting something on paper. There's a reason I carry around so many freaking journals. There's a reason I carry around so many freaking journals. This is my fourth journal. Good morning, Sean. Good morning. There's a reason. There's power in the pen. Okay? You can meditate, go into silence, discover what's going on in your body, the emotions, the thoughts, the processes that happen naturally that maybe you don't even notice. You can disconnect and save your brain, save your emotions, save the chemical reactions that just fly naturally into your day-to-day life because you don't have control over it, because you don't take control over it. I want you to take control of it. I want you to wake up when your alarm goes off. I want you to eat healthy. I want you to drink water with some electrolytes and some collagen and take magnesium. I want you to do all those things because I want you to protect you. You're the number one asset, but you're not going to care about any of those things if you can't disconnect from this crazy dystopian reality that we just spent about 45 minutes talking about. You gotta disconnect. And that can that can include my own podcast. That can include my own my own content for some people is probably not what you want to scroll into while you're already suffering from a slight mental breakdown. If you're already in a dark space, finding an eight-minute skit video on how the Federal Reserve runs the world might not be what you need right now. You might know enough at this point. It might be time to disconnect. And I hear you. The number one thing I constantly think about myself if I disconnect, how will I remain informed? It's a great question. And one I'd ask you to sit with, because I don't have a direct answer for you. I sit with this my own problem of how do I stay up to date on everything that's going on in this dark, crazy world while also protecting my peace and my energy. Tough. Me and Sean talk about this all the time. Good morning, by the way. I don't know where else I want to leave on this other than you're important, you matter. You may feel subjected as an American right now to whatever the American military-industrial complex wants to do to belittle, kill, destroy another country. You may not feel proud of that. You may feel completely proud of it. And and singing Toby Keith in your head, like when the when the statue of liberty starts a single, maybe that's you. Fine. All I'm saying is as a community, as a human, as an American, you deserve to be able to be treated well. You deserve to be able to feel good. You deserve to be in a situation where you can financially thrive, mentally thrive, spiritually thrive. I want that for you. Starts with disconnecting, starts with holding yourself as the number one asset. And financially, holding assets. This is not the time to sell. It's the time to accumulate if you can. And I understand a lot of people listening to this are deciding between rent and groceries and are not thinking about the next asset they can buy. I get that. I get that. I love you. We'll continue to stay updated. But as of right now, Iran has backed away from the negotiating table, and we need to stand ready and stand at guard for the energy crisis, is more than likely around the corner. Yay. Great times. Sean's here. Sean, can you play the song? You got here just in time. Joe, come here, baby. Joe's here. Joe's here. Get on cam.