1 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:08,960 Speaker 1: The following presentation is now Marvis Studio's production. You're listening 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,320 to the fact Hunter Radio Network. Here is your host, 3 00:00:14,119 --> 00:00:18,320 Dodge Hubbs. Welcome back truth seekers from around the world. 4 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,640 It's time for another edition of the fact Hunter podcast. 5 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:25,039 As we record on this Skull and Bones Day three, 6 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:29,239 twenty two March twenty second, twenty twenty six. I pray 7 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,119 this day finds you well. We had a beautiful day. 8 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:35,640 I think it's about seventy six degrees outside. It's six 9 00:00:35,719 --> 00:00:38,600 pm Eastern time. It was really interesting. We woke up 10 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,159 this morning and it was a beautiful sunrise, but we 11 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:45,399 were getting sprayed like I've never seen it before. And 12 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:49,079 by nine o'clock it was overcast. You couldn't see the sun. 13 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:51,640 But thankfully, I think about two o'clock it broke and 14 00:00:51,679 --> 00:00:55,640 the sun came back out. But we'll see, right, we 15 00:00:55,759 --> 00:00:59,399 shall see. The reason I was dropping, I guess there's 16 00:00:59,399 --> 00:01:04,439 two reasons. While we're dropping a podcast tonight, a we 17 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:06,680 maybe a little later in the week with dropping the 18 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,120 normal podcast. One of the things I'm working on is 19 00:01:09,159 --> 00:01:12,319 Pete hag Seth. A lot of the connections he has 20 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:20,560 even to the c f R. Also working on another 21 00:01:20,719 --> 00:01:24,680 Israel podcast with someone who'd been on the show before 22 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:29,760 working out time there. But this week has a chance 23 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,879 to be a pretty historical week. Right. I'm not a soothsayer, 24 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,920 I'm not a prophet, but there's a lot of things 25 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,640 that are kind of aligning and I wanted to share 26 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,920 them with you today. One of the things that I 27 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:47,239 don't believe is getting talked about enough is the markets 28 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,480 this week. And again, all of this is a push 29 00:01:50,959 --> 00:01:54,840 to get us across the goal line to the Central 30 00:01:54,879 --> 00:01:58,480 Bank digital coin, to get cash out of our hands. Right, 31 00:01:58,519 --> 00:02:00,920 they already got the pennies out of our hands. They 32 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,319 boil the frog. Rarely do they ever just you know, 33 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:09,280 completely put something on us. But we'll see. But the 34 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,280 Japanese market, then the K two twenty five, it should 35 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,199 be opening two hours from right now as I speak again, 36 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:19,960 it's six pm Eastern time. It's looking to be down 37 00:02:20,039 --> 00:02:23,520 over two thousand points, which is close to five percent 38 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:27,879 of their market. And that's Japan's market. That's well before 39 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:31,439 Wall Street opens. And today we have you know, the 40 00:02:31,439 --> 00:02:35,639 President of the United States talking about you know, nukes. 41 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:40,520 If Iran goes after the vilaination plants in the Middle East, right, 42 00:02:40,599 --> 00:02:42,800 if you do this. We're going to do that, right, 43 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,439 because in combat it's a one way battle, right. The 44 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,280 other country is just supposed to sit there and take 45 00:02:48,319 --> 00:02:50,520 all the missiles until they submit. You're not supposed to 46 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:54,280 fight back. It's it's a bizarro world, right. That's why 47 00:02:54,319 --> 00:02:57,120 we got to pray for peace. These people who are 48 00:02:57,159 --> 00:03:02,479 running our country are psychotic. But again, there is a 49 00:03:02,719 --> 00:03:06,840 chance that the Asian markets will crash out before most 50 00:03:06,879 --> 00:03:10,680 of y'all even wake up in the morning. So again 51 00:03:10,719 --> 00:03:14,120 you have Ian Bremer, who is the man who runs 52 00:03:14,159 --> 00:03:18,680 the Eurasia Group, one of the most powerful geopolitical risk 53 00:03:18,759 --> 00:03:24,599 firms right on Earth. He just said this this afternoon. 54 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:29,319 He said, the Iran war is not priced into the 55 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,639 markets yet. So everything that you have seen on the 56 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,719 news in the last twenty days has not reached the 57 00:03:36,759 --> 00:03:41,159 market yet. So think about that. The straight of horror 58 00:03:41,159 --> 00:03:45,520 moves has been blocked twenty days. Ninety five percent of 59 00:03:45,719 --> 00:03:50,400 non Iranian ship traffic has collapsed. There are close to 60 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:55,080 two hundred vessels stranded in the Gulf. Ships are paying 61 00:03:55,199 --> 00:03:59,479 Iran up to two million dollars per vessel just to 62 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:02,840 pass the Brent crude oil is it? I think one 63 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:06,639 point fifteen a barrel, Which listen to this, it's up 64 00:04:06,719 --> 00:04:11,000 seventy five percent. On February twenty eighth, it was sixty 65 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:18,959 four dollars a barrel. It has doubled, and obviously, if 66 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:21,560 it hasn't priced into marketshed, it's going to continue to 67 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,319 go up before we see at least eleven leveling off, 68 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,399 before we even start to see a downward trend. So 69 00:04:30,199 --> 00:04:32,399 you know, when you look and see that oil has 70 00:04:32,439 --> 00:04:37,639 spiked seventy four percent in twenty days, let that sink 71 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:43,120 in for a moment. And remember every major market crash 72 00:04:43,319 --> 00:04:47,240 or adjustment, whatever you want to call it, it was 73 00:04:47,319 --> 00:04:52,199 preceded by some type of oil shock. Right nineteen seventy three, 74 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:55,720 you had the S and P five hundred drop forty 75 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,600 one percent. Remember during the Golf War, everything was great 76 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:03,639 and row I think gas was seventy five cents a 77 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,839 gallon when we redeployed home from Desert Storm in the 78 00:05:06,879 --> 00:05:12,480 spring late spring of ninety one, and then it all 79 00:05:12,519 --> 00:05:18,120 crashed and the price of gas skyrocketed. And of course 80 00:05:18,199 --> 00:05:21,959 they say that's the reason Clinton won the election, Right, 81 00:05:22,439 --> 00:05:25,839 I don't know about that. I think I think Poppy 82 00:05:25,879 --> 00:05:28,839 Bush was more of a behind the scenes guy, and 83 00:05:29,079 --> 00:05:31,759 it was a chance to make the oil market some 84 00:05:31,879 --> 00:05:35,800 money and to pass the baton to Clinton because Clinton 85 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:38,839 played along in the eighties right with Mina, Arkansas and 86 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:43,120 everything else. That was his reward. And then, of course 87 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,959 two thousand and eight, everybody says, oh, yeah, the housing crisis. 88 00:05:47,319 --> 00:05:50,680 Well there was a housing crisis, but there was also 89 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:53,480 an oil shock. There was also the credit collapse. The 90 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:58,279 SMP five hundred dropped fifty six percent, and right now 91 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:04,399 we have the oil shock the credit collapse. Simultaneously, the 92 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:08,560 two point one trillion dollar private credit market is in 93 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:13,120 its most perilous period since two thousand and eight. Now 94 00:06:13,639 --> 00:06:17,000 I find that interesting because you know, early days of COVID, 95 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:21,839 we did see some you know, market fluctuation. But to me, 96 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:23,720 you know, in the morning, I would see the market 97 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:26,839 drop and then by the afternoon it would pick back up. 98 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,839 So what I saw was the average joe panicking selling 99 00:06:30,879 --> 00:06:33,959 his stock. And then your black rock, your black street, 100 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,639 your vanguard was scooping it up for pennies on the dollar. 101 00:06:36,959 --> 00:06:38,519 And I think we're going to see a lot more 102 00:06:38,519 --> 00:06:43,360 of that this week. And what we closed the podcast with, 103 00:06:43,399 --> 00:06:46,759 I think you'll start to it'll come around full circle, 104 00:06:46,759 --> 00:06:50,800 and you'll understand that this is more about more lockdowns, 105 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:56,480 more closures, and finishing off small business. Right. So again, 106 00:06:56,519 --> 00:07:01,439 this simultaneous type of breakdown has only occurred a handful 107 00:07:01,519 --> 00:07:05,560 of times in the past decade. So again, Trump is 108 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,600 now threatening to attack Iran's power plants, which if you 109 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:14,639 do a little research you'll see that it's a war crime. 110 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:18,079 No way to sweeten it up. It's a war crime. 111 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:20,560 And then Iran is saying, you know, they're going to 112 00:07:20,639 --> 00:07:23,519 hit all of the delineation the water purification plants in 113 00:07:23,519 --> 00:07:28,480 the middle of East Saudi Arabia, Guitar UAE. And then 114 00:07:28,519 --> 00:07:31,800 Trump says, well you do that, you know, that's crimes 115 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,879 against humanity. So we're going to Nukia. So we're going 116 00:07:34,959 --> 00:07:38,879 to do one war crime, you know, get hit with 117 00:07:38,879 --> 00:07:44,560 another war crime. And then it's just we'll see what happens. 118 00:07:45,079 --> 00:07:48,720 But you know, two hours from now, I'll be interested 119 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:52,160 to see what happens in the Japanese market and what 120 00:07:52,319 --> 00:07:56,040 happens here in the United States. Right I'm going to 121 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:58,079 take a break for a second, and I want to 122 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:03,720 play this audio for you. If it would load for me, 123 00:08:03,759 --> 00:08:08,519 that sure would be great. This is Citadel CEO Ken 124 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:12,439 Griffin saying that the world needs a savior, and the 125 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:17,279 hope is that artificial intelligence is the savior. That's really 126 00:08:17,279 --> 00:08:20,160 given some Antichrist vibes. We'll be right back. 127 00:08:21,439 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 2: The area of recklessness is the spending of governments around 128 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:32,679 the world who are all with little exception, all spending 129 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:36,399 well beyond their means. That's the recklessness of this moment 130 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,639 in history. This is not a parallel to the nineteen 131 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:44,279 twenties in terms of the recklessness of the private capital markets. 132 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:45,639 Speaker 1: It's a story of. 133 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 2: The recklessness a government spending within the private sector. There's 134 00:08:50,039 --> 00:08:53,600 a huge questionist where AI will take us, and I 135 00:08:53,639 --> 00:08:56,240 was carefully taking notes and listening to what Larry has 136 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:58,679 to say, or to what Madame Leguard has to say, 137 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:02,080 because this is one of the big issues of our moment. 138 00:09:03,039 --> 00:09:09,200 Will AI create the productivity acceleration that is, honestly this 139 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:14,399 hoped for in Washington and in the halls of government 140 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:19,879 around the world as a way to overcome the profit 141 00:09:19,919 --> 00:09:20,799 at spending. 142 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:21,639 Speaker 1: That we're currently engaged in. 143 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 2: The world needs a savior, and the hope is that 144 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:31,200 AI is this savior that we need for productivity, and 145 00:09:31,279 --> 00:09:33,679 the challenge with this is it may or may not be. 146 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:37,519 Speaker 1: We just don't know. Yeah, let's turn our future over 147 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:41,960 to computers. That's that'll workout really well. I'm sure there's 148 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:44,759 so much going on. If you didn't know, The Department 149 00:09:44,759 --> 00:09:47,480 of State advised just a couple of hours ago to 150 00:09:47,799 --> 00:09:52,039 all Americans worldwide and especially the Middle East Captain obvious, 151 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:58,159 to exercise increased caution. Americans abroad should follow the guidance 152 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:02,879 in security alerts issued by the nearest US embassy or consulate. 153 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:10,399 Periodic airspace closures may cause travel disruptions. US diplomatic facilities, 154 00:10:10,879 --> 00:10:15,480 including outside of the Middle East, have been targeted. Groups 155 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:19,480 supportive of Iran may target other US interests overseas or 156 00:10:19,519 --> 00:10:24,440 locations associated with United States and or Americans throughout the world. 157 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:29,960 So yeah, it's pretty rare to see a world wide caution. 158 00:10:30,159 --> 00:10:32,960 It's interesting again, if you go to travel dot State, 159 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,840 dot gov, you'll see that March twenty second, Good Old 160 00:10:35,879 --> 00:10:39,399 Skull and Bones Day, the Department of State advises Americans 161 00:10:39,639 --> 00:10:46,799 worldwide to exercise increased caution. And also, I'm sure most 162 00:10:46,799 --> 00:10:48,679 of you have seen the video from the airports. I 163 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:51,919 think it was Atlanta this morning this Sunday, morning March 164 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:55,320 twenty second, the line to get through TSA security was 165 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:58,720 three hours, and we're seeing more and more of that now. 166 00:10:59,039 --> 00:11:02,519 Trump says that he deploying ICE agents will be heading 167 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:07,720 to US airports on Monday. He is placing bordersar Ton 168 00:11:07,919 --> 00:11:12,399 Homan in charge of the effort, and of course you 169 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:14,720 all have to put a pop up there. Talks about 170 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:17,759 how agents would be there to release TSA officers from 171 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:21,759 non significant roles, but Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy offered 172 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:28,320 a conflicting plan. So again, if you are traveling, if 173 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:30,320 you have to fly somewhere in the coming days and weeks, 174 00:11:30,919 --> 00:11:35,399 be safe. I'd recommend if you can drive by any way, 175 00:11:35,399 --> 00:11:41,000 shape or form, I'd probably suggest that the air line terminals. 176 00:11:41,039 --> 00:11:44,519 The shortage of TSA agents due to the government shutdown 177 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,080 and this whole mess, you kind of see it's all 178 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:52,080 coming together right twenty twenty they shut us down because 179 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:57,360 of a virus. I am starting to believe that the 180 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:02,919 next shutdown will be a quote unquote energy shutdown, and 181 00:12:03,039 --> 00:12:07,320 more and more people are starting to know this. If 182 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:14,440 you didn't catch it, the IEA, the International Energy Agency, 183 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:19,399 just dropped something on Friday. They always strapped good news 184 00:12:19,399 --> 00:12:24,120 on Friday afternoon, talking about, you know, we have this 185 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:27,720 energy crisis and these are the way you know, this 186 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,360 is the way forward. And what they did was they 187 00:12:30,399 --> 00:12:34,399 recommended ten things and what was number one? Work from 188 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:40,240 home where possible. Right. This displaces oil use from commuting, 189 00:12:40,919 --> 00:12:46,360 particularly where jobs are suitable for remote work. Reduced highway speeds, 190 00:12:46,519 --> 00:12:50,399 encourage public transport, and don't forget on top of all 191 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,080 of this, Trump said to have the QRF, all the 192 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:58,519 National guards in all fifty states to have an emergency 193 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,879 Quick Reaction Force on standby. So it looks like they're 194 00:13:02,919 --> 00:13:09,399 intentionally planning, you know, like twenty twenty all over again. 195 00:13:09,919 --> 00:13:14,600 And what we're watching right now, it isn't just another 196 00:13:14,919 --> 00:13:19,960 geopolitical flare up like we've seen over the years. This 197 00:13:20,039 --> 00:13:23,279 is it feels like it's playing out the same, right. 198 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:27,360 It changes how people travel like twenty twenty. It changes 199 00:13:27,399 --> 00:13:31,080 how economies function like we saw in twenty twenty. But 200 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:35,679 it also changes how governments, you know, think about controlling demand. 201 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:39,360 We saw it in seventy three, nineteen ninety, two thousand 202 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,240 and eight, twenty twenty, we saw how quickly governments can 203 00:13:42,279 --> 00:13:48,320 reshape every day life, and they did, right, They sure did. 204 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:54,279 And when they believe a crisis justifies these extraordinary measures, 205 00:13:54,799 --> 00:13:58,320 which is the really the Hegelian dialect. Right, And the 206 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,960 question now isn't whether energy disruptions matter. The question is 207 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,960 whether we're entering another period where energy scarcity becomes the 208 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:10,799 justification for behavior of controls. And when I say energy scarcity, 209 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:16,120 of course it's contrived. It's intentional. Right, We've got plenty 210 00:14:16,159 --> 00:14:19,519 of oil in this world. This is all a reason 211 00:14:19,639 --> 00:14:24,320 to bring forth a one world government, a one world currency, 212 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:28,159 the new world order. So to understand what may be 213 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:30,960 coming again, go back to nineteen seventy three. I remember 214 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:33,759 the story. I was four at the time, so I 215 00:14:33,799 --> 00:14:38,399 don't really remember it. I think in Delaware, if you 216 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,279 had an odd number license plate, right, if your license 217 00:14:41,279 --> 00:14:44,039 plate number on your car ended in an odd number, 218 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,799 you were allowed to get gas on Monday, Wednesday, Friday. 219 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:53,240 If you had an even number, it would be Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Now, 220 00:14:53,279 --> 00:14:55,720 what they're thinking is they don't want to have to 221 00:14:55,759 --> 00:15:00,639 put gas stations in charge of saying you can or 222 00:15:00,639 --> 00:15:03,000 cannot get gas, because that's going to cause flare ups, 223 00:15:03,039 --> 00:15:05,440 fights and everything else. So now I think what they're 224 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:09,080 talking about doing, at least in their early stages of planning. 225 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,840 That I've seen is if you have an even number 226 00:15:13,159 --> 00:15:16,200 license plate, you can drive on the roads on Monday, 227 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,720 Wednesdays and Fridays. If you have an odd numbered license plate, 228 00:15:19,879 --> 00:15:23,440 you know the other. That way, they put the power 229 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:27,159 in the hand of the police and the quick reaction forces. 230 00:15:27,519 --> 00:15:30,159 And again this happened in nineteen seventy three. We saw 231 00:15:30,159 --> 00:15:32,200 what happened just six years ago. So before you just 232 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:37,080 whatever they put they did some pretty nefarious things just 233 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:42,440 six years ago. Right, and remember during oil embargoes, the 234 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:46,960 supply shocks didn't just cause higher prices, they cause they 235 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:51,279 gave reason, i should say, for governments to intervene in 236 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:56,000 how citizens used fuel. Right, we saw gas stations run 237 00:15:56,080 --> 00:16:02,720 dry line stretch for miles, and eventually, you know, policy 238 00:16:02,759 --> 00:16:08,240 makers began implementing demand controls. So again we already talked 239 00:16:08,279 --> 00:16:13,639 about how the odd and even gas rationing was done. 240 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:18,200 Speed limits were lowered nationwide to conserve fuel. By the way, 241 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,799 there was something called car free Sundays that actually appeared 242 00:16:21,799 --> 00:16:26,080 in parts of Europe. Car free Sundays. What did people 243 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:29,279 normally do on Sunday? They go to church? There it is. 244 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:32,080 They want to keep you away from God, They want 245 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,360 to keep you away from worshiping Christ. Governments told people 246 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:37,639 want to drive, how fast you drive in some cases, 247 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,559 whether or not to drive at all. They're not going 248 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,559 to call it a lockdown. They're going to call it conservation. 249 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,720 They're going to call it rationing. Supporting the war effort 250 00:16:48,799 --> 00:16:53,600 allah World War two, right, But the movement was reduced 251 00:16:53,639 --> 00:16:56,679 in order to stretch. That's what they tell you. It's 252 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:02,600 used to stretch a limited energy Sopply and again during 253 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:10,480 the Golf War, markets feared disruptions and the prices surged. Governments, 254 00:17:10,559 --> 00:17:13,200 you know, they already had their contingency plans in place. 255 00:17:13,799 --> 00:17:21,240 Airlines reduced capacities, Businesses began discussing remote work options, not 256 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:26,200 because of a virus, because cost and fuel uncertainty. There 257 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,519 were discussions about, you know, strategic reserves that you always 258 00:17:29,559 --> 00:17:35,200 hear about. But the crisis ultimately stabilized more quickly than 259 00:17:35,279 --> 00:17:39,000 feared because it ended very quickly and the framework remained. 260 00:17:39,039 --> 00:17:41,920 That's the most important part. They kept that Hegelian dialect 261 00:17:42,559 --> 00:17:47,400 plan in place. So again, when energy is threatened, governments 262 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:51,640 step in and they began planning for reduced consumption right, 263 00:17:51,839 --> 00:17:54,000 because you know, the war machine gets the fuel first, 264 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:59,319 right before us. Then came two thousand and eight. Again, 265 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,960 everybody remembers the banks and the housing crisis, but if 266 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:08,440 you take the time and research, energy played a huge role. 267 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,839 Oil surge close to one hundred and fifty dollars a barrel. 268 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:20,680 Airlines collapsed or merged because of that. That played a 269 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,000 very big reason that you didn't hear about. Pardon me, 270 00:18:25,039 --> 00:18:31,240 Shipping sloed, consumers, cut travel, Some governments discussed cultural changes 271 00:18:31,279 --> 00:18:36,119 and transportation demand. It wasn't as dramatic as nineteen seventy three, right, 272 00:18:36,839 --> 00:18:38,839 but it was the same logic. And they'll pull it 273 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:44,319 out again when fuel becomes expensive or scarce. The easiest 274 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:51,960 lever is to pull human behavior right, produce travel, consolidate trips. 275 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:54,039 I don't want to see anybody on the road unless 276 00:18:54,039 --> 00:18:56,640 you have three people in a car. Right. And then 277 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,839 twenty twenty, that was the year that changed everything. They 278 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:06,400 adopt hiding their evilness, and not so much because of energy, 279 00:19:06,519 --> 00:19:10,519 of course, No, that was something different. It demonstrated how 280 00:19:10,599 --> 00:19:14,640 quickly governments can reshape our daily lives when they believe 281 00:19:15,079 --> 00:19:18,799 the crisis demands that. Of course, it's scripted. Remote work 282 00:19:18,839 --> 00:19:24,079 became normalized overnight. Non essential travel was discouraged or restricted. 283 00:19:24,519 --> 00:19:29,720 Movement was categorized into non essential and essential. Right, you're 284 00:19:29,759 --> 00:19:33,160 non essential, you're essential. It's amazing how a virus was 285 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,720 able to evade Amazon and Walmart, but the mom and 286 00:19:36,799 --> 00:19:42,559 pop stores got decimated. Right. The important takeaway from twenty 287 00:19:42,599 --> 00:19:47,480 twenty was not the cause, it's the mechanism. Governments learned 288 00:19:48,039 --> 00:19:51,839 that large scale behavioral change is possible and that populations 289 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:56,839 will adapt quickly when it's told it's necessary for stability. 290 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:02,039 Now Here we are March twenty second, twenty twenty six. 291 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,880 We're about ninety minutes away from the NIKA to twenty 292 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:09,519 five opening another What time is it in the Middle East. 293 00:20:09,519 --> 00:20:14,400 It's about one am in the Middle East. And you know, 294 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:19,160 a major portion of the world's oil supply is under threat. 295 00:20:20,079 --> 00:20:22,000 The straight up Hormus is one of the most critical 296 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:25,240 choke points in the world, carrying roughly one fifth twenty 297 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:31,079 percent of all oil shipments. Any disruption there reverberates across 298 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:36,039 the entire energy market. Governments, you know, non stop talking 299 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:40,839 about supply, but now they are talking about demand. When 300 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:47,119 policy makers began discussing side measures. They're no longer assuming 301 00:20:47,319 --> 00:20:53,039 supply will quickly recover. Right, They are looking long term. 302 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:58,039 So the demand side, it sounds harmless at first. Work 303 00:20:58,079 --> 00:21:05,200 from home when possible, use highway speeds, right, encourage public transportation, 304 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:15,839 avoid non essential travel, promote car sharing, reduced flights. Right, 305 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:20,119 they'll be presented as recommendations first. Right, do you remember 306 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,920 what was it? Fifteen days to slow the spread? And 307 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,920 I was excited. Yeah, I'll stay home for fifteen days, 308 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:32,160 watch some Netflix. Right. That crazy tiger guy was the 309 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,759 big distraction at the time, Joe whatever his name was. 310 00:21:35,799 --> 00:21:39,319 Do you remember that crazy guy? And then it was 311 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:43,799 another week, another ten days, another month, Mother's day, stay 312 00:21:43,839 --> 00:21:46,279 six feet away from your mom. And then it was 313 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:53,880 the jab. This is what happened in the seventies. Right, 314 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:59,160 voluntary conservation, that's how it started. It became structured. Then 315 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:05,720 it was ration, and these behavioral nudges become regulatory actions. 316 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:10,599 And the logic behind it is simple. Right, transportation accounts 317 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:14,720 for a large portion of oil consumption. If you reduce commuting, 318 00:22:14,839 --> 00:22:19,599 then you reduce fuel use. If you reduce flights, you 319 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:25,000 reduce jet fuel demand. If you encourage public transport, you 320 00:22:25,039 --> 00:22:30,519 consolidate energy use. Right, and now they're talking about they 321 00:22:30,559 --> 00:22:36,119 want to get on the CBDC and to have it 322 00:22:36,519 --> 00:22:42,839 somewhere to control your travel. Right, you're obviously going to 323 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,319 have some type of GPS connectivity to it, and if 324 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:49,640 you try to spend your money outside of your area 325 00:22:49,799 --> 00:22:52,599 that you're allowed to travel to, you're going to get declined. 326 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,359 Catherine Austin Fitz talked about that today. I think it 327 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,480 was today. It was something I hadn't thought about. Right, 328 00:22:59,519 --> 00:23:03,480 you're in your fit fifteen minute city, you're twenty five 329 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,319 minutes away from your home, you stop to get lunch, 330 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:12,759 you go to pay, it's declined outside travel limits. Sounds 331 00:23:12,839 --> 00:23:18,160 very dystopian, But my goodness, what was twenty twenty not dystopian? 332 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:22,880 Have we forgotten so quickly? I think we're going to 333 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,119 If this happens, you're going to see a large amount 334 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,039 of brick and mortar stores go by the wayside. You're 335 00:23:28,039 --> 00:23:32,319 going to see, if you don't already see empty shopping 336 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,920 centers and malls. That'll probably get worse because logistics are 337 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:42,480 going to slow down, because logistics run on oil. So 338 00:23:42,559 --> 00:23:45,759 that's why it's important to look back through history. Right, 339 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:51,240 nineteen seventy three it changed driving behavior. Nineteen ninety, contingency 340 00:23:51,279 --> 00:23:55,960 planning focused on reducing travel. Two thousand and eight, economic 341 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:00,880 pressure reduced mobility. And then in twenty twenty, the governments 342 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:06,559 demonstrated how much power, how they can truly change our lives. 343 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:12,319 Right now, we're seeing the early language that connects all 344 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:20,559 of these historical threads. Right, essential travel, remote work, demand reduction. 345 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:26,440 These are truly part of a consistent response pattern. So 346 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,039 all of this is psychological. Right, we talk about the 347 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,519 psychological operations that they use on us. Right, So when 348 00:24:34,559 --> 00:24:41,079 someone hears energy crisis, we immediately focus on price, but 349 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:45,319 it's more of that, right, You're talking about supply chains, 350 00:24:45,759 --> 00:24:51,519 emergency services, food distribution. And by the way, our farm, 351 00:24:51,759 --> 00:24:53,720 not our farm, but the farm at the end of 352 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:59,359 our street that is always abundant. Every year they sold. 353 00:25:00,519 --> 00:25:05,519 They cannot afford to farm there anymore. So you know, 354 00:25:05,519 --> 00:25:07,119 they got surveyors out there, and I don't know what 355 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,279 they're going to build. But once again, urban sprawl has 356 00:25:10,319 --> 00:25:13,400 found us again. Every time on Aku and I move, man, 357 00:25:13,519 --> 00:25:18,039 it's never far enough. It's just people want to get away, 358 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,960 and that's called urban sprawl. People are fleeing from the 359 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,880 cities because they saw what twenty twenty Brang brought, Brang 360 00:25:27,599 --> 00:25:36,559 brought pardon me, It affects everything hospitals, agriculture, freight utilities, 361 00:25:37,319 --> 00:25:42,640 and then everything else becomes secondary or non essential. And 362 00:25:42,759 --> 00:25:47,880 once you start prioritizing the private sectors, the mom and 363 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:53,160 pop short stores, and they start doing the essential versus 364 00:25:53,200 --> 00:26:00,079 non essential, that is, I don't think if they do 365 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,200 something like that, they're not going to let off like 366 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:07,079 they did last time. So does it mean we're entering 367 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:12,599 the stage where policymakers consider tools that reduce mobility. We'll see, 368 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,960 we'll see, I think the next few days we'll tell that. 369 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,960 But you know, the fertilizer costs, food prices, all of 370 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,720 it follows, and we're What you have to remember is 371 00:26:25,759 --> 00:26:30,000 we're already at such a hyper inflationary period where the 372 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:36,799 dollar is so worthless right now, right when was it Friday? 373 00:26:36,799 --> 00:26:39,359 We were running around all day. We ordered three appetizers 374 00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:42,799 and two main courses to pick up it was ninety 375 00:26:42,839 --> 00:26:49,119 some dollars. What are you kidding me? And gases back up. 376 00:26:49,559 --> 00:26:52,400 I explained that to you earlier. So it's it's very 377 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:57,519 important and to learn from history. Right they're reshaping planning. 378 00:26:57,519 --> 00:27:02,480 They are altering the business models. So again, what should 379 00:27:02,519 --> 00:27:07,119 you take away from this. It's not about geopolitics. This 380 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:12,559 is about control. It's about reducing mobility, which means control. 381 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,160 And again, many people when they hear things like this, 382 00:27:18,279 --> 00:27:20,279 they run out. They look up on gas and water 383 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,960 and food. Look, you know, you can prepare as much 384 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,200 as you want, but number one, make sure you are 385 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,839 prepared spiritually. If you don't have Christ in your life, 386 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:31,799 then no matter how much food or water you have, 387 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,400 you're not prepared. That is the most important takeaway. Number two, 388 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:42,720 look out for your fellow neighbor. Right, and again, don't 389 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,759 lose sleep over these things. Can't control them, right, But 390 00:27:46,839 --> 00:27:49,359 it's very important to be cognizant of what's going on 391 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,000 and how they wordsmith things, and how it's always for 392 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:58,200 our safety and our betterments. We're not there yet, but 393 00:27:58,279 --> 00:28:01,880 the early indicators are it's like we're at the event 394 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,359 to a one stage right before COVID. I think we 395 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,559 may even be a little further along, but we'll see. 396 00:28:09,319 --> 00:28:15,799 But again, if disruptions continue, the conversation will continue. And 397 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:21,400 again it's unfolding day by day. Don't panic, we're just speculating, 398 00:28:21,799 --> 00:28:26,119 but it is certainly history repeating itself, one familiar pattern 399 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,960 at a time. We have some more announcements later on 400 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,920 this week. 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