US-IRAN LEB CAST - Day 116 w/Malcolm, Jacob and Wajeeh

[00:00:02]I'm Malcolm Nance and if you're watching this, you are watching Black Man Spy US Iran talk a palooa cast day number 116 since the beginning of this war by our count. It may be two days shy. We started a little early cuz we're awesome. So that being said, thank you for coming to this episode of Black Man Spy. Our job is to make you smart about what's going on geopolitically.

[00:00:36]And today, although we have been focused on the US Iran war since day 116, we are expanding out into other parts of the world. Today we're going to be in Europe and the Ukraine to talk about that. Not the Ukraine and Ukraine to talk about that. But before we do, Jacob Carzo, Danish intelligence officer extraordinaire, is not here with us today. He may come up later, but with us with me is Waja the Gay Lion from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am hailing to you from my beautiful writing office in upstate New York. I am not in Canada, which is why I don't have a monitor behind me, but my monitor's in front of me. Waja, how are you? Happy Father's Day.

[00:01:19]>> Thank you.

[00:01:21]Happy Father's Day to you.

[00:01:23]>> You got any secret kids floating around out there?

[00:01:26]>> I have two cats. [laughter] >> Two cats.

[00:01:31]You're a cat dad. I see how it is.

[00:01:35]Oh, well, you know, Father's Day. Happy Father's Day to those who who celebrate, to those who uh who participate and who have children. Uh you know, good on you.

[00:01:47]It's a hard job. Uh it's tough. And uh as as my late wife would say, she'd say, "Oh, they're so cute." And then they grow up to be teenagers and then go on to college and be [ __ ] So, [laughter] but it's your job to get them right.

[00:02:05]That's what fathers eye. So, somebody says they have the same hutch. Uh, of course, I'm from actually one of my finals is is not there. I don't know why that final is not there. I think when we took out an electrical fixture, we didn't put it back up. But, uh, thanks.

[00:02:21]Uh, that's where I keep all of my my rare books, which aren't rare at all.

[00:02:25]They're all mine. [laughter] Not true. I keep a whole collection in there, plus a lot of other brick bracks and things like that. Uh, someday if we do a live subscribe. It's funny. Why do people write to you all the time about your private life? Like, what do you books do you read? What pen is that?

[00:02:44]what what you know where can I get merch? I get that all the time. And I've had people ask me where where's that carpet from? Where what's that airplane?

[00:02:55]What's the And when I was on MSNBC, I used to broadcast. I had a studio in the basement, MSNBC studio, upstate New York. And people used to be come to my house to use the studio. This was precoid days. And uh but when I started broadcasting from here, I testified before Congress from this room. And uh when I started broadcasting from here, people could see everything behind me.

[00:03:20]And they were like, "What's that little gnome you have on the table down there for?" I'm like, "What?"

[00:03:27]You know, and one guy said, "You have dog hair on your coat." [laughter] >> Oh my god. I'm like this 4K video is too the 4K video is too much. Okay.

[00:03:42]I can see lint on the on me and stuff.

[00:03:46]The I keep a lint brush now here before I do my my official broadcast, you know.

[00:03:52]Uh now this show is where you don't see me in a suit and a tie. I mean if I do Al Jazer or if I do something like that, you'll see me in a suit which I keep over there. Uh, but you know, the things in the background fascinate people. I've had people literally look at the books right behind my head and some guys post their books back there and I do from time to time depending on the subject.

[00:04:16]And uh, just crazy things, you know, people people y'all y'all need better lives, [laughter] right? When I'm done here. Yes, sir.

[00:04:27]>> Go ahead.

[00:04:28]>> You know, I don't mind answering some of these questions. Especially if it's about like some of my, you know, toys, man.

[00:04:38]>> Yes. Especially, you know, I like talking about my hobbies, pens, you know, like this an everyday carry pen and stuff like that. People when they ask me about that stuff, it's a good uh segue, but you're right. The 4K videos is embarrassing at this point. They show things that you don't want to show to the rest of the world. [laughter] Somebody somebody referred to them as Zoom Nazis.

[00:05:06]>> All right. But this room, by the way, you guys remember you guys remember during COVID, there was a guy he I know who the guy is. I didn't have I you know, but there was a guy who uh was raiding everyone's backdrop and it was called Room Raider. and he would he would watch people who were doing zooms and all these other things uh and check their backdrop and give them from a scale of 0ero to 10, right? And uh and this I did a Bill Mer from a hotel room.

[00:05:40]It was awful. It was just cream background. He gave me like a one one out of 10. And then I came to my house and did it. I did this and he was he completely changed. He was like, "Whoa, wait a minute." You know, um, he said, "Wait a minute. You know, that room is a 10 out of 10. This room is a 10 out of 10 on Room Raider." Uh, when I do that, cuz he was like, "What's that? What's What's that?" You know, that magazine's cool and that looks cool and whose photograph is that? I'm like, "Holy cow." So, that being said, okay, we've got our banter. We're about 800. will be up in a moment to discuss the important things which are happening geopolitically. A lot is happening geopolitically. And as intelligence analyst and a uh our geopolitical uh expert here from the Persian Gulf region in the Arabian Peninsula, I think it's important that um I think it's important that we make sure that you are smart going into the rest of the day because a lot of stuff happened uh last night.

[00:06:47]Somebody says you have a screwdriver pointer. I don't have a screwdriver pointer, but I do have a >> What's that?

[00:06:55]>> That's Jacob that has a screwdriver.

[00:06:57]>> Oh, he does.

[00:06:59]>> I use I use an actual briefing pointer, right? Retractable briefing pointer.

[00:07:05]I've had this forever, >> you know, forever. And I keep it in uh I keep it in my my somebody gave this to me as a gift which was well suited for this room. Uh this is my pen holder pen that someone gave me of Julius Caesar.

[00:07:23][laughter] >> Oh my god.

[00:07:28][laughter] >> Every day is the odds of March in this house baby. So [laughter] you can play Brutus 10 15 times. So [laughter] >> you know >> somebody asked books by Robert Fisk.

[00:07:46]Maybe. Yeah.

[00:07:47]>> The word dictator came from Caesar. He's the first person to be named dictator on the planet.

[00:07:56]>> Oh, really? I'm sure there were other words for it, but you mean using that word dictator? the using that particular word dictator was first used on him.

[00:08:08]>> Mhm.

[00:08:10]Yeah. Wow. And what what is it? What's the origins of the word? What's the uh etmography for etmology?

[00:08:21]>> I was learning about I'm looking it up right now. Trust me, there's 400 people looking it up right now.

[00:08:33]Okay. All right. It's our job to make you smart about everything and I can't remember everything. Right. Uh term dictator Rome used during a mil military or civil crisis. The dictator or a magister populi was granted absolute authority to overrule all other magistrates.

[00:08:50]Right? It comes from the Latin dict. I should have known that. To dictate, right? dictator to say or prescribe meaning dictator. Uh the one who gives orders or who dictates and prescribes.

[00:09:04]Voila.

[00:09:06]>> Voila. Super.

[00:09:08]>> Okay. B. So, what kind of coffee mug?

[00:09:12]Where's your coffee mug at? I know you're drinking some sort of crazy ass herbal tison from. That looks so French provincial. That looks like it came from Provence. That does not look like it came from a uh you know either Home Depot or some place like that or some public market.

[00:09:32]>> Made in China actually. It says >> made in China. They ruin everything. I try very very very hard not to have a lot of made in China around me. Although they are, you know, the new made in Japan. So some stuff has very very good quality. And we were just talking about M events and and things like that. Okay, so that being said, as you see, I am rocking a one of my gift um board of advisors spy museum mugs that they give us every time we have a board of adviserss, meaning I am not on the advisory board anymore because you go three years and for some strange reason they forgot I was on the board for 10 years. [laughter] They rotated me.

[00:10:17]>> They rotated me. But I'm going back for my book launch next year which will be a very very it'll be a book launch and massive party in Washington DC for my memoir which as you know thinker sailor black man spy uh will be coming out the book that took two years to clear through five different intelligence agencies in the Pentagon.

[00:10:44]>> So >> I'mma I'mma prepare my outfit for that day. You know, I'll be wearing my turban.

[00:10:50]>> I'll have the bis ready.

[00:10:52]>> That's your bis. That's right. I'll be saying, "What's up, bis?" So, [laughter] somebody says, "I'm rebearding." Yes, I am rebearding. I'm going back to my natural grandpa look. So, uh, anyway, crazy. All right, Montel. Oh, by the well, I am I have been using very well-known people. Uh my friend Reverend Al Sharpton, some of his friends. We have been trying to get a hold of Montel Williams forever. Writing to his agent doesn't work. He doesn't use any of his social media. I've got very famous people going calling up his folks. If any of you know Montel Williams personally, would you call him and say, "Yo, Montel, you were this man's division officer." And he has a massive book by St. Martins's Press that is going out to print and he wants you to write the forward. Here's the people who wrote forwards for my books before.

[00:11:51]Spencer Aur, Martin Sheen, Rob Reiner, who wrote the forward of my last book.

[00:11:59]Um, I can't remember. But anyway, uh, I've had some big names write my forwards because they were my friends.

[00:12:07]And Montel Williams isn't my friend, but he is my previous division officer. Yes, I do know a that he has an he has an illness. He um he has MS. He has multiple scerosis. However, forwards can be dictated and it's usually just a few paragraphs and he actually figures highly in my memoir.

[00:12:32]And uh it it's it's it's very funny because the first time I ever saw him in the hallway of the National Security Agency, I was like, "God damn, who's that?" I said, "That's that that officer's uniform is squared away. That guy looks awesome." You know, and he was a lieutenant. And normally with cryptologic officers, they look like a, you know, a bag of dirt with some old potatoes in it, right? Just do frumpying their way through their careers. This guy, I was like, "Holy shit." Uh, that guy is going to You could just tell he was going to be an admiral, okay, as a lieutenant. And that's the pro. Yeah, he's one of those guys that's destined to succeed, like Mr. Smith said. And boy, when he'd walk down the main corridor of NSA through the old headquarters building, going to the cafeteria, it was fun watching him. And I only saw him like two times over four years um because I was on a lot of missions. But when I came back, I was assigned to his division. He was my division officer.

[00:13:43]But the fun thing was to watch him walk down the main corridor and not watch him. It's to watch all the women in the corridor to watch him. And they were all like, "Yeah, how you do? How you ladies doing?" And it [laughter] was just like, "Hey, of course, no one said a word. All of those sounds and words were happening without a word being spoken.

[00:14:19]And I was like, "Shit, god damn, that man's sharp." And then I walked into my office. I was assigned to the Persian Gulf Group in uh 1987. And I walk into the office. They were like, "Come meet your division officer." And I was like, "Oh, it's you." I didn't even know his name. I didn't know his name. And I I was just like, "God, that sharp ass officer." And he was just like, "Yeah."

[00:14:45]you know, he's like, "Yeah, it's uh you know, I'm I'm command I'm Lieutenant Commander or at that time he's goes he was a lieutenant and then he made Lieutenant Commander." And the big question is why did he go to Oprah Winfreyy's show? And as I understand the apocryphal story, he would be nice enough not to tell you the truth, but I know he got a career killing Evo from an officer above him who was a little jealous. And [snorts] he went over to the Pentagon. He left cryptologology, went to the Pentagon to talk to high school students, and that's where one of Oprah Winfreyy's producers saw him and was like, "Give this man a show." And I remember when he was checking out, I thought he was transferring to another command and I saw him. Wanda Sykes is an army cryptologologist. She worked at the fort also. And one of these days when if I ever run into her, uh, I'm that's the first words going to be out of my mouth.

[00:15:38]Hey, Spooky.

[00:15:40]How you doing? Wanda Sykes is funny as hell, but um I saw Commander Williams in his last week and I was like, "Oh, hey."

[00:15:47]He was a lieutenant commander at that point and I said, "Hey, Commander, how you doing?" He goes, "You checking out?"

[00:15:52]He goes, "Yeah." And I thought he was leaving to go lead some massive command somewhere, right? No, he was leaving the Navy and went and so the next week I happened to be in St. Lewis and for some weird weird reason I turned on the TV in my hotel room and it literally was the first moment of his show came on TV and he said it was welcome to the Montel Williams show and I'm like Commander Williams what what the actual fud fudge is going on here how is he on TV and I just like I just saw you Fort me.

[00:16:40]So, um it's funny how the world works out, but uh you know, he uh he's a great guy, you know, uh he he take he took a lot of he took a lot of heat, uh you know, uh during this last 10 years because people wanted him to come [snorts] out as a hardcore Trump supporter. Yes, Wanda Sykes is Army intelligence. She was insom army signals intelligence. She was a cryptologist.

[00:17:07]So, that being said, we have told our funny stories. We have reached a thousand followers. Um, so let's get moving. We have a lot to do today. Um, and it is Sunday. It is beautiful where I'm at. Uh, I've already been out in the garden, by the way. This is my This is my job shirt right here. That was my job. [laughter] That was my career.

[00:17:32]>> Is that Filipino monkey? No, it's not Filipino monkey.

[00:17:38]Filipino monkey kick your ass.

[00:17:43]It's not Filipino monkey. And I write extensively about Filipino monkey cuz I not only found Filipino monkeykey's location of where he was transmitting. I went there and I identified that guy.

[00:17:57]Filipino obviously. Uh anyway, that's in a memoir. [laughter] Filipino monkey memoir. Oh, by the way, in case you think, "Oh, Malcolm, these stories are so amazing." Yeah, my stories totaled 177,000 words. I had to drop 70,000 words out of the memoir.

[00:18:21]And that meant that story's out. That story is out. All of that, the funniest stories, the funniest stories are going to be in a follow-up memoir. And it's just going to be funny stories. And would you like to know the name of that memoir? Watch. You'll like this.

[00:18:41]Bin Laden gave me diabetes and other true stories from the int from the National Security Agency. [laughter] It's true. It's true. Osama bin Laden gave me diabetes.

[00:18:55]>> No, I got to read that book now.

[00:18:57]>> It's the first story called Bin Laden Gave Me Diabetes is [ __ ] hilarious.

[00:19:02]Um, and in fact, I have Bin Laden's Quran stand here in this room.

[00:19:07]>> You got to show me a picture of that.

[00:19:08]>> I'll show I'll show it to you someday.

[00:19:11]But, uh, and a photograph of me finding it in his house.

[00:19:15]>> Somebody look Well, you guys are impatient. Derek, what do you got a bus catch?

[00:19:19]>> All right, let's move on. I've I've run across uh uh Bin Laden siblings in Medina before >> because his father was married to more than like three women and Osama was a son of one from one of his wife.

[00:19:38]Meanwhile, he had multiple childrens from his mo like different wives.

[00:19:43]>> So, he was like the lone child, lone wolf that became the black sheep. But everyone else is like very liberal and and not religious at all.

[00:19:53]>> Well, my one of my neighbors here actually met him in uh Indonesia. He was trying to pick her up back when he was a university student and rich. Okay, so somebody says they need some intelligence. Somebody goes, I want intel and you have it. Good. I'm glad you're asking for it cuz you're not going to like some of it. So, good morning, uh, Waja. Oil has not really moved 76 cents up.

[00:20:18]>> No, >> the markets haven't opened until tomorrow. We're going to have a little discussion with Mr. global uh about well I'm not going to have a discussion with him but I'm going to bring up a video where he talks about this emptying strategic petroleum reserve and how apparently um and how apparently the Iranians are using this countdown that Trump gave them to breaking the American economy and they are using it against us to get concessions so that let's talk about that first significant activity The United States and Pakistan representatives have arrived in Switzerland for talks aimed at meeting the Iranians. I do not believe the Iranian delegation has arrived yet.

[00:21:06]>> They are meeting in the vicinity of Lake Lousern, Switzerland. I believe I have some video here for you for the arrival of the United States delegation and the Pakistani delegation in Lake Lazernne.

[00:21:20]Um, and oh, I got some good video for you guys today that is duty-free that we can all use. Uh, but JD Vance is there representing the United States. So is Steve Witkov and Jared Kushner. Pakistan is represented by uh, Field Marshall Amir and President Shahariff. So they this is a the funny thing is this is the quarter the level of this meeting in theory should have been right uh at the at the presidential level. Uh but right now JD Vance is there and you know the whole purpose of JD Vance being there is to blame JD Vance in case none of this happens.

[00:22:05]>> The Iranians have been in Switzerland since yesterday. Actually >> they are Gallibaf.

[00:22:11]>> Yes. Got a buffers in there.

[00:22:13]>> Okay, >> I just triple check.

[00:22:16]>> Good. Well, all the players are in place. Question is where do these meetings talk? This is Axios is reporting with a diplomat with knowledge to the matter 25 minutes ago said that ho ho ho see this is why you got to keep the the phones open. JD Vance has met with his Iranian counterparts in Switzerland. The meeting was mediated by Qatar and Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahiff announced that Iran has agreed to reduce the enrichment levels of highlyenriched materials.

[00:22:53]However, as noted by the National Threat Initiatives Brewer, Eric Brewer, I like that guy. national the um national threat initiative is a civil group that um is counterp proliferation. He was former national intelligence officer on weapons of mass destruction. Uh Eric Brewer knows what he's talking about. So if Eric Brewer says well [ __ ] then it's bad then it's bad. Eric Brewer says such a framework was already agreed to in the memorandum of understanding as a minimum methodology to dispose of the material.

[00:23:35]You know one of the minimum methodologies to dispose of the material is waja >> it is impossible to get rid of nuclear material. Is that your question? No, [clears throat] I was going to say he said that they already agreed to a minimum methodology to dispose of the m material. Well, the most minimum methodology is to detonate an atomic bomb and then it's used up. But the Iranians are playing shuffling around with the words. They could say yes, we are going to reduce the enrichment level of some of our nuclear materials and still keep enough >> at 60% and enrich up to 90% secretly, maybe enough for five or six atomic bombs and then go out and use their slough yellow cake and stuff like that and enrich it to 3%. And still meet it.

[00:24:30]So, we'll have to see what the details of that is, but that just happened 25 minutes ago. the Lake Luzern Summit, which apparently has been paid by Qatar.

[00:24:40]What did I tell you? This This is the meeting venue, which has the Americans off to one side and the Iranians on the other side face to face. Uh, you know, I'm sure if Trump had it his way, he would have it in a giant, you know, uh, fighting studio out on the lawn of the Oval Office of the White House. So, that has already happened.

[00:25:03]uh field marshal maner aimer uh met with the Iranian delegation speaker of parliamentary leader Muhammad Bagar Galibath and foreign minister Abasaraji at the US they're calling this the technical level of talks which is how does [ __ ] happen I do not believe for one minute that that this these groups of people are going to spend 60 days working this [ __ ] out do you >> um JD Van himself before he boarded his plane yesterday said that he's not planning to stay in uh uh Switzerland for more than a day or two, although he said the team might stay there for a couple weeks. Um technical teams have already been US technical teams have already been on the ground before JD Vans uh arrived uh to Switzerland to figure things out between their counterparts.

[00:26:05]>> Mhm.

[00:26:05]>> The reality of the situation is that and I have a quote from the Katari people.

[00:26:12]He said uh and this is uh the prime minister uh Sheh Muhammad bin Abdraman bin Jasimani >> he said I would like to thank uh I would like to thank all of you for your leadership and determination that put us in this room. This is not really the main celebration. This is just the beginning and I wish everyone all the best.

[00:26:37]will stay dedicated to this partnership to support this m mediation until the end until we reach a solution. So what the rest of the world is really interested and really keen on getting this war to an end.

[00:26:56]>> Yeah. What is what what the reality of the situation is? The main issue that the Iranians and the United State will have to hash out is two things. The enrichment and the delusion of the Iranian uranium. How to get rid of uh uh how to deal with the uranium that Iran have. and two, the the Israeli front in Lebanon and >> whether they can actually put an end to that or not and defining the parameters whether Israel stays in the 30 kilometers they have taken or they step back because so far the agreement doesn't necessarily define whether is stays in Lebanon or leave.

[00:27:48]They just say ending the war, which is not uh for for for some people that's not clear enough.

[00:27:54]>> Yeah. Well, we're going to talk about Lebanon significantly in a minute here.

[00:27:59]Um, couple of good questions that came up. Somebody says, uh, did the Trump administration finally bring on technical experts so Trump can ignore them in the future once they make recommendations? Yes, I understand that this time they went back and found a team that was very similar to Obama's team, Department of Energy experts on nuclear weapons, uh, diplomats and negotiators there. Uh, but it's all out the window when you have Jared Kushner, Steve Witoff, and JD Vance at the head of that and Donald Trump making all final decisions. So it doesn't matter if you come there and say, "Hey, these guys are going to take that 60% and they're going to bring it down to 3.7%."

[00:28:42]Right? How much? [laughter] And you know, the Iranians may say, "We agree to de uh to um downscale and reblend material so that it's a 3.5%."

[00:28:56]Or 3.7% 67% which is what Obama had, right? Um Okay. Well, when how that's why you have technical experts there. So that is what the the news Fox News has on its broadcast. A historic moment for America.

[00:29:17]These guys really think that they're doing something that this is better than what Obama did. That this is historic.

[00:29:26]It's not historic. The only historic component of it is the United States is paying off Iran to stop closing 20% of the world's energy. That's the historic thing that I see here.

[00:29:42]>> Um, that's okay. But okay, awesome. We have 60 days for this to fall apart.

[00:29:48]Yes. Watch.

[00:29:50]>> Do you know who else is in Switzerland at the moment?

[00:29:55]>> Okay. Who?

[00:29:58]>> Um, I just found this out uh 10 11 minutes ago. It seems that uh Jared Kushner and Steve Whip are original officially in Switzerland.

[00:30:11]>> Mhm.

[00:30:12]>> So, it seems like uh >> they're part of the team. They're part of the negotiating team.

[00:30:17]>> I don't know if you heard me say that earlier, but uh yeah, they're part of the negotiating team. They're leading.

[00:30:24]Those three are the lead negotiators.

[00:30:27]>> I think those two are the main problem in the negotiation.

[00:30:32]>> Well, that's, you know, got to make sure Israel has a seat at the table.

[00:30:36]So, uh, [laughter] I'm not joking. So, it's it's just the way it is.

[00:30:43]>> Uh, one of the things that the Iranians objected to was Raphael Groce. He is the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. uh they oversaw the operations at Iran's three nuclear centers plus Bushier nuclear power plants that's isvahan for natans and uh the Americans wanted gross at the table right to sort of like oh this is all about nuclear almost all about nuclear the Iranians are like nope not agreed so they he is not at the table the head of the IAEA which is good because that will allow the United States to rely on our own experts as um Robot Bender said a little earlier so that Trump can blow them all off, right? Ignore them in their entirety. Okay, so the talks in Switzerland are on. Who knows? I'm not going to keep a countdown for that cuz that could blow up at any minute. All you got to do is Galabarachi could just up and say, "Hey, uh Lebanon's not being taken care of. Y'all can go f yourselves. We're leaving." Uh straight hormone remains closed. Speaking of which, Straight of Hormuz is closed.

[00:31:53]Now, there is reporting from Bloomberg, from Lloyds of London and the United States that says Central Command that the Straight of Hormuz is open. Waji, you have a statement about the Straight of Hormuz from Central Command.

[00:32:07]>> Yes.

[00:32:08]>> Quote, quote, "Iran does not control the straight of Hormuz. Traffic continues to flow and the United States forces are monitoring the situation to ensure this remains the case, said Captain Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for the US Central Command. The military uh said that 55 Mian ship transited the straight of uh transited Saturday with more than 17 million barrels of oil.

[00:32:39]Yes, that you know I tried to teach you guys when I was an instructor at the survival evasion resistance and escape school and we people say hey um what happens when you're tortured we say oh you're going to talk there's a way to talk okay [laughter] there's a way to talk state facts not the truth right if the truth is going to get people killed or you know you have something that you have to resist state facts not the truth Central Command statement was a statement of fact, right? 55 ships departed the straight of Hormuz or entered the straight of Hormus totaling X number of barrels of oil. Well, what he didn't say was this.

[00:33:25]Most of those ships departed through the Iranian traffic separation scheme.

[00:33:30]Okay. A few small lighters came in and out across the American protected area, but those are vessels that would have gone back and forth through there anyway. Right? So, he's stating facts that do not add up to the truth because he has been ordered not to tell the truth. He has been ordered to just say how many ships came through.

[00:33:53]Unfortunately, that was Saturday before the Iranian Revolutionary Guard warning, which I'm going to play for you now and show you the traffic scheme as it exists. Pay attention.

[00:34:16]has on the violation of the joint commitment that group of it is that have You listen to that.

[00:35:02]>> Okay. Uh that's from International Bridgetobridge channel, channel channel 16, where they give you warnings.

[00:35:10]All right. The Iranians are warning people. Does that mean ships are not moving through? No, when they say close, they mean close to everybody that they have not authorized to come through. So, uh, central command may infest. He said he didn't even hear multipass once. You won't because if you have the multipass, that warning's not for you, baby. I swear we got to get some multipasses, you know, signed up so we can wave them.

[00:35:37][laughter] Uh, someone said they couldn't hear. Did you >> Could you guys not hear that?

[00:35:44]warning. It's hard to hear.

[00:35:47]>> It was a little hard to hear, but I could hear it.

[00:35:50]>> Yeah. So, don't worry about it. You could read it. Uh, but that was the warning from the IRGC, right? Hormuz is a closed. So, just remember it is a closed and it is a not open except for multipass holders. you use the multipass lane over here. So that being said, straight horm is a closed, but ships are still moving through, but a fraction a fraction of the ships that would be moving through anyway. Average average dull ass day prior to this war, 300 ships would have entered and departed the straight of Hormuz. 300. To come up and say 55 came through, most of which use the Iranians traffic separation scheme is just them stating facts but not the truth. And that is the way Donald Trump does things. So speaking of which, let's see what Donald Trump has to say about this.

[00:37:00]This is a truth prada. I call it Pravda social. Now I won't use the word truth.

[00:37:07]Pravda as you all remember was the Russian partyline newspaper which only spouted lies. Donald Trump never spouts the truth. So Pravda social. There will be no tolls on the hormone straight for 60 days during the ceasefire period. And there will be no tolls after the 60-day period has expired unless they are imposed by and for the United States of America. Should the deal not be completed for services rendered as the guardian angel to the countries of the Middle East for purpose purposes of both past, present and future reimbursement of costs. Thank you for your attention to this matter matter, President DJT. So Trump is saying no tolls unless we impose tolls to reimburse us for as guardian angel.

[00:38:10]That's >> you said it on day one. He wanted a joint venture >> with the Iranians.

[00:38:18]>> Yeah.

[00:38:19]>> I'll bet you if they offered him 10% he'd be like we are enforcing the the US Navy would be enforcing the traffic separation scheme. [laughter] I'm directing the US Navy to work with our partners in Iran. You know, it's like what? Yeah. [laughter] That that would be precious and it would not be unpredictable for Trump to do that. So, like Sandra Stefins says he doesn't mean ancient guardian angel, he means angel of death.

[00:38:55][laughter] I have some very very clever followers.

[00:38:59]Thank you guys for this commentary. So that's where we are with the straight of hormuz right now. Uh we will see how much merchant uh merchant men move through the s today. But for right now, Trump wants to impose tolls for the United States acting as guardian angel.

[00:39:17]Here's the kicker. He's talking about two countries of the Middle East for purposes past, present, and future.

[00:39:24]reimbursement. Of course, >> I have breaking news.

[00:39:28]>> He's already He's He's announcing he's going to shake them down for money.

[00:39:33][ __ ] you already got 300 billion out of them. You're right. Terry Wonder says he needs guardianship.

[00:39:40]Uh, who's going to do it? Melania? I don't think so.

[00:39:45]Okay, >> I have breaking.

[00:39:49]>> Yes. What's breaking? Trump says Iran must stop proxies in Lebanon from causing trouble. The US president says Thran must immediately stop their highly paid proxies and Lebanon from c from causing trouble. If they don't will hit Iran very hard again, just like we did the last week, only harder, he posted on Truth Social.

[00:40:17]>> Okay. All right. Whatever. Whatever, Grandpa. Sir, this is an Arby's an Arby's drive-thru window.

[00:40:27][laughter] >> By the way, you need to switch your camera back to your face.

[00:40:32]>> No, I want you to see this this image.

[00:40:34]Why you think I'm laughing too hard?

[00:40:37]>> I was going to Lebanon. Thank you very much. Uh significant activities, ladies and gentlemen. This is southern Lebanon.

[00:40:47]As you can see that red dot we have here. Let me get let me uh let me dive Julius Caesar. All right. Uh this is where I keep my pointer. Here is the Lebanese border with Israel. This up here Tel Aviv Hifa Akar uh uh Roshanikra.

[00:41:15]This is Tire Tier. Ty Siden Beirut over here that's the border as it goes up here to Matula and Kiryad Shimona this is the Goland Heights this area right here is Nebatia the place of significant fighting is near Kaferit in a place called Ali Tahar right tell Ali Tahar ridge that is the hard point that his bala has developed veled in southern Lebanon that the Israeli army um [laughter] that the Israeli army is currently attacking. Yesterday, after the quote unquote ceasefire was called uh between Israel and Hezbala, Israel suffered a mass casualty event.

[00:42:12]>> Yeah.

[00:42:13]>> In which 13 soldiers were wounded in action. One was killed in action in an ambush from battlefield rockets and drones. And trust me, we are going to see we are going to see that drone video crop up here in the next couple of days.

[00:42:34]Which reminds me that the Israelis uh have identified the names of the four soldiers who were killed on Friday by a um in a Merkava tank and that Murkova tank um lost the commander, the commanding uh colonel, Lieutenant Colonel of the 52nd Tank Battalion who was killed in his tank with his threeman staff sergeant crew to an anti-tank guided missile. And the Israelis are now saying or a drone.

[00:43:09]Remember how I said all Hisbala is going to be doing is every kid between the Lebanese border and Beirut, southern Beirut, Daha, they're all going to drone school now cuz drones are far more effective. Now, it could have been an anti-tankg guided missile. They don't know the the Merkava tank even, you know, the with their good armor that they have on board and the trophy anti-tank guided missile system is still anti-anti-missile system is still vulnerable from a top. So, if it was a missile like the Coronet anti-tankg guided missile, um, oh, good. Um, anti-tank guided missile, then it would have gone right through the roof of that tank and it would have destroyed it. And in fact, I'm going to see if I can find a video of what that looks like. Uh, let me see. I got to learn how to spell first.

[00:44:10]Uh because in Ukraine they were used extensively mainly by the Russians but um most of these anti-tank guided missiles come over and they get over the top and then they dive in or they explode and send a charge through the very thin top and that generally kills the entire fruit.

[00:44:29]For that to happen to the Israelis, that's not good. Also 13 wounded and one killed. What the hell hit those guys?

[00:44:38]And why were they bunched up like that?

[00:44:41]So, Israel is likely going to respond in force. Of course, Hisbala knew that the talks were going on in in uh Switzerland and thought they could get away with this and they tried and they did. We shall see how long this lasts.

[00:44:58]Oh, in other news out of Lebanon, the IDF killed a famous um ecologist by the name of Mona Khalil. Let me pull up a photo of her.

[00:45:11]>> She is famous uh for I saw her on National Geographic.

[00:45:16]>> There is a a giant sea turtle that lives in southern uh Lebanon. Here's a photograph of Mona Khalil and the great southern Lebanese sea turtle. Uh you can see uh she was a globally renowned ecologist. She had her home entire Lebanon on the coast on the beach and her house was destroyed. It was apparently specifically targeted with a guided weapon. It killed her. Uh, she actually survived for a couple of days, was in the hospital, then died of her wounds. Someone had better [ __ ] explain this because this is almost like, hey, we're going to kill the we're going to destroy Christian monuments or we're going to, you know, decapitate the statues of the Virgin Mary. I just do not understand this. The Israeli intelligence is world class. They know everyone that's in that house, right?

[00:46:20]like me. They've got guys who wear headphones or women who wear headphones and they could intercept Mona Khalil's calls all day and all night. You cannot tell me that you thought it was a hisbala, you know, uh, anti-ship missile reconnaissance platform. Woman is worldrenown was, you know, and maybe receiving a Nobel Prize, but never mind, you killed her. I just don't understand this lack of honor in their warfare. It is it's getting a little out of hand, people. Uh but here's one of the things.

[00:46:58]Here's one of her most famous quotes. In 2017, she did an interview on CNN.

[00:47:03]I live every day to the fullest and I don't worry about tomorrow.

[00:47:08]Um someone says there is no accident because her orange house, her giant orange house was well known. She was permitted to be there for work throughout all of these turbulent times.

[00:47:22]And oh, there's a photograph of her house. Maybe it's a [ __ ] mistake.

[00:47:29]I would fire everyone in the chain of command that had anything to do with this. This thing is a landmark entire.

[00:47:38]If anything, you should be using it as a point of reference and staying the [ __ ] away from it. I mean, what was so offensive? Was it the, you know, the orange color? The woman was very well known. That house was destroyed and she was killed by the Israeli army. Someone make it make sense.

[00:48:01]>> You wonder why she's a >> She's a terrorist. You don't understand.

[00:48:05]She's taking care of turtles on the sea, so she must be taken care of correctly.

[00:48:10]>> Yeah. It it I mean this is absolutely ridiculous. There is no >> anyone anyone Ebanon right now by the Israeli is considered the terrorist.

[00:48:22]Anyone.

[00:48:24]>> Okay, we're going to hold on that point.

[00:48:27]Um I'm just talking about a force that fights with with honor, right? That fights within, you know, with civility.

[00:48:34]Even if it's against terrorists, you don't have to go that [ __ ] house. You cannot tell me was a reconnaissance platform. They were flying drones off of it. Why the [ __ ] would everyone in Lebanon knows this house? If you watch National Geographic, you know this house, right? And this woman works with giant effing turtles. Ah, yay. Any moving on.

[00:49:00]H we already talked about straight of horm. Let's talk about oil and the impact of oil today. that warning Donald Trump gave the other day. H you know that o oil Donald Trump talked about he warned about the other day was a warning sign to everybody. But for some bizarre strange reason it's a vulnerability that Donald Trump decided he was going to tell the Iranians about.

[00:49:31]And by telling the Iranians this um h I got to pause on that because I found a quote that we didn't read.

[00:49:41]This is the last I'm going to say on Lebanon, then we're going to go to Mr. Global. This is a statement from Ben Gavir made yesterday.

[00:49:49]What nonsense? Uh no, not what nonsense.

[00:49:53]Translated from Hebrew by Grock. For every tear in Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn. With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the entire world that the blood of our sons and the security of our citizens are not forfeit. All of Lebanon must burn. Our supreme leader, our supreme leader duty is to protect the citizens of Israel and the soldiers of the IDF. And this commitment takes precedence over every other consideration.

[00:50:28]Okay.

[00:50:30]enough.

[00:50:32]I don't know why, you know, that is not me using gro by the way. That is a translation that was on Twitter. If there's a better Hebrew translation of it from Hebrew, somebody please put it out. Let's see if that's accurate, but it's being reported in the press. Okay.

[00:50:51]So, that came from it. Oh, well, it's a translation of his expost. So, let me go to his ex post and you guys can see it in Hebrew.

[00:51:05]But this is not a guy who hasn't said this out in public before.

[00:51:10]Benmar.

[00:51:13]There it is. Here's Ben.

[00:51:17]I'm looking up his latest statements.

[00:51:23]Ah, that somebody hijacked it. That's not his official point. Anyway, the point that I'm trying to make at and Jacob talked about this two days ago about that specific statement.

[00:51:34]I told you when I first started working in Lebanon in 1983, that was their operating principle. We look out for number one. They didn't pay attention to the Americans. They don't pay attention to anybody. It is their operating principle. But if you want to be a force that fights with honor, that is respected, you have to respect the sanctity of civilian life. And I'm afraid that if you have leadership like this, and Ben Gavir has said stuff like this before, so has Smid, so has uh Benjamin Netanyahu, so has Catz, the defense minister, right? They talk about Gaza like this every day. So uh this is not helping the people of Israel. Okay, now let's go back to oil because this is a real war about oil. I've been saying that since day one. Uh Trump has compromised us by telling the Iranians the reason he's negotiating is because he is desperate. And here's Mr. Global talking on Twitter about the global oil reserves.

[00:52:43]Right? So make if you can't hear this very well, I'm going to play this at maximum volume. So I hope you guys can hear this. But this man is an expert. He is not to be ignored.

[00:52:56]A talks with the United States as part of theou. They have suspended that due to continued fighting between Hezbollah and Israel and also stated that they will not be honoring any of their commitments to theou which means opening the straight of ruse uh until that is taken care of. But here's really what's going on. There's a rule in negotiation that is so fundamental that is just uh so basic that they teach it on the first day of of business school classes or any hostage negotiation seminar. Every diplomatic training program in the world and that is you never tell the other side how badly you need to deal. H you never tell the other side how badly you need to deal. And Donald Trump broke that rule immediately [laughter] on a global stage at the G7 summit in front of every world leader and every diplomat and every intelligence >> service and every other trader on the planet. He said that he needed to make this deal with Iran to prevent an economic catastrophe.

[00:54:12]He compared the risk of continued war to the Great Depression, >> the 1930s, the worst economic collapse in modern history. He said that out loud into microphones on camera at a summit of the seven most powerful economies in the world. basically telling the world in defense of his horrible deal, I had to make this deal to prevent an economic collapse.

[00:54:42]The thing is, the deal isn't done.

[00:54:46]There's just a memorandum of understanding. There's just a framework.

[00:54:49]The deal isn't done. And you're broadcasting to the world already that you're negotiating from an extraordinarily place of weakness.

[00:55:01]And trust me, Alan heard every word of that.

[00:55:04]>> Yeah, they did.

[00:55:06]>> Because what Trump just did, >> this isn't some political opinion. This is negotiation mechanics. When the president of the United States tells the world that he needs this deal to avoid economic catastrophe, >> [ __ ] >> He's told Iran three things. One, the United States cannot sustain the current situation. Two, the economic pain they are inflicting on the world is working.

[00:55:33]And three, Iran has more leverage than the United States.

[00:55:38]That's literally what he said.

[00:55:40]>> Mhm.

[00:55:41]>> Mhm.

[00:55:43]>> To Iran because he can't shut up. [laughter] >> Yeah.

[00:55:50]>> He didn't literally what I said his weakness. He literally quantified it.

[00:55:57]He told Iran the price of American pain and it >> man y'all need to follow Mr. Global. I'm going to try to get him on this show.

[00:56:09]>> I'm going to try to get him on this show. He's on YouTube. That was someone cut it from Tik Tok. He's on X. Um very very early on. And I you know when last year he was talking about the impact of some of the attacks on the global market and you realize he's on Substack also good uh that guy is worth following uh because he shows if if I'm giving it to you from the military intelligence perspective he's giving you economic intelligence from the oil industry perspective about how bad this could get. And he's he just said exactly what we've been saying here for the last week that Trump is exuding insane amounts of desperation.

[00:56:54]Insane desperation. He's very desperate to get this done. And Iran's like, "Yeah, we know, [laughter] right?" Yeah. Another cup of tea. Wait, wait. Iran negotiators have decided to make a comment.

[00:57:17]We know that's how they do it. Voila.

[00:57:23]Mashi, >> listen. Mash, I was looking up Mr. Global on Substack. Um, because he he knows what he's talking about.

[00:57:33]>> I I agree with everything he said. In fact, I believe when Trump said uh whatever he said on on stage on the G Summit, I definitely came out and said on your podcast that he literally showed the whole world all of his card debt.

[00:57:52]>> That did Yeah, >> he literally just showed the whole world like what is the United State holding?

[00:58:00]Like since when you gamble, you do that?

[00:58:03]Like since when when you like since when when you're bargaining you do that and and then I said I definitely think his Alzheimer's have something to do with this.

[00:58:15]>> I think because people like that uh forget what is top security and what is not. People like that what they should share what they not. People at that age like that they just they just drop the ball. They tell you [ __ ] they're not supposed to be telling you most of the time. And >> they somebody said that that's it's also an indication of pre of dementia that they just blurt out obscenities or things that that are a normal working brain would not do. But Trump has been that way for a very long time cuz he has a de dillygaff attitude, right? Do I look like I give a [ __ ] about what you think and what you what you care about?

[00:58:59]I don't care about.

[00:59:04]>> That's crazy. It's crazy. I agree with Mr. Global.

[00:59:08]>> I definitely think you should have him on.

[00:59:11]>> Well, I'd like to get him on since uh we we'll have him on and we'll have a special show uh on on the impact as as we countd down to the Fourth of July weekend, right? the week after the Fourth of July weekend, you know, that's week four and we're and the Iranians know it, which is why they are slowing down the talks, slowing it down. Oil's not moving through the Gulf at its previous level. And if they even did let it allow to move at the previous level, we couldn't possibly fill up the reserves fast enough to prevent economic uh crisis. We've been saying this for months on this channel. That is just pure geopolitical intelligence that everyone needs to know. The world is integrated people, right? Opening up the oil valves, you know, it's like saying, "I'm going to fill a swimming pool with a garden hose."

[01:00:12]>> It's going to take a little while to fill that swimming pool up. Okay, one last thing before we go to questions.

[01:00:17]Watch. And you're going to like this.

[01:00:19]You're going to like this. Why did somebody say something funny?

[01:00:22]>> Um, >> no you did. Okay.

[01:00:24]>> This is going to take a while to swimming pool >> Jonathan Blank Films. This is on Instagram. I'm going to give him credit. I'm only going to play part of it so we're not violating his copyright, but this is leaked footage from the secret meeting between Trump and Muchaba Alamini cuz we all need a laugh. Check this out.

[01:00:43]>> Surrender. I surrender. I surrender. You will end your blockade. I will end the blockade. You will end your sanctions. I will end the sanctions. You will give us $24 billion. I will give you $24 billion. You will help us get $300 billion more. I will help you get $300 million more. You will let us control the straight of >> I will let you control the straight of the news.

[01:01:08]>> You will laugh at all of my jokes.

[01:01:10]>> I will laugh at your [laughter] jokes.

[01:01:12]You will listen to my podcast and leave a fivestar review. I will listen to your podcast and leave a fivestar review.

[01:01:18]>> You will tell me I look thinner even when I don't. I will tell you that you look thinner [laughter] couch this weekend.

[01:01:26]>> I will help you move a couch this weekend. You >> That's my favorite. I will [laughter] help you move a couch this weekend.

[01:01:36]I will help you move a couch. Right up to the part where he said, "I will laugh at all of your jokes." It was 100% accurate.

[01:01:45]It was 100% accurate. The United States committed to all of those things.

[01:01:50]Um, this is weird. Somebody says he's a humiliation fetish. He's got a humiliation kink. Uh, yeah. Okay. But I like that. You will help me move a couch this weekend.

[01:02:03]>> He said, "Come over here now. I got to move furniture today." So, all right, guys. That's it for the regular show.

[01:02:10]Let's go to questions, shall we? I know we've gone long. We're a little long.

[01:02:14]It's Sunday. It's a beautiful day. I shouldn't be hanging out with you guys.

[01:02:18]You guys should be here in my massive memorial garden having ginonics with me at sunset. Uh we may have to make that a subscribers only event. Uh but let's take a look at some of the questions that we have today. I like muscat sally. When is this going to end?

[01:02:40]It ain't never going to end, baby. ain't never going to end. This is going to go on. I mean, you will wait, let me rephrase that.

[01:02:49]You will know the day that [laughter] it happens when you drive by my house and there are holiday banners out. My giant maritime flag pole has all of the uh nautical flags up and down it. and that I have Vuv Cleico champagne in magnum bottles that I am serving from Crystal out on my front lawn to anyone who walks by. You will know when it ends. It'll end on that day. Fireworks, right, Jeff?

[01:03:24]Where there's a huge global party. You will think it is Fourth of July meets Bastile Day. [ __ ] fighter jets will be flying over. It'll be very very interesting. Um D, somebody says, "Adrienne Zit says, "I followed your books, The Spy Museum, your podcast, and saw you saw all of this coming. No expert, but haven't George W. Bush Jr. with the war in Iraq and Trump with the Iran war emboldened the axis of evil, Iran, their friends, Russia and China." No, she goes, "Who are even our allies now? I'm pretty freaked out there. I I wrote in my book, The Plot to Destroy Democracy, number five on New York Times bestsellers list.

[01:04:05]Um, I wrote that that is no longer the axis of evil. It is the axis of autocrats and that the United States is now part of that autocracy. In that book that I wrote in 201, it came out in 2018, I wrote in 2017, I predicted the United States would leave the the the you know the essentially the old world order established by the US landings on D-Day in 1944 and that we would now create with Russia, China, Egypt, now Israel. I don't even know how Israel got in there. They're, you know, um Turkey the axis of autocrats and that is where these leaders believe autocracy and oligarchy is how the world should be run and they would make friends with each other. Look what we had. We had uh Belssonaro in uh in Brazil. We have that crazy guy down Argentina.

[01:05:09]We're now finding out about a bunch of nuts in Central America, right? The Bouetle in El Salvador, Putin, Lucenko, uh, North Korea, China, Egypt, you know, and guess what? The United States voted with North Korea, Bellarus, El Salvador, and Russia to block a condemnation of Russia for invading Ukraine.

[01:05:41]The United States voted with them. So go look and see where the UN votes and you'll see what the axis of autocrats looks like. Forget axis of evil. That's not good enough anymore. It's about money. And they believe that the world there is a level of the world higher than governments and money. And it's true now. I wrote about that in 2018 as a warning. Boom. It was already happening.

[01:06:08]H how bloody long will this mess go on for some time? Uh well, somebody says Iran does reserve reparations. They were illegally invaded. If reparations were tied to nuclear hormuz issues, I would be okay with that. That's from John H. I like this. It's Brandy Dawn. It's 702 and I can't find you. I got my best Van Go coffee mug. Oh, Brandy, put a poster picture of that. I want to see that. Uh, put it down in there. Rose asked, "Regarding the decoupling of Israel and the USA? Who has done the decoupling?

[01:06:43]Israel or USA or both from each other?"

[01:06:45]Yes, that one right there. Remember Trump started and now we know why he was so desperate. He had Netanyahu on this shoulder, he had money on that shoulder.

[01:06:57]And now he has admitted it's about the global economy. And money was begging and was telling him, "You're going to lose all of your money when the markets collapse, when the US runs out of oil."

[01:07:10]And that's when he decoupled from Israel. And now Israel's decoupling from him. Israel, by the way. [clears throat] [laughter] No, somebody Oh, Linda says, "Israel needs a Malcolm Nance blade hand [ __ ] slap." No, they don't. No, they don't.

[01:07:27]See, I am an ally. This is how allies talk to each other. You put your hand on his shoulder. You get your coffee cup like this and you go, "Shipmate, you are [ __ ] up." And I don't want to see you [ __ ] up. As a matter of fact, I want to see you do well. So, stop [ __ ] up.

[01:07:47]>> See, that's how a chief talks. And this is my management hand. This is my open hand to you to stop [ __ ] up. So, that's how you do it. Nobody needs to slap. I hope Oh, by the way, Trump threatened Netanyahu's re-election last night. Did you see that?

[01:08:04]>> Not.

[01:08:05]>> Straight up. Straight up. [laughter] Hold it. I got to get this. I forgot about this. Let me find that. She said this about Yeah, this isn't from two weeks ago. This was last night.

[01:08:22]Wow. There is a report that Trump has his team talking to the opposition, talking to Netanyahu's opposition and the New York Times.

[01:08:38]Here it is. Uh, Washington is quietly making calls to Netanyahu's political rivals. And if this report is accurate, uh, Nefali Bennett and Gadi Eisenot, the administration is reporting reaching out to both of them, the guys who could actually replace Netanyahu if the coalition collapses.

[01:08:58]Bump. That came from Channel 12, Times of Israel.

[01:09:05]So, I'm sorry. I should have bet on that.

[01:09:09]The decoupling is going to be permanent here. They are now looking to replace him. So, where's this comment? I'm trying to find the actual comment. Um, Trump made a comment.

[01:09:23]Trump on Netanyahu re-elect. He actually made a comment yesterday about this. Um, here it is. 23 hours ago in a complete 180 Trump on truth social post.

[01:09:40]Here it is.

[01:09:41]>> I'm going to put this up so that you can see it. Not the video, but the actual post.

[01:09:52]>> So >> Trump holds the cards in Netanyahu's shaky re-election chances. That's his post.

[01:10:00]And here's him saying he's a junior partner.

[01:10:04]Yikes. I mean, this guy, you show loyalty to Trump, he has this ritual humiliation kink where he has to see you uh on your knees and graveling before him. Then he'll [ __ ] you. That's what he's going to [ __ ] you. He ain't never going to show you loyalty. I have no idea why people and this is why we're decoupling. Israel's decoupling from the United States. They're going to do their own thing and it could screw Trump and the United States economy.

[01:10:39]Uh, somebody says, "Oh, Raj, this is from our friend Rub. Sorry, Waj. Caesar has the distinction of being made dictator for life, which led to his assassination. The earliest Roman dictator was prior to the Lake Republic was Titus L uh Larsius or Manis Valerius around 505 to 501 BC. Get your dictators right, boy. [laughter] >> My be my bad. I'm sorry.

[01:11:06]>> WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU? I'M SURE THERE were some Sumerian dictators. You just said, >> "What the hell?" No, you were talking about the use of the actual word. Um Yes. Uh the most famous example of a Roman dictator was Catus and now he is a uh city in Ohio. He was one of the few who held it twice. Cincinnati be proud of yourself. Um let me see. So a lot of other questions.

[01:11:33]>> Is the spat of BB and Donnie real? Yes, it is.

[01:11:38]>> Europe is sighting deals with Canada.

[01:11:40]Canada expanding their liquid natural gas infrastructure and is discussing this boycott in videos. That's from Linda Whitey. Thank you. They are Canada. I'm in Canada a lot now. Uh you know uh we're they are moving on from us. They are moving on from us. Um people says question. Do you know why people ask about your life? They're super fans. You're like Prince or Michael Jackson or The Weekend. Who's The Weekend? [laughter] I think just start a fan club and have someone answer all the questions. Send people little trinkets. All right, I will. Okay.

[01:12:18]>> You want to you want to answer the question about the circle of spies?

[01:12:23]>> The a question has cropped up about my new category, circle of spies. We're going to be sending out a notice about that. It's a very high-end category, which will involve face-toface meetings, uh, private chats, and you get to call me. [laughter] So when you're if you're you're going to do like uh Marshall you can pull a full Woody Allen Martian McLuhan right where like an Annie Hall where the guy is pontificating about Marshall McLuhan's work and uh Woody Allen says I just happen to have Marshall McLuhan right here [laughter] brings him out and the guy goes you don't know anything about my work [laughter] you could call me and go Malcolm Nance says blah blah blah and I'll go. Yeah, that's right. You don't know anything about Marshall Mccclure. Thank you for those of you who say I need to finish shaving today to get my goatee back in order. You are so right. Um, uh, Malcolm Substack is not able to take my membership to Jacob and I have not been able to pull up your video live.

[01:13:27]Something has been going Oh, there's been issues in the last couple of days.

[01:13:31]One of my videos did not upload uh even though I had sent it three times. We had this problem before about midwar where some of the videos I had to contact Substack themselves and their people were like what that should be going and then they found that it was a glitch. So there you go. That will happen. We'll take care of that. Thank you. [laughter] >> Yes.

[01:13:55]>> People are sending in their coffee mugs.

[01:13:57]Look at this.

[01:13:59]>> They're sending in their coffee mugs.

[01:14:01]That's Sandy Loftton.

[01:14:03]Sandy, [laughter] >> you'll you'll know what day it is when it h when it happens.

[01:14:12]>> Uh are you talking about yesterday's episode?

[01:14:16]>> Um no, the day before. Day one day 114 did not upload. It uploaded for you.

[01:14:23]Didn't upload for me.

[01:14:24]>> I sent you the link. I sent you the collab link.

[01:14:27]>> I got it. Okay.

[01:14:28]>> The collab did, but mine didn't. All right. Um, what are the gas prices in Canada? Right now, gas prices is in the vicinity of Montreal. I'm in the Laurentians, which is on the northwest side of the city. Uh, was between I know I just bought gas. I bought just enough gas to cross the border into the United States where it was $45. In Canada, it is $1. Oh, it is$1 Canadian 79 per liter. And If you guys give me one second, I will tell you what that is in real money. In a second, $179 per liter. I know it's about 20% lower. 1.79 is $1.25 per liter. Uh, and then you multiply that times 4, it's $7.16 per gallon in Canada. in the Laurentians. It could be a little lower.

[01:15:30]When I left to go to England a couple of weeks ago, no, when I left to go to Greenland, it was $155.

[01:15:40]That was before the big market explosion. Uh, which is about $5 Canadian. So, it is still very high. 3.9 L to a gallon. Okay. So, that's about $7 to a gallon. Let's call it $6.95.

[01:15:54]But it varies all over Canada. So Americans, you should be very happy that you're at $4 and going down little by little depending on what the Iranians do. Okay, that was it for the questions.

[01:16:07]I want to let all of you guys go have a nice Sunday, right? I'm going out to work out in the garden. Uh I got to talk to Waj and uh about new coffee mugs. No, I don't talk about coffee mugs. And uh I got to cut the grass actually in some areas. Uh, and unlike me, unlike Ben Shapiro, I buy my wood by the truckload, which has to be offloaded by a the Home Depot or the Lowe's actual winch truck, which drops pallets. Like, for example, I got to do mulch, uh, 120 bags of mulch, okay? And I have my 2x4s or 2x4 by8s or 2x4 by 10 delivered 100 at a pop. So that out a library and uh decks and all that cool ass stuff. So I do have to work outside.

[01:17:04]Um and then every once in a while I get to come in and have a nice you know a glass of wine or a ginonic at the end of the day. So, um, [clears throat] someone said, "Why not just order a cord of mulch?" We have a supplier here in this vicinity about mulch and but we like to do precision mulching. So, it's better for me to do it in bags rather than just wheelbarls. And let me tell you something, at one point we had to deliver we, you know, some of our land is clay. Uh, it's an acre and a half.

[01:17:35]When we built the memorial garden to my late wife, uh, we had 10 yards. That's 10 tons of top soil delivered here that we had to move with shovels and wheelbarrows.

[01:17:50]Three people and two of them or one of them was a small person. So they had to use a kid's wheelbarrow. Uh so I don't do things by halfways around here, right? Got to do it yourself. All right.

[01:18:04]That's what guys do on Father's Day.

[01:18:06]They do Father's Day guy stuff, right?

[01:18:09]So, waja, that means I expect that you're going to be going out to a nice dinner with your hubby >> and uh you know, or you're going to be uh you know, DJing at some festival. I don't know. I don't know what you do.

[01:18:24]You never tell us all.

[01:18:26]>> I enjoy the weather. Minnesota weather at the moment is just magical. Just perfect for parks. So, I might just do the exercise thing.

[01:18:35]>> Kaying, baby. I'd be kaying in Minnesota. your land of a thousand legs.

[01:18:41]>> I'd be out there. All right. Somebody says, "I need gorilla cards." Hey, stop giving me recommendations. You know, I actually have books. This, for example, before we go, this is my garden planner.

[01:18:55]This book is half filled with [ __ ] that had to be that must be done or had to be done. So, >> it's a it's a project around here. when you're a when you know when dude when I was a widowerower uh when I when you're a widow you get projects and you know the Taj Mahal was a widow project I have an acre and a half memorial garden that's made up of six separate gardens including an orchard so you know >> I don't can food thank you I'm not that bad I'm not a prepper anyway guys if you're watching this on YouTube. Yay.

[01:19:35]I'm glad you subscribed to YouTube. Come over to Substack. Subscribe to Substack.

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[01:19:42]Become a paid subscriber. If you guys want to sustain me at this, keep this going. Seven bucks. That's all I'm asking for. For those of you who are asking about the circle of spies, that's my highest level. I haven't really implemented it. There only a few members at my highest level. We will be opening that up and that is where we will be meeting in places like New York, Paris, San Francisco, Los Angeles and we'll just hang out. Uh by the way um if I am in one of your cities like I was in London uh we will have meetups organized and in fact um I have to go to Philadelphia for a funeral this week but I so I won't be doing a meetup down there but I was just in London and I did have a meet up of a couple of my followers that was fun. Uh but those are private. We don't we will notify people via subscribers only on Substack. Uh and you can come out and hang out. Um you know I was in Coven Garden. That was fun at Punch and Judies. If you know where Punching Judy I love going to that bar uh and standing over the place and look around. All right. Thanks everybody. Um I want to thank you for coming to this today's episode. Please go have a good day. Stop paying attention to the news.

[01:20:53]Come back tomorrow. We'll fill you in.

[01:20:55]Right. much.

[01:20:56]>> That's right. And I'll have my Q&A right after this. I appreciate you having me.

[01:21:01]>> Great. All right. Take care everybody.

[01:21:05]My love, we'll see