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[Spanish] What Saudi Arabia is really ship a China. There's something I'm no idea you guys are. Don't worry about it. I don't know a ton about this either. The whole, I mean, I'm totally riffing because I love what you're doing. I know you do. You're your entire collegiate Arab oil rich area.
Right? You're UAE's, your Saudi Arabia's, your Kuwait's, Oman's, Bahrain's, that whole center of the world where oil comes out of the ground in the water.
“Right? We're nothing but oil and fig. Come out of the ground. Right?”
Um, that, or not fig, uh, poppy. [laughs] Oil and dates. Oil and dates. Right?
That is, that was the first probably most pragmatic place in the planet. Right?
These, you're talking about Bedouin Arabs who before 1955 had nothing. They had nothing. There was no natural resource in the desert until the British came and found oil and then started signing deals with families to drill rights to their oils. And that's when everything exploded, right? 1970 something was when you really saw the Middle East transform.
They are absolutely super pragmatic. They understand more than any of us that they have a natural resource and a natural resource has a limited time span and when that natural resource is time span is up, the whole world is going to leave them again. Because that's where they started. If you think about it, the same generation, like the same generation is alive today in UAE that was also alive when they had nothing there.
So within one generation, your grand, your, our grandfathers are old enough to have seen the entire transformation
of their country from sand to Dubai. Yeah. Wow. Fast. That's insane. So they know that as soon as that oil is gone, they're going to go right back to dust again which is why they're trying to find a way to diversify their investments. So their goal is to maximize the resource while they have it.
So what's their relationship with China? Whatever is going to get them maximum resources, right?
“If you remember that, again, ideology, what did Biden get elected on a campaign trail”
if a campaign promises about what with Saudi Arabia? Do you guys remember? No more, no US production.
Right. Basically, we're just going to do that. And then that's 100%. Yeah.
Go back and everything. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. His policy promises on his election campaign, where that he's going to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for their human rights abuses, for their sexism, and for their, they're a Christ jiggering and with oil, right? That lasted for about two and a half years until we sanctioned Russian oil and the world needed oil
and then he reached out to Saudi Arabia and said, hey, guys, we need your help. That was just over a year. Yeah. It was a complete reversal of the policy promises he had running into office. Saudi Arabia was like, sure, we're here for you. We know you were talking shit about us two years ago.
It's okay. We talked shit about you every day. But we've got oil. You need it. And we know China needs oil. We got them too. And I mean, look, they, they, there is a real grip there. They got sincere, MBS, and particularly got sincere coverage on the Jamal Khashoggi thing. I mean, I was most obvious, like killing a journalist on the foreign soil in saying nothing happened to him.
You know, the sanctions were minimal. Other nations just said, very, very bad MBS. I don't do that again, he goes, yeah. But okay. But it just goes to show you. You said it on a podcast a long time ago.
“But it really simplified the world view for me in GDP is the only thing that matters.”
GDP is what drives the world, man. And every country knows that and they learned it from watching us. All right. We were listening to a country music song. What was that country music song? It was Rodney Atkins. Yeah. Watching you. Watching you. Yeah. The whole kid watching is dead on both sides. The whole song is about a kid watching his dad and the dad recognizing that the kid picks up his cool habits.
But also picks up his bad habits. Yeah. And he's like, oh, shit. It's like an aha moment for dads. My kid's watching me. Who sings it? Rodney Atkins. Yeah. It's a great song. It's a really sweet song, but it applies here too, because the whole world has been watching the United States. So the shit that we've done that works. Guess what they're going to start mimicking. Guess what they've been mimicking.
Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. The global war on terror was a war that we invested in and we forced our NATO allies to come along with us. You know who didn't participate in the global war on terror? China and Russia. So what did they do for 20 years? While we were balls deep in Afghanistan and they built. They built. They crashed. They progressed. They spied. They stole.
Yep.
Pulled our heads out of our asses in 2022 and we were like, Oh, shit.
We got a problem. Surprise, surprise. You pull your head out of your ass and see shit everywhere. Social credit scores. Having gone. Yeah. Before you order that, my buddy Eric Zooliger. Oh, my shit. Yeah. He just message me. Uh, why don't we took our break.
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I want you to discover your secret spy superpower and use it for good before somebody else uses their power against you. And he just said, Yo, can I pass a question off to one of the guys you're in the podcast with right now? I have a I have a little bit of a Turkish problem. I got a little bit a little bit. Do you know the backstory in this kid? No, we'll get to it.
Yeah, I got detained again and ran. I got detained again at an airport between Sara Jivo, Sarajevo, Sarajevo and Athens. And I have no clue who to talk to. Not getting detained again. I called the US embassy and they were like, so what did you do?
I went to Sarajevo. What the fuck was that? They said, he said, also they took my phone for like two hours. So I'm assuming it's loaded with spyware. What?
I just wanted to see what you're idiot is. You know. Erdogan rules. Erdogan rules. Well, that Andy, he should probably get rid of that phone now.
So that phone was cloned. That phone's not covered in firmware spyware. It's been cloned. That's been duplicated. That's things.
And it's and the numbers and the contact list. No, that's whatever. He must fit a pattern of life profile. That turned them on him. He was just on a smart podcast.
He was coming on mine. But yeah. Yeah. What's he doing for a living? We're all in the past.
Been detained. So he is a journalist who was running a book on countries that don't exist. So he traveled to all those crazy, all these crazy countries. He was living in Turkey for a while or he was a teacher. Kurdistan, some autonomous region in Lieberland, Lieberland, Somali land, Somali land.
Somali land. I want you guys to picture if Jonah Hill, Michael Sarah and Seth Rogan had a baby. And it lived in Europe and traveled to a bunch of countries that aren't recognized. This is your guy. You didn't like so.
Is that a chunky white guy? Yes. It's a white guy we were right here. He's got cropped. Almost.
Okay. Yeah. Okay. He was detained in Turkey. He was detained.
This is the second time he's been detained in Turkey.
He was detained once four years ago because they were on the five years ago.
“Because they were on a train and they said, where are you from?”
And he said Kurdistan. And apparently that was big note. And Turkey. Oh yeah. Because you said he was a teacher in Turkey and a teacher in Kurdistan.
Kurdistan. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of reasons he's detained. And Albania.
So first of all, now he's an Albanian citizen. Where is he? So he's first from Cali. Yeah. Is he a U.S. citizen too?
Yes. U.S. citizen gained Albanian citizens. He went into the Peace Corps, which he would know something. Yes. It's all ended up over there.
They didn't want him apparently. Yeah. Allegedly. They didn't want him. They want him now.
So I would recommend a new line of work and a new home base other than Turkey. This dude needs to be operating out of Spain, Portugal. Yep. He needs to stop going back and forth the Turkey for sure. It's like Portugal.
It's never having an issue.
Permissive. It's a permissive place to be. If he's going to be traveling to shit.
“I think where he's going is essentially.”
It's like wearing white pants and walking through mud. Got it. Yeah. So then everybody sees the mud on the pants because they're looking at his pants. He needs to go to a country where they don't look at pants.
They look at shirts. Yep. That's exactly right. We could still do the same work, but it will no more issues. But if you're an investigative journalist of any type,
with experience in Kurdistan, where you are actively traveling in and out of areas of high tension, which is all of the Somali land and everything else. And then you have a footprint as a teacher in Turkey. That looks like a cover.
And then you change your fucking citizenship. If he's traveling in and out in the same name with two different passports,
Sometimes he's American going in and out and sometimes he's abandoning it out.
Like he looks super, super sketch.
He was also in the middle of a, he was in the middle of some sort of big protest in Syria. Hmm. Okay. Oh, there you go. So he's really helping me.
He's helping me. Stop going to Turkey. Stop going to Turkey. Go to fucking, go to Georgia. If what is looking for it.
Go to Albania. If you want a cheap place to operate. If that's why he's in Turkey. He lives in Albania. Why is he going to, why is he in Turkey?
Because he's, you know, stop flying through Istanbul. What is, yeah, what's the reason behind the Turkey? The Taint visits. He's one of those guys who wants to put his finger on,
Oh, he's gawding hotball. He's long enough just to see when it burns. Well, he shouldn't be texting. Yeah, he's good on that. Well, yeah.
And that's the other thing.
If he's texting you with the phone, you should just toss yours out to him. Fuck. Yeah. Sort of a bit.
And please don't fall with anything to add you guys. Oh, my God. It's probably some guy named like fucking contour on the other end of the text. You're going to get something better. You're going to text this fucking guy.
Yeah. Oh, my God. He shouldn't. So the good news is he shouldn't be in danger. No.
Definitely not in danger. He'll get the Tain worst case now. He might get the Tain for multiple days while an investigation gets carried out. But he's not going to, he's not going to come up with 30 hands. He says, no, there's not going to be any, you know,
dirty laundry to hold him or put him under arrest.
“But his life is going to be very inconvenient.”
If he keeps going to Turkey. The whole internet seems to think he's a spy. I genuinely don't know. Oh, I think so. So I dumped it. But there's published pieces of the fact that people think he's a spy.
Not doesn't know what's called a man. It's not published. It's not published. It's not. But still, it's out there.
I genuinely can make it up. And I'm just a guy, but I don't think he is. And he, well, he did work for private intelligence in the US for a while. Yes. He was analyzing terrorist, bad news.
Open source. Yeah. He was analyzing terrorist, bad news. I feel bad for those guys. Poor Eric.
I hope he get out of there, buddy. Anyway. Yeah. So continuing on on that's 13 grand. Wait, you're part.
That's 26,000. I guess the question is, I'm thinking we've talked about this a little bit before. But how extensive. That fucking smell.
It's all still there. Yeah, it's still there. Still going. How extensive is that in China versus what we are seeing through the videos that report to show how deep it is.
How real is that? It's a real thing. There's a cultural term for that. Oh, I lost it. It's like Quay Joe or something like that.
You're actual social credit score. It's a very real thing. It's like our resume or like our credit score. That anybody, I just, I just, I just bought property recently. They ran them credit score credit check, right?
It's a very real thing in China. You can't leave one municipality to work in another municipality. You can't get accepted to college. You can't get certain levels of jobs depending on this social score. It sounds like some sort of travesty and total injustice to us.
“But we have the exact same thing just somewhere else, right?”
And you have a credit score. If you, if you're not going to get hired by a big company, if you haven't got a four year degree, we have the same thing here. But if you're talking about like they're trying to, they're saying like, oh, we're going to move to a totally cashless society.
We're already very digital, obviously. But like, you know, once you get to things like that, it's like, oh, if you don't, if you have a bad carbon footprint, they won't let you buy food at the food store. Or, you know what I mean?
It could get to that type of dystopian thing. Sometimes I feel like that stuff is a bit of an over alarm balance. It's not practical. It's not practical. It's not practical.
It's the problem of social media. Yeah. They come up with dystopian shit that's not practical. What is practical? What they do in the UAE and Saudi Arabia right now?
They just auto-fine you. Can you explain that? Yeah. You did a naughty thing. Your credit card is already tied to your national ID,
which is already tied to your license plate. So when you speed too fast on the highway, they just auto-bill you. And pull money right out of your credit account. And it goes right into their tax account.
You don't have to sign. There's no permission. There's no nothing. It's like, it's like you just got pulled over, ticketed, and you went to court already to pay the fine.
Only did it all in a half a second.
They don't have an appeals court. Yeah. It's not very good. Well, it's crazy because we're already doing this to a level with insurance, like with car insurance.
They make you put these trackers now in your glove box.
“Or if you want to discount, if you want to pay the last for your car insurance,”
we'll just track you everywhere you go in your car. And people say that they're going to do this with health insurance, where you want to discount your health insurance, where one of these eye watches, and we'll track your heart rate 24/7 and you'll be able to get 20% off.
Right. Except we have a choice. That's the difference. We have the choice of being like, "Oh, then I'll just pay full price." Right, but they don't.
Most people are going to take a discount. That's okay. Yeah. That's the other thing where when you're chasing, when you're chasing a budgetary life,
poverty mindset, you'll cut any corner. And that's a predictable human behavior.
You can't blame the government for people doing what they're going to do anyw...
That's how business runs.
But in this case of like,
“is China going to start denying people the ability to buy groceries?”
No. They're going to sell them automatically and increase the GDP. You said two nasty words about Xi Jinping. That's 155 yuan. Boom.
You have no appeal. It's gone. Is distilted.
It's completely distilted.
It's also not America. So I don't give a fuck. Yeah. It's interesting though.
“Tracking, tracking, you know, just in that, in your instance.”
Right. The insurance, insurance, health insurance. Gathering information. Right.
Who knows who the fuck is doing that?
Or who are they going to sell to? Exactly. So that's that's the scarier part. Yeah. The inconvenience of.
“But hey, I need to I need to save 200 bucks.”
I'm like, help. Are my car insurance this year? Next year. Next. Okay.
You know, I'll take a chance and pull the dice. You know, you're the worst player in this school. Just take a look at what's happening. And then you're the worst. No, no.
I don't know. How much is your savings? You mean, you're the one who's all yours? Yeah, exactly. How much is your savings?
The one who just understands. The one who just understands. The one who just understands. The one who just understands. The one who just understands.
I don't know how much you're doing. You're doing it. You're doing it. Save. With how much is your savings?
