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Welcome to American Power from Find Out Media. I'm your host, Nat Town. Stand up comedian, speechwriter, many other kinds of writer, and most likely to survive the annals of history, professional podcast host. I'm here with my panel of experts. As usual, our military and policy expert, Chad Scott. Chad, say hello.
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Hey, everyone. Glad to be here.
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And our energy expert, both oil and renewable, you know, Ms. Mr. Global, Matt Randolph. Hi, Matt.
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Hey, Nat, how are you?
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Oh, I'm doing well. Great question. We're going to make today's episode a little bit different because we've been responding to the news so regularly. Obviously there's a lot going on that relies on your expertise, but I wanted to take a step back and look a little bit at the history of how we got here. So later on this episode, we're going to talk a little bit about the history of Iran's oil industry and how the US And Western hours have intervened. In the meantime, we're recording this on Monday, April 20, 2026 in the afternoon. And as of right now, there are some very major news stories that we want to at least touch on before we get into the history. And Matt, I was hoping you could fill us in on what's happened since our last recording.
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Since the last recording.
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Well, what's happening recently? Or I can talk to.
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We have. Bro.
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Well, well, what are the. In the past 24 hours, but, like, what's. Everything's happened in the world, but also America, but also with the energy industry.
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In the past seven days since the last recording, we've had three ceasefires, we've had four market manipulations and a partridge in a pear tree. And oh, by the way, someone put the straight of Hormuz on Google Maps with the times that it's open and closed. So that was fantastic. I don't know if you guys saw that, but that was my favorite thing of the week. I was like, this guy's a genius. Like. And then of course, Google Maps took it down because they're the psychos that they are.
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You know, when I had to register my business with Google Maps, they sent me a postcard. So I like the idea that whoever pulled that prank had to receive the Google Maps postcard and scan a little QR code and be like, all right, I got nothing else to do on this boat. While we're just sitting around, I want
