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Foreign. Hey, what's going on guys? Welcome back to the Mike Force podcast. So I just did a video yesterday on the way back to Utah in a crazy storm, like 30, 40 mile an hour winds, driving from Flagstaff, Arizona, overland expo back to the house and I pulled off and I felt compelled to do my preaching the choir episode on issues that men are dealing with that I want to get into the subject matter because if I do it will get suppressed. YouTube has suppressed that video because it has to do with the ideation and I'll just leave it that way because I don't want to even say the word. But I think it's an important message to get out. And if you're struggling or if you know somebody who's struggling, send them that link. There is no marketing or media behind it. There's no advertisement, there's no angle. Besides, I felt compelled to do preaching the choir on the road about that subject matter. I'll link it in the description down below. So it's day 77, technically going into day 78 of the Iran war and there's a lot going on. You guys seen this Auto Zone memo that came out recently about the shortage, the anticipation of the shortage of oil and lubricants. Now I don't know the authenticity of the memo, but I'll just read the last paragraph. It says due to the unfolding situation in the Middle east, we're facing the largest supply shortage of lubricating fluids in modern history of America. Realistic middle of the road estimates are for our average available supply in this product category to drop by 40%. And that was sent to the Southeast region team from autozone where the subject said how autozone will navigate the impending supply shortage of motor oil, diesel engine oil and specialty fluids. Not a lot of people in this conflict or involved in the communication about what's happening and the fallout are talking about these shortages of supply, critical supply. I'm not telling you to go out and stockpile because you do you I have a lot of vehicles, older vehicles, and they require differential fluid, trans fluid, transfer case fluid, the same fluid, motor oil, etc. And I'm going to stockpile. I'm not going to ask you to stop pile because I don't know if this is true. But there are mainstream, reliable media sources that are talking about this and allegedly there is going to be a shortage. And I told you this is like the snapback rubber band move. Yesterday, Trump announced that Iran is running out of time. He posted saying there won't be anything left of them. At the same time, reports are saying the US And Iran are still nowhere close to a deal. Now, the tipping point of this deal has to do with the physical access to this uranium, this dust cake, because that is the precursor they need to spin in a centrifuge and without understanding the whole process, make bombs. We don't want them to have that physical material. And we requested in the deal that we go in with the help of whoever and get access to it. But diplomacy right now looks like it's stalling. By the way, if you're interested in the underground version of this, because I do the underground, where I go more into detail about the autozone stuff, you can check out my Patreon link down below. It's patreon.com Mike Glover Iran hit a UAE power plant over the weekend with a drone and that's a significant escalation. I feel like we're playing Chinese checkers and the Iranians are playing chess. It's not just all infrastructure. We're now talking about civilian power infrastructure in Gulf states. The UAE has reportedly been hit multiple times over the last two weeks, and the targets seem to be more strategic. Iran also says the Strait of Hormuz is open and you're unless you're a country at war with them. It's a major statement considering how much global shipping moves to the Strait. And if Western military commercial assets are restricted, the energy markets and global trade start feeling pressure immediately. Also, Iran's foreign minister basically said they don't trust the US at all. According to him, the message from Washington changes daily, sometimes multiple times a day. So China wants stability, Russia wants leverage, India wants trade routes open. Brazil thinks the war is insanity. South Africa wants sanction lifted and there's no unified response. They had this meeting with Trump and the leader of China apparently agreed to not materially support Iran, but also said if you go into Taiwan, there's going to be major conflicts between the two countries and they shouldn't use that leverage for protecting Taiwan as a political move. Israel and Lebanon also extended the ceasefire, but strikes are ongoing. Reports say multiple people, including children, were killed in southern Lebanon. I listened to a podcast on the Way, several podcasts on the way back yesterday from Flagstaff, Arizona. Big shout out to everybody who said what's up at Overland Expo? It was really cool. I got to meet with several companies that we're working with here in the near future and got some big announcements on the horizon. But one of the podcasts I listened to, I actually give you the name because it's quite interesting because it had to do with foreign national policy. Foreign and national policy. But it was on the Rogan podcast, and this guy's a friend of Dave Smith, and they were talking about the war with Iran and what things were true and what things were false. The guy's name is Scott Horton. Great podcast. One of the things he made an analogy about was this idea of Pearl Harbor. And one of the examples had to do with this school that America struck that killed nearly 200 little girls, little girls and some of their teachers. But they made the example, Trump did, that this was their Pearl harbor because we took them by surprise, but in that we killed nearly 200 little girls. And he said, imagine if Japan had said that about their Pearl harbor, and that was the circumstance in Hawaii in which not only did they target military infrastructure, but the base. And imagine if a school was struck and 200 little girls, American girls, were killed, what would that have resulted in? And he made the analogy that we would have bombed the hell out of them. Not just two nuclear bombs, but bomb the hell out of them until everybody was gone. And I agree with that sentiment. So we have this thing where we go across the globe, I was part of this establishment, this military industrial complex, and try to change the outcomes of elections, of conflict between groups, militias, sects. And I wonder, like, when are we going to, for the first time in history, because it was advertised, take care of our own countrymen and women first. We have enough going on in this nation to spend the next three years focused on fixing those problems that are really important then to go out and kick start and fuel these wars. Trump reportedly admitted that this uranium hunt is largely political optics, which is true. That's interesting because finding controlling enriched uranium has been one of Israel's major stated objectives. And it begs the question, who are we doing this for? Who are we doing this for? Are we doing this for the government? I'm not just saying the people of Israel, but the government of Israel. Are we doing it because of our national security interest? And that's up for debate. I'm not the subject matter expert on this, so that's as far as I'll comment on it. But it begs the question. Ultimately, the overall assessment is there's no real peace deal in sight. The best thing, according to Scott Horton, that we could do is just pull out, which is good protocol in this situation, not in most cases, but pull out, cut your losses and just stop. If not, it's not just going to hurt at the pump, it's going to hurt our country for the next three years. And if the next person comes in and runs on a campaign of ending this, they'll win because the American people by an overwhelming majority don't support the long term conflict. I support striking Iran as we did military infrastructure, their, their nuclear sites, et cetera, but in a limited campaign. And here we are weeks and weeks later with no end in sight. The rhetoric is escalating and at the same time Iran is responding and hitting critical infrastructure. So you need to pay attention to supply chains, to shipping, to energy. On the topic of energy, Tucker Carlson just had him on a few days ago. Kevin o', Leary, this Shark Tank guy. Interestingly enough, I was supposed to be on Shark Tank years ago when I started Phil Craft Survival. I actually got a deal. That's how the show works. I'm not just saying like I filled out an application like the day before I was supposed to fly during C19. They were going to lock us down in a hotel. And I had already made the show, it was already pitch to the sharks and there was a shark already interested. I won't mention his name, but it wasn't Kevin o'. Leary. And then it changed the history of my company forever because I went with another deal actually. This guy's past business partner, Kevin O' Leary wants to build a Utah data center that's 40,000 acres. It's not going well with the response, especially from the people of Box Elder County, Utah because of Governor Cox, who I'm not a big fan of, is trying to become a major AI and cloud infrastructure hub. But people are now realizing what these facilities actually consume. The highlights of the Tucker Carlson interview with Kevin o' Leary are telling. I mean he tap dances around a lot of issues that he, he should have known very precisely about, including this 2,000 jobs at this data center. That pales in comparison in scale to the 40,000 acres. You know, you have a 40,000 acre facility that's only providing 2,000 jobs. That's the size 3X of Manhattan. It's the size of New York City and literally there's millions of jobs there and you're producing 2,000 jobs. Also it's being subsidized by the taxpayer because there's tax incentives or setting up shop, using power, water, land, natural gas, cooling infrastructure, where really Kevin o' Leary didn't have a lot of information and understanding of how this was going to, for example, work out like being cooled. How are you going to cool the facility? Is it the water in the ground? He said no, we don't know. It's probably going to be air cooled. Is that the case? And why don't you know that? This proposed Stratos project alone is projected around 9 gigawatts of demand. That's more than double Utah's average statewide electricity usage. Today a Singer hyperscale AI campus consume can consume the equivalent of a city or multiple counties. Utah's current grid infrastructure cannot support this fast growth. So developers and are now proposing dedicated natural gas plants, off grid power system, massive transmission expansion and people from environmental groups to just rural residents who are worried about air quality. Fiscal conservatives worried about subsidies. Locals worried about their own energy bills are coming in saying they don't want it. But according to O and according to Spencer Cox, it's going to happen. Utah right now is one of the driest states in America. At the same time, this AI data center requires massive cooling systems. Now it's a closed system. It's like a radiator on a vehicle. But when you have the Great Salt Lake already under pressure, droughts, I mean we got like two days of snow this entire year. Agriculture, you agricultural users already compete for water. This land obviously has irrigation rights. But many rural communities fear aquifer depletion like the water under the ground that supplies their water. And why would you not be concerned about that? So is it going to go forward? We don't know. Because critics claim the tax incentives heavily favor the developers and not the people. Nobody's listening to the people because everybody's saying no, we don't want this. And the county commission voted yes across the board. And these rural counties, just like in my own backyard of Heber City, Utah are being transformed without consent. Like you're supposed to be representing the people. And then the developer o' Leary and then the people in the county who are in charge are just gaslighting the public. So supporters say Utah can be the AI hub, the infrastructure leader. There's tax revenue, jobs, AI, AI infrastructure. But the opponents counter that and say comparatively even the 10,000 people required for construction, that's small and temporary. AI infrastructure is strategically important, but the US we know can't fall behind China. But the property values for locals is going to shift. The tax incentives benefit the billion dollar firms, but not necessarily the people. And people are saying this is a warning sign. So what's going to happen? Well, I think it's going to get built. I don't think the people have a voice any longer in this country. For all the people who say we stand with our state because our Governor believes in constitutional freedoms and it's great to have a conservative as a governor. He sure is doing a crappy job at representing the people because it seems the will of the people is they don't want this and Spencer Cox is going to jam it down your throat anyway, which is fitting. Hey guys, I want to say big shout out to the sponsor of the podcast Primal Power. Primal Power is a beef liver bar and I've never entertained eating a beef liver bar, but I helped him with this formula with 10 grams of protein and New Zealand grass fed liver. This mixed with dates gives you 200 plus percent of your daily B12. I'll leave a link down below as an incentive for you guys to pick it up. I'm doing like two of these a day and my blood works amazing. I'm off TRT and I'm feeling great. Utah is basically becoming a case study for AI infrastructure. This isn't a small feat. This is a $15 billion investment. Not just software, not just chips. Power generation, natural gas, water rights, transmission lines, land acquisition, cooling systems. And we're going to be the guinea pig for it. What happens when that place has an epic environmental issue? It goes up in flames. What impact and effect is that going to have on the local populace? Yeah, it's semi rural, but the people there still appreciate that place being semi rural. And here we go. We have hawks, tech hawks like Governor Spencer Cox that wants to turn this state. I would say his state, but it's not his state. He's a representative of the state. He wants to turn our state into an AI hub for the country and honestly for the world. Would say you how do you guys feel about it? Guys, I'm going to selfishly promote my book Prepared. A lot of people have been asking me about this because it's evergreen. I wrote this a couple years ago. Prepared a manual for surviving worst case scenarios. It's a national best selling book in the subject matter of preparedness and really not me telling you the end all be all solution, but walking you through my own protocol and ways to think about being prepared. You could pick it up in the link down below. Prepare to manual for surviving worst case scenarios. I recommend the audible version of it. Not that you don't not like it's like if you like to read, pick up the hardcover too. But it's a great listen inside your vehicle like a podcast and something that you could disseminate and give to your family and friends. You can also do that with a hardcover. I appreciate you guys. I'm off to the Underground to do the Underground episode of this on my Patreon. Also, I got a video coming out on Mike Glover Channel on preparedness this week. And make sure if you're struggling, especially as a man, check out that link in the description down below. Till next time. Peace, guys.