Pay the Toll or Else: Iran’s Oil Shakedown Meets NY’s Billionaire Begging Tour
Alex and Dani are back tonight, breaking down two very different flavors of desperation. Overseas, Iran is trying to turn one of the most critical waterways on Earth into a toll booth run by people who just spent weeks blowing it up. Back home, New York leadership is basically standing on the sidewalk with a cup asking rich people to please come back and fund the whole thing. Same energy, different accents.
🧾 Tonight's Lineup:
• 🛢️ Hormuz Hustle – Iran’s “international framework” for the Strait looks suspiciously like a bill for protection money. Tehran is openly talking about charging ships to pass through a route they’ve already disrupted. Roughly 20% of the world’s oil moves through that narrow stretch of water, so when Iran plays gatekeeper, it doesn’t just affect the region. It rattles the entire ...
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We haven't been streaming, and I figure you all deserve to know why.
On August 10th I decided to take the rest of the month off. Honestly, it started as a heat thing. Keeping the studio comfortable this summer was miserable and I just didn't want to deal with it. But August ended and I realized something: I didn't miss streaming. Not even a little. I asked Dani if she felt the same way, and she did.
Yesterday was the show's anniversary. I didn't feel any pull or desire to go live. Dani and I made a deal a long time ago that we'd keep doing this as long as it was fun, and the second it started feeling like work, we'd stop. I think we're there.
Dani has other successful projects going that take up a lot of her time, and they're very much worth her time. As for me, I’m at the point where I prefer recording and uploading on my own schedule better than the grind of live streaming. So going forward, live streaming is going to be the exception, not the rule.
This isn't necessarily a goodbye. ...
