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All right, so as always, I'm your host, Austin Campbell, high scholar of zero knowledge group, and here with my co-hosts,

Ramalawalia, maister of wealth, the leader of Libina,

and Chris Perkins, the Golden Hand of Coin Funds.

Today, we're gonna start with a segment

that we're calling the bond market is running foreign policy. So on Sunday, Trump told

the financial times overnight that he wants to, quote, take the oil in Iran. But some people back in

the U.S. are saying, why are you doing that? He referenced Karg Island, which handles 90% of Iran's crude exports and said, maybe we take it.

Maybe we don't.

We have lots of options.

Chris, you've been on this before, but U.S. troops are now deployed to the region and available.

Brent has surged up early in the day to 116 a barrel. Oil continues trading with a

significant amount of volatility. The conflict itself is continuing. The Houthi's fired a ballistic

missile at Israel. There was a suspected Iranian-backed attack on a Saudi air base that wounded U.S. troops.

And Trump's April 6 pause on striking Iranian power plants is still in effect,

but the FT interview signals that the military track might still be very much alive.

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