Welcome to this wake-up call, everyone.

I'm Chris Martinson, your host, and it is, I believe this is number 12 in this series,

and the series began right around the time the Iran war started, if we can call it the

Iran War, because it really Iran didn't start the war, but they sure are prosecuting it

at this particular point in time.

And I'm here to tell you that I'm still on high alert. I probably have to declare my own force majeure on the energy report, which is

slated to come out at the end of this month because I found that prepping as hard as I am right now

and writing are mutually exclusive adventures.

And I have been absolutely on a tear, getting everything across the bottom of Maslow's

Harky of needs.

Of course, food, fuel, or energy, water, and security, warmth and shelter, all of those things, just to make sure

attending to the physical needs of preparing.

And of course, I'm not just preparing for myself and Evie and maybe my kids, but for what

I assumed to be is going to be a large number of people.

I was just at a town meeting last night, and there just seems to be no awareness of what's actually possibly coming.

Now, I have to confess, yesterday, I couldn't figure out what was happening yesterday, right?

So yesterday Trump exploded the markets higher, like just absolutely trashed the price of oil,

exploded, you know, stocks higher, bonds higher. Ited the price of oil, exploded, you know,

stocks higher, bonds higher. It was just one of those magic moments, which is classic Trump

Taco. He talks tough on Friday all through the weekend, but then right before markets open on

Monday, wouldn't you know it? He says something really favorable. And wouldn't you also know it,

somebody manages to front run that and

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