Today we have an interesting episode, hopefully not too boring for you, lovely people.

We'll be covering OPEC and what it is, why it came to be, what are the boring Marxist analysis of how it came to be integrated into the petrodolar system and its future.

Oh, boy, I know you're getting just juicy thinking about these.

Brother, I was a journalism major. Why are you making me talk about money and petro dollars and shit? And I was a business major. I'm like, yay, finally I get to use my way. Which way, podcast, man. Exactly right. You know, my favorite part is Hugo is the one who keeps us always on track. So he's like, yeah, we have a whole list of ideas,

but we decide, you know, like a couple of days before, and then we start doing the prep. And sometimes the prep falls to me. So I'm like, hey, guys, should we do the OPEC episode? And Hugo's like, yes, absolutely, let's go ahead, let's do it. and I'm like, all right, I don't really wait for JT to give me his approval.

You know, I'll just suck it up and do it. I just write three paragraphs of notes. I'm like, JT, here's your fucking homework. Get to work. Word, boy. Oh, my God. But he knocked that out of the park. we went to create episode today A But okay What is an OPEC

Is it like a Oh my God. But he knocked it out of the park. I do. I fix. Today.

But okay, what is an OPEC? Is it like a style of barbecue? Like what is it for people that absolutely don't know anything about it? JT is going to get into that very deliciously in a second. Thank you to everybody who, of course, supports us. We can't do this without you. We really appreciate all the love you give us,

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