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It's Tuesday, March 10th, 2026 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the gist I, Mike Pescott. Now to engage in some straight talk. You got Hermuz, got the Dardanelles, Magellan, Strait's Magellan.

Hermuz, a lot of Hermuz straight to Hermuz talk in the world on our minds. And the Kalshi

betting markets might have taken some action on

that. Don't feel good about that. Just feel insightful. But the streets, the great straits,

what are the great straits? Hermuz, love Hormuz. Gibraltar can't talk straights without

talking. Gibraltar underrated straight, Bob El Mandeb. That's the one in Djibouti, right between Djibboudi and Yemen. Bob El Mandeb, Babel's, your uncle. Little bit, you know, not everyone knows Bob El Mendeb. Kind of an inside straight. Then you got the Bosporus. See, a lot of people, they focus on the Dardanelles. It's got the the the front of it, makes it seem important. The Hague, the Bronx. The Dardanelles, very narrow. Point seven five miles at its narrowest. But you get through the Dardanelles. Then you're in the Sea of Mamara, who doesn't love being there. You got to get through the Bosporus to get into the Black Sea.

So starting from the Mediterranean, let's say you're in Crete, let's say you're in Cyprus,

get over the Dardanelles, a lot of fighting, Gallipoli, World War I, Sea of Marmara,

Bosporus, and it's not as hard to get into into like I said a more of a porous straight the other great

straits the great straits Malacca why doesn't I mean I'm glad we're not invading or bombing

Malaysia but if we were we would have Trump saying malacca other great straits straits, Robert Reed, they thought, Mr. Brady, not the case.

All right, this has been straight talk, all the great straits.

We got the great straits out there.

I hope you've got your bearing straight pun.

That's straight pun, straight fire, straight talk, Hormuz, oil, very high, and of course, Malacca, on the show today.

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