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Thanks for joining us for episode 399.

And I cannot talk today. That for joining us for episode 399. And I can not talk today.

That's already my fourth take.

An audience, let me just make a little suggestion. You really probably want to catch episode 400 when it comes out.

Yeah.

Might be something a little bit different on that one. Yeah.

Speaking of different, do you want to know who has the number six most popular business podcast in Hong Kong? I would assume us. It's us. It's all in gas this week. I'm still amazed that we're ranking that high. This time in a major city in the world for business, not oil and gas, not oil and gas business, just business. So listeners, thank you. Without you,

we would never be this highly ranked in Hong Kong, Singapore. We're coming for you.

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Catch the latest show and see if you agree. And that's from S. Murphy 522. I love how you wrote that. See, audience, all it takes is a quick 15 seconds type in and a sentence and a half. It's one of the best ways to support this show. So if your fan, leave us a review. And if you're not a fan, leave us a review and let us know why you're not a fan. Not sure why you're listening if you're not a fan, but we would love to hear it. But apologies ahead of time for whatever page tells you if you're not a fan. That's true. This is true. All right, let's get into the news stories. First, we have zombie tankers appear in Hormuz as war fuels traffic chaos. Yeah, and first glance, this might be the thing you've heard me talk about a lot,

where there's different parts of the world, Russia especially,

that found these old tankers that were destined for scrap heaps,

and they got them floating again and operating so they could move black market oil.

This is not what this is about.

When they say zombie, what they're saying is these are not the rusted buckets of very large tankers. These are more modern tankers, but what they're doing is they're posing as another tanker. And if you do the research, the tankers they're posing as are ones that have already been cut up for scrap. It's sort of like you have a driver's license of somebody that died 10 years ago. It's very obvious that something's wrong in the whole situation. And what's going on is right now

in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is allowing certain vehicles through and most vehicles not. So what's

happening is these tankers are figuring out who they need to look like to see if Iran will let them

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