The REAL Reason Gas Just Jumped? It's NOT Iran (After Show) 4-30-26

Ready to strap in, it's going to be a heck of a ride. It's like drinking from a fire hose. Never a dull moment, but guess you'll hear the stories you won't hear anywhere else, and we appreciate you being here with us born today. I'm Justin Barclay. Yeah, welcome in to the after show, the show, the show after the show. That's what we call it here. Never a dull moment. Never have time to get to it at all. Of course, if people ask for it, they're going to give the people what they want today. That question is gas prices have gone up. Most recently, people are trying to point the finger and find the blame for what it's usually any number of issues. Right now, the big reason may be for a country in the Middle East. But it ain't Iran. If you've been paying attention, if you've been watching this show, have you been paying attention at all in the last couple of days, at least, you may even know the reason why. We'll get into that coming up here in just a minute. J.M. Timmer, by the way, gas hits $4.99 a gallon here in West Michigan. J.M. Timmer over on locals saying gas in Florida is high, too. We're at 416 because they still have the winter. It's winter Florida for the wood of gas is higher too. Wow. So it's interesting to see and how, you know, what the differences in prices are too. So, you know, understandably here in Michigan, in our area, it's going to go up, refinery issues, et cetera. But we showed you earlier. oil prices and the price of a barrel right now is over $100. So that also, but is it Iran? Because we've been dealing with Iran for like months now. Is there something new? In fact, I'm going to talk about what I think might be going on another piece of this and why it's good news because I think right now it's just temporary. President Trump touched on it yesterday, and we'll weigh in on that coming up here in just a moment. If you haven't done so yet, click, share, whether you're doing this live and you're watching a behind-the-seat live stream with us on Facebook, Twitter, X, Rumble, get our locals, YouTube, you name it, or if you're watching or listening to the podcast, share it later, tag us. I'll put you in the running. As we pick somebody that went something cool out of the store right now, Justin Stewart, we got the not far right so far t-shirts. We've got the Gulf of America. Let freedom wave to fool around and find out. We're solidly in to find out era, folks. So we've got all of these different opportunities. Take advantage of some great gear, mugs and more inside the store. And we'd love to set you up with something cool. You can also, by the way, if you do share Tag us, if you're sharing like a different, maybe it's not Facebook, maybe you're sharing Rumble or whatever to Facebook. Tag us there. Love to make sure you get credit for it. So at the end of the show, we draw a name. You could be our winner.

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Right now, I think this is the number one reason for why the oil prices have shot up. It's not Iran. We've got Iran backed in. Why are we seeing $105 a barrel with WTI crude? Brent at 114. Part of that is the shakeup in the Middle East. And that... is not Iran. Like I said, that's baked in. The Strait of Horm moves. Is it possible that the latest news that we've had in last air so that the UAE is leaving OPEC is actually contributing to the price of the barrel going up in the short term right now? Because what do they do? They speculate. What's this going to mean? Psychologically. That's how kind of things work. And very similarly, when we look at the markets. In fact, let's look at the markets right now. I'll get some green. Dow up, S&P, NASDAQ down a little. Treasury announces new series bond, one bond rate of 4.26% for the next six months. By the way, that's going to impact mortgage rates. more than the actual Fed and interest. So we'll find out, maybe we get Dave Galloway on the phone in the next couple of days and see if we get some answers. But what's the story about OPEC and the UAE? Listen to what President Trump here says. I think this road we're on, I think the gas, I just mean, but I think gas prices are the last thing you're going to be talking about coming up in November. I know it feels, right now it feels, there's a lot of pain, right? Right now it feels kind of, it really does. I mean, I can't, I can't, I can't disagree. People are feeling, I just, look, my, my gallons, my tanks are 20 gallon tanks. And we just went from, from around 50, 60, paying 50, 60 bucks for a fill up. In my tank, they're now saying at five bucks a gallon, it's going to be $100 to fill my tank and my wife's tank. $100. So fill both of the tanks were about $60 at $250, $2.60. You go up to three. Now you're talking $60. So $120 a week if you're filling both tanks in a week. 120 bucks a week to put gas in a car versus now it's going to be 200 bucks a week. I mean, that's a massive jump and it comes out of nowhere. Seemingly. Jason, they're not gaza sheets, they're geese.

Jason is a big Mike Lindell fan, by the way. He's a big supporter of Mike Lindell. And I guarantee you the auto-correct on his phone got him. I do love the geese sheets. But I just had to mention this because Jason does. He talks about Mike every day and how much he loves Mike and everything that he's done. Jason should have his own promo code at this point, to be honest with you. But in the meantime, Jason, you can give out mine if you want. The My Pillow Giza sheets, he was just looking at the night sign. I thought, okay, that's a whole other product. Yeah. I know. It's the same thing. The Autocrac does the same thing to me. The Gaza sheets are nice. You should indulge yourself. I don't want the Gaza sheets. I don't know what those are. I do have some Giza Dream Sheets. They are incredible, by the way. They really are. And I know I'm completely off subject. But, yeah, get you some of them geese sheets. Don't cut the gaza sheets. You'll be good. You'll sleep well and you'll feel amazing in the morning. Anyway, what's the president say about OPEC and particularly about the UAE, I think? As we mentioned this, and yesterday I was the first one to tell you this, by the way, when we saw the big breaking news, the UAE coming out of OPEC, I said, this is going to help oil prices go down. What's the president say yesterday in the Oval with the astronauts? I know very well, Mohamed, and very smart. And he probably... Maybe once it goes his own way. That's a good thing. I think ultimately it's a good thing for getting the price of gas down, getting oil down, getting everything down. I think ultimately it's good for getting the price of gas, oil, everything down. Why is that? We'll see what he says here. But... UAE breaking from OPEC means that the stranglehold that OPEC has on controlling the price of gas globally loses its strength. They have it all. He's a great leader, actually. So, no, I'm okay. They're having some problems in OPEC. Kevin Warsh passed a hurdle today. The Senate Banking Committee confirmed. I know very well. Mohamed. So what happens?

As I mentioned, they're going to have the opportunity to produce as much oil as they want. And why would they take advantage of that? Because they can make more money. Now, it's a... You know, it's a balance, right? You know, you've got to figure out how much you want to produce, how much you want to make versus what it costs. But the UAE, in conversations with the United States, may tell you. It may tell you where all of this is going. And as we watch, you know, what we're seeing play out here is much bigger than the price of a gallon of gas right now. Although the reason I don't talk about this a lot is because that's a lot, it's a harder pill for folks to swallow. I'm confident, though, that as we move into... the election, and as things continue to heat up here, I am confident that, like I said, gas will be the last thing and the price of gas will be the last thing you're going to be talking about come November. That's just me. So the UAE producing more gas is going to do what? Make the cost of a barrel go down. Right now, we're over $100 a barrel. When the straight opens up fully and completely, by the way, that's happening. Somebody asked earlier in the show about, hey, if Iran only produces X amount, and it was a good question, too, if they only produce X amount, it's a low percentage of oil, then why has everything gone up? Well, it's because everything in the Middle East, essentially everything, flows through the Strait of Hormuz. Oh, one other thing to do with UAE and what doesn't flow, they have a pipeline. So they don't have to use the straight. Starting to put things together now. So we have a temporary. A temporary jump in the price of gases are watching it right now. But by the time November rolls around, all of this, I believe, shakes up, shakes out. And I think gas will be the last thing we're talking about. In the meantime, you know, it's not fun. I just, the reason why I want to educate you and tell you what's going on here is that when you have the conversations that you're going to have, I know you're going to have them with people, they're going to ask you, why's gas, why is this, why is that? You need to be armed so that you can tell people you can actually give them the truth. Arm them with the truth so that they know what's really going on. In fact, here's another story you're not going to hear. Brand new data show's initial jobless claims last week fell to the lowest.

Essentially since 1969, quoting the reports on CNBC. Initial jobless claims hitting the wires at 189,000. 189,000. Wow. That is truly incredible. We're looking at levels truly that we probably haven't seen since the late 60s. This is very, very incredible. And continuing claims, 1,785,000. That would be the least. going back to August of the summer of 24, actually April of 24. That's incredible. That's incredible. Yes, Jessica, good point. I made that earlier. So the reason you're saying gas price is kind of a perfect storm. You have Iran. You have UAE and OPEC. You have the summer blend. that they always tell us about, which I think is a scam. And then you have the refinery issues. Anytime somebody sneezes at a refinery, they have all of a sudden used that. They'll use that as a reason to, like, jack the prices through the roof if you're watching. That's... That's always what they do. Melissa makes a good point, though. So are the people blaming Trump for gas prices going up, going to praise him when they go down? Now, that is a good question and one that I would ask these people that come in. Hey, if I put a pen in this, I know this is Trump's fault now, but when the prices come down... Are you willing to give him credit? Now, you couldn't do this with like random strangers on the internet essentially, but you could with friends, family members, people that you know, you could essentially have that conversation with them. Just to let you know. Just to let you know. I think we have to have those conversations.

I love to be able to inform people. I love to be able to, if you can, awaken people gently, ever so gently, awaken them to, you know, the truth lodging common sense about what's happening. Those are all big and I think all important things to do. As we did, it's truth and grace, right? We want to do both. Truth and grace have those conversations. At the same time. Hey, speaking of arrests, I know you probably, because we did talk about this, she was assaulted. Savannah Hernandez, you probably remember Savannah Hernandez was assaulted by leftist at that protest the other day. In many, I think it was Minneapolis. She was just there doing her reporting. And they assaulted her. And, of course, we made the point that if Minneapolis or Minnesota won't press charges, the federal government ought to step in, and they should, they should press charges anyway. Well, a federal grand jury, good news. This is for where are the arrests crowd. They got James Comey. Don't forget. We got the raids on Minneapolis yesterday. We got the Anthony Fauci advisor. The arrests have begun. By the way, since Pam Bondi stepped down. And that's not to blame Pam Bondi. In fact, I would suggest it's from everything I've read. It's actually the opposite. But Savannah says a federal grand jury has decided to bring indictments against two of the violent protesters who assaulted me in Minneapolis. No word yet on which of these are being indicted. But I'm extremely grateful for the DOJ for moving so swiftly on this. Justice is coming. And James Comey was in Cuffs yesterday, and he was also inside of a courthouse having to deal with all the things that he was dealing with yesterday. And I'm extremely optimistic. I'll just say that. Based on everything we've seen, based on what Dan Bongino said, Kash Patel, they both said, more arrests are coming. We've got the documents. We've got it all. And they're on the way. Stand back. Look out. Here they come. So. In fact, was it Eagle Ed Martin who shared something along these lines earlier today? Praising, this was, I think, praising their efforts, and it was, it was Pam Bondi, who he said, laid the groundwork for all of this. Oh, here it is. I was, I am knee-deep in all of this. Below is correct is what he says. I'll read through this together. Mike Davis shares.

Another one that you'll like a lot. Mike Davis started under Emil Bovey, Pampondi, fired bad people, hired good people, closed bad cases and opened good ones. The shock and all campaign brought to heal the out-of-control DOJ career staff who thought they didn't report to anyone, sabotized the will of the American voters by sabotaging their president and his team. Pam defended in one a nearly unbroken series of monumental Supreme Court cases restoring the president's constitutional powers to deliver on his electoral mandate for all Americans. Todd Blanche, her loyal wingman, is finishing the job. That is in response in a quote tweet, basically for L.H. Gray, who writes, I have been asked for my opinion about Pam Bondi. Pambati, in my opinion, was deployed as a precision instrument in a theater of institutional warfare, where the Attorney General's role is less about courtroom theatrics, and more about reshaping the Department of Justice internal architecture from within a bureaucracy engineered to resist exactly that. Now, what's interesting is Dan Bongino just said as much. Essentially, when he sat down with Sean Hannity, he said he and Kash Patel had done... Certain things to ensure that the deep state would be thwarted and neutered moving forward. You don't have to watch that Sean Hannity interview for the podcast they're doing with that sit down. Good stuff. To make her 15-month tour for failure. is to misunderstand the architecture of power itself. People wondered, where are the arrests? Just like the gas. You know, let's say, where are the gas price? How come the gas prices? We live in an on-demand world, and patience, not only a virtue, but a fruit of the spirit, is going to be essential here as you walk through what plays out. Now, I'm not saying can't be critical. I'm not saying you can't point things out. But at the same time, I do believe it's going to be your friend. Patience will be your friend throughout this process. L.H. says, Pam Bondi entered the DOJ in February of 2025 after Matt Bill Gates' nomination collapsed under its own weight. She inherited an agency riddled with holdovers, careerist prosecutors. We're talking deep state, folks, and institutional muscle memory tuned to the prior regime's priorities. Her mandate... Executed with cold ferocity of a Florida prosecutor who once stared down the Clintons and lived to tell it was never to play the long public game of show trials. It was to do the lethal invisible labor. Purge, disloyal elements, redirect investigative task forces, shutter the foreign influence shops that had been and become political protection rackets, and most critically, build the factual scaffolding of cases that could survive judicial scrutiny once the political headwind shifted. That is precisely what she delivered. And so you have the full list. And by the way, if you want to read through this, I highly recommend it.

But it talks about what's been happening behind the scenes. And if you're a doom or gloomer, chicken little skies falling black pillar, you may not find this to be... It would be entertaining, but it may not be comforting for you. And the reason I say that is because right now, everybody that has that sort of mindset just as locked in on like, I'm too invested right now. I have to see Trump fail. These are the people that aren't being honest. Now, I think there are some people that are being honest that are sincere, right? But the people that aren't being honest, almost working for foreign adversaries. And maybe some of them are on the payroll. But they're not going to appreciate this piece. They're not going to appreciate it because there's just too much winning in it for people. President Trump, unlike other president, has had the courage to ensure Iran never gets a nuclear weapon and he's ironclad in that. We have the best negotiator in the world driving that deal. The biggest challenge, the biggest adversary we face at this point. are the reckless, feckless, and defeatist words of congressional Democrats and some Republicans. There it is, the Secretary of War saying the biggest threat right now to the safety of our military personnel, maybe the biggest national security threat, are those Democrats? Are those people that are breathlessly out there at every angle opposing what it is that the president's trying to accomplish right now for the country? That's essentially what I heard him say, and I agree. It's one thing to criticize. It's one thing to ask questions. It's a whole other thing to go on essentially a campaign. against the actions the president has taken in Iran and continues to take. Two months in, I remind you, two months in to a conflict, lest I remind you, and my generation understands how long we were in Iraq, how long we were in Afghanistan. How long we were in Vietnam. Two months in, on an existential fight for the safety of the American people, Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb. We are proud of this undertaking. I am proud that President Trump has had the courage to do it, and I look forward to sharing more about what our troops have accomplished. You know what's interesting to me as I watch this, and I will tell you, I don't know about you, but I have... I've never seen a military victory, the scale and the scope of what we've seen, and essentially how fast. Not just this one, too. You have to also equal in what happened with Venezuela as well. It put the rest of the world on notice.

About the might of the military, the United States, our will, and what we will do when we are focused and directed to move in an effective manner. This is just not a way to put it. The winning is such a scope, but you also have to, and this is the biggest piece that I... that I think it has to be said as well. You have to understand what we're up against and the level of propaganda that we're facing because the mainstream media, the whole left, but I repeat myself, Democrats, and some of the woke right are trying to do anything but. And in fact, all the propaganda right now is about how much we're losing. Think about how effective it's been to get that message out and try to peel off folks on the right. Now, they're not extremely successful, but they've been successful in some ways, and it's out there. It is a drumbeat over and over and over again. These people... Particularly Democrats, Secretary Warren, Pete Hegseth is making the point. I tend to agree. These are enemies of the stay. But if I may, I didn't get a chance. I didn't see a question in the statement from the congressman. I hope you appreciate how reckless it is. When I said reckless, feckless and defeatist of congressional Democrats at the beginning, that came after watching you say the same thing on CNN this morning, a quagmire. My generation served in a quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan, years and years of nebulous missions and utopian nation building that led us to nothing. What we have right now, the way you stain the troops when you tell them two months in, two months in, Congressman, you should know better. Shame on you. calling this a quagmire two months in. The effort, what they've undertaken, what they've succeeded, the success on the battlefield that creates strategic opportunities, the courage of a president to confront and nuclear Iran, and you call it a quagmire handing propaganda to our enemies, shame on you for that statement. That's right. And statements like that are reckless to our troops. Don't say I support the troops on one hand, and then a two-month mission is a quagmire. That's a false equivalation. Who are you cheering for here? Who are you pulling for? Our troops are doing incredible work. They've done incredible things for the entirety of this mission and achieved incredible battlefield successes. And you sit there and go on TV for your clickbait about quagmires. It undermines the mission. Your hatred for President Trump blinds you. to the truth of the success of this mission and the historic stakes that the president is addressing, which the American people support. Iran's been at war with us for 47 years. You want to talk about a forever war? For two months, this president has stared them down. He's going to get a better deal than anyone ever has and ensure that Iran never had a nuclear weapon. I know the American people support that mission, despite your loose talk and words like Quagmire.

They're aiding and abetting the enemy. I mean, there's no other way around it. That's what they're doing. And I'm not talking about people that are genuine. I'm not talking about people that are concerned and they're appropriately voicing those concerns. I'm talking about people that are going on, as he mentioned, CNN, the rest of these. And committing. In fact, working out the propaganda, laying it out and repeating it. from some of these foreign adversaries. And they're sitting members of Congress. How about this to wrap things up? President Trump said, well, I kind of like this. Just because it's tongue-in-cheek end. I don't think it would ever happen, but I do think it's pretty hilarious. What about renaming the Strait of Hormuz? Okay, but you can call it either one. The only thing you can't call it is the Trump straight. They don't like that idea. By the way, speaking of that. I did a thing that people like very much, except for Mexico. I took the Gulf of Mexico. We now called the Gulf of America. That's not bad. And Google changed it. I know that. And Google. And by the way, Google was great on that. Straight of Trump. He posted it. He posted it. Kind of tongue in chief. You got to love that. All right. We can laugh every now and then, can't we? I think we ought to in some ways. It helps the soul, right? Laughter is the best medicine. All right, more. As we return tomorrow to wrap things up, thank you so much for taking the time to be here with us throughout it all. Always a pleasure you help when you support our program, whether it's sharing, commenting, digging into it all. We just, we can't do it without you. And we just want to say thank you. In fact, today, Tammy, our winner. In the sharing and caring contest, send me an email. I'll get you hooked up. I'll get you set up and we'll get you something cool from inside the Justin Store. Make it a great one in the meantime. Wish you the best. God bless.