Dad Saves America

Zohran Mamdani spent Tax Day celebrating New York City’s new tax on luxury second homes. It was sold as a fix for the city’s $5 billion budget deficit, but only covers at most 10% of the gap. At the same time, Mamdani is promising a whole new set of expensive programs that would dig the hole even deeper.
California is in the same boat, pushing a 5% wealth tax on billionaires as the state budget collapses under the weight of pension promises they never planned how to pay for. Across the country, blue state politicians are doubling down on soaking the rich even as millionaires and billionaires flee to Florida and Texas.
This is the communist spiral to hell: tax more, spend more, repeat.
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I sat down with energy economist and CEO of PetroNerds Trisha Curtis to learn about the oil and natural gas industries, the global energy market, and how the war in Iran affects gas prices at the pump.
Trisha breaks down how fracking revolutionized American energy production, reinforcing the petrodollar as the global reserve currency. While states like California have turned away from the energy security of fossil fuels in favor of unreliable, renewable “green energy,” the U.S. still is the top player on the global stage compared to Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Iran.
The Biden administration bet everything on a net-zero future of solar and wind, undermining American energy security in the process. Under the second Trump administration, the U.S. is rebuilding the energy abundance that made it a global power in the first place.
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Outline:
[0:00] Why oil and gas matter in our everyday lives
[14:25] The link between GDP and oil consumption
[21:43] Why coal is still relevant in 2026
[27:24] Is natural gas safe?
[29:56] Energy density and transportation costs
[36:42] Food production, fertilizer, and ethanol
[45:53] The reality of “drill baby drill”
[58:21] What is “fracking”?
[1:07:31] How do we know how much oil there is?
[1:16:50] What is the “petrodollar”?
[1:19:02] Oil drilling is different in Canada
[1:22:21] The different flavors of oil
[1:30:30] California’s assault on oil
[1:33:24] The petrodollar is the global reserve currency
[1:41:39] Renewable “green energy” fails on the physics
[1:55:58] The oil subsidy myth vs inflation reality
[2:01:47] Monopolies come and go in the oil industry
[2:05:47] Why don’t people notice when prices go down?
[2:11:41] The war in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz
[2:22:55] Selective focus in geopolitics
[2:30:24] Can we stabilize the Middle East?
[2:36:18] Utopianism can’t solve real problems
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California innovation sent us to the moon in 1969. Today it spends $126 billion on high-speed rail to nowhere and loses $180 billion in welfare fraud. While Artemis II circled the moon for the first time in half a century, taking humans farther from Earth than ever before, California continued on its budget spiral to hell.
Chris Rufo’s recent reporting exposed that Gavin Newsom has presided over an “empire of fraud” across the state’s generous unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and homelessness programs. What happened to the state that elected Ronald Reagan and built Silicon Valley?
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I sat down with Matt Taibbi, the reporter who broke the Twitter Files, to trace how the American press went from honest journalism to deep state propaganda.
Matt spent about a decade studying and working as a journalist in Russia, witnessing the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Vladimir Putin. When American meddling in Ukraine led to Russian military intervention in 2014, he was uniquely positioned to understand what was really going on.
This conflict set the stage for over a decade of American politics, from the rise of Donald Trump, to Russiagate, to the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and the FBI censorship plot that followed. Matt saw Soviet propaganda up close, and he’s convinced the fight for free speech in America is more urgent than ever.
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Outline:
[0:00] Matt's journalism origin story
[5:06] Why Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was censored during COVID
[13:23] What the Missouri v. Biden ruling actually means
[19:19] The government wants to control your mind
[25:39] Free speech used to unite Americans
[31:28] The unbridled arrogance of elite journalism
[43:54] Studying and working in the Soviet Union
[54:28] Russia’s financial crisis and the dot-com bubble
[1:02:19] Witnessing the rise of Vladimir Putin
[1:13:12] Taking over Hunter S. Thompson’s job at Rolling Stone
[1:16:21] Obama, NATO expansion, and the road to Ukraine
[1:20:48] The real reason Russia annexed Crimea
[1:30:20] Is American influence in Ukraine overblown?
[1:37:16] Biden family corruption in Ukraine
[1:44:31] How Matt knew Russiagate was a scam
[2:02:14] Elon’s DM and getting access to the Twitter Files
[2:12:30] No one wanted to cover the censorship crisis
[2:18:05] Figuring out what was actually in the Twitter Files
[2:25:54] How the Hunter Biden laptop story was censored
[2:39:30] Proof that government is behind social media censorship
[2:46:55] Did Trump’s reelection actually strengthen free speech?
[2:52:17] How Wilsonian liberalism overtook populist liberalism
[2:57:07] Fight for American values for the sake of your kids
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Marc Andreessen’s claim that “introspection is overrated” sparked a predictable media backlash, but the real debate isn’t about therapy culture or woke narcissism. In a world shaped by AI, social media algorithms, and increasingly rigid ideologies, we’re losing the ability to question ourselves. That’s where things get dangerous.
This Good Friday, I’m reflecting on Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “Live Not by Lies,” the sin of pride, and why Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. The symbol of the Cross is a reminder that suffering is unavoidable and that humility is the path to truth.
Resisting pride means admitting when you’re wrong, something our social media-driven culture rarely rewards. Committing yourself to truth, even when it’s inconvenient, means accepting that cost.
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