Iran Kills US Troops, Houthis Blockade the Red Sea & Oil Shrugs | BDE 07.21.26

A listener named gopher27 fired back with Bastiat, Krugman, and Thomas Jefferson, and what followed might be the sharpest debate this show has had in two years. From whether Walmart really guts a small town to Middle East escalation rattling crude, a hurricane aiming at the refining corridor, and the messy fight over data centers, water, and farmland, the guys chase it all down.

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00:00  gopher27 vs Kirk: Walmart, corruption, and local dollars

07:28  Middle East escalation and the market shrug

13:10  Trump, a Beatles hoax, and a pipeline theory

15:27  Hurricane season meets the refining corridor

19:09  The Jones Act and record exports

23:05  Data centers vs farmland by the numbers