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Oct 18, 2026
speaker_0HOST
Picture a rusted gas pump in Gorda, California.
speaker_0HOST
It's, um, it's this tiny remote hamlet nestled right in Big Sur.
speaker_1HOST
Oh, yeah.
9 MINS LATER
speaker_0HOST
It is a stark reminder that these sweeping federal mandates aren't just abstract legal arguments.
speaker_0HOST
They are altering the daily reality of young people overnight.
speaker_1HOST
And it is entirely connected to the theme we established with the gas pumps, right? Broad, top-down federal or global actions are creating intense, highly personal, localized reactions.
speaker_0HOST
Absolutely.
speaker_1HOST
But it is vital to note that it's not just the federal government pushing these boundaries.
speaker_1HOST
Exactly.
speaker_1HOST
The physical infrastructure of our daily lives, whether it's, uh, a gas pump in Big Sur or a geopolitical alliance in Brussels, it simply was not built to handle this level of sustained pressure.
speaker_0HOST
So let's trace the mechanics of this, because the core driver fueling this massive wave of inflation is the ongoing war in Iran and the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz.
speaker_1HOST
Right.
16 MINS LATER
speaker_1HOST
When you cannot trust the hospital to read your referral, when you cannot find an affordable apartment, and when the gas you need to drive to a stagnant job costs $10 a gallon, the leap to throwing a brick through a window in Paris or Milan suddenly feels less like an act of random anarchy and more like a rational response from a generation with nothing left to lose.
speaker_0HOST
It is an incredibly sobering picture of the world today.
speaker_0HOST
From the Y2K of inflation at a California gas pump to the stroke of a pen in Washington radically shifting the balance of power in Eastern Europe to those unread emails in a Sydney hospital, it is all deeply interconnected.
speaker_1HOST
Absolutely.
Greg HillHOST
Yeah
Chris CurtisPANELIST
... "Oh, but it's not a douche move to pa- park at a gas pump-
Greg HillHOST
Yeah
Chris CurtisPANELIST
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speaker_6UNKNOWN
No, because there's no point if you're just going to fake it.
speaker_6UNKNOWN
What's the point of faking it and coming to the gas pump and just for the
speaker_7UNKNOWN
cameras? It's
dragonmereHOST
not just for the cameras.
dragonmereHOST
I'd come down there, go to whatever pump's available, take out my credit card.
dragonmereHOST
What I'm going to do is, though, after I put it in, when it's like enter your PIN, I'm just going to hit cancel.
dragonmereHOST
But then I'm going to take the handle and put it in the gas pump.
dragonmereHOST
I'm going to do the whole thing, but I'm just going to hit cancel.
Jason BarrHOST
Elevators, there's ads.
Chris BiggsHOST
Yeah, yeah, right.
Jason BarrHOST
Gas pumps, there's ads.
Jason BarrHOST
Like-
Chris BiggsHOST
And I get it, people you need to advertise their business, but, you know, not everywhere.
James T. HarrisHOST
The previous September record was 3.83. That was in 2023.
James T. HarrisHOST
In other words, Americans just went through a record-setting September at the gas pump.
James T. HarrisHOST
Midterms are in November.
James T. HarrisHOST
Now, Senator Bernie Marino says that Republicans need to go on the offensive.
VicHOST
There was one time early in the morning, I was getting gas.
VicHOST
This girl pulls up, right? And she's looking at the gas pump.
VicHOST
She's a young girl, probably like 20, 21.
VicHOST
Okay.
VicHOST
She's looking at the gas pump and she's just freaking out, crying.
VicHOST
And
Greg BernardADVERTISER
I'm just like, what's going on? Maybe she's going through a breakup or something.
ConcreteHOST
I'm just playing a game with the pump.
Jim BurnsHOST
The subtitle of your book, How'd I Miss That? Which, by the way, has a graphic, like I said, with a piece of food stuck between the person's tooth.
Jim BurnsHOST
The subtitle reads Gas Pump Confessions, Drive Through Obsessions and Figuring Out What Really Matters.
Jim BurnsHOST
And I read the book, so I know what your subtitle is about.
Jim BurnsHOST
But most of our listeners who have not read the book don't know what you're talking about.
Cynthia YanofGUEST
A few.
Cynthia YanofGUEST
That's generous.
Cynthia YanofGUEST
Yes, but I guess that's what keeps the books coming, right? Yeah, that subtitle, when I'm talking about gas pump confessions, I was going to speak at this big event.
Cynthia YanofGUEST
It was one of the bigger ones I'd been asked to speak at at the time, and I stopped at Buc-ee's.
Vin KokaHOST
Always congrats.
Vin KokaHOST
All right, then how about this week? Contest 1005, a bride and groom at a gas pump.
Vin KokaHOST
And our finalists are, how fast can we redeem those cans? The last time I got married, it was only $3 a gallon.
Vin KokaHOST
And open the envelopes, which probably bothers Beth, because I think you submitted that word for word, right? I
BillyHOST
Uh, the weights and measures people, where y'all at? So, yeah.
WilliamHOST
Well, also, make sure that if you go to a gas pump, they should have this seal that goes over any... to like where they would open the door and kind of maintenance the machine and stuff like that.
WilliamHOST
There should be, and especially where you pay for your cars and stuff like that, there should be seals on there.
WilliamHOST
If those are broken, if the seal is broken or the sticker that goes across that line is broken, go to a different pump.
WilliamHOST
It's been definitely tampered with.
WilliamHOST
And then also let the, maybe the gas pump know or the gas pump or the gas station employees and stuff like that.
WilliamHOST
Know that that's been tampered with.
WilliamHOST
So keep that in mind.