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The Year of the Cow - A Ryan Fair Podcast
by Ryan Fair
This podcast was supposed to be funny, but I recognize that my humor only comes when I’m talking about serious issues.
Episodes
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THE MOMENT YOUR OPINIONS BECOME YOUR GOD!
THE MOMENT YOUR OPINIONS BECOME YOUR GOD! The moment your opinions become your god, curiosity becomes blasphemy. You stop asking questions and start defending commandments nobody wrote. Every disagreement feels like persecution. Every correction becomes an attack. Every person who challenges you...
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Outside The Lines
Current Events and Vibe. This week we talk about everything, and don't write about any of it.
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EVERYTHING’S FINE. YOUR PAYMENT WENT UP!
This week on Year of THE Cow, we’re following the money: from Middle East oil routes to the gas pump, from tariff arguments to your receipt, and from a “free” phone upgrade to a bill that somehow needs financing. Welcome to adulthood, where every discount comes with a monthly payment. We’re…
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CANDACE OWENS IS SELLING YOU A MURDER MYSTERY
Candace Owens is not covering Charlie Kirk’s death. She is selling proximity, suspicion, and the feeling that her audience knows what everyone else is too frightened to see. This episode examines how grief became content, how unanswered questions became renewable inventory, and how alternative...
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OIL, VAMPIRES, AND THE POWER OF SHOWING UP
Oil prices are hovering near the economic pressure point, but the real danger is not volatility. It is living without a financial system. This episode connects energy markets, corrections, budgeting, emergency cash, high-interest debt, employer matches, productive assets, and dollar-cost…
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE JUST ELIMINATED YOUR LAST EXCUSE
America is drowning in excuses while sitting on top of the greatest arsenal of opportunity ever created. Smartphones, free information, fractional investing, and artificial intelligence have demolished barriers previous generations spent lifetimes fighting. The system is not fair. It never was.…
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THE CAPE CHANGES SHOULDERS
THE FINAL BELL Most people spend their lives trying to avoid getting knocked down. The ones who leave a legacy learn how to get back up. This episode is about leadership when nobody is watching, discipline when life takes your kneecaps, and refusing to quit when the scorecards say you're…
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Leadership - The Final Bell
This episode examines the online fight over Elliot Page’s casting, Kevin Clancy’s “you problem” response, and the engagement machine feeding both sides. The point isn’t outrage. Most Americans have mortgages, groceries, jobs, and actual problems demanding their attention. But when media...
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Elliot Page, Kevin Clancy, and the “You Problem” Problem!
This episode examines the online fight over Elliot Page’s casting, Kevin Clancy’s “you problem” response, and the engagement machine feeding both sides. The point isn’t outrage. Most Americans have mortgages, groceries, jobs, and actual problems demanding their attention. But when media...
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NOISE
The Most Dangerous Thing on the Internet Isn't Misinformation—It's CertaintyWe live in an age where everyone has a microphone, but very few have a filter. In this episode of Year of the Cow, we explore how algorithms reward outrage, why certainty spreads faster than evidence, and how current...
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Leverage
LEVERAGE is the force that quietly shapes wars, markets, and everyday life. In this episode of Year of the Cow, we trace the chain reaction from the Strait of Hormuz to your grocery bill, retirement account, and mortgage rate. Why does Wall Street care more about oil tankers than political...
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Weekly Market Update. The Noise Is Getting Loud
MARKET UPDATE 6.26.26
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AI Can't Be the Canary in the Coal Mine
For the better part of two years, artificial intelligence has become the market's favorite child. Every earnings report, every conference call, every CEO seems obligated to say "AI" enough times to satisfy Wall Street. Investors have convinced themselves that AI is either going to save the…
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FIFA VIVA LA AMERICA!
FIFA has come to town, and now seems like the best time to talk up America, and all our visitors. Lets do something fun, and never forget the melting pot of America is still the GOAT of GOATS!
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Nobody Can Afford WW3!
Everyone wants to know who is winning. Iran or America. Russia or Ukraine. China or the West. I think we're asking the wrong question. The better question is whether anyone can actually afford to win anymore. This episode explores the Strait of Hormuz, the evolving negotiations with Iran, the…
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Iran Update
The title says its all. Its June 21st, Happy Fathers Day!
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Nobody Can Afford World War III
Everyone wants to know who is winning. Iran or America. Russia or Ukraine. China or the West. I think we're asking the wrong question. The better question is whether anyone can actually afford to win anymore. This episode explores the Strait of Hormuz, the evolving negotiations with Iran, the...
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Hormuz, Oil, and the Next Economic Shock.
The Strait of Hormuz has gone from geopolitical pressure point to full-blown migraine. After a U.S. Apache helicopter went down near the Strait and Washington responded with strikes on Iranian targets, markets are once again being reminded that oil doesn't care about politics—it cares about...
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The IPO Casino Is Open Again!
The IPO market is heating up, and with it comes the return of speculation, hype, and the belief that every new ticker is the next great fortune. While some of these companies may become incredible long-term investments, investors must separate great businesses from great entry prices. Massive…
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The Media Isn't Lying to You. It's Doing Something Worse.
For decades, journalism was supposed to challenge power, investigate facts, and keep the public informed. Somewhere along the way, curiosity was replaced by ratings, and reporting was replaced by opinion. Today, Americans are fed the same handful of stories on repeat while thousands of important...
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Loud Leadership and Soft Power
This is a mixed bag about leadership, and being the best version of yourself for yourself. The question starts with, Would you rather have a leader who is tough but runs a tight ship, of a soft one with misfiring assumptions?
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Jaxson Dart - The First Amendment Is Not Your Emotional Support Animal.mp3
The people melting down over Jaxson Dart introducing a president are the same emotional hall monitors who spent years telling America that dissent was sacred when Colin Kaepernick took a knee.I disagreed with most of what Kaepernick said. I thought parts of it were naive, performative, and unfair...
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Fear Is Not Sovereign - Fear makes cowards sound sophisticated.
For sixty days the world has been trying to declare a winner in a fight that isn't over. Trump didn't necessarily win. He bought time. Iran didn't suddenly become weak. It was already weak before the first missile flew. The economy was strained, the currency was hurting, sanctions were biting…
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FOLLOW YOUR SIGNAL — The Ego, The Noise, and the Empty Tank
This week wasn’t just about fuel prices, politics, markets, or another wave of media panic. It was about signal. The deeper one underneath all the noise. We talked about veterans being sold routine inflation adjustments like they were miracles, markets reacting to fear faster than fundamentals…
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“THE THUNDERCLAP EVERYBODY PRETENDS NOT TO HEAR”
Tonight we’re saying the quiet things out loud. Not to divide people. To force people to think. America feels structurally exhausted right now. Inflation is eating through the walls of the middle class. Credit card debt is exploding. People are financing lifestyles they cannot sustain while…
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THE VIRUS ISN’T THE SCARY PART. YOUR GARAGE IS.
This week on Year of THE Cow, we dive into hantavirus, mice, dust, abandoned sheds, and the horrifying realization that half of America is one unopened Rubbermaid tote away from starring in a CDC documentary. Turns out the lesson isn’t “panic.” It’s “stop living like a raccoon with a mortgage.”…
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THE STRAIT, THE SPIN, AND THE $4 GALLON SHRUG!
The last ten days felt less like geopolitics and more like somebody spilled gasoline on the global economy and handed the media a flamethrower. The Strait of Hormuz turned into the world’s most expensive traffic jam. Tankers stalled. Insurance rates exploded. Oil climbed. Meanwhile Americans…
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NATO EXPOSED. IRAN SQUEEZED. THE RULES WERE NEVER REAL!
We just walked through three arenas most people treat separately. Redistricting. NATO. Iran. They’re the same fight. One thesis: the rules only matter until they stop producing the outcome someone wants. Second thesis: power doesn’t argue anymore, it forces exposure. Third thesis: energy and...
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My Son Wants Church. My Childhood Remembers Why I Don’t.
My son says he wants to go to church. I didn’t expect that to hit as hard as it did. Because someone from my childhood just died—and it brought everything back. Not the good parts. The gaps. The contradictions. The way words and actions never lined up. She talked about faith. Lived something…
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They’re Screaming Stagflation. They’re Missing the System!
Oil jumps and suddenly everyone becomes a doomsday economist. War headlines hit, prices tick up, and the word “stagflation” gets thrown around like it’s inevitable. It isn’t. What we’re actually seeing is a system under pressure, not a system breaking. The difference matters. The U.S. isn’t…
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Ownership, Power, and Discipline
The last two weeks weren’t chaos. They were exposure. Iran headlines shifted daily, but the signal stayed consistent: delay, leverage, and controlled instability. Oil didn’t break—it adapted. That matters. The system bends before it snaps. At home, Virginia’s razor-thin gerrymandering vote proves...
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SAME CHAOS, DIFFERENT WRAPPER!
Most of what you’re seeing right now isn’t chaos, it’s patterned pressure designed to feel like chaos. The headlines move faster than reality, narratives hit before facts, and people react before they think, which is exactly how the system keeps you cycling through fear, relief, and confusion…
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They Lied to You All Week… And You Thanked Them For It!
This week wasn’t news, it was narrative warfare. Ceasefires that weren’t real. Experts that showed up overnight. Confidence built on headlines nobody verified. We break down how Iran, media cycles, and political voices all played the same game, control the story, buy time, shape perception. If…
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Iran, a Fired Up Podcast!
I'M NOT SORRY Mental Creep and the erosion of the human mind. Are your thoughts your own, or did you lose yourself in the forever depths of covid?
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Noise is NOT a Strategy
This week circled one core truth. The world still runs on systems, not headlines. Iran wasn’t the story. Oil was. The Strait of Hormuz isn’t a map label. It’s a pressure valve. When that gets touched, even slightly, markets don’t wait for certainty. They price fear, logistics, and insurance risk...
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BLOOD IN THE MARKET, OIL IN THE WATER
The market didn’t slip. It broke. A month of pressure snapped into a Friday collapse, and the fault line runs straight through Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, and a world that suddenly remembers energy still rules everything. Crude moves, everything moves. Diplomacy stalls, risk explodes. And in the...
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Joe Kent, When the Insider Breaks Rank.
In this episode of Year of the Cow, we break down Joe Kent’s sudden shift from insider to critic after his appearance on Tucker Carlson. Is he exposing real cracks in the narrative around Iran, or drifting into something less grounded? We unpack his claims about nuclear timelines, the Libya…
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Year of the Cow – Oil, Iran, and the Panic Loop
In this episode of Year of the Cow, we break down the market’s reaction to rising oil prices and the Iran conflict. While headlines drive fear and volatility, the underlying mechanics remain familiar. Supply disruptions, geopolitical tension, and investor psychology collide in real time. This…
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When the Sheriff Leaves Town
For generations the United States has acted as the reluctant referee of the modern world. Not always perfectly. Not always wisely. But consistently. The uncomfortable truth is that global stability is not an accident. It is a structure built on deterrence, naval security, financial leverage, and...
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Sobering Thoughts Over the Strait
Most AMERICANS are not nearly as resilient as they think they are.
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Certainty Is a Drug
Everyone wants to be right. Almost nobody wants to be curious. This episode is a short vent about the Iran conflict and the strange psychology surrounding it. People are posting half-truths, rumors, and propaganda with absolute certainty. No verification. No humility. Just instant outrage and...
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Strait of Consequence
The Iran conflict isn’t some distant headline — it’s the intersection of power, policy, and human cost. We are witnessing a multilateral confrontation involving the U.S., Israel, and Iran that has broadened beyond tactical strikes into economic shockwaves, regional instability, and civilian...
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When Your Enemy Fights the 7th-Grade Menace: Iran, Pakistan, and the Geometry of Chaos
Pakistan is trading airstrikes with Afghanistan, and the region is heating up fast. Meanwhile, Iran sits in that dangerous gray zone — not officially at war, but surrounded by military buildup and diplomacy that feels like two people texting “we need to talk.” The most likely outcome with Iran is...
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Outrage Is Not Protection - Start With Your ZIP Code
Last night’s State of the Union reignited outrage over Epstein and “the children.” But outrage at distance is not protection up close. It’s easy to condemn elites on a screen; it’s harder to audit your own ZIP code, know the registry, attend school meetings, mentor, and build disciplined...
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Control the Collision
After hitting black ice and colliding with a pole, I realized something important: you can’t always avoid impact, but you can control how you enter it. This episode explores crisis management, systems, and emotional discipline. From insurance preparation to parenting under pressure, I break down...
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What They Don't Want You to Know About Markets and Power
The Overton window has shifted again. Tariffs, alliances, climate accords, Russia-U.S. speculation. Narratives flip every election cycle. The question is not who is right. The question is how you stay stable when governance feels unstable. This episode breaks down leadership in volatility. We...
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The Epstein Effect
Every cycle produces a new word soup. Epstein. Earnings. Voter ID. Red versus blue. Bull versus bear. It is all noise until you decide what you are actually measuring. Signal keeping means separating outrage from data. Markets move on liquidity, rates, earnings, and positioning, not hashtags....
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Trigger Discipline or Trigger Happy - The Training ICE Isn't Getting
This conversation is broken because everyone wants a villain and no one wants responsibility. Yes, ICE has a training problem. Poor de-escalation, rushed deployments, and unclear use-of-force standards put both agents and civilians at risk. That deserves scrutiny. Full stop. But here’s the part…
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Greenland Isn’t the Story. Power Is.
People keep asking the wrong question. “No, I’m not calling for an invasion of Greenland.” The real issue is leverage, responsibility, and who actually carries the weight of global security. Since World War II, the United States has provided the overwhelming majority of NATO’s real military...
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Greenland, Venezuela, and the U.S. Doctrine Nobody Wants to Admit
Greenland and Venezuela look like two unrelated stories. They’re not. This episode breaks down why U.S. policy toward Venezuela in the south and Greenland in the north is part of the same strategic doctrine. Keeping Russia and China from gaining ocean access, airspace influence, and Arctic…
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