The Tim Dillon Show

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497 - Thomas Massie, Kevin O'Leary, & The American Psyop

Explore episode May 23, 2026

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Food Crisis: The Strait of Hormuz Closes and the Grocery Bill Explodes

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Tim pivots to what he presents as a direct economic consequence of the Iran war: the disruption of the Strait of Hormuz, through which vast quantities of fertilizer and agricultural inputs normally flow. He cites a Politico piece describing the closure not as a temporary hiccup but as the beginning of a systemic shock to global food prices, with the timeline for crisis set at the next six months to early 2027. The consequences he sketches are sweeping: farmers can't get fertilizer, crop choices shift, food prices spike. With characteristic dark comedy, Tim notes that the biggest losers may be Eli Lilly and the GLP-1 weight-loss drug manufacturers — because if food becomes too expensive for ordinary people, they'll simply have to go hungry the old-fashioned way, like an orphan from Oliver Twist, making injectable appetite suppressants redundant. Only the wealthy will be fat. Tim then suggests this may be deliberate government policy — a return to workhouses and gruel — noting that Trump has publicly said he doesn't think about the financial situation of ordinary Americans. The segment closes with Tim linking the food crisis directly to the Kevin O'Leary lunch controversy that follows.

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