Drilling for Dollars: BRK, the Strait of Hormuz, and America’s $41 Trillion Hole — QAV AU 913

by | Apr 1, 2026 | Australia, Blog, Investing Podcast, Podcast Episodes

Aus­tralian con­sumer con­fi­dence hits a 53-year low, the US Trea­sury’s own bal­ance sheet reveal­ing effec­tive insol­ven­cy (lia­bil­i­ties near­ly eight times assets), and the Iran war clos­ing the Strait of Hor­muz and send­ing alu­minum prices surg­ing 6%. A lis­ten­er ques­tion from Dar­ryl about buy­back scor­ing. Tony deliv­ers the episode’s Pulled Pork on **Brook­side Ener­gy (BRK)**, an ASX-list­ed, Okla­homa-based shale oil pro­duc­er drilling in the Anadarko Basin. After hours cov­ers Tony’s Chat­G­PT-pow­ered horse rac­ing scraper break­through, Cameron’s Nick Cave obses­sion, Apple TV’s *Friends & Neigh­bors*, and a rec­om­men­da­tion for Seth Rogen’s time-trav­el com­e­dy *Future Man*.

QAV AU #912 — Chicken Little

by | Mar 25, 2026 | Australia, Blog, Investing Podcast, Podcast Episodes

In episode 912 of QAV Aus­tralia (record­ed 24 March 2026), Cameron and Tony open with geopo­lit­i­cal com­men­tary on the Iran-US-Israel con­flict and its impact on oil prices, before reas­sur­ing pan­icked lis­ten­ers that mar­ket chaos is cycli­cal and the QAV rules — includ­ing the three-point trend line and Rule One sell sig­nals — are designed exact­ly for moments like these. Tony deliv­ers a deep-dive Pulled Pork on Karoon Ener­gy (KAR), the upstream oil pro­duc­er. Oth­er stocks touched on include Viva Ener­gy, San­tos, Cen­tral Petro­le­um, Pep­per Mon­ey (CGF’s revised low­ball takeover offer), Har­mo­ny (HMY hit­ting a Rule One sell), and the messy Humm/Credit Corp takeover sit­u­a­tion involv­ing the Takeovers Pan­el. After hours, Tony rec­om­mends jug­gling come­di­an Michael Rayn­er (“The Bro­ken Jug­gler”) and the polit­i­cal mem­oir *All’s Fair*, while Cameron raves about Jack­ie Chan’s *Police Sto­ry*, David Lynch’s obscure 1993 HBO minis­eries *Hotel Room*, and the 1944 film *Gaslight*.

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