Terrence Howard admits the hardest part of fatherhood is avoiding hypocrisy and phoniness.
Howard established nine commandments for his children, including rules about not being obnoxious and respecting oneself and others.
Howard describes breaking his own rules at Disneyland, losing his composure over a bag search and nearly getting his family ejected.
He promotes an 'ABC' philosophy for his children: Always be cool, always be calm, always be comfortable with consequences.
Howard grew up as one of eleven children and was beaten daily by his father for being 'indomitable.'
He swore he would not use the belt on his own children, but his sons' behavior broke that resolve.
Howard now says the threat of the belt alone is effective, calling it 'the benefit' of having followed through with discipline in the past.
He frames his use of physical discipline as slipping back into what he calls 'the slave days' of child-rearing.
Howard expresses fear for his daughters, citing a belief in 'karma' for the things he did to women in his past.
He views gender through a biological determinist lens, believing boys are 'indomitable' targets for physical discipline.
Howard claims estrogen floods female fetuses at three months, wiring 'three to five times' the neural connections of males.
He believes this biological difference makes girls smarter and more manipulative than boys.
A specific fear for his daughters is that they will mistake 'daddy-manipulation' for mastery over all men, making them dangerously gullible.
His sexual ethics were shaped by the pornography he watched and the physical discipline he survived as a child.
Howard says pornography created 'unnatural expectations' about sex that he is still unlearning.
He did not masturbate until age 25, delaying his exposure to sexual media.
Howard views sexual penetration as 'testosterone-intense aggression,' not the romantic fantasy sold by R&B music and pornography.
He believes men must learn that foreplay is the only true 'love-making,' separate from aggressive penetration.
Howard identifies the belt and pornography as the 'twin inheritances' he is trying, but failing, to break for his children.
Iran's primary leverage isn't drones or missiles, but its ability to threaten the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of global oil flows.
Analyst Jeff Snider stated that Iran's only remaining pressure point is oil and the leverage it has over China.
Iran's threat to close the Strait of Hormuz is specifically aimed at pressuring China, which buys 80-90% of Iranian crude oil.
A Hormuz closure would hit China harder than almost any other nation due to its heavy reliance on Iranian oil.
The Trump administration's strategy appears to be neutralizing Iran's navy before it can make a credible threat to close the Strait.
A reported U.S. submarine strike sank an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, thousands of miles from the Persian Gulf.
The sunk Iranian warship was positioned on the sea lane connecting the Middle East to China, intended to escort oil tankers toward Chinese ports.
West Texas Intermediate crude oil prices barely moved on the news of the Hormuz threat, indicating a muted market reaction.
Co-host Mark Moss attributed the calm oil market to a structural shift: U.S. energy independence has defanged what would once have been a global oil shock.
Moss noted that 60% of European natural gas now comes from the United States, a major shift in energy geopolitics.
American energy exports now act as a form of geopolitical leverage, described by Moss as a kind of 'sixth fleet'.
The U.S. is no longer just a consumer in the global oil equation, which changes the geopolitical calculus around supply chokepoints.