The Zach Foust Show

Send us Fan Mail Before Covid I got sandwich makers into homes. Deli workers. Campus security guards. Single airmen fresh out of basic training. Sub thousand dollar mortgages every week here in Delaware. That world is completely gone and I want to walk you through exactly why. In this episode Sean, Joe and I break down the real causes of the housing crisis from the ground up. Median home prices. R...

Send us Fan Mail Three things on the table today. The Road to Housing Act, the jobs numbers, and Trump enriching himself from office. I walk through the housing bill section by section and give you my honest take on what is actually good, what is a grant nobody will fund, and what is missing entirely. The corporate ownership cap has no divestment clause. That is a problem. The manufactured home ch...

Send us Fan Mail I just finished laying 204 feet of fencing. No producer, no notes, no script. Just me in the basement with something on my mind that I cannot shake. I think the tech bros are winning. And I do not mean that as a compliment. I spent two hours in Afghanistan in 2013 working alongside an intel contractor who had a blimp camera 400 yards in the air that could read a name tag from two...

Send us Fan Mail The government says cumulative inflation since 2010 is 52.72%. I think that number is a lie and I have the receipts. I spent time building out what I am calling the Real Inflation Tracker. I took real items that real 25 to 34 year olds buy every single week and I looked at what they cost in 2010 versus what they cost today. A McDonald's meal that was $5.29 in 2010 is now $16....

Send us Fan Mail The government says cumulative inflation since 2010 is 52.72%. I think that number is a lie and I have the receipts. I spent time building out what I am calling the Real Inflation Tracker. I took real items that real 25 to 34 year olds buy every single week and I looked at what they cost in 2010 versus what they cost today. A McDonald's meal that was $5.29 in 2010 is now $16....

Send us Fan Mail I want you to sit with this question for a second. Why does none of this make logical sense? We give Israel billions. We get nothing back. We go to war on their behalf. We tank our own economy. We choke off a fifth of the world's oil supply. We block 40% of global fertilizer. We threaten Iranian peace negotiators telling them you won't even make it back to your country....

Send us Fan Mail Something happened in the last 36 hours and I need to walk you through it because Trump said six things in one day that made me think somebody injected him with the truth serum from Spy Kids. He said Iran can keep ballistic missiles because other countries have them. He admitted the stock market shoots up every time peace is mentioned and crashes when it is not because the people...

Send us Fan Mail Two big things are happening in the next 48 hours and I want you to know what to listen for so you can make smart decisions with your money. Tomorrow at 2 p.m. eastern Kevin takes the podium for his very first Federal Reserve meeting as chairman. This is the man Trump appointed, whose wife's father is Ron Lauder, who attended a Boris Epstein Christmas party in 2010 where Jeff...

Send us Fan Mail There is a deal on the table. The Strait of Hormuz has more traffic. Markets are moving. Crypto, gold, silver, and stocks all reacting the way they should for the first time in a while. And I want to be excited about it. I genuinely do. I just came back from the gym. I am wearing a SpongeBob outfit. I want to be pumped up. But I cannot get past the terms. $24 billion in frozen Ira...

Send us Fan Mail I pulled 11 graphs together and I want to walk you through every single one of them because I think most people are feeling this economy without being able to see it clearly. These graphs show it clearly. We start with data centers surpassing office construction in value for the first time in history and why the 200 jobs they promise are mostly custodial and security. We look at t...

Send us Fan Mail This is the eighth time a specific set of steps toward a ceasefire has been put in front of us. The 27th time we have declared victory. The 38th time we have declared a peace agreement is right around the corner. So let me walk you through what is actually on the table, what Iran actually wants, and why I do not think this deal happens. I break down the full timeline of this week....

Send us Fan Mail I sat down with Todd Achilles, the independent veteran running for US Senate in Idaho against a man who has been in Idaho politics for over 50 years, bragged that the Senate was an easy job in his first month, and has become a rubber stamp for whatever comes out of the White House. Todd served in the Idaho Legislature and built a reputation as one of the most bipartisan members in...

Send us Fan Mail I recorded this one on the move. We have a missing dog and I had to get this out before I went to go find him. If you are in Camden Delaware and you see a dog named Bo please hit me up. On to the episode. Inflation just dropped this morning from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and it came in higher than expected at 4.2% annual. Energy is up 23.5% year over year. Fuel oil is up 58.9...

Send us Fan Mail I have ten reasons why the Federal Reserve should be something every American looks at sideways. And I promise even if you have heard the Jekyll Island story before there are a couple facts in here you probably have not connected yet. We start with the name. It is not federal and it does not have reserves. As of March 15th 2020 the reserve requirement for American banks dropped to...

Send us Fan Mail Only 4% of Americans live somewhere their vote actually matters in a general election. 96% of congressional races are decided in the primaries where almost nobody shows up. That is not an accident. That is the design. From there the guys dig into the $1.7 billion being allocated toward January 6th defendants, the DOJ making Trump completely untouchable from IRS audits, content cre...

Send us Fan Mail I know you want a crash. I want one too. But I need to tell you the truth about why it is not coming and what is actually going to happen to home prices over the next three to five years. In this episode I walk through three battles destroying housing affordability for everyday Americans right now. The wage battle, where wages have gone up 25% since 2020 but home prices have gone...

Send us Fan Mail Noah Tanner brought me on Bigg Fella for one of those conversations that just goes everywhere in the best way possible. We started talking about buying your first home in 2026 and ended up deep in self discipline, mental health, disconnecting from screens, and what it actually means to build a life that is worth living. I told him my honest take on homeownership right now. Is it s...

Send us Fan Mail I shot this one as an emergency broadcast. Iran has officially backed away from the negotiating table. Their deputy head of central military command said it plainly. Without surrender, war is inevitable. And we are not surrendering. So here we are. On top of that the CEO of Exxon is now calling oil at $150 to $160 a barrel within weeks. We are currently sitting at $91.50 as I shot...

Send us Fan Mail I just want to know what's actually happening. Not what the headlines say. Not what the stock market says. What is actually happening. The S&P 500 is breaking records every week since March 27th while oil is still up 30% from pre war levels, bond yields are screaming inflation, credit card defaults are climbing, car loans are going 60 and 90 days no payment at record rate...

Send us Fan Mail I got on a call with Ali Sabir from Pakistan for the very first episode of The Honest Middle and honestly one of the best conversations I have had in a long time. Ali lives in a country that feels every move America makes at the fuel pump, at the currency exchange, at the border. The Strait of Hormuz closes and Pakistan pays five to six dollars a gallon on a minimum wage of 120 do...

Send us Fan Mail I turned on the camera today because I just needed to talk. Sean and Joe aren't here. It's just me and you. I was suicidal at 13. I had ADHD, constant social anxiety, and spent years at the bottom of the totem pole in a private Christian school with 16 kids in my class. I joined the Army to prove I was worth something. I got kicked out of college. I got fired from two jo...

Send us Fan Mail I sat down with Rick Beard, the third party candidate running for governor of Nebraska, and this conversation opened my eyes to something happening in the middle of America that nobody is covering. Nebraska voters passed cannabis legalization with 71% of the vote. Their own legislature came in and dismantled it. That is not a coincidence. That is lobbying money doing exactly what...

Send us Fan Mail I was in Florence, Kentucky when Thomas Massie lost. I was running an exit poll outside Seabrook Elementary. I watched it happen in real time. And I need to talk about it. The creators who showed up generated 2.2 billion views in six days. We out-viewed the $30 million AIPAC machine on a national scale. But that money was never aimed at the nation. It was aimed directly at 310,000...

Send us Fan Mail Episode ten. And we are apparently on somebody's radar now. The guys break down the White House's brand new 2026 counterterrorism strategy and what it actually says about who the government now considers a threat. Spoiler alert it includes being anti-fascist. From there the conversation goes deep into Kevin O'Leary showing up on Fox News in pink flip flops accusing...

Send us Fan Mail Please like and subscribe Bread and Banter on there platforms @breadnbanterpod What if the version of Christianity most Americans grew up with was shaped not by scripture but by a convicted con man with no theological background and a political agenda? In this episode we sit down with Zach Foust, Delaware realtor turned one of the most honest voices on economics, power, and corrup...