Patriot Power Hour 289 - Season Finale; 2024 Predictions In Review; 2025 Preview & NEWS BLITZ!

[00:00:20] Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro.

[00:00:26] And in the midst of his story, one of my friends turned to the other and said, we don't know how lucky we are.

[00:00:31] And the Cuban stopped and said, how lucky you are. I had some place to escape to.

[00:00:37] And in that sentence, he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to.

[00:00:43] This is the last stand on earth. This is the last stand on earth. The last stand on earth.

[00:02:06] Now listening to the Patriot Power Hour. This live episode features the situational awareness you need to practice self-reliance and independence.

[00:02:16] Introducing your hosts, Ben, the Breaker of Banksters, and Future Dan, the editor of FutureDanger.com.

[00:02:26] Patriot Power Hour. We are live December 18th, 2024, just after 8 p.m. Eastern.

[00:02:34] Ben the Breaker of Banksters here with Future Dan. How you doing there, sir?

[00:02:38] Good, Ben. We got 34 active headlines on 20 active indicators on Future Danger to round out this season, the season finale of fall 2024.

[00:02:51] We're going to be taking a break after this show, unless everything flies apart at the seams.

[00:02:57] Then you know we'll be here. But for tonight's finale, loaded with news, but mostly grade five low-level topical news.

[00:03:10] Topical news, which we review and may prove to be nothing, may be super important breadcrumbs and trail to follow retroactively.

[00:03:22] For example, there were a lot of those topical news articles in December of 2019 and even a little before surrounding some kind of weird virus like out of China.

[00:03:32] That ended up being important. But there's also been a lot of news we've covered on Patriot Power Hour, which is hopefully will continue to not portend apocalypse, whether that's medical, whether that's financial, whether that's liberty all around.

[00:03:48] So Future Dan today is our, again, year finale, season finale.

[00:03:53] We're going to be reviewing 2024 predictions in the second half.

[00:03:58] So the tradition here on the show in January of each year, we write down kind of not exact predictions, but percent chance evaluations, risk evaluations on certain topics.

[00:04:13] We check in in June and then we kind of grade ourselves in December.

[00:04:20] So we're going to be doing that for 2024 and maybe even a couple flashes back to previous predictions two, three years ago.

[00:04:28] I got a couple. So that'll be after the news blitz on the second half of the show tonight.

[00:04:32] I know you're super excited about StreamYard for the Perfect Broadcasting Network and all the other associated outlets that Patriot Power Hour is now broadcasting to.

[00:04:45] Can you update our audience on where else we can be heard now?

[00:04:50] Of course. So we've done darn near 300 episodes of Patriot Power Hour, almost all of them being podcast only.

[00:05:00] But this is our second StreamYard, which means we're simulcasting not just live audio, but live video to Rumble, to YouTube and to X.

[00:05:12] So find Prepper Broadcasting Network on YouTube, on X, on Rumble, any or hopefully all three of those.

[00:05:22] Find those. If you've been listening to us just on a podcast app, right, and you want to kind of expand, that's the way to do it.

[00:05:32] There's people chatting. I mean, our first show, we had five, six unique chatters.

[00:05:37] I know Intrepid Commander, who's a regular, and several other hosts on PBN are starting to become more and more regular.

[00:05:45] So, hey, if you still want to listen to the audio the old-fashioned way, whether it's because you're on a road trip but can't watch the video, whatnot,

[00:05:52] that's still going to be there, still in the old place, the old formats.

[00:05:56] But especially next year, we're going to be really using this video aspect not only to review news articles live on,

[00:06:04] but video clips and interviews, Q&A, maybe even get enough viewers in here.

[00:06:10] We can do some kind of live chats where everyone can see what's going on.

[00:06:14] And these videos are also saved retroactively, especially on Rumble.

[00:06:18] So, yeah, there's the pitch there, Future Dan.

[00:06:21] And we got Jay Fergie in the comments section on StreamYard.

[00:06:25] Good evening, Jay Fergie.

[00:06:27] Seeing your comment, appreciate your listening.

[00:06:29] Jay Fergie, another host on Prepper Broadcasting Network.

[00:06:33] So hopefully we can interact more and better than ever with the audience.

[00:06:38] But in the meantime, tonight, season finale, we have what you said earlier, predictions to recap.

[00:06:46] We got the news blitz, which we hold off for the second segment.

[00:06:49] But just because we're new to this, a little bit of housekeeping brought out in the open,

[00:06:56] I'm just going to ask the question.

[00:06:57] We don't have a break before our news blitz, at least in our current format, do we?

[00:07:03] Not in our current format.

[00:07:04] So you and I, we're going to have a little planning session maybe on or around New Year's.

[00:07:10] We're going to come up with a couple avatars so we're not just anonymous here on our little profiles here on video.

[00:07:16] And we're definitely going to, well, we've had this in the past, add some commercials, some quotes from previous Patriot Power Hours.

[00:07:26] I've actually been feeding a lot of old shows into AI and getting transcripts and getting key points and summations.

[00:07:34] So going back two, three, five, six years ago, pulling clips from there and putting them in our break with a couple ads.

[00:07:42] That's just one of the things we're going to be improving on starting in January.

[00:07:47] Yeah, and I also have an opportunity now.

[00:07:50] I'm also monitoring the internal PBN host chat forum and checking out what Carl Brown, Chin, others are posting.

[00:08:02] And we're going to be talking about the same news.

[00:08:04] So we're going to be bringing it full circle.

[00:08:08] But again, with the exception of these drones in New Jersey, almost all the news is very low level.

[00:08:16] Like you said, might go nowhere soon, right?

[00:08:20] But it could go somewhere fast.

[00:08:22] So we're watching it.

[00:08:23] Economic news is cropping up again, perhaps because we don't directly determine things that the Federal Reserve does as dangerous directly.

[00:08:35] Maybe if they had emergency rate cuts or emergency meetings.

[00:08:38] But that's not happening right now.

[00:08:39] Those are indicators on future danger.

[00:08:42] But those aren't happening right now.

[00:08:43] But the Fed did cut rates again this year.

[00:08:48] Maybe this is a great part of the show is just, let's get this out of the way.

[00:08:53] The banter breaker rant on what the Fed's doing now.

[00:08:58] I think this will be my least passionate rant on the day of a Federal Reserve cut.

[00:09:04] And that's the way, funny enough, how the markets are viewing the cut.

[00:09:09] They're like, puke.

[00:09:11] This is the last thing we wanted.

[00:09:12] This means that there's still going to be inflation, but also we wanted a bigger cut.

[00:09:19] They wanted their cake and eat it too.

[00:09:21] That's not happening with this only 25 basis points or one quarter of a point cut.

[00:09:28] People wanted either a half or they wanted just good news that, hey, we don't even have to cut rates because everything's going so great.

[00:09:35] This is kind of like, eh, we are entering stagflation.

[00:09:37] We're having bad earnings and economic results, plus also inflation's not going away.

[00:09:43] Because if inflation was going away, they would cut it 50 or 75 basis points.

[00:09:48] But they're not because they're scared there.

[00:09:49] So you got that going on.

[00:09:51] We also have, even though the Dow Jones is still not that far off of its all-time high, it's down about 10 or 12%, but it's been, you know, geez, 10-day losing streak.

[00:10:03] The worst streak since 1974.

[00:10:07] Again, it's still very high.

[00:10:10] It's not even close to some sort of market crash.

[00:10:13] But these are how market crashes could start.

[00:10:16] And if this continues for the next two, three months, they're going to hand that to Trump on a platter.

[00:10:22] So we've talked about that for years and years and years.

[00:10:26] That's one thing that we're going to be looking at on the dashboard and something to keep in mind here.

[00:10:31] The last time we talked about a market crash was in our election special.

[00:10:37] And we talked about if the Electoral College was potentially producing a contested election that went to the U.S. Congress to decide that the timing of a market crash, a banking crisis would, you know, that we might be able to see that happen to influence and panic lawmakers.

[00:10:59] But guess what happened yesterday?

[00:11:02] Electoral College formally convened and has, you know, confirmed that the results are going to be for Trump.

[00:11:10] It's just pro forma, you know, opening up that package and passing it through the rituals because there won't be a contested election this year.

[00:11:19] So a banking crisis in December, a market crash right before Christmas.

[00:11:26] It's not going to stop Trump from taking power.

[00:11:29] No, it won't.

[00:11:31] It won't at this point.

[00:11:32] Only another assassination attempt that would hopefully would never happen, let alone be successful.

[00:11:39] So what I want to go down this rabbit hole.

[00:11:42] But speaking of that, every once in a while, I just remind myself what would have happened if they did get Trump, if Trump was killed July 13th, J 13.

[00:11:55] What would have happened?

[00:11:56] What would we be like right now?

[00:11:58] Just a little more than five months after that, right?

[00:12:01] What would it be like?

[00:12:02] So just keep that in mind.

[00:12:03] We're all preppers here for a reason.

[00:12:06] I think we should all be glad Trump is well on the way to inauguration.

[00:12:11] But just it could have changed and things can still turn on a dime.

[00:12:15] So keep on prepping, I guess is what I probably tell myself.

[00:12:18] But the election's decided.

[00:12:20] So the federal laws that control succession of the presidency, vice president, speaker of the House, on through the cabinet, that would be in effect.

[00:12:34] Oh, yeah.

[00:12:35] No, we're past some major obstacles that have been cleared between July and now, for sure.

[00:12:44] But I'm just saying, in an alternate reality, maybe I've been reading alternate history books the last year or so.

[00:12:51] So maybe I'm just saying, how would the timeline look if Trump had been assassinated?

[00:12:55] Thank God he was not.

[00:12:56] But I mean, it was so close.

[00:12:57] And that's why we're all preppers for, for those close calls that hopefully will never happen.

[00:13:01] But I think, yeah, that would have been a problem, I think.

[00:13:05] So just stay tuned.

[00:13:07] 2025 is going to be as crazier or crazier than 2024, in my opinion.

[00:13:12] So sum up the Federal Reserve.

[00:13:14] Nothing surprised you.

[00:13:16] And from their perspective of modern economics, they're doing something, you know, Jay Powell's being very cautious.

[00:13:25] And he probably doesn't really care if the market went down 10 days in a row.

[00:13:31] I mean, those Federal Reserve members are very adamant about the fact that they're not making these decisions for short-term market outcomes.

[00:13:41] It's totally prudent to have some of those 10, 20, 30% pullbacks, you know?

[00:13:48] And not a plug for Bitcoin, but Bitcoin is probably the freest of free markets.

[00:13:55] It's the wild, wild west.

[00:13:57] And it has massive volatility both up and down.

[00:14:00] But it's not suppressed.

[00:14:02] It's not manipulated.

[00:14:03] So when it does crash 40% in six months, now it's cheap.

[00:14:09] Free market forces are in play.

[00:14:11] People buy it.

[00:14:12] Whereas, as we've talked about many times on our show here, worldwide, the debt bubble and the kick it, the can down the road attitude, going back to the 2000 bubble, let alone 2008, let alone COVID.

[00:14:27] Like, each one is stacking on each other.

[00:14:30] And we still haven't cleared out all this debt.

[00:14:33] Our debt is all-time high.

[00:14:34] And we haven't had that reckoning.

[00:14:37] So, you know, if I was in that control of the Fed, I would like, yeah, maybe we need to have a 20, 30, 40% pullback just to try to balance things out a bit.

[00:14:47] But, you know, me as Ben, the breaker of banksters, I say such a pullback might collapse the entire house of cards and might result in a total route 70%, 80% crash that might not be recoverable for some of the banksters.

[00:15:04] So they may not.

[00:15:05] That's why they can't let it correct even a reasonable amount.

[00:15:08] So we'll see.

[00:15:09] This is the easy part.

[00:15:11] The 10% that has gone down, the 10-day losing streak, no reason to panic about that now is what I'm saying.

[00:15:16] But if we get another 10% or 20% taken down between now and inauguration, then we'll pay attention a little more.

[00:15:26] You're talking about the Dow and the other major exchanges.

[00:15:29] Yes.

[00:15:30] So Bitcoin's off of an all-time high yesterday of $108,000.

[00:15:35] It's at a little above $100,000.

[00:15:38] It's down $8,000 in 24 hours.

[00:15:40] But you're pretty confident that Bitcoin's staying where it's at for the foreseeable future, if not climbing?

[00:15:49] No, because when, if, and I think when, the next financial crisis happens, Wall Street's going to sell off all the Bitcoin they made a lot of money on in the last year.

[00:16:01] Wall Street really got involved with Bitcoin and was like $40,000.

[00:16:04] And they've ridden in all the way up to $100,000 plus.

[00:16:08] So they're the first ones that'll sell.

[00:16:10] Especially when all their other investments are going south fast.

[00:16:15] They're like, all right, I'm up big on Bitcoin.

[00:16:17] Let me realize some of these profits.

[00:16:20] That's fine.

[00:16:21] Hey, trust me.

[00:16:24] Personally, I'm fine with Wall Street getting out of Bitcoin, making it cheap.

[00:16:27] So myself and other patriots out there can get it cheap again.

[00:16:31] But I also think it'll bounce quickly.

[00:16:35] And finally, before I keep going on a tangent, because time is flying.

[00:16:39] We do got to get to a lot of stuff tonight.

[00:16:42] I do expect not only Bitcoin, but the markets to drop quite a lot.

[00:16:48] But when they do, there will be at least one more big bailout package.

[00:16:54] One more too big to fail.

[00:16:56] One more emergencies, negative interest rates, that type of stuff.

[00:17:01] So they got one more in them, I think.

[00:17:03] Maybe two.

[00:17:04] And if they got two, they can keep this going another decade.

[00:17:06] But I think one more, it may not work very long.

[00:17:10] It only may work for like a few months.

[00:17:12] So that's what I'm saying.

[00:17:14] If Bitcoin or other assets, especially real estate, all of a sudden drop 30%, 40%, 50%,

[00:17:20] you might want to buy some while it's cheap.

[00:17:23] That's how I look at it for real assets.

[00:17:26] You know, gold, silver, land.

[00:17:29] And I like some Bitcoin too.

[00:17:32] All right.

[00:17:33] Well, what do you say we jump right into the headlines, the dashboard?

[00:17:38] Let's do it.

[00:17:39] You want to read them?

[00:17:39] I think I need to.

[00:17:42] I do.

[00:17:43] All right.

[00:17:44] Let me make sure I get this all squared away from a technical standpoint.

[00:17:50] In the future, we're going to be doing this during the break.

[00:17:53] But we're live here.

[00:17:55] All right.

[00:17:56] Presenting right now.

[00:17:57] Let's go.

[00:17:58] Presenting share screen here.

[00:18:00] And I'm going to make sure our little guys disappear as well.

[00:18:05] Here we go.

[00:18:06] Boom.

[00:18:08] What you got?

[00:18:09] All right.

[00:18:09] Yeah.

[00:18:10] Looking good.

[00:18:11] Yeah.

[00:18:12] People can read along.

[00:18:13] And the reason why I want to do it is because this whole East Coast mystery drone phenomena

[00:18:21] is crossing a bunch of different indicators.

[00:18:24] So I want to read them in a logical order.

[00:18:26] And it's not exactly the way the dashboard has rank ordered the indicators right now.

[00:18:31] So let's start right there.

[00:18:34] Column two.

[00:18:35] It's security news.

[00:18:36] Right?

[00:18:38] Right?

[00:18:39] And the indicators that this is touching inside involve foreign black ops suspected.

[00:18:43] Coercive forces mobilizing.

[00:18:48] Coercive forces mobilizing.

[00:18:48] A false flag being exposed.

[00:18:53] Right?

[00:18:53] Right.

[00:18:54] Those.

[00:18:55] Those.

[00:18:55] Those.

[00:18:55] And it is also touching.

[00:18:57] And the potential for a weapon of mass destruction being detonated.

[00:19:01] So let's cover those headlines.

[00:19:02] First off.

[00:19:04] And I would say a leading theory as to what this is, is foreign black ops.

[00:19:12] Right?

[00:19:12] Drone activity closes airspace.

[00:19:15] Actually this week over Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

[00:19:20] Wright Pat is a very sensitive research and development installation for the U.S. Air Force.

[00:19:26] U.S. government tells officials and politicians to ditch regular calls and texts after China hacks American telecommunications.

[00:19:34] There's an example of a headline that's not related to the drones, but it is related to foreign black ops.

[00:19:41] It's suspected.

[00:19:42] Back to drones though.

[00:19:43] Drones over New Jersey show signs of coordination, looting helicopters.

[00:19:47] I think we want to look at that article, Ben.

[00:19:50] 18 different theories about the East Coast mystery drones.

[00:19:54] Good article showing just the diversity of speculation out there.

[00:19:59] And these are 18 theories from officials and politicians.

[00:20:03] So we need to see what's being said right now.

[00:20:06] Finally, under black ops suspected, mystery drones have stalked U.S. for years.

[00:20:11] With little apparent action from the government.

[00:20:14] So zero head just making that point.

[00:20:17] There's been drones before.

[00:20:19] And this hysteria is not the first part of this.

[00:20:22] Jumping down to false flags exposed.

[00:20:25] There's a serious, you know, camp within the what are the drones, you know, discussion.

[00:20:32] You know, worried that this is going to end up being a false flag.

[00:20:37] Unidentified drones smell like a false flag is the article.

[00:20:41] Deep state getting ready to blame Iran for dirty bomb detonation on American soil.

[00:20:46] That's a question for that article.

[00:20:48] And by the way, just in time for Congress to reauthorize drone countering authorities set to expire on Friday night, December 20th.

[00:20:59] Another article under false flags exposed.

[00:21:02] Top eight signs federal government is lying about the mysterious drones.

[00:21:07] And finally, another kind of speculative article.

[00:21:10] Will nuke false flag keep Trump out of office?

[00:21:15] Jumping over to the third indicator where this is touching.

[00:21:20] Kind of hard to categorize.

[00:21:23] So I threw it under coercive forces mobilizing.

[00:21:27] President-elect Trump says that President Biden knows exactly what the UAP slash UFO slash Mr. Jones are.

[00:21:36] As an attempt to create hysteria.

[00:21:38] That's out of Infowars.

[00:21:40] Another article drawn in comparison to something that's been out there for a long time.

[00:21:46] Is this an actual attempt to pull off Project Blue Beam?

[00:21:50] We'll get into Project Blue Beam after the heat map dashboard.

[00:21:53] Blitzkrieg.

[00:21:54] So that's where the drones.

[00:21:56] Oh, yeah.

[00:21:56] One more.

[00:21:57] Weapons of mass destruction detonated.

[00:21:59] Again, topical.

[00:22:00] Grade one news.

[00:22:02] Just asking the question.

[00:22:03] Are mysterious East Coast drones flown by U.S. government searching for a suitcase nuke?

[00:22:10] And that's different from a potential Iranian dirty bomb.

[00:22:14] Suitcase nuke.

[00:22:16] We know the Soviets had them.

[00:22:18] That's a very advanced technology.

[00:22:21] So that's where the drone kind of phenomenon is hitting the dashboard right now.

[00:22:27] Also in security news, we got Taiwan's leaders are shocked by the size of recent Chinese military drills.

[00:22:35] U.S. remains mute during them.

[00:22:38] One large packages of ships and aircraft.

[00:22:41] Some of the largest we've seen this year have recently exercised from the People's Liberation Navy around Taiwan.

[00:22:48] And on the southern border, 10,000, quote, special interest aliens have been apprehended since October.

[00:22:56] Special interest is the politically correct language of the current Department of Homeland Security for Islamic terrorists, suspected.

[00:23:05] That's security news.

[00:23:08] Going to hit column one, Liberty.

[00:23:11] Just as topical news, but worthy of mentioning under the indicator elections are stolen.

[00:23:19] Maybe not this time, but we need to say California certifies their election results over five weeks after the election.

[00:23:28] They did that today.

[00:23:29] So California's election apparatus is well entrenched to create the amount of fraud that we witnessed in 2020.

[00:23:39] Also in column one, schools are using AI to send police to students' homes.

[00:23:44] We can get into the details of that one.

[00:23:47] Bringing it over to economics, column three.

[00:23:49] Wall Street's fear gauge, the VIX skyrocketed today from investor anxiety over future interest rate cuts.

[00:23:59] So the VIX spiking.

[00:24:02] General bad economic news or topical news leading to potential bad economic news.

[00:24:09] Federal Reserve cuts its key interest rate by a quarter percentage point.

[00:24:12] Third consecutive reduction in 2024.

[00:24:15] Meanwhile, commercial real estate looms as a massive market risk.

[00:24:20] I know you don't want to get into that one again.

[00:24:22] Federal government defaults indicator.

[00:24:25] Well, a government shutdown isn't necessarily a federal government default, but it's a big step in that direction.

[00:24:33] And funding runs out in two days, this Friday the 20th.

[00:24:38] Congress is at it right now trying to bring about a spending bill.

[00:24:43] The first one dropped by the Speaker of the House as conservatives enraged.

[00:24:50] Stock market crashing.

[00:24:51] We talked about already.

[00:24:53] Dow tank, 1,100 points.

[00:24:54] Post first.

[00:24:55] 10-day loss streak since 1974.

[00:24:59] And a little bit of food pricing news.

[00:25:02] Egg prices have increased 35% since June.

[00:25:07] Not sure if Dave Jones' eggs he's selling you have increased by 35%, but they have at the grocery store.

[00:25:15] Meanwhile, 37% of Americans struggling to pay their most basic bills as the food prices are accelerating again.

[00:25:23] Square that circle with what the Fed did today.

[00:25:26] Finally, calm four, natural news.

[00:25:30] Got a lot of headlines.

[00:25:32] Super bugs surfacing.

[00:25:34] We got researchers studying a microbe that can withstand extremely high radiation doses.

[00:25:40] That's dangerous.

[00:25:42] Fluoride effects being exposed.

[00:25:44] Tennessee lawmakers can look at stopping water.

[00:25:48] Fluoridization, fluoridation.

[00:25:50] Next session.

[00:25:53] At the state level in Tennessee, they're starting to wake up to that.

[00:25:57] Former Google CEO says autonomous AI is coming soon.

[00:26:01] Filing that under self-aware machines materialize.

[00:26:04] He's not saying that AI will become self-aware.

[00:26:09] Not in so many words, but he is saying completely autonomous and it could be dangerous.

[00:26:15] Coming back to the diseases.

[00:26:17] We got the first case of severe bird flu in the U.S. in our human being confirmed by the CDC.

[00:26:25] I think that was yesterday.

[00:26:27] And today, California state declared an emergency in response to the bird flu spreading to 16 states since March.

[00:26:36] So one person catches it in Louisiana.

[00:26:40] California is treating that as an emergency.

[00:26:43] Meanwhile, in Africa, following up on some headlines we talked about last week, Congo says the mystery disease behind dozens of deaths has finally been identified as severe malaria, which is a good thing.

[00:26:56] If they know what it is.

[00:26:58] It's a well understood disease like malaria.

[00:27:01] On the soft kill depopulation exposed front headline reads, as fertility rates fall, some scientists say everyday chemicals are a factor.

[00:27:14] Something done.

[00:27:15] JFK Jr. said for a while and on his way to being the next health and human services secretary.

[00:27:21] We might find out more.

[00:27:25] Filed under kind of a catch-all indicator nature is re-engineered.

[00:27:29] I got two headlines.

[00:27:30] Woman receives a gene edited pig kidney in a first and very interesting article.

[00:27:35] I think we ought to crack open later, Ben.

[00:27:39] Studies are starting to show how video surveillance changes how the brain works.

[00:27:43] And it's linked to the evolution of the human brain and some very ancient built-in instinctual behaviors of human beings for survival purposes are actually being affected when you know that you're being surveilled by video.

[00:28:04] Explore that one a bit.

[00:28:11] Explore that one a bit.

[00:28:37] Explore that one a bit.

[00:28:38] Literally, this must be a top five dashboard of the year.

[00:28:44] Maybe even top three.

[00:28:45] In terms of volume, certainly.

[00:28:47] In terms of severity, maybe not as much because look, there's not even any SHTF of the grade one variety.

[00:28:55] But there's a lot of serious and severe pieces of news out there and tons and tons of topicals.

[00:29:02] Let's just finish strong on the economics.

[00:29:04] so we can just check that box totally.

[00:29:07] Already kind of went through the interest rates,

[00:29:09] already went through a 10% cut out of the stock markets.

[00:29:17] But again, you're back to where you're still up year to date.

[00:29:23] So you lost a few months of progress on the stock markets,

[00:29:28] but it's no crisis of 2024 yet.

[00:29:31] We're always watching to see what they're looking to do next.

[00:29:35] But I want some of your thoughts on federal government funding runs out in two days.

[00:29:41] They're looking to pass the bill,

[00:29:44] even if there's a week or two where the government shut down.

[00:29:47] It's not that severe.

[00:29:49] My question to you is,

[00:29:51] will this ever actually spiral out of control

[00:29:55] or there be some sort of deadlock where it goes,

[00:29:59] not just a few days or a few weeks,

[00:30:02] but even a few months?

[00:30:05] Or do you not really see that as much of an option or politically possible?

[00:30:13] I think it's always possible when the GOP is in charge.

[00:30:17] And I heard a GOP congressman on the radio this afternoon

[00:30:19] talking about the fact that

[00:30:22] when the Democrats have power,

[00:30:25] they lock arms and just pass their agenda.

[00:30:29] And they look out for their more vulnerable members,

[00:30:33] the ones in swing districts, right?

[00:30:37] The ones that win their elections by close margin

[00:30:39] and districts that swing Republican and Democrat easily.

[00:30:44] So Democrats worry about them after they get their agenda moving forward.

[00:30:49] And the Republicans have operated for decades in the exact opposite manner.

[00:30:53] They try to build a consensus.

[00:30:55] They try to build bills to protect their vulnerable members

[00:30:59] because they're always looking two years ahead to maintaining their majority

[00:31:05] instead of doing what they need to do to uphold their promises in the now.

[00:31:12] And this is a conservative member of Congress

[00:31:14] complaining about the current spending bill, 1,500 pages of pork.

[00:31:19] And we'll see.

[00:31:21] We'll see if that message changes.

[00:31:23] But a reminder, you know,

[00:31:25] the government defaulting is historical,

[00:31:29] you know, really historical,

[00:31:32] huge, terrible crisis that,

[00:31:34] you know, is not the same as the government shutting down because it's not funded.

[00:31:38] And in fact, most of the government doesn't shut down.

[00:31:42] It has obligatory payments.

[00:31:45] And, you know,

[00:31:47] the Treasury Department will just keep incurring debt

[00:31:49] and keep paying things like Social Security, Medicare,

[00:31:52] pay for the, you know, military members pay.

[00:31:55] The military is not going to go unpaid even if there's a shutdown.

[00:31:58] So it's a tiny fraction of the total government that gets shut down.

[00:32:02] And it's always a matter of, you know,

[00:32:06] just really, really alienating the center voters in the country

[00:32:11] that don't want to see that happen.

[00:32:14] What will happen in two days?

[00:32:15] It won't be a shutdown.

[00:32:16] And of course, Newt Gingrich shut it down for weeks in 1994.

[00:32:21] So it can be done.

[00:32:23] I don't know if they got the nerve to do it right now,

[00:32:25] but all kinds of things stop getting paid.

[00:32:28] Like all the contractors to the U.S. government would not get paid.

[00:32:32] The disruption from that would be incredible

[00:32:38] to the contracting environment for the government.

[00:32:41] So how long can Congress do that in this day and age?

[00:32:46] I don't know, but we could easily go through Friday night

[00:32:49] and have some federal workers looking at, you know, a furlough.

[00:32:54] Like don't show up on Monday.

[00:32:56] But of course, every time this happens,

[00:32:59] eventually days, maybe a week or two later,

[00:33:01] they pass the bill.

[00:33:03] And these federal employees actually got free vacation

[00:33:08] because they get back paid.

[00:33:09] And it doesn't charge against their vacation.

[00:33:12] Yeah.

[00:33:13] You gotta know a good portion of them.

[00:33:16] Maybe not all, but a lot of them are like,

[00:33:19] hey, that's fine.

[00:33:20] That'll give me two, three weeks off during Christmas time

[00:33:24] and early January.

[00:33:25] I'll get paid back by mid-January.

[00:33:28] So that'll be okay.

[00:33:29] I'll just pay my credit card back.

[00:33:31] You know, that's the type of attitude, unfortunately,

[00:33:33] in America that's gotten us this far.

[00:33:36] As you were saying,

[00:33:37] and we were talking even before the show,

[00:33:40] put up or shut up,

[00:33:42] not only in shutting down some of the spending,

[00:33:45] but what about actually permanently furloughing

[00:33:49] some of these employees?

[00:33:50] Do you expect this doge with Musk

[00:33:54] and the whole contraption he's put together?

[00:33:57] I'm hopeful that they find a lot of inefficiencies

[00:34:00] and cuts in spending.

[00:34:01] Do you think they really will lay off 10, 20, 30% of the federal workforce

[00:34:07] in the next two years?

[00:34:10] Well, remember, there's separations of power

[00:34:12] and Congress passes the budgets.

[00:34:14] It's been very contentious for a long time.

[00:34:17] What powers the president has

[00:34:19] to not spend the money Congress authorized, right?

[00:34:23] And obviously, you know, we came to a point decades ago

[00:34:28] where civil servants are unionized, right?

[00:34:31] So not as easy as it sounds,

[00:34:34] but a lot of people in Trump's team

[00:34:36] and transition team,

[00:34:37] I'm guaranteed they're looking at the fine, fine, fine details

[00:34:42] and looking at ways to, you know,

[00:34:44] reduce the federal workforce.

[00:34:45] The easiest way off the top is a hiring freeze.

[00:34:51] The new department heads just, you know,

[00:34:54] refuse to hire any new employees.

[00:34:56] And that could be done simultaneous too.

[00:34:59] I think I saw an article today where Trump would have the power

[00:35:03] to order all these federal employees to, you know,

[00:35:08] return to work, no more remote virtual telecommute.

[00:35:11] And that obviously would, yeah.

[00:35:15] That'll cause at least 50% people to resign

[00:35:20] and he won't even have to pay him a severance.

[00:35:21] So that's actually ideal.

[00:35:24] Great work, Musk.

[00:35:25] I mean, that is definitely 3D chess.

[00:35:29] Very smart.

[00:35:30] Very smart.

[00:35:31] Egg prices.

[00:35:33] My egg prices from Mr. NBC guy himself

[00:35:36] have not gone up in price,

[00:35:38] but maybe I should throw a little bit more in there.

[00:35:42] Maybe I need to start exchanging some silver.

[00:35:44] You know, silver and gold are also going down some.

[00:35:47] So, hey, if you think you missed the boat on silver and gold,

[00:35:50] you think you missed your boat on Bitcoin,

[00:35:52] I think both are on sale right now,

[00:35:55] even at their relatively high levels.

[00:35:58] But, hey, the unfortunate truth is

[00:36:00] 37% of Americans struggle to pay their most basic bills.

[00:36:05] And for most of my adult life so far,

[00:36:09] I was not able to put away a lot of savings.

[00:36:14] And as a prepper, every dollar is very, very valuable.

[00:36:18] And, you know, that is what it is.

[00:36:21] I think, you know, securing your protein

[00:36:25] is a huge, huge priority,

[00:36:29] whether that's from freeze-dried,

[00:36:32] whether that's just big freezers full of venison or hamburger,

[00:36:37] all that.

[00:36:38] But these prices are not going away, future Dan.

[00:36:42] There might have been a slight reprieve in the inflation,

[00:36:44] but as we've talked about in the past,

[00:36:47] deflation versus disinflation are different.

[00:36:51] And just to sum it up,

[00:36:53] prices are never going down again.

[00:36:56] They may stay flat in small, sporadic periods,

[00:36:59] but they're not going to go down by any significant amount

[00:37:03] for any significant period.

[00:37:04] They're just going to keep trending up.

[00:37:06] And there might be some big upward boosts in the future.

[00:37:12] We'll have to see.

[00:37:13] I don't think they're going to be able to keep inflation in line.

[00:37:16] They're in a tough spot.

[00:37:18] Yeah, I agree.

[00:37:19] Hey, shout out to TechStat86 in the comments section.

[00:37:22] We'll see you there.

[00:37:23] Other economic news.

[00:37:26] We got $2 trillion in commercial real estate mortgages

[00:37:29] that are maturing in the next two years then.

[00:37:32] The average interest rate on maturing loans

[00:37:35] underwritten in the 2021 timeframe

[00:37:38] was 4.3%.

[00:37:42] Refinancing now is probably at twice that rate.

[00:37:46] Yep.

[00:37:47] And we got a size of this, you know,

[00:37:50] the size of this distressed capital much,

[00:37:54] much larger than subprime mortgage market crash

[00:37:58] or the size of that distressed capital at its peak in 2005.

[00:38:04] Right?

[00:38:04] So $2 trillion in commercial real estate now

[00:38:08] compared to $625 billion

[00:38:14] in subprime mortgage market distress in 2005.

[00:38:19] Can, you know,

[00:38:20] this isn't people in their homes getting evicted though.

[00:38:24] So does that have the potential to bring the same economic pain?

[00:38:28] Is this a domino that can bring on a banking collapse?

[00:38:34] Great question.

[00:38:35] Now,

[00:38:37] let's just look at a seven year loan,

[00:38:40] right?

[00:38:41] Most mortgages are like 30 year loans,

[00:38:43] but corporate,

[00:38:45] let's just say it's a seven or a 10 year loan.

[00:38:48] what's happened in just the last seven years,

[00:38:51] let alone the last 10 years

[00:38:52] in the economy,

[00:38:54] in corporate life,

[00:38:55] in interest rates,

[00:38:57] all of them have gone very,

[00:38:58] it's all changed quite a lot in the last seven years,

[00:39:02] even heck in the last five years,

[00:39:04] truly,

[00:39:04] but just seven years.

[00:39:06] It's gone from 0% interest rates are darn near.

[00:39:12] And by the way,

[00:39:13] it was like that for many years before that is as well.

[00:39:16] So it was just very,

[00:39:18] very low interest rates.

[00:39:19] Now,

[00:39:21] interest rates are high.

[00:39:22] They're coming down slightly,

[00:39:23] but they're much higher than they were seven,

[00:39:25] 10 years ago.

[00:39:26] Then work from home because of COVID,

[00:39:30] as well as just overall increase in technology and people being able to do it from home.

[00:39:35] But COVID made a huge difference and changed the paradigm.

[00:39:40] So instead of having 3% vacancy,

[00:39:45] 5% vacancy in places like San Francisco,

[00:39:49] Seattle,

[00:39:50] Midtown Manhattan,

[00:39:51] all that.

[00:39:51] Now it's 35% in downtown Seattle,

[00:39:56] 35% office vacancy.

[00:39:58] So here's a way just real quick in your mind to think of it.

[00:40:04] That's a conveyor belt in a factory.

[00:40:07] There's,

[00:40:08] let's just say there's 30 little widgets on that board,

[00:40:12] or in this case,

[00:40:13] seven,

[00:40:14] seven years,

[00:40:15] seven widgets.

[00:40:16] Even if that,

[00:40:18] you know,

[00:40:19] it clicks over with a new,

[00:40:21] uh,

[00:40:22] let's just say the machine breaks.

[00:40:24] It's going to take six widgets until you see things starting to go wrong.

[00:40:29] Cause it's already baked into the conveyor belt.

[00:40:32] You already have things going well,

[00:40:34] and it takes a while to work through the system.

[00:40:37] And then finally,

[00:40:39] once all that inventory that was in the hopper,

[00:40:42] that was done correctly,

[00:40:45] that was in good shape.

[00:40:46] Once that's already out of the system,

[00:40:48] all you have are the defective products or the defective machinery,

[00:40:52] whatever,

[00:40:53] kind of a butchered analogy.

[00:40:54] But my point is just because things go bad with vacancy,

[00:41:01] go bad with interest rates,

[00:41:02] even go bad with prices,

[00:41:04] go bad with the economy.

[00:41:05] Generally in something like a mortgage and especially these corporate

[00:41:11] commercial mortgages,

[00:41:13] it takes a decade to work through and start to affect.

[00:41:17] Then it takes another decade to fully flesh out.

[00:41:20] So we have like another five,

[00:41:23] 10 years of pain before it starts to get better.

[00:41:27] So it took all,

[00:41:27] it was onset.

[00:41:29] It took,

[00:41:29] it was a delay in the onset of the,

[00:41:32] of the problem,

[00:41:32] but it also takes that much longer to even fix the problem.

[00:41:36] Like if everything's fixed today,

[00:41:38] we're still going to be in years and years of pain.

[00:41:41] So yeah,

[00:41:42] this is a big problem.

[00:41:44] This is why they must lower interest rates,

[00:41:47] but they can't lower them so much or inflation is going to get out of

[00:41:52] control.

[00:41:53] We just talked about eggs going up 35% in the last few months.

[00:41:56] We're going to see a lot of other inflation boosted in the next three,

[00:42:00] six,

[00:42:00] 12 months,

[00:42:01] in my opinion.

[00:42:02] But on the flip side,

[00:42:03] we're having total collapse of real estate market.

[00:42:07] And trust me,

[00:42:09] home or residential mortgages are also starting to see pressure in certain

[00:42:13] areas.

[00:42:14] We're seeing 10,

[00:42:15] 20 plus percent reduction in price already,

[00:42:19] which is where people can start to get underwater and same sort of a nasty

[00:42:24] cycle.

[00:42:25] So what if we get another subprime residential mortgage crisis,

[00:42:32] but also at the same time,

[00:42:34] a massive commercial crisis,

[00:42:36] which did not happen in 2008,

[00:42:37] 2009.

[00:42:38] If both of those happen at the same time,

[00:42:41] it's going to be really bad.

[00:42:43] Yeah.

[00:42:44] The banks will come apart at the seams.

[00:42:45] He's standing there with our hands out for another bailout.

[00:42:49] And it's going to be a bail in.

[00:42:51] So your 401ks will be essentially confiscated,

[00:42:57] but they'll be legalese to say that after the crisis,

[00:43:01] you'll get as much back as possible.

[00:43:03] And they're doing this to save your ass,

[00:43:05] but essentially you're going to be an unsecured creditor to bankruptcy and

[00:43:10] bailout,

[00:43:12] but they're going to use your assets.

[00:43:14] So it's actually like a bail in.

[00:43:15] So anything that is really even FDIC and insured stuff,

[00:43:21] but especially stocks and bonds and other instruments out there.

[00:43:28] If there's a third party custodian holding them,

[00:43:31] they may be ordered that you can't sell the,

[00:43:35] Hey,

[00:43:36] don't let your customers sell.

[00:43:38] We're not going to let them happen.

[00:43:39] The banks may be closed.

[00:43:41] And then before you know it,

[00:43:43] Hey,

[00:43:43] we have to take 30,

[00:43:45] 40% of your portfolio's value.

[00:43:49] Otherwise you would lose it all.

[00:43:50] So you should be really happy that we're saving 60% of it.

[00:43:54] That's very,

[00:43:55] very much in the cards.

[00:43:57] Um,

[00:43:57] in the next few years,

[00:43:59] hopefully Trump could do something to stave that off or,

[00:44:02] you know,

[00:44:03] have a soft landing as people like to say,

[00:44:05] but I'm,

[00:44:06] I'm more of a,

[00:44:07] they're going to,

[00:44:08] the banksters are going to need another bail in,

[00:44:11] even if it's in Europe and it just collapses everything and,

[00:44:13] and brings it to us.

[00:44:15] I've said that many times that happened a lot in 1929,

[00:44:18] 1930,

[00:44:19] 1931,

[00:44:20] the U S was almost able to seemingly struggle out of the depression,

[00:44:24] but it just kept getting ripped back or brought back into the hole by

[00:44:29] other countries that were failing all these banks in Europe that were

[00:44:32] failing.

[00:44:32] And that,

[00:44:34] you know,

[00:44:34] spread back to the U S and the U S fell back into the hole.

[00:44:40] Awesome.

[00:44:41] Yeah.

[00:44:41] Great analysis.

[00:44:42] Want to jump over and talk a little bit of the specifics on these East

[00:44:46] coast drones.

[00:44:48] Yeah.

[00:44:49] Let's make it happen.

[00:44:51] Yeah.

[00:44:51] I think the article we want to pop into is,

[00:44:53] uh,

[00:44:55] drones over New Jersey size,

[00:44:56] show signs of coordination,

[00:44:58] elude helicopters.

[00:45:01] Yeah.

[00:45:02] It's a good article.

[00:45:02] War zone,

[00:45:03] pretty neutral outlet,

[00:45:05] maybe,

[00:45:06] you know,

[00:45:07] very pro Ukraine actually,

[00:45:09] but you know,

[00:45:10] on this topic,

[00:45:11] you know,

[00:45:11] it's pretty much straight up subject matter expertise.

[00:45:14] Let's talk about the New Jersey state.

[00:45:16] State police and what their helicopters are dealing with.

[00:45:20] So people are making sightings,

[00:45:22] but by the time they've,

[00:45:24] you know,

[00:45:25] brought police resources,

[00:45:26] a helicopter to,

[00:45:28] to check it out,

[00:45:29] you know,

[00:45:30] they're getting some,

[00:45:31] you know,

[00:45:32] some weird things going on.

[00:45:34] Right.

[00:45:34] You know,

[00:45:34] they,

[00:45:35] you know,

[00:45:36] the lights are on and usually blinking.

[00:45:38] The New Jersey state police says,

[00:45:40] but they do turn off at times,

[00:45:42] make it hard to detect,

[00:45:43] obviously.

[00:45:44] And,

[00:45:45] uh,

[00:45:46] they appear.

[00:45:47] Here's the interesting part.

[00:45:47] They appear to actually avoid detection by traditional methods.

[00:45:52] So when the helicopter,

[00:45:53] you know,

[00:45:54] gets there,

[00:45:55] lights go off,

[00:45:56] they go away.

[00:45:57] Nobody knows where these things are being launched from or landed that,

[00:46:02] or at least nobody's saying publicly.

[00:46:04] And I think at the state level,

[00:46:05] I mean,

[00:46:05] I don't think these state police do know the answer.

[00:46:10] The other players involved,

[00:46:11] obviously the FBI,

[00:46:13] not to be trusted,

[00:46:14] DHS,

[00:46:16] not to be trusted,

[00:46:17] and U S North common,

[00:46:20] which in my personal opinion is the most trustworthy organization and the

[00:46:24] federal government on this matter.

[00:46:26] And they're staying silent.

[00:46:28] So that,

[00:46:30] you know,

[00:46:30] just,

[00:46:30] just a little perspective here.

[00:46:33] Uh,

[00:46:34] Jersey state police are stumped.

[00:46:37] Well,

[00:46:38] the coordination and different swarms.

[00:46:41] And what I liked was Trump coming out and saying,

[00:46:45] look,

[00:46:46] Kirby and the rest of you trying to say,

[00:46:48] you don't know what it is.

[00:46:50] Don't know if it's manned trying to just keep that question and drama in the

[00:46:54] air that,

[00:46:55] Oh,

[00:46:55] could it be aliens?

[00:46:56] Could it be China?

[00:46:57] Is it Iran?

[00:46:59] Trump pretty much called them out on that.

[00:47:01] And very quickly they said,

[00:47:02] yeah,

[00:47:03] yeah,

[00:47:03] we've determined there's not a threat.

[00:47:05] And,

[00:47:05] you know,

[00:47:06] after several days of analysis,

[00:47:08] we've determined it's not a threat.

[00:47:10] And,

[00:47:10] you know,

[00:47:11] it's just Trump,

[00:47:12] Trump,

[00:47:13] Trump card them again.

[00:47:16] So there's,

[00:47:16] I,

[00:47:17] I have a couple ideas of what it could be.

[00:47:19] I don't even know if that matters as much as,

[00:47:22] as what,

[00:47:24] what this looks towards in the future.

[00:47:27] Do you think,

[00:47:28] uh,

[00:47:29] do you think when Trump is president,

[00:47:31] he would,

[00:47:32] uh,

[00:47:33] disclose this or just put a stop to this,

[00:47:35] or he's acting adversarial,

[00:47:37] but if he was the president right now,

[00:47:40] do you think he would actually handle it differently or,

[00:47:42] or there's,

[00:47:43] what's going on?

[00:47:44] He's going to have the most control over the department of defense of the entire federal government.

[00:47:50] He's going to have the most control over the department of defense.

[00:47:53] That's a fact.

[00:47:54] You know,

[00:47:55] when,

[00:47:56] when orders are given,

[00:47:58] there's,

[00:47:58] you know,

[00:47:59] going to be very hard to find any buddy in the department of defense.

[00:48:04] That's going to stonewall and sabotage his intent.

[00:48:09] Like,

[00:48:10] like it would happen in federal civilian,

[00:48:11] right?

[00:48:12] Like we,

[00:48:13] everybody's talking about how FBI has to be cleaned out from the top down and deep down to get that agency under control.

[00:48:23] I,

[00:48:23] it's not going to be as hard in the department of defense,

[00:48:26] right?

[00:48:27] Uh,

[00:48:27] we got uniformed officers.

[00:48:29] Their careers depend on being uniform officers and,

[00:48:32] you know,

[00:48:33] obeying the civilian chain of command.

[00:48:35] So whether he declassifies what's happening right now,

[00:48:40] if it is indeed,

[00:48:41] uh,

[00:48:42] uh,

[00:48:43] you know,

[00:48:43] something that our government is doing,

[00:48:46] uh,

[00:48:46] you know,

[00:48:47] we'll see.

[00:48:48] Um,

[00:48:48] could it be an adversary just putting this stuff up in the skies to embarrass Biden,

[00:48:55] to get their last chance at,

[00:48:57] you know,

[00:48:58] reconnaissance of places like,

[00:49:00] uh,

[00:49:00] Picatinny arsenal in Northern New Jersey,

[00:49:03] Aberdeen proving ground,

[00:49:05] Maryland,

[00:49:05] or,

[00:49:05] you know,

[00:49:06] obviously right.

[00:49:07] Patterson.

[00:49:07] We talked about likely air force base out in California has had these things nearby.

[00:49:12] Um,

[00:49:13] and,

[00:49:13] and,

[00:49:14] and,

[00:49:14] and go back to the Chinese balloon.

[00:49:16] Right.

[00:49:17] We're all across the country.

[00:49:18] Right.

[00:49:18] Yep.

[00:49:19] So I think all indications for me lead to,

[00:49:24] this is an adversary that,

[00:49:26] um,

[00:49:26] it's getting a pass from this white house,

[00:49:29] which,

[00:49:29] you know,

[00:49:30] who's,

[00:49:31] who's actually in charge.

[00:49:32] Would Biden even know what to do anymore about this?

[00:49:36] Right.

[00:49:36] So I think that's,

[00:49:38] what's behind it,

[00:49:39] but I'm only guessing right now.

[00:49:41] You,

[00:49:41] you mentioned UFOs,

[00:49:43] right?

[00:49:43] Um,

[00:49:43] first time I ever heard of project blue bean,

[00:49:45] gotta be honest,

[00:49:47] Alex Jones,

[00:49:48] put it out there and it's,

[00:49:50] it's,

[00:49:50] it's going to be,

[00:49:52] it's going to be on headlines from most mainstream sources as a,

[00:49:55] uh,

[00:49:55] sources as a,

[00:49:56] you know,

[00:49:57] a fringe conspiracy theory.

[00:49:58] Just,

[00:49:58] just in case you haven't heard the idea of project blue bean,

[00:50:02] the idea is that,

[00:50:03] um,

[00:50:05] governments quote unquote,

[00:50:07] the goal global elite,

[00:50:08] the new world order,

[00:50:10] right.

[00:50:10] They're going to,

[00:50:11] they're going to stage fake supernatural events,

[00:50:14] put things in the skies,

[00:50:16] the sky and pair it with the,

[00:50:19] you know,

[00:50:19] what the UFO community would consider the final disclosure,

[00:50:23] admitting that,

[00:50:24] that,

[00:50:24] that there are,

[00:50:25] you know,

[00:50:27] extraterrestrials.

[00:50:27] And this doesn't look like project blue bean because these drones don't have any of the characteristics of what,

[00:50:36] uh,

[00:50:37] the UFO community is,

[00:50:39] has pointed to.

[00:50:40] And,

[00:50:40] you know,

[00:50:40] it's been out there,

[00:50:41] right.

[00:50:42] Congress has received these declassified,

[00:50:45] you know,

[00:50:46] videos of,

[00:50:47] of,

[00:50:47] of objects that are doing things that supposedly no,

[00:50:51] no,

[00:50:52] no humans can do yet.

[00:50:53] Right.

[00:50:54] So it doesn't look like project blue beam to me,

[00:50:57] but because there is no real clear answer,

[00:51:01] because it's just a kind of a hysteria that,

[00:51:05] that sets continuing.

[00:51:08] Uh,

[00:51:09] people are talking about project blue beam right now too.

[00:51:12] If this is project blue beam,

[00:51:14] it's being pulled off pretty,

[00:51:16] pretty damn weekly.

[00:51:18] No,

[00:51:19] for real.

[00:51:19] No,

[00:51:20] I think they would do a little better than this.

[00:51:24] One thing to consider.

[00:51:26] I bet a lot of the current sightings or the sightings that were taking place.

[00:51:31] Two plus weeks after the first ones are copycats or people just screwing around.

[00:51:38] You got to think I want to do this,

[00:51:40] but you know,

[00:51:41] if you had some big ass drone and people were freaking out a little,

[00:51:44] you might like play a prank a little bit,

[00:51:46] go fly one up there,

[00:51:47] see what happens.

[00:51:49] Or other corporations might see this as their chance to go test out some nighttime operations.

[00:51:56] I don't know.

[00:51:57] Nothing illegal per se.

[00:51:59] I'm not expert on drone legal stuff,

[00:52:02] but I will say that they could shut down drones with,

[00:52:07] you know,

[00:52:07] remote fencing,

[00:52:08] geo fencing.

[00:52:10] So that's kind of weird.

[00:52:11] Um,

[00:52:12] some of these are probably copycats,

[00:52:14] the mundane ones,

[00:52:15] not the ones near military bases.

[00:52:18] I'm not saying that'd be pretty stupid to be a copycat on that.

[00:52:22] So I think as many things are in this current world,

[00:52:26] there's what?

[00:52:27] 8 billion people.

[00:52:28] We have so many terra hashes of computing power per second.

[00:52:34] There's just,

[00:52:35] it's multifaceted,

[00:52:36] whatever the,

[00:52:37] it truly is.

[00:52:38] There's all these other agendas that are using it and leveraging it,

[00:52:42] whether it's the news networks to get more ratings,

[00:52:45] whether it's people who are,

[00:52:48] uh,

[00:52:48] trying to,

[00:52:49] you know,

[00:52:51] push other narratives and use this for them for better or worse or otherwise.

[00:52:55] So I don't know.

[00:52:57] That's what I like.

[00:52:58] It's not a simple black and white answer.

[00:53:00] There's a lot of gray to it.

[00:53:02] Um,

[00:53:03] everything in this world,

[00:53:04] you know,

[00:53:04] it's a,

[00:53:05] it's a very odd phenomenon.

[00:53:06] And the fact that it spans all these indicators,

[00:53:09] you can't pin it down,

[00:53:10] makes it,

[00:53:11] you know,

[00:53:13] elevates its importance to be talking about on our show.

[00:53:16] But,

[00:53:17] uh,

[00:53:17] if I had to speculate,

[00:53:19] I imagine it is linked to the,

[00:53:21] um,

[00:53:23] congressional reauthorization of counter drone authorities that will expire in two days.

[00:53:29] And this could easily be contractors for the FBI or the DHS who are putting up experimental drones that are just out there on purpose to,

[00:53:48] to,

[00:53:48] to,

[00:53:48] to cause panic in a Congress to get the authoritarian result that,

[00:53:53] uh,

[00:53:54] deep state wants.

[00:53:55] So it's a type of false flag fairly,

[00:53:58] fairly,

[00:53:59] you know,

[00:54:00] it's,

[00:54:00] it's indirectly harmful.

[00:54:02] It's not directly harmful to anybody,

[00:54:04] but it would be,

[00:54:05] you know,

[00:54:05] nothing,

[00:54:05] nothing like a,

[00:54:06] you know,

[00:54:06] a dirty bomb going off,

[00:54:08] right.

[00:54:08] Or suitcase new going off.

[00:54:10] Cause there was speculation that these are,

[00:54:12] these are payloads of these are,

[00:54:15] you know,

[00:54:15] they're,

[00:54:15] they're,

[00:54:16] they're fed controlled UAVs with payloads that are sniffing the ground for radiation.

[00:54:22] But,

[00:54:22] uh,

[00:54:23] I,

[00:54:23] you know,

[00:54:23] could,

[00:54:23] could very well be that between now and the season premiere of picture power hour in 2025 winter season,

[00:54:32] and that,

[00:54:32] uh,

[00:54:33] some more news breaks on this.

[00:54:35] And because we plan to be off,

[00:54:36] I would suggest that,

[00:54:38] you know,

[00:54:39] you know,

[00:54:40] we,

[00:54:40] we probably won't be reporting on it because it'll probably be a,

[00:54:43] you know,

[00:54:44] something along those lines are disappointing or it might just,

[00:54:47] you know,

[00:54:47] cease to happen and kind of just go away quietly.

[00:54:51] It's just like what we were talking about before.

[00:54:52] It was a panic and now it's not,

[00:54:55] but,

[00:54:55] uh,

[00:54:57] if the aliens land in New Jersey,

[00:54:58] we'll probably go on the air to talk about it.

[00:55:02] I think as much,

[00:55:03] but it,

[00:55:04] I would expect it to be more of a war of the worlds,

[00:55:07] either a prank or just straight up propaganda to distract us while world war three literally is breaking out next door.

[00:55:16] So,

[00:55:17] yeah,

[00:55:18] it's really important to keep track of for a lot of reasons.

[00:55:21] And we certainly will do so here.

[00:55:23] We've been live for about an hour.

[00:55:25] It's awesome.

[00:55:25] We're actually about 55 minutes.

[00:55:27] We'll be longer than an hour tonight.

[00:55:29] Usually we stick to that 60,

[00:55:31] 70 minute range,

[00:55:32] but it is the season and probably year finale end of year.

[00:55:38] I think we're going to be going live on January 1st,

[00:55:41] God willing,

[00:55:42] but we have the ability to go live at any time in case there's crazy news.

[00:55:47] Future Dan,

[00:55:47] uh,

[00:55:48] we got nearly 50 people watching live right now.

[00:55:52] It's awesome.

[00:55:52] Any questions or comments in the chat,

[00:55:55] whether you're at rumble,

[00:55:56] whether at YouTube,

[00:55:57] whether at X,

[00:55:59] we will respond to.

[00:56:01] Absolutely.

[00:56:03] And,

[00:56:03] uh,

[00:56:04] without further ado,

[00:56:05] future Dan pick an article or two.

[00:56:08] Let's keep on grinding.

[00:56:10] We're,

[00:56:10] we're on a great pace,

[00:56:11] but we still got like a lot to cover.

[00:56:15] Yeah.

[00:56:16] Well,

[00:56:16] uh,

[00:56:17] I think in the natural,

[00:56:20] um,

[00:56:21] column,

[00:56:21] the video surveillance changes,

[00:56:23] how the brain works might be,

[00:56:25] uh,

[00:56:26] you know,

[00:56:26] some,

[00:56:27] something that we should definitely touch.

[00:56:29] So what this article out of Australia is saying is,

[00:56:34] subconsciously knowing that you're being videotaped,

[00:56:38] you know,

[00:56:39] video surveilled is,

[00:56:41] you know,

[00:56:42] it does obvious things,

[00:56:43] right.

[00:56:43] It makes,

[00:56:43] it makes people less inclined to commit crime,

[00:56:46] right.

[00:56:47] More inclined to follow rules.

[00:56:49] But this new study,

[00:56:51] is suggesting that,

[00:56:52] um,

[00:56:53] it,

[00:56:53] it,

[00:56:53] something far more fundamental could be happening,

[00:56:57] right.

[00:56:57] It's,

[00:56:58] it's,

[00:56:58] you know,

[00:56:59] it,

[00:56:59] it,

[00:57:00] it's affecting unconsciously how we perceive the world.

[00:57:03] Right.

[00:57:04] So this is going back to,

[00:57:06] you know,

[00:57:07] how we evolved and,

[00:57:10] you know,

[00:57:11] as a,

[00:57:11] a,

[00:57:12] a,

[00:57:12] a survival mechanism,

[00:57:15] being aware when you're being looked at is,

[00:57:19] is something that I think we've all had this,

[00:57:21] you know,

[00:57:22] uh,

[00:57:23] I,

[00:57:23] I felt like I was being watched feeling.

[00:57:25] Right.

[00:57:26] And,

[00:57:26] and I think,

[00:57:27] you know,

[00:57:28] for most of us,

[00:57:29] that's been confirmed in our lives.

[00:57:32] Like we,

[00:57:33] like we felt like we were being watched and we,

[00:57:34] then we suddenly realized that,

[00:57:36] you know,

[00:57:36] you know,

[00:57:36] we were,

[00:57:37] we,

[00:57:37] we didn't,

[00:57:38] we didn't expect that.

[00:57:40] And,

[00:57:40] and it's because subconsciously,

[00:57:43] you know,

[00:57:43] we are hypersensitive to that,

[00:57:45] you know,

[00:57:45] take it,

[00:57:46] take it all the way back to the paleolithic.

[00:57:48] You're,

[00:57:48] you're out in the forest trying to,

[00:57:51] you know,

[00:57:52] hunt and gather and something has its eyes on you.

[00:57:57] That's,

[00:57:57] that's dangerous,

[00:57:58] right?

[00:57:59] Big cat,

[00:58:01] another tribe,

[00:58:03] right?

[00:58:03] You know,

[00:58:04] this is,

[00:58:05] so this is an ancient survival.

[00:58:06] It's a survival mechanism.

[00:58:07] That's being,

[00:58:08] you know,

[00:58:09] you know,

[00:58:09] it's getting turned on when,

[00:58:11] when we're being watched by these cameras.

[00:58:13] What does it mean?

[00:58:15] What does it affect?

[00:58:16] I think they're only scrapped on the surface,

[00:58:18] but this is not good for mental health.

[00:58:21] Right.

[00:58:22] And,

[00:58:22] and,

[00:58:22] and,

[00:58:23] and part of what they're coming up with out of this article,

[00:58:25] you know,

[00:58:26] the study is that social anxiety,

[00:58:28] you know,

[00:58:29] leading to things like psychosis,

[00:58:32] right?

[00:58:32] Just,

[00:58:32] just irrational beliefs of being watched.

[00:58:36] These are all being triggered,

[00:58:38] right?

[00:58:38] I don't usually prefer to use that word,

[00:58:41] but in this case,

[00:58:42] you know,

[00:58:42] it is a,

[00:58:43] an accurate word.

[00:58:44] So,

[00:58:45] you know,

[00:58:46] the privacy community is,

[00:58:49] it's actually stronger in Europe than in the United States in terms of

[00:58:52] legislation.

[00:58:52] But,

[00:58:54] you know,

[00:58:54] I think we are at the stage of some of these technologies and their effects on

[00:58:59] human beings that it's going to take generations growing up who,

[00:59:04] who cement around this,

[00:59:06] you know,

[00:59:07] the actual scientific studies and data that show this is not healthy.

[00:59:11] Right.

[00:59:11] And,

[00:59:12] and,

[00:59:12] and,

[00:59:13] of course it's a dream to any police agency certainly makes policing better,

[00:59:17] you know,

[00:59:17] easier.

[00:59:18] Right.

[00:59:19] So,

[00:59:19] so,

[00:59:19] you know,

[00:59:20] it's,

[00:59:20] it's one of those things,

[00:59:21] you know,

[00:59:21] Liberty versus security is,

[00:59:25] is,

[00:59:25] is a frequent,

[00:59:26] you know,

[00:59:27] two,

[00:59:27] two values that have to be balanced kind of thing.

[00:59:31] But here it's,

[00:59:32] it's,

[00:59:32] it's,

[00:59:32] it's beyond security.

[00:59:34] It's,

[00:59:34] it's just your mental health,

[00:59:35] just the,

[00:59:36] the,

[00:59:37] the,

[00:59:37] the,

[00:59:38] the,

[00:59:38] the pressure of,

[00:59:39] you know,

[00:59:40] when you go into public spaces,

[00:59:42] cameras everywhere,

[00:59:43] you know,

[00:59:44] there are people that are oblivious to this sort of thing,

[00:59:47] but lots of people,

[00:59:49] especially in America are not oblivious to it.

[00:59:52] We,

[00:59:52] we actually incorporated a bit of this in our Gotham get out winter exercise last

[00:59:57] winter,

[00:59:58] where we,

[00:59:58] you know,

[01:00:00] you know,

[01:00:00] simulated,

[01:00:01] you know,

[01:00:01] getting out of an urban area with limited supplies and,

[01:00:05] and part of that challenge that James Walton,

[01:00:10] yourself and I went through Dave Jones judged a part of that competition

[01:00:15] was,

[01:00:16] you know,

[01:00:17] staying away from the cameras,

[01:00:18] staying away from the traffic intersections with cameras,

[01:00:21] the buildings within it with cameras,

[01:00:23] or at least staying at distances where,

[01:00:25] you know,

[01:00:26] you're reducing the chance that,

[01:00:27] you know,

[01:00:27] if someone were using those to spot you that,

[01:00:30] you know,

[01:00:31] they,

[01:00:31] they'd have success.

[01:00:32] I thought this study from study finds.org,

[01:00:36] especially,

[01:00:37] you know,

[01:00:37] getting back into,

[01:00:38] you know,

[01:00:39] the evolution of,

[01:00:40] of human beings and,

[01:00:41] and,

[01:00:42] and how like many things in modern life,

[01:00:45] our,

[01:00:45] our bodies and minds were designed and evolved over eons in,

[01:00:51] in,

[01:00:51] in,

[01:00:52] you know,

[01:00:52] the primitive environment.

[01:00:54] And now in the ultra modern technological age,

[01:00:59] some of this stuff is,

[01:01:01] is,

[01:01:01] is,

[01:01:01] is proven to be,

[01:01:02] you know,

[01:01:03] damaging to us and,

[01:01:05] and,

[01:01:05] in less obvious ways.

[01:01:09] All right.

[01:01:10] You know what featured Dan,

[01:01:12] I think it's time.

[01:01:14] We're going through the 2024 predictions.

[01:01:17] What do you say?

[01:01:18] We might have a couple more articles.

[01:01:19] We got to get to it.

[01:01:20] It's the other side,

[01:01:21] but there's just too many great predictions that we have to get through

[01:01:25] before the end of the night.

[01:01:27] You bring them up on the live screen.

[01:01:28] You got anything to present?

[01:01:29] Are we just going to talk?

[01:01:30] I don't have anything to present.

[01:01:32] And that will not be the case for our January,

[01:01:36] 2025 premiere.

[01:01:37] I'm going to have entire presentation put out on the screen,

[01:01:41] not just articles and future danger dashboard,

[01:01:45] but our 2025 predictions.

[01:01:47] And we'll give those live on air in early January,

[01:01:52] maybe even January 1st.

[01:01:53] Stay tuned.

[01:01:54] We'll definitely announce on social media,

[01:01:55] et cetera.

[01:01:56] So I don't have it.

[01:01:58] So let me go ahead and just stop sharing screen.

[01:02:00] Cause it will,

[01:02:01] might be a distraction and this will be audio only from here on out.

[01:02:04] But,

[01:02:05] uh,

[01:02:06] you ready for this?

[01:02:07] I'll give you a couple.

[01:02:08] You can choose which one we start with.

[01:02:10] All right.

[01:02:10] Yeah.

[01:02:11] How'd we do?

[01:02:12] All right.

[01:02:13] How about Trump wins presidential election to start with?

[01:02:22] Yeah.

[01:02:23] So now these were more my predictions as opposed to our uniform predictions,

[01:02:30] but we did debate them.

[01:02:32] And we also had a check-in show in the middle of the year,

[01:02:35] but this is what's on the piece of paper in front of me.

[01:02:38] January 11th,

[01:02:39] 2024 is when we made these 40%,

[01:02:43] 40% chance that Trump wins presidential election was the evaluation.

[01:02:48] January 11th,

[01:02:49] 2024.

[01:02:50] And he won fairly handedly,

[01:02:53] but it was close.

[01:02:54] Not just the bullet that almost got them either.

[01:02:57] Oh,

[01:02:57] it wasn't as close the last time,

[01:02:59] last two times.

[01:03:00] So he,

[01:03:02] he did his best for life.

[01:03:03] He saved his best performance for last with the electorate.

[01:03:07] I think that 40% rating was really based on the fact that the,

[01:03:14] the,

[01:03:14] the,

[01:03:15] the,

[01:03:16] the media censorship hiding the condition of Biden was just so strong.

[01:03:21] But that first debate that effectively ended Biden's presidency,

[01:03:29] you know,

[01:03:29] that's,

[01:03:29] I said at the time,

[01:03:31] it's like one of those things,

[01:03:32] like when the Soviet union was coming apart and the Soviet authorities could

[01:03:35] no longer uphold the,

[01:03:37] you know,

[01:03:38] the regime that it had just proven itself,

[01:03:42] you know,

[01:03:43] obviously,

[01:03:44] you know,

[01:03:45] unable to govern,

[01:03:46] it all fell apart really fast.

[01:03:49] And that's,

[01:03:50] you know,

[01:03:51] you know,

[01:03:51] in a microcosm,

[01:03:52] sort of what happened to the Democrats this summer.

[01:03:55] It was close until it wasn't at all is the way to put it.

[01:03:59] I think as well.

[01:03:59] Yes.

[01:04:00] Yes.

[01:04:00] Now that 40% wasn't just because I thought it'd be a 60% chance that the

[01:04:06] Democrats would win more of the fact that there was some baked in that

[01:04:11] Trump would might be assassinated or,

[01:04:14] or this one actually,

[01:04:15] we put it as a 2% chance that there'd be no election and we won't need to,

[01:04:22] don't need to go too deep into it,

[01:04:23] but very,

[01:04:24] very unlikely there'd be no election,

[01:04:26] even with a massive war going on,

[01:04:28] or even if Trump had been assassinated,

[01:04:30] it's just,

[01:04:30] it would happen almost no matter what,

[01:04:32] but we did bake into the fact that Trump may not make it to the election.

[01:04:36] There may not be an election.

[01:04:38] And also here's another part.

[01:04:41] We stated,

[01:04:43] you know,

[01:04:43] our opinion was that there was greater than 40% chance that there would be a

[01:04:51] need for Congress to vote on the legitimacy or kind of,

[01:04:54] they would have to certify it.

[01:04:56] I mean,

[01:04:57] we talked to the election,

[01:04:58] yeah,

[01:04:58] contested election.

[01:04:59] That's the proper way to put it.

[01:05:00] Exactly.

[01:05:00] So we thought there was at least a 40% chance that there'd be contested election.

[01:05:07] And in that case,

[01:05:10] you know,

[01:05:10] up for grabs in a way.

[01:05:12] So that's what we said.

[01:05:14] Hey,

[01:05:14] I think we ended up on the right side of those.

[01:05:17] Don't you think?

[01:05:19] Yeah.

[01:05:19] Yep.

[01:05:21] Patting our own back here,

[01:05:22] but I think that wasn't a bad prediction at all.

[01:05:26] Was it?

[01:05:27] This is actually a great year for 2024.

[01:05:29] I don't want to jinx anything at all,

[01:05:32] but I will celebrate a little bit on the next few as well.

[01:05:36] You ready?

[01:05:37] Let's do it.

[01:05:38] The chance that the federal reserve pivots,

[01:05:41] which means goes from raising rates or at least keeping them steady to lowering rates.

[01:05:48] 70% chance that the fed would pivot was our opinion.

[01:05:53] Obviously they cut rates today,

[01:05:54] but they even did so before today.

[01:05:57] So we hit that.

[01:05:58] And in my opinion,

[01:06:00] I don't know.

[01:06:00] I would probably talk about on the,

[01:06:02] on the episode itself on,

[01:06:04] you can go find this.

[01:06:05] This is actually episode 252 on January 11th.

[01:06:10] I'm not sure what the market had baked in.

[01:06:13] My,

[01:06:13] my guess is they thought it was about like a 50% chance the fed would pivot.

[01:06:18] We said a little higher 70%.

[01:06:19] And I knew for the real estate,

[01:06:22] the reasons of the real estate collapse,

[01:06:24] that's essentially going on right now and getting worse each day.

[01:06:27] And each month,

[01:06:28] each year,

[01:06:29] I knew they would have to lower rates.

[01:06:31] They've done it twice.

[01:06:32] They're kind of getting gun shy,

[01:06:34] but they're still doing it.

[01:06:36] There's another one.

[01:06:36] We hit fed pivot.

[01:06:38] 70%.

[01:06:40] What are we doing our predictions for next year in January?

[01:06:44] We could do it on our first show in January,

[01:06:46] which technically would be,

[01:06:48] well,

[01:06:48] first and foremost,

[01:06:50] we'll have to decide if we want to continue being live on Wednesday nights,

[01:06:54] but that works well for me.

[01:06:55] Number one,

[01:06:56] but we're taking off next Wednesday,

[01:06:59] which is Christmas the 25th.

[01:07:01] The Wednesday after that is January 1st.

[01:07:03] So if you want to do a live show,

[01:07:06] then we could do our predictions then,

[01:07:08] or we could have a show,

[01:07:10] but not do predictions until a week later.

[01:07:13] It's,

[01:07:14] you know,

[01:07:15] the world is your oyster,

[01:07:16] sir.

[01:07:17] Well,

[01:07:18] whenever we do,

[01:07:19] I think we need to make a prediction on the next pivot.

[01:07:24] Oh,

[01:07:25] we're going to have a,

[01:07:26] I'm going to set it up nicely.

[01:07:27] We're going to have it,

[01:07:29] uh,

[01:07:29] the screen.

[01:07:30] It's going to be like,

[01:07:31] not like a game show,

[01:07:32] but I'm going to do it up a little bit.

[01:07:34] So viewers that are watching the stream live,

[01:07:36] we'll be able to kind of go along with the predictions with us and see the

[01:07:39] categories live and stuff like that.

[01:07:41] So we're going to make that happen.

[01:07:44] Um,

[01:07:45] you ready for the next couple here?

[01:07:47] Yeah,

[01:07:47] let's do it.

[01:07:49] Dear to my heart,

[01:07:50] Bitcoin at this time,

[01:07:53] Bitcoin was like $40,000 today.

[01:07:56] It's a hundred thousand.

[01:07:58] It's had a rough little bit in the last 24 hours,

[01:08:02] but Bitcoin 70 higher than 70 grand,

[01:08:06] which was an all time high.

[01:08:08] Pretty much.

[01:08:09] What were the,

[01:08:10] what was my opinion?

[01:08:11] What was our opinion?

[01:08:12] Bitcoin would be an all time high in 2024,

[01:08:16] 45%.

[01:08:17] So even I thought it was like a coin flip that it would get above 70.

[01:08:22] And I would have said like,

[01:08:23] you know,

[01:08:24] 25% chance it would,

[01:08:26] or lower that it would be at a hundred grand.

[01:08:29] So Bitcoin outperformed even the banks to breakers thoughts,

[01:08:33] thought it would do.

[01:08:35] Yeah,

[01:08:36] me too.

[01:08:36] I,

[01:08:36] I,

[01:08:37] I think I said 60,000 would be a,

[01:08:39] you know,

[01:08:40] where,

[01:08:40] where it would end up this year.

[01:08:42] And I was 40% wrong.

[01:08:46] We said 25% chance Bitcoin would be under 30 K.

[01:08:49] So a big loss for the year.

[01:08:51] And as I said,

[01:08:52] in the first part of the show,

[01:08:53] if we do see a 2008 or worse market crash,

[01:08:57] I would expect Bitcoin to be cut in half and be back down at 50 or 60 K in just a few weeks,

[01:09:04] but that would be a big time to buy.

[01:09:07] In my opinion,

[01:09:08] how about gold and silver?

[01:09:10] 50% chance gold would be greater than 2,500,

[01:09:14] which would be an all time high.

[01:09:15] Well,

[01:09:15] gold did hit an all time high as well this year.

[01:09:19] Nice.

[01:09:20] It's just above 2,600 right now.

[01:09:24] Yeah.

[01:09:25] I think we've got some of these,

[01:09:27] we're going to have to just predict the same thing for 2025.

[01:09:31] And this,

[01:09:32] this,

[01:09:32] these results might,

[01:09:35] might cause me to go more on the extreme on some of these,

[01:09:38] because I think we're,

[01:09:40] I think we're a little conservative based on these results.

[01:09:43] Yeah.

[01:09:43] Well,

[01:09:43] you know,

[01:09:44] things could change on a dime literally,

[01:09:47] but here's one we missed.

[01:09:49] And I thought this would go in tandem,

[01:09:51] but they did not.

[01:09:53] Silver being greater than $50.

[01:09:55] Silver did get quite high,

[01:09:57] but not even close to 50.

[01:09:59] Didn't even hit 40.

[01:10:01] We also thought,

[01:10:02] you know,

[01:10:02] put 50% chance that it would break 50.

[01:10:05] So gold outperformed.

[01:10:07] Silver didn't have a bad year at all,

[01:10:10] but you know,

[01:10:12] gold seemed to take the day.

[01:10:14] Bitcoin over,

[01:10:15] overall both of those,

[01:10:16] but gold hit silver did not for what it's worth.

[01:10:20] What was the chance on 50% or $50 silver percentage?

[01:10:24] We put a 50% that it'd be 50 bucks.

[01:10:27] Yeah.

[01:10:27] We were on the under wasn't even close.

[01:10:29] Yeah.

[01:10:29] The gold was just over.

[01:10:32] It was a good 50,

[01:10:33] 50 call silver,

[01:10:34] not even close.

[01:10:36] We had guessed 20%.

[01:10:38] We would have been maybe on the right track.

[01:10:40] Well,

[01:10:40] you know,

[01:10:40] there's a lot of talk about,

[01:10:41] you know,

[01:10:42] rare earth minerals and electronics.

[01:10:44] And China stockpiling and ceasing exports.

[01:10:49] And,

[01:10:49] you know,

[01:10:51] I'm just,

[01:10:52] I think I need to do a little research on,

[01:10:54] you know,

[01:10:56] silver is a component to electronics.

[01:10:58] Right.

[01:10:58] So if,

[01:11:00] yeah,

[01:11:00] I just don't know,

[01:11:01] you know,

[01:11:02] relatively how heavy that presence is compared to its other uses,

[01:11:06] obviously jewelry,

[01:11:08] huge,

[01:11:08] huge,

[01:11:09] you know,

[01:11:09] demand for silver for jewelry.

[01:11:12] But,

[01:11:13] you know,

[01:11:14] bullion too,

[01:11:14] right.

[01:11:15] Keeping it in its,

[01:11:16] it's a pure form.

[01:11:18] So you can,

[01:11:18] you know,

[01:11:19] use it that way.

[01:11:20] I just curious,

[01:11:22] like how,

[01:11:24] how heavily it affects electronics because,

[01:11:26] you know,

[01:11:27] to the extent that it does,

[01:11:29] it becomes like oil,

[01:11:31] right?

[01:11:32] Like it's going to be a manipulated price because it's,

[01:11:35] it has national security implications.

[01:11:38] That's certainly true.

[01:11:39] And very,

[01:11:40] very true for like germanium and all these rare earth minerals that China has a

[01:11:45] corner on the market,

[01:11:46] by the way,

[01:11:47] um,

[01:11:48] in Africa and other ways in the mining of it.

[01:11:51] You're right.

[01:11:52] Silver does have a lot of industrial uses.

[01:11:54] And when it goes lower in price,

[01:11:56] guess what?

[01:11:57] Free market economics dictates it's used more.

[01:12:00] If silver was like $5 an ounce instead of 30,

[01:12:04] it would be used in a lot of stuff.

[01:12:06] Cause it is such a great conductor.

[01:12:08] It doesn't corrode.

[01:12:09] It's like,

[01:12:10] it's better than copper.

[01:12:11] So if it was a dollar an ounce or $4 an ounce,

[01:12:14] like copper,

[01:12:15] it would be used all the time.

[01:12:16] Your catalytic converter would be made out of silver way more efficient.

[01:12:20] Obviously it's way more rare.

[01:12:22] Now here's,

[01:12:23] here's the issue.

[01:12:24] They just found billions and billions of dollars deposits of gold and other

[01:12:31] assets,

[01:12:32] iron,

[01:12:32] which okay,

[01:12:33] iron who gives a crap,

[01:12:33] but it's a lot of iron.

[01:12:36] They're finding all these deposits.

[01:12:38] Still.

[01:12:38] Do you think in a hundred years,

[01:12:40] they'll be able to get an asteroid with a whole bunch of silver,

[01:12:42] more silver and gold than can ever be used in 50 millennia.

[01:12:47] I'm not saying we're going to have asteroids mining the gold,

[01:12:51] but keep in mind,

[01:12:52] they're still finding huge amounts of gold and silver.

[01:12:56] So there is kind of that.

[01:12:57] I'm not,

[01:12:58] that's a good thing for humanity,

[01:12:59] by the way,

[01:13:00] but it's maybe not a good thing.

[01:13:01] If you're like,

[01:13:02] Oh,

[01:13:02] silver is going to be a thousand dollars an ounce.

[01:13:06] No,

[01:13:08] I don't know about that,

[01:13:09] but again,

[01:13:10] um,

[01:13:12] it's,

[01:13:12] it's markets.

[01:13:13] It's how it works.

[01:13:14] If it's not suppressed,

[01:13:15] if it's not manipulated,

[01:13:17] which is pretty hard for anything these days.

[01:13:19] Uh,

[01:13:20] there you go.

[01:13:20] But Hey,

[01:13:21] a lot of people are thinking Bitcoin is demonetizing gold and silver.

[01:13:25] So gold and silver,

[01:13:26] again,

[01:13:27] are very useful by themselves,

[01:13:29] not as money just for making things.

[01:13:32] Cause they're on the periodic table.

[01:13:34] They're very stable,

[01:13:35] very useful in many ways,

[01:13:38] but they're,

[01:13:38] they're rare.

[01:13:39] They're expensive,

[01:13:40] but a huge reason they're expensive is because humanity has used them for as

[01:13:45] money for many,

[01:13:47] many centuries and millennia.

[01:13:50] If people don't really care anymore to hold gold and silver as a hedge,

[01:13:56] which as a prepper,

[01:13:56] you absolutely should first off,

[01:13:59] but less and less people want to,

[01:14:02] and the amount they want is a smaller percentage of their portfolio.

[01:14:05] And more and more people are,

[01:14:07] whether it's Bitcoin or other electronic assets or investing in real estate,

[01:14:12] even if it's a bubble or not golden silver,

[01:14:15] silver,

[01:14:16] they just have not really appreciated much compared to these other assets.

[01:14:21] But again,

[01:14:22] gold hit a record high this year,

[01:14:25] silver,

[01:14:26] not a record high,

[01:14:26] but not a bad year at all.

[01:14:29] So still a great prep,

[01:14:31] but still,

[01:14:32] I think a good price.

[01:14:34] If you want to buy some,

[01:14:35] there's strategic resources.

[01:14:37] So they are manipulated by governments.

[01:14:39] And I think,

[01:14:41] you know,

[01:14:41] that's where the price suppression comes in.

[01:14:44] But to answer your question about space mining,

[01:14:48] eventually that's going to be one of the most important things we're doing in

[01:14:51] space.

[01:14:52] I have to believe it.

[01:14:55] If Elon Musk has his way,

[01:14:57] I would love it.

[01:14:58] They just send some drone rockets up to some asteroid.

[01:15:02] Six months later,

[01:15:03] they're jettisoning 500 kilogram drums of refined gold or,

[01:15:10] or whatever plutonium.

[01:15:12] I'm sure that that'd be the first thing they would get plutonium,

[01:15:15] uranium,

[01:15:15] and things you can make weapons out of.

[01:15:17] But after that precious metals.

[01:15:19] So it's,

[01:15:21] yeah,

[01:15:21] what is money?

[01:15:23] It's very relative.

[01:15:24] The reason Bitcoin is good money is because it's scarce.

[01:15:28] There's a finite amount and it's heavily secured by a distributed network,

[01:15:33] decentralized network.

[01:15:34] If that network does not become decentralized anymore,

[01:15:39] it won't have value,

[01:15:41] but I have faith that it would for a while,

[01:15:44] not for all of eternity,

[01:15:46] but yeah,

[01:15:47] there you go.

[01:15:47] There you go.

[01:15:48] Future Dan.

[01:15:49] Any other predictions that we're going to recap?

[01:15:52] Here we go.

[01:15:54] We thought there would be a 15,

[01:15:57] one,

[01:15:58] five,

[01:16:00] 15% chance of a COVID or worse disease outbreak.

[01:16:07] So a COVID 2.0 or worse,

[01:16:10] 15%.

[01:16:11] So that did not happen.

[01:16:14] Thankfully.

[01:16:16] Yeah.

[01:16:16] I'm trying to think of whether that was a good estimate.

[01:16:21] Hard to prove one way or the other.

[01:16:23] It's hard to disprove a negative or approve.

[01:16:25] I don't know how the best way to say it,

[01:16:27] but I mean,

[01:16:30] if it was a bioweapon released by China to upset the 2020 election,

[01:16:38] did they dare not to do it again?

[01:16:40] Or did they do so much damage to their own country?

[01:16:43] That's the reason they didn't dare do it again.

[01:16:46] I don't know.

[01:16:47] Pure speculation,

[01:16:47] but I don't think that in our lifetimes,

[01:16:50] we're,

[01:16:50] you know,

[01:16:52] out of the woods on the potential of another lab,

[01:16:56] lab lost,

[01:16:57] lab created,

[01:16:58] lab leaked,

[01:17:02] engineered pathogen.

[01:17:03] I think that that's going to be the,

[01:17:04] the first world bio war.

[01:17:08] And there could be more coming soon.

[01:17:12] Stocks crash worse than COVID March of 2020.

[01:17:19] We said before the election,

[01:17:23] less than 5% chance that we thought there'd be a stock crash of COVID 2020,

[01:17:31] March,

[01:17:32] 2020 levels.

[01:17:35] So that certainly did not happen.

[01:17:37] We did say after the election,

[01:17:39] essentially meaning what was it?

[01:17:40] November 5th,

[01:17:41] right?

[01:17:41] We,

[01:17:42] we said upwards of a 25% chance.

[01:17:45] Cause we were baking into our model,

[01:17:48] our assumptions,

[01:17:49] our,

[01:17:50] our predictions overall.

[01:17:52] We were baking in a decent chance of the election continuing to be

[01:17:56] contested to this day.

[01:17:59] Uh,

[01:17:59] to December 18th,

[01:18:01] 2024.

[01:18:02] And because of that could have 20,

[01:18:06] 30,

[01:18:06] 40,

[01:18:06] 50% drop in the stock market.

[01:18:08] If that triggered unrest or other,

[01:18:12] you know,

[01:18:13] hopefully no civil war or anything like that,

[01:18:15] but that would definitely bring a stock market crash did not happen.

[01:18:18] We'll,

[01:18:19] uh,

[01:18:19] we'll make a prediction on that category for sure.

[01:18:22] Next year.

[01:18:23] Yeah.

[01:18:24] I think it's higher with Trump in there.

[01:18:26] Uh,

[01:18:27] in some of the economic news that we're talking about.

[01:18:30] And also,

[01:18:31] you know,

[01:18:32] the fed running out of options,

[01:18:34] right?

[01:18:35] They got to cut to,

[01:18:37] you know,

[01:18:38] prevent all the problems with high interest rates from manifesting

[01:18:42] themselves.

[01:18:42] Meanwhile,

[01:18:43] you know,

[01:18:45] that that'll cause inflation,

[01:18:46] you know,

[01:18:47] that,

[01:18:48] that something goes wrong and gets accounted for in this 2025.

[01:18:52] Copy higher than 15%.

[01:18:53] I think.

[01:18:55] Now here's one.

[01:18:57] And I agree.

[01:18:58] Absolutely.

[01:18:58] We're going to,

[01:18:58] we're going to keep an eye on it.

[01:19:00] Here's one that was tough to quantify.

[01:19:02] And I didn't really quantify here,

[01:19:04] but we could quantify it.

[01:19:07] I don't think we have the time right now to do it,

[01:19:10] but,

[01:19:10] uh,

[01:19:10] we could go into the future danger archive to see what,

[01:19:14] what it looked like.

[01:19:15] But what it says is in 2024 will negative effects of the COVID vaccine be

[01:19:26] exposed more than the year before.

[01:19:30] Essentially,

[01:19:31] will there be big news developments studies that are released in 2024?

[01:19:39] And there were,

[01:19:40] we said definitely there would be,

[01:19:42] and there were,

[01:19:43] and we talked about a few.

[01:19:44] Yeah.

[01:19:45] Yeah.

[01:19:45] And,

[01:19:45] and,

[01:19:46] um,

[01:19:47] you know,

[01:19:48] just,

[01:19:49] just RFK jr.

[01:19:50] Getting added to Trump's ticket informally.

[01:19:53] Right.

[01:19:53] But still,

[01:19:54] you know,

[01:19:55] part of his team is somewhat of a genius move by Trump to,

[01:20:00] you know,

[01:20:02] remove the issue.

[01:20:03] Right.

[01:20:04] The guy who was at one point was boasting about,

[01:20:07] you know,

[01:20:07] operation warp speed,

[01:20:08] bringing about the MRNA vaccine.

[01:20:10] He,

[01:20:11] he didn't campaign on that,

[01:20:12] did he?

[01:20:13] And he,

[01:20:13] he brought in RFK jr.

[01:20:15] To kind of neutralize the entire subject.

[01:20:18] Um,

[01:20:20] you know,

[01:20:20] a lot,

[01:20:20] a lot of Trump's opponents are wondering whether RFK jr.

[01:20:24] Is going to get jettisoned pretty quickly.

[01:20:26] Trump's going to go back to,

[01:20:28] you know,

[01:20:28] a conventional view of vaccines and whatnot.

[01:20:32] But,

[01:20:32] uh,

[01:20:33] I think he learned his lesson and,

[01:20:36] you know,

[01:20:37] with,

[01:20:37] with RFK jr.

[01:20:38] Is,

[01:20:39] is,

[01:20:39] is the,

[01:20:40] uh,

[01:20:40] HHS secretary.

[01:20:41] If he makes it there,

[01:20:42] there's certainly going to be more evidence that,

[01:20:46] you know,

[01:20:47] all of that was very bad longterm for health.

[01:20:53] We will absolutely evaluate that in early January for the 2025 predictions.

[01:20:59] That was actually it.

[01:21:01] We definitely previewed and talked more about what could happen in 2024,

[01:21:05] but that was really all that we quantified or put down on paper.

[01:21:11] So a question for you,

[01:21:12] you don't have to answer now,

[01:21:13] or maybe you have a couple ideas,

[01:21:14] but over our break,

[01:21:16] think of a few more categories that we need to make,

[01:21:20] uh,

[01:21:21] predictions on and discuss the whole reasons to discuss,

[01:21:24] not be right or wrong per se,

[01:21:26] but this will help you guide your preps is kind of the whole point of this as

[01:21:31] well.

[01:21:31] Keep in mind.

[01:21:32] So any,

[01:21:33] any categories that we didn't,

[01:21:34] you know,

[01:21:35] that really got to be on 2025 list and beyond that you can think of now.

[01:21:39] And that's some homework too.

[01:21:40] Yeah.

[01:21:41] I,

[01:21:41] I,

[01:21:41] I got one.

[01:21:43] It's not a joke either.

[01:21:44] Although I'm going to,

[01:21:46] you know,

[01:21:46] when I do the prediction,

[01:21:47] it's going to be relatively low,

[01:21:49] but,

[01:21:49] uh,

[01:21:50] you,

[01:21:51] uh,

[01:21:52] extraterrestrial,

[01:21:52] uh,

[01:21:53] disclosure,

[01:21:54] the,

[01:21:54] the disclosure that the UFO community,

[01:21:57] you know,

[01:21:58] thinks,

[01:21:58] thinks is long overdue.

[01:22:00] The big one.

[01:22:01] We should,

[01:22:01] we should lay in on that.

[01:22:03] I like that.

[01:22:04] We need like a few of those.

[01:22:05] I like that.

[01:22:06] That's kind of a small percentage chance,

[01:22:08] but very possible.

[01:22:09] And if we actually,

[01:22:10] it happens and we predicted it,

[01:22:12] that would be a good radio.

[01:22:14] Yeah.

[01:22:15] And,

[01:22:15] and if Trump,

[01:22:16] if it's true and Trump survives it,

[01:22:18] you know,

[01:22:19] that changes world history forever.

[01:22:21] Right.

[01:22:22] So he'd be incentivized to declassify anything the government has put that out there.

[01:22:28] Take the credit for being the person that brought that transparency to the government.

[01:22:32] If there's anything there,

[01:22:33] right.

[01:22:34] Right.

[01:22:34] Maybe,

[01:22:35] maybe it's just,

[01:22:35] it really is only ever was going to be project blue beam,

[01:22:40] you know,

[01:22:41] a faked supernatural event to,

[01:22:43] you know,

[01:22:45] increase deep state power.

[01:22:48] There is one article.

[01:22:49] We got a hit that I missed that.

[01:22:52] We just got to hit real quick.

[01:22:55] Best for last,

[01:22:56] or maybe the worst schools using AI to send police to students homes.

[01:23:02] Yeah.

[01:23:03] So the way that rates on the dashboard sort of indirect,

[01:23:07] I mean,

[01:23:08] what,

[01:23:08] what that's really about is conditioning the police state at home.

[01:23:14] Right.

[01:23:15] It's,

[01:23:15] it's teaching the kids when they're young in school,

[01:23:19] they're subject to this,

[01:23:21] right.

[01:23:21] That,

[01:23:21] that they got to live their lives under that,

[01:23:24] you know,

[01:23:25] threat that,

[01:23:26] you know,

[01:23:27] algorithms are going to,

[01:23:28] you know,

[01:23:29] just trigger things that are,

[01:23:31] you know,

[01:23:32] just in the old days when common sense and human beings were,

[01:23:35] you know,

[01:23:36] had common sense and were completely involved,

[01:23:38] you know,

[01:23:39] no one,

[01:23:39] no one would be bringing police to the house.

[01:23:41] We're going to hear horror stories of ridiculous things,

[01:23:45] causing parents to be systematically undermined in,

[01:23:49] in certain jurisdictions.

[01:23:52] And obviously AI is going to be part of that.

[01:23:54] So,

[01:23:55] Oh yeah.

[01:23:56] We're,

[01:23:56] we're seeing the first headlines of it,

[01:23:58] but it all goes under that basket of,

[01:24:00] you know,

[01:24:00] just using the public school system to train children to,

[01:24:05] you know,

[01:24:06] to,

[01:24:06] to live like it's communist China to live like,

[01:24:09] you know,

[01:24:11] children in China are raised to,

[01:24:13] to,

[01:24:13] to be,

[01:24:14] you know,

[01:24:14] absolute utter fear of the state.

[01:24:17] And I see,

[01:24:18] I see no pause in that.

[01:24:21] It's going to continue.

[01:24:22] Yeah.

[01:24:23] And it goes hand in hand with the effect of being videotaped or I was going to the Hawthorne effect,

[01:24:30] which is kind of was more of a labor economics,

[01:24:34] behavioral economics,

[01:24:34] and psychological,

[01:24:36] like,

[01:24:37] Hey,

[01:24:37] get your workers to work harder.

[01:24:39] If you,

[01:24:39] if they think you're watching them,

[01:24:41] well,

[01:24:41] that's evolved and evolved and evolved.

[01:24:43] Now it's the AI watching you is the big brother watching you.

[01:24:46] And it's not just some microphone in the bushes that they had in the book.

[01:24:52] Right.

[01:24:53] It's like actually an artificial intelligence.

[01:24:56] I can hear everything going through your phone,

[01:25:00] through a lot of the cars,

[01:25:03] through so many different microphones.

[01:25:05] The environment is not just a little microphone in the bush anymore.

[01:25:08] But before it was a matter of would human beings choose to focus on you to make sense of that with AI.

[01:25:18] AI,

[01:25:19] it's a hell of a lot easier.

[01:25:21] Put patterns together to,

[01:25:23] to,

[01:25:23] to you,

[01:25:24] you become,

[01:25:25] you know,

[01:25:26] on,

[01:25:26] on the radar of authorities and,

[01:25:29] you know,

[01:25:29] much faster than ever before because,

[01:25:33] you know,

[01:25:33] the artificial intelligence is spotting it for human beings.

[01:25:37] That,

[01:25:37] that,

[01:25:38] that's just another,

[01:25:39] you know,

[01:25:40] potential danger of AI.

[01:25:41] AI,

[01:25:42] you know,

[01:25:42] is a technology that has,

[01:25:44] it's,

[01:25:45] it's really a double-sided,

[01:25:47] very sharp sword.

[01:25:49] Well,

[01:25:49] one side is,

[01:25:50] is the downside that we're talking about now,

[01:25:52] but the other side of that sword is the economic boom that could come with it from being,

[01:25:57] you know,

[01:25:58] leaders in it.

[01:25:59] Right.

[01:26:00] Um,

[01:26:01] you think that it's,

[01:26:03] it's,

[01:26:03] it's federal debt and our debt to GDP ratio is,

[01:26:07] you know,

[01:26:08] just a hockey stick and there has to be a reckoning.

[01:26:12] Ah,

[01:26:13] I'm not as confident as you.

[01:26:15] I'm certainly worried about it,

[01:26:16] but,

[01:26:17] you know,

[01:26:18] with the right kind of economic growth,

[01:26:20] you know,

[01:26:20] we can,

[01:26:20] we can go out,

[01:26:21] grow a lot of bad things and something like AI is such a change,

[01:26:25] you know,

[01:26:26] just a changer in,

[01:26:28] in,

[01:26:28] in,

[01:26:29] in everything,

[01:26:30] all industries,

[01:26:32] all economic productivity that,

[01:26:35] uh,

[01:26:36] you know,

[01:26:36] we have,

[01:26:37] you know,

[01:26:37] as long as the United States of America is leading in it,

[01:26:40] I don't think default federal government default.

[01:26:43] I don't think,

[01:26:44] you know,

[01:26:45] just an absolute depression is necessarily inevitable.

[01:26:51] So AI is just going to,

[01:26:53] every year,

[01:26:53] more and more AI,

[01:26:54] you're going to get sick of it.

[01:26:55] You're already sick of it.

[01:26:56] I'm sure folks,

[01:26:57] what I consider Bitcoin is an artificial intelligence system of money.

[01:27:03] That's already developed and already has enough electricity and processing power,

[01:27:10] securing it that no AI out there right now can hack it.

[01:27:15] And it's all,

[01:27:16] that's why Bitcoin has the value.

[01:27:18] It actually does have something backing it.

[01:27:21] It's all the electricity and processing power.

[01:27:24] And trust me,

[01:27:26] the AI is are starting to suck up a lot of electricity and a lot of processing power themselves.

[01:27:32] But currently they can't catch up the Bitcoin network.

[01:27:37] If they do,

[01:27:39] you'll know real quick because all that money will be gone and it'll be on the news everywhere,

[01:27:43] but it's never happened.

[01:27:46] And there's going to be AI.

[01:27:48] Thankfully,

[01:27:49] in my opinion,

[01:27:50] there's already a place you can put your money that is kind of safe from the AI,

[01:27:56] whether it's hacking or otherwise inflating away or the central bank digital currency.

[01:28:01] But all right.

[01:28:03] Future Dan,

[01:28:04] awesome show.

[01:28:05] Anything else you wanted to say to end the year?

[01:28:09] Yeah.

[01:28:09] Well,

[01:28:10] thank you to our audience.

[01:28:11] Thanks.

[01:28:12] And it's awesome to see the response to the new platform stream yard and getting a chance to see people's comments in the,

[01:28:20] in the,

[01:28:21] in the comment stream.

[01:28:22] But so I'm really hopeful for Patriot power are taking it to the next level.

[01:28:27] In 2025,

[01:28:28] just want to thank the audience for being with us up until now and make,

[01:28:33] make a promise.

[01:28:34] We're going to,

[01:28:34] we are going to take it to the next level,

[01:28:36] more visuals,

[01:28:37] more artwork.

[01:28:38] We're going to get some new music in and build back what we once had,

[01:28:42] which is,

[01:28:43] you know,

[01:28:43] more like a radio show than a podcast.

[01:28:46] Although it is a podcast.

[01:28:48] It's kind of a hybrid,

[01:28:49] but we're going to,

[01:28:50] we're going to take this to a new level.

[01:28:52] And I'm looking forward to doing that with you,

[01:28:53] Ben in 2025.

[01:28:55] Heck yeah.

[01:28:56] I'm motivated.

[01:28:57] Really good.

[01:28:58] New tool.

[01:28:59] Awesome audience.

[01:29:00] Awesome network.

[01:29:02] PBN family.com without further ado,

[01:29:05] future Dan let's sign off.

[01:29:07] All right.

[01:29:07] Yeah.

[01:29:08] Merry Christmas and happy new year.

[01:29:10] Ben the breaker of banksters.

[01:29:12] You as well.

[01:29:13] So you as well.