Patriot Power Hour #298 - Spring Season Premiere!

[00:00:02] Patriot Power Hour is back and is live March 25th, 2025, 7.04 PM Eastern, I've been the breaker of Banksters, episode 298, future Dan. We're going to drive on with the Patriot Mission tonight. No stopping. There's been a little bit of a pit stop here or there. Of course, we take our seasonal break and that is officially over.

[00:00:27] We're back. It is the spring season for all intents and purposes and the last episode of March. So future Dan will get into the news blitz as always. We're showing it here. Simulcasting not only our podcast, our longstanding podcast on PBN, but we have visuals now.

[00:00:48] We got video on X, on Rumble, and I believe on YouTube. Yes, on YouTube as well. So subscribe to PBN on all three of those. Listen in there. It's best if you can see all this video. But in the meanwhile, we'll get to that news blitz. Let me put the video of a couple of memes in the background future Dan. But last few weeks, we haven't had a show, I guess, a couple of weeks. What's been going on big picture?

[00:01:18] I would say the time off between winter 2025 Patriot Power Hour and this debut of spring 2025. It's just the randomness of some of the headlines are actually making it to future dangers threat indicator board. And of course, the news times out after a while and gets replaced with new news.

[00:01:45] So we don't have those headlines to talk about. We can't see what I'm talking about, Ben. But I could say there's no specific theme. It's just some popular culture, popular political event after another. None of them of any particularly more dangerous nature. That's not to say there hasn't been dangerous headlines.

[00:02:12] It's just that there's no unifying kind of theme to talk about. And you know what? Had there been something that unified and really alerted the heat map dashboard to bad news, we would have broadcast, right? We always say that. So it's been diffuse, dispersed, relatively low level of bad news since we last met. And that's how we view it today.

[00:02:41] Of course, a big part of this whole endeavor is to collect these data points and look at it in the future and try to connect those dots. Now, we also want to project ahead, but predicting the future is pretty hard. I don't know if anyone ever told you that, but it's pretty tough. But long story short, I agree. A lot of disparate news stories and data points which might have linkage, might not,

[00:03:05] as it appears in the news, mostly public information is what we discuss here. We're not claiming to have some sort of inside sources. That doesn't mean three months, six months, three years from now, all this news would have a different perspective. I'm thinking the COVID type of news in late 2019 was viewed a little bit differently a few years later, if you went back in time. But that's an extreme example.

[00:03:34] But I agree. No financial collapse. No absolute World War III. No civil war, domestic terrorism at very, very high levels. Now, those type of threats have not dissipated. But we'll talk about some of the specifics. But it's not been an absolutely crazy march, which is totally fine with me. It allows me to get more preps in. Real quick, shout out to Jay Fergie in the chat. What's happening to Jay Fergie? Good to see you. Yes, Patriot Power Hour is back.

[00:04:04] We're on our new time, future Dan. Back to the future, for lack of a better analogy. Single barrel Tuesdays now. Yes. So Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Eastern. I can commit that the great majority of our shows will be Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Eastern. Here or there, maybe we'd have to bump it. Or, as you alluded to earlier, we might have a second or third show for the week if things really start to pop off.

[00:04:32] But, anyway, long time. We were Tuesday nights. And then for about a year, year and a half, we went to Wednesdays. Now we're back to Tuesdays, starting tonight. And we just had the Equinox five days ago. We're going to run all the way to the Solstice in June. Take another break, as is our practice.

[00:04:56] And, I don't know, for spring 2025, maybe because we won't have any one topic to, you know, immediately open the show and address. Perhaps we could take an opportunity to, like, what are some of the big movers between now and June? Some things that can lead to dangerous events that you're watching out for. Between now and June.

[00:05:25] So, kind of a little bit of a preview of spring season. Well, I'm always looking for what the Fed's going to do. But, I think they're going to try to play it close to the vest and not make any sudden movements until or unless there is a major market collapse, which we have not seen in the first couple months of Trump's administration. So, always looking at the Fed and interest rates.

[00:05:55] But, A, not seeing that is critical in the next few months. We have the tariffs, though, going into, not on April 1st, April Fool's Day. They made it April 2nd. That some of these tariffs will go into effect. Is it tough negotiation or will it be a true trade war? Something in between or country specific? I think it's going to be both.

[00:06:20] But, I'm hoping many of these other countries will drop their tariffs and non-monetary barriers against U.S. trade. And, therefore, we don't have to add any of our own. Because many of these are anti-U.S. trade policies. And, we're just matching them. So, I would like everybody to stop doing that. Maybe not everybody. I don't want to trade with China very much. Put some stuff on them there. But, anyway, that's huge. That's economically at least a couple things.

[00:06:50] If there's going to be a Trump recession, which quarter? Will it be this quarter that we're entering? So, the Atlanta Fed has kind of kept a rolling tally. But, then continues to revise what they think the GDP print will be. Meaning what the GDP numbers for each quarter will be.

[00:07:15] Well, a couple months ago, they were predicting Q1 to be pretty low growth. But, definitely not negative growth. Which is the definition of recession. So, they were not expecting negative growth at that time. But, over the last several weeks, over a few iterations, they've been predicting lower growth and now negative growth.

[00:07:42] Which, it takes a couple quarters to be considered a recession, technically. But, if Q1 does come about as negative growth, which we'll know about maybe this time next month. Not exact timing. But, Q1 ends in the next few business days. So, they'll do all their tabulation, official numbers. So, if that occurs and Q3, meaning the summer, July, August, September.

[00:08:12] If those both print negative, that would put a Trump recession officially declared in like September, October, November. So, that would be my logic train, I guess, there. But, those are just the official numbers. They've been, in my opinion, keeping those numbers in favor of Biden a bit over the years. And, definitely, now they're flipping the coin there. Maybe a little negative Trump. You know, we'll see how it comes out. But, yeah.

[00:08:40] Pretty staggering switch from positive growth to negative growth, in their opinions. So, the old textbook definition of a recession. Can you go over that again? Two consecutive quarters? Two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. Right. Right. So, if we get one of those, it's going to be called the Trump recession, whether we get a second quarter. It just is, politically. Right? Sure. If he causes negative growth.

[00:09:10] So, yeah. I happen to be sitting behind my information technology setup, and I got Grok open. And, I'll just challenge Grok, the AI connected to X, right? Musk's AI, to give me threats that could be expected in the United States between now and the summer solstice. June 20th of 2025.

[00:09:38] And, I'm not sure I'm trusting these results, but I'll read them. Severe hurricanes. Severe hurricanes threaten the U.S. Gulf Coast. Those will be early hurricanes to happen before June. So, I don't think that one's right. True. Escalating. I mean, it could happen, right? Escalating cyber attacks disrupt U.S. infrastructure. I think it's just grasping for straws there. I mean, that's always true. Yeah. I can't pin that on a date at all.

[00:10:05] It doesn't seem to escalate between now and June just because it's the spring. Number three was Middle East conflict spikes oil prices. Well, we've seen some hell of an escalation in Middle East conflict in the last couple of years. And prices of oil doesn't seem to be affected anymore. So, that's kind of old conventional thinking. Mass shooting sparks national outrage.

[00:10:31] It's, you know, the nature of the country we live in. Well, I don't know. Maybe we should go through more of the list. But I was going to say that and actual riots and burning and Antifa type stuff. Oh, wait. It was that type of stuff, though. There was number five on border tensions, which could be extrapolated to be, you know,

[00:10:56] anti-deportation protests, you know, fuel violent clashes. So, that's probably out of these five. The one that, yeah, we should be watching for warmer weather and increased efficiency of the ice and Custom and Border Patrol. As Trump's agenda, they get, you know, firm grip on those agencies, really get them exercised.

[00:11:25] And, you know, working again because, you know, for four years they couldn't do their job, they might get quite effective at nationwide raids and that kind of violent clashing and protests. It's probably that is the most accurate one of this little list that AI popped up. I think that is the most seasonal as well. And the first time that's really come up in Trump's presidency as well.

[00:11:52] So, every summer, right, we're on alert for riots, for shootings that are either justifiably or not justifiably protested against that turn into violence. We're always on the alert for that. But this, you know, this quarter coming up really is, it's got to be the highest threat alert we've had for that kind of series of threats since we've done this show. So, now, I want to make it clear to the audience.

[00:12:22] We're not stalling to talk about the heat map with the extra long segment one, but there are only six headlines to discuss. So, we got a lot of time here. So, I just asked Grok to make five more. You want to hear them? Go. Wildfires ravage drought-stricken western states. I think that could happen at any time now. So, that's valid, I think. Stop me when you hear one of you have a thought on or dispute.

[00:12:52] Terror attack targets U.S. major cities. Not sure that's more or less than any other time, but it's out there. Here's an interesting one. China-Taiwan tensions disrupt U.S. trade. It's better weather for that sort of thing if China wanted to flex. Right?

[00:13:16] And there are, I don't know exactly the times of the year, but there are two times of the year that it's supposed to be much better weather and tides, etc. Which, maybe Grok knows or maybe they put it in there if that's spring. But a lot of wars start off in spring historically, to say the least. We got a couple folks in chat. You know what's funny? We got someone, Jay Ferg, on Rumble.

[00:13:43] We got Deborah Bacon on X who said, surprisingly stupid. I'm not sure exactly which part we've talked a lot about. But Deborah got more context or more information on that. We'll definitely look at that. Then Fire Will Forge, what's happening in Fire Will Forge on YouTube. So, again, we're live on Rumble YouTube and X all at the same time and the Archive podcast if you just want to listen to an MP3 later this week.

[00:14:10] But you can comment and talk with us live. Anyway. Oh, Jay Ferg just says, we are dealing with wildfires here in the Carolinas. Yeah, they are. They are. Yeah. They've been worse than usual there, too. Yeah, I did ask ideal times and weather for PRC invasion of Taiwan. Late March to late April. Okay. There you go. Maybe that's why Grok suggested that.

[00:14:40] Also, heat waves drain power grids and cartel violence spills over border. So, those are the top 10 that Grok's just being prompted to take a guess at. But those, I couldn't not, I couldn't really think of any other very specific events or seasonal. But I think we hit a few good ones there. The wildfires, the big one.

[00:15:08] Taiwan and China, can't forget about that. And, yeah. The riots and the civil unrest. I think that's, as preppers, something we all got to be ready for is being trapped in a huge swath of traffic or craziness. Not able to get around or having to know other routes out of town back to our homestead.

[00:15:37] You know, you might be in a homestead, but if you get trapped in one of these things on the interstate 50 miles away, what are you going to do as an example? So, something to think about. Yeah, I'm looking for, you know, inevitably there'll be police violence. That's, you know, excessive force. And just, I think it's just a ticking time down. A matter of time before it's, you know, the perpetuators of that are white. Right?

[00:16:05] You know, essentially another pretext for race riots. Well, the law of large numbers is that'll happen enough with enough millions and millions of people. And more and more cameras, which generally, with police, I'm glad there's more cameras involved. Maybe not just in general society. But even then, I think it's usually a good thing that if things are on camera.

[00:16:32] But, point is, mistakes are also going to be, mistakes and just bad people doing bad things are going to be on camera. A lot more than they were 10, 20, 30 years ago. So, yeah. No matter the race, we'll see a lot more of that. But certainly, white, there's white guys doing that. And it's a Rodney King situation times five because the camera's so, you know, such good quality.

[00:16:58] And the machine to push that and spark riots countrywide is way more. You know, that machine is much stronger and widespread than it was in 1992. Now, if you wanted to acknowledge the fears of everybody who is looking at what the Trump administration is doing,

[00:17:19] it would be reasonable to say that some kind of moves from Doge or the cabinet secretaries that eliminated some vital functions of government probably would create an event that would be in the big scheme of things, a minor blip on the radar. But it could turn into a gigantic scandal for the Trump presidency.

[00:17:47] Essentially, you know, if one could say they were cutting with a meat cleaver in January and February to cut off the massive waste, fraud and abuse, the easy targets. Perhaps one of the swings of the machete, you know, cuts a little bit too close and leaves them with a problem. But you know what? On Patriot Power, it would be hard put to see where that would show up on the heat map dashboard.

[00:18:17] Although mistakes could be made in downsizing the Department of Defense that, you know, leaves vulnerabilities. And, you know, maybe, you know, invite in the conversation of something along the lines of a let it happen on purpose, false flag from within the bureaucracy. That lets the Trump administration, you know, cease to do things the normal way, the regular way, and they pay for it. Maybe in national security that could cause us a risk.

[00:18:46] But that's the topic today, right? Last night, it was leaked that it was revealed by a reporter from The Atlantic that he was added to a signal chat thread between the vice president, secretary of defense, ODNI, White House National Security Advisor, others, you know, before they drop bombs on the Houthis.

[00:19:14] And it's just the raging scandal right now. But, you know, I don't necessarily see it as directly dangerous to anything long term. Always be careful of those group chats. But for all we know, this is some sort of ploy or spoofing. I bet it is. I bet it is. I don't think I'm thinking that wasn't a mistake. I'm thinking they're trying to find out who Goldberg, the reporter, who he'd tell, who he'd leak to,

[00:19:45] where that information went when he had it before the strikes arrived. Mistakes happen, but so do those all types of cloak and dagger and leaking stuff on purpose. Who knows? We'll keep, you know, I'll keep an eye on that for sure. But I'm not particularly concerned about that.

[00:20:05] Fire Wolf Forge in chat says that it's a big fear referring to being stuck on a road or just stuck away from the homestead and unable to access roads because of rioting or other civil unrest or even just power outages for that matter. You know what the traffic nightmare would be. But anyway, Fire Wolf Forge says big fear.

[00:20:30] Sometimes our work on the other side of Fort Worth, Texas, we lives on the east side, Dallas. So trying to get from, I mean, Dallas Fort Worth area is one of the largest metro areas in the country. So getting all the way across that, if stuff's hitting the fan and the power's out or National Guard's out or stuff's on fire, hey, we're preppers. That's what we prep for.

[00:20:56] But that, you know, that's a major concern I have as well. And a big reason I have, you know, became a prepper was dealing with that type of situation. So what's that term that insurers use in Latin so that it sounds magical and lay people are taken aback by it for something that just is an act of God, just unplanned a bull for? Force majeure. Okay.

[00:21:23] So if you think about the threats that you face in that kind of commute, some of it's force majeure and you're always exposed to it. And it's the risk you take, literally. Then there's other stuff that builds up in environments that you can monitor. And future danger is built on a national level, not the local area where you live in, but on a national level to let you know the temperature of the news, right?

[00:21:50] Riots are breaking out across the country and they seem to be sustaining and more facts are coming out from some police brutality case, for example, right? Don't want any of that to happen. Absolutely. We do not need another Floyd George. But, you know, if that's happening, some stuff is, you know, plannable, you know, days and weeks ahead of time. I would contend if you're monitoring the news environment.

[00:22:16] Maybe, maybe you see, all right, that pattern of news means, you know, for, you know, for, for, for what, by whatever means necessary. I'm adjusting my, you know, where I work, how I live to lower risk. It's risk mitigation, risk management. I'm a nerd for that, but you can't let it paralyze your entire life.

[00:22:41] And I won't go deep into it, but I went on a long vacation. Risky one. It was risky. Absolutely. And you know what? I would not have done that if Trump was not one. Wasn't that risky. Yeah. Oh yeah. Really? All right. That was a deciding factor for you then. Yes. It's not because he won. I did it, but because he didn't lose. I did it.

[00:23:08] Meaning if Harris had won, I just, the world would be too destabilized. I think now maybe that's an ass backwards way. Maybe it's more risky to leave the homestead with Trump in there. Cause who knows what they're going to try to false flag or otherwise while on his watch. But I at least trust his response more than, than a complicit and totally bought out administration that came before. But anyway, yes.

[00:23:35] Uh, I traveled quite a lot. Uh, ended up going to Pearl Harbor. It was on the USS Missouri on the spot where they signed the surrender Tokyo Bay in September, 1945, et cetera, et cetera. So I, yeah, since COVID I've traveled a little bit, but not that much, but I took that, I took that leap and you know what?

[00:24:00] 95% of the time I live pretty darn strict prepper type lifestyle, but I had to go for it. Had to go for it. Glad I did. Also glad to be back. Not only to prep, but back at Patriot power hour. My man, you about ready for a news blitz. Well, yeah, I guess it's gonna be a short blitz, but, uh, I, I think I am. I was just checking on Grok.

[00:24:23] Um, based on data from 2024, Ben, there are approximately 16 survivors remaining of December 7th, 1941. So you, you, you got to see it while there were still veterans of that conflict of that event in that bay at surprise attack day that lives in infamy. I have yet to see it. So I'm envious of that. It was legit. Absolutely.

[00:24:53] I've been to a nine 11 Memorial site as well. Um, you know, one place I really need to go to is Boston. Never been to Boston cradle of the revolution need to do that. But I don't know. Uh, maybe, maybe that's a here intrepid commander. If you're out there, you should put like the top 25 places to visit in America for a real, a real Patriot, or maybe we could even do that.

[00:25:18] But I felt like Pearl Harbor is on that top 25, maybe even top 10 list, but damn expensive and far to get out there. But, uh, it was worth it now back to now back to prep it now back to pitcher. Power hour for the, for the audience record. When, uh, this trip was revealed to me, I honestly could not help, but remind my co-hosts that in a bad enough calamity, more people live on Hawaii than food is grown to support

[00:25:48] people. So get ready to fish, but it didn't, didn't happen. So you're good. Exactly. Exactly. And especially Oahu, which is the Island that has Honolulu and Pearl Harbor, which is right next to it. That might as well be like Miami or Los Angeles in terms of density and just, yeah, good luck on that Island. The others, especially Kauai, which is one I went to a lot less populated, you know?

[00:26:17] Uh, but yeah, the supplies are very limited. Only really one port, one airport. And, uh, you could, you could bug out and have some spots in the national forest deep on the Island. That'd be pretty cool. I'm sure a lot of others do too. By the way, Mark Zuckerberg is underground underwater base. Yeah. I drove within about a few miles of that obviously can't get into his property, but he has some,

[00:26:43] some of the best prime beach location as well as confirmed, uh, underground bunkers, and even potentially a submarine. Like talk about asks, uh, I swear, look this up, but yeah, Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, uh, as a, as a compound, you can't get the time you spent looking that up yourself back. And I'm gonna, I'm gonna reserve the time of learning about what the meta billionaire

[00:27:13] has. It's gotta be worth visiting at least. I mean, I wish I could have my own thousand acre or even one acre compound, but I'll take what I could get out here on the state side. Um, there's benefits for being here for sure. And wide open spaces and a lot more food is definitely something you don't have on Hawaii. So I'll give you that.

[00:27:36] All right, Ben news blitz for March 25th, 2025 off of the future danger heat map dashboard. I got 12 things to say to you 12 indicators and 12 headlines. Here we go. Powerful pedophiles exposed. Got an article that we need to get into about how the real quote, real Epstein files are coming. Keeping and bearing arms is infringed. Fringed.

[00:28:04] We got the ninth circuit upholding California ban on large capacity magazines. That's it for calm. One Liberty call to security. President first president of the United States since the assassination of JFK has now said that Leah Harvey Oswald was helped. It's under the indicator false flag exposed. I think when the president of the United States is talking about a false flag, it's exposed. Damn near.

[00:28:33] Also in column two, Chinese revolt or coup occurs. This is low level news, but we do have a headline. Senior Chinese general has been disappeared in the latest high level political purge in the PRC. That is dangerous. Calm three. Only one headline and one indicator. And it's in the catch all indicator. Economic news dreadfully disappoints. It's basically any bad news.

[00:29:01] It's economic that doesn't fit in a different indicator goes here. A topic I do think you're going to be interested in commenting on. Commercial real estate delinquency rates increase in the fourth quarter. And then over in column three, or I'm sorry, four nature and science. It's not really news, but it is a headline that goes to the indicator fluoride effects exposed.

[00:29:30] This one's actualized fluoride effects have been exposed. The article, however, is entitled. What's happened since a judge ruled water fluoridation is lowering IQ. And I really am curious to have a browse of that article with you because I'd like to know what has happened since that happened as well. There you go.

[00:29:53] We got six indicators activated, ranging the entire scale and grade of future danger from black on red grade one happening now down to grade five topical green. There's a headline, but it's not the same thing as the full indicator happening. Right. Where do you want to go with this? Let's just start with the fluoride.

[00:30:18] What's happened since the judge ruled water fluoridation is lowering IQ. We covered that previously. That was last September. EPA was directed that essentially the unreasonable risk of fluoride in drinking water is lowering IQ. The risk and reward is not balanced in any way, to say the least.

[00:30:45] And a lot of local and state governments are now banning fluoride in their water. By the way, Hawaii does not fluoridate their water. One of the only that does not except for on Pearl Harbor Hickam joint base that is fluoridated on the military base. Anyway, well, we have RFK. We have people just generally waking up to this. We have judges saying this.

[00:31:14] There's a lot of momentum showing like, hey, it's really dumb to fluoridate your water, to say the least. But there's been a response, right? For every action, there's equal opposite reaction. Stakeholders respond. EPA, agency spokesperson. Well, there's an 80-page ruling. And we certainly are going to go through that all right now.

[00:31:42] But they're really trying to come back and say, look, community water fluoridation is practical, is cost effective. Maybe it's not as good as we thought it was. And maybe there's some side effects. But you should continue to do it. Government still recommends that. ADA, America Dental Association, also came in.

[00:32:07] Noting that the CDC hails water fluoridation as a top public health achievement, reducing cavities by 25%. Yeah, but at the cost of what kind of health effects, especially brain, but other organs as well. So, look, there's the push and then there's the counter push. And the way I look at it, whether it's health, finance, liberty in general, it's going to ebb and flow.

[00:32:35] As long as we're making ground every wave. As long as we're pushing it forward, not getting pushed backwards. What are you seeing here? Do you think some ground has been made in the last few years? Are they going to strike back? What I see here is an article that if you step back and zoom out, forget the topic.

[00:32:59] There's a lot of articles like these right now from alternative media, non-mainstream, non-corporate, Democrat-controlled media. Opposing articles out there that are trying to prompt the administration to address some of these issues. So, these very obvious issues. Right? This isn't the only one. There's been ones about Russiagate, getting to the bottom of how that happened and who's responsible.

[00:33:28] J6, which I'll take a moment here to tease. We're going to have some very exclusive, never-before-seen video on episode 300 of Patriot Power Hour coming up in a few weeks. Some evidence of things that people have suggested are true. Well, we're going to show some video for that. So, fluoride, what will RFK turn its attention to first? Health and Human Services.

[00:33:57] Well, we've seen things about dyes in food and baby formula. This is just one of those advocacy articles that's trying to get these newly controlled health agencies to, you know, don't forget, you know, this is out there now. Nationally, though, if you lived in any part of the country where you grew up drinking fluoridated water, this isn't news you want to hear. This is devastating, if it's true.

[00:34:27] Certainly. Certainly. I'm glad most of my life was well water, a nice Rocky Mountain aquifer, but early in my life and then kind of my teenage years was not. So, those vary. Developmentally, I lost a couple IQ points, I'm sure. I always boil it down to this. Would you put sunscreen in the water? Oh, put sunscreen on your skin.

[00:34:55] And some people even say that is dangerous and could potentially some of types of sunscreen could be toxic. But, uh, topical use of fluoride on the teeth can be beneficial sometimes. But just put it into water supply. Just have everybody drink it. I mean, first off, internal. Are you supposed to take it internally? I'm pretty sure you're not. Whatever. Put, this is just one topic. Like you said, zooming out. I like how you put it that way.

[00:35:24] Like, this is just one of many. We want to fight each one, but we don't want to lose the, uh, force for the trees by any means. And we're, we're making some progress. I think real quick. Fire will forge says, follow the money. The dentist says it's good for your teeth. Question mark. Essentially. That's putting less customers in their chairs. What's going on with that? Hey, great point. Um, I've heard it even makes your teeth worse.

[00:35:54] The fluoridoses. I, I, yeah, but how much more money do they make repairing cavities? The big insurance bill payout is coming in to be seen. So as long as you're coming in to be seen, I'm not sure they make a whole lot more money with the repairs, but they get, you know, they'd rather not have to repair. They're grotesque cavities. Uh, it's medicine, you know, it's not, it's not completely purely capitalistic. It probably never was.

[00:36:23] And it's less so than it ever was right now. Sure. Now production note real quick. We were testing out some new settings in the first few minutes of the show were had some weird reverb or echo. Also, my microphone is not the best. It's had a little issues in the last few weeks.

[00:36:44] We're going to be upgrading and improving that, but I do really appreciate the 20 plus people listening live and the many others that'll be listening on the podcast. Just, just again, a shout out. Patriot power hour is live on PBN family.com. Become a member today, but whether it's on rumble, whether it's on X, whether it's on YouTube or wherever you get your podcast, just search prepper broadcast and network.

[00:37:14] All four of those ways you can join us. We'll be live every Tuesday, 7 PM Eastern. And I think, uh, I'm going to be ordering a new microphone right after this show, but I think this episode has been great. With that said, anything else you want to talk about on Florida or that article? Otherwise we can move on to the few others. We got to cover tonight. All right. Keep moving. All right.

[00:37:42] How about in order of the grade and video? We started with S H T F floor. And now we're down to severe grade, which would be false flag exposed. President says Lee Harvey Oswald was helped run us through this real quick feature. Dan, uh, the files tend, uh, tended to indicate that that there's a potential. There that that's true.

[00:38:12] And now Trump's agreeing with it. And it's a milestone. It's just a, it's just a major milestone. No president's ever, ever said that. Now, the reason we had an echo earlier in the show is because I was trying to share audio as well. Obviously I double shared it. My point is I'm going to try to play this Trump clip real quick. People may or may not be able to hear it.

[00:38:39] I think you and I will be able to hear it feature Dan, but maybe, or maybe not the listeners. I'm not sure. Let's go with it. Can't figure it out unless you try. Oh, this isn't a clip. I was hoping it was like a 20 second clip. It was about 1548. That is a long interview. Future day. Were you able to hear that at least? No, I was not. All right. Therefore, we can't unless I figure out a solution, which I'll look towards.

[00:39:09] We won't be able to share video or audio clips when we're both broadcasting the way we are right now. Otherwise, we'll get the echo if you speak. It's a double effect. That's all right. That's all right. No audio says Firewood Forge. No audio says JFerg. Appreciate it. I'm going to try to think about this. Maybe we can use OBS to remix something. I got some homework to do, but that's what a new season is all about. So this is our kind of adjustment period. Episode 298.

[00:39:37] We have episode 300 coming up. Future Dan, before we get into any other news, which we got a few others, you want to talk again, maybe hint again what's coming. Episode 300. Yeah, it's exposing a false flag on January 6th. There's video evidence and we're going to publish it first. First time ever posted anywhere. Video evidence. I don't know. There's been other videos of other people.

[00:40:05] Ray Epps, what he was doing in the crowd is, I'm not saying it's the only evidence, but the evidence that we're going to talk. This angle or this exact video. It's not like someone else's video that you repurposed. This is a video that's, as far as we're aware, has never been seen by anyone. I'm perfectly aware because I took it. On behalf of Pepper Broadcasting Network live, reporting live on January 6th, 2021 at the Capitol.

[00:40:36] So we will have audio on that clip, 150%. I'm going to be sure. That's two weeks from now. You got a deadline now. Yeah. For sure. So anyway, technical improvements to be made. Aside, featured Dan, how about you go ahead and pick an article. Go for it. We're doing color order, right? I believe so. If you want to continue that trend, let's do it then. Yeah.

[00:41:05] What's the Epstein files are coming article actually say that's new PJ media. These guys tend to spot things earlier than others along these lines. So it's talking about the JFK files, 80,000 pages, you know, somewhat whole home. Some inklings there that, you know, like Trump said, you know, Oswald was helped, but nothing, no smoking guns.

[00:41:31] But inside of the FBI, the battle with the part of the FBI, the New York field office that had, you know, the Epstein files. Now, it was only a couple of weeks ago that there are rumors swirling that the FBI was sent to the FBI's office to put down the FBI members that were preventing this from being released.

[00:41:54] I got to imagine there's so much leverage in those files that Trump's going to use this tactically. That would make sense why there's a delay. Or the bad guys deleted all the evidence. That's also possible.

[00:42:13] Well, I have no idea how realistic it is or is not for all that evidence to be bleached Hillary Clinton style. I would expect if anything would be illegally deleted, it would be evidence implicating well-known politicians, celebrities, et cetera, with Diddy or Epstein or any of that.

[00:42:40] So JFK files for that matter. But perhaps it's a lot harder to erase and destroy this evidence than you would think. I would hope so. I know the companies I've worked for in the past have very secure data management and data integrity and backups. So I would think the FBI would too, but maybe not.

[00:43:01] But, I mean, long story short, if there was something that they would illegally destroy and obfuscate, it would be this, I would think. So even if Bondi and friends are doing the best they can, it's certainly uphill battle. I hope they're really doing the best they can. You remember Benghazi? Yeah.

[00:43:21] Right after that happened, the way the Obama administration handled it was to immediately classify everything that was part of that. All the State Department communications, all the military communications.

[00:43:35] It immediately was just sucked up to a level of CIA classification that made all that information go into buildings with hardware where that electronic data, that's the only place it exists.

[00:43:53] So, you know, if it's essentially what, where the Epstein files went, which they probably did because there's been indications that at one point after Epstein was, you know, under scrutiny by the law, that certain prosecutors and certain members of the FBI were, you know, basically informed that Epstein's an intelligence asset. Right? That's going to involve the CIA. So who was he working for?

[00:44:23] Israel, Great Britain, another country, rogue elements of any of those deep states, maybe not officially in power, but certainly, you know, with connections and able to pull levers of power. And if that's true, think about the leverage that gives Trump against, well, two countries I just named. Certainly.

[00:44:53] All right. Ninth Circuit upholds California ban on large capacity magazines. They did. They did. And they made a stupid ruling where the magazine is considered an accoutrement, an accessory to a weapon rather than part of the actual weapon system. And therefore, you know, is unconstrained by Second Amendment limitations.

[00:45:18] And one Trump appointee judge went ahead and did a dissent in a YouTube video. First time ever a judge, a federal judge of that standing. And there he is. He's in his chamber. You know, we can't play the video because we do have this audio problem. But he's taking apart his pistol and explaining how, no, the magazine is part of the weapon.

[00:45:42] He was reprimanded by the chief judge of the Ninth Circuit because they don't usually do that. They don't usually, you know, basically showboat like that in open, you know, against their peers. But right. You know, that Judge Burzon, you know, you know, that's her paragraph that you were just highlighting. She's the chief. But this judge, he didn't care. He pulled his pistol out and made a video.

[00:46:14] And therefore, that was his dissent. That'll reach people. Well, you know what? Don't live in a state like that. It's horrible. But there's a reason that they have. What do they call it? Let's just say fire breaks or or bulkheads with the Navy theme between each state.

[00:46:41] So if a state gets ass backwards like California, hopefully it'll be righted. I hope this is fixed there. I care about California being a strong American state. Beautiful area. Some good people there. But yeah, I'm not living in California. And Hawaii also has a lot of, let's just say, issues where it's a beautiful place. Not for me to live. I'll visit occasionally. Yeah. Keep that in mind.

[00:47:11] Of course, I know a lot of practice. Just practice switching mags. Like be fast with your weapon and switch mags. Ah, yeah. You can't start around with a hundred round drum. What is the definition of that? That's the whole point. There is no definition of high capacity. That's the point the judge made, too. But it was really the particular legal reasoning they used.

[00:47:37] That the magazine is like a gun sight that's aftermarket attached. Or a pistol grip. Or a sling. Right? That the magazine is just another accoutrement. Obviously. It's absurd. Yeah, I guess you could load a weapon one round at a time. And I guess it probably wouldn't be terribly easy on some weapons. But it's theoretically possible. So this is just an absurd ruling. It affects California.

[00:48:08] I don't know if the Supreme Court's going to have time to take up anything like this. Because the boatload of lawsuits that are headed to Supreme Court about executive power. Which I think we talked about in our last episode together. Yep. There's going to be a lot of talk on Patriot Power Hour about Supreme Court. Not just rulings. Just rulings. Because these rulings could take months. But the hearings. Like, honestly, I'm prepared to take a day to do nothing else.

[00:48:35] But listen, it's probably going to be on C-SPAN or some. You know, all the cable news will probably cover it live audio only inside Supreme Court when some of those cases get there. But this is an infringement on the right to bear arms. And we're not surprised by it. But it's there. It rates on the heat map dashboard. Not surprised at all. People take time off.

[00:49:01] I don't for, like, the Olympics or for sporting events or all this other stuff. But taking a day or two off for some of these landmarks, even in Congress, I don't know. I feel like C-SPAN is going to be a point of view. And I'm looking forward to it in a roundabout way. Historical things are going to be happening this year. Yeah. And many of them could be very good. Many of them could make all of our lives for a long time a lot safer.

[00:49:32] Let's make it happen. Let's hope for the best. Prep for the worst. Jay Ferg says, well, don't worry. Hillary no longer has her clearance. Gosh. Took a while. Wish it happened in the first administration. But the first time around with Trump. Firewolf Ford says, can you imagine running a P90 one round at a time? It'd be hard. Yeah. It wouldn't be too effective, would you? I don't think so. Not at all.

[00:49:59] I'm not going to go back to the article, but one of the sentences from those that were voting to ban these high capacity mags was like, these high capacity mags do not influence your ability to defend yourself. And I'm like, okay. Yeah. Right.

[00:50:16] As I know, there's a few veterans on this network and pretty sure anybody with common sense, let alone someone with military experience would say actually having a magazine makes quite the difference on the battlefield. All right. I don't think you need to consult with anybody. That's evident on its face.

[00:50:45] Well, honestly, I try not to get pulled into those type of arguments because it's a waste of time and they want you to spin your wheels on stuff like that. Anyway, fight the straw man a little bit. So, yes, at some point you got to be like, that's clear. That, you know, is decided. I'm moving on. I'm not going to waste my time spinning wheels on something like that. Second Amendment's essentially become that to me.

[00:51:12] I just defend it at all costs without even thinking about it at this point. Yeah. It's not like you can be expanded to the point where it's reasonable to, you know, discuss the dangers of over expanding the Second Amendment. That's not the problem we have. Correct. And one of the most annoying ones is militia and the definition thereof of a standing, you know. Anyway. Oh, no, no, no.

[00:51:41] That was killed. We already got a ruling. That was Heller. Heller destroyed that legal argument. Yes. We'll talk about idiots all around the world who don't care about what the legal arguments are. They just want to say those things. But they don't matter in jurisdiction. Exactly. You got to learn just not to talk to them after a while. Hey, let's see what's going on in the Chinese military. All right. There we go. All right. So I'll summarize this one for you. I actually had Grok do it for me.

[00:52:11] Senior Chinese military leader and vice chair of the Central Military Commission has disappeared from public view. U.S. intelligence suggests he's the target of a purge by Xi Jinping. Xi chairs the CMC. He's conducted at least 43 purges of PLA officers over the past decade. And it's always couched in terms of an anti-corruption campaign. But is it? Is it, you know.

[00:52:41] You know, enforce ideological purity in some idea? No. It's, this is a bloody dictatorship and it's just hanging on to power. Which is why it rates on the future danger heat map. There's no other military in the world that has its own indicator that if it's military, stages a coup or a mutiny would be directly dangerous to the United States of America. It's arguable if that would be true. It's arguable if that would be true with Russia.

[00:53:07] But given Russia's performance against Western weapons and Western ISR and the strength of NATO, I think a coup could happen in Russia and it would not necessarily directly threaten us. And there's evidence of that because that's basically what happened in 1991 when the Soviet Union fell apart. But China, China's military taking a shot at the Chinese, you know, civilian leadership.

[00:53:34] That could get very wild and very, very destabilizing. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, we got another very high ranking Chinese general disappeared. Can China, can Xi do this on occasion and just occasionally get rid of any power threat within his military and maintain status quo? Yes, he can. And that's why this is a grade one topical news.

[00:54:03] This doesn't say that, you know, the top ranks of the Chinese army actually revolted against the president. We're not there yet, but they're not 100% loyal, are they? Nope. And it's heating up, to say the least. This comes and goes. This happens and then you don't hear in India. Yeah. Go to the archive. When was the last time? July of 24. That was about Xi possibly having a stroke.

[00:54:33] So you see how these events could compound. Dismissed as a defense minister in 23. Yeah. So these are averaging like one headline a year. A little bit of data we're going to keep. By the way, if you're watching on video right now, this is a full archive. All true sources. Some of the links have been broken, not on our end, but on their end.

[00:55:01] But all different types of sources going back to 2017 forward. Again, low level. But a lot of these don't pan out or at least publicly. We don't know. Like the strokey President Xi, as far as we're aware, did not have a deadly brain aneurysm officially. But, I mean, a couple pieces of evidence say that might have occurred.

[00:55:27] Anything going on with Xi, his health, his whereabouts, him disappearing from public for long periods of time. That is potentially pointing to you got to think of any background. How are they going to transfer power? Xi reorganized China and the communist Chinese terms for their supreme ruler. He's there longer than anybody since Mao.

[00:55:55] And if you're a student of history, the Mao regime was incredibly bloody. And, you know, he effectively had to die to lose power. Right. He was like Stalin. So we watch these things. We watch these things. Economics. Want to wrap up with maybe I'll fall asleep listening to you talk about commercial. Just kidding. Just kidding.

[00:56:18] Because this leads to how many banks have derivatives built into commercial real estate that could be the first domino in an entire banking sector collapse. That's why this is important. Now for the mechanics. Tell us what's going on, Ben. All right. Won't get too wonky. But you remember 18 months ago, the Fed started to raise interest rates.

[00:56:45] And on this show, we said, all right, it's going to take 6, 12, maybe 18 months for it to really start to negatively affect the system. Because as you know, if you've gotten a 30-year mortgage on a home or a 5, 7, 10-year mortgage, whatever, on an auto or something else, you know, these are long loans.

[00:57:06] So, look, a year, year and a half later, some of these loans are coming due or rolling over or being refinanced. And instead of being at 3%, 4%, they're going to be at 7%, 8%, 9%. Now, that's bad enough news, but you add in COVID lockdown that screwed everything up all across the board.

[00:57:33] But then, in particular, the work from home, shop from home, live from home trend accelerated. That was certainly occurring prior to COVID, but it fast-forwarded like a decade. So, malls and office buildings and all types of commercial real estate is vacant. So, interest rates going up.

[00:58:00] But the cost of it, almost everything's gone up as well. So, the cost of money, the interest rate has gone up. The cost of security and maintenance and materials for your buildings. I mean, we're talking about 80-story skyscrapers. You know, they're not cheap to maintain. They're not free to have, not to mention the property tax on them. So, if they're sitting 50% vacant, 80% vacant, that's not going to work in the long term.

[00:58:29] So, we've seen some of these buildings that were sold for $100 million like a decade ago be sold for like $8, $12, $15 million. Like 80%, 90%, 95% write-offs. But that just started. And, again, the rollover of that debt has only begun. And now it's at that higher interest rate. So, now the pinch really is starting to begin.

[00:58:57] And that all boils down to this article, real estate delinquency rates. Now people, well, residential, of course, is people's mortgages. But commercial real estate is businesses. So, businesses, not people. Businesses are not paying their rent. And that's a problem because businesses usually don't miss their rent payment.

[00:59:22] They're a little less volatile than the average, especially like a subprime residential person might miss their mortgage or rent, etc. But most businesses, they got it together. They got an accountant that'll make sure they don't miss their rent. It's not an accident that they're going up. And their investors, the market will punish them.

[00:59:47] And what's the, if they would cut every corner before they would not make their rent payment. So, if they're missing that, you know, everything else has been cut to the bone. And it's essentially end of the line. Like, it's pretty hard to go from missing your rent payment to bouncing back and being a thriving business. I'm sure it could occur. But, you know, we're not seeing it on the wider economy.

[01:00:11] And just this year, in 2025, like a trillion dollars of this debt is being rolled over. So, even going from 3% to 6% interest rates is just like billions and billions of dollars of losses on all these pension funds, insurance companies, and banks. So, you might be like, I don't got any money in the stock market. I don't own any of this crap, whatever. Well, if you've got a pension, your pension does. Maybe you don't have a pension.

[01:00:41] Maybe you don't really are a prepper, homesteader. That's awesome. Congrats. But almost all insurance, pensions, government funds, all that type of stuff, heavily, heavily exposed to this. Yeah. Not good. Not good. So, Trump wants them to lower the interest rates. That'll help a little bit, right? That's, of course, kicking the can down the road a little bit and helping the banksters out.

[01:01:09] But in the short term, maybe they got to do that. I'm not a fan of lowering interest rates again, but Trump's trying to freaking help a dying patient. At least give the dying patient some medicine while we're hacking away to try to reorganize all the corruption and misspending government and otherwise. But, yeah, I don't know. This has been building for decades and decades.

[01:01:34] So, even if Trump does everything perfectly, he's sort of a little bit at the whim of the global market that's been pent up bubble for 20, 30, 40 years. You know what we advertised a few episodes ago that we were going to talk about, but then we didn't get around to talking about? I think we should talk about the strategic Bitcoin reserve for a moment. We're negligent in that regard. Yep.

[01:02:03] What have you heard going on lately? As a big-time fan of Bitcoin, it's staring me right in the face, and sometimes that's what you miss. So, hey, if you're looking at the price action, Bitcoin below $100,000. So, that is showing that the market does not believe the U.S. is going to gobble up 5% or 10% of the Bitcoin in the world in the next couple of years.

[01:02:30] Because if people really believe that, Bitcoin would be like a quarter of a million right now. However, Bitcoin was only like $50,000 around the election, and it bounced above $100,000, and now it's at $87,000. Not bad. I'll say this. People are pretty confident the Trump administration is not going to try to outlaw Bitcoin or raise taxes on Bitcoin or be aggressive against it.

[01:02:57] But I'm not seeing that people are believing that the government's actually going to buy any. By the way, the Bitcoin market is so small in terms of dollars. Like, it's one-tenth the size of gold in terms of the worldwide market cap. So, if the U.S. government did even try to secretly buy Bitcoin a little bit each month, the price would go up.

[01:03:23] It would not stay below $100,000 for long, if at all. So, maybe there is a strategic Bitcoin reserve being accumulated, new Bitcoin being purchased. Another huge thing. There isn't. There isn't yet. That's not happening. As far as we can tell, there isn't, number one. And number two, what we've really only been – that's really been committed, I think, is that the Bitcoin the U.S. already has won't be sold.

[01:03:50] Ben, there'd be a lawsuit the minute Trump did it. Like, it's not happening. It's not secretly happening. He doesn't have full control of the Treasury yet. Could happen. Unlikely black – you know, the black funds for the Pentagon are being diverted to buy Bitcoin. I highly doubt that. Now, look into something called MicroStrategy.

[01:04:13] MicroStrategy, it's in the D.C. region, and it's – really, MicroStrategy by Michael Saylor is buying up tons and tons of Bitcoin, a tech company that works somewhat with the government. It's pretty much now just become a Bitcoin holding company. Some think it'll be the first Bitcoin bank.

[01:04:35] But some also think that Michael Saylor might be working on the behalf of state interests. At least – maybe the U.S. government doesn't own the Strategic Reserve, but at least someone friendly to the United States is able to hold it and make sure China and Russia don't buy it. I don't know if that's true or not. Some say Saylor's a spook. Some say he just wants to get rich.

[01:05:00] On March 6th, the president signed an executive order establishing the Bitcoin Reserve using forfeited Bitcoin as a national asset. The next day, he hosted a White House crypto summit to discuss the Reserve, focusing on Bitcoin while creating a separate stockpile of other digital assets.

[01:05:20] Four days later, on March 11th, we had a senator reinduce the Bitcoin Act, proposing the purchase of 1 million Bitcoins over five years to expand the U.S. Reserve. On March 24th, while we were on break, a member of Congress, a representative, suggested selling U.S. gold holdings as a budget-neutral way to acquire more Bitcoin for the Reserve.

[01:05:42] Bitcoin prices fell over 5%, however, after venture capitalist David Sachs clarified no taxpayer funds would be used to buy Bitcoin, which is an odd way for Grok to summarize the news recently because venture capitalist David Sachs isn't in the government. It will take an act of Congress to move the needle.

[01:06:31] Before the midterms, before November 2026, an act was passed, authorized in Treasury to buy 1 million Bitcoin over the next five years. Where do you see the price then? A lot of folks are targeting a quarter million, 250K, if not only that passes, but the Bitcoin's actually purchased.

[01:06:52] Because there's only, well, if you take into account Bitcoin that's lost forever and has not been mined yet, a small portion, there's only about 20 million Bitcoin out there. And there's not very much for sale. After a few billion dollars, which is pocket change to the government, you would see all the exchanges cleared out. There'd be no Bitcoin for sale.

[01:07:17] Now, people might go into their vaults, for lack of a better term, and put some new Bitcoin on the market, and the government would be able to buy it at 130K and then 150. Anyway, there is supply and demand, but there's very restricted supply. Bitcoin cannot be created out of anything.

[01:07:38] And at current rates of mining, you know, blocks of the blockchain mined per day, 450 are being produced a day right now. And that's only going to get less and less until eventually, you know, what year is it that it all gets mined? You got Grok, I'm sure. But I would say, I believe it's in the 2100s. So at least 100 years from now, like more than. What's that?

[01:08:07] After our lifetime. 2042, Grok says. 2042, not 2140. 2140, I'm sorry. 2140. Okay. I knew it was at least in 2100. More than 100 years from now. So. So you're saying a three-time, 3X, if the U.S. government found a way to be authorized to buy just a million. Just a million. Because that's 5% of all Bitcoin that will ever exist.

[01:08:33] If they bought 5% of the gold that ever existed in five years, 1% per year, gold would go from the current record of 3,000, it would go to 10K plus. By the way, don't want to belabor the point, but gold is above 3,000 silver at 3422, rounded up to 23. Silver's not at its all-time high, but gold is, or slightly, slightly off.

[01:09:00] So I'm a huge proponent of physical gold and physical silver and physical preps, of course, as well. But what number did you have per ounce on gold? 3,025. Yeah, Grox is 3022. Yep. All-time high, pretty much. Right near it. But it's not soaring right now. It's not on an upward trajectory, so we didn't have it as a headline tonight. But not a good sign in the aggregate.

[01:09:27] When gold price goes like this, it feels to me like other things under the service are fragile. And in the last five years, from May 2020, just around COVID time, gold was 1,600. Now it's above 3,000. So essentially doubled. And the way I look at gold and silver is gold and silver don't go up in price. They're the most static asset.

[01:09:56] It's everything else around them. So the way I look at that is inflation is 100%. It's doubled in the last five years. So gold hasn't doubled. The value of the dollar has been cut in half since COVID. I think a lot of people would agree with that. That's a pretty good estimate. Not half, but. A lot. At least 20%. Yeah, it depends what thing. But, you know.

[01:10:25] So in the comments, Firewolf Forge. Having covered the topic of Jeffrey Epstein tonight, I first read his comment. He got a very bizarre reaction because there's a bit of a typo. He said, tell my wife that running a minor. Unfortunately, he spelled it M-I-N-O-R as in. Juvenile will help heat the house in the winter. I'm like, what the F? But then I realized he's talking about Bitcoin with me.

[01:10:53] And yeah, I've run a minor. Ben and I have invested and run minors together. They will heat a space. That's like, that's not kidding. Yeah. Like my garage was like in, you know, freezing below, well below freezing temperatures outside. And it was like 55, 60 in the, in the garage. So absolutely true. If you're on a cold climate, like it is free heat. He's claiming autocorrect. Autocorrect.

[01:11:24] I believe it. I believe you do that on a phone. I never use voice to text. I don't know if he did as well. Love you, Firewolf Forge. But I know that's the worst is the, if you try to do voice to text, that stuff happens a lot. I got the, I got the autocorrect off on every device just because of that. For real, for real. So anyway, Bitcoin strategic reserve, you're right. We, I'm probably biased against covering it just because I'm so close to Bitcoin. I missed it. We have hardly talked about it.

[01:11:54] I think we covered it decently here. I'm not with Bitcoin, especially, but a lot of things I don't get too high or too low. So when Bitcoin was crashing, I believe it's coming back when it's going up and up and up. I'm happy, but I'm also not thinking all of a sudden Trump's just going to buy all the Bitcoin and I'm going to be a billionaire. Like that's obviously not going to work that way. It's not all up to Trump. Takes Congress. Takes a lot more than that.

[01:12:20] So I feel like there's optimism that Trump and the U.S. government will not be attacking Bitcoin. And that's, in my opinion, just as good as them supporting it. So we want them to support it potentially. But I've also said, as a Bitcoin aficionado, I don't even need the government to support it. Just get out of the way and don't try to ban it and attack us. Whatever. And if they do that, I'm happy.

[01:12:49] Are you still sore about that mid-January launch of the Trump meme coin? Is that still on the negative side of the ledger for you for Trump's performance? Why does that bother you so much? It's just a stupid souvenir. If you parse the words of the Bitcoin reserve, it was actually like a crypto reserve. And they do distinguish a little bit between Bitcoin versus other cryptos.

[01:13:18] But in my opinion, 99.8% of the other cryptos besides Bitcoin are scams. That's what I believe. And, of course, Trump coming up with his own coin as a souvenir, kind of a joke. Okay. But I think that's just... Would George Washington have done that? I just don't think so.

[01:13:40] It's a little below the commander-in-chief to issue one of these scam coins that, by the way, went up, up, up in price for like two days and then lost like 80%, 90%. So it's a pump and dump. Honestly, if I produced that myself, the SEC would come after me for insider trading, rug polling, illegal trading of security, all this other crap. I don't think any of that's valid. So you can't win your argument there with me. I don't think that's... It's a free market. It should be anyways.

[01:14:10] Now, well, the SEC would like to beg otherwise. Which SEC? Exactly. The one you used to have or the one you have now? I still think that the current one would come after me if I came up with an unregistered security and rug-pulled people. But it's more of the principle of it. And would Trump coin or Melania coin be part of his crypto thing that's somewhat different but not exactly within the Bitcoin reserve?

[01:14:39] No, that would be... Exploring those lines is horrible. That would be a conflict of interest that no one could tolerate. But I'm reading... I consider any of those cryptos equivalent to that. So for him to even acknowledge anything besides Bitcoin is bad taste in my mouth. For him to actually interact with anything besides Bitcoin is... You know, I'm a Bitcoin maximalist though. So maybe I'm a little extreme. I think you are on this one. This was just a souvenir. Yeah. Firewall Fords calls them shit coins. And that is what they are.

[01:15:10] Bitcoin is crypto. Crypto is not Bitcoin is what Firewall Fords says as well. Yes! I love it! Now, okay. It was just a bad way to start the presidency. He's redeemed himself. I don't think he even knew. I think it was barren. I don't think he even cared. That's almost bad too. But I guess in the celebration of everything, you know, bygones be bygones. Fire beware. Fire beware. It's still less than $12 a token if you want to pick some up tonight.

[01:15:40] I'll save for my next beautiful Hawaiian vacation. I may have to troll you for a while there because this doesn't rate. This does not get me antagonized in the least. Like, if you want to buy a souvenir coin and say you owned dollar sign Trump. There's other ways people blow their... Who got rich off of it though? If it was truly free market with no insider trading, then I could be more with you.

[01:16:06] But I got a feeling some people, barrens friends or someone who overheard something, something or other, like someone knew this thing was coming, positioned themselves to immediately buy it, and then decided to sell at the top, turned around multiple millions of dollars in just a day or two. If they did that of their own volition, then I can't blame anybody. But, I mean, just the insider info is just horrible for the president to be involved with.

[01:16:35] Everybody who bought it is perfectly aware that that could happen and they did so freely. It's free association. It's freedom of choice. No. Buyer beware. Lassai fair. What happened to Lassai fair? It's not perfect. The wrong side of freedom of economics on this one. I do. By the way, I didn't buy any because I thought it was a scam coin, but... Exactly. Souvenir!

[01:17:03] In the end, it is your own fault if you buy it. So I'll give you that for sure. Episode 298 on March 25th, 2025, Pitch Your Power Hour. I think we ran the gamut on... You know what? I see a trend happening. Our shows are getting longer now that we got video. So... Yeah. For sure. And with chat. By the way, we got 37 live viewers across YouTube, Rumble, and X, which is an all-time record for Patriot Power Hour.

[01:17:32] We've only done a few of these live streams, but we're getting into the flow. We're going to be live every Tuesday night, 7 p.m. Eastern. So those who just joined us, hopefully you've enjoyed the show so far. Go back, listen to the archive. If you missed the start of the show, we'll make sure that's all squared away. But future Dan, you're right. This has expanded not only what we can look at, but talk about and just kind of explore with the viewers and with both of us being able to see the same screen. So I'm loving it.

[01:18:00] We ain't going back to podcast only. I know that. Thank you, Jay Fergie and Fire Wolf Forge for jumping into the chat. We've been waiting a long time to get that mastered, so I appreciate it. Anybody else out there, join us in the comments or drop us a line. I'm at future Dan. Bankster Breaker on X.

[01:18:29] Bankster Breaker. If you look at the description of this video or podcast, you'll also find that info. I was trying to play the music to roll out, but unfortunately it sounded static when you were trying to talk with the music overlay. That's another thing to add to the list. Jay Ferg also says we could upload some videos ahead of time. So anyway. She gave you the secret. That is part of it. We can't free form as much. We'd have to plan ahead, future Dan. Oh my gosh. Anyway. Awesome.

[01:18:59] Folks, we're going to be live next Tuesday night, April 1st. No fools here. Tuesday, all spring. All spring, really. Hopefully all year. Tuesdays is the new night and we always reserve the right to go live if and when there are major breaking developments. So just keep an eye out on your notifications on however you follow Prepper Broadcasting Network. Otherwise, we'll see you next Tuesday. All right. Glad being back into the swing of things.

[01:19:29] We'll catch you next week.