Patriot Power Hour #306

[00:00:26] You are now listening to the Patriot Power Hour, the newest show of The Prepper Broadcasting Network. This live episode features the situational awareness you need to practice self-reliance and independence. Introducing your hosts, Ben, the Breaker of Banksters, and Future Dan, the editor of FutureDanger.com.

[00:00:50] Patriot Power Hour, we are live May 20th, 2025, 7.06 p.m. Eastern. This is the 306th episode of Patriot Power Hour on Ben, the Breaker of Banksters, here with Future Dan. What's going on, Future Dan? Oh, we got him still muted. Try to fix this. Hey, Ben, how's it going tonight? There you are.

[00:01:18] We had a little small, like, I think, stream yards slightly glitched, but we're good. Going all right. We got a lot of news to cover, a couple very serious items, and, of course, we talked a little rationer ruin, and I don't know. I got a lot going on. How about you? Yeah. Well, what do you want to talk about first? Let's get rationer ruin out of the way. What do you say? All right. How you doing on rationer ruin?

[00:01:47] Well, I'm doing a lot better. Yesterday, I had MREs. This is the third week, MRE week. XMRE, to be precise. I actually went about 70 hours without a single calorie, starting Friday about 9 p.m. all the way until Monday, yesterday, at about 6 or 7 p.m. So, I was really dragging by the end of that, but not too bad.

[00:02:16] But, long story short, at night, broke my fast, ate a couple of MREs, and honestly, today, I felt pretty darn good. So, we'll save the full review, my full review, at least of the XMREs, for our Friday recap with the Treptive Commander and NBC guy. But, yeah. Long, long fast this weekend. I was hurting a bit, but pushed that comfort zone just a little bit, and XMREs got me back on my feet, for what it's worth.

[00:02:46] Yeah. What do you think of them as a meal? A lot of variety. That's great for the morale. It's not just, hey, here's 1,400 calories of cheesy broccoli soup, which is really just powder that you mix water with. It is some, of course, some of it is, you know, not, it's not a gourmet meal. Let's just say that.

[00:03:14] But, part of it, you warm up, but part of it, you can grab and go, whether it's a trail mix. There was a trail mix in one of them. There were many chocolate chip cookies, which were awesome, by the way. So, there's like desserts to it. It's almost like half of it's junk food, almost. That's great when you're like in a tough situation, for your morale at least. I had the same cookies last night. They were outstanding. I read the package and it said cookies.

[00:03:43] I'm like, we're in week three of rationeration, and I need these cookies now. Man, they were super good. I will say the spaghetti with red sauce was not as good as the Mountain House equivalent beef lasagna, which are all just equivalents of Chef Boyardee in pouches rather than cans. And that can last, you know, between five to 25 years.

[00:04:12] These XMREs are only rated for about five years. You can freeze them, though. So, I wonder if you froze them, if they could go a little longer. But they don't seem to be that 25 year. So, we'll go through all the different attributes and compare it with all the others as well. But the longevity is not quite as far as it seems as ready hour in Mountain House. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:04:40] Well, they're not military. They're like a civilian version. So, they're a little bit different, but it's the same format that I was very used to eating. And yeah, we'll get into all the details of the product review itself on Friday. But just the overall trajectory. What kind of trajectory do you feel like with this reduced calorie?

[00:05:06] Is it, are you rationing successfully or do you feel as though you're headed to ruin? I feel like I'm rationing pretty successfully. This past weekend, it was between about hour 48 and hour 60 that I was hurting pretty bad.

[00:05:27] But when I woke up Monday morning, yesterday morning, well, when I first woke up, I felt like I had just drank a whole bunch the night before, almost hung over. But I realized I was significantly dehydrated, even though I've been trying to drink a lot of water and electrolytes. And if you're not eating food for two, three straight days, you get a lot of water from food. So, anyway, I was able to bounce back. Didn't feel too bad. Then finally starting to crash.

[00:05:57] Came back pretty strong. I feel the week after week cumulative effect a little bit. So, I could feel like there's the ups and downs, but the overall trajectory slightly downwards in terms of just, well, my weight, number one. But even kind of mood or energy levels. But, again, today I felt great. So, this is day 15 or 16 or something like that.

[00:06:29] And, yeah, I'm losing some weight. Hopefully, hopefully keep that up. Doing okay overall, I say. What about you? Future Dan, are you still there? We did have some technical issues to start the night off. A true, a true, I am. Can you hear me? Yes, I'm here. Can you hear me?

[00:06:59] You're back now. It was kind of rubber banding. You know, kind of like a Wi-Fi type thing. But you're back now. Maybe repeat what you said. Yeah. Are you pushing your comfort zone or are you actually on a negative trajectory? That's actually a reason I went hardcore and didn't even have one calorie over the weekend. I wanted to push my comfort zone even more.

[00:07:27] So, I'm pushing it. I am. I've also been exercising some. I went on a decent hike. Burned 500, 600 calories yesterday before I broke my fast. So, I went on a, you know, almost 70-hour fast. And at the very end of it, I went about two and a half miles up and down, 600 foot down, 600 foot up elevation. And I felt pretty good there.

[00:07:56] I was dogging it a little bit, but not too bad. Not, you know. So, I'm trying to push that comfort zone without being dangerous. Or I also have to work. Like, I have to be able to function somewhat at work mentally. I had a very stressful day at work today, but I performed quite well. But I also, you know, I couldn't go absolutely zero calories four days a week this entire time.

[00:08:20] As we've talked about, I have been supplementing 500, 600 calories on off days of a little bit of protein and fat. Not this past weekend, though. So, I did push it a little harder. What about yourself? You still there? I want to hear your side of things. Not much to report. I am. Can you hear me? Yep. You're back.

[00:08:48] We may have technical difficulties beyond our control. Yeah, it's worth struggling through. I know we're on a secondary microphone set up for you, but also there's some sort of delay as well. But anyway, it's coming through well enough. It hasn't been that bad. You said not much to report. Anything you plan to push it further? Are you planning on going a couple straight days with no supplementation at the very end or anything else like that?

[00:09:15] And also, have you been foraging and fishing at all? Any other supplemental activities? Yeah, yeah. We've been fishing, having kind of anything. I'm definitely not going to stop with protein shake supplements, but they're holding steady. I'm not taking more of them than I did at the beginning. You know, four to five, and they're less than 200 calories each on a daily basis.

[00:09:45] But I can say that after eating the first MREs yesterday, I was really full, really fast, and really sluggish. And I could just feel my body absorbing and dealing with more food than it had become accustomed to in the previous two weeks.

[00:10:12] But it's all manageable. Oh, manageable for sure and good. Even if it was a little uncomfortable and is a little uncomfortable, that's good. As we talked about a lot last week, you want to push that comfort zone. And even if you've done something like this in the past, folks, like, was it five years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago? When I was 14, I was part of a program called Outward Bound.

[00:10:38] And we went out into the middle of the forest in Colorado, climbed a few 14,000-foot peaks, lived off camp and food. And I lost about 15 pounds as a 14-year-old because we were busting our hump. Awesome. Well, within, you know, years of not doing that sort of activity, you lose almost all the skill set, all the constitution, all that. So that's part of the reason we're doing the exercise.

[00:11:07] I feel like I'm learning lessons and also relearning lessons. And, you know, it's good to just have to power through some things and just toughen up. And, you know, it's good for your perspective, too. Stallman 3 of Rational Ruin this Friday with... Yep. Can you hear me? Go ahead. It's almost like when you start, it takes a while for it to recognize your voice.

[00:11:35] But eventually it comes through. But it's about a five-second delay. Go ahead, though. Finish up, and then let's do the news blitz. What do you say? Yeah, let's do that. And by the way, it's working the same direction for me. So all of the questions I asked you earlier was followed by a three- to five-second pause, making me think that I was stumping you with the questions.

[00:12:01] But, yeah, we'll cover the full week with the four of us this Friday, Rational Ruin, Friday 6 p.m. or thereabouts and get into the details. But I'm down 14 pounds, basically a pound a day. And I would say that the rationing is successful on my end, Ben. Perfect. I love it.

[00:12:28] Same thing here where I would ask you a question and I was like, oh, maybe he is stumped or maybe he didn't hear me. So how about this? When we pass it off to each other, we'll just wait a few seconds. We'll pretend you're on Mars or something, right? There's like an eight-second delay, light speed. You know, we'll just practice on that and pretend that. I'm going for the news blitz. Yes, without further ado, let's have at it. Firewall 4 says he thought it was his crappy connection. I don't know if this is me.

[00:12:57] I don't know if this is future Dan. I don't know if this is StreamYards. It's worth powering through, though. We might truncate the show a little bit, but, you know, whatever. Let's keep rolling. Time for the news blitz, liberty indicators, Colorado governor signs law criminalizing the dead naming and misgendering of people in public.

[00:13:24] So this has been signed into law criminalizing it akin to a hate crime. I don't know if it has the same felony implications. I don't even want to go research it further, but there you go. You can go look at it further if you want to feature danger.com. That's it, though. The Liberty column. Security. 8-6-4-7.

[00:13:52] 47 meaning Trump. 47 President. 86 being, well, I'll ask future Dan about this later. Some sort of law enforcement, maybe even military, for get rid of or exterminate, cease operations. This is a threat. It's a threat of assassination, termination of 47. Comey put that on his Twitter or his ex.

[00:14:22] And guess what? But the FBI director was actually called in, escorted by Secret Service for an interview about the 8647 post. That's occurred since our last show on Patriot Power Hour. There's a claim that Israel's prepping possible strike on Iranian nuke sites. Heard that for the last 20 years, but every day doesn't happen. Does that mean it's more likely to happen the next day?

[00:14:51] Sure is not being resolved, it seems. Russian-born scientists detained for smuggling invasive voracious frog species. DHS reportedly requests 20,000 National Guard troops for interior immigration enforcement. So not at the border, but otherwise, National Guard. F-15s deploy to protect Diego Garcia.

[00:15:20] Yeah, the F-15 is still out there. Kicking ass, it's been refurbished to say the least. Very lethal still. Economically, Moody's downgrades. The federal government credit rating. First U.S. downgrade since 1917 by Moody's. But S&P downgraded back in 2011. That actually spurred me to start my website, dethronethebanksters.com.

[00:15:46] Let's go look real quick at some of the financial numbers lately. Gold, for example. Up slightly in the past week, $3,300. Silver, $3,332. But Bitcoin's been crushing it. $107,000 today. Nearing that all-time high. Jeez, Bitcoin is up quite a lot just in the last month or two.

[00:16:14] See if we can break through to $108,000 plus. And that's economically... Well, I'll say this. We've also seen interest rates starting to creep back up. We'll keep a close eye on the yields. Fourth column, natural indicators. Asteroid to fly past Earth at 0.3 lunar distances.

[00:16:44] Satellite images show wall of dust swallowing Chicago. Data shows that COVID vaccine had no impact on reducing deaths. And HHS will stop recommending COVID vax, which has a lot of legal and liability implications. Too little too late. But hey, better late than never for another metaphor.

[00:17:15] Whatever. At least 23 dead as storms batter states from the heartland to the east coast. Coming to a brain near you, a tiny computer. Claim DHS is weaponizing aerosolized Ebola in a clandestine lab.

[00:17:40] And just five months into the year, a 400% annual jump, which is a 5X. Five times jump in U.S. measles cases this year. Just five months into the year. Future Dan, pretty busy. News Blitz, where do you want to start? I'll let you have the floor a little bit since we're having a little bit of transitioning problems. Cover for a few of these articles. Or where do you want to go?

[00:18:27] Yeah, well, I want your perspective. What do you think? You're still there? We heard of like five words and then it kind of cut out. Future Dan, future Dan.

[00:18:59] We might have him try to reconnect. Looks like he's going to try to reconnect. It's almost like his connection degraded because early on it was doing well. Let me read some comments in the meanwhile. Firewall Forge. Well, first off, Jay Ferg. What's up, Jay Ferg? Hey, Jay Ferg. In our XMREs, they had... I knew you're going to throw up when I say this, but not only did they have total GMO, sugar, nasty, although it tasted good.

[00:19:29] Chocolate pudding. It had 250 milligrams of caffeine. So it's just pure soy, sugar, GMO pudding with 250 milligrams of caffeine. Hit the spot. Hit the spot. Then Firewall Forge. Still driving home. Thought it was a crappy connection. Yeah, I know. It's too bad. I think I just got a message from future Dan. He says, not working. Recommend you finish. I'm listening.

[00:19:58] I'm down for that. Let's do it. Let's crank right through this. Firewall Forges. Woo for Bitcoin. Yeah, aerosolized Ebola. Rainbow Six. For sure. I read Rainbow Six when I was probably like 14 or 15. I loved reading Tom Clancy. Like freshman, sophomore year of high school. Firewall Forges. Did he fall off his stool? His virtual stool has collapsed.

[00:20:28] Let's go read a few of these articles. Hmm. Let's see. Well, 8647. That is one thing I did want to hear from future Dan. What 86 means or... This is actually... I'm probably just ignorant to this. The 86. I didn't know about that. I know like 187. That's like police code for murder. Because all the gangster rap I listen to is like 187 and on a cop, you know. 86. Is that equivalent? Is that...

[00:20:58] Where does 86 come from? Maybe one of you folks in chat. But apparently... And I trust this. Everyone's like, no, this is not some joke or messing around. He must have known what his post meant. So these people are desperate. They're losing control. They're losing their mind. And yeah. Eliminate. Marlow says here. 86 meant eliminate.

[00:21:26] This is a dog whistle to assassinate Trump. And now he's lying saying he didn't know about it. Well, the Secret Service did bring him in. So there you go. Here's one I want to look into deeper. 86 is the cop signal for homicide. Maybe that's the real one. They got a lot of different ones. So far what Ford says. I want to look into this because let's just say... Well, maybe even now. But definitely 10 years ago.

[00:21:57] If I saw this article, I'd be like... See, this is a perfect example of the New World Order. Take it over. Destroy America. DHS. National Guard Troops. Interior Enforcement. That's bad. Bad, bad, bad. First off, I don't like DHS at all. Number two, I don't want National Guard Troops deployed unless it's absolute emergency temporary with very strict parameters of why, when, how long they're deployed, all that stuff. I'm not a lawyer, but like, come on.

[00:22:26] We need very specific reasons and length of time and all that. And Interior Enforcement of pretty much anything sounds horrible. But we're talking about illegal immigrants, not citizens. Okay, that softens the blow a little bit. One thing I want to know is how long is this going for? What exactly will the National Guard Troops be doing? It's great to have, to integrate with the courts and integrate with the jails.

[00:22:56] And hey, people who are brought in for drunk driving, you also find out they're illegal. Deport their ass immediately. But kicking down doors. I'm not saying that these National Guard Troops are going to be kicking down doors. But I'm just like, ah, DHS. Troops on the street. Interior Enforcement. Slippery slope. Everyone needs to keep that in mind, at least. Even if you're like, oh, shut up, Ben. We're getting all the illegals out. We got to do it. All right.

[00:23:26] Make sure they don't go any further than this. Because all I've ever seen in my life with DHS or really anything with the government is mission creep, expansion of scope, and abuse of power. So this, I'm not going to lie. This looks not good to me. What would Ron Paul say about this? What would Ron Paul say about this? We got to see. Maybe he's probably already got an article up on this. I bet. I think I got about a couple notes from Future Dan.

[00:23:55] Yeah, he is actually sending me some notes. So Future Dan, send anything you want through the back channel, and I'll be sure to read it on air. And 86 equals get rid of. And Firewall Forge says homicide. And I've seen it as eliminate. And POTUS 47. So even if Trump had not been nearly assassinated 10 months ago, this would be egregious.

[00:24:19] And if I had said something like this about Obama, I probably would have got hauled away myself. Let alone Comey saying this after Trump was already shot at, hit, and one inch away from death. All right. Next up. Let's see what we got. Yes. Firewall Forge. Giving powers is easy. Taking them away is a hard part.

[00:24:50] Look. I found out a new feature. I can post your thing there. We'll leave that nice comment there. Everyone can see it. The wisdom. All right. I don't even want to go look at the Colorado governor's signs of law criminalizing the dead naming and misgendering in public. But hopefully I'll be thrown out. I don't know. Libel, slander, all that type of stuff, whether it's written, whether it's verbal.

[00:25:18] There's all different types of requirements and stuff. I'm not even an expert at that. I don't want to be. But calling a him or her or her or him or they or her, whatever it is, and then criminalizing that. Definitely not good. Israel preparing possible strike on Iranian nukes. Very interesting to see Trump's Middle East tour.

[00:25:48] Tons of deals. Tons of money. Everyone so happy to see him from Saudi Arabia to Qatar to freaking UAE. I don't know. He went a few other places. Everyone except for Iran loves Trump practically. And I can see why. America back over for business. I don't like the Saudis. Let me tell you that.

[00:26:19] But, you know, business partners and trying to win them over in the culture war with your economics and free markets in theory. It's a lot better than bobbing the shit out of them. Iran. Doesn't look like they're trying to take that route with Iran. Israel sure as heck ain't. What's this one? Is this one worth looking into? Russian-born scientist detained for smuggling invasive voracious frog species.

[00:26:46] Hey, when I went to Hawaii, you couldn't even smuggle in or out seeds or animals or nothing like that. Definitely. This is frog embryos and samples. I wonder if it's some sort of biological weaponry is why this was put on there by Future Dan. Foreign black ops suspected.

[00:27:16] Yeah. I mean, think of it this way. Hundreds of thousands. Millions. Even dollars worth of damage could be done by this frog or some fish that gets in there and destroys fishing areas. Whether it comes in and destroys literal fisheries that are agricultural or even recreational.

[00:27:40] If, like, a national park is destroyed, all of its waterways are destroyed by an invasive species. And, you know, a lot fewer people want to go visit that park. That's a lot of economic damage done. Not to mention just damage to the integrity of our ecosphere here in America.

[00:28:02] So, if you have Russians and maybe North Koreans, Chinese, whoever, bringing these invasive species on purpose to pretty much invade and destroy our ecosystem, that must be the route we're looking at here potentially for this. I don't know. I don't know. Just bringing a couple frogs over. Hopefully would not be enough. Maybe they'll put them on one of those big balloons that China flew over and just drop thousands of frogs.

[00:28:30] They're making the freaking frogs gay. All right. I think that's it for that, Calm Economics. Let's go look at Bitcoin because Bitcoin is cranking along today. It's been cranking along all week. Bouncing back to its highs. Yeah. Back up to $107K.

[00:28:59] You know, I like it. But again, gold and silver. I like that stuff a lot. I also like physical preps. They're storable food, medical supplies, land. All the things that you'll want when stuff hits the fan. The biggest problem with Bitcoin is you got to have electricity. So, don't put all your eggs into freaking Bitcoin. Let me tell you that. But consider it.

[00:29:27] Even if you haven't bought any Bitcoin, I consider just researching it because it's interesting. Number one. Even if you don't want to buy any, it's interesting. Number two. It's a great way to be your own bank. Really is. Steak and shake now accepts Bitcoin. No steak and shakes by where I live. But I'll have to go visit one soon. Let's look at some health. Super fast.

[00:29:54] First COVID vaccine. Let's take a look here. Case fatality rate. CFR. Let me zoom in. Ratio between confirmed deaths and confirmed cases. This is. This could be a poor measure of the mortality risk of the disease. I'll say this.

[00:30:23] As someone who has a master's degree in finance and a lot of experience with statistics, numbers and data mining. Numbers are usually bullshit. So. If I personally can't verify the data myself. I pretty much never trust data in this world, unfortunately. So. With that said. Based off this data.

[00:30:50] The ratio between confirmed cases of COVID and confirmed deaths from COVID did not improve with the vaccine. And that was a big part of the push for the vaccine was, hey, you still might get COVID, but you'll be less likely to die. Of course, they also said you'll be less likely to get COVID. And both of those are wrong. Both of them are false.

[00:31:17] That you won't get COVID or it'll very significantly reduce your risk of getting COVID. As well as compared to this data, which I get. I said most data is bogus, can be skewed. But real data is super powerful if it is truthful and accurate and substantive. Is this? I don't know. I'm not spending hours and hours looking at this data set.

[00:31:43] But at least based off this data set, what they're saying is after the vaccine came through, it didn't reduce the mortality rate. And this guy's got it there. There you go. There it is. So in theory, vaccines work by either reducing infections, reducing the case fatality rate or death per infected person.

[00:32:10] You know, for every 100,000 infected people, how many die? You want to make that zero or like one out of 100,000 or hopefully both. And really, COVID vaccine didn't do much of either. And it had a lot of negative effects. Even if we don't even talk about the negative effects, side effects and all that.

[00:32:39] It didn't even really reduce infections. Didn't really even reduce the case fatality rate. And it cost billions upon billions upon billions of dollars. So even saying no one died from it or was injured, which, of course, many, many were. Even if we said that was not true or ignored that. The vaccine was a total fraud and waste. So, yeah. Excuse me. Let me get some water.

[00:33:08] Wait, I got the microphone to myself. Got to go after it. Woo. But also got to. Been talking all day. Been on calls all day. So stay hydrated. All right. 5X jump in U.S. measles cases on course to reach the highest annual total since the 90s.

[00:33:33] So it's not even at the highest gross total since the 90s, let alone on a percentage base at a high. So it's not even that many. Meaning the American population has grown big time since the 90s. And we don't even have as many cases as back then. Even if we had more cases, it still could be the same ratio.

[00:34:03] Oh, by the way, we also brought in like 10 million illegals in the last five years. So even if every U.S. citizen that was here before COVID had a measles vaccine, there have been millions of people brought in that didn't have measles vaccine. Assuming the U.S., you know, assuming the measles vaccine would even help this. A lot. Statistically, significantly. So put that all together. But, you know, we will watch this. It is a 5X.

[00:34:33] So it said 400%. It's really 300%, but 4X. I always thought that was, you know, 100% equals a 2X. It's one of those odd things of numbers. DHS weaponizing. Aerosolized. Rand Paul. I said, what would Ron Paul say? Well, here's his son Rand Paul. Who, by the way, RFK Jr.

[00:35:03] Put those two together. I like it. Although they are, I'm not going to say butting heads, but Rand Paul's checking them, trying to make sure. Can't get away with it. Sometimes Rand Paul's a stick in the mud, to say the least. But, hey, man. I'm a fan of Rand Paul. So what can I say?

[00:35:26] Anyway, I honestly feel like this is something that is already known that they have worked on aerosolized Ebola probably four decades ago. But now, given COVID, given RFK Jr., and given some other recent developments,

[00:35:50] Rand Paul can more openly ask about gain of function to others besides Fauci. That was very famous. We'll go down in history. Awesome. Rand Paul versus Fauci back in the day. But, you know, now he's talking about DHS labs near Fort Detrick working on aerosolized Ebola. Here's the quote. I am told in public records that they are doing experiments or have done experiments. Yeah, exactly. Decades and decades ago, I'm sure.

[00:36:18] But maybe even now or under Fauci, Obama, Biden, et cetera. That part wasn't part of the quote. Sorry. So I am not a journalist. What can I say? Back to the actual quote. I am told in public records that they are doing experiments or have done experiments to aerosolize Ebola at the impact lab. That's the DHS lab near Fort Detrick. The idea of aerosolizing Ebola, I think,

[00:36:44] and or training Ebola to be aerosolized is incredibly dangerous. Probably goes against the Biological Weapons Convention. Probably, Senator Paul. Probably. There you go. Firewall 4 says, hands up if you missed the lockdowns. I'm not sure if I missed the lockdowns. No, I don't miss the lockdowns. For a little while, I was like, hey, man, I don't mind it.

[00:37:14] I don't mind, but as you say, no traffic on the road, not having to go to work. But even myself, a homebody that doesn't mind getting away from civilization, got cabin fever, got sick of staying at home, and definitely glad I didn't live in a place like California, where even if you wanted to get out, they would give you problems.

[00:37:39] Now, future Dan, who's out there listening right now, I'm sure was like, I don't care if I live in California. I would still go out. And yeah, that would be the right way to do it, I suppose, there. But anyway, I don't miss the lockdowns. What I really don't miss is realizing how stupid everybody was and how easily they fell for all that. But yeah, I digress. All right, back off of Bitcoin.

[00:38:11] Anything else? A couple other articles maybe? This is a Wall Street Journal. It's going to be paywall blocked probably. We'll see how far we can get. Looks like a cool article though. So I want to get to it. Coming to a brain near you, a tiny computer. In the next 12 months, the number of people with a brain computer interface is set to double. I have made this decision for my life.

[00:38:39] I will not take a chip or any implantable technology. Well, then you ask, what about a pacemaker? Okay, maybe I will. But it can't interact with the outside world. I don't know. So many chances to get hacked, not to mention the surveillance state, etc. Man, I know someday it will be so awesome to have a brain chip.

[00:39:06] You play super realistic video games, get all your work done, just closing your eyes. You never have to use a mouse and a keyboard. It just reads your thoughts. But I will never, ever, ever do that because I do not trust the people behind the technology. Technology itself, once it's developed and tested and proven safe, won't make you crazy or something, which it probably will. Well, once it gets through all that, that's one thing. That will probably be on my lifetime anyway, number one.

[00:39:34] Number two, the same people controlling that are the same people controlling COVID vaccine and big agra, big banksters. Yeah. So even Musk, who quote unquote on our side now, I don't trust him with a brain interface, Neuralink, all that. If I was quadriplegic, maybe I would, though. Yeah.

[00:40:03] So I'll say that. If I become quadriplegic, I'll be down for it. How about that? And again, it's not because I'm Amish by any means. I love technology, but you can't give them full access to your brain. They already have way too much access to us. They can, you know, if you have a phone with you, they can track you, they can listen to you at all times, etc. So it's already bad enough. They can't be listening to my thoughts or controlling my thoughts, influence my thoughts.

[00:40:32] So this article is unfortunately behind the Wall Street Journal subscription. But yeah. Oh, look, they even talk about it. Brain computer interfaces already letting people with paralysis control, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So yeah, comes in. Hey, it's going to help people that are sick, people that got problems. Great. Slowly but surely. You know, you won't be able to drive a car unless you have a brain interface, for example.

[00:41:01] Or I mean, they probably won't ever let us drive a car in about 10 years. A human driving a car will have to pay like $1,000 a month of insurance or something. So anyway. Part of what Ford says. Oh my gosh. 40 minute drive on the way home, but it took two hours. Yeah. I try to work at home as much as I can. I'll give COVID that. I went from working at home once or twice a week to three or four or five times a week.

[00:41:31] So I do like that. That was the one silver lining. The eye tracking. Yeah, exactly. Like the eye tracking, video tracking. The deep fakes. I'm a little worried about that. I've done so much radio. I've got hundreds and hundreds of hours of my voice from radio shows, but also just playing video games like on PlayStation or telephone calls.

[00:41:58] Anyway, they could easily deep fake my voice, make me sound like I'm a terrorist. And there's my verbal manifesto. Oh yeah, this dude had a podcast for 10 years. Been in the break or banksters. And here's his manifesto. Listen to it. They'll have clips of fake clips of me. Obviously can be done now, but imagine what it'd be like 10, 20, 30 years from now. If they actually have your thoughts. Yeah. We're not Kansas anymore.

[00:42:29] Hey, Firewall Forge question. So on the lightning address, I actually had, you know, I told you I had the lightning address, but then I'm like, you know what? I want to create an all new wallet. Not a hardware wallet. I already have those, but that's my cold storage, you know. What's your preferred software wallet? What do you think is the best software wallet? I'll do that. And honestly, I want to get a lightning node put together.

[00:42:56] I really should try to do that after ration or ruin. I think that should be like my June goal is to put a lightning node together. So I'm not going to be able to give you a lightning wallet right now because I want to actually create a new wallet from scratch using the best software. I also kind of want to buy it. Well, I don't want to give too much OPSEC away. So there we go. Any suggestions you got, send them to me.

[00:43:24] Black Mirror, there's an episode about brain implants. See, that's what I love about sci-fi is practically anything you can come up with. Someone's already done sci-fi on. Now, how much of that sci-fi was pre-programming to get us ready for this situation? That's the question. What else? Make sure I didn't miss anything. I mean, I'm burying the lead, but I'm not because, wow, Moody's downgrades federal government credit rating. I'm the breaker of banksters.

[00:43:53] I mean, this is old news to me. Like I said, S&P downgraded America from AAA back in 2011. 14 years ago. So it's like, wow, Moody's, wow, AA, I'm scared. So you couldn't do this under Obama. You couldn't do this under Biden. You had to wait until Trump's second term when things might possibly be trying to turn around. I will say this.

[00:44:22] We're still spending a hell of a lot of money. Still a huge, huge deficit. Interest rates are going up. Let's go look at it super quick. Interest rates going up. Spending is not going down. U.S. national debt continues to climb. Doge is finding some savings. It is good. It's only, you know, four grand per taxpayer. Whereas national debt, we got $323,000 per taxpayer.

[00:44:51] So Doge has saved like 1%, 1.5%. And that's awesome. That's $453 billion. $453 billion. But that's like 1%, 1.5% of the U.S. national debt. Come on. That's not good. So I can see why Moody's downgraded us. I can see why everyone downgraded us. That's why I've downgraded us.

[00:45:20] And I buy Bitcoin and gold and silver and firearms and other physical assets. Stay out of debt. So you don't get into the bankster schemes, right? But look at this interest on the debt. Continues to go up and up and up. Look how fast it's going up. Not good. Not good. Not good. So yeah, U.S. gross domestic product's also growing, but is it fast enough?

[00:45:48] So, and I've talked about this with Future Dan a lot. Expect 6, 12, 18 months of ongoing growth of deficits and debt and interest payments. But the goal is during that 18 months, turning the boat around. And that's partially through the tariffs, renegotiating things and just getting American business back online.

[00:46:17] Which seems like that plan's progressing somewhat. We'll see how it really turns out long term. But, you know, that grace period isn't infinite. So by this time next year, if we haven't turned a corner and at least the interest on the debt is like flat, you know, maybe the interest on the debt ain't going to be going lower than a trillion dollars anytime soon. But it needs to stop growing. And if by this time next year, that's not happening.

[00:46:47] And definitely by midterms, 2026. Then that's a big problem. Big, big problem. So, and you know, we got to cut. It's got spending somewhere. Yes, Firewolf Forge. That's exactly the type of thing I need. Wink, wink. Again, without getting into OPSEC.

[00:47:09] I need to have the proper tools to facilitate my freedom as an anti-bankster. So, yes. Please send me that email. You know, I haven't been that good about getting on X lately, but I will try to get on X more often. And I'll look for it there maybe if you send it there. Anyway, I think I'm about done, guys.

[00:47:35] I've had, I've probably been grinding about 12 hours straight. Worked my ass off today. Very little breaks. And I've been live. About 45 minutes. Went through several articles. You know, we'll be back next week. Like, we're grinding it through Rational Ruin. We're more than halfway through. My mental faculties are mostly there. I feel a little bit like a zombie right now, but not that bad. Hey, I felt worse on other Tuesday nights when I had all full calories for what it's worth.

[00:48:06] You know, usually Wednesday mornings, though, I usually get really cranky. So, we'll see how I feel tomorrow. Lots of ups and downs, but I'm getting better at it. I know future Dan's learned a lot. I know Intrepid Commander James Walton has a lot of lessons learned. So, Rational Ruins. A lot of dividends. Paying off dividends. I can see my love handles shrinking a little bit in the mirror. You know, see if I can lose a few more pounds. And more importantly, keep it off.

[00:48:36] But hey, as I've said and as NBC guys said, it might be good to have just a little bit of extra bacon on your hide. Going into shit hits the fan. You know? You don't want to be sticks and bones when the lights go out necessarily. You don't want to be massively overweight either. But anyway, all right. Enough rambling. It's been a decent show. Episode 306 is going to be in the books.

[00:49:04] We'll be back live next Tuesday. It'll be the Tuesday after Memorial Day. And this Friday, we'll be back with Intrepid Commander and NBC guy himself for the week three Rational Ruin review. Firewood Forge. Oh, you got me. I got you, boo. Appreciate it, everybody. Enjoy the rest of your week. Thank you.