Patriot Power Hour #362 - Summer Season Finale

What do you want? Statement of purpose? Should I email you? Should I put this on your action item list? You decide your own level of involvement. We are the Prepper Broadcasting Network. 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. Patriot Power Hour. We are live September 15th. 2026, episode 362, Ben the Breaker of Banksters with Future Dan. That's right. It's the equinox that makes this the summer finale, Ben. Summer finale. Summer's come and gone. We'll talk a little bit retroactive, but we also have enough news for today that we're not going to be spending too much time looking back. But I did update some of our predictions we made earlier at the year. If you want to take a quick look at that down the line. And we can talk about what's going on this summer, but I'm a lot more focused going forward, to be honest. Yeah. So, Heatmap Dashboard's got a lot of grade one stuff in the fan right now. It does. Four separate indicators with seven or eight headlines. Right, right. So, if I may, I might want to jump right into the news splits. Go for it. Yeah. Have at it. We got four black on reds happening now. Inarguably that's, that's status starting in the Liberty column, war unconstitutionally waged. We're bombing Somalia consistently this year. Uh, I think for the 81st time, just this year, striking Al Shabaab terrorist sites, us destroys Iranian boats just within the last 24 hours after the Iranians attempted to seize Navy drone. So, um, Still looking for an authorization for military use of force at the minimum before that's constitutional. Right below it, though, somewhat just unrelated, got two outstandingly bad examples of parental rights systematically abused, Ben. Washington State School District repeatedly rejects father's faith-based homosexual indoctrination opt-out request. And in Massachusetts, that state just seized a 15-year-old girl after her Catholic parents refused to call her a boy. She's now in a psych ward at 17, psych medicines, getting hormone therapy, completely against the parents' will. This is a minor. It's happening in column one, liberty. Column two, security. We got Sunni world war potentially starting, war with Russia between the United States and us, potentially starting, war of the Koreas restarting, war with China starting, all topical news, except for perhaps Shia-Sunni world war starting because arguably it's ongoing, right? Saudi Arabia issues security alerts nationwide after forces routed by the Houthis, Houthis a proxy of Iran. On the Russian front, Lithuanian and Italian jets shoot down unmanned aircraft over Lithuania, believed to have come from Belarus. In Korea, North Korea conducts joint live fire drill, massive display of firepower, missiles, artillery, drones. Chinese doing things that we used to see during the Cold War, Ben, but with a twist, with a modern twist. So Chinese satellite imagery firms are aiding Iranian strikes that killed U.S. troops in Jordan. So not exactly... the communist regime, they got their contractors too, and the contractors are selling targeting information to the Iranians. And what's believed to be the first time the U.S. Air Force Secretary, at least publicly speaking, has acknowledged American space control weapons, that's how we termed them, are in orbit. So that's not quite grade one happening now, clandestine space combat, but it's pretty close to confirming that that sort of thing happens a lot. Weapons in space. Anti-satellite weapons in space. It's pretty much confirmed now by the Air Force Secretary. Column three, economics. Two black on red happening now. We've got diesel price peaking over $ 6 a gallon and treasury rates surging. Ten-year yield climbs above 5% for the first time since 2013. And that was briefly. And otherwise, we're back to a mark not seen since, I believe, the midst? at the beginning of the great financial crisis of 2007 and eight and, uh, still have a very deadly wildfire season underway. Uh, Austin fire burns Mount hood, national forest. That's it, Ben. We're coming in with six happening now or four and happening now. And two reds, uh, interlaid with a lot of topical news, but, trending towards dangerous. Great dashboard read. I'll just hit on super fast. The latest markets, oil, $ 105. We're at 5.006% on the U S 10 year. So that's up from about 4.94% last week when I was on air and I considered that red alert. Meanwhile, gold and silver took a bit of a dip. So did Bitcoin, but everybody's looking for tomorrow. Well, Wednesday, Thursday, the Fed rate decision. So the Fed is going to announce. Are they going to raise rates or keep them the same? Definitely not cutting rates. So a lot going on here. The inflation is driving that aspect, of course, but a lot more important articles. I guess I would start with parental rights systematically abused. We haven't seen this indicated for a minute. Definitely not at this high of a level. Both of those are really messed up articles. Massachusetts seizes girl after the parents refused to call her a boy. And Washington State School District repeatedly rejecting the father's faith-based homosexual indoctrination opt-out request. So I want to start with those. How about it? Yeah. Can parental rights be more systematically abused? Maybe it doesn't deserve grade one happening now, but that's where I'd chose to put it tonight. It's literally happening now. So that's part of it. And I consider it dangerous. Now, what degree is it dangerous and where do you live and where do you and your children, if you have any live could make a difference of whether this is philosophical or literally attacking your children right now. Uh, but I would be quite worried. Most public schools in this country, most schools generally, um, definitely public schools. I'm a public school kid, you know what I mean? So, Anyway, both of these are really screwed up. But Massachusetts and Washington State, I mean, that's your own fault for living there in a way. But that doesn't mean it's right or that people should be subject to this. But yeah, can you imagine if they come and take your kid away, a minor? I mean, that's horrible in Massachusetts. And then the indoctrination, faith-based opt-out request. Let's get a little detail on that. So a lawsuit against Lake Washington school district, multiple opt out requests and, you know, all the education or as they call it here in doctor indoctrination and requirements at school about learning about LGBTQ, et cetera. So first particular comments you had. On the first and fourth amendment is, is in play here. Right. So sure. Um, yeah, this is just a test case by, um, advocacy group. And the truth is, for this one parent getting this group to help sue and take it to the Supreme Court, try to get into this, how many people just complied and had their First and Fourth Amendments trampled over, right? Oh, there are a lot of people, unfortunately, can agree with this. And then the silent minority that just allow themselves to be trampled. And then at least there's a few people standing up and making a fuss out of it, but probably not enough. And I'll always go back to COVID and opt out requests. Try people trying to, uh, or more like companies and organizations trying to say that those weren't valid, but in the lawsuit's the line, that actually was false. And a lot of, you know, it took a while to work the legal process, but the opt-out requests and the constitutionality did hold fact. But, you know, what is it? Is it called color of law when it's just kind of misrepresented and force-fed? It's not the real law. Is that maybe I think I'm using that correctly. I might have to rely upon your AI to go further on that one. But this this type of indicator, when it gets this way, is sort of circular as opposed to perhaps a more linear indicator that, you know, let's take, for example, treasury rate surging right now. Right. So that that is the more they surge, the worse the news is. Right. This one is, it's good that there's actual lawsuit trying to put an end to this and the damage and the dangers, the precedent that it was set in the Overton window that it was shifted in the mass populations of Washington State and Massachusetts. That's the latent danger. Next time there's something like COVID or some situation, what other kind of hysteria could take hold in the population and now they're running indoctrination in public schools on topics that right now no one would stand for. But under those circumstances, they might. And I'll give you an example. We're in the middle of a hysteria right now, the killer AI hysteria. I think it's going to wear off in like two days because of how stupid it is. But have you found yourself subjected to this information operation? Clearly part of Democrat midterm campaigns. But they're bringing about the great thrust for it and the firms like Anthropic putting out scenarios that I can't help but to see as sort of an Atlas shrug kind of thing going on where the titans of an industry want to capture it. They want to be regulated so that they can monopolize it, lock it out, put up giant barriers of entry to their industries. It seems a little bit too convenient, and I don't believe that there's any machine life sentience anywhere possible in the near future. And that's what a lot of suckers are being led to believe right now. It's pretty complex, but I would say I definitely noticed two or three months ago the big thrust of data centers are going to destroy all the water and take all of our electricity. which there is a little bit of truth to some of that, but not that much, in my opinion. Now the next step is, at Congress they're talking about it, but I'm seeing the propaganda flow everywhere from the Nextdoor app, right, to like Facebook or any social media where the same talking points and even some of the same infographics and memes and whatnot are being distributed. Now there is just kind of a network effect of something that gets catches the zeitgeist and other people share and talk about the same things and repeat talking points subconsciously. But a lot of this is top down planned for sure. Uh, doesn't say, doesn't mean that there's not threat to AI development, but try to regulate it to safety. It just is going to make it worse. It's just my philosophy. I say last night fair. Yeah. Let it run. That's why we're leading in it. Trump says as much. 100% with Trump on that. Let it run. You need the competition to catch the... This is called a consortium of AI companies, the top three or five. It's a cartel. There you go. Even better. Cartel. So we need a couple outside that cartel that have the strength and the ability to... Why a couple? Well, there is some limit to how much how you can compete. I mean, you need billions upon billions of dollars of infrastructure to even approach what any of these others can put together. There could be somebody out there on the margin doing something with an entirely new kind of AI. Okay. Something that rethinks fundamentally the large language model comes in and wipes out anthropic and open AI and name a third, right? Mm-hmm. In. Span of five years. Who cares? The data centers are built. The infrastructure is coming in. These things might be as memorable, these AI companies that we're talking about now, as pick your favorite late 90s, early 2000s dot-com firm that doesn't exist anymore. They are very vulnerable. That's why they want to panic. Because they want a bunch of laws that lock them in. They wouldn't even bother be doing this if they weren't afraid of being wiped out by some guy in a garage coming out with something that nobody else thought of. Where'd Bitcoin come from? Where'd the blockchain come from? How'd that get invented? And look how sound that is, right? Unless your conspiracy that it was invented by some government lab, which I personally don't believe would have happened. Because no contractor would have built it for them without exploiting it themselves, right? Right. So... I think that was just instantly from a marketplace, a free marketplace. Not to go too far down on that, but I'd like to if we could talk about it all day. I got a feeling a few people from some of the high tech black budget organizations got together separately and decided, Hey, let's make Bitcoin. This is a great idea. Let's, I do think the Genesis is from some of those very high level, uh, pretty much military research, but not literally the CIA setting it up as a poison pill to capture all the capital and expose all of us. But there's still all of his chances. It could be that, but anyway, uh, going to, I mean, I hope you're right. I guess from the software, uh, In programming perspective, if someone out of the garage could come up with a whole new way that AI is seen, and I can't really understand how that's possible, or otherwise I'd do it myself. So hopefully, I understand that theory. Quantum computing. But there's so much. Quantum computing will do it. If that hardware ever arrives. There's so much capital involved in that, though. It's like. Well, that's where. It's not even a secret. DARPA's funding it big time. Getting to quantum computing is a major national security goal. And once that happens and you have that kind of computational power, probably some of these geniuses, with math especially, have already thought about ways that large language models right now fail. What's not quite possible yet with them. But thinking about new ways to do this type of interactive chatbot intelligence... in entirely better ways, but it's just too computationally expensive right now. After it's not, there's no reason to think anything right now that Sam Altman and the Anthropic CEO, they want to lock in their position. It's kind of nakedly gross that they're even doing this with the Democrats during the midterms. It's kind of like the auto industry. they'd love to consolidate to the big three or the big five. They did for a while, but Musk actually tore that down. That's actually a great point. Grok is trying to sort of be the outsider to these AI companies, but still too much near orbit of the cartel in my book. But there still is some limit to how many legitimate AI companies can be out there. But if you're talking about a total breakthrough in the research that makes everything, the billions of dollars that have been put into R & D obsolete. Maybe. I mean, that's more of a lottery ticket, though, because those super companies, let's just say the three to five, they're going to have so much money and so many people working on the quantum questions that it's going to be hard for someone in the crowds to beat them just because they're working hard in their garage. Not impossible, but yeah. I mean, that's one route, but we can't bank on it. Well, it's a matter of scale. I mean, what time frame are you considering this? Probably within your lifetime, right? So OpenAI and Anthropic probably arrived at positions where they're going to be multi-billion dollar firms for the majority of the rest of your life. Trillion dollar plus firms, right? But Google's, we thought that was what Google was 20 years ago, right? Or 10. By 10 years ago, Google was becoming that behemoth. It's getting hammered by AI now. I mean, that's true. And so over the years and the decades, I guess, makes sense. I was thinking more of the next few years. But if you expand the horizon further. That's why I say, let it sort itself out. Don't regulate it. Do not regulate it. If a firm creates a tool that goes and does damage and hacks up a bunch of other stuff, then that's what civil courts are for. Let their ass get sued. That's sort of where my... brain was going to is like, there's probably most of the threats of AI could be handled with laws that are already on the books or slightly tuned. So like you said, if you cause all types of economic damage and or criminal, if you, There's wiretapping laws out there, right? So the AI agent that you're responsible for, well, if it goes there and exposes a bunch of people's information, that could be wiretapping or invasion of privacy, criminal charges, let alone civil. The main thing people are worried about is the AI is out of human control and does this by itself, which could be a frame job anyway because someone could let it loose and say they didn't control it. So I shot you in the back channel for... Proper Broadcasting Network on our back signal channel. I shot you a link. Did you get a chance to see that today? I know you're busy, but it was essentially a research paper, I think out of Britain, that argues why it's mathematically impossible that any large language model can become forward-thinking and sentient, right? Like Space Odyssey 2001, Hal kind of making decisions about Unto itself. And that's part of the debate right now is this isn't even possible. That's not what LLMs are. They're completely backwards looking. They look backwards on everything that they've been fed and given and trained on and make just assumptions on what is the correct answer going forward. I'm talking character to character, right? It's just flowing that way, right? All they are doing is slicing and dicing and recapitulating human knowledge that they've been fed. That's all they can do. Meanwhile, we have the actual companies themselves and Democrats coming out in a midterm campaign arguing, trying to scare people into passing laws to box in these two companies who I would hazard to guess they're donating to Democrats right now heavily. Well, In the end, it's all about using the government to create that monopoly or oligarchy or force the cartel. That's totally what they're doing. Each individual law, I'd like to see its merits and would it actually work or not. You could try to go into that micro level in the weeds. You could spend your entire lifetime on just a couple of these laws if you wanted to. We don't have time for that Patriot Power Hour because I know it's a bunch of bullshit in the end. They're just trying to manipulate it. To build their own monopolies. Civil courts are there, right? Meta just got big verdicts against it for building its apps to be cognitively addictive to children, right? What the merit of that is and how it is going to ultimately damage the First Amendment, at least speech on that platform, right? I don't know. But the civil courts can figure that out. That should be the People talk about that with gun control. Why have gun laws? If you go out and shoot somebody, that's a freaking felony already. It's almost in the same vein there. Maybe there are things that AI can do that there really isn't a very good criminal or civil law on the books, but very few and far between. I can understand maybe we've got to edit or add a few things that are brand new in the last decade that may not be on the books, but 95% of it's already taken care of is how I'd see it. So many, many shows ago, I think we had to talk about this construct of the four types of people, the tyrants, the collectivists, the degenerates against the righteous. Like if you're not one of those three things and my book, you're righteous. And this right here, the AI thing, has the tyrants and the degenerates and the collectivists at our throats. Because the tyrants, oftentimes the police, maybe by the essence of policing, you can't help but not have tyrannical traits, have to go after the degenerates, the criminals, who could literally use AI cleverly to learn how to do anything in terms of crime. It definitely has the potential to enable crime. And of course, In the middle of that is the collectivists, the Bernie Sanders who want nothing more than to seize it, right? Seize it federally. Lock it into a regime that can always be extorted and extracted, making it a donation cash cow because you've got to protect your interests in Washington, D.C. and lobby to prevent them from tightening the noose on you a little bit more year after year. And the censorship potential is credible, obviously, with AI. Yeah, sure, I do go to websites still, but not much. I already have a lot of prompts and chat set up to source 30, 40, 50 websites at once. That's a massive change since the beginning of even the winter season of 2026. What you just said about your habits, I don't think that was true. You've come that far in nine months. Yeah. Oh, for sure. It's gotten so much better though, but it's maybe it's partly my application, but, but actually this goes back real quick to the article that you did send me on signal about how AI doesn't come up with new knowledge or new thoughts that was using 2024 models. And just in the last couple of years, or even the last six, I've noticed just in the last six to nine months, like incremental improvements in, from each model that comes out and there's been like so many models. What though? Just seems like there's less hallucinating or false things. Well, okay. Thorough. Sure. Set that, set the glitches and the errors aside. Is there any improvement on some kind of spectrum from this is backwards looking slicing and dicing previous human knowledge has been trained on, which is magnifying exponentially, right? What, what those, what the, 2023 versions of ChatGPT, when I first started using them, originally couldn't browse the internet at all. They would only refer to what they had been trained on. Six months plus ago. Yes, yes, right? And we're way past that, but it's still all backwards looking. It's all just a matter of infrastructure, what knowledge exists that can be fed to it, and it's CAS role, right? Even if the AI produces new outputs that theoretically feed into. What it's able to know next, it's still only a slicing and dicing of what existed. There's no original thought. It's not sentient. Right? It can't do anything it wasn't programmed to do, like any robot ever has been able to do. Well, what percentage of the human race qualifies in the same breath of that? At least 80%. Maybe more. No. Everyone can have original thoughts. In this world. There are developmentally delayed people that can. There are brain-injured people that can't. That's what at least half of our population in the U.S. I feel like. Holy cow. Not this. Negative towards humans and human nature. Especially my own countrymen say that. I don't know, man. I mean, I get where you're coming from, though. But 10 years from now, 20 years from now, 50 years from now, it might as well be original thought that they can recombine the infinite combinations and infinite diversity. That's the saying of the Vulcans in Star Trek. I think we've hit that point where we were drawing out the, perhaps your Hobbesian worldview and my, you know, there's several philosophies of enlightenment that are. Well, we're in a simulation already. A little bit more hopeful on humans and human nature. There are zero, you know, if the whole world is based off zeros and ones, everything's deterministic anyway, then none of us have original free will anyway. I don't believe that necessarily, but that is what separates us from the AI. But I feel like the AI is already at the point where most of my coworkers, I'd rather work with AI than them because it's as accurate or more accurate, faster, way faster, and just better. There's the human interaction part. I don't go to work to interact with humans. You know what I mean? That's not my social life. I have a certain type of job of personality, I guess, but I don't even want to ask questions to colleagues anymore. I just go straight to AI. I know that. Between me and the AI, I could 90 plus percent of the time come to a better decision than working with a human. Okay. And there could be a lot of jobs created that allow that to happen. I should get how I would like it to work. I should be able to have about 10 X the productivity in the next few years. Half of that productivity profit should go to me and half to the company. But there might be some layoffs or it won't be very easy. You know what you don't see? They're not going to give me any of that productivity gains. They're just going to give me eight times the workload and the same salary or a 3% cost of living. That's how it's actually going to work. You know what. Would probably be the next step in interfacing with large language language models is instead of you prompting by yourself and me prompting by myself we're actually in a three-way chat yeah and we're we're working to collaborate and and the ai is assistive but not interfering with the conversation that we're having so it's outputting in a format and style that's brief and to the point, fact checks, devil's advocate, quality control, and just make sure that the direction, like guiding Patriot Power Hour says, you and I go through this hour talking about the news. If we had that assistive capability, it would only improve the output of whatever project we're underway in. This project is broadcasting Patriot Power Hour once a week. on the Purple Broadcasting Network. But a three-way chat bot, that's imminently feasible. I'm sure people are working on it. Yeah, while we speak as well, the transcription aspect. Actually, I love, that's one of the best parts at work as well. Transcribe your Zoom or Teams meeting, throw that into chat GPT, bam. Anyway, we talk about AI the whole time, I suppose. But it is important, and regulating it It's not going to work. Laws just don't work. There's my libertarian streak. It's just going to make it worse and easier for them to write the laws with their lobbyists. There's a Hobbesian streak, too, because it's all in the negative. I don't know much about Hobbes or any of that stuff. I didn't pay much attention. Short, brutal lives of misery and despair. Pretty much. Yes, he wrote that, yeah. You can claw your way over the top of other people to try to have a little bit of more pleasure in life, and everybody falls into a pit. Trust me on that one, but if you don't, you have AI handy at any moment. I would frame it as the potential for growth. Look at the productivity gains with communication technologies, collaboration technologies like the internet. Lots of companies failed. But what was left behind was massive for growth. This is going to be the biggest of those examples ever. Bigger than electricity. Bigger than internet. Bigger than telephone. Bigger than TV. This is a massive one. It's very democratic. There will be powers that want to shut that down too. There's going to be too much creativity coming from too many new corners. The acceleration on things that will advance. Ideas that advance. It's going to be massive so long as they don't you know turn off the machines to the to the masses as long as the commoners can still use what we got today September 2026 you may have to pay 20 or 100 bucks a month but if you choose to this stuff is pretty you know much able to empower individuals to anything they want to do but you know for the degenerates that's break the laws and for the tyrants that's you know clamp down on all of us because of the degenerates. And for the collectivists, God only knows what they're planning with this technology. But we're going to have to counter it, and we will, on Patriot Power Hour weekly. Yes, sir. It is a special Tuesday edition. If you're just tuning in, it's episode 361, Patriot Power Hour, halfway mark of September, September 15th. It is the end of the season, but I think we're going to do a show next week. I mean, we might as well. There's so much news, but it'll probably be our normal Thursdays next week. So that'd be like a nine day gap, sort of a off time. I don't know. I just think we're going to, there's going to be enough news to keep doing it next week. I doubt we're going to take week off is what I'm saying. So you're concerned about the news environment. You think things could break, but you're not caught up in this week's AI hysteria. Is that accurate? Oh, that's more like a slow burn or like, like you said, they'll forget about it in a couple of days, but that's not going to, fix anything so for better or worse i wait. A second wait a second them fix it them forgetting about regulating ai and then not doing it would be improving things. Yeah but they're not going to give up at that point they'll just be the next wave will come and they'll try harder hard to explain but i mean i'm not i'm not worried about this one this one. A lot of voices out there saying this is a pure you know trying to capture the marketplace and Form an oligopolistic market. Build an AI cartel. Lots of people are calling bullshit on this one. I mean, I guess I presuppose that was already the plan. So that's my blind spot. I already expected them to put together one super AI, the beast system. Right? So, yes. Where's the money in that? There's no money. It's all power. Soviets would do that. They print money to do this. They don't do this to make money. They print the fake money so they can get the power over humanity in the first place. You've got to be careful with the they's in there. What they is going to make one profitless AI? That's deep-seek. That's China. That's why it's behind. That shit don't work. But if everybody's the same shareholders and the same controlling interest of all the AI companies, it might as well all be one, just like the banks. It's a super fragile position to be in. Too big to fail. New disruptive technologies on the margins that can come in and just cut them off at the knees. Which they have massive surveillance state that they've built since 9-11, so they could absolutely kill, maim, and steal from anybody that threatens them. For sure. I mean, obviously they have. AI companies? If your company's worth a trillion dollars, it's not that big of a stretch to expect that they would have some corporate espionage, sabotage, or even assassinations involved. And this is, of course, the state, capital S, involved. It's not just open AI doing this by themselves. You're talking about extrajudicial murders by the U.S. government of American citizens? Yeah. Okay. And more like these companies. I mean, what about all the scientists that get assassinated, disappear? Who's doing that? Maybe it's Russia, for all I know. Wouldn't a foreign intelligence agency be the obvious first choice? Yeah. But it's not the only choice. Right. I think we went out and robbed a hole because I don't remember where the top of this hole was. What were we talking about? That all the AI companies are already the same beast system, if not in name. You talk about it. They're fiercely competing right now. That's a show. That's WWF style. They're all buddy-buddy. I don't know how that works. They're maybe jockeying for position. Who gets to control it? But they're all on the same path together. They aren't even publicly traded companies. They want to be in the same regulatory box and box everybody out. Right. You think Apple and Microsoft are in straight-up behind-the-scenes collusion and not one whistleblower brought that out? Like the board of directors and the top shareholders? Yeah, pretty much. Okay. Maybe not like the average Joe for sure that works there. Yeah, I mean, that is conspiratorial, I guess, but same with big oil. They hate each other because they want to have the championship belt, but they're all on the same fucking team in the end. You know what I mean? But there's so many firms that came into the oil exploitation when shale wasn't allowed. I'm not that sanguine on the way the market works. There's still fiercely competitive parts of all these markets. It's the only explanation how our currency dominates and our growth, our GDP stays where it's at. 100%. That doesn't exist if it's all puppets controlled by some secret cartel that we never get to really know exactly who they are. It's not binary like zero or one. It's like the spectrum to it. So the more free, the more innovation, the more competitions, then you do get a lot of this growth. But it's been... In the last 100 years has... the markets in America would become freer or less free. Way less free. So much more consolidation. It's crazy. There's been certain periods of certain industries that got deregulated, and then they just got all built back up into the pyramid once more. There's others that were deregulated and left alone. Some, but it's like each. So there's been books written about this. There's levels to it. For a long time. One in the late 90s, early 2000s was called Commanding Heights. And it was really this... neoliberal just touting of the successes of the Clinton administration in basically regaining some of the heights of industry that FDR had, that kind of domination of the economy, and trying to put a nice shine on what ultimately is tyrannical collectivist behavior. So, commanding heights. And what you're saying is that the commanding heights of AI, it's To you, it looks like just one beast, but I can't agree that it is because it's that fierce competition that's driving just the innovation and the entire build out of the infrastructure for it. Which, by the way, if there weren't data centers, but you still have the electrical capacity, aren't we getting to the place where all the guys warning about EMP strikes and grid going down said we should be? It's actually making our grid a lot safer than it once was by building it out like this. Depends where you live, I guess, if you're a particular infrastructure. That is a nice knock-on effect. Yeah, I think so. But, I mean, how much have your prices gone up in the last 10 years? And is that any relation to it? Maybe, maybe not. You know, I can only argue the numbers if I see it. In theory, I've said this before on the show, from AI efficiencies alone, we should be growing 10% to 15% per year the next decade or longer. We're barely making 3%, so that just shows how much headwinds and corruption and theft there is in the world. Let's talk about electricity. There's no way to privatize it completely. It's a public utility. Until you can actually wirelessly transmit power, then maybe it could be opened up to a market economy. Otherwise, it's a it's a, it's a quasi government, right? It's a state owned industry, the utilities, right? We try to have them as private as possible in the United States, but look at California with the wildfires and suing their own utility. Right. So the question is, should, you know, would you want to live in a country where it was socialized to the point where electricity was free? No, no. So you agree you have to pay for it. Yeah. So, you know, if it costs more, maybe that, everything costs more, right? Shouldn't it be costing more if all prices are rising? If the AI companies, and we're talking about data centers, are making hell of profits, and they're the marginal additional demand that's causing prices to go up for everybody, are they bearing that brunt? No, they're getting bulk discount prices. They're getting cheaper than the average person. They're totally crowding out. By way of corporate subsidies. Right, but unlike your house, the authorities would order them closed if the grid got under stress. I don't know about that. I think that maybe some of them, but with the smart grid going in place, they'd much rather restrict you. Well, depending on who governs you. Well, yeah. If people that hate you govern you, then you might have to worry about your power. There's my Hobbesian. 99% of the government hates me. Right. That's actually just the truth. Back channel today, you're railing against Trump, but the question is, do you want his opponents to rule you? No, but I've got to hold it. Do you think he would shut the power off at your house? By this point, possibly. I don't know about that. To keep power on in your house where you live compared to where I live, he might. Or we shut the data center off, right? And then we have the capacity. It'll just go who pays the highest price generally. Again, if I had the numbers in front of me, I could see if they were bearing the cost, the extra cost. I'm not saying I want to tax them so much more. I'm talking about like there's. A national disaster or it's a wartime situation. The powers that be are not going to leave the population in the dark to satisfy corporations. It wouldn't last long if they did. No, but it could be rolling blackouts or rationing or double your prices or temporary surcharges that never go away. Shit like that. Right. Or what the Democrats would probably do if they got. That's only because we would complain. Because if we didn't complain, they would do what the Democrats do, which is totally steamroll us. Or completely socialize and build up a population that expects to have free electricity forever. Yeah, and then you don't get electricity most of the day, most of the week. So that's definitely not good. But in terms of, oh, all these data centers were built, so all of a sudden the power system is more resilient to EMP, that's pretty far-fetched. I don't know. I don't know either, but it seems like, eh, I'm not going to trust it that that's the case. Maybe certain routes are more shielded or there's more redundancy, but I don't know. It doesn't seem like, you know. I think the architecture... the older power lines are going to be way more susceptible at greater ranges. Right. So the newest stuff is not impervious to a direct EMP right over the top of it, but the range in which those things would, would start to knock out. Plus just, you know, components can be replaced, you know, maybe not, you know, might take months. Right. But we can rebuild from that sort of thing a lot faster because we have a newer, better infrastructure. For all I ever heard about the whole threat of the grid going down for years is how old it was, how under capacity it was, how the nodes are so limited. I can't help but believe that what's happening with the data center build outs isn't building resilience into the system. And I just don't know if that applies to 10% of the system or 90% of the system. If 90% of America's system is much more resilient, that would hold water. If only a little small thread, 10%, 5%, within a three-mile radius of the data centers and the direct transmission lines. That's not as convincing. Look at the jurisdictions putting moratoriums on data center build-outs, then ask yourself, the people that govern there, would you trust them to leave the power on in an emergency? Sort of correlates there. They might want to have their populations able to be subjected to rolling blackouts. Well, this is one of the fringe theories of Bitcoin, but I liked it. Having more mining capacity and having more electrical demand and therefore more supply to match it over time because of the investment would lead to a better grid overall and with AI too. But I don't know. Yeah. I got a feeling the mega corporations, they're not playing as fair as, as they should be. So hopefully if that's happening, they'll get caught up on it. But at this point, I don't know any Democrat regulation that they put forth. I know that's the wrong way to go. At least we have that answer. Bernie can't have a good idea once in a while. He actually identifies problems decently. Not really the cause of the problem. Twists them and exploits them into the worst possible solution. Yeah. Yes. For sure. He's smart at that. I agree with that. Yeah. That's why he catches people because everyone's like, yeah, that is messed up. Why is it like that? Then the lies begin when the why happens and definitely with what to do about it. But I, you know, when he talks about, it definitely sounds convincing that certain things are messed up. A lot of times they are, but yeah, you got it. What else we want to talk about on, uh, This season finale of the summer. Summer's over. It's a cool night, and I'm kind of grateful for that. And we're moving into the fall. What are you doing for preps for the rest of the preparedness month of September 2026? Yeah, so those of you listening to PBN may have heard or seen the different National Preparedness Month episodes coming through. And recently there were, I thought it was either yesterday or the day before, but I listened to it today. Regardless, I was a day or two behind. What can I say? It is all about national, I guess. Oh gosh, I forgot the acronym, but really it's the comms, national comms, national preparedness communications. And Chin was on. And of course, James Intrepid Commander was talking through it. And it's the Skycom push to talk, which also is a GMRS radio. So I'm working with a few friends and colleagues to tap into that network. First off, they are already talking about. So for someone who knows nothing about radios, what's the, you know, here's a, here's a prompt technique for you to go back to AI in the barest terms possible. That's what sometimes I ask for, if I want the, you know, just the, absolute essence of what i'm asking about in the barest term possible what are the radios able to do that that you're involved in with chin. All right gmrs that's the basic walkie-talkie style that most people know a lot of people have the cheap chinese bao fang or similar radios and those can go 10 or 20 miles line of sight on a clear day For sure. But if you're in mountainous terrain. Or deep in an urban canyon. You can only get like. A few hundred yards. And it can be pretty bad. Even less if literally a bank vault is in between you and them. So anyway. There's that. That's a mainstay of preppers. Because if all power is out. But you still can charge those. With solar power or whatever. Then you still have some comms. Even though it's limited to your homestead or whatever. So there's that. That's the redundancy. But the more complex version is the push to talk, which actually uses the cell tower network. And you can communicate. not five miles, 10 miles, 20 miles, but hundreds and hundreds of miles. If the cell towers have power and capacity, which, you know, if there's an EMP, they definitely will not. So you will not be able to use that function. But if there's a nine 11 type of event somewhere else in the world or in the country, that is, um, You know, it still might be handy to talk to your team instead of having to get into group chats or try to use your cell phone, which could have problems. You know, that's not the barest form possible. I'm pretty bad at barest form. Can I try? Yeah. Linus site, short range FM. There you go. Paired with long distance cellular network repeater capability, but the form factor is a walkie talkie. There you go. Much better. Is that right? Is that what we're dealing with? I think so. And there's some frequency that the long range is on that is the same as your cell phone. So I'm kind of curious, why do owners of this radio get to throw signal through cell towers when you're paying for cell phones to have that service? I think one of the reasons is it's, instantaneous where. No, no. Why the, why do the telecoms allow you to do it? Are they forced by law to make these open to the radios? Well, it does use a SIM card. So these is like a 4g or 4g SIM card. Like a cell phone does. But do you pay in any way? First year is free. And then I think it's $ 40 a year after that. Oh, you're subscribing to these radios. For the push to talk cell phone style. Yes. GMRS has never subscribed. So you can, So you're paying to be on the cell towers. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So I guess it comes out to like three or four bucks a month, which, Hey, I mean, will I use this? Probably not. If stuff doesn't hit the fan, I won't use it too much except for, you know, fun or if you're caravanning or whatever, it's really the GMRS and that combined, which is the cool part. And there's some other repeater functions and bridges that can kind of connect the analog with the digital. kind of within this so you can if one of your friends only has a gmrs analog radio you can still have them receive the digital by way of your retransmission but that's what i need to learn from chin how to do. That okay okay gotcha so you can connect people line of sight into a same conversation that's zach hopping over cell towers. And in theory if you have let's say a 50 watt repeater instead of a five watt handheld device and you have like a 30 foot antenna instead of a one foot antenna maybe you get more range etc etc so that's the goal but what it doesn't have is the mesh tastic network which is more you know that's like the bare minimum everything except for literally a carrier pinch in right yeah so that is not part of this and that is actually what we've talked about in the past and we do need to fill that gap in you know, that's. Line of sight peer to peer. It is line of sight peer to peer, but it does not use cell towers, but it is kind of, uh, I believe you can daisy chain it more effectively than GMRS. So like the analog radio, it has limits to how many times you can kind of repeat it and cycle it unless you get to a really good base station, I think. Yep. So you're investing, you're investing in this capability. Yeah. This month. All right. A little bit of time, a little bit of money. Um, I've been doing a fair amount of shooting this summer too. So I'm still, I've, I've moved on. What do you think? What's the lowest level from trainee to novice? Maybe I've become novice shooter instead of trainee. Okay. Okay. I want to get to intermediate in the next couple of years, but yeah, that one, one round at a time. So I've been doing that, but I've been slacking on is some other, I don't know. A lot of other things. Ha ha. I got a lot of other stuff on my plate, but it is what it is. Yeah, good, good. I think most of mine is just still skill-based. Using AI to the max to learn about things I didn't ever really know about or I kind of heard, but the way it was presented to me was I kind of just didn't get it or it was kind of tedious to learn it that way. And the thing I like about large language model capability is you could teach it how you like to learn the language. I mean, you got to read it, right? Well, I suppose they're going to be spitting out videos like crazy pretty soon. Yeah. Right. So how you like it read to you or video presented to you or slides or paragraph format or bullet format or in large chunks, small chunks, how you like the, your language tones of language. You can train the AI to, to, to teach you the way you like to learn. And it's just helping me access all kinds of things that before, you know, with all due respect to the experts in the field, it never really sunk in because I couldn't kind of get past some of the basic ways they, you know, talked about their special art. I can, I can get the AI to spit it at me in ways I understand. I think that's revolutionary. I feel like I've seen it. Well, You're not that far difference in age, all considered for me. But I remember when I was a kid, got the encyclopedia Britannica, right? Yeah. And if you didn't know the answer to something, you could look in the encyclopedia. And if it wasn't there, you're pretty screwed. You go to the library, I guess, ask around your neighbors and stuff, but you can't verify Jack. But then the internet came and I was like 10 years old, 12, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, pretty much 40. working the internet, learning how to use the internet, find sources and search everywhere. And there's a bunch of bullshit out there, obviously, but you could actually go two, three, four steps beyond just asking your neighbor, asking your friend, looking at the encyclopedia. But it was still like actually finding a super nuanced thing. Like how does this particular code work with this particular walkie talkie radio set on a Tuesday? Like you ain't going to find that shit on Google, but I'm telling you, AI brings it another step or two ahead where it will, like, be able to find cross-references and really vague associations that are legit. Fetches information. Right. Faster than any machine. So, like, teaching yourself and learning stuff about prepping and about using these walkie-talkies about how chemistry works. I don't know. Like, I never would have gone to college if I was 16 or 18 right now. You just teach yourself everything. I don't know. I guess you got to go to college to put it on your resume still, but... I could learn everything I learned at Purdue in six months if I actually applied myself. Probably three months. Like, that's five years of schooling. A lot of money. I could learn it all in three months or less. And probably better and more real-world case applications. Yeah, I think you scratch the surface on stuff accurately. But I still believe in, like, studying something for three months, you know, progressively and reading, you know, and, and, and if you really want to know something, it's, there's no plugging it in the back of your head and learn how to fly a helicopter like Trinity. That's a great point. Well, there's two big flaws of how I'm saying, at least first, do you actually trust the information he's given back to you? Like the, going back to the Democrats and the collectivists and the tyrants, they can plant stuff in there that can control what it spits back. So if you just give over all your thought to it, that's a really bad idea. And the second, I totally forgot the second one, but it was another reason why, you know, it's a slippery slope to say the least to just give your thoughts over to it or just assume whatever it gives you. Oh, here it is. Something you actually have to learn in the physical world. AI is very limited of like learning how to become a blacksmith. Like you can, read about it but they ain't gonna do jack compared to actually having a real blacksmith teach you. I'm gonna disagree with you a little bit a little bit so i think they're and you can do this you can you can teach yourself now about the types of learners that are out there and i would say that a vast majority of people couldn't necessarily learn to be a blacksmith that way but there's a fraction that can And of course, the first time they put their hands into the, you know, the, the shop and use the anvil news, the hammer, they'll still be learning to do because that's muscle memory. Right. But, but the theory and the, and the app applied knowledge, some can read it and become very, very good at fast. Yeah. And, and there's other people that learn entirely physical ways. And that actually AI is going to, It's going to be a while before AI gets to the point of that. But look at YouTube. Look at the amount of people that just browse you to learn how to do things, right? And how many times have you gone and had to sit through half of a YouTube video while the person talked about nothing to do with what you wanted to learn, and now you were at the point where you can actually get to the barest term possible and spit out AI-generated videos that will physically demonstrate things to you. So reading about it or watching it might make doing it later you know, just cuts down that learning path tremendously to all kinds of topics that, you know, in the past were hard to access. Well, another pro and con is like, what do you have to keep in your working memory? I could just dump a whole bunch of knowledge in an AI chat and come back to it three months later and just pick right back up. I don't have to re-review all types of bull crap. get back up to speed, right? So that's great. But on the other hand, if you don't actually fully understand something, you're just kind of bullshit. You're not, you know, I'm just talking at work specifically. You get on a phone call, you better know what you're talking about because some AI prompt isn't going to save you if you're actually talking to another human about something. But it helps you prep a bunch too. So I don't know. There's pros and cons to it all. It's certainly... Certainly interesting. Except for when you're throwing it on mute when they're talking and you're typing your butt off. I do that, but there's limits to that. Yeah, you do. There's limits to that. Speaking of, one search I did earlier, I was correct. Color of Law. This is going back to the schools in Washington and Massachusetts. Well, it wasn't a school, I guess, but the state of Massachusetts. We're talking about the Overton window and pressing people to more and more restrictive measures and how they start a panic and hysteria. And somehow when they can seize almost all the Democrats, a vast majority of the independents and even get some Republican leading people to go along with it under the color of law, we get these tyrannical situations. Yeah. What'd you find out? Well, I mean, we hit it right. That's what color of law is the appearance or authority of government power but the act itself is unlawful this often comes up when a government official such as a police officer judge corrections officer or other public employee uses authority from their position to violate someone's rights a misuse of official power etc obviously they use police but there's a lot of other ways so i mean the washington state school district trying to say it's against the law, right? The Massachusetts against the law. It's not really that, you know. Anyway, just keep that in mind, people, just because your local or state or national government or international government tries to say something is wrong or they have the right to do something. That doesn't mean it's lawful, number one. Number two, I get my rights from God, not from man. That's the whole point of the Bill of Rights. So keep that in mind, too. So have you ever met people that, you know, who let's just say, um, swerve on, on, on the side of the unlawful side of things and, you know, may, may have habits that aren't entirely, you know, respectful, maybe, maybe they're friends anyways, or maybe they're acquaintances, or maybe they're just people, you know, you don't even like. And you hear from these people. when the color of law kind of argument comes up and you're like, that's not legit. The authorities can't do that. Don't they seem to be the people that are always like, oh yeah, they can. Oh yeah, they can. That's the law. That's the way it is. Nothing you can do. I don't know why the people that advocate most for the tyranny are sometimes the degenerates. Gosh, I wish I remembered exactly where I read this, but just a couple weeks ago it was all about how a lot of folks will conflate their own ego with the state's ego. Yeah. And that's why people were so like, I mean, with COVID, it'll pretty much like snitch on you. Right. But we've seen so many things in the past. Petty tyrants. Yeah. It turns into Soviet Union or Nazi Germany type of like snitching out your neighbor real quick. Depends on it. Get an extra loaf of bread at the government grocery store for doing it. Yeah. So that's like, that's one of the worst curses out there of the collectivism is they turn you against each other under the color of law. And you, they, you know, you pretty much do the dirty work on their behalf. Yeah. Yeah. Study the Chinese cultural revolution. It was, it was, that's huge right now over there. That's why. Yeah. That's, that's really bad. That's what they got left with after sixties and seventies. Right. Tens of millions of righteous people that were murdered by that regime. That's the thing. Like, There is nurture in nature and all that, but a good portion of their gene pool that had righteousness in it was exterminated. So you've got to keep that in mind. It'll come back. I hope so. Humans come back, but it's going to take decades. Minimum. It takes a certain amount of time living under a totalitarian regime. It has to crumble. That's my opinion. I've got the positive side of humanity. Those things, by their very essence, from our creator, our illegitimate and every human soul knows it they must fail. But unfortunately most of the world has never had freedom or very small amounts i don't. Think they've ever had a chance at more freedom than. Now that's a good point that's the only hope for them i guess and we got to preserve what we got here and keep expanding the frontier and fight pushing back we've already lost a lot of ground so. There you go and i hope ai behaves so far like the bitcoin blockchain which doesn't seem to be manipulable by any power on earth. Just mathematically, just the governments don't have what it takes to start to fracture the blockchain. If large language models could be left to people to have the power to fight back is it's there. It's there. It's growing. It's not, it's not weakening. It's growing. Oh, well, this is what I hope doesn't happen. Just like streaming services came out and they were very cheap and awesome and then they cost more and became shittier. And everything got fragmented more and less. Just the inshittification. I know you and I talk about that. A lot of things have become worse quality and more expensive at the same time, despite technological advances. Definitely hope we don't see that with AI. That could be something interesting. At this point, it's growing so fast they can't suppress it so much. But if it did split between kind of the AI for the peasants versus to the super upper class kind of window. It would take a cartel to do that. Right. Which is what they're trying to set up in D.C. right now. For sure. And I'm with the president. Came right out and said that's a complete hoax. Straight up hoax. He said it this week. Complete hoax. It's not going to happen. It's not going to be dangerous. There's no reason to get away with it. Don't kill the golden goose. I guess the question is, does he actually believe it for the reasons we do, or is he just saying that so desperately the market doesn't collapse in the next two years? Is he actually believe this, or is it more just political posturing? He knows it's the right thing to say. That's like asking, do you think Trump is really a capitalist? How could he not be? Yeah, you know, capitalist or crony capitalist, tough to say. He's definitely more capitalist than Kamala, so it all goes back to that, I guess. I get your game theory there. How crony is crony, right? Like, crony is, you know, bad. And there has to be outsiders that can come in and disrupt crony capitalism. And crony capitalism tends to form, I agree. And then there's cartels locked in by regulatory capture, which absolutely must not be allowed to happen. Yeah, it's definitely worse. It's... It's only one form away or two from crony capitalism, though, but I get what you mean. Nice. Well, we've hit the hour plus mark. Just checking out any other articles that are huge. I mean, we pretty much hit it all. What's your views on the summer of 2026? Maybe one thing that happened that you didn't expect and one thing that didn't happen that you expected. The riots never materialized that we predicted were possible. quite possible. We've talked about maybe why not, and maybe the NGO money getting eviscerated is part of it, but we didn't really see any riots or civil unrest in the streets, right? So that'd be one thing that did not happen that I would have thought could have happened back in May or June. Street takeovers. There were some. They were big, but it never got violent, never got directly political. Yeah. It's good to see the kids out on the street these days, not just playing Xbox, so it's all good. A little bit of a joke. Not really, though. The what happened that I didn't expect or was like earth shattering or really bad. I actually wonder what's going to happen here with this whole Saudi Arabia. Right. If they can't get their secondary source of oil out, that was, you know, we're going to be looking at definitely above $ 4 a gallon gas and above $ 6 diesel oil. and above 5% 10, you know, 10 year yield minimum for years to come. If, if this doesn't get resolved soon. And so I don't know, I guess I expected that to happen. I expected Iran to keep, you know, not to be resolved by end of the summer by any means. And it's not definitely, um, geez, I don't know what else happened this summer. It was super busy. It was one of the busiest dashboards of the whole of any summer we've had, except for maybe 2020, I think. Anything economically happened that you hadn't expected? No, you know, it hasn't, I guess it hasn't been as bad as I expected yet. So I definitely expected oil to be over a hundred, over 120, even by now. So the fact that it's at 105 is less than I thought. And yeah, gas at a 427, you know, I, if you had told me that, Everything's going on with Iran. The straits are still closed. Saudi Arabia is getting bombed. A $ 5 billion pumping station is destroyed over the weekend. I would expect gas to be $ 5 a gallon. But we're headed in that way in a few weeks. Also, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve continues to lose 1 to 2 million barrels per week. Do we need that anymore, though? I guess we'll find out because it's going away. Well, it's tempting. The buildings are still there. We need more. We need some more to put underground, though. But that was a very Cold War thing. That was a very 70s. If Soviet Union came down through the Caucasus, through Iran, and just straight into Iraq and Saudi Arabia, if that happened during World War III, we would have been in major disadvantage fighting without that oil source. There was whole campaign plans, whole theater, like CENTCOM's mission during the Cold War. I mean, that was that, stopping that during World War III. Everything that's happening with Iran is restructuring petroleum markets to favor U.S. export in the long run, right? Do we need a above ground strategic petroleum reserve. If we actually have the taps to bring it up and refine it, I mean, it is sort of a golden age for American petroleum industry and Canada. It's going to be for Venezuela. I guess just how long of a runway can it go at that rate? And why aren't they already releasing as much and drilling as much as they can? You know, maybe they already are first off, if they're not, I. Think they're clearing the environmental losses and the EPA is changing the rules to open it up. That's good. At the rate that Trump's administration is going, we're going to be drilling and, you know, well, it's already the maximum output of our country ever right now. And I guess that, you know, can it continue at this rate for five or 10 years or well, it's going to start running dry. I don't have that data, but you know, I agree. And I'm getting away from oil in the first place. Well, Nice, but I think. It would be nice if gas was two bucks a gallon instead of four. It's definitely simply there. I mean, you said it on a show. It's the Iran tax. Hopefully it's worth it, but $ 2 a gallon, at least half your price out there. Call it the Iran tax. That'll be easy to run on for the Democrats, and I'll be agreeing with them. Not that I'll vote for them, but it's true. Not to mention diesel is up way higher percentage, by the way, than gas. So it's not even the oil is the refinement as well. So got to get those refineries, get some built, kind of going full circle. The dollars on a spreadsheet is one thing, but the actual time it takes to build the infrastructure is different. We've used the aircraft carrier analogy. It's like $ 6, $ 7 billion for an aircraft. Yeah, but it takes like three years to make an aircraft carrier. So you can print $ 80 trillion. You can't make aircraft carriers faster or that much faster. I guess if you paid everybody, you know, I had eight shifts going. Oh, with AI and robotics? Possibly. Unless you crank them out. It's just, will the physical commodities be there to support all that actual growth? And we also got more leaks out of the Pentagon. You know, leakers are getting prosecuted now. It's coming out there and reports the... Interceptor ballistic missile, anti-ballistic missile interceptor stockpiles are basically, you know, way down. Some would say, you know, dangerously low if we had to fight China tonight, right? But by the end of the decade, they're going to be completely new and restocked. True. That'll be good. Yeah. Some people will make some good cash off that too. The Washington Sun. Speaking of military, I'm actually, I think this is pretty cool stuff. You know, all considered. First public acknowledgement of space-based capabilities. Previously under wraps. You know, there was the treaty, no nukes in space. Hopefully there's no nukes in space, but whether it's kinetic weapons or just electronic warfare, satellites, et cetera, it has been acknowledged. As of, what was this, yesterday? We got the space planes that could take nukes to space, so you don't even need to have them there. Well, I mean, yeah. Space, I forgot the exact height of space, but it's not that high. We could put them in the orbit if it made sense. Right. I mean, ICBM leaves space for sure. Yeah. I'll say this much about this article. I've talked to people who were in the military, who knew classified things, Who told me things that maybe they should have or shouldn't. But I certainly was never read onto these programs and violated no laws in knowing this stuff or having it told to me. But what I will say is this isn't new. This has been this way for a very long time. Should be. Not nukes. I'm not talking about nukes. But I'm talking about assets in space that can defend themselves. Right. More than just satellites that observe. Or ones that protect the ones that observe. Well, that's pretty much what we're talking about. Yeah. It's the main. Now, is there a whole system that can shoot down ICBMs and stuff? That's definitely a lot more of a stretch. I don't know. I don't know. Could be. No, no. I think that, I think, I think that the, the videos that, and I'm old, I'm old enough to remember when, Reagan announced strategic defense initiative, you know, called star Wars for the people that needed to take it, make it a little more infantile so they could understand it. And the videos that were on the nightly news about what was being planned. And that was the point where the theory of how to do that was just being understood for the first time and announced the technology to do it. Yeah. I think, I think, Space Force exists because it's managing that. Well, I guess that's where Donald Rumsfeld's $ 2. 3 trillion unaccounted for on September 10, 2001 must have gone, but at least it went to something instead of just some foreign banksters coffers in Luxembourg or something. I think that's about it for the night. You got anything else you want to finish with? The cost of that is in that $ 40 trillion that is owed by the government. That was, those are black contracts. Well, that's the debt. Don't forget all of the money they tax people. So they've spent a lot more than 40 trillion. That's just what they haven't actually collected. Well, a piece of that might have space locked down tight for the USA. Right. If it does, that's good. I'm all for that. That's worth a trillion or two right there. So the other 38, 39 trillion, I don't know. Yeah. Where'd it go? Couple trillion. No, I get it. That Ponzi scheme known as Social Security. I don't even honestly bring that up these days because that is just such a cluster, but that's huge. All right. Well, money supply growth accelerated in July to 59-month high. So the printing presses will be going. We'll see what the Fed does tomorrow. We will report on it next week. Predict. What's your prediction? I'll say plus 0.25. You think they're raising rates tomorrow? They might. You think Warsh is going to do that to Trump right after getting in office and have to survive two years of being treated like Jerome Powell? What he should do is raise it like. 5 or 1. Just raise the heck out of it. Crush inflation. Actually, Warsh doesn't have. He has only one vote in this. The full make actually votes. Let's look. If we could... Might as well. Might as well. That's a total Wall Street lie that the Fed chairman decides the rates. Wow. And Trump knows perfectly well, but he knows that there's too many people that aren't smart enough to understand the difference. And he's talking to them, too. So, I mean, I did not look at this before. No change, 11%. And 88% think it's going to be a 25 basis point increase. I did not think it'd be that high. So I'm taking the super big favorite is my side, apparently. Yeah. Um, so I would actually say the 11% chance of no change is the right bet here. Cause there's, for the reasons you said, there's at least a one in five chance. He holds it. I obviously don't spend my time trying to figure out what each member of the, what's it called? Forward Operating. Open Market Committee. Really open, alright. It's out on the open market that they're messing with rates. Or so they think. What do you think about Besant and I'm the House and the Treasuries? What do you make of Scott Besant now? I'm the house that, uh, I'm the decider George W. Bush. Um, yeah, that was a pathetic attempt at strength and the market punished him instantly. And long story short, he had previously announced $ 2 billion in buybacks, then said he was going to increase that the market thought it would go up to 10 billion. He said $ 4 billion. The market said, we need $ 10 billion in bailouts, not $ 4 billion. So interest rates going up. All your intervention. What he's saying is, I am the houses. Hey, all that matters is what the U.S. Treasury does. I'm the house. The house always wins. I'm the house. And that is total emperor new clothes type of talk right there. It's also comparing the Treasury to a casino, which... I'm not sure that was good opt-in. Oh, well, I mean, I think it's more like a degenerate gambler going up to the cage trying to get more little coins or whatever. Chips. Chips. Yeah. And they're refusing him extra credit. And he said, what? I am the house. And then they call security and throw his ass out. But, you know, the Fed and the Treasury get special privileges that us. Regular folks don't get. Well, if he's the house, he's behind the counter giving out chips. Wouldn't it be more like. No, the free market is the house. He's just a player. He's got the roles reversed. The international bond market is way more powerful than him, is the theory. He doesn't feel that's the case. He thinks the king dollar still rules the world. I don't know how much longer it will, but it's still holding together, I guess, for now. King of Turd Mountain. I'd rather have a dollar than a euro or a pound or a yen, right? It's quite a dilemma, isn't it? Is there a single other fiat currency that you'd even consider putting your wealth into? Swiss franc, maybe? Even that's fallen. I might trust the Swiss more. Really? Okay. I haven't heard the word franc since the Euro. Yeah, since the Euro took away the French franc. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not a fan of fiat, as we know, but that's my detriment sometimes, I guess, to you. And to this point in history today, there's still no currency on Earth that's backed by any bullion. Is that true? I believe so. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think the BRICS sure as heck never followed through with that. That's why King Dollar's safe right there. It helps. People are saying that China's accumulating gold. China's accumulating gold. They're going to re-peg their currency and announce 10% back with gold and stuff like that. Yeah, and you just... Take a plane to Beijing with all your Juan notes and walk into the People's Bank of China and they'll just hand you a gold and you'll fly home. No problem. No, no, definitely. I can live like that. So if you read that level of liquidity and backing, that ain't ever happening again. Not even in my libertarian dream, I don't think that'll happen, honestly. Look at gold back to the U.S. dollar. Treasury could mint bills that have it woven. In, right? We could do it. I don't know. Make an ounce of gold very valuable if we did. If they made gold and silver legal tender, that would kind of put on even playing field at least. But what about stitching it into the bank notes, right? There's private companies doing that. We've talked about it with Dave Jones. I think he's got a few, right? The goldbacks. Why not just do that with U.S. currency? A congressman, a president... They can sign a bill and do it. No one uses cash anymore. In 50 years, no one's going to use cash at all. I don't think no one's true at all. Drug dealers. No. There's a giant underground economy. Cash changes hands constantly. Yeah, but it still represents like 2% of transaction volume. Yeah. So it's nothing. It's a rounding error. It's also a good way to keep your Transactions private. Yeah, I'd be all for official government currency with some gold woven into it. I'd buy some. I'd use some. That's a million steps away from where we are. It'd be easy to. Get to, though, if the popular will changed. I prefer to just have it done at the people level. Government be damned. I think if the U.S. economy collapsed, if the dollar collapsed... and it produced a government that ran on a platform for doing that, and then it was done, everything would be revalued, obviously, right? But the ounce of gold would be revalued by a lot, and it's a perfect remedy to back the bills with currency and weave it right into them. Issue that. The government could set the price of gold that way, and. Let's bring back faith in our currency. Take it off of the fiat system. The gold at Fort Knox and other places that's U.S. government owned, it's valued at, I think we looked at this once, like $ 37 an ounce. Sure. And real gold is $ 4, 500 an ounce. So that's a great way to, I like that. Let's revalue that and let's make gold $ 80, 000 an ounce. But it's still going to be a trace in your bill, right? Just a tiny trace inside of a bill. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You only need like half a gram in a $ 100 bill or actually like a $ 1, 000 bill. If you wanted to grab a bunch of bills and throw it in a pot and melt it down, you'd have gold. Yeah. I love it. I think. It's a no-brainer if there was a collapse. Oh, well, for prepping purposes, yes, I guess. That means any gold coins you're holding today could be. order of magnitude more valuable under that scenario. Yeah, which would probably be good, but that's another reason why they ain't going to let it happen anytime soon. Or they'll, let's just say, someone will be kicking in my door to steal my shit. I think they may have to do that. Come and kick in my door and steal it? No, any government that rove at that solution would not be the kind of government that would kick in doors for the private that held gold. No, yeah, but. I don't know. I like the mental experiment or whatever, but this is so far away. Yeah. Okay, Hobbs. Like, literally. I'm making a statement on Patriot Power Hour tonight for our listeners today, for people in the future. That's a solution. We could do that. Vote for people that'll do that. Advocate for it. We could change it to that. That's the solution in a crisis. A banking solution in a crisis is that. Not some dystopia. All right. That is good positive thinking. I just don't want to get too distracted from the actual problems in front of us, but I get what you mean for sure. It's not like we haven't spent the whole summer covering the actual problems, so I get it. Nice. All right. Well, anything else? We definitely had a great show tonight. No, I've enjoyed it. Thank you to the audience for listening, as always. We're going to do this probably... a couple Thursdays from now. So there's an interim between our seasons. Equinox will pass. We'll be into the fall season of Patriot Power of 2026. And it could be a very eventful one. So stay prepared. Use this month to caulk the hull and stitch the sails. There you go. Be ready. There you go. Prep on. All right. September 24th is when we plan to be back. We always reserve the right to come back sooner, though. 362 in the books. Another good one. Catch you later, man. Peace out.