Patriot Power Hour #365

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 October 21st. 2026, episode 365. Yep, 365 episodes of Patriot Power Hour. I'm the Ben, the Breaker of Banksters here with Future Dan. What's going on, Future Dan? Yeah, well, we took a couple weeks off. One planned and one technical errors, but we're back. We got a wider array of audiences with the potential to listen to Patriot Power Hour, Ben. Than ever before. Yep, we've been able to, here at Prepper Broadcasting Network, home of Patriot Power Hour and a lot of other great shows, been able to expand the reach, not just to Rumble and X, but also going through on Kik, going through on Facebook, YouTube, and even Twitch. Now, how long until a couple of those might ban PBN? Who knows? Who knows? YouTube's already done it before. But long story short, that is one, two, three, six different places to view the live stream with video and screen share. But, of course, you can also find us audio only, and that's really the best place. We're always there. Just go to Apple iTunes or Spotify or any and all of the places you find podcasts. Just search Prepper Broadcasting Network. There you go. So the chance that there's new audience, people having new access and just pick up on Patriot Power Hour, episode 365. Thought maybe we should summarize for anybody new listening what our show is about. Yeah. Well, let's start with a little bit about how we got into this, I suppose. I started off with a blog which just hit its 15-year anniversary, or actually, let's see, yeah, 15-year anniversary just a month ago for dethronethebanksters.com. A few years later, I started my own podcast, and you were a listener, and you hit me up, and we were guests a couple times. Then we decided, why don't we collaborate? Startup Patriot Power Hour in November 2017, so coming up on nine years of that future, Dan. Yeah, and meanwhile. I had developed futuredanger.com, which serves as kind of the news backbone of Patriot Power Hour. So we're talking through that frame a lot of times, but some weeks more than others. And tonight's going to be one of those lesser weeks because, Ben, I'm not sure if we have a news blackout or just hyper-focus on the election and the demagoguery that is always part of our federal elections. So not a lot on the heat map dashboard that is showing right now tonight. And it's, uh, absolutely the opposite of what we saw throughout the summer in terms of volume and severity of, of, uh, articles, at least in June and July, there were multiple weeks in a row. We were seeing 40 or more. with a lot of them at the highest grade, the most severe SHTF level, with many others just behind that, right? Really important news-breaking threats. Of course, this is futuredanger.com, so it's not just topical news and politics. It's focusing on danger, focusing on how you can learn when you need to enact your prep or plans, as one example. So right now, though, we're seeing one, two, three, four articles, one-tenth of what we were seeing this summer, which is totally the opposite of what one might expect that, okay, not much goes on in the summer and everything happens in the fourth quarter, right? That's not what we're seeing here right now. Yeah, and the level of effort of finding news, it's done now with the help of AI, so a lot of that's mechanical, and the same articles, same process, producing 40 headlines in August and September is now decimated, literally. But it should have been fine in the same news. Now, there's no shortage of headlines, right? But put them through the frame of future danger and they're not particularly indicative of dangerous events. Well. Behind the scenes, there's probably a lot of unreported bad news building up. That, in and of itself, would be a level of danger that he might have to measure. I will say, I hate to break the fourth wall, but we did lose about 80% of your broadcast there. It was a rubber banding effect, so definitely a different technical issue than last week. We'll just hope The network pulls it back together. But essentially what you're saying is just because we're only seeing four articles right now does not mean a lot is going on in the background, a lot is brewing, and a lot might show itself next week or the week after, especially with election coming through, right? We might be losing Future Dan. He's there. Radio check. Future Dan. Oh, he's still in the lobby, but we've lost audio folks. That's okay. I'm ready to rock. We'll see if we can get him back on different tech issue than last weekend. This is episode 365. We rarely have tech issues. So it's just so odd that two weeks in a row, I'm not saying the CIA is trying to censor us, but it's just kind of odd. It looks like we might have future Dan back. Let me, let's see here. I'll try to click him through. Adding him to the stage. Future Dan, are you there? Yeah, how does that sound to you now? Sound good. Much better. No one can see your video, but you are broadcasting video if you want to turn off your camera. But it's not on the stage anyway. But regardless, coming through loud and clear now, that was just some weird rubber banding effect, network effect. But you're good, it sounds like. How about now, though? I think this happened. Might have lost him again. Jay Ferg's in the chat. Good. All right, Jay Ferg, we're doing it. Jay Ferg says, double trouble. That's right when she came in. Then says Skynet, fighting hard on y'all. I know, right? Freaking Skynet. All right, I think we might have the correct Future Dan back. Let's see. Future Dan, radio check. Are you there? Yeah, we reestablished this the way we set it up. Sounds really good right now. Let's just hope it doesn't go back to that rubber band lag effect, but I think you're good. Yeah. So not a lot of news tonight, but that doesn't mean there's not trouble brewing and we can run through the heat map dashboard to just cover what we know is dangerous tonight. Roger that. Let's do it. It'll be fast, but here we go. Economically delinquent auto loans are rising. So we're seeing a big rise in delinquent auto loans and repossessions as well. But that was it in the economic sphere. In the natural news and health sphere, nothing. We have nothing. And also, in the liberty sphere, what I like to call the Bill of Rights column, almost nothing. Which is good. That means there's no active attacks on our Bill of Rights, currently, but as future Dan said, doesn't mean it's not happening under the surface or just not making the news. Again, this is a news dashboard, what's publicly available. But we do have some news in the security column. Let's go. Egypt moves towards sending troops to Saudi Arabia to help defend against the Iranian-backed Houthis. The Houthis, backed by Iran, have been doing some heavy damage to Saudi Arabia today. both energy infrastructure as well as direct hits on the international airport. That costs a lot of money, just from the lack of tourism and business travel, to say the least. Russian satellite shadows U.S. radar imaging satellite. A U.S. radar imaging satellite has been announced has been shadowed just a few miles away, which is very close in space. So this is actually the highest rated article of the night. The most dangerous. Really actualized. It's not clandestine space combat suspected anymore. It's essentially confirmed that space combat or close flyby observations, which could turn into combat any second, is happening. We'll keep an eye on that. Finally, the U.S. and Japan begin major military exercises focused on the islands near Taiwan. Now, Future Dan, I will say we, let's just say it was my fault. We had some articles from last week that we could have gone through today. I made it so that could not happen. Were there any of those articles that are currently not on here that we should have really hit on no matter what? Do you remember any, so to speak? Honestly, I think they're pretty run-of-the-mill and well-discussed on this network and others. So, yeah, just moving forward. This is a snapshot of where we are in the USA in terms of dangerous indicators. It's pretty light. That doesn't mean a lot of people aren't worried about a lot of things. But concrete, fit-the-paradigm indicators of future danger, we just don't have it tonight. And economically, there's a lot of articles out there about the AI bust, right? And there's all types of articles about how interest rates going up and so new home starts are going down. Yes, but I'm pretty much in agreement with you that there are small puffs of smoke out there, but nothing really showing the collapse is imminent. Doesn't mean the structure isn't rotting underneath, but we're not seeing a collapse in the housing market. We're not seeing a panic buying of gold and silver. In fact, oil is below a hundred gold and silver are down a bit in the last month, you know, down five or 10%. So things are still elevated, you know, over time, but they're not at some sort of criticality, which is, I don't know. Do you, Why is that the case? Is it just randomness and there's just certain weeks that are less than others? Or is it more of a concerted blackout or preparing for the midterms? What's your thought? Yeah, I think there's a lot of news that a lot of people don't want to have come out because they don't know which way it spins on. Them, right? So it's more advantageous. If you don't know, if it doesn't read down to your benefit, then better off not mentioning it. There's also... for one political party, a lot of. News is just way too complicated for their constituency. They're not going to understand it. So getting them distracted from what they should hate on most is probably part of it. But if you'd like to sort of zoom in on column three indicators and work down into the inactive blue indicators, what I would ask you is which ones of these recently, because It's sorts by recency. The bluest, the blue at the top have most recently had an article. I don't know if you can go zoom into the width of column three so we can actually see the titles. It'll look kind of goofy, but I'll try. I'll do my best. There you go. That's about right. Can you, can you make it so it's always piqued my interest? I don't know if I can trim it like that. It'll look kind of, I guess I could really do it, but I can't isolate that column by itself, so to speak. I gotcha. Yeah, so we can read the titles better now. Any that you think is suppressed news, it's really bad, but we're just not getting that news right now economically? I would say, okay, first off, looking at these in order, let me read some of them in chronological order of when they've been activated last, but they're not this week. but they were recently. Inflation skyrockets. Treasury rates surge. Stock market crashes. Diesel price peaks. Gasoline price peaks. Oil price peaks. Money stock shoots up. Real estate market melts, and we'll stop with this one. Food prices soar. Actually, one more. Gold soars. So it's been a while since gold was soaring. What are being suppressed is your question. I feel like the importance of the treasury rate surge is being swept under the rug or they're attempting to, and that goes hand in hand with the inflation. But most people know that inflation is pretty bad. It's kind of hard to fully cover it up, but kind of, ostrich sticking their head in the sand with respect to the treasury rate surge is one that I think is either being suppressed because people have their own biases and they don't want it to be true, or maybe there's more of a directive of, hey, we got to play both sides of the coin. The treasury department wants the dollar to be strong and interest rates to follow that. But the Fed, on the other hand, has to do the opposite. They got to worry about the inflation. So it's really two opposing views that have to be held at the same time. It's cognitive dissonance right there. So you'd agree that they're not surging tonight? No, but they haven't fixed themselves since they were at that SHTF level a month ago. They really haven't fallen much, but they haven't surged in an additional. But it's like, okay, the house is still on fire, but the fire. Isn't grown. It's still going, but it hasn't consumed the entire second story yet. Right. The criticality, right. You know, you know, for the least part tonight, this month, this year, there's no fire that can't be put out. That's what it seems like. That's it's not raging at this point, but that certainly hasn't been put out. I guess you could say it's semi contained, but let's look at what's really, been a big driver of this this year is the diesel oil and gas in fact let's just go find the exact price right now let's literally go to the banksters own cnbc.com and for oil we are at 97 dollars so that's not low that's still high but it's not 150 dollars or 200 dollars it's wti or brent that is WTI and the Brent is about 110. There's always been a little premium on Brent, but that premium spread has increased a bit in the last year. Yeah. So that old, you know, triple digit. Can you hear me, Ben? Yeah, I can hear you. Well, can you hear me? Yep. It twanged a bit. Just checking. Yeah. So that old, uh, a hundred dollar a barrel oil, triple digit, That was like a scary thing when Saddam invaded Kuwait in 1991. But given the amount of inflation, I'm not sure that's a number I'm terribly worried at. You know, 120, 130, 150 a barrel, yeah. But that's not surging. None of this is surging. We've had a really rough economic summer, but it's plateaued. That's the point I'm trying to make. I think the reporting on it has plateaued. Has the actual damage plateaued is the question. We'll continue to report on that. But the prices are what the prices are right now. That's where you go. So let me know which one you think is going to reactivate soonest in that economic column. Perfect timing. I have an entire update on the Hormuz, straighter Hormuz, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and all commodities. And this is a model I've been putting together six plus months. And I have the latest update as of today. So we don't have much news, but I have some analysis for you. Ready? Yeah, I'd love to see that. Here's what I think has been a saving grace. And we're just like our fuel tanks are almost empty. But the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, it went from 600 or 700 million barrels down to 282 million. Now, it's plateaued. In the last few weeks, there's pretty much been no drop in the SPR. So that's good news. But I will say, we used up a lot of our credit of oil that is stored for emergencies, number one. Number two, the production has been gangbusters which is great i'm super happy that our country can produce our own energy 10 or 15 years ago we would not have been able to output right so much for our own production let alone any export but still that that scaling up of uh oil productions seemingly is peaked or it's a lot harder like the marginal cost of additional production just rises at a pretty fast pace meaning all right, we've used up our reserves and we're also getting every damn barrel out domestically as possible. How long, you know, can we go further than this? Or we kind of, we've used up our credit cards. So the next big bill that comes through, we can't pay. And that's where oil spikes to 150 plus because we can't mitigate it anymore. Is that going to happen or not? I'm not sure, but that's what I see as potential. You know, that'd be probably early next year. So, I wonder whether a strategic petroleum reserve is super useful in this century, especially now that we have this production, right? It's like the reserve is in the ground. Isn't that another way to think about it? It is, but it's way more expensive and risky. But in the aggregate, it's totally worth it. There's a ton in the ground. Probably a whole bunch that they don't even tell us about. that could be tapped, right? So in the ground is one of the best storage, but it takes months and months to get it out. Whereas the short, think of it as the short-term liquidity of money. We talk about the banksters and liquidity all the time. Well, in the energy market, similar, like if, okay, we need millions of barrels this month. It's a lot harder to pump that out rather than, Hey, we already have this reserve in these, different caverns and different storage tanks all along the Gulf coast. So that's been squeezed out. There's still 283 million barrels, which is still like a lot. It's a hell of a lot still in there and we can produce a lot and they're still trying to ramp up more. But I mean, I just, a lot of that has gone away. And if it, I think really, if any more is going to be tapped, it requires Congress to authorize it because they, that it would be an emergency to, I forgot the exact amount, but they're only like 10 or 20 million barrels away from having to have that kind of action, which would be politically difficult maybe, a little harder, maybe take a little while. I don't know about that. There's golf courses in D.C. that Trump's Interior Department's just cutting down like 400 trees and just telling the judge what's We'll do it because we preside over this. It's the executive branch. So spending off the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, that could happen. But you got to remember what it's for. It's for national security, right? It's a Cold War relic. And I'm not sure I was ever completely in alignment with doing that for oil, for uranium and plutonium and anything else you can make nuclear energy or bombs with. Absolutely. The Department of Energy is always going to control that. Absolutely. But oil? Boy, I think your frame of reference and growing up most of your life after the Cold War, being aware of these issues and being an adult after the Cold War puts you in a perspective that this is just a natural way that a federal government manipulates the economy. But to me, it's It's like that's the extra oil that if we have to fight World War III, we have it. And I'm not even sure we're organized to fight world wars. That way anyways. So I just question the value of the concept of a strategic. Petroleum reserve these days. Obviously, the military services, the Navy, the Air Force, the Army have fuel stocks, right? Highly refined fuel stocks on military installations. Right. So I don't think, I'm not sure I'm down with the idea of us even having a strategic petroleum reserve any longer. I get where you mean that maybe it's not as necessary as before. You can't fight a world war that way. But I would argue that they pissed it away for financial manipulation a lot more, you know. They were burning five to nine million barrels per week between May and August. So that wasn't just because they felt like it was a great idea. They absolutely had to. So fine. They mitigated the damage and all the production came online now. Great. But what if there's some major natural disaster or there is a war out there, then kind of, you know, we ain't going to have that much despair, let alone if we start taking attacks or something. But I don't think the, you know, the, The proverbial deep state, but really just the long-serving experts in the government, the bureaucrats at the Pentagon, in the intelligence community. If the SPR was getting drained at a rate where any of them could go forward and make a credible argument, this is dangerous, this is super dangerous, like we couldn't repel a Chinese attack on Taiwan because of what you're doing, then it wouldn't happen. I don't believe that Trump would just say, all right, I'm just going to. Burn the oil reserve down to the point where it would invite our enemies to attack us. Which makes me question, is that energy stockpile really as important as it used to be? I don't think it is. Otherwise, they wouldn't be doing it. I hope that they're that smart and organized and know what they're doing, but it just seems like a really bad idea to use up Unless they really needed to. They must have obviously needed it badly, but are they going to refill it? What's the plan to refill it, or are they going to say that it's not needed anymore if they come out and say that? I don't know. I guess maybe they can't come out and say that. It's like strategic ambiguity. But it's like, okay, what's the plan for this? What's the plan for the national debt? Are we paying that back? What's the– for interest rates? What's the plan? I'm just saying, as you're going to organize national strategic– resources right raw natural resources that are strategic to any modern military maybe this is a smarter way to do it and you don't have to have an spr that with with some of the acts of congress which are also cold war you know laws you know the defense production act and you know you know just you can seize the economy and just tell all the Oil companies and refineries, this is what you're doing next. You're satisfying these contracts that the U.S. government just handed you at whatever expense to something else. And they know they could just kind of command economy if they had to in a war. So why do we need an SBR? Maybe we don't. That's sort of what the evidence leads me to. This is conjectured, right? I don't have classified briefings on any of this. I wouldn't talk about them if I did either. So why do we need an SPR? Other than to manipulate the economy. I think Trump was looking at this thing, it's a relic of the Cold War, and be like, I can use this to manipulate the economy. And my sort of free market, free enterprise, laissez-faire approach to how government should be involved in markets is unless there's a real strategic national security demand, We don't need something like that for any president to be able to manipulate prices. Price manipulation by the government, I'm firmly against. Well, the good news might be most of the damage to the Iranian war has passed because, number one, that production has come online domestically. But number two, exports out of the Middle East have just crossed the pre-war threshold. So they... are finding ways around, and they are actually getting a lot of other production online and just figuring out any and all ways to get oil. I mean, in a perverse way, but also a beautiful way. That is how markets work. Damn, these prices are crazy high. I need to figure out any and all ways to get my freaking oil out of this country and make money. So people are doing that. uh there's a lot of going on with that but um how about this though diesel this goes now i want to go conspiracy that all the wars around the world are just bs and actually everybody's working together just to oppress the common man because diesel having huge problems. But guess what? The United States is taking shipments of diesel from our sworn bitter enemy, Russia. Russia's sending us diesel after we're helping Ukraine bomb their infrastructure. And obviously, Russia's not innocent in any means. I'm not on Russia's side in the Ukraine war, but like, holy cow, they're going to sell us diesel when we're supposed to be like an inch away from nuclear war? Does that just mean it's all BS? Or are the animal spirits of markets and money. Just so powerful that we could almost be at each other's throat, but they'll still sell us diesel because diesel's nearly all-time high here in America. What do you think? We shipped them wheat in the 50s and 60s. Right, so maybe that was all a fluke. They know they're not going to nuke each other, so let's do everything we possibly can to act like World Wrestling Federation wrestlers. And occasionally real fights break out. Sometimes, you know, in the locker room, they do actually get in a real fist fight. But really, the entire Cold War was a fraud. All this money was spent just to enrich the billionaires. Is that true or false? That's totally false. It's more like a room full of UFC fighters who aren't there to fight. But at any moment, you know, fists might be thrown. As long as everyone can agree, we could all make money and just make sure no one starts a real fight. More like it. I mean, I don't know. I'm not necessarily saying it's all a fraud, but on the other hand, I'm kind of like, wow, okay. They're going to sell us diesel and we're blowing up their refineries by way of Ukraine. I never understood that. How could it be? How could the nuclear arsenals in the United States and Russia be just fronts for some. Unified oppressive force doesn't make any sense. These are nation states with national centers of power, with governments that have their own impetus to continue to survive beyond any of their human beings that are part of them. These are institutions of superpowers. These are just. Based upon the nationalities that have the weapons. We got the weapons. The Russians got the weapons. This is not. We sent them wheat in the 50s to prevent them from starving and becoming incredibly unstable. Russia's sending us. Diesel as just out of propaganda for its own population and to just show Ukraine that they can. And Trump's letting them so they can show Ukraine that they can. Right? It's not like we need their diesel. We don't need any petroleum from Russia. Right. So these little games, I mean, if these were so serious, would there be this many games? Seems like they'd be playing with a lot of games, but maybe that's just how it works. Maybe that's how it works. How it could all be held together would go hand in hand with maybe something you're ready to talk about. Maybe not. But the advanced technology, right? The unidentified flying objects and the tic-tacs and the manipulation of gravity, magnetic fields, if that was known in the 40s and into the 50s and everybody knew, hey, I'm not saying that they were talking to aliens, but I'm just saying, like everybody already knew we can't be having those nuclear wars. It just will not be allowed, not to mention there might just be so much overmatch by the U.S. once they conquered the Nazis and took all that secret technology. I mean, do you put any weight into that? Because I know currently you believe there is massive overmatch with space weapons and technology that we can't even hardly imagine. Could that have been in, you know, started back in the forties and fifties and that could change how look at the cold war too. Yeah, I think the only way anything like that gets developed is from nation states racing against each other. I'll say this. The game theory would suggest that even if the nation states were agreeing with each other on the back end, they absolutely would not trust each other. So they would continue to develop it independently anyway. So there's certainly that aspect. No, there's no doubt in my mind that China, Russia, United States, Britain, France, Taiwan, Japan, Germany, you know, the real, the G7 and then Russia and China. They race. They race against each other in just clearly observable ways. And that a cabal running all of it secretly from behind is just doesn't hold up to reality. Might depend How much influence might be more of a question. Speaking of all this, how about we go deep into this one article that I definitely wanted to read. It's the Russian satellite. I thought it was a few miles away. I must have missed this part because it says it was 85 feet away from a U.S. registered satellite belonging to a commercial imagery provider. Which has dual use. It could be used commercially civilian, but in other ways, I'm sure, as well. So, yeah, that's a close call. Has this gone from clandestine space combat suspected to actually happening? I guess they didn't destroy anything. But what's your take on this and kind of the natural segue or evolution of the Cold War that we were talking about? I would invite you to rely on intuition to tell you that during the 80s when the Soviet Air Force shot down civilian airliners, Korean airliner full of American citizens and lots of declassified aerial combats on the border of Soviet Union and obviously over Korea and Vietnam that clandestinely United States and the Russians have conducted lethal air warfare for many decades. And why wouldn't it have been going on in space where there aren't even, no bodies can show up, right? You know, there can't be any actual blood spilled. So I'm going to work off of the premise that, you know, based on that history, I think even at that time in space, there was space combat and it was easy to hide and And there were deep states that wanted to make sure that whatever happened there stayed secret, right? Like that's not for populations. We can destroy each other's equipment and retaliate in certain ways, but we're not going to ever let it be known. Both sides kind of figured out that that's in our best interest, right? Because if the population start thinking that, hey, we're at war with Russia in space right now, that could panic people. So why are we hearing about it right now? That's the interesting part. Because in the past, that would have been a precursor to World War III, and it would have panicked people. This article goes on to say, as a point of reference, in 2020, another Russian satellite came within 93 to 186 miles. So this was sort of the one I was thinking of, but I thought that I'd gotten to a few miles. So I was all over the place. But my point is, that was a major international event. news story back in 2020. This is much closer, but how many of these are not reported, as you said, is a huge, a huge thing to think about. And it doesn't have to be like lasers and things blowing up for it to be warfare. Of course, we've covered multiple articles on Patriot Power Hour about blinding or, uh, like, you know, pretty much shocking or, uh, Frying, for a better term. Directed energy. Yeah. Directed energy. Sensors. So it doesn't have to actually destroy the bus, per se, as they call it. It doesn't have to destroy the actual satellite. But if all the instruments on it are dead, there you go. Electronic attack. Yeah. Beams. It's the radiation of some. Kind of beam. That would be what you'd use, right? Or it could be kinetic. It could fire weapons in space, too. So.... I'm just saying, why are we seeing these headlines? Check out the articles where this article is laid on future danger. Look at the archive. Scroll back almost a decade worth of news, and you'll see that this is now being more openly discussed than ever before. That's what has me concerned, is why. Are we seeing nearly open warfare in space. Is it just demonstrations of force? Is it just that? Yeah. Looking at the archive, I mean, you've had articles going all the way back to 2017, but they were quite low level. And although you had a lot in 2017 and 2018, it really petered off. And at one point you're having one or fewer articles per month. and they were almost all low-level. There was a SHTF about Israel shooting down a Houthi ballistic missile in space, but back in 2023, that's not really what we're looking at here. But as you said, the big outlier is we go from maybe once a month or, heck, once a quarter with low-level news to just this season, since September 14th. One, two.... We've had four articles since September 14th, so about two months, four articles that were severe grade, and they were all separate. It's not like all reported on the same incident. They were that, I remember all of these actually. Air Force Secretary acknowledges American space control weapons are in orbit. That was the first one. Hey, funny enough, after that, we get a few more big articles. Beijing launches spacecraft with power to tug other spacecraft out of orbit or off course. Then September 30th mystery erupts as us spy satellite explodes. Space force will not rule out an attack. And then this one today, Russian satellite shows us rate or excuse me, Russian satellite shadows, us radar imaging satellite. There you go. Future Dan. Oh, there we go. You're back on. You're back in. Radio check. Oh, we had him drop off again, but we'll try to see if we can get him right on in. But very interesting stuff. I was playing a little bit of devil's advocate earlier, but just so you know, there's so many things going on. I like to attack the understanding and the problem I'm facing in multiple ways. Future dad, radio check. Are you there, sir? He might be sending me a message on our back channels. I will shout out Jay Ferg. She says, if people don't see it, and I think she was referring to interest rates being nasty, inflation being nasty, and really none of the core problems being fixed, even if we're not collapsing right this second. None of the core problems have been fixed. Inflation is not slowing, let alone reversing. Right? Well, Jay Ferg agrees. If people don't see that that's a problem, they're being willfully ignorant or are in denial. And I think, I don't know the percentage of each, but there's definitely people that are willfully ignorant and there's people who are in denial. Where does that line, where is that line? It's tough. That's tough for some psychological guy. That could be a whole seminar, minimum. But yeah, I don't want to be in denial and I don't want to be willfully ignorant. In a lot of ways, they're the same. But whether it has to do with economics, finance, or prepping, or history, or all types of different things, right? There's a lot out there. Don't be in denial. Don't be willfully ignorant. That's what we do here on Patriot Power Hour. Try to expose the light out there on the darkness and try to figure out what's really going on. But more importantly, how can that be used during your prepping plans? We are, of course, on Prepper Broadcasting Network. So I got a couple more articles to hit. Let me see if future Dan, I know he's messaging me. He might be down for the count tonight. All good. We did have a short show. land anyway. Uh, I'll go into the Saudi Arabia though, Egypt moving towards sending troops to Saudi Arabia because Saudi Arabia has been getting punched in the mouth. I'm no fan of the Houthis, let me tell you, but I'm no fan of Saudi Arabia either. But as we talked about for a solid five minutes earlier in the show, all this conflict is not bringing oil or even really diesel and gas to all time records. They're not abating. They're not going down in price seemingly anytime soon, but we're kind of like a, you know, a plateau of malaise and just a, you know, not a crisis, but just a slow burn of what I believe is not sustainable. I do believe this is unsustainable where we're at, but it might be able to, muddle through for a while before the next leg down of standard of living for everybody. So what I see that is great news, more time to be a prepper, more time to enact your plans, more times, hopefully buy some preps, keep your budget going. It is black Friday coming up. And the next month I know intrepid commander James Walton will have his guide to all types of prep deals. So skills are super important. of course, but this is the time of year where I open up my Prepper wallet a little bit more, try to invest in the future. As an example, water filters, right? Make sure I have a few years worth of water filters available. You know, something that's a durable good that won't expire, but you'll be damn happy if the power goes out that now you got a bunch of water filters staying with storable food, medical supplies. And actually, donating. There's different ways, of course, to rotate your prepper pantry, your prepper infirmary, but this time of year, I like to donate some things that are not expired, but hey, maybe I've had them for a few years, right? Donate them, refresh with new stuff, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, I haven't been able to see future Dan's message quite yet, but I do believe he is down for the count tonight. All good. All good. Still had a good Show. Overall. Let me see. Anything else? Not much. I will say this. In the description of this show. Wherever you are reading it. Whether it's on the podcast only. Or on YouTube. Or X. Or Rumble. Or Kick. Or Facebook. We'll see how long they'll let us up on that. But you can find. the email address, as well as X account for both Future Dan and myself. So reach out to us. Any questions or if you want to be a guest on the show sometime, make it happen. Well, episode 365, we'll put it in the bag. Tech issues took Future Dan out of it, but ironically, we only had four articles to cover, which is probably the lowest of the entire year and much lower than we're used to this summer. So it is what it is. I thought we had a really fun conversation today. We'll be back next week. Today was a little early. It was a Wednesday show. We've been all over the map, but we're going to get back to our usual Thursday shows next week. We'll catch you guys later. Peace.