Patriot Power Hour #367 - Prep On

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. And the Breaker of Banksters here with Future Dan. We are live. November 5th, 2026, 6.09 p.m. Eastern. It is getting dark quite early with the time change. Well, it is again episode 367. Midterms are over. Results are in. And I'm titling this episode, Future Dan, I'm titling it Prep On. Stealing it verbatim from Jones and a couple other hosts here on the network. Prep On. Sure. Midterms, we'll be talking about that. We'll get into some of the news. But on Prepper Broadcasting Network and here at Patriot Power Hour, we're looking well ahead of just two years, four years ahead. Elections matter, but also stay the course and keep it going, right? Yeah, that's right. Got a fairly robust news environment, but nothing rates as a crisis, really. So heat maps, like it's been pretty much all fall. Significant news, but... No, nothing as adverse as some of the combinations of news we saw last summer. Yeah, during the summer, again, except for the COVID 2020 year, it was the busiest summer we've had in nine years. Essentially, next week is our nine-year anniversary of Patriot Power Hour, and we've been on this network nearly seven years. Pretty crazy, but how about we just go right into the midterms and whether or not elections are stolen. I want to read some of these. I'm going to steal the thunder from the dashboard a little bit, future Dan, and just read some headlines and get your thoughts on some things, all right? Yeah, let's go. First and foremost, I'm just going to read these verbatim, not comment on them. Tough to do sometimes. But consider these all data points, and we'll kind of sum it up. New York State Board of Elections issues a statement on Westchester County ballot scanner after machines reject ballots. Had 332 polling sites, 250,000 votes. That's one headline on future danger. Another, more than 1,000 Fulton County early voting ballots to be re-scanned. There was a ballot shortage in Linwood, costing some Kansans, some Kansans, no, no. those of Kansas, the citizens of Kansas, to leave without voting, so there was a ballot shortage. Sacramento postal worker charged with withholding more than 1,000 pieces of political mail. Harris County men charged with illegal voting, felony parole. Ballot shortages in Chicago. An Ohio elementary school was temporarily evacuated due to a bomb threat at a polling location. Voting disruptions across North Carolina delay election results. technical issues briefly delay voting at several Broward County polling locations. So future Dan, that's a lot of headlines. I believe each one needs to be investigated in detail, but on the flip side, it doesn't look too much like a crisis to me. I don't think this would have changed the results. What are your thoughts? Is this a crisis or is this just topical news? And do you, you know, What are your thoughts on maybe a couple of these specifically? I just gave you 10. Are there a couple you want to drill deeper into? Not really. And it's pretty much a baseline of just things that happen with elections that don't go right. And there hasn't been any follow-up stories that show anything controversial. Now, maybe it's just because the margins, like it's all outside of recount margins. Like a lot of that... often governed by law, right? State law. When there's something within margins, then candidates can challenge results. But if it's outside the margins, there's no recourse anyways. That's sort of a baseline. And what it shows me is it's nothing like the previous elections. And whoever may know how to cheat obviously decided not to this year because they were getting stared at hard. So pretty easy to say there's been no election stolen in this 2026 midterm. I think that's pretty safe to say, but again, individual results may vary up in Alaska as an example. And I'm sure there's local races and state races that maybe haven't, the fraud hasn't matriculated up to the top of the news heap. But while we are seeing some, I think the way you phrased it was correct. We're seeing errors and abnormalities, but more of, hey, it's hard to be perfect. Or, hey, some of these people might be incompetent or there's a little bit of stuff going on. But it's not a concerted national effort to the level of 2020 by any means. Not even 10% of that, it seems. Now, here's the question I had. Is that because they knew they were being watched and they've already played that card so they wouldn't dare do it again and get caught? And or... is because they knew they would win the way they did. And there's no reason to play that card right now. It's just too risky for no, it wasn't necessary. Essentially. Is there any of that going on or is it, you know, all of those two options, how would you wait it? So I wouldn't say anything's going on. Cause I'm not sure there's any organization to that sort of like the Democrat hive mind, like, you know, or, or just whispered in, in, in, in, in company, they trust that, you know, don't bother this year. It's not necessary. Yep. It's risky. Right. And about how, you know, I guess the whole election, like the out party regaining both houses of Congress at a midterm from the president's party, that's pretty much par for course my entire life. So it's hard to, you know, Use words like, you know, landslide is marginal, Ben. Marginal. Because Trump actually lost more seats in the House in 2018. Like, this already happened to him. So I asked AI to do a little bit of research. If it was correct, this is like the sixth worst swing from the out party. To take both houses in Congress. Since in 1970, just arbitrary, like most people's lives in 1970. Right. So the biggest was, was Obama in 2010, 61 seats lost in the house. Right. And the second biggest was Clinton with, uh, new Gingrich and the Republicans taking over the house of representatives for the first time since the great depression. Right. But that's one and two. And, and, George W. Bush during the Iraq war was like third or fourth. Trump in 2018 was, you know, above, above what happened this past Tuesday. So I, I just want to put a little perspective on that. It's, I think, I honestly think Trump pretty much expected this to happen, which is why, you know, taking, taking action against the regime in Tehran, like now's the chance because it, That's going to happen in November anyways. All right. Well, I do remember you saying months ago, maybe even more than a year ago, even before I ran, that there'll be a little bit of a bounce back against the Republicans at the midterms because that's normally what happens. I feel like this is a little bit more severe than maybe the base case, but it's not unheard of at all. I would agree with that, too. You want a different way to look at it, just to think about? I'll give you one. Yeah. All right. On Tuesday night was the bottoming out of tolerance of the Democrat party. and just the aggravation and how the number of Americans that despise that party, it just bottomed out. It only climbs from here for the next two years. Well, this is something I struggled with even going back to 2008, 2012, 2016. I remember even thinking like, do the Republicans, does Ron Paul even want to get in charge of this? Or let's just take Ron Paul and the Fed. Does he even want to try to end the Fed or reform the Fed? Because it'll be all pinned on him. Same with Trump. Trump took everything over. It would just get pinned on him anyway. But I reasoned myself out of saying well that's kind of a defeatist attitude to say the least gotta at least get in there and fight but there is something to that and kind of going back to your point that you know well you guys are in charge now meaning the democratic socialists and friends or at least they have more levers of power so you can't play innocent anymore if stuff hits the fan and it's eventually it's a hot potato we're already seeing ai bubble if not popping leaking some air today, we'll get into that news later. So, Hey, uh, Trump could be blamed a lot for this, that, and the other thing, but now democratic socialists, they got some blame too. And so the tolerance of them and the good feelings around them, I could don't see that going up. That makes sense to me. Well, with their. Very strong position in, you know, national and global media, And their constituents, they really are going to do it to themselves. So the popularity or lack of disgust of Democrats, that bottomed out on Tuesday. It goes up from here inevitably. Has to. They're going to be on TV doing what they do. And independent voters are going to be just paying attention to something else that turns them off. And it's going to be coming from that party. So in the big scheme of things, it's actually a lot safer for that to have happened in the midterm so that they don't obtain the presidency along with both houses. Right. Almost like a safety valve or a pressure relief valve. If the Republicans get their crap together, they might stumble over themselves. No, no, no, no, no. Republicans don't have to do anything. And they'll still find ways to prevent themselves from doing nothing and do something and attract negative attention. But It doesn't matter. The houses of Congress, what they're going to say, what they're going to do, what they're going to pass, who they're going to impeach, what they're going to accuse, what the whole world's going to listen to is going to do what's always done in my lifetime, is to undermine them. Their max popularity was last Tuesday for a while. All right, well, we could get into some more election talk with a special guest coming up after the news blitz. We're going to do the news blitz, do the dashboard, and we got a guest, the one and only Jay Ferg has got to join us, featured Dan. So what do you say? We'll hold any further comment. I want to hear what she's got to say, and we can hit on anything else, unless there's any big point you really wanted to hit on, and otherwise we'll hit the dashboard. What do you say? Let's blitz it. Let's see where the ripple effect is. All right, let's make it happen. This news blitz, November 5th, 2026. We already went through the headlines associated with the elections are stolen indicator. Each of these, again, should be run down and look for anyone who was fraudulent, et cetera, and prosecute them. But on the whole, the large trend and the actual impact does not seem to be there. So we'll skip through there and start with This article, U.S. conducts airstrikes in Iran and Arab Gulf states, prep for heavy U.S. bombardment with the retaliation from Iran coming. Trump even said after the midterms, we'll see potentially a lot more kinetic action take place. So war unconstitutionally waged has ticked back up to the SHTF level or the fully actualized Because, you know what? It has not been voted on constitutionally. So, with that, let's keep rolling on the news blitz. DOJ announces charges against six Southern California green card holders. They were accused of voting illegally. So, this is under aliens vote. Tangentially related to elections are stolen, but it has its own indicator. Let's move on to economics. Why not? I mentioned a little bit earlier the Dow dropped 1,800 points, which is about 4%. NASDAQ tumbles into correction territory, which is a 10% drop from the recent high. The VIX, a measure of volatility and overall fear in the market, spikes to 7-month high. People a little on edge. Pentagon probes overnight sabotage of food supply at 14 U.S. military bases. Hackers exploiting a global loophole. Definitely got to dig into that one later. Again, Pentagon probes an overnight sabotage of food supply at 14 U.S. military bases as hackers exploit a global loophole. Under security, both national and domestic, it's actually a fair amount of articles, mostly topical, but a couple heating up. Let's start with the most actualized right now. 80-plus U.S. Refueling aircraft deployed in Israel. There's also an article here. It's titled, Out of Range, Poised to Strike. mapping America's force posture against Iran. So out of range of Iran's attacks, but still poised to strike, whether out of Israel or many other bases, and of course aircraft carrier. You can find some of those details here on futuredanger.com right now. Michigan representative requests U.S. Marshals protection after the Democrat endorses a Republican Senate candidate. Bringing that in. under elected leader assassinated. Not an actual assassination attempt, so to speak, but topical. And just the fact that they request U.S. Marshals' protection. Haley Stevens, this is after death threats. Poland launches major border operation as activity in Russia fuels concern over possible provocation. Senators main office vandalized for a second time. This has the urgent tag on future danger, which rarely articles get. Taiwan detects 32 Chinese military aircraft, seven naval vessels near Taiwan, near the main or the island. And finally, A couple articles related to pestilence. Florida, dengue fever case count highest in decades. And a death in New York from measles. Child killed by measles in New York. First death in more than 30 years. Lewis County, New York. Feature Dan. that's the news blitz. Let's hit on some of these articles and then maybe in a few minutes we'll get Jay Ferga. What do you say? Yeah. Do you see any ties or patterns? I'm not sure I do. No, I don't think any patterns across this particular board itself. The, uh, I ran picking up after midterms around midterm. That, something that Trump has hit even hinted at in the last few weeks, like after the midterms, we'll see what happens, blah, blah, blah. So strikes happening again. And I have rarely seen this. Actually, this is a good question for you. This indicator military assets moved. We haven't really seen it. Let me go through the archive of it, but, uh, yeah, I mean, we've, we've certainly seen it a lot more since March of this year, but prior to that had not seen much of this indicator and, Um, what I can either deep dive and look at some of these articles or maybe a better use of our time would be for you to explain more about what the syndicator means and what kind of trend maybe you've seen under the military assets moved. It's sort of there to just catch whenever something irregular is happening. Something you don't always see. Not just regular movements from patrol that see or whatever our Air Force is doing or deployments of the army. No, this is for getting ready to fight moves. And there's plenty of examples of it in the 10 years of Future Danger. Well, I just went through the archive and there are, you know, once a month, once every two months, there's a topical article about it. And that's normal, normal information coming through. But there's two big spikes and you can see it. clearly leading up in June, 2025, the first attacks on Iran, there was about a one week lead up with seven articles that were severe grade. And before that we had not had one article in eight years. That was that severe grade. Most were lower medium, right? So you see seven or eight of them clustered together within one week. It's pretty self-evident. Then in January into February, and then, of course, in March of this year, when I believe it was March 1st, maybe it was February 28th when the strikes began. You see that. Then, really, the severe grade, which we saw like a dozen of them within a month and a half, it trended down, and then it kind of went silent. Not silent, but again, back to once a month, a couple times a month. But in the last... Yeah, the last four weeks we've seen four articles come back. Are we trending, I guess to bring it full circle, are we trending towards another very large strike or even ground action in Iran? Or is it too early to tell? What are your thoughts on the future of this indicator in the next couple months, let's say? Yeah, so before thinking about the actual warfare, think about why you see news headlines leading up to it. And also think about when you don't see. News headlines leading up to it, like taking down Maduro in Venezuela, right? Complete surprise attack. That one was, but the, but the strategy with Iran is to absolutely advertise the buildup to try to bring them to negotiate. So it's, if you read it that way, you can see that obviously during the Biden administration, he, never used force in that way. It wasn't, wasn't what Biden's administration was going to do. And previously in the first Trump administration, Trump wasn't necessarily doing it that way, but he is now. And if, uh, if. There's more news being publicly announced about where the fleets are, where the air forces are, where the troops are moving, that, that is beyond just the regular rhythm of our military, uh, It's going to be on the heat. Map dashboard, but I mean, they can do anything they want. They can also start, you know, classifying all the movements, really locking down the information and it, it wouldn't be showing up as easily here. Sure. And yes, you've been one to say, and I agree with you wholeheartedly that just airstrikes are just, electronic warfare is not enough to win a war, but that stuff is extremely important, and we can't really see what's going on in space, what's going on underwater, and even different drones and different small operations. Of course, we don't know what's happening. I would suggest my position on that is almost what you said. With the exception of Kosovo, there's no real examples in the history of air warfare. bringing up, bringing up outcome that you would describe as a, you know, a victory at war, but there's no shortage of air power advocates that will constantly advocate that it can be done. And if it's in the air force, people have been saying that for over a hundred years, right. But, and, and, and Kosovo might be their example of when it, you know, you can pressure, you know, Serbia into defeat by, by simply bombing them. But, uh, Could it happen to Iran? I'm not going to rule it out. If there's exotic weapons in play and they choose to use them. But what I do think happened last March is that that regime might have got struck a little bit harder than necessary and it got so damn fractured afterwards that there just isn't anybody that you can't negotiate with anybody because 20 minutes later, who knows if they're even really in charge of anything. Right. It's like, not only could they be killed at any second, they may be overthrown or they won't even be trusted by 90% of the other important quote, unquote, important leaders of Iran. So as you said, there's, you cut off the head of the snake, but now there's no head. And now, all right, good luck. I still don't know if, if, you know, by, you know, without an invading army, can you bring about a regime collapse this way? There's not a lot of examples of it in history, but this is warfare. You can't necessarily rule it out either. Well, even land forces, like you can get in there and while your forces are in there, you can stop the regime. But if you have to leave a lot of times, we'll just come back to something similar anyway. So yeah, only from the air, pretty tough. Now this is a new level of air force and drones and intelligence, but I still, For literally a country that has, I think, 90 million people, it's not like 9 million or 15 million or 30 million. It's like Iran is much larger than I think most people think. That's all. Yeah, absolutely. I'm pretty sure Trump looked at history and said, you know, there's almost no chance that the out party can be stopped from regaining the houses of Congress. So now's the time to take care of this problem. All right, we're going to bring Jay Ferga in just a couple minutes. The one item I wanted to hit on with you specifically first, though, or article. And if you have any others you want to hit on before we bring her on, for sure, let's do it. But I just want to, because this one, I don't know. Maybe it's a big nothing burger, but it kind of caught my prepper eye. overnight sabotage of food supply at 14 military bases, hack hackers, exploiting global loophole. Does this hold water future Dan, or is this a big scare story? It can't just be a scare story because it rated on future danger. It got on your website. You don't put fluff there, but what, you know, what is this all about? I guess freezers were hacked or turned off somehow. And that, you know, made defrost mode pretty much destroyed all the food. Uh, What can you tell me about this? Is this a big deal or just an isolated event? What's happening? Well, people selling cybersecurity would definitely tell you it's a big deal. I'm pretty sure we had military refrigerators that had no vulnerability to this before the internet. So you can always get back to that. And I would ask the question, will exactly what happened to cause this ever be able to happen again? Probably not. So like anything, you. Know, the, the more, the more anything in the internet and the, you know, internet of things on the edge, the more it's attacked, the, you know, the more resilient it gets. I'm pretty sure the profit motive to make that happen in federal contracting is extremely strong. Well, this is, uh, This article is focused because it is Daily Mail. It kind of parlays us into Finland and France and other countries in Europe having some of their fridges and freezers turned off or hacked in different ways. And their defense contracting doesn't have a profit motive to fix that sort of thing, right? Social welfare states are going to end up with cyber... you know, infrastructure that might expose that because who's going to come and fix that, right? But I can guarantee you in the USA right now, this is getting solved pretty fast and people are going to be paid well to do it. But it's just going to be like any zero day exploit, right? You know, and AI is going to find them, right? They're going to find gaps. So it's an AI arms race with cybersecurity and, And it's getting applied in both directions. And pretty much it's, you know, this particular instance, it'll never happen again. But this idea that the whole grid could get just hacked and dropped, that feels like 2001 thinking more than 2026. Well, funny enough, a lot of the best prepping fiction was written around Y2K and the Mayan apocalypse of 2000 to 2012. So that's built a lot of the ethos or background of preppers in a way. I'm not saying grid hacks aren't realistic, but I get what you mean. It's like, okay, it's not as, maybe not as vulnerable as back then hard at all, just to kind of put a bow tie on this or not a bow tie, but a bow, like a gift. This is for the commissaries. This was not active duty mess halls. It seems based on this article. So commissaries are distinct from mess halls that feed active duty troops. They are used by service members. who live maybe on base, retirees and their families, but it seems like this would not lower the readiness. It's just a thorn in the side and it costs a lot of money, so in that way it does lower readiness and annoy everyone, but it's not like our troops are going to start starving or won't be ready to fight by any means, right? Well, commissaries overseas, well, it depends on what people are able to get on the local economy. That's a little bit more vulnerable because there's plenty of places where Service members can have family. And what's the difference between not feeding the troops and not feeding their family? It's the same problem. Trust me. But in the United States, commissaries are just the grocery store on base. And you just go to Sam's club off or Costco off base and you're, you got it. Right. So, you know, when it's overseas, it's a little bit more sensitive. So I wouldn't draw that line between a mess hall and a commissary is strongly. overseas, but in the U S you're, you're pretty much right with that. So you're saying the spouses of all the active duty would reject eating MREs for every meal for the six weeks. That would be in extremists. Yeah. That'd be very, very big, very bad, very permanent war happening. If that ever, we ever got there. Right. Not some freezers being hacked out. But this is why we look at these. We watch trends. We build analysis. With that said, go ahead. The Air Force would bring in the transport planes and the commanders would order all the families home. Guess what? Pack up. There's no more dependents here. You got to go. And then they'd be In severe conditions. Now, this type of grid hack, it's got to make the heat map dashboard. People are going to talk about it. People are going to fear it. I just try to put it into perspective on Patriot Power. And if I'm wrong, then there's going to be a slew of just super dangerous hacks showing up in that indicator. And those will get reported at the level of severity that they deserve when it happens. But we've never seen that in the last 10 years. No, we haven't. Knock on wood, as always. All right. I think it's about time to bring on Jay Ferg. What do you say? Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. Phoenix Survival. Jay Ferg. Actually, I'll let you unmute so that you know when you're ready. Whenever you're ready. Oh, there you are. What's going on? Great to have you on the show. It is good to be on here, especially with both of y'all. Right? You and I have been on shows together, but it's been way too long. But I don't think you and Future Dan have. Have you guys? No. Maybe not. This is the first. Great to meet you on air, Jayford. Great to be on here. And if it's okay, I'd like to segue on the hack-in comment that you were talking about. Actual recent reports, there was a hack-in at three different cold storage facilities in France for blood banks. The only reason why they were not completely disabled is because they actually had alarms on those. So the hacking is now hitting the medical system as well, not just the food infrastructure. Definitely could be more dangerous than the food. I can see that. Right, right. And I always bring out an insurance example because I'm an insurance claims, but I've had all types of freezer failures recently. And they've said some of them could be hacks, but they're like, yeah, our vaccines or our biomaterial, even just samples for research could be susceptible. So that's a great point. It's not just food. So one of them was storing plasma bags and blood samples intended for medicine manufacturing and transfusions. Okay. That could be big. Yeah. If you are going to war, that's the type of thing they would probably attack, right, Future Dan? That type of target would be flush for another state actor's kind of prep in the battlefield, right? Right, and these seem like probes, though. That's the problem for the attackers. You're probing, yeah, okay, that was accomplished, but it had very limited effect, right? bringing about that kind of attack widespread, you know, at the same time as other things, right. That's what a military player would want. An intelligence agency would want. And I'd still question whether we're really, you know, at, at, at risk of that, but there's no doubt attacking blood banks is, you know, that has the direct potential to cost life. Right. Right. Well, Thanks for adding that in. I could talk about all different types of things. I don't even know where you want to go with this. We could talk bullion. I want to definitely get your thoughts on the midterms. I want to hear about your latest projects, homesteading and whatnot. But welcome to the show. We could go wherever you want. So as far as markets alone, as we've known, for those of you who pay attention to it, silver actually dropped down to 5%. 48 closed at 49, um, on the market. And so surprisingly enough, and this is where a lot of people in my bullion world are being a little more concerned is because of the fact that it is now increasing. Now it's not to a point where they're concerned last January, you know, around this time last year, we did the same thing hit almost 127 an ounce. And the concern though, is the additional decrease of the US dollar because it was up as silver and gold were going down. But just in today's market alone, all crypto hit a hard drop before just a little bit ago. And then it looks like it raised a little bit more than where it was at. But the markets are hitting hard, which shouldn't be too surprising when you have Well, connection with the polls, in my opinion, people are going to relegate, navigate the systems based on who's in office and what's going to benefit in the long run. Right now, markets aren't going to be high because what is the a teacher at my daughter's school during the mock mock elections stated that essentially Democrats were like Robin Hood. They take from the rich and give to the poor. So now everyone's covering their hind ends to keep their coin. Yikes. That's kind of scary. It teaches. Oh, man. Future Dan, I want to hear your thoughts on what you're seeing with, well, with a lot of different things, really, but specifically silver. If you had an opinion, then I'll give my thoughts. My opinion is Trump was out wearing a MAGA hat, but it didn't say MAGA. It said veto. So I don't think the Democrats are going to get anything passed into law for the next two years. And that's what the smart money knows. So I'm not sure who's playing on passions of people, but they are as powerless as they were before Tuesday. It's just that they got, they got committee chairmanships and they can, they can make big scenes that they can do. Um, and I'm, I'm listening to mainstream news sources like Bloomberg and they're, they're hyping the powers of the incoming, you know, uh, party in the House and the Senate, but Trump's not going to let anything they even try to do become loss. I'm not sure if we're, you know, have unstable markets for long. I'm worried more about a year from now, the whole thing coming apart in a planned bankster collapse that pins all the blame on Trump. Right. And you've said before, I mean, you've been saying this since, I would say... Really, this time two years ago, 2024, after Trump won the election, that really they're going to try to hoover him in late 27 into 28 or have another COVID type of situation. Pin the blame on him. Well, it's either that or war. You've got to push to make him less of the people's person. And, well, with Democrats, everybody's not the people's person. If it's not blue-haired and screaming rainbows, it's not it. It's not unrealistic because they always try to push anything on everyone else and pretend then like the next. Man is the savior. Yep. And it's just uh disposable really it's just another uh suit that they can use and abuse and discard and move move on but problem is now they're becoming more and more overt about their socialist communist goals future dan i know you've said hey let them show their true colors people will catch on trust that people of America will catch on. I don't know. I don't feel so trustworthy, but having them stumble in front of everybody has its own benefits. You want to expand on that a little? Yeah, I'll expand on it. I'm a Cold War kid. Socialism is awful, and anybody can see it happening just in their core knows it. So Mondami, the new mayor of Los Angeles, and anybody in between, this is an inoculation. It's a good thing. What about you? You agree with that, Jay Ferg? Yes, but at the same time, it is an inoculation. But the problem is we're seeing so much advancement, in a sense, on their end, or when I say their, the Democrats' end. But the fact that people are still so narrow-sighted in how these are going to affect them. People were all for Moldavia until... Did I say his name right? New York? No, I'm thinking New York. Zohan. What's his name? Not Zohan. Yeah, he's close enough. It's Bob Dombie and Zoran or something like that. Right. Well, so everyone was for him until all of a sudden they realized that they're not benefiting. And then. You've got many people who moved or migrated out of their States saying, stating that it was their own personal hell to move to areas like mine here in North Carolina to vote blue. And it's like, you left a state, you couldn't stand how you were being treated to keep it the same. It's no different than the immigration. Uh, the fact that we're seeing a man who became a Muslim, uh, seat holder now. And it's like, where have we gone as a nation? How much though, uh, do we have to hurt our own people before we realize? And unfortunately that's, in my opinion, what we're going to see is you're going to see more harm before you start seeing any real good. And I see things in equations as at some point, I'm not like beautiful mind level or nothing, but there's conflicting, you know, headwinds and tailwinds here. Part of what future Dan saying, I think is look, it's an inoculation. Let's make them come out of the dark and show their horrible policies. People will catch on. I agree with that. But on the other hand, bring in more illegals, get more of them involved and pretty much buy off their vote or some, you know, try to fix that whole situation. Number one, number two, and not, uh, brainwashing of the, of the kids. Don't forget that or, Each generation becoming more and more socialist, unfortunately. We're seeing it in schools now. Number three is dependence. If you get so poor, so dirt poor, you've got to do whatever the government says to get your government check, especially with universal income. Those competing... We're going to learn our lesson the hard way, but I don't know if we're going to learn it fast enough to overcome the other headwinds, if that all makes sense put together. No, but they are teaching it in school. Even in Baltimore school right now, inner city Baltimore, they are learning about Muslim cultures and the Safarists. Safarists? Safarists. They're five leaders all in geography. Right. The social studies, which used to be geography. Now they're social studies. Who knows what they call it now? Yeah. Well, I want to touch on silver real fast before I forget. I think with silver as well as Bitcoin, we've been talking a little bit on the back channels and I'm going to be heading to my local silver shop or just overall jewelry, pawn shop, gold shop. I got a couple and seeing what they're actually doing with the physical. Are they actually matching it or are those premiums starting to blow out? Yeah, if you're able to find somewhere that matches it, that's phenomenal. Unfortunately, in my area, we typically. Have $ 4. To $ 5 over at the one shop that I do actually prefer going to. If I have to buy, I do it within a reasonable amount. The other shop does actually do quite a bit more. They charge about $ 10 over, and that's not even for the premium silver. So ASEs are going to be more than. That, your bars and everything else. But Right now, you know, silver is sitting at $ 51. 78, which still isn't a terrible price for people who, you know, aren't buying because it was just recently at $ 80 and $ 90 an ounce just, what, a month and a half ago? Yep. And I'm showing right now for our viewers on Rumble on X. And I did, I just saw your message in the back. I did forget to select your YouTube. I can't believe it. But just because of that, make a plug right now or let me i'll finish this real quick long story short for those that are watching the video not just the podcast i am showing the silver price and yeah just earlier this year we were at like a hundred dollars silver and just a couple months ago we were at 70 right now we're at 51 74 so now go for your plug and any other comments you had on the silver price and and really i want to hear more about your bullion experiences lately. Too Yeah, so I actually do a lot of, I don't know how to say it without it sounding weird, but back channel trading. Every time I run gold and silver, I sell it as well as a side. But I will make exchanges with friends and we always try to keep ourselves right at where the market price is to keep it even unless we know it's a collectible or it's a high premium, which there's a lot of them out there. But the problem is, and to anyone who's getting into gold and silver, there are a lot of fakes out there. So I typically, because I can't afford the tester, I don't have the money for that yet. I mean, I probably do if I sold my silver and gold, but I'm not going to. I take my gold and silver to anything new that I get, even if I know it's a reputable dealer. I always go and have my gold and silver tested regardless of Um, just because there's always that off chance that even though I trust the seller, uh, you know, you never know something could have happened and they got slipped a bad, a bad bullion or a bad, you know, gram or ounce or whatever. So it's best to, I play, I heat on the side of caution with anything I do. That's smart though. Honestly, I feel a little guilt that I need to do that, but I'm also scared to crack open some of my old silver and find out some of it's fake. But I also dabble in, like I have Morgans. I have, you know, I have other ones that are easily faked. And so I have gotten to a point where I've actually gotten away from Morgans. And if it's not full silver or full gold, I try not to mess with it anymore. Well, I love scrap silver. Well, I've got some 90% dimes. I was going to literally say that 90% dimes as well as just, I've gotten some silver just from like silversmiths who just gave me a glob of silver. It's so cool. But there's so many ways to get silver. But where do you go get, where do you get tested? How do you, tell me more about fakes, even though I don't want to entertain the idea that I might have fake silver. I want to learn more about this. So some of them are really good. Like, you can't tell. And unfortunately, when we saw the markets rise like they did back in January, like you see here on the chart, a lot of– so China quits moving any of their silver out. They're buying. As far as I could tell, I never saw that they were selling again. All of their gold and silver has stayed put. Right. But when that happened, there was a huge influx of fake gold and silver on eBay, on Timu, on Alibaba. And then people are going on to these auction sites and apps and selling them that people are spending this large amount of money for fake gold and silver. Now, the only problem is... And some of these are really good. I always recommend having them tested. You can do the magnet check. You can do the ice check. But the problem is, is some of these are now done so well that if you do the weigh, where you weigh them, they are weighted just right with enough filament on the outside that they'll pass those tests. So you do, I do, and I go to the shop because they have more ways of testing than I do just to ensure that I've got, you know, good items because I don't want to sell and I don't want to keep something bad. I think the worst I've ever ran into, I'm not a huge person on hand pours unless I know the person shows proof. I've got a COA. I did get a hand pour from someone, two ounce hand pour, to get it tested after I was told it was stamped as 999, that it was 95. But because of if I go to sell it, I will sell it as 999. 0.925 plus because it's 955 it's not 999 so. You kind of got screwed on both ends there i did. I did so i'm losing money either way damn. Damn well that is the risk that i think it's important well if i for sure i'm not really buying much gold and silver because i have got some at lower prices i'm looking to buy at about this level but i probably need to take some spot checks of uh some of my stuff i've already bought and definitely anything in the future i'm going to be really cognizant i always try to use those dealers but like you said especially after covid like i feel like there's probably a lot more fakes out there. It probably wasn't as many fakes knock on wood back in like 2016, 2017, 2018. But since COVID man, everything's off the table or on the table. I know you said you bought them when it was low. And I hear that a lot from everyone is I remember buying gold and silver when. It was $ 30 an ounce. I have, you know, I'll talk to it about people and they'll say, I'll tell them, Oh, it's at, you know, 49, $ 52 or whatever. And they'll be like, Oh, that's high. No, actually that's low. you're not going to see $ 30 again. I don't think so. Not for a while. And I'm not saying it's not possible. We did get to 48 for a minute, but the likelihood, I don't know. Dan, what do you think? Do you think we'll ever see record lows of gold and silver again? Because personally, I don't. If we do, then that's the time you need to start watching because we need to be concerned. I do have bad news. His battery crashed out like a minute ago. He's like, my battery's dying. I don't have a charger. I'm going to die. And I was like, okay, well, we still. All right. Well, what do you think, Ben? All good. Here's what I've seen in the past, which could be what happens in the future, but no guarantees, is with the COVID crash as well as the 2008 financial crisis. Both of those times, gold and silver crashed. were super volatile. And especially in COVID, like I forgot what the silver price went down to, but it was like 12 bucks, but it was only like that for like a week or two because everyone's so panicked and there's so much chaos in the financial market that number one, people are liquidating their silver. Number two, they're liquidating their silver for a lot of reasons, but number two, the most important reason is all the margin calls and all the other crap. It's not because they don't want silver. It's because of the chaos. So There might be that chance where it hits $ 30, but it would only be for a week or two, I think. And then it would rebound above $ 100 again. Possibly, probably. I was shocked that the market closed at $ 49 because as soon as I saw it hit $ 48, I knew it would jump up right before it closed. And it did, just not as high as I thought it would. Typically, if you see the market dropping down low right before it closed, there'll be some sort of jump. Because the last thing you want is the market to close on a fixed price that low, especially if you're a seller, and then you're trapped in that price all weekend long. And speaking of all that, if you're selling, and especially if you're running a coin shop and you need inventory managed, when the price was spiking to $ 100, it kind of put them in a bad spot. But now, less than a year later, crashing to $ 50, that whipsaw effect makes them very cautious about And what it's going to really lead to, I think, is shortages. Are you finding any problems sourcing silver or is there a lot out there? They're just not moving on price. Are you seeing high prices and shortages? Yeah. So right now I'm really seeing the market being heavily saturated with copper. Copper was a big start. People are thinking that's going to be the next currency in copper prices. Um, just in the one ounce area, even though copper per market is not, it's, you know, copper in the market is per pound, but in the bullion and collectors world, it is actually starting to really jump. And I'm seeing so much copper. It's so highly. Saturated that there are a lot of copper, silver that are silver gilded or gold gilded. So people are mistaken it. Um, so copper is heavy and dense. Um, As far as shortage, I'm not seeing too much. I am seeing where I'm a fan of fractionals. I am seeing a little bit of a harder grip on fractionals than I do the one ounces. A lot of people are trying to get rid of it. But like you said, when we hit those peaks though, the local shop wouldn't pay out more than $ 60, $ 70 an ounce, even when it was over a hundred. Wow. That's a huge, huge haircut. That just shows how messed up things were. But we had people coming in selling everything they had. They're still like, they'll take that 70. So there's still people that will sell. But this whipsaw effect is just going to get more pronounced. And the lows are going to be higher. And the highs are going to be higher. So I've never regretted buying silver. Let's just say that. I think the big thing for people, for my personal takeaway, is watch gold and silver. But watch the U.S. Dollar. The fluctuations coincide with each other just from what I can see. When silver goes up, the dollar goes down. When silver goes down, the dollar goes up. And that's the whole thesis behind precious metals is they just sit there. It's the dollar that's going up and down. Right. The dollar is what fluctuates our price in precious metals. Yes, yes. Now let's talk a little bit about copper because first and foremost– I love the art aspect of copper because it's not crazy expensive and you can get really cool, uh, artwork. You even sent me a Bitcoin copper coin. It was so tight. It had the Bitcoin on it. Like that's one of the best parts. Yes, but they're going up. So that one ounce right there, a plain one ounce, unlike the one I sent you that had colorization on it. Um, $ 3 to $ 4 an ounce, right? Non-colorized, non-premium. Right. And that's what I'm saying. If you're able to pull up what the market is per copper right now, it's hilarious when we talk about this. Right, because this is per pound, right? So $ 6. 23 per pound. Right. And this is going per ounce. And so the typical colorized ounce can go from anywhere from $ 7 to $ 14. Right. Um, five ounces. I have a collector's piece. I think I sent it to you, the warmonger. Um, it's a world war version and the five ounces. I luckily got it. I got, I get anything I purchased on that. And I get on the low end. Um, I try to be wise about how I purchase or how I bid. Cause the last thing I want to do is shoot myself in a foot over something. That's not going to be worth it. Um, but my five ounce copper that I showed you, um, I got it for maybe half of what it's actually worth in value. If I were to sell it. Or trade it, it has a $ 35 price tag value on it. The kilo is over $ 250 with that same design. That's some serious money. And I think the copper, I mean, gold and silver are beautiful to me too, but copper has its own beauty to it. So like it's really cool. People actually really figured there's going to be a harder market with silver and copper on the back channels that I have in the precious metal world. Because not only is it a precious metal that is used as currency or potential currency, it's also used in our electronics, it's used in our automobiles, and it's used in medical products. I don't think people realize like in hospitals or dentistry, all those med gas lines are actually copper. You know, a lot of silver is used in medicines and medical treatments. So it's not just a fact of, you know, we're seeing costs here. These costs also affect companies and manufacturers just for our day-to-day parts. And I believe, was it Netherlands? actually pulled a lot of their actual precious metals from the U.S. and have moved it back to Europe. Several countries have done that or tried to do that. The funny thing is that sometimes the New York Fed, who holds the gold usually on behalf of the other nations, says, okay, well, we'll send you 10 shipments once per year, a little bit at a time. They sure as heck don't send it all. I remember with Germany specifically, they did that, but Netherlands, A lot of other countries are requesting some or repatriating their gold, they call it. So it was gold. It was 86 tons of gold worth $ 11. 6 billion out of the vaults of the U.S., Canada to London between March and August of 2026. They have been moving it. That's pretty fast. That's a lot of money. And it's not easy to move billions and billions of gold. A lot of security required. I, right. But I think also, if you think about it, if you want to be, let's go conspiracy for a moment, you've got, you've got politics, right? We've got the hackers, we've got gold and silver. We've got countries like the Netherlands who are pulling in their own, um, three day to three week emergencies, depending on which country 30 days, you know, each country is telling people to do different things. A lot of people actually started getting very antsy when the Netherlands did this, um, only because they felt like it was a signifier to something underlying that we haven't figured out yet. And then now the hack-ins are coming about, uh, the Pentagon, Pentagon's, you know, 90 day fortress preparedness, which military bases should be doing 90 days anyways. Um, The fact that they weren't shows a lot more lack of concern or proper management of their own people if you can't make sure your soldiers are taken care of. Sure. Sure. Just like Feature Dan said before, unfortunately, he dropped off to have his battery charged. The soldiers' families and the communities surrounding them are part of it, too. It's not just front-line soldiers. It's a lot more than that. And the commissaries are actually a public shopping place for the military families. If you're stationed anywhere near a military base, the commissaries are solely like the Walmart or their area where you can go and buy anything from. But to further on the hacking, I don't think people realize what these hackers are doing is they are disabling people. they're using the defrost against them or even cranking up the internal thermometer. So like the blood bank, they have the thermometers cranked up to 110 degrees, trying to literally destroy everything. Cook it up. Yes, but I didn't know if you knew, I'm going to put in a plug real quick, if you don't mind, but because of all of this, because of the, You know, unknown on our end of the markets, of the economy, of our political future. Actually, PBN, I don't know if you've heard it, but James and myself put together a Home Fortress Initiative for people to do at home. We are doing an eight weeks talking about your way of building up to 90 days of food, water, and power and both your immediate fix and your long-term renewability just to try to make people realize you don't have to break the bank to get something fixed, but you also can do it yourself without worrying about whether or not someone's coming to save you. There you go. I listened to the first episode last week, I think. Maybe the second episode's out. I'm a little behind by PBN, or is it coming out soon? Maybe I missed it. It should be coming out soon, but we're basically talking about it all week. So we introduced it, and so that would have been the first one. Now we're going into this week, and Saturday for me would be energy. We're talking about power. We're talking about ways of making sure that even if the lights go out, yours get to stay on. And James definitely talked about how some of the episodes will have a lot of stuff. This is the time to get the stuff. Black Friday deals. There's all different types of ways to support PBN or even unaffiliated good deals that he puts together. Long story short, you got a shopping list put together you're going to be sharing? Because send me a copy. Because I'm looking to buy a lot. Yes, I will be more than happy, actually. Hoping if they get back to me in time uh for the water side of it i'm hoping to have this company on i've been talking to them that um i'm actually putting in the investment to upgrade my water storage and i don't have a lot of money to spend and i have a homestead so it's going to be well within a reasonable you know means for us. Nice i've upgraded my comms and was able to do that by way of NBC guys. So we got a little bit of the kickback. Everyone's going to get a kickback one way or another support. PBN is kind of my self ad. I don't have any affiliates, but I spend my money here. How about that? Even better. I don't make the money. I spend the money here. I want to use your promo code. Oh, you don't? Okay. You should, though. Don't be ashamed of it, I guess. Right? But I don't. I spin my own wool. I crochet. I sell my wares, and I sell what I sew. That's even better, though. I mean, that's even better. You know what? If you need a beanie, I got you. Well, I owe you for that awesome Bitcoin coin that you got me. Oh, no. I've got another one for you. That was so cool. Oh, thanks. It's not a Bitcoin, but it's similar to, which I have another Bitcoin for you because I figured you'd want to share it with Dan. But yes, I have a few other things. I'll have to wait till after and I'll send you pictures. Do it. Do it. I'm stoked. That's great. All right. I got you on my official Santa list this year as well. So really cool. When did you start at? PBN to get into some lore or whatnot. Cause you were here before we got here in 2020. So when was your first show? Since 20, I want to say I officially started podcasting 2016 or 17. It was right after Ryan Buford did literally a month after he started. Oh, super OG. And then I've been listening to PBN, um, since 2020. 12 2011 wow. That is that's obama back four years before trump that's deep in the prepping sphere that was like remember the mayan apocalypse that's kind of when i got into prepping a little bit and y2k a little bit but i was so young but how far we've come how uh little has changed and how much has changed at the same time right like i feel Very vindicated, but also still wish I did way more preps back then, but nothing better than today to keep prepping, right? Well, what's that old adage that hindsight's 20-20? You know what? I'd rather start now knowing what I know than never had started at all. Better late than never. That's exactly the way I try to look at it. You could always have regrets or coulda, shoulda, woulda, but hey, I made those first steps in about Oh, some of my first preps were probably about 2010, but I will absolutely say that I went into overdrive about the time I found PBN and not just because of COVID and not just because of PBN, but that supercharged. And I'm all about re-securing my home because I've done a lot of this, but I could add some redundancy, make some improvements, and I'm sure I got some gaps. So I'll be waiting patiently for the additional suggestions and content from you, James, and other hosts on the, what was it called again? The Fortress, right? It's the Home Fortress Initiative. Okay. I love it. Home Fortress Initiative. Kind of like how they did in the UK during World Wars. They were doing their own initiatives, their war initiatives and everything else. We decided to take what the Pentagon was saying for their 90-day preparedness for Fortress and And now we want you to have your own home fortress. Hey, if you can't have your own fortress at your home, what else? You can't do anything else. If you can't take care of yourself, your own family, you ain't going to help anybody else. That's how I look at it, right? Yes. Nice, nice. Well, I am sorry. Future dad wasn't able to make it because I had to. That's one of the best parts. I had a couple of questions that I wanted to like, not pit you guys against each other, but like, I thought maybe you'd have conflicting answers and it would be fun, but I was waiting to use those till later after the broke the ice. No, that's fine. I'm actually someone who loves to play devil's advocate. Anytime I'm asked into a conversation. So wouldn't hurt my feelings at all. All right. Well, we're going to get you back on sooner than later. In fact, we used to have a guest on like once or twice a month and we totally got away from it. So you're almost like, kickstarting us back in almost if possible, have you on a monthly and we'll maybe get NBC guy on there. And I got a couple other people that had never been on PBN. I'd like to get on this guest. So you help me actualize and get the ball rolling. And I want to, you know, thank you for coming on and definitely get you back on sooner than later. All right. Yes, sir. I'll be here. Anytime you let me know, I'll be happy to join the talk. Sweet, sweet. Anything else you wanted to hit on? I got to get out of here. I got a few more minutes, though. If there's any other topics or anything you really wanted to touch on while we still got a couple minutes. No, I think just on a personal standpoint, be. Vigilant, be aware, and stay prepared. I think really people need to really, if these aren't eye-opening times, then there's nothing we can do for them. Well, I named today's show As always, Patriot Power Hour and then the episode number, which is 367. And I just said, dash prep on, right? Everyone's depressed and in their feelings on the midterms. I can see why. In a way, it was deserved and expected. But all said, that doesn't affect your prepping plans. If anything, you should double down. So there you go. Prep on, right? Absolutely. Yeah, don't stop prepping. And if you haven't started prepping, now's the time to go. 110 percent well thanks again have a good rest of the night we'll connect on the back channel send me some of those pictures of the uh like the kilo i don't i forgot how you got some other uh interest was said it my way i might have to make some purchases myself for some gifts for some friends um i'm not buying any chinese crap that's kind of maybe maybe it's a. Survival thing So if you need some, we can talk. All right. I got people on my Christmas list, but I'm tired of buying people Chinese crap, to be honest. So there you go. Anyway. All right. Awesome. Great talking with you. We'll get you back on soon. All right. Thanks again, Jay Frick. Bye y'all. All right, everybody else. I'm out of here. We'll be back next week. I, will be live on Thursday, possibly Wednesday, but we'll definitely be back next week. Patriot Power Hour. Ben the Breaker Banks just signing off. Catch you later.