Patriot Power Hour #368

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, live once more. November 12th, 2026, episode 368. It's Ben, the Breaker of Banksters, here with Future Dan. Future Dan, I think we got a pretty packed show today. Yes. Picking up the news, isn't it? International, national, fallout from the elections, plenty of things to discuss. Absolutely, and we'll be getting to our news blitz, as always, after a few minutes of the first topic of the day. Future Dan, what's your topic of the day? Do you have anything you really want to hit on before we touch on the news? Boy, I guess the topic, usually after you read the heat map dashboard, I try to synthesize it all, but that's something I'm going to take a shot at ahead of time this time. How about that? Yeah, let's go for it. So it's... disparate pieces of news not any kind of pattern and association to anything that's you know earning anybody's attention is potentially dangerous to the United States of America it's all kind of siloed that's happening that's happening that's happening but it's there's no unified weave together threads right and for that reason it's a lot safer than it might otherwise sound. It's almost the inverse of what we talk about when we see the threads interconnected across the columns, across the headlines, across the indicators. That's amplified danger. Right now, there's a lot of headlines and a couple that are rating high grade, but most of it's topical. Most of it seems disparate. We'll talk about it one by one and see if we can't build any of those trends. One thing I wanted to touch on as the breaker of banksters is that we're seeing some tremors in the real estate market. It's really, they talk about the K-shaped economy in terms of like the winners and losers, people getting richer or poorer. No one's kind of staying the same. Similar in real estate. There's still certain pockets that are doing quite well. Others are starting to fall out. But what I'm focused on is, and this is, we'll still steal a headline from the dashboard. First monthly decline in home sale prices in three years. But there's also another headline that new sales as a percent are down to the lowest level in 17 years. So while there are a lot of construction and some areas are holding their value, a lot of inventory is coming online and people are not buying these new sales. It's the lowest it's been since 2009. So bringing it full circle with the Fed, with ongoing inflation this week, they're talking about raising rates more and more and certainly maintaining the high rates, not lowering them anytime soon. So if I had to pick one, it's inflation is not going away. With the midterms, we have seen oil and fuel prices come down, what I think temporarily. But Once this hits the real estate market in full, that's when I think we might see, at least from an economic point of view, the tendrils of threat crossing over the different indicators and across columns. You think that a financial crisis in 2026, 2027 might actually be centered just like in 2008 on real estate melting, the whole market's melting? There's two. Either of these could cause this. And if one happens, it might bring the other. And it's what I consider a stock market bubble. And then the housing markets. So we're already seeing a little bit of tremors with AI companies, etc. It's certainly no collapse at this point. But we're keeping a close eye on that. But conversely, the housing market, because the interest rates are so high. Now, I've always been... posited and we haven't tested this yet because it's been years and years and I'm quite impressed it hasn't collapsed yet but I still do believe they'll be able to lower rates and have stimulus and bailouts and bail-ins and bank holidays and all that crap one more time if there's a major COVID or 2008-2009 sort of crisis but if the AI you know the AI bubble plus and I'm talking about only the equities part not the actual data centers and national strategic value of it, which we've talked about, how that goes above and beyond the stock prices. But what I'm trying to say is the only reason some consumers have been able to keep pace with the inflation is because their house continues to go up in value and or because their investments are going up nicely. If either of those falters, let alone both, then they'll really be suffering of the middle class and the upper middle class for that matter. Yeah. You know, the downturns, it's cyclical, right? There's that versus, you know, Great Depression level stuff, right? So does all get jammed up and, you know, a generation lives through interest rates at the level, you know, half of what it was in the 80s, right? You know, when the average was 11% for a home mortgage, but, you know, still unaffordably high. You know, that's... It definitely doesn't promote, you know, the general welfare and happiness of the American people versus what I'm on lookout for constantly is what brings about a real economic calamity, right? I'm not sure I see a pattern emerging for, you know, earth-shaking calamity, a true depression versus, you know, stagflation and lost generation of homeowners, really. So I would say, just like last week, you made a call. I'll dare say that you made a call that the Democrats hit their peak water line of people, I don't want to put words in your mouth, but pretty much dealing with their crap from here on out. It's only going to be worse for them as they actually get exposed for what they really are. I would say, Similar for the housing prices in the stock market. Pretty much putting that all together. No one's really talking about it that much. We're not seeing that many indicators, but I'm calling it right here. With these interest rates, it's been unsustainable. And going into next year, well, we'll be doing some predictions for 2027. But they either got to lower rates, which would just kick the can a little further. Or there will be. at least a recession, maybe not great depression, but with the house of cards of economics, in my opinion, you know, that great depression is we're ripe for something like that. If the, if the dominoes fall, you know, badly enough. So we'll find out, we'll find out. So there you go. That was my topic du jour for you. Great cuts next year. Is that, is that the prediction? Is that the call that, that, or they lose control and, or, they're doing it on purpose. You've said many times they would do it more in 27, but maybe this time next year. So that's not that far away. If it really was going to be November, December before the presidential election year, that would be, I guess, sooner than later. So I still can't believe that they have been able to get rates this high, and I just do not believe that they can continue raising them. So if they do, man, Be on the lookout for your equities and your home values. The American economy is fairly resilient, and people still do work hard and have some ingenuity and all that. So thank God, or we really would be like Europe or worse. So there you go. yeah yeah just will there be a calamity next year will it be done on purpose to label trump and capitalism nevera botan for for many lifetimes or at least take a shot at that Remains to be seen, but we're watching for it on Patriot Power Hour. What do you say we blitz this news dashboard, Ben? Alright, well, economics was pretty straightforward. Already hit on October marks the first monthly decline in home sale prices in three years. Meanwhile, inflation still ticking up. Not the highest we've ever seen by any means, but still increasing the consumer price index for all Urban consumers, well, if you're not an urban consumer, maybe it's a little bit less, but trust me, diesel's not going down for the rural folks either. Gold and silver have been down just a bit since last week when we talked to Jay Ferg. Bitcoin's been beating down, kind of following along with this NVIDIA and all that. We're not going to get into that. But Bitcoin has taken another leg down. Gold and silver just a bit, mostly flat, though. Let's move on to the nature and health column. Only one article, but it is of the second most extreme grading under ostensibly eradicated diseases reemerging. So essentially thought they were eradicated, reemerging. The Pan American Health Organization is going to decide whether the USA has lost its official Measles free status that it held since the year 2000. So, you know, measles back varying reports of how much, and you know, we're not maybe getting into that, but Pan American health organization is going to decide if the USA will be designated as an official measles free status or not. And they've, you know, the U S has held that title or status for 26 years. So reversing that, noteworthy. How about we get into security column? This one actually has the most indicators of the night. We'll go through some of the topical information first and then finish up with the highest grade and S H T F level at the end. Not that these are, uh, Not important, they're just not as dangerous right now perhaps, but they're still very important. Here we go. White House had some security breaches that prompted a brief lockdown the last few days. Treasury Secretary relocates from D.C. area home to military base following Iranian threats. Internationally, Chinese Coast Guard flotilla makes a sixth incursion of Taiwanese-controlled waters in the last couple weeks, despite heavy seas. China's rehearsing aerial denial drills in the Western Pacific. Again, semi-regular and semi-expected drills and incursions, for that matter, and tests, probes. But we report on them, see if we can identify trends. And then let's move on. There's actually two separate articles here under Foreign Black Ops Suspected. Russia announces the sudden death of ambassador to U.S. And Chai Com Spy at the center of NVIDIA's CEO affair reportedly reported. Over chip smuggling effort. So, while we're not going to talk necessarily about the NVIDIA stock as much, the underlying item is what we're going to focus on because it's much more important. The SPY. So, both of those. Russia announced the sudden death of Ambassador to the U.S. and the ChaiCom SPY with NVIDIA CEO, which stepped down. We'll dive deep into those. And finally, we have a set of elections are stolen headlines. Last week we were on with a couple days after midterms. And there's definitely some smoke, some things I need to review. Let's run through it real fast from the last week. There's a hand count audit of five close races in Kansas. Hundreds of votes unreported in Georgia House race. There's an Alaska Senate campaign absentee ballot lawsuit receiving a hearing this week. Recounts called for in the Miami congressional race with revered state house seat. Mississippi Senate race voter roll and ballot count issues. Recount in Florida, 250,000 ballots. There's an undecided race in the North Carolina State Senate. Minnesota First Congressional District race heading to recount. Don't believe I hit that already. And really, that is the news for the day. I want to ask future Dan to comment on that first, or what I just finished with as his first comment if you would future Dan now nine days out from the midterms what's your overall thought on elections are still an indicator and what we're seeing here first and second the overall political ramifications from midterms and any other thoughts you have there now you know another week has passed it's. Just so hard to get news articles right and and to filter that from just assertions people are making that you know the whole heat map dashboard does, you know, kind of turn on the fact that you need a linked news article, sometimes even, you know, you know, an opinion piece that discusses, you know, some kind of event, some kind of issue, but with the election, you know, it's just so hard to get those. If, if, if, if true cheating is happening, who's censoring that and why it, you know, election denial ism. is well labeled at this point in both directions. Keep watching. If the cheating was bad enough anywhere, I'm not sure it's going to change who the majority is in any houses, but still wrong as can be and needs to be shown. Stolen elections, if it's happening on a regular basis, it's a really dangerous sign. Yeah, it's really dangerous, and even if it doesn't have a material effect on this election, it might in the future, and it might spawn. These could be the people that we're working on at this time, might be able to train the next generation, so to speak, on how to better steal elections if this is a de facto beta test. So, just for many reasons, but I think just the damn fact that it's wrong... stands alone by itself. I can justify it for other reasons why it's wrong, but just that alone needs to be, each one of these needs to be looked into, and I hope the good guys, whoever they are, are fighting the good fight as best as possible to make this stuff free and fair elections, real free and fair elections. That's my take on it, Future Dan. What do you want to hit on next? Can I hit on that one more time, though? Yeah. Yeah, I treat it like a political philosophy, like basic, basic question of, you know, how is the authority that governs you chosen, right? And if your ballot can't be even fairly counted, it negates the concept of democracy, you know, root and branch from the basis, right? So. How much of that can a population put up with before, you know, the right to revolution kicked in? I'm just saying. That's a good question. It's not infinite. That's for sure. All right. Hmm. How about we go straight to the Chai Com Spy at the center of NVIDIA's CEO affair? I said... erroneously to start early in this show to start we wouldn't be talking too much about that ceo but i met more of the drama tabloid and equity aspect in terms of the price of nvidia but way more important especially for this show is the chip smuggling effort. And the fact that this is a spy, it wasn't just like infidelity. That's just bad for a CEO to do. It's check. I'm spy at the center. You want to talk about this one? I'll click through. I want to hear your first take, if you could. Yeah, my hot take on this is this is a major failed Chinese espionage operation. And they've known for a while that it was going to get blown apart. And the talking points that they've seeded into the Democrat Party that's going out on mainstream media tonight are pretty damn genius backup plans. Because there's lots of narrative about Trump and Wong and export control laws and how there's corruption in the Trump presidency and things that normally should have happened aren't happening because Trump basically does things way, way outside of the boundaries of conventional presidential practices. but that doesn't mean he has an elected president. He's not perfectly willing to change the policy of his administration and do that. Whether, whether he's going to get trapped or any of his surrogates track, get trapped in corruption charges through this seems to be like the branch and sequel of the Chinese intelligence to have that all ready to talk about like all these retreats, all these private meetings, all these people talking to people and all these, People talking to Chinese spies and then talking to Democrat politicos and seeding ideas. They got a plan to make this all look like, you know, a Trump-Gensis Wong corruption story. But the only reason we know about it is that they failed to, you know, continue smuggling highly sensitive AI chips into China. So in the long run, blowing this apart might make it extremely hard for American corporation to continue doing that. And it's at the end of the day, the Chinese intelligence operations of failure, but my God, they got plan B rolling out tonight. Well, how long did this happen? I mean, is it a failure? I guess the failure, cause it's not going to be able to continue, but can you even value the amount of value they've gotten out of this over the years? I got to do more research, or maybe more will come out how long this has occurred, but it looks like, at least on this article, $ 4. 8 billion in chips in the past two years. That's kind of a drop in the bucket almost compared to full AI investment. It's still a lot of money, though. And how many of these other stories are being held over people's heads or waiting to be released at the right time on certain people? So. Or what questions does Chinese intelligence leadership have of the spy herself who's in China now, fled to China, right? Not something as successful until operation has to do. But when your honeypot has to flee back to China, then what questions do they have for her? What chips were smuggled? Who tampered with those chips before they were smuggled? What strategic benefit may have occurred by laying those into China? We don't know. We don't know. But that doesn't really matter to Democrats because their voters can barely understand what we're talking about. So watch and listen to all the assumptions they're going to immediately make and then all the consequences they're going to assert. And I'm getting flashbacks of COVID. Cause a lot of them talked about how, you know, bend the curve. We got a lockdown society, you know, that seemed like they conveniently know how to know, knew how to make that argument out of, out of ether at that time too. And never hold themselves to account or review their prior statements and predictions. And, you know, I'm not going to say apologize for them per se, but we at Patriot Power Hour, for example, do our predictions and review them and analyze why we were wrong. I don't think I've ever seen that for COVID and doubt I will see it for this, especially from certain outlets, to say the least. To be honest, it depends on what you're measuring. Removing and damaging liberty in America seems to be the overriding objective of all concerned. I don't I think it, you know, when the new Congress comes in and tries to do hearings, they're going to hit a, just a wall of, you know, that's classified and you don't get to know more than that. And that's where this one ends, but maybe smuggling chips to China gets harder from here. So, you know, at least having Democrats pretending like they care that that's a problem is a good thing. There you go. There you go. How about the, uh, the drills and the incursions around Taiwan. How about this? I'll wrap it up in a question. Is it too late for China to hit Taiwan? Did any window, if there ever was one, pass? Maybe with the Biden administration? Or is that still a very big threat or even a threat that's increasing in the coming years? What option or options are you picking? I'm not sure they thought they had any kind of chance after watching Ukraine repel russian invasion by land but they gotta have you know some kind of strategic hold at risk capability you know to justify all the things they've said for since 1950 when the chinese communist drove you know the the the current government of china off off the mainland right like the so you no matter how bad the sea state is, apparently they're out there in little Coast Guard vessels just exercising, just keeping that all planned exercises. They're going to stick to their planned exercises several times a year. They're going to demonstrate things at sea. They're going to be in the air. They're going to just go practice it for no other reason to satisfy internally, letting their people know that They could do it if they wanted to. I'm not sure they could. Well, looking at the archive of the Sino-Taiwanese war starting, there's been a lot of articles, but every single one, every article, and this is actually super rare feature, Dan, but I understand why, but every one is low. Can you explain to people that might be new to Patriot Power Hour and Future Danger why all these articles going all the way back to 2017 are low grade, even though some of the articles are escalations or seemingly so? The threat's always been low. What does that mean? Yeah, I'd be happy to. So for all the indicators in column two for security that have war in the title, like real war, it can't get above grade five green topical war. until at least there's reports of exchanges of fire, let alone casualties. So this is the type of indicator that stays at green until it really starts to escalate up. And going from yellow to orange to red to black doesn't take a lot to say, all right, those countries are at war right now. And the place where you've actually seen it get above green would be India and Pakistan. India and Pakistan last clashed a couple years ago, slightly less than two years ago. And Pakistan, he shot down a bunch of Iranian aircraft. And then more recently than that, of course, Israel and Iran fighting, right? So, you know, that quickly went to black on red, grade one happening. So, for Taiwan, Korea, Or any direct war with the United States where we measure those things, you're going to look at the archives. Of course, it's all green, grade one. We have not escalated into wars there. Good things. A lot safer for everybody. The high watermark for me in recent memory, at least, where I felt a little more concerned about this, and I'm looking at the archive right now, late December 2025, just after Christmas, when China conducted war drills around Taiwan, simulating a blockade, they encircled the island, there was live fire drills, and this is, you know, a couple days worth, multiple outlets reporting on it, but then, nothing, till March, there was a little bit of activity March and May, but not much, so happy that it didn't escalate. I remember at that point, I was like, that seems to be kind of an escalation, but thankfully, it's not gone beyond that at this point. Dude, in 1987, the Soviet Air Force shot down a Korean airliner with more than 300 people killed. Right. And that did not result in war with the Soviet Union. Right. Civilians getting killed over Soviet airspace. Right. So, put it into perspective. You can go a lot, lot further than having big drills before... At least the people who are in command authority, when their pucker factor goes up is when blood starts to get spilled. So, yes, this will all go more colorful than green really fast if blood starts getting spilled. How about this article? Russia announces sudden death of ambassador to the U.S. Russia's foreign ministry on Wednesday, yesterday, announced the death of the country's ambassador to the U.S., Alexander Putin. Our chief, he died suddenly at the age of 66. The profound sorrow expressed by the foreign ministry. Why did you track this or why would this, you know, why could this be dangerous? Maybe it's self-evident, but do you have more details on this exact article? And I just want to pick your brain a little bit. Well, we can open the article and we can look at the archive. It came into this indicator and activated the indicator to grade five green. Because that article would be topical at best, at best, right? But still, somewhat, it's going to raise a lot of eyebrows when something like that happens, right? Out of the blue, your ambassador to a country, you know, is brought back to a country like Russia and is announced dead, okay? You know, we should pay attention to see if there's anything there, there on that. But that's grade five topical. It should have been in the heat map that way. And then what followed from that is the entire NVIDIA blowout where foreign black ops are completely suspected. Grade one happening now. That's what we're talking about. So the heat map dashboard, the way it works is it just adopts the latest grade that the latest headline that was added held, right? So this is a unique case where we had like a Topical piece of news paired with absolutely stuff is happening now, actualized state. But, you know, again, the ambassador to the U.S. from Russia is just announced as suddenly dying. I'd like to know more about how that came about. Wow. Think that's about it we could talk about the measles free status since the year 2000 otherwise we've hit on all the articles of the day which is take on the measles free status pan-american health organization and i think last week or two weeks ago maybe we reported on a measles death what's happening out there. It just that's like one of those big slow you know, civil, civilizational declines, right? Like we had that disease, you know, almost never occurring in our country for some amount of decades. And now it's back. It's like, it's kind of like, look at that for, at least for the time being, we peaked at something and it's trending towards, you know, dangerous, right. Disease. So, Like I said at the beginning of the show, this is a disparate heat map dashboard. So disparate that even the two headlines within Black Ops Suspected are on the opposite ends of the grading and with two entirely separate countries. Hard to thread a needle through all of this and tie it together and make a strong case tonight that we're in a deep and systemic poly crisis. That's not true tonight. Well, I'm going to go on a little bit of a, I'm not going to call it a rant, but this is probably going to spend on YouTube, but we're not broadcasting on YouTube right now because what I see a thread from in this measles report is that they're talking about the U S losing the measles free status, but Canada, Spain, and the UK have already lost their measles elimination status. And My guesstimate, I'm not 100% sure. I probably should do the research. My guess is that Canada, Spain, and the UK actually have less vaccine hesitancy, which is what they're trying to push this as, the fault of RFK Jr. and Trump and vaccine hesitancy after the sham of the COVID vaccine. But my point is, Canada, Spain, and the UK, they lost their measles elimination status. So they're already worse off than the U.S. in that regard, allegedly. But you know what they have even worse than the U.S.? A massive illegal immigration problem, okay? So I would just wonder if there's a correlation between massive immigration from third world populations and some of these diseases coming back. I would posit that, and people need to be looking in and researching that numbers, in my opinion. And I'm surprised this is the type of news that the people controlling mainstream news want to put out there, because it's obvious to everybody, we're counting people that have carried the disease into the country from the third world, and they contracted it there. It's getting reported in the West. It's certainly not the same thing as those countries themselves losing their eradicated status with those diseases. But somehow these people take the news, report it, and then try to spin it back on a cause that's not even the cause, the gall, the gall of doing that is, is, uh, I shouldn't, shouldn't surprise anybody in 2026, but trust me when I say I'm old enough to remember, no one would have dared to try to make arguments like that in the news at earlier points in my life. Oh, even in earlier points of my life, things have changed massively, but you know, 10, 20, 30 years before that, like it's absolute one 80 flip. It's almost fully inverted in terms of journalistic integrity or all different types of things. But we got the masterclass in propaganda and how organizations like the world health organization and the Pan American health organization weaponized their certifications and their classifications and their directives and all that crap. So we've already seen is that's why, uh, Did all these countries actually deserve to lose their measles-free status, or is this a concerted push to have more fear-mongering? Or maybe they feel like they're losing their fight against the quote-unquote vaccine-hesitant anti-vaxxers, whatever you want to call them. And this is almost like a last ditch, like, oh, now we got to lower their credit rating. It's the equivalent of lowering the credit rating by Moody's for public health, essentially, is what I'm kind of getting at. Yeah, yeah. And they're measuring it the same way they always did. There's a number of reported cases in the country and not looking at the citizenship or travel history of anybody. Because in the past, when we were measuring that before, it just wasn't that amount of travel from abroad, illegal immigration. Absolutely right. Name the countries again. And you're going to be naming three places that absolutely invited the third world into their countries. Fully acquiesced to third world and vaccine policy. I'm at least for COVID. Let me tell you what, Spain, Canada, and the UK, like, come on, they can't even have guns in those countries. So there you go. Yeah. So he mapped to Ashford. It's odd night. Definitely things that we got to talk about. Cause any one of them could be part of a larger sustained pattern of collapse and, and seeing that coming. and making sense of it, putting your plans into effect at the right time, right? Not just overdoing it all the time when you can't sustain, but being ready to surge at the last moments before things get irreconcilably historically bad. That's what we're here for on Prepper Broadcasting Network, and we're a little bit distant from that tonight, thank God. I think that might be one of the most important parts of prepping for real though, is your readiness factor. And especially as a new prepper, you're really motivated and start accumulating skills and material and buying things and listening and reading podcasts and books and. All this stuff. Right. But eventually, you know, you might hit a lull or you might get complacent or just kind of normalcy effect that the you don't want to get too high or too low. You definitely want to get, don't want to get too low on your readiness. So yeah, you don't want to burn out. You don't want to go into massive debt and lose everything before the apocalypse happens. But on the other hand, you don't want to have, you know, save everything into your 401k and just hope that, you know, everything's going to go great. Have no preps, no food, no cash on hand. No, you've got to find a good balance as realistic for your life, but also, You got to stay vigilant. So in my opinion, kind of how I do it, when in doubt, you know, double down or prep, like, you know, the tiebreaker is assuming something nasty is going to happen tomorrow. Um, but I don't literally live my life that way. Maybe certain times of my prep being, especially during COVID, I was more on edge, maybe more tentative. So, you know, trying to find that balance. It's tough, but it's important. And knowing when to ramp up and maybe when to wind down a little bit, or at least not have that adrenaline going the whole time is really important. So you can have that. So you can respond properly when you need to. Right. Right. Right. And I would suggest to you that there's, there really ought to be, there is going to be, whether you want it or not, you know, training cycles. And I'll give you, you know, a couple examples, one from athletics and one from, Military readiness. How about that? All right. Perfect. I was actually going to ask you if you had any thoughts of military readiness, but athletics is a great, both of those are good examples, I'm sure. Go for it. Well, they sort of follow a somewhat similar pattern, which is a sine wave, right? And highs and lows, right? And think about weightlifting, right? You got to have a period where you're not trying to achieve, you know, actual personal, you know, record, you know, lifts and you're in a recovery cycle, right? So you cycle up and then you're at your peak and then you have to step back from that and, you know, do, do, you know, go focus on cardio and stuff like that and wait till the next six, eight, 12, whatever you, you know, your, your druthers are to try to reach new peaks in your, your, you know, physical strength, if you're weight training, strength training, and same kind of approach in at least the U S military where, you know, in a, in a given unit, one third of it is going to be on ready status, ready to go to war tonight. One third of it is going to be on essentially refit admin schooling, travel, leave, not like the furthest you can get away from, from war and, new members of the unit joining, other people transitioning out. You're not ready to go to war. And then between that, one-third of your force is in entire training mode to train up, be able to get onto ready-to-go-to-war-tonight kind of status. So with prepping for a major calamity, Where you're going to have to practice self-reliance. That's when you're at the peak in the weightlifting metaphor. Or when you're at the go-to-war stage, if you take a military perspective. And so for me, what you're left with is you have the other two cycles. And if you're in constant hardcore training for preps, there'll be burnout, right? You got to come back into a refit admin period of time. Of course, you could all, you know, at any point in time, the entire unit could be shifted to go to war tonight, or all your strength training might result in you needing to use it tonight, right? So, you know, that's the calamity we get ready for, but you can't be at the same intensity level of training for it constantly without risking a burnout. And you also have to come back and retrain, retrain things you haven't touched in a while. For example, and we're going to maintain some OPSEC on this Patriot Power Hour, but you and I are going to go training this weekend and inquire to the whereabouts of some whitetail, right? So time to get into the woods and practice those skills. Really looking forward to it. That time of year, well, kind of to end cap it, I think, if you had to pick those three phases, I feel like I'm kind of in the admin phase at this point, even though, especially for this time of year. Now, if I needed to shift, I think I could do it, but I've been taking care of a lot of other things in life, and the holiday's coming up. I don't feel as direct of a threat on the horizon as I did this summer, for example. I was actually at a much higher threat level this summer, how I felt. How about yourself? Is that too hard to categorize? I don't let the contemporary news environment affect my training schedule. I'm cycling between the two that I can control. Peak training intensity and then taking a, you know, living life and taking daily measures, you know, patterns and moving back up into that readiness schedule would also include for preps, you know, just, just acquiring restocking, checking equipment, replacing equipment, having your capability that you plan to have ready. Right. But, um, if you feel like you're in admin mode, when we hit the woods Saturday morning before sunrise, I think you're going to feel like you're back in the training mode. Well, that's actually another, so it wasn't the end cap. I got one more comment on that. We still got a little bit of time, although we're pretty much out of here for the night. Uh, it's not binary or it's not just your, uh, you know, in one of those three phases, there's a lot of aspects of life, but we're focused on prepping and training here. So I would say, uh, for firearms, I'm at the highest level, ready to go. I've, uh, I've been using my weapons all spring and summer. I've put hundreds and hundreds of rounds down range. I'm no expert by any means, but I'm ready to rock in that regard. On the other hand, for physical preps and especially some perishable ones, I've been holding off for multiple months until about this time of year to try to see if I can score some deals. So I've been paying attention to Intrepid Commander. He's been doing some kind of getting ready for some deals lately. holiday deals on different preps, whether it's water, electricity, or otherwise for prep. So, uh, you could be at different phases, uh, based on the type of prep or the type of training as well. Yeah. Different phases for different dimensions makes a whole lot of sense. But if you, if you just try to peek out on the, you know, training, training up or prepping, prepping up and go max effort constantly. Yeah. You know, at some point you got to step back from that. And, uh, you know, also enjoy life. So I hope you, you and I can this weekend while we're doing both. Um, and, uh, if you don't, if, if our audience hears nothing about our hunting at next week's Patriot power hour, you can assume the obvious, but otherwise we might have stories. There you go. Uh, private stories either way. Um, we'll find out quickly. Well, yeah, we, uh, are done for the night, November 12th, 2026 episode three, six, eight. in the bag. We expect to be live next Thursday, the 19th, but we're always reserved the right to get on earlier if need be. Uh, and then future Dan, I think I'll propose it now two weeks from today is Thanksgiving, which is totally crazy. I think we should do Wednesday, the 25th potentially, or maybe Tuesday, the 24th, but we should, uh, we definitely think we should do a show that week if possible, just probably not on Thursday that week. Just wanted to put that out there. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. More follow, but we'll make our best effort to be on the air every week this month. Tracking the news, letting you know if things start to degrade, we'll be back on the air for special events if necessary. But in the meantime, thank you to our audience. Thank you, Ben. Pleasure as always. God bless the USA.