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[00:00:35] We have the great show tonight for you, Ben
[00:00:38] From the Thrivelous Self-Sufficiency Fair is gonna be with us for those of you in the Pacific Northwest
[00:00:44] This event takes place Northeastern Washington State
[00:00:48] May 26 27th 8 to 5 p.m. We'll talk about it much more in detail
[00:00:56] On tonight's show, but just a heads up for preppers live tonight. Don't miss it. I want to talk about the stories that were fighting
[00:01:04] with every
[00:01:05] Not really, but the stories that were hidden. Let's go with that
[00:01:10] behind the
[00:01:12] The grandiosity of the Super Bowl
[00:01:14] You know, there were some stories that and one of them might have not caught traction yet, so it may not have been a high job
[00:01:23] But there's no doubting the fact that special counsel
[00:01:28] Accusing Joe Biden. Well
[00:01:30] sort of holding him to the same standard as Donald Trump for a change
[00:01:35] The situation with the
[00:01:38] The classified documents and such
[00:01:41] The story that came out the report that came out the words that were said and in the report are I
[00:01:48] mean, they're interesting
[00:01:50] The investigation into President Biden's retention of classified documents including those stored in his garage
[00:01:55] Remember what they did to Donald Trump when he had some classified documents
[00:02:02] No charges
[00:02:04] No charges
[00:02:07] Instead it looked to me like special counsel used this opportunity as a political ploy to further degrade
[00:02:14] The sitting president. That's what it looks like to me
[00:02:18] Quote sensitive intelligence sources and methods
[00:02:22] And their collection of evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed
[00:02:27] Classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen
[00:02:31] Now we know that he's got money large sums of money from China
[00:02:37] Hmm
[00:02:39] The or I'm sorry his son and companies that he's affiliated with
[00:02:44] Have gotten large sums of money from China and there is speculation that
[00:02:51] Maybe he threw his name around in some emails to get some you know, whatever
[00:02:58] The report said that the prosecution of mr. Biden is also unwarranted based on our consideration of the aggravating and mitigating factors
[00:03:06] The council said it would be listened to this now
[00:03:09] Difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him by then a former president well into his 80s of a serious felony that requires a
[00:03:18] mental state of willfulness
[00:03:21] They said that the jury be quote sympathetic
[00:03:25] They'd see Biden as a sympathetic well-meaning elderly man with poor memory
[00:03:32] The council further explained observations of Biden's mental decline saying he quote did not remember even within several years when his son
[00:03:39] Bo died his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate
[00:03:43] Did not remember when the when he was vice president for getting on the first day of the interview when his term ended
[00:03:49] If it was 2013 when did I stop being vice president?
[00:03:53] He was quoted and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began in 09. Am I still vice president quote?
[00:04:00] so
[00:04:02] You know
[00:04:03] It's a huge story. They chose and in short and to me
[00:04:08] It's as much a political ploy as it is a rip as an honest reply. I mean it is honest
[00:04:11] You look at the guy, you know, right? We don't have to bandied about it. He's not right
[00:04:16] He's not right
[00:04:20] The report comes out and they say look yeah, he did this he but you know the American people special counsel of Republican idiots
[00:04:27] We're getting a little tired of everybody
[00:04:30] Doing bad things and nobody getting put in prison. That's what we're getting really tired of everybody doing bad things
[00:04:39] Even bad things that wind up affecting us personally
[00:04:43] Even going as far as calling us the American people the bad guy
[00:04:49] And then oh a revelation of information comes and you know what maybe we made a mistake and then you know
[00:04:56] We're left holding the ball
[00:04:59] All these COVID revelations have people in saying all these revelations about crime actually being crime
[00:05:06] Well, you know, maybe we shouldn't let the thieves steal $900 worth of stuff and get off scot-free shit
[00:05:11] That's probably a bad idea
[00:05:12] The revelations at the border by the sanctuary cities. Oh
[00:05:17] You know what this is a lot to deal with
[00:05:20] Heavens me
[00:05:22] This is a lot of people to deal with we might have made a mistake down there at the border
[00:05:26] The people in Texas are like, yeah, where you been?
[00:05:31] So frankly I get it
[00:05:33] I get it the special counsel used this report
[00:05:38] To say we we can't convict and the reason we can't convict is because
[00:05:44] You know, he's not going to be president anymore by time the
[00:05:48] Thing happens the the it happens and they're gonna have to convince a jury that an old guy should go to jail
[00:05:54] I guess we can't throw old people in jail anymore no matter what they do
[00:05:57] um
[00:05:59] And largely to me it seemed like a sort of like a bit of a
[00:06:03] Honest report but used as a way to break news and political attack to remind the country
[00:06:08] Not that you know, not that it's breaking news
[00:06:10] But to remind the country further hey the guy running the nation in the midst of world war three
[00:06:15] And the the invasion of the united states from the south the guy running the country is
[00:06:19] Doesn't know where he's at doesn't know who he is doesn't know who his kids are what they did. You know what I mean?
[00:06:27] one story
[00:06:29] Not my favorite one, but one story. Okay
[00:06:32] The other one hit me after
[00:06:35] I got done watching the game
[00:06:37] I watched the game in detail
[00:06:39] Um largely because lady liberty is a chief's fan. Okay
[00:06:45] I don't usually watch super bowls. I watched last year's of course because the eagles were in it
[00:06:50] But I opened up my news and I my news feed on my phone after the game
[00:06:58] As any bitter
[00:07:00] Philly fan would watching another team win a Super Bowl another year, right?
[00:07:05] I know we got one now, but
[00:07:07] It's the bitterness runs deep
[00:07:11] And I see an article that is so amazing
[00:07:14] and so
[00:07:16] tremendous
[00:07:16] It should be the top news story of the day everywhere all over the earth in china in the united states
[00:07:24] It's it's the biggest story there is
[00:07:28] It's the biggest story. There is
[00:07:31] unilad.com
[00:07:34] And it's popping up in several places now
[00:07:37] Uh, but this was published on the 9th of february 2024 i've heard hardly I've heard nothing about it
[00:07:44] Over two billion
[00:07:46] This is billion with a b two billion tons of rare earth mineral
[00:07:53] found in the us
[00:07:55] Could make country the new world leader. I don't know if you know how big a deal that is
[00:08:05] But they were probing the amazing geologists. I guess geological engineers, whatever they are
[00:08:14] We're probing around in in in wyoming and they found a little vein of rare earth minerals essentially, right?
[00:08:22] And they're like, oh, it's okay. It's a little bit. That's good
[00:08:26] And then all of a sudden they keep digging right well, let me read it to you
[00:08:29] These results are illustrative of the enormous potential of the project when the resource increased by 64
[00:08:35] percent during a developmental drilling campaign which increased measured indicated resources by 128
[00:08:41] Typically you'll see the resource decrease as infill drilling takes place instead
[00:08:47] We're seeing the opposite with only 25 of the project being drilled to this point
[00:08:51] So there could actually be more than that it basically I mean if if the resource is such
[00:08:59] It could mean america taking over china whose supplies
[00:09:04] Stand at 44 million metric tons
[00:09:07] per the article
[00:09:09] You get it like this whole concept of rare earth minerals only available in africa only available in china only available through china
[00:09:19] You know what I mean?
[00:09:20] This whole concept
[00:09:26] Currently a whopping 95 percent of the earth's minerals originate from china
[00:09:31] With the states alone importing 74 percent. Can you imagine?
[00:09:35] 74 percent
[00:09:39] This is a very big deal guys
[00:09:42] because we're already
[00:09:44] Looking at what's happening with taiwan. We're already looking what's happening with importing goods from china's and i'm telling you right now
[00:09:51] Everybody loves to make and i'm one of the rare voices in this
[00:09:56] Everybody loves to make china out to be the next big thing. I am telling you
[00:10:03] They have no
[00:10:05] Capacity to be what it is everybody wants them to be or thinks that they are going to be
[00:10:11] And this is probably one of the biggest blows that could ever be dealt to the chinese right here and now
[00:10:19] Their idea behind taiwan and the dominance of the chips and the micro you know what I mean?
[00:10:26] Semiconductor the whole nine yards. This puts the source
[00:10:31] Of rare earth minerals right in the u.s. Is back. I mean in the u.s. You know in the heart of the united states
[00:10:38] And gives us you know tremendous capabilities. I mean just tremendous capabilities
[00:10:45] It's astounding
[00:10:48] America is astounding
[00:10:49] And it's like I always tell you and you have to keep this in mind all the time when you look at geopolitical
[00:10:55] Views you look at what's happening domestically you look at what's happening in the world the world is always
[00:11:01] The world is almost always changed
[00:11:04] By the things that we never in never see coming
[00:11:09] In other words you can follow trends
[00:11:12] And say oh man this could be it for the u.s. Or whatever whatever trends you're following
[00:11:17] You could follow the trends and that's one way of looking at things and it's not a bad way
[00:11:22] But i'm telling you right now man
[00:11:26] First of all
[00:11:28] As long as there's some
[00:11:31] modicum of quality left in the united states workforce
[00:11:35] An entrepreneurial
[00:11:37] soul
[00:11:40] There will be things that come that you never see coming
[00:11:43] You never would have thought this would happen this you never saw this come
[00:11:47] You've been listening for years to people say china dominates the semiconductor make all the chips
[00:11:52] They have the rare earth minerals they make the cell phones. They make all the technology and
[00:11:56] And america does nothing
[00:12:00] I'm just telling you
[00:12:02] It's a big deal. It's a massive story huge enormous story
[00:12:11] Telling you right now our resources is on an order of magnitude larger than the ramaco resource number set shorts
[00:12:16] If you did the same thing for it you'd come up with a lot bigger number
[00:12:19] But that doesn't take into account whether you can mine process more economically
[00:12:24] Or even do it
[00:12:29] Ramaco resource ceo rando akins told cowboy state daily
[00:12:33] We only tested it for 100 to 200 feet, which is about the maximum you'd ever want to do a conventional mine
[00:12:39] coal mine
[00:12:41] Man
[00:12:45] He said the rare minerals near shared in wyoming could have a value of 37 billion
[00:12:52] So that's the deal guys, you know
[00:12:55] Let's talk a little supply chain one threat one solution. Let's get into it
[00:13:19] Field notes from the gray man brief supply chain the number of ships transporting goods to the suez canal has decreased by 50%
[00:13:27] Since attacks by iranian bagged forces
[00:13:30] increased
[00:13:31] In october 2023 shipping here we go with china again shipping freight rates have increased by
[00:13:39] 350%
[00:13:41] From asia to europe and 100% from europe to the us causing the price of goods to also increase jp morgan predicts inflation will increase by
[00:13:50] 0.7% in the first two quarters of 2024
[00:13:54] So yeah war war inconvenience and price rises all over the country
[00:14:00] All over the world rather
[00:14:03] And this is uh
[00:14:05] The power for the course guys, you know, this is par for the course. This is why since
[00:14:11] 2000 maybe
[00:14:13] Maybe 2000
[00:14:15] Maybe a little later, but probably not much later, but since about the year 2000 I existed in a world
[00:14:22] where
[00:14:23] We were driven in our industry to buy local for a myriad of reasons
[00:14:28] Do you know what i mean?
[00:14:30] Buy in the restaurant industry is where it really took hope first buy from the farmers farm to table
[00:14:35] This was the thing this is what got people into your restaurant. They wanted to see you using local farms
[00:14:43] The whole concept of local is it it's been 20 years of my life now more
[00:14:49] 24 years of my life i've been i've been
[00:14:52] Mulling over this concept of local and it's why we came up with alternative everything
[00:14:57] Alternative everything is the concept of you know, you get apples from the supermarket. Well, where else can you get them?
[00:15:04] Right, you get this product from this store this national chain. Well, where else can you get it or can you make it yourself?
[00:15:13] This is the way that you
[00:15:15] This is the way that you overcome supply chain disruption, right and those things that you know, you cannot make
[00:15:22] You keep on hand
[00:15:25] Right
[00:15:26] Not that hard to understand
[00:15:28] Not that hard under we see what products all the time. Oh my god medicine. Oh my god ammunition. Oh my god food the price of food inflation we can't
[00:15:38] We can't deal with it. How are we gonna deal with it? Listen
[00:15:44] I guess now is as good a time as any to tell you about itarget pro
[00:15:49] Go to itarget. What is it itarget.com? Let me look i'll put the link in the uh
[00:15:55] In the chat down there. I'm sorry in the show description
[00:16:00] Yeah, you go to itargetpro.com
[00:16:03] Because we're there's wars
[00:16:06] And wars require ammunition and the cost of ammunition we've been warning about going up for how long
[00:16:13] I use the itarget pro sled and laser bullet package. Listen, this thing costs $99
[00:16:21] I could do even better than $99
[00:16:24] I can you use the promo code prepper at itargetpro.com you can get the sled
[00:16:30] Which is the fixture that holds your target in place and hold your cell phone in place
[00:16:35] You download the app
[00:16:37] You put the laser bullet into your into your handgun
[00:16:41] And you can dry fire any caliber
[00:16:43] For, you know, whatever caliber your your weapon is
[00:16:46] You can dry fire with laser
[00:16:49] And the dot shows up on the target and when the dot hits the target it registers on the cell phone app
[00:16:55] And the cell phone app tells you where you hit
[00:16:58] And you could shoot multiple rounds boom boom boom boom boom and it'll tell you and it'll track your your progress
[00:17:04] It'll track your accuracy percentage
[00:17:08] Listen, you can stay I stand I'll tell you what I do
[00:17:12] We all be hanging out at home right
[00:17:15] You know wife sitting on the couch
[00:17:17] Watching TV
[00:17:19] Kids are upstairs playing
[00:17:21] I'll be standing in the living room
[00:17:24] Shooting into the dining room
[00:17:26] At the itarget pro middle day saturday
[00:17:30] Hitting tens hitting nines feeling good
[00:17:33] Playing with you know holstering and and stance and all that kind of stuff
[00:17:38] I mean it's just as long as you've got you know as long as you're safe and you you know the basics of gun safety
[00:17:44] Um
[00:17:45] You could do this anytime anywhere and it costs you you know how much it costs you it costs you 99 bucks one time
[00:17:52] The app is free
[00:17:54] 99 you use a promo code prepper and it costs you 10 less than that. What's that 90 bucks?
[00:18:01] 90 dollars you shoot as much as you want
[00:18:05] Dry fire now, you know, I mean you're not shooting ammunition
[00:18:07] You're shooting a laser dot at a target you can set the distance how far you want the target to be and then you got them physically move
[00:18:14] The target there set it up like I said the sled comes with a compatible holder for your cell phone
[00:18:20] You just put the cell phone into the sled it registers the target in the iTarget app
[00:18:26] And then you're off boom boom boom boom
[00:18:31] It's changed the game for me for dry fire. I could tell you right now
[00:18:34] I would dry fire practice
[00:18:37] But it was never consistent
[00:18:40] Since we got the iTarget pro at home
[00:18:43] And we started these
[00:18:45] Preparedness routines, man. I've been shooting my ass off and I will continue so and we will be doing dry fire practice
[00:18:53] All this year through with our routines
[00:18:57] If you have the iTarget pro you're going to get a lot more out of it
[00:19:00] You're going to get a lot more out of your accuracy
[00:19:02] You're going to get to learn a lot about you know problems with your stance problems with the how you're holding your weapon
[00:19:09] I see it all I feel it all
[00:19:11] I use a crimson trace site on my on my pistol and and I can use this as a way to calibrate that also. I mean look
[00:19:20] Last time I went to the range with a buddy. I think I spent somewhere in the ballpark of nearing $300
[00:19:26] That was one trip one afternoon one gun
[00:19:31] Nine millimeter, you know what? I mean it was nothing crazy nothing special
[00:19:36] 300 bucks almost
[00:19:38] Yeah, I'll still go to the range, but who's got that kind of money to put in weekly practice daily, you know what I mean?
[00:19:46] Visit itargetpro.com use the promo code prepper spend 90 bucks
[00:19:51] Get a dry fire system set up in your house that uses only a cell phone
[00:19:55] Like I said the the system comes with the target the sled
[00:20:01] The laser bullet the whole thing your your your firing pin hits the bullet laser
[00:20:06] Boom, and it shoots a little laser dot registered by the phone collects all the data. It's amazing
[00:20:13] I don't know all I could do is tell you about these amazing products man and the people who
[00:20:18] um
[00:20:20] Are in the united states trying to do a good thing
[00:20:23] Itargetpro.com again use the promo code prepper get 10 off
[00:20:27] 90 dollars one time shoot all you want
[00:20:31] Okay, okay
[00:20:33] I'm gonna call it quits. We're not gonna do any other extra stuff today
[00:20:36] Because i'm already 20 minutes in
[00:20:38] I'll be live tonight 8 p.m. Eastern. We're talking the thrivalist fair with ben
[00:20:44] I don't know his last name. It's an
[00:20:46] No, don't have it in front of me, but he's a great dude
[00:20:50] Recommended to us from a listener and we've had our hosts at the thrivalist fair in the past last year actually
[00:20:58] It's gonna be a great show. I'll talk to you guys soon. Thanks so much. Hey support the sponsors support the network share this stuff
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