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- 0:00Speaker 1: It's the Alex Marlowe Show. It's the Alex Marlowe Show.
- 0:04Speaker 1: I'm glad you're here. We've got a big day today.
- 0:06Speaker 1: I'm going to give you a big election update. And
- 0:09Speaker 1: it's got some nice, nice news coming out of New
- 0:12Speaker 1: York and some of the street crime that's going on.
- 0:15Speaker 1: I say nice, entirely ironic. But first of all, a
- 0:17Speaker 1: shout out to my Salem colleagues and my friend Jen Horn,
- 0:20Speaker 1: who precedes me in the morning here in Los Angeles.
- 0:23Speaker 1: I had a great day on Saturday at the Salem event.
- 0:26Speaker 1: It was a town hall, the annual big thing we
- 0:28Speaker 1: do out in LA. My first time participating, naturally, as
- 0:32Speaker 1: first time being on the air nationally with Salem in Pasadena.
- 0:36Speaker 1: It was really great. Terrific audience and all of you
- 0:38Speaker 1: who stopped by. Thank you for stopping by. Sold some books. Guys,
- 0:41Speaker 1: if you ever see me out and about and I've
- 0:43Speaker 1: got my books, go get them. I'm not making more
- 0:45Speaker 1: money on the books. I'm taking an L on the books.
- 0:48Speaker 1: It takes a lot of effort to get the books
- 0:49Speaker 1: shipped out. I bring them because people follow me and
- 0:52Speaker 1: want to know more in depth about my thinking. come up,
- 0:55Speaker 1: get a sign book, say hello. I'm pretty friendly. It
- 0:57Speaker 1: was really fun. A gentleman who teaches at my high
- 1:01Speaker 1: school and is a pariah for his political views came
- 1:03Speaker 1: up and said hello. Very cool stuff when you get
- 1:06Speaker 1: to meet and engage with the audience. So please, if
- 1:09Speaker 1: I'm ever out there, come by, say hello. And I'm
- 1:13Speaker 1: also going to be on the speaking circuit some more.
- 1:15Speaker 1: I'll tell you more on this, but I have a
- 1:16Speaker 1: new partnership for the speaker circuit. So I'll fill you
- 1:20Speaker 1: in down the road, but it was a great event,
- 1:22Speaker 1: and we were talking about the future of California. Steve
- 1:24Speaker 1: Hilton was there. Nick Shirley was there. Of course, my
- 1:26Speaker 1: colleague Larry Elder was there. Larry O'Connor, stage right, was there.
- 1:29Speaker 1: We call him stage right because that was his pen
- 1:31Speaker 1: name of Breitbart News. Long story and a good story.
- 1:34Speaker 1: One day I could share that one on the air.
- 1:36Speaker 1: Mike Gallagher was there, maybe the nicest person on earth.
- 1:38Speaker 1: I don't think there's a nicer human being on earth.
- 1:41Speaker 1: I completely stepped on one of his jokes on the
- 1:44Speaker 1: panel that we were on. He was teeing up a joke,
- 1:46Speaker 1: and I cut him off with the punchline to his
- 1:48Speaker 1: own joke. because I thought I was doing some playful
- 1:51Speaker 1: banter and I completely ruined his story. And I was humiliated.
- 1:55Speaker 1: I was humiliated. And I couldn't wait for the panel
- 1:58Speaker 1: to be over just so I could apologize. And then
- 2:00Speaker 1: when I did, he acted like I had only enhanced
- 2:02Speaker 1: the story, which is completely false, but that's how nice
- 2:04Speaker 1: of a guy Gallagher is. He made me feel good
- 2:06Speaker 1: after I ruined his story. Isn't that a sweet thing?
- 2:09Speaker 1: Very sweet guy. Hey, look, he's a, he's a big
- 2:11Speaker 1: breadwinner out here at Salem. Everyone tells me you want
- 2:14Speaker 1: to know how to deal with advertisers, with our clients,
- 2:17Speaker 1: with the, Look at Gallagher. He knows what he's doing.
- 2:20Speaker 1: He's the pro around here. So it was good to
- 2:22Speaker 1: see everyone. And one of the conversations took place is,
- 2:26Speaker 1: is California cooked? And I was compelled to go back
- 2:28Speaker 1: to the story that I mentioned on Friday's show briefly,
- 2:32Speaker 1: where we're trying to build two miles of monorail for LAX,
- 2:35Speaker 1: the single worst airport in the world. It has now
- 2:37Speaker 1: been delayed again, so it'll be at least eight years.
- 2:40Speaker 1: And this was prompted by someone told me, was musing,
- 2:44Speaker 1: I wonder how long it took to do X, Y,
- 2:48Speaker 1: or Z that was eight years. So I actually made
- 2:50Speaker 1: a point to look up some of the things that
- 2:53Speaker 1: Americans accomplish in under eight years. And the list will
- 2:56Speaker 1: blow your mind. And I shared some of this with
- 2:58Speaker 1: the audience. So if you were in the audience, you'll
- 3:00Speaker 1: be getting even more refined version of what I spoke about.
- 3:04Speaker 1: But the Empire State Building only took one year. It
- 3:07Speaker 1: took one year to build the Empire State Building. Disneyland,
- 3:10Speaker 1: which is my favorite example of all of them, because
- 3:12Speaker 1: Disneyland has its own monorail. And that was built in
- 3:15Speaker 1: one year. So we can't build two miles of monorail
- 3:19Speaker 1: at LAX, but Disneyland, you build the whole park and
- 3:21Speaker 1: a monorail in a year. Pentagon was 16 months. We
- 3:25Speaker 1: had the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, famous arch, two
- 3:28Speaker 1: years and eight months for that. This is another fun one.
- 3:31Speaker 1: Golden Gate Bridge, maybe one of the greatest construction projects
- 3:34Speaker 1: in the history of the world. Four years and four months.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Hoover Dam, five years. Another amusing one. We said we
- 3:43Speaker 1: were going to the moon and then got to the
- 3:45Speaker 1: moon in less than eight years. And then the first
- 3:48Speaker 1: transcontinental railroad, a full railroad, six years for that. I
- 3:53Speaker 1: also did a fun one. I looked up how far
- 3:54Speaker 1: does a box turtle walk in eight years, and it's
- 3:57Speaker 1: apparently about 50 miles. So a box turtle could walk
- 3:59Speaker 1: 50 miles in the time it's taking us to build
- 4:01Speaker 1: two miles of rail. And that's what we're doing out
- 4:04Speaker 1: in LA. And it just, you wonder, it's the, I
- 4:06Speaker 1: was conceptualizing this. I was talking to Mrs.
- 4:08Speaker 2: Dr.
- 4:08Speaker 1: Marlowe about the problems of with our society. And we
- 4:11Speaker 1: have two goals. These are the two goals. These are
- 4:13Speaker 1: the two goals. These are the two goals. We want
- 4:16Speaker 1: to have a society that is high trust. That is
- 4:20Speaker 1: number one. The first one, we need to be able
- 4:21Speaker 1: to trust that when we spend money, it is going
- 4:24Speaker 1: someplace good. And then when you have trust in the people,
- 4:27Speaker 1: when you have trust in the public, then all of
- 4:29Speaker 1: a sudden things start getting a lot better for you.
- 4:31Speaker 1: I think this is the one thing that when we
- 4:33Speaker 1: pay exorbitantly in taxes in this state, we then we
- 4:37Speaker 1: don't trust that it's going anywhere. We trust that it's
- 4:39Speaker 1: going to putting the feminine napkins in the men's room
- 4:44Speaker 1: at the high school. That's where we think the money's going,
- 4:46Speaker 1: or to the unions, or to some sort of public
- 4:48Speaker 1: works project, which the goal is never to finish it.
- 4:50Speaker 1: The goal is just to start it, create jobs, and
- 4:52Speaker 1: that's it. And so the next thing that we need
- 4:55Speaker 1: to have is we need to have social cohesion. We
- 4:57Speaker 1: need to feel like we're all rowing in the same direction.
- 4:59Speaker 1: And this is to the last point. We're not rowing
- 5:02Speaker 1: in the same direction. When it seems like 60% of
- 5:06Speaker 1: the area in which I reside in Los Angeles seems
- 5:09Speaker 1: more focused on starting the public works project and not
- 5:12Speaker 1: on completing it. And they don't care that we could
- 5:15Speaker 1: literally commit to going to the moon. Everyone say that's
- 5:18Speaker 1: insane and getting to the moon. We could do that
- 5:21Speaker 1: in a time that's faster than building a monorail at
- 5:23Speaker 1: an airport. Then that is not going to be the
- 5:26Speaker 1: sort of thing that's going to create high trust. It's
- 5:27Speaker 1: also not going to create social cohesion because a lot
- 5:31Speaker 1: of us just check out. And that's why when the
- 5:33Speaker 1: people who are running the city, running the state, want
- 5:35Speaker 1: us to have open borders, they want to go soft
- 5:37Speaker 1: on crime, then we don't have social cohesion. And so
- 5:41Speaker 1: if we don't have those two things, we're doomed. And
- 5:44Speaker 1: it is a very sad thing because I want to
- 5:46Speaker 1: believe in California. I want to root for California. I
- 5:48Speaker 1: want to root for people to come to their senses.
- 5:51Speaker 1: But I'm just not seeing it. I'm just not seeing
- 5:53Speaker 1: it at the moment because it feels like every time
- 5:55Speaker 1: I bring you news about what's going on out here,
- 5:58Speaker 1: it's always bad news or one of the politicians that is–
- 6:02Speaker 1: in terms of running this place, is saying something completely
- 6:03Speaker 1: insane on some podcast. So I brought up Mamdani in
- 6:07Speaker 1: New York, the story of the weekend that we had
- 6:09Speaker 1: at Breitbart News, and I think this was based off
- 6:11Speaker 1: of some reporting at the New York Post, so shout
- 6:12Speaker 1: out to them over there. The prostitution business is thriving
- 6:18Speaker 1: in Mamdani's Manhattan. And let me give you some of
- 6:20Speaker 1: the key points. The prostitution is thriving in the Roosevelt
- 6:23Speaker 1: Avenue corridor of Queens under Mamdani. And the number of
- 6:28Speaker 1: street sex workers has increased, and prostitution-related relapse I'm sorry,
- 6:32Speaker 1: prostitution-related arrests have fallen. Do you think that is a
- 6:38Speaker 1: coincidence that we now have more people walking the street,
- 6:42Speaker 1: prowling the street, engaging in that sort of behavior? And
- 6:46Speaker 1: then we're arresting fewer of them. Of course, that's the
- 6:49Speaker 1: goal because the goal isn't law and order. The goal
- 6:51Speaker 1: is to protect the dregs of society. That's what people
- 6:54Speaker 1: want to do. I'm aware it's the oldest profession, and
- 6:57Speaker 1: I'm not saying all sex workers are created equal. That's
- 6:59Speaker 1: not the point. I'm not trying to cast judgment. and individuals.
- 7:02Speaker 1: I'm saying in general, it's not a good marker of
- 7:05Speaker 1: society if this stuff is happening in broad daylight, and
- 7:07Speaker 1: it is. So the number of arrests for sex workers
- 7:12Speaker 1: in New York has fallen 59% compared to last year.
- 7:17Speaker 1: So this shows you that this is game on for
- 7:20Speaker 1: people to engage in horrific behavior, and it is de
- 7:23Speaker 1: facto blessed by the mayor. Though I note this because
- 7:27Speaker 1: if we're not using our coast as case studies... If
- 7:30Speaker 1: we're not pointing out that if we don't start cracking
- 7:35Speaker 1: down on law and order, if we don't start believing in–
- 7:37Speaker 1: this is the exact opposite of the Rudy Giuliani broken
- 7:39Speaker 1: windows policing, where it was you jump a turnstile, you're
- 7:42Speaker 1: going to jail. And then now we've got if you
- 7:46Speaker 1: are engaging in sex work– and I'm not just talking
- 7:48Speaker 1: about the prostitutes. There are whole networks behind these people.
- 7:51Speaker 1: There are cartels. There are pimps. I mean these are
- 7:54Speaker 1: criminal enterprises that go into this stuff. You don't just
- 7:57Speaker 1: wake up one day and start walking the streets. I
- 7:58Speaker 1: know how it goes. It is enabling criminal networks to
- 8:03Speaker 1: thrive at the same time taxpayers are being penalized. To
- 8:07Speaker 1: quote John Fetterman, pick up trash. Too much trash in
- 8:10Speaker 1: New York. Way too much trash. And until that's straightened out,
- 8:14Speaker 1: then you should have no other priorities. And pulling back cops,
- 8:18Speaker 1: pulling back law enforcement, this really does cut social cohesion.
- 8:21Speaker 1: And it's sad because I want these cities to thrive.
- 8:23Speaker 1: I do root for them. I really do. A 40-year-old customer,
- 8:28Speaker 1: so a John, told the Post... that buying sex on
- 8:31Speaker 1: this strip nicknamed the marketplace of– I'm sorry, the market
- 8:34Speaker 1: of sweethearts is what it's called. It's cheap and easy,
- 8:38Speaker 1: and it's a lot cheaper than in Manhattan itself. So
- 8:41Speaker 1: it's like a advertisement for this area if you want
- 8:44Speaker 1: to go pick up some girls. Why are we tolerant
- 8:49Speaker 1: of this? Why do we support this? We do. We
- 8:53Speaker 1: do support it. If you vote for the type of
- 8:55Speaker 1: people who want to enable these policies, want to cut
- 8:57Speaker 1: down on law and order, you do support it. And
- 8:59Speaker 1: if you opt out, and that's what I'm going to
- 9:01Speaker 1: talk about in the next segment, if you opt out
- 9:04Speaker 1: in these elections, these off-year elections, these midterm elections, because
- 9:06Speaker 1: you're not 100% satisfied with conservatives and Republicans, you're just
- 9:11Speaker 1: signing up the whole country to become one of these
- 9:13Speaker 1: social experiments the same way LA and New York has become.
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- 11:36Speaker 1: All right, so I'm trying to break down the stakes.
- 11:39Speaker 1: I've been doing this the whole year. It's been the
- 11:41Speaker 1: theme of the show more than any others. But I'm
- 11:43Speaker 1: trying to tell you that even if things are not
- 11:45Speaker 1: going perfect, and they're not, gas prices are way too high.
- 11:47Speaker 1: I understand that. There's way more insecurity about certain things,
- 11:51Speaker 1: way less social cohesion than I think we would like
- 11:53Speaker 1: to have. But overall, there's been a lot that's been accomplished,
- 11:57Speaker 1: and I'll break that down as we head in towards
- 11:59Speaker 1: the election here. We're less than a month and a
- 12:01Speaker 1: half away. But now we have a House Democrat dropping
- 12:05Speaker 1: a 26-article impeachment resolution against President Trump, and it got
- 12:09Speaker 1: overwhelming support. This is one of the hottest stories from
- 12:12Speaker 1: over the weekend. Steve Cohen, who is one of the
- 12:15Speaker 1: most obnoxious of the Democrats from Tennessee, a lame duck
- 12:17Speaker 1: House Democrat, 26 articles against President Trump. in a blueprint
- 12:22Speaker 1: for potential Democrat House control after the 2026 election. He
- 12:27Speaker 1: called Trump the most impeachable president our country has ever endured.
- 12:30Speaker 1: He's been impeached twice, and I predicted he'd be impeached
- 12:32Speaker 1: a third time if the Democrats get control of the House.
- 12:36Speaker 1: He called Trump a danger to our democracy. And though
- 12:39Speaker 1: the resolution has no chance of getting past Republican control,
- 12:43Speaker 1: it's still got 147 votes. So Congressman Al Green also
- 12:50Speaker 1: perpetually trying to impeach Trump, but they claim that he
- 12:55Speaker 1: is a threat to democratic integrity and elections because he's
- 12:59Speaker 1: undermined elections. They want to impeach him for his military
- 13:03Speaker 1: and foreign operations in Iran and Venezuela. They want to
- 13:06Speaker 1: impeach him for immigration and civil rights violations, including his
- 13:10Speaker 1: birthright citizenship order, the Aliens Enemies Act, detention conditions, and
- 13:15Speaker 1: court defiance. They want to impeach him for over abuse
- 13:20Speaker 1: of executive power, which I've been through this many times
- 13:23Speaker 1: in my research and on the shows, which is that
- 13:27Speaker 1: basically every president aside from one or two has credibly
- 13:29Speaker 1: been accused of abusing power. So if that becomes impeachable,
- 13:32Speaker 1: we're going to have a lot more impeachments coming up.
- 13:35Speaker 1: So he is being accused of imposing loyalty tests, withholding
- 13:41Speaker 1: funding as putative measures. And he has done things like
- 13:46Speaker 1: use his Department of Justice for a political operation. I
- 13:51Speaker 1: wrote an entire book about how the whole purpose of
- 13:53Speaker 1: Joe Biden's Department of Justice was to do exactly that.
- 13:56Speaker 1: They've framed him as a threat to press and free speech.
- 14:01Speaker 1: And other ethics issues, including the emoluments clause, we've been
- 14:04Speaker 1: through over and over again, how Trump has made money
- 14:06Speaker 1: even though he's been president. So all this stuff, we're
- 14:10Speaker 1: going to have this nonstop. It's going to be a bonanza.
- 14:13Speaker 1: And if you don't think that people are going to
- 14:14Speaker 1: be so exhausted of Trump and Republicans come 2028, if
- 14:17Speaker 1: we're not careful here, they're going to be. And I
- 14:20Speaker 1: still trust him. I still trust that what he's trying
- 14:22Speaker 1: to do is the best thing. And I know it's
- 14:23Speaker 1: sometimes hard. And sometimes he doesn't surround himself with the
- 14:26Speaker 1: sharpest people who do the best things. But overall, I
- 14:29Speaker 1: do think that he still has a high degree of trust.
- 14:32Speaker 1: And even when he gets one not right or not perfect,
- 14:34Speaker 1: I still feel like he's got the best chance of
- 14:37Speaker 1: getting something done. And that is something that we've got
- 14:40Speaker 1: to appreciate that the alternative is is you might feel
- 14:44Speaker 1: self-righteous if you withhold votes from him, but it is
- 14:48Speaker 1: not going to help the country. It's going to hurt
- 14:49Speaker 1: the country immeasurably. He spoke with Laura Ingram over the weekend,
- 14:54Speaker 1: and this was a cut of him talking about the
- 14:55Speaker 1: Iran war. I think it's important to play this. Cut 12, please.
- 14:59Speaker 4: If we hadn't done Iran, you would be cruising to
- 15:01Speaker 4: midterm victory.
- 15:02Speaker 3: 225, yes. Well, you don't know that.
- 15:05Speaker 1: Any regrets?
- 15:06Speaker 2: No.
- 15:07Speaker 1: Supposing.
- 15:08Speaker 4: We were cruising, and all of a sudden Iran has
- 15:11Speaker 4: a nuclear weapon.
- 15:12Speaker 3: They would use it. They're crazy.
- 15:15Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the whole thing. Do you buy that?
- 15:18Speaker 1: And I don't think much of the country does. I do.
- 15:20Speaker 1: I'm someone who's very skeptical of any sort of foreign intervention.
- 15:23Speaker 1: And Trump brought me along and made me feel like
- 15:25Speaker 1: that it was probably the right move to go try
- 15:27Speaker 1: to wipe out Iran's nuclear capabilities. But there's a couple
- 15:31Speaker 1: of things happening that a lot of people who are
- 15:33Speaker 1: on Trump's side and largely support the war have been
- 15:35Speaker 1: very hostile online. They've been very alienating to people who
- 15:38Speaker 1: like Trump or were skeptical of the war. So there's
- 15:41Speaker 1: no nuance. You're either on the side of the war
- 15:43Speaker 1: or you're on the side that is so deeply disappointed
- 15:47Speaker 1: and disturbed. And you don't understand why a president of
- 15:49Speaker 1: the United States would want to protect his own people
- 15:51Speaker 1: from a nuclear threat. And I fundamentally believe that Iran
- 15:54Speaker 1: is crazy enough to use a nuclear weapon if they can. So,
- 15:59Speaker 1: by the way, there is an effort to wrap up
- 16:01Speaker 1: the war in short order. Scott Besson said that Iran's
- 16:04Speaker 1: economy will have nothing left to trade in two weeks
- 16:08Speaker 1: as they continue their Operation Economic Fury. So there's still
- 16:12Speaker 1: potential that we could get some sort of a positive
- 16:14Speaker 1: October surprise when it comes to the economy. This is
- 16:17Speaker 1: jobs week, so we get jobs data later in the week,
- 16:19Speaker 1: which I always look forward to. So I'll have a
- 16:21Speaker 1: big breakdown of that on Friday's show. But they've been
- 16:25Speaker 1: very good. Our economy is overperforming, but people are unaware
- 16:28Speaker 1: of it. People are walking around as if we're in
- 16:29Speaker 1: depression and as if it is time to give up.
- 16:32Speaker 1: It's not time to give up. There's a lot of indicators.
- 16:35Speaker 1: There's a lot of markers that suggest that we are
- 16:37Speaker 1: actually doing things at a better and more efficient and
- 16:40Speaker 1: more effective rate than we have in recent years. And
- 16:43Speaker 1: that we've had a market improvement, but the inflation is
- 16:45Speaker 1: higher than the target. And because of that, people feel
- 16:48Speaker 1: a lot of pain when they go to a grocery
- 16:49Speaker 1: store and they go to the gas station. And we
- 16:51Speaker 1: need to be speaking to those people. And I don't
- 16:53Speaker 1: feel like we are. I don't think we're making a
- 16:54Speaker 1: case to those people. And when we come back from
- 16:56Speaker 1: the break, I'm going to play a clip of something
- 16:59Speaker 1: I saw online, which is just kind of alarming. But
- 17:02Speaker 1: there's a huge out-of-touch nature with, I think, some of
- 17:04Speaker 1: the people who Trump is surrounded with at the moment
- 17:07Speaker 1: with what's going on in the rest of America. And
- 17:11Speaker 1: we need to start messaging to the rest of America.
- 17:13Speaker 1: Probably it'd be better if we did it six months ago.
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- 17:57Speaker 1: thought I had sent a clip that I need. but
- 18:01Speaker 1: I had not sent it. So we're waiting for this clip.
- 18:03Speaker 1: This is a mind blowing one that we'll play in
- 18:05Speaker 1: a little bit, but we've got to sort out whether
- 18:06Speaker 1: or not we play the sound. This is important, but
- 18:08Speaker 1: it's an AI clip and it's leading to believe that
- 18:11Speaker 1: the Trump administration Republicans are just way off on the
- 18:14Speaker 1: messaging game right now. I'm looking at a breakdown of
- 18:18Speaker 1: a Gallup survey showing 70% of Americans oppose new AI
- 18:21Speaker 1: data centers. Now, should they oppose it? Do they oppose
- 18:24Speaker 1: it for the right reasons? This is all a conversation
- 18:26Speaker 1: we've been having, but having on the show, Also, I
- 18:29Speaker 1: did release, by the way, on the podcast feed, my
- 18:31Speaker 1: big speech on AI. I put a lot of work
- 18:34Speaker 1: into this, and it is tightly crafted, I would say,
- 18:38Speaker 1: and it gives you my whole up-to-the-minute thoughts on AI
- 18:41Speaker 1: in long form. So I do recommend that. That's why
- 18:43Speaker 1: I recommend you subscribe to the Marlowe podcast feeds. There's
- 18:45Speaker 1: so much content over there we're putting out every day,
- 18:47Speaker 1: including on YouTube, stuff like that. But data centers are
- 18:50Speaker 1: deeply unpopular, and Trump is out there acting like he
- 18:53Speaker 1: loves data centers. He's the number one champion of data centers.
- 18:56Speaker 1: The people in his cabinet suggesting we don't like data centers,
- 18:59Speaker 1: you're a Chinese plant. It's just not good. It's very
- 19:01Speaker 1: bad messaging right now. Trump is now going to have
- 19:04Speaker 1: dinner apparently with Dario Amadei, the original effective altruist, the
- 19:10Speaker 1: guy who runs Anthropic, who wants Anthropic to have a
- 19:13Speaker 1: veto power over the Pentagon if the Pentagon wants to
- 19:16Speaker 1: use its technology. And we want to use it to
- 19:18Speaker 1: fight wars. Then Dario Amadei would like to have a
- 19:21Speaker 1: kill switch that he can use so that you can't
- 19:23Speaker 1: use his technology to engage in war if Amadei doesn't
- 19:26Speaker 1: like it. He literally has that opinion and he's going
- 19:30Speaker 1: to the White House. And the point that's going on
- 19:32Speaker 1: here that I've got is that there is a massive
- 19:34Speaker 1: disconnect in terms of messaging about Americans who are feeling
- 19:37Speaker 1: that they are getting squeezed right now and what's coming
- 19:39Speaker 1: out of the White House and the Republican Party. And
- 19:42Speaker 1: there needs to be a combination of selling the public
- 19:45Speaker 1: on things that are going well and taking principal positions
- 19:48Speaker 1: that let the people know that they are on their side.
- 19:53Speaker 1: We're going up against this new group of people, these
- 19:57Speaker 1: AI people, these tech oligarchs who are usurping power at
- 20:01Speaker 1: a very quick rate. And they're doing so without a
- 20:04Speaker 1: message that I think appeals to virtually anyone. Bill Gates
- 20:09Speaker 1: was out there, and whenever he speaks, it always makes
- 20:11Speaker 1: you cringe, but he was talking about AI causing maybe
- 20:15Speaker 1: a billion deaths. Cut 11, please.
- 20:19Speaker 5: Do you believe AI is powerful enough to end all
- 20:22Speaker 5: of humanity?
- 20:24Speaker 6: AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause
- 20:33Speaker 6: a billion deaths. So even though it's... pretty hard to
- 20:37Speaker 6: get to 100%. There's never been a weapon as powerful
- 20:45Speaker 6: as the combination of people with ill intent using the
- 20:50Speaker 6: latest AI tools. And it's great that there's this discussion
- 20:55Speaker 6: with the industry, almost against their interest, admitting The problem
- 21:00Speaker 6: is that the rest of the world is either discounting
- 21:04Speaker 6: this or just thinking of this as a competition.
- 21:09Speaker 1: One thing that's so striking to me about this is
- 21:13Speaker 1: why are we talking to Bill Gates right now? He's
- 21:15Speaker 1: all over the Epstein files. And you hear from so
- 21:20Speaker 1: many people in the disaffected wing of the Republican Party,
- 21:24Speaker 1: the conservative movement, as well as the whole Democrat establishment.
- 21:28Speaker 1: You hear nonstop about how this is the guy who
- 21:32Speaker 1: Donald Trump was the real problem in the Epstein files,
- 21:35Speaker 1: even though Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago and never
- 21:37Speaker 1: liked the guy. And then Bill Gates, who's all over
- 21:41Speaker 1: the thing to the point where his wife leaves him
- 21:44Speaker 1: over this stuff, and we're getting his opinion on AI? Like,
- 21:47Speaker 1: why are we doing this? How are they having both narratives?
- 21:50Speaker 1: And for those of you who didn't see that, that was–
- 21:51Speaker 1: you could probably recognize her voice. Kristen Welker from Meet
- 21:54Speaker 1: the Press. Meet the Press is NBC, right? So NBC.
- 21:58Speaker 1: And then I heard this talked about nonstop on CNN.
- 22:01Speaker 1: So the corporate media wants you to believe Trump's the
- 22:03Speaker 1: problem with the Epstein files and Bill Gates, the Epstein
- 22:06Speaker 1: file guy, we're getting his take on stuff. He can
- 22:09Speaker 1: just opine. Super creepy guy. He wants law enforcement and
- 22:13Speaker 1: politicians now to monitor AI. Who are going to be
- 22:15Speaker 1: the people going to do that? It's going to be
- 22:17Speaker 1: the effective altruists. Those are the ones who are going
- 22:19Speaker 1: to do it. Let's play cut eight, please, guys.
- 22:26Speaker 5: Anthropic CEO Dario Amadei recently called on AI companies to
- 22:29Speaker 5: slow model development to try to mitigate risks. Do you
- 22:34Speaker 5: think self-regulation is sufficient, or does it need to be
- 22:38Speaker 5: accompanied by legislation in Washington?
- 22:40Speaker 6: I don't think self-regulation is enough.
- 22:43Speaker 5: So there needs to be legislation passed in Washington?
- 22:46Speaker 1: Absolutely.
- 22:46Speaker 6: You need law enforcement and the politicians... to get into
- 22:54Speaker 6: the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like. And
- 22:58Speaker 6: that has to be a required thing. And it will
- 23:03Speaker 6: be a little bit of overhead for the industry, but
- 23:06Speaker 6: not a dramatic slowing of what they're doing.
- 23:11Speaker 1: Very cool. Okay, so he thinks that we need to
- 23:14Speaker 1: have global governance and who's going to be in charge
- 23:16Speaker 1: of it. It's going to be the people Dario Amadei
- 23:18Speaker 1: put forward or literally his family members. So just warning you,
- 23:22Speaker 1: that we need to channel the people here because the
- 23:23Speaker 1: people don't like AI and the people who stand to
- 23:26Speaker 1: gain the most from AI are the ones who are
- 23:27Speaker 1: calling for global governance, which is going to freeze out
- 23:30Speaker 1: competition and is going to make it so that there's
- 23:32Speaker 1: a massive swell of money that floods Democrat coffers and
- 23:36Speaker 1: globalist politicians throughout the world, their coffers, because you're all
- 23:39Speaker 1: going to get rich because they're all the ones who
- 23:41Speaker 1: run these companies. That's the math. You guys get it.
- 23:45Speaker 1: This audience, we're going to get the word out. Peter Thiel,
- 23:50Speaker 1: an interesting take on AI of Palantir, but also a
- 23:53Speaker 1: top Trump funder on this one world government concept. Play
- 23:56Speaker 1: cut seven, please, guys.
- 23:59Speaker 7: In theory, you could slow it down if you had
- 24:02Speaker 7: genuine deep cooperation across the whole world. But I think
- 24:10Speaker 7: that would require a one world government with real teeth,
- 24:14Speaker 7: real force. And the sort of classical liberal part of
- 24:18Speaker 7: me thinks that's almost, you know, that's a frying pan
- 24:22Speaker 7: into fire. It's a cure that's worse than the disease.
- 24:24Speaker 7: The Pope recently issued this AI encyclical, or I would
- 24:29Speaker 7: characterize it as an anti-AI encyclical. And so, in effect,
- 24:33Speaker 7: the Pope's encyclical was working for the Communist Party. I'm
- 24:37Speaker 7: not saying he was an agent of the communists, but
- 24:39Speaker 7: he was at least acting as a useful idiot for
- 24:41Speaker 7: the CCP.
- 24:45Speaker 1: I think that's an interesting point, but I think that
- 24:47Speaker 1: the point that I am most interested in is that
- 24:49Speaker 1: acknowledging that the encroaching one world government, we're going to
- 24:52Speaker 1: get the conversation with AI very similar to what we
- 24:55Speaker 1: saw with climate change, where we're going to get calls
- 24:57Speaker 1: for one world government. We're going to outsource our sovereignty
- 25:00Speaker 1: until on a personal level, doesn't like it, but he
- 25:02Speaker 1: knows it's coming and he's waving that out there. So
- 25:06Speaker 1: he identified something else in this conversation that I thought
- 25:09Speaker 1: was really compelling. And this ties into a point I
- 25:11Speaker 1: was making in the last segment. Can you play cut nine, please?
- 25:13Speaker 7: Gentlemen, and i think the two administrations kind of made
- 25:19Speaker 7: opposite mistakes you know the first administration um brought in
- 25:23Speaker 7: all these people who couldn't agree and it was just
- 25:25Speaker 7: all this internal fighting um the second administration um i
- 25:30Speaker 7: think um had all these they over corrected for the
- 25:34Speaker 7: mistake of the first term with all these loyalty tests
- 25:36Speaker 7: you got sort of um you know An administration staffed
- 25:41Speaker 7: by not very smart, but very loyal people. It reflected
- 25:45Speaker 7: a way that things had reached a certain exhaustion, and
- 25:51Speaker 7: certainly on the Republican side.
- 25:55Speaker 1: The first thing is, I don't know if he presumably
- 25:57Speaker 1: wants Republicans to win. I think he does. I don't
- 25:59Speaker 1: know why he's making these points, but it is a
- 26:02Speaker 1: good point. And it's interesting to think about this, because
- 26:04Speaker 1: the first Trump administration was Our role at Breitbart was
- 26:07Speaker 1: we had to push back on a lot of what
- 26:09Speaker 1: the administration's policies were, even though we were instrumental in
- 26:12Speaker 1: getting Trump elected. But then when people came in who
- 26:14Speaker 1: were pushing globalism, who were pushing soft on crime policies,
- 26:17Speaker 1: who were putting Paul Ryan's health care reform in the
- 26:24Speaker 1: front burner and immigration locking down the border on the
- 26:26Speaker 1: back burner, we had to push against that stuff. And
- 26:29Speaker 1: there was huge divisions within that. the administration and big turmoil.
- 26:33Speaker 1: And then now there seems to be less division, but
- 26:35Speaker 1: it does seem like there's a bit of an out
- 26:37Speaker 1: of touch nature that I want to warn against. And there's,
- 26:39Speaker 1: I guess we're not going to have it in time,
- 26:41Speaker 1: but Dan Scavino, who's the deputy White House chief of staff,
- 26:44Speaker 1: who just seems like a great guy in general. And
- 26:47Speaker 1: he's a great success story. And he's someone who came from,
- 26:50Speaker 1: I think he was working on one of Trump's golf
- 26:51Speaker 1: courses that ended up being his social media guru. It's
- 26:54Speaker 1: an amazing story, but he did put out a video,
- 26:56Speaker 1: an AI video of from that took, I guess it
- 27:00Speaker 1: was supposed to be from the celebrating at the state
- 27:05Speaker 1: dinner or something. And it's him popping champagne with his
- 27:08Speaker 1: wife and it looks like Eric Trump in the background
- 27:10Speaker 1: and maybe some sort of AI fax him leave Laura Trump,
- 27:12Speaker 1: but I can't tell. And he's spraying champagne everywhere. And
- 27:17Speaker 1: it's just, it's so off-putting. It's just very off-putting. And
- 27:20Speaker 1: I don't say this to make this huge referendum on
- 27:23Speaker 1: Dan Scavino, but I'm saying that who got, this is
- 27:26Speaker 1: a guy who's a genius at social media. Why not
- 27:28Speaker 1: get the memo that, hey guys, we need to get
- 27:31Speaker 1: focused here. Americans are feeling the pain here at the
- 27:33Speaker 1: grocery store and the gas pump. Like the champagne stuff,
- 27:35Speaker 1: like they're not, it's not as funny as it was
- 27:38Speaker 1: during a campaign when we're going up against Joe Biden,
- 27:40Speaker 1: who's half dead. Like, it's not as funny as that.
- 27:44Speaker 1: It's different now. We've got to lock in. We've got
- 27:46Speaker 1: to make people feel like we feel their pain to
- 27:48Speaker 1: some degree and be credible about it. Rachel Campos Duffy,
- 27:53Speaker 1: who's a host at Fox, and again, another person everyone
- 27:56Speaker 1: says is great. She co-hosts with my good friend Charlie Hurt,
- 28:00Speaker 1: who sings her praises constantly. So she's very bright and
- 28:03Speaker 1: very fun. And married to Sean Duffy, who's been excellent
- 28:07Speaker 1: to us at Breitbart. She put out a little vlog recently.
- 28:10Speaker 1: over the weekend of her time at the state dinner.
- 28:12Speaker 1: And she has a great time and he's having a
- 28:14Speaker 1: great time and they're very charming, good looking. And I'm
- 28:16Speaker 1: glad they're having fun. I'm glad they have nice lives,
- 28:18Speaker 1: but it's not the message when a lot of people
- 28:20Speaker 1: are feeling the hurt right now. A lot of people
- 28:22Speaker 1: are walking around disappointed in Trump's base. And we need
- 28:25Speaker 1: those people to vote in November. And I'm not seeing
- 28:28Speaker 1: anything that's rallying those people right now. What's going to
- 28:31Speaker 1: rally those people. If the best thing I've got is
- 28:34Speaker 1: the warning you about Assam Piker that he could take
- 28:36Speaker 1: over the party warning about James Tallarico that he could
- 28:38Speaker 1: take over the party. And I want to do that.
- 28:42Speaker 1: Let's play a couple cuts. I got a couple. I
- 28:43Speaker 1: got to say, let's play some pikers. Play cut 10, please.
- 28:47Speaker 3: We are the normal ones.
- 28:48Speaker 8: It is less normal to constantly freak out about transgender
- 28:53Speaker 8: people than it is to just let trans people live. Okay.
- 28:58Speaker 8: Most people, most people, partially because of law and order SVU,
- 29:03Speaker 8: let's do a call back to that.
- 29:04Speaker 3: Okay.
- 29:04Speaker 1: Okay.
- 29:05Speaker 8: Actually don't care about trans people existing in society.
- 29:09Speaker 7: Okay.
- 29:09Speaker 8: But on the internet, that's the only thing that the
- 29:12Speaker 8: Republicans dial in on and they make it seem like
- 29:15Speaker 8: being transgender is abnormal.
- 29:17Speaker 1: You know, it's abnormal.
- 29:18Speaker 8: Constantly worrying about children's genitals. That is the most weirdo
- 29:22Speaker 8: freak of all time.
- 29:25Speaker 1: So that's the voice of the Democrat party right now
- 29:28Speaker 1: that we're the weird ones. Cause we don't want children
- 29:30Speaker 1: to have chemical castration or physical castration. We're the weird ones.
- 29:34Speaker 1: And he's Mamdani's buddy and Saeed's buddy. Let's play cut one.
- 29:37Speaker 1: Here's Tallarico's pastor. Cut one, please.
- 29:40Speaker 9: It's very possible that Jesus rose from the dead. It's
- 29:46Speaker 9: also possible the body was stolen. Maybe Jesus rose from
- 29:49Speaker 9: the dead, but maybe not. Maybe the person I'm sitting
- 29:52Speaker 9: next to is as close as I need to get.
- 29:57Speaker 9: Symbols are not, religious symbols, if they're healthy, are not
- 30:00Speaker 9: symbols of something that happened. They're symbols of the principles
- 30:05Speaker 9: by which everything happens.
- 30:08Speaker 1: So maybe Jesus didn't rise from the dead. So that's
- 30:10Speaker 1: where they're at right now. And so we got to
- 30:12Speaker 1: get the word out. I don't feel like the word
- 30:14Speaker 1: has gotten out and we need to be narrowly focused
- 30:17Speaker 1: on this. And I'm glad some of you guys are
- 30:19Speaker 1: thriving and living your best life in DC and having
- 30:20Speaker 1: a great time. But this is very high stakes here.
- 30:23Speaker 1: We're going to have a miserable couple years heading into it,
- 30:25Speaker 1: perhaps an even more miserable four years after that. If
- 30:28Speaker 1: we don't get locked in right now, we got to.
- 30:30Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
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- 30:47Speaker 10: Some people absolutely have the gift of prophecy if god
- 30:50Speaker 10: exists how would he inject his information into our world
- 30:53Speaker 10: more than likely he would use humans satan would love
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- 31:02Speaker 2: Watch it today at salemnow.com, salemnow.com.
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- 31:59Speaker 1: fit in a super dynamic economy where a third of
- 32:04Speaker 1: shipping gets cut in the Strait of Hormuz and all
- 32:06Speaker 1: of a sudden the whole world is in chaos. And
- 32:09Speaker 1: that leaves people rightly insecure about what's going on. So
- 32:13Speaker 1: I want to start with watching gold. It was bouncing around.
- 32:16Speaker 1: It was in the middle of 4300s. And then it
- 32:17Speaker 1: went a huge run. I got about 5,600 in January
- 32:22Speaker 1: and they did not have a great summer. So where
- 32:24Speaker 1: are we at now? Is it the time to buy
- 32:26Speaker 1: the dip? Do you want to wait for a commerce stretch?
- 32:29Speaker 1: Where are we?
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- 32:32Speaker 4: it moves all over the place. Like you said, beginning
- 32:35Speaker 4: of the year and in 2025, we went on a
- 32:37Speaker 4: major run up.
- 32:39Speaker 3: Then spring, summer hit, started to fall down.
- 32:42Speaker 4: Now gold is kind of in a middle ground hitting
- 32:45Speaker 4: around 4,300. I believe it was 4,288 this morning. So
- 32:49Speaker 4: it's starting to level up. So something to understand is
- 32:52Speaker 4: there is no right or wrong time to buy gold
- 32:55Speaker 4: if gold is the right asset for you. Gold is
- 32:59Speaker 4: all about personal choice, all about personal freedom. It's about
- 33:02Speaker 4: individuals and their own needs. So one of the biggest
- 33:06Speaker 4: things I would say about gold is it's fine. to
- 33:09Speaker 4: watch it when it's low. It's great to watch it
- 33:11Speaker 4: when it's high. You know, gold is meant to be
- 33:13Speaker 4: a long-term hold, not a short-term call it get rich
- 33:16Speaker 4: quick scheme, right? Gold is meant to be something that
- 33:19Speaker 4: you have in your portfolio for quite a while. But
- 33:22Speaker 4: getting back to it, you know, there are a lot
- 33:23Speaker 4: of deciding factors with gold, you know, gold affected by
- 33:26Speaker 4: the economy overall, the Fed, the stock prices, what's happening
- 33:30Speaker 4: in a geopolitical sense, like you said, oil in the
- 33:32Speaker 4: Strait of Hormuz, all that kind of goes into gold.
- 33:35Speaker 4: So I really think the important thing to understand is
- 33:39Speaker 4: there is no magic time to buy gold as opposed
- 33:42Speaker 4: to some people would say like, oh, this stock is
- 33:44Speaker 4: hot or this bond is selling right now at this point.
- 33:47Speaker 3: Gold doesn't really play by those rules.
- 33:48Speaker 1: Gold is its.
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- 33:51Speaker 4: And it's physical, it's tangible, all the right things. So
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- 33:57Speaker 4: can buy in times of low.
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- 34:30Speaker 1: That's as easy as it gets. So let's talk more
- 34:32Speaker 1: about the news. Obviously we're in a hugely inflationary moment,
- 34:35Speaker 1: which I lament, but grocery prices are insane. Rent's high,
- 34:39Speaker 1: especially gas. And it doesn't really feel like this is finished.
- 34:43Speaker 1: And gold is often a thing that people reach for
- 34:46Speaker 1: when prices are rising. So how has that protection actually
- 34:50Speaker 1: worked for people over the past few years? How should
- 34:53Speaker 1: someone think about it if inflation does stay sticky and
- 34:56Speaker 1: interest rates do stay high too?
- 34:59Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 34:59Speaker 4: So one thing that's important to know is inflation is
- 35:02Speaker 4: not a direct indicator of what's going to happen with
- 35:04Speaker 4: the price of gold. It's not your little brother tagging
- 35:06Speaker 4: along to your baseball game that wants to do, oh,
- 35:08Speaker 4: I'm going to do what you're doing. No, there are
- 35:10Speaker 4: independent factors, like I said earlier, that do affect the
- 35:13Speaker 4: price of gold. Yes, inflation is one of them, but
- 35:16Speaker 4: it's not the main indicator of what gold's going to
- 35:19Speaker 4: do and how it's affected. But if you do look
- 35:23Speaker 4: at some of the interesting data coming out of the
- 35:24Speaker 4: World Gold Council, gold does stay ahead of inflation 9
- 35:28Speaker 4: out of 10 times, or at least over the course
- 35:30Speaker 4: of the last 50 or 60 years, which is a
- 35:32Speaker 4: super interesting point, especially right now with core inflation sitting
- 35:36Speaker 4: at about 3.4%.
- 35:36Speaker 3: And that's a stagnant since July, I believe, is the
- 35:40Speaker 3: last time we did it.
- 35:42Speaker 4: But another interesting point with that is the cost of
- 35:44Speaker 4: goods and prices has gone up from, I believe, it
- 35:47Speaker 4: was 0.1% in July to about 0.4% today. That's the
- 35:52Speaker 4: new cost of eggs that you're seeing, the higher price
- 35:55Speaker 4: in imported coffee, and all that also trickles into gas
- 35:58Speaker 4: and oil.
- 35:59Speaker 3: Which has also seen a really big jump.
- 36:01Speaker 4: And I believe it's up, again, almost 4% since the
- 36:04Speaker 4: last month or two. So inflation is hitting us and
- 36:08Speaker 4: gold is reacting accordingly, not to the degree that some
- 36:12Speaker 4: people may think it would have, but it is keeping
- 36:15Speaker 4: note of it and staying aware of what's happening with
- 36:18Speaker 4: the inflation rates. And this kind of also comes into
- 36:21Speaker 4: what we may be seeing with the midterms and stuff
- 36:23Speaker 4: and Congress trying to get a better hold of inflation.
- 36:25Speaker 4: Because right now, the Fed's key marker is they'd like
- 36:28Speaker 4: to have a 2% inflation rate.
- 36:30Speaker 3: Right now, it's 3.4 to 3.7%. So they need to get.
- 36:33Speaker 4: So that under some sort of control and midterms might
- 36:36Speaker 4: affect how that's going to happen at one point or another.
- 36:39Speaker 4: But gold takes all that in, it sees it, it
- 36:41Speaker 4: understands it, but it doesn't exactly drive the price of
- 36:44Speaker 4: gold as a whole.
- 36:45Speaker 1: Okay, so this is what I know my audience, because
- 36:47Speaker 1: they've been hearing me talk about monetary gold, what you
- 36:49Speaker 1: guys offer. I know they're going to want this answer
- 36:51Speaker 1: in particular, because if people are convinced, time to get
- 36:54Speaker 1: some gold, I'm going to put it off, now we're
- 36:55Speaker 1: going to do it. Then there's a practical thing. Do
- 36:58Speaker 1: you get coins? Do you get bars? Do you get
- 37:00Speaker 1: an ETF? Do you get a gold IRA? Do you
- 37:02Speaker 1: roll over another IRA or 401k? I'm trying to understand
- 37:06Speaker 1: the real all-in costs in terms of premiums and storage
- 37:10Speaker 1: and spreads so that the hedge doesn't get sort of
- 37:13Speaker 1: eaten during the process of sorting it all out.
- 37:15Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's a great question. Unfortunately, I'm not a
- 37:18Speaker 3: financial advisor.
- 37:18Speaker 4: I can't answer financial questions like that directly to individuals.
- 37:23Speaker 4: But what I can do is maybe explain some of
- 37:25Speaker 4: the basics of what people might want to be looking at.
- 37:27Speaker 4: Gold bars, gold coins, those are all things that are
- 37:30Speaker 4: physical things. You can see them on other websites. Heck,
- 37:34Speaker 4: you can buy it through Costco at one point or another.
- 37:36Speaker 4: They're physical, tangible objects. ETFs are security against the price
- 37:41Speaker 4: of gold. So they're not anything physical. It's more of
- 37:43Speaker 4: a documentary. Think of it as a gold stock, not
- 37:46Speaker 4: like a traditional gold stock, but more of like it's
- 37:48Speaker 4: a hedge and in on the gold itself. Gold IRAs
- 37:52Speaker 4: are specifically IRA set up by the federal government that
- 37:56Speaker 4: are specifically meant to hold physical precious metals and coins. Now,
- 37:59Speaker 4: with that, there are certain types of precious metals that
- 38:02Speaker 4: you can hold in an IRA. You can't just put
- 38:05Speaker 4: any gold collectible coin that you find into.
- 38:07Speaker 7: A gold IRA.
- 38:08Speaker 3: No, it's very specific.
- 38:09Speaker 4: There's a lot of rules associated with what goes in
- 38:11Speaker 4: and what goes out of a gold coin. Now, with
- 38:14Speaker 4: all that, there are associated costs, just like anything in life.
- 38:17Speaker 4: There's always going to be some sort of cost that
- 38:19Speaker 4: you pay to acquire a good. With gold coins and
- 38:22Speaker 4: bars specifically, you're looking at the price of the gold itself,
- 38:25Speaker 4: the melt point, the spread of what you're going to
- 38:28Speaker 4: pay after you get a piece of metal, the buyback
- 38:31Speaker 4: price of what you would actually get in return of
- 38:33Speaker 4: the gold coin. And then there's also the different types
- 38:36Speaker 4: of collectible coin versus a traditional, say, American coin. All
- 38:40Speaker 4: that goes into deciding if gold is right for you. Now,
- 38:43Speaker 4: with an IRA specifically, an extra additional cost is going
- 38:46Speaker 4: to be something along the custodian cost and the storage cost. Now,
- 38:49Speaker 4: you can store, of course, gold. in a safe, a
- 38:51Speaker 4: gun safe, whatever you have, in a shoebox if you
- 38:54Speaker 4: absolutely need it to. That's up to you, and that's
- 38:56Speaker 4: kind of what the joy and the benefit of owning
- 38:59Speaker 4: physical gold is.
- 39:00Speaker 3: It's purely your choice.
- 39:02Speaker 4: However you decide to take it or what you decide
- 39:04Speaker 4: to do with it, that's up to you at the
- 39:05Speaker 4: end of the day. Companies like us in monetary gold,
- 39:08Speaker 4: we love and we absolutely love love to educate people
- 39:11Speaker 4: on all the benefits of gold and silver, what it
- 39:14Speaker 4: could do for your retirement. But again, it all comes
- 39:16Speaker 4: down to personal choice. Does this make sense for you
- 39:18Speaker 4: right now at this moment in time? Is this the
- 39:21Speaker 4: right decision for me? Because inflation, like you said, is
- 39:24Speaker 4: not going away anytime soon. There's always going to be
- 39:26Speaker 4: some sort of geopolitical conflict happening. There's always going to
- 39:29Speaker 4: be another political fight happening. Washington's going to do what
- 39:32Speaker 4: they're going to do with taxes and rates. And gold
- 39:34Speaker 4: plays along into that. And if you have fears that
- 39:36Speaker 4: those things are going to go up and may eat
- 39:38Speaker 4: away at your retirement savings, then gold may be the
- 39:40Speaker 4: right choice for you. But one thing I do advise
- 39:42Speaker 4: is if you are looking at a gold IRA, make
- 39:44Speaker 4: sure you're asking important and right questions. Any company that
- 39:49Speaker 4: refuses to answer any question you ask, it's probably not
- 39:52Speaker 4: a company you want to work with.
- 39:54Speaker 1: I'm only working with people who will answer those questions
- 39:56Speaker 1: and try to tailor the approach to the specific person.
- 39:59Speaker 1: That's why Monetary Gold is a great partner for you. 800-888-0807. 800-888-0807.
- 40:07Speaker 1: Alexlovesgold.com is the website. I have a newsletter that I
- 40:11Speaker 1: work on with my financial editor, John Carney, called the
- 40:14Speaker 1: Breitbart Business Digest. We track stuff like sale of gold,
- 40:17Speaker 1: who's buying what. Central banks bought a lot of gold
- 40:21Speaker 1: in the second quarter. China imported more through August of
- 40:24Speaker 1: this year than they did in all of last year.
- 40:26Speaker 1: So that's a lot of stuff. But how does that
- 40:28Speaker 1: work for a regular household? Is it the same trade
- 40:30Speaker 1: or should we be thinking of it differently? It's similar,
- 40:33Speaker 1: but it's not, if that makes sense, right?
- 40:35Speaker 4: Central banks, their main goal is to look far out
- 40:39Speaker 4: in advance. They're not looking at five, six months of
- 40:42Speaker 4: their holdings. They're looking 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 years,
- 40:45Speaker 4: 100 years. And all their holdings are determined about what's
- 40:48Speaker 4: happening day in, day out. Kind of like when you
- 40:51Speaker 4: think of your own portfolio, right? You have a balance of, say, stocks, bonds,
- 40:56Speaker 4: mutual funds. Heck, you can even throw property, gold, whatever
- 40:59Speaker 4: you want into it, right? Banks have a very... The
- 41:02Speaker 4: central banks have a similar strategy, except at a much bigger,
- 41:05Speaker 4: much wider scale. While you and I might be looking
- 41:08Speaker 4: at what are our costs going to be for, say,
- 41:10Speaker 4: baseball for our kids this season, the banks are looking
- 41:12Speaker 4: at like, okay, well, the price of oil just went up.
- 41:14Speaker 4: The cost of shipping just went up. The cost of
- 41:17Speaker 4: food's gone up. The price of gold has stayed similar.
- 41:20Speaker 4: What are we going to reinvest and reallocate in? And
- 41:22Speaker 4: that's kind of what the difference between a central bank and, say,
- 41:24Speaker 4: your average everyday household consumer are going to be looking at. Now,
- 41:27Speaker 4: to your point of central banks increasing their rate of gold,
- 41:30Speaker 4: I believe they bought about 57 tons revised in Q1. Q2,
- 41:34Speaker 4: I would think it's around 289 tons of gold. And that's...
- 41:40Speaker 4: Purely to me, what you've been seeing with oil, what's
- 41:42Speaker 4: been happening in Iran with the Strait of Hormuz and
- 41:45Speaker 4: everything getting much more expensive. Banks are starting to de-invest from, say,
- 41:48Speaker 4: the dollar and other assets out there, and they're starting
- 41:51Speaker 4: to invest more and more in gold. So that's something that,
- 41:54Speaker 4: you know, I would advise consumers take a little heavy
- 41:56Speaker 4: look at, you know, central banks are doing it. I
- 41:58Speaker 4: don't want to necessarily say it's right for you because, again,
- 42:01Speaker 4: different idea, different strategy. But it is something to definitely
- 42:03Speaker 4: take note of and to pay attention to. And, you know,
- 42:06Speaker 4: these trends, they're not going away anytime soon. I believe
- 42:08Speaker 4: central banks have increased their supply of gold consistently quarter
- 42:12Speaker 4: over quarter for about the last five to 10 years.
- 42:15Speaker 4: So they are taking it a lot more seriously. They
- 42:17Speaker 4: really are digging in and they're really looking at where
- 42:19Speaker 4: their diversification is. And one last point to kind of
- 42:22Speaker 4: drive it home. The old saying is never have all
- 42:25Speaker 4: of your eggs in one basket, right? Because the basket
- 42:28Speaker 4: gets kicked, it gets knocked over.
- 42:29Speaker 3: Someone steals that basket. Where's your wealth?
- 42:32Speaker 1: It's gone.
- 42:33Speaker 3: So that is one principle you can think of at
- 42:35Speaker 3: the central banks.
- 42:35Speaker 4: You're thinking of a better diversification strategy, no lost eggs. Yeah.
- 42:41Speaker 1: Strategy is so important. And I like you being upfront
- 42:43Speaker 1: about that. all the various nuances we could have. So,
- 42:46Speaker 1: you know, it's largely a political show. We're talking about
- 42:48Speaker 1: midterms and we could be weeks away of control of
- 42:52Speaker 1: Congress changing. And we already know that with even Republicans
- 42:57Speaker 1: in charge of running huge deficits, both sides are going
- 43:01Speaker 1: to treat this election like it's very high stakes and
- 43:03Speaker 1: it is. But what do you think, let's give out
- 43:06Speaker 1: maybe both outcomes. What do you think the results in
- 43:09Speaker 1: November could, what implications could that have on somebody's money?
- 43:13Speaker 1: And why does gold matter here?
- 43:14Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that's a fantastic question. You know, it's not
- 43:17Speaker 4: just another midterm election. Like we think of maybe the
- 43:20Speaker 4: last couple of midterms, nothing crazy happened.
- 43:23Speaker 3: Few seats changed. There was no change of power. It
- 43:27Speaker 3: is what it is.
- 43:28Speaker 4: But in this one, Washington's really starting to feel the
- 43:31Speaker 4: pressure because there's so many things that have gone along
- 43:33Speaker 4: with it, right? If we look at, say, the federal deficit,
- 43:36Speaker 4: sitting at $ 1. 97 trillion, that is already surpassed The 1.75
- 43:44Speaker 4: that we had in all of 2025. So spending's already
- 43:47Speaker 4: gone up. Inflation's not going away. Cost of goods are
- 43:51Speaker 4: not going away. And all that's kind of trickling into
- 43:53Speaker 4: the midterms. And, you know, Republicans are taking it very,
- 43:56Speaker 4: very seriously. You know, if let's just say the left
- 43:59Speaker 4: takes the House, which I'm not a political analyst. I
- 44:02Speaker 4: can't specifically say if it will or will not happen.
- 44:05Speaker 4: But if that does happen, it could really slow down
- 44:07Speaker 4: the flow of what's been being passed. Congress is going
- 44:10Speaker 4: to go back into recession. It could start turning every
- 44:13Speaker 4: day since the Congress into witch hunts. There's so much
- 44:16Speaker 4: potentially at stake for both sides, and it really will
- 44:20Speaker 4: affect the overall financial picture. As we've seen in previous
- 44:22Speaker 4: left-run administrations, political spending goes up, way up.
- 44:27Speaker 3: And that's going to affect the deficit.
- 44:28Speaker 4: It's going to affect the national debt, which is already
- 44:31Speaker 4: the highest it's ever been. We're already paying over a
- 44:34Speaker 4: trillion dollars a day. I'm sorry, a billion dollars a
- 44:37Speaker 4: day in interest alone. So what's going to happen next?
- 44:41Speaker 4: No one knows for sure. We'll find out what happens
- 44:43Speaker 4: in the middle of November. But all that does bring
- 44:45Speaker 4: back to gold because gold is watching all this. It
- 44:47Speaker 4: doesn't take a political side. It doesn't play partisan roles.
- 44:52Speaker 4: It's independent, of course, but it does take into account
- 44:55Speaker 4: all of these things, what could happen with the economy
- 44:57Speaker 4: and what could happen with government spending overall.
- 45:00Speaker 1: Very important points there. Okay, so Fed raising rates again,
- 45:03Speaker 1: even though we've got Kevin Worshen there at the Fed
- 45:04Speaker 1: who wants to cut rates, but he still feels like
- 45:06Speaker 1: he's got to raise them. What does this tell us?
- 45:08Speaker 1: Inflation is still above the target, as you noted earlier,
- 45:11Speaker 1: and there could be more rate hikes coming. What's the
- 45:14Speaker 1: Fed telling us with this?
- 45:15Speaker 4: I mean, really, the Fed is, it does all relate
- 45:18Speaker 4: to inflation. I mean, we went up a quarter basis,
- 45:21Speaker 4: 25 basis points, what, eight days ago. From 3.5, 3.75
- 45:26Speaker 4: to 3.754%. And I believe it's the first rate hike
- 45:29Speaker 4: in about three years.
- 45:31Speaker 3: So the Fed really did not want to do this.
- 45:34Speaker 4: They had to pull this card to try to get
- 45:36Speaker 4: some of this under control, which they are having difficulty with.
- 45:39Speaker 4: And like you stated, 16 out of 18 pollsters are predicting,
- 45:44Speaker 4: as well as Goldman Sachs, that we're going to get
- 45:46Speaker 4: another rate hike potentially before October even ends.
- 45:51Speaker 3: So think about that. Two rate hikes within eight weeks.
- 45:55Speaker 4: And when nothing has moved in the last three years.
- 45:57Speaker 4: So it's all taken into account very, very seriously. And
- 46:01Speaker 4: gold's looking at that as saying, hey, inflation's still going up.
- 46:04Speaker 4: Federal rates are going up. What's going to happen to
- 46:06Speaker 4: the dollar next? Because the dollar is what's really going
- 46:08Speaker 4: to be affected and hit hardest by all of this.
- 46:11Speaker 4: And when the dollar goes down, as we know, gold
- 46:13Speaker 4: does tend to go up.
- 46:14Speaker 3: Is that a promise? Absolutely not.
- 46:16Speaker 4: As I said earlier, gold is not indicative and does
- 46:19Speaker 4: not follow the exact same trends as some of the
- 46:22Speaker 4: other things like stocks and bonds go.
- 46:24Speaker 3: But the dollar starts to go down. People are going
- 46:25Speaker 3: to look.
- 46:26Speaker 4: To, you know, rebalance their assets and their own holdings
- 46:29Speaker 4: with other things like gold, silver, platinum, palladium and other
- 46:33Speaker 4: diversification points.
- 46:35Speaker 1: All right, so here's the big question, Matt. What are
- 46:37Speaker 1: you telling people to do? What is the bottom line?
- 46:41Speaker 1: Are you saying people should get out of stocks, put
- 46:42Speaker 1: everything into gold? Or are you telling people we need
- 46:45Speaker 1: a more broad diversification strategy? What is it? What is
- 46:48Speaker 1: the message?
- 46:49Speaker 4: I mean, really the message is, is what are you
- 46:51Speaker 4: feeling right now? What is your gut telling you? What
- 46:54Speaker 4: are the politics that you follow telling you?
- 46:57Speaker 3: What is it? What is your opinion on this situation?
- 47:00Speaker 4: Because if you're thinking about gold already, you obviously have
- 47:02Speaker 4: questions and there may even be an interest there.
- 47:04Speaker 3: So again, not a financial advisor, but what I am
- 47:07Speaker 3: is a father. I'm a brother. I'm a dad, I'm
- 47:11Speaker 3: a husband, I'm all of that, right?
- 47:13Speaker 4: And my personal financial future is dependent on a lot
- 47:16Speaker 4: of these factors. So my choice to do what I'm
- 47:19Speaker 4: making or mine alone, no one's really gonna tell me
- 47:21Speaker 4: what to do and no one should tell you what
- 47:22Speaker 4: to do, right? Especially a gold IRA company. But to me,
- 47:26Speaker 4: the biggest decision is if you really are interested in gold,
- 47:30Speaker 4: this isn't a wait and see what happens next. It's
- 47:32Speaker 4: not a wait for a magic number of $ 7, 000 per ounce.
- 47:35Speaker 3: Of gold, $ 20, 000, it doesn't matter, right?
- 47:39Speaker 4: Gold is meant to be a hedge. It is meant
- 47:41Speaker 4: to be a diversification point. It's not something that I
- 47:45Speaker 4: would say go throw your entire 401k into because that's, again,
- 47:48Speaker 4: going back to the adage of don't put all of
- 47:50Speaker 4: your eggs in one basket. But if it does make
- 47:52Speaker 4: sense for you and for your financial future and for
- 47:55Speaker 4: where you want to see yourself in, say, 5, 10, 20,
- 47:56Speaker 4: 30 years from now, I would advise you to look
- 48:01Speaker 4: at it maybe a little bit harder. Like I said before,
- 48:03Speaker 4: there is no wrong time to buy gold. There is
- 48:05Speaker 4: no right time to buy gold. It's all about personal choice,
- 48:08Speaker 4: the benefits that you see, and what you think that
- 48:10Speaker 4: will have for your future.
- 48:13Speaker 1: If you call Monetary Gold at 800-888-0807 or go to alicelovegold.com,
- 48:18Speaker 1: you can learn a lot because these guys know exactly
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- 48:29Speaker 1: and that's why monetary gold is here they're here for
- 48:31Speaker 1: you guys matt anything else for the audience today.
- 48:33Speaker 4: No like you said alex you know if you do
- 48:35Speaker 4: are interested in gold iras you know i would just
- 48:37Speaker 4: advise you know do your homework do your research understand
- 48:41Speaker 4: what you're getting to and most importantly ask questions any
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- 48:49Speaker 4: it for over 25 years We've had a lot of
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- 48:52Speaker 3: We hope thousands, I'm saying.
- 48:54Speaker 4: Thousands of customers, amazing five-star reviews. But again, go out there,
- 48:58Speaker 4: do your homework, do your research, and make the right
- 49:00Speaker 4: decision for you and your family.
- 49:02Speaker 1: Amen to all that. Thanks for your support of the
- 49:05Speaker 1: show and the great work you guys do. And that's
- 49:07Speaker 1: it for now. Thanks to Misty for putting this together.
- 49:09Speaker 3: Thank you, Alex.