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#562 Guarding Your Mind In The Clown World Economy · The Arterburn Radio Transmission Podcast

• 0:08
  SPEAKER_02: We have before us the opportunity to fold for ourselves and for future generations.
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  SPEAKER_02: A new world order.
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  SPEAKER_02: Good evening, folks.
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  SPEAKER_04: You're listening to the hour of the time.
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  SPEAKER_04: I'm William Cooper.
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  SPEAKER_06: The chair is against the wall.
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  SPEAKER_06: John has a long mustache.
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  SPEAKER_06: John has a long mustache.
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  SPEAKER_06: It's 12 o'clock, Americans, another day closer to victory.
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  SPEAKER_06: And for all of you out there on and behind the lines, this is your song.
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  SPEAKER_02: Veteran of three foreign wars.
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  SPEAKER_02: Entrepreneur and warrior poet.
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  SPEAKER_02: Tony Artiburn takes on the issues facing our country, civilization, and planet.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is the Aburn radio transmission.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm back.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the Art of Burn Radio Transmission.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is the twenty-second of October, two thousand and twenty-six.
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  SPEAKER_00: Beautiful Branson, Missouri, uh, in my studio with Beans the Brave.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_00: The shop is closed because my uh my crew that I normally have, uh, they have a wedding in the family, so they're off today.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I am pressing through.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've got the uh the stream going out live over worldwide Christian radio, over uh the technocratic control platforms, and uh we are soldiering on.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna I decided not to make uh Ashley fill in again.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: However, I got so busy this morning and I had the David Knight interview uh right before we went live.
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  SPEAKER_00: I texted Ashley and said, Would you join me today?
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: Would you help make the official broadcast of the apocalypse interesting?
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: Because I'm afraid I'm afraid of my own mind, ladies and gentlemen, that I will delve into things that are too depressing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I thought I I thought Ashley would balance it.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_00: Let's bring her on.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's she's so uh gracefully and uh I I I really I just being um herself.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: Let's put let's put her on the screen.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: She's decided to to join us last minute, which takes a lot of courage.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: You know, there's no prep involved, it's it's a lot of off-the-cuff stuff, but uh she's good at that.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to uh the show that you fill in on, Ashley.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_01: I'm happy to be here, and I'm happy to have a chance to talk to you on your show instead of just uh running trying to run solo and hoping that I did okay.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you always do magnificent.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: I I I don't have any anxiety at all.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: I know the show's always in good hands, but uh today, especially um we're in this really weird transitionary period.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: Anybody who's paying attention to the news cycle understands that what is going to happen, right?
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: The the changes that are uh that are upon us are monumental.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: And so we're kind of in an in-between where you can talk about headlines and things, but they might not matter as much.
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  SPEAKER_00: As a matter of fact, the what I've picked out today to talk about, and and one of the one of the stories is an absolute metaphor.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's a story in and of itself, but it's a metaphor for what's happening and and especially in a a cyclical part of history, um, known as a fourth turning, which we're in, and I've talked about that often.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: But anyway, we'll delve into some top stories today.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_00: But I wanted to say, what's uh on the on your agenda?
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: What are you seeing that that you'd like to talk about before I go into the stories that I've curated?
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I think that you make uh you said it beautifully that, and I I know I'm paraphrasing slightly, but that the headlines don't matter.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_01: I 100% agree with that because I feel like, and I've talked about this on on this show, but when I'm as a non-expert, I'm trying to pay attention to what is happening in the Middle East, you know, and we've had an opportunity to talk about it a little bit, but in such a slowly boiling cauldron that I believe it, and you were talking about this uh a little bit with David Knight, as far as there's probably some psychological warfare manipulation happening.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_01: I 100% subscribe to that because it's like it's on, it's off, it's on, it's off.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I just felt like that's partially a disensitization tool that is being used, but it also just causes you to, in a way, put it on the back burner.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_01: You're not really because how much energy do we have every single day to watch what's happening and nothing major, people have died.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's not nothing major, but you know what I mean on on the global scale, but it's like we're slowly careening off of this cliff, but it's happening so slow while people are struggling.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_01: So I find that to be really interesting and really weird about the time that we're in, exactly like what you said, this transitional period, because I think that a lot of us have the sense that the world is gonna be changing very rapidly, but we don't know when we have these ideas of how we can protect ourselves from that, but in the meantime, you still have to live your life.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_01: It's a really weird place to be.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_00: It truly is.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_00: And as the the institutions break down, I'm gonna bring up a story here, it's gonna make you laugh in a second.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: Is the institutions that we've grew up with, and it's but I'm older than way older than you, but uh in in in the sense that we become used to something, so you get normalcy bias, and then all of a sudden everything's changing, right?
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, the I I think the reflexive human need to keep something constant, you know, to have that um sense of of security, and and I think that's normal, and honestly, should be uh a lot more less volatile than it is.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we project onto things.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_00: And that's when I was talking to David Knight this morning, we're he was talking about an article in the Mises Institute about, you know, the your children's future, you know, as far as what the Federal Reserve and the Fiat system, which is a big theme of this show, you know, what it's done to rob you of your future.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_00: And that and it's not just that that we can do the math and look at what you know, fiat currency and loss of purchasing power and how everybody now, in order to stay ahead, just by working, you know, however many jobs you have to work or or whatever, all the side hustles and everything else, you also have to be a hedge fund manager because if you earn something, it's not not going to be worth the same as uh today as it is a year from now or five years from now, especially.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: So you're you're constantly pulled in so many directions.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: And I take a step back and I think, okay, well, a lot of this is not even real.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, we're the the perceptions that it that Americans have, and you only have so much, now I'm gonna kind of delve into some woo-woo here in a second, but if you only have so much bandwidth right in your mind.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_00: And so if you're paying attention to everything and you're saying, okay, well, this is what I'm giving importance to.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: Side example.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_00: If you look at like last week or whenever it was, and the comedian Shane Gillis goes out on Saturday Night Live and he makes a comment about women's gym clothing, and he just gets a lot of he gets a lot of flack, right?
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_00: And there's this and whether it's real or not, a lot of this is the Psyop stuff where we have these manufactured, you know, divisions in our country and in our culture, and um, so this is what people are up in arms about.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I just feel like, and I've mentioned this this before, this metaphor, this example, it's like Apocalypse now, where if you watch the movie, and you know, uh Martin Sheen, he got his character is tar talking to Marlon Brando, and Brando's playing like this, you know, this Green Beret who goes rogue and goes mad, and like he's in the jungle and he's commanding all these like illegal forces and stuff.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's it's an insane movie.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's based off of uh a book called Heart of Darkness um that came out in the early 20th century.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_00: So they but they set it in Vietnam, and and one of the examples that he gives about how insane the war was was that the there was soldiers who would write like the F-word on bombs that they would drop, and they got reprimanded.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_00: So they're like dropping napalm on villages and stuff, but they wrote the F-word on the bomb and they got in trouble for writing the F-word.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_00: But the bomb wasn't obscene.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like the the violence towards humans wasn't obscene, but the F-word was.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: And I think you know, the the madness of everything that I see now, like I can't even get involved or or reply to some of these um whatever w crises or controversies, Ashley, but I can't do it anymore because to me it's the F-word on the bomb.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like we're we're just so disconnected from what's actually happening.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_00: You know, if you look at the the shakeup that's going on around the world, the the crisis in the financial system, you know, if people were as upset about, let's say, 177 Iranian school children and girls that were murdered by our government, um, whether it's on purpose or negligence or whatever, like we never apologize for that, but there's no outrage for that.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: But there's outrage for the comment of a comedian.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: Our society's disconnected from the actual things that are going on.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: And that's my point, right?
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: And that's one of the things I like to talk about on the show is like we try to get away from so much of the stuff that whether it's political or whether it's headlines, and let's talk about what's actually going on.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: And I try to do that, it's tough to do because a lot of times that's I'm glad that you're here, is that I'll look at I'll I'll spend an hour at least just doing show prep and looking at stuff, and then I'll think, I don't want to talk about any of this stuff.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: And it might be relevant to make the show, like as far as topical, but you get what I'm saying is that with everything happening, I I don't know that the bulk of people are prepared for what's really going on in the world.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, do you do you get the the gist of what I'm putting?
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_01: 100%.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: I need to clip that out actually, because the way that you said that and explained that and described that was perfect.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_01: The F-word on the bomb.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: That and I didn't even know that, but I have thought about that.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like even in looking at the stuff for the Vietnam War that they took, and I did recently watch Apocalypse Now, by the way, and that gave me an idea.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_01: We need to do the next time you come on my show, we need to do Tony's movies and book recommendations.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: Oh goodness.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_00: I is that do we really want to put that out into the world?
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_01: Do you I think we do, and everybody knows that they need to watch Oliver Stone's JFK, they need to watch the Nixon movie, 13 Days, and there's a bunch of other stuff, but that's at the top of my list.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_01: We'll add Apocalypse now, too.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Apocalypse now, you know, with the especially with the the Doors soundtrack, which is you know, this is the end.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's just when you watch that and you get really boil it down, it it that's probably the crux of the whole show, is that we're just disconnected from what what's right and wrong.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: Well, and what I wanted to add to that, Tony, was that I consider because I think about this all the time.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: So e and I I talk about this all the time too, but these things continue to be important, in my opinion.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_01: So in uh Stuart Ewan's PR, A Social History of Spin, he talks about these early propagandists.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_01: So, like the this was not specifically Bernays, but like of his ilk, uh, I forget the guy's name, but he talks about keeping the public in a state of excited uh distraction.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_01: And I think that is exactly what we continue to see.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_01: But the problem is that it's been expedited a thousand fold with the algorithm that we all have access to.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: So it is there is so much distraction.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: So even if you try to be, you know, civically minded or you're concerned about what is happening in the world, I think it's really difficult to keep your eye on the ball.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: So I consider it like do you have do we have a hundred uh balls flying at us?
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_01: Do we have a baseball and a gnat and we're getting distracted by the gnat?
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't even know what is the best description.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: What you said is really good.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I think it's really difficult to focus and figure out what exactly do we even need to focus on?
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_01: What is important?
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: And even if we have an idea.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_01: So for me, I try to keep it like geopolitical, historical things that you talk about all the time that help us have a better framing and understanding for what we're seeing today and how we got here.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_01: But I think that even with that, if you go onto a social media platform or someone sends you a video or something, then it's so easy to just get sucked into whatever that uh algorithmic milieu is, and it's usually garbage.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: So it's difficult and it has to be like a really active effort to try to guard your mind, guard where your attention goes.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_01: But we're swimming upstream basically because you know that they have been able to hack how to get your attention.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: So the other day, somebody sent me a reel and I was looking at the reel, I don't even remember what it was.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: The next thing you know, I'm watching a farrier video, Tony.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'm watching a guy carve the stones out of an animal's hoof.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: And I woke up and I was like, how did this happen?
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: And that's with me trying not to get distracted.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_01: So it's really, really difficult out there.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_01: And I think if you add in these other layers of, for example, we know that uh the price of oil has gone up so much.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: So families who were maybe getting by before February now are struggling as we we have a little bit of a break in some areas because they removed the state's gas tax.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: So it helps a little.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: But when you're paying$4 a gallon or seven or eight dollars a gallon for gas, you're working, you're trying to feed your kids, you're trying to do all this, you know, just the day-to-day life, raise your children, take care of your home, it's it's really hard.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it absolutely is, and you're being bombarded, which I think is part of it.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and um, this is something that I think has really accelerated since 2020, and I've been plugged into you know, finding uh the important stories over the uh my broadcasting career, which is now uh almost on 14 years, but especially since 2018, 2019, when I relaunched and I got in, I did this show, I did the Arterburn radio transmission.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: We used to have five days a week.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: So what I'm finding is just doing this one day a week live broadcast, stuff changes so fast.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_00: And then you get to the next week and you and it's trying to hold on to what's important.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_00: It's like you were talking to David Knight today, and you know, going into uh this article about the the future for our children, and I start thinking about okay, so everything that we're again, yeah, limited bandwidth, limited time, and they're throwing out all this stuff at us that's just not real.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: Like we're about to see, which I personally, I mean, this is my personal opinion.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: I think that if there's any validity to elections, uh right or wrong, you can again, I don't, I'm not a partisan.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you you guys, if you listen to my show for years and we're just we're broadcasting out of uh a terrestrial out of Port Charlotte, Florida now, one of my terrestrial stations, they're gonna pick up some of these first broadcasts.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: I I would put myself in the right spectrum, which is you know more libertarian, more traditionalist, and uh I think that that philosophy is generally has more intellectual heft to it.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: That's why I've gravitated towards uh that over the years.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I'm not partisan when you talk about the two parties, and I see like on the horizon, there's going to be a major political shakeup in this country.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: A big portion of that is manufactured, it's and some of it's um just reality-based, like cause and effect.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: Like the Republican Party doesn't apparently doesn't like to rule, it doesn't like to uh follow through on promises, it doesn't like to have economic prosperity, uh, clearly, because we don't have it.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: And uh we've we've run the ship aground, and that's that's where we are, and they deserve to lose, but it's not like the other side has any solutions.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: We're just gonna be in this bit of political turmoil.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's it's coming, okay?
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_00: Whether you like it or not, whether I like it, there's nothing that can be done at this point.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's really baked into the system.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's already there, so it's gonna be a a reality that we're going to have to deal with.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's probably not the biggest story, though.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: You know, really and truly, if you look at some of the stuff that's been coming out on uh like the Ukraine conflict, which I it has the potential and has for many years and since 2022.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: I've been very worried about it.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, mainly because you know, if you look at the the ruling class and and those who control the banking system and uh entities like the EU and NATO and other things, they have this need to make the world in their image.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: And uh Russia's been a problem with that, especially since the fall of the Soviet Union, and they've been um through negligence have been allowed to drift into the sphere of China and like we lost Russia.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like we we should have been able to use that part like a partnership or some sort of economic linkage uh going back to the 90s, but we abandoned that because we have the military-industrial complex and whatever, you know, like the again, the planners that that want to put us into a one-world government.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, this this war that is, I think, one of the most dangerous things, and not counting the Strait of Hormuz and what's happening with Trump and Israel and Iran.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: Uh this last week, you know, this idea was floated, I believe, by Putin to you know, link up uh Xi Jinping and himself and Trump to try to put an end to the war in Ukraine.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, I hope that happens.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know why it hasn't happened before.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's like, why would we do this?
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: Why would we bring ourselves to the brink where you've got this actor like uh Zelensky?
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: He's truly is an actor, but I mean you've got an actor, he's he's hitting uh Russian refineries and fuel refineries and using drone attacks and all this sanctioned by the United States and Western countries who are funding him.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: So it's not like you know they're on their own doing this.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_00: They're a proxy.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: And the, you know, the Ukrainian people have suffered immensely for it.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: I see that as one of the, like, if you want to like top three things, like pay attention to that.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: Like that is something that can turn the world upside down very quickly.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: And we're reaching the point, like I the one of the stories on Kitko today was uh Russian gold reserves are the lowest, I think, since like 1997.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: Like they're they're just uh blowing through their gold reserves, you know, paying for this war.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: And um, you know, this is bad, this is bad news for all of us, especially when, you know, if you need to have an economy that has any health or certainty in it, you can't have all these conflicts.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: It's one of the reasons why, you know, so so much volatility in tech stocks and crypto and other things like it requires peace.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_00: It requires some sort of global linkage and it requires a cooperation economy.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: But actually, if you really look at it look at the uh the global, the macro, we're getting less and less cooperative.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what I think is shining through on all the headlines.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: Less and less cooperation.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna go into some stories here in a second.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: But you agree with me, I mean, as far as we're not we're not talking about that.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: We're talking about like these internal things and stuff that isn't real, like, you know, again, cultural stuff that maybe has some significance, but you know, are you really gonna care about um what a comedian says if you know you can't pay your mortgage, you know, or you or you can't you have to not take that trip because the price of fuel's so high, or you have to cut back on your groceries, or you can't, you know, again, you the quality of life starts to diminish.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you're really gonna care, or or is that part of it?
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: Are they doing this?
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: Are we getting these manufactured divisional uh conflicts because uh they want you to pay attention to that and not uh you know the the big picture stuff that's really important.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah I I great point on all that.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: So I do think that there's in my opinion, in my speculation, I think there's a couple of elements to things like the outrage over these um very basic like it's really not an offensive joke.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: Like compared to some of the other jokes that we've heard comedians make and some of the some of them are disgusting and some of them are really weird.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_01: And these are mainstream comedians and they make weird jokes about their children um you know Burt Kreischer, Tom Segura, they all have done this and that really didn't get the level of outrage that the SNL joke that Shane Gillis told did.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_01: So I think that these things are indicative of and symptomatic of where we're at.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_01: And as you said like in the spirit of not cooperating I think it's kind of um you know a microcosm of that.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_01: But I also think that with the algorithmic manipulation that is happening, I wonder if a lot of this is put out there just to see this is just a trial we're gonna see if we can actually get the the engagement the rage bait what are people kind of uh engaging in as far as that goes today.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: And I also think that the situation with Russia and Ukraine like what you were talking about is really important, but it has also been another thing that we just get like back and forth, back and forth.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: And it's been dragging out for what four, four and a half years now and nothing major has happened even though this has been a significant event and as you said Zelensky is blatantly defying Trump and going ahead and continuing to bomb oil refineries in Russia.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_01: And what what it appears at least from the geopolitical analysts that I have listened to is the stage is and maybe we're already in world war three but the stage is being set it is coming together.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_01: This is real life major history that we are leading up to in my opinion only the assassination of the Archduke of Ferdinand right the thing right the powder keg and I think that we see this in a lot of rhetoric of like the the Europe being kind of grouped together as a whole versus Russia.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_01: So I think that the um maybe the neurolinguistic programming or the hypnosis or the um whatever I'm I'm trying to come up with basically just to get that idea what was that mass psychosis.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yes and to get the idea in your head oh well I've already heard I know that Russia and Europe are about to head to war.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_01: I know that Russia and Europe are uh are butting heads right so we have this these little seeds that are planted here and there and I do think that the stage is being set for that and I think that we have to consider what does that mean for the entire world and after I listened to you on David Night Gerald Celente was on there and he said I mean I don't think it's this simple but he's saying basically like Trump and Netanyahu their war their situation with Iran that 8 billion people are paying for that well I think overall that's correct because we have this whole situation being set up and we're all paying for it.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't know how many people really realize how close we are to what we started talking about at the beginning of the show world changing you know and and I could be wrong but listening to people like you and uh your conversations with David and I and these other geopolitical analysts that I try to follow and pay attention and it's like this this is going to have if it continues this is the slow lurch off of a cliff but it's not just the United States economy and our way of life it's the whole world because it is so interconnected as we move forward.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_01: And one of the things that I I wanted to ask you Tony before we move on so you're right about this idea of Russia being the enemy and I know there's a lot of speculation and conversation surrounding Russian propaganda and their influence on voting whatever you believe with that.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_01: But I think one thing is clear that the the groundwork has been laid for Russia to be the enemy and we even have think tanks like uh the Rand Corporation putting out white papers on extending Russia meaning thinning it out extending it so much that is no longer functional in the way that it was before and then I have other people that I've listened to said that this is about Russian resources because it's so resource rich that they just want to steal what is there.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_01: And so I think that that's a potential and then you of course have the other point that you made about our standard of living and having the these things move forward in the sense of peace and having sound money and things like that.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_01: But the problem is that that is in direct opposition to the state that we have it as it is now, which is fueled you know the old quote war is the health of the state and we're fueling the military industrial complex.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_01: So we have all of these factors swirling around um and even trying to keep my eye on the ball I'm still like okay where where does that leave us?
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_00: Well this is the stuff that rattles around in my head when I drive back and forth between Texas and Missouri checking on my two locations and I'm I'm on the road a lot.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_00: And so yesterday I was you know going in in my head this is what pops up because I think about all the stuff that we're again limited bandwidth.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_00: You're paying attention to stuff that doesn't really matter here in this country and especially just in it I probably around the world um we're I would say we're the worst you know as far as like being steered you know a lot of people have to deal with harder economic realities already so it it sobers you up.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: You know if you look at and you mentioned the Archduke Ferdinand if you look at World War I which is I mean completely manufactured didn't have to happen the world was on a gold standard we're becoming very prosperous that there was all these technological innovations you had uh not only electrification but you had like you know the ideas of of Tesla and other like great inventions were happening and we just met this intersection of history where you know they took us off the gold by the way that's what happened that's how you were able to pay for those wars was uh by jettising the the gold standard the country started to make it illegal to redeem their notes and gold so they could pay for their wars with you if you have sound money you can't fight these endless bankers' wars and World War I was just this completely unnecessary thing but you had really smart people they just couldn't stop it they had all these interlinking treaties and tripwires and once something happened all these other dominoes fall and that's might have been my point about you know and I I think like fundamentally like my good friend Billy Ray Valentine when we do uh the uh the show America Unplugged every weekend which you've been a guest host on as well uh I think his heart's in the right place because he he wonders like how do you even like why would you not support Zelensky you know because it's a smaller state and you know I'm obviously for liberty and and uh you know human dignity and sovereignty and all of that that is true except for the fact that is it worth you know millions and millions of lives potentially is it worth first of all is it my business it's not it's a regional conflict and the reason that Ukraine's been punished so hard is it's being used as a proxy it's being leveraged by these other entities like again the interest of the EU or international banking or the military industrial complex or NATO and all these it's being leveraged as a thing right to keep the conflict going.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_00: Because you have to understand like the conflict itself hides the failures of the Western financial system which is in turmoil.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_00: And if I'm just going to be a truth teller I have to say it's not just about the the you know the the actual conflict and the reasons why this is being used as a backdrop and I think is is absolutely disgusting.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_00: And that's why my you know reflexive you know uh need to like dive into the actual truth and what's really going on is even more apparent now because like we're we're being fed all this stuff that doesn't matter.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_00: And if you look at what's happening with the financial system around the world and and I'll get in hopefully when you when you're on the the show flows a little differently.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like I'm running like we're 20 30 minutes in and I haven't got to the stories yet but you I think that's important like set the stage for in the the rest of the shows I'm gonna have uh for this year is is that there's gonna be such massive change and we have to stick to what's actually happening.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_00: You know I don't want to get caught up in what I'm being fed in my algorithm.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like I want to take a step back and continually do that which is like you it's a skill right you have to do it.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like stepping back and really looking at the big picture.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_00: I want to let's let's do this before we run out of uh more time I I wanted to pull up this is the the first story of of the of the week let me pull this up hold on just give me a second i i'm on my laptop again uh in my studio here in Branson and I'm still working on getting all the desktop stuff and re rebooting this the studio let me put this up on the screen you'll get a kick out of this this is uh I don't know why it's giving did we lose Tony I do not have my YouTube pulled up so I'm not sure I'm gonna get to that right now and just to double check because if I lost him then I'm trying to keep it going while he gets back on here.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_01: And I know that trying to run all this on a laptop with trying to do screen sharing and things like that is not easy at all.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_01: So bear with me one moment just in case I left you I did not need to do that.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_01: I was trying to uh I was like am I running this am I still here so I was trying to pull up the YouTube so I could double check and you came back so that's good.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah it's my fault ladies and gents I'm just getting used to the new system that I've got so hold on let me put this up on the screen uh this was a headline I found off of Drudge and I don't know if you can see it but it's uh yes I gotcha hexeth Pete Heggseth wanted Eisenhower's globe for his office and his staff broke it oh my gosh if there wasn't a a better metaphor and I think this globe was given to I if I remember my biographies correctly I believe this globe was given to Eisenhower by by Harry Truman uh and this was something he kept in his office uh it was earlier this year when Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth wanted to move the world a replica of it anyway two floor globes said to be used by General uh Dwight D.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_00: Eisenhower during World War II are housed in the Pentagon where subsequent generations of Army leaders became custodians of the artifacts according to people familiar with their lineage and an accompanying plaque from the 1930s the historical significance was attractive to Hegseth, these people said and the staff requested that the Secretary's office become the new home for one of the 30 inch globes and then it just says you know ordinarily moving the historical items within the building is a deliberate process overseen by trained curators.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_00: Instead HegSeth staff dispatched his own team to relocate in Eisenhower globe.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_00: They lost control of the artifact and dropped it sending the globe crashing into its base and impaling the fragile near near Antarctica that's where they broke it on the globe.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_00: Well that'll be cool for flat earthers to love that uh according to the familiar with the incident the resulting gash appears to be several inches wide Pentagon officials denied the Washington Post request for a photo of the globe this is I I read that and I go I don't know if there's a better metaphor for like what is actually taking place here.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_01: No, there really isn't and my conspiracy brain Tony goes to is this neurolinguistic programming like is this supposed to be sending us some kind of message or implanting a little like okay the jig is up it's a game over but that is unbelievably appropriate for Heg Seth or Keg's breath as some people refer to him and he truly has this bull in a China shop um persona and that article encompasses that perfectly yeah it really does really sums it up like they they're breaking the world by not knowing the history by not I I think symbolically not giving reference enough to the past and what was built you know like we there's been a lot of mistakes made by the ruling class in this country I believe on purpose.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_00: I mean if you look at the influence like Zygnub Brzezinski and the Trilateral Commission and uh the Rockefellers like those who have sought like this new international order have used America as uh a piggy bank if you will um you know using it uh leveraging it um pawning it you know whatever you whatever terms you want to come up with America has been artificially declined like we shouldn't be in the position we're in right now if you the massive amount of uh decline in wealth this is something that that I mentioned earlier this morning if you go back to 1949 the U.S.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_00: had in its stockpiles about uh 22,000 tons of gold which was at the time that's half the gold that has ever been mined in the world at the time so about half the gold had ever been mined we held in our vaults in 1949.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_00: Now you could say well we're at 8,000 and some tons now we don't there's no real way to verify that.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_00: But we've lost this massive share of world wealth and it again it you you were doing it on a fake system.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_00: So all of that I I think speaks to the need for the ruling class to put us into you know these eternal conflicts the war without end like perpetual war uh for perpetual peace like Gore Vidal wrote a little short little book about that and it is like this Orwellian place that we find ourselves so I I just thought I thought that that headline really spoke to the fact that you know we had previous generations that had built us a peace dividend we had uh an enormous amount of wealth and a lot of that's just been squandered and uh it's it's like I'm the term that I've used is LARPing the live action role play a lot of this is just LARPing like they don't even know what they're doing.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's gonna be interesting to see how this all shakes out.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_00: I think there's going to be a lot of firings and other things that happen on the other end of this election with the Trump administration just like politically but I wanted to I'll get your take on that as I pull up the next story which I think is going to be an outcropping and consequence of of you know Trump's war, the war of choice, the carrying out Israeli foreign policy here um which has been disastrous for us.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_00: But not only just the the broken promises like what happened to accountability doge all those things that we you know the divid like the tariff dividend you were never promised and um I don't know if if people really believe they're gonna get the 5,000 we never got into the other stuff either.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_00: Let me pull up the the next I'll get your take on that as I pull up the the next story.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_01: Hold on yeah uh I think that what I kind of consider it is well there's a couple things that come to mind but it honestly it feels like a magician's trick to me right because you have the gold standard then the gold standard is pulled and what we continue to see is this unimaginable wealth disparity and that's the wealth disparity that we know about Tony like with some of these other very old families who have been involved in the financial and um you know move making for generations what does their wealth look like that we don't even know about so it's really what looks to me like a magician's trick.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_01: So this is like I'm gonna give people something that they can play around with until we're ready to transition into the new financial system if that's what the game plan is and it's what signs are pointing that way, but they continue to amass real actual wealth.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_01: And I also look at when you said that uh they kind of use the United States as their piggy bank it's interesting because it was very much in some ways like this libertarian place, you know, the idea and in the beginning and people did have opportunity to create and invent and really contribute to society.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_01: And I look at that now in some of the stuff that Billy has talked about like these technocratic cities like Prospera that they're coming up with and it kind of is a wild west in a way but it's like the new version of that.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_01: And it's not necessarily that they are creating a ton of wealth from these places although they may be it's more of the deregulation piece of it but they're using a place that they establish for their own means in order to get information, do experiments, like whatever that looks like.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_01: So I see kind of that you know technocratic libertarian thread throughout because I think that's very different than the standard what most of us would think of as a libertarian.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_01: Like we want the middle class to thrive we want people to have opportunity we want them to be able to create a better life for themselves and their family and without being so extremely harassed by the state, which is of course nowhere close to what we have now but I think it's really interesting and um I think that it is it's been a long time coming of course to get to where we're at now but the wealth disparity is is unbelievable.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah there's been an I mean what's been created after 1971 is truly staggering which you know when we decoupled from gold officially uh on August 15 1971 you know it created this our current world is an outcropping of that I mean it's this is directly we're we're downstream from that um 100% like the reality itself uh is completely manufactured and um you have all these like fake financial markets that are built on derivatives and all these you know uh like contracts and um you know securities and bonds and all this stuff and it just creates all this fake wealth that's built on top of something that is unsustainable.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_00: And so you know if you look at you know that it's never been a perfect system.
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_00: If you mention like a laissez faire or libertarian system that we had I just find it interesting that you know we're on the cusp of these massive changes and if you look it's funny because you know I say funny like gold and silver prices are down today.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_00: I'll I'll try to I'll do spot prices before we close out the show.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_00: But they're down today because inflation's so bad.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_00: And like that I don't know that that's really ever happened before.
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like where we're like okay the inflation data is worse than we thought uh the economy's not doing great uh in the sense that you know have rising energy prices so metals are down which is supposed to be a safe haven.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_00: Well it is long term but these short term things are making it's the clown world economy as I always say but they're they're in a really tough spot.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like you you can raise interest rates if you're following the logic here.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_00: Like they they want to try to keep the rates higher or keep raising rates so that the money supply contracts because inflation's so bad.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_00: Well you you know making stuff harder harder to borrow doesn't create new oil like it's you don't create new energy by making it harder to borrow.
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like you might stop you know technically might stop some inflation but you've just put a knife into the heart of what makes the world go round and uh unfortunately with these conflicts and other things uh it's so detrimental and and unnecessary by the way like most of the wars that we have are completely unnecessary they don't have to happen like you can solve these economically you can solve them a thousand different ways but that's not what psychopaths do I mean they they they need their wars actually um and and unless destruction was the goal well true like it this is the the Malthusian trifecta of famine pestilence and war like population control has always been the the goal of of those who uh consider themselves the overseers of humanity and uh they don't think like you and I and I'm I'm guessing that we're we're figuring that out as we go.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_00: Let me pull up this story.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_00: This is something on natural news but just a consequence of terrible decisions.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Trump approval rating falls to record low and Republican candidates adjust midterm campaigns.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_00: Like we're we're a world away than where we were in twenty twenty four.
• 43:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um Through the looking glass, if you will.
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_00: President Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to 33%.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_00: The lowest level of his presidency, according to Reuters, a poll that was conducted Monday, the four-day survey found that 64% of uh respondents disapproved of Trump's performance with his approval down from 35% in a poll closed earlier in the month.
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_00: The Reuters poll is not an outlier.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_00: A CNBC All-American Economic Survey of 1,000 registered voters conducted in July found that a majority were pessimistic about the economy with 61% expressing negative views.
• 44:39
  SPEAKER_00: These findings collectively paint a picture of a president whose standing with the electorate has deteriorated sharply uh in the second terms.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_00: We're talking about a dangerous uh lame duck presidency that's about to be uh put in we're about to be uh the whole American people were about to be put through uh in new impeachment hearings and not only just of the like the entire administration, like there's gonna be financial hearings, insider trading hearings.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_00: There's gonna be a lot.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so again, we're in this transitionary that what you find to be the political reality today is going to change within 30 days.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna have, I think, a completely new reality, a new trajectory, which is gonna change all these markets, by the way, folks.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_00: Like what we're watching in metals or crypto, this is gonna change.
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this is uh again, uh I think it's a this is a fake representation of where we actually stand.
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um the the Reuters poll that recorded Trump's 33% approval rating was a four-day survey that uh concluded on uh August 17th.
• 45:50
  SPEAKER_00: Well, see, like and a lot of this data that's like even bad was done months ago.
• 45:55
  SPEAKER_00: And there's there's it's gotta be worse than that now.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's gotta be worse, right?
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_00: Because it is worse.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_00: And even with you know, doing deals like with with uh with Russia on the diesel supply, like it doesn't eat it hasn't even kicked in yet.
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_00: And even when it does, it won't be enough.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like a lot of these states too are like uh because the gas price is so high, either suspending gas tax or making it easier to get uh fuel in the ground, or at least trying to, right?
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_00: But it's it's a it's a a lot too late.
• 46:25
  SPEAKER_00: Let's put it that way.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_01: That's 100% too little, too late.
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_01: You know, these are things that were important before February 2026, but at this point, it can help in the very short term.
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_01: But it it this is one of the things, and I actually I think I talked about this last week on your show, Tony, which is that it, for example, we're treating a symptom by doing those things.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_01: What we're not doing is addressing the root cause.
• 46:52
  SPEAKER_01: So until we address the root cause of the shortage or the inflation or the depression or recession or whatever it is that we find ourselves in now, that is it's only temporarily going to help people lengthen along.
• 47:07
  SPEAKER_00: True.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's just all these are temporary things.
• 47:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's, you know, if we were gonna get serious about putting America back on a footing for prosperity, there'd have to be a serious push for uh de-escalation around the globe, which we're not doing.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_00: And that includes Iran.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_00: As a matter of fact, some of the headlines on like anti-war, uh, Israel and the United States are planning fresh strikes after the midterm elections, which is a bit disgusting too, like waiting till after the people have spoken to carry out policy, you know, not doing it in the middle of that.
• 47:40
  SPEAKER_00: And like it it really is indicative of the political class.
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we're we're a people without any sort of representation at this point.
• 47:49
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's we're we're carrying out policy on behalf of a foreign government, um, which is truly disgusting.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_00: And and again, it has no basis in our economic health or prosperity or security is actually making us less secure.
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um yes, and oh, sorry to interrupt you, Tony, but one quick thing I wanted to to throw out here and get your thoughts on.
• 48:10
  SPEAKER_01: It seems like it's kind of a double-edged sword because obviously this type of um the lobbying and doing things for the nation state of Israel has become very unpopular here.
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_01: And there actually was a change in the way that APAC is going to be supporting PACs and candidates going forward, which is actually disturbing.
• 48:31
  SPEAKER_01: But um, so it's unpopular here.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_01: But it and and our elections are happening at the close to the same time they're happening in Israel, which is actually a more important election because BB Netanyahu is up for re-election.
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_01: But it's so it would be unpopular for them to strike here in the United States before the midterms.
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_01: However, it may be more popular for them to do that in Israel.
• 48:57
  SPEAKER_01: And because of the timeline being so closely correlated with one another, I am curious how that is actually going to play out.
• 49:05
  SPEAKER_01: And there have also been some geopolitical analysts that do believe that potentially we're gonna see a false flag in order to once again get the United States back into this conflict so that they're framing it so that Benjamin Netanyahu will have a leg to stand on because they think if he doesn't get elected that he's going to jail or or whatever.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_01: And they also think that the people that are running against him are just as bad or worse.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_01: So I find all these factors really interesting to see how it's actually gonna shake out, leading into like what you're talking about, the midterms and the elections in Israel so close together.
• 49:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're we're definitely you know playing a game that has nothing to do with the American electorate.
• 49:49
  SPEAKER_00: And that's the unfortunate part.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_00: And and and again, I think that's what you know.
• 49:53
  SPEAKER_00: If I'm gonna pay any attention, if I'm gonna put you know the energy to my mind to something, I'm gonna be looking at trends, I'm gonna look at what's actually going on.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, something I'm constantly bringing up.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, this is uh the end of the articles of what to watch.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the coming weeks will be critical for Republican candidates as they navigate the president's low approval ratings, which by the way, it's not just his low approval ratings, it's theirs.
• 50:18
  SPEAKER_00: Like they're with it.
• 50:19
  SPEAKER_00: Like that it doesn't matter at this point.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's there, these candidates, especially the Republican Party, it's tied to this.
• 50:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, how individual candidates choose to align themselves with the White House could shape the outcome of close races across the country.
• 50:33
  SPEAKER_00: Both parties will be watching the polling averages closely as the midterm elections approach.
• 50:38
  SPEAKER_00: Well, just something to watch there, folks.
• 50:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I think this has the potential to be one of the most consequential historic elections that we've had.
• 50:49
  SPEAKER_00: And it won't be because of voter turnout, it'll be the lack of.
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um, there'll be those who are animated by the opposing side, those who oppose things like the ICE policies and the internal stuff and just where the energy goes.
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like, and I've paid attention to politics since I was a little kid.
• 51:07
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, I just usually feel stuff like gut level.
• 51:10
  SPEAKER_00: And if there's any validity to our elections, I would say this has the potential, and especially in places like Texas, I think you might see some historical things that haven't happened in a generation or two, um, just because of the failures of the current system, the current leadership.
• 51:25
  SPEAKER_00: And uh it'll it'll be weird, just so you know.
• 51:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like it won't, you might be betting that things are going to be somewhat the same as they have been.
• 51:33
  SPEAKER_00: And I would say that's a that's really a dangerous assumption.
• 51:37
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's a really good uh thing to point out and for us to be on the lookout for that, because I think it's very easy for people, especially in the liberty space, to say things like, oh, two wings of the same bird.
• 51:50
  SPEAKER_01: But maybe, but because we're in this rapidly changing environment, if you are looking at it at the conspiratorial level, then every, you know, every term, every side is setting up for what the next side is doing.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_01: If you remove that, it still doesn't change the fact that the the stage has been set for, like you said, major changes.
• 52:14
  SPEAKER_01: And what is what exactly is that going to look like?
• 52:17
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's hard to tell.
• 52:19
  SPEAKER_01: And I think that people may be tempted to, you know, for this blue wave that we likely have coming, because a lot of people on the left are very anti-what is happening in Gaza and Palestine right now.
• 52:33
  SPEAKER_01: But the people at the top of the Democratic Party, they're still Zionists.
• 52:40
  SPEAKER_01: You don't see like a Chuck Schumer speaking out against what is happening.
• 52:43
  SPEAKER_01: So even if you have lower-level people, or maybe even an Ilhan Omar or uh an AOC semi-giving lip service to the cause, ultimately they are not actively making a change.
• 52:55
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't know if they're receiving APAC money, then they really, I don't think they really mean it.
• 53:01
  SPEAKER_01: So I do agree with you that it's going to be really interesting to see what happens and what is going to be the fallout from that.
• 53:06
  SPEAKER_01: What precedent is being set?
• 53:08
  SPEAKER_01: What authority are they able to use from the current situation to move the needle in whatever direction they decide to move it in?
• 53:18
  SPEAKER_00: Well, uh the Nixon famously said um in his 76 interview um with uh with David Frost, he said, I gave them a sword.
• 53:26
  SPEAKER_00: He's talking about his and his political enemies.
• 53:29
  SPEAKER_00: I gave them a sword and they stuck it in and twisted it.
• 53:31
  SPEAKER_00: And he goes, if I'd have been them, I'd done the same thing.
• 53:34
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, if you're looking at the the so-called right or the conservative movement or whatever this was, what MAGA was, like it was the opposition was given a sword.
• 53:44
  SPEAKER_00: And that sword was primarily not only the corruption and the insider trading and the paying, you know, what what was the fee that you had to pay?
• 53:53
  SPEAKER_00: Some absorbent amount, like to get the true social post early before everybody else.
• 53:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like you could get, you know, so you could you could lock in the trade, or whatever the hell that was, right?
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_00: And still is, I imagine.
• 54:03
  SPEAKER_00: Like all of those things, or Trump creating his own cryptocurrency and everything else, like you you add that up, and there's a sword given to the opposition.
• 54:13
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what I think is going to be um really interesting to watch and and devastating to everything that's happened in the last 10 plus years uh with America First and everything.
• 54:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's going to be uh a reckoning of sorts um for uh politically.
• 54:31
  SPEAKER_00: So I think that's something to watch, and it you know, economic it's going to affect us economically, socially.
• 54:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, just giving you a heads up from the Art of Radio transmission.
• 54:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like that is some it's going to be big, folks.
• 54:43
  SPEAKER_00: Huge.
• 54:44
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 54:44
  SPEAKER_00: I promise.
• 54:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um you want to stick around just for a little bit longer, and we'll do a our show will just be a slightly bit longer today, and I'll go past the the hour mark.
• 54:55
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm still I've got to do something about my my time clock because I'm doing terrestrial radio, and I've gotten so used to just uh being within the hour.
• 55:03
  SPEAKER_00: So I figured let's just go past that today and do one more story uh to put a bow on this, if you will, Ashley.
• 55:10
  SPEAKER_00: I want to get your take on this.
• 55:11
  SPEAKER_00: This is something over on the post.
• 55:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um I think we've picked we got three stories today.
• 55:18
  SPEAKER_00: The conversation's great because I got you.
• 55:21
  SPEAKER_00: And I think we've picked uh as as far as like signposts and stuff to actually watch, I think we've done pretty good.
• 55:29
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I I agree.
• 55:30
  SPEAKER_01: I think um I I like that you're talking about that you started it off of like what do we even focus on?
• 55:37
  SPEAKER_01: And then you have walked us through some of these high the high points that you recommend us focusing on, and it does align with what I think as well.
• 55:48
  SPEAKER_01: And um I, you know, it's not it's giving like election jitters, you know, like the presidential election back in the day, like whenever it was um George Bush and Al Gore, right?
• 56:03
  SPEAKER_01: I remember being my dorm room and we were all super nervous.
• 56:06
  SPEAKER_01: We didn't find out who the president was that day.
• 56:09
  SPEAKER_01: But that's kind of how I feel about what you're describing right now.
• 56:14
  SPEAKER_01: So it is going to be interesting, but also it's a little bit scary.
• 56:17
  SPEAKER_01: But I think you have recommended some really important things and a way for us to reframe.
• 56:23
  SPEAKER_01: So stop being distracted by the algo slop and try to keep our eye on the ball and we can all work on it together.
• 56:31
  SPEAKER_00: I just want my audience to be better off if uh for listening to the show than not.
• 56:35
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 56:36
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's just always been the in the simplest of terms.
• 56:39
  SPEAKER_00: That's where I want us to be.
• 56:40
  SPEAKER_00: This was on ActivistPost, by the way, activistpost uh.com, my friend Charlie Robinson's got a great site, does some magnificent uh news aggregation, and uh the sponsor over there, Wise Wolf Gold and Silver, just in case, just in case you wanted to know.
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but this is the headline uh from yesterday.
• 56:59
  SPEAKER_00: The petrodollar could break soon and up in the financial system globally.
• 57:06
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the Iran war could claim a casualty far more consequential than a missile battery, an airbase, or an oral tanker, the petrol dollar system itself.
• 57:16
  SPEAKER_00: For more than 50 years, U.S.
• 57:18
  SPEAKER_00: protection of the US of the Gulf monarchies has helped support global demand for dollars and U.S.
• 57:24
  SPEAKER_00: government debt.
• 57:25
  SPEAKER_00: That bargain may now be coming under strain.
• 57:28
  SPEAKER_00: And the concept is pretty straightforward, the article says.
• 57:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's interesting too, because I talked about this for years.
• 57:35
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, go back to 2024.
• 57:37
  SPEAKER_00: That's when the official agreement that we had with the Saudis that was put into place in 1974, that 50-year agreement lapsed.
• 57:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like we didn't do anything to rebolster it or re uh reinitiate it.
• 57:53
  SPEAKER_00: It was um it was let to just basically lapse, and you started to see other currencies being used to denominate oil.
• 58:01
  SPEAKER_00: And that's how we propped up the dollar after we went off the gold standard.
• 58:05
  SPEAKER_00: That was one of the ideas was to have this petrodollar.
• 58:08
  SPEAKER_00: And the in exchange for that, as the the article goes on to show, is is that we kept stability and peace in the region.
• 58:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like we were the not only we use our currency, but our military would back up that whole system, and that's coming apart.
• 58:24
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the U.S.
• 58:25
  SPEAKER_00: provides military protection to countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar.
• 58:32
  SPEAKER_00: In return, these countries price much of their oil and U.S.
• 58:36
  SPEAKER_00: dollars and recycle large amounts of their oil revenue into U.S.
• 58:39
  SPEAKER_00: financial assets, including treasuries.
• 58:42
  SPEAKER_00: You can call it an alliance, call it a strategic partnership.
• 58:45
  SPEAKER_00: And he says, I prefer to call it a protection racket.
• 58:49
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever name you choose, the arraignment arrangement has provided enormous support for the dollar since Nixon severed its link to gold in 1971.
• 58:58
  SPEAKER_00: Oil sits at the center of the global economy.
• 59:01
  SPEAKER_00: Every industrial economy needs it.
• 59:03
  SPEAKER_00: If countries need dollars to participate in the global oil trade, they have a powerful reason to hold dollars.
• 59:09
  SPEAKER_00: That creates demand for the currency that has nothing to do with buying American goods or services.
• 59:14
  SPEAKER_00: It also creates demand for U.S.
• 59:16
  SPEAKER_00: financial assets.
• 59:18
  SPEAKER_00: Oil exporters earn dollars.
• 59:21
  SPEAKER_00: They need somewhere to put them.
• 59:23
  SPEAKER_00: For decades, a large portion flowed back into the U.S.
• 59:26
  SPEAKER_00: banks and UN treasuries that helped deepen the treasury market, support the dollar, suppress U.S.
• 59:33
  SPEAKER_00: borrowing costs, and finance deficits that no other country could sustain.
• 59:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's us.
• 59:39
  SPEAKER_00: But every protection racket depends on one thing.
• 59:42
  SPEAKER_00: The protector must provide protection.
• 59:45
  SPEAKER_00: The Iran war threatens that premise.
• 59:48
  SPEAKER_00: If the Gulf monarchies conclude the U.S.
• 59:51
  SPEAKER_00: cannot protect their oil infrastructure, shipping lanes, cities, and regimes from Iran, why should they continue upholding their side of the bargain?
• 1:00:00
  SPEAKER_00: That question could reshape the internal and international monetary system.
• 1:00:05
  SPEAKER_00: And one man warned about that 20 years ago.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_00: I bet you know who that is.
• 1:00:11
  SPEAKER_00: That's Ron Paul.
• 1:00:12
  SPEAKER_00: And Ron Paul said the chaos that will one day ensue from our 35-year experiment with worldwide fiat money will require a return to money of real value.
• 1:00:24
  SPEAKER_00: We know that day is approaching when oil-producing countries demand gold or its equivalent for their oil rather than dollars or euros.
• 1:00:33
  SPEAKER_00: And the sooner the better, said Congressman Paul.
• 1:00:38
  SPEAKER_00: So that's the we know the rest, right?
• 1:00:42
  SPEAKER_00: We know what's happened the security breakdown and everything that's happened because of this war that we that Trump launched in February, uh, with you know, on necessarily on not just with Israel, but on behalf of Israel.
• 1:00:57
  SPEAKER_00: And we have, you know, this uh massive spike in oil prices and the slowing of the oil that passes through the Strait of Hormuz and all the rest of that.
• 1:01:06
  SPEAKER_00: It has put such pressure on those countries uh in the region, and we were already losing share of the petrol dollar.
• 1:01:14
  SPEAKER_00: I just think now the the biggest takeaway from all of this, Ashley, is that we're accelerating that uh with what we what's happened since February.
• 1:01:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um so as we close out, I wanted to bring that up because the petrol dollar system and its collapse probably is the bigger story than just the Iran war.
• 1:01:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:01:36
  SPEAKER_01: So I agree 100%.
• 1:01:38
  SPEAKER_01: And I think there's that what I have been describing this as, because as you know, I'm trying constantly, every single day, every single week, to get more educated on this stuff, but I don't consider myself to be an expert by any means.
• 1:01:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just out here trying to learn.
• 1:01:52
  SPEAKER_01: But what I have been describing this as is artificial peak oil.
• 1:01:56
  SPEAKER_01: So it's really interesting that many years ago in like the early conspiracy days, peak oil was part of that discussion, that we are almost at peak oil.
• 1:02:06
  SPEAKER_01: Now, I don't know, and I'm not a geologist or a wildcat or any of those things, so I don't know, but I began to not subscribe to peak oil, uh, to that uh paradigm anymore.
• 1:02:19
  SPEAKER_01: But what we have is artificially created peak oil.
• 1:02:23
  SPEAKER_01: And so it doesn't matter if I believe in peak oil or not, because here we are.
• 1:02:28
  SPEAKER_01: And the interesting thing is what you're talking about is that the foundation has been laid with the petrodollar.
• 1:02:34
  SPEAKER_01: And it's hilarious in a gallows humor way that this is talking about the protection that the United States is providing these countries because what we know is that the situation in Saudi Arabia is very, very perilous right now because the Houthis are making a run for it.
• 1:02:53
  SPEAKER_01: On Sar Allah, they're saying that first of all, these people are very dedicated, they're not paid mercenaries in the same way that a lot of the um people defending Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates are.
• 1:03:05
  SPEAKER_01: They actually care about the cause, and it ain't about money for them, they're unpaid, and they just have the idea that they're trying to bring unity and peace back to Yemen.
• 1:03:17
  SPEAKER_01: And of course, they're trying to uh keep people from being starved by the Saudi Arabia influence, but that also means the American influence there.
• 1:03:25
  SPEAKER_01: So, anyway, the Houthis, the Ansar Allah, they are really they're doing it up right now, Tony.
• 1:03:31
  SPEAKER_01: And Saudi Arabia is apparently in a very bad way, and that the um the crown prince in Saudi Arabia supposedly is moving from hotel to hotel to hotel, and there's also this internal strife with his family and his cousins.
• 1:03:46
  SPEAKER_01: So it's really interesting that this all just happens to coincide at the same time that we have oil refineries being blown up in Russia, that we have uh infrastructure being destroyed, not only in Saudi Arabia, but Iran.
• 1:04:01
  SPEAKER_01: And uh it's a powder keg.
• 1:04:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's really it's going crazy right now.
• 1:04:08
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that's right.
• 1:04:09
  SPEAKER_00: And um, you know, we not only since uh 2024, you you you saw the the lapse of the agreement on the petrol dollar, which is important.
• 1:04:19
  SPEAKER_00: But before that, you had the uh the calamitous exit from Afghanistan.
• 1:04:23
  SPEAKER_00: People took notice of that, you know, how we just uh abandoned our allies and people that we worked with there.
• 1:04:29
  SPEAKER_00: It was really just a humanitarian disaster.
• 1:04:32
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I supported getting out of Afghanistan.
• 1:04:35
  SPEAKER_00: I was part of the first army company on the ground in Kandahar after 9-11.
• 1:04:39
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I uh I'm dating myself, but that was uh a long time ago, 2001, going into 2002, uh, when I was in uh Afghanistan.
• 1:04:49
  SPEAKER_00: So I I have a little bit of experience with that.
• 1:04:52
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I understand that I've been around uh major points of the country, flew around there when I was in uh in country.
• 1:04:59
  SPEAKER_00: So I know a little bit about it.
• 1:05:01
  SPEAKER_00: And I I supported obviously the exit, but the way that we did it, and I think that's what caught so much of the the notice and uh and and really started resetting the global chessboard.
• 1:05:13
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that was around uh what was that, uh 2021.
• 1:05:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, because this was it was uh Biden had not been in office for very long.
• 1:05:22
  SPEAKER_01: And of course, it was very symbolic.
• 1:05:24
  SPEAKER_01: The picture that we got was a chopper flying out.
• 1:05:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I at that time I was not as uh looking into like the programming piece of it.
• 1:05:32
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I was aware of it, but I feel like I'm know a little bit more now.
• 1:05:37
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm thinking that this this has to be intentional.
• 1:05:41
  SPEAKER_01: This has to be an intentional messaging to not only the American people, but the entire world.
• 1:05:47
  SPEAKER_01: If you're trying, if you're put your iconic image from your exit of Afghanistan is reminiscent almost exactly of when you left Vietnam, and we all know it was one of the most unpopular, disastrous wars ever to happen.
• 1:06:04
  SPEAKER_01: I I just feel like, and I know that's my conspiracy side and putting on my tinfull hat, but I felt like that was the messaging.
• 1:06:11
  SPEAKER_01: This is a sun-downing of this place.
• 1:06:14
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I felt like.
• 1:06:15
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that's a good instinct.
• 1:06:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I appreciate you being here today.
• 1:06:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna go ahead and uh wrap up the show.
• 1:06:20
  SPEAKER_00: So tell people uh where they can find you.
• 1:06:23
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, they can find all of my ways to contact me, all my show links, all that stuff.
• 1:06:28
  SPEAKER_01: You can find the episode that Tony and I did together over on Linktree, which is Linktree Think Change Repeat.
• 1:06:34
  SPEAKER_01: I've got everything there and all my socials, all that good stuff.
• 1:06:38
  SPEAKER_01: And um then, of course, I occasionally have the honor of coming on Tony's show and sometimes America Unplugged, Nights of the Storm on Saturdays as well.
• 1:06:47
  SPEAKER_00: Well, the honor is all ours.
• 1:06:49
  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate being here.
• 1:06:50
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for jumping on uh such short notice, and I appreciate the audience.
• 1:06:54
  SPEAKER_00: We got we're gonna have some interesting shows here uh coming up to close out the year.
• 1:06:58
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I've done a I think we've done a great job, especially because I've had Ashley to make sure we had a live transmission going on, even when I've been extremely busy or traveling, and I'm telling you folks, there's a lot happening.
• 1:07:10
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we'll go over uh gold and silver prices real quick before I close out.
• 1:07:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's just so fan the uh a fantastic thing to watch the clown world economy play out.
• 1:07:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um and these are all like buying coupons right now, by the way.
• 1:07:27
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, gold's down$79.
• 1:07:29
  SPEAKER_00: Oh no, it's down$96 from yesterday's opening.
• 1:07:33
  SPEAKER_00: We're at 4,035 Luciferian bankster notes make a troy ounce of gold.
• 1:07:40
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, that's a that's a buying coupon, folks.
• 1:07:42
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's not a that's not a trajectory of where it's going.
• 1:07:46
  SPEAKER_00: That's that is a a false uh uh overlay of reality based off of what actually is happening in the global financial system.
• 1:07:55
  SPEAKER_00: So gold's on sale today.
• 1:07:57
  SPEAKER_00: Silver uh$54.73 uh since yesterday.
• 1:08:05
  SPEAKER_00: Again, uh these are all buying opportunities.
• 1:08:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'll have to re reset some of the uh gums out tomorrow.
• 1:08:14
  SPEAKER_00: But those that's what's happening with uh with gold and silver.
• 1:08:17
  SPEAKER_00: You can find me at Tony.gold, that's my website.
• 1:08:24
  SPEAKER_00: Any links to Wise Wolf or any of the keeping open uh every day along with Beans the Brave and my great staff.
• 1:08:30
  SPEAKER_00: So I appreciate everybody being here.
• 1:08:31
  SPEAKER_00: I'll be back next week.
• 1:08:33
  SPEAKER_00: Uh make sure that you tune into America Unplugged uh over on Rumble, on the America Unplugged channel, uh on my ex at Tony Arterburn, uh on YouTube while while we're while we're still able to broadcast there.
• 1:08:45
  SPEAKER_00: So check us out over on America Unplugged on Saturday, 12 Eastern, with uh Billy Ray Valentine and the legendary Donald Jeffries.
• 1:08:53
  SPEAKER_00: Again, Ashley, thanks for being here.
• 1:08:55
  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate you very much.
• 1:08:56
  SPEAKER_00: Folks, we'll be back next week.
• 1:08:58
  SPEAKER_00: You guys take care of yes, thank you.
• 1:09:00
  SPEAKER_00: Take care of each other, folks.
• 1:09:02
  SPEAKER_00: End of transmission.