Breaking Afternoon Updates with Ben 10/1/2026

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It took place about two hours ago, but we now have the final confirmation that it did indeed happen. A tanker on fire there. This follows at least three, potentially four other tankers struck in the Strait of Hormuz. This is the first tanker on fire in the Strait of Hormuz. , scrutiny. I'll just say they deserve scrutiny. And I hear you loud and clear that there are a lot of question marks behind these incidents. And I think that would be putting it lightly that there are question marks behind what's going on here. And in normal times, I don't think we would doubt what we are being told and fed. But in these times, I think we have to put our guard up and ask serious questions. And so that's what we'll do here at the Midas Touch Network. It's not my job to fearmonger or to say, here's definitely what happened. I'll be very clear with the disclaimer that I don't know, but I have a lot of questions. So this fly Dubai airplane incident, I don't know what's going on. I don't know what's going on. That took place where you had this Indian pilot with an Omani co-pilot. You'll see the image in the video right there. The story, I suppose, is that the Omani co-pilot stabs the Indian captain as they were heading from Dubai to Tel Aviv. And then the plane suddenly drops 17,500 feet, the distance of six, what is it? Burj Khalifa skyscraper. And it's going straight down apparently. And then the story is a plumber who has no airplane experience at all, who watched airplane crash investigation television shows based on that, went to the control yoke in the cockpit, which was opened up by the pilot guy with zero experience as the plane is going down 17,000 feet. And then he pulls up on the control yoke causing the plane to gain altitude back and then saving all 170 people aboard this plane. Then there were two off-duty pilots who were apparently on the plane and they were the ones who eventually landed it. That's the story that's being told. This plumber who was the hero said that he watched air crash TV shows and that's how he learned about all of this. And then he met with the pilot who was the pilot of the plane, who was the pilot of the plane, who was the pilot of the plane who was the pilot of the plane, who was the pilot of the plane, who was the pilot of the plane, that was filled with blood and they didn't change his outfit. So all I gave you there are the undisputed facts of what's being said. Okay. And I am always very careful on this network as the co-founder of this network, other than to present to you those facts that are being put out there and fed. You're not going to be able to do that. You're not going to do that. You can put in the comments and you will get, we're going to exploit it, but I don't buy just the narratives that are sold just because they're out there. Okay. So that's what they're pushing. We should say, show me more, explain how all of this happens. It reminds me a little bit of when they said the F-15 pilot fell, you know, that the plane was hit, the parachute didn't work. Fell thousands of feet to the ground. The parachute didn't work, hit the ground at a hundred miles per hour. Then got up, walked miles, five, 10, 20 miles to a mountain, climbed up a 7,000 foot mountain, and then was rescued over there. And then his name was Dude Bravo. He's like middle, like not even middle-aged dude was like 50 years old and he somehow got there. And then he was on, they said because of God and God saved his life. And, you know, and I'm thinking to myself, if you hit the ground going a hundred miles per hour, after your plane gets hit, you're going to die. And you're certainly not going to be able to climb a 7,000 foot mountain after traveling multiple miles. I mean, you know, and then I think about what's being told about the fly Dubai situation. And I just question if you're going down 17,000 feet at that, at those speeds, you know, someone who watched as an aircraft show on TV, getting into the cockpit and pulling it up. You know, it just is, you know, it, it, it, in normal times I would be like, okay. Um, but in these times where the Trump regime and the Netanyahu regime, you know, say all of these things, I think we have to wait to get more information because the thing is now the Trump regime and UAE are saying, this is Iran. IRGC was likely behind this. That's what Trump said earlier. IRGC, likely behind this, they're going to pay for it. They're going to pay for it. Right. So that's then the UAE is now saying that's probably IRGC. And I'm also thinking like, in terms of Iran's plan, controlling the Strait of Hormuz, why of all things to do that would clearly lead to an escalation and turning world sentiment against you if you did it. And if you were going to do that, why would you be withholding strikes from, um, Israel right now, but then do it that way? I don't know. There's a lot, just put it this way. There's a lot of questions there. And this is a network where we don't just absorb and parrot back. We, we think we're deep, we're critical thinkers over here. Then there's the Royal Air Force Fairford incident where they said there were five terrorists who were captured and they're apparently linked to Iran. Also, that's the official narrative, but they were released on bail and they didn't have explosives on them either. They had, like empty cans of oil. And apparently they were the ones who called the police. So they called the police on themselves. And I think that's strange. And then if they are terrorists, why would you release the terrorists on bail? And so we're, but we're being told that's linked to Iran. So you have Royal Air Force incident. You then have the fly Dubai incident. And again, this follows Netanyahu talking with MBZ, the president of the UAE, who's the leader of the Abu Dhabi, one of the Emirates, the Abu Dhabi and Abu Dhabi. And then Netanyahu was saying, look, he's got before the election, we expect there to be all of these terrorist attacks. We expect these strikes to take place. We expect all of this to happen. We expect all this to happen is what Netanyahu said. And then there were others in the defense community that said there really aren't any significant elevated risks that normally exist. And then we have Royal Air Force incident, fly Dubai incident. And now Trump and Netanyahu are saying, and UAE, Iran, part of the Abraham Accords, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran. And Trump sending the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt over there. And so again, what we do here on the Midas Touch Network, I'm simply laying out the facts as we know them. Do what you want with them, but that's what we do. We try to break them down here in ways that are easy to digest and understand, form whatever opinions you want to form from them. We know we have an intelligent audience here. And I think that that's one of the things we appreciate about this community. We're not trying to propagandize each other. We put it out there and you may say, Ben, that Royal Air Force makes sense. Fly Dubai makes sense. Don't even give me any other implication. Good. Okay. Or you may say, I am, I'm suspicious or I'm asking questions. Good. Do what you want to do. I'll tell you for me a major question that I have aside from those incidents. And I go back to this and I admit to you that when I heard about the Iranian protests that were purportedly democracy style protests back in January, and we were told that there were 12,000 protesters who were killed by Iran and the Taliban, I never would have fathomed that I would not believe that number. And in fact, I would say this is what we're being told, you know, in January, this was before the catastrophic war in Iran, where I think Trump basically did the equivalent of a coach showing you the playbook of how they, what, what plays they're going to call before they call them and like, oh, that's what you're doing. And so I heard 12,000. I would never, I saw the protests taking place. I would never, I would never believe it. I would never believe it. Who makes that up? But then what I've been seeing is then the Trump regime said it was 30,000. Then they said it was 35,000. Then they said it was 40,000. Then they said it was 50,000. Then last week, they said it was 60,000 protesters who were killed. And then this week today in that time magazine article, they said it's somewhere between 70. This is what Trump said. 70,000 to 72,000 protesters were killed by Iran. And so when you're willing to now make up the number 12,000 to 72,000, the question that I genuinely asked then is, was there 12,000 or was it more like 3,000 or 4,000? And was the United States, CIA and Mossad, were they the ones who were influential in this to begin with? And what was really happening here? Things that I never thought that I truly never thought that I would go down this path of, of, of awakening. I mean, I don't know if it's awakening or understanding, but, but when you're telling me 12,000 a certain time, and now you're saying 72,000, and if you're willing to to lie about 72,000. And you lie about everything, $21 trillion coming in, and this is happening. And what was one of the big lies that we were told yesterday? Trump did that press conference with the Alaska delegation, Alaska's governor, senator. We're bringing in $54 billion from South Korea. South Korea has agreed. They're doing this big LNG investment in Alaska. Alaska MAGA Republicans are falling behind in the polls, right? They're falling behind in the polls there, in the Senate race and other major races. So just promise the people of Alaska $54 billion. That's never going to happen. They announced it. And what happens today, South Korea, Seoul, their industry minister says completely false, not doing it. We're not even past preliminary discussions, right? The day before that, who'd they bring into the White House? Iowa. Iowa's delegation. Why? MAGA Republicans are trailing in Iowa. So they bring in their candidate for the Senate, Ashley Hinson, MAGA Republican extremist over there. They bring in all these other Iowa members who are running for Congress and elsewhere. And Trump says, look, we're going to be doing whatever there was, $30 billion or $40 billion investment in Iowa. And it's a company that's based in Minnesota. I believe it is an Indian-based company. And Trump is friends with these oligarchs over there. And they basically, in my view, make a fake announcement, giving you my opinion of, look what we're going to be doing in Iowa. Y'all are going to get rich. Meanwhile, the ranchers, the farmers, everybody's been screwed in the state. So what do you do now? You just make up fake deals, fake deals here, fake deals there. And so it's all one big fraudulent regime. And so I go back to where I started. It seems obvious the Trump regime is looking to escalate. Donald Trump is this ranting and raving lunatic. You've got, Putin talking about nuclear weapons. If he says NATO makes any move in Kaliningrad, you've Donald Trump not inviting NATO countries to this important NATO meeting in Poland. We also heard from one of Ukraine's former defense ministers who was saying that not only has the Trump regime refused to provide Patriot interceptors, but the Trump regime also has refused to provide certain missiles to strike the ballistic missile launchers of Russia. About 3,000 were promised to Ukraine. That's a lot of money. And so I think that's a lot of money. And I think that's a lot of money. That's now not being turned over. So you have to just assess the totality of circumstances for yourself about what's going on here. And the way we just did this in 22 minutes, deeply comprehensive. Fact, fact, fact, fact, fact, fact, fact. That to me is what's needed. That's how we get out of this hell. I want to remind everybody, WTF America is the book I wrote with my brothers. There's an audio book here. I read the audio. So do my brothers. Lots of people didn't know that there was an audio component of this. And we read the audio. It's not like some AI voice or some other narrator. We spent a lot of time doing the audio. So once I said that, I saw everybody going to get the audio. So go check that out. Also, there's an ebook and a hardcover book. It comes out October 20th, but order it now. The pre-orders have been very, very helpful. 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Look, when did the news just decide they're not going to show what's happening in the war? The news don't show war footage anymore. When I grew up, I mean, I remember when there were wars, we would get to see it, and there would be people there who would cover it, and it helped inform our worldview. Whether we were being heavily propagandized or not, we probably were. Nonetheless, we saw some, I think, real powerful war reporters. Whether you go back to the Vietnam era, you go back to the original Persian Gulf War, you go back to all of these wars, it helped us I think try to process it and make sense of all of it. That just doesn't exist anymore. Instead, you have Trump in the Oval Office ranting and raving like a lunatic. When he speaks at this point, for me, it's just like, blah, blah, blah. I don't even know. It's just like watching. It's just a buffoon. It's a clown. A courting hand, it's just some stupid shit. We should be seeing what's happening. When we talk about Garen 4, Garen 5 drone striking into Kiev, we should talk about that. When we talk about Zelensky striking logistical centers and refineries in Russia, we should talk about that. We should see it. We should understand what's happening. We should be focused on what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz. There's visuals. We should show people what it looks like in Manab when the Trump regime slaughters little girls. We should show what it looks like in Le Maire at a volleyball game when the Trump regime slaughters little children over there. Sports Hall over there. We should be aware of what's happening in the world right now. And so let me just show you some footage right here. This is the past 24 hours or so of Russian strikes in Ukraine. Let me show you what's going on over here. You'll see over here telecommunications facilities that are being struck over there. Yeah, let's play the video of what's happening. Let's play the video of what's happening as well. Here you have it over there. So there you saw the drone striking into Kiev, striking into a supermarket separately. And then you saw the telecommunications towers going down. And it does look like there was a new style drone by Russia or an alteration or addition to the to the Garin series of drones that was able to really kind of cut through some of the Ukrainian defenses. Heading into the winter, what we're going to see Russia do is likely strike a lot of these power facilities, try to make it a very cold, frigid winter, try to destroy the morale of the people over there. Did you all see what's happening here in that state of the force address, whatever the hell that was supposed to be with Pete Hegseth? And it was one of the most deranged things I've ever seen in my life. And I don't think that's getting nearly enough attention as well. So Pete Hegseth addressed, I'm not even sure who was even sitting there because in the first iteration of this, it was generals and admirals. And now I think he brought in not the generals and the admirals. But his speech was basically bragging about cutting 20% of admirals and generals and getting rid of their positions permanently. And then he talked about how we're an army of patriotic cowboys with testosterone testing. And he's not joking. This isn't like him being humorous or funny. He's a psycho. He's an actual lunatic also. And he says that he gets his commands from the book of Isaiah and the book of Revelation. And he says that he gets his commands from the book of Isaiah tells us all that we all need to be sent to war in the Middle East. And Isaiah says, send me, send me, send me to catastrophic wars and I will die for anything. I mean, I'll just show you what he says. First, this is where he says the ideological clowns are out, the patriotic cowboys, but their testosterone are in. Here, play this clip. The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in with testosterone testing, on top. Diversity is not our strength. Unity is our strength. Because what I'm literally thinking of like Manchurian defense secretary, in my opinion. Also, he looks like a Simpsons character, right? I mean, he literally visually looks painted, like painted a Simpsons character color. And the year that error of testosterone, patriotic cowboys with testosterone, I just don't know what the hell is wrong with these people. I don't think, and I don't, I really don't know. I mean, I was friends with a lot of Navy SEALs when I was in college and law school. And I've lost touch with some of those friends, but occasionally say, what's up? My buddy was in one of the SEAL teams. And so I hung with them and I just, I've been so busy building this network, I should reach back out. But I, you know, they've since, no longer are in active duty or anything like that. But how do you not look at this guy like as a total clown? I mean, anybody who goes around bragging about being alpha and having a lot of testosterone. I mean, I just think it's some like, I just think it's some weak shit. Like, look at them. Like, what the hell are we, the hell are we even doing here? And then he goes on to say, he does this like weird Trump impression. The war department, as you know, is colorblind, gender neutral. And merit-based, well, you're proving that it isn't. You should not be anywhere near any position that's even 10 rungs down on the ladder from where you are right now, yet alone the defense secretary. And frankly, shame on every traitorous, treasonous Republican senator who voted for this asshole. Seriously, play this clip of him right here. The war department, as you know, is colorblind, and merit-based. Or as the president likes to say to me, central casting. I mean, it's just an idiot. He's just an idiot. It's not funny. He's an idiot. It's, again, I don't care about your politics, Democrat, Republican, independent. I really don't. That's a loser. Okay. And we should not be augmenting these loser, pathetic individuals to positions anywhere near legal. That's a loser. Okay. Well, this is the message from God, that the book of Isaiah said, all of you need to go to war. Send me, send me, says the book of Isaiah. That is Jesus and God's message to you. Americans, you need to die for Donald Trump. Here, listen to what he says. Let's play it. Yes. Each of us committed to the nation with the sentiment of the sixth chapter of the book of Isaiah. Lord, here I am. Send me. Send me to fight the Redcoats. Send me to fight the Communists. Send me to fight the Islamists. Send me. You see, the Ivy League faculty, faculty lounges, they'll never understand you. And that's okay, because they could never, ever do what you do. The media will mischaracterize you. That's what the book of Isaiah, that's what the book of Isaiah told you. Send me to the Redcoats. Send me to the Islamists. Send me. No, don't. I just want you to think about this, too. This Trump regime, these MAGA con artists, snake oil salesmen, they ran on, Biden's going to send you to war. Biden's going to send you. We're going to make sure you don't get sent to wars, right? That's literally one of the things they ran on. And now they changed the name of the Defense Department to the War Department. And their slogan is, send me based on anything you tell me. Just send me to war. By the way, send me is the, in addition to not being in the book of Isaiah, in addition to just being a lunatic slogan, is the exact opposite of what our nation should be about. The Defense Department shouldn't be, send me based on anything. It should be defense. What are the values and principles? What is it that I am protecting? And the order should be lawful orders, not the unlawful orders that this war criminal regime has. And when I hear from military families, and at the Midas Touch Network, we hear from many military families. And one of the things we hear is that their family members who are serving don't know what to do right now because they know they are becoming complicit in war crimes, slaughtering little children for the Epstein class. They know they're complicit when they're on the aircraft carriers. They know they're complicit when they shoot the missiles that kill the little kids, that they are complicit, and they're having nightmares, and they are feeling lots of sense of dread and depression, and they're not even getting the food and supplies that they need. And now we're sending another carrier to join the war crime show that's taking place over there. I mean, if you think about the blockade that's taking place and what Besson's doing, what? What are they doing? They are attacking the civilians of Iran. They're not going after the IRGC. They say the way we'll make a deal with the IRGC and Iran's leadership is to try to starve the civilians to death. Again, that comes from predators. That comes from the Epstein class thinking, right? It's sick. You are blocking civilian supplies. You're not blocking military supplies. By your own admission, you've destroyed the Iranian military, which we know is all bullshit and not true. But regardless, you're stopping food. You're stopping food. You're stopping food and medicine from getting into Iran. Same thing with the blockade of Cuba. You think you're going to win the support of the people in Cuba by starving them? I mean, again, you think, well, who would think that? Epstein class, right? Predators. The people who cover up child sex trafficking rings are the same people who start blowing up children's elementary schools the moment they start a war. Child sex trafficking ring cover up, blowing up child elementary schools. Epstein class. This is who they are. And these sickos, these traitors, these Epstein class oligarchs who are screwing us all over, they're the ones who are running our country into the ground. Interestingly, when you read the Epstein files, Epstein talked about all this stuff also. And again, I'm not veering into the land of conspiracy, although sometimes as I articulate this, I feel to myself, I'm like, okay, what are you talking about there, Ben? But if you look at it, what's he talking about? He's talking about Putin taking over Crimea in 2014. What that's going to do to the country. He's talking about the ruble. He's talking about the crypto, how everybody can make a lot of money when you have all of these wars taking place throughout the world. He's part of this oligarch network, and he's the middleman in this oligarch network talking about creating fragmentation and division and shattering the post-World War II U.S. architecture because in that chaos, these Epstein class people can feast and steal all of your money and make all of this money by exploiting people who are powerful. He's talking about the land of conspiracy, but again, I'm not veering into the land of conspiracy, although sometimes as I articulate this, I feel to myself, I'm like, okay, what are you talking about there, Ben? to exploit. Panic becomes the numbing agent for their exploitation. Remember that. The panic becomes their numbing agent for their exploitation. And that is what they're doing because people are so panicked and numb that then they come in there and then they try to overwhelm you with their shock and awe of all of this horrific stuff that they do, which is coming from so many directions. It's hard to process. It's why we build this community. It's why we build this decentralized network at the Midas Touch Network to push back against it. That's precisely what we're doing. Reminder, we talk about this. WTF America, I saw people saying, is there an e-book? Yes, of course, there is an e-book. If you're saying, Ben, why do you keep on talking about the book? It's kind of the life's work of us all, like that I tried to channel. It's dedicated to the community. It's based on the community. If something happens to me, I want this book also to be kind of what we can do. And it's the roadmap that I hope doesn't just last short term. That would be a failure to me. It needs to be one of these books to me that last generations and longer that we can reflect on this moment and think about how the collective we internationally come together and get out of this chaos, get out of this true anarchy unleashed on us by the Epstein class. Last break of the show. We've got a lot more to discuss. 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Sidenafil is the generic version of Viagra. Viagra is a registered trademark by Viatras Specialty, LLC. HIMS is not affiliated with or endorsed by Viatras. Welcome back to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Maiselis. Thank you to all of our sponsors. They support the show, support our sponsors. I read your comments, by the way. So right as we were taking the break, I saw someone say, "You didn't talk at all about the nukes or the 10,000 troops. All you're doing is talking about the book." Okay, that's factually incorrect. The whole first segment was about the 10,000 troops that were being sent by the Trump regime with the Teddy Roosevelt aircraft carrier. That's literally what we talked about. And the nuclear threats coming from Putin regarding Kaliningrad. Then we showed the foot. The whole 20 minutes was about that. That's how we started off. And now I'm showing, after setting that up to begin with, how unqualified the Trump regime is right now and how they're destroying the post-World War II architecture. Then the third segment, I'm going to bring it back to domestic politics about what's actually happening here. So I think that it's incorrect to say we haven't hit that. Of course, we've hit that. That's the main thing we've been talking about. We've hit that. And it's an important thing that we talk about on the show. Pete Hegseth, on that point, Pete Hegseth was boasting about getting rid of our top generals and admirals. And he says, "The number crunchers say we fired 10% of the generals." Nope, it was 20%. Watch this again. He looks like a Simpsons character here. Those generals who did not, who clung to the woke department or seemed to think civilian control of the military is simply a suggestion, well, they no longer work here. You see, the number crunchers say we fired 10% of the generals and admirals across the force. And that number sounds about right. And I know because I directed it that we've also reduced the overall number of general officer slots by an additional 10%. So yes, 20% reduction across the board. Now, the media calls that a purge. I call it accountability and long overdue. And frankly, the bare minimum. As usual, what the media levels as an accusation, I wear as an accomplishment. You see, you can't change a culture with the same people who enabled it. Personnel is policy at every single level. Pete Hegseth: Yeah. And I want to address this as well, because occasionally I'll see a comment and I'm not one who like goes back to the comments and goes, ah, be very thoughtful about it. But one of the critiques often is, why are you doing a video that's called all hell breaks loose? Isn't that hyperbolic? And to that, I say, it's absolutely not hyperbolic. How would you describe what's happening? And it's not every video called all hell breaks loose. Occasionally there's one video a day, and it's usually about the escalation of war from Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine striking back in Russia, where you literally see apocalyptic scenes that visually look like what a hell would look like. So frankly, if there were stronger words to use, I would try to find the stronger words. I think one of the problems that we have is you go back to the founding of Midas Touch, when we would call out the Trump regime as the world leader. Pete Hegseth: Yeah. I think that's a good point. We were often told that's hyperbolic. You can't say that. You can't say that they're traitors. You can't use that language. And I would say, well, I'm looking at behavior that shows they're fascists and they're treasonous and they're traitors. We should call out. We should not hide from the fact that Trump is a sex predator. We should call it out. We shouldn't be normalizing this through normal political Democrat v. Republican independent type of discourse. To me, that's one of the reasons we get put into this hell. And I think we see as we hit election season, all of the corporate news wants to put this into the horse race. This personality, that personality, who's up? What do you think about that? Could you believe this person said this? Or what do you think about that person? The villains, the heroes, they create these narratives. And for me, I think to myself, that's how we got into this mess. Exalting personalities, attacking personalities, rehabilitating personalities. It's all about, to me, the American people and what they do. Pete Hegseth: What we're experiencing, what people throughout the world are experiencing right now. To me, it's about listening and augmenting the voices of us all and actually hearing from people who are suffering as a result of the catastrophic war. People who are paying higher gas prices and diesel prices, who can't afford anything. People whose lives are being crushed. And it's not just here in the United States. We take an international perspective and scope on it. And that's how we ground our reporting each and every day, not through the horse race. It's interesting. If you've watched this channel, I think that I would really posit this. We're often, I saw someone, I saw, who was it? It was one of these substacks or networks that cover emerging independent media landscape. And they put us as the growth of, they call it partisan media. Pete Hegseth: And so they put us as on the left, one of the big partisan media growth centers. And then on the other side, they had Candace Owens and they had two or three others. I forget who they were, but they were making this kind of comparison and for me i mean you've all been watching this episode this has been on breaking news other than the brother show tonight at eight and which is on eight eastern five pacific this is like the one of the marquee shows of the network right like i don't think i've said a single thing that's been political the whole entire show i haven't said all the democrats have done this i haven't done any of that because to me i think everything i say applies to americans unless you are a rich epstein class oligarch billionaire i frankly don't know how what i'm saying isn't relevant to you because you're being hurt by this epstein class oligarchy most 99.9 percent of americans are being hurt by this epstein class oligarchy that's what i see taking place every damn day and so i think if we can talk about these issues more in terms of our shared humanity and building out this consciousness that we're part of this broader humanity i think that's important that's why i speak to people in iran that's why i speak to people in yemen that's why i speak to people all across the world and that's why the international growth of this network is so important because i know that we the people both here but more broadly we'd love to i don't drink alcohol anymore um but i know we'd love to have a beer together i know we'd love to have if i did or we'd love to have a coffee or a cup of tea together or break bread together internationally i know there's so much of just all of us wanting to live decent good fulfilling lives with each other and then you've got these freaking fascists and these genocidal maniacs the trumps and the net yahoos and the putins and all these people in the world who care so much about power and themselves and they don't just want to see themselves in these entrenched positions of power they also want to see people suffer they also want to see others suffer and that's what we see in this oligarchy here i could go on and on and on about that but i uh i digress yeah they put us in a chart where it was like midas brian tyler cohen and someone else i love brian so i'm okay with that so us brian and somebody else and then they put us up with against candace owens and they put us against benny johnson and they put us against i forget who else they put us so it was like whoa what do you what kind of even compare what are you doing it just it just it's just i i appreciate the recognition that and amongst all of those channels by the way we had by far the the biggest there was we were the biggest ever um but setting aside that it was the most subscribers but i it just fundamentally i don't maybe i'm detached from from what how you see it i see this as a shared humanity community and i think our values and principles align a lot with certain groups and political parties but we don't just aimlessly augment um anyway i could keep going on and on you get it like ben just tell us the news we get it we get it we get it we get it all right trump sleeping in the oval office not cool weird clearly dude cognitively and physically declining i could show you 50 videos like this i'll just show you one but this is every damn day it's like they do it on purpose just to show us you know that they don't give a shit about us here play this clip so mr president thank you again and everybody here we're going to get this done we're going to get this done this is really exciting we're going to get it done this is really exciting we're going to get it done what are you going to get done 54 billion dollars to alaska you're going to get it done from south korea okay what does south korea have to say about it ah god it's fake not real i got it south korea says you made this up got it again you know it's just when you hear from former trump supporters as well one of the things that has really resonated i think the epstein cover-up was the real first thing because look if you're going to lie about child sex trafficking you're going to lie about everything and i think that was the first kind of pierce of the kind of maga cult armor if you will where people are like whoa you're gonna lie about child sex trafficking like the hell got it if you're lying about then it opens up your eye i mean i know i think our eyes are open but then once you start to see in a little bit then you know it quickly expands you don't have a whoa everything you do everything you do is a lie to the point where you've got marjorie taylor green saying oh here they go with the caravans again they're doing the false flag caravan stuff before the election you've got her saying yeah this is what they do that's what that's the whole apparatus right there is to create these culture wars to try to divide people so that the oligarchs can steal your money and send your kids to war and they could you know you're going to get it done continue to do the things that they're trying to cover up in the epstein file what do you think they're trying to do it's about power and it's about their sickness and wanting to see you suffer also what do you think it's all about of course of course that's what's going on contrast donald trump though to prime minister carney prime minister carney talking about opening up new pipelines in canada through alberta and other areas to basically send the oil send directly to asia and not to the u.s refineries listen to a carney had to say here play this clip a pipeline to the west coast is part of our mission to transform our economy to double our non-us exports over the next decade to create tens in fact hundreds of thousands of good jobs to unlock the full potential of canada as a global energy superpower and to catalyze tens and tens of billions of dollars of new investment into the canadian economy to make canada a global energy superpower and to build a future where canada is a global energy superpower and to build a future where alberta and canada more prosperous more independent and to do all of this in the right way today ninety percent of alberta's oil goes to the u.s pacific link will materially reduce that dependence by allowing us to export an additional one million barrels a day to growing markets in asia that means more customers more choice higher prices for all canadian energy producers and it means greater long-term security of demand oopsies you didn't think like canada has a plan the trump regime just thinks what you're going to do things without a reaction without a response yeah canada's gonna have a plan and by the way good luck with the potash from belarus when we have fertilizer shortages and canada provides us with the potash i'm sure our farmers absolutely love that one idiot brigade over there and then what do you think canada's gonna do what do you what do you think their reaction's going to be when you from the oval office say canada's the worst country ever when they said like every day they go canada's the worst code canada screws us over i don't know canada loves its diversity canada has a set of principles and values they're free they're north they're elbows up and they're not going to take this shit by the way it's an honor that's why we stand in solidarity with the people of canada just to be very clear not mincing words we stand with you the people of canada we stand with you the people of canada over the trump regime running the united states government like let me be very clear we're on your side we're on your team because we recognize that we have a fascist regime over here that is absolutely disgusting and they cover up child sex trafficking rings and they get involved in catastrophic wars and they loot and they steal from us and as former secretary of state hillary clinton said they are we are we have become under the trump regime a demon and we have become under the trump regime a demon and we have become under the trump regime deeply unserious nation deeply unserious as well as a very dangerous nation unserious and dangerous as a threshold we should be serious you move up the ladder we should be competent you move up the ladder we should be sophisticated you move up the ladder we should have the top smartest people who are really devoting their lives to public service because they've been doing a lot of work and they've been doing a lot of work and they've been doing a lot of work and they've been doing a lot of work and they've been doing a lot of work and they've been achieve things in their lives where they can give back and they can share this experience at the highest level folks we don't even meet the threshold of serious we are unserious and we are dangerous under the trump regime we don't even meet the floor and that is absolutely horrible two more things i want to show one a furious maga caller calling into the megan kelly wrap-up show let's play this one over the last couple of weeks i've been getting what seems like a handful of callers i've been getting a handful of callers i've been getting a handful of callers i've been getting a handful of callers i've been getting a handful of callers i've been getting a handful of day who are totally disillusioned by someone many cases they say they voted for donald trump thanks for taking my call i voted for donald trump and i got to be honest with you and tell you you know we didn't get a wall we didn't get the lock up hillary we didn't get to drain the swamp we didn't get affordable health care we didn't get to eliminate the national debt with doge remember we were looking and they only raised it from 36 trillion to 40 trillion okay and we didn't get the epstein files accountability i think pam bondy probably got fired because she released some of them it wasn't supposed to we didn't get a doge check of five grand we didn't get a two thousand dollar tariff check okay we didn't get lower interest rates we didn't get nothing but lied to and like i said i voted for the guy but this guy is the big he should be selling used 67 cadillac coupe devils at some used car lot because all we've gotten is garbage i ran i ran i ran okay the price of oil comes down his big buddies that are rich buy price of oil goes up because we bottle they sell, sell, sell. The whole thing is a sham. Well, he's selling watch. Could you imagine if Barack Obama was selling watches, sneakers and all kinds of stuff? We'd be going nuts. I'm sorry. I would never vote for this man again. And you know what? Sometimes things got to get worse before they get better. But there is no America first with President Trump. I'm sorry. And you hear that all of the time right now. And I was I share some of those videos and some of those statements that we get here and that we hear elsewhere on the Midas Touch Network. I want to leave you with this. You have John Yoo, MAGA Republican extremist lawyer. He was on state media today. And this is what he said about the botched execution of Krista Pike. She was supposed to be executed yesterday in Tennessee. They administered the lethal injection twice and it is in critical condition, at least as of this recording. And they botched the execution. And let me show you what this MAGA Republican extremist lawyer just said on state regime media about it. Let's play it. So actually, the thing here is that Tennessee is trying to use what is considered the most humane method of capital punishment, which is lethal injection. The court has allowed and Tennessee could use far more, I would think, powerful methods like firing squad. Firing squad has been permitted. In fact, I think the lawyers here have said, why not use the firing squad? So I think what's going to have to happen is that Tennessee is going to have to go back and try again, perfect these methods or use some other kind of execution method. All right. The governor. The hell are we talking about? How is this? What? firing squad, perfect the execution method. You all know where I stand. I am absolutely against the death penalty. I am absolutely, and I'll say it very clearly, where I stand on issues. Okay? You're not going to hear mincing words here. Gaza is a genocide. I am against the death penalty. We have to be very clear and articulate, in my opinion, where we stand across all of these issues in these times. And ultimately, if you disagree with me, I hope you'll at least appreciate that I ain't trying to spin you. And maybe you'll be like, hey, I don't agree with him on this, but I appreciate that I didn't get a bunch of word salad. You'll know where I stand on issues, and I'll try to give you a yes. No. And if I don't know, if I'm ignorant to a fact, I'll say, I don't know. Maybe I need to get more information. Maybe I need to educate myself better on a specific issue. Okay? That is what is going on right there. And this idea, and by the way, I can tell you, I was a former civil rights lawyer. Botched executions happen actually all the time. It's one of the reasons why I view. Cruel and unusual punishment to encapsulate execution. There's a lot of other reasons that inform my view. But you have these Book of Isaiah contorting, thumping, MAGA extremists out there with this death cult, cheering and chanting death everywhere. Death everywhere. And that's what we hear from Hegseth. That's what we heard here. And while all of this is going on, while all of this is taking place, what's Donald Trump focused on? His schemes and his scams. Pick in your pocket. The latest crypto. Did you see this today? You see this bizarre photo of him? Jeremy, I think we've got this photo where if you now buy more of the Trump crypto or the meme coin, you get to meet with him coming up in the next few months. Did you see this? Let's try to get that graphic if we can there, Jeremy. I want to show people what this graphic looks like over here. And here it is. News. Trump will host the most exclusive dinner in the world for the top 185 purchasers of the meme crypto. There it is right there. It's like a ridiculous photo of him. Buying $1 million worth of the Trump. Coin should get you in November 22nd. He's already pocketed $635 million off of this scheme alone. Investors are down $4 billion on Trump crypto. And that's a fraction of the money that he's pillaged and looted since he's gone into the Oval Office. And did you hear also what he's trying to do? He wants to try to put in a lot of money into the Oval Office. He wants to put forward anything possible to prevent future presidents from taking down all the gold and his names everywhere. And he knows that future presidents will likely want to tear it down. So he wants to try to enshrine everything he's doing as federal landmarks that can't be adapted or can't be changed or altered or ripped down. And again, let me also be very clear, I view what I'm saying here as completely nonpartisan also. But I don't think you can be an opposition leader, meaning for the Democratic Party. You are disqualified from being the president of the United States. If on day one, you don't commit to tearing down everything Donald Trump has done on day one, and it needs to be done publicly. The East Wing needs to be demolished on day one. The Walk of Fame, take a freaking hammer and a broom. And I want to see it on live TV. I want it to just be bashed. I want it all falling down on day one. And if he does the arch, I want the arch being destroyed on day one. The ballroom, the ballroom. Yeah, I want to see the ballroom, whatever the hell. I want the ballroom. I want the ballroom. I want the ballroom to be demolished on day one. I want whatever Trump does. And it happens everywhere, literally on the first day. I want it to be on cameras. I want it to be streamed. I don't want it to be, oh, well, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Every debate needs to ask that question right away. Okay? There's deeper issues that need to be fixed. Let's be very clear than that. But those symbols of the downfall need to be removed immediately, immediately. And then we have to start building back the DOJ and we have to start. And by the way, you know what also needs to be done? It has to be committed to the war criminals will be handed over to the Hague immediately on day one. The international criminal courts, the Hague prosecutions immediately, immediately, no obfuscation, no blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Voters will be watching. And again, this is just a message for the opposition in general. This isn't even a political message. Okay? People will be watching. And if on the debate stage, we are seeing, well, we, the people should have an button right away. The moment, you know, maybe that shit worked pre-2016 and we're not going back to the status quo. You tell us where you stand on an issue or you get right away. And by the way, we can disagree with you. You could disagree with me. You could say, Hey, Ben, I think your view about the death penalty, or I think your view about Gaza, or I think your view about the war, or I think about your coverage over here, or I think about this. I disagree with, in fact, Ben, you offend me with that. You offend me. Don't pay. Okay. Well, do you agree with here? Do you agree that you know where I am on these issues? You know what you're watching. I hope you know that I don't just go out saying shit, that I am doing my best to give you my thoughtful views about why I think this stuff. And then we can go from there. It's all good. It's all good. But we have to be clear. Moral clarity is more important than ever right now. And that's what we are going to be focused on right now. Okay. I'm going to plug the book. Why? Because I spent a lot of time writing it and I dedicated it to you, the Midas Mighty. And I did talk about on the first segment, the things that one commenter claims I didn't. I spent most of the show talking about it. WTF America, The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy. There is an ebook. There is an audio book that I read the audio with my brothers. It's not AI. It's us. You can hear us read the audio. We spent a lot of time at the studio in between doing these videos to make sure the audio was crisp. You can hit the QR code over here. here, even though for me on my screen, it shows up here. I'm like a weatherman for you. It shows up over here. Get the audio or the ebook or the hardcover. It's out October 20th, but the pre orders are really important right now. And I think a lot of people were happy to learn there was an audio component of this because as soon as I mentioned that, I saw all of a sudden the audio sales gone. People I think didn't know that. And there's an ebook. All right. I do the show with my brothers at eight Eastern five Pacific. I hope you'll tune in for that. Covering the breaking news throughout the day. I did a video with Charlie Angus. I'll drop in a little bit as well, where we talk more about Carney's pipeline plan and why the Trump regime is so terrified of it. And they didn't see it coming. So watch that video, tell people, you know, about this network, let people know that this is a place where we can get out the truth, where we can speak passionately, but calmly, we can get out our ideas without having to yell at each other. That's what we're trying to foster and build here. So thank you, everybody. We appreciate you. We'll see you next time on the Midas touch podcast. And this has been Ben on breaking news. Want to stay plugged in, become a subscriber to our sub stack at Midas plus.com. You'll get daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, add three episodes of our podcast and more exclusive content only available at Midas plus.com. Midas plus.com.