MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 10/16/26

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We'll talk about on Serala, the Houthis strikes within Yemen on the presidential palace in Aden. Also, there strikes in Saudi Arabia. We'll talk about Donald Trump's deranged rallies as he traveled the country, whether he was in Arizona or Montana or Alaska. I mean, the behavior just so utterly despicable and odd and weak. We'll talk about the Trump new press secretary, Katie Zakaria, the more that comes out about her, again, the more bizarre and dangerous and perhaps even criminal. It is. I'll give you my opinion as a law professor about what it means when she says she practices law, when she's not a licensed lawyer. Also, there's like a 10-year gap in her resume where she claims that she was like selling shakes. And then the shake company says that they don't have any record of her working for the company. What in the world is going on over there? Paulo Zompoli was apparently fired today. He's the guy who introduced Donald Trump and Melania at the Kit-Kat-Kla. Paulo Zompoli, I've been reporting on for many, many years. He had this modeling agency in the 90s where he'd bring in young Eastern European girls and women, and one of them was Melania, and then they would have these meetups at the Kit-Kat Club, where the young models would meet the wealthy Manhattan businessmen at the Kit-Kat Club. That's where it went down, everybody. Zompoli said that you haven't made it unless you're on the Epstein list. That's one of the things that he actually said or words to that effect. We'll talk about the Trump regime apparently hiring a bunch of aliens, not really sure who these people are that are being hired. And we've got 19 days to go until the midterms folks that's right around the corner. That's the only alien reference. I'm going to give right there. So if you missed it, you missed it. You're not going to get a deeper dime right there. Quick, quick flash. That's a less flash. First lesson of this episode of the Midas touch podcast. Always be paying attention because you never know what might flash. You never know when a segment will last one second. Well, last, yeah, about a half a second. It's good to be armband, good to be your Jordi, get to be here, Midas, mighty. You know, it's been a really cool experience this week because I started to see our mentions and I started to get emails from people letting us know that the WTF America books have started to ship and people have pre-audered them said that they're arriving on Tuesday. At least a lot of the pre-auders are arriving on Tuesday on release day, and it's just so awesome. If yours is arriving on Tuesday, let us know in the comments right now if you're watching live with us. I'm curious and check your order status if you pre-audered it. If you haven't pre-audered it, pre-audered it now. We're so excited for this folks. A lot of the stuff we talk about is in this book, including in our Epstein chapter, we do speak about Palo's Empoli and we speak about all the Epstein connections and do a deep dive in the Epstein connections and, you know, not just the facts of the various Epstein cases and the various ties of Epstein affiliated individuals, but about the people that fight back as well, like our own Katie Fang. We speak about her case, how she's taken on. The federal government has a private citizen as a private journalist and shout out to her a lot to discuss today. So let's get into it. But first, you know, I got to toss it over to Jordy. Jordy, what's the latest? Brothers, might as well. I'm so excited to be here. I have a little bit of a cold. I'm just going to I'm prefacing it. I know it's really important for Ben that I say that at the upfront. I might be sneezing throughout this episode. Brad's really good at cutting me like when I'm doing weird things and like going full-screen on Ben. I'm getting ahead of it. That's what I'm doing right now is I will probably sneeze once or twice during this episode. I'll be on mute when I do. So don't worry, but it might happen. Well, you look great, Jordy. You look great. You sound great. And we're happy that you're here with us. Thanks because I definitely have a cold Benji when we start enough today. Big bro. Here it is right here. WTF America, the way out of this hell and back to democracy. So we start off by saying WTF, the inflation report this morning for PPI, which is like wholesaler inflation, the producer price index came in hotter than expected. Bad hot. You don't want inflation to come in hot. The expectation was 5.3%. It came in at 6.3%. That could be heading to seven and a half 8% by the end of this year. Trump said it would be hot. CPI is 3.7%. That's the consumer price index. Obviously, because the wholesalers and the producers pass on those costs to consumers, that gives us kind of a future looking metric of where the CPI is heading, which I believe will be over 4% or 4.5% by the end of this year, which is where I always predicted it was going to be. But Donald Trump is going around the country, the piper of lying. He was in Montana. Once again, talking about how the Maga Republican male senator was very good looking. How he was attracted to him. So Donald Trump thought that people in Montana wanted to hear also. Trump said, if you elect Democrats, you'll all get eaten by animals. Because you won't have guns and all the animals in Montana. They're going to eat you. That's what he was saying. But after that, Donald Trump spoke with a reporter and Trump said that everything is Joe Biden's fault. Nothing is my fault. You have to blame Biden for everything and I deserve zero blame. Let's play that clip. We inherited the worst inflation through Biden in the history of our country and we have that down now very down low. But it's going to really, it's going to come even lower as soon as we finish the war. Everything he said is false. When Trump speaks, all he does is lie. They didn't inherit the worst inflation in the history when they inherited the economy. Inflation was right around 3%, it was heading to 2%, right now it's at 3.7%, 3% Biden, 3.7% Trump, which is higher. Sure, under Biden, there were times when inflation was significantly higher than that. He inherited a mess from Donald Trump's catastrophic not handling of COVID, but Biden did hand over the country to Trump in a better position. That's kind of how you rank someone when you watch a game, whether you're watching the foot game of four quarters, whether you're watching a baseball game of nine innings if it ends on the night inning if you're watching a hockey game of three periods, whatever you're doing more sports, some more sports. You have to do two, I have some. You're doing football. Once you're in a flow, once you're in a flow state, you just go, but usually it's like when the game is over and the team gets a result that you're like, okay, that's a pretty good result. You don't go, oh my god, though, but did you see the second quarter? It was the worst second quarter. I mean, look, when you're in the second quarter, yes, it's fair to comment on the second quarter, but when you see the body of work, you comment on the body of work. Well, let's not also forget, like in this analogy, the second quarter was a disaster, like there were, there are no good quarters. It just got worse and worse and worse and worse and worse. And they're trying to now point back to the time in this current Trump presidency, where there was a golden age, where there was something great happening, where everything was, you know, just going gangbusters. And this Donald Trump came into the Oval Office and just bulldozed everything immediately. And it was quite that I was baking, though, just go, go, go, go, sorry, I got to ask the sports analogies. You got so ready to make an amber sports analogy. You lost the threat of the analogy. The thread was about Biden and that the Trump regime wants to attack Biden second quarter and not the fourth quarter that was handed to Trump, where Trump could have moved it in a better direction, but took it back to the second quarter when he was responsible based on his mishandling of COVID. That's, that was the broader point I was making by naming every sport imaginable bread. If you just imagine the juxtaposition between the two here, just get it quickly. You just move on from, I don't know. So, so President Biden, who actually, like, inherited a complete mess with Donald Trump's mishandling of COVID, could you imagine of every single time he took the stand or he took the microphone from a reporter and he's like, I don't know, I don't know. It's all Trump's fault. Trump 1.0. It's, it was his fault. What can I do about it? I'm just the president. Could you imagine if he just so said, oh, he's Trump 1.0 fault? Every time Donald Trump is asked, hey man, things aren't getting better. The excuse simply can't be, although we see it to be time and time again. It was Biden. I inherited a mess under Biden and then to just really, to, to, to, to thread the needle on these sports analogies, like in a hockey game, when you're on the advantage, right, when you get, when you got the power play. Donald Trump is on the power play in theory, right? He controls all three branches of government. Glide, do something, right? You could pass your entire agenda. "What are you gonna do, Donnie?" - Ballroom. - I wanna try. - But I want an endless war. That's what I want. That's what I want. He has nothing to show for it. - And his priorities are all screwy like you're saying. And when you just look at the data, the data doesn't lie. Inflation now, even though Donald Trump tries to claim that inflation was 19% when Biden left office or whatever stupid line that he's saying. And Donald Trump tries to falsely claim that inflation is 1.9% today. Also just an egregious lie. Inflation was around 3% has been said when Biden left office. It's 3.7% year over year today. Nominal wage growth was 4% under Biden. It's 3% today, but real wage growth, which is an important metric. That's after inflation is factored in, was plus 1% under Biden, minus 0.7% under Trump right now. So that means even if the average raises that people have gotten, the wage increases have been not only entirely eaten up by the inflation caused by Donald Trump, but goes beyond that. And now people are actually learning less. Gas when Biden left office was $3.13 on average. Today it's $4.33. I bet it's a lot more where a lot of you live. And I could go down the list, you know, everything. The debt, the deficit, GDP, mortgage rates, defense spend. I could go every single line of data. And it's all significantly worse now. Donald Trump was actually handed a nice smooth landing. It's why there were so many publications at the end of Biden's presidency, like in the economist and Wall Street Journal, you saw headlines like the Biden economy is the envy of the world. Was it perfect? Absolutely not. There were a lot of issues with it, but Biden was in fact handled a bad thing and he had every right to complain about what Donald Trump gave him. And he actually took a little bit and then he stabilized things. He put the United States on a steady course. And then Donald Trump came in and he bulldozed everything. And that's why we're here where we are today. Look after that weird Montana event. He then gave that interview that we were showing you over there. And he said, we're going to have Iran defeated very quickly. He said very, very quickly to play this clip. Today called for federal diesel taxes to be suspended. Is that something you'd support? It is something I may support, but we're going to have it fixed very quickly. We're going to have Iran defeated very quickly. And as soon as that happens, the oil and diesel will be falling like a rock. It's going to become again very fast, but it's something I may do anyway. Very, very quickly. I mean, you've been saying this now since March, four to six weeks very quickly. It's right around the corner. This is what he does. It's what he's always going to do. He doesn't have a plan. His plan is just to lie. Just lie over and over again. He's a Ponzi Schemer. And he covers up one lie with another lie and it just gets worse and worse. When he was on the tarmac heading into Katari Air Force one, he said basically the same thing. It's going to end very soon, but we're in the golden age. Enjoy it, he said. He said enjoy it. I wasn't everybody really happy. Enjoy this. We're going to play this clip. But I will tell you, I think this is a great thing happening. And the people see what we've accomplished with. There's never been the golden age of America. And the Iran war will end very soon. It's going to end very soon as I wanted to end it, Alain. But it's going to end very soon. They'll never have a nuclear weapon. And oil prices will drop like a rock. So I hope you're enjoying it. But what's happening is something that-- I think a real sicko. I hope you're enjoying it. Really quick. For the audio listeners, I'm so sorry to interrupt your flow, but the hat Trump is wearing is ridiculous. Like, it is seven sizes too big when you watch that. Like, that's the president of the United States. He looks ridiculous. Yeah, it looks like one of those carnival hats that are like extra sized and like look like a-- I mean, but he is a clown. And as I said before, we need to be a serious nation. I got a bare minimum. The floor needs to be, are we serious? And that should not be a difficult threshold to meet as a country. Right, I know for like a Trump reality show or his found businesses, being serious is a reach. But for the United States of America, which was once a superpower, like let's be serious. Then we can be competent. Then we can be sophisticated. And then we can talk about a lot of-- what's the best way of doing things and how should public service really be carried out? But like, we're not even serious. We're unserious and we're very dangerous. But also notice, remember like in this weekend, Donald Trump was like, when it comes to-- maybe said early this week, with Russia and Ukraine, there's a ceasefire because I said it. And when I say it, it happened. And the same thing here with this catastrophic war. It's going to end because I say it will end soon. That's not the way the world works. I know he likes to bend reality and create this alternative fake world where the biggest issue facing the people in Montana is getting eaten by animals or the biggest issue facing people in Maine is that they may be on a boat that has batteries and you can get electro-secuted and eaten by sharks. Like I know he creates these fake worlds. In the real world, a ceasefire amongst nations at war is a deeply serious thing. When you go into war against a country like Iran, you shouldn't be surprised after slaughtering children and Minab and Lamar that Iran is going to fight back. You may want to analyze all of the issues in the region as well. And then quickly realize, not only will Iran take over the strait of Hormuz, which they did, but also there can be regional wars that spread, which we see right now between the Houthis Ansarallah and Yemen, the Saudi back PLC government and Saudi Arabia. I mean, we see the war spreading between Russia's and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. I mean, there were multiple ships that were struck off the coast of Romania this morning, two tankers in an economic zone of Romania, which is a NATO member. You also had tankers that were struck yesterday in Bulgaria, also a NATO member. All of these things are very predictable. And when Donald Trump's just out there and saying, "Ah, this is the way it's going to be." And he behaves like a gangster. And he behaves mafioso or whatever the hell he's doing. And other people don't bend to his will. There are consequences and multiple layers of consequences. And Trump's response is to just lie and say, everything's amazing when it's not. I mean, look, here he is in that speech that he gave last night. And he was saying tariffs don't cause inflation. They cause wealth. So you don't have nothing to worry about. Tariffs don't cause inflation. They cause wealth, let's play this. But we don't have inflation and tariffs don't cause inflation. You know what they cause? Wealth, they cause wealth. We're rich and now we're making more money there that we have more jobs than ever before. Remember that. (crowd cheering) You can say, remember that, but that's just false. That's not true. We've got these seals clapping back. It's just really incredible. I'm not sure if you guys saw any of these, and I won't blame, but some of these interviews with the Trump supporters at these rallies. There was one interesting one which I think Ben played on one of his hits of a guy who was actually anti-Trump at the rally and whatever magazine was real America's voice interviewed him. The guy was like basically just saying that his friends dragged him along, but he hates the guy. And like we actually gave a great rebuttal against Trump. But 99.9% of the people at those rallies are like just, they just echo exactly what Donald Trump says. And you could see like, oh, has this guy get elected because there are a lot of these people that still exist in this country who go, Donald Trump will end the war when he wants and we're all going to get rich. And then the price of oil will come plummeting down and it's a sacrifice I must take for Donald Trump. And it's like, in what world do you live in? What are you talking about? We're also running like the biggest trade deficits ever right now with, you know, this whole tariff thing was supposed to supposedly solve that. In fact, right now we're running more trade deficits which Donald Trump has criticized past presidents for like everything he does and he might increase the deficits also because now he's trying to get Canada to give the United States more energy to try to balance out of our issues kind of ironic, right? And it's that energy that is the reason why we even have a trade deficit in the first place with Canada. There would be a surplus if not for us needing Canadian energy, something that Donald Trump and his minions will never tell you. And ironically, what Donald Trump's actions are going to lead to is an even greater trade deficit with Canada. - Yeah, and then his plan is, well, Canada has all this potash, they have all this diesel, they have all this, you know, product that we really need, right? So let's attack our top allies, our very close neighbors. Let's destroy all of our alliances because we got involved in a catastrophic war in Iran where Trump and Netanyahu went alone in this war of choice and then lost. Then Trump does a diesel deal with Russia, even though Russia probably doesn't even have surplusage of diesel to begin with. So it's possible we're actually importing Iranian diesel that's finding its way into Russia. But regardless, then the Trump regime threatens Alinsky not to strike the Russian refineries. The Trump regime shuts down or severely throttles Ukraine's ability to access Starlink or the military version, Starshield, like the way your internet can get throttled over certain speeds, which we all hate when, which shouldn't happen when internet providers do that. The Starlink, you're not speaking from personal experience. Sorry. - The Starlink, I don't know if I'm going to go there. The Starlink or Starshield system is now saying that if Ukrainian drones go over certain miles per hour, kilometers per hour, at first I heard the numbers were as low. was like 45 to 55 or 60 miles per hour. And I was told it was like a hundred miles per hour regardless. Ukrainian drones and interceptors go faster than that. It basically disables the drone. So the drones don't hit their targets in Russia. And the drone interceptors don't work. That's in addition to the Trump regime not utilizing the early warning detection satellite systems that alerted Ukraine and when Russian ballistics would be launched in the first place. So that even though the Trump regime promised interceptors to Zelensky they didn't deliver them and didn't even give an interceptor license. At least Zelensky can alert the people of Ukraine when the ballistic is going to be launched to tell people all right now is the time to go underground. The Trump regime disabled that and blamed it on weather. And so you have all of this happening at once. Trump praises Kim Jong-un and North Korea they were doing ballistic and cruise missile tests from their submarines showing their nuclear capabilities. You know earlier today you have the war spiraling out of control between you know Russia and Ukraine with Russia's invasion. You know Zelensky is out public talking about the Trump and Musk betrayal. Musk is posting that he'll reposting that Zelensky is an ingrate that needs to be removed. And then you have Musk directly posting. Zelensky needs to be removed. I mean you have all of this happening all at once. And it's important that we cover it and just break it down and say here's what the reality is. And we'll come back. We still have a lot to talk about. You know what's happening. I want to hit the follows on Polly's story more about Zakaria. We'll talk about Kimberly Gilfoyle. We could even talk about Alina Haba and her new billionaire husband. They're going after Rick Grinnell in the Kennedy Center and saying that he took donations from Haba's billionaire Turkish husband who has the Venezuelan concrete contracts. And Grinnell saying I didn't take the money and they're all they're all fighting each other. And then Asuzi Wiles going to be fired. There's an issue of she's going to be, you know, fired as Hegsith going to last after the midterms. They're withholding the report on the slaughter of the children in Minab until after the midterms. Hegsith refusing to release the report because it could be damaging. We all know what happened. The Trump regime had sent come and Hegsith launched these Tomahawks and slaughtered little children. That's what happened. They slaughtered them and and and they are war criminals and they want to hide and cover it up. So we got a lot more to talk about. WTF America is our book put in the comments WTF if you've pre-ordered the book pre-order it so it arrives next week. Now is the push. 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I'm always asking questions. I'm always trying to bring out their receipts and make sense of this craziness and give good sport analysis while I can as well. Like I've watched a sport. That's what people tell me to talk about sports. Yeah, I was what I wanted to be there. By the way, I would love our audience may know. I would love nothing more than to talk sports and at Fantasy Football and movies and but alas, here we are. Maybe another podcast. People will let us know in the comments if they want to do a sports show. That'd be pretty cool. The funniest thing about the brother is quick-tended. The funniest thing about the brother's sports knowledge is I've feeling it's going to be interesting. It's like abruptly ends after the 90s. After 1999, I don't think Brett knows maybe any sports stuff. I'm not it's no shade. It might sound like I'm being me and I'm not. And then Ben kind of like surprises me every now and again. Where he'll like say something very like specific like a specific stat from a player or something like what? Where did that come from? So just various levels here of how the brothers are plugged in. So I'm very targeted on the knowledge I can bring in on sports because I only have a finite amount of space. So once I dig into the team, I'll become an expert at it. But if the team has let me down consistently, they will not get space in the head with all of the stuff that needs to be in there. All right. People are like, all right, do just shut up and just give me the freaking news. I'm not coming for this. All right. It's all right. You know, we talk about though in WTF America how might has touched network started out three brothers with no political experience or help build this network with you and you're a major part of this book. All right. Donald, so what's the Trump regime with all this stuff going on? 30 tankers struck in the strident or moves since October 1st, another tanker today, another tanker yesterday, two tankers the day before, four tankers before that, multiple tankers off the coast of Bulgaria and Romania, likely targeted by Russia, Romanian Bulgarian NATO members. They don't mention its Russia because if they did, they may have to invoke article four or five. They're afraid to do that because they know the Trump regime probably won't honor article four or five, despite the fact that you had one of the supreme allied commanders of NATO, general Grinker, which in Warsaw, Poland say, we got you, we got your back. Well, then Russia responded by doing that. I think timing the Warsaw security summit with when they were going to do those strikes. You have North Korea doing its ballistic missile tests. You have Trump sending troops to Panama and sending troops to Colombia, 600, 900 more. We know we have a lot of ground troops right now, all throughout South America. We have troops in mercenaries that are all throughout Africa right now, trying to steal resources from the people there, same thing that we're doing in South America. You have both Trump and Netanyahu looking for a national security event before the respective elections. Netanyahu is trailing in his election. Trump and Magge is trailing in the election here. These are elections a few weeks away in late October. The U.S. election follows. We've been seeing a lot of chatter on the kind of version that they have in Israel of Fox. Here in the United States, too, of conversations between the Trump regime and the Netanyahu regime to resume this catastrophic war very soon. Iran is preparing for it. Iran has done five days of ballistic missile tests. Iran has all of the. They have more ballistics now, in my view, than they did even before the catastrophic war started. They just did a five days of tests of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones where they shot at least 30 ballistic missiles. So if you're running low on ballistic missiles, you don't shoot 30 ballistic missiles in a test. And they were demonstrating some of the new capabilities that these ballistic missiles have. They don't just go to point A to point B. They move in the air. They're faster. The drones have better technology. It's the Garen-4, Garen-5 technology that Russia did to upgrade. the Iranian drones, Russia's making about 36,000 Garen-4 and Garen-5 drones now a year. The U.S. could only do about 2000 interceptors a year. You have the Houthis on Surala, striking the main presidential palace in Yemen's capital of the PLC. So the capital for on Surala of the Houthis is Sana. Aiden is the capital of basically the Saudi back forces of the PLC. Yemen's Houthi forces struck the presidential palace, killed a few people. While I think the leaders were there, they didn't get killed, but they basically hit the main kind of presidential palace. And they've also been targeting other areas. On Surala and the Houthis have been advancing over there. They also struck the Aramco facilities all throughout Saudi Arabia, including the headquarters, where the CEO of Aramco is, like his office was destroyed. Saudi Aramco CEO, I mean, Nassar's office was destroyed after an on Surala attack in Dharan. I mean, the precision of these strikes is next level. And again, it's not like, oh, you're just promoting them. No, I'm just telling you the objective facts. I think we've been right and accurate about all of these. I think the real damage and danger is when Sencom does their posts. And they're like, fact, truth, false. And it's like all lies that the Iran says they control the straightover moves. They do not control the straightover moves. Iran says that one of the tankers hit a mine. False, the tanker was struck by an Iranian missile. OK, yes. You control the straightover moves, but tankers are going to hit by missiles. And you're doing the fact check to say that it wasn't a mine, but that it was a missile. Oh, OK, more oils getting out of the straightover moves than before the war. That's just false. Like, it's not. It's not. Like, as I've always said, I believe it's around-- I want to be honest, it's not no oil. It's about 7 to 10 million barrels we're getting out with the ship-to-ship transfer scheme that was being used, where smaller ships would pull alongside the VLCCs, the very large crude carriers, pump it into the VLCCs. The VLCCs would be outside of the Gulf of Oman. They wouldn't be in the straightover moves. You take the smaller boats. You hug the coast of Oman. You pull it alongside the VLCC, put the oil in there, and you try to get it out. Then the VLCC charged to $1.5 million a day, whereas before the war started, it was $30,000 a day. That risk premium was then priced into the barrel of oil, adding like $33 to each barrel of oil, which even if you were getting out more oil, the cost would still be higher based on that scheme that I just told you, but it wasn't. And that's why we're drawing down the strategic petroleum reserves here. That's why we're drawing down the strategic petroleum reserves in Europe. And remember when Trump entered into the MOU, he said that if he didn't do the MOU when he did it, we would be in a catastrophic zone where the entire world's economy can be destroyed. We pass that zone right now. So right now, we're kind of in this at this. I'm not trying to say this to scare you. We just were past that point. So from here on out, it's blame. Even if the war resolved tomorrow, which it won't, the war is not going to end during Trump's term. Let's just be blunt. But even if it ended tomorrow, and on great terms, we wouldn't get out of the Trump-caused disaster until 2029, if it happened today. So every day that passes, just move that to 2030 to 2031. That's just the reality of what's being graded. So Trump and Maga, they're in blame mode. That's a realistic picture of the world right now. And it's just really feel kind of the panic behind all the Donald Trump's moves now. He's not that he was ever acting from a place of intelligence or strategy. But now more than ever, he's just throwing things out and trying to see what sticks. And as his back is against the wall, he's making more and more erratic decisions. And that, I think, is behind a lot of his actions that he's been taking against Ukraine lately, basically blaming Ukraine for the Russian invasion, calling for a new leader for Zelensky to be ousted, doing whatever the hell he and Elon Musk did with Starlink and Star Shield to slow down the connection that they need in order to protect themselves, stopping the information sharing. Because Donald Trump now he's looking at the situation. He's trying to find shortcuts. And so he's thinking, what's my shortcut with Ukraine? How do I get out of this thing? Well, I could try to actually negotiate deals and try to actually make things work and support Ukraine and do the right thing and show American strength. Or I view Ukraine as the weaker of the two. And I know that they rely on us in order to survive. And so let me just pull all my resources. Let's let them surrender. I'll lose the war. Let's let them all get killed. And then the whirl end, who've done? That's an easy way to solve it. And that's the second arranged way that Donald Trump thinks through all of these things. I think one of the most kind of dystopian aspects of our modern society that we live in today is just how many people kind of support that mindset and how many evil people there are out there that don't care about morals, that have no moral clarity, that look at the world like a zero sum game. And whether it's Trump or Musk or any of these autocrats who they deal with, you see kind of these same patterns. And the stuff that Elon Musk has been saying lately to me has been horrifying and Ben mentioned it earlier. But when you look at Musk and he's writing, and I'll pull up one of his posts right here, it was him responding to one of the ones that Ben was saying before, an anti. - So is the Steve Cortez, I remember it was the Steve Cortez. - This is a different one though, but the one you're talking about is the In Grates one. - In Grates. And this next one is he's responding to a post of somebody saying that Zelensky's fear is ending the war because he doesn't want any elections in the country. And then Musk responds. And so the slaughter continues dot, dot, dot. Time for Zelensky to go. Elon Musk is saying that stuff. And Elon has a lot of power. Elon controls the Starlink, he controls the social media platform that all the world leaders communicate on. Sadly, he controls this platform that information spreads to all these mainstream sources from and he's putting his finger on the button in order to spread this disinformation about Ukraine, not saying time that time for Putin to go, but saying time for Zelensky to go. And when you look at all these people, to me, it's just pure evil that we're witnessing right here, like demonic evil stuff that we are seeing from people who people who kind of traditionally put a lot of, you know, kind of respect on. You know, someone like Elon Musk was a pretty well respected person, you know, like a decade ago before all of this. But now you look at him and you're like, who is this guy? This is, this is awful. This is horrifying stuff. How could you use a platform to try to beat down on a country like this that got invaded? How can you take away their connection to the internet that they are using not even for an offensive posture, but to protect themselves from being attacked and being killed? The it's just, it's really just a horrifying network right now, this kind of cabal of billionaires out there. And it's frankly why we should never allow these people to amass that amount of wealth or power to begin with. And it's why, frankly, the US government and all these other governments should never be putting all their eggs in one basket because right now, Ukraine is wholly reliant on Elon Musk for their survival. Let's face it, there's, there right now, they're basically reliant on Elon and Donald Trump. That's not the people I would want in my corner if I need to survive, and I'm being Ukraine. The United States, our entire defense apparatus, so much of it is wrapped in Elon Musk. It's how he makes all of his money, US contracts. Money going to Elon for his software and services and Starlink and everything. And I think one of the things a future president needs to do is really diversify, you know, I mean, I would cut Elon out completely because he's shown to be a Dan actor, but you really got to diversify and make sure that you have a lot of options, and enlarge arsenal of options and aren't reliant on some billionaire egominiac who could decide who lives and who dies. - Absolutely, and more important than anything and everything of where we currently stand is we need a president at this time that can actually lead. And I have absolutely zero faith, it seems, with thousands and hundreds of thousands and millions and millions of Americans. In the way that Donald Trump continues to lead, he's leading us straight into a dumpster fire, more and more as each passing day goes by, but a dumpster fire that he's so willing to continue to jump in. He's treating all of these wars like they're his failed casino businesses or his failed Trump stakes businesses. Now, the issue really is and is obvious is well, there are really high stakes with what's happening right now. There are people's lives on the line. And Donald Trump can't just simply get bored and have the lawyers do his bidding as he used to do when he would get into all these lawsuits after he would stiff his contractors back in the day in New York City. He can't just get bored and turn an eye. We actually need a stable leader who can navigate us out of these very complex situations that Donald Trump has so have hazardly got us into. It's frustrating to see, you know, play out day in and day out. It's just from like a human standpoint, just how many countless lives need to be lost under just such utter buffoonery. And like sure we could chuckle out like the big hat and like all of that ridiculousness, right? That we're able to kind of gleam some sort of, I don't know, just like humor from here and there. But deep rooted issues, you know, present themselves at this guy. Donald Trump is an absolute maniac and an absolute unhinged human being. If you can even call him that, that has gotten us into these very complex and horrible situations and these endless wars that we need help to get out of. And he is too stubborn to admit that even he needs help to get him out. And the people whom he's surrounded himself with just want to say yes to him. So it's just a failure of epic proportions that were continuing to, you know, play out. It's only going to continue to get worse until the man's out of office. Look, there's a concept in international affairs called strategic ambiguity, right? You don't reveal your hands because strategically creating a sense of ambiguity creates an ability to maneuver multiple sides and multiple times, strategic ambiguity. Donald Trump has idiotic ambiguity or weak ambiguity or just ambiguity, ambiguity because there's no plan, unseurious ambiguity. And so the reality is is that he doesn't even know what he's doing because he doesn't surround himself with experts, he doesn't look into it. His view as we talked about in the first segment is there's a ceasefire because I say there's a ceasefire. The war ends because I say the war ends. This is what I'm going to do and this is what's going to happen. And his entire life, despite all of his bankruptcies and failures, people have gone along with the fraud. They've allowed this to perpetuate rather than say enough is enough and just stop this crook that throw him in prison, right? I mean, throw this, hold this idiot. This is as vulture, this predator, hold this individual accountable. So you look at what's happening in the strait of Hormuz and what's happening with this catastrophic war in Iran. The reality is is that nobody knows because he doesn't know and all it demonstrates is weakness. They'll say things like operation, economic outcast, but then they'll immediately brag about their relationship between the United States and China and Russia, the strongest allies of Iran and Iran will do bigger deals and strengthen its relationship with bricks and with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and at other conferences and then economic outcast flounders very quickly. I mean, the Trump regime will say we have the tanker for tanker policy. You strike one of our tankers. We'll strike one of your tankers. Well, Iran strikes 30 tankers in the strait of Hormuz and the Trump regime hits one fishing boat looking thing, which they claimed was a scouting boat that was providing some of the coordinates to the IRGC about where the tankers were. So then they don't do that. So the message ultimately sent, again, I don't think we should have been involved in this catastrophic war in the first place, but the overall message is that Trump is weak. He doesn't know what he's doing. He's a loser. He's a failure. He does, he's an idiot and what he is good at, and I mean this in a very bad way, what he's most comfortable at is going around from this city to that city and that city lying to people and telling people whatever, telling people the most outrageous lies that are so divorced from reality that people are like, oh, maybe I will get rich. Maybe I will. No one would just say that he would because he's evil because he's the scumbag because he's stealing from you because he hates you because he thinks you're stupid. Like when he goes and speaks in front of, you know, he gave an award to like Elon Musk and the guy from Nvidia and other people is like, finally, I'm speaking in front of a high IQ crowd. I don't get to speak in front of high IQ people. He told the audience in one of his speeches, I can say the stupidest stuff and you will just laugh at whatever I say. He has such contempt for the people who are there. You see it in his speeches, how he looks at the people and yet he'll say, I love you. I love you. I love you. So rich, I promise you, hope is right around the corner and for whatever reason, the human pathology, the human psyche amongst a lot of people are wired to like be okay with that. And fortunately, when you look at the polling, his approval is at record lows, not just modern presidential history, like Herbert Hoover, like even before modern polling, he's like worse than that. If it's even possible. And so overwhelmingly, he's the most despised president by far at this point in the presidency in history, especially heading into the midterms. But you watch this and he's most comfortable, you know, speaking to the crowd, oh, we're going to do this. We're going to do that. And meanwhile, we're just everything is frozen. I mean, you talk about the catastrophic war, you know, just think about what was happening. Zelensky and Ukraine says they just shut off Starlink and Starsheel. We can't use it. And the Trump regime blames Musk, Musk blames Trump. They don't give any statements. Oh, yeah, we're supporting him. We're not supporting him, idiotic ambiguity, dumb ambiguity, fatal ambiguity. You give it the name, you know, and it's not even like Trump doesn't even have the courage to go out and just say what it is. I mean, if you're going to be this trader and betray NATO, then go out and say it. Then go out and do it. Then go out and say it. You shouldn't do it. But if that's your behavior behind the scenes, then man up or person up or one whatever it is, do it. And he does it. And he's just so weak. And he shouldn't do that. Let me be very clear. And so he's in this constant state. And then it's just for him going in front of crowds and lying is his therapy. Like he loves this. This is for him because he gets to go. There's small crowds, but he does the spew lie after lie after lie. When we come back though, I do want to talk about the other liars in his orbit. 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That was sent to Eric Dieters. There's been more reporting that she asked other wealthy Greek business men as she was appointed to be the ambassador of Greece to also pay that MX bill. There's been a number of other scandals involving Kimberly Gilfoyle and whether or not she threatened and caused the Romanian government to dissolve and a more pro-Russian Romanian government come into power and their parliament over there and she was alleged to be running around with this 39-year-old Greek lobbyist and directing contracts to this guy's company and people thought that this 39-year-old guy was her chief of staff because he was always by her side, you know normal normal stuff. I'm not sure if you're still with a Greek ambassador lives. It's like this beautiful mansion looks like this beautiful like Mediterranean style like lush pool and everything and it's like they put her there because they obviously wanted to have Don Jr. to be able to marry the lady who they ended up having the Russian oligarch sponsored wedding and her dad was the Epstein banker. So they had Gilfoyle pay my 100,000 MX bill out Epstein banker daughter in Russian oligarch funded wedding. That's 2.0 that's Trump. Like look at this twisted like session kind of stuff that they do though right? Like can you imagine like shipping the ex-fiance of your son off to another country giving her a job essentially in order to keep her quiet in my opinion that's why she was sent there and then you give her this cushy gig where she lives in this beautiful place. She's loving in Greece to do nothing like literally no responsibilities and then like every month it's a new scandal. Every month it's like her threatening to like overthrow a government or her hitting up Trump donors promising them access allegedly if they give her a payoff or a 100,000 dollar MX credit card debt but you got to do it quietly honey. Please do this for me. Please just wire the money directly to America and express nothing shady. Just please wire the money directly so no one sees it. And like you just fumble that bag so badly and you know I think that this sad and almost like tragic part about it is like this is clearly somebody for some there's no good people in this story right? Like I think we'll play the Dieter's clip this Trump donor guy. In my opinion not a good person as well not a trust not a not a guy I would trust with just about anything but interesting to see him on the other side of these things but when you hear him talk it kind of sounds like blackmailish to me the stuff that he's saying to them in this in this video which you know we'll get to shortly but you know you just see how Kimberly Gillfoil was really it seemed like kind of trying to keep up with the Joneses so to speak and was trying to live this lavish lifestyle as if she were a billionaire because she was basically you know as part of the Trump family and had access to infinite wealth for a long time and was trying to live this lifestyle you know overseas probably clearly spending a ton of money if she had a $100,000 credit card bill and all these other expenses that she need to pay and she didn't have the money clearly and so then she asked to shake down these Trump donors for cash it's like the whole thing like and just kind of con her way through it it's really it's sad it's obviously I obviously don't have any hard you know I don't really feel bad for her but but the whole situation it's just so desperate I mean it's it's just it's kind of pathetic honestly absolutely and like I think you know speculating here but like obviously using the receipts and all the data that we've seen this is someone Kimberly who appears to be a very toxic person and the proximity to the Trump family proved to be quite toxic for her so what were they trying to do go to Greece just get the hell away will make you happy go to Greece and joy it's like it's like a vacation it's like it's like a vacation everyone wins right you're out of our hair you get to do whatever you want and Greece just keep it quiet and then we'll just move on with our stuff because that's the only language the Trump family knows is is let me do you a favor so in turn you do me a favor and like that that's their love language like these quid pro quote type deals you go over there and then I'll go over here and then because it runs like I'm off it runs like I'm off the family and so you know we're talking about this a lot so why don't we play the Eric Deeters clipper remember this is the Trump donor um he says that he has information he says this might bring down the entrant entire Trump administration when he reveals all the dirt on Kimberly Guilfoyle and the Trump family he posted this on his own personal Facebook today watch this this might just bring down the entire Trump administration an administration which I have supported from day one whose policies I still support it also may end the JD Vance Marco Rubio ticket after you hear the phone call that I'm going to play tomorrow I have a major news announcement today this morning the defamation lawsuit against Kimberly Guilfoyle has been filed in Kenton Circuit Court this lawsuit will allow me to conduct discovery take depositions including a Kim Guilfoyle and Donald Trump Jr. Issue subpoenas and fully explore the defamation against me Kim Guilfoyle and her lawyers claimed my allegations were false and they would defend the allegations vigorously they can now do so and Kentucky why have spoken on countless shows and signed statements under oath Kim cowards and avoids the music I possess a solid grasp of Greek mythology Kim's Greek goddess match is a potty the goddess of deceit the defendant's public apology apologized to me admit the text are fake admit I did not blackmail her admit I do not owe Kim money and with the payment of one million dollars president Trump and the defendants can do the right thing or pay the price for not doing so by virtue of my never ending symbol banging this litigation will include subpoenas and document yeah look it's in the context of a litigation demand so to be fair you know he's obviously actually probably more knowledgeable than Katie Zakaria is on this so the way he framed it was here's my lawsuit I'm reading the allegations and so if they were to argue well are you doing blackmail or are you doing that he would say no I'm not I'm reading you what the lawsuit says and what the litigation says and here's the demand that I put in the lawsuit because Trump and the Guilfoyles and the Guilfoyle lawyers put out statements that said that he was lying about that but you are right pretty like there's no good people you know in that story but we could we can go on and on but that guy's mag like this is a mega on mega violence right here but like also look at this one right here so Alina Haba her new husband is this 29 year old Turkish businessman purported billionaire named Toran Mildon who's made a lot of his money from Venezuela in concrete contracts and the Maduro regime and so when Maduro was out this Turkish guy this Turkish businessman Toran Mildon was about to lose his access to Venezuela and then when he married Alina Haba Delsey Rodriguez kept him in there and stopped doing the audit she was going to do on his company and then he became the kind of preferred state concrete vendor in any event Alina Haba alleges that Rick Grinnell who used to lead the Kennedy Center board Rick Grinnell was an ultra mega guy and mega through and through Haba accused Grinnell and Haba's husband accused Grinnell of taking a $5.6 million donation that Toran Mildon gave to the Kennedy Center and keeping it for himself and then Rick Grinnell denied that but you've got Haba and Grinnell at war and her new Turkish billionaire husband they're all at war with each other and then you have that other layer that his a lot of his money came from the Maduro regime and when he married her Delsey Rodriguez allowed him to keep his state contracts for a lot of money over there and so you have that and then you have Katie Zakaria the new press secretary who's been representing the chief practices law I'll just show you a super cut that was made so you can see all that there's like thousands that thousands but hundreds of examples of this so obviously you don't need to see three minutes of this super cut but let me just show you the first example of this super cut here so you can see for yourself in China I had already pre-registered to take the bar and I didn't want to withdraw from that and we knew we would be moving out to China and I was obviously incredibly I don't know distracted and overwhelmed and excited for finally being married to someone who had been long distance from for at least a year, a year and a half when you include the engagement. And we just said, let's take this time and I'll take the bar and see what happens. The results are somewhat inconsequential because I knew I wouldn't need the bar in China and we left. I'm a lawyer. I went to Pepperdine, Pepperdine Law. I practice corporate law. I was a corporate lawyer. I practice corporate law and practice law as a corporate lawyer. Practice corporate law, especially as a lawyer and a former corporate lawyer. I mean, I am a lawyer and I'm a rigorous researcher. Okay, I'm a law professor. I actually am. Okay, I'm actually a lawyer. I'm licensed. You can look up my bar number. I passed the California bar exam. I took it around the same time probably she took it and failed. I don't judge her or anybody for failing the exam. It's a very difficult exam. When we took it, it was three days, six hours each day, 18 hour exam. It's a very hard exam. You have to study. You can't just wing the exam. I think the passage rate in California is like 35 or 40% around there. But you don't go and represent that you practice law. If you don't practice law, practice law means that you have a license and she's been going around saying that. She held herself out as an associate, which also implies that she's a licensed lawyer and she said that she was a general counsel. If you're a general counsel, you would have a license to provide advice to the organization that you work for. And so in my opinion, generally speaking, the unauthorized practice of law is a crime. It's not something that you just go, oh, well, who even cares about that? There's a deeper issue, which is how did nobody vet her? How did nobody even look into this even for a second to realize things that were just so utterly obvious about her? And then she has a 10-year gap in her resume where she says that her job was actually not being an associate and not being the general counsel, which she later, she said. But then she worked at a gym shake company that was also embroiled in a lot of litigation. And she said she worked there. She did not work there. Then she said I was kind of like a multi-level marketing thing and that she was brought in by a friend and that she would do these influencer videos of herself barely wearing clothes and these very small bikinis to sell the shakes. And that's what she said she did for 10 years. There's another issue of what her husband was doing in China. And there's allegations that he would do business with North Korea or his company was doing business with North Korea while they were in China. The China firm that she said she worked out. So we don't hire Americans to be lawyers here. Maybe she held the job to provide like cultural advice, but she's not an associate or a lawyer. There's never a lawyer in China. And then you see it, you're like, what are you doing? Like, why? Why? And if you're doing this, we expect that this is the team. This is the brain trust that's going to figure out the situation and the straight of Hormuz. This is the brain trust that's dealing with Putin and dealing with all these, they don't know what they're doing. They're just, you know, at some point it's just like these people, these Trump regime people, they're just, they're dumb, they're idiotic and all they have is fraud. And then it's all these layers as they're attacked each other. We get the point, but that's what I want to say. Yeah, I mean, you see they're all con artists and eventually that catches up to you when you're putting the position where you have to actually show your knowledge or you actually have to do something that your expertise is supposed to assist you with. And I have to say on a human level, I actually did feel for her up there in the press briefing room, unable to speak and answer questions. No, public speaking is hard. It's a hard gig. It's hard to get it up in front of people and have all the press yelling questions that you went to be able to respond. But that's why you're supposed to have the prerequisite experience to do something like that. That's why you don't just step into the gig without any experience whatsoever. That's why you don't pretend to be a lawyer. That's why you don't pretend to be a spokesperson. I mean, that's the issue and that's the issue for Donald Trump elevating her to these positions, plucking somebody who has no business whatsoever being there. You know, so I like on the human level, I do feel for her because that's a human thing, right, to have sort of like stage fright like that and be unable to, I get that. But that's why you don't put yourself into these positions. That's why you don't pretend to be an expert at x, y or z. Ultimately, if you lie in your resume to get your job, your job's going to make you do the thing that you lied in your resume for. It's like pretending like say I said I speak fluent Chinese or something and I got a job because I speak fluent Chinese and then they put me in front of a Chinese audience to give my Chinese speech. And I would be like, okay, whoops, I lied. And that's the fraud that runs through the entire government. They do that in every position. They put the worst people who are frauds in every position. You can look at who runs health and you say, oh, RFK fraud, fraud, Pete, headset, fraud, fraud, you look at anybody. All of these people are frauds and they're running everything in our government and they're actors. They are pretending to be experts at things that they don't even know a little bit about. So well said, Pete. And I think what you're getting to at the very end of that too is so astute. It's a pattern of malicious choosing of people to represent these institutions and fill these jobs. It's intentional, right? It's not a mistake that she's up there, unable to speak. That's how Donald Trump orchestrated it. Like, I know you weren't doing this, but I was like, we're not giving the benefit of the doubt to Donald Trump. You're like, he knew who he put up there. He didn't pull a con over Donald Trump. They did their research. They knew all of her qualifications or lack thereof. They know exactly the person that they want to put to represent them to America. I'm going to gently push back at you there. Yeah. I think that when Trump found out about the China, he did a double take. He was like, I think that, yes, Jordy, the maliciousness, this is where I disagree with you is in their carelessness. Yes. As Trump says, she was central casting, what was central casting, beautiful, blonde, bathing suit, bikini model, that he could have around her, that that fit a prototype of what he viewed in that position. He picks that. So that was the extent of the vetting of it. They saw her do us do some box hits and do some, you know, where she's by the way, can I read a quote from her that she said today about the fox hits and the other hits. This is something that she said. And by the way, the first public appearance that she did outside of the press briefing room, like for an interview was with Jack Pasopia, who is the, one of the big pizza gate guys back in the day. And she was a believer in the pizza gate QAnon conspiracy. And so interesting first choice for her to go on this individual's podcast. And she said the following, quote, if Trump sees me on TV and he likes me, then I will be recruited for the job. So I tracked every news hit to be in accordance with what he was pushing forward on truth social. So she was literally trying to get booked on shows that she saw Donald Trump posting on truth social and say she would say nice things and flattering things about Donald Trump in hopes that Donald Trump would pluck her and give her this position. And that's exactly what happened. In a lot of ways, she outsmarted Trump, you know, with something like that. And it also shows you how easy I mean, think about if Katie Zachariah who, you know, it pretends to be a lawyer and is really bad at her job. If she's able to fool Donald Trump by just looking at what he posts on truth social and going on those shows and manipulating him, imagine when a trained KGB agent like Vladimir Putin is able to do that. And that's why look when we talk about Katie Zachariah, people may be saying move on. Who cares? She's a loser. She's a low life. We get it right now. On the one hand, there is the story of Katie Zachariah. But then there's the broader issue of all of that entails that this is a mindset by the Trump regime that leads to catastrophic wars that leads to the destruction of our government and systems that actually worked in a rules-based order here and abroad. When we talk about the reflecting pool, yes, it is a story about the reflecting pool and the length to which the Trump regime would go to cover up their own failures, how obsessed and weird he gets about it, how he thinks you can just cover it up by painting it blue, how they frame somebody a two-time Olympic canoeist. Like, doesn't that just tell you everything to have all the people like the way karma works? They try to frame a two-time Olympic canoeist who represents the country, you know, in the games for being a felon in the case gets dismissed. But it's more than just the reflecting pool. It's about this is the Trump regime's plan. Everything is you blame Obama or Biden. You think you can paint it blue and just lie about it. It is a poison. It is a cancer. It is a defect. >> It is RFK Jr. Blamed Dr. Fauci for measles today saying that Dr. Fauci is the reason why people aren't getting vaccinated enough, which I don't even know how that comports with. his anti-vaccination stance, like they will just, they will say anything. And that is kind of something that we have to fortify against, and we have to talk about it. And we have to build the institutions in order to block. I want to get back to that point to close out, but let me make two other quick points, though. Palo's on Polly out. He had some position where he was this envoy over special events. He got into fights with everybody in the Trump regime, and he was the guy who introduced Trump in Melania. He was the guy who said, if you're on the Epstein files, that shows how great you are words to that effect. I mean, you know, this guy seems like a vile, vile thing. You know, we've been doing lots of reporting on him. He's out. He did a statement that he's like, well, that shows that, you know, Donald Trump told me that I should go into business now, and I think that I'll be a great in business. And so I'm sure we'll hear about his next grift. Also, Kristi Nome, there's a story about her that she's no longer the ambassador to the shields of America. People like, what do the shields of America? What do you even talk? What was her role even after being out as the Department of Homeland Security Secretary? She's no longer runs the shields of America. Apparently she has another job that's something around the shields of America. She did great work. Well, she's great work. Great work at the shields, by the way, but this brings me to the last point about fortifying. And I made this observation this weekend, where my baby girl, two years old, cute as can be. She wanted, we were at a restaurant and she wanted, and everybody knows how the twos are. She's a little bit over two. She wanted to watch Ms. Rachel. And the moment we put Ms. Rachel on, she was watching it. We don't have that much TV time, or YouTube time, and we try to regulate it. But her eyes were transfixed. And she looked hit in the ties. And I like Ms. Rachel. I think Ms. Rachel does great stuff. And I saw the smile. And it was almost a hypnotic smile that was captivating my baby girl as she was watching Ms. Rachel. And then I said to my wife and her family, I said, it's wild. Like she gets hit in the tie. And I'm just like, look at the way she looks at that. Like I've never seen the eyes, you know, on that, like that. And then my wife was like, yeah, I mean, it's like when we look at TikTok or when we look at our phone and when we look at that. And I think to myself, you know, it's so right. I mean, the way people have been hooked on the algorithms and hooked on their phones and hooked, it's actually, we look like that. We look like the two-year-old trend. Unfortunately, Ms. Rachel's teaching good things, I believe, and things that help my baby girl, big fan, big fan, big fan, big fan, big fan and Ms. Rachel. But I think about the power of the, you know, of the devices, the power of the algorithms, power of all of this. And when you don't have role models, and I think good people like Ms. Rachel, but you have people injecting the disinformation every day. And then you have vested oligarchical interests that control algorithms that get into your home, that get into your eyes, that get into your brain and they pump this stuff at you non-stop. It is hard to fortify ourselves against that attack. And that's what it is. It's an attack. And so what we try to talk about in WTF America, and I think we capture this, though, is we have to think, yes, elections are important, but we have to think in terms of generational, institutional, fortification, international to stop this and to then replace the firehose of disinfo with the firehose of truth. And that requires generational building, not simply one election cycle or the next election cycle. It requires international connections. It requires building a healthy media environment so that what we're actually replacing this toxicity with in this poisoned information environment is with a healthy information environment that promotes leadership and empathy and love and peace over war and supporting each other and health and prosperity for all. That's what we need to be talking about. We built a network on those principles and we're going to keep on doing it with you. So the book is called WTF America, the way out of this hell and back to democracy. That's the stuff that, when you said you have an inquisitive face, that's what's always on my mind is how can we do better? How can we build this network out more? And you know, we credit you as being kind of the secret ingredient behind all of this because it truly is about empowering the people. And once you empower the people, the people will always at the end of the day deliver and we're very confident in that. So we're grateful for you. Get the ebook, get the hardcover or the audio order it now so it arrives next week. So we all get it together. Put in the comments, confirm that you got it in the comments and tell people about it. That's one way. By the way, if you tag like the Midas Touch accounts with photos of you in the book, we're going to try to show some of the photos on the air next week, which I am super excited about. So please do that as well. All right, everybody. We appreciate you. This will be the last episode before the book is released officially or right around it. Boy, I'm not very good at time. Sorry. The book comes at Tuesday at the 20th. There's an episode Monday, too. So the second, the second one. All right, don't get the copy now. But if you pre-order now, it'll get there in Tuesday. I think everybody appreciates you. That's what I meant to say. Jordy, take care. Shout out to the Midas Monday. So before you go, our book WTF America is available for pre-order now. It's the story of how we got here and how we fight our way back to pre-order, scan the QR code, or click the link in the description. Let's do this. [BLANK_AUDIO]