MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 10/30/26

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He's not really giving political speeches. He goes there. He behaves like an absolute lunatic or occasional protesters who show up. He talks about all this deranged stuff. He makes weird noises. It's kind of like, what's he going to do today? What's the crazy guy going to do today? But as I contrast what Trump is doing to what former president Obama is doing talking about issues and policies, remember what Obama is saying when I think it's important that this is what we talk about here. That Donald Trump and MAGA want to distract with all of this craziness. They're going to talk about the men's asses and cognitive exams and all of this deranged stuff because they don't want to talk about what's actually happening in this country right now. Because Donald Trump has destroyed the United States of America. He's destroyed our alliances. He has destroyed our military. He has destroyed our economy. He has destroyed people's health care. He has destroyed people's ability to afford anything and he lies about every damn thing all along the way. Every sound, syllable and utterance from his mouth is a complete and utter lie. Now we're learning also that Donald Trump was supposed to be heading to Kansas for a speech. But he just canceled that. Lots of people believe that both the Kansas MAGA Republicans over there did not want him there based on the damage that he causes all of the places that he goes. And also Donald Trump just sees he keeps getting heckled about the Epstein files. So I think they're just going to keep him in Mar-a-Lago now for as long as as long as possible. Donald Trump lashed out at a Reuters reporter who just asked, "You know, are you getting tired or everything okay?" And Trump goes to this Reuters reporter. We'll show you it in a little bit. And he's like, "You are disgusting. Look at you. You're out of shape and you're growth. And you're just a disgusting physically. You're disgusting human." I mean, he is falling apart right before our eyes. And at the same time, it's important to remember, though, this is no laughing matter. Look what he's done to our economy. Look at the catastrophic war in Iran and the consequences we've seen already. And now we learn the U.S. Army is starting to practice digging mass battlefield graves right now. The first time they've done this since the Korean War. The U.S. Army soldiers are now training to bury fellow troops in temporary graves in mass for the first time in decades, rehearsing how the U.S. military would respond. If it sustained a high number of casualties while fighting a still blazing war, soldiers with the third core sustainment command and the 20th engineer brigade based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, as well as religious support personnel like military chaplains use diggers and excavators to see how effectively they could build mass graves in a war zone. This as the Trump regime is preparing for a massive escalation of this catastrophic war in Iran. Senator Chris Murphy warned about it in a conference that he was just speaking at. We'll show you what he had to say. And this also comes at the same time that the Trump regime fired a three-star lieutenant general who's kind of the key advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. The guy's name is Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia. He used to be the commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division before taking over this role called the J5 Vice Director, which is a director for strategy plans and policy for the Joint Staff. That's the chairman of the Joint Chiefs top advisor is Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia. And for those who know about the United States Army, I mean the screaming Eagles, the 101st Airborne Division, it's like one of the most storied, incredible divisions. This guy was the commander of that. And the Trump regime fired him late last night, then defamed him. They said they polygraphed him and he's a leaker. And they're going after him as it seems like Hegsid, Trump, and Admiral Cooper in their little circle are out there talking about how they'll do this catastrophic escalation. It'll just be three days of dropping Moab's and kind of doing a Hiroshima, Nagasaki style attack on Iran, but not using nuclear, using Moab's all over. And that that will force Iran to surrender Iran's preparing to respond. And so we're going to cover all of this. And you know, this is all happening right where you have these midterm elections. Folks, we got a lot to cover. Brett and Jordi, good to see you. We certainly have a lot to cover. Good to see you. Ben, good to see you. Jordi, good to see you. Might as mighty. And first, I got to say a huge thank you to everybody for doing this. I mean, you beat Fox News, you beat the corporate media who tried to keep us off the air. And you made us a New York Times bestseller. And we were number two on the best New York Times bestseller list for our book WTF America, the way out of this hell and back to democracy. I am so freaking grateful. And it's even cooler when you look at some of the other names on the list, who we defeated at like Newt Gingrich, who if you were watching Fox over the past couple weeks, they were like flooding the airwaves with this guy to try to get people to buy his book. Then it turns out if you look at the New York Times list, it has an asterisk next to his book, showing that most of his purchases were bulk buys like for giveaways or donors or whatever, not like actual purchases. And so he's right behind us. We were ahead of Brian Kilmeet at Fox. We were ahead of Peter Navarro. Like we beat that whole machine, that multi-billion dollar machine. This community did it. So thank you so much to everybody who bought the book, who was a part of this. Let's keep it going. Let's stay on the list. Order the book now if you haven't yet. And it's so cool seeing people who've gotten it for their friends as gifts and for local libraries and stuff like that. So just thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Honestly, it's like the great. I got the chills yesterday. I like couldn't even believe it. I tears in my eyes. So thank you. Also, huge announcement. So this is really freaking cool, you guys. And this is the first time that we're announcing this to the public right here. So might as touch now has a 24/7 live streaming network. You heard that right. I'm really excited about this too. You're going to get all the might as touch content all day from Ben from us from people like Scott McFarlane from legal AF from Katie Fang from Tennessee Brando from Aaron Parnas everybody. It's going to be on one streaming channel going 24/7 all the shows. And you could watch it if you go to prime video fire TV. It's on a service called local now. If you know local now, you just sign up for free. And you'll find the MTN channel. Let's go to the news channel guide when you go to those apps and or just search the might as touch network. And you'll see it. And you could have it on in the background in your house all day and just have it streaming. And this is so cool. This is part of our vision right now to just continue to expand into more platforms and get this message out there. And we could not do it without you. We are super, super excited. Now I'm going to turn it over to Jordy to see what's the latest with Jordy. But I was excited. I wanted to get that out. Brothers might as mighty. I could spend 10, 15 to I could spend the entire episode just thanking you guys from the bottom of my heart. You know, helping us get we this team you pro democracy community. We are on this list together. When we're number two on that list that it is all of us. And it's because the power of this group, this community, the mightest mighty. I just I'm so grateful. Genuinely from the bottom of my heart for your guys is passion, dedication to the truth, just relentless effort out there. So thank you all so much. Let's run this back week over week because you know those folks at Fox News that they're real pissed that we're ahead of them. They got a lot of tricks up their sleeve. I got to say the New York Times. I didn't realize that they do the funniest thing. I love it. So when you look at Newt, you know, on that list, there's like a little scarlet letter, if you will, is like a dagger under his name. And I guess it signifies that like I like I'm not all I'm saying is I I'm just reading what the New York Times says when they put that little cross under Nukin, which is book is like it says a bulk orders like who's just basically something like that. Anyway, I think that's the funniest thing ever. Thank you guys from the bottom of my heart. I am so excited to get going for this show. Benji, where we started off, we were talking about Donald Trump and just his his his absurdness. I said this in a previous show and I think I'm proven to be right even more as we go forward here. This is like MAGA Elvis, you know, in those last couple of days during Elvis's residency in Vegas, right? The crowds are dwindling. People aren't as locked into as rallies as they used to. He's getting heckled. The the the the the ferocity. It's just not there for Donald anymore. And so I think it's you know, on full display, we have a couple of supercuts that we cut here that we're going to show in a little bit. I mean, it's just it's really striking to see that like that's the President of the United States. So, Benji, where we're starting off today, Big Brother. - I think we talk about the dagger, Jordi, one more time about Newt Gingrich's book and for extra emphasis, emphasis supply that I'm just saying, you know, Newt Gingrich was promoting the hell out of that book on state regime media, Fox. And we barely got an invite to any corporate news and he needed the dagger, apparently. And we still beat him and we beat Brian Kilmeet. So, now isn't it a total painted blue moment? - Again, though, for like right wing ecosystem, right wing media, like he couldn't do it on his own, painted blue, like get on that list anyway necessary. I'm not saying who bought the books for Newt, but it's clearly there. - I'm not sure that's fully what I meant by the painted blue, but I understand we can extrapolate that. He was trying to, well, let's just say this, they're all a bunch of con artists. And I know people say, well, don't call them a con artist 'cause it has the word artist in it. They just lie, everything's a scam. Everything's a freaking grift with these people. But, Jordi, as you mentioned, you know, it's like a struggling artist who's now playing small venues and no one really wants to see him anymore. It's really what this like, he's not, he's playing venues and he's playing high school gyms basically at this point or he's playing airport hangers at this point. And they set it up so when you see it on camera, it's hard to really, you know, see. But why don't we show a super cut that Brett made and Brett's the best at making these super cuts that show the contrast between Donald Trump at a high school gym in Ohio while you had former president Obama and Senator Alsof at a massive arena in Georgia. Let's play 'em. (dramatic music) (audience cheering) - He named a lovely lake named like Lake Antarion. - Jumping on the Jeffrey F.D. web. - The president wasn't even mad about the Saddam Hussein comparison. That part didn't bother him. But he was very upset about the cheesecake factor comments. He took great umbrage. He said, "I didn't understand the work of the audience in the White House." It's all crazy, but this was the really crazy part. They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke, not inflation, but to that joke. - Oh, you two guys stand up, please. Everyone thinks they're my best friends. I don't know. (audience cheering) Black Senator, there's only two tonight. What's going on? These are not serious people. They don't have solutions to actual problems, so they'd rather have the media and you talking about the cheesecake factory. That's the game they've been playing for the last two years. Just keep throwing distractions out there. Attacks, fabrications, phony outrage, and hope that you won't notice that your bills are higher and your life is tougher. I passed three cognitive tests. (intense music) - Passed, you know what it reminds me of? - So good. - How could it get better than Barack Obama? - It was, it was at Mike Myers on Saturday Night Live who did an impression of like a grandma who talked about Barba Streisand. Do you know the SNL skit? Like, do you like Boba Streisand's legs? You know what, Boba Streisand? Do you know of no clue what I'm talking about? - It's very hard. - You know what, you know what, welcome to Coffee Talk. You remember, like this is what Donald Trump is doing. Welcome to Coffee Talk. Have you seen Barba Streisand's like no clue what this reference is? - Yeah, you know, you're going to the millennial, I'm sure a lot of our audience is going to know the reference. - Yeah, a lot of our audience is going to know. I was more, you know, my era was like Tina Fey. - Talk amongst yourselves. (laughing) - That was the line of talks amongst yourselves. - I love it. First off, the heckling too is so good. The Robbie Road steamer out there. I'd like all these people go into the rallies and doing that. He picked the perfect time for it to say that. He waited till Trump is really fricking genius. He waited till Trump stepped aside from the microphone to do one of his stupid bits with his hands and then he struck and Trump was caught flat but it didn't Trump like, look then he, and he wasn't at the mic to do the go home to daddy. Like he wasn't ready for it. And it was really just one of those things. - He was really bad, he studied the game paper. - He knew what to do. - He was excited in the game, that wasn't an accident dude. - And one of the things I noticed though too about the difference between Obama and Trump aside from everything, 'cause that's completely different. Obama works in the humor, right? He's a showman, but he's also focusing in on the issues and he makes all the things that the Trump regime does look so incredibly small. And you know, talking about how they weaponized, how they used this whole of government response in order to respond to his cheesecake factory joke. I thought was completely brilliant and relating that to inflation and the Trump regime not wanting to speak about these actual issues. And in a way, you know, people often talk about, you know, don't take Trump's bait, he's baiting you. Don't take the bait. Trump took Obama's bait here, so bad. He sent out the entire government to talk about the freaking cheesecake factory for days and days and days the week before the midterms when people are looking for answers right now to some serious shit. And so it was honestly just the most brilliant thing. That was a knockout blow. I thought by Obama there, one of the big differences of these rallies is when Obama's there and he's there with Kisholans bottoms and John Assof, Kisholans bottoms and John Assof speak, that they actually give speeches and they're good speeches and they have a lot of F to them. They're talking about the issues. When Trump's up there and he is there theoretically to promote a Senate candidate, they don't speak. He like brings them up, like it's like a cameo. Come up here. Come up here for a second. And then like they like whisper something into the mic and he's like, that's enough, that's enough. And he sends them back down. It's just the most bizarre thing you have ever seen in your life. Do we have the clip right of Darlene Graham from earlier today in South Carolina? It's a perfect example of that where Trump gave her like literally 12 seconds to speak. And it's like, okay, well, where are you gonna say? And she said, I think this is it. Let's play it. We gonna let her do that. I don't know about you, but I will not allow the liberals and socialists to turn South Carolina blue. You know what, they can just kiss my ass. Is he the greatest president ever? Yes. You are saying, you are saying. Are you gonna let her in telefreaky trans? Are you gonna let them transgender your child? Are you gonna let them take away that beef jerky from your mouth? You know, Donald Trump, USA, USA, he loves a big stack of meat in his mouth. You know, my man, Donald USA, you gonna take it. Why did it sound like when she was chanting USA that she was like, she kept trying to think of the next letter before the USA. I've never heard such a lackluster USA chant. You know, this is all president right here. He makes sure that they don't transgender your child and he's gonna protect the Olympics. He's gonna protect the Olympics from you. That's all they have, right? Big ol' pile of meat right down his throat. You know that about big Donald? Donald Trump's like, give me the meat. Give me the meat and you watch this and you're like, what am I watching? Give me the big meat. You're hot, you're hot. Let me see your ass. Kiss, I mean, you watch this thing and it is like the most, I mean, my description there, I could show you the other clips. He said all of those things that I just said. - Yeah, those are actual direct clips. - And he did the hand gesture of taking a big bread. - Meat, meat to the mouth. - Yeah. - Yeah, he did, he did. You know, when you watch those Trump events, they don't feel like political rallies. They're like WWE events. And I think that's kind of the point of them. And it just goes into Donald Trump's whole kind of weapon of mass distraction. His whole, everything he does is designed to try to get you to forget about the real problems and the people who are causing those problems in your life. And those people are many of the wealthiest Americans who are exploiting the system. Donald Trump's friends, the Trump regime. I mean, he wants to distract from all of that. And so he'd rather speak about John Houston's ass all the time than speak about that John Houston is the face of data centers, right? He doesn't want that to come up. And so he's constantly trying to say, look over here, look over there. And even as you see, you know, in the crowds, the way they go after these protesters and everything, it looks and feels more like a WWE event than something that belongs in our political system. - Let's take our first break of the show. We've got a lot more to discuss. And one of the things I want to talk about when we get back is vote hub has changed the Texas US Senate election race from Tilti to Lindy in Texas. Then we saw the polling data out this morning in all of these races in the Senate Democrats surging ahead by large march. 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If there's an exit survey, let them know we sent you. That's super cut, Brett. I just, when Brett goes silent in our, like, our brother's text chain, some behind the scenes, I just know, like, he's cooking on something good. And so Brett went silent for a little bit. I was like, where is he? 'Cause we're always talking to each other. And then boom, well, that was pretty loud. That's super cut launch. And I'm like, this is buyer. And then post it up everywhere. I think it has a couple million views across the different social platforms. Excellent work there, B. - Let me show you what went down, Earl. You usually go, "Benji, let me throw it to you." - Yeah, no, I mixed it up. - Keep it everyone on their toes tonight. - Let's take a look at what was happening in South Carolina before that speech went down. Fox was interviewing somebody who was there. So why are you here this morning, Fox-Ass? Then let me show you. That's a perfect response, it sums up everything here. Let's play it. - Tom, why are you here this morning? - Well, in the late '70s, I was a little too young to get involved and go to South America for the Jonestown masker. But this is as close as I'll ever get. So that's why I'm here. - Wait, the Jonestown masker? - That's right. See, it's nothing like seeing a cult right up front, man. All right. So maybe this is not a Trump supporter right now. - It's okay. We'll find over it, appreciate that. - Speaking of the cult, Brett, do we have that Katie Zacarya clip where she was on Pears Morgan? It was actually a pretty good interview that Pears Morgan gave where Zacarya was responding. And Pears Morgan was like, are you like a robot? Like, what are you even saying to me, right? I haven't seen this. Have you, have you, do we have the clip? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was just watching this, let's play. - Pears, I will keep private conversations between the president, myself, confidential. I will say that what I'm doing is what I've always wanted to do when private conversation, you asked what I said. You asked what I said, Pears, that is not what you, that's not what he said. - He's on the cell phone. You asked what I said. - Oh, that would be Katie, Katie, Katie. He's told the entire world what he said to you. - Pears, I'm not going to miss words or split hairs over this. I will not disclose private conversations that I've had with the president. I will keep fighting for him every single day, no matter how hard the media wants to spin, no matter how hard, anchors, pundits, reporters, journals, want to spin what he's doing and focus it on me. I will continue fighting for him. I am ruthlessly loyal. I always have been and I will continue to be pears. This interview should not be about me. - I understand, I understand. - This should be about the fact that we are less than five days away from the midterms. - Katie, Katie, Katie, Katie, Katie, Katie. The whole point of the interview was it was about you. You know that, and I know that, so come on. Let's cut the crap here. And have a serious genuine conversation. You're sounding like a robot. There's Donald Trump got some program, but plugged into you to make you come out of all this stuff. - It's a question I have for like all of them, by the way. What the heck is this? - WTF. - WTF, is this Katie's act around? What is the tour that she's on right now? You were in the position for like four hours. Why are you even on TV? Why are you in like the news? Why are you in page six? Why are you on TMZ? Like that doesn't happen by accident, like most of the time. I keep seeing these articles like Katie's a courier. Taking a stroll, getting the last laugh on Sunset Boulevard. - She got more press from corporate news than we did on WTF in Maryland. - That is so true. Number two best seller, not a peep. Not one or no one. - No one wanted to interview us on any of their corporate news. Break out like two MSN. - I got two hits on MSN now and shout out to them for that for me. - Literally nobody wanted to talk. And look, it's just funny because it's the number two book in the country. It's the number one podcast in the country. It's the number one video on the country. And so you would just think, and by the way, I was telling the brothers and I was telling the PR team at the book. I said, look, I'll be honest. I said, I really don't want to go on corporate news. I said, but I'll be a team player. So you get me on the view. You get me on, you know, what a today show. You get me on any of them. We talked about shows where I thought these people liked us from the past. I don't know, I'm okay, but go ask that person. Go ahead, I'll be a team player. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Brett got Nicole Wallace, and you got Ari. Ari Melvary. And shout it to them. I like it. They got great. They're wonderful. They're wonderful. You know what I'm saying? I'm trying to say that. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm happy about that. Yeah. But I'm saying, you know, she's on a, she's getting all this press about, I don't know, being a loop for four days to do that. They're shameless. They are shameless in their incompetence. Because you're right. She's getting all of this press for being a loser. You know what? I did the worst. I probably ever do in a job. They, she had eight minutes up there. And it was that thing of a train wreck where she was forced like in the next day. And now she's Katie Zachari, it gets the last left. Strolling does. What are we talking about? It's so crazy. Loser. You know, I, you know, I like this show and it's brothers because we get to be a little looser and we get to speak about insiders stuff. But at a certain point, like when we were approaching publishing day of the book, I was like, I thought they were going to put us on TV show. I was like, I thought they were going to put us on shows. I'd be doing a book tour. Do I go out? Do I go on TV? Why does this look very different? And then I kept asking them. And I was like, I said, did anyone book us? Like I knew it. My wife was deeply concerned. She's like, so are you going to like go on any like shows? I'm like, I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. And then like, you know, the answers we got were kind of like, you know, a little bit Hollywood speak. And then Ben text us and he goes, I think I know what's happening here. Yeah. They also know. They're trying to be nice about it when they tell us that they all said no. None of them want us on. And so we said that so when we had our meeting with the publisher, we were like just be honest with us, like everyone said no, right? And they were like (laughs) - Okay, great team. - Great, obviously, great understanding. - Yeah, the books. - It's not them, it's these books and that were amazing. - They're right, right. And they were trying to protect our feelings and they were just like, oh, we know, we know. - I gotta think Skid, but you know that. - But the thing is when they were trying to protect our feelings, like, as brothers, we don't protect each other's feelings. Like, you couldn't have more direct blunt conversations that sometimes is too blunt and too direct. You know, when it comes to all of that, so true. Ben's cutting out a little bit right now. I'm sure he'll be back in. - Corporate media trying to ice him out from this time. - Ice him out. - First time, first time, this is the first time we're on TV, live streaming our 24/7 channel and Ben's getting iced out. - And they cut Ben out, and now he's coming out. - They cut me out of the show. - Right, and I was going in for the K-Series going in. - Back in here, you're like, let's get back into it. - Back to the show, back to the show. - I think people, can I say this though? One of my favorite, I think genres of Heckler right now is like, the person who presents as MAGA and isn't MAGA, like that guy, I understand why they went to that guy, Fox went to that guy. They thought for sure, sure, they thought for it. Like, no, there's no, ain't no chance. Because in their mind, they've also cooked up these stereotypes about Democrats, right? I mean, think about what Fox, and there's nothing wrong with any of these stereotypes at all. I want to be clear before, but they have the colored hair and the cats and then this, they just paint this picture as like, there's this one thing that Democrats are when it's a whole lot of people and people of all different kinds, a very diverse group of people who oppose Trump. Most people oppose Trump. And so they go to these people who they think are gonna be Trump supporters. That's why Robbie Rhodes, Deamer, you know, was able to get into because he, you know, presents himself like he'd be whatever. And it just keeps happening. And, you know, while I'm on this subject, I'll just play also the Vekrama Swami, walked into the same exact trap from a guy also that presented as a MAGA guy. And he probably thought, this is my safe space. I'm gonna get a good moment and then this happens. (audience laughing) - Safe, safe path of all. - Oh, you were talking about him. - Oh my God. - I'm so scared of you. - I really want to talk to you. - I'm so scared of you, I'm so many. - Can you guys send me the phone? - I have a white guy. - Sam Hill, Chance and Winner. - Oh, name me, actor. - That clip, by the way, is so interesting to watch because when he's, you know, when the guy does this thing there, the Vekr really shoves his shoulder. I don't know if you guys see, he really shoved him away. And then he tries to overcompensate it with like this really hokey big smile and grin as he steps away to talk about to the next family. - Yeah, but he was pissed. He was like, no, not that, don't say that. Don't say that. Why would he say that? - It was a real push. - For those who couldn't hear. It was like a fault. It was obviously, you could probably, like, press start. There was, in case you didn't hear what he said. Instead of say cheese, he said say pedophiles. And then Vek was like, why would you say that? And why would you say that? And the guy's like, well, you sure do hang around with a lot of them. And then all the Vek wanted to do is go on. And then he basically said that Vek doesn't have a chance in hell of winning. - Well, look, it's really important that we don't lose sight. And this is why it's good that this is happening right now that people are bringing attention to the Epstein files. Like here on the Midas Touch Network, Midas Touch House, Katie Fang has been pursuing the one of the biggest, if not the biggest lawsuits under the Epstein Transparency Act, which by the way, she won a major victory the other day, where the DC Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trumps requests that the entire case be stayed because there's irreparable harm if they have to review foreign language documents that are in the Epstein files, which they refuse to produce. But a lot of this that we're seeing right now, it's Epstein files related, right? Like, so if you go back to the origin of the Midas Touch Network and you start watching my early videos, I was talking about Palo's Opoli. I was talking about the KitKat Club. I was talking about all of these sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump. I was talking about the Epstein connection. I was talking about the Mar-a-Lago Spa. I was talking about Virginia Jufre. I was talking about all of this stuff, 2022, 2023. And we were all here for that journey together. And I think we were all saying, why isn't like anybody covering this? Like what, I said, this is it. This is everything right here. And frankly, why weren't the Democrats talking about this in 2024 and have like, why were you ignoring this glaring thing? And why do you still ignore that this guy is a sexual predator? Like why are you people afraid to say, Donald Trump is a sexual predator? He's been found civilly liable for sexual assault. He's on audio bragging about sexually assaulting women. He says he's rich and he can do it because he's rich. He's on audio bragging about using beauty pageants where there are young girls that is beauty pageants where he goes into the locker rooms and looks at him naked. He says because when you own it, you get to inspect him. He says, he's sick. Is the sick, sick, sick person? Why do we ignore the fact that this guy is a felon? Like he's actually a criminal. Like he's a real criminal felon. Like he was adjudicated as such by a jury and a business records case. He's a bankruptor. He's a loser. And he's dragging us all into this, you know? And so yeah, the guy who covered up the Epstein files then launched a catastrophic war as all the Epstein file documents were being unearthed. Congress basically worked. What was it, Jordy and Brett? 14 days, basically after the Epstein files started to, you know, come out. They worked like 14 days. They shut down Congress. They wouldn't show up to work then. They didn't show up to work. They wouldn't show up. They wouldn't show up to cover up of a child sex trafficking ring. Like it's, it couldn't be more clear and obvious. And then they went into this war to cover up the Epstein files and everybody understands that. And you know who, and this is why, like, the Epstein files is, I'm not even sure what I'm trying to do with my, with my glasses here, but I'm just gonna keep on going with this. You know, I'm, I think I'm trying to make like a bow and arrow and I'm just gonna keep on doing this, even though I'm making this and it's not even gonna make any sense and I'm gonna keep describing it without actually saying what I'm saying. It's, it's so on target about everything because the Epstein class, the oligarchs, the people who get us involved in the never ending wars, all of, they're the same people. All of this is inextricably intertwined and connected, which is why the unearthing of the Epstein files and the outing of all of these people at the very top, they've all lost it. They are losing it. And that's one of the reasons you actually see a lot of the post-World War II architecture collapsing, but even embedded in the Epstein files. You see Epstein as an agent of the Epstein class. All of these world leaders who wanted to tear down the post-World War II systems and structures so that in the anarchy, in the chaos, they could loot and steal and make a lot of money. I mean, you had Epstein talking with leaders of various countries about shorting the rubble right when there was going to be the annexation and lawfully of Crimea. See, he's talking about that. They're talking about how they can manipulate the Bitcoin and crypto markets together. They're talking about the precursors to the data centers. They're talking about all of these-- you know, putting in power all of these right-wing puppet regimes that will give all of their resources to the Epstein class. People like the Bolsonaro's. People like the MBS's. All of this is in the files. In addition to, of course, the child sex trafficking, it's all wound up in the same thing. And once we make those connections, it becomes very clear what the hell is happening. And it's like we're about to go into this world war right now. When we basically are, there's regional wars everywhere. As the Epstein class is freaking out, as you have Donald Trump, one of the biggest Epstein classers, in my view, that there are. And from all of the reporting, he's got Admiral Brad Cooper and Hegsith. They've been planning and plotting that right after the midterm elections, they're going to do this catastrophic escalation. They say, don't worry, it's going to be very short. And Iran is going to surrender right away. They're going to surrender right away. And then it'll all be over. Then they'll want to do a deal. They're not going to want to do a deal. Sabotage on us again. I think what's been saying is they're trying the same failed strategies over and over and over again. They think that they could bomb Iran into submission. And that Iran will eventually relent. That if the issue with the war, the issue with Operation Effector and they never say it was an issue because they say it's perfect. Everything was perfect. They obliterated around the nuclear program. Yet we need to stop their nuclear program. OK, a lot of double talk. But in, according to the Trump regime, and all their kind of plans and all the news that's coming out, if they just bomb Iran, just a little bit more, they're going to get them to surrender. But that's just not how this works. And if you study geopolitics in the region, heck, if you just look at the previous wars that America has been involved in in the region, look at Iraq. Look at Afghanistan. Go further back to different areas to Vietnam. You can't bomb your way into success in a lot of these situations. These are big countries too. Like Iran is a big country with what, 90 million people. It's vast. It's been around for a very long time. And in order to actually achieve those objectives-- and by the way, I oppose this war 100% and we should not be there. But if Donald Trump sincerely wanted to achieve those objectives, You would have to have a mask. mobilization of ground troops, and it would lead to absolutely devastating results. It would lead to so many of our troops being put in harm's way, so many of our troops being killed, so many innocent people in Iran being killed. And that is what Donald Trump is pushing. That's what BB Nanyahu is pushing. That's what they are trying to say. If only we just bomb them a little more, then we will get success in this war, whatever that means to them. But that's just not how it works. The reality is you need to have diplomacy, especially at this stage, especially when U.S. interceptors are dangerously low when we basically run out of weapons and we're in a very, very bad situation. I mean, you could say, but aren't they bleeding Iran dry right now, right? Iran's economy has taken a hit, inflation is high in Iran, yes, I'll concede that inflation is high in Iran and that their economy has certainly taken a hit. But they're adapting and they're also resilient because they know that this is existential for them. And they're not going to let a bad economy collapse their entire way of life and way of being. They're going to continue to fight this, and you know, no matter what. And they know that they hold a key to the Western economy with the straight-of-war moves. And with other choke points where oil flows and where diesel flows and where there are major implications on global markets, and they will continue to push those buttons every day while Trump continues to say they're begging me for a deal. They want a deal. I really don't understand what they're, I mean, there's no strategy here. But there was an MOU, it was meticulously negotiated. It was lopsided, honestly, it wasn't a great deal for the United States, but it made sense considering where we are, the position that Donald Trump has put us in. And then Donald Trump broke the MOU, and now here we are, and there's no end in sight. And Iran really has not budged on their terms. Like, if you look at the terms from the MOU, that the United States agreed to. That's what I keep saying, Iran, asking for right now, and it's Trump, unfortunately, it's our own government that keeps moving the goalposts every day. We do not have leadership at the highest level of government that is able to actually effectively lead us out of the situation that Donald Trump has gotten us into because Donald Trump has surrounded himself by a bunch of yes people that just simply want to do anything, Trump's jump. They say, "How high? How can they pee a pee's dear leader?" It's absolutely pathetic where we are as a country right now, and it's going to continue to get worse. 21 troops that we know of are dead because of this senseless war that we're in right now because Donald Trump is trying to cover up from the Epstein files. That's the reason why we're in this war. Make no excuse of it. That's the reason. It is absolutely dangerous and despicable that there is not someone at the helm to lead us out of this, to have the courage to tell Donald Trump enough is enough. You've lost this, we have to get out because we have to get our economy back here in the States going again and we have to get our troops home safely. Troops be damned, Donald Trump hates them. That's what I see. That's what I see when I'm witnessing this play in every single day. He hates our troops. I come to no other conclusion. There isn't another conclusion because Donald Trump only cares about one thing and that's himself. So long as this continues to, I don't know, allow Donald Trump to, again, I guess, hide from the Epstein files, he's going to continue to do this. There is no way out of this right now under this current Trump regime. It is despicable. Anyone who's America, this isn't just like a Democrat talking point. I don't even view myself as political. I view myself as someone who loves this country and who hates seeing our troops be killed the cost of Donald Trump. So I don't care what political party you're from. You should say that's not right. That there is no strategy behind this and what Donald Trump is doing right now is reckless and deplorable. Benjiz on mute. He's just being totally savagized. He's holding up the book. Do you think the arrow is your first streamer? Is it your first time on live? Yeah, or what? First time on live? No, I mean we're streaming. First time on a podcast. It's a live channel. You know, I'm just trying to. You know, when you come back on mute doing this thing. I don't know. I don't know. Is it the customer on? I can redeem myself. Is it the customer streaming 24/7 now? I don't know. I don't know. Remind the good people where we're streaming again. Yeah. Honestly, I'm in all seriousness. This is really cool. We'll get to that in a second. But we might as touch for those just tuning in. We have our own 24/7 news channel that you could get on your TV. And this is a really exciting development. You could literally have might as touch playing in the. Here's what I want to see. Okay. Ready? Might as touch on the TV in the live and you're playing on loop, right? Play on old day. On your computer, on your iPad. Ben YouTube videos. In your earbuds. Might as touch podcast. In your hand. WTF America. The book. And they play it in like doctors offices and then people are going to be like, what does he do? What is this thing? What do we want? You know, they do like Fox news on military basis. We need to get people to put the might as touch network on a military base. And the whole second I'm still going through and here's here's where you see it. If you have prime TV, fire TV, we just tell you, Jory shut up. Shush. Shush. If you have prime TV, fire TV, quiet, big, prime TV, fire TV and local now, that's where we're all joking, just so the audience doesn't say don't be mean to Jory. Prime video, fire TV and local now go there, go to the news categories or search the might as touch network. And you could add the show as your favorites when you open the app, you will see the might as touch network and we're looking to go to a bunch of different platforms, Roku, you know, a bunch of them. WTF America, the book number two, New York Times, best seller, author it. Thank you for all the feedback. Also, give a review on the various platforms, leave a five star review, leave your nice thoughts. We're so incredibly grateful. 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I said, the most important day is going to be actually like what we start to do on November 9th, 10th, and 11th, because that's the time when people think like, okay, I don't need to do anything anymore. The election's over. I'm like, no, that's really when independent news needs to be as strong as possible. Towards the end of the election, and Obama comes in, the candidates are hopefully good candidates and run good campaigns. At some point, they're going to do their thing, right? And we're not political operatives. If I see a good speech, we're going to platform a good speech of an Obama or an Asaf or Dr. Abdul Al-Sahed or you named the person on the Midas Touch Network. But our work is really like in a marathon. We're miles three to 24, right? If you think about a marathon, that's our bread and butter. Being with the people every day, and then you pass the baton or, you know, or you just kind of, then you have the sprinters, then you just cover it. It just news. Here's what this person's saying. Here's what that person's saying. Here's what it is. Here's what's going on. Inform the people. Then we have the vote and we cover the election. By the way, make sure everybody watches our election coverage on Tuesday. It's going to be a very big day. We're going to have Scott McFarlane and Katie Fang are co-hosting it. Luke Radall is our White House correspondent. We'll be on that team as well. I'm going to have a role kind of introducing everything. And I'm going to toss it to Katie and Scott. They have a studio in Washington, DC. We're going to have guests throughout the day. So I want to remind everybody about that because it's a really big deal. That's a thing. It's in studio. Katie and Scott are going to be together. Live from Washington, DC and Ben will be plugging in remote. And we're going to have a lot of guests coming in and out. Senators, governors, a lot of people who you want to hear from on election night. And we're getting started at 4.30 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday right here on YouTube. And it's going to be on our 24/7 streaming channel so you can watch it at both places. And right after this ends if you're watching on YouTube, it's actually going to send you over to that stream where you could set your reminder tonight so that YouTube will notify you the moment that we're going live right before we go live. All right, let's talk about what went down on the tarmac a little bit earlier. And it's excited about it. Dogs are excited. They're bad. But you're chaos. You can't do it. He pushed pop it. You're an 80. It is an absolute is an absolute tornado right now. Why don't I set this one up then because your dogs are going a little nutty. Let's go to the tarmac. And Trump was in South Carolina. And Donald Trump lashed out at this reporter. I mean, just a really grotesque thing to see him do. And we've seen this kind of behavior, right? And I think it does honestly connect to his mental state a little bit, his mental decline deterioration. These outbursts and outbursts that like questions that aren't even like hard questions. And so he was asked why you no longer go into Kansas. Are you kind of sick of traveling at this point? You've been going to a lot of places. Why aren't you going? I think Donald Trump at this point has canceled every remaining rally he was set to go to. If you remember in the last episode, we were telling you that Trump was set to go to all these red states, which is very odd in the last stretch of the election. And he's canceled all of them at this point. I believe except Daytona. And so the reporter was like, why did you cancel Kansas? Like that's, you know, that's a weird one. Look and listen to how Donald Trump racks to this Reuters reporter. I'm not going to Kansas. That's nothing to do with you being sick of travel. Oh, you sick. Who you with? I'm a Reuters sir. You are sick guy. Reuters is terrible. Well, look at this guy. He's a way out of shape. Look at how badly he comes to me. Sir, you're not going to go to Kansas. I've got good Kansas because he's doing very well. We're going to do a tell-around. Tomorrow, I'm doing Florida. He said, what's the reason after doing what 28? He says, what's the reason for this, sir, that you're not going to Kansas? You know the reason is, I don't feel I have to go to Kansas. I'm going to Florida tomorrow. And I'll do if something else comes up. But he said, you're not going to Kansas, sir. Are you feeling well? You've been following me for two weeks. I feel perfect. You are disgusting. Put yourself in shape. You look like hell. I mean, first, I've Donald Trump looks disgusting. First, I've Trump looks like hell. Second, of the way Trump also narrated the question. The guy said, why aren't you going to Kansas, sir? I think it was like that was the question. Like, you know, is it because you're like, it wasn't like a crazy question. The question wasn't like, you got to Kansas. The question wasn't like, you know, you're barely completing your sentences, Donald, and you look horrific and your hands and your flesh is rotting. It was like, it was, it was, it was a Reuters question that was right down the middle. And then Trump was like, did you hear what he said? And he like dictated the 10 second question for like a minute and a half. And then he made it to be like, and he was like, so, so, so, so, so, so. So, I can't understate here. Just it's, Donald Trump looks disgusting in that clip. I mean, talk about, he's like, Donald Trump is sweating. He is profusely sweating. And I keep going back to this. His Tanner is like, he's doing the form of blackface. Like, it's, it's disgusting and despicable. And I think more people just need to be like, hey, do we all see this right now? And the reason why, by the way, Ben, Donald Trump is, is regurgitating the question. It's because it's the only way he understands how to respond to questions at this point. He has to remind himself in the moment. Like, what, what was just asked? Oh, oh, that can's okay. I gotta tell him. Let me berate the guy and tell him how fat he is. And he's like, how in the world is that the guy asked why you're not attending a rally? And you tell him he's sloppy and fat. And then it's the weirdest, it's the weirdest instinct. Just answer the freaking question, dude. Just be like, or don't answer. Like, I can answer it. You could say, I'm not answering that question. Yeah. That's the next question. I mean, you tell the reporter at your point, you, you are fat. And you are gross. I mean, again, you're right, regular. Donus. And then another reporter asked Trump, you know, so now you're arguing as part of your desire to take over the East Potomac golf course. That's like what Trump posts over and over and over again. He destroyed the mature maples and oaks. His biggest concern, a few days after the midterms is renovating this golf. And like, lying to the judge. And so he sends in these lawyers from the DOJ. And like, there's no plan judge. And then he'll like post, there's a plan and we're destroying it. And then like, destroy the trees. And like, even the federal judge like this case started off about golf. Okay. And about whether the procedures are being filed followed if they want to renovate it. And now it's just become like everybody's lying here about this. Like, it's a deranged situation. I've never seen anything like it in the course. And the DOJ and the court's history and the DOJ is arguing, you can't trust Trump statements. They're not real. His social media posts don't matter. Don't believe the president when he says that he's destroying the golf course. So the federal judge like, this is the first time in my history as a judge that I'm being told by the DOJ that the words of the president don't matter and to ignore it. And then she'll be like, well, he just posted that. So is he going to do it? Then the DOJ is like, well, actually he may be doing it. And the judge's like, but you just came in here and said he's not doing it. Like, what are you even doing? The judge originally in this case was like, look, you can build the golf course. Just follow the rules. Congress did a set of rules and guidelines that if you want to do this renovation, you just have to check these boxes. And then Donald Trump's like, nope, I'm tearing up all the trees. I'm not going to do environmental protection. I'm not going to, I'm just going to rip it up. Try to stop me is what he's basically doing. So anyway, he posts all throughout the night about the golf course, the golf course, the golf course. And he says it's a national security threat. He said that people who work at the White House are being hit by, kid, you know, he posted this. People at the White House keep getting hit by golf balls whenever they show up there. And they're being severely and seriously injured by the driving range and getting hit by all of these golf balls. It's actually a post that Trump made. So a reporter asked him, who are, who's getting hit by golf balls? Like, that's your justification as national security to shut down the golf course that people are getting hit with golf balls. Who are these people? And listen to what he says here. Play this clip. Listen, there is an affordability crisis in this country. And Donald Trump's number one concern is that there are apparently many people getting hit with golf balls at this golf course are like, are we all collectively watching this insanity together? Benji, right? It's like a funny, it's a funny visual though to picture a bunch of Trump officials walking on the golf course and just getting hit in the head with golf balls, like happy Gilmore. I just need to understand like how the guy keeps getting hit in the house. I golf was never my sport. That's not what I do. I've been out on a golf course a couple of times. It's not like every second someone's getting hit with a golf ball. This makes it sound like it's the most dangerous sport on earth. Well, then he was asked earlier in the day about Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, but the person who asked the question just said, "Lude, you know, what about General Sylvia? What happened to General Sylvia?" So Trump hold, heard the name Sylvia and thought that they were talking about a woman. Now, Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, I talked about him at the outset of the show. He's a three-star lieutenant general. He held the position of J5. That means joint staff and the J5 position is a director for strategy plans and policy. So his role is basically the number two to the chairman of the joint chiefs and Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia is responsible for basically all of the kind of planning on logistically how you would map out a future war. And he replaced somebody at this position called J5 who was forced out by Hegsith and basically made to resign and Hegsith basically concocted a pretext to get rid of the previous guy at this position. Now, Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, you look at his background right there and we put it up. He was a graduate of West Point in 1994. He led the 101st Airborne Second Brigade Combat Team during Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq. So he was the main commander on the ground in Iraq for the 101st Screaming Eagles. Then he was the commander of the 101st Airborne Division, the Screaming Eagles, the commanding general of the 101st. Like for those who know about Army history, the Screaming Eagles, the 101st, has one of the most storied, incredible histories and he was that guy who ran the 101st. You look at this resume and it's like the most impressive resume out there. By the way, significantly more impressive than the chairman of the Joint Chiefs who had to get a waiver to get his position. Whereas the previous guy, CQ Brown, was a four-star general who was fired by Hegsith because he was black. And then they brought in Dan Raisin came because they liked the name Raisin. Raisin came and then Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia was fired kind of out of nowhere. It seemed like last night and then at around midnight, the Trump regime leaked to OAN that they were going to try to criminally prosecute Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia. They said he was leaking information about the war in Iran and Ukraine and that they hooked him up to a polygraph and he failed their polygraph. And so they say that he's basically the worst of the worst and Hegsith said he's getting rid of him, like the famed the guy also. And one of the biggest tells is the actual chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the joint staff, they issued a statement praising Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia. They said very nice things about him after they learned that he was fired. And then the defense department defamed him. And so that's the guy, by the way, one of the most critical positions. If you're going to do escalation of a war, you need that guy to advise the chairman of the Joint Chiefs who can then advise Donald Trump about what's going on. So if you read between the lines of probably what is happening as we're learning that this catastrophic escalation is about to take place. And if you're reading some of the articles that are warning that the United States does not have munitions and we're out of weapons, my gut is that somebody like Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, who is a actual patriot, is trying to get out the message or he's being accused of trying to get out the message that the US is out of munitions and escalation would be catastrophic. So that they purge themselves of a guy who's giving honest, candid advice about the risks of going into war right before they're about to escalate. That's what I believe is happening that he was objecting behind just read between the lines of what's happening, the statement that came out from the Joint Staff and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs versus what Hegsith is saying about being a leaker. And we have all of these stories coming out now about all these top officials who have been warning about any escalation would be catastrophic. Now Hegsith and Cooper and Trump, they want to escalate this thing and they're also being led by Netanyahu, Netanyahu has been calling for regime change, anything short of regime change. You know Netanyahu is saying, you know, nothing short of regime change can happen. And when we talked about what regime change means, I think this whole catastrophic war should never have happened in the first place. But regime change would mean we'd have to commit like hundreds of thousands of people on the ground. We'd probably have 30,000 deaths every month, which by the way is why they're now doing mass grave practices because that's what would happen. You would need mass graves for what would happen if you if you try to take over any of these islands by Iran or if you try to take over the coast, Iran's ready. They've got their ballistics, they've got their cruise missiles, they've got their drones ready to go. And they're not destroyed. They've hit three tankers, they knocked out from the sky, another MQ one. Do we have Brett, you know, Trump's like, they don't have radar, they don't have any radar. They keep striking these drones, these planes, these MQ ones, the MQ 9s, show the radar that Iran just released when they struck an MQ one today. I think we've got it, let's play, you know, similar to like a sent-com video that, you know, they would put on that channel is what it looks like for the audio listeners. We didn't add that music to be clear. Yeah, yeah. I know the music. I'm ready to start. Okay. Let me show you. With that as background, what did Donald Trump say about Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia when he was asked about it? That Lieutenant General Sylvia leaps classified information of the Pentagon. She's got problems. She's going to have big problems. She did. Well, very much looking for leakers and she's going to have big problems, long term problems. There's no clue who he's talking about. There's no clue what he's talking about. I understand. And I think that's actually indicative of a lot of the ways that Trump handles questions and a lot of his answers to things is he doesn't care if he's actually knowledgeable about the subject or not. He just says things. He just says whatever comes to mind, he says, and you know, we've seen a pattern here with Pete Hegseth and the way that he's been purging generals from the military. And this falls into that pattern. And we've also seen in the past that he hasn't always been communicative to Donald Trump about his actions before he does it. And that Trump is often caught off guard by these actions. And so I think it's very, very possible that Hegseth just kind of did this on his own. You know, I think if you looked at the actions that Hegseth has taken with our military, and Trump at large, it's hard to say, you know, what a enemy of the United States would do any differently than tear apart our entire military infrastructure, destroy our country. I mean, this is like a Vladimir Putin's white dream. He cannot believe how lucky that he got to have these fools in the White House. And of course, it wasn't all luck. He helped push Donald Trump here and made it, you know, possible. But it's really, really, really the stuff we're witnessing. And they always make these accusations and you know, we'll see what, you know, it's actually the truth, I guess at some point, you know, but we've seen Hegseth now do this multiple times and say, you know, they were leakers, they're leaking, they're leaking information of their, their liars and, you know, liars get hanged and treason and blah, blah, blah, blah. But then he never produces a shred of evidence to show the American people. Here's what happened. This is a serious issue and we have to take care of it. Never happened. And all the people that he accused of leaking, he's never done that. And in one case, I'm pretty sure there was a guy who Hegseth purged, who he went after just like that and said how this guy's a leaker. And he shouldn't be anywhere near the military or the government. And then Trump ended up reassigning him to another role inside the government. So if he was really this dangerous leaker, would you reassign him to a different position in the administration? Just the whole thing is just, is just completely, I did this chart of the three star, four stars that have been fired and pushed out, effectively all fired by Hegseth. And if you look at this list of people, these are not just the most qualified people. Like, if you went through like, just think about, I don't know if it was the NBA, right? And you got rid of like all of your starting lineup and then all of your, you know, your bench players. And then you basically brought people in from the, what's it called, the G league. You brought people in from the G league and then you got rid of them. And then you brought people in from, you know, the group that filters to the G league, from the list to that, you know, it's like these like I think we're showing for our audio listeners. All of it's a list of all the three star and four star generals. And these people were also beloved figures in the military. And so it's not just losing their experience. It's also crushing to the morale. When you fire a guy like they just did with Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, and then the commander in chief thinks that Sylvia is a woman because it's the name Sylvia. When you get rid of CQ Brown, Jr., when you get rid of General Donnie, when you get rid of, when you get rid of, you know, I'll, I'll pop the list again one more time so I could see the person who I'm thinking, you know, when you get rid of Randy George, you know, these are like, you know, it's like getting rid of like LeBron James at his prime, like it's like getting rid of Michael Jordan at his prime and, and doing it in a way that then just spits on him and like defames him and then doing it. And if you look at this like every month, two, like two times a month, you do it to somebody who's like a top person, you know, and as Donald Trump's out there, you know, doing all these deals with Putin or trying to, it isn't making a single difference on the price of diesel. What's actually happening in Moscow right now is you had Iran. was there for the guess export conference, talking about expanding its exports. Iran has opened up freight lanes and more train lanes to China, it's using more highways to get into Russia. They're getting out stuff. They're maybe not using the same straight of Hormuz rap, although they're doing ship-to-ship transfers. They're getting out their stuff, not maybe to the same degree as before, but they are, and they're being viewed as like an honorary guest at these various conferences, while Donald Trump say Putin, bootlicker, Putin is rearranging the multilateral order before our eyes, so is Xi Jinping. It's taking place in real time, and it's why we'll leave it here because we're gonna do a lot more breaking news items, and maybe we leave by just showing that the latest polling data, so people see where we're at before we go, but it's what we talk about in WTF America all the time. We wanted to release this book in this election cycle, because we do wanna say this election is existential and important, like it's critical. But we also need to think about generational change, so we can get beyond the gamification of politics, and we can focus on how do we create an international network that supports truth and democracy and empathy and love to fight back against the authoritarian globalist network that exists from the Trumps to the Bolsonaro's and the Putin's and the Javier Malay's and the Netanyahu's, who are all kind of working together and coordinating together. So anyway, let me play this clip of the poll, so we all see where the data is right now, so we keep you updated there, and then I'll give you a journey to fight. - At the breaking news, seeing blue brand new CNN polls and races that could decide who controls the Senate with results Democrats will like across the board. In Texas, Democrat James Tallariko leaves Republican Ken Paxon by six points. This would be a major flip. No Democrat has won a statewide race in Texas in three decades. In Michigan, Democrat Abdul Al-Sahead leads Republican mic Rogers by seven points. This is a significant shift back around Labor Day. There was no clear leader here for Democrats holding on a Michigan is essential in their Senate math. In deep red Kansas, Democrat Adam Hamilton is at 49% to 45% for Republican incumbent Roger Marshall. This is within the margin of error, but still a blaring warning sign for Republicans in a state that should be saved territory and not where they want to be spending time, effort, and money. And in Maine, Democrat Troy Jackson is at 49%. The incumbent Republican Susan Collins is at 45%. This too is within the margin of error. Collins has been able to hang on in the past when there have been years favorable to Democrats. Can she do it one more time? But again, across the board, in these numbers that we've seen from these four states, Democrats will see a path to the majority. There you have it. There you have it. I'm going to do a lot more reporting also on Ukraine. A lot of ballistic missile strikes this evening as we're alive. I want to get the full picture of that. But I do a report on Ukraine pretty much every morning, which I think is very important right now. And I'll just say to the audience, I love you. I'm grateful for you. You know, I think part of the looseness also is, I'm also not getting a great deal of sleep right now. And so, and so there's a little bit of like, you know, but this is it. You know, we're great. Thanks. And I'll say this before we go. You're doing great, Ben. Even though it's your first. You did on your first podcast show. Your first show. For your first show, this is really good. Yeah. A plus. I hope I met expectations. I'm just, we're just, we're just kidding. Real quick. No, no, no, no, I'm in the middle of talking. Wait, wait, wait. You're real quick. Quite picky. So listen, we got, you know, you're going to see polls right there. A lot of polls. The polls look good. The data looks good. The early voting data looks good. But your job is to, you know, understand the data is good and you should be allowed to feel good. But you can't let any polls in any direction affect you. You should basically ignore them in terms of practical matters. Go to the polls. Make sure that you vote. That's the only poll that matters at the end of the day. So encourage your friends and family to vote so important. We don't get many opportunities to do this, you know, every couple of years we get this opportunity. So please take advantage of it. Vote early, if you could vote early, incredibly important, and they're going to throw a lot of stuff at you. There's going to be lawsuits in Alaska. They're doing stuff in California, right, to try to do it mess with the voter rolls in California. They're going to try every trick up their sleeve. They're a lot of smart people in the pro democracy community attorneys, election lawyers, people like that who are fighting back. And so my philosophy in life is always like you got to do the things that you could control. We can't control what the Trump regime is going to do. We control our actions, our responsibilities to get to the polls and vote and do our civic duty. And then Trump's going to do whatever the hell he does. And then we're going to have the experts who are going to make sure that everything is safe and everything is okay. More people are voting right now than ever and have done so safely. And the numbers are great. I just love seeing that civic participation in our system. And so make sure you do that, I get the book WTF America, um, check out the streaming channel live. Might as touch streaming channel 24/7. Throw it on. Just have it in the background. All day. It'd be awesome. And if you haven't yet, there are a lot of people watching right now. Go to the might as touch podcast, audio feed, add the show, Apple podcasts, Spotify, you know, whatever, whatever you use, pocket cast. I don't even know. There's a lot of names out there. Add the show and take us on the go with you every single day and I appreciate that so much. Now, Jordy. I wanted you to, I wanted to jump you because I knew you were going to end on such a great like conclusion. What I'm going to say now, like makes no sense, I'm still going to say it. I miss it. I see what you got. A lot of people are waiting for this. I miss seeing Harriet and up there when we were going through like the, when they were going through the different, if we're going to play a CNN clip, we'd better replay Harriet. Enough. Enough. Enough, enough. Hey, thank you guys so much from the bottom of our hearts means the world to us. Let's keep going every single day. One day at a time. Let's do this. Shout out to the might as mighty. Stead is strong. Against the fascist we sing our song. 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