MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 9/1/26

We've got a lot to cover on this episode of the Midas touch podcast more US military strikes against Iran this time the US hitting purported rocket launchers on the laryk island in Iran Iran responded by striking US military bases in Jordan in the United Arab Emirates and in Qatar apparently striking and damaging targets in those military bases, which the Trump regime denies will cover the latest development. There more US attacks against Canada in the form of a catastrophic trade war launched by Donald Trump against a country that had always been our greatest ally here in the United States week pathetic individuals in the Trump regime attacking Canada and saying Canada treats us more unfairly than any country in the world. We saw whiny, whiny Trump regime officials this weekend and throughout the day the US continues to attack basically the rest of the world other than Putin and she and Kim Jong-un who Donald Trump continues to lick their boots while they mock Donald Trump at the Shanghai cooperation organization in Kyrgyzstan and then in a week or so there will be another meeting in New Delhi India as part of the BRICS meeting Donald Trump. We can ing our alliances while other alliances forming and strengthening abroad then you had Donald Trump's announcement of that dirty fraudulent fake Venezuela deal and I say dirty for a lot of reasons as well the actual deal itself one of these phony corrupt Trump purported deals although we haven't actually seen it in writing surprise surprise but also the Venezuelan oil the kind of Tory sour viscous dense oil is not something that can easily be refined anytime soon so when Donald Trump says we're going to use this to fill up the strategic petroleum reserves and false that oil can't even be used in the salt caverns in the United States strategic petroleum reserves in Texas and Louisiana just doesn't work here and so we will expose that because I think we need to pay a lot of attention that that's just another market manipulation scheme you had the Maga Republic in Congress returning for what five hours today and then like can we leave and so Maga Mike Johnson's like yeah we're going to just probably just recess again and just go home we don't want to actually do any work here so we'll cover that but I'll tell you what when you saw some of these Maga Republican fascist clowns today on the various networks and trying to defend what Donald Trump's been doing to destroy our country they looked I don't know if you call this visibly shaken we'll cover that I mean it just looked almost like a parody like an SNL skit it was so freaking embarrassing what they were doing on a serious note though you have the Supreme Court showing you once again how supremely corrupt and illegitimate they are with these right wing fascists that dominate the Supreme Court they basically said Donald Trump's golden ballroom probably not legal but there's just no standing for anybody to block it so the historic preservation group that filed the lawsuit we just don't think that they have standing most likely what Trump is doing very illegal but you know wrong plaintiff well who would be the right plaintiff the Supreme Court maybe the fact that our Constitution requires that the president take care of that laws be faithfully executed so under your paradigm there's literally nobody in the world that could ever block a rogue president who you give absolute immunity to because no one will have standing other than the executive branch which is not using the good faith to take care of that our laws are faithfully executed we'll talk about that and then there's other things I mean the defense department continues to unravel we learn that they have a network of mega influencers who are all over X who are actually feds they're actually the deep state right isn't it just so fascinating that the people who warned about the Epstein cabal right they were the Epstein cabal the people who warned about the deep state and the feds are actually the deep state feds I wonder how they did that and so there's this network of special government employees who just spew the defense department propaganda and they pretend that they're like these big influencers they have big accounts and they're actually getting paid by the taxpayers and they work for the defense department and they don't disclose it we'll talk about that and then there was a massive leak the secretary of defense order book the SDO be a highly classified document that actually showed that all other than the sent come Brad Cooper guy who's an absolute clown this guy has like destroyed his credibility I mean the way sent comes baby but all of our other top generals and admirals all gave a non concurrence regarding the defense departments war plans generally meaning that they don't support the current strategy or future strategy all of them have a non concurrence and while maybe non concurrences here or there have occurred when they all say we don't concur with your war plan that's a big big deal we'll talk about that in more Bret and Jordy how are you doing great to see it great to see it too Ben great to see a Jordy great to see you might as mighty wow that reporting about the Pentagon paying these mega influencers was such a snap at the focus moment for me because it's something that we've speculated on for a long time we knew there was something behind this I always assumed it was more of like a dark money operation you know kind of hiding payments and things like that and by the way I'm still sure that a lot of that is still going on as well but the fact that they're literally bringing these people into the federal government hiring people who have followings on X in order to spread government propaganda while they act like they are the people against the establishment and against the man when they are quite literally feds not much could be more on brand for the Trump regime and this is the people who called remember the people they were like January 6th it was all feds who did it right these are the people who were the QAnon people who would say that they were going to blow the lid off this entire sex trafficking ring they ended up being the ones who ended up defending the Epstein files and fighting hard in order to protect Donald Trump and get Donald Trump elected so I think I'm seeing a little bit of a theme here develop I'm excited to get into all of it we got a lot of news today Jordy what's the latest on your end? Brothers might as money I am so excited to get into today's show personal note Benji and I'll toss it to you the answer is no baby is not arrived just yet and I'm actually under strict orders where I can't say I might even get a text during the show that it might have some people in my universe are saying that I'm jinxing it by saying it and actually delaying it further by hinting that it could happen so it's definitely not going to happen during the recording of the show so I just want to say that Benji pumped again into today's show I mean what a laundry list that you rattled off there to begin with where we started off today big bro we'll take you to Tel Aviv were one of Donald Trump's Chief Propagandus now one of his new Chief Propagandus who's been reporting from Tel Aviv for quite some time not sure why he needs to actually be there but his name is tray jinxed over at state regime media Fox this morning Donald Trump told Mr. Yinx that the U.S. is going to start ramping up some attacks on Iran we're going to start it back up again he said and that was after the U.S. struck rocket launchers apparently in line. Andrews apparently in Larrick Island in Iran last night Iran responded by striking U.S. air bases in the region in Jordan there was two bases there one that we know has been hit over and over again Mufawik how the salty air base over there in Jordan. Another of the Hussein air base over there in Jordan now you did over in Qatar air base in the UAE of course all these countries that we intercepted everything but the heat images that come from some of these surveillance footage and companies and some of the satellite footage actually show that there were indeed lots of successful strikes from Iran in addition it seems that there were dozens and dozens perhaps even a hundred of those pack three interceptors that were used four million dollars each so you could do the math of how much money was spent by the Trump regime further depleting our interceptors stockpile in the past 24 hours but Donald Trump rushes calls up state regime media and here's what tray jinxed has to say play this clip. Good morning I just spoke with President Trump who told Fox News the United States will respond to the Iranian attack on U.S. forces overnight in Jordan the president said we're going to hit them hard there will be a response. It's not groundhogs day although it feels like it for sure that's actually new footage but you could probably say didn't he just say that like four weeks ago and six weeks ago and yeah that's what's going on so then after calling tray inks Donald Trump and other Trump officials then reach out to Barok revealed that these are the two top propagandists who spread this news usually at the same time so you've got tray inks state media Fox out of Tel Aviv and then you have Barack Reveed also reporting from Israel as well. He's with Axios. He's one of Donald Trump's chief kind of stenographers as well and this is what Reveed posted. Trump has been considering a Sencom plan for waging limited strikes in the Strait of Hormuz to prevent Iran from reconstituting its radar and missile capabilities to attack ships according to three U.S. officials. It's always that. According to three U.S. officials, I wonder who the three real officials are. It's three semi-us officials. It's the same people. It's probably Trump Kushner and Woodcock or some variation of that as well. It's like sources are telling me that the most good-looking brother is on the planet are Ben bread and Jory. According sources. High-level sources. Three high-level sources that might as touch say. This is how Barack Reveed says it was told to him though. One U.S. officials said the idea behind the plan is to reduce the risk of Iranian attacks on oil tankers, U.S. Navy ships and Air Force aircraft to mow the lawn as this person put it. First off, mow the lawn is a genocidal term. It's a war criminal term. I just want you to think about what that means. Mow the lawn. Literally means just demolish areas. Mow the lawn. It's also an idiotic term in addition to being genocidal because perhaps not the Mar-a-Lago lawn or other lawns that Donald Trump doesn't upkeep but kind of like the reflecting pool. If you painted blue, the algae always comes back. The thing about mowing the lawn every two weeks, you got to do it again, okay? So even saying that that's what you're going to do probably something that you may want to reflect on. It's an admission of a, we're just going to mow the lawn. The lawn goes back. You mow the lawn and what they're talking about though also is war crimes and genocide is what they're actually saying. So then Donald Trump holds a Oval Office presser and Donald Trump says that he's going to smack them around. I'm going to smack him, he says. And look, this guy you have to understand, he's a predator, right? If you think about Venezuela, when we'll talk about it a bit, how it's a fraudulent fake deal. But what's it actually about? It's about dominance. It's about submission. It's about humiliation rituals. That's what it's really about. Fundamentally, the deal's total bullshit. It's made up. But it's about humiliating yourself to Donald Trump. He's a predator. What is his intention with Canada 51st day? It is predatory. It is about submission. It is about dominance. And the fact that you have northern border country that's happy and diverse and has health care. Trump sees that and the sick goes around them and they're predators that get some angry. They hate that. That's why they say Canada's the worst country to them because they see happiness and these predators hate this happiness. And their mindset is always if we just hit them harder, if we just make them suffer even more, then they will stop saying no. And they'll finally say yes, because they're predators, the Trump regime, they're criminals and they're predators. And you have to view everything through that perspective. So he or he is saying he's going to smack them. He's going to smack them hard here playing this clip. Of course it's gone there. Surveillance equipment is almost entirely gone. That doesn't mean we won't smack them. We'll see what happens. But we have the string of hormones in extremely good shape. You know, we're taking over many many ships that got through last night, as you know. But then what's it actually happening? Let's be clear. Okay, we obviously, you know, I don't do anything to fact check that I just will for the sake of diligence. We don't control the straight of hormones. Another super tanker was hit by a mine last night. There have been multiple tankers hit in the past few days by Iran. The actual amount of oil coming out according to tank trackers is probably closer to four million barrels a day. Before the war, we were talking about 20 million barrels a day. I don't want to act like nothing's coming out, but we're talking about fractions of what was coming out before. And obviously, if you look at the strategic petroleum reserves and the salt caverns that we have here, where the strategic petroleum reserves are kept, they're like these, they're these salt caverns that are used with this mixture of crude that's been developing with water. And then you kind of extract it and I go into detail in a lot of videos. I won't bore you with all those details now. But there's a reason why those petroleum reserves here in the United States are going lower and lower. Okay, if you look at what's happening in one of the main hubs where lots of the pipelines connect here in the United States in Cushing, Oklahoma, you're also seeing all of the evidence that the supply of oil has been depleted. And also, you can obviously evaluate the gas prices, supply and demand. If there was this huge amount of supply as the Trump regime claims, then what we could expect is the prices of oil, the gas you use, and the diesel to start going down, but they keep on going up because the supply shock is real. And when we talk about in the next segment, the whole Venezuela fraudulent deal, it's to have Donald Trump say, this is going to be used to fill the strategic petroleum reserves when people who understand the most basic aspects of oil know that that Tory oil doesn't go in the strategic petroleum reserves. It's like the most basic thing. It's basically Trump saying, inject yourself with bleach and you'll get rid of COVID. It's like a variation of that. But what Trump has been doing is posting deranged AI videos striking Carg Island, which hasn't been hit via AI videos. Carg Island being blown to smithereens, DJT, and it's this AI video of war crimes being committed, mowing the lawn, if you will, to use their genocidal war criminal term in Carg Island. It's why Trump dates his data centers. He's got to crank out the AI slot. He's not winning the war in real life. So he needs to win the war in the fictional world of AI. It's a really pathetic strategy. And part of it, I wonder if he's trying to kind of pull one over his own supporters who maybe don't know the difference between real life and AI. Like he posted that, he didn't say this is AI, he didn't, there was no disclaimer on it. And if you're scrolling past and you're, you know, I assume if you're an older person who's not used to seeing AI videos every day, and why would you think what the president of the United States, someone who you trust and this guy don't know why you trust the guy who's lied to lies to about everything. But this is the person you've decided to put your trust into once again. Don't understand how that works. And he's posting videos like this during an actual war. I think he almost wants his people to believe it. Like a look. See he is actually doing damage. Look, he did strike Carg Island when he obviously didn't this didn't happen. It's just an AI video, just so much AI slop coming from him like every single day. And it's just a, it's just we can become a bizarre kind of aspect of the kind of proliferation of AI and his insistence on doubling down on just unfettered data centers in your backyard everywhere. Like the way this is being used for warfare and the way this is being used for messaging and in particular kind of messaging for an authoritarian regime, the way all the White House accounts are using it. It's all just a very disturbing kind of development and use case of it to me. Absolutely. And look, I'll even go a step further, Brett, you know, posting this to confuse his followers, whether or not this happened. I'm like convinced in this in my own personal belief here that Donald Trump thinks this hat, like I don't think he realizes it's AI. I think when he gets a lot of this stuff, the AI slop from his people, it's to appease him, right? Maybe he's getting antsy about how we doing the war, how we doing it. And so they send him these like videos to just kind of like, you know, make him like calm down or whatnot. I'm not convinced. He has not shown me any of the mental fitness for me to be like, okay, he's posting this to, you know, put one over on his followers to I think he thinks it's real. That's where I'm planted my flag here. You can't, by the way, it's like the theory's not outrageous. I mean, he's the same person claiming that our strategic petroleum reserves are about to be filled up with Tory Venezuelan oil. And that that's going to save the day when it's absolutely the, what's not going to happen. And then I mean, if you go deeper into what went down in the Venezuelan thing, no private companies really came into this investment group. So the Trump regime created through the Pentagon, a Trump oil company, basically, to do business with a very corrupt person in Venezuela, who comes from they call them like a bully Chico, these rich young chavistas who are very much aligned with Hugo Chavez, his name is Bentacort, aligned with Hugo Chavez and the regime in Venezuela right now, where the US is basically pretending through its own state owned oil company that I guess we're creating that Congress didn't approve, which is patently unlawful. But perhaps our United States Supreme Court is going to say, but no one has standing to sue the block. you can, who's gonna be able to sue? I mean, we'll talk about the standing issue, but that may be an issue where the Supreme Court goes, but there's no standing, nobody can stop it. And it's like, okay, well, it's clearly patently unlawful and against everything about our separation of powers. You're not okay. - Supreme Court put it any way. - He's also the same guy who was convinced that Kilmar Brego Garcia actually had MS-13 tattooed on his knuckles when it was literally put there by his government and not even AI, by like probably MS-Paint or something, just literally writing the letters on the knuckles. And he kept remember when he held it at, who was the ABC reporter who's no longer there and was like yelling at him like that was those bonkers. - And then in Iranian general, Mohamed Reza Nakhdi today said this, he goes, "So we expected victory because we were certain and confident in God's promise and his support that Iran would ultimately prevail, but we didn't expect victory to come this easily. These are my goodness, I mean, they're just saying, we didn't really expect it to become like this easy. He gave another quote during this interview, which was actually an example that I gave, which is you could have some of the best players on your team, like if this is a world cup team, but ultimately like if your captain is giving you like incorrect instructions or telling you to play a different game, like you could have the best team, but you're gonna lose, like you can still put out, and they're like, look, the US clearly has a bigger military, they're far more powerful and strong, but they don't know what the hell they're doing, and then we have a strategy, and that's why we've been able to take the strategic initiative, whether it's controlling the straight-up or moves, or developing a level of strategic deterrence as the US depletes its missiles and its interceptors, and we run out of weapons. So JD Vance was asked about it on his way to Michigan, where he just gave one of the weirdest speeches ever today, but Vance was asked, so on Iran, Donald Trump tweeted this AI slap, like what's your view about Donald Trump tweeting fake war videos of Carg Island being blown up that didn't happen? Like you're cool with that JD, you're playing this clip. - On Iran, the president tweeted some AI-generated video of bombing of Carg Island. Was that meant to be a warning or what was the messaging there? Why did the president tweet that? - Well, you know, like the president likes to switch it up on social media a little bit. He would be the first to say, he doesn't make announcements about military actions on social media, but I think that he's sending a message to the Iranians' look. We know that they continue to shoot a commercial shipping. We continue to have a lot of tools at our disposal to prevent them from doing so, or at least cut down on them from doing so, and that's what the president is saying is, look, you guys are shooting a commercial shipping, you guys are behaving like a terrorist country, you've got to stop, and there are going to be some thoughts. - Oh, that's what he was doing with the AI slot video of Carg Island. - All right, the interpretation. - By the way, he does announce military action on his social media account all the time. He goes, at my direction, like all the bombings, he does all the-- - JD's. - JD's excuse was, ah, Trump, that rascal. I mean, that's what that just summed up. It is unbelievable that we have a commander of chief right now who is so clearly cognitively out of like Donald Trump is, that we can't even really come to a strong conclusion, whether or not he knows what he's posted as AI and mean it. Like, that's the scary landscape there, and then you have JD trying to run cover for him, and he goes, ah, rascal, you know he wouldn't, you know how Trump is, Trump being Trump. - But that's to me why the Natalie Harp story is such an important story, you know, beyond the kind of palace intrigue, kind of, you know, isn't in the fair, does she do his diaper, you know, you see all the various things. But the fact that this unelected individual is controlling what goes on the most powerful person in the world's social media account, that could move markets, that could lead to insider trading, that could start wars, that could announce wars, that could cause, you know, a whole number of issues. This person has so much power over Donald Trump, and she's just putting these things in front of him, whether it's, you know, this AI video, or, you know, a tweet of him on Mount Rushmore, or whatever stupid thing it is, and then they're posting it out. And so this person, this unelected individual, actually has an outsized amount of power in this country, and I think it's important, the same way that we're now just kind of finding out the very tip of the iceberg about who the Trump regime is paying as these maggot influencers, that you see on Twitter and other social media, I think it's important that we have a greater understanding of what is this person putting out? What are the approval protocols? Well, how is this entire thing working? Because contrary to what J.D. Vance is saying, Trump does announce a lot of stuff from a social media account, and he has made that a means of communication with world leaders, threatening Iran, with total obliteration. And so when those are the kinds of messages we're seeing, I think it's actually extremely important, we know who's behind them. - Of course, but to two points. One, obviously the buck stops at the top. I mean, Donald Trump surrounds himself with these people. He's unfit. Yes, Jordi, he is cognitively and physically added and deteriorating rapidly each and every day. But look, this guy's been a loser his whole life. He's been a bankruptor. He's never been a builder. If you just go through his life, he's scared. He's weak, he's pathetic, he hides, he runs. He never had the fitness to be in positions of leadership. He's always been a fraud and a phony and these qualities are now pronounced even more and they're really destroying this country. They have destroyed this country. But this guy's always been a loser and it's now at a geopolitical level where he's a weapon of mass distraction but a weapon of mass destruction also against the United States. I mean, the damage he's causing is irreparable. And frankly, it's just embarrassing. 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Yeah so woke up Donald Trump ranting and raving like a lunatic he posted this about Iran first he says Iran is officially a failed nation it is dead interesting because the Iranian president pizestian is currently in Kiergistan which Trump probably doesn't even know where that is on a map but he's been meeting with everybody from she to Putin to Modi you know he's like you know like Iran is getting a heroes welcome at this Shanghai cooperation organization meeting and they're going to have a prominent role also during the I bricks meetings that are going to be taking. I'm not being facetious but but been objectively I do not understand what Donald Trump's strategy right now in this war is other than tweeting that Iran has lost the war or posting AI slap of himself bombing or like like well I don't even get the strategy at this point it's just just you just wants to pretend like it's it's just so pathetic it is a market manipulation play which you have to recognize is he doesn't care about national interest right he doesn't understand it that's why he can't fathom why sovereign nations will stand up to him right he can't fathom why Canada's not submitting it's sovereign it's proud it's independent prime minister karni's not working for prime minister karni he's working as a public servant for Canada pursuing national interests over there you know similarly you know when it comes to a country like Iran they have their own national interest if you attack and go after them they're not going to be like oh that actually makes us want to now work with you it's like it makes any ability of ever wanting to do with you or deal with you not going to happen and Trump is not trying to make America great again you have to recognize that everything the guy says is always the opposite right I've rebuilt the military what does that mean he destroyed the military make America great again is make America as weak as can be his interests are purely himself so he's just trying to find the arbitrage the deltas between the dips that he creates in the markets and when it goes back up with his other market manipulations so he can grab for himself so Brett two points Jordy you're right the guy is cognitively deteriorate both can be true at the same time right so there is that aspect of it but Brett to answer your question it isn't about the United States because this everything that he's doing couldn't be more damaging right for the United States but it's not it's not supposed to be you know in our interest it's it's whatever he's doing to steal from us to take from us to pillage the United States that's what this is all about so then he goes on to say Iran is a failed nation it's dead it isn't they have no military he goes on and says that then he goes and says the only thing they have is fake news from USA a willingness to kill their protesters now over 100,000 people dead they must be tried for war crimes against humanity and a good line of bullshit thank you for your attention to this matter Donald which I'm a good line of bullshit I mean what do you even talking about but then this exaggerated death count number first they said it was 30,000 in the protests in January where Donald Trump says we're going to help you we're going to send our troops to save you and then Trump didn't do anything when they were these protests and by the way what Iran had said is that these protests were actually done by the United States and Netanyahu and there were a lot of people who were like come on that's getting into conspiratorial territory don't go there you know and then the Trump regime put out the number and they said 30,000 people got killed and that was a number that was kind of accepted okay there's 30,000 you know that's what everybody was saying there's 30,000 people that the Iran regime killed 30,000 and then Donald Trump said it was 42,000 then he said it was 50,000 then he says it's 100,000 and then you have to go and ask yourself these very serious questions you know no doubt there were protests we saw the protests we're aware and they appear to be protests leaning towards democracy it's also I've spoken with people who are professors in Iran you've seen my interviews there's no doubt that there had been a movement in Iran towards younger leadership a more openness to the West to the United States before Trump and Netanyahu launched their second invasion in late February so there's no doubt there was a sentiment the Ayatollah Komeine who the Trump regime killed along with his daughter his granddaughter his son-in-law his whole family while they were eating dinner at their house on the first night of the war and then the Trump regime proceeded to engage in war crimes and slaughter little girls and Minab and little girls playing volleyball that's kind of the MO of Donald Trump little girls killing little girls and the cover up has relates to the Epstein files what's the cover up about the cover up involves what Epstein was doing with all girls I mean that's part of that so is it shocking that when you say oh that's what you're covering up and this is who you're going after over there but in any event you make up a number 100,000 it's like oh got it this is you're you're a liar and then it calls into question the whole thing it caught right and it's like actually yeah how am I supposed to believe any of the numbers if you're just making the numbers and unfortunately I guess you got to look through independent you know independent sources and when you look at independent sources it's not that it's a competition and of course I'm not defending this in any way but the numbers are far lower than anything Donald Trump has ever said they're far lower than what Trump said months ago and they're far lower than this 100,000 numbers so then you realize okay so this guy is shoveling propaganda down our throats as well while he accuses the other side of spreading fake news and bullshit and he's doing so in order to accept the fact that we're in this prolonged war where American soldiers are dying where we're bombing innocent people and all the other disasters that are happening right now and I think it's just really really foul not to mention that I think it's a betrayal to those people to the protesters that Donald Trump you know has completely abandoned them after telling them to take to the streets and everything that they did and we'll get into this when we speak about you know Venezuela but you see that's the theme of Donald Trump the theme of Donald Trump is use these innocent people who may be fighting for their freedom or for their country use their stories and use that narrative in order to justify US intervention in order to justify Donald Trump coming in there and bombing a country killing innocents and then what happens does Donald Trump end up helping those people no Donald Trump then tries to take as much as he can for himself and that's what we're seeing in Iran that's what we're seeing in Venezuela that's why Donald Trump is comfortable with the Maduro regime remaining in power in Venezuela that's why Donald Trump is seemingly okay with the Iranian regime remaining in power so long as they basically relinquish control to him and try to cut deals with him remember a few months ago Donald Trump was like oh yeah we're doing a JV we're going to do a joint venture me and the Ayatollah we're going to work something out together we're going to have a business together that's all he cares about it's not about these other people it's about himself it's about enriching himself it's about lining his own pockets it's about enriching his family that's what it's is now that's what it's always been and there it is right there bread exactly once you start to view things through the lens of why Donald Trump this isn't going to help America obviously right Donald Trump is doing things to help him the top 0.0 percent that hang out with him at Mar-a-Lago and his children or his adult children I should say and that that that's how he leads how can this in my best interest benefit me Donald Trump that's what he's thinking you know I want to take a quick step back looking at this political landscape at large right so you have Donald Trump just lying throwing random numbers out there right hyper inflating things making things very confusing where you know you're lucky like well he said 100,000 so the truth has to be somewhere you know in the middle right so it's got to be a lot like he would lie about 100,000 that's and it reaches them well he is he's lying then you have Fox News who carries his water also and starts to report on their end then you have other Murdoch properties like the New York Post who do stuff over there then you have Barock-Revy be his stenographer and then you have literal feds on Twitter who are tweeting and amplifying Donald Trump's messaging as if they're I don't know independent journalists or independent voices who are literal feds again carrying the water for Donald Trump I can understand why people are so damn confused and so vulnerable and susceptible to the misinformation and the propaganda at a certain point people have to take their own damn accountability though and look into things just a little bit further but like for example in the case of literal feds operating on to like that's that's evil man and not disclosed like all of this stuff right now and again why is Twitter the preferred platform because Elon Musk bought it and exactly the control the algorithms he's able to boost people I've been around people friends family members and you could do this test for yourself if you'd like I don't recommend it but you could do this test show that I'm telling the truth here if you make a Twitter account and like don't use it but keep your notifications on. You know what notifications they send you? They send you the notifications of the of the feds. They send you the notifications of these MAGA influencers as if they are legitimate breaking news because they see oh this is an apolitical person. This is somebody who you know maybe they're looking at reality TV stuff maybe they're talking about music maybe they're not talking about anything at all. They're just lurking where they just have the app and they are beaming these messages at them so that when they read the headlines they see the headlines that are now ironically we're finding out are crafted by the Trump regime not independent news or influencers or anybody and they're being beamed into people's funds. It's just really after I want you to think about this though too the number 100,000 as it keeps creeping up what is that number right around around the amount of people who were killed in Netanyahu's genocide and Gaza right where that's actually a real number right and so when you have the real number right which may be even more than that but when you have the real number and then you have this other 100,000 number which they're saying what don't there's 100,000 here when numbers don't mean things in war and peace in major issues regarding the economy right what happens everybody is lost and that is the vacuum that the strong man wants to fail you're just making up numbers about 100,000 people who were killed and when there actually is 100,000 people who are slaughtered as part of the systematic genocide taking place it's like that didn't happen no that's not that's not the right number and then you find out it is the right number where we know it's the right number but then it's like nah nah it's just it's just a number and when Trump announces the event as well a situation it's not even it's not even a real deal I for me to see a deal I need to read it I need to see it on paper I need to know what the players I need to know the terms then there's a deal whatever this fake fraud framework is what do they do right away boom shock and all you with big numbers 65 million barrels of provable potential reserves provable potential reserves right there red flag okay what does that really mean provable can you extract it can you refine it what what does that look like then you learn the history and you go got it it's tarry it's bad Donald Trump once said that it's really bad oil that nobody can actually do anything about it's why nobody he once made that comment when he was saying that they're narco traffickers and they're a terrible country and now he's like today it's great this is the best oil you know what you can do with it you can make asphalt with it you can you can replenish the strategic petroleum reserves with it no you can't no you can he's like 65 billion barrels 100 billion dollars in investments he said and then as well they said it will bring 220 billion dollars of economic or recovery to Venezuela okay let me ask everybody this what the hell has happened since the Trump regime has taken over Venezuela where has the money gone to already it's gone to a cattari bank account with no oversight no one knows what what's actually going is that Donald Trump's bank account in guitar right now that's where eight billion dollars has gone in terms of the actual production of oil since the Trump regime has taken over Venezuela it's either at the same or it's less than it was the previous year okay so there's not some massive oil gushing kind of taking place right now and as you look deeper what you find out and I'll just address the Venezuela situation right here is that this tarry dense it's called sour because of its sulfur level it's interesting if you go back and look at the history in the 1800s of oil people would taste it and the sulfur content would tell you is it sour is it sweet but this very high sour dense tarry stuff it's almost unusable okay and is certainly certainly can't go into our strategic petroleum reserves which are in salt caverns which mix this kind of water with more of the light sour to kind of medium sweet kind of oil that that's brought into replenish it and so this stuff doesn't go there now you can build potential refineries that deal with this issue or you can deal with technology that can make it capable of going into this the salt caverns or to be refined for other uses but that would cause billions and billions and billions of dollars and it's a violative of the US Constitution okay and you're when there's a new administration this is not going to be a deal that people are going to abide by that corporations know that right now that one's Trump's uh this this deal's done and then on the Venezuela side um it's against their constitution you can't give access to a foreign country with this level of degree of control so it's against their constitution also what does this do for all of the people who pretended that there was going to be democratic elections which we do is not going to be the case if there ever was a election and the opposition party takes over this entire arrangement will be voided right away so all this deal does if you're delsy is it entrenches your power because if you lose power and and this incentivizes Trump to keep up the deal with the fake deal would obviously go away too because it's unworkable it should also be noted that Venezuela owed billions of dollars to China and Russia when they went in there and tried to have somewhat heavy handed arrangements with Venezuela that did not work out because of some of the issues with the oil and so they are fine to now deal with their spheres of influence why have been you heard of Pete from China or Russia about this because don't you think that the unwritten rule or the unwritten deal or you know or the framework in Trump's mind is China, Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, United States, Venezuela and Russia and China know that this is Tory oil that they can't even utilize anyway so they're like that's what you want to do and it undermines US legitimacy and it strengthens their claims on Taiwan and on Ukraine because if it is now the world is the the jungle law prevails then the United States can't step up with moral authority or moral clarity and then you just take a quick look at like who we're even doing this purported deal with and it's this guy bent a court part of the bully Chico's these people who got really rich under Hugo Chavez he did this electricity deal is how he first kind of got rich and what if you know some of the basic stuff about the electrical grid in Venezuela it didn't work they rolling black outs while this guy got rich and he was under investigation in Europe and elsewhere and this is the kind of guy that Donald Trump wants to you know that that is he's doing business with so the pentagon is entering into a the pentagon is forming a Trump oil company to do a deal with this bent a court guy you know who's this shady you know not good guy in general and they're going to extract hypothetical oil that you know is not the kind that can be refined and what is Trump saying this will replenish the strategic reserves gas prices are going to go down absolutely for you not even I'll leave you with this on this point without totally geeking you out further on oil and gas discussions even if everything Donald Trump said was true and we had 65 barrels and it was light sour you know kind of like the Middle East stuff and it was stuff that we all could you know it could be utilized easier it would take five to ten years before we were able to really even utilize that even if it was true and it's not true so this is never going to happen it's all bogus it's all a fugazi and it's about dominance it's about market manipulation it is about raw power and it's about Trump and people like bent a court enriching themselves at the expense of Venezuela at the expense of the US at the expense of a more stable world order right let's take our last quick break of the show wait while we're on this let me say let me say I want to say two things about it before we lose the before we lose the plot here one I worry about something like this creating such instability in a country like Venezuela because I think nothing creates more instability anger at the leaders and overall chaos and potential civil war than kind of a humiliation like this basically saying that no you're not even like a sovereign state essentially but you are a vessel a vessel of the United States in our pocket and the fact that you have a leader in Delci Rodriguez who was going along with all this I kind of view there being I kind of have a feeling that when these people who you know you may have seen images of them dancing in the streets when Delci took over I don't think they're dancing anymore and I think they're going to be furious about all of this also I think Donald Trump is setting himself up for just another failure and another thing for people to point back to as we head into the midterms by saying in his post and saying how quickly now gas prices are going to shoot down, oil prices are going to shoot down. We've literally only seen them go up even since Donald Trump made this announcement. If anybody viewed that with any legitimacy, you would have seen a sharp decrease in the oil prices right away. And this is going to just be another thing that people campaigning for the midterms are going to be able to hang over Donald Trump's head and it's another kind of phony promise and other lie heading into the midterms. By the way, this is why when that thing was announced right away, we pounced on it. I mean, we did the story right away, dissected it, and I wanted to create a permission structure for other people to rapidly respond and say, you know what? We don't just regurgitate and we're not stenographers. When there's a deal like that, call it out. So within what, 30 minutes of the deal, we were out. Now we're seeing people who are far more knowledgeable than oil than me. And I study them. I want to know what they're saying. That's how I give you the analysis. But I think it's been actually to the extent there is a refreshing aspect that right away, this normally you would just have the lies spread and there was boom, like a barrage of truth calling this out right away for what it is. And it was a powerful tsunami of information also that was out there. All right, last break of the show, make sure you subscribe, big subscriber boost recently on this channel, and also get your copy of WTF America pre-order it right now. You can click the QR code. It'll put a link in the description below. It's the book I wrote with my brothers pre-order. I got it. You can't click the QR code. That's confusing. That's a confusing instruction. You could scan the QR code. It's even easier than clicking it. But don't tell people it clicked because we're going to have people clicking and they're going to be like, why doesn't it scan the QR code? I'll take your last quick break of the show, scan it. 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Benji, we're next. Let's talk about the resignation of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll earlier today, before we went live, U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll submitted his resignation to the White House. Following months of tension with Defense Secretary Pete Hegsith, Reuters reports, citing a source familiar with the matter. It's probably Driscoll, who's the source familiar with the matter. He's been leaking, or people around him have been leaking that he was going to leave some time in the next few months. I just think the last straw was when it was exposed that Hegsith was running this Influencer Scheme, where you had all these big Twitter right-wing Influencer accounts were actually feds. They were actually the deep state, and they were on the payroll of the United States government at the Defense Department, so while Hegsith purged out all of the kind of top reporters from being near him in the Pentagon, and he declared the press room and the area surrounding him a perpetual skiff, a sensitive compartmental information facility, to try to block reporters from being near him, and then he brought in those propagandists. They went a step further, not only did they bring in right-wing propagandists to replace the actually really good defense reporters, who have been doing a great job even though they've been pushed out of the Pentagon. Currently, you had all of these MAGA influencers who were actually feds undercover, basically, pretending to be influencers and writing stories like this one, from cynical Publius. The war on Pete Hegsith, Hegsith is facing a calculated smear campaign because he threatens the entrenched establishment reshaping America's military into something weaker and more political. He's a government employee, a special government employee. People like Kurt Schlichtler, Rob Mannis, the data Republican account we talked about. >> By the way, let me say Ben, and these are a lot of the people who go after us online all the time. >> All the time. >> All the time. All the time. Like, these are the people who will quote tweet us, who will try to slip into our DMs to try to quote unquote fact check us, to try to slam us, to try to whatever, and finding out that these people who are actually Trump regime cronies, Trump feds here, who are attacking the Midas Touch Network, it really just once again, it's a moment of clarity. And I'm telling you, and I am speculating here, however, I feel pretty sure, in my opinion, this is just the tip of the iceberg here, and that the more you start peeling the layers of this thing, the more you're going to find that virtually all these people, virtually everybody pushing this stuff every single day, every single minute of every single day, are paid by either the government or are paid by dark money forces, more is going to come out. Just, just you wait. >> I want everybody at the macro level, though, to understand what Musk did, right? His acquisition of Twitter was funded a lot with foreign money and foreign debt. He's able to take it over. It's losing money. It seems like it is failing. On the other hand, he's got SpaceX, right, which is getting a lot of money. He spends all of this money on the election, like the most ever, to help Trump get elected. They're all of these government contracts that work their way to SpaceX. Then Musk does this IPO, where he basically merges, and I believe this was going to be the plan all along, SpaceX with X, right? Then why Twitter rename X, we had SpaceX. Think about what the plan was, and so he had SpaceX, and X, he merges them together into one entity, and then they change the rules for NASDAQ, so that immediately. it gets put into the Nasdeck 100 so that mutual funds and ETFs are required to purchase it based on its pumped up valuation on day one. So whether you like it or not, your fund may have had to purchase it to keep it elevated. It then pays off all of the people who funded the acquisition in the first place when it took over Twitter and then it's being used with a rigged algorithm to pump up all of these accounts to spread this disinformation folks. It's at a very sophisticated level. I don't want us to lose track of that diagram though that I just built out because on the day-to-day level you have these people who are feds right who are pretending though that they are these influencers. Their accounts are getting supercharged. They're pushing out all this stuff that's going super mega viral about all these things and these people are working for the regime. That's how it's being done and so it was interesting because earlier in the day and I give a hat tip to the Washington Post here because the defense reporters that is their editorial board not great right now under Jeff Bezos. Let's be very clear. It's like I said, Dan Lamoth I think there's a bunch, you know, that whole team is that whole team. The editorial stuff is great. So they broke a story in the morning about this highly classified report that hegsith, you know, in all defense secretaries put out the secretary of defense orders book and how in it all of the top admirals and generals had a unified not concur, do not concur with the war plans currently in future in this catastrophic and unlawful war. Some people have said, well, do not concur has happened before. Yes, on minor things, you know, I don't think we've ever seen a unified do not concur on the actual war, okay? Like Persian Gulf War or Operation Desert or do not concur. That's not what happens and maybe do not concur. Should we do this weapon over this weapon or not the overall war strategy. So I'm giving obviously do not concur. It's not like and not unified in that way. So they report on that. Then all of these mega influencers swarmed and then the Washington Post dropped their story and said, ah, you're all feds and they were all caught. It was actually kind of a brilliant chess play and they waited and then they dropped it. Turns out the Washington Post had gone out for comment though earlier in the week to these people. So it wasn't just like they dropped it because the attack so happened. But when's that attack happen? I just think the Washington Post people. By the way, yeah. And like, by the way, can I just say this too? It's shocking but not shocking, right? Like we've seen the Trump regime do this throughout the entire administration so far than the second Trump term here, right? What was the one of the first things they did? They brought in those right wing grifters to the White House gave them all the white binders with the Epstein files. Oh, look at us. We got the effort. Well, that didn't work. That didn't work. Now, I got all of those people's faces. What other buffoons that White Binder crew ultimately is. We already knew they were. But oh my goodness, looking at it through and now too, like you absolute chill. And then the press briefings. Right? What do they do? They get real media out of the press room. And what do they do? They bring in all these right wing propaganda mouthpieces to there to get more favorable questions, to get more favorable. I don't know whatever out into the ecosystem. And I guess take some of the pressure off of having to answer real questions. And so it doesn't surprise me that there are feds on Twitter working with Donald Trump in the regime. I want to get on a mountain on a roof and just scream it. So everyone could just understand like this is crazy, but it's actually happening. And it's all the all the other stuff is happening right in front of your face. And it wasn't until this report came out that that everyone now gets to see it and read about it and fully understand the depth that it goes and brought to your point. It is just the tip of the iceberg. All of these people are astroturfed. I am telling you it's all astroturfed. It's all DS. And I know there are some people with very close connections to Trump world, people who have worked in the White House, people who have worked in Trump kind of campaign space, who have these kind of dark money firms. And they act as intermediaries. And what happens is somebody wants to get a message out. I remember people were caught doing this also. I remember those influencers, those other maggot influencers were caught being paid by a Russian company that the Tim Pools and then in the world, they claimed that they didn't know that's where the money was coming from. But they were getting an exorbitant amount of money literally from Russia to push certain messages. Benny Johnson was one of them. There was like a handful of them. Well, there's another operation that's going where there are these firms run by Trump world people. And they take big money from people who want to get a message across. And the message could be to influence a politician into voting a certain way. It could be to influence other officials in the White House. It could be to spread propaganda online just for the masses. They get a lot of money. They pay this intermediary to post about this topic in a specific way. That influencer does it. They promise them X amount of impressions or whatever. And that kind of repeats and repeats and repeats. And you've also seen some of these figures online because people have exposed them in this way as where people reach out kind of pretending to be some of these special interest groups to the magazine influencers and ask them, you know, how much is it if you want to, if I, if I, how much is a retweet go for these days, you know, how much to post about my whatever. And they will do these undisclosed posts, you know, they're they'll post about things, not say it. And they'll say, you know, some people might charge 500 bucks for a retweet or 5,000 bucks for a retweet or whatever it is. But this is a whole financial operation that's happening right now in MAGA world. And it's just coming at you in all these different ways, whether directly from the government, whether from dark, whether it's from dark money organizations, whether it's from foreign money like Russia or just people, you know, doing this as their own kind of little side business or main business. If you look at how many how much these people tweet on a daily basis. But it's it's it's it's something. And it's something that really like I think this is actually a super important issue that if Democrats were to take control of the house in the fall, I think they need to subpoena all these people quite frankly. I think we need investigations. I think we need to kind of blow up this entire operation and see who's really pulling the strings here. See what's really going on. But I think all these influencers need to be subpoena brought into Congress questioned about all these arrangements. Dangerous skull interesting guy veteran friends with JD Vance and Usha from Yale, private equity guy lived out in California, spoke out at first against Zelensky. And then when he got this position as army secretary, he became very impressed with the Ukrainian military and the drones and the anti drone technology. So he went from being the critic of Zelensky to actually saying that the US needed to innovate the way they've innovated in Ukraine. And he was working very closely then with people like Randy George, the former army chief of staff, general Donaew, and in others who were spearheading these types of modernization things. And then Randy George was pushed out beloved. Randy George and his wife Patty were like the most beloved people in our military, forced our general like literally like the best our military had to offer. He was pushed out and basically fired by Hegsith. We learned one of the reasons for that is he wanted to keep the investigation ongoing into the Apache helicopters that flew by Kid Rock's home. And also Randy George was objecting to the fact that Hegsith was refusing to promote black people and women to one-star generals and then allow them to rise through the ranks based on merit simply because they were black and women, that's who Hegsith was targeting and Randy George wasn't cool with that and Driscoll wasn't cool with that. And so ultimately Hegsith wanted Driscoll gone and saw Driscoll as a rival and ultimately Hegsith won that battle and pushed out all of these top generals. We only have at this point less than half of the four-star generals that we've had right now. We had the best team. We had the all-star team of generals and military leaders. And the top people were pushed out in their place are Hegsith sycophants. They were still some good admirals in generals out there. I don't know after there's none. But, you know, you have some shady people like this Laverne guy who was working with Hegsith to fire Randy George because of the Kid Rock situation. And what's one of the first things that Laverne is pushing? Basically, the equivalent of Japanese Bushito, which was one of the main among many critiques of the actual fighting of Japanese, of the Japanese during World War II, it was so rooted in the samurai spirit and Bushito and the code and the warrior ethos versus modernizing. Lots of people said they lost an edge to some of the Western military that had focused on technology. And so what's fascinating is to see history repeat itself in the form of this imperialistic tricycle. regime, who are like we need to restore the warrior ethos in the United States, the World War II's warrior ethos, and it's like, okay, I mean, we get that, but like, stop saying the word "lethality" over and over again, and recognize that war has fundamentally changed. We are in a situation of drones, anti-drones, unmanned submersives, robotics, and this is the future, and there needs to be, you know, investments on that versus Trump class battleships, nuclear battleships, and things that are, where hundreds of billions of dollars are being wasted, that could be going to things like healthcare, could be going to things like making things more affordable, and programs that help people, but they're going to these horrible catastrophic wars, and weapons systems that aren't relevant to today, and we're just flushing taxpayer money down the toilet, has the debt increases to over $40 trillion. All of Besson's market manipulation schemes have failed, you know, he failed to bail out the Japanese yen, his bond buyback scheme is a complete failure. He's been, oh, you know, lots of these people, most of these people around Trump have the loser mage arc, and they've all found each other because they're losers when they went out on their own. Besson is one of these people who was a loser. He had, like, 90% redemptions, or so, from one of his funds, he had a $5 billion fund, very unsuccessful. He worked decently when he was with smart people who oversaw him, but when he was on his own, he flailed that he was a loser, and you can see why he's got loser qualities. I'll just give you an example of Besson from today. So Besson is at the G20 Finance Summit meeting. It's the G20 meeting, but of the finance ministers and the Treasury Secretary. He's banned the New York Times, Bloomberg, and Wall Street Journal from being at a lot of the meetings. He was asked a question about Canada, and I want to show you how we answered this question about Canada. I could show you so many other Besson clips, and they're all equally bad, but I'll just show you this one because I think it highlights what just that an arrogant loser he is here play this clip. What was the setup for this one? Oh, just while we do it, Brett, you could keep on talking, but I'll find it in a moment. It was the one on, it was Besson on Canada. I'll go and find it, though, and give you the better setup. The question was, anyway, you go talk, Brett, I'll go and find it. I don't have it in front of me, but it was the one on Ken. Yeah, I mean, but what you're seeing is over and over again, you're seeing people like Besson and Trump trying to gain control over a situation that they don't have any control of, and the problem is they're just not being honest with the American people, and they think that they could continue to trick the markets. The thing is, like, there's really only so much that you can trick, only with so much time that you can trick the markets before until things really start to unravel, and that's why we're seeing all of this volatility in the regular markets, despite the fact that they are at highs, but the oil markets are something to watch. The bond yields are something that you really have to watch. This is something that is a huge, huge, huge, huge problem, and I think as you see people continuing to now deal with the affordability crisis, and they're trying to figure out, what am I going to pay for a mortgage rate? What am I going to pay when I take out a loan? What am I going to do when I go to a grocery store? Those problems continue to get worse and worse and worse for regular people, but it seems like, despite all of that, that you have Donald Trump and Scott Besson, and all of them still trying to pretend that everything's great, that the war is going great, that the economy is going great, and the problem is people just know that that's not true, and the more they lie about it, what worries me is that it's building up almost like a pressure valve, right? Just building up a lot of pressure in these pipes, and the pipes, yes, they keep expanding with it, but eventually what's going to happen, the thing's going to pop, the thing's going to explode. It's going to explode. It's going to markets are wondering where a candidate that helps you out, Jordan answers. I was going to say, and those pipes are going to explode, bread, and not with oil, and I just want to emphasize kind of what you're saying there, too, is they can only run this scheme so many times, Trump and Besson and the entire Trump regime here trying to run this groundhog day play on the economy, on the stock market, until sooner or later things are going to get really bad, and you've got to be left holding the bag, the American people. That's who's going to be left holding the bag, so I would just say, "Bro, here's the clip." Mark, it's wondering if we're now in a tip-or-tatt trade war with Canada. Well, I don't think you can be in a tip-or-tatt with someone who's 13 times larger than you are. They say they're doing okay. What else are they going to say? Look, I think this is very unfortunate that Prime Minister Karne has turned this into a political shouting match. I mean, we're not a war with Canada. How are we going to be a war with Canada? What are they going to take their two submarines from the Edmonds and Mall and stick them on us? Okay, I just want you to see how what a loser quality that is, right? You wonder how these people are such losers, and you see that behavior right there. It's rude, it's abrasive, it's disrespectful, it's filled with lies, and by the way, Canada has seen increased employment. Canada has actually seen GDP growth. Canada has a leader in Prime Minister Karne, unlike Besant, who has been a very successful central banker, who's done major moves during very difficult circumstances, and Karne is a very accomplished person outside of being the Prime Minister. The guy ran Bank of Canada, Bank of England during two separate crises, and got him out of it, and Besant's only found his way into crises. And just in general, too, even if what I just told you wasn't the case, you know, you underestimate people and entities at your own peril, it's this level of just unmitigated arrogance, and what you saw right there, which is setting, it's not like a political thing that I'm even saying, it's just, it's right out of like ASAP's fables, right? It's like right out of an edipus, you know, a homer's Odyssey, like to see the left, like Shakespearean, if you will, right? And you see the, it's such a parody of the human defect that's so obvious, and him and Trump and all of these people, it almost feels so poetically tragic, and it would have this parody quality, and almost this surreal, you know, aspect, if the people weren't suffering, the pain that American people are feeling now is so damn real, because you have these malignant narcissistic stupid humans who have hijacked the United States of America, dividing with these culture wars, and they're trying it again. I mean, I'll show you right here, like, what are they talking about at these rallies today in Michigan, just so you can see it for yourself? I mean, you've got people like Mike Rogers out there saying, here's what we're going to do. We're going to get the trans flags out. That's what we're going to do. We're coming from the trip. We're going to get the trans flags out here. Play this clip. So when you all help me get to the United States Senate, I'm going to make sure that we bring costs down. We're going to pass the Save Act. We're going to get trans flags out of our classrooms and American flags back in. American flags are in classroom. What are you talking about? Get the trans flags out. You see what they're doing, and you have the opportunity to lower costs. You are the ones who raise the cost, or what about, what about what's Lisa McLean saying? Maga Republican Congresswoman from Michigan, Michigan's particularly hit hard by Trump's dangerous trade war and idiotic trade war against Canada, checking in on the Republican midterm messaging right here. Let's play. The Democrats who are running for Congress are flat out communists. And now contrast that to New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani. What was he doing today? Fixing broken swing sets and saying here's our crew to do repairs for parks to make people's lives better in New York. This is what he's focused on. And this is their big enemy right now in the mag group. This guy is who they want you to be scared of here. Play this clip. New York, are you tired of waiting for your neighborhood park to get fixed? How long does this typically take? To do one boarder probably take it out. Meet the Renew crew. The squad of painters, plumbers, electricians, and pros will bring fast fixes to wherever they're needed most. If it's faded, broken, cracked, or even just missing, the Renew crew has a cover. I'll leave you all with that. Who are the parks and wreck music? I love it. I'll leave everybody with that right there. Thanks everybody for watching. We appreciate pre-order WTF American now. It's out October 20th, but if you can't order it now, it goes a long way. The pre-orders are so important they say, and if they say it, I say it. And they say it's very important. We appreciate you. Let's keep on building. Let's keep growing this together. We're thinking about you always. Jordy, take it away. 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