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Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for the John Truman Wolf Financial Hour. Now, here's John Truman Wolf.

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Okay, folks coming. John Truman Wolf here with the John Truman Wolf Financial Hour. Thanks so much for being with us on this uh lovely afternoon, broadcasting to you live as we do every week from the uh gorgeous uh Los Padros National Forest, where uh the sun is out, the uh pine trees are uh happy and smiling, and uh off we go. Uh the the uh investment markets are uh, and this has been true in the past as well, very sensitive to the potential uh settlement or lack thereof in the um uh are they not calling it a war with uh Iran? I forget what they call it. I think they call it something else. Um at any rate, the uh the Dow was off uh several hundred points. Um uh precious metals were off uh a bit, not huge numbers, 15 bucks, uh something like that. And um uh crypto, which was uh Bitcoin, which was up at uh 80, I think, and just a little bit of change is down at 78. Um, but if you look at the graph on um particularly on Bitcoin, uh for the last uh, I don't know, a few weeks, it's been kind of climbing, uh climbing a uh, I don't know, some of the some of the talking heads call it a wall of worr worry. It's just inching its way up. So all of these things, uh uh yesterday, uh when it looked like uh there might be a settlement or there was uh strong talk thereof, uh settlement in the war, uh the markets uh boomed. Uh, gold was up uh well over a hundred dollars an ounce, a huge move for gold. I think it was a hundred and hundred and thirty-three dollars an ounce increase on a single day. Um, and uh uh the Dow Jones was up um, I think about at 600 points. Uh crypto was up. Um so you know, in investors want this war settled, obviously. So does everybody else. Um, you know, we can talk about whether war is ever the answer. Um uh I suppose you can go back to the second the second world war and go, yeah, it was, you know, lacking that, uh Hitler would uh would own Europe. Uh the Nazis would own Europe. Um on the other hand, uh uh this uh war is a little less uh clear and delineated. Um but the point of the communication is that the investment markets, whether it's crypto, whether it's precious metals, whether it's uh equities, uh, are all very sensitive to what's going on there. Uh and um uh yesterday it was uh strong. It looked like there was going to be a settlement, maybe uh Trump announcing a settlement, even perhaps today, and the market screamed up. I mean, screamed up when you've got gold up 133 bucks an ounce or whatever it was. Uh that that's a big deal. Uh, and then today I think they're throwing spitballs at each other again in the Gulf of War moods and um uh uh things are down. So uh uh hopefully this thing gets settled and we'll have uh uh markets that continue to boom. I'm John Tremman Wolf. This is the John Tremble Wolf Financial Hour. Uh we'll be back right after this break for more financial news. Stay with us.

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All right, folks, we're back. John Truman Wolf, John Truman Wolf Financial Hour. Um looking at uh what's exciting coming up is um Trump is headed to Beijing. Um and uh that summit should be uh interesting in the extreme. Uh Trump has got his fingers on Beijing's oil, um, and it's one of the things that they uh they don't have. The CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, um uh does not have uh oil as we do. Um America has become oil rich and uh uh DJT, Donald J. Trump, has got his fingers uh uh on the oil pouring out of uh the Straits of Hormuz. Um and that is where Beijing gets a lot of its oil. So Trump is headed there. I don't know what they I'm sure there's a day that's pinned down, but I think it's next week. Um and uh that should be uh of of of of strong interest. Uh I have talked on the show before, I believe, of uh uh the trip I took there uh some years ago. I wrote a book um uh called uh Crisis by Design, and uh and a friend I may have told the story before, but it's worth telling again since Trump is headed that way. Um and a friend of mine in in Taiwan uh had a relative in Beijing, and she sent the book to that person who was uh you know somewhat up the food chain in uh the Chinese Communist Party, and she said, you know, the Chinese government would like to uh talk to you about some of the solutions in the book. And I thought she was joking. I thought it was a joke. I said, Have them fly me over business class and uh uh uh put me up in this particular hotel, which I happen to know was a very nice and uh uh expensive hotel. And and uh the next day she sent back an email and went, Yeah, they'll fly you however you want, you know, put you up wherever you want. Long story short, if you know, uh the Chinese government, this is pre this is pre-Xi Jinping, by the way. Um but they they they flew me to uh Beijing. I spent a week there talking to um various people. Uh they interviewed me on TV and sent it out to all their consulates. Um, and I was trying to take the position or did take the position that there were uh was mutual ground between Beijing and Washington, D.C. Uh, and that they should uh you know try and play uh play nice. Um it was uh fascinating, fascinating trip. I'm not sure anything positive came out of it in terms of actual uh international change of their uh their point of view. Uh uh part of the story I and I I repeat, I I think I told this uh previously, but uh among other things I had dinner with um this guy who was the head of China Gold, which is the largest gold mining uh uh uh company on planet Earth. Uh and this guy was eating up um gold mines around the world like Pac-Man. Um and uh the main thing he wanted to talk about, and I think it's probably why they invited me over, was that uh he was talking about uh backing the Chinese Yuan with gold. Um you know that would be a huge deal. I mean, you can imagine uh because every other currency on the planet is a fiat currency, it is a uh a currency fiat just meaning uh a government said this is the currency and this is what shall be used, and um uh there's nothing behind it other than a a government's uh fiat or statement that this is the kind of the the uh currency that should be used for for transactions. But if you threw uh uh gold behind it, if there was enough gold to back uh uh the yuan uh for instance, uh it would be uh beyond huge. Um but at least at that time, and uh I don't think it has changed uh significantly since then, there was there's no not enough gold to back the Chinese Yuan. Um uh the the so-called petrodollar uh broke down uh I think it was last year when the petrodollar meaning uh the deal between Henry Kissinger and King Fod is it Fod Sawd uh back in 71 that all oil had to be uh purchased in dollars. Uh that's the petrodollar. Uh the United States agreed to protect Saudi Arabia's oil fields in in uh in turn, and um they demanded that uh oil be purchased in dollars. That's a petrodollar. Um that broke uh last year um when uh Saudi Arabia sold uh oil to China in Yuan. Uh now how could they do that? Because the Yuan is not not worth the the script it's written on on international finance markets. Um but uh Saudi Arabia was able to do that or did do that by accepting the Yuan, and then there's a place in uh I believe it's in Singapore whereby you can trade yuan for gold. So um that was Saudi Arabia's uh ability to sell oil not in dollars, but in gold indirectly by uh accepting uh the the yuan and then trading it on this exchange in Singapore. I think it still exists, uh that exchange.

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And uh the so they they got paid in gold essentially, and gold continues to uh uh to rise. If you look at the graph on gold, uh it continues to chase uh uh five thousand dollars an ounce. It's you know been right up there, you know, kind of sticks its nose in that direction. Uh I think we crossed five grand a little while back just as a uh a short intermediate uh thing, and uh it's uh gold trading currently uh the high $4,000 uh uh forty-six, forty seven hundred dollars an ounce. Um but you go back to this point I was making regarding uh uh Saudi Arabia, that you know, they get they they got their gold, and as they sit on it, if they are sitting on it, uh they're making money because gold's going up. So they're they're they're they're selling uh oil, they're getting uh yuan, they're trading yuan for gold, and the gold is increasing in value. So it's a win-win for them. Um and it's something that uh uh you know is being looked at very closely. Is the the Trump is is such a powerful figure that the dollar has uh held its own pretty well. There have been attacks on the dollar, um uh and um there was uh has been uh talk about it falling, falling, falling, but Trump has been so strong that that has not been the case. Um and so uh gold is kind of hanging out and hasn't moved uh uh up in the last week week or so. Uh anyway, I'm John Tremmelwolf. This is a John Trimmel Financial Hour. Uh we'll be back uh with an interview right after this. Stay with us, folks.

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All right, folks, we're back. John Truman Wolf here with the John Truman Wolf Financial Hour. Uh we've got uh on the line uh an old friend of mine, uh Toly Safel. Uh and I have known uh uh Tolley and her husband uh Bob for many years. Um and uh Tolley, I do this show in my pen name, John Truman Wolf, just so you know. Um and um uh back many years ago, Toli and her husband were clients of my financial management company in Los Angeles, uh long since moved to Clearwater and have established a uh growing television network that is just booming, and that network is called uh American Stories Entertainment. Uh Toli, tell us about that network and and what uh made you and Bob decide to start in the TV business.

SPEAKER_12 18:34

Hi, John. Great to be here. Thanks so much for having me. Well, what made us start is we have always been artistic and creative, and we took a look around in 2020 and basically realized that the entertainment landscape was not serving a very large group of people, uh, and and we felt that that industry needed a change.

SPEAKER_03 19:07

And and and go ahead. I'm sorry, go ahead.

SPEAKER_12 19:11

Yeah, no, so we started American Stories with the idea to to make a positive business, uh, you know, a positive impact on the media landscape while building a strong enterprise.

SPEAKER_03 19:27

And and and and the show has got uh and uh the network rather has got a number of shows that are um what's a good uh uh way to describe them, fa family friendly or or or shows of interest to the you know, the everyday Joe and and Joanna. Um what are some of the shows that uh the network is uh is is producing these days, Tully?

SPEAKER_12 19:55

Well, we just launched we just launched our 2026 announcement for shows that are going to be in our network. And we have over 20 different shows in production, 14 of which were on this particular announcement. So we've got our one of our flagship shows, Surviving Man, which stars 136 legend, Don Man with two N, and that is a tactical show. There are very few tactical shows on TV, especially national cable, satellite, and streaming. It's very difficult to find those types of shows. It's a great show based on Don's career of training elite military personnel, law enforcement, high-level executives, and every season culminates in a mission, a mock mission, uh based on his career. So we take everyday people, some of them are former military and law enforcement, some of them are just civilians, and we put them in extraordinarily challenging situations as only a Navy field can. And then we have another show called Boom America, which is hosted by Shark Tank or Kevin Harrington, and that show basically takes you under the hood uh with what happens after the deal closes. So, like what happens, for example, after Shark Tank, like how do you take the company once they are connected up with the business expert from where they are to where they want to go. So Bloom America is all about that. We have high school sports shows, we have a great show coming out this year with legendary MMA icon Ken Shamrock called Lions and Return. We've got a lot of very uh exciting shows on the roster this year.

SPEAKER_03 22:00

There w there was uh I I remember if the last time I was talking to Bob, you have a show that features high school football, don't you? Is that still showing? Is that still right.

SPEAKER_12 22:10

We've got country ball, which has been licensed all over the place. It's global. It's actually has a huge following in the United Kingdom. As well as Oh really? Yeah. Yeah. It's on Prime Video, it's on the Roku channel, it's on a bunch of different outlets, Hubo. And uh it's interesting because a large portion of its viewership on Prime Video and the Roku channel is actually in the UK.

SPEAKER_03 22:44

Um fascinating. Terrific. And um I know uh uh we'll take a quick break here, but um uh I know you've got a show that's dealing with uh I don't know if it's regenerative agriculture or or agriculture. Um uh we'll talk about that when we come back. I'm John Truman Wolfe for talking to Toli Safale of American Stories Entertainment, and we'll be right back.

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All right, folks, we're back. John Truman Wolf here with the John Truman Wolf Financial Hour. We're talking to Tolle Safale, who is um uh the co-founder and creative director of American Stories Entertainment, a new um uh streaming uh television service with um uh for uh four I think she said you said totally 14 shows and growing. Um and uh one I saw advertised had to do with um uh regen, I think regenerative agriculture or something to do with agriculture. Tell us about that.

SPEAKER_12 28:10

Yeah, the show is called Farm Hero, and it's in its second season. Its second season will come out this year, it's in post-production right now. Uh and this year we went to Africa. Oh. So a lot of it was filmed in Africa. Uh yeah. Regenerative farming is really important, you know, and it's also taking off. It's becoming more and more popular as people become more and more conscious of their food and where it comes from, and regenerative agriculture not only uh assures us of having quality food supply, but it's also environmental preservation, you know, keeping the earth clean and able to produce food for us.

SPEAKER_03 29:02

Uh absolutely now what prompted you guys to go to Africa?

SPEAKER_12 29:08

Well, the uh creator of the show knows folks in Africa who are you know big into regenerative farming, and one of the godfathers of regenerative farming is there. And so that yeah, there's a lot of work going on over there to help feed the continent.

SPEAKER_03 29:34

Uh fascinating. What what part what part of Africa uh uh are they located or or or were you filming?

SPEAKER_12 29:42

Primarily Zimbabwe.

SPEAKER_03 29:45

I see. I see, cool. Um let me let me jump to another subject. I know in talking to uh Bob, um, your husband, um uh you guys are raising um uh uh some money. Um uh and uh in talking to Bob uh there is definitely a plan to go take the company public, uh perhaps in the fourth quarter of of uh what he has told me, perhaps in the fourth quarter of this year, or maybe maybe the first quarter of next year. Um and so uh for those folks that are that might be interested in investing, where where would they go, Tolley?

SPEAKER_12 30:30

Well, the easiest place is for them to go to our corporate website, which is different than our viewing website, and that's American Stories Entertainment.com. And there's a link on the menu there that says invest. And that would be how they could get information about that.

SPEAKER_03 30:50

Uh okay, cool. I think folks, uh uh uh speaking from from my perspective, I think it's a uh a great opportunity to invest in uh a company which uh I is my t is my timing correct, Tully. I think Bob told me uh perhaps the end of this year that's right.

SPEAKER_12 31:11

Yeah, okay. That's certainly the yeah, that's certainly the plan. Um we're moving right along.

SPEAKER_03 31:22

Um so uh folks, if you've got a you know, some some some spare change, um a few extra investment bucks, uh here's a private company that is into uh streaming media. I mean, if you look at the statistics on um uh you know television when we were growing up, you know, the three networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, and where their viewership is now. And of course, when we were growing up, there was no streaming video, but that has become the fastest growing area of eyeballs, right, Tolie?

SPEAKER_12 32:05

Yes. Uh streaming surpassed broadcast as a in viewership last year for the first time. And and it's it's just getting, yeah. It's just getting more and more, and we are extremely well positioned in this because we have our own streaming channel and streaming networks and apps and all of those things. And in fact, our audience is sixty percent streaming.

SPEAKER_03 32:40

Sixty percent what I missed that word.

SPEAKER_12 32:43

Sixty percent streaming. So not because we're not available on cable and satellite, because we are. But most of our audience is watching on streaming. And that's true of most audiences.

SPEAKER_03 33:03

Fascinating. Um so with with uh uh totally with fourteen shows uh um uh in production or streaming now, what what is the the target? Do you know how is there a target uh to uh to have a certain number of shows or are you just uh are you just continuing to produce shows of interest?

SPEAKER_12 33:27

Well, we'll focus right now on building the viewership and building our own, you know, audience that we have direct relationships with. So we're building up our audience list that we have direct relationships so that we can channel viewership on demand as we see fit. As opposed to necessarily you know relying on the platform to bring us viewers from within it, which is fine. That happens and it's great. But if we build up our own fan base that we then point to the platform, it puts us in a better position.

SPEAKER_03 34:13

Um I can't imagine your your that your staff isn't growing. Um uh the last time I talked to to Bob, um it was I I forget what the number was, but it was modest. But I'm guessing as you're continuing to produce new shows, does that demand uh a bigger uh staff?

SPEAKER_12 34:40

Sometimes we're pretty streamlined. We've got the process very streamlined and efficient. So we are not at capacity, let's put it that way.

SPEAKER_03 34:53

I got it. All right, all right, folks. Uh we're talking to uh Toli Safale, the uh creative director and co-founder of American Stories Entertainment, American Stories Entertainment.com. Uh, we're gonna take a short break and come back. I'm John Truman Wolfe. This is the John Truman Wolfe Financial Hour. Stay with us, folks.

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All right, folks, we're back. John Truman Wolf with John Truman Wolf Financial hour talking to Tolie Safale, the co-founder and creative director of American Stories Entertainment. This is a new streaming network. I say new the last, pardon me, the last few years. And they've grown to the point that they've got uh uh over a dozen uh streaming shows and are building more. Uh they're also going uh public uh uh probably in the neighborhood of the end of this year, um, and uh they're continuing to produce uh to produce shows. Uh Toli, if someone wants to see the menu of uh your offerings, uh where would they go? Is that on your website?

SPEAKER_12 38:24

Yeah, they can go to AmericanStories.tv slash watch, which shows uh a bunch of our shows and everywhere they can be watched, or almost everywhere they can be watched. And also just AmericanStories.tv has a good collection of our shows. And on that note, uh John, this year will be our sixth anniversary and the fifth anniversary of the launch of our network. Right in time for America's 250th.

SPEAKER_03 38:58

Well, congratulations. Um listen, I remember uh uh uh back uh you said you mentioned 2020, I wasn't even sure which year it was, but um I was with Bob down in Las Vegas um uh and just uh you know as as cryptocurrency was beginning to um uh uh you know make its uh presence felt and uh this kind of entertainment uh and uh we the two of us attended a conference down there. Uh and uh it seems like yesterday, but here you are, sixth anniversary, so that's a big deal, and congratulations. Um, I was just saying thank you.

SPEAKER_12 39:50

Yeah, we're very excited about celebrating our fifth anniversary and and coincidentally or not, maybe it's just kidnap our network launched July 4th weekend, 2021. So that's always kind of near and dear to our hearts because American Stories Entertainment and our anniversary of our network launch is July 4th weekend, and this year will be the fifth year, and it's also America's 250th anniversary. You know, it's all coming together.

SPEAKER_03 40:24

It's a bit it's a big deal. Well, that's cool. Well, listen, um uh it's been a delight talking to you. Uh for listeners, um uh go to uh uh any of those uh sites that Toli mentioned. You can see what shows are available, or you may you may already be a listener. If you're interested in investing, uh as the company is going public here in the next uh short uh period of time, uh you can go up to American Stories uh Entertainment.com and find out. Uh I think it takes you to links where you can invest. Um from my perspective as a uh the financial manager, I think it's a great uh uh investment because I think uh by the time um uh this company goes public, uh uh you know it's it's it's growing ex extre extremely quickly and um and uh aggressively and uh it's into an area of entertainment that is growing very quickly. So uh uh Toli, it's been a delight to have you. You give my best to your uh to your better half there, and uh uh uh we'll do this again sometime.

SPEAKER_12 41:46

Thanks so much, John. Thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_03 41:49

Yeah, my my my pleasure. Um okay, folks, uh talking to Toli Safel, uh the creative uh director and the and the wife of Bob Safel, uh uh who is uh uh the pr the CEO there. And they've built uh this couple has built a uh uh televis a streaming television network that is at uh if I got the numbers right, 14 shows now and growing. I don't know I don't know where the the the the top is gonna be or how many shows they're gonna uh wind up producing, but uh it's 14 shows and growing. And uh uh uh you know as an investment um uh in my opinion, uh you know, full disclosure, I own shares in this company um and uh I think it's a great investment. Um along with uh let me go back to having said that now, um, let me go let let me let's talk about some other investments. One uh that I've been following that's done very well. Um I don't know what my my percentage of capital gains increase, but it's uh several times is uh hydrograph power. Um uh a great uh uh company. I knew nothing about uh graphene. I I'm not saying that I know a great deal about it now, but I know more than I did. And this company uh uh the the graphene industry uh is growing, but this company leads that uh uh area, that network of companies, uh, and I'm a strong supporter of it. Uh go take a look, uh, go up to their website and take a look. Um uh and uh I think it's uh one of the hot investments of of the day. Um all right, I'm John Truman Wolf. This is a John Truman Wolf Financial Hour. Uh, with you every week at this time. We're gonna take a quick break and

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And we're back, John Truman Wolf here with our final segment, John Truman Wolf Financial Hour. Let me encourage, as I do uh uh every week, uh, if you're not a subscriber, subscribe to my newsletter, Strategic Financial Intelligence, at strategicfinancialintelligence.com. You know, we follow these crypto markets, we follow the precious metals markets, we follow equities, uh, real estate interest rates. Um, these are wild times in the investment world. I think they're uh uh they're very positive times. Um the uh the precious metals, which I've been calling for years uh as uh uh beginning uh in uh beginning and running in in in bull markets, have done exactly that. I started uh uh recommending uh the acquisition of silver at 14 bucks. Uh today I think it was at 77, something like that. So whatever that is, 14 into 77 is I don't know what exactly what percentage that is, but it's pretty uh pretty handsome. Um uh gold as well. Um I began uh recommending the acquisition of gold. Well, the truth is I've been following gold for many years since it was way back, but more recently started pushing the acquisition of gold at at uh a couple thousand dollars an ounce, and it's uh now just short of six thousand and sorry, five thousand an ounce. Um so our recommendations have been good. I've got some um uh equity investments that I've uh uh recommended in the newsletter, uh, which have done very handsomely. Um uh I mentioned uh hydrograph power um a little bit ago. That's a strong recommendation. Uh also um a gold mining company called uh gold mining incorporated that says exactly what they do. Gold mining incorporated. Uh that uh uh stock I bought uh for if memory serves right, 77 cents. Uh it's now trading at about a buck and a half or or right in that neighborhood. Um uh and I think that's got a long way to go. I'd be very surprised if some big company uh doesn't come in and buy them. But that's my opinion. I don't have that's not secret information from anywhere. That's just uh uh I'd I'd just be surprised because the precious metals industry um is is doing so well. And that little company, which I have said before, but I repeat, has that they've got seven gold mines, folks, um with millions of ounces of gold in the ground. Uh their mines, uh they've got them as far north as Alaska, some in Canada, in the US, and down in South America. Um uh so they're they're they're diversified geographically, millions of ounces of gold in the ground. Uh they've got a great management. We've had the CEO on a couple of times, uh Amir Adnani, uh very sharp guy. And um uh his company uh I think is just gonna continue to grow if somebody doesn't uh I would be I repeat, I would be very surprised if somebody doesn't buy them out. They have no debt. Seven gold mines, millions of ounces of gold in the ground, and no debt. It's a big deal. So um uh I would follow them uh and uh purchase uh purchase them if you want a recommendation. Gold mining inks GLDG is the trading symbol. Um so that's this week's show. Uh we're here every week, same time, same station. Um uh I again encourage you to subscribe to strategic financial intelligence.com. Uh, I'm John Truman Wolf. We'll see you next week. Thanks for being with us.

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