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I just finished laying 204 feet of fencing. No producer, no notes, no script. Just me in the basement with something on my mind that I cannot shake.
I think the tech bros are winning. And I do not mean that as a compliment.
I spent two hours in Afghanistan in 2013 working alongside an intel contractor who had a blimp camera 400 yards in the air that could read a name tag from two miles away in 10K resolution. That was 2013. Now Flock cameras are going up in Milford Delaware reading your license plate, your dents, your face. Digital IDs are being voted on. CBDCs have no ban. Sam Altman has said publicly he thinks AI could be the end of humankind and he is still building it. Peter Thiel cannot answer why Palantir is being used to target and kill people in the Middle East. And Anthropic executives are quitting to go write poetry in Europe because they believe they have built something that could end the world.
I walk through how we got here. The flip phone to the iPhone. The algorithm arriving in 2015. Operation Condor and 96% of American history being spent in active war. Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon as the world's most profitable independent security contractors. The military industrial complex not as a conspiracy theory but as a line item on a balance sheet.
And then I get to the thing that is keeping me up at night. I think they are selling America for parts right in front of us while we watch, get angry, do a boycott for a week, and then go back to filling our Amazon carts. What would it actually take to do something? I have a number. It is 10 million people. And I walk through what that would look like.
This is a long one. Make yourself comfortable.
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Welcome to the Zach Fowl show. Hope I'm coming into you loud and clear in a producerless version, alone in the basement, without a note in front of me. And probably the first time I've done that in a while. I think I maybe 15 episodes or so ago. Um I did a podcast called Why Do I Do This?
SPEAKER_01I think that's what it was titled. I think.
SPEAKER_00Just got done laying down the 204th and 38ths inches foot of fencing. We have put in the horizontal joists that interweave themselves between said 4x4s, uh, concreted in with a bag of 80 pounds apiece. My boys, Joe and Sean, friends of the show, operate the show, help me do the show. I couldn't do the show without them. Also, couldn't have gotten those fence posts in the ground without him. I have a lot to be grateful for. I think that's what I want to start this off with. I want to be clear with my brain's at. I'm just grateful. I just I and I was out there working once again, getting to the end of this fence. I'm also grateful our family dog Bo was indeed found. He was gone for over two weeks. And we got him. Got him. My mom. I couldn't have I oh I'm gonna cry thinking about it. She had me so happy. Um, I I'm so pumped for her because I was crying for her seeing how upset she was about that dog getting loose. Um, and I think in a world where there's so much overshadowing uh what we're doing, there's so much uh geez, there's just so much darkness going around. Like I can't stare at the economy too long, or I'm gonna see too much, and I gotta go focus on my garden. That's not even an analogy. I'll I'll just go to the garden shirtless with a with a my straw hat. That's not just a prop, that's that's my garden hat. Um and if I look at Epstein files through the Epstein Library or through Ian Carroll's web app or or through my own files or conspiracy circles, uh, if I have these types of conversations, which are becoming more and more plentiful, by the way, as as incredible people like you uh who maybe listen to the show or have seen me on social media or just remember from when I did real estate stuff, like coming up and recognizing me, which is crazy, first of all. I don't I don't want to downplay that or I'm extremely humbled that anybody would see my face, and somewhere in their brain, there's enough real estate in their brain taken up with with my face to be able to recognize it in public? Like, I know that guy by name. I also know what he talks about. The amount of real estate that is that is in the brain that could possibly be related to me is incredible. Um, and and and I don't feel I deserve it. I don't feel uh that it is uh anything but but like I said, humble. But regardless, what do you think most of the conversations that stem from those type of things lean into? It leads into you know Epstein, it leads into, you know, what's this AI thing gonna be? Well, what about data centers? Oh, about did you hear about this? Did you hear about that? What about this connection? What about that? And it just goes deeper and deeper and farther and farther and darker and darker. So God forbid, I like to think a little bit every now and then about the nice memories about when my mom found her dog. Okay, sue me, sue me if I'm not allowed to shed a tear or two thinking about my mom finding the dog after two and a half weeks of it being somewhere in the woods, more than likely only surviving off of the hide of a fox or two. I mean, two weeks worth of food? What was happening?
SPEAKER_01Or were you getting water? Which is another question for Iran, too. How are you getting water? Didn't we bomb a lot of the desalination plants? Are they gonna have issues getting water? Like just their own people. And do other countries utilize their water?
SPEAKER_00I know there's certain oil pipelines, gas pipelines that go between countries, but do they have water pipelines? Do they be sharing water? There can't be a lot of it out there. I wouldn't be um I wouldn't be surprised to hear there's some water socialism going on in Middle Eastern countries. What's up, everybody who did join the live? Um, here's the thing.
SPEAKER_01Let me be blunt here. I think the tech bros are winning. Hot take. Probably not. I uh I think the tech bros are winning.
SPEAKER_00I'm seeing um something the I I've never seen so much hate towards something like where we're going with technology than right now. What do I mean by that? I'm old enough to remember the flip phone.
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SPEAKER_00I'm old enough to remember the house phone. Do you guys remember the house phone? The house phone? Not even the wireless one that you were able to take to your room. I mean the one that literally had the little cord, and you'd walk around and you'd spin around in it, and you'd twirl in your finger, you walk back and forth, but only within like a 10-foot radius. And it was always in the kitchen too, so you couldn't talk about it like everything. Guys, everything. Okay, we had to get our Mac on. You can't do that attached to a wire where your mom's making potatoes. It's difficult. The vibes are off. And at 13, my vibes were already off. I didn't need more counterbalance.
SPEAKER_01But the flip phone to the iPhone, right? The flip phone to the iPhone. That's a huge jump.
SPEAKER_00Right? That was a huge jump. We don't even have to talk about house phone to cell phone. That was that was gargantuan. Gargantuan in the 90s, they had car phones? Are you kidding me? Why didn't we start doing that more? Why'd that fall off the planet until Bluetooth got involved? Why did we get rid of the car phones? Anyone know that? I haven't seen hate like remember the car uh seriously, people had like almost a landline in their car. Crazy. Apparently it had great signal too, great reviews on the car phone. Don't know why they got rid of it. I have never seen more hate in my life. I remember the flip phone to the iPhone. My my my my my my people probably remember millennials. The the flip phone to the iPhone was a huge leap. Huge leap in technology. Okay. That shift, when was that? 2012? 2012? First ones? We're not really getting smart, smart like maybe 2015. 2015. In or around maybe three, four years later, we start getting algorithms on these screens or shifting things up, and screen times going up because you could do almost everything from it. Now we can do our map on it, now we can pay each other through it. This social media thing's kind of crazy. Like it all kind of sprawned and summoned itself into our world from that moment, right? Everything is at the disposal. I don't even know where it is. Good. Of the magic black mirror in your hand. Which, by the way, I did not know. That's why the series Black Mirror goes by the name Black Mirror. Because it's a Black Mirror. Um, go figure. I've never seen more hate. More hate. Red, blue, some old, but a lot of young. A lot of young. I've never seen more hate for the current state of tech than right now. Okay. And I remember, okay, I remember that desktop computer, the family computer. I remember that. I remember floppy discs. I remember there was some the first video game I ever had was this Lego cave digger game. Am I crazy? This wasn't a fever dream. I promise it existed. And I would love to play it again. It was this computer game. I swear it was only like 32 megabytes of memory. And it was this, this, this I can't even explain it. Like you had a little a certain amount of oxygen, and you had to get people to mine for certain jewels, and then you face bosses. I really sucked at it as a kid. I'd like to play it again, along with the original Rayman, which I imagine I could get somewhere. Two games that kicked my butt as a kid. I remember drawing out blueprints and marker on how I could get past a certain level in Rayman. It was one of the levels with the candy cans. And there was a slide on the ice I couldn't quite nail. Then there was a boss at the end. So the one time I nail it, then there's a boss. I got this whole blueprint. I never passed it. I need to get the game back and do that because I'm allowed to focus on the little things like my mom shedding a tear or the boss at the end of the slidey dippy part of Rayman, or maybe for the life of God, I'll figure out what the name of that Lego game was, and maybe I'll beat that too. How do you like that, BB Netanyahu? How do you like that? Palantir, you're listening. How do you like that? I'm gonna get back. I'm gonna find out the name, and I'm gonna beat it. How's that make you feel? Because I've never seen more hate. Like we we know everything's being recorded. We know everything's being recorded, we know everything's being stored. We know AI can read our sentiment. We know AI is literally we see it writing the sentiment. You know how the AI search function works on TikTok? How at the bottom it says people have been searching for, blah, blah, blah. It's just an AI-generated subject based off what the person's been talking about. So they know our sentiment, they know what we're saying, they know what we stand for.
SPEAKER_01And even though there's so much hate, there's nothing stopping it. There's nothing stopping it. There's nothing stopping it. The tech bros are winning. And I I hate to be the god, it's like, hmm. This is depressing.
SPEAKER_00I'd like to offer the caveat that isn't violent. I'd like to. I'm not a very violent individual. Zach, you were in the military. I was ready to fight if I needed to. I was ready to fight if I needed to. I was. But I was in signal. I was in infantry, wasn't an engineer, ranger. I didn't do any of that. I joined the National Guard, happened into full-time service, happened in the Afghan. I was like, I did this for college.
SPEAKER_01Why am I in Afghanistan?
SPEAKER_00And turns out that's just a giant murder profit machine, our military. We're just protecting the oil since Kissinger in the 70s set up the petrol dollar. Why did we have to do that? Oh, because we delivered ourselves off the gold standard three years back. Oh, why did we do that? Oh, because we lied about how much gold we had back in 44 when we signed this Bretton Woods agreement. Why'd we do that? Oh, because it was World War II and the European Union, like all of the countries were just gone. You know, industrial speaking, and infrastructurally speaking, investment speaking was gone. Need to rebuild it. We'll back it with the dollar. We'll back it with the gold. We lied. And in walks the petrodollar, and now we got to continue war effort since the mid-70s. You can see the clear pattern. We're, I think it's 96% of the time we've been in an active war, even though right now technically we're not in a war, but come on. Really, since Operation Condor, we have been in this world of colonializing over countries that were seeking communism, socialism, or some form of straying from either the petrodoll or a central banking system. And when they strayed too far off the path, when they started selling their oil in something different, when they started doing something different with their banking system, when they started getting too big economically, too independent, that they didn't need us anymore. Funny enough, we're gonna replace your leader. Hmm, wow, look at all these wow, there's people rioting in the streets. We didn't we didn't insinuate those riots, did we? No, operation chaos. No, we don't do that. You know, and and and then there's wars and there's and there's there's missiles. It's not it's not that crazy to see that our military is just like an industrial oil security guard slash independent contracting profit. The independent contracting profit is insane. Lockheed Martin's breaking bank, Boeing, Raytheon. Okay, I think the the big tech bros are winning right now. Digital security, physical security. You you know how many flock cameras are up in Milford, Delaware right now? They got us locked down in Milford, Delaware. Okay. Flock cameras are here, they know what you're driving based off. Dents on your cars and your facial recognition. I know these cameras can be insanely, insanely powerful at the government level. Because let me give you an example. When I was in Afghanistan, right, I was at this one fob, okay, and this fob is still in operation, so I don't believe I'm allowed to say the name of the fob because I'm also going to give you some defining qualities of the location. It's part of the story, okay? So I don't want to get sued by the military. Uh, I don't know any secrets, by the way. I don't know anything that's like, whoa, nothing. I have one time where I got to work alongside a CIA guy for two hours and I saw some crazy shit. Other than that, nothing. But um at this FOB, which is a forward operating base in about 2013, um I was stationed in a place that was near that Mark Wahlberg movie. Um, was it Lone Survivor? He was on like a little mountain. There's a little town. We could see the town from where we were, okay? And because of this location, we were we were in the midst of all these mountains. Okay, we were like in a bowl, which by the way, with all the hate I hear for all the tech out here, I also hear some hate for Afghanistan. Can I tell you one of the top three prettiest places I've ever been in my life? This isn't a joke. I'm not making a bit right now. One of the top three most beautiful places I have ever been to is RC North, Afghanistan. Lovely. During the fall? Oh, it was lovely. It snows during the winter. It was beautiful. I you could see, you could see like shepherds literally with with with uh with flocks of sheep walking along the pathways of the of the mountains around us, and and you could see you know the RPG missile go up in the air right over the horizon. And if it was just near sunset, it kind of had this orangish glow to where you could kind of barely make out the RPG flame, and then it started roaring too, and you're like shit, and it was already too late to move. So luckily they had terrible aim and it would like go in the river. But there's a river, it was beautiful. You could see all the stars at night, you can see all the stars at night. It's gorgeous. There's no light pollution, they operate in darkness, which makes them terrible shots with their 50 cal sniper rifles, unless they steal our military uh, you know, night vision goggles, which in one case I do have a story about that did happen. But regardless, the point being is I got to work alongside a guy who was basically the independent contractor. I don't know who he worked for, he made bank, who oversaw the security intel over the base. This guy was one of the people that would call in a shot. Like he would say, I have the target. I found him. He's watching two goats have intercourse over here on the bridge. He seems to do this every night at 2.32 a.m. And he would call in the shot. Now, I did night patrol as part of my one-month shift there. It was a little bit terrifying. I was out alone on a blackout fob in Afghanistan. And I've never seen so much hate as I'm seeing right now towards tech, but man, I've also never seen anybody try to talk about walking around in a place where people have sniper rifles and missiles and they don't like us Americans too much, and being the only living human out and about in the midst of a dark desert, it's not having the M16 doesn't make it feel too much better. I gotta be honest with you. It didn't make me feel too much better. The point of it being, I'm getting to a point, we're gonna land this plane. You couldn't at this fob, though, you could only land helicopters, no airstrip. Which is, by the way, the difference between an airfield and a forward operating operating base. Gandahar and Bogram had airstrips. So would FOB Lightning.
SPEAKER_01So actually, wait a minute. Okay.
SPEAKER_00The point of it being I during said night walk, I would always go underneath this little bunker where this guy, I won't give his name, he was the independent contractor, oversaw all the Intel and tech, and he did so via a little blimp that flew above our base. I kid you not, there was a Met Life blimp that was attached at some like by some really strong rope. I swear to God, it was at least 300, 400 yards in the air. If it landed, I would say maybe, maybe it was 40 feet long. Way up there, and it had cameras on it. Okay, and this guy had intel using those cameras. We following? We following? One in the chat for people who are here on live. We following? I'm gonna land this plane. He got to see everything on these cameras. Okay, these cameras could see two miles from their current location.
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SPEAKER_00Two miles in 1080p. Okay, I want you to think about a camera that two miles from where you're at right now would have the ability to see a name tag on your chest from two miles away. That technology existed in 2013. And now we're already seeing surveillance devices getting installed in every single town, including Milford, Delaware, and you're trying to tell me they're not winning. I'm supposed to look at digital ID getting voted on, and I'm not supposed to be concerned. I'm supposed to look and see that there's no central bank digital currency bans yet? Nothing. Nothing. I'm supposed to look at AI. Guys, I played around with Claude. Thing is disgusting. Okay? It makes mistakes. It makes mistakes. But guys, we've gone from Chat GPT helping you make a meal plan to it can run sub-agents and it's running at multiple hours of the day with scheduled things and it's interworking with code and it's just it's doing everything. And that's now what's gonna be in two years. We have people quitting the anthropic team who created Claude. We have people quitting the executive anthropic team saying, we have basically created the end of the world. I'm gonna go to Europe and do poetry. That's a true story. That's a true story. We have AI creators getting up on podium. Sam Altman has said, I think it's gonna be the end of humankind, but in the meantime, we're gonna make some really cool businesses with it. That's Sam Altman. That's ChatGPT, open AI. We got Peter Thiel not being able to answer simple questions around why his AI is getting utilized to actually target and kill people in the Middle East. You're telling me it can't even properly code a website yet on first go, and you're using it to end life halfway across the earth?
SPEAKER_01Then let's get to this presidency. I'm supposed to look at this and not see theater. I'm not supposed to look at this and see well-planned dividing theater.
SPEAKER_00Every week that I get to see, and by the way, we've called this war. How long's it gone on? Three and a half, four months now? For all the listeners here, you and I, we've been on lockstep of what the next two to three weeks were going to look like in this war. We knew from the get-go this wasn't gonna be two to four weeks. We knew from the get-go this was gonna be a catch-22 around the Strait of Hormuz, oil supply, and all that, but but let's am I not supposed to believe this is all just some kind of theater? I'm I'm watching Howard Lutnick, a literal should-be convicted criminal, associate, neighbor, confidant of Jeffrey Epstein, decide legislation for our economy. I'm watching Kevin Warsh, who's the son-in-law of Ron Lauder. Ron Lauder, another xio billionaire, close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, is in charge of our Federal Reserve.
SPEAKER_01I'm looking at the Epstein files, be completely forgotten about.
SPEAKER_00Be completely forgotten about. Oh, and by the way, the fresh news on The Charlie Kirk assassination is pretty much what we got all, uh at least at the very least, me. I think I have one episode where I talk about it. You can find it. I don't know the numbers, probably in the 20s where I talk about that, my theory around it. Exploding microphone. I felt crazy for saying at the time. Now that's exactly what it looks like. And if the FBI is covering that up, Cash Patel, what what am I supposed to think? What am I supposed to think when all they focus on is a stock market and enriching themselves? What am I supposed to think when every time the war does back up, it's conveniently after 4 p.m. on Friday? What am I supposed to think when I'm looking at the oil short contracts that hit for millions and then profit for billions with insider information when I'm watching tweets move trillions in financial markets? When I'm watching BlackRock rebuilding Ukraine, when I'm watching a super city pop up over a genocide? What am I supposed to think when I'm watching America getting sold off for parts, knowing the inside's rotten? The jobs are worse than the data says. Inflation is way worse than the data says. People's sentiment and their feelings right now are worse than what they have on survey data. The job market is way harder to get a job in than is being reported by anybody. AI is taking way more jobs than any viable, with integrity investigative journalists is willing to figure out and actually report on because people are reporting day after day their job, of which they were highly qualified for, with a strong resume, who's being pushed out for what? A manager above them that's going to be overseeing a fleet of AI agents. I've had talks with robotics, commercial robotics people in executive C-suite type levels. I've had conversations with them about where they think robotics is going to take us here in at least our industrial economy. He said there will not be a single human that operates within a factory, and he added, or data center, because he thinks robotics will take over a lot of routine security. And then I get to the economy. And then I get to the founding of the Federal Reserve, and I get to the financing of World War I all being JP Morgan. I see the Rothschild Morgan bailouts in 07 and 1895. I then get into the Kablooy that could have been completely neutralized of the Great Depression and the thousands of banks that failed, and the 25% unemployment rate, and them utilizing seashells as currency, all while bankers were profiting, and elitists who were just recently in 1914 apparently demonopolized, only growing richer. That's crazy, isn't it? Like I get through into the 40s, and now we're back to Bretton Woods. We try to globalize the world with the dollar, with gold we didn't really have. France called us on our bluff, multiple countries called us on our bluff, and so we had to destabilize the gold standard. 71 Nixon shock. We said we're no longer tying our dollar to the gold. It was a dollar, uh $35 for an ounce.
SPEAKER_01And then shortly after we tie the dollar to oil. Why?
SPEAKER_00Because Israel was getting hit up by Egypt and I think Syria. It's called the Yom Kippur War.
SPEAKER_01I believe Bibi Netanyahu fought in it. I believe he fought in it.
SPEAKER_00I believe that's the war that he left America for from his schooling to go fight in.
SPEAKER_01Correct me if I'm wrong.
SPEAKER_00And and and because they were skirmishing, America steps in to once again, as always, only within a decade of the USS Liberty we step in and we help Israel. OPEC hates that. And they force an oil embargo on our country. Why? Because we were we were we were helping their enemy. Plain and simple. So they were cutting off your oil. And then we walk in and say, hey, give us back the oil access, and in exchange, we'll trade in this petrol dollar thing and we'll use our military superpower to protect your oil industry. You rich Saudis. And that's apparently through the Kissinger's and others how it kind of worked out. Probably very layman. Then you get to 74. Now we have a fair credit act that now allows uh minorities to get into credit. So obviously credit expanded. Good. Year after that, we also had 75, where now women were brought into the work first more uh more at majority. They were allowed to work as freely as they wanted to. That was good. More people. And in 1971, the PAL memo. Pal memo, U.S. Supreme Court judge encouraging all corporations to get more involved in politics. I'm supposed to believe it's not just some theater. And I see so much hate now, and I'm gonna get back to this in a second. I see so much hate now.
SPEAKER_01This is really what I want to talk about.
SPEAKER_00And then the answer to the savings and loan crisis that we're going through in the 70s, the first and only bout at the time, even though I think we're going back through it. We've been calling this for over two years now, stagflation, wrecked the economy. Paul Volcker, who is a head leader of the Trilateral Commission, the United States branch, North America branch, I'm sorry, under David Rockefeller. Uh, that's a real thing. And also confirmed by the Epstein Library, raises interest rates to 19, 20%. That's why every boomer will be like, well, the interest rate was a million percent. It was it was the cost of two blueberry cobblers and like 20k over 20 years. Shut up. Go work at the diner and pay off your mortgage. Literally just bring pancakes from the kitchen to a table and smile, and you can have an education and a house.
SPEAKER_01Mary, Linda, Susan. Come on. It's so different now.
SPEAKER_00And then you walk all the way through. Just keep going with me. Reagonomics to the 80s, Reaganomics to the 80s destabilizes work unions, allows the corporations to be more free and clear of the government, and then they're making way more money uh through their tax revenue. Uh it gets restructured and all that shit. And then sorry for guessing. And then we walk into the 90s and we get NAFTA. They start sending jobs over continental lines. We get the ATT Communications Act. We also get Glass Steagall getting removed from FDR's original Great New Deal, post-Great Depression, to kind of get corporations a little bit more uh regulation. They rip that out and they allow banks to be whatever they wanted to be. And a lot of economists say that that's what caused 2008. It allows big banking oligarchies to pop up, and they're still here to this day because we bailed them out after 08, but that their risky investing was only propelled by that. And an SEC margin rule change that happened in 2004. And I'm not supposed to believe this is awesome act for enriching elites. I'm watching genocide happen, and they're putting up resorts. I'm watching Lebanon get assaulted, and they're being talked about in the news like a pawn piece in a chess match between Iran and the great negotiator or awful, evil, stupid head. I think it's an act. I I how am I not supposed to look at all this crazy like I called BB Netanyahu? It's reported that Donald Trump said BB Netanyahu is quote unquote fucking crazy. Oh my god, I can't believe he said that. I'm supposed to believe these people actually have beef with one another. I'm really supposed to believe that. I'm really supposed to believe that this this this this caricature, this caricature of a of a person that we have in charge. The last five or six people, they're they're just caricatures. They they're like, wow, they're so political. They just really know how to talk.
SPEAKER_01They just really know how to talk.
SPEAKER_00But this administration, they don't even know how to talk. Why'd Cash Patel can the Charlie Kirk assassination investigation two weeks after it happened? Might have been less. We found him with all of our resources in about three and a half days. No, the dad turned him in.
SPEAKER_01He didn't do anything.
SPEAKER_00And then his so-called trans boyfriend that was in on it on the dark web and was equally connected to it just disappears off the face of the earth. And then you claim Tyler Robinson takes the shot, and you have video footage of him jumping off of the roof post-shot, apparently. You have the footage. I've seen the footage. I've seen the footage of him jumping off the roof. He ran across the roof, jumped off the roof, he kind of like dropped off like that. Apparently the gun was in his pants at that time. They have the foot- the security foot, and in that shot, you can see the vantage point of which he would have taken the shot. I've seen still photos of him sitting there laying there in that corner. Just show us, just show us the bullet leaving. Just show it. Why won't you show it? Why were there why were there thousands of people there and nobody saw him? Nobody saw the shot. No one was looking.
SPEAKER_01Nobody. Nobody.
SPEAKER_00I I I quite honestly I don't want to be all conspiracy theory, but I I said on I think it was only a piece of long-form content I posted on social media. I believed within about a month that his mic exploded. It didn't look like what a 30-0-6 round is supposed to look like. Uh I fired that weapon, it explodes. Um, for lack of a better, I shot like a something, something in a like a one of those plastic barrels. It wasn't sand, it was something else that made it like take a sizable hole. I only nipped it because I'm a terrible shot. And then there's so many experts that that walk through the the the the just doesn't match. It doesn't make sense. Doesn't make sense. Why is the screwdriver still left on top? But yet apparently he took it back apart when he brought it back to the coop to put it back together with the coop. Well, how did he do that? Why did his his clothes change? Why, why, why does the security team and the TP USA team seem more enthused with getting over top of his body and taking something out of his pocket, look like a wire, giving it to someone else who leaves. The guy who was leaving, I mean, he didn't even seem phased by the shot. He was like, Give me the thing, give me the wire, let me run. I got a phone call to make. No one's looking around for a second shot. It looks like the guard makes a really weird movement right before it. I don't, I don't know. All I know is the official narrative makes no sense. Why was there a an exploding mic that was sold? I think Candace Owens talked about it recently, but Ian talked about it more recently or uh sooner after the event. Shout out my boy Ian Carroll on the Tennessee factory that sold literally exploding microphones for the government, which is crazy. Why do they have a line for that? Um, and then it exploded like within the week. Yeah, like I don't I don't I don't want to come off as like trying to be too many things at the same time. I'm an economy guy, but I also have eyes. And this is why I think there's so much hate right now. We're watching data centers rip apart nature, rip apart water, rip down home values, right? Nobody wants these. No jobs, no real economic benefit. We're watching AI slowly morph into something that's gonna take everybody's job or take all the creativity out of our lives. We're watching prices all while this is happening, haven't even mentioned prices, haven't even mentioned the economy. We're just going through the legislation that got us to this point. Then when COVID happens, by the way, if I stop that timeline a little early, then we hit 2008, of which no one's held accountable for. We print $9 trillion via the Federal Reserve. It's down to like 7.8, I think now they hold in assets. Um, over uh between 2008, 2012, 2015, and 2020, 9 trillion to artificially lower rates, printing money into the economy, of which only governments, asset holders, and the banks themselves get richer because of. All you get is a higher cost of living. All you get is a higher-priced asset, higher-priced starter home, higher-price used car, the unaccountability that we're seeing around monopolies, the allowance of congressmen to insider trade, the lack of term limits, age limits, why Mitch McConnell literally dies live on air, has a habit now, goes fully unintelligible, just stalk of celery regularly, and he's supposed to be the person that's gonna stop the tech bros from taking over? Are you kidding me? That's like when the substitute's in class and you think the kids in the back, the two boys in the back, are gonna take full advantage of the fact that you don't know what you're doing nor care. Come on. Half of Congress, if you had a if you had a competition to see if each and every Congress member would be able to restart their home Wi-Fi, I think only 50% would pass. And that might be an overstatement. Might be a huge overstatement. I might really miss that on CalShi. I'm supposed to watch Calci take over and Polymarket take over and DraftKings and FanDuel take over, like one out of every three ads. If it's not a Medicaid or something for some medical product to inject into yourself, or alcohol, or gambling, or here's a new Sabrina Carpenter album. What am I supposed to do? Like, why is it that everywhere adjacent to me, like if I turn on a Roku TV and I see the little ads that they have pop up, or I or I see an ad on like TikTok or or if I'm uh you know just just watching TV, I'll see them watching TV. I'm even seeing it in organic content. Like, did they have run a crazy creator campaign or on like Love Island? It's just porn. What are we doing? As a as a free country, do whatever you want. But as a moral country that wants our youth to actually have some success in life, why are they being fed only? You can't afford anything, you got to gamble to get rich. And by the way, every single person on the planet is more attractive to you, more sexually appealing than you are, and you're fat, lonely, and you're never gonna own a house. Sorry, healthcare just went up. Why is that what they're being told? I am seeing so much hate because we're sitting in the schmidt, we're sitting in the mud right now. We're experiencing the end of what this is, this this American experiment, this, this, this banking elitist, something tech bro-ish conglomerate, billionaire elitist, Zionist adjacent group that's that's orchestrating some kind of play, some kind of I don't want, I don't wanna, you know, again, uh say I get how it works, or who's at the top calling the shots, if it's a banking cartel, if it's families, if it's bloodlines, if it's Anunnakis, reptilian people. I I don't know. And I don't claim to, but I've stared at the economy long enough to believe if there were enough adults in the room at any given point over the last 113 years, this would have been fixed. This would have been fixed at the very least, at the very, very least, from the 70s to today, give it 50 years. If over the last 55 years, enough grown men and women with an economic background or at least the logic to connect with smart economic figures, uh, to to get together committees and have town halls with people to understand what's going on in their homes and their households and their grocery carts and forward it up like a phone tree so we can get real legislation to solve real problems. None of that happens.
SPEAKER_01None of that happens.
SPEAKER_00And I think this all just ends with there just being more and more and more and more and more strings put onto us as people. The cattle. How am I supposed to not believe we're not just cattle? They do not care. They do not care. They think they can funnel muzzle velocity news at us. Like, no, let me actually restate this. They can successfully throw muzzle velocity like a fire hose at us in the terms of the news cycle to get you to stop caring about a genocide, to get you to stop talking about an Epstein list, to get you to not even look at a Peter Thiel dialogue, or what the hell actually Juan Orlando Hernandez is up to, or how the Epstein list actually completely is legitimate and should have incriminated hundreds of individuals, but instead we've only seen like 12 step down. Like, it's not that you as a listener, I'm not calling anybody out, I'm calling myself and everybody out to say we have enough to have done something as a people. There's enough hate toward what we're looking at in the form of the tech future we have. This national security state, social credit score, drone surveillance, right? I'm I'm I'm sorry, I'm sorry. If you told me five years ago there was going to be something I could put text into and it could build a website by the end of the day, and I wasn't paying someone 25 grand to do it at that point, I said, I would think that's a little far-fetched. That might sound a little far-fetched to you. It sounds a little far-fetched to me, but I've had enough conversations, I've listened to enough smart people, I've I've written through so many documents and I've listened to so many seminars, and I'm reading economists who are writing books in the 70s, in the 80s, in the 90s, in the early 2000s, they're like, hey, uh, this isn't working. It's not gonna work. Here's why. And then when I hear our politicians talk about the economy, I don't get that. I don't even get the decency of saying, I'm gonna rely on somebody and I'm gonna bring somebody in who can give you a good answer on that and actually do it. Instead, I hear them babble on about the fake job numbers, inflation being whatever it is, they'll just say it's dead and it's not.
SPEAKER_01And the stock market. Okay, that I'm not trying to be doom and gloom, everything's gonna blow up.
SPEAKER_00In fact, I think it's worse if it doesn't blow up. If it blows up, there's a chance at rebuild. If it all craters in, there's a chance at restructuring. If the AI bubble pops and everything goes down with it, they might say, hey, yo, we gotta approach this a little bit more. We got some guardrails in here. We got to get some restrictions in place. You know, I know China's going for it too, but whoa. Right? Maybe we need that. Maybe we need private equity to literally crumble over the fake money that they valuate them and their companies at. Maybe we need to stranglehold them by taking out the uh carry loop, uh carried interest loophole and strangle and allow our stock market and everything around it to start toppling as they just start selling their assets and start and no one's buying and everything crumbles, retirement accounts, housing values. Then we could rebuild. But I think it's even scarier, and I think it's most likely not gonna say most likely, but it's definitely scarier to think of what if it doesn't? What if the K grows deeper? What if the difference between the haves and the have nots grows starker? Guys, we're a really rich country. We're a really rich country. Our poverty-level people have nothing on stuff that's going on in India. Not not holding the candle to what the working class is used to in the Philippines. Okay? The the the bottom of the barrel is is I think really far for a lot of working class Americans before they actually do something. That's where I feel I'm going crazy. I feel like I'm watching them sell our country for parts all while we're staring at it, hating it, wanting something done about it, and nobody's done anything about it, myself included. What does that mean? What does it mean when you can see the tsunami wave coming and you scream about it for three to four years, and you join all the groups, and you join all the Discord calls, and you read over the plans, and you watch time and time again a labor strike, fail. You watch time and time a blackout, do nothing. You watch time and time again, we're not gonna purchase anything from Amazon, we're gonna fill up our carts, and we're gonna do all this for a week and nothing.
SPEAKER_01We're not gonna pay our taxes, they're gonna pay their taxes. They're probably gonna pay their taxes.
SPEAKER_00And Mighty Muffin just brought up a great point. What would we do? That's a great question. I think there's great logistical ways of attacking the economy of the elite. Let's take it for a quick a quick run. A quick run, okay? A quick run and then I'm gonna run. I got a little bit more fence work to do.
SPEAKER_01If.
SPEAKER_00Okay, and this is the big if it opens up the skill tree of opportunity. So what I'm about to present to you is one okay, one option. That if we really went seven levels deep on that skill tree, we could maybe get something done.
SPEAKER_01Okay? Right? Listen, listen.
SPEAKER_00The big if, in my opinion, is somewhere in the in the realm of three to four percent of the most Economically valuable population to be in agreement and take part in some form of strategized effort. I'll put it that way. I'm picking my words carefully on purpose, by the way, guys. I've probably already shadow banned this like 19 times. I don't want to full out delete it. Okay. Um, some form of of communal strategy. You'd probably need to get three to five percent, maybe three to four point five percent, okay, of of people on the same page. And that means they'd have to actually be on the same page and execute on said plan all 1 million or it would be way more than 1 million. What's three point let's what's 3% of our population right now? It's quick math. Quick math. That would be 10 million people? 10 million people. Okay. You need to get 10 million people that hate the same thing, that want the same result, that are willing to go down with the ship. Okay. They need to be willing to go down with the ship. Okay. This is a uh this is a so there was this question brought up to me the other day. How many grown men, or I'm sorry, how many, yeah, how many grown men do you think it would take to kill a grizzly bear? Actually, he said two grizzly bears. How many grown men do you think it would take? And I told him, uh, I don't think there is enough grown men unless you literally had enough to like pile on top of them to the point where they'd suffocate. I I you could talk hundreds, maybe even tens of thousands, but here's the thing: it may actually be hundreds if they were all playing a life or death game and they were willing to go down with the ship. If you had some that were willing to distract, that knew they were going to get pawed, bitten, mauled, you had seven of them that were willing to take on that, and the rest could, you know, strategically move in some kind of coordinated way, you may get some results. But if no one wants to go down with the ship, it doesn't matter how many you got. So here's what I mean by that. If you had about 3.5% of the population, this is what I would do personally. You would need 3.5% of the working making more than 60 grand a year homeowners in agreement.
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SPEAKER_00So we're talking 10 million in a group of what I just said might only be 100 million deep in America. Okay, so we're talking a large percentage. We're talking a large percentage. We need 10 million. All right, so maybe 10% of the total addressable market, maybe for my marketing geeks out there, Tam.
SPEAKER_01To A stop going to work.
SPEAKER_00In mass. Everyone would need to stop going to work. One of the largest cogs in the system is labor. Profit is how much can they charge for a service or good versus how much can they charge to have that product or service made. That's where the labor factors in. So they're never gonna pay you too much because that cuts into their profit. Record profits, by the way, are stolen wages and stock buybacks.
SPEAKER_01Mostly stock buybacks.
SPEAKER_00Let me bring this back. 10 million people, homeowners making more than 60 grand, homeowners making more than 60 grand that work. Can't be one of the 63% of people that are in the don't participate in the labor force percentage. More than half the country already doesn't qualify. Another large portion are kids. Okay, there's there's only a small percentage of which I just said are available because they need to A, cripple the workforce. That's number one. Two, that many people have a net worth that could flood the asset market. This is why they need to go down with the ship. The the you guys ever play. Now, let me say this for number three, actually, because this is like there's a dodgeball tactic I'm gonna address this as, okay? Number two, okay? Yeah, what about trickle-down economics? That's a funny comment. I do read the comments, by the way, as they trickle in on the live. I just try not to address them because if you're listening to this at the gym on Spotify in two days, you're like, who the heck is Mr. Muffinman 71? My guy, Muffin Man71. An Exterminator 3XE. That's my guy. The second thing they would have to all do is they would have to not pay taxes. Every single one of them would have to participate. And when I say not pay taxes, I also mean the tax of the uh corporate consumerist lifestyle as well. They need to 100% for a year not pay taxes as well as not participate in any consumer spending that goes toward a macro facing company, largely the SP 500 companies. Because the goal of this is to crash things.
SPEAKER_01And number three.
SPEAKER_00Do you guys know this move in Dodgeball? It's called my my my brother always called it kamikaze. I don't know what it's actually called. Maybe it's not. Maybe that's extremely insulting. I don't know. Just saying words. Don't sue me, please. I see a lot of hate in this world, right? But there might be one person that gets more hate. Imagine getting hit with a dodgeball. It's just you and one other guy. Just you and one other guy. Imagine getting hit with a dodgeball. And it hits you, you drop it, and you have lost. It has hit you, it has dropped to the ground, and your team has lost. And not only did he throw it at you, not only did he throw it at you, he took off from the back of the court in a full sprint with two balls in his hands. Took off at a full sprint from the back of the court, ran up to the half point line, of which you are not allowed to cross on the ground in dodgeball, and uses his momentum from his sprint from the back court to propel himself five feet over, maybe further, depending. Maybe he's a long jumper. He jumps maybe about a third of your court in the air and pegged you before his feet hit the ground. Legal move, by the way. Very legal move. Imagine how mad you'd be. That's insane. This guy was willing to what? He's willing to go down with the ship. But he knew that the advantage that he would gain in that momentum would outlast or be able to outskill his opponent. The opponent are the elites. And so that 10 mil, and this is again the big if of the skill tree unlocks when there's enough emotion or enough reason to do something. I need the majority of them. It doesn't even need to be all of them in this case, but there needs to be a strategic effort around which ones and whom and where it will be most impactful to sell their assets. You imagine? You imagine if the housing market that currently had a million homes got flooded for four million of them? Because some of them have multiple assets, by the way. Some of them have rental properties.
SPEAKER_01Some of them have apartment complexes. Could you imagine what would happen to the asset market? How quickly it would drop.
SPEAKER_00Do you if they sold off their stocks when we know the top 10% own 90% of the stocks, which is why I gave those initial three guidelines, but they're probably gonna fit into the top 10%, they own 93% of the stock market. I get the top 0.001% own the majority. I get that in terms of their percentage, like pound for pound. But we're talking about making dents in the economy. If those three things happened, I think there'd be actual progress. If indeed there was a 3.5% labor strike or a tax strike or a lay or a uh we don't purchase from these macro corporate entities for a year, there'd be real pain. There'd be real pain if two million of us actually showed up in DC and stayed for two weeks, we might get hurt out. The problem between our size, our comfort, and our un or almost our sociopathy that comes from the muscle velocity of our news cycle that keeps us so emotionally numb to the atrocities that are happening live and in time and in front of us. Somebody said, What stops the big corps from buying everything up after that, though? They wouldn't have the ability to. Another big part of this, by the way, is if that were an operation, there would still be a strategic effort that I would say the bottom 90% can still participate in. So it wouldn't just be for them alone. Because at the bottom 90% range, we also need to commit to stop paying on anything that revolves around a credit score. Could be medical debt, could be a personal debt, could be a student debt, could be uh a car payment, could be any of these things. You might be, I'm gonna get repo'd. Not if two million of you do it. They're already busy. They're already busy. Zach, they're gonna arrest me for not paying my taxes. If a total of 20 million people didn't pay their taxes, guys, the IRS store runs on Windows Vista.
SPEAKER_01You think they're gonna get everybody? Here's where I struggle, guys.
SPEAKER_00I struggle talking about the economy every day to you. Not because I don't love you, love this, not that I don't feel I should be doing this, and I will continue to do this, by the way. This isn't a retirement ceremony. All right. But I can't find much good in the future economy. I can't find anything other than there's going to be less jobs. Some of those will be very high paying, okay, but there will be less jobs. There's gonna be higher inflation, which yes, I do know that means own stocks, own gold, own silver, own own any any precious metal, own large cryptos like like Bitcoin and Ethereum. I get that means hold assets like physical assets, like like a house, like real estate, like investment portfolios worth of real estate. I get all of those things. I'm not dull. And if there was a roulette table that constantly was dealing out winnings, I would be all for pushing people to that roulette table. But the problem is the minimum bet on that roulette table keeps going up and up and up and up, all while the wages of the employees who work at that casino are not. So how can the employee of the casino ever participate in the game? You have a lot of onlookers to the game that used to be the most fun on the planet. The American economy was the greatest casino on the planet. People were stepping up and winning, playing for 40 and 50 years and walking up millionaires. And they worked at that casino, they grinded at that casino, they did their 40 hours, they got their education within the casino, they slept at the hotel at the casino, they went to all the fancy entertainment, the music, the drinks, the parties at the casino. The casino made it nice. The casino kept it temperate, the casino kept the vibes up, the casino kept the money pumping, and people were happy to stay at the hotel and casino, which is why the casino has a hotel, because they want you to stay at the casino. They cut out the lights, they cut off the windows, they take out the clocks, they feed you the media they want, they keep you gambling, and it worked for so many decades because people were winning. But now the cost of entering even the roulette table is too high of a minimum for them to even start. And then for those that even start, they go out and they get a little Class C property in the middle of Houston, Delaware for $280,000, and then their taxes go up in two years, and then insurance keeps creeping up, and then they have a kid, and now they have $1,400 childcare, and an AI position just popped up at their job or at their uh company, I should say, that is gonna be taking 10 positions from that small business, of which one is his. What's what's good is that? He's getting wiped away from the table. You should speak to your representative about this. Who? The pit boss? The pit boss? The the woman at the at the desk back there at the casino? Who's who's the representative in this analogy? Who's the representative? Is it the pit boss? Because he could he can't change the game. He can't change the rules, he can't change how the ball rolls, he can't change who wins or loses. He's just in charge of the regulation. He's he's handed what he can or cannot do. Maybe the maybe the representative is the is the is the manager, the floor manager. Talk to them. Does the floor manager set the rules for the casino? No, they're told what they do, they're given a brand book, they have guidelines, they have scripts. I'm not supposed to think this is some play when I see the entire floor of the casino beginning to flood with individuals who work hard at the casino that can no longer afford the in-house casino that happens to pay really well. Assets have flown since the 70s. Assets have flown since the 70s. It was easy to become a millionaire if you were born in 72 and could put aside 10% of your income every single month, easy and done. You'd be a multimillionaire. You could have multiple properties financed at low rates, especially in terms of the income to cost ratio of the median household income of those years. Much easier. And now AI suppressing wages. Data centers are going to be backing that AI infrastructure, all while assets like the stock market can survive and even thrive during wartime because of the trillions of dollars invested into hundreds of billions, if not at least, into AI, into something that we're all supposed to be excited for. And nobody is. Everybody is complaining about the food at the casino now. Everyone says it sucks. All the private equity-owned subways and pizza huts and dominoes and and and jersey my they suck. You're giving us goy slot bowls as the main, as the main dish. The best thing I can look forward to at one of these establishments is a bowl of Chipotle ingredients, uh burrito ingredients from Chipotle. About the only thing most of the working classes can even afford at this point. So I want to get on here and give you good strategies, give you good investments, give you good things you can do. It hurts me to know 80% of you likely, if my stats line up with the audience, can't.
SPEAKER_01The major 72% of you are 32 years of age or younger. And 80% of those are male. And young man, your mental health statistically is near all-time lows.
SPEAKER_00It's like the Great Depression lows. You all know how much I think about that on a day-to-day basis? Of how I can help that, how I could help just in one person. I went through mental health struggle big time. I'm not I'm not gonna get into it right now. Okay, I'm not gonna get into it right now. I've been there. Okay? You're worth it. You're worth being here. You're worth a lot more than the lies that have been put in your head so many times that you started believing that was you. You started believing the lies to be true. You said the lie was said long enough and consistently enough and loud enough that you heard it and took it as truth. I hear you. I love you, you're worth being here. I see the stats, I see the numbers, and I know there's a real human being, a real man, a real man worth being here behind those numbers that because of this world that they are being given are deciding not just to take their own life. I mean, I'm seeing the decisions economically. They're not getting married. Okay, they're not having kids. They're out of the house less. They're drinking, uh they're drinking less, that's good. They're smoking cigarettes less, but there's a two vapes in all their pockets. Okay, they're they're having to make money by by betting on what the weather's gonna be next week. They're being sold pornography as their mainstream entertainment. They're having the dopamine ripped away from their system six to eight hours a day because that's the average screen time of this demographic. I'm not calling you out. I'm saying you've been sucked into a disease that was designed, and I'm supposed to believe this isn't all planned. And I think it's the tech. If I had to lay a bed on the roulette table, I would say it's the tech bros. They check all the boxes, they have the money, they don't have souls, and they love Israel. You need to be a very rich psychopath that's cool with war in the Middle East to move forward.
SPEAKER_01They check all the boxes.
SPEAKER_00And the the sickest part of this hitting now economically for all these people, mental health-wise, hitting right now for all these young people, young individuals, to watch a Charlie Kirk assassination get botched, to watch the Epstein Files literally just get wiped away from all media spaces, to see honeypot operations through our history, the the I mentioned all the different legislation and events. I'm not gonna rerun the timeline, but you hear all these things, you dive deeper and deeper, you get the bottom of the rabbit holes, and this is all you can do because you don't have a job, and you could just slop your way away on Uber, but statistically, you actually don't make any money doing that. DoorDash and you lose money when it's all said and done. You can't even go work as a cashier at McDonald's and get by. That used to be a thing. As a teenager young man, you could get by, get into a rental, working as uh at McDonald's, and now it's a screen. Now it's a screen with AI Mary talking to me at the front. I'm not supposed to look at that and be concerned long term and no one's talking about it. And logistically, I'm thinking these are the people that have been put in positions of authority by the voting population based off the how the democracy things should be working. These should be some of the most intellectual, logical, and America-first people in our country. And some of the most basic necessities are being ignored all while they are profiting themselves and their donors and their party, especially the elites within the party, every time they're in office. It's red and it's blue. They're chasing more green. It's all about money and power. There's no goal. There's no goal. They just want more. And I bet right now, if you laid out the whole plan, I think this is very possible, by the way. If you laid out the whole plan of like we are heading toward this authoritarian technocrasy where the tech bros are our leaders, the AI is running our government, corporations run the lands. It's like cyberpunk, but only in 2035. Okay, the rent and be happy thing. That's true. That's true. Everything's subscription now. That's true. Drones are surveilling you as you walk down to the gas station, of which you will scan your digital wallet attached to your ID so they know exactly what you're transacting in because cash doesn't work anymore. Crypto might have boomed. Maybe Bitcoin's at a million. I don't know. There's there's ways you could latch on. That's the thing. I feel like the only advice I can give is how to latch on to the inevitable crazy thing that's happening. And if I were to lay all this plan out, this whole thing I've just described to you, which sounds very tinfoily, I'll give you that. And I hope I'm a million percent wrong, but I see the lily pad set up for it. Not saying we're going to follow them, but I see them set up, and I see historically we followed them. If we were to actually lay this plan in front of them, I bet you, I bet you, I bet you, there's a likelihood that they don't even have that plan in place. There's a chance that that's just the inevitable result of the consistent need for more, consistent need for a bigger connection, a bigger valuation, a bigger net worth, more power, more money, more security, more land. I don't think if you laid it out in front of them, they may not actually say, no, that's not my plan. That's not they may be able to actually truthfully say that, but internally they know that's where they're headed. That's where they're headed. I don't think 20 years ago there was a uh there was a plan for a Gaza genocide so they could build a super city and some resorts and some casinos. I don't think that was a plan 2020, but I think that power and money and mammon and lust for it led us there. It may have been. It may be even not nefarious that it had been. It may be so nefarious that the big bear in the room that controls everything, whoever whom may be, when they step out against it and they have a large following that could sway voters, they get a botched assassination. Followed with a non-emphetic honeypot intelligence parent or parental figures for intelligence.
SPEAKER_01The girl that Drewski impersonated. It was very funny. I love Drewski. Good job. Um It just feels like they're selling this place off.
SPEAKER_00It feels like the Empire's done. I was listening to Tim Dylan the other day. I love Tim Dylan. I uh I DM'd him about a bit idea that we could run and uh he left me on red, so it must not have been funny. He does follow me on Instagram though. He did not unfollow me from my bid idea. So it wasn't that bad. Okay, it wasn't that bad. But I was listening to him show, he's talking about how how uh how which by the way he was on Rogan. Not a huge Rogan fan for obvious reasons, um, but he he did a great job pushing Rogan. He did a great job. Um he talked about the UFC party. That's that was like the last final hurrah for MAGA. That was America's last big party. Whether it's social revolt or democratic socialism that spreads like wildfire, or or I I don't know. That was it. The flyover, dude's wrestling. He mentioned the dude called out Obama's wife for being a man. It was perfect for him. It was perfect. And by the way, love UFC. I love combat. I do. I picked that up in the military. I love it. I watch it. I enjoy it. Um, I think the front lawn definitely should have been more respected. I think that uh the viewing area where they had the big screens for those that weren't like right on the front lawn of the White House could easily have been where it was, and you still would have had all the really cool camera angles and the flyover and the White House in the background. It didn't have to be on the front lawn. I didn't, I didn't, I thought it was not tasteful, if that makes sense. Um, but but I digress. I want to talk about the economy. I want to tell you what I know to put you in better positions financially. I want to tell you what I've known historically to give you patterns that I've seen in the past to maybe give you a head start on them unfolding into the future. And I gotta say, we've been pretty good on our bets. We don't lay down a lot of uh predictions on the show, uh, but we predicted that we had we were gonna see money printing from the Federal Reserve in like spring of 2025. They started printing in December of 2025. We were talking about in uh December of 2024 about silver and gold and the importance of holding it. Uh even pre-podcast on my social media platforms. Uh, and like the first episode, I talked about the fact that inflation was gonna drive assets higher. Stock market, Dow Jones, it's not going down, it's not crashing at this moment. We we've pretty much been spot on about this war going forward because we're watching patterns. We're watching patterns. We've called that mortgage rates were gonna stay high. I've called for the last six years, so we're not undergoing any type of housing crash. Uh, even for those who say it's crashing right now, this corrections happening. No, uh, a crash is a 20% on median national uh number that needs to be hit for a crash. There could be local crashes like in Southwest Florida, Austin, Texas, where they overbuilt, California, uh, a lot of insurance problems, even in Minnesota, Louisiana, South Carolina, hurricanes. Okay, there's there's different air for the every regular, normal, everyday rural American uh state, not gonna have not gonna have an issue, I think, in terms of a crash. And I hate that. Again, because I know to give the advice. I'm a real estate agent, guys. I don't have to do this. Can I be real with you? I don't have to do this. I could just go make content somewhere else, pocket another 15k commission, make another lead happen for my team, expand my team. I have five agents right now. I gotta have 20, I gotta have 40. I could have 50, I had 28, uh, 20, uh, 26 at one time between full part-time and those who were uh set to join. Um, 18 active at that time, uh, probably 13 when we were most profitable. Now we're more profitable than we've ever been, and I could expand it, I could scale it with what I know. Meanwhile, I I just I want to help. I I see how this system operates and I see I could keep feeding on it. I could. I really could. I could keep feeding on it. But right now, my father holds my book of business. You know, I do a little bit of marketing for the for the Delaware real estate side, but 95% of my content is here. In this mindset, that I want more people to have survived and thrived through this economy than if they hadn't listened to my voice in the first place. And that's not just financial. We talk all the time about whole wealth. I mean that brain, body, and spirit, then wallet. I believe you should be an investor in yourself, not a consumer. I believe this economy is rigged, and I believe it's a rigged game. I believe we're watching a play. And a play has a script, it follows patterns, it follows cadences. Okay, and games have rules of which we can learn, and you can play by them. But ethically, you might say, I don't want to play in this game, Zach, I want to tear it down. And I I hear you, I get it, I get it, I get it. And if that had momentum, like if I if that if that movement type, you know what I'm talking about. I'm not saying it for the algorithm, once again, but like um, if that were to happen, I'm there. I'm there. But I'm not gonna make some video campaign and combine with a bunch of other creators for 1,200 of us to show up in DC and 8,000 people don't buy from Amazon. It's not gonna get the job done, guys. We're talking about a massive movement. And the problem is our government's terrible at this point at lying under the microscope of social media and real-time investigative journalists, people that I would put, you know, uh Ian Carroll, Candace Owens, uh James Lee, uh Ian Carroll, you know, I could I could go on, you know, I I like Ian Went. Um, I like uh I like um oh damn it, I'm forgetting his name. I was just out there in uh Minnesota with him. I like Hunter Howell. I like Tiffany Seancey. Like I could just keep going on. Um, but it's it's it is frustrating to see how much we know and how little has been done because we know enough for the fire to already be on. Like I said again, I said it in. I thought I said it again. I'm gonna forget people. Someone's gonna have heard that and been like, why didn't you say me? Like, oh Ryan Mata. I like Ryan. I like his energy. Dude cranks out so much content. Which by the way, somebody who creates that much content is bound to slip up and make mistakes. But the thing about him is he always gives credit from using other people's content and he owns it when he has made a mistake, which I love because I've made mistakes, I try to own it when I do. I hate when people don't own it. Just own it. You're be real, both sides. If you want the wins, you gotta take the losses. Um, but it's like legit, like I just don't think it's gonna happen. I don't think that moment in time is here yet. I don't think that moment in time is here yet. I don't think that and and why we're watching people get slaughtered overseas, we're watching our taxpayers get uh dollars get behind it, where we just bailed out a country for a war that we started with them, all for you to just suffer for it economically. Your cost of living is getting ignored, healthcare, housing, the basic necessities, nothing's being done to improve it in the long term. We have world like globalist agendas like the World Economic Forum talking about they're gonna rent and be happy by 2030. We got tech bros launching all these different initiatives that are literally infiltrating normal ass cities like Milford, Delaware, and it's gonna keep happening, it's gonna happen so quick, it's gonna be too late. It's gonna be too late.
SPEAKER_01There's gonna get up to a point technologically, and I do not think we're far from it. I don't think we're far from it.
SPEAKER_00But there's gonna be a day where I can't talk to you anymore because if I spoke the way I was gonna speak, I would have to go to a jail cell and be separate from watching my daughter grow up. And until I have seen that day, I probably wouldn't do it. I'll be I'll be a bitch. I'll tell you right now, I would be a bitch about it. But then again, there's so many unmarried with no children, the job market stinks for the 20 to 30 year old.
SPEAKER_01Maybe there's enough of them. I don't know. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00It's uh again, I want to give you the path to survival, which makes me feel I should focus more on the mental. The mental health, the spirituality, meditation, fasting, the the the the great debates and conversation about why we're here on this planet, what we should do while we're here, and where we'll go when we're dead, uh, how to treat each moment, live in the moment, take care of our body, take care of our brain, take care of our spirit, grow in community, be around the people we love the most, cherish those moments with the people we love the most. Um build build for for others that you'll never even see the benefit from it. Like plant trees of which you'll never be under the shade of.
SPEAKER_01Right? I don't see that. And maybe I should push more force if we can grow a bigger community around that.
SPEAKER_00Maybe I could be the homestead guy. Homestead meditation. Maybe I should do this podcast out in front of my home my uh my garden. Maybe I should move to the studio. Maybe the stud should be outside. I love you, and I think about what to bring you now every day. I treat this like my job. I want to be real with you. I treat this like my job. I take great responsibility, and every time I turn on this microphone and and and authority as in places that I view I have the place to do so, and and I and I always pray for the the humility and understanding of where I simply do not know enough. And I am not of value to bring you that information. But at this point, I I know enough to know that the likelihood is the future is not amazing for those that already can't afford modern day, and I haven't come up with a great modern solution financially.
SPEAKER_01So that's where I'm at.
SPEAKER_00I hold great respect in you taking the time to talk to me. Um plug me into your your ears every now and then. It's a lot, a lot of podcasts out there, good god. A lot of lives. For those of you who had the live notification on YouTube showing up, listening to this live, patching in with the comments, I see y'all talking. Um I have a lot of love and respect for it. And I take great, great uh weight and I try to approach it with the most respectful, uh, diligent, factual, unbiased way that I can when I present whatever message I'm constructing for you uh whenever I bring it to you, whenever I hit record. And the subject matter matters to me. I don't want to be an ambulance chaser. I don't want to come off as one, one that just chases the top story to get views. I don't want to do that. Uh, I don't want to sell a course. Uh, I don't want to make my money off of a Patreon that offers you behind the scenes content. I frankly want to spend time with my wife and my daughter. I frankly want to spend two hours a day in deep research and and investigating and reading and learning. And I want to put another few hours into talking with you and bettering your life because it honestly, in ways where I can improve your life, it makes me feel better for being here. It makes me feel less guilty around just operating on my homestead and raking in residual income from a real estate company. Uh, by the way, I could do tomorrow. It would be it would be a lot less expensive, honestly. I would have more time with my daughter and my wife, um, which means the most to me. It means the most to me. And if I could carbon copy my life into your life's timeline, uh, if you feel you'll never get the chance to experience it, I wish I could. I do it in a heartbeat. I do it in a heartbeat. I would I would drop everything I have now to rebuild again and be 18 once again so I could yell and scream about what was to come longer and hopefully get more people more financially set up before things exploded financially. Um, but I can't. I can't. So I love you much. I'm gonna continue to ask for your feedback in person. Uh, as I'm about to uh end this episode, I'll clear us out. I'll land this plane. Uh, I will be sticking around live for those that are listening to live recording. I try to stick around at the end of each one. So stick around. And really to land this plane, I I'm consistently gonna be adjusting. So so if you're hearing this, give me two things. One, the YouTube algorithm caught us before launch. I was able to get up in TikTok and Instagram before I started to see the algorithm fighting. Uh YouTube, they caught us before launch. We don't show up in search, we don't show up anywhere. Uh, you have to type in our name. I'm hearing subscribers in our comments say that uh they're not getting notified, even though they're set for notifications. It's fine. Like I'm not gonna be the algorithm's fighting us. I'm talking about subjects that they don't want us talking about. What's gonna happen? It's all owned by the same people. What's gonna happen? So, what I ask of you is if you're taking it a listen, um, two things. One, if you can hit like and if you can subscribe. It shows that people are are here in community, it does help the algorithm in whatever way that it's handicapped at this moment, still, it seems, um, to have that. And secondarily, um, the other thing that you can do is give me feedback. You're not gonna hurt my feelings ever, by the way. I have done that enough to myself for decades. I'm uh I'm pretty good with my self-worth at this point. I'm all for advice um in terms of subject matter that should be covered. Should I focus more on the media and what's going on and deconstructing in real time? Should we focus on historical aspects and deep diving legislation and real-time events, true crime in the past? Should we focus more on just simply economics, finance, updating you on new things like when a housing bill drops, dissecting it, telling you what to do with it, vice versa. You let me know. Uh I am here for you. Okay, and I'll bring value wherever I feel I can bring it. I feel there's a few places we could want to focus it. I did run a poll on our YouTube channel the other day, and I did hear your 10 to 20 minute take. Make more 10 to 20 minute one-topic videos, and we are working toward that, just so you know. You were not ignored. The answer was clear. It was like more than 50% of the vote. So that is happening. Um, it will be a separate channel. We'll talk about that in the future. We already have it launched. Some of you might already be subscribed and be like, why aren't you posting on this? That's why. But yeah, that's where I'm at. I'd say great respect in you taking the time to listen to me. Uh, I again, I don't want you to, I don't take it for granted. This could all be gone tomorrow. Um, I can just be talking to myself in the basement. Um, but I I hope that I can bring value to your life. I hope that we can unite in this hate around tech that I'm seeing uh that actually breeds a result. It breeds a different set of lily pads that appear with people that are seeking uh the people satisfaction rather than their own profit creation. If we can get age limits and term limits and corporate lobbying and foreign lobbying and endless wars and these these these deep-rooted, swampy connections of cartels and tech bros that are just running everything and leading us in a in a direction that is clearly and obviously not in the favor of the working class. And long form-wise, I have to say, uh, I've said it probably a hundred times. The working class is the economy. Okay. So I love you. Let me pray out. Dear Lord, thank you for this time. Thank you for the honor of being able to speak technologically with each individual within the sound of my voice. I pray, uh, Lord, right now that we will find gratitude. Uh, I find gratitude right now, Lord, in just being able to use my voice. Uh, I find gratitude in this moment for being in a home that is comforted uh by controlled air on a very hot week. I thank you for my family. I thank you for our water source, our garden, and everything you've given us the ability to create with your land and space. I pray for peace that surpasses the understanding of every single person in the sound of my voice, real serenity, real fulfillment, real gratitude that can be felt within their soul and their heart. I pray you'll put it there because they can do it themselves, because you put a little bit of you into all of us. We are you. Lord, thank you for the opportunity to speak. Thank you for the opportunity for us to call evil out for what it is. We pray for transparency, we plan for justice, and we pray for justice as we seek it. As a community of like-minded people that were created in your image, we seek love, we seek compassion, and we seek true and honest and fair justice for those that have deprived and minimal minimalized the very people you created and love. And Lord Jesus, I pray all of this in your heavenly name, Yeshua.
unknownAmen.
SPEAKER_00Love you guys. This has been episode number.