Patriot Power Hour #340

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Patriot Power Hour, we're live, March 12th, 2026.

Little early today, 541 and PM Eastern, episode 340,

Ben, the Breaker of Bancsters, here with Future Dan.

We get the heat map dashboard on FutureDanger.com,

zoomed out, did a lot of news, Ben.

There is way above.

I think certainly above average on the severity,

but the frequency, it's a top 10%, top 15%, type of show.

So we're not going to have time to mess around.

We're going to jump into that dashboard and be efficient.

I can talk about any of these articles for darn near

the whole hour, but we're going to have to be efficient

and do our best.

But in the aggregate, in the zoomed out view,

what's the dashboard telling you right now?

Scatterbrained, I've been feeling scatterbrained

in a lot of different ways in my own work life, as well as

from a news point of view.

Because there is a lot going on.

Obviously, I ran a huge part of it,

but there are so many other articles popping up here.

Some are not even that serious, or at least currently

as they're shown.

That doesn't mean they won't turn into that.

So scatterbrained, but almost in a good way.

The dashboard's meant to capture a wide net.

When there is legitimate news, and it sure seems like it.

I think a lot of column two is driving column three, though.

That's not necessarily scattered.

There's causality in the economics resulting

from the war in the Middle East.

So then on top of that, there's just somewhat random stuff,

also going bad.

And what we try to do here is connect those dots

when we can, but at some point, we

are here on the prep or broadcasts of network.

I don't think we need to convince people to prep.

When we do relate this back to prepping and preparedness,

mindset, et cetera.

But you're right, there are certainly

a few highly correlated threads on this dashboard

if you look at it, and as we talk through it.

But there is sort of that randomness going on,

or maybe not so random.

We'll try to talk through it.

But it's a wide swath, for sure.

We're looking at COVID, what, six years ago?

They had much more severity, but it

was a lot more focused in a couple

of our mainly early on in the economic and health

and later on, a lot more on the free speech censorship

and forced vacs, fight, and all of that.

But now all four columns are quite full.

So yeah, very unique.

Always unique on the Patriot Power Hour.

Yeah, and we talked about it right before the show.

So as editor of Future Danger,

certain types of events demand attention.

And one of those events that we're not having right now

is riding.

But if there's riding or an assassination

or something that could have breaking news,

what tends to happen is I become more sensitive to other news.

And it might blow the heat map dashboard

because I'm finding grade five green,

topical news that on other days might not be found,

because I'm not as sensitive to the news environment.

But after about the first three days of the Iron War,

it came pretty clear that there's

no real need to be powered by our sensitive about that, right?

So this heat map that you got here is just,

I would say pretty much just an average amount of effort

going into finding news on yours truly.

So it's sort of remarkable like that.

It's just lots of things going on.

Always a lot of variables going on in life.

But if you're putting in average level of time

and discernment into what goes onto the dashboard,

and we're seeing a top 10 or top 20% in terms of volume

and severity, that means we're not making things up.

But we're not telling listeners probably much.

I got to feel that they know a lot of stuff's going on.

So how about we start informing them any topics

you want to hit on first or dashboard or what you're thinking?

Well, I'd like to hit on that topic, right?

What you're talking about is if you go to the mainstream media

and listen to them, you might get in your mind

that this heat map dashboard should be just all red and black,

like just end of the world, right?

I mean, that's the type of thing

you're getting in the financial news,

price of oil, that type of thing,

you're getting just in reaction to war.

That just, Trump has brought a news environment

worldwide that has just a massive amount

of rejection of everything he does.

But the future danger heat map is about

to spread indicators that are strictly objectively

dangerous to America.

Dangerous, right?

There's a lot of headlines here.

We only got two black on reds, three, four reds, right?

So on the cusp of a true March 2026 crisis,

and we could easily be there by next week.

But right now it's a lot of what you're hearing

in the anti-Trump media is somewhat overblown, I think.

Well, to be expected, absolutely.

Now, there is a lot of problems going on,

but a lot of success is going on.

Where do you want to start?

Honestly, you want to just knock out Iran,

and then we can do the dashboard and go from there.

Or just do the dashboard,

because we're going to be talking about Iran.

All right.

Well, let's just start with that.

First one, seven key developments in seven days,

essentially boiling down a whole week of key developments

into just this article.

That's the SHTF level article for Israeli Iranian War

starts.

We got a couple of other, but I will say this.

Taiwan did not get attacked by any means,

but we do have the DPRK, which is North Korea, South Korea

conflict, cruise missile tests from a destroyer during the ROK,

which is South Korea, US military drills,

North Korea, cruise missile tests during South Korea drills.

How about this B1 and B52s pouring to Europe?

Evidence that the B1 was used in a few attacks recently

there in Iran.

We have threats force the AG to move on to military

installation, threats of harm and assassination, et cetera.

This is under, now, it's only a low grade indicator,

but under senior official assassinated,

and this is not the first elected official or whatnot

to seek shelter within a military installation.

We do have former commander of the Air Force research

laboratory going missing.

Very rare for that to happen.

Russia providing Iranian intelligence

to target US forces.

The Kremlin coming out and saying, we are not neutral.

We're not playing neutral.

We support Iran.

Muslims in New York City throw IEDs while yelling Al-Lukbar

at anti-Mayor protesters.

Obviously the mayor, Muslim, so there was anti-Mayor protests

and Muslims come there to throw bombs at them.

They claim, at least some of them claim

that their Islamic state sympathizers heard this here

on PBN earlier this week.

They talked about it a lot.

Claim that the US intercepted encrypted comms

from Iran that made trigger sleeper assets.

Couple more in the geopolitical and domestic,

just overall security column.

Chinese president hints at more top purges.

We've been covering that quite a bit.

Issues a warning to corrupt elements

within the People's Liberation Army.

And riots erupting, especially as the weather gets warmer,

people get more relentless, get closer to the midterms,

street takeover mob storms, luxury Los Angeles apartments,

brawls with staff.

So we've had hotels, apartments, stores,

and even anti-Mayor protests in New York attacked.

We've also had a couple shootings,

but no major sleepers sell outbreak.

Knock on wood, hopefully it does not happen.

That's it, I believe for the security column.

Let's move on very quickly to the first column under liberty.

Congress declines to demand to say

in the Iranian war, is it a war as a conflict?

Well, Congress declines to demand to say in that.

World at war, global conflict.

Is this World War three, is this World War four?

Talk through that epic fury day, 11 and beyond.

U.S. promises most intense day of strikes on Iran.

And I am going to chronicle those here.

There's just so many.

That's all under SHTF level indicator.

War unconstitutionally waged.

Epstein, travesty continues,

but hopefully more and more truth gets out there.

Zoro rant searched by New Mexico investigators.

I mean, I knew about the Zoro rant like a decade ago.

So I don't know why it took us so long, pathetic.

Epstein guard googled him minutes before his body

was found apparently.

Doctor who conducted Epstein autopsy explains why

she hesitated to declare his death was a suicide.

Yeah, how do you like to be the doctor?

I'm like, yeah, Epstein's body here.

Oh my gosh, run away, fast.

FBI secretly ceases election records

from the largest Aerozonian county as voting probic spans.

Try that again.

FBI secretly ceases election records

from the largest county in Arizona as the probic spans

continue to call cover that too.

Three women indicted in Alabama for voter fraud.

And in Virginia.

Intrepid commander and the one and only Dave Jones.

Certainly talking about this quite a lot.

Virginia lawmakers pass assault fire arm ban

under modern semi automatic fire arms prohibited.

We got to talk about that economically.

Oil is about $100 closing today on the 12th of March.

It actually spiked up to about 120 bucks for a few hours.

Came back down to the mid 80s and is now back up

to $100 barrel.

Cost of diesel is climbing climbing faster than gasoline.

We gotta watch this.

In my opinion, that $100 to $120 oil,

it's not great for the economy.

It's not absolutely crippling.

But more than that, big time trouble for Trump's recovery.

Vicks approaches one year high, 23.57,

which is high for the last year,

but 23 Vicks has not read alert.

The world is ending yet.

Pay rolls unexpectedly fall in February on a plate.

Unemployment rate rises.

Obviously gas is going up in price.

TSA unfunded TSA, long airport lines.

Three hour TSA delays in airports.

I might be doing some travel.

I guess I'm just gonna get the airport eight hours early.

I don't know.

Cliffwater private credit fund gets redemption

request totaling 14%.

We went into deep detail about private credit funds

just in the last couple of weeks here on Patriot Power Hour.

Well, a different fund has had 14% of its total value

requested back by the customers in a panic.

That's a bank run in all intensive purposes.

If this spreads beyond this, could be big.

We'll keep an eye on it.

Price caps and rationing a stockpiling

with regard to fuel.

Yep.

Fuel is so important to the economy.

So that price will be watching closely.

From the health and nature point of view,

there's definitely been some storms,

tornadoes and Oklahoma for dead

in a dozen injured in Michigan from a tornado as well.

Louisiana hit by earthquakes,

which is not very common there.

Strongest quake in decades in Louisiana.

Scientists dump 65,000 liters of chemicals

into the ocean in a geoengineering experiment.

See, this is something I could spend half an hour talking about,

but we have so many other articles to talk about.

But don't underestimate geoengineering.

Six inches of hailstone sets new Illinois record.

Yeah, I had a buddy who said his car was getting messed up bad

over there.

And finally to end it off as a nerd.

If you know the video game called Doom,

it's always a kind of a meme or kind of a running joke.

What's the least powerful system,

most basic system you can program

to actually play the game Doom?

Well, they, they being scientists,

had lab-grown human brain cells.

And they were able to have these lab-grown human brain cells

essentially in a petri dish play the video game,

just based off reactions in the neurons

and just, you know, talk about being brain dead,

but just kicking ass in a video game.

I guess it's possible future day.

And I don't even know where to go after that,

but quite a news blitz.

I beat that game on block leave once.

In 1997, from beginning to end,

I never played it, I sat at it and played straight to the end

and beat the boss in like four days.

So yeah.

My story of Doom is I was probably in third grade.

A kid I knew had a computer that could play it.

And I always just wanted to go to his house.

And finally I got to go over to his house and see it.

And we always wanted the BFG 3000,

which is the big, effing gun 3000.

That's something that's spam burger in Virginia

and not like the BFG 3000, but, you know,

that in the chainsaw and the rocket launcher.

Now, I'd like to talk about this all day,

but we've got serious news.

Where do you want to head?

Doom is a pivotal game though.

It's literally is, yeah.

They have brain matter on a plate, able to play it,

does sort of, it's somewhat ironic that you've finished there.

I think you're spotting headlines and you're reading

the heat map dash or kind of like where you want to start with

and but the point you want to make at the end.

So that was, that was a little bit artful, I must say.

What is it on purpose?

You know, I'm just staring deputies or I'm just going with it,

but better be watching the good.

There you go, 800,000 to one million neurons

were clustered in a peachy dish forming a mini brain.

Well, the human brain has so many more neurons than this

is ridiculous.

So no excuses out there, people.

Yeah.

I was going to make a Democrat joke, but anyway.

I ran seven key developments in seven days,

give me a couple thoughts of what's evolved over the last week

and what you're thinking we'll be talking about during

our season finale next week.

I don't know, I don't know.

I've seen reports recently that,

you know, the strikes are now targeting,

you know, revolutionary guard,

checkpoints, cyber attacks on bank systems

so that the revolutionary guards aren't getting paid.

You know, there's reports like that.

I noticed reports I've talked about in this program before,

seen video of very exotic effects in the atmosphere.

And stuff that doesn't look like explosions,

but it looks violent.

It's like big electronic funnels of energy

and other things that people are catching on their phones

and inside of Iran.

So, you know, we've talked about,

President talked about essentially super weapons.

I'm wondering if they're getting used

and I'm wondering what effect they're having,

but it's probably a giant testing ground

for that sort of thing right now.

And then there's the straight of hormones, straight of hormones.

My God, you can't turn on mainstream media

without hearing that geographic feature repeated

because it's, you know, obviously going to be, you know,

wrapped around Trump's neck at the midterms

if oil sails along at high prices.

And I sent a back channel message.

It's not a heat map dashboard headline

because it happened in 2008,

but it is true to say that in July of 2008,

oil did hit $147 a barrel

and layman brothers went bankrupt the following September.

That was not the cause of it,

but it's environment to say the least.

It's the environment when other things can go very bad,

you have the inner connectivity of, you know,

it's a strategic resource, you know,

you've got to have gas, you've got to have oil,

you've got to have diesel, there is no changing that fact.

And if it runs at really high prices for some amount of time,

it's going to be wealth-destructing, right?

Yeah, it can only be.

Of course, there'll be some winners involved

if you own a stake in some oil producing land

or an oil company, you might be okay with 100 or 120 bucks,

but most people probably going to cost, you know,

raise your costs to live in a bit.

And at great point on the 140 face it,

almost everything's doubled or tripled in price since 2008,

but oil was cut in half from its peak, right?

And you can maybe say where at where it was

on an average point of view in the middle of the 2000 decade,

maybe up through, you know, 2012,

obviously a lot more production came online in America

in the last decade and NBC guy talks about this a lot,

which is great.

Imagine if we weren't producing oil at this point here in America,

but here's a question.

Did we at Patriot Power Hour underestimate oil prices

or is it nothing really to get worried about?

Because I talk a lot about gold and silver,

we talk about a lot of different things,

but we haven't talked much about oil.

Maybe we took it for granted or, you know,

it was a tailwind.

Now it's going to become a headwind.

Yeah, it's a, you know, going back to 1990,

it's not I'm insane invading Kuwait, right?

It's just this trigger thing, right?

In fact, go back in before that and look at the,

look at the war plans that our military had

during the Cold War about, you know,

stopping Russia from basically invading through, you know,

Turkey and Iran and seizing the Persian Gulf.

There's all kinds of plans for like if Soviet Union tried

something like that, here's how we would stop it.

So because everybody's known this, I mean,

but I don't know, I'm seeing these headlines,

like the newly appointed Ayatollah is making pronounces

like we're going to have the, the, the, the,

the Gulf is, it has been mined and it's going to be shut off.

Right?

And where is this guy?

Like how many levels and down in a bunker is he hiding at?

There's nothing left of the Iranian navy.

And although they do have drones and conceivably,

they'd have like scatterable munitions that you could fire

from artillery into the, into the Persian Gulf.

I mean, and obviously the, the drones, right?

But, you know, for how long, like how much longer

are they going to be able to put anything out there?

So I think it's hype.

I really think it's hype.

For all I know by this episode of Patriot Power next week,

that Ayatollah is dead with, you know,

many scores of other temporary members of that regime.

So it's, it's really easy to be premature

and overestimate what any of this means in Iran, I think.

Yep, we're witnessing it as it progresses.

Just like COVID reminds me that we're documenting it.

I feel like I can't really put my finger on it.

You know, my opinion on, on things got to see it develop

a little bit more, but well, I ran sure get the crap blown

out of it.

I'll say this, the Cataris are freaking out,

but why wouldn't they?

Their lifeblood is not getting out.

I work in insurance.

I've been to Lloyd's and London.

It's all about whether they'll get insurance or not.

And I got a feeling the boys in London and New York City

don't like Trump very much, but they like making money.

So it's quite the contest of powers here.

So much money at stake.

Some of the people that want the oil to flow,

but on the other hand, a lot of folks wanted to stop

just if only to screw up Trump, right?

There's enough of those people alone.

So there you go, man, it's a quagmire, say the least.

If you wanted to promote more drilling in the United States.

Yeah, this is the way to do it.

All the investment calculations of, you know,

do you go after the sale?

Do you go after, you know, do you start drilling?

Do you get down in there?

And you got a department of an interior

and a department of energy that'll, you know,

just let it, they're going to let it happen.

They want it, the policy.

So what's our oil and gas industry look like coming out

of this too?

You ready for this?

I do have a Masters in Finance,

bachelor's economics, and I've played a lot of SimCity

in games, so I'm qualified to say this.

Absolutely, transform our infrastructure

where everything except for transportation

is fully electrified via nuclear plants, ASAP.

And then transportation is we could have

some electrified fleets, but that's where the fossil fuels

should go to because it's so much easily transported

and all the infrastructure to distribute.

The gasoline internal combustion engine is there, blah, blah, blah, blah,

let alone the batteries required for all electric.

So man, we should just freaking build nukes, electrify everything,

and then shunt all the carbon-liquified fuel into transportation.

We can have 30 cents a gallon gasoline out there.

I'm just saying.

I paid 67 cents a gallon once.

That was during Clinton's second term, late 90s.

Holy jeez.

I remember seeing it below a dollar,

but I was not of driving age at the time, so I'd be made 90s.

That wasn't even a gimmick.

It was just, it was in Georgia.

Eastern Georgia, it'd been running under a dollar all summer,

but I got it for 67 cents once.

Pretty crazy, pretty crazy diesel.

Go ahead, it should be under two.

If we didn't have these strategic problems with it, it'd be under two.

Yeah.

Well, you got to hit it more.

Multi-faceted problem, you got to hit for more than one side, of course.

So more production, but also rearrange the infrastructure.

Nukes, baby, get the nukes go and the nukes technology is literally 50 to 60 years,

newer than three mile aisle or Fukushima, so it's much safer and better.

Anyway.

Yeah, trust that government to store the wealth.

I'm worried about, yeah, no, no.

That's the middle of Iran's got a good, you know, a lot of craters.

We could bury it.

Yeah.

Repurpose their old mountain bunkers for disposal.

No, no, no.

Yeah, some kind of space can in rail gun that would just fire off pellets into the sun,

would make sense to me.

No, I think that just blow up and just contaminate everything.

I honestly think the waste is overrated, but I think we could, I think we can,

I think we're going to get to rail guns that actually put payload into space.

So much cheaper than, you know, rockets, right?

And you know a little bit of rockets and rocket insurance, be much safer than a rocket,

right?

Liquid fuel rocket compared to, you know, a magnetic gun that can throw something up

in the space.

Now that device that would do that, you know, you might want to find some undesirable

unpopulated place for it to throw from, but that's, you know, it would take a reactor

to get enough electricity to build a gun big enough to do what you needed.

At that point, you know, point the waste at the sun and get it off the planet.

We don't need that problem here.

And if you could do that and you could also run, you know, you know, nuclear cores that

were safe from natural disaster, right?

Fukushima, big, big problem.

So put, put in the nukes and, you know, using nuclear energy technology smarter than

ever before is, is, is what it would take to do with you in vision.

I'm all for it, but you got to have governments that are competent enough to do this.

Oh, I know you popped the bubble of my dream in my head as soon as you said that.

I was like, Oh, damn it.

He's right.

All right, man, we got a lot.

Unfortunately, I do have a fairly hard cutoff right about at the hour mark and we are 30

minutes in.

So I got 30 minutes.

I want to crack out as much as we can.

What do you think?

They get on a tour de force.

What articles do you want to talk about?

Virginia.

You know, the headline here is a little bit misleading because it's a ban on sales, right?

Yeah.

It's not, it's not a ban on possessions.

So what the governor and let's just try to do is essentially kill a very vibrant farm,

farmers making industry in their state and it just move to the states.

And if you're in Virginia, you can travel that state by anything you want and have it at

home because the only thing that's being banned is the sale, right?

This seemingly came out of nowhere, but never should feel like they're not coming after

our guns.

Whatever.

They always want your guns even when they're quiet like they've been last couple years.

But seemingly out of nowhere.

Now this bill did get neutered as far as I'm aware and we should, you know, all deferred

and trip a commander and BC guy and don't tread on me with their special guests, Detom.

They know the exact specifics, but at one point, like the original bill, which wasn't going

to pass as is, they were trying to make it like a felony.

If you possess them, so there was no grandfathering of it, obviously that they backed down,

but these freaks.

That's where they start their negotiation, right?

So I don't know.

I don't know.

Do not comply is what I said.

Do not comply.

Virginia could pass a bunch of laws that are struck down by the first federal court that

it gets to because California, New York, Massachusetts, others have tried.

Can I have it?

That's already settled law.

So banning the sale, you know, now you're interfering with economic activity in an unjust

way, it's going to get sued and in fact all of this could produce challenges that become

case law that, you know, we find out that doing this is unconstitutional, so I'm not afraid

of it.

This could work out well in the wrong long run so that any sales on an otherwise legal

weapon is, you know, found, found constitutional, love to see that link to the second amendment

too, where the economics, the sale, the property piece of it is, you know, bearing arms to

me has an aspect of property to it.

I don't think any constitutional case laws ever kind of locked that in yet.

It's not going to be, we have to go to the local muster station to the weapons locker

and get your bold action.

That's not what the founders met, I'm pretty sure, I don't know, freaking, they met law

school.

They met, they met that we have battle rifles, they meant that we have what our country's

infantry has, that we have every possible means to fight back in that, in that manner.

Jet fighters, not armor vehicles, right, RPGs, but the battle rifle, we always have the

battle rifle.

I don't care if U.S. Army feels the laser gun, we have a right to that.

I think it's pretty simply said, it was the brown best, and I don't care if it's the,

you know, plasma rifles that the Terminator tried to buy, we deserve them if they're, if

that's what the line units have, otherwise the entire concept to be able to, you know,

we the people establish a more perfect union, right, the right to revolution, it's meaningless

if the population doesn't have at least that baseline weapon.

Right.

I don't think it's out of line to say, we'll have some sort of blaze rifle in the next

50 years, especially if there are robotic advances, and of course, energy storage, that's

the big problem.

How are you going to get the energy to shoot that?

But yeah, as long as, you know, as long as bullets still take down, you know, defend yourself,

battle rifle it is.

You want to, you want to carry a mini nuke on your back pack and plug in, you can probably

have that rail done that did that now, I'm not sure how you would shield that reactor

that you're walking around with.

So it might not be something.

Current technology is not possible.

It's probably not really thermodynamically possible as we know it.

If it mined through our new set small, then lots of other aircraft that could be doing

things that are very exotic might be, it might be the real reason why we're seeing videos

of very unconventional effects.

We might be there, but it's the type of thing, you know, if our government or any government

had successfully miniaturized nukes, weaponized in those manners, and some in the electricity

necessary to do things with magnetic fields, right, it's got to be classified.

We cannot share that with adversaries, right?

No way, although they'll be able to see a little bit of intel for themselves to scare

the crap out of them, which is probably part of the reason, of course, right, to use them.

Yeah, well, think about this way, you know, how long, four years and a couple of weeks

Iran's been at war or Russia has been at war in Ukraine, you know, now just to the

south, we're demonstrating in, you know, it's proxy and proxy, very, very much resembles

what we saw during the Cold War, right, with, you know, so that you're invading Afghanistan

and failing long after we tried to occupy and hold South Korea or South Vietnam and ultimately

had to withdraw, right?

So it's, you know, it's superpowers with proxy wars again.

All right, all right, I'm going to pick another article, let's see what we can hit.

Let's just knock out any other economics because besides energy prices, there's not a ton

of news.

There is a little bit of a fall in payroll, but I feel like that's more truthful data.

I'm not going to put my life on it, but we know for fact, Biden administration was

fraught and before really even too, but especially then fraudulent data.

So just the normalization over time of the numbers by less fraudulent data could cause

some of this.

But as it stands, unemployment rate did rise a little bit.

So if you get unemployment up inflation up at the same time, that's where's the case scenario.

We'll be on the lookout for that.

Let me go take a look at the markets here, where we got, let me throw it up over here.

I think Brent's over $100 barrel heard that about an hour ago.

It is.

We got actually not even sharing my screen of it, but that's okay.

We got, yep, Brent's over 100 WTI's $97 gold and silver haven't seen some crazy

explosion like you might have thought, like, oh my God, the world's ending at 10,000

gold.

Nope.

Gold's less than 5,100 still above 5,000, but relatively tepid the last few weeks, especially

since I ran silver 83 bucks.

It didn't like blast past 100 bucks or 150 because all the silver is going to get used

up at all the Tomahawk missiles that did not seem to be the truth, but there are maintaining

their prices, even though some, you know, the markets, the stock market as a whole is

down 739 for the Dow.

The Dow was above 50,000 near its high, right now it's at 46,600, so wow, it's down

8% from its high.

The world is not falling, even though CNBC might say so.

The private credit market with another player, not blue owl, now we got another player having

redemptions, though, right before the show you and I were talking about a phenomenon

on the heat map that we've yet to, you know, see happen, at least not, you know, back-to-back

and beat-to-beat fashion, taking us back to the summer of 2019.

We covered a lot of news that August, in September, about massive repo desk transactions.

The systemically important banks that have the ability to just go, just have money made

up from thin air and just handed to them overnight, right, in, you know, short-term borrowing.

And then in March of 2020, everything flew apart, the seams really easily, financially,

when COVID came along.

So that was sort of a first instance over here happening and this is happening, but that's

a month apart.

But we're looking at private equity right now on the side, kind of, you know, metastasizing

and hemorrhaging seemingly unrelated to the strike on Iran, or anything that Trump's

done in his second term.

But there it is.

I don't know.

It could be nothing.

It could be just like, uh, looks like it was going to be bad, but that story kind of faded.

Or, you know, we're, we're short amount of time away from this dashboard getting all

black on red.

Oh, I got a new analogy.

You ready for this?

Yeah.

We've had the submarine analogy back in the day where all the pressure, those skate valves

and the bolts fly it off at high pressure and then it implodes.

Now we get, did I use this example already?

My bathroom sub floor rotting out, is that, have I got on through that on the show?

But, uh, recently, you, uh, telegraphed this one a few weeks ago, it was, it was in passing

that you made the analogy, so yeah, let's, let's develop this a little bit more.

The entire fight.

So it is the opinion of bed, the breaker, Baxter's that the financial system is equivalent

to my sub floor that was rotting out under my bathroom over the last five plus years,

where, first and foremost, I, so I'm renting currently and I learned that, that same sub

floor kind of had a paper over fix sort of situation six years ago because already

had some of those issues.

So they kind of mitigated it, added a new layer of plywood on top, painted it up a little

bit, bam, new toilet, and called it cool.

However, that did not actually fix a lot of the number one true, deep rot, number two,

the actual cause of why it was rotting in the first place, which was just high humidity

and bad situation overall.

I didn't do the best job of keeping it, but I did okay.

It was, uh, just, it's a tough spot where we live in over here, it's like, uh, where

the hobbits live, got moss growing on our ceilings, practically very humid.

Um, anyway, slowly, but surely rotting, but at some point it just fell out, luckily

I didn't actually fall through my, my, uh, floor.

But the entire financial system has been rotting like the sub floor day after day, year after

year, especially at certain times, but overall, all, all the, the fraud since 2008 is what

I'm saying, the, the sub rot floor really began or maybe that was the last, uh, remodel

of the financial system, 2008, 2009 to this 10, um, of course, uh, I got a better, crazy

ass, wrench or story for you, you know, like, just, you know, like the last house I rented

before I, before I owned property and, uh, it was a townhouse.

And, um, you know, you, when you rent, you can hang pictures and you can drill holes

in walls, right?

And I wanted to have, um, a rack in my kitchen that would hold the pots and pans up above.

So I drilled holes and that was fine.

But then one day something broke in the bathroom upstairs and unbeknownst to us, the only,

the only way I knew is after a while, the entire third floor filled with water and it

was pouring like a garden hose out of the holes that I drilled in the kitchen and, yeah,

and then the whole dining room section was a, you know, it had a chandelier.

It all just came down.

Boom.

All the drywall, the whole thing fell, it was soaking wet and they did the same thing as

your landlord.

They just, they just passed it up and I'm like, did you fix the, did you fix the, the

fix the pipes?

And I didn't get a straight answer and I'm like, all right, I stand to this lease.

I am out of here.

I am not going to spare it live with this coming apart.

This seems like I, I couldn't believe that the most economical answer for the landlord

was just plastered over, patched over, right?

Now, who knows?

Maybe they thought they could sell it that way soon, right?

So yeah, I've seen that behavior before.

It was crazy when I saw, I was like, no one who would own property would hate that way.

But if you're, you know, if you're just leasing it, look at what happens when you start

thinking derivatives and not, not, not direct ownership of things, which, you know, obviously

that's what our financial system is all about and get super rich without directly owning

anything and just betting on the side about everything.

That's your artistic flurry for the day, bring it all the way back to Cliffwater LLC flagship

private credit fund.

What could they be but borrowing to try to scam more money out of the system, but guess

what?

They're the first ones to rot out and actually, exactly.

So I believe, of course, the JP Morgan's of the world are rotting underneath, but they're

not going to be the first to fall.

They actually have a buttress of more, you know, stronger material.

But these, now they're not a small fund at all.

This is just one fund within Cliffwater LLC is 33 billion.

So that's one hell of a landlord, right, that paper's over and just all it cares about

is quarter to quarter survival at this point.

Most of the time it's quarter to quarter performance.

Now it might flip into quarter to quarter survival, which is that's when it gets nasty.

Yeah.

And there's thieves that are lining it up to set it up in a situation just like the

great financial crisis of 2008, where somehow you pass on the cost of all this to the

renter.

Make, you know, like you've used that before, just socialize the losses.

Someone trying to, you know, line yourself up so that now they have to bail us all out.

That kind of thinking inevitably is in that rotten floor right now.

Yeah, exactly what they're looking to do.

And that's why they come us back to the, they'll own nothing.

Great reset, right?

I didn't know conspiracy theory.

They want you to have less equity partly to dispirate you, get rid of your spirit.

Because if you own something to care more about it, like I got a fairly new truck and

I take way better care of it, it's a bitter ice to have.

Let's just say that.

But just ownership is like a prideful thing, but also like you are at the whim of the landlord

a lot more.

And so if the government or the banksters freaking own own, you just got to rep from them, whether

that's your money or anything, they want you to rent everything for them pretty much.

So we get the imploding submarine bolt coming off, which is symbolic of, of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin's low right now, but it could be an excellent buying opportunity when the implosion

comes.

And we also have the rotten sub floor metaphor.

We're always looking for the signs of these private equity, little hedge fund here, some

other kind of fund there, something out there on the margins that only the people that

are, as I've termed them over focused on money, like the people that are constantly looking

at markets all day, they hear about these things.

The rest of us, just regular people out in America, frequently we don't.

And I didn't either.

I never, I couldn't tell you what Bear Stearns or layman brothers was in 2007, I wouldn't

pay attention, pay attention now, because that's where some of that big economic collapse

that we've always worried about, that's where it's coming from.

So one of the players on the sides, what did Jamie Diamond call the cockroaches?

Yeah, exactly.

Jamie Diamond's calling the private credit people cockroaches.

What do you, oh, you want that to be your landlord?

Yeah.

No, no, nasty, gross, all right, oh, gosh, I had another good one, but it's all right.

Your real world landlord raised the rent yet?

That's probably coming.

No, but I'm hoping to convert into an owner myself in time, but we'll see, they're very

nice actually.

And we'll see, we'll see, and they know, they know you know that they have a rotten subfloor,

so yes, yes, no, we're all, we're kind of out of Mexican standoff, we're all happy with

each other enough, we're all, no one's going to make a wrong move.

I think they'd let me reassign if I wanted to, but I do want to get out, but, but they

did fix it up nicely, you know, I got, and I got a new shower and bathroom floor out

of it.

Whatever.

They, they, they didn't patch it over this time.

This time they did not, no, um, so that's exactly, and that's the metaphor for our economy.

Like one of these times this stuff's going to break and fall through and, and, and, and,

and it has to be a real crash, it has to be real consequences, it has to be moral hazard

reinforced inside of this, and it can't be a gigantic bailout that has people right

now in their 20s who are struggling to find jobs because entry level jobs, it increasingly

be performed by artificial intelligence, so mid mid and late career people are just doing

those jobs themselves, you know, try, try to try to try to tell 20 year olds that, you

know, this is a debt that you're going to face, you know, they're not having it.

Something's got to give this time.

Oh, this is where the most interesting part of economics and finances, the behavioral

economics, the human aspect, because it totally will not go forever like this.

It's just a win and wear, will it snap behaviorally?

There's the math to it, of course, which is interesting stuff, but really all that matters.

As the human, and humans are super irrational, and they can bend and flex for quite a while,

but at some point they just all snap together and boom, total, I don't know, overthrow,

I guess you could say of the system, reset, but we talk about this all the time, who's

going to be in charge of that next generation of the financial system, is it going to be

free markets and, you know, hard to money, or is it just going to be the banksters doing

it all on the blockchain, right?

If it's that, then we're screwed.

Yeah.

Or, or comments that, or just execute people like me and you in ten years, which we're

going to fight against, but, you know, that's it.

There's other scenarios, yeah, that's the way it works, actually, for sure.

We should not lose sight of that, because it's not even like Gallo's humor.

We are a Patriot Power Hour episode, are we 340 tonight, Ben?

Yeah.

340.

And putting it out there for posterity, we're leading on the front parapet, just like

the boys at Bunker Hill, putting rounds down range on tyrants, the banksters, anybody

is going to prevent us from having another 250 years of freedom and greatness.

And that comes in many shapes and forms, but the way we do it is we talk about what's

dangerous now to the United States of America.

And lots of news tonight that we covered on episode 340, but it's not a crisis.

We could be just fine, but you got to pay attention, you never, you always got to be vigilant,

right?

That's what we're here for, appreciate doing the show with you, appreciate the audience

for listening.

You too, for sure, vigilance, keep prepping, prep on next week is going to be the season

finale.

I believe it'll be Wednesday, Wednesday, the 18th, future day, and all right, I'll see

you there.

It's at the real equinox.

It's a couple days before, but it'll be right around the spring one, yeah?

Yeah, and not, yeah, keep keeping it on a nice quarter by quarter perspective since

the beginning of us doing the duo, Patriot Power Hour, always helps me kind of reset,

like, have I seen this in a winter before?

What have I, have we gone into a spring like this before, right?

You know, it kind of builds a structure and framing to Patriot Power Hour.

So stick with us, stay for a few seasons, listen to see what we have to say.

If you're new to the show, we've got the heat map dashboard with deep archive.

So I'm trying to get perspectives that you can't get anywhere else, appreciate doing

it with you, Ben, on a weekly basis, Patriot Power Hour, usually Thursday nights, we'll do

it next Wednesday, and we'll take it from there.

Great stuff, see you later, man.

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