The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Patriot Power Hour #298 - Spring Season Premiere!

Episode Date: March 26, 2025

Each week on Patriot Power Hour, Ben ‘The Breaker of Banksters’ and Future Dan explore the latest Liberty, Security, Economic & Natural news, providing the situational awareness needed to execute your preparedness plans.Questions, Feedback, News Tips, or want to be a Guest? Reach outBen “The Breaker of Banksters”@BanksterBreaker on XFuture Dan@FutureDanger6 on X

the Patriot Power Hour is back and is live March 25th 2025 704 PM Eastern. I've been the breaker of Banksters episode 298 future Dan. We're going to drive on with the Patriot mission tonight. No stopping. There's been a little bit of a

pit stop here. There. Of course, we take our seasonal break and that is officially over. We're back. It is the springest season for all intents and purposes and the last episode of March. So, future Dan will get into the news blitz as always. We're showing it here. Simulcasting, broadcasting not only our podcast our long-standing podcast on PBN, but we have visuals now we got video on X on Rumble and I believe on YouTube. Yes on YouTube as well So subscribe to PBN and all three of those listen in there. It's best if you can see all this video But in the meanwhile, we'll get to that news. Let me put

the video of uh a couple of memes in the background featured in but last uh few weeks, we haven't had a show, I guess couple weeks. What's been going on? Big picture. Uh I would say the time off between winter 2025 Patriot Power Hour and this debut of spring 2025. It's just the the randomness of some of the headlines are actually making it make it to future dangers. Threat indicator board. And of course they you know, the news times out after a while gets replaced with new news so we don't have

those headlines to talk about we can't see what I'm talking about Ben but I could say there's no specific theme it's you know just some popular culture you know you know popular political popular political event after another, none of them of any particularly more dangerous nature. That's not to say there hasn't been dangerous headlines. It's just that there's no unifying kind of, you know, theme to talk about. And you know what? Had there been something that unified and really, you know, alerted the heat map dashboard to

bad news. We would have broadcast, right? We always say that. So it's been diffuse, disperse, relatively low level of bad news since we last met. And that's how we view it today. Of course, a big part of this whole endeavor is to collect these data points and look at it in the future and try to connect those dots. Now, we also want to project ahead, but predicting the future is pretty hard. I don't know if anyone ever told you that, but it's pretty tough. But long story short, I agree a lot of disparate news stories and data points, which might have linkage, might not as it appears in the news, mostly, you know, public information is what we discuss here. We're not claiming to have some

sort of inside sources. That doesn't mean three months, six months, three years from now, all this news would have a different perspective. I'm thinking the COVID type of news in late 2019 was a little bit viewed a little bit differently a few years later if you went back in time, but that's an extreme example. But I agree, no financial collapse, no absolute World War III, no civil war, domestic terrorism, very, very high levels. Now those types of threats have not dissipated, the the

the the the the the the the the chat. What's happening? Jay Fergie. Good to see you. Yes, Patriot Power hours back. We're on our new time future day and

you know, back to the future for lack of a better analogy. Single barrel Tuesdays now. Yes. So, Tuesdays, 7 PM Eastern and I can commit that the great majority of our shows will be Tuesdays, 7 PM Eastern here or there. Maybe we would have to bump it or as you alluded to the majority of our shows will And we just had the Equinox Tuesdays. Our back to Tuesdays the year 2025. Maybe because we'll have any one topic to, you know, immediately open the show and address. Perhaps we

could take an opportunity to like what what what what are some of the big movers between now and June? Some some some things that can lead to dangerous events that you're watching out for. Between now and June. So, kind of a little the any sudden movements until or unless there is a major market collapse which we have not seen in the first couple months Trump's administration so always looking at the Fed and interest rates but a not seeing that is critical in the next few months we have the tariffs though going into not on April 1st, April Fool's Day, they made it April 2nd. That some of these tariffs will go into effect. Is it tough negotiation or will it be a true trade war?

Something in between or country specific? I think it's going to be both, but I'm hoping many of these other countries will drop their tariffs and non-monetary barriers against US trade and therefore we don't have to add any of our own because many of these are anti US trade policies and we're just matching them so I would like everybody to stop doing that maybe not everybody I don't want to trade with China very much put Put some stuff on them there, you know, but anyway, uh, that's huge. That's economically at least a couple of things. If there's going to be a Trump recession, which quarter will it be this quarter that we're entering?

So the Atlanta fed has kind of kept a rolling tally but then continues to revise what they think the GDP print will be meaning what the GDP numbers for each quarter will be. Well, a couple months ago, they were predicting Q1 to be pretty low, but definitely not negative growth, which is the definition of recession.

So they were not expecting negative growth at that time. But over the last several weeks, over a few iterations, they've been predicting lower growth and now negative growth, which it takes a couple quarters to be considered a recession, technically. But if Q1 does come about as negative growth, which we'll know about maybe this time next month, not exact timing, but Q1 ends in the next few business days. So they'll do all their tabulation, official numbers. So if that occurs and Q3, meaning the summer, July, August, September,

if those both print negative, that would put a Trump recession officially declared in like September, October, November. So that would be my logic train, I guess there. But those are just the official numbers. They've been, in my opinion, keeping those numbers in favor of Biden a bit over the years. And definitely now they're flipping the coin there. Maybe a little negative Trump. You know, we'll see how it comes out. But yeah, pretty staggering switch from positive growth to negative growth in their opinions So the old textbook definition of a recession. Can you go over that again?

To consecutive quarters to consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth right, so If we get one of those It's gonna be called the Trump recession whether we get a second quarter It's it just is politically right there if he causes negative growth. So Yeah, I happen to be sitting behind my Information technology set up and I got grok open And I'll just challenging grok the AI

Connected to X right musk musk AI to give me threats that could be expected in the United States between now and the summer solstice June 20th 2025. And I'm not sure I'm trusting these results, but I read them. Severe hurricanes severe hurricanes starting the US Gulf Coast. Those will be early hurricanes To happen before June so I don't think I look right Escalating I mean it could happen right escalating cyber attacks disrupt US infrastructure. I Think it's just grass and for straws there. I mean, that's always true. Yeah, I can't pin that on a date at all

it doesn't seem to escalate between now and June just because it's the spring Number three was Middle East conflict spikes oil prices. Well, we've seen some hell of a escalation in Middle East Conflict the last couple years and prices oil doesn't seem to be affected anymore So that's kind of old conventional thinking mass-shooting sparks national outrage, it's you know the nature of the country we live in and Well, I don't know maybe we should go through more the list, but I was gonna say that and

actual riots and burning and Antifa type stuff. Oh, wait, LMS, that type of stuff, though. There was, there was number five on border tensions, which could be extrapolated to be, you know, anti deportation, uh, protests, you know, fuel violent clashes. So that's probably out of these five the one that yeah, we should be she watching for warmer weather and increased efficiency of the ice and custom and Border Patrol as

Trump's agenda they they get you know firm grip on those agencies really get them exercise and you know Working again because you know for four on those agencies really get them exercise and you know working again because they own For four years they couldn't do their job they might get quite effective at nationwide raids and that kind of violent clashing and protests, it's probably that is the Most accurate one of this little list that AI popped up. I Think that is the most Seasonal as well and the first time that's the first time that I've heard one of this little list that are either shootings that on the show. Now, I want to make it clear to the audience. We're not stalling to talk about the heat map with an extra long segment one,

but there are only six headlines to discuss. So we got a lot of time here. So I just asked Grok to make five more. You want to hear them? Go. Wildfires, ravage, drought stricken Western states. I think that could happen at any time now. And so that's states. I think that could happen at any time now and

So that's valid. I think Stop me when you hear one you have have a thought on or dispute terror terror attack targets us major city. That's Not sure that's more or less than any other time, but it's it's out there. Here's an interesting one China tent China Taiwan Taiwan tensions disrupt, disrupt US trade. It's better weather for that sort of thing if China wanted to flex. Right and there are I don't know exactly the times a year but there are two times a year that it's supposed to be much better weather and and tides, et cetera, which maybe Grok knows or maybe they put it in there if that's spring, but a lot of wars start off

in spring, historically, to say the least. We got a couple folks in chat. You know, it's funny, we got someone, Jay Ferg on Rumble. We got Deborah Bacon on X who said, surprisingly stupid. I'm not sure exactly which part we've talked a lot about, but Deborah got more, uh, got more context or more information on that. We'll definitely look at that. Then fire will forge what's happening.

Fire will forge on YouTube. So again, we're live on rumble YouTube and X all at the same time and the archive podcast. If you just want to listen to an MP3 later this week, but you can comment and talk with us live. Um, anyway, oh, Jay Ferg just says we are dealing with wildfires here in the Carolinas. Yeah, they are. They are. Yep. They've been worse than usual there too. Yeah, I did ask ideal times and weather for PRC invasion of Taiwan. Late March, late April. Okay, there you go. Maybe that's why Grok suggested that also heat wave stream power

grids and cartel violence spills over border. So, this is the top 10 that grocks just, you know, being prompted to, you know, take a guess at those. Um I couldn't not. I couldn't really think of any other very

specific events or seasonal but I think we hit a few good ones there the wildfires big one Taiwan and China can't forget about that and Yeah, the the riots and the civil unrest. I think that's as preppers Something we all got to be ready for is being trapped in a huge swath of traffic or craziness, not able to get around or having to know other routes out of town back to our, back to our homestead. You know, you might be in a homestead, but if you get trapped in one of these things on the interstate 50 miles away, what are you going to do

as an example? So something to think about. Yeah, I'm looking for, you know, inevitably there'll be police violence, that's, you know, excessive force. And just, I think it's just ticking time down maritime maritime before it's, you know, the perpetuators of that are white, right? And, you know, essentially another pretext for race riots. Well, the law of large numbers is that'll happen enough with enough millions and millions of people and more and more cameras, which generally with police, I'm glad there's more cameras involved, maybe not just in general society, but even then, I think it's usually a good thing

that if things are on camera, but point is mistakes are also gonna be mistakes and just bad people doing bad things are gonna be on camera a lot more than they were 10, 20, 30 years ago. So yeah, no matter the race, we'll see a lot more of that, but certainly white, there's white guys doing that. And it's a Rodney King situation times five because the camera's so, you know, such good quality and the machine to push that and spark riots countrywide

and spark riots countrywide is way more. You know, that machine is much stronger and widespread than it was in 1992. Now, if you wanted to acknowledge the fears of everybody who is looking at what the Trump administration is doing, it would be reasonable to say that some kind of moves from Doge or the cabinet secretaries that eliminated some vital functions of government probably would create an event that would be in the big scheme of things, a minor blip on the radar, but it could turn into a gigantic scandal for the Trump presidency. Essentially, you know, you know, if one could say they were

cutting with a meat cleaver in January and February to cut off the massive waste fraud and abuse, the easy targets, perhaps one of the swings of the machete, you know you know cuts a little bit too close and leaves them with a Problem, but you know what on Patriot power? Be hard put to see where that would Show up on the heat map dashboard Although mistakes could be made and downsizing the Department of Defense that you know leaves vulnerabilities And you know, maybe you know invite in the Department of Defense that you know leaves vulnerabilities and you know, maybe you know invite in the conversation of something along the lines of a let it happen on purpose

false flag from within the bureaucracy that lets the Trump administration you know cease to do things the normal way the regular way and they pay for it. Maybe in national security that could cause us a risk, but that's the topic today, right? Last night it was leaked that, or it was revealed by a reporter from the Atlantic that he was added to a signal chat thread between the vice president, secretary of defense, ODNI, uh, White House, national security advisor, others, you know, well, before they, uh,

drop bombs on the Houthis and it's, it's just the, the raging scandal right now. But, you know, I don't necessarily see it as directly dangerous to anything long term. Always be careful of those group chats, but for all we know, this is what I see it is directly dangerous to anything long term. Always be careful of those group chats but for all we know this is some sort of ploy or spoofing. I bet it is. I bet it is. I don't think I'm thinking that wasn't a mistake. I'm thinking they're trying to find out who Goldberg the reporter who he'd tell who I'll keep an eye on that for sure, but I'm not particularly concerned about that. FirewolfForge in chat says that it's a big fear, referring to being stuck on a road or just stuck away from the homestead and unable to access roads because of rioting or other

civil unrest or even just power outages for that matter. You know what the traffic nightmare would be but anyway fire with Ford says big fear sometimes I work on the other side of Fort Worth, Texas. Lee lives on the east side Dallas. So trying to get from I mean Dallas Fort Worth area is one of the largest metro areas in the country. So getting all the way across that if stuff's hitting the fan and the, and the power's out or national guards out or stuff's on fire, Hey, we're preppers. That's what we prep for.

But that, you know, that's a major concern I have as well. And a big reason I have, you know, became a prepper was dealing with that type of situation So what's that term that insurers use in Latin so that it sounds magical and lay people are Taking a back by it for something that just is an act of God just unplanned a bowl for Force majeure. Okay, so if you think about the threats that you face and that kind of commute some of its force majeure and you're always exposed to it and

It's it's the risk you take literally Then there's there's other stuff that builds up and an environment so you can monitor and future danger is Built on a national level not not the local area where you live in but on a national level To let you know the temperature of the news, right? If riots are breaking out across the country and they seem to be sustaining and more Facts are coming out from some police Brutality case for example, right don't want any of that to happen Absolutely. We do not need another fully George, but you know if that's happening

Some stuff is you know plannable you know days and weeks ahead of time I would contend if you're monitoring the news environment Maybe maybe you see all right that pattern of news means you know for You know for for what by whatever means necessary. I'm adjusting my You know where I work, how I live to lower risk. Uh it's risk mitigation, risk management. I'm a nerd for that but you can't let it paralyze your entire life and I won't go deep into it but I went on a long vacation. Risky one. It was risky. Absolutely. I'm a risk manager. I'm a risk you're going to realize your Yes, it's not because he won. I did it, but because he didn't lose, I did it.

Meaning if Harris had won, I just, the world would be too destabilized. I think now maybe that's an ass backwards away. Maybe it's more risky to leave the homestead with Trump in there. Cause who knows what they're going to try to false flag or otherwise while on his watch, but I at least trust his response more than, than a complicit and a totally bought out administration that came before. But anyway, yes. Uh, I traveled quite a lot, uh, ended up going to Pearl Harbor.

It was on the USS Missouri on the spot where they signed the surrender Tokyo Bay in September, 1945, et cetera, et cetera. So I, since COVID I've traveled a little bit, but not that much, but I took that. I took that leap and you know what? 95% of the time I live pretty darn strict strict prepper type lifestyle but I had to go for it. Had to go for it. Glad I did. Also, glad to be back. Not only uh to prep but back at Patriot Power Hour, my man. You about ready for uh news blitz? It's well, yeah, I guess. It's gonna be a short blitz but uh I I think I am. I was just checking on Grock. Um

based on that from twenty twenty from 2024, Ben, there are approximately 16 survivors remaining of December 7th, 1941. the fact that I've been in the revolution. Need to do that but I don't know. Maybe that's a here. Atrepic Commander, if you're out there, you should put like the top 25 places to visit in America for a real a real patriot or maybe we could even do that but I felt like Pearl Harbor is on that top 25, maybe even top 10 list but damn expensive and far to get out there's but uh it was worth it now back to now back to prepping that back to pitch your power hour for the for the audience record when uh this trip was revealed to me i honestly could not help but remind my co-hosts that in a bad enough calamity, more people live on Hawaii than food is grown to support people. So get ready to

fish. But it didn't didn't happen. So you're good. Exactly. And especially Oahu, which is the island that has Honolulu and Pearl Harbor, which is right next to it. That might as well be Yeah, the supplies are very limited, only really one port, one airport, and you could bug out and have some spots in the national forest deep on the island. That'd be pretty cool. I'm sure a lot of others do too.

By the way, Mark Zuckerberg is underground underwater base. Yeah, I drove within about a few miles of that. Obviously can't get into his property, but he has some of the best prime beach location as well as confirmed underground bunkers and even potentially a submarine like

talk about what asks I swear look this up but yeah Zuckerberg Zuckerberg uh as a compound you can't get the time you get as a as a compound. You can't get the time you spent looking that up yourself back and I'm going to I'm going to reserve the time

of learning about what the meta billionaire has. I'm a it's gotta be worth visiting at least. I mean, I wish I could have my own thousand acre or even one acre compound but I'll take what I could get out here on the stateside. Um there's benefits

for being here for sure and wide open spaces and a lot more food is definitely something you don't have on Hawaii. So, I'll give you that. Alright, Ben. News Blitz for March twenty-fifth, 2025 off of the Future Danger heat map dashboard. I got 12 things to say to you, 12 indicators and 12 headlines. Here we go.

Powerful pedophiles exposed. Got an article that we need to get into about how the real, quote, real Epstein files are coming. Keeping and bearing arms is infringed. We got the ninth circuit of holding California ban on large capacity magazines. That's it for calm. One liberty. Calm two security. The president, first president of the United States since the assassination of JFK has now said that

Leah Harvey Oswald was helped. It's under the indicator false flag exposed. I think when the president of the United States is talking about a false flag, it's exposed. Damn near. Also in column two, Chinese revolt or coup occurs. This is low level news, but we do have a headline. Senior Chinese general has been disappeared in the latest high level political purge in the PRC. That is dangerous. Column three, only one headline and one indicator and it's in the catch all indicator. Economic news, generally disappoints. It's basically any bad news. It's economic that doesn't fit in a different indicator goes here a topic I do think you're gonna be interested in commenting on commercial

real estate delinquency rates increase in the fourth quarter and then over in column three or I'm sorry for nature and science it's not really news, but it is a headline that goes to the indicator fluoride effects exposed This one's actualized fluoride effects have been exposed The article however is entitled What's happened since a judge ruled water for it? Fluoridation is lowering iq

ruled water fluoridation is lowering IQ. And I really am curious to have a browse of that article with you because I'd like to know what has happened since that happened as well. There you go. We got six indicators activated, ranging the entire scale and grade of future danger from black on red grade one happening now down to grade five topical green there's a headline but it's not the same thing as the full indicator happening right where you want to go with this let's just start with the fluoride what's happened since the judge ruled water fluoridation is lowering IQ, we covered that previously. That was last September.

EPA was directed that essentially the unreasonable risk of fluoride in drinking water is lowering IQ. The risk and reward is not balanced in any way, to say the least and a lot of local and state governments are now banning fluoride in their water by the way Hawaii does not fluoridate their water one of the only that does not except for on Pearl Harbor Hickam Joint Base that is fluoridated on the military base. Anyway, well, we have RFK, we have people just generally waking up to this, we have judges saying this,

there's a lot of momentum showing like, hey, it's really dumb to fluoridate your water to say the least, but there's been a response right for every action there's equal opposite reaction stakeholders respond EPA agency spokesperson well there's an 80 page ruling and we certainly are going to go through that all right now But they're really trying to come back and say, look, community water fluoridation is practical, is cost effective. Maybe it's not as good as we thought it was and maybe there's some side effects but you should continue to do it. Government still recommends that ADA,

America Dental Association also came in noting that the CDC hails water fluoridation as a top public health achievement, reducing cavities by 25%. Yeah, but at the cost of what kind of health effects, especially brain, but other organs as well. So, look, there's the push and then there's the counter push and the way I look at it whether it's health, finance, liberty in general, it's gonna ebb and flow as long as we're making ground every wave as long as we're pushing it forward not getting pushed backwards. What are you seeing here? You think some ground has been made in the last few years?

Are they going to strike back? What I see here is an article that if you step back and zoom out, forget the topic. There's a lot of articles like these right now from alternative media media You know non mainstream non corporate Democrat control media Posing Articles out there that are trying to prompt the administration to address some of these issues. So he's very obvious issues Right. This isn't the only one There's been ones about Russia gate getting to the bottom of the how that happened and who's responsible J6 which I'll take a moment here to tease we're gonna have some very exclusive never-before-seen video on

episode 300 a patriot power hour coming up in a in a few weeks some evidence of Things that people have suggested are true. Well, we're going to show some video for that. So, fluoride, what will RFK turn its attention to first, in the Health and Human Services? Well, we've seen things about dyes in food and baby formula. This is just one of those advocacy articles

that's trying to get these newly controlled health agencies to uh you know, don't forget, you know, this is out there now. Nationally though, if you live in any part of the you know, the country where you grew up drinking Florida water, this isn't news you want to hear. This isn't news you wanna So those very you know, developmentally, I lost a couple IQ points. I'm sure I always boil down to this. Would you put sunscreen in the water? Oh, put sunscreen on your skin and some people even say that is dangerous and could

potentially some of types of sunscreen could be toxic but uh topical use of fluoride on the teeth can be beneficial sometimes but just put it in the water supply just have everybody drink it i mean first off internal you're supposed to take it internally pretty sure you're not whatever put this is just one topic like you said zooming out i like how you how you put it that way like this is just one topic like you said zooming out. I like how you how you put it that way like this is just one of many we want to fight each one but we don't want to lose the uh force for the trees by any means and we're we're making some progress. I think real quick Firewolf Ford says follow the money the dentist says it's good for your teeth question mark Essentially, that's putting less customers in their chairs. What's going on with that? Hey great point

um I've heard Even makes your teeth worse the fluoridosis. I yeah, but how much more money do they make repairing cavities the big? Insurance bill payout is coming in to be seen. So as long as you're coming in to be seen I'm not sure they make a whole lot more money with the repairs, but they get you know, they'd rather not have to repair grotesque cavities It's medicine, you know, it's not it's not completely purely capitalistic it probably never was and it's less so than it ever was right now sure now it's purely capitalistic. It probably never was and it's less so than it ever was right now.

Sure. Now, production note real quick. We were testing out some new settings in the first few minutes of the show. We're had some weird reverb or echo. Also, my microphone is not the best. It's had a little issues in the last few weeks. We're gonna be upgrading and improving that,

but I do really appreciate the 20 plus people listening live and the many others that'll be listening on the podcast. Just again, a shout out. Patriot Power Hour is live on pbnfamily.com. Become a member today, but whether it's on Rumble, whether it's on X, whether it's on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts,

just search Prepper Broadcasting Network. All four of those ways you can join us will be live every Tuesday, 7 p.m. Eastern. And I think I'm gonna be ordering a new microphone right after this Show, but I think this episode has been great with that said anything else you want to talk about on floor I know that article otherwise we can move on to the few others. We got to cover tonight. Yes, keep moving all right, how about in order of keep moving. Alright, how about in order of the grade and alright video. We started with SHTF floor right now. We're

down to severe grade which would be false flag exposed. President says Lee Harvey Oswald was helped run us through this real quick. Future Dan. a quick feature, Dan? The files tended to indicate that there's a potential there that that's true. And now Trump's agreeing with it. And it's a milestone. It's just a major milestone. No president's ever, ever said that. ever said that. Now the reason we had an echo earlier in the show is because I was trying to share audio as well. Obviously I double shared it. My point is I'm gonna try to play this Trump clip real quick. People may or may not be able to hear it. I think you and I will be able to hear it future, Dan, but maybe or maybe not the listeners. I'm not sure. Let's

go with it. Can't figure it out unless you try. This isn't a clip. I was always like a twenty-second clip. This is about 1548. That is a long interview. Future Dan, were you able to hear that at least? No, I was not. All right, therefore we can't, unless I figure out a solution which I'll look towards. We won't be able to share video or audio clips when we're both broadcasting the way we are right now. Otherwise we'll get the echo if you speak,

it's a double effect. That's all right, that's all right. No audios is Firewall Forge, no audios is JFrog. Appreciate it. I'm gonna is Firewall Forge. No audios is JFrog. Appreciate it. I'm gonna try to think about this. Maybe we can use OBS to remix something. I got some

homework to do but that's what a new season's all about. So, this is our kind of adjustment period. Episode 298. We got episode 300 coming up. Future Dan, before we get into any other news which we got a few others you want to talk again, maybe hint again What's coming episode 300? Yeah, it's it's it's exposing a false flag on January 6

There's video evidence and we're gonna publish it first First time ever posted anywhere video. I don't know. There's been other videos of other people. Ray Epps, what he was doing in the crowd is I'm not saying it's the only evidence but the evidence that we're in this angle or this exact video. It's not like someone else's video that you repurposed. This is a video that's as far as we're aware has never been seen by anyone. I'm perfectly aware because I took it on behalf of Pepper Broadcasting Network live reporting live on January 6 2021 at the Capitol. So we will have audio on that clip 150% I'm gonna yeah.

I'm going to make sure. Yeah. We got uh that's a week from now. You got a deadline now. Yeah. For sure. So, anyway, uh technical improvements to be made aside future Dan. How about you go ahead and pick an article? Go for it. Uh we're doing color order, right? I

believe so. If you want to continue that trend, let's do it then. Yeah, what's the Epstein files are coming article actually say that's new? PJ Media. These guys tend to, you know, spot things earlier than others along these lines. So, it's talking about the JFK files, 80,000 pages, you know, somewhat ho-hum, some inklings there that, like Trump said, Oswald was held, but nothing, no smoking guns. But inside of the FBI, the battle with the part of the FBI, the New York field office that had the Epstein files,

it was only a couple of weeks ago that there are rumors swirling that the FBI was sent to the FBI's office to put down the FBI Members that were preventing this from being released I gotta imagine there's so much leverage in those files that Trump's gonna use this tactically that that would make sense why there's a delay. Or the bad guys deleted all the evidence to be bleached Hillary Clinton style, I would expect if anything would be illegally deleted, it would be evidence implicating well-known politicians, celebrities, etcetera with Diddy or Epstein

or any of that. So, JFK files for that matter, but perhaps it's a lot harder to erase and destroy this evidence. And you would think I would hope so. I know the companies I've worked for in the past have very secure data management and data integrity and backups. So I would think the FBI would too, but maybe not, but I mean, long story short, if there was something that they would illegally destroy and obfuscate, it would be this, I would think. So even if Bondi

and friends are doing the best they can, it's certainly uphill battle. I hope they're really doing the best they can. You remember Benghazi? Yeah. Right after that happened the way the Obama administration handled it was to immediately classify everything That was part of that all the State Department communications all the military communications It immediately was it was just sucked up to a level of CIA classification that made all that information go into buildings with hardware where that electronic data, that's the only place it exists. So, you know, if it's essentially

what where the Epstein files went, which they probably did because there's been indications that that one point after Epstein was you know under scrutiny by the law that certain prosecutors and certain members of the FBI were you know basically informed that Epstein's an intelligence asset right that's that's going to involve the CIA so So who was he working for? Israel, Great Britain, another country, rogue elements of any of those deep states, maybe not officially in power, but certainly with connections and able to pull levers of power.

And if that's true, think about the leverage that gives Trump against well, two countries I just named. Certainly. Alright. Ninth Circuit upholds California ban on large capacity magazines. They did. They did and they they made a stupid ruling where the Magazine is considered an accoutrement an accessory to a weapon rather than part of the actual weapon system and therefore can you know is unconstrained by Second Amendment limitations and one Trump appointee judge

Went ahead and did a diss descent in a YouTube video. First time ever a judge, a federal judge of that standing and there he is. He's he's in his chamber. Well, you know, we can't play the video because we do have this audio problem but he's he's taking apart his pistol and explaining how no, the magazine is part of the weapon he was reprimanded by the chief judge of the Ninth Circuit because

They don't usually do that they don't usually you know basically a showboat like that in open, you know against their peers, but right, you know that Judge Burz on you know, you know, that's her paragraph that you were just highlighting she's the chief but this judge didn't care he pulled his pistol out made a video and There therefore that was his descent that'll reach people

Well, you know what Don't live in a state like that. It's horrible but there's a reason that they have uh what do they call it? Let's just say fire breaks or or uh bulkheads with the Navy theme between each state. So, if a state gets ass backwards like California, hopefully, it'll be righted. I hope this is fixed there. I care about California being a strong American state, beautiful area, some good people there but yeah, I'm not

living in California. Hawaii also has a lot of uh let's just say issues where it's a beautiful place not for me to live. I'll visit occasionally Yeah, keep that in mind, of course. I know a lot of practice switching max like be fast with your weapon and switch max Ah, yeah, you can't start around with a hundred round drum Yeah, just make sure what is the the guy with a hundred round like a gun sight that's aftermarket attached or a pistol grip or a sling, right? That the magazine is just right. Another accoutrement. Obviously, you know, it's absurd. Yeah, I guess you could load a weapon one round at a time. And I guess you probably wouldn't

be terribly easy on some weapons, but it's theoretically possible. So this is just an absurd ruling. It affects California. I don't know if the Supreme Court's going to have time to take up anything like this because the boatload of lawsuits that are headed to Supreme Court about executive power, which I think we talked about our last episode together. Yeah, there's going to be a lot of talk of victory power hour about Supreme Court Not just not just rulings because these rulings could take months, but the hearings like I honestly I'm prepared to take a day To do nothing else But listen, it's probably gonna be on see C span or some, you know

All the cable news will probably cover it live audio only inside the Supreme Court when some of those cases get there but it's it this is you know, just this is an infringement on the right to bear arms and we're not surprised by it but it's it's there. It it rates on the E map dashboard. Not surprised at all. People take time off. I don't for like the Olympics or for sporting events or all this other stuff but taking a day or two off for some of these landmark uh even in Congress. So, I don't know. I feel like C-SPAN is going to be appointment view and I'm looking forward to it in a roundabout way. Um.

Historical things are going to be happening this year. Yeah. And they many of them could be very good. Very many of them could make all of our lives for a long time. A lot safer. Let's make it happen. Let's hope for the best prep for the worst. Jay Ferg says, well, don't worry, Hillary no longer has her clearance. Gosh. Took a while. Wish it happened in the first administration but the first time around with Trump. Firewolf Ford says, can you I'm going to go back to the trash. Took a while. Wish it happened in the first

administration but the first time around with Trump. Uh Firewolf Ford says, can you imagine running a P ninety one around at a time? It'd be hard that manually. Yeah, it wouldn't be too effective, would you? Uh I don't think so.

Not at all. I'm not going to go back to the article but one of the sentences from those that were voting to ban these high capacity mags was like these high capacity mags do not influence your ability to defend yourself. And I'm like, okay, yeah, right. As a, I know there's a few veterans on this, uh, on this network and pretty sure anybody with common sense, let alone some of the military experience would the veterans on this on this That's that's that's evident on

its face. Well, honestly, I try not to get pulled into those type of arguments because it's a waste of time and they want you to spin your wheels on stuff like that. Anyway, fight the straw man a little bit. So, yes, at some point, you gotta be like, that's clear. That, you know, is decided. I'm moving on. I'm not going to waste my time spinning wheels on something like that. Second amendments essentially become that to me. I just defend it at all costs without even thinking about it at this point.

Yeah, it's not like you can be expanded to the point where it's reasonable to, you know, discuss the dangers of over expandingexpanding the Second Amendment. That's not the problem we have. Correct. And one of the most annoying ones is militia and the definition there of standing, you know, anyway. No, no, no, that was that was killed. We already got a ruling. That was Heller. Heller, Heller destroyed that legal argument. the They don't matter in jurors exactly. You gotta learn just not to talk to them after a while. Hey, let's see what's going on the Chinese military All right. There you go. All right, so I'll summarize this one for you. I actually had grok do it for me senior Chinese military leader and Vice chair of the Central Military Commission has disappeared from public view US intelligence suggesting he's the target of a purge by

Ji Jinping Ji chairs the CMC the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president of the United States,

the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president of the United States, the president You know, you know, enforce ideological purity in some idea. Now it's this is a bloody dictatorship and it's just hanging on to power, which is why it rates on the future danger heat map. There's no other military in the world that has its own indicator that if its military stages, a coup or mutiny would be directly dangerous to the United States of America. Arguable if that would be true with Russia,

but given Russia's performance against Western weapons and Western ISR and the strength of NATO, I think a coup could happen in Russia and it would not necessarily directly threaten us. And there's evidence of that because that's basically what happened in 1991 when the Soviet Union fell apart, but China China's military taking a shot at the Chinese, you know civilian leadership that could get very wild and very very destabilizing Yeah, so, you know, we got another very high ranking Chinese general disappeared

Can China can Z do this on occasion? and I just occasionally get rid of any power threat within his military and Maintain status quo. Yes, he can and that's why this is that grade one topical news. This doesn't say that You know the top ranks of the Chinese army actually revolted against the president. We're not there yet But they're not a hundred percent loyal are they? Nope, and it's heating up say the least this comes and goes this happens and then you don't hear in India Yeah, go to the archive. What was the last time? July of 24

That was about G possibly having a stroke so you see how these events could compound Dismisses defense minister and 23. Yeah, so these are averaging like one headline a year 123. Yeah, so these are averaging like one headline a year Little bit data we're gonna keep By the way, if you're watching on video right now, this is a full archive all True sources some of the links have been broken not on our end but on their end but all different types of sources going back to 2017 forward again low level but and a lot of these don't pan out or at least publicly we don't know like the strokey president she as far as we're aware did

not have a deadly brain aneurysm officially, but I mean, a couple pieces of evidence say that might've occurred. Any anything going on with Xi, his health, his whereabouts him disappearing from public for long periods of time. That is potentially pointing to you. You gotta think of new background. How are they going to transfer power? Xi reorganized China and the communist Chinese, you know Terms for their for their supreme ruler. He's there longer than anybody since Mao and if you're a student of history the Mao regime was incredibly bloody and

You know He effectively had to die to lose power, right? He was like Stalin. So we watched these things. We watched these things economics want to wrap up with maybe I'll fall asleep listening to you talk about commercial they just kidding, just kidding. Because this leads to how many banks have derivatives built into commercial real estate, that could be the first domino in an entire banking sector collapse. That's that's why this is

important. Now for the mechanics, tell us what's going on back. Alright, won't get too wonky but you remember 18 months ago, the Fed started to raise interest rates. And on this show, we said, all right, it's going to take 6, 12, maybe 18 months for it to really start to negatively affect the system. Because, as you know, if you've gotten a 30-year mortgage on a home or a 5, 7, 10-year mortgage, whatever on an auto or something else, you know, five, seven, 10-year mortgage, whatever on an auto or something else, you know,

these are long loans. So, look, a year, year and a half later, some of these loans are coming due or rolling over or being refinanced and instead of being at 3%, 4%, they're going to be at four percent. that was certainly occurring prior to COVID, but it fast forwarded like a decade. So malls and office buildings and all types of commercial real estate is vacant. So interest rates going up. The cost of it, almost everything's gone up as well. So the cost of money, the interest rate, has gone up. The

cost of security and maintenance and materials for your buildings, I mean we're talking about 80-story skyscrapers, you know, they're not cheap to maintain. They're not free to have, not to mention the property tax on them. So if they're sitting 50% vacant, 80% vacant, that's not going to work in the long term. So we've seen some of these buildings that were sold for $100 million like a decade ago be sold for like $8, $12, $15 million like 80, 90, 95% write-offs. But that just started. And again, the rollover of that debt has only begun. And now it's at that higher interest rate. So now the pinch really is starting to begin.

That all boils down to this article, real estate delinquency rates. Now people, well, residential of course is people's mortgages, but commercial real estate is businesses. So businesses, not people, businesses are not paying their rent. And that's a problem because businesses usually, uh, don't miss their rent payment. They're a little less volatile than the average, especially like a subprime residential person might miss their mortgage or rent,

et cetera. But most businesses, they got it together. They, they got an accountant that'll make sure they don't miss their rent. It's not an accident that they're insolvent and their investors, the market will punish them. And what's the, if they would cut every corner before they would not make their rent payment. So if they're missing that, you know, everything else has been cut to the bone

and it's essentially end of the line. Like it's pretty hard to go from missing your rent payment to bouncing back and be in a thriving business. I'm sure it could occur. But uh, you know, we're not seeing it on the wider economy. And just this year in 2025, like a trillion dollars of this debt is being rolled over. So even going from 3% to 6% interest rates is just like billions and billions of dollars of losses on all these pension funds, insurance companies and banks. So you might be like, I don't got any money in stock market. I don't own any of this crap, whatever. Well, if you've got a pension, your pension does. Maybe you don't have a pension.

Maybe you don't really are a prepper homesteader. That's awesome. Congrats. But almost all insurance, pensions, government funds, all that type of stuff, heavily, heavily exposed to this. Yeah. Not good. Not good. So Trump wants them to lower the interest rates. That'll help a little bit, right? That's of course kicking the can down that's a good point. Not good. So, Trump wants him to lower interest rates. That'll help a little bit, right? That's of

course, kicking the can down the road a little bit and helping the banksters out but in the short term, maybe they gotta do that. I'm not a fan of lowering interest rates again but Trump's trying to freaking help a dying patient at least give the dying

patient some some medicine while we're hacking away to try to reorganize all the corruption and misspending government and otherwise. But yeah, I don't know. This has been building for decades and decades. So even if Trump does everything perfectly, like he's sort of a little bit at the at the whim of the global market that's been pent up bubble for 20, 30, 40 years. You know what? We advertised a few episodes ago that we were going to talk about but then we didn't get around to talking about. I think we should talk about the strategic Bitcoin reserve for a moment. We're we're negligent in that regard. Yeah. What have you heard going on lately?

as A big-time fan of Bitcoin Staring me right in the face and sometimes that's what you miss. So Hey, if you're looking at the price action Bitcoin below a hundred thousand So that is showing that the market does not believe the US is going to gobble up 5 or 10% of the Bitcoin in the world in the next couple of years. Because if people really believe that, Bitcoin would be like a quarter of a million right

now. However, Bitcoin was only like 50k around the election and it bounced above 100 and now it's at 87,000. Not bad. I'll say this. People are pretty confident the Trump administration is not going to try to outlaw Bitcoin or raise taxes on Bitcoin or be aggressive against it, but I'm not seeing that people are believing that the government's actually going to buy any. way the Bitcoin market so small in terms of dollars like It's one-tenth the size of gold in terms of the worldwide market cap, so if the US government did even try to

secretly buy Bitcoin a little bit each month The price would go up that it would not stay below a hundred K for long, if at all. So maybe there is a strategic Bitcoin reserve being accumulated, new Bitcoin being purchased. What another huge thing. There isn't, there isn't yet. That's as far as we could tell.

There isn't number one and number two. What we've really only been, that's been really been committed I think is that the Bitcoin the US already has won't be sold. Ben, there's been a lawsuit the minute Trump did it. Like it's not happening. It's not secretly happening. He doesn't have full control of the treasury yet. it. Unlikely black, you know, the black funds for the Pentagon are being diverted to buy Bitcoin. I highly doubt that. Now look into something called MicroStrategy. It's in the DC region and it's a it really MicroStrategy by Michael Saylor is buying up tons and tons of Bitcoin, a tech company that works somewhat with the government, has pretty much now just become a Bitcoin holding company. Some think it'll be the first Bitcoin bank, but some also think that Michael Saylor might be working on the behalf of state interests.

At least maybe the US government doesn't own the strategic reserve, but at least someone friendly to the United States is able to hold it and make sure China, Russia don't buy it. I don't know if that's true or not. Some say sailors are spooks. Some say he just wants to get rich. On March 6, the President signed an executive order establishing the Bitcoin Reserve, using forfeited Bitcoin as a national asset. The next day, he hosted a White House crypto summit to discuss the reserve, focusing on Bitcoin while creating a separate stockpile of other digital assets. Four days later on March 11, we had a Senator re-induce the Bitcoin Act,

proposing the purchase of 1 million bitcoins over five years to expand the US Reserve. On March 24th, while we were on break, a member of Congress, a representative, suggested selling US gold holdings as a budget neutral way to acquire more Bitcoin for the Reserve. Bitcoin prices fell over 5%, however, after venture capitalist David Sacks clarified

no taxpayer funds would be used to buy Bitcoin, which is an odd way for Grok to summarize the news recently, because venture capitalist David Sacks is in the government. It will take an act of Congress to really move the needle. But if they did pass anything in the direction of increasing The the now established strategic Bitcoin Reserve Where do you think we go from?

the for sale price and firewolf forges is Skeptical on the 80k handle Ben He remembers 32k but where can we go from 80k handle Ben He remembers 32 K. But where can we go from 80 K if let's just say for example before the midterms before November 20 26 an act was passed Authorized and Treasury to buy 1 million Bitcoin over the next five years Where do you see the price then? A lot of folks are targeting a quarter million, 250 K. If not only that passes, but the Bitcoin is actually purchased because there's only, well, if you take into account Bitcoin has lost forever and has not been

mined yet, a small portion, there's only about 20 million Bitcoin out there. And there's not very much for sale. After a few billion dollars, which is pocket change to the government, you would see all the exchanges cleared out. There'd be no Bitcoin for sale. Now people might go into their vaults, for lack of a better term, and put some new Bitcoin on the market and the government would be able to buy it at 130k and then 150 and anyway there is supply and demand but there's very restricted supply Bitcoin cannot be created out of anything and the current rates of mining you know blocks on you know of the blockchain mined per day, 450 are being produced a day

right now. And that's only going to get less and less until eventually, you know, what year is it that it all gets mined? You got Grok, I'm sure. But I would say, I believe it's in the 2100s. So at least 100 years from now. Like more than a lifetime. What's that? After our lifetime, 2042, Grok says. 2042, not 2140. 2140, I'm sorry. 2140, okay, I knew it was at least in 2100. More than 100 years from now.

So, yeah. So you're saying a three time, three X, if the US government found a way to be authorized to buy just a million, just a million. That's 5% of all Bitcoin that will ever exist. They bought 5% of the gold that ever existed in five years, 1% per year. Gold would go from the current record of three thousand, they would go to ten K plus. By the way, don't want to belabor the point, but gold is above three thousand silver at thirty-four twenty-two

rounded up to twenty-three. Silver's not at its all-time high, but gold is or slightly slightly off. So, I'm a huge proponent of physical gold and physical silver and physical preps, of course, as well. But what number did you have per ounce on gold? 3025. Yeah, Grox is 3022. Yep. All time high, pretty much right near it. But it's not soaring right now. It's not it's not on an upward trajectory. So we didn't have it as a headline tonight, but, uh, not a good sign in the aggregate. When gold price goes like this, it feels to me like other things

under the service are fragile. And in the last five years from may 2020, just around COVID time, gold was 1600. Now it's above $3,000. So essentially doubled. And the way I look at gold and silver is, gold and silver don't go up in price. They're the most static asset. It's everything else around them.

So the way I look at that is inflation is 100%. It's doubled in the last five years. So gold hasn't doubled. the reason is inflation is 100%. What what things some but but you know? it's so in the comments of Firewolf Forge Having covered the topic of Jeffrey Esposine tonight. I first read his comment and got a very Bizarre reaction because there's a bit of a typo. He said tell my wife that running a minor Unfortunately, he spelled it. Am I an OR as in juvenile will help heat the house in the winter?

I'm like what the F but then I realized he's talking about Bitcoin with me and Yeah, I've run a minor Bennett. I've invested and run miners together. They they will heat a Space like that's not kidding. Yeah, like my garage was like in you know like they they will heat um a correct. I believe it. I believe you did that on a phone. I never use voice to text. I don't know if he did as well. Love you Firework Sports Boy. I know that's the worst is the if you try to do voice to text that stuff happens a lot. I got the I got the auto-correct off on every device just because of that. For real. For real. So anyway, Bitcoin Strategic Reserve, you're right. We, I'm probably biased against covering it

just because I'm so close to Bitcoin. I missed it. We have hardly talked about it. I think we covered it decently here. I'm not, with Bitcoin especially, but a lot of things, I don't get too high or too low. So when Bitcoin is crashing, I believe it's coming back. When it's going up and up and up, I'm happy, but I'm also not thinking all of a sudden

Trump's just going to buy all the Bitcoin and I'm going to be a billionaire. Like that's obviously not going to work that way. It's not all up to Trump. It takes Congress, takes a lot more than that. So I feel like there's optimism that Trump and the US government will not be attacking Bitcoin. And that's, in my opinion, just as good as them supporting it. So we want them to support it, potentially. But I've also said, as a Bitcoin aficionado, I don't even need the government to support it. Just get out of the way and don't try to ban and attack us. Whatever.

And if they do that, I'm happy. They still sore about that mid January launch of the Trump meme coin. Is that still on the negative side of the ledger for you for a yeah. Why is that bother you so much? It's just a stupid souvenir. If you parse the words of the Bitcoin reserve is actually like a crypto reserve and they do distinguish a little bit between Bitcoin versus other cryptos, but in my opinion, 99.8% of the other cryptos besides Bitcoin are scams. That's what I believe.

And of course, Trump coming up with his own coin as a souvenir, kind of a joke, okay. But I think that's just, would George Washington have done that? I just don't think so. It's a little below the Commander in Chief to issue one of these scam coins that, by the way up up up in price for like two days and then lost like 80 90 percent. So it's a pump and dump. Honestly, if I produced that myself, the SEC would come after me for

insider trading, rug polling, illegal trading of security. I don't think that's valid. So you can't win your argument there with me. I don't think that's it's a free market should be anyways. Now, well, the SEC would like to beg otherwise, but which SEC exactly will try to use the one you used to have the one you have now. I still think that the current one would come after me if I came up with an unregistered security and rug pulled people but it's more of the principle of it and it was Trump would Trump coin or Melania coin be part of his crypto thing that's somewhat different but not exactly

within the Bitcoin Reserve that worrying those lines is horrible. That's that would that would be a that would be a conflict of interest that no one could tolerate but I am I'm reading any of those cryptos equivalent to that for so for him even acknowledge anything besides bitcoin is bad taste in my mouth for him to actually interact with anything besides bitcoin is you know I'm a bitcoin maximalist maximalist though so maybe I'm a little extreme I think you'm a little bit of a I'm a little bit of a I'm a little bit of a I'm a little bit of a I'm a little bit of a

I'm a little bit of a I'm a little bit of a I'm a little bit of a I'm a little bit of a I'm a little bit of a I'm a little bit of a I'm a little bit of a I'm a little bit of a the president. He's the president. He's the president. He's redeemed himself. I don't He's the president. He's the president. He's the president. He's he's redeemed himself. I don't think he even knew. I think it think he even knew. I think it was Darren. I don't think he was Darren. I don't think he even cared. That's almost bad

even cared. That's almost bad too but I guess in the too but I guess in the too but I guess in the celebration of everything, you celebration of everything, you know, by guns by guns. I know, by guns by guns. I know, by guns by guns. I think you can fire beware. It's it's think you can fire beware. It's it's think you can fire beware. It's it's still less than 12 bucks a

still less than 12 bucks a still less than 12 bucks a token if you want to pick some up token if you want to pick some up tonight. I'll save for my next tonight. I'll save for my next tonight. I'll save for my next beautiful Hawaiian. I may have to beautiful Hawaiian. I may have to beautiful Hawaiian. I may have to troll you for a while there troll you for a while to troll you for a while there because this doesn't rate. This does not get me antagonized in the least. Like if you want to buy a souvenir coin and say you owned dollar sign Trump.

Yes, there's other ways people blow their rich off of it though. If it was if it was truly free market with no insider trading, then I could be more with you. But I got a feeling some people, barons, friends, or someone who overheard something, something or other, like someone knew this thing was coming, positioned themselves to immediately buy it and then decided to sell at the top, turned around multiple millions of dollars in just a day or two. If they did that of their own volition, then I can't blame anybody. But I mean, just the but every girl inside or info is just horrible for the president to be involved with. Everybody who bought it is perfectly aware that that could happen.

And they did so freely. It's free association. It's freedom of choices. No buyer. Buyer beware. Well, as far choices. No, buyer, buyer beware. Well, as I fair, what happened to Les I fair? And it's not part of the freedom of economics on this one. I do. By the way, I didn't buy any because I thought it was a scam

coin, but exactly. So in the end, it is your own fault if you buy it. So I'll give you that for sure. Episode 298 on March 25th, 2025 picture power hour. We think we ran the gamut on. You know what? I see a trend happening. Our shows are getting longer now that we got video.

Yeah, for sure. And with chat, by the way, we're gonna be live to join us. Hopefully you've enjoyed the show so far. Go back, listen to the archive. If you missed the start of the show, we'll make sure that's all squared away. But future Dan, you're right. This is expanded. Oh, not only what we can look at, but talk about and just kind of explore with the viewers and with both of us being able to see the same screen. So I'm loving it. Uh, we ain't going, we ain't going back to podcast only I know that Thank You Jay Fergie and fire wolf forge for jumping into the The chat we've been waiting a long time to get that mastered. So I appreciate anybody else out there Join us in the comments or drop us a line. I'm at at future At I'm going to go to the six.

At Bankster Breaker on X Bankster Breaker. If you look at the description of this video or podcast, you'll also find that info. I was trying to play the the music to roll out but unfortunately, it sounded staticky when you're trying to talk with the music overlay. That's another thing to add to the list. Jay Ferg also says we could upload some videos ahead of time. So anyway, it's been a good secret. That is that is part of it. We can't freeform as much. We'd have to plan ahead. Feature Dan. Oh my gosh. Anyway, awesome folks. We're gonna be live next Tuesday night, April 1st. No fools here. Tuesday all spring.

All spring, really, hopefully all year. Tuesdays is the new night, and we always reserve the right to go live if and when there are major breaking developments. So just keep an eye out on your notifications on however you follow Prepper Broadcasting Network. And we'll see, otherwise we'll see you next Tuesday, all right? Glad being back into the swing of things. We'll catch you next week.