The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Patriot Power Hour #315

Episode Date: August 20, 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 out!Ben “The Breaker of Banksters” @BanksterBreaker on XFuture Dan@FutureDanger6 on X

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Patriot Power Hour live once more. August 19th, 2025. It's the 315th episode of Patriot Power Hour. I'm Ben the Breaker Banksters here with Future Dan. What's going on, Future Dan? Future Dan, break, break. You're muted. There you go.

Future Dan. What's going on? We are rubber banding a little bit, so I'm hoping that we sound okay. sound to you much better that's what happened you weren't muted it was a reconnect we're live and we're sounded pretty good on my end 706 p.m. Eastern August 19th what's going on these days yeah there's a lot of low level news not a particularly dangerous period of uh 2,025 earlier this summer everything was breaking loose the summer's you know ending up uh relatively peaceful still a lot of news a lot of trees getting shaken lot of changes happening

in this world but relative to your prepping stance i think it's relatively safe tonight i'm glad to see it uh compared to where we were this time last year just a night and day that doesn't mean you're prepping needs to take a back seat we've talked about this on this show as well and I know Intrepid commanders talked about it, NBC guy, and several other hosts about the Trump lull in the prepper community, the first administration, and how that should not take place the second, if only because of what we saw with COVID, right? So, and what I'm saying is in 2017, 2018, 2019, less people were interested in prepping. Some folks thought things were, you know, fixed, whatever. well wake up call COVID in 2020 number one number two the world is more to destabilized I think probably a large margin now compared to 2017 2018 2019 so just because it seems things might be

on a better track than last year because that Trump's in office etc etc not mean there's not reason to prep what do you think that Alaska summit between Trump and Putin. I was pretty impressed how quickly that came together, as well as yesterday when all the European leaders came to D.C. And I'm hopeful that it turns into something. I believe back in April, the first, maybe not the first round of going for this, but remember, Zelensky came into the White House.

It was a total embarrassment, pathetic. Vance dressed them down. as he should have. This go-around seems a little better. Hopefully Putin's serious, and hopefully Ukrainians are serious. What does that look like in reality? We'll find out.

But the fact that Putin came to Alaska like that, that was good to see and invited Trump to Moscow, which apparently Trump was considering. Yeah, people were talking about, I don't know if you want to call it a flex of the, flying the B-2 over. I do. That's really necessary.

I think it's very undiplomatic and poor form, but what do you say? No, no, it's a flex. No, that's, I will call it that for sure. Nothing's like that's ever been done. What world leader shows up for a summit and has the other countries, Air Force, fly an advanced weapon like that right over your head? while you're still outside by the planes Trump looked up

and clapped when it happened too so he he definitely called for that to happen. Obviously I thought it was a little overboard having the F-35s or F-22s. I think they're F-35s but fighter planes

along the red carpet I was like okay well makes for good optics and then I actually missed the B-2 thing. I don't know I watched almost all of this whole thing from Trump being on Air Force was one waiting for Putin to land all the way through. But I missed the freaking live B2 flyover.

I don't know. I think it's a little. I thought it was not good, but whatever, my opinion. Like, how wouldn't it be good? Because you're trying to bring people to peace and like, be like, all right, let's all chill. Let's not, that's like trying to break up a fight and then spit into someone's face is how I look at it. That's like the biggest bitch move you can make. I would be so pissed if I was rushing all that like so it's like a bully's beaten up a smaller bully and then someone bigger than the bully grabs him and pulls them off is how I see it it's it was a flex it was a demonstration of force could have been the same B2 that bombed Iran at will just a month ago right all right you know we want to rush this progress

having all of their bunkers crushed by the B-2. It was a major flex, and it caught Putin, you know, by surprise. He would never have gone to Alaska if he, you know, thought he'd be, you know, flexed on like that. Right. That was a massive show of force. Yeah, so what do we try to do here? Have peace or, like, show that we got a bigger dick than Russia? Because I don't know.

Maybe it does. That's the real ball to take, right? Absolutely. Absolutely. The display of force. The message sent by the U.S. Air Force to the Russian Air Force in all of the important people in those very large and very lethal organizations. Yes.

I mean, in the economics sphere, I would say at times you're pointing to things and the way things are arranged and taking, you know, major. you know umbrage is the word i'm searching for umbrage with the of the banksters the way things are set up the way it's been set up for a very very long time and i would argue that that kind of messaging that kind of dominance that kind of you know expressions of power are trivial trivial compared to when you're talking about heads of state and nuclear capable platforms being presented like that

that was a major signal to Russia right that's it's telling them that they're weak and that they ought to know it so that's you know insult your negotiation partner I guess what you're saying is it's not a negotiation partner a rushes are bitch they better realize it and stop now i don't know i don't know if i go that far but it is that's what it looks like to me if you take it to the 10th degree no it's not it's not

that it's not like that kind of like sort of a ghetto point of view about it it's it's more about you know you no matter how big and strong you think you are let's remind you you lost the cold war to us right that that you know we are not a second rate, you know, we're not, we're not even your peer in this conversation, right? That's what it's about. I couldn't believe what I saw. And it let Putin have an opportunity on that red carpet. He could have turned around, walk back to his plane, right? But he couldn't. He got invited into the, you know, Trump's limo and stayed the rest of the time and thanked him for the experience. It's a signal not to Putin. It's a signal to, you know, certain, what percent of

the Russian populace is absolutely pro-war would like to collapse the Ukrainian regime and fight on until the entire thing's reabsorbed? That sort of thing is a message to that part of the Russian populace. Well, they only understand stuff like that, I suppose, and maybe most humans only do. especially cutthroat that become leaders in this modern world. I've got a little uncouth, though. Even middle-aged-s, they don't have. Dealer with the Russians, yeah. You are.

Well, tell me about the... Ukrainians are just as scummy as them, so... Well, we can go there if you want, but first off, being ruled by communists for 70-plus years has an effect on peoples that, you know, last a long time. But show me the point in history where a cruel dictatorship of one type or another didn't rule Russia since it's it's been the Russian way. It always has been. Like when you're dealing with people that only understand brute force, these things, these signals matter. But that none of that was meant to communicate to you and the world that, the Western world that you live in. That was meant to communicate to them. text dad in the chat agrees that b2 flyover is the only thing putin understands yeah i get it i get it from that point of view but it seems a little uh it was alpha that wasn't beta that was

alpha and it was it gets closer to peace or not is all i care about maybe it does or maybe not Hey, Reagan put a lot of systems into place and started investing into SDI, and that's what put Gorbachev at the table. So, yeah, it's worked before. It's worked in Trump's lifetime. I mean, he was a young man watching Reagan do these sorts of things against the Russians. He's seen it work before. One thing I thought that day and still wonder now is what cyber or space asset may have been

the equivalent of a B-2 flyer over being a secondary message that the public didn't see per se. But, you know, I'm sure maybe there's something else in the back channels, even more advanced because B-2, one was the B-2 designed in the 70s, came out in the 80s to 90s, like what do they got now? No, that's later, they're way better stuff. No, from what I understand, some, if I remember correctly, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works was created after visiting Darby. where someone at Lockheed Martin had found a paper written by a Russian, a Soviet Russian scientist in the 50s, really, you know, primitive, like not primitive, but a basic science kind of theoretical paper about materials that could, you know, cloak an aircraft from radar. and from my understanding the story is at the end of that meeting the DARPA program manager told everybody at the table this is all top secret classified starting now you're not talking about this and here's the contract build it and that that was in the 80s and the B2 emerged from that program there you go so what are they got now 30 years later did they make any flexes with some of their killer satellites the B2

could already fly past the best Russian air defense anyways so some of these weapons like once they get once they reach overmatch you just you know continue the programs for as long as you need it you don't could you build something bigger and more expensive

yes since you don't have to you don't like the army has been able to have a superior attack helicopter from the Apache for 20 years now.

In fact, there was a program called the Comanche. It was going to replace the Apache. But it never made it through the budget process because the Apache was already so lethal. Like, no one could stop it. So why build the better one? They are coming out with the

B-21 Raider, Northrop Grumman, and all types of unmanned stealth aircraft as well. So a great point. Just keep refining. making it better at some point but again i got i got to wonder if there's some sort of space asset or again cyber asset that was flexed wouldn't it be funny if uh i don't know they hacked into

into something put a little a little uh troll message somewhere that oh you know deep in the the secret part of russia's intelligence infrastructure just as a another hello that that that I don't think that that if anything is being you know they're going to try to get you know to more of a true state in in that arena but compared to what some would call the kinetic warfare the non-kinetic cyber stuff I mean it's a third or fourth rate dimension to warfare right it's it's not the same as bombing people by by thousands and thousands of measures right yeah you can talk about how you You could shut off a country's X, Y, and Z and cause damage or deaths among the civilian population. But still, it's as a weapon of war, it's tertiary at best. So what's your take on? The European leaders, some of this or the rumblings of what the deal may be. The U.S. no longer given much in the way of aid, but selling weapons to Europe.

who can then give it to Ukraine is that viable is that what are you seeing here so Trump has a somewhat interesting strategy is he wants peace he wants he wants he wants something that is an agreement that he can call peace right and and peace does involve you know you know stopping the war stopping the kinetics right stop shooting at each other but how he gets there and what the outcome is and what the parties agree to i don't he don't care really as long as it gets to peace like any amount of land given away any amount of security guarantees right so he just wants an outcome so he's kind of just shepherding all the other you know interested you know power powers involved right ukraine russia and all of ukraine's european allies right just taking a

wherever they can possibly go if it's peace. That's what it seems like. One of the security guarantees, you know, that's breaking news this afternoon that, you know, high-level commanders in our military are talking to the Europeans about what air cover by NATO would mean over Ukraine, right? So that's certainly something that, you know, you don't have to give Ukraine membership. if Western Air Forces are flying over Ukraine all the time, right? The territory of Ukraine ultimately becomes protected by the NATO alliance, the NATO Charter.

Because now if any aircraft is attacked by Russia over Ukraine, that's an attack on one, is an attack on all, you know, Article 5 is triggered. So that's what I think they're going. There'll be Western Air Force is patrolling Ukrainian airspace for a long, long time to come to bring this piece. One good thing Trump was saying is he wants the piece to last, not just set something up and it falls apart two years or five years. So that's, I get where you're coming from where you're saying he wants almost any permutation of peace as long as there's peace. the whatever land exchanges all these other variables whatever as long as it works on one hand he wants but at least he's also saying it has to be realistic enough to both sides to maintain for half a decade

or a decade or more so i was glad to hear that instead of just trying to score political points he doesn't care if it falls apart in three years you know the interesting thing to me you know having studied international relations in college in the you know early not 90s, the U.N. Security Council is mentioned by no one any longer. It's absolutely absent the conversation. And the reason for that is it would invite China into, you know, a decision-making seat and China's being completely left out. Great point. Absolutely. I remember when I became I guess more aware, you know, when I was 10 years old and older, kind of followed current events. They've talked about the U.S. Security Council this, U.S. Security Council that all the time.

I haven't heard that phrase or term or, I don't know, noun for a long time, actually. Many years, it seems like maybe since Trump came through, just destroyed it. Text Dad follows up and says, I want peace as well. the thing that scares me, it rushes their dead hand switch, even if we take them out. They still send their missiles. What up, Firewolf Forge? Evening.

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and i'm going to run us through the news blitz if you're watching live i'm shifting over from our slideshow of different memes, et cetera, to future danger.com. There we go. Zoom in just a little bit. I'm going to invite Future Dan to participate as needed, but normally we just run through these headlines and talk about the articles. Here we go. I'll start with Liberty Indicators. Three Aegis guided missile destroyers. deployed to waters off of Venezuela. That was it, though, for Liberty. Usually we got a lot more than that.

Moving on to security, geopolitics. National Guard from West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana, arrive in D.C. Yes, not just geopolitics, but domestic security as well. now separate but related potentially to the guided missile destroyers to venezuela the u.s. deploys iwojima amphibious ready group with the 22nd marine expeditionary unit

to u.s. southern commands waters on a counter-cartel mission a lot of action going on south of the border and chief of staff of the Air Force to retire two years into a four-year term pretty rare for that to happen we'll talk about that and why that falls under the general officers purged indicator

economically homes selling at slowest summer pace in a decade federal government debt surpasses $37 trillion beef prices all-time high and home foreclosure filings up 11% more than 36,000 properties

foreclosed home foreclosures not even including commercial natural which includes weather as well as health et cetera and space events as well we're always watching asteroids and coronal mass ejections and the like not too much going on here in middle of august 2025 but there were some nasty flash floods in india 60 dead 250 missing so future dan that's our newsblitz for the night what do you want to go through first you know i don't think i've ever seen one that's just a mix of

grade one green and grade you know uh or grade five green and grave two red it's an interesting color um but mostly topical news i guess first question i got for you is is let's get it out of the way or do any of those raise a question like why is it on future danger why could it be why could it be dangerous yeah i'll go with the chief of staff the air force retiring two years into a four-year term. I mean, people retire early for all types of reasons, I guess. What was your, not only why it made it, but why was it the grade two, which is the second most, you know, right below the ShtF. It's not a full purge when it's one general, but that's a very senior ranking general.

General's not getting fired. He's just going to quit, right? So it's not like some big display of firing a general. The reason that could be dangerous in the wrong context. In this context, it's individually it's rating as, you know, as happening, right, or nearly happening. But, you know, in the context of this summer evening, episode 315 on August 19th, 2025, it's not that dangerous, right? But you could imagine a situation. What if we were at war and our generals had to be purged?

That could be a dangerous situation, right? So context matters a lot here, but in isolation, it's happening, but it's what Trump was going to do. He's going to remove Biden appointees that he, you know, didn't want his commanders. he's free to do it yep makes sense any others that i wonder why um on that general officer purge you know another thing is you know going back to what we talked about with russia during the cuban missile crisis the you know jfk counseled by his brother rfk were concerned at at times about the chiefs of the armed services back then it was the you know the army navy and air force right so um did they feel as though they had full control and whether they would

they need to sack the leaders of the armed services during that crisis and then they were sitting there thinking about how would the soviets view that the Soviets would view that as a mutiny, right? And that the civilian leadership did not have control of the military, which from their perspective gets a lot more dangerous.

So the Kennedy's like effectively ruled out firing any of the chiefs, even though they were not getting the exact cooperation they expected. Like they weren't getting orders followed exactly like they want. And of course, you know,

Truman brought McArthur out of Korea, sacked him, you know, brought him back for speaking out of turn about using nuclear weapons. This stuff happens, right? But a straight up purge of general officers, you know, in this environment is relatively safe. During war or during a, you know, real nuclear crisis, that would not be safe. That'd be really dangerous. Firewood Forge asks, why Venezuela? Why are we sent? guided missiles to Venezuela future dean they just up the um the the price the bounty on maduro 50 million 50 million do you have do you have information that could lead to his

conviction ben 50 million for you a lot of bitcoin um what so first conviction or dead or alive or what is this what do you mean they don't do they'll do dead or alive anymore that's that was the calipoy movies but uh yeah um effectively uh maybe maybe the gangster in the 20s they were still doing at some places no um i mean maduro's regime is repugnant regime it's the only country i adopted communism after the cold war right i mean and and trey under Daragua, the gangs, like, it's all, you know, the narcos are getting clamped down hard. And we talked about in episode 314. You know, to me, the ground robots that come and, you know, terminate you, that's a fantasy right now doesn't exist.

There's no power supply to have those things roll around and do that to you. The undefeatable, always smarter and more powerful than the U.S. government, narcos or mafia. it's complete Hollywood myth it's not real and three guided missile cruisers parked off your coast will let you understand that pretty fast yeah

good point a bunch of AKs and a couple RPGs ain't going to do much against guided missile destroyers here's the wanted poster you can download it in English or Spanish Spanish PDFs a few kilobytes larger I don't know why

um six foot three tall guy leaders are usually tall apoleon was not the rule more of the exception started off of 15 million increased that was in 2020 okay and five years later january just before trump came in increased it to 25 million and then a little more than a week ago 50 million after the department of the treasury sanctioned cartel of the sons as a specially designated global terrorist that was honestly my highlight of trump's inauguration speech is like it's one of the first things he said is they're going to be terrorists now these cartels and i was like oh my god no one ever thought of that why not it's the best thing i ever heard so anyway uh i did not know there was a 50 million dollar wanted and not

that are alive just wanted but what is it like it's for the conviction and an evidence of like what you need to produce I guess like what kind of evidence do you have that they don't already have on this app

I know I know I just it's more diplomacy than anything else that guy that guy would be a bus driver oh man yeah that dictator was once a bus driver and now he's a narco-terrorist, communist, Cuban-supported dictator that ruined a great country and love to see that regime go down in flames right along with the one in Havana and North Korea. Hell, I'd like to see someone revolt in Moscow, but, you know, I'm not holding that hope

for China and Russia to ever change that way. but Cuba and Venezuela, those are two countries that could be due for some radical change. And you're hearing about the Navy and a Marine Corps unit, right, 22nd Mew, but under the surface, literally, there's submarines now down there. And in the shadows, Socom is probably getting unleashed. right so uh things that special operations command did in columbia to turn that country around plan columbia right to defeat the farc which was the communist movement in columbia you know these aren't these aren't new you know strategies underway it's just it's pretty clear trump's doing it it'll be a question how long before you know

mexico is going to have to keep giving up 26 narcos extraditing 26 narcos out of time or we're going to start hearing about effects inside of Mexico I would I would assume the aircraft are already over Mexico they're already allowing that you know all kinds of you know UAVs are are just right over the top of the the cartels already so definitely loving this from Trump again a plus on this part this aspect of his policies and the closed border we talked a little bit last week about national guard in dc and you know we're seeing four different states as national guard or one two three yeah four why is this on there um and it looks like they're all red states you even sent me the top four democrat governor

you know states with a democrat governor top four by national guard you know, population or number of people in the National Guard. What's your stance here or more like what's your take here? Well, the reason I shot that to you ahead of the show so we could talk about it is, you know, if you want to try to make the argument that, you know, it's one of those, it doesn't matter who's doing it this time. The other side will do it next time. And, you know, it's setting a precedent that the Democrats will roll out Marshall

law. So, you know, these governors have choices when it comes to, you know, what their guards do, right? Unless there's a rebellion in the state and the president overrides that, right? Trump took control of the California National Guard when the rioting started with the deportation rates. But he only took over California's guard to operate in California, getting California's guard to go somewhere else that that's not going to happen if the government if the governor doesn't allow it but in this case we have five republican governors governed states sending those troops into a federal district right it's not a state there isn't a governor in dc it's it's not the same um and and if you're you know want to you know take that angle that this is this is bad precedent

because a future democrat president would do this let's think about them let's let's let's Let's have that conversation. So the top five national guards from Democrat states are California, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, and I believe Illinois, the top five I shot you over, Ben. California and Pennsylvania are the biggest ones. And in total, that's 75,000 troops to include all of their Air National Guard. to include all the ground crews and air traffic controllers and we're not talking about you know out in the streets with riot shield type troops we're talking about you know you know definitely support rear echelon troops so you know there just isn't that large uh you know a presence

of of of democrat state guards that could be sent anywhere to you know, lay martial law down in a red state. A president would have to bring out the active regular army, and that's suspending posicamata. That's a major move, which is not what Trump's doing right now. So I just don't see the reverse being that big of a threat. Not maybe in theory, just in president, it is. but if you take it out of

the idealistic level and make it a realistic thing, I don't see it as that big of a problem. Democrats wouldn't have the numbers, they wouldn't have the willpower, and they wouldn't have troops that would want to be there doing that mission for long. One of my first reactions when you said

that was, wow, that's very low number for, let's just say, New York. I'm not looking at it right now, but it was like 16,000 I'm like, I don't even think 16,000 National Guard could lock down New York City 24-7, let alone the whole state of New York. Very small numbers. So, with that and also considering what you just said, it came to my mind that well, yeah, of course, they're going to need the local police to be nationalized. And or some sort of draft of young able-bodied people to be thrown into this mix somehow.

you see any threat of that or is that just so patently unconstitutional in each county sheriff could fight that and would fight that or what i'm worried about maybe i've been just totally beat down from the conspiracy theory world but fema's got their hands into that they could just declare some sort of fema emergency and nationalize all the local police and there you go game over tell me why that's not so easy All of that would be unlawful. First off, we don't have conscription in the United States right now. But a Congress could pass a law and a president could sign it, bringing it back as fast as those two branches of government wanted to. And the Constitution is silent about conscription. If there's a draft, there's a draft. That's pretty well settled, like since the Civil War, right? like if you're drafted by the government that's where you're going to be that's what you're going to be

doing and but we don't have conscription right now so they would have to pass that to make that happen just stepping your fingers in an emergency and saying all the police work for the federal government that would never work besides some dumbass hollywood movie that it's just not reality certainly hope not there's not some secret poison pill set up with the Patriot Act in every single police force sheriff

and all that that somehow what percentage of every force would what percentage of every force would obey that and what percentage of every force would say I'm getting out of any place that goes along with that and moving through part of the country that that's not happening you know something like that would do the same thing that at the you know right at

the end of the Cold War when the country known as Yugoslavia which was Slovenia Croatia Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia packed into one you know Slavic country at the end of World War II it came apart at the seams and every one of those sub-nationalities now their nationalities because they did in fact get their own countries right they all rushed to the National Guard armories and grabbed all the weapons they could and immediately went into civil war with each other right so you're you're talking about you know there's no oh FEMA just said all the police work for them oh well I guess it'll be that way no way that that's every every state's heading to their own state armory and and we're getting fractured into a civil war again

There's never going to be just, oh, some secret law that Congress snuck in there will allow that to happen. And everybody will just be like, oh, boy, they got us this time. Well, look at that. The law says they can do it. No, no, no, no, no. Never. I don't know about never. I saw so many people acquiesce, bend, and break the rules for COVID.

That's something 10 times the level of COVID, where there really was 10% death rate? I don't know, man. Some states' jurisdictions would fall, but I agree. All the blue states would act like it's true. All the blue states would act like it's true. And the rest of wouldn't, right? Florida didn't go along with most of that COVID quarantine. No, we got a federal system.

I'm not too worried about it. 10% kill rate on a virus would be, that would take serious lockdown that would take like a real quarantine to defeat like we'd have to be in quarantine with something that deadly and everyone should be prepping for that at a minimum I think that's a good prepping goal is no power for six months and or quarantine in your house for six months if you can hit that you can get through most disasters I think and anything more than that you probably need a self-sustaining farm and or a bunker underground to get through more than six months if there's literally no power of food for the whole society by then

it'll get rough um anyway my opinion luckily we're pretty far away from that tonight yes you know one coronal mass ejection away but uh i don't have the ad queued up but on today's uh is from yesterday, but Trevor Commander was plugging one of the sponsors for PBN. It had 10, foot, 20 foot, and 40 foot Ferry Day cages, essentially big ass shipping containers

that were made to be Faraday cages, park your car in there, and or just loaded up with a bunch of stuff. The natural CMEs is enough to do that, I think, but EMPs, EMPA weapons, also

something. I'm, personally concerned about changing the calculus. That and the 10% plus death rate virus. Those two things. Probably the two main reasons I prep. Good. Awesome. Wow.

Today's show been going pretty fast here future Dan. We can go more than 10 more minutes or 15 more minutes, but don't have to belabor the point necessarily. Is there anything else we wanted to cover on the National Guard? And then we got a lot of other articles and any other

topics you want to hit tonight yeah i guess i'd leave it to you ben any anything you see hot that strikes your fancy like asking the question like why is that happening now i'd be interested to talk about those right let's go with we talked last week a little bit about the debt don't need to go look at the 37 trillion dollar debt but polymarket from what i last saw thinks the debt could be above $38 trillion by end of the year. So I'm always looking and talking about debt. It's getting pretty crazy now. But I won't go through that right now with everybody.

Let's instead pivot from an economic standpoint to homes selling at the slowest summer pace in a decade, according to Redfin. so the Redfinns and Zillis of the world have in my opinion they have incentive to say that homes are selling fasts are selling well it's a good time to sell but it's also a good time to buy so I don't know maybe there could be a bias this one way or another but I would not think Redfin has much incentive to say yeah it's the worst summer selling in a decade

so that's what they're saying though it seems to be very regional though future Dan there are areas in America that are still getting two, three, five plus percent increase in values every year. And that's after like 30 or 40 or even a heck, 100 percent doubling of prices since COVID in some of these places. However, Florida specifically, but places in Texas and Vegas, a lot of the same areas in 2008 that had a huge run up and then a burst. showing some nasty signs. One of the earlier articles we talked about was foreclosures are up, but we're also seeing homes sitting on the market for over 90 days.

That percentage going up. And when these interest rates got as high as they are, we ran through calculations here on Patriot Power Hour, where for a $400,000 house, the difference between a 3% mortgage and a 7% mortgage is almost like a double monthly payment. Not all the way, but like incredibly larger monthly payment for the same value, just from an increase interest rates from 3 to 7.

Now, it's actually showing on the screen. If you can see it right here, 75% of buyers are waiting for prices and interest rates to fall. Prices are falling in some areas, but a lot of areas, they're not. They're kind of stabilized or, you know, only up a percent or down a percent. interest rates not falling in September we're going to get I believe it's September right we're going to have another meeting

and we talk about interest rates here all the time that'll be huge if we don't get interest rate cut this year and maybe a couple of them this trend may turn into a bottom falling out on the housing market future Dan

so the Fed meets September October and December no no November this year and I think a lot of people are sitting around you know waiting for lower rates see and I've talked about my own finances at times here and I think you've asked me questions I'd be fine if if prices went down 20 percent I might be buying right now if prices remained where they were and interest rates went down a couple percent might be buying right here if they both in that favorable direction that would be helpful but it doesn't work that way if interest rates get

cut a lot again you're going to see some of the air reinflate the bubble in the short term and prices aren't going down so you know it's still what i want people to keep in mind for prepping purposes for your own financial purposes all that just for analyzing this stuff look how much the market's gone up since covid even in these areas that it's dropping 10, 20% year every year. It's still a big time since 2020. So we're not at the total collapse yet.

But again, interest rates have remained high and if it's just a couple months that interest rates are high, it won't have an effect. But it's been a while. It's worked its way through the system. And some of these boom towns in particular, Austin, Texas, Phoenix, San Antonio,

seen a lot of lingering. And, yeah, Florida. Big part of that, Florida is that homeowner insurance has gone through the roof from hurricanes. So it makes the cost of total ownership go up. Plus again, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Miami. They've like doubled in the last couple years, five years. So all right, finally, realities catching up to them potentially. But again, we have so much debt that there's no room for error. So if this does tip over and fall, lowering rates to zero again,

maybe too little too late. I think that's what Trump's been saying. Like, too late Jerome, isn't that his nickname for one of his nicknames? Too late Jerome, right? It is. And it might be too late. The Fed usually is too late. It probably should have been cutting rates this whole summer.

Even though I hate to say that, that's only because the rates have been so to fraud, you know, it's just been so much fraud over the last couple decades, but I don't know, we'll see. We'll be reporting it here on Patriot Power Hour,

but simply put, Redfin themselves are saying that we're seeing a bad summer for sales. Firewood Ford's locked in 5.2% happy it's less than 10. My parents say that all the time.

Like, yeah, back in our day in our early 80s, interest rates. or 15 or 20%. I'm like, yeah, I know. But if you actually run the math, cost of housing was a fair amount less back then, all considered. But, you know.

There you go, Future Day. That's the main economic thing I wanted to get through. Gold, silver, Bitcoin, taking a few percent step backwards in the last week. But all are darn near their all-time high. Bitcoin's like $113,000, silver's $38 bucks. Gold's like $3,300.

So, you know, they're finding their accumulation phase and maybe blasting off. I'll tell you what, if the Fed does lower rates this year, especially multiple times, gold, silver, Bitcoin will definitely go up big time. So get it while you can. Yeah, it's not food. shelter and other basic necessities that start running at five, six percent inflation again. I'll be fair, we're fairs, lots of the spending that was passed by Trump in his first term to counter COVID.

It absolutely slammed Biden, but he signed the bills that put that monetary stimulus in place slashing the interest rates and throwing free money out there definitely brought us to the 2021-2020 mayhem with inflation so you know pal knows that good point and nothing's for free in this world perfect segue to the beef prices prices surging to an all-time high in july consistently strong demand in elastic demand meaning people will pay more for their steak dinner everything else be damned i'm not paying my mortgage i'm not paying my new car repo it i'm getting my steak maybe not gas but uh exactly it's like gasoline we in america love our beef and uh price of so we're talking about steaks and you know other you know the beef and veal index up 2.5

percent and all these other percentages and amounts but where does it actually hit most americans ground beef ground beef 11.5 percent increase and beef steaks 12.4 percent they don't get into the different cuts and the kind of luxury cuts versus the mundane but just the ground beef up 11.5 percent in the last year and we know for fact ground beefs like doubled since COVID so that's on top of all that it's not like it went down in price very much if at all in the last year maybe just kind of flattened for a bit and boom right back up in the last year 11.5% for ground beef why are we broad broadcasting during dinner time now now I'm super hungry I want I want some beef it is tough actually going to cook steak

after this probably uh you will rain and good for i'm telling you man red meat's really good for you if it's raised in a healthy manner not just uh corn fed gmo and soy but um anyway i digress uh i do try to eat a little snack before the show but not too much or all get sleepy but i'm starting to get hungry myself uh we got a few minutes left firewood four says here we go this is good riddle me this i buy 250 000 i'm suppose that's the mortgage at 5.2% and he's got to pay over 500k yeah that's compounded interest that's how so this point is 250 000 loan and over the life of that loan at a 5.2% interest rate you're actually paying more than double that you're paying more than 500k that's 100% interest you know paid but they they kind of hide it on

obfuscate it as 5.2% APR compounded. Yeah, that's, uh, what's a 50 year mortgage? Good point. I mean, that seems like a hell of a lot. Um, maybe that's a 30 year, but I believe it. You look at some of these numbers and it's sick, a 2x or some people even like run with a 3x, but that's more for like cars and they usually get those repud before the end of the life alone.

Because if you're at like a 13% off. alone you're probably not going to end up paying it back anyway anyway uh fire 4 says wife wife says 10 pounds i guess of ground beef uh 10 pounds of some sort of red meat i presume ground beef is 53 bucks so five dollars and 30 cents at sam's club in dallas well dallas i suspect has some good cheap beef but still i bet it was way cheaper back in the day 30 year mortgage he clarifies he's going to start a go fund me says we all need that that's what bitcoin is it's my own personal go fund me golden silver two that's more of my insurance never want to sell any of that stuff to be honest uh future dan enough of my ramblings that's all i had really

economically just uh keep prepping secure your protein and uh expect more inflation because i think they will have to lower rates and do more stimulus eventually and that'll just be higher beef prices so get ready for that yeah i'm ready i'm ready but i like where we're at like how this is kind of a calm uneventful summer i like i like the fact that we're headed towards a potential end to the ukraine russian war and you know i think there'll be days in the future where we're going to look back and reminisce and be like that was a good summer compared to what's coming but you know we're going to have to weather it as patriots when that time comes but you can call me a summer patriot right now because it's a beautiful evening and i'm i'm happy that we're

you know where we're at right now hey i like it you got to fight the fight when it's in front of you but get your rest while you can because like you said, it's not going to get easier down the road necessarily. Great show, episode 315 in the bag. Talk to you next week. Get up for you next week. Thank you to our audience for joining us on Patreon Power Hour. Episode 315, August 19th, 2025.

As always, your host, Future Dan and Ben the breaker of Banksters will be back. Tuesday night, 7 p.m. Catch us live on Brepper Broadcasting Network. work. We're going to be able to be. So, you know, and

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