The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Patriot Power Hour #334 - Silver $99, Gold $4,960 & Trump vs The Fed

Episode Date: January 23, 2026

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It is the 334th episode of Patriot Power Hour, and we are a hair away from $5,000 gold and $100 silver live as we broadcast this Thursday evening. I've been the breaker of banksters here with Future Dan. We got a big Bankster episode today, Future Dan. We got these prices, but we got, Supreme Court hearing testimony about essentially the Fed independence or lack thereof. And we got many other articles and news items to go through today. So action packed as always.

This is a giant breaking the banksters episode of Patriot Power Hour. 50 to one gold to silver ratio could actually like happen simultaneously. That's like stars like lining up for an eclipse, right? with the moon and other planets. It's, it's, it's rare and it's, you know, at these prices, historic. And, and, and we're going to get into deep discussion on the fundamentals of what it's meant to have a federal reserve in place for, you know, what is that, 113 years, something like that? exactly 1913 it was at least enacted you know voted in December just before Christmas 1913 and yeah all that and above and maybe this was left there on purpose maybe not I'm not sure where

but here on stream yards our live video broadcast a background was already set and it was a golden vault with gold everywhere all types of gold to remind me of Scrooge McDuck and like the big vault of gold that his nephews would jump into or whatever. Anyway, whatever, it looks pretty cool. It's cool looking at it of itself. But the fact that literally, as I hit start, as I hit on air for our show today, gold ticked up again to an all-time high. It's just below that 50, or excuse me, 5,000, 50,000, who knows at this rate. But $4,959.

But you said this just before we went on air, that this is without knowing what's going to occur with the Supreme Court, with the Fed Independence, just to get everybody up to speed. And then I want to hear what you have to say about this future. And yesterday, the 21st, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump versus Cook, Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve Governor, that Trump wanted to fire. over mortgage application or alleged mortgage application errors back in October. He did. Well, okay, we did. We agreed. We did agree on that.

We said that. In all effect, fired. The Supreme Court in October 2025, you know, said, hey, we're deferring this, but we'll hear it. And now that's been heard, apparently, and this is the upshot, it's going to take until the summer to get a, decision late spring to summer so maybe may june uh so it's not going to be imminent whether we know if the presidential removal authority exists as they put it here on scotis blog but future day

can you run us through this and how really gold's run up doesn't even include what you know a potential result of this yeah it seems to be independent of each other but you know it's not just this case, right? We can get a decision on tariffs momentarily. That too is going to directly affect what happens in gold and silver markets. Yes. Yes. Consequential things going in and coming out of the Supreme Court process and listening to the ultimate Bankster, Bankster Radio possible, Bloomberg. I do consume a lot of Bloomberg programming, if for Northern. the reason because i like to know exactly what the opposition has to say all at all time right you know and and it's it's at a certain level of understanding that you know it's is not just

you know diatribe and and you know the you know your standard cable news you know lowest common denominator kind of stuff Bloomberg does you know take it to the next level and fight at that level so I'd like to listen to it. And they want you to think that the Federal Reserve is automatically accepted as independent and Trump's just running up against the wall. They really want it to be his Waterloo because he's had a lot of wins so far in these, you know, relatively extreme moves as a president acting on Article 2 power. and

well, I always envision a multi-head Hydra. I'm not the first to come up with that analogy. And there's no way

that central banking is not one of those heads, if not the central head, if not just the heart. My point is, they can't let this fly. They're already losing

so much ground on so many other aspects to Trump. Who? He was in. Say, who? Let's not do the, the, the,

who supports Bloomberg? Who supports Bloomberg? Who owns Bloomberg? Bloomberg owns Bloomberg, doesn't he? Exactly. So he's one of they, for sure. Okay. So we'd go name a thousand people.

You're talking about the banksters. The banksters. Jamie Diamond being sued by Trump right now, by the time. Yeah, he is. Yeah, he is. And that's going to bring me full circle to, you know, Trump's going after this head of the hydra, this heart of the hydra.

He's not holding back. So maybe we'll defer your emotional. take on that where you were with Trump circa 2016 to now. But this is a full on assault on the banksters by this president. And where it's going to lead to? Will Trump have a Waterloo and be told, you know, in this case that he doesn't have the power to fire, you know, according to the act that established the Federal Reserve? listening to Bloomberg, you know, it's just, you know, a matter of eight different ways that the Supreme Court can avoid the question, right?

Lisa Koch didn't get a fair hearing, therefore, you know, do-overs, all kinds of do-over scenarios. Technicalities, yeah. Right, all kinds of technicalities, not getting to any kind of constitutional question and answer. But then there is a problem for that. There's a big problem for the Supreme Court in that regard. Well, in my opinion, the more damaging thing that Trump really better hope doesn't happen is with respect to tariffs because that'll nuke the economy. We've talked about how we essentially agree with the tariffs, but it's one of those where you can't turn it on for six or 12 months and then turn it off. It'll have such negative impact.

Like only bad, nothing good could come of it. Whereas Fed, in my, you know, from both. ideological point of view, the Fed independence, I almost expect them to rule that the Fed is independent and it's just part for the course, whatever, we know it's BS, Supreme Court's bought out. I hope not, but it won't have any, it won't destroy the economy. But if the tariffs get removed and there's no recourse, then Trump not only has an egg on his face politically embarrassed, but the stop go, left, right, upside down of having tariffs, not having tariffs, what's going on, it'll just, it'll be really bad in these actual business economics.

I don't know. I don't know if I agree with that. We've never seen this before. There could be all kinds of compound effect, and some of them might not all be negative. I don't know. It would be unprecedented for sure. So on the tariff side, I don't know if I agree with you that reversing them would be economically damaging, especially if the president goes with the second act or the third. Act or laws that Congress delegated tariff-making authority.

It's actually taxation. The Constitution does say that Article 1, Congress has that power. And during George Herbert Walker, Bush's terms, that's when it was transferred, right, so that we could enter into the New World Order. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade became the World Trade Organization, NAFTA, right? Like the consensus in Washington, D.C. at the start of the 90s was, you know, this is not a job for Congress.

So let's give it to the president. And they did. And they did it in a bunch of different laws over time. And Trump cited probably the weakest of the delegations from Congress to the presidency for the tariffs. He picked the emergency version. version. And I think we talked about it previously on our show when he did it. It's, you know, about a year ago that, you know, he's going to test out that with with the constitutional arguments, but they got others. They got backups. They got other tariff, you know, laying authority.

Trump's going to just reapply them all under a different rule the day after he's ruled against. I think that's very, and I think he's hinting at it. This isn't exactly a secret if you've been paying attention. All right, prepared for it. Well, it depends. Will the investment believe that, you know, believe in it or not, I suppose. Well, they're going to have to believe in the next law that he invokes, which will cause lawsuits, which will run it all the way through up. And he's one by one. He's going to apply these tariffs until the Supreme Court individually rules each one unconstitutional, that Congress never could delegate that power, except for here's the problem with that. No one who sued the Supreme Court made that argument.

None of them wanted, you know, none of them are constitutional originalists. So that actual argument was ever made before the court. And, you know, Supreme Court justice can do a lot. And then dissenting and, you know, concurring opinions and stuff suggest, you know, other constitutional pass for this stuff. So I would expect that, you know, even if Trump loses on this first shot at emergency tariff making power, that you'll probably hear from Thomas or Scalia that, you know, I want to know what they're thinking about. Should Congress have ever been allowed to pass the power of taxation to the presidency when the framers absolutely didn't put it there? well i personally am uh tracking supreme court a lot closer than i did even a year ago let alone

five or ten years ago so i got watch lists going paying much closer attention uh it's possibly the i don't know all three are important but i feel like a lot of things are going to come down to rulings in the supreme court in the next year or two earlier i suggested that you know um the has a big problem on its hands with uh with the trump versus cook and and and this is something that the bloomberg radio shows for constitutional law they they touch on it because they know it's out there it's just lurking you know to them it's a you know just a behemoth lurking under the water and they're afraid of it and and and and what that is is that the fTC head was fired by by Trump and they've already upheld that.

That's an official. That's an official that is not Senate confirmed and therefore, you know, the president can summarily fire them, right? So where's the boundaries on this, right? He's commander and chief. He can dismiss anybody in any chain of command throughout any part of the Department of Defense without question. Obviously, if you work in the White House, but he's, you know, Trump's administration is coming after the deep state and taking it out and

don't look for that. Where does Supreme Court draw the line if it draws the line on Article 2 powers, right? The president's, you know, ultimate executive authority. And I'm also looking for Thomas and Alito and Kavanaugh and the rest that were appointed by Trump to really consider the argument that if the framers wanted a fourth branch of government that was appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, just like the Supreme Court is, but to have a fourth branch of government concocted by a president, Woodrow Wilson, and the 113th Congress 113 years ago, if a president had the power, to sign a law that created essentially a fourth branch of government to handle financing,

right? Then, you know, how is that dovetail with the three branches that the founders who fought King George stood against all of the British monarchy before George III with him and after because of what that tyranny was and a big part of its tyranny was, was the Bank of England, right? Were we, and Thomas Jefferson was exactly against having that in the United States, right? Hamilton was for it, but most of the other, major powers of the, you know, that major voices in writing the Constitution, they were against it. It wasn't in there. It wasn't supposed to be in there. So two chances for the Supreme Court to set things straight. I would be in favor of pushing all tariff powers.

directly back to Congress and making them handle it should not be a presidential power. And I think Trump's opponents, home and abroad, are beginning to agree with that idea. It was a great idea to delegate to the president until it wasn't from their perspective. I think it belongs in Article I, with Congress. And I think the Federal Reserve is nothing more in executive power. And if we're going to have a central bank, then obviously it popularly elected. president should run it perfectly said some great insights there i don't see the fed has anything more than the department of education so he should be able to freaking abolish it fire put in whoever he wants i'm

sure from a legal standpoint it's a little different wouldn't that be the ultimate breaking of the banksters yeah i mean if that's not holding them accountable then who is as you said it's not It's not a constitutional amendment, a fourth branch. How's this for a for a law that could come out of a future Congress and signed by a future president? What if we change it? So the committee that votes on the interest rate, the Ford Open Market Committee or whatever they want to call it, enshrine that in law and make it the President of the United States appoints 12 senators to it. Make them do the job. Make them stand up for election after making.

their decisions, democratize it. That would break banksters big time, wouldn't it? We'd have to listen to all this myth about we are just nothing more than subjected to a secret cabal who controls the dollars so it controls the world.

Pocus, pocus. Just kill it. Kill it all this year. If you can't literally fire one of the 12 members, then you have no control over it. You have no control. over it. Yeah, take it out of the president's hand. Take it out of the president's hands. Make it so they

has to appoint a senator. The senator has to take it whether they want it or not. Senator has to act in that regard or, you know, may censure and expulsion from the Senate, but a president can't fire a senator. That would be a way to really democratize it. You know, just having this Politburo sitting over the side for 113 years is one of the biggest bastardization. of our original constitution. We got a chance to get rid of it. I don't want to believe we're this close, but it seems like we're this close.

We've got to keep pressing because it's like within grass, but it ain't over yet. So I'm loving it. I'm loving what Trump's doing. I need other people to step up in any capacity you can. A lot of capacities. For your average prepper out there, I got a few ways,

but if you have capacity at your workplace, with your family, with your friends, with organizations like anything you can to break the back. And this isn't the end. This isn't the end. If they'll probably find a, you know, a weasel way out of it and say that Cook should have been invited to a meeting and read notice of her reason for being fired before she was fired or some bullshit like that.

But if this isn't the end, if they don't, you know, uphold this during Trump's term, it's a major crack in the armor of this institution for, you know, that's been entirely undemocratic and proudly undemocratic by the financial elite. It's entirely illiberal, like small, you know, 17th century definition of liberal, right? Like, like, it's, it's monocule. It's aristotic, aristocratic, I should say. So it's been a cancer on this republic since. the founding of the Federal Reserve. We should have a debate. Should there be a central bank?

And it would be hard to argue against it. Most people would want one. But let's control it with people we vote for. Got to hold them accountable one way or another. And people don't even know the names of hell. Most people probably don't know the name of Powell. If you pulled the general public, a lot more know the head of the Fed than maybe 20 or 30 years ago.

Sometimes the head of the Fed, the Greenspans, Bernankees, They get a little bit of fame, infamous maybe. But the others, you know, the whole panel committee, they're just a big question mark, shadow question mark. Of course they have a profile. You can go see who they are and whatnot. But they're not actually held accountable. You can't even get fired by the head of the executive.

For cause, I believe it's for cause, but that's kind of what's up for debate, I suppose. I don't know. They're going to argue that, you know, that whatever she did to defraud mortgages by having two checked off on some form happened before she was in office,

so that the president doesn't have the power to fire her, but again, he can fire any general at any moment for any reason he wants, and they're all going to obey. Why is the Federal Reserve different from that? Hey, just the fact this is all being

thrust into the spotlight, into the Supreme Court is better than I ever thought we would get out of any president. So there you go. And what's the terminology when they dismiss senior officers in the military as well? Command has lost faith, something like that. You know, lost trust, lost confidence in the commander and they are, therefore relieved, right? Right.

For any allegation, for anything, that affects the outcome of whatever mission that units performing, right? If it's a distraction at all, there's shadow cast upon anybody in any command, they're gone. And there's no argument to that. That should be the entire government, in my opinion, in the first sentence of the article two of the Constitution says, executive powers invested in the president of the United States. Not some, not one president can sign a law with a Congress and forever preclude his successors from having that power. That doesn't make sense. That's no coherent.

Really looking again at Thomas and Scalia for their chance to put a mark on this. And with, you know, the FTC commissioner, gone. And that's already been decided. So they got to square this circle. If they don't square it now, it's going to spotlight this idea that the Fed is entirely and utterly different. just because it's for banking. Future Dan, killing it today.

22nd of January, 2026. You are officially a breaker of the banksters as well. Hey, are you selling gold to buy gold right now or what? No, never. No, it's always a hold on that. Yes. Millennial gold supersedes the real gold. Way back.

way back in the day, I sold a little bit of Bitcoin for some silver and gold, but not much. And, hey, it would be quite a, it would have been quite a move, but you've already missed the move because Bitcoin's down from 120K to 90K. And in that time, gold and silver are nearly doubled. So I would have totally missed the move to sell my Bitcoin and buy gold. But these rates doesn't mean that won't continue. And you even talked about the gold to silver ratio throwing Bitcoin to the corner. That's been compressing kind of crazy.

But gold's starting to catch up a little bit. Yeah, but it's certainly possible that a year from now, Bitcoin's $70,000 and gold $6,000. There's no, there's no saying that, oh, that was missed when that could be. in effect for another year. Oh, yes. You could always go to zero. And so if I didn't sell now and it goes to zero in five years, then I really screwed up. You know, there's that sunk cost fallacy or, ah, I missed the high.

So it's too late to execute my plans. For preppers, that's a great analogy. Hey, you think it's too late to start prepping? It's probably not too late. Get prepping. But you're right. But right now, nope, I'm just holding tight on everything. Actually, yeah, a little regret that I don't have more gold, silver, and Bitcoin, but also not sad about the amount that I do have.

Are you prepping for a mega snowstorm, the likes of which we haven't seen in two years, which is panicking south and eastern the United States? Well, no, not at all. I grew up out of the road so you know the basic local government basic local government functions in many places are not what they used to be so I'd say that makes a little bit more dangerous but panic buying's out there tonight none of this is on the heat map dashboard I didn't think it rated but it is it is frending news right now I uh did a ton of shopping on on Monday and it wasn't particularly elevated people that you know number of people there but I'm

sure it's a cluster out there right now so I'm well squared away for that um I grew up in the mountains of Colorado so multiple times as a kid I got three feet of snow and multiple times a year we got two feet of snow. What was the longest you were snowed in though? It only would be a few days because our plow you know there's just mass amount of plows and most of my neighbors had plows on their four-by-fours or whatever. So, I mean, well-prepared for massive snow. It does make a difference.

If you got like two plows for a city of $500,000, you're probably pretty screwed. We did, when I was a kid, we did a week with no electricity. So we never lost electricity for like one day. That's it. Not a whole week. Wow. Yeah.

And the road got plowed like it always did because I came from the north and, you know, they have to they have to be a plow or you know everything would cease right nobody goes school nobody go to work if they didn't plow the road so but the power lines above ground power lines collapsed and my house had nothing for a week and so we burned fires in the chimney and to stay warm and I was a kid we got to go down to the restaurant eat every night in town so that was great nice oh yeah for sure I I love of snow days you know it's it's all good a good little test of preps uh i don't expect power to go out where i'm at however if it does i've been meaning to do a 72 hour one week no power drill

don't really want the inconvenience because i got a lot of work to do in my life but uh bring it on you know let's do it right and then it comes into you know how much food do you have that you have to keep refrigerated running generators i know dave jones is paired for this storm Like all of his stocks, all of his frozen foods is well backed up to not go to waste. No, I'm saying, you know, I was joking with someone. I could go eight weeks, easy money. I can go longer than that. Let's just say eight weeks, but Jones, eight years, easy.

Easy, eight years. He could go. The back channels had a picture of the Titan. I believe they were a sponsor at one point of PBS. in one heck of a setup. I don't have that kind of generator or battery pack. But I got enough to keep things going. You know what's great, though, about power outages in the winter?

First, you can stay warm if you have wood and a wood burner, which I have. Second, if power goes out, I don't have to worry about all my food's spoiling. I'm just going to throw all the freaking, it's going to be. The weather says it's not going to be above freezing for the five days thereafter. So I don't worry about my frozen food spoiling. well you do if you keep it inside of space that you're heating with your stove you might have to take it outside put it out i'll put it outside i'll make sure bears can't get to it yeah i'm not too worried uh but i you know i would be worried about driving so number one

always be careful on the roads no matter how confident you can be other people are dumb Number two, though, you know, little medical emergencies could be not so little if you can't get out. So it's a good time to like check your medical preps. That's what I did actually. Yeah, absolutely. Make sure you got four-wheel drive. They can get there regardless of what the state can or can't do about plowing. That's helpful for sure, definitely.

I might go do some donuts. We'll see. All right. why don't we hit this heat map dashboard there's less news in the past two weeks but it's actually three grade one maximum severity indicators on the board yeah let's knock him out starting with gold and silver gold has gone crazy in the past week since our last episode of patriot power hour it went up more than 400 bucks breaking all-time highs multiple times over. So, yeah, we have an article here.

Gold surges to all-time high above 4,650, but just a couple days later, it's up to 4,960. As we sit today right now, we're 50 bucks away from the $5,000 mark. Silver, all-time high today, $96.50. cents. It's just about 96 bucks right now. So gold and silver ripping to simultaneous record highs, both of those SHTF level. The other economic article for the day, for the week, foreclosures up 14% in 2025.

We'll keep watching not only real estate prices, but foreclosures. That's a huge one to keep an eye on. We were just talking about, you know, snowstorms. That's going to bring freezing rain to places in the south. And up north, a foot to two, a snow. Well, there's other weather events going on as well. And there are the solar variety, largest solar storm in two decades, pounds, earth. Very rare S4 storm.

We'll take a look, a little bit more of a look at that here in a second. not just human-made EMPs you got to worry about. Then, health and human services to launch a study on cell phone radiation. This under the electromagnetic field effects exposed

indicator. Health and human services, launching a study on cell phone, radiation will be here to report on that study when it's completed. Let's go to the first column, Liberty, Amazon Ring Camp

cameras hooked up to ICE system. So those doorbell cameras, or they got others ones too, hooked up to the ICE system, unreasonable search and seizure normalized. ShtF happening now. Gislein Maxwell finally going to face Congress as that saga continues. Then the final column, security, international and domestic, Start domestic.

11th Airborne Division's on standby for deployment to Minnesota riots. Riders in Minneapolis hunt for ice and attack counter protesters. And then another set of SHTF headlines under the indicator National Guard activated National Guard troops to be on the streets of Washington, D.C. until the end of 2026. Minnesota governor mobilizes state national guard amid ICE rioting and there is no

international news for the week future Dan domestic though an SHTF level and then a couple still high grade important articles all domestic security

so that's your news bullets for today January 22nd 2026 We got Davos. We got Trump in Davos. We got Trump insulting the governor of California while he attends Davos. We got the Commerce Secretary letting the world elite know what time it is. We got a former Vice President Al Gore booing the Treasury Secretary as he makes dinner speeches at Davos World Economic Forum. We got the President of the United States going there, basically spreading the penitential of, war with an ally for territorial concessions in Greenland, which apparently have been made. It might involve something similar to Guantanamo Bay and Cuba, just a territory, a little box off of the coast of a few places in order to build the Golden Dome. Don't forget about Venezuela.

It's not even being talked about right now. But that just happened and just continue to happen in ways that, you know, none of the president's opponents could even fathom how. You could just leave the government there in place and do business as normal. And it's been happening. Oh, that's context. But doesn't really point at a single indicator on the heat map and says, well, that's dangerous and that's dangerous. So we had that last week of the, you know, the threat to NATO of what Trump was imposing on Denmark, but seems to have passed.

My, my trend, a trend I'm seeing recently is we talk about an emerging issue one week. The second issue is kind of everything comes to ahead. I mean, the second week, everything comes to ahead and we're reporting on, you know, an extreme amount of info. The third week, we're talking about aftermath. And then the fourth is gone. Like, that's the news cycle. We see it coming.

We talk about it. we review the after effects and then it's out the door. Now, it's not literally out the door, of course. As you said, Venezuela, it's not literally out the door. But it seems like I've seen this pattern quite often. And it's not us. It's just there's so much going on. The news cycles are short.

And it's pretty amazing how, you know, Greenland's an example. And Venezuela are two just great examples, how Trump ended up on top on both of them, very fast. and seemingly, you know, he seemed underwater potentially, and whoop, nope, total, total takedown, looking good on both items, got what he wanted. You've seen this trend at all or is just me? Well, I don't think we've seen it. We haven't seen it for very severe indicators of danger, you know, ramping up, hitting, you know, grade one black on red happening and then cool down. We've seen that happen with some indicators in the past, but to have several doing them in tandem,

like in different waves breaking on the shore kind of that way. No, I don't think we've seen that better. Yeah, it's more, it's like a wave essentially. But it's not, you know, once the wave breaks, it's not the end of that news cycle. And there are certain things that are sticking around longer. And those are what we should probably be a little more concerned about. And I think the domestic security,

And especially for some reason, Minnesota and Minneapolis keep showing up for the last five years. Can't get that out. So those waves are very, you know, they have a lot of amplitude, but they just keep coming as well. Essentially, when you go to each indicator's archive and look at the history from most recent at the top, down to furthest back all the way back to 2017 and the archive, you know, these things don't all behave the same way, right? Some of them kind of, you know, like you said, have the pattern of you see it coming. You watch it crescendo. You see it resolve.

It goes back to indicators. Other ones just hit hot red happening now out of the blue. Very frequent for natural disasters, of course, to do it that way. And then other ones that, you know, climb up to, you know, red and stay at red, you know, very frequently, right? So they behave differently. Maybe we can get some artificial intelligence applied to overall patterns sometime in 2026 for future danger. Need to do it. I need to give my best go with my human intelligence and grind through the numbers,

but I would love to see what we could tease out from AI, both from what I put together, see what it thinks of what I put together as well as having it. perform the data analysis completely independently. So that's all the on the list. I need to make it happen to later. Because there's a lot of trends here that are legit. You have quite a lot of data stretching back more than 10 years now. So anyway, I've said it once, I've said it.

Yeah, I've said it once. I've said it again. The most of these issues, even though they kind of come in these waves, actually aren't. fully resolved. Now, some are, but many aren't, even if they go dormant for weeks or months. And my specialty to focus on, of course, is the banksters and how there's many crises, and then they go away and papered over, but the continuing theme of massive debt, number one, and now finally manifesting itself, massive price appreciation and precious metals and other assets, but especially gold and silver right now.

Those themes are not going away anytime soon. Should we have an indicator for gold inflation? Is it runaway gold inflation? Would that be a way to looking at it? Runaway goldflation. You know, what does a price increase in gold mean? And actually, NBC guys said, hey, is that a sign of potential war? What was your response, future, Dan?

You know, economic indicators are indicative of economic dangers and, you know, war indicators indicate, you know, potential for war. They can be tied together, and we've seen patterns laterally on the heat map dashboard, especially during COVID when home three and four were extremely lit up, right? It was directly connected, the disease and the economy, right? So could the middle two columns, the economic and the security, get all lit up at the same time? And now we're into the conversation. Is it, you know, causality or coincidence? Right. And trust me, that's all they teach you about at a master's in finance program is nothing is causal.

it's all correlated. So I've been brainwashed into that. I'm thinking it's pretty much true, but I feel like massive deficit spending and massive, pretty much bailouts over many years, causally relates to nearly $5,000 gold. I don't know, maybe it just correlates very strongly. But we're looking at the, we're looking at it right now.

Actually, this is the year-to-date view, so looking at just 2020. 26. We started at just under 4,400 in gold. Now we're up to nearly 5,000 just since New Year's Day, or I guess a little bit after it wasn't open on on New Year's Day. Ooh, pretty crazy here. Future Dan, any other, we got a lot of more articles to hit on, but where do you want to go from here? I want to talk about AI for one brief second. All right.

So it kind of dawned on me that, you know, intelligence, there's the very term artificial intelligence is oxymoronic, right? Intelligence is, you know, a feature of living beings. And I would tell you, if you think we're. close to having invented ones and zeros, you know, algorithms to actually have sentience, consciousness, then go into any, whatever AI you choose to use and ask it to be funny. It doesn't do well. Most of it is really weak, weak examples of trying to be intelligence. And, you know, the sharpest wit, you know, and oftentimes satirical kind of comedy,

the stuff you find funny when you see it, right? It's what South Park's trying to do every week, right? To various degrees of success, I might add, but at times pretty funny. You know, there's no way I could do that. You can't recognize it because there's not a real intelligence there. but if you change the first name of AI then I think that the new name would describe what we have right now which is brand new and fundamentally going to change the economy

and society it's for real it's a revolution but it's not artificial intelligence it's amplified intelligence and if you know how to use it you're amplifying your intelligence and you do doing it from your own life's perspectives entirely to your own benefit if you so choose, right? And the K-shaped economy they talk about, right? You know, the top half of the K is going up for the people that have, the have to have have more.

People that don't have have even less, the K-shaped economy, right? There's also a divergence in intelligence, right? Naturally occurring intelligence, it's going to be really problematic because if you don't have the intelligence to amplify, you're not going to benefit in this, you know, compared to the people that do. And that's God-given. That's from our creator. You're born with it, right? Just the basic IQ test, given, you know, I think in kindergarten or first grade, right? That score that they never tell you about, but they measured you, right? Because they were checking to see if you are hitting 170, 180, 190, because you're going to be a different kind of person. If you, if you, if,

you have that, if you're, if you're gifted with that, right? So, you know, that's, that's fundamental to understanding what, what we have, this tool we have. It's not our official intelligence, but it's going to amplify intelligence, but it can also increase your knowledge, your, your wisdom, your, you know, awareness. So, you know, you don't have to be menta to benefit from it, right? But you're going to have to learn how to amplify your intelligence because many others are already doing it right now and there's nothing that's going to stop that it'll be a nightmare if all the systems of humanity

are left to to this kind of echo chamber or you know zeros and ones hell there's some great Star Trek episodes about that but it's picture I there's no there's no there's no there's no

there's no sentient electronic beings that that that we're going to birth. It's, it's, it's not going to happen. All it is is parroting. It's a, it's mimicry of, of human language. And the machines are going to get, the tools are going to get better and the tools always got better from whoever was smashing rock against rock to get something to do something

until now, you know, we're going to make tools better. But it is not, you know, human intelligence versus artificial. visual intelligence, like we're talking about two things on a parallel because these tools, all they do is amplify the natural ability that the human has. And it'll just be circular logic and it'll be all messed up if you take the human out of the equation, at least for the foreseeable future. I'm broadcasting remotely from a remote outdoor location in a vehicle. Just had a red fox that right past my truck as you said that.

Well, we go down the rabbit hole of AI. I'll say this. I would rather, well, man, I don't know. You said I was somewhat unpatriotic for it, but I would rather my boss give me a $75,000 raise, and I have to do, you know, and you can fire the person underneath me, and I'll just do their job using AI agents.

I would absolutely prefer that. because it's so much faster, quicker, easier for me. Pretty much I could do what I foresee is the K-shaped, but maybe more like the top 10% takeover. And I want to be in that 10%. And I think I could be of a team of 10 people at my work. If they doubled my salary and I put in 60 hours of hardcore work every single week, I could do the job of all 10 of those with the proper AI tools.

I really could. And the economic value of that, It's going to lead to growth, economic growth. What would we do last quarter, even when it wasn't measured completely? It's 4.4 GDP growth right now. Yes, I saw about that. Yeah, sorry. Yes, I kind of goes full circle.

I was watching a YouTube analysis yesterday about how that was the first proof through GDP that we're not going to have job growth, but we're going to have GDP growth and that's because of AI. We're going to have efficiency and productivity, which means more money, but there ain't going to be new jobs or for every new job, a job will get lost,

or maybe for every new job, two jobs will get lost. That's something. Depends what you're looking at, but I mean, because of the firm employing you just got a massive productivity boost.

It's going to grow. It's going to, be more profitable. And as a consequence, that money's going to flow. You know, the Democrats, the best they could do in the 80s is to call what Reagan was doing, supply side economics, as trickle-down theory. And for periods of time, enough people believe that that was actually, you know, a negative connotation, but it's not, right? It's going to work that way. And that money that's being made by employing AI at a competitive advantage, it's going to flow right back into the economy. and it's going to go back into the services economy that people will work to pay for.

It's going to just create more jobs. It's going to create more wealth. It's going to boom us. My, unless you believe you are a top 10% information worker or you will be, I would not go to college right now. I'd go get a trade. I'd be a plumber, electrician, or do something physical medicine or something physical world. And this is someone with a master's degree of finance.

who dedicated way too much time and money to information worker. I feel like I got lucky that I'm here just in time to have learned how to think properly without the internet as a kid and then without AI up until about middle age. But it would not be the right thing for me to go spend $100,000 of college right now. I don't think. I think I could do better either by myself or try to find something, a different job path and using my kind of intelligence with AI, you know. I don't know.

I can learn more in one month than I learned an entire year in undergrad. I'll just tell you that now. By the way, what was your undergraduate degree? Economics. Okay. And what kind of core liberal arts did you have to take outside of economics to earn your baccalaureate? I got minors in both of them for what it's worth.

psychology and political science okay so what about humanities that was in there you had to take that it wasn't called that um would that be like english and a foreign language or something like literature art music humanities all the arts it is Purdue so they don't make us do too much of that but i took french and you know some english and stuff but not much else not not not much humanity So in that zone right there and in the political science, social sciences zone, and in more of the classical education, that's where the value will be. Because if you can go and handle a broader range of knowledge at a younger age, opening up your mind, then you can become an information worker and apply techniques to the artificial. or the amplifying intelligence that will produce effects that if you do it, you know, the, you know, the European, you know, tracking educational system,

they test you at a young age and you're going to be blue collar going to the plant if you didn't score high enough in junior high. Like, they're not going to spend any time on you to educate you higher than that or, or God forbid, Communist China, where they go and make that decision when you're five years old, right? When they do the IDQ test and know the heritage of your family, they're picking you for what your career is, you know, while you're in diapers, right? And what do we get? What do we get from that? We get a China that no matter how boldly it advertises its economy is nothing more than copying the best of what we had or striving to or steal it because they can't produce, right? It's part of the problem.

The other problem is they don't incentivize, you know, they're not capitalists, not truly. And same thing in Europe. These other, you know, parts of the world lag behind us because we don't do it that way, right? You choose to get a full classic liberal arts education broad, not deep, not tracked. I'm not talking about going to school management. I'm not talking about your STEM education, you're locked into, you know, some kind of, you know, one track from your 13th through 16th years of schooling. I'm talking about be broad.

Really learn learn so many approaches to the world. And then go and apply that to actual problems, actual business problems, actual, you know, civil service problems, military problems, whatever you choose for your path of life, be that kind of thinker. I think that kind of education is going to be extremely valuable because, people that have that are going to be able to leverage things like large language models. If you were one tracked into one process where you were taught one narrow little thing. Right.

And then suddenly it's all automated. Yeah. Yeah. Now you're at home without a job. Oh, man. Said it very well. And intuitively, I sort of knew this growing up and going to school and after. but I don't know.

It came together pretty nice. I guess my point is I always wanted to be a generalist, and I knew that would work against me potentially in terms of money and career, and it sounds like a cop-out. Oh, I'll just learn a little bit about everything. It's like, oh, you just don't want to try hard at one thing, don't you? No, it's not true.

But now that I'm a generalist, I feel like I could just learn even more about everything and learn the connections between them, and bam, before you know it, doing Patriot Power Hour, We're talking about four columns, dozens of headlines every week. All the interconnecting this is crazy feature, Dan. I love it.

Yeah, a little way he pulled that. Yeah, you pulled that all back to side of bow on top of it. That was nice. I don't know how. I don't know how. I guess I do. After all these years, I got some skill behind the mic. I want to get back to some news.

Is that what you're saying? We got a little bit more. I did see gold just ticked up above all-time high again in the last minute or so. It's at 49-60. Keep a quick eye on that throughout the, man, I wanted to hit 5K. Are you ready to stay on for another hour or two? Maybe we'll get to 5K. No, I'll tell you what.

Let's do a headline. Let's do a headline, analyze it, and then check the price. And if it's flat or up, we stay. And we'll do another one and keep doing that. It starts to fall, then we'll capitulate it when we feel as though we have covered the heat map dashboard. But if it's still going up, we can get it. into the archives and look at trends on particular indicators, I'm here as long as it

takes. Perfect. I like it. That's the game, ladies gentlemen. First article, let's pick this. I know you have brought this up to a lot of people in real life and I have

for many years brought this up to people and most of the time they call me conspiracy theorists, but not that I want to have a last laugh. I will have it though. Cell phone radiation, very dangerous to you, health and human services, RFK Jr. And friends are launching a study on cell phone radiation. This is similar to when they announced launching multi-faceted study on vaccinations, which is still ongoing, by the way. So,

RFK is linking them to neurological damage, cancer, etc. This is a lot of. This is. This is a lot going. This is, This is more of the radiation, not the effect of being on a phone all day, which is a bad end of itself. Future Dan, FDA removed web pages with old conclusions about cell phone radiation during this study. There you go. What's your thoughts on cell phone radiation and where we've been and where we're going with it? Yeah, good for RFK Jr. And this is going to end up being like asbestos. It's going to, it's not, they're going to have to change the whole information.

structure. Think of all those buildings. I mean, my fourth grade classroom had the pipes showing with the wrapping that was asbestos. My fourth grade teacher said, don't go near that. They got to remove that. Danger. Yeah. Right. So that was, you know, dating myself. I'll say it was in the 80s. Well, the fourth grade and that happened. And, you know, now it's 2026. Do you have any doubt? Asbestos is dangerous for you? You don't. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's. It's, That's what's coming with the cell phones. And you definitely shouldn't touch it when it's connecting to the towers or while it's connected to towers. And Wi-Fi is going to be a real sticky point, right? Because that's, you know, it's more ubiquitous. You're bathing in Wi-Fi, multiple different Wi-Fi frequencies at the same, you know, going on at the same time. when you live in dense apartment buildings or neighborhoods, you know, look at your phone, see how many Wi-Fi networks can turn on at the same time.

Well, you're in that at extremely low levels, right? Right. But how many decades of living in somewhere where 18 of those is hitting you at the same time before, you know, there's problems. You know, it probably isn't safe. It's probably going to be one of those major swings. and we're in that phase where probably most people know it now and they just don't want to admit it.

Yeah, it's, uh, humans are really good at muddling along generally, but especially if it's, uh, has so many benefits, seemingly benefits, and hey, won't lie. I like my cell phone. Um, I don't use Wi-Fi at home. I, but I have a cell phone. I keep my Wi-Fi router and my cell phone, well, not my Wi-Fi router, put my cell phone and my router, which I use wired, but still probably puts out the Wi-Fi stuff, even though I don't use it per se.

Keep that as far away as I can. Elon Musk was on a podcast talking about this got to be a year to go and said, well, it's just pure physics. I forgot, is it the inverse square? Anyway, the further you get, it massively reduces the amount of, of radiation. So even just four feet, being four feet away from your phone is just massively better

than it being against your ear. It doesn't mean it's safe. But if you have to live with this stuff in your house, like, keep it more than six feet away, more than the social distancing COVID crap, you know, if at all possible.

Don't put it up next to your head if you ever have a call. It's not like Bluetooth is great for you, but, you know, it's better than sticking right next to your head. if you can't do speaker. Sorry that we irradiate you every week here future Dan, but you're doing it for the team.

It's so gradual over a long, long periods of time. And so many people are not going to ever be affected by it. It's going to be perfectly healthy for a large percentage of people. That's true. It won't affect them. It will not make them ill. But it's going to make a lot of people ill. I think, you know, if you look at the fine print in California,

these devices, State of California Health Department says don't sleep within arms for each of these things, right? That's very common sense. For a state government that does a lot of things that make no sense,

that is a lot of sense. You know, put it far away. If you have to be ready for a call, that call at night, an emergency, just turn up the volume and put it, like you just said, not in the bedstand, put it across the room.

Put it on a table outside the room. Do something to get that transceiver away from you for those long. When you don't even need the exposure to it, right? You're sleeping. Yeah. Yes, every little bit counts. That's the tough part about vaccination, poisonous food, and, you know, the cell phone radiation.

Geez, if I had to pick three of some of them in the modern, health risks. Those would be three that I pick. It's so hard to pin a certain disease, especially if it's a chronic disease that forms over 20, 30 years, right? You get cancer when you're 50 or 60

or some sort of like irritable bowel syndrome when you're 40, blah, blah, blah. You can't really prove that it was the GMO. You can't prove it was the vaccine. You can't prove that you got. RFK Jr. is going to redirect money. He's going to start, he's going to start incentivizing

the science. They're going to pay and they're going to be scientists out there that for a long time would have done the study, you know, in their scientific, their intuition paired with their scientific, you know, training, it's going to allow them to, if there is, in fact, dangers, now we have a government that will fund the hypothesis, which is a good thing. My hat's off to RFK Jr. He's outperforming in my book for the first one. Oh, he's possibly the best in the cabinet. There's a few All-Stars in there, a few bums as well, but he's kicking ass from start to finish. I was really happy when I heard that he was jumping in.

And yeah, it's not been a disappointment. Yeah, and hell, can we just get the government out of the way? I mean, okay, I guess this study, I'm happy about it. I'd prefer no government studies maybe, but I would just say in the past, the government's been helpful to industry to cover up stuff like this. So at least the government's not contributing to the cover-up at this point. That by itself is a win. But if they're actually uncovering or attempting to uncover and pose hypothesis and fund it,

eh, okay, all right, you know, slippery slope, but it's better than, better than alternative, I guess. There's no one else that'll fund it, right? There's no one, you know, no one's going to go and do that research for charity. And, you know, the cell phone makers, the cellular, the carriers, they don't want to study, right? So if the government doesn't fund it, it's one of those things where you might have to wait 100 years for it to be concluded. You know, the conclusion will be after you die of it or not by it. Who knows?

But it won't get solved. it's it's uh i don't know sometimes if you're guilty in the public court of public opinion who cares if it takes 30 more years to actually come out but on the other hand i want it to come out asap so i'm stoked for this so

i don't see a problem with us electing leaders and choosing you know through our elected processes to you know have a government that funds the priority to find out whether you know these multinational corporations are hoisting technology on us that

shortening our lives. That's 2006. In 1776, it would have been unthinkable to put that much power in the government's hands, spend that much money. But, you know, the environment that we live in, and it's the food, it's the vaccines, it's, there's other things that are hurting us, too, that could be

studied, right? I think, you know, we're so far deep into this that you can't be a purist and say that, you know, you got to let the market decide freely because the market in this case is dominated by you know Verizon AT&T as you know the tobacco industry you know dominated Congress up until the point where it was obvious to everybody cigarettes resorting lives right well they get a de facto protection from the government with the FDA and the CDC etc but that is being restricted or removed do like to see that especially the liability protection on some of the vaccines,

that changes the whole risk calculus, and the corporations will respond to that. They won't just go as gung-ho because they may have to be responsible. The one thing I would say is probably two, Pollyanna and Libertarian, but if I wasn't being taxed effectively 50% of my income, I might donate a little money to,

let's call it, Purdue University, maybe. to study some of this stuff if they said, hey, alumni donate 50 or 100 or 500 bucks to this study on cell phone radiation. I might donate to a research university like Purdue University, one of the best research universities in the world. But of course, I don't have the free money to do that because I'm taxed 50%. So I just want to say that. And those nonprofits wouldn't behave that way. But if there was a for-profit university who was established, simply for this fact,

the crowdsource, you wanted to study it, we're going to study it, and we're going to peer review it, and it's going to be infallible science that's open, transparent, and it's just sourced from, that would be awesome if we had universities like that.

But we, you know, that might take a lifetime to get to one of those. Someone out there right now should say, you know, that is your personal, some young person out there, be the founder of a university set up to do that.

I would donate to it the day it was established. I love it. Well, that's the type of future we need, the type of solutions are new infrastructure, leveraging all this new tech and, you know, looking for freedom and liberty, but also working hard. There's a place for education. It's just not the old way. The, you know, what we've seen in the last 20 years, 30 years,

just ain't going to work anymore. It never was sustainable and now it's going to fall apart. But as you said, this is a time for universities to either pivot or people to found new organizations that functioned essentially like university without being one, right? Pretty cool in that regard. Yeah, I think the biggest mistake is trying to ever, ever advocate against the idea that medicine and education aren't affected by supply and demand. They are. They're economic activities. It's just a simple fact. And unless you're stone cold Bernie Sanders socialist, you're going to be able to recognize that.

How's gold price doing? It dropped slightly. Oh, no, 4946. But it's right there. Silver, on the other hand, only straight up this last 10, 15 minutes. It's at 97.53 of about 50 cents in the last 15 minutes. We'll make this special a little longer. Let's keep going with the headlines.

All right. As long as one of the two is still going up, I'm with you. Agree. There we go. And we got plenty of more news to hit. Trust me. Here we go. Activists say ring cameras being used by ICE.

This is on the website Futurism. Futurism.com. Your ring camera. is an ICE agent. This article, I actually suggest people go through, read it, and there's a lot of other interesting articles about AI, ethics, ICE on here. But try to find the exact, well, okay, future Dan.

I want to get your opinion on this for sure. Some of this is true, but I think some of this is also part of the anti-ice protest I'm not going to call it propaganda, but, you know, smash your ring doorbells, they're saying, you know, ring, ring. It's similar to the Tesla thing. I've seen bumper stickers like, I got this Tesla before we knew Elon was crazy or something like that, right? Yeah, don't be a digital surveillance slave when people in power are somebody alike. and now swing all the way around when the powers that be are doing things you don't like, be consistent, right?

This rate, this is just how you can buy a device and not control who gets to see what it records. It's because it's a free market, right? Because enough simpletons have gone and done this or just they just don't care about their privacy. I would never, ever have a device like that at my house. No, we know that. This is, at least Rings official response, is pretty much that court orders, warrants, and subpoenas were required to give up this information. I don't think that's true at all. This is an example where 10 years ago, the people like me 10 years ago were talking about this,

and the leftists were saying, you're crazy, right wing. theory is Tea Party hack. Now they're the ones freaking out. Because the police state, in their opinion, the police state is using it against them. Like, well, you know, silver lining, maybe they'll kind of have their head out of their ass about. Nah, probably not. But what they really have a hard time of grappling with is this idea that certain fugitives of justice do not have, Fourth Amendment rights.

And the two big ones are, if you've been lawfully convicted, right, and you're a fugitive or a parolee, right, but especially if you escape justice after you're convicted, you've got no rights in this regard. They can search anything they want. They can come for you. They already got the conviction. You're not presumed innocent and you don't have any of that due process. And same thing goes for illegal aliens.

They don't have that. Just because you managed to get across the border doesn't convey on you, you know, Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights. And obviously, if you conveyed Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights on illegal aliens, it would annihilate the very concept of a border. Right. you know so but but for all the citizens whose terms and conditions of their ring allows that company you know they'll just sell it to the to the to the federal agencies they'll just sell their data right because read the fine print you don't own what that camera's recording they do always read the five print all right precious metals check will the episode continue I'm going to say silver is slightly up.

I forgot the exact number, but it hit it crested at 9786, and it's super volatile right now. I'm going to consider that still up. Gold is relatively flat. Gold seems to have lost its luster for the night, but silver's pumping a bit. I got a feeling, well, what I said earlier this week, this is how crazy this week has been.

I did think silver could be $100 by tonight, and I was like, I could see silver being 100 by Patriot Power Hour. It had quite a bump, five or six bucks, but didn't make it. But I said, I think gold, you know, hit 5K. Hell, I think I said by end of the year. I thought maybe I even said earlier than that. But I thought gold would take at least a few more months to climb from 4,500 to 5K.

Nope, three days. Insane, insane. All right, we'll come back to Precious Metals Watch live 8.18 p.m. Eastern. January 22nd, 2020. But let us hit another article. What do you say? What do you say? Guard troops to stay

on D.C. streets through 2026. This was a S-H-T-F-level article, as was Minnesota Governor, mobilizes State National Guard amid ICE rioting.

Can you give us some expanded thoughts on National Guard? what's going on both Minnesota and in D.C. So this article or this indicator, National Guard activated, is one of those easily triggered, right? It's kind of binary. Has it happened or not? And it would accompany, it would be, you know,

it's obviously a reaction to the mega police operations, ice operations in Minnesota. and, you know, in and of itself, the activation of a national guard is a pretty common event. So just by the phrasing of the indicator, you know, either it's happening or it's not. So it in of itself is one of those indicators that doesn't mean a whole lot until others around it start to get grade one. Okay. And I misunderstood how it was posted the, yes, Minnesota governor mobilizing the guard, that was an S-H-T-F, actual happening but the National Guard staying until the end of 2026 was actually a low level grade or low

grade it's already happened it's just it's already happened and it seems more i'm probably going to use the wrong words here but more reasonable or it's more like the national guard could be in the streets of dc forever and it's just i mean that's could be normalized it's it's not a problem dc's a federalized jurisdiction, right? Military district of Washington is the way the Department of Defense looks at it. Department of War. Yeah, there you go.

It's a military district. It's like, can the military forces be used and deployed on Fort Bragg, North Carolina? Well, yes, of course. It's a military installation. The entire District of Columbia is that if the president decides that it is, and he has, so it will be. You said it. I got it.

out of you. That's exactly what I wanted to say. And check out the history of this stuff. After World War I, Patton and MacArthur were involved. This is before there was a Pentagon, right? Before World War II, they were putting down riding in Washington, D.C., squatter cities of veterans that before there was a Department of Veterans Affairs, right? There's no benefit after you served, no matter how hurt you were. There was very little for you.

really established and World War I vets went down, set up, you know, during the Great Depression, you know, stanty towns and protested and rioted and MacArthur, Patton, others. They went and put down those riots

with federal troops. So this isn't, this isn't new. Not new at all. Precious metal check, silver's up 40 cents in the last three minutes. All right. Let's keep going. I'm not even joking.

We are going to be on for the breakthrough. It could be a marathon, Pedro Power Hour for the first time. Holy cow. We're good. I did have a follow-up question. Why are we not seeing Los Angeles or other Democrats cities having the same amount of protests and stuff as Minnesota right now? I think it's wherever ICE is, right?

ISIS has limited amount of, you know, officers, and they're keeping them in giant task forces and just moving in different areas at different times. And it's, it does resemble a form of warfare, right? Because, you know, it's not kinetic warfare, it's information warfare, but, you know, if another jurisdiction is held at risk, Like the ice hasn't been here to really round up the illegal aliens, but they could show up at any time.

Then how does, you know, all these are blue cities that they're Democrat organized, their Democrat red, lead, and they they strategize and panic, you know, about as well as you would expect from that crowd. So, you know, where does ice show up next? It's strategic, right? And until they get everybody that they targeted for removal operations in Minnesota, that's where they'll be. I think I've seen some reports that they're still active in California too. But, you know, they're picking and choosing where they go because there's these Ice Watch groups that are going to, you know, do what we're seeing in Minnesota. Just, you know, just a mobile riot.

Maybe the first of its kind. It's just a mobile riot. Mobile riot, rent-a-riot, traveling riot, groupie riot. Okay, that frames it differently and makes a lot more sense to me. I guess I just presumed ICE was active pretty evenly across the country in major 25 cities or something. But no, it's a lot more concentrated in a couple spots, really for safety reasons, because they're outnumbered so much if they did only have.

well is there like 50,000 ice agents I believe so we should yeah we should look into that but for some reason that number's popping out of my head um so yeah if you had 50,000 right and you spread it across 10 cities 5,000 per city uh that sounds like a lot but if the city is Dallas or Houston or Chicago DC etc like that's that's It's not that many. It's not that many ice. So I guess just from a, I don't know, not military point of view, but just, you know, personnel management, keeping everybody together has a lot of reasons to do that.

I'm sure they don't, they would say they don't want to be doing it that way. They'd rather be evenly enforcing the law wherever it needs to be. But, you know, that was not. It has to be security purpose is the reason. reason why, right? It's not exactly. It's not the most efficient way to get the most bad guys. It's so they don't get ambushed. No, it's about controlling the 2030 census without a doubt. They're going in and they're looking at the voter, well, ICE isn't, but the White House has looked at, you know, the 2020 stolen election. Where were the voter rolls

inflated with a lot of dead people, plus a lot of illegal immigrants that could carry ballots to boxes, right? Okay. And looking at the margins, some of those states where, you know, Democrats could pull off the steel with 20, 30, 40,000 votes. And Minnesota's, you know, you know, it's been said, you know, the amount of people remove, the amount of illegal aliens removed from Minnesota just through this operation is the margin of victory in recent elections for Republicans and Democrats.

And the Constitution was written to, you know, bring the Southern states into the Union and three-fifths rule. The slaves were counted three-fifths of a person, right? So, you know, that whole design of the Constitution to allow for that was, you know, that's why the census is based upon the number of residents, not the number of citizens. And that's how they apportioned seats in Congress. That's how electoral college votes are divvied up. And these operations are first and foremost designed to change the electoral balance

by removing, you know, essentially the Democrats, you know, inflated the voter rolls. And they have their power is based upon, you know, allowing in foreigners to swell up their population. And this is this is Trump's attempt to end it. And it seems like Minnesota and Minneapolis, particular Minneapolis, St. Paul, were just juiciest targets ever for Doge and just fraudulent spending and programs. So you combine illegal immigrants plus all the fraud that's being exposed. And I'm sure Doge, I mean, can you, can you imagine all. all the data that's in the systems if it actually was applied you know if smart people

applied advanced analytics to that what kind of stuff they can oh man so that's what they did smart people are called Palantir when Palantir threw in with Trump and they brought out those one year ago yesterday that was shot heard around the world the shock and all that and we talked about on Patriot Power Hour, that it was war fighting, you know, tactical operational intelligence, you know, a tool of war, intelligence tool of war designed out of all the problem sets that came out of occupying Iraq and exploiting all that information. And then we had a tool that, you know, went for years through the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. And now, you know, Democrats went far enough to actually cause the people that run Palantir to say,

you know what, we're going to help Trump do this. And they went in a year ago tonight. They were in the Treasury plugging in these tools, you know, across all of the Treasury, right? And just getting data and looking at linkages. USAID was absolutely, you know, crushed within weeks because they immediately saw it with Palantir technology. is that obvious. I mean, it's probably pretty obvious without the technology, but with the technology, think how much more you could find

and kind of second, third, fourth order connections that maybe a human wouldn't have been able to find or definitely not as quickly, not as consistently. So it seems like Minneapolis, maybe that's why Walls was the Tim Walls, Mr. Tim Walls was the VP, because it sounds like he's some sort of kingpin. up there in Minnesota. It's hard to believe, but it must be true. He's, uh, he's, he's going to get sacrificed by his party.

Oh, yeah, man. He has been smart and enough to prevent Minnesota from being an outright, you know, revolt, right? So, you know, ordering local police to go try to arrest ICE officers or, or other things that, you know, because all it takes is the president to make a national speech and say, The Interaction Act is invoked because Governor Walts did X, Y, and Z. And that's it, you know, 11th, 11th Airborne out of Alaska, coming down to Minnesota to warm up compared to Alaska. They'll be on the street, right? So Walts has been smart enough to avoid that, but I think his fate is sealed.

And truth is powerful. Like the truth is powerful. So it's easy for us to sit there and say, I got to believe there's massive fraud in this or that part of the federal government. And no one's going to take it seriously. But then you plug in an intelligence warfighting tool and you gather the data. And now we're talking shock and awe. You can't argue against it.

Doge succeeded everywhere succeeded because it had the data. And they knew, and Musk helped engineer that with the, what's the guy that runs, volunteer? Tharp, you know, they had it figured out. Peter Thiel founded that company. Like when all those tech billionaires had finally had enough of trying to be, thread the needle and be non-partisan and talk out both sides of their mouth, which is what billionaires have always been able to do.

When they threw in with Trump, my God, they put a lot of power behind him and that particular software technology is a big part about how we know the truth. And did any of us see that coming? I don't think so. No, we wanted to drain the swamp. Didn't get as much as we wanted in that first round, but the second round, trying to make up for lost time. It's going pretty well.

We are here just past one year. And a hell of a year, not everything. I'm not going to do a formal breakdown or grade, but, hey, it was a good year overall. Way better than if Kamala was in there. Let's just say that. You know, Trump put out a... Trump put out a heart of...

Trump put out a 365 accomplishments for 365, for 365 days. One of the 365 was revoking crackhead Hunter Biden's security detail. That deserves to be on it. Yeah, they voted. Nice. Oh, and you mentioned Davos. Wow. If you folks have not heard Trump's speech, definitely listen to it. It's long, but it's great. But was it Bissette? That was, uh, that was, uh, he's Lutnik. I think it was Bessette that was he's very like calm natured, but he was talking trash. Lutnik's a little more boisterous. He was talking trash. Oh, man, there's no holds barred. Bestant definitely talks trash. He, he got the assignment probably volunteered. to let, you know, Gavin Newsom, you know, know what time it was.

And Howard Lucknick is always positive, but he's pretty reasonable. He's pretty reasonable every time he speaks. I got to admit, he's not a free trader, right? That world passed. Like, he probably wasn't a past life. But, you know, once we, you know, you know, saw how China did international trade, you know, it never made sense to trade with them freely because they weren't a free country. country and how you know like like just like you know sooner we're going to figure out that the cell phones have been a problem for us same thing like we're seeing positive change it's just slow to come by well we got silver and it is not slow it's at all time high ninety eight dollars sixty cents so it's up about 10.15 cents in the last 10 minutes so I guess we'll do one more article let's see what we got

gold is flat in the last 20 minutes sticking around 49 50 which is like still essentially all time high but it's for some reason silver caught quite the bid in the last uh and silver had actually been down and flat most of the last week so it not last week maybe the last couple days so everyone's like oh silver run is over now it's time for gold well silver said hold my beer i ain't done yet i'm making it to a hundred before gold makes it to five thousand damn it hundred dollar an ounce silver that's five thousand ounce gold that's yeah that's a real

turning point I'm good you you you suspected it can collapse everything that'll be a test that that either that is true and week or so from now

we're going to have black on red just up and down column three complete financial crisis. Well, no it wasn't planned because they did it too early and Trump will have way, way, way too much power, which they can't let happen. Or it isn't really the myth that it was made out to be. And it wasn't really that Lehman brothers and Bear Stearns had silver contracts that were the secret cons of the whole collapse in 2008. I'm waiting to see how that plays out. Oh, yeah, me too.

It might not be over yet. Folks say that silver could get squeezed to $2, $300 in the next year. That's where you would see real problems. I'm not calling it. That would happen, though. Hey, we'll see. Your boy, Jamie Diamond. How much is he going to owe Trump?

Being sued for five bill, I believe. Bill. That's $5,000. That's a lot. 5,000 million. Why was Trump sitting on that? Just waiting. Like for a whole year,

people were toying around with maybe Jamie Diamond will get nominated for the next Fed chair. And he always took away. And then suddenly Trump, like, in the middle of, you know, posing like a, you know, just a threat to the sovereignty of Denmark. Like, no one has ever,

well, since Third Reich, invaded like no one's told Denmark what was going to happen next like that even if it was for a week like during that and then on the side jamie diamonds catching a five billion dollar lawsuit like what did I miss something like what caused trump to snap over there in that direction suddenly he's just keeping these fools on their toes I love it I love it that's why I man I don't want to be a negative nelly to end the show potentially but I'm just like will anybody be able to carry the torch like Trump has because Trump just something just special about Trump where he's able to turn potential defeat into one of his biggest successes.

He's able to just like switch gears and mess with people and get his enemies to love him and hate him at the same time. Like, I don't know, Vance seems solid, but I just, he's not going to be able, he's not going to have that kind of like it factor. He doesn't necessarily need it to keep the momentum, but I just keep that in mind. I think people got to keep that in mind I don't know I'm not for against any candidates and any next

election but the time that J.D. Vance walked up to the Harris's Air Force 2 and said I'm just checking out the plane I'm going to have next right? That was pretty ballsy I'll tell you

like he he has moments and in the Oval Office letting Zelensky know what time it was like that was different that was different and new. I don't think you count out, Vance, in that regard at all. He's definitely got a bit of an attitude in a good way that, in that regard. I'll give you that.

Okay, all right. How's our bullion looking? 9872 on silver. At this rate, we could be here for another hour. We could be here for days or could just jump all of a sudden. I don't think it's going to break 100 in the next hour. but it just guaranteed that it probably will we can hit maybe one more article and see how it is what do you say yeah yeah have anymore we've almost hit everyone which is actually great um largest solar storm very rare s4 yeah i got a question actually yeah go ahead go ahead prepper community talking to you directly especially the

prepper news environment, right? So you got riots in Minnesota, getting spun up on, you know, the future of NATO and what Trump's doing with Greenland and 10 other things you're paying attention to. But in some news weeks when we get a severe solar storm, you know, there's there's just just big, big concern about the next Carrington event. And now we have like during all this news environment this storm hits and I didn't see many people talking about it and by the way it's the worst in decades do any it does any of us even noticed did your did you toast toaster short out like did it bother you like quarantine event is a real thing that could happen but even the worst solar storm in the past few decades isn't even close to enough to be dangerous it's a great way to

put it uh don't want to test our luck but I remember there was supposed to be a huge one last summer and right around the summer solstice in June if I remember and this one was bigger than that. There was way more coverage of that last summer than there was this go around. So yeah. The news environment, which the heat map dashboard is meant to let you look at in different domains in four columns really affects perceptions of what's dangerous. or not. And honestly, you know, sometimes if you're into prepping and you're making content and you're podcasting, you've got to be talking about something, right? So what the heat map dashboard is designed for is to kind of level that, right? Balance it and measure it and make sure when

something is dangerous, that it's, you know, reflected properly and all the other things that can go wrong simultaneously or looked at so that, you know, it's going to take a polycharsis to, you know, bring about, you know, a collapse that, you know, everyone on this network is, is preparing for, right? We're not there yet. Not there yet, but good time to keep prep it, folks. January 22nd. We'll be back next week. January 29th is the plan and every Thursday in January and most in February. I think the last Thursday of February. Maybe we'll have to change the date, just

saying, but future day of the silver's right there at 9875. Gold's still relatively flat. I don't know. It's still going aboard out of articles for what it's worth. We can talk about Gislay and Maxwell and who have to. She's going to plead

the fifth straight through her testimony. Yeah? Take a look at this. And the questions are going to catch you know, charges for contempt of Congress. That's they're they're both coming to justice right there and Something's got to give with all of the Epstein files something's got to give

Rumor to be 5,000 more unreleased files can't imagine you know or five million more on the release files Can't imagine how what percentage of that is just your lies put in there to just make it impossible for Trump to release it all Which is I think what he found out Just about one year ago tonight and that's when suddenly we're not not talking about Epstein because it was absolutely bombarded with falsehood. Maxwell's going to be testifying virtually before the House Oversight Committee Monday, February 9th. So I'm pleading a fifth is a prediction here, huh? Is that closed testimony or open?

Let me scan to see if I could find that. I don't know. I don't. It's going to be closed. It's going to see it necessarily. Yeah, they're not going to publicize that. that's too risky she was out and you know on network television under this thing oh my god what she could just come out of her mouth that could just flip that off and be see upside down i don't

think any of them want to give her a chance at that no no makes sense makes sense um with regard i'm well i'm i'm going to be on the tv watching that when that happens i got to be there yeah Yep. Well, I can't. I try to explain this to folks. Some believe me, some don't. I say, look, statute of limitations for minor crimes. Not crimes against minors, but small crimes, minor crimes. There's statute of limitations for a reason. So you look at something like this where there's many powerful people who have a motive to tamper with the evidence that's years and years. There's a reason Statute of limitations, especially something like this. I don't know.

I can't trust any of the files or evidence that comes out, whether it's damning to Democrats or banksters and would make me feel good on the inside. I can't trust the validity of it after this many years. That's all.

Yeah, I'll keep my eyes open. You know, rape, murder, there's no statute of limitations on those things. Now, give you that. If you have, if you can truly trace the evidence and custody of the evidence and it's provable that it's real and legit. Okay. But, yeah, the evidence has been sealed away and allegedly not tampered with for many years.

And do you trust that it wasn't tampered with? Hard to say. Hard to say. Or maybe justice looks like a former president that gets exposed by history for entering into agreements with foreign intelligence agencies, probably multiple, to build compromise, the Russian term for compromising material on all involved so that they could move forward with plans that, you know, all of them could be trusted because all of them were compromised. That might actually be the history of the late 90s, a dark, dark,

We'll probably have a reckoning like that in a decade or so that in 2020, the Chinese Communist Party enabled one of our political parties to steal an election. That we're well on the way to be able to have, you know, irrefutable history written in these regards. And for anybody to argue the opposite into the end of their lives to be viewed by younger generations as disillusioned fools, all that would be good for us. all that would be less dangerous for the United States of America. But we've got to be looking at what's going to be the neck. What are they pulling right now? That could be a story in 20 years, but we can't be waiting 20 years. I think the people that fan that stuff are running and hiding from the powers in the White House right now.

We've got three more years of it. So, you know, I hope they're terrified. I hope he terrorizes them. if any of them have any of this plan. You're right. Never, never ends it, right?

But expose it badly enough. And, you know, all that'll happen is that we'll get hit in new, complex, unthought of ways in the future. And picture power is here to, you know,

try to forecast and anticipate that and talk about it for others. So I, and I think we do a pretty good job of that, Ben. I agree. Our track record. speaks for itself actually if you look at what we've predicted what's come true or not but yeah 21 days after our our January 1st predictions 21 days later we're about to hit a few predictions already right

as well in government probably can be considered toppled they'll have an election and it will be done so perhaps bloodlessly and gold and silver and the ratio of gold and silver i think we predicted all of this three weeks later it's here. Should have bought a lot more. Gosh, dig it. Well, Silver just hit a new all-time high in the last five seconds. $98.98. I don't want to belabor the point, but you got anything else you want to hit on while we just have this silent countdown to the last dollar maybe. I mean, it's too. We can't quit at this point. It just crossed $99 for one cent future Dan.

what it's starting to feel like a PBS telethon but we don't ask it for anybody's money we're just sticking around watching it's crazy like wow live on air and we might hit this I mean I I would just hate going off air and it cracks 100 here in half hour but on the other hand I got to feel it it it'll bounce off 100 and not crack it tonight but we'll see let's talk about the um the title of this episode 334 is it fed on trial is that Is it silver 9898? What are we going to call this episode? That's a great question.

Well, it's definitely episode 3, 3, 4. Banksters on trial. That's not a bad one. I think so. I think so. I think that's what we saw in those oral arguments. And despite what Bloomberg's trying to brainwash people, they could get a shocking decision out of that.

Or Trump might get his Waterloo, but, you know, Supreme Court can make, big, big impacts on this country this year. And, yeah, Jerome Powell sitting in the front seat, staring down the justices, trying to let Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Comey, like, Eric, worry about the stability of the system. Will it work? But I don't know.

I'm torn, bullying 50 to one ratio in live streaming action. That's awfully compelling episode title. too. Maybe we can do both. Hey, well, there's only so many characters you can use. But I have considered just labeling our show, PPH, instead of Patriot Power Hour every time. A little redundant. It takes a lot of characters. People do care about, you know, having a title that explains what's in there, getting some hype. So we'll see.

I'm torn on that because we, you invented the title of this show, and it's a great title. so PPH might be a sacrifice we shouldn't make. Yeah, I never made that. So I'm going to continue to stick with the full version for now. But if that happens, though, we can only have like, I don't know, 25 characters for maybe 30 characters for a show title. Fed on trial. And what's the acronym for the abbreviation of silver? SLV?

98 98 that's the ETF yes I should know this AU and AG I forgot which one's which I'm not talking about the Autonic gold I think Yeah, I use gold AG is silver I'm not sure atomic table We're gonna help most people know what you're talking about But how we doing

PB plum It actually just drop below 99 It's at 98, 94. Gold is ticking back up slightly. Bitcoin's still under 90K. But that's why you diversify folks. And don't just diversify financially. You know, get your preps.

Get your tools. Get your med supplies. Storeable food, water filters. And yeah, you know, financially diversify too. You won't regret it. Yeah, this storm coming up over the weekend, you know, big stretch of the southeast United States going to get ice, which means you're going to get power lines down, trees down on power lines, and roads that cannot be traveled, and it's dangerous. It's momentarily dangerous, very much a mitigatable risk. So I know, you know, long-term listeners, the, you know, proper broadcasting network don't need to be told.

But if you're casually coming across Patriot Power Hour, you're here for the, you know, the political take and not necessarily fully into prepping. This is a great little example of when it should be, you know. Yeah. In a short term, prepping is always appropriate. And this storm is going to shut down services for long enough to pose a risk to life and limb. So put your plans into effect. Make sure you got what you need at home. It's that freezing rain that really crushes you.

knocks power out and it looks like it's going to go right over where you know Asheville North Carolina where they had the hurricane come through a couple years ago so northern Georgia Northern South Carolina and most of North Carolina and a lot of Tennessee looks like mostly freezing rain and then a solid freeze thereafter to kind of lock in that ice so yeah whether you're you're you're going to going to get that or you're maybe out west where it looks pretty clear it's a good time to be a prepper i'll tell you that yeah a lot of states don't invest in what it takes to get the road safe quickly you know if you if you live in buffalo new york you know whatever's coming your way you know

that they're going to have to get the roads back to safe right right across the middle of the south certain united states it happens so infrequently and my experiences you know they're just Kind of just say, hey, stay at home until, you know, day after tomorrow when it's 50 degrees and everything melts, right? But that might not happen. I might get stuck in a deep freeze for a week with roads that you can't get to hospitals. So it's going to, it's going to rate on the heat map dashboard as a mega storm. I'm just hoping it doesn't elevate in grade level and become, you know, a highly fatal one. Right.

Mega stores mall. Storms Mall, I believe, right? All right, well, I think we can call off the precious metal watch, although I will be watching it throughout the night. It's going to peak like 10 minutes after we shut off the podcast. It's amazing. This is just another example of why this gold and silver run is incredible. A lot of the increases are not happening during your normal 930 to 4 p.m.

9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. U.S. trading, right, when the stock markets open and stuff. No, a lot of this is happening when Asia is opening. Asia opens at 6 p.m. Eastern here in, you know, here at East Coast time at 6 p.m. and it's the morning over there. And a lot of the increases happen when Asia's open. And they don't, it's not like it goes down when the U.S. opens. It just kind of muddles along and then that doesn't happen. long story short why is that occurring i have potential reasons but uh it's definitely occurring

what's the best measure in the physical silver market online tonight can't do coins because there's premium on different kinds of coins and how they're minted is it one ounce bars what would i bet you physical already broke 100 tonight oh for sure um the physical premium on, let's just call it 10-ounce bars. That would have the least amount of premium. And as you said, it's not a collector's piece or numismatic. So we'll use a 10-ounce bar, which used to be, you know, $200.

Now apparently it's $1,000. But there's always been at least a 3% to 5% premium, even on that. So if silver was $100, then one of those silver bars would actually be $103, $105. bucks or I guess now more like a thousand and fifty bucks so there's always been that premium that premium would it be physical silver actually when did physical silver actually reach a real hundred dollar handle earlier this week tonight you know it's almost like it I would say about earlier this week

earlier this week, give me my guess, because that's when it hit, you know, crossed 95 bucks. And I could pretty much guarantee the most basic of silver would have at least enough of a premium to boost up to 100. And just to throw this out there, the U.S. Mint stopped selling silver coins and making silver coins for short term. Well, they've returned and they have the 26 American Silver Eagle. They priced it at $169 per ounce. usually those do have a good premium where at $100 silver, American Silver Eagle might be $110 or $115, but they price it at $160.

So they're either increasing that premium to 60%, or they think silver is going to be $150 like by this time next year, or maybe both. Wow. Give us a price on the way out. Great show, Ben. Great show. 9863. Don't worry. We'll be doing a full analysis next week as per usual. Another great show,

Future Dan. We're making some progress, but we're always on the lookout for the biggest threats coming up and prepping for them. So, hey, that's what keeps it excited. What can I say?