August 28, 2025 • 32 mins
1. Minneapolis Catholic School Shooting
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Incident: A mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis carried out by a 23-year-old former student, Robin (formerly Robert) Westman, who identified as transgender
- Casualties: Two children (ages 8 and 10) were killed; 17 others (14 children and 3 adults) were injured
- Shooter’s Profile: Left behind disturbing online videos, writings, and a manifesto expressing admiration for past mass shooters. Guns used included a pistol, rifle, and shotgun
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Political Debate:
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Conservative commentators in the podcast blamed failures by Minnesota’s governor Tim Walz, claiming he prioritized aid to immigrants over school security funding
- They argued transgender identity is tied to untreated mental health issues, criticizing the “normalization” of gender transition
- The FBI classified it as domestic terrorism and a hate crime targeting Catholics, but local officials hesitated to label it a hate crime immediately
- Democrats were criticized for pushing gun control, with figures like Amy Klobuchar calling for assault weapons bans, while conservatives in the podcast framed the issue as one of culture, mental health, and religious targeting
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2. Trump’s Executive Order on 401(k) Investments
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Policy Change: President Trump signed an executive order (August 7, 2025) expanding retirement plans (401(k)s) to allow alternative assets like gold, silver, cryptocurrency, real estate, and private market investments
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Supporters’ View:
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Promoted as financial “freedom” for ordinary Americans, previously limited to stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.
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Expected to increase demand for precious metals and crypto, possibly creating upward pressure on prices
- Framed as a chance for “the little guy” to access opportunities typically reserved for hedge funds and wealthy investors.
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- Practical Implications: Availability set to begin February 2026, with expected market shifts (sell-offs in stocks, price surges in gold/silver/crypto). Discussions also highlighted looming silver supply shortages
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We have to start with the tragic news.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
A Minnesota church school shooting has happened yet again, and
yet again, the suspect was a transgendered person.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
The suspect identified as.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
A female and changed the name at seventeen years old.
A senior administration official has now confirmed that the alleged
shooter at the Minneapolis Catholic school changed from a male
name to a female name at seventeen years of age
and now identified as a female. A document post on
(00:34):
social media, confirmed as authentic by the officials, said they
described the name change occurring in twenty twenty, when the
alleged shooter was a minor and required parental sign off
on the change. Fox News correspondent Brooke Taylor reported that
his mother signed off on the name change from Robert
to Robin. It has also been reported that police indicated
(00:57):
the alleged shooter used a pistol, a rifle and going
to carry out the attack on the school Wednesday morning.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
From outside the church.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
He shot through windows, striking children as they sat in
pews during mass. Two children were killed and seventeen other
individuals were wounded. We hope that those numbers do not change,
but they could by the time you hear this. The
shooter then took his own life. We also know that
this is a trend. You had a transgender identifying woman
(01:28):
that shot and killed six innocent children at a Nashville
Christian school back on March to twenty seventh of twenty
twenty three. She had originally planned to shoot up another school,
but didn't why she abandoned the plan to avoid looking racist,
and there was another school that had quote too much security.
(01:49):
Now there's more on this when it comes to transgender issue.
We're going to talk about this in a moment. But
there's a bigger part of the story that you need
to know about right now, and it is a part
of the star story that will not be covered by
the media. I want to take you back to two
years ago. Two years before the shooter opened fire on
(02:09):
the students attending daily mass in Minneapolis, the leaders of
independent Catholic schools in Minnesota begged the governor former VP
candidate Tim Waltz for help securing their schools. The funding
by Tim was never authorized. Where was funding going taxpayer
(02:32):
dollars to illegal immigrants? It was going to massive amounts
of government aid to illegal immigrants. In his community, but
protecting the kids, no, that was something he would not do.
Their letter asked Waltz for help to secure nonprofit, non
(02:53):
public and religious schools. It came one week after a
trans identifying shooter killed three children and three adults in
Nashville at the Covenant Christian School. So there was a
reason why they were asking for the money, they said,
after seeing that they knew they were vulnerable and they
(03:13):
needed help from the governor. Meanwhile, in April of twenty
twenty three, and again, I hope all this information I'm
giving you you will share wherever you can on social
media because the media is going to whitewash this and
act like none of this ever happened. In April of
twenty twenty three, the same month the letter was sent,
(03:34):
walt signed legislation establishing Minnesota as a quote trans refuge
quote unquote, promising to protect those seeking gender affirming care
that according to Outfront Minnesota and the news reports, we
now know that the shooter, Robin Slash Robert Westman, is
(03:55):
a trans identifying man. The reports now state who identified
as a woman and legally changed his name in Minnesota
with his mother's sign off, which brings us back to
the other basic point. Over and over again, we are
seeing trans individuals who have gone through some sort of transition,
(04:17):
who are being supported by their families, who still are
dealing with major mental health issues. And as long as
we keep acting like it is not a mental health issue,
this is going to continue to happen. It is absolutely
and utterly insane for us to sit here and advocate
(04:39):
and support people who believe that they are trapped in
another sex body than what they are, to normalize it.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
It is a mental health issue.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
And I'm not saying that in a mean, disparaging or
angry way. I genuinely feel sorry for anyone who believes
that they are trapped in another person's ba, another sex
or the wrong sex and what they are. But let
me also say this very clearly, there is a real
threat to all of our kids now because we have
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at least part of the country has tried to normalize
mental health issues and acting like there is nothing wrong
when someone says they're trapped and the wrong sexual body,
the wrong sex. And the longer that we continue down
this road, the longer we act like this as normal,
when everyone knows that it is not normal, we are
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going to continue to see these types of things happen.
I want you to think about the place you have
to be in to be this young and to want
to go kill innocent children, shooting them while they're at
mass I want you to think about how radical and
extreme you have to be in your head to then
kill yourself, to turn the gun on yourself. This is
(05:55):
a mental health issue, and the problem now is the
radical left is try to normalize it instead of giving
people the help that they need. Instead, they're saying no, no,
let's encourage and advocate and support an individual who's clearly
dealing with a major mental health issue.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And that is the problem.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
This is exactly why we must as a nation stand
up to this and say no, we are not going
to normalize it, and we're not going to act like
you're a bad person if you say what I'm saying
right now. We need to call it out because we
are not doing anybody any favors and we're not actually
helping people when we try to normalize a real mental
(06:41):
health condition. Finally, let me also say this, this is
why the President of the United States of America I'm proud
of for leading on protecting women's sports he is not
normalizing a dude acting like a chick in women's sports.
Women's sports should be for women. Men sports should be
for men. And if you want to start a messed
(07:03):
up trans league, I mean it when I say this,
knock yourself out, do it, but do not open up
sports to the opposite sex and act like that is fair.
The radical left, unfortunately, has lost their mind. They're not
defending women's sports. They are not doing what they need
to do to protect women, and the President is doing
(07:26):
it through legislation as well. And all of us should
be advocating and supporting women and protecting women, protecting them
in the locker rooms, protecting them in sports, protecting them
when it comes to scholarships, protecting it when it comes
to going to the Olympics. And this is another example
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of the culture war we are in right now in
this country. There are sane people like you and I
that believe that this is insanity, and the media and
the radical left have been pushing this other narrative, this
totally insane narrative, for far too long, and all of us,
I believe, have an obligation and a duty to refuse
(08:10):
to accept this is some sort of great idea. Now
let me also say this, what I just told you
is not being talked about anywhere. I really want you
to take the podcast and I want you to share
it wherever you.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Can on social media.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Please share it because this is important that people know
the real story. Share it because they need to know
what Tim Waltz did not do to protect children even
after they were asked for protection. Putting illegal immigrants ahead
of children in school that need a protection and not
protect them, probably because they're in a religious institution. This
is something everyone needs to know, so makes you share
(08:49):
this wherever you can around the country. Take a quick break,
we'll come back. It's the Ben Ferguson Show, plus more
of your phone calls. There is one thing we are
getting from the Trump administration when it comes to the
shooting in Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
It is clarity.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
The FBI Director Caspittel saying the shooting is now being
investigated as a hate crime targeting Catholics. This is something
we did not get from the prior administration. The FBI
director used a post on x to make it clear
that the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting will be investigated as
(09:25):
a hate crime, specifically targeting Catholics. It was reported that
the alleged shooter changed his name from Robert to Robin
at seventeen years of age. Fox News correspondent Brooke Taylor
reported that his mother signed off on the suspected shooter's
name changed from Robert to Robin. Yet again, another transgendered
(09:46):
individual shooting up a school. Police indicated the alleged shooter
used a pistol, a rifle, and a shotgun to carry
out his attack on the church Wednesday morning. From inside
the church, he shot through windows, striking children as they
sat in the pews during mass. As you know at
this point when I am recording this, two children have
(10:07):
been killed. Seventeen other individuals have been wounded. Patel putting
it on x saying updates on the shooting in Minneapolis.
The FBI is investigating. The shooting is an active domestic
terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics. There are two fatalities,
an eight year old and a ten year old, in
addition to fourteen children and three adults that were injured.
(10:31):
He went on to say after that quote, the shooter
has been identified is Robin Westman, a male born as
Robert Westman. The FBI will continue to provide updates on
our ongoing investigation with the public as we are able.
Now even CNN is having to admit that this was
(10:52):
a radical Here is more of what they said about
the shooter.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Breaking news, admiration from ash, hatred of multiple groups, no
sympathy for any victim. It is just some of what
the shooter in today's Catholic school massacre which he murdered
two children, reveals and videos posted online. Videos that police
are scouring through right now for clues and answers about
the shooter, who has been identified as a twenty three
(11:19):
year old named Robin Westsman. Brian Todd has the latest
on what we know about the shooter.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
The coward that shot these victims took his own life
in the rear of the church. That coward has been
identified as twenty three year old Robin Westman.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Westman seems to have left a series of online videos
which describe an obsession with school shootings and even named
other mass shooters, such as the twenty twelve Sandy Hook gunman,
the Columbine gunman, and the man who attacked the Tree
of Life synagogue in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Here's my note to my family.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
The video also shows written statements and several guns painted
with slurs. In another clip, the speaker simply reads aloud
from a closed dryer, manual.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Dryer safety, Your safety and the safety of others are
very important.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Police say they also found a litany of writings.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
We're also aware of a manifesto that the shooter had
time to be released on YouTube. This manifesto appeared to
show him at the scene and included some disturbing writings.
That content has since been taken down with the assistance
of the FBI, and it now remains under active review
(12:34):
by our investigators.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Apparently part of the plan that the shooter seemed to
illustrate in those same videos on YouTube a photo of
a slab of wood. An actual slab of wood was
found at the scene, blocking a door from the outside.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
The exit.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
Pop it through the hands.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
According to social media posts, the shooter's mother worked at
the school from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty one, and
the sho shooter graduated from the school in twenty seventeen.
The shooter, now known as twenty three year old Robin Westman,
identified as a female and changed their name legally to
Robin from Robert in twenty twenty. The agency is investigating
(13:13):
this as an act of domestic terrorism and as a
hate crime targeting Catholics. Police Chief Brian O'Haras says officials
there have not yet established enough of a motive to
charge it or to investigate it yet as a hate crime.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Aaron, that is the part that's the most shocking. You
now have two very different narratives. You have clearly leadership
and cashpiteal in the Trump administration calling this what it is,
and then you have local liberal police who are saying, no,
we don't have enough to actually look.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
At this as a hate crime.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Yet.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
The question I would ask is when will you have enough?
As The Minneapolis police chief describing the attack on the
mass as quote evil, noting that the worship's service was
marking the first week of school for children that are
attending the Catholic school. He described the shooting as a
deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshiping,
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but won't call it a hate crime yet. If you
want to know what's wrong in this country, this is
a perfect example of it. Democrats, even when evil is
steering them in the face, will refuse time and time
again to call it exactly that. If there's one thing
that is happening right now, it is that Democrats are
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using this to push for gun control. Amy Klobuchar said,
I have long supported assault weapons ban, even before she
knows what guns were even used. Many others are also
saying the same thing. Former White House pressing or Tarry
Jensaki breaking down in tears on MSNBC, and then the
Minnesota mayor are saying, why is it that you can
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buy a gun virtually every month? If you wanted to
again blaming the gun instead of the transgendered person who
they decided to say that their mental health issues were
normal and decided that, you know, we're never going to
help them with their mental health, We're just going to
try to normalize it. Former FBI profiler said the shooter's parents,
(15:19):
well they're ones to blame as well, saying you help
them change their name. At seventeen, that's probably when the
fuse was lit. Take a listen to a little bit
more of what the FBI profiler had to say about
the shooter on Ingram Show on Fox.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Scrawl across that manifesto, James, what can you tell us
you've seen the photos there are various photos.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Of him circulating on the internet.
Speaker 9 (15:45):
Yeah, and we're just a few weeks away from the
thirtieth anniversary of the publication of the Unibomber's manifesto in
the Washington Post, and now we have Back then, it
took a whole lot of protocols to go through to
get it in the newspaper, according including from the unibomber himself. Nowadays,
you do these things, You plan these mass murders, and
you put it on YouTube, you know, twenty minutes or
(16:05):
the day before while you're singing along to Annie, and
then you know, RM songs and other factors like that
to make it so disgusting. This person, obviously, he makes
Travis Bickle, the taxi driver character, look like a piker.
He is all over the place. I can't believe there
are not siblings. I think he had six siblings parents
(16:26):
who somehow did not see this, that there wasn't psychological
or behavioral leakage in one way or the other. I'm
not sure where he was living, with whom he was living,
but someone had to see this. And I think we
should look at laws in this country that perhaps if
you have a family connection, who does something like this
and you didn't report it. You can help them get guns,
you help them change their name. At seventeen, that's probably
(16:47):
when the fuse was lit for this guy to do
what he did. You know, five six years.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Later, now our Democrats worried about any of what was
just mentioned there. No, are they trying to stop the
next shooting before it happens. No, what they are trying
to do is use this opportunity to then say that
you cannot own a firearm. That is the entire conversation
and what it focused around on MSNBC virtually all day
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and all night.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
Doctors and nurses, everyone that helped.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Yeah, I saw some of the stories coming out about
that heroism and just incredible courage under tremendously insane circumstances.
There is something so perverse about the fact that these
kids drill for this, and yet it seems that that
(17:35):
preparation maybe was useful in this moment.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Yes, so they knew to get under the pews, they
knew what to do. And my friend's daughter, who was
just you know, seventh eighth grader, she actually saw two
of her friends shot, one in the stomach, one in
the neck, and then when she got out, she had
to tell one of their parents what had happened to
their own kid. So these kids did extraordinary things, but
(18:01):
they never should have been put in that position in
the first place. This was a mad man. He was
an all purpose hater by the way, hated groups, left.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Right, you name it.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
There's no way to pin an ideology on this, and
I think people should remember this as the facts come
out about this manifesto. But what I learned from this
once again is that guns and we're a proud hunting state.
There's a lot of law abiding gun owners in Minnesota,
but there's got to be more we can do here.
I've long supported an assault weapon band. It won't help
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in every case, but it would have helped in Uvaldi,
it would have helped in Buffalo. We don't know if
it would have helped here, or background checks or some
kind of triggers when someone suddenly buys a number of guns,
or better backgrounds. This just we're not doing enough, and
these kids, no matter how many drills they have, they
shouldn't be expected to do that for us.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Isn't it amazing how the left will sit there and
use kids dying to then push for agenda items that
she even admits we don't know if it would have
helped here at all, but I'm going to push the
political agenda anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
This is where we are.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
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executive order and it opened the door in a way
that we've never seen before to alternative assets in four
oh one case. And what this means is is going
to have a huge impact when it comes to gold
and silver crypto as well. And this was something that
the President put out that he was very proud of.
(22:03):
He said, to quote, by the authority invested in me
as President, by the Constitution, in the Laws of the
United States of America. It is hereby ordered, he said,
Section one purpose. Many wealthy Americans and government workers who
participate in public pension plans can invest in or are
the beneficiaries of investments in a number of alternative assets. Yet,
(22:24):
while more than ninety million Americans participate in employer sponsor
defined contribution plans, the vast majority of these investors you
don't have the opportunity to participate either directly or through
their retirement plans. And then potential growth and diversification opportunities
associated with alternative asset investments. So what does this actually
(22:45):
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Speaker 1 (23:05):
Kurt.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
This was a big move by the President United States America.
There was a lot of people that didn't like this
because it allowed for these alternative investments which others have
been able to capitalize on, and he's saying he wants
to make sure that Americans can have that in their
four to one K.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
This is huge, it's absolutely massivevent and of course there's
going to be some institutions don't like it, the JP
Morgan's of the world, the Bank of Americas of the world,
who deal with these paper assets, right, stocks, bonds, mutual funds.
But what this does is Trump is doing something that's
so great for Americans, and he's kind of restoring financial freedom,
(23:43):
giving people the freedom of choice in their finances, right.
And so this executive order. I've been doing this for
a long time since the early two thousands, like decades,
and I this might be the biggest news ever. Why
because the four to one K markets over twelve trillion
dollars of assets that have already been invested. It's not
(24:04):
like people have to come up with the bonds. It's
already there. So what are they going to do when
when you're an investor like you or me, or any
of the listeners on this show is thinking, Wow, I've
been wanting to do cryptocurrency. I've been wanting to do
gold in silver, but all my assets are in my
four one K Hey, I couldn't do it right. So now,
(24:25):
in this executive order, in Part Section three, Part C,
within one hundred and eighty days of this order, this
is going to become effective. That's the first week in February.
So what's going to become effective? Well, let's read Section three.
Private market investments, including direct and indirect investments in equity, debt,
(24:48):
or other financial instruments not traded on public exchanges. That's
OTC markets over the counter like penny stocks.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Right.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
How about direct and indirect investments in real estate? Wow,
real estate? I can actually own commercial real estate investment
property in my forum. K yep. How about actively managed
investment vehicles in digital assets that's cryptocurrency. Part fourth, Directing
indirected investments in commodities. Well, gold and silver is a commodity,
(25:19):
what Trump is saying. And here's the cool thing. What's
an indirect investment in the commodity? That would be like
a gold or silver etf. It's already available, but direct
would be actual physical ownership. Is the way that I
read this. So what Trump just did is he said, Hey,
I want Americans to have a choice in their financial future.
(25:41):
This is amazing and we needed a strong president, a
strong leader to actually make this happen. So when you
look at this, what are the consequences and what are
the benefits. Well, the benefits are alternative assets because increased
demand should go through the roof, right, because it's like, wow,
we've got people that have captive assets where they had
(26:03):
very little choice, maybe ten to twenty mutual funds that
they could pick in their four to one k that
was it. Well, now they're going to be able to
do this and they're going to say, I don't have
any assets available except for the stuff of my four
one K. I am going to sell my current stocks, bonds,
mutual funds and reallocate, reposition myself into these alternative assets
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that I couldn't do before. So I think that's going
to put massive selling pressure on the stock market VND
and you're going to see prices come down. But as
as the flip side of that coin, you're going to
see alternative investments like gold, silver, cryptocurrency go up and
go up a lot because they already have limited supply.
(26:44):
When you have low supply and high demand, prices go
up and they're poised to go up a lot.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I mean, this is insiting.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
This.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Financial Times has an article right now about this, talking
about how this executive order not only opens ort to
a ton of assets and one k they said, here
are the key considerations that.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
You should be looking at.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Number one on their list is gold and silver, and
then they go into crypto as well, and they're saying
that this is going to allow the average American who
has been left behind to go direct and indirect investments
and commodities that will allow them to gain real wealth
over the long term. And they said this also allows
for the financing quote infrastructure that needed to be developed
(27:28):
for the little guy. That's how they described it, saying,
now it's a fair playing field. That's why the President
did this, and this is something that's going to happen.
By the way, in one hundred and eighty days, dating
it back to August the seventh, So there is time
to plan for this for Americans as well take advantage
of it.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
Well, absolutely, And this is where you can profit and
you can benefit from things when you're ahead of the game.
I would rather be six months early than one day late, right,
And so when Financial Times said it amazingly, well, it's
like this is for the little guy. Well wait a second,
I thought TOMP was only for the big guys and
only for corporate America. It's like, hmm, the actions so differently,
(28:10):
don't they. And so this is just so exciting that
we can finally participate in the alternative investments that big
hedge funds, that big international center, you know, monetary banks
globally like the Bank of America and the JP, Mortgan
Chase and the HSBC. I'll do these kinds of things already.
Now we can participate in that in our four to
(28:32):
one case. So if you have four one case.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Let me ask you a real life question on this.
So the other day, literally I bought one hundred ounces
a fine silver. It's it's just a brick. It's simple,
it's basic. It's what you guys actually do. Can I
now do that moving forward, but have it in my
four to one K? Explain that the application of this
in layman's terms.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
Yeah, so the answer is yes, So bowllyon, Like what
you're talking about, the one hundred ounce bars of silver,
the ten ounce bars of silver, the generic refinery rounds,
those have already been accessible in iras. You do that
an IRIS, if you have an IRA, you could already
do that, but it was never available in four o
one k's before until now, until this executive order.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
So I can basically say I want to buy this,
but I want it to be in part of my
portfolio of my four to one K that I'm going
to do every single year, right, because I do it
for the tax benefits, And I can set it up
now and just say I want part of this to
be in silver or gold.
Speaker 8 (29:32):
Yeah. So not exactly today, but in February when this
becomes effective. It's going to take a while for some
of these four to one K administrators to actually build
this into their systems, right, But what can we do
in the meantime, So come February, there's going to be
a ton of demand for metals which are already running
(29:53):
out you know LBMA just came out, which is the
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over the world. They basically run out of silver. They
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cover physical delivery COMAX, which is the depository for North America.
(30:15):
They're running so low. This this is wild then, so
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So it's like, how could you do that? What if
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or Lockheed Martin, and you say I need physical silver.
(30:38):
And they've been hedging themselves with forward contracts to basically
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electric vehicles, solar power, whatever, lcdtvs and they want physical delivery.
Well it's like, oh, they have these contracts out to
a tune of over three hundred paper contracts to one
(30:59):
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There's not enough physical silver? And Boeing, Lockheed, Martin, Sony, Samsung,
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(31:21):
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silver might be trading at forty dollars noun, so maybe
they say we're going to offer sixty or eighty or
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have a finished product.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Incredible. I want to make sure people can call and
reach out to you guys. This is what you do.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
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out k e PM dot com. Kurt always a pleasure.
Thanks for coming on. We'll talk to you again real
soon
We have to start with the tragic news.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
A Minnesota church school shooting has happened yet again, and
yet again, the suspect was a transgendered person.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
The suspect identified as.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
A female and changed the name at seventeen years old.
A senior administration official has now confirmed that the alleged
shooter at the Minneapolis Catholic school changed from a male
name to a female name at seventeen years of age
and now identified as a female. A document post on
(00:34):
social media, confirmed as authentic by the officials, said they
described the name change occurring in twenty twenty, when the
alleged shooter was a minor and required parental sign off
on the change. Fox News correspondent Brooke Taylor reported that
his mother signed off on the name change from Robert
to Robin. It has also been reported that police indicated
(00:57):
the alleged shooter used a pistol, a rifle and going
to carry out the attack on the school Wednesday morning.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
From outside the church.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
He shot through windows, striking children as they sat in
pews during mass. Two children were killed and seventeen other
individuals were wounded. We hope that those numbers do not change,
but they could by the time you hear this. The
shooter then took his own life. We also know that
this is a trend. You had a transgender identifying woman
(01:28):
that shot and killed six innocent children at a Nashville
Christian school back on March to twenty seventh of twenty
twenty three. She had originally planned to shoot up another school,
but didn't why she abandoned the plan to avoid looking racist,
and there was another school that had quote too much security.
(01:49):
Now there's more on this when it comes to transgender issue.
We're going to talk about this in a moment. But
there's a bigger part of the story that you need
to know about right now, and it is a part
of the star story that will not be covered by
the media. I want to take you back to two
years ago. Two years before the shooter opened fire on
(02:09):
the students attending daily mass in Minneapolis, the leaders of
independent Catholic schools in Minnesota begged the governor former VP
candidate Tim Waltz for help securing their schools. The funding
by Tim was never authorized. Where was funding going taxpayer
(02:32):
dollars to illegal immigrants? It was going to massive amounts
of government aid to illegal immigrants. In his community, but
protecting the kids, no, that was something he would not do.
Their letter asked Waltz for help to secure nonprofit, non
(02:53):
public and religious schools. It came one week after a
trans identifying shooter killed three children and three adults in
Nashville at the Covenant Christian School. So there was a
reason why they were asking for the money, they said,
after seeing that they knew they were vulnerable and they
(03:13):
needed help from the governor. Meanwhile, in April of twenty
twenty three, and again, I hope all this information I'm
giving you you will share wherever you can on social
media because the media is going to whitewash this and
act like none of this ever happened. In April of
twenty twenty three, the same month the letter was sent,
(03:34):
walt signed legislation establishing Minnesota as a quote trans refuge
quote unquote, promising to protect those seeking gender affirming care
that according to Outfront Minnesota and the news reports, we
now know that the shooter, Robin Slash Robert Westman, is
(03:55):
a trans identifying man. The reports now state who identified
as a woman and legally changed his name in Minnesota
with his mother's sign off, which brings us back to
the other basic point. Over and over again, we are
seeing trans individuals who have gone through some sort of transition,
(04:17):
who are being supported by their families, who still are
dealing with major mental health issues. And as long as
we keep acting like it is not a mental health issue,
this is going to continue to happen. It is absolutely
and utterly insane for us to sit here and advocate
(04:39):
and support people who believe that they are trapped in
another sex body than what they are, to normalize it.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
It is a mental health issue.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
And I'm not saying that in a mean, disparaging or
angry way. I genuinely feel sorry for anyone who believes
that they are trapped in another person's ba, another sex
or the wrong sex and what they are. But let
me also say this very clearly, there is a real
threat to all of our kids now because we have
(05:11):
at least part of the country has tried to normalize
mental health issues and acting like there is nothing wrong
when someone says they're trapped and the wrong sexual body,
the wrong sex. And the longer that we continue down
this road, the longer we act like this as normal,
when everyone knows that it is not normal, we are
(05:34):
going to continue to see these types of things happen.
I want you to think about the place you have
to be in to be this young and to want
to go kill innocent children, shooting them while they're at
mass I want you to think about how radical and
extreme you have to be in your head to then
kill yourself, to turn the gun on yourself. This is
(05:55):
a mental health issue, and the problem now is the
radical left is try to normalize it instead of giving
people the help that they need. Instead, they're saying no, no,
let's encourage and advocate and support an individual who's clearly
dealing with a major mental health issue.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And that is the problem.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
This is exactly why we must as a nation stand
up to this and say no, we are not going
to normalize it, and we're not going to act like
you're a bad person if you say what I'm saying
right now. We need to call it out because we
are not doing anybody any favors and we're not actually
helping people when we try to normalize a real mental
(06:41):
health condition. Finally, let me also say this, this is
why the President of the United States of America I'm proud
of for leading on protecting women's sports he is not
normalizing a dude acting like a chick in women's sports.
Women's sports should be for women. Men sports should be
for men. And if you want to start a messed
(07:03):
up trans league, I mean it when I say this,
knock yourself out, do it, but do not open up
sports to the opposite sex and act like that is fair.
The radical left, unfortunately, has lost their mind. They're not
defending women's sports. They are not doing what they need
to do to protect women, and the President is doing
(07:26):
it through legislation as well. And all of us should
be advocating and supporting women and protecting women, protecting them
in the locker rooms, protecting them in sports, protecting them
when it comes to scholarships, protecting it when it comes
to going to the Olympics. And this is another example
(07:46):
of the culture war we are in right now in
this country. There are sane people like you and I
that believe that this is insanity, and the media and
the radical left have been pushing this other narrative, this
totally insane narrative, for far too long, and all of us,
I believe, have an obligation and a duty to refuse
(08:10):
to accept this is some sort of great idea. Now
let me also say this, what I just told you
is not being talked about anywhere. I really want you
to take the podcast and I want you to share
it wherever you.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Can on social media.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Please share it because this is important that people know
the real story. Share it because they need to know
what Tim Waltz did not do to protect children even
after they were asked for protection. Putting illegal immigrants ahead
of children in school that need a protection and not
protect them, probably because they're in a religious institution. This
is something everyone needs to know, so makes you share
(08:49):
this wherever you can around the country. Take a quick break,
we'll come back. It's the Ben Ferguson Show, plus more
of your phone calls. There is one thing we are
getting from the Trump administration when it comes to the
shooting in Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
It is clarity.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
The FBI Director Caspittel saying the shooting is now being
investigated as a hate crime targeting Catholics. This is something
we did not get from the prior administration. The FBI
director used a post on x to make it clear
that the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting will be investigated as
(09:25):
a hate crime, specifically targeting Catholics. It was reported that
the alleged shooter changed his name from Robert to Robin
at seventeen years of age. Fox News correspondent Brooke Taylor
reported that his mother signed off on the suspected shooter's
name changed from Robert to Robin. Yet again, another transgendered
(09:46):
individual shooting up a school. Police indicated the alleged shooter
used a pistol, a rifle, and a shotgun to carry
out his attack on the church Wednesday morning. From inside
the church, he shot through windows, striking children as they
sat in the pews during mass. As you know at
this point when I am recording this, two children have
(10:07):
been killed. Seventeen other individuals have been wounded. Patel putting
it on x saying updates on the shooting in Minneapolis.
The FBI is investigating. The shooting is an active domestic
terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics. There are two fatalities,
an eight year old and a ten year old, in
addition to fourteen children and three adults that were injured.
(10:31):
He went on to say after that quote, the shooter
has been identified is Robin Westman, a male born as
Robert Westman. The FBI will continue to provide updates on
our ongoing investigation with the public as we are able.
Now even CNN is having to admit that this was
(10:52):
a radical Here is more of what they said about
the shooter.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Breaking news, admiration from ash, hatred of multiple groups, no
sympathy for any victim. It is just some of what
the shooter in today's Catholic school massacre which he murdered
two children, reveals and videos posted online. Videos that police
are scouring through right now for clues and answers about
the shooter, who has been identified as a twenty three
(11:19):
year old named Robin Westsman. Brian Todd has the latest
on what we know about the shooter.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
The coward that shot these victims took his own life
in the rear of the church. That coward has been
identified as twenty three year old Robin Westman.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Westman seems to have left a series of online videos
which describe an obsession with school shootings and even named
other mass shooters, such as the twenty twelve Sandy Hook gunman,
the Columbine gunman, and the man who attacked the Tree
of Life synagogue in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Here's my note to my family.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
The video also shows written statements and several guns painted
with slurs. In another clip, the speaker simply reads aloud
from a closed dryer, manual.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Dryer safety, Your safety and the safety of others are
very important.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Police say they also found a litany of writings.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
We're also aware of a manifesto that the shooter had
time to be released on YouTube. This manifesto appeared to
show him at the scene and included some disturbing writings.
That content has since been taken down with the assistance
of the FBI, and it now remains under active review
(12:34):
by our investigators.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Apparently part of the plan that the shooter seemed to
illustrate in those same videos on YouTube a photo of
a slab of wood. An actual slab of wood was
found at the scene, blocking a door from the outside.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
The exit.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
Pop it through the hands.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
According to social media posts, the shooter's mother worked at
the school from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty one, and
the sho shooter graduated from the school in twenty seventeen.
The shooter, now known as twenty three year old Robin Westman,
identified as a female and changed their name legally to
Robin from Robert in twenty twenty. The agency is investigating
(13:13):
this as an act of domestic terrorism and as a
hate crime targeting Catholics. Police Chief Brian O'Haras says officials
there have not yet established enough of a motive to
charge it or to investigate it yet as a hate crime.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Aaron, that is the part that's the most shocking. You
now have two very different narratives. You have clearly leadership
and cashpiteal in the Trump administration calling this what it is,
and then you have local liberal police who are saying, no,
we don't have enough to actually look.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
At this as a hate crime.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Yet.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
The question I would ask is when will you have enough?
As The Minneapolis police chief describing the attack on the
mass as quote evil, noting that the worship's service was
marking the first week of school for children that are
attending the Catholic school. He described the shooting as a
deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshiping,
(14:11):
but won't call it a hate crime yet. If you
want to know what's wrong in this country, this is
a perfect example of it. Democrats, even when evil is
steering them in the face, will refuse time and time
again to call it exactly that. If there's one thing
that is happening right now, it is that Democrats are
(14:32):
using this to push for gun control. Amy Klobuchar said,
I have long supported assault weapons ban, even before she
knows what guns were even used. Many others are also
saying the same thing. Former White House pressing or Tarry
Jensaki breaking down in tears on MSNBC, and then the
Minnesota mayor are saying, why is it that you can
(14:55):
buy a gun virtually every month? If you wanted to
again blaming the gun instead of the transgendered person who
they decided to say that their mental health issues were
normal and decided that, you know, we're never going to
help them with their mental health, We're just going to
try to normalize it. Former FBI profiler said the shooter's parents,
(15:19):
well they're ones to blame as well, saying you help
them change their name. At seventeen, that's probably when the
fuse was lit. Take a listen to a little bit
more of what the FBI profiler had to say about
the shooter on Ingram Show on Fox.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Scrawl across that manifesto, James, what can you tell us
you've seen the photos there are various photos.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Of him circulating on the internet.
Speaker 9 (15:45):
Yeah, and we're just a few weeks away from the
thirtieth anniversary of the publication of the Unibomber's manifesto in
the Washington Post, and now we have Back then, it
took a whole lot of protocols to go through to
get it in the newspaper, according including from the unibomber himself. Nowadays,
you do these things, You plan these mass murders, and
you put it on YouTube, you know, twenty minutes or
(16:05):
the day before while you're singing along to Annie, and
then you know, RM songs and other factors like that
to make it so disgusting. This person, obviously, he makes
Travis Bickle, the taxi driver character, look like a piker.
He is all over the place. I can't believe there
are not siblings. I think he had six siblings parents
(16:26):
who somehow did not see this, that there wasn't psychological
or behavioral leakage in one way or the other. I'm
not sure where he was living, with whom he was living,
but someone had to see this. And I think we
should look at laws in this country that perhaps if
you have a family connection, who does something like this
and you didn't report it. You can help them get guns,
you help them change their name. At seventeen, that's probably
(16:47):
when the fuse was lit for this guy to do
what he did. You know, five six years.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Later, now our Democrats worried about any of what was
just mentioned there. No, are they trying to stop the
next shooting before it happens. No, what they are trying
to do is use this opportunity to then say that
you cannot own a firearm. That is the entire conversation
and what it focused around on MSNBC virtually all day
(17:11):
and all night.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
Doctors and nurses, everyone that helped.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Yeah, I saw some of the stories coming out about
that heroism and just incredible courage under tremendously insane circumstances.
There is something so perverse about the fact that these
kids drill for this, and yet it seems that that
(17:35):
preparation maybe was useful in this moment.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Yes, so they knew to get under the pews, they
knew what to do. And my friend's daughter, who was
just you know, seventh eighth grader, she actually saw two
of her friends shot, one in the stomach, one in
the neck, and then when she got out, she had
to tell one of their parents what had happened to
their own kid. So these kids did extraordinary things, but
(18:01):
they never should have been put in that position in
the first place. This was a mad man. He was
an all purpose hater by the way, hated groups, left.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Right, you name it.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
There's no way to pin an ideology on this, and
I think people should remember this as the facts come
out about this manifesto. But what I learned from this
once again is that guns and we're a proud hunting state.
There's a lot of law abiding gun owners in Minnesota,
but there's got to be more we can do here.
I've long supported an assault weapon band. It won't help
(18:32):
in every case, but it would have helped in Uvaldi,
it would have helped in Buffalo. We don't know if
it would have helped here, or background checks or some
kind of triggers when someone suddenly buys a number of guns,
or better backgrounds. This just we're not doing enough, and
these kids, no matter how many drills they have, they
shouldn't be expected to do that for us.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Isn't it amazing how the left will sit there and
use kids dying to then push for agenda items that
she even admits we don't know if it would have
helped here at all, but I'm going to push the
political agenda anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
This is where we are.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
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want to get you some really important information. And this
actually happened quietly on August seventh. The President signed an
(21:43):
executive order and it opened the door in a way
that we've never seen before to alternative assets in four
oh one case. And what this means is is going
to have a huge impact when it comes to gold
and silver crypto as well. And this was something that
the President put out that he was very proud of.
(22:03):
He said, to quote, by the authority invested in me
as President, by the Constitution, in the Laws of the
United States of America. It is hereby ordered, he said,
Section one purpose. Many wealthy Americans and government workers who
participate in public pension plans can invest in or are
the beneficiaries of investments in a number of alternative assets. Yet,
(22:24):
while more than ninety million Americans participate in employer sponsor
defined contribution plans, the vast majority of these investors you
don't have the opportunity to participate either directly or through
their retirement plans. And then potential growth and diversification opportunities
associated with alternative asset investments. So what does this actually
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Speaker 1 (23:05):
Kurt.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
This was a big move by the President United States America.
There was a lot of people that didn't like this
because it allowed for these alternative investments which others have
been able to capitalize on, and he's saying he wants
to make sure that Americans can have that in their
four to one K.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
This is huge, it's absolutely massivevent and of course there's
going to be some institutions don't like it, the JP
Morgan's of the world, the Bank of Americas of the world,
who deal with these paper assets, right, stocks, bonds, mutual funds.
But what this does is Trump is doing something that's
so great for Americans, and he's kind of restoring financial freedom,
(23:43):
giving people the freedom of choice in their finances, right.
And so this executive order. I've been doing this for
a long time since the early two thousands, like decades,
and I this might be the biggest news ever. Why
because the four to one K markets over twelve trillion
dollars of assets that have already been invested. It's not
(24:04):
like people have to come up with the bonds. It's
already there. So what are they going to do when
when you're an investor like you or me, or any
of the listeners on this show is thinking, Wow, I've
been wanting to do cryptocurrency. I've been wanting to do
gold in silver, but all my assets are in my
four one K Hey, I couldn't do it right. So now,
(24:25):
in this executive order, in Part Section three, Part C,
within one hundred and eighty days of this order, this
is going to become effective. That's the first week in February.
So what's going to become effective? Well, let's read Section three.
Private market investments, including direct and indirect investments in equity, debt,
(24:48):
or other financial instruments not traded on public exchanges. That's
OTC markets over the counter like penny stocks.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Right.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
How about direct and indirect investments in real estate? Wow,
real estate? I can actually own commercial real estate investment
property in my forum. K yep. How about actively managed
investment vehicles in digital assets that's cryptocurrency. Part fourth, Directing
indirected investments in commodities. Well, gold and silver is a commodity,
(25:19):
what Trump is saying. And here's the cool thing. What's
an indirect investment in the commodity? That would be like
a gold or silver etf. It's already available, but direct
would be actual physical ownership. Is the way that I
read this. So what Trump just did is he said, Hey,
I want Americans to have a choice in their financial future.
(25:41):
This is amazing and we needed a strong president, a
strong leader to actually make this happen. So when you
look at this, what are the consequences and what are
the benefits. Well, the benefits are alternative assets because increased
demand should go through the roof, right, because it's like, wow,
we've got people that have captive assets where they had
(26:03):
very little choice, maybe ten to twenty mutual funds that
they could pick in their four to one k that
was it. Well, now they're going to be able to
do this and they're going to say, I don't have
any assets available except for the stuff of my four
one K. I am going to sell my current stocks, bonds,
mutual funds and reallocate, reposition myself into these alternative assets
(26:24):
that I couldn't do before. So I think that's going
to put massive selling pressure on the stock market VND
and you're going to see prices come down. But as
as the flip side of that coin, you're going to
see alternative investments like gold, silver, cryptocurrency go up and
go up a lot because they already have limited supply.
(26:44):
When you have low supply and high demand, prices go
up and they're poised to go up a lot.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I mean, this is insiting.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
This.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Financial Times has an article right now about this, talking
about how this executive order not only opens ort to
a ton of assets and one k they said, here
are the key considerations that.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
You should be looking at.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Number one on their list is gold and silver, and
then they go into crypto as well, and they're saying
that this is going to allow the average American who
has been left behind to go direct and indirect investments
and commodities that will allow them to gain real wealth
over the long term. And they said this also allows
for the financing quote infrastructure that needed to be developed
(27:28):
for the little guy. That's how they described it, saying,
now it's a fair playing field. That's why the President
did this, and this is something that's going to happen.
By the way, in one hundred and eighty days, dating
it back to August the seventh, So there is time
to plan for this for Americans as well take advantage
of it.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
Well, absolutely, And this is where you can profit and
you can benefit from things when you're ahead of the game.
I would rather be six months early than one day late, right,
And so when Financial Times said it amazingly, well, it's
like this is for the little guy. Well wait a second,
I thought TOMP was only for the big guys and
only for corporate America. It's like, hmm, the actions so differently,
(28:10):
don't they. And so this is just so exciting that
we can finally participate in the alternative investments that big
hedge funds, that big international center, you know, monetary banks
globally like the Bank of America and the JP, Mortgan
Chase and the HSBC. I'll do these kinds of things already.
Now we can participate in that in our four to
(28:32):
one case. So if you have four one case.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Let me ask you a real life question on this.
So the other day, literally I bought one hundred ounces
a fine silver. It's it's just a brick. It's simple,
it's basic. It's what you guys actually do. Can I
now do that moving forward, but have it in my
four to one K? Explain that the application of this
in layman's terms.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
Yeah, so the answer is yes, So bowllyon, Like what
you're talking about, the one hundred ounce bars of silver,
the ten ounce bars of silver, the generic refinery rounds,
those have already been accessible in iras. You do that
an IRIS, if you have an IRA, you could already
do that, but it was never available in four o
one k's before until now, until this executive order.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
So I can basically say I want to buy this,
but I want it to be in part of my
portfolio of my four to one K that I'm going
to do every single year, right, because I do it
for the tax benefits, And I can set it up
now and just say I want part of this to
be in silver or gold.
Speaker 8 (29:32):
Yeah. So not exactly today, but in February when this
becomes effective. It's going to take a while for some
of these four to one K administrators to actually build
this into their systems, right, But what can we do
in the meantime, So come February, there's going to be
a ton of demand for metals which are already running
(29:53):
out you know LBMA just came out, which is the
London Depository. It's where it's the depository that holds metals,
gold and silver for central banks and big institutions all
over the world. They basically run out of silver. They
just made announcements like, well we don't have enough to
cover physical delivery COMAX, which is the depository for North America.
(30:15):
They're running so low. This this is wild then, so
they have well over three hundred ounces of silver in
futures contracts paper for every one ounce of physical silver.
So it's like, how could you do that? What if
somebody says you're Samsung, you're Sony, you'r LGA, you're Boeing
or Lockheed Martin, and you say I need physical silver.
(30:38):
And they've been hedging themselves with forward contracts to basically
lock in their prices because we need it to build missiles, torpedoes,
electric vehicles, solar power, whatever, lcdtvs and they want physical delivery.
Well it's like, oh, they have these contracts out to
a tune of over three hundred paper contracts to one
(30:59):
physical silk that doesn't need quit. They're not going to
have enough supply, So we could be seeing a massive
short squeeze in front of us, and what does that mean?
There's not enough physical silver? And Boeing, Lockheed, Martin, Sony, Samsung,
all these companies are going to say, hmm, I don't
care what the price of silver is. If it's not available,
(31:21):
we can't have a finished product. So they're going to say, well, well,
silver might be trading at forty dollars noun, so maybe
they say we're going to offer sixty or eighty or
one hundred. They don't care what the price is. Why
because they're not going to pay for it. They pass
that onto the consumer, right but without silver, they don't
have a finished product.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Incredible. I want to make sure people can call and
reach out to you guys. This is what you do.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
It's literally where I got my I did my investment
around the other day and have this. It's on my desk.
I'm holy right now, one hundred ounces of fine silver.
I also bought a little more than that, so I
have a ten ounce and a couple of the single
ounces as well. If you want to see what they do,
Kurt Elliott does an amazing job and his team go
online to k E p M dot com.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
That's k e p M dot com. Call them.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
They can walk you through all of this, but this
is significant for you. Take advantage of it. Check them
out k e PM dot com. Kurt always a pleasure.
Thanks for coming on. We'll talk to you again real
soon
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Ben Ferguson
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