#523 Silver's Surge, Trust's Collapse

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ourselves and for futuregenerations.
A new world order.
Good evening, folks.
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I'm William Cooper.

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For all of you, out there are one of the highlights.

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A dramatically detailed account was given by
the great storyteller Livy.
Over three hundred years later.
We may not really know whathappened.
This is about let me see if mymic's still picking up.
Sorry about that, folks.
I was uh I was wanting to uhtell a little bit of a story,

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and my book skipped around.
Let's see.
This is a story about thesacking of Rome in 387 BC, and
it has a lot to do with ourmodern times.
And uh there's a phrase that Iwanted to communicate to all of
you that I think will as far asakin to weighed in the balance

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and found wanting.
I always uh found that to be uhapropos to the leaders in
history who don't reallyunderstand history, but this is
about the synomes, the an armythat occupied Rome, the first
real conquering of Rome in 387BC, says having occupied the
city, the leader of the Sonomes,Brynus, demanded a gold ransom

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weighing 1,000 pounds, thataccording to Livy was more than
what was held in the temples,and the senators had to call in
the city's matrons to surrendertheir jewelry.
As the payment was measured out,Brinnus became irritated and
weighed down the scales with hissword, declaiming woe to the
vanquished.
The woe he imposed was notphysical suffering, the

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destruction of buildings orenslavement, nor was it an
impoverishment.
It was the surrender of theentire store of a useless
substance that embodiedtranscendental value.
The foundation that physicallyconnected social order with the
gods had been stripped away.
The echo of Brynus's humiliatingboast, ve victus, which is woe

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to the vanquished, would resoundthrough Roman consciousness.
They considered abandoning theircity but decided to rebuild it,
but with added paranoia.
This is the Arterburn RadioTransmission.
It is December 4th, 2025.
I'm broadcasting live fromdowntown Denison, Texas, along

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with my co-pilot and co-hostBeans the Brave.
It's been a year to the day thatI went on to Tenfoil Hat in
Hollywood.
And that was the day thatBitcoin broke 100,000.
We were just off the heels of asecond Trump victory, a second

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term.
Crypto was uh flying high.
Gold and silver were being soldoff.
They were in the red, they werefalling from where they were in
October of that year, and itlooked like we were in for some
sort of economic boon, andeverything happy days were here
again.
The markets were soaring.
Fast forward a year later, andthe dollar has lost 88% of its

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purchasing power against silver.
Gold, uh, almost this is thesame boat.
Uh, the dollar's lost over 50%of its purchasing power against
gold.
Bitcoin slipped back under100,000, and we continue to go a
trillion dollars into debt every90 days, and the rate is

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accelerating.
So a lot of the predictions andthings that were sentiment a
year ago didn't hold up.
That's what reminded me.
I was reading last night, I wasdoing my my daily study and
trying to unplug from theheadlines, and I came across
that story about the Romansabout woe to the vanquished, and

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uh, of course, the conquerortipped the the scales with his
sword because he there wasn'tenough gold to pay him, and he
was tired of waiting for it, sohe tipped it himself.
I think that um that is asnapshot of human history uh
about uh who controls the gold,the golden rule, he who has the

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gold makes the rules, and we'restarting to see an accounting,
and this is a big picture ideathat I want to go over, but I I
just got done talking to thegreat David Knight, who was on
the David Knight show, which Ido a lot of uh I try to do every
Thursday, and we've missed acouple of Thursdays, and of

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course, with the uh Thanksgivingholiday.
But I was talking to him aboutthat, and I think the black swan
event, if you will, of thethreat, or at least the
insinuation that we were goingto uh put tariffs on gold and
silver back at the beginning ofthe year set off a cascading

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series, a domino effect ofrepricing.
And that's commodities at uhreally across the board, but in
the monetary metals especially,and we're gonna talk a little
bit about that today because yousee the prices that silver
jumped almost ten dollars anounce in the past 10 days, and

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it's back down to around$57 anounce, but getting close to and
may have in some futures marketsbroke$60 an ounce, and that
happened uh just over theholiday weekend.
So a lot of stuff happeningthere, and it's about the
outflows, it's about theuncertainty and the repricing of

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everything across the board.
Central banks uh have bought 53tons of gold in October.
Uh, it's another uh record forthe books in this last uh couple
of months as we wind out 2025.
Um, and physical demandcontinues to grow with

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institutions.
And I I found this article, andwe're gonna cover a lot, as much
as I can cover today.
I want to talk about the uhthere's a a new recruitment
video out for PsyOps uh out ofFort Bragg, and I thought that
was uh an interesting topic tocover because all of this is all
of this really the headlines,the news, and I was talking to

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Melissa yesterday about the theheadlines and all the uh news
aggregation on Drudge, and it'slike you're living inside of a
real dystopia.
Like it's it's not even um youknow, used to I'd cover the news
and almost like a um in a realinterest, you know, in a in a
way that I was interested in.
And now I'm just thinking, whatwhat is it that they want me to

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think?
Because I'm not gleaning anyinformation from this, it's
really uh an upside down, andtrying to keep your mind
straight is harder than ever.
And don't forget, you go back tothe Biden administration, and
they had the executive branchhad to put out a memo asking all
other parts of the executivebranch to to report back on what

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PSYOPs they were running becauseno one could tell what was a
PSYOP and what wasn't.
And I think that's pretty muchall of us now, ladies and
gentlemen, is living living inuh in this in this dystopic uh
landscape of not knowing what isup or down.
I'll try to make sense of it foryou.
You won't find any of that uhhere on this program.

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It's just uh the uh you mightfind the chaos of my brain, uh,
but you're never gonna find apsyop.
I'm I won't be party to that.
All right.
Let's uh let's see if I can putthis up on.
I'm on my laptop today.
I'm broadcasting from my loft indowntown Denison, Texas.
Uh I it's a funny story.

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I had I had a new studio set up,everything was looking good down
at the the bank, and uh my blackcat pumpkin.
Uh she was on my desk uh acouple of days ago, and my son's
German shepherd Beth came in,wanted to uh say hi to the cat,
and the cat knocked over mymicrophone and broke the mic

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stand for my roadcaster.
So I'm broadcasting from my ummy travel setup, which is I
think sufficient.
Sometimes I can't like when wecame into the show, I couldn't
quite hear myself.
So I was wondering if we got anyaudio feed.
And oh well, not everything's aperfect uh cold opening, but uh
maybe next week I'll get itright.
All right, let's put this up onthe screen.

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This was an interesting article,uh, in the same line of you
know, what's going on with theprice of silver, which is
fascinating to me.
And it's it's not coming in theform of which I thought it was
going to appear uh over theyears as I've done my study and
analysis.
It's almost backwards, and I'llget into that.

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This is KitCo.
Physical is king.
India's silver demand collideswith 25 years supply gap.
And this is um again over onKitco, Kitco News, silver's
record-breaking run is beingdriven less by hedge funds and

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more by a wave of physicaldemand that mining industry
cannot meet.
A longtime U.S.
silver mining executive said inan interview with Kitco News.
Quote, the physical market isdriving the financial market in
a way that hasn't been done inmy career, said Phil Baker,
describing what he heard at theLondon Bullion Market Exchange

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Association recently.
He says, It was interesting.
I was at the LBMA annualmeeting, and the the quote of
the meeting was, Physical isking.
We're in a different place thanwe were in the last 20 years, he
said.
Baker, the former chiefexecutive Helka Mining and now
advisor in the sector, said thestress he observed among bullion

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professionals was unlikeanything he'd seen before.
I was really struck at the LBMAat the stress that was felt by
the market participants withsilver, and it was stress that I
had not seen before.
It's really clear to me thatthese guys are not going to
allow their inventory levels tofall to the same levels they

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were before.
He says the driver is India.
And and I said this on the DavidKnight show today.
India has always been a culturethat buys physical gold.
This is something they do forgenerational wealth, pass things
on, gifts.
I buy a lot of uh gold jewelryfrom Indian families and when

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they need to raise some fiatcurrency.
But I was reminding David thatthe uh root uh word of for
rupee, the Indian currency isrupiah, which is silver.

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So for me, the thing that reallydrives silver is what's
happening in India, he said.
That is the driver, the literaldriver.
He noted that India, now theworld's fifth largest economy,
has seen silver imports soar.
In October, India importedaround 60 million ounces of
silver compared with about 15million ounces of silver the

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year earlier.
Despite the fact that silver isan all-time high in rupee terms,
the demand has been, asdescribed at the Perth mint,
insatiable.
Why is this important?
This is something that I'vetalked about for a long time.

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This is 45 years in the making,ladies and gentlemen.
The papering over of silver, andwhen you have trust, when you
have markets love certainty,when you have a a monicum of
trust, when you have um the ideathat you could place a trade,

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that you can hold somethingthrough a counterparty with this
uh counterparty risk, and thateverything will be fine, and you
could expect delivery if needbe, but if not, you will play
the market.
Those days are coming to an end,and that had a lot to do with
the opening event of 2025 withthe tariffs, the threat of the

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tariffs or the unknown of thetariffs.
A lot of the silver was movedout of vaults all over the
world, repurposed, put into uhthe contracts were called, uh,
some of them were liquidated,and we found ourselves in a
supply deficit.
And it's been in a supplydeficit for many years, as you
know, they mentioned they'veimported 60 million ounces.

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Well, the supply deficit aroundthe world was over 200 million
ounces for the last few years.
So that means they had to takefrom the above-ground supply,
and that set fine for a littlewhile.
They were able to paper over it.
Now all bets are off, and thisis only the beginning.
I need to stress this to you.

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I do not believe we're at thetop of some silver market.
I think that there is we're thisis price discovery, not only for
gold, but for silver.
And silver is again 88% gainover the dollar in the last 12
months is unprecedented forwhat's happening right now in

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the metals markets, and placeslike India certainly are driving
it.
Baker said the destination ofthe flow metal out of London has
been unmistakable.
If you look at where the silverwent from London, it went to
Mumbai.
In some cases, he added, thephysical scramble was so intense

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that silver was moved by airfrom Asia.
To be clear, the silver can comefrom anywhere.
And in fact, to resolve things,you saw more silver come out of
China.
It will move anywhere, he said.
But the fact that it was movingby plane was really shocking.
It shows you the amount ofstress that they were under.

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And this happened in a series ofevents with Russia making silver
a strategic reserve asset, uh,China uh hoarding silver, same
for this its weapons technology,it's solar, anything that has to
do with the technologicalrevolution, even AI, all

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hoarding physical silver.
Don't forget that themilitary-industrial complex, uh,
the fuel of that is is physicalsilver bullion.
There's 500 ounces of silver.
There's a monster box of silverin each tomahawk missile.
And you don't get that silverback after you blow it up.

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CME delivery notices forDecember showed about eight
eight thousand eight hundredcontracts, roughly 44 million
ounces standing for deliverywith a growing share to
commercial users.
Baker said his message to thoseusers for the past 18 months has
been blunt.
Don't be short silver, he said.
They're finally putting thesilver in place so that they're

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not short.
Industrial demand has alreadyreshaped the market.
Out of a billion ounces ofdemand for silver, 55% or so is
for industrial, he said, citinguses from photoanalytics to
electronics.
They're going to try thrifting,but they can't thrift fast
enough.

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And so the only alternative theyhave is to be long silver.
This is exactly where so many ofthe smart people that I've
interviewed over the years havebeen on silver.
The the uh Peter Kraut, the uhgreat silver bull, you know, his

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book, and I've interviewed him.
This is uh a long time in themaking.
It had to first expose theweakness in what is held in the
paper markets, and then when youcouple that with the loss of
trust, the decline in trustacross the board, not only with

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trade, but just trust in theinstitutions by themselves, then
you find where we are today.
And I don't believe that we arein some sort of bull market.
This is not investment advice.
This is literally, I think thisis more, this is more of a
philosophical uh line of logicthat I'm on right now.

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It's not it's not about being atthe top of the market or where
investments are or anythingelse.
I think that the culling ofphysical silver, and especially
out of the hands of the West.
If you look at like my business,I have two different shops in
two different states, right?
I have Missouri, I have Texas,we have our uh our toll-free

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numbers, you can deal with mefrom all over the country.
People are selling silver leftand right.
And I'm this is my a full-timejob now for me, just keeping up
with uh covering the invoices.
And I will say that the buyers,uh, aside from those that are
with me in Wolfpack for our uhmonthly membership that are

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dollar cost averaging, asidefrom that, the purchases have
gone way down, the sellingcontinues to go way up, but that
silver, and again, the price andthe demand continues to go up,
which means that it's flowingoutwards.
And it's going to places likeIndia, but it's going to
institutions, folks.

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I can't stress this enough.
This is happening with gold,silver, and Bitcoin.
It's taking it out of the handsof uh the lower economic strata,
the mid economic strata.
Upper economic strata before youget to the super elite and
multinational bankingconsortiums and conglomerates.

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And that is being repurposed andsent out.
So this didn't come in the formwhen I originally started
looking down the road and tryingto predict what would happen.
I knew that we would have asqueeze, but I thought that it
would first come fromindividuals.

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And I was mistaken.
It came from institutions first.
I thought that they would lagbehind the individuals.
So we're not even at the pointwhere people in this country
start to go, hey, wait a minute.
I need some physical silver.
Those those orders have not beenplaced yet.

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And I think we will see that,but not right now.
And it's going to be a lot ofselling for a time.
And it can the prices andscarcity will continue to rise,
and the price will, I believe,continue to rise.
And there will may be somesell-offs, but over a long
enough period of time, we'regoing to see some really
dramatic moves in silver.

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This is um fascinating to watch.
A five-year deficit and a longwait for mine supply.
And this is something I've beentalking about too.
There haven't been because ofsilver being suppressed for so
long, there wasn't a lot of uhcapital investment into mining

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silver alone.
A lot of the silver that you seehitting the markets comes from
gold mining, copper mining,nickel mining.
And it's uh it's something thatthey just ancillary.
You have it outside of what isalready your main goal, which is
these other metals.
And so the deficits continue toaccrue.

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This deficit year should be 100to 200 million ounces, and
that's on top of deficits thathave exceeded that for the last
four years.
Independent data suggests asimilar pattern.
The world silver survey showsthat global silver market
running consecutive deficits inrecent years as demand has
outpaced mine production andrecycling.

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Baker said the constraint is notore in the ground, but time and
permitting.
Yeah, that's how long it takesto go and create a new silver
mine, all of the constraints andthe permitting and everything
else, the logistics around thatto even pull it out of the
ground.
So we're way, well, I mean,we're years out from satiating

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the current demand, which Ithink is only getting started.
He believes the industry isalready past peak silver.
Peak silver was 2016 at 900million ounces, he said, adding
that we're going to always bebelow this 900 million ounce of
silver from the mines, at leastfor the next decade.

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At the same time, the biggestoperations are not big enough to
close the gap.
Last year, the top five silvermines globally produced between
41 million and 17 million ounceseach, leaving even the fifth
largest mine at only about 2% ofworld output.

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Well, I think so we're finallyin the cycle of history that
I've been talking about for manyyears, even going back to when
when if you've been followingthe show for the you know the
last 500 episodes, uh back whensilver was$15 an ounce, and I

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was saying, hey, there's asupply deficit, and uh the
dollar is losing purchasingpower.
Yeah, it just sounded like youknow, this is just noise in the
background because you had thepaper markets.
And I go back to uh February of2021, and they had this big push
by the Wall Street Bets peoplethat were saying, you know, buy

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physical silver.
The people went out and boughtphysical silver, they cleaned
out most of the shops, and thenext day the price of silver
went down because the powersthat be at the time uh sold off
1.5 times the annual supply inone day in paper.
So they were able to do that aslate as 2021, but you have to

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remember what happened in 2022,this global shift, Russia
invades Ukraine, the UnitedStates puts even more stringent
uh uh uh the um uh tariffs anduh um all of the uh penalties

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against Russia and uh all of therest of that and the sanctions
that placed uh the ruble in freefall for about 90 days.
And then the uh finance ministerfor Russia came out and said
that uh dollars are candywrappers, we're not gonna use
those anymore.
They started doing direct dealswith Russia or with uh with
China, with India, uh tradinggold bullion for oil and all the

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rest.
The ruble bounced back, and thedollar started to de-dollarize
all around the world.
It went from 53% of global usageto around 43%.
I don't know where it is now,but it dropped uh almost 10% in
global usage.
And uh you look at the metricslike the Euro uh once being the

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second held most reserve assetfor central banks being
supplanted by gold.
This isn't these things flowtogether.
This is in conjunction withthat.
And so silver getting put on thethe books by Russia as a
strategic reserve asset.
All that is putting pressure onthe price right now of metals,

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and of course, you add in theuncertainty.
This is interesting times,ladies and gentlemen.
So last uh 2021 was the lasttime I think they could paper
over any of that.
All right.
I do want to I do want to go tothe comments too.

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We're over on YouTube.
Oh, Kenny F and Powers.
It's good to see you guys.
I see.
Is Billy in the chat?
We have BRV in the chat.
I I always like seeing theYouTube chat.
I can't believe we still have aYouTube channel right now.
So yeah, go and go and subscribeto uh to at Tony Arterburn.
Uh Harp says good day, Tony, andall the fiat dollar is dead and

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hail silver.
Yeah, Kenny F and Powers says,uh, hey Tony, and being the
brave.
Imagine how I won't use theword, but how crappy things are
going to be when gold breaks 5kand silver is at 100.
Yeah, this doesn't uh the theprice reflection in metals right

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now uh isn't exactly uh a uhsign of confidence or health in
the economy, uh, but it is arevaluation.
Yeah, I think that that's uhthat's right.
It's it's Billy in the chat.
Guerrilla Underground 1984.

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Yeah, it's good to see you,Billy.
All right, if you guys got anyquestions or anything you want
to uh send my way, I need tocheck the rumble chat as well.
Let's see.
Uh okay, Brandon Bennett in thechat and uh Steve's.

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I hope I'm saying that right.
And of course, uh harp's alwayson the rumble chat, too.
This is I agree that the pricediscovery.
I wish I knew about metals whenI graduated from high school in
1981.
I didn't, and family and friendsdidn't.
Well, you're not taught this inschool, so don't beat yourself
up.

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This is uh it's a subculturethat's taking uh I think a lot
of the historical happenings,and uh it just happens to flow
into uh the wheelhouse ofsomebody like me now.
Yeah, as silver prices rise, areyou thinking of changing the$35

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and$50 price structure?
Well, that oh, you're talkingabout Wolfpack.
That's a great question.
Well, not not right now, becausewe can still get um we can still
get fractional silver, we canstill get gold backs.
As a matter of fact, I washaving that conversation with uh
Yeka yesterday about uh whatwe're putting in the cubs at 35,

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what we were putting in the lonewolves.
And we used to be able to put anounce of silver in the lone
wolves, and uh now I can'tanymore.
And uh we're we're at halfounces, and that may change, uh,
but still dollar cost averaging.
We're not gonna change the priceof the 35 or 50.
You're just gonna get differentitems.

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And uh if I can, if I can evendo it anymore, I'll try to put
silver dollars in the loanwheels, but I don't think uh I
don't know that I can.
I'd have to be able to buy a lotof them in bulk uh for under
melt and uh it to make it workeven with the shipping.
So it's uh it's a lot to juggleright now.

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A lot of my brain power has justbeen tied up in how to move
product, which uh is a full-timejob.
All right.
Uh let's see, let's jump arounda little bit.
I had a couple of differentarticles pulled up.
Uh see what I had on Zero Hedge.

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Yeah, this was an interesting.
This is I we're gonna stay alittle bit in medals uh for the
time being, and then I want tomove to the parapolitical.
We'll talk a little bit aboutthis uh new video that's out for
the psychological operations.
I thought that was that wassomething interesting to watch.

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And I I didn't even I maybe alittle bit of anti-war headlines
uh with this debacle andeverything that's going on
around uh surrounding the uhboat strikes and Venezuela and
everything else, which has thepotential to turn into something
uh I I I think uh scandalous, ifyou will.

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Um something maybe even uh akinuh to what was happening with uh
Ollie North uh in the Reagan erawith around Contra.
All right, let's uh let's putthis up on the screen.

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One second.
Always fun, always fun being onmy laptop.
So you can thank Pumpkin uh forfor that.
We have we're on laptop becauseof pumpkin, but I won't give her
up.
I I love my black cat.
All right, let's uh this isinteresting.
It's something I was talkingwith David Knight about today

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when it comes to Bitcoin, andthis is uh Zero Hedge.
Why Tether is buying more goldthan many central banks and what
it signals?
And this is from Cointelegraph.
Tether purchased 26 tons of goldin Q3 of 2025, a larger
quarterly acquisition than anyreporting central bank.

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Its total holdings reached 116tons, placing it among the
world's top 30 gold holders.
Stablecoin issuers, sovereignwealth funds, corporations, and
tech firms are increasinglyactive in gold markets.
This trend makes a structuralshift in global demand once
dominated by central banks.

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Now, what have I talked aboutfor a long time?
And that is the state the stablecoin system is the new fusion of
the CBDC system, and that's howif you go back and you look at
how the United States quietlylet the petrol dollar die.

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So we went off the gold standardin 71.
Henry Kissinger, Nixon, and thelike uh decided that they needed
to have some sort of stabilizingeffect for the dollar.
So by 1974, we had a deal withthe Saudis and OPEC to
denominate all oil purchases,all petroleum purchases in

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dollars.
And that's what backed thedollar.
Um, really, I mean, other thanbeing the world's reserve
currency, it was thatdenominated uh usage in dollars
for petro that stabilized thedollar after that free fall, the
Nixon shock of 71.
And we had that up until quietlyin 2024, around June, that

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agreement lapsed.
And there wasn't a summit, andthere wasn't a meeting, and
there wasn't any strategy.
They just literally let thepetrol dollar lapse.
And I remember talking aboutthis, wondering, what is the
play here?
Well, the play, it appears, isthe dollar, like I've always

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said, the dollar's not going tozero, the dollar's going to
digital.
And this is where you get intothe um legitimizing of stable
coins, and this is a way forthem to not only repurpose the
dollar for global off-ramps, butto restructure it.

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Um, restructure it, revalue it,and the stablecoin issuers, like
it says in this article, arebuying up assets.
Central banks added 220 tons ofgold in Q3 2025, up 28% from Q2.
Countries such as Kazakhstan,Brazil, Turkey, and Guatemala

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made notable additions despiterecord prices.
While central banks buy gold fornational monetary policy,
Tether's purchases come fromprofits and support
diversification, resilience, andcollateralization for USDT.
The global financial system iswitnessing a period when

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non-state entities are competingwith central banks to buy gold
reserves.
Tether, the issuer of TetherUSDT, the largest stable coin in
the world, is now one of thelargest buyers of gold.
In a single quarter, the companypurchased more gold than most
central banks did in the sameperiod.

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During the third quarter of2025, Tether added 26 metric
tons of gold to its holdings,according to analysis at
Jeffries.
This made Tether the singlelargest gold buyer that quarter,
larger than the combinedpurchases of all reporting
central banks.
By the end of September 2025,Tether's total gold reported

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holdings stood at about 116tons.
It ranked alongside countries ofthe IMF official gold reserves
lists.
This would place Tether amongthe top 30 holders.
Well, this is only just thebeginning, folks.
And don't think that it's justgold alone.

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They are stabilizing through thedigital system.
There's going to be look, youhave the old system, which is
the Federal Reserve, the uhdollar-denominated system, the
world reserve currency as thedollar.
You have the cash system.
Remember, we just got rid of thepenny.
That's only the beginning.

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The digitized system is thebones of that are being put into
place.
This is uh this is a historicmove, what you're watching.
It's the privatization, apublic-private partnership of
currency itself.

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Also, as I mentioned on theDavid Knight show, in
conjunction with this, folks, isthe play with stable coins and
Bitcoin.
And a lot, I think Bitcoin rightnow, as I mentioned earlier, a
year ago today, it right beforeI went on tinfoil hat and

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announced that we would takeBitcoin at no fee.
So for purchases, uh, Bitcoinhit 100,000.
And that was historic.
I didn't think that a year fromuh that day that I would be
talking about uh Bitcoin hitting127,000 in October and then down

(37:33):
to 83 or whatever it went to,and now it's about 91.
Uh, I think that there'ssomething here alongside this
story about Tether purchasinggold looking a lot like a
central bank itself.
If you look at the big playersand what's going on with

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Bitcoin, remember Bitcoin is astore of value and uh finite,
digitized, could be evenconsidered digital gold, if you
will.
It's a store of value, notnecessarily a currency.
So when you take that intoconsideration, all these uh
stable coins growing strongerand stronger, they need
off-ramps because they arestable.

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A lot of need off-ramps intostores of value.
I think not only the goldholdings will go up, but the
large players are continuing toaccumulate bitcoin.
It's really the same storyuniversally across the board,
folks.

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If you look at what's happeningwith gold and silver, and I'm
watching this at just at a microlevel, I know the macro, but if
you're looking at the microlevel, just a small uh regional
operation of precious metals,like I have, the metals are

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flowing out of the hands ofpeople, and they're flowing to
institutions.
Same thing with Bitcoin.
We're watching uh this is amonetary revolution.
You're witnessing it in realtime.
It's an interesting, interestingtime to be alive, folks.
It's like uh David Knight alwaystells me it's the Chinese curse.
May you live in interestingtimes.

(39:20):
We're certainly watching that.
All right, uh, let's see.
I I had uh see if I can cover Ihave so many articles I want to
get to.
I'm like wondering if I'm gonnaget to it with time.
All right, let's do um a littlebit of uh geopolitics.
I pulled this up.
I want to talk a little bitabout what's going on uh with

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Venezuela just for a little bitof the parapolitical, and then
we'll we'll end the uh show withthe PSYOP article.
Put this on the screen.
This is antiwar.com.

(40:05):
Senators reintroduced a bill toblock Trump from launching war
with Venezuela.
A bipartisan war powersresolution to block Trump from
attacking Venezuela was alsointroduced in the House.
This is from Dave de Camp.
A bipartisan group of senatorshas reintroduced a war powers

(40:26):
resolution aimed at blockingPresident Trump from launching a
war with Venezuela withoutcongressional authorization.
The bill was introduced bySenators Tim Kane, Rand Paul,
and Adam Schiff.
Also sponsored the previousresolution, and this time they
were joined by Senate MinorityLeader Chuck Schumer.
According to a press releasefrom Kane's office, the new war

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powers resolution is privilegedand may be called upon a vote on
the Senate floor within 10 days.
First bill failed last month ina vote of 49 to 51, with just
two Republicans, Paul and LisaMurkowski, supporting it.
Kane has said he expects thelegislation to receive more

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support now that the U.S.
has deployed more militaryassets near Venezuela.
And due to the controversy ofthe September 2nd bombing of an
alleged drug boat off the coastof Venezuela that involved a
second strike to kill survivors.
We should not be risking thelives of our nation's service

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members to engage in militaryaction within Venezuela without
a robust debate in Congress.
This is why the framers gave thepower to declare war to
Congress, not the president.
Well, you know, thanks, uhSenator Kane.

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But I'll take what I can get ifwe're actually going to bring up
who declares war and what theframers intended, and uh the
despite the fact that we renamedthe Defense Department back to
the war department, I guess,which is fine if you actually
want to call it what it is.
Um, but if you look at thisstrike in Venezuela, and then

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you actually just pull back alittle farther to a 10,000-foot
view, and then you gotta ask,well, what is this even about
anyway, other than if you lookat uh strategic planning, as
I've mentioned with theWolfowitz memorandum of 1992, in
the periphery of that washemispheric uh energy

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domination.
And uh Venezuela has the, Ibelieve, if my research is
correct, uh the largest uh knowndeposits of petroleum on the
planet, uh, outside of I thinkuh global output from the Middle
East is about 24 percent.
So it's a major uh holder ofenergy, a reserve of energy in

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our hemisphere.
And Venezuela's long since beenon the chopping block for
intelligence and overthrow, andyou had uh Juan Guaido and all
that stuff that happened overthe past uh uh five years.
But now we're talking aboutkinetic war, folks.
Uh Senator Randpaul said thatthe American people do not want

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to be dragged into endless warswith Venezuela without public
debate or vote.
We ought to defend what theConstitution demands,
deliberation before war.
Well, he's right about that.
And then again, what what are wedeliberating?
Can anybody really tell me?
Um I uh we really need SmetleyButler uh right now to explain

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all of this.
You know, he's like I didn't gouh to to fight to bring you know
democracy to South America.
I I went on behalf of the UnitedFruit Company.
That's what uh the the mosthighly decorated Marine Corps
general in history said whowrote war as a racket.
So really nothing new under thesun here, folks, but you know,

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this is it's interesting that weare gonna bring up that we need
to do to debate war.
And then again, what is thedebate about?
A war powers resolution to blockan attack on Venezuela has also
been introduced in the House uhby Rep Jim McGovern, a Democrat,

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Joaquin Castro, and Rep ThomasMassey in Kentucky co-sponsoring
the bill.
The Constitution does not permitthe executive branch to
unilaterally commit an act ofwar against a sovereign nation
that hasn't attacked the UnitedStates, Massey said in a
statement.
Congress has the sole power todeclare war against Venezuela.

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Congress must decide suchmatters according to our
constitution.
Well, he's 100% right.
I'm not sure any of this willmake a difference.
I think the headlines of theboat strike and going back to

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eliminate the survivors, uh, Ithink this is going to be a
bigger story, especially withum, and it may not be tomorrow,
but you look at 2026, you lookat the uh health of the economy.
You know, it's always the theeconomy stupid, you know, they

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go back to 1992.
Um, but the economy, I think,will have a major effect on on
the midterms.
The midterms will again, I thinka lot of this will be brought
back up.
Um, we might just see that forthe last two years or so of this
administration.
What went on in the last 12months will probably be dragged

(45:56):
out, dissected.
Uh, there will be lots ofinvestigations, and this will uh
not end well.
So just something to think abouton the parapolitical front.
We definitely are in a kineticwar all over the globe.

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It doesn't look like anyprevious wars, and uh so much of
that, as we'll get to here in asecond, is about the
psychological warfare, the mindwar that's going on around the
world, and not just from again,not it's not even just from our
our own uh defenseestablishment.

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This is everywhere.
So you you are smack dab in themiddle of the great reset of a
massive psychological operationand have been for uh many years.
The fact that we're all holdingup as well as we're doing um
that's pretty remarkable.
Uh, you throw AI into that, andyou got yourself a real dystopic

(47:08):
uh reality to live in, folks.
All right.
Yeah, I won't be able to coverevery single article, so let's
go to let's go to natural news.
And as I know Billy's listening,Billy Ray Valentine, and uh he

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will be proud to say we were oneof the first people to talk
about the ghost in the machineuh video.
I hosted the David Night show.
I had to maybe I replay thatsometime.
Uh Billy and I talked about therelease of the 2022 video of the
ghost in the machine, um, withthe PsyOps department out of

(47:53):
Fort Bragg, and they're back atit again.
They've got a a new recruitmentvideo.
I'll see if I can play thevideo, but I want to pull up the
article.
I had to go to a different linkto to actually get the article
up.
Alright, let me put this up on.

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Yeah, it's interesting wheneveryou're doing a show like this
and you try to find the actualarticle that they had, you know,
to that they're referencing, andthen you just search and search,
and it's harder and harder tofind.
U.S.
Army Secreted PsychologicalWarfare Unit released cryptic
recruiting video.
We are everywhere.

(48:40):
The fourth psychologicaloperations group, Airborne,
released a cryptic meme ladenvideo filled with subliminal
messaging, World War IIpropaganda references, and eerie
visuals departing fromtraditional patriotic military
ads.
The video emphasizes words areweapons and showcases Psyop's

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role in influencing perceptions,manipulating emotions, and
shaping behavior throughpropaganda, deception, and viral
messaging, targeting bothenemies and domestic audiences.
The video includes Easter eggslike the World War II Ghost Army
insignia, Pepe the Frog, andrapid flashing phrases appealing

(49:25):
to conspiracy-minded audiencesand leveraging internet culture
for viral engagement.
The Army seeks cerebral andanalytical recruits skilled in
research, psychology, andmultimedia deception, training
forty-one weeks of intensiveinstruction and cultural
dynamics, propaganda, andpsychological manipulation.

(49:50):
Unlike traditional PSYOPtargeting foreign adversaries,
this video appears tailored forAmerican audiences, signaling an
escalation in domesticinformation warfare amid rising
distrust in institutions andmainstream narratives.
The tagline, we are everywhere,reinforces the message that

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psychological operations arealready active within society.
Well, I was at Fort Bragg formany years, and uh I remember I
was I went to Reno in 2001,right after 9-11, uh, to
compete.
Right before I went toAfghanistan, I competed in the

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um world uh deadlift and benchpress championships.
And I was I was 21.
I was flying back and I sat nextto the on the plane.
I sat next to the former uh headof psychological operations at
Fort Bragg.
It was a two-star general, majorgeneral.

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Had an interesting, he gave mehis coin.
We had an interestingconversation, but yeah, I'm I'm
very familiar with uh with thisgroup.
I think I've done some uh thespecial warfare unit out there
at uh Fort Bragg.
I did some some jumps with themwhen I was uh a military
policeman.

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I tried to get my jumps in overwith Swick, the because they
always had the better planes.
Or they could they could jump aBlackhawk or a Casa, and I
wouldn't have to do a C-130.
So I always enjoyed that.
Unlike traditional militaryrecruitment ads, filled with
explosions, patriotic music, andheroic imagery, this video leans

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into psychological intrigue.
It opens with a burning 1980sCRT television flickering to
life with a ghostly 1930scartoon, followed by scenes of
soldiers blending into crowds,leaflets raining from the sky,
and distorted radio broadcast.

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Quote, there is another forceapplied in combat that we
generally don't think of as aweapon of war, a gravely voice
narrates.
That weapon is words.
Words are weapons.
This is psychological warfare.
The video concludes with apulsing QR code linking the
Army's Psyop recruitment pageand the ominous tagline join

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PSYOP.
Viewers quickly dissected thevideo uncovering Easter eggs
that nod to conspiracy theories,historical deception tactics,
and internet memes.
Among the most notable, a briefflash of World War II Ghost Army
insignia, a unit that usedinflatable tanks and sound

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effects to deceive Nazi forces.
Pepe the Frog in a Clown suit, asymbol uh controversially
adopted by fringe onlinemovements.
The phrase, anything we touch isa weapon, appears and vanishes
in milliseconds.
Social media reactions rangefrom fascination to unease.
Watch it over and over again.

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Great little nuggets ofinformation for us, commented
Nidia Law on Facebook.
A lot of crumb drops in thisone, wrote the Jason on
Instagram.
Yeah, it is interesting, folks.
We we're no longer in the youknow, the remember the

(53:28):
recruitment video that uhthere's this great movie,
Generation Kill, and it's one ofthe best, I think one of the
most accurate, you know, modernuh global war on terror movies
that I've ever seen.
And it's a series that was outon HBO.
And the joke and the the uh someof the scenes, these were you

(53:49):
know, this was a real account ofMarines.
I say, what what you know whatcommercial got you?
And it was the you know, theMarine that was has that slays
the dragon that has the thesword, you know, and that was uh
you know, we used to have be allyou can be.
You remember that in the 1980s?
You had so many greatrecruitment ads, and then I

(54:10):
think in the early 2000s theyreally started to slip and did
the the army of one and all thatstuff.
It wasn't as um powerful as someof the the stuff from the the
80s and 90s were peak patrioticuh warrior-based recruiting.
And uh this again it it it goesover the boundaries of we have

(54:36):
enemies and we're protecting thethe so-called um, which I hate
that term, homeland.
Uh, but that's what they'rethey're saying.
Like this is for everything, andthe wink and the nod to internet
culture, and this has becomemore and more apparent, and

(54:56):
something that we cover onAmerica Unplugged and things
I've talked with uh extensivelywith Billy Ray Valentine the
co-opting of and the capturingof internet culture by the
powers that be is so staggeringand so apparent now.

(55:19):
I mean, can you see it?
Can you see like every bit ofalternative media for the most
part has been captured byintelligence, by psychological
warfare units, and not just uhdomestically, but this is around
the world.
So finding the truth is my myfriend uh Robert Gore, you said

(55:44):
the uh he's got a great websitecalled Straight Line Logic.
I need to get him back on theshow, but I read one of his
articles uh back in 2019, italways stuck with me.
Uh, he wrote it for LouRockwell, and it was um it was
saying that the holy grail forthe establishment is to make the

(56:05):
truth irrelevant.
Now, that's not really possiblein the long term, but to scatter
uh and to fractionalize so manyof us who are trying to get a
good bead, especially in the therealm of if you are if you are
awake, you realize that none ofthis is organic, but where does

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it all stem from?
What are you actually watching?
How many psyops are running inthe background, like like your
phone, you know, like with allthe apps that are running?
So we have our headlines, wehave our perceived reality, and
then you have all these otherthings that are running at the
same time, and it could come onpurpose from influencers, or it

(56:50):
could come uh unwittingly frompeople, it could come from all
those things.
So, this is one of those I thinkpivotal moments where if you're
plugged in, then more than everyou have to think for yourself.
And it's not about what I think,it's uh not about what other
commentators think, it's aboutreally thinking for yourself,

(57:13):
which is um uh the what HenryFord said uh thinking is the
hardest job of all.
That's why so few people do it.
So uh that's my message fortoday, this this December 4th,
2025, uh, as we uh try to makesense of this week here on the
Arterburn Radio Transmission.

(57:34):
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(58:21):
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(59:26):
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(59:49):
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Take care of each other.
End of transmission.

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