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Pennies, New NAFTA and Conspiracy Corner, Ep. 309

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In this episode of the Capitalist Investor, the crew dives into several engaging topics, ranging from light-hearted discussions about cruise vacations and weather, to deeper insights involving finance and cryptocurrency. Here are the five hot topics covered:

  1. Cruises and Weather Woes: The episode kicks off with a casual chat about recent cruises and the weather in Cleveland. Luke shares his experience of being exhausted after a long cruise, while the crew discusses the effects of seasonal depression. The conversation also touches on travel plans and preferences for warmer climates, highlighting the allure and challenges of different vacation spots.
  2. The Cost of Pennies: The hosts dive into a fiscal debate about the practicality and cost of producing pennies. They discuss how it costs three cents to manufacture a one-cent coin, questioning the efficiency of continuing this practice in a largely cashless society. The dialogue turns towards the implications of potentially eliminating pennies and rounding transactions, as well as the broader move towards digital currency.
  3. U.S. Trade Relations and Canadian Negotiations: The episode explores the U.S.'s trade relations with Canada, spurred by comments from Kevin O'Leary and discussions about former President Trump’s negotiations. Tony and Luke delve into the history and current state of trade agreements like NAFTA, discussing their impact on jobs, the economy, and self-reliance in the United States.
  4. Cryptocurrency Insights with Dogecoin and Elon Musk: The team transitions to discuss the influence of Elon Musk and the ongoing fascination with Dogecoin. They touch on Musk's ventures and his approach to both innovating and disrupting traditional financial systems. The conversation alludes to the potential for manipulation in markets and questions the transparency of financial transactions, with Musk at the frontier of these developments.
  5. Conspiracy Theories and Government Transparency: The episode wraps up with a spirited discussion on various conspiracy theories, particularly revolving around government transparency in matters like the JFK assassination, UFOs, and even the moon landing. The hosts express skepticism about official narratives and ponder the implications of declassified information, drawing connections to broader themes of secrecy and control.

Overall, this episode of the Capitalist Investor offers a mix of lighthearted travel anecdotes and thought-provoking analyses of economic and political issues, making it both an entertaining and informative listen.

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the Capitalist Investor. As always, you have me, Diamond Hands D. We got the whole crew. Tony the Tiger, Cool Hand Luke. What's going on, boys? What's up? What's up, man? Living a dream. It's a. It's a fantastic day here in Cleveland, Grace. Guys, nice chill in the air. I think. I think I have seasonal depression, guys. Yeah, it happens. It happens. Give it about two more months and. And then you'll be fine. Yeah, but then I got somewhere bought on. But you just went on a cruise, man, right? Yeah, but it was exhausting. More than anything. I was ready to come home, like, after seven days. Twelve days is way too long. Yeah. You were there 12. Yeah. Way too long. That's a lot of time. Yeah. That's a long cruise. Yeah. Yeah. Disney in March to look forward to, but that seems like a long ways away. Yeah. Doing Disney in September, October. Oh, nice. No cruise, but we're just going down and. Yeah. Hanging out with the mouses down there. Oh, yeah. Like, why do you. Like, why did our families choose Cleveland, Ohio? Like, that makes you wonder every once in a while. It's like, why did our families choose Ohio from southeast Ohio? Why didn't they just move? You know, someone in our generational line, you'd think like, was like, oh, maybe we should go to warmer, nicer weather. This is your opportunity for the. It's gonna happen for the people behind you, for sure. You're. You're, you're next. I'm gonna be the disruptor, that's for sure. Disruptor. I like that. Oh, boy. Yeah. All right. What are you thinking? What am I thinking? I'm thinking Florida. I'm thinking Arizona. Yeah. There's no hurricanes out there. Some like Paradise Valley. It's really hot. It is. Okay. I could go to flag. Have you been. Have you been in Florida in August? Yeah. You will straight melt, man. Oh, yeah, I've been. I've been. I. I can handle the heat. It's the humidity that'll really. In my. I don't care. The dry heat's fine. It's the humidity. Like, you like hot. Yeah. Yeah. I did golf in 110 degrees. And I'm like, oh, you can't even. Well, maybe if we stop printing pennies, we can actually all afford. Talk about. Let's get into our topic. Look at that transition. I like that. So, yeah, let's just get right into it. We're going to hit pennies today. We're going to hit you Know, United States, Canada, Mexico, that little feud. And then like I said, man, Doge, we're, we're talking about it every week because it's fascinating to me. Yep. Stuff that big interview yesterday. Yeah. And then maybe we'll, maybe we'll slide in a conspiracy theory. You got to. Today. Yeah. You got to. Yeah. I know you're really excited about that. So I became excited yesterday. So, yeah, we'll talk about it. All right. I thought it was going to be another, another nothing burger, but I think there's, there might be. There's something here. All right. I can't wait to hear about it. All right. Pennies, though. So apparently it costs three cents to make one penny. Correct. So why are we printing pennies? Why have we waited for this long, say, for Trump to say, hey, we should probably stop printing pennies because it's cost inefficient. It's not efficient to get them circulating around the US So my thoughts on this is we live in a world now where no one even transacts. It's almost like it feels like it's illegal to pay with paper or coins. I don't know who does. I have not carried a coin in so long, and I'm actually feel bad for the people have to dig it out of the cash register. Well, I'm not rich enough. I'm not rich enough even close to it to even do this, but I do do it. Whenever someone, I pay someone four bucks or whatever, let's say a monster energy drink before I come to work and it's 375, I always say just keep the quarter. Like here, keep, keep, keep, keep the physical change, like, not the dollar change, but like the actual coins. Yeah. Because it's not like I hate it in my wallet walking around at the end of the day, I'm not going to go and try to gather up $5 worth of pennies and nickels and quarters to go pay for something. So, like, no one really, I think most people have that mentality that I have, and no one's really rich enough to do that. So I transact in cash very, very rarely because it's just inconvenient, you know, but with all the service charges and stuff that comes along with using the digital. But I don't, I don't care, care, I don't think, because I just don't have the coin and I don't want to be carrying around change. Yeah. But it's crazy. I think I saw something where we print, like physically print like 50 billion pennies a year. And think about, think about like what that, what the monetary value of that is then it's five. That means it's. So if you, we move the, the decimal point over a few right? What is that 500 million. Then that's the number, that's the amount. But then it costs us one point, $1.5 billion to make something that's worth 500 million. My thinking, yeah. So we're losing a billion dollars. That's our money. Our like everyone that's listening, everyone that's talking here, even Isaac over here, our engineer. That's your money, bro. So where the, the, it's just waste. I will say I almost got a fist fight like in Cedar Point. I like that about you. There was like a 75 year old lady. I even like it working the, the right. And I, I, I, I, I didn't, I didn't make her life hell because she, it wasn't her fault. The Cedar Point policy. I started fuming and my wife goes Luke, just, just give her the money or give your pay with your card. She they Cedar Point doesn't accept cash for parking. Like I had like 40 bucks in cash, I was going to pay her to go park and she's like we don't accept cash. I didn't say anything but I started like Anna, my wife started seeing me just get frustrated. I almost want to say like this is legal tender by the United States government. Like this should be able to transact. So my point is with this it seems like we're going to a cashless society anyway. So whether it's pennies or physical dollars, you know, at the end of the day paper is not expensive to make. Like we can print $100 bills, $50 bills,$25 bills and that's be fine. But it feels like we're going this cashless society anyway. And frankly I'm okay we don't go towards the cbdc. But the problem is we go cashless. Completely cashless. It's much easier for cbdc. Government control of the currency manipulating, privacy issues. It's very easy for them to come in and do all that stuff. So you know, I mean I think it's like rocket mortgage, field house, you know, whatever they call it now where the Cavs play. I went to a monsters game like cashless environment. You cannot, you cannot pay in cash. It's just not going to happen. I always ask, do you accept Bitcoin? When they say they don't take cash, that's what I always ask. But I, I, you know, and a couple of weeks ago, I went to an event, and I think I was telling you guys this before the podcast, but I was listening to Tony Robbins, you know, talk and about everything. And, and we. He went, he brought up like his. One of his other rich buddies was like, hey, man, if you're going to invest in something, what would it be? And the guy said, the United States nickel. And he goes, the nickels. He's like, I wish I could buy as many nickels as possibly human possible. Right? He goes, why? And he goes, well, a nickel is worth 5 cents, but if I were to melt it down, it would be worth 8 cents. So that's a 60% appreciation. The only, you know, the only headwind on that is. I believe it's a federal crime. But, I mean, he is like, dude, I will buy a billion dollars worth of nickels, and I would have $1.6 billion overnight. I don't know. So we should do the $100 bills. Would be nice, you know, just to let them on fire. And the government does. Anyway, I think, I think Mark was on Maria and she brought it up. Mark's like, why don't they just round to the nearest, like, $0.05 now, you know, But Maria's like, hey, like, well, that, you know, like, that's like, that's inflationary and that's like going to, you know, people aren't going to round down. They're probably going to round up. Right? And so there's. That's what Canada does. But we all know how Canada is. Yeah. I almost got detained in Canada, too. I told the border patrol crossing that why. They asked me why I was leaving, and I said, there's a bunch of commies over there. Jokingly, she did not. She did not think it was funny. They brought the dogs over and stuffed. Around because don't go to, like, don't go to, like, China or, Or like Russia and say some stupid like that. I can't travel, guys. You will not come. You will not come home. Free speech, baby. They will gladly. They will gladly punch you across the Canada border. They're gonna retain you. But anyway, all right, speaking of Canada, so what, Derek, what'd you say? Like, Kevin O'Leary was on Fox. Yeah. Another smooth transition, by the way. But, but, yeah, so I was just, you know, listening to a clip, and Kevin O'Leary is Canadian, so he, he's always in the middle of the Trump and negotiations, and Trump is like triple down on trying to make Canada the 51st state and first of all, it's entertaining, like everyone needs to lighten up a little bit. But I don't think he means it. And that was what Kevin O'Leary was saying. You know, he's basically trying to renegotiate NAFTA, at least the top half of NAFTA. Right. So Canada has lots of resources up there and they have basically the cheapest energy that you can produce. And if the United States is going to get into the data mining game, we need more energy to support those massive systems. So he was basically saying, I don't think the 51st state thing is going to happen, but I think Trump is going through an open negotiation saying, you know, if we're, we're subsidizing you guys, you know, we need to, we need to get something back. And he was kind of hinting that that was, you know, what, what Trump was after was, you know, creating a stronger partnership, but also getting some, some resources back to the US Specifically energy. Yeah, I mean, that's, that's his goal. Right. You know, and that's why he's trying to make the Netherland by the Netherlands or. No, no, it's Greenland. Greenland. Right. But like, you know, NAFTA went, NAFTA turned into like what they call the USMCA, you know, United States, Mexico, Canada. Right. In 2020. So everything was kind of re. Configured. But the pros of, you know, NAFTA and even the new agreement or newer agreement was free trade, cheaper goods. But the cons that come with that is it in the United States, it created cheaper goods, which weakens unions, it weakens industrials, the industrial base here. And it makes our produce cheaper until there's tariffs on it and you know, but as we get cheaper items from other places, we stop doing it here and it's wrecking our infrastructure, our, our self reliance on, you know, on just produce, you know, like strawberries, bananas, apples, things like that, oranges. But it, and that's why, you know, you know, Donald Trump wants to come in and make us energy reliant because we have the resources here, get them right. And, but that's the, that's the whole crux of what I believe he's trying to do is just get something that's fair so that we are not as reliant and also, you know, I guess eroding our jobs here in the United States. I'm pretty sure, like, I mean, not to sound like the arrogant America, but like we made Canada in the first place. Like we made most of these countries first of all, like, China, even we made China what it is today by adding them to the WTO in 2000. And the next thing you know, we thought we'd make them more Western. And we didn't. Like the Louisiana Purchase back in the day. Like, went in through half of Canada. Like, half of Canada was like, part of the Louisiana Purchase. So basically at one point we were like, hey, we actually don't need this territory, like, at the end of the day. So here you. Here you guys go. Canada. The other part, like, where the French and basically lived. We gave them basically that territory for, like, I can't remember exactly in history what happened, whether they paid for it or not, but a large part of Louisiana Purchase was Canada. So if you go back throughout history, I think it's important to look for the future. We made Canada. They're a good ally of ours. I think we've allowed them to grow too long and become too, almost like socialistic, communistic in a way that they have to become more Western. Like, they are Western, don't get me wrong. Like, they are, like, similar to America. But I think these free trade kind of ideas are going to be able to move Canada back in the right direction. Because Trudeau even wouldn't talk to J.D. vance, like, yesterday. I think of the conference. There's like a tech conference out in Paris. Like, Trudeau wouldn't even talk to JD Vance. JD Vance had a lot of good points about AI and technology being how to be a leader and also not like, infringing on our rights and stuff like that. And Trudeau talked to all these other leaders, but not J.D. vance, essentially. So it just. I, you know, I'm interested to see what happens when Trudeau gets out of there. That's what Kevin O'Leary said in that clip as well. Basically, we have no one to talk to right now, so we, we got to wait that one out. We have no one to talk to. Yeah. But I'm pretty sure like 96 of the Canadian population lives within, like, something ridiculous, like five miles of the. The border of the U.S. something like that. Yep. So I thought. It's funny. My. This is like my, my. As soon as you said Louisiana Purchase, like, Luke, have you ever had the. The luxury of playing Oregon Trail? That was on a computer, Right? I think I maybe played when I was 4 years old or something. Yeah. I mean, that's where my, my mind went straight there. It's like, man, that was like the. That's what everyone's trying to get into the computer labs. I remember when on the old map, Oregon Trail. Core memory there. Yeah, right. I've no, there's a good document I want, I do actually suggest everyone listening to this, including you guys. Obviously you're not listening, you're talking. But to watch the new. It's not new. It's a documentary on America. It's like how America was made on Amazon Prime. It's free. It was made back in 2010 so. Oh those are great. Those used to be on the History Channel. Oh God. Probably there's like 12 episodes that talks about essentially day one before actually talks about the pilgrims all the way up to essentially like communistic Soviet Union and how the transition of America. I, I think it's important to put yourself in the shoes of Americans or pre Americans, like how the people were living, how their mindset was. I think it really is important for you to understand why we're at where we're at currently, how America was made, but also the philosophy of America. I think it's really interesting. It's interesting like because like I, the, the chunk of those programs I saw were like more of like the industrial era of like the 20s, you know, like the, the, you know the 10, you know 1910 to what, maybe 20 to like 1930 roughly, you know, maybe even through the World War and man. What like just the Carnegie's, the Vanderbilts, the all how they blew up. God, what did it. What, what's the oil one that they blew up and then it just. Standard Oil. Yes. And then it's spider webbed into Chevron and BP and you know, Exxon and all that. Like it's forward, you know, how we revolutionized, you know, the assembly line. Well it's like growing up you're taught these figures are almost like non human right. Growing up. But then you actually start to watch you swatch something like that and you kind of put them yourself in their shoes and you start to realize how human they were, what must have been going through their minds, why they did certain things. And it's just very interesting how that all works and how human nature, we all are the same in many ways. You know, just different types of leadership positions, different resources, how you can manipulate different things and cycles of life. Like how their life was so much different than ours and how we complain every single day when we really have nothing to complain about. 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But there's another part that makes me believe this. But they're saying today, just today that the treasury goes out and lends money from big corporate banks at 5, 5 and a half percent and they go and buy our treasuries for 4 and a half percent. And there's this 1% arbitrage that we're paying for to artificially prop up our debt. Right? And we're paying for that arbitrage somehow, some way. And then, but, but so like, all right, man, like, good luck because then here, and here's the transition that makes me lean a little bit more, man. That could be true. Because back when Ben Bernanke was, you know, part of the, you know, the Fed chair, right? And that was 2006 to 2014, he was interviewed and said, hey, we gave you, you know, you took $500 billion, which is probably worth 750 today in today's dollars, maybe even a trillion, who knows, like based on inflation and where we're at. But anyway, 500 billion, where did it go? And he goes, I don't know. I gave it to the guys overseas. He's like, how do you not know? He goes, well, I don't have any, essentially what he said. Paraphrasing. He's like, I don't have any oversight. And so I just do what I want is essentially what he said. Yep. And that's where I'm like, man, that was said years and years and years ago. Now look at this Covid era where all of these things were happening and we're sending $2 million to Syria for sex changes. And you know, Maria was condoms. That didn't really go for like, everything's like Maria was bringing it up today, like she was hot on mornings with Maria. But here's my thing, man. And this, I'll end with this and you guys can take it from here. There. Thank God. So I was, I had to look this up. I'm like, somebody better watch Elon. Because when you start messing with people's money and you start unearthing stuff and we're in shutting off funnels of wherever this money goes because no one really knows, when you start messing with people's money, they're going to react and it's probably not pleasant. And I'm like, man, does. Does Elon have, you know, like Secret service? And the answer is no. But he does spend like two and a half to $3 million of his own money on 20 bodyguards that watch him on a 24 hour basis. Smart, obviously, you know, just running. I would too if I was worth two, three. Yeah, yeah. But now then, you know, like, and then there's that whole thing like everyone's beating up on Elon, say he's not an elected official. Why are you giving them access to our Social Security numbers? I'm like, yours mind everyone's Social Security numbers on the black web if you want it. If somebody wanted my Social Security number, they, they'd have it. Yep. Don't act like you. That doesn't exist. Right. But then I started like looking at like he's unelected official and they, you know, the uproars like, well, look at Fauci. He wasn't an elected official. He's side by side with, with Biden and stuff during the COVID era and things like that. His detail, his social, his secret surface detailed was eliminated. Not that like a couple weeks ago they were spending $15 million to protect that dude. He looks like he needs protection, right? I mean he looks like a little. Yeah, he looks like. He looks like he knocked over by the wind. But anyway. But I mean that is crazy. I'm like, I feel like there's, I'm. There could be some weird stuff happening in the near future on, you know, attempts on life. Because if you think, if you get too close to the sources, man, I would think it would get. I mean even Scott Besson almost could try to get murdered. Someone tried to murder Scott Besson? Even the treasury secretary. Oh, no one really talked about it, but someone pulled a gun to Sarah. He didn't get close. That's why they don't talked about it. But someone tried to murder Scott Besson. So yeah, you get these positions you're risking your life. And Elon Musk has the most, most to gain and lose if this doesn't go well. When it comes to the Doge department, who do you think pays probably the most taxes out of any individual person? When it either comes to his individual taxes or the taxes his corporations pay that he owns, It's Elon Musk. Yeah. So he's paying the most probably tax revenue out of any single person. Out of the end. Maybe not entity, but every single person. Of course he wants to make this more efficient. That's his tax dollars. Right. Not just ours. It's his tax dollars going to work. Right. But even like Joe. Joe Rogan on his podcast made a comment. He goes, you know why he's, you know why Elon's doing this? It's not to get our Social Security numbers. He goes, a guy that's worth $400 billion doesn't need art. He doesn't need your Social Security number, dude. But Joe Rogan says, like, dude, you, you guys hiding behind three letter agencies, effed with the wrong guy. Yeah, you, you are. You messed with the wrong psychopath. He said you messed with the wrong person on the spectrum. No, he said psychopath on the wrong psychopath. And he goes. And then he also went and brought in his other psychopath geniuses who are all like 19 and 20 years old. Dude. I mean, can you imagine be like the smartest man in the world, like assembling his team of like, that's why they're going through this. Well, one thing you didn't talk about is he started calling out like Pelosi, I think Warren Schumer. And then what's The Republican, Mitch McConnell. He called them out for having like 100 to 200 million dollar net worth. Yeah. On the government's policy. Yeah. Or government salary for 40 years, whatever it be. Right. Like, obviously there's a. We talked about this before, but I'm glad they're opening that can of worms. Like, whether you're a Democrat, Republican, you are not protected if you committed millions of dollars of fraud in regards to either collecting money you shouldn't have or either taking advantage of your power. Like insider trading stuff. Like, you should be held accountable. I feel like I need to do like an audit. Not an audit, but like a research project on Pelosi's husband. Because they're like, I was started reading like, what, like what their balance sheet, their net worth statement looks like. And they have like a winery and houses and a hotel. And like, and then he got he was able to get on the IPO of Visa and that thing, you know, if he didn't sell, which I'm sure maybe they did, and who knows? But it's up 3,000% ever since it IPO'd. That's a lot of money. Like, holy. I'm just saying I work too damn hard. Yeah. To make what I make. And at the end of the day, like, if I, if I was in a place of power and you're telling me I would not go to jail to do something like. Of course, like, they're, they've been scooting around too long now, like, to take advantage of the system. Like, they, they have made some illegal choices and they should definitely be held accountable. The USA deep dive is pretty fun. You could take. If you know one thing. If you know one thing is all fraud. It's all fraud that they're gonna prove. It is gonna happen. I mean, if you're telling me if. Let's say you saved up over 40 years,$1 million, whatever it be. You're telling me you can go in there and take advantage of one trade and 10x your money in one day. Like, these politicians have probably done stuff like that. It's ridiculous. I mean, they're in like, he's in the early stages. He's just like the low hanging fruit stuff. Because they're not talking like the US aid thing, like that was like a 40 billion dollar, like entity that we had that no one else knew about. When he starts getting into the treasury and the Defense Department and Social Security, like, if you take a look at our budget, the United States budget, like Social Security is the top. And it's like $1.2 trillion. And what we're, we're given Social Security checks to people that are 130. 130 years old. Was that Medicare? Social Security? Yeah, dude. Like, where's that money going? So my question is like that one. Episode of Desperate Housewives where the husband died and she threw him in the freezer and so that she can continue. So, so she can continue to like, you know, retain his pension because they didn't check off the, the joint Survivor Mark and I used to play that at presentations and stuff. Okay, I got you. I don't know why. Especially like the Warrens, the world that are screaming, Pocahontas screaming that, you know, the billionaires are in control. The oligarchs. We talked about that before. But like, I want to hit on it again real quick. Like, what if you don't understand money don't talk about money because, like, these billionaires don't. They're not greedy anymore. Like, when you have more money to do within it, like, I'm not even talking about worth 1 or 2 billion. Maybe you're greedy if you're worth one because you want a bigger yacht. But if you're Elon musk size for $400 billion and you could take all your money and run off the sunset and buy whatever you wanted to the biggest, best. Whatever you wanted to in life. Greenland, you could buy. You could buy countries if you wanted to at that point. Right? Like, he's bigger than. He's bigger than the GDP of other countries. Yeah. So, like, he's not. He's not green. I don't know why people are saying these billionaires agree. They want more money. Like, that's the last thing they care about. They need purpose. And Elon Musk's purpose right now is building companies. Because he likes to build companies, and he wants to actually see America. That he's got, like, 20 kids, right? He's got, like. He has, like, 20 kids with 12 kids with probably 10 different. Like, he's always procreating. I think he wants 20 or 30 by the right. Like, he has a theory, though, like, we need to procreate. Obviously, he has a weakness. Or he generally is concerned about the future of America and we need good minds, right? So, you know, I think he cares more about the future ahead for his kids. It's kind of like Benjamin Franklin, they always said, you know, like, one of the. You know, he's a American icon, right? But he was kind of that, like, Elon, kind of off the spectrum kind of guy, right? You know, I think he had 10 kids and. But, you know, like. But they just operate on this different level of. That you and I will never understand. No, like, just a focus. A level of focus, I think. You guys ever watch Adams, the. Hbo. It's a must watch. What about the Founding Fathers? I watch that. I love that stuff. History stuff. Absolutely amazing. All right. Conspiracy theorists here. All right. Yeah. So they dropped the declassification task force yesterday. So they're. What they call it the declassification task force. All right, got it. So Representative Luna, she made. Had a little press conference yesterday and basically said, you know, she. The committee is in charge of declassifying JFK, RFK, Dr. Martin Luther King, UFOs, UAPs, and basically everything else. And while she was talking, you want to talk about conspiracy theories? She basically said. Not basically. She said that she believes that after reviewing some of the information that there were two shooters for the JFK assassination. She said that out loud at a press conference. Yeah. Maybe she got a quick peek. So there's no. That what they said, like, what did they always say? Like, Oswald. They said that the shot from that building on a moving target as far as away and the technology at that time is like one in a million shot or something. Like something ridiculous. Right? Two shooters. Oh, they always said the grassy knoll and behind the fences. And all I'm saying is if it's coming from the government, even under Trump, I still don't believe it. So, I mean, they could declutter. Who knew? Who knows what they're declassifying if it's actually the real files? Like, you know, all that stuff 75. Years ago, you don't think the real file got replaced with a new file? Like, it's over, dude. It's over. Well, nothing's going to come to aliens. Like, the only reason they're telling us about aliens is because they're probably prepping us for like, Project Bluebeam if you want to get conspiracy. So, like, they're, you know, give us a reason to rely on the government more to, you know, run our drones that look like either God or religious figures or whether it's aliens, like, it's prepping us for, you know, more control. So I find Area 51 very fascinating because you can't even get near it. If you're trying to take a picture in the middle of the desert, they come and find you and say, get out of here. That's true. Remember when they were planning on storming Area 51 a couple years back? When was that? 2020. I do believe aliens are more likely to be religious figures, religious entities, than they are aliens. What? Well, explain. What I know is that, are we. Gonna pass on that, you know, all. Interdimensional stuff, you know, all these sightings, all the, all of it, you know, most of it has been, has been put on the American people. It's, you know, whether they're testing drones, whether they're seeing how people are going to react. A lot of the things that we know about, you know, aliens, UFOs, is probably 100% BS. So that's why, you know, and what you guys just said, yeah, everyone's very skeptical of the government, you know, telling us, quote unquote, you know, that we're not alone. And all this, all these other things, it's, it's going to be a long process on the, on the UFO side. For sure. But I was a huge. Well, I am a huge, like, I want to know what's out there guy. But as I sit here today, like, I know, like, all of the stuff I watched on TV was probably just manufactured bs, you know, so it will be interesting to see what we know, what we don't know. The moon landing. The moon landing is a huge one, but that's. That's been recent. Like, and when I say recent, what, maybe four last four or five years, that they're like, hey, that shit's fake. Like, they haven't really. They didn't talk about it 10 years ago. They just assumed. I watched a documentary on Apollo 13. Pretty interesting stuff. So I don't think the real conspiracy is on, you know, did we go to the moon or did we not? Eventually we went there. I think it's what. What we found when we were there. I think that is. I think that is what is being hidden. So do you think we've been there before or aliens have been there or something's been there before? I think that they saw stuff interesting. Yeah. Whether it was, you know, ancient stuff, but I think they saw physical structures on the dark side of the moon. No, I think right where they went. Oh, really? And I, you know, I think, you know, that's like the. The low end. The high end was whoever was there watching the. The humans that landed. So just kind of observing from a distance. So again, the. Behind the. Who's running the stuff behind the curtain? Because obviously, like, does every president just get to, hey, we're going to open up every president. Have nothing to do. Yeah, this is something privatized. So they can keep it crazy. Keep it. Keep it hidden. Hidden. Yeah, it's crazy. All right, man. Good stuff, man. I'm going to start researching some more stuff now. Yeah, just ruin my work day now. I'm just going to be researching aliens. Just watching the Y files all day. Yeah. If you. If you like that stuff, the Y files on. On YouTube is a. Is a good. Is a good time. All right. But hey, thanks for listening this week. Had a good time with this one. If you guys have any questions or comments or ideas for the show, hit us up@infowpconnect.com and we'll talk to you next week. Foreign. The opinions expressed in the podcast are for general informational purposes only and are not intended to provide specific advice or recommendations for any investment, legal, financial, or tax strategy. It is only intended to provide education about the financial industry. Please consult a qualified professional about your individual needs.