MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 7/25/25

24:29MeidasTouch Brothers:Well, I had an emergency root canal procedure on Monday that I want to flag for everybody right now. A very abrupt transition. So you could feel the abrupt transition from my mouth feeling fine to needing this root canal on Sunday. It got really bad in the middle of the night and I couldn't sleep and then had the procedure on Monday morning. So Brett and Jordy filled in and did a fantastic job on the last episode. I was so proud of them. I wanted to hold the Patreon meeting with all of our Patreon members today. We're going to move that to Monday as a result of the procedure I had earlier this week.

25:07MeidasTouch Brothers:I find I had the root canal It was not the greatest day ever, but I feel good right now. And it was great to see Brett and Jordy do. And it was one of my favorite episodes I had actually seen. So go to patreon.com slash Midas Touch. And then next Monday, we will hold the meeting. As soon as that show ends, we'll go right. And you can ask us any questions. There will be no questions off limits there. A reminder to subscribe to our YouTube channel. A reminder to subscribe to our sub stack. A reminder if you can become a member of our YouTube channel. It goes a long way to help as well. And you can gift memberships to as many people as you want.

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30:13And you know what, Ben, the might is mighty wouldn't have it any other way. So we're proud of you and we're grateful for everything you bring, big bro.

30:20MeidasTouch Brothers:I would have done the live show, except my mouth was so numb that I literally couldn't speak. So as soon as I was able to speak again, I did the hot takes, but that was the main issue, preventing the live. Okay. Let me show you all a video that we posted on the Midas Touch social media accounts. It existed before it was out there, but no one really pointed it out of how significant is the way that we did. And it was Jeffrey Epstein's deposition where Epstein is asked about Donald Trump and his friendship with Donald Trump and his other things with Donald Trump. You'll notice that Epstein is able to answer part of the question.

30:56MeidasTouch Brothers:So it's not like he's invoking the Fifth Amendment regarding all of the questions he's asking. But notice the one where he does invoke his Fifth Amendment and other amendments against self-incrimination. Let's play it. Have you ever had a personal relationship with Donald Trump?

31:14What do you mean by personal relationships? Have you socialized with him? Yes, sir. Yes? Yes, sir. Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18?

31:34though i'd like to answer that question at least today i'm going to have to assert my fifth sixth and 14th amendment right now notice how he asked for kind of a more detailed understanding

31:48MeidasTouch Brothers:of the first question like what do you mean like a relationship like what does it mean but when he was asked a fairly broad question had you ever been with donald trump with the group of girls under the age of 18, immediately he went to invoking his rights against self-incrimination. I mean, like, you know, did they ever go to a restaurant together where there could have been a host? No, no. The immediate thing he thought, me, with him, Donald Trump, and a group of underage girls was, I need to invoke my right against self-incrimination there. And again, we know some of the stories that are out there that are undisputed.

32:27We don't know the age of the girls. We don't.

32:30MeidasTouch Brothers:But we do know that Donald Trump and Epstein held at least one, there may have been more, party at Mar-a-Lago where they view, I shouldn't call it a party because they viewed it as that. The girls, again, indeterminate age, I don't know. But they were the types of people who went to the pageants. And we know the pageants were anywhere from kind of 14 to 28. But they were told they were showing up for a meeting with VIPs who could help them in the modeling agency, but they show up and it's just Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein there. And that's according to the person who ran the kind of model scouting group that brought those girls.

33:08We don't know their age. We don't know their ages. But that was one such interaction. We do know Virginia Giuffre was 17 years old when she was the towel girl at Mar-a-Lago.

33:22MeidasTouch Brothers:And we do know, because the Midas Touch unearthed the 1991 Look of the Year pageant that Donald Trump held, that a lot of these girls at the parties or whatever you want to call them that Donald Trump threw were underage. I mean, they look like they are underage and they look underage. They look like little girls. So I wanted to flag that deposition right there. Now, Pam Bondi, Donald Trump's attorney general, yesterday was supposed to speak at a human sex trafficking convention led by a group called CPAC, which they call themselves the Conservative Political Action Committee or conference or whatever.

33:59MeidasTouch Brothers:By the way, they're led by a guy who was accused of sexual assault by a Republican staffer. And I believe they reached a settlement. That guy, Schlapp, is the guy's name. And the allegations against him by an adult male, but they were pretty disgusting allegations that were out there. I got to say, having a sex trafficking convention in light of everything kind of gives the meaning to whatever this convention is about, kind of gives a new meaning is all I'm saying. That is their, these are predators. And this is what predators do. And they do it on lots of issues also outside of just like sex, right?

34:38MeidasTouch Brothers:I mean, these are people with their own demons and ghoulish criminality and whatever, whatever else they're up to, whether it's civil cases or whatever. But they weaponize an issue that they know pulls at people's heartstrings, like sex trafficking, to divide the country and make it political or pull people in, independents, people who don't care about politics, but people who care about the children because it's an issue that they go, oh my God, You're telling me there's a cabal out there and oh my gosh. And Democrats aren't out there normally talking. Democrats are like, well, we need to have a five-point plan and a 6.7 plan and we got to focus on this and then subsection 3, 2, 3, 2, 3.

35:22And the Republicans are out there doing that. Another issue we'll talk about later in the show that Republicans do this too in the light of the Columbia University settlement, anti-Semitism, right? A real serious issue, anti-Semitism, but they weaponize it as a way to attack free speech, to attack universities and say, oh, you just, you just, you know, it's like McCarthyism on steroids. Oh, you are, the way they did, you're a communist, you're anti-Semitic, you're anti-Semitic, and then they, you're a sex trafficker, you're a sex trafficker, and they weaponize that when their real agenda is to have a fascist regime, this Trump regime, do the types of things we've seen in authoritarian fascist regimes that exist as well.

36:05Anyway, the point I was making is, Pam Bondi was supposed to speak at this thing when she's covering up for Epstein right now. So what did she do? Do you think she showed up? Let's see what happens when she's about or she's supposed to speak. Here's what takes place. Let's play. You have some news from the attorney general's office. I do. I do. Thank you very much. And thank you all for being here with us today and having me. I do have a note from the attorney general, from attorney general Pam Bondi that I wanted to share, which is the following i'm sorry to miss all of my cpac friends today especially matt and mercy schlapp senator blackburn and the wonderful team at the tim tebow foundation unfortunately i am recovering from a recently torn cornea which is preventing me from being with you i truly wish i was able to join you and support all of the work being done on this critical issue they're just so

36:58MeidasTouch Brothers:phony baloney all these people by the way even that guy's voice like using a somber tone and that like you know we have we have difficult news to report but we've got word from the attorney just shut that shut up like you phony person y 'all are covering up the republicans that y 'all are covering up for the epstein files right now and you're and this is what they this is how they weaponize it. They're holding a conference on sex trafficking and how they're the ones saving quite the freaking contrary, right? Oh, then what's their other one, Brett, that they're doing? The other part of, it's like the mold, it's such an obvious anatomy of Donald Trump-like distraction.

37:41MeidasTouch Brothers:It's like, okay, well, how do we distract? Well, let's have my own criminal defense lawyer who's the number two at the DOJ meet with Ghislaine Maxwell. Then let's just request the grand jury testimony from the Epstein case, which we know is never going to be released. And it's only a small amount of that. That would even that's like 1 % of what's the files. And then when the judge rejects it, which the judge did, because even in the Trump regime's own briefing to the judge, they cite an 11th circuit court of appeals case called pitch, which says they're not entitled to the record. They told the judge, you actually can't give it to us under 11th circuit precedent, but we have to flag that case for you.

38:18MeidasTouch Brothers:And the judge is like, even the government concedes. I'm not allowed to give you rule six E material. So they go Ghislaine meeting. Look, we're trying to do stuff. All right. We're trying to get the grand jury testimony. Let's hold a sex trafficking conference. Oh, and then where do we go when things get desperate? Autopen or Autopen's not working. Okay. Let's go to Obama. And then let's say that something that I don't even know. Obama bringing up Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia. Let's just say Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, because that seems to work for Magamush brains. Russia, Russia, Russia.

38:52And then get Ted Cruz, who Donald Trump said father killed JFK. And he said his wife is like a like disgusting, ugly lady or something like that. I'm ugly. OK, I get ugly. Then you have Ted Cruz go out there and Ted Cruz is like a date that will live in infamy.

39:11MeidasTouch Brothers:December 9th, Obama Day. And I'm like, what the hell? Obama Day. This is what FDR said. The December date that will live in infamy. The real date that will live in infamy is watch this. Here, play it. And I'll tell you, this December 9th meeting, FDR famously said December 7th is a date that will live in infamy. Well, December 9th should be a day that will live in infamy because this is a moment when senior members of our government decided to lie to the American people and to sabotage President Donald Trump, who'd just been elected by the American people. They think you are stupid, a stupido.

39:47I mean, that's real.

39:49MeidasTouch Brothers:Like Fox looks at its audience. We know from the text messages during the defamation case where they settled for whatever it was, almost a billion dollars, that they're like, our audience is stupid. That's what they call their audience, stupid. All of the things that they would say that like Democrats say about Fox audience, no, it's actually Fox saying that their audience is dumb sheep. Then they go to them and serve them the stupidest stuff when it's like, you're just covering for Epstein. We know it, Brett and Jordy. It is objectively one of the most pathetic attempts to cover up something so horrific that I've ever seen in my entire life.

40:25Objectively, just objectively watching Ted Cruz do that. I don't know how you are just not like, what a pathetic human being, what a pathetic political party, what a pathetic quote unquote news channel. It's obviously a propaganda network. But the fact that they are shoveling this bullshit at people, the irony of it all to me is that the more they do this, the more guilty they appear, the more of the cover up comes out. And I think this has been the issue with the Republican Party for at least the past decade, probably longer, but I'll just go off kind of the Trump era. But it's the issue that we've seen, and it's really – it's an issue that has radicalized their base in such a way because they make bombastic, wild claims about Democrats, massive claims, right, going way back in the day.

41:14Claims which they can never deliver on because they're not based in any semblance of reality. Eventually, all of these things blow up in their face every single time. It's not like, oh, well, you know, they're bad in 500 right now. No, every single one of these things crashes and burns because they are conspiracy theorists and they are peddling bullshit to their base. They are trying to feed them red meat. And so what is it that they do when these things destruct? They have to then divert their people's attention, divert their supporters' attention with the next conspiracy theory, with the next lie.

41:54So they, in order to do that, they need to then increase the severity of the lie. The lie has to be bigger than the one before. So you have this sort of mission creep happening in the Republican Party, where each lie is getting more outrageous and more outrageous. So finally, now it brings us to today, where their new lie in order to cover for the sex trafficking operation of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump's possible involvement in it and Donald Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, in order to counter something so horrific and so big, they need to come up with a bigger lie than they have ever said in the past.

42:29And so now they're reaching back to 2016, and they're accusing a former president of the United States of treason. And they are using the intelligence community with the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. They are using her and the mechanisms of government in order to send criminal referrals for President Obama to the Department of Justice to declare that President Obama must be arrested, to be running this on loop on Fox over and over and over and over to get those MAGA mush brains that Ben was speaking about talking about something else. It is cynical. It is Russian-esque. This is how Putin operates.

43:09Frankly, I think even this would make Putin blush watching all this take place. It is an absolute disgrace. And they are truly treating at least their followers like they are stupid. And these stories really don't get any sort of attention outside of the MAGA bubble. The MAGA bubble loves it. They are eating this up. They go, Obama, Russia, Russia, Russia. Any sort of normal person with at least a half a brain cell looks at this and goes, oh, they're covering up for Epstein. And frankly, if you're participating in this scheme, if you are going along with this whole Obama thing, shame on you. Absolutely disgraceful.

43:46You are trying to cover up Jeffrey Epstein's crimes, Donald Trump's involvement, Ghislaine Maxwell, that is who you are allying yourself with. And you are smearing a former president while you are doing it with these vicious, heinous, atrocious lies. This is not something anybody is buying. Shame on them. Obviously, they're going to run into the same issues that they always run into with this one, where it's not based on any reality whatsoever. And then they're going to have to try to pivot it to the next one and the next one and the next one, because they'd rather do that than look their people in the eye and tell them the truth that Donald Trump is all over the Epstein files, that they are covering it up, and they refuse to do that.

44:26They refuse to actually have the back of the people that they pretend to care for, the children, the victims, the constituents. And instead, they are a cult who pledge allegiance to one person, and that's Donald Trump. Exactly. It's just not based on any semblance of reality, too. It doesn't have the same bite to it, if you will, because Obama's not leading the country. We're going to go back to 2016 and just make up a weirdo 2016 conspiracy. What are we doing? We're going to go - People were bored with him bringing up 2020. We're going to go Biden on him. These guys are leading the country. Sorry, Donald.

45:00You are the president of the United States. I hate that you are, but you know what you also are? A former best friend of Jeffrey Epstein, a known pedophile. And you appear on this list, buddy. And that's what people focus on. That's what people want to know. Jordy, did you see the other one too that they were pushing? So not only are they going back 2016 for that, but they're like, guys, did you know in 2016, Hillary Clinton was sick? Let's take medicine once in 2016. Wow. Wow. And then they like bring back up like clips of Hillary Clinton, like coughing from 2016. It's like, yeah, y 'all are just trying to go back and play the greatest hits.

45:37Yeah. You are so desperate that you are digging deep, deep, deep in your bag to get bullshit. It really shows just how pathetic they are. I hate comparing it to this, but it's like, you know, the sitcoms back in the day when they'd hit the 100th episode or whatnot, they kind of ran out of ideas. And so they just play like the best clips from a variety of the shows in the season's past. Yeah, the clip shows. Exactly. That's what we're doing now, Fox News. Y 'all can't come up with any new material. So you know what? Let's go invent a 2016 conspiracy to get our watchers and viewers all angry about, that was almost 11 years ago.

46:08What are we doing? Jody, the funny thing is watching the progression of this. I mean, it's all sick. I don't want to downplay the severity of how evil this all is. But watching Fox and the Republicans in real time try to figure out what's the best way to cover up these crimes has been actually kind of fascinating. Remember the first day when this came out, one of the big Epstein stories dropped, and it was like they hit an emergency Biden button, and they just started playing a reel of Biden struggling to speak. Like, that's like, this is exactly what I'm talking about though, real quick, is they're not these great messengers and marketers, right?

46:43They just play to people's worst, you know, inhibitions and just ideas. And that's what angers the base, right? That's what they, they want to get these folks angry. So what are we going to do? We're going to get mad at the green M &M. The green M &M is not sexy anymore, Fox viewers. Everyone should be outraged. And when it doesn't work, they move to the next one and to the next one. So you notice they're not really talking about the auto pen stuff now, right? Because that, that, that, that, that was that bombed that, that didn't really work. Right. So then they moved to this other crazy story.

47:12They moved from, uh, they moved from, uh, Joe Biden, like the, the, the debate, and then they moved to auto pen. And then they started talking about Hunter for about 30 seconds before they realized that people actually, uh, liked the way Hunter came off in that, in that interview. And then, and then they're like, oh shit, we're humanizing the guy. And now they have moved on to this Obama thing. It's just one distraction after the next.

47:34MeidasTouch Brothers:I couldn't agree more there. When we come back, I want to talk about like there's like a war going on now between Thailand and Cambodia. Like no one's really talking about that, but like right at the border, like shooting missiles at each other. Like if there was a strong and normal America, we had people working at the State Department. I think situations like this would be avoided. I mean, just think about India and Pakistan, Thailand and Cambodia. I mean, what, you know, a striking Iran. Donald Trump has not brought peace to Gaza in 24 hours like he promised. The situation in Ukraine has gotten worse after Donald Trump promised to bring peace there in 24 hours.

48:13MeidasTouch Brothers:You have a much more unstable world. China doing military exercises close to Australia and Japan. You've got a much more unstable world right now. Let's talk about that. I want to talk about the settlement with Columbia University and how Columbia sold out. I think it's an important story to talk about. Donald Trump was at the Federal Reserve Building and made a fool of himself. And Jerome Powell fact-checked Donald Trump to his face. You have the FCC commissioner out there. We will talk about South Park as well in that episode. Then you have the FCC commissioner Carr out there saying, you know, yeah, we pretty much admitting, yeah, we went after Colbert and all these comics that we don't like.

48:57MeidasTouch Brothers:Like that's just what we do now at the FCC. Let's take a quick break. A reminder, patreon.com slash Midas Touch on Monday after the show. Assuming I don't need another root canal. We will have our meeting. If you wanted to ever ask us questions, ask us anything. we're going to post a link on Patreon so you can set a calendar alert for yourself. Also, if you want to become a member of our YouTube channel, that's great gift memberships to others. We'll be right back after our last quick break.

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53:57MeidasTouch Brothers:down a lot of topics and kind of a lightning round if you will so the trump regime has taken over columbia university making columbia pay to the trump regime over 200 million dollars we're not really sure where that money is going, but that's part of a settlement. Now the Trump regime controls essentially all aspects of Columbia, from admissions to the faculty perspectives, to the political viewpoints of students, to the types of research that's going to be done. Frankly, I don't know who the hell would ever want to go to Columbia University right now, knowing that it's controlled by MAGA and everything you do will be under the hands of Donald Trump.

54:38MeidasTouch Brothers:But, you know, one of the ways that the Trump regime attacked Columbia was saying that Columbia supports anti-Semitism and they're anti-Semitic. But what they were really after was what they consider to be academics and left-leaning thought and professors that they didn't like. They wanted MAGA ideology, the stupid crap. Windmills don't work. Real, real, real. January 6th wasn't real. Donald Trump is, you know, their godlike hero and, you know, and all their stupid MAGA lore versus data and facts. So Linda McMahon, whose WWE was also had lots of lawsuits for covering up sexual abuse. She's now the Department of Education secretary, and they're mostly destroying all education other than trying to capture what it can for the Trump regime.

55:30And here she basically just gives away the game and basically says, yeah, we don't like that woke thought over there. We don't like woke thinking and lefties, so we take over the university.

55:41MeidasTouch Brothers:Here, play the clip. And I think that this is a monumental victory for conservatives who've wanted to do things in these elite candidates for a long time because we had such far left-leaning professors and we had 27 % of the students that are coming in, you know, are from outside of the United States. I think that's one of Harvard's stats. And so Columbia is clearly on board. I'm really pleased with this victory. It wouldn't have happened if Donald Trump were not president. And I'm really pleased to execute his vision for this, that our campuses are now what they should be. They're places for debate.

56:22MeidasTouch Brothers:Oh, really? Donald Trump ideology at Columbia for real. I don't know who the hell would want to go to Columbia. And they just put a stain on anyone's Columbia university. I'd be pissed if I was an alumnus of that university after that. That's for sure. But, you know, they had this like interim president who was like kind of like a Trump puppet who sold them out. Just watch. Listen to what she says here. It's so utterly pathetic. Watch what capitulation looks like. Pathetic. Play this clip. This is really access to billions. It was a lot more than that. billions of dollars in future funding. And it's not just money for Columbia.

56:58I mean, this is about science. It's about curing cancer, the cutting edge, boundary breaking science that actually benefits the country and humanity. So that was essential. How existential was the threat becoming when you talk about, I mean, I saw over like$1.3 billion that the school was not losing. How existential was this threat to the university if it continued? There are lots of ways to measure it. So one point three billion dollars a year, billions in future funding. But we are a massive research institution, one of the best in the world. It's hard. We'd have to sit here for hours for me to tell you everything we do in terms of that boundary breaking research.

57:40And that's research really that powers the technology in this country. Innovation.

57:46MeidasTouch Brothers:Don't make it about other people. You know, don't weaponize. oh, I do work for other people because you ain't going to do crap with the Trump regime taking over. You ain't going to do innovative cancer research. We know Trump has stopped cancer research. So anything your research institutions did before, they're going to be rendered ineffective right now. So don't give me that crap. Like, I know that's what your PR person told you. Go on and said, this wasn't about the university. Make it about the country. That's what she was coached to say. But don't gaslight us like that. You are a pathetic individual and your entire life is a disgrace.

58:23Honestly, screw these people. Honestly, screw these people. And how dare they weaponize anti-Semitism, which is a real serious thing in order to push forward their agenda and this regime that is stocked, by the way, with many people who are outright white nationalists or Nazis. Okay. Those are the people you are protecting when you capitulate to them. And it is not anti-Semitic to be opposed to the Netanyahu government. It is not anti-Semitic to be opposed to what is happening in Gaza. I think people should be speaking out against the atrocities that we are seeing and protesting that does not make you anti-Semitic and folding to this Trump regime over those issues because they are threatening you and they are weaponizing that term, that very serious term against you.

59:08I think it is absolutely a disgrace, especially as the same regime, the Trump regime, is posting things on the internet like this. I feel like this is something that probably a lot of people out there aren't really in tune with because they're probably not on the social media platforms following this administration the way we are. But for example, this was a post that was just made recently by the Department of Homeland Security, an official post. And this is a post that they put up. And this is something that they've been doing now kind of frequently. This isn't the first time. They will post this artwork and they'll use code words and talk about heritage.

59:44We need to protect our heritage, our heritage, our heritage. And they'll use this artwork that looks kind of like classical artwork. Oftentimes the artists end up coming out and going, how dare you use my artwork to push these messages? But this is the latest one. And what people noticed when they looked at this message, it's like an angel flying up in the sky over like the frontier. And it says, a heritage to be proud of, a homeland worth defending, American progress, John Gast. What a lot of people noticed about the way that they wrote that caption is that the caption was exactly 14 words. What is the significance of 14 words?

1:00:2014 words is a reference to the 14 words, which is a popular white supremacist Nazi slogan about securing the existence of white people in the world. That is what the 14 word significance is. And so you could say, oh, well, that's probably just a coincidence, right? No, they do this frequently. They do this frequently and they word their things that they almost like sound like haikus the way that they word them because they fit them into this 14 word formula. Like I said, this is not the first time and people have been noticing the patterns, but that's not all even with this one image. What letters did they capitalize in this post?

1:00:55They capitalized the letter H in heritage and the letter H in homeland. And a lot of people are saying that's because these same white nationalists, these same Nazis capitalized two H's next to each other to symbolize Hail Hitler. So these are the people running the government accounts. Like I said, it'd be one thing if this was the only time this has happened. It's not. This is at least the third, fourth, or fifth time that this has happened from these official government accounts speaking about the same sorts of topics. So don't give me that anti-Semitism crap and weaponize that when these are the people in your administration, when these are the kinds of posts that you are making, when these are the kinds of people whom you are empowering.

1:01:35It is absolutely a disgrace. And it's meant for one thing and one thing only, to silence dissent. And that's what authoritarians do. And I will not let this government be taken over by authoritarians by weaponizing anti-Semitism to do so. It's absolutely outrageous.

1:01:51MeidasTouch Brothers:And it's certainly not, as you mentioned, anti-Semitic to criticize what Benjamin Netanyahu is doing. I think it is absolutely horrible what Netanyahu is doing. And you don't have to be supportive of like Likud and Netanyahu. And by the way, there are actually a lot of people in Israel who do not support Benjamin Netanyahu. And what he and his government have been doing in Gaza is an absolute travesty. Absolutely go after Hamas, but what has taken place there is frankly unforgivable. It is so tragic to see innocent people dying, kids and women and people there. And you can have basic humanity and speak out against atrocities that are happening there and watching people starve to death.

1:02:36And that does not make you anti-Semitic at all. You can criticize Netanyahu. You can criticize that regime. And let me be very, that's not anti-Semitic. And so

1:02:46MeidasTouch Brothers:I hate when they try to weaponize that and bring Netanyahu. And he's like, well, Donald, I'm going to recommend for you that you get the Nobel Peace Prize. And really, Netanyahu and Trump getting the Nobel Prize Prize, what they are doing to the world is creating massive instability. No, there are countries around the world, from Canada to Europe and elsewhere, that put out a statement saying that there needs to be humanitarian aid immediately brought into Gaza. That's calling out what Netanyahu is doing. And the United States, once again, is one of the only countries that don't sign on to that.

1:03:20MeidasTouch Brothers:And that barely got any attention at all. So I wanted to bring that up right here. We're also, what's not getting a lot of attention, which should, is that there's basically a war taking place between Thailand and Cambodia. You had Thailand's fighter jets striking in Cambodia, Cambodia missiles hitting Thailand, both sides accusing each other of starting this first. 11 civilians have died. And again, we just don't see engagement from our state department. We don't see statements about Donald from Trump. Like you would normally see a president go and say things about this. But Donald Trump's too busy and South Park captured this perfectly.

1:03:58You know, he shows up and he's lovers with Satan in the episode. And Donald Trump comes back and he's like, hey, Satan, that's cool. I'm going to say, can we like he wants to have sex with Satan and Satan is like, I've been I've been working so hard. And Satan's like, no, you haven't. You've just been posting memes all day. Like, what do you do? You're not working and you're trying to cover up the Epstein file. I'm like, come on, Satan. You know, and it was such a, we needed a cultural moment like that. Then they did this AI of Donald Trump, like walking around. Donald Trump walks through the desert with his tiny penis for everything.

1:04:31He's doing it for you. I got to say, this was seriously, honestly, maybe one of the most important cultural moments that have occurred on TV during any Trump administration. For sure, this Trump administration, because people have been so afraid to go after him for fear of retribution. But I think this week we actually saw a lot happen in that kind of cultural front. This South Park episode was vicious. It was brutal as brutal could be, but it was spot on. It was the perfect satirical takedown of what we are witnessing of how Donald Trump has been betraying his base and how he has been screwing over the country.

1:05:07And I hope everybody has a chance to watch it and ensure to enrage Donald Trump. I know they were saying the White House was furious about this episode. It was absolutely brilliant. And we saw other people speaking out this week as well, you know, in light of the Colbert cancellation, we saw Colbert speaking out after that. We saw Jon Stewart deliver an incredible monologue about that. That's what we need right now. Folks who are unafraid to stand up to this regime. Folks who are unafraid to cut through the bullshit with the truth. Oftentimes that ends up being the comedians and the satirists.

1:05:41But this was such a, honestly, just a terrific moment last night. I was cracking up watching. Such a throwback South Park episode too. Like I felt like it was like one of the first couple of seasons of South Park. I was just like, oh yeah, they're cutting deep. This is some April. I just hadn't seen anything like that in a while, you know, because all these networks, all these universities, a lot of these law firms, like they've been so pathetic and they've capitulated every single step of the way. And they've normalized that capitulation. and all of these brands want to play it safe. They are so afraid.

1:06:13They are so afraid of speaking out for fear that they'll lose their merger. By the way, the FCC did end up approving the Skydance Paramount merger, but they're so afraid of things like that falling apart, of Donald Trump wielding the executive branch to take away funding from universities and everything else that they just cower. They just back away. But as we've said on this show, you need to stand up to the bully. And I think it was a very, actually an important moment to see that on South Park, a show that goes after all sides, I think, in a very unbiased way to go after Donald Trump the way they did.

1:06:51I think it shows that the winds of culture are quickly shifting and have shifted away from Donald Trump in a way that I think is very pivotal at this moment.

1:06:58MeidasTouch Brothers:Look at the FCC chair, Brendan Carr, went on Fox. He's asked a very simple question that a non-fascist regime should answer very easily. Did President Trump have anything to do with the cancellation of Colbert's show? Right. Did the president force a network to cancel a comedian show? Right. The answer should be no. He had nothing to do with it. You move on to the next question. Right. That's what you should say. But because the United States is now under a dictator, under a fascist regime, under a sexual abuser, under a felon, under a bankruptor, under a vile piece of trash. Here's the response.

1:07:42Thanks. Good to be with you. Let's just go ahead and get it out of the way. Did President Trump have anything to do with the cancellation of Stephen Colbert's show? Well, here's what's important to keep in mind is a broader dynamic. When President Trump ran for election, he ran right at these legacy broadcast media outfits in the New York and Hollywood elites that are behind it. And he smashed the facade that these are gatekeepers that can control what Americans think and what Americans can say. And once you do that, you've exposed the business model of a lot of these outfits as being nothing more than a partisan circus.

1:08:17And so I think there's a lot of consequences that are flowing from President Trump deciding I'm not going to play by the rules of politicians in the past and let these legacy outfits dictate the narratives in the terms of the debate. And he's succeeding. Just look at what's happening. NPR has been defunded. PBS has been defunded. Colbert is getting cancer. You've got anchors in news media personalities losing their jobs. Again, all of this is downstream. of president.

1:08:43MeidasTouch Brothers:Lunatics, fascist lunatics. I showed you Linda McMahon attacking the universities. I show you Brendan Carr going after the networks. This is what Project 2025 is all about. This is what fascism is. This is what it is. I'm not using hyperbolic language. These are vile, despicable human beings. These are trash human beings. These are people who would fit nicely in Hitler's regime, in my opinion. These are scumbags. Let's not mince words of who these people are and what they are doing, going after the comics, going after the academics, going after the immigrants, going after anybody who's not sycophantic and, and please let me be like Magda Mike Johnson.

1:09:37MeidasTouch Brothers:And if you don't stand up to these idiots, They're coming for you. It's just the reality of what it is. Let me just show you this. Donald Trump is trying to get the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, fired. And one of the ways Donald Trump is doing this is by attacking the Federal Reserve's construction project of a new building. And so that's one of the kind of pretext that Donald Trump's using to try to get the guy fired. So Trump literally shows up at the Federal Reserve building, like puts on a hard hat to try to bully Jerome Powell. And Jerome Powell like stands up to him and like looks at him like, how, what are you talking about?

1:10:17MeidasTouch Brothers:And Trump like tries to give all of these like figures that are all like, all these stats are like, just like lies. Trump's like making up numbers. And Powell's like, nope, that's not true. Nope, not true. Not true. Not true. And Trump against it is like, no, no, you're just making up numbers. Here, watch this. So we're taking a look and it looks like it's about 3.1 billion. It went up a little bit or a lot. So the 2.7 is now 3.1. I'm not aware of that. Yeah, it just came out. Yeah, I haven't heard that from anybody. It just came out.

1:10:54Are those that are about 3.1 as well? 3.1. 3.2. This came from us? Yes. I don't know who does that. You're including the Martin renovation. That's our entire capital. You just added in a third building is what that is. That's a third building. It's a building that's being built. It was built five years ago. We finished Martin five years ago. It's part of the overall work. It's not new.

1:11:21MeidasTouch Brothers:And that's the thing. Trump just makes up stuff. Everything out of the guy's mouth is a lie. We have$17 trillion that I've brought into the country. Literally, you just made up the number$17 trillion. Like it just makes up – Are you saying Trump is the kind of guy who inflates numbers for his benefit? Maybe a guy who was found similarly liable for fraudulent valuations and then was found criminally liable also for business records fraud. So it sounds like – And then of course the whole irony of this all too is like they've also tried to investigate. Okay, so like what made the renovation of the Fed more expensive than it was initially set for?

1:11:57And it turns out it was Trump appointees who were pushing for like more expensive materials back in his last term that made this even more expensive than it is. So Trump appointees, the Trump administration, they caused this to cost more than it was originally going to cost. And now they are using the higher cost as predicate to attack Jerome Powell. And they are the same way with the Obama thing. This is how they're weaponizing the Justice Department in this very Kremlin-esque way. They are referring Jerome Powell for criminal charges, like Anna Paulina Luna did, referring him for criminal charges to try to scare him so that he drops out because Trump is unable to fire him and he's too afraid to actually go through with that move.

1:12:38And so they're trying to get him out by threats. I mean, this is just a mobster. We're watching a mobster at work. There's another clip. We don't have to play it. But they asked Trump, like, what do you want? and Trump's like, just want this guy to lower the rates. And then he like slaps Powell on the back. Like it's very clear the message that he is trying to send. But, you know, I got to say good on Jerome Powell for ensuring that the Federal Reserve remains independent. It's so important. I know I'm sure there's a lot of people out there who want lower interest rates. I totally get it. The issue is Donald Trump has sent the economy both here and globally into such a spiral, into such instability that doing so at this moment would be irresponsible because it would tank the economy and cause mass inflation.

1:13:23The cracks in the economy are more than just cracks right now. We are seeing it. I don't need to go through all the data right now. Ben went through it in a recent hot take. But what Trump has already done to the economy is devastating. The effects it's having on businesses, their bottom lines is already devastating. And he wants to take the independence out of the Fed, which quite frankly is probably the one thing right now holding all of this together. It is so dangerous. Good on Fed Chair Powell for standing up to him like that. Absolutely. If you're an audio listener only of the show, I really, I need you to check out the video version of this podcast and watch that video.

1:14:01That, I mean, that's one of the greatest videos I think I've ever seen. Only because Jerome Powell's reaction in the moment is so perfect. And it's actually how you need to treat the guy. Like he's an idiot. You know why? Because he's an idiot. And so Jerome Powell's like, what the fuck are you talking about, bro? Like, what are you even saying right now? And then boom, backs it up with facts. Then Trump takes out this goofy paper, starts pointing. He's like, what do you even, what do you like, literally stop? What are you saying? Oh, all these cameras are there. And you just see the sheer embarrassment come over Trump's face.

1:14:31I mean, good on Powell. Good on Powell. It's worse than stupidity. It's a deliberate con. He's a con man and he's trying to pull a con on the people. So he waves around papers. We've seen him wave around papers plenty of times, right? Yeah, I got the papers here. It's 3.1 billion. Look, it's very expensive. How did it move up to 3.1 billion? Because Trump changed his number. Initially, it was 2.5 billion. Now it's 3.1 billion. He's waving papers. Look, I got proof. Look, I got proof. And then Jerome Powell goes, okay, give me those papers. What are you talking about? That's not true. And he looks at him and he goes, oh, you're adding on other buildings that aren't even related?

1:15:03and like how does that make any sense and he caught Donald Trump in the comm live on TV it was actually a very impressive maneuver all right we're doing a Jerome Powell emoji to piss off Donald Trump everybody so bye I saw you need a Jerome Powell emoji okay Jordy Jordy did I read

1:15:20MeidasTouch Brothers:your facial gesture to me that that's what you wanted and you were that's exactly what I wanted absolutely need the Jerome Powell emoji people are calling I don't know we got to see people We got to see people want the Jerome Powell emoji. You don't think they want the Jerome Powell emoji? I've seen folks in the chat are saying they want the emoji. 50 memberships, we dropped the emoji right now. 50 memberships. Jordy, we're signing off the show now. All right. Well, yeah, Jordy says 50. I say 500. If you do a blended in the middle, we'll randomly. I guess it is weird to throw out a Jerome Powell emoji.

1:15:51But folks, I'm reading the comments literally right now. They want the emoji. We'll decide next episode.

1:15:57MeidasTouch Brothers:I should mention this, though. what was happening at the State Department while there was war between Thailand and Cambodia. Cambodia, of course, Laura Loomer, 9-11 conspiracy theorist, all around kind of crazy person. She was there today. You see her saying productive afternoon of meetings at the State Department. I just want you to think about that. Donald Trump fired 1 ,500 people basically at the State Department. They got rid of their sex trafficking division that would bust international sex trafficking rings at the State Department. But folks, Laura Loomer is partying in the State Department.

1:16:34Now, I don't think you have to be Democrat, Republican, you know, red, blue,

1:16:41MeidasTouch Brothers:whatever. To me, this comes down to good versus evil at this point. And what's taking place right now is a test of good versus evil. What side do you stand on? What legacy do you want to have for your existence on this planet. What type of world do you want to leave to future generations? And I'll tell you the one that I want to leave. I want to leave one where we stand up to this fascist regime. We defeat them and we restore sanity, normalcy, decency, empathy, compassion, and democracy to this great country. And we support peace throughout the world. I'll leave it at that. Thank you everybody for watching this episode.

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