Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 5/28/26

26:48But in doing that, they're demolishing, again, Lebanon. And you see all of the innocent people being killed. And you see that in Beirut. You see that in Tyre. You see that going on. You see medics being killed. Of course, the genocide in Gaza. You see all of this taking place.

27:04Ben Meiselas:And going back to before the kind of fraud and the lies of the Trump regime is saying, oh, there's a ceasefire in Gaza. What are you talking about? I solved 10 wars, ceasefire in Gaza. Everything's good. No, it's not. No, it's not. And I guess that works on Fox. I guess that works on state regime media. But the rest of the world sees what's going on. Smart people see what's going on. You all who watch, smart people like you all see what's going on. So here's Trump at this cabinet meeting. This is the last time we heard him speak. And here he is talking about how these Arab nations owe us. We would like to have countries join the Abraham Accords.

27:48Ben Meiselas:In fact, I'm going to make it mandatory. Here's what he said. Let's play it. And we'd like to have the countries we were talking about with Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and the others, we'd like to have them immediately join the and Steve Woodcoff is working on that with Jared and some others, but would like to have them join the Abraham Accords. It'll be historic if they do it. And we would, I think they, I think they owe that to us, to be honest. I think, cause that really would be a tremendous sign. And I think those countries owe it to us. Why would they owe it to you? You went to war in Iran with Netanyahu.

28:22You screwed those countries badly. They did quid pro quos with you personally, did all of these business deals with you, what do they owe you? They owe you an alliance with Israel? And by you saying that also, which is obviously your intention, how is that furthering anything? I mean, most people believe, and I believe rightfully so, that the US was dragged into a war in Iran because of Israel. And I don't think that helps Israel either, frankly. I mean, I don't think that helps any public sentiment or interest or anything regarding Israel. But I think Netanyahu is a curse and cancer on Israel as well, like he is on the rest of the world.

29:09But now claiming that the only way out is now the Arab nations have to become allied with Israel. So you go in because of it, and then the way out is because of it. And then Arab nations are like, okay, got it. We're done with you. We're done with you. It's hard for us to fully extract ourselves right now, but we know that this is over. We know that the breakup has officially occurred. And now we will ease out of it because so much of our security apparatus is entangled now with your bases here. But we're moving on. That's what you're seeing. And then the way he so cavalierly talks about bombing Oman, here's what he says about Oman.

29:51Let's play this clip. Interesting reading for people. On straight up, Mr. President, Iran wants control of the strait over moves. Would you accept a short-term deal that allows Iran and Oman to control the strait, and would they have to open it immediately, or would you be open to that happening over a period of time? No, the strait's going to be open to everybody. And who would control this? It's international waters. Nobody's going to control it. We're going to watch over it. We'll watch over it, but nobody's going to control it. That's part of the negotiation that we have. They would like to control it.

30:20Nobody's going to control it. It's international waters. and Oman will behave just like everybody else. So we'll have to blow them up. They understand that. They'll be fine.

30:31Ben Meiselas:Or else we'll have to blow them up. And again, those two clips are devastating for the United States. Absolutely devastating. It won't be talked about like that in corporate news. And maybe it's just Donald Trump saying Donald Trump stuff. But no, what he did to the Arab nations there and what he said and what he's demanding that they do with Israel. When if you know about the histories of these nations, they're not doing that. It's not like, is it a chance? No, it's a 0 % chance. It's a negative percent chance of this happening. It will not happen, period, full stop. If it does happen, these Arab nations will have their monarchies toppled the very next day.

31:12It ain't happening. And then to basically say to a country that largely plays the role of mediator and neutral, we're going to blow you up? and amman their foreign minister has a lot of strong relations in the region everybody sees what's going on and they see that and they go uh-uh so that brings us to where the episode started

31:35Ben Meiselas:so what does donald trump do he does kind of the weak move you know which rather than do the deal which he should do he should do a deal with iran and you're going to have to make concessions to Iran because you lost the war. What are you going to have to do? You lost the war. You didn't win the war. You shouldn't have been in the war in the first place. Make your concessions, get out, and try to save face as best possible. That's what you do when you lose sometimes. But he doesn't do that. He doesn't want to escalate further, which let me be very clear, he should not escalate. But, you know, while he looks up to authoritarian strongmen like Putin, Trump doesn't have that.

32:16He's actually scared. Like he's actually scared of doing it. And by the way, he should be. But he talks tough and then the actions don't back it up.

32:29Ben Meiselas:So what does he do? What does he do? I've said this before. He's a sucker puncher, right? What are scumbag things to do? like people who break promises, right? Lie. And like the biggest scumbag move is like a sucker puncher, right? Like you're walking and then boom, you get sucker punched in the back. You just sucker punched me. Trump uses negotiations to be a sucker puncher. And so the move is, all right, I'm too afraid to escalate further. I'm also too afraid to make the deal, which you should do. So here we're going to do. Let's kill a fishing boat. Let's just kill two people and go, look, let's kill this person.

33:15Ben Meiselas:Let's kill this boat. Let's kill two fast boats. And then let's see how they respond. Ooh, right? And so that's what he does in Bandar Abbas. That's what that was. That move was desperation is what it was, in my opinion. And then what else is he doing? South Com announces, we got another fishing boat in the Pacific, more fishing boats that were destroyed. And then Trump's moved on to what we've killed. We've slaughtered like 300 people in fishing boats without due process. War crimes. War crimes. Sickening. Again, it doesn't even get attention either. Another one happened yesterday. Another one happened the day before.

33:58about 300 people slaughtered by the United States without due process on fishing boats. And from a lot of the stories we know, a lot of them are just fishing boats. They were not drug dealers.

34:08Ben Meiselas:And even if they were drug dealers, they get due process. You don't just kill people. We don't go around murdering and killing people. And we don't even hear any of these stories. What did you find on the boat? What did you recover? Did you recover fentanyl? Did you recover bombs? I know you call people narco-terrorists, but what did you do? And so as the Trump regime is weaker than ever also, what else are they doing? Trump entered into a secret deal with Guatemala to do strikes in Guatemala. They're doing strikes in Ecuador. What they want to do is they want to increase their presence to do strikes all in Latin America because eventually they want to ramp up their strikes in Mexico.

34:48That's Trump's golden prize is to start bombing Mexico. Trust me, he wants to bomb the hell out of Mexico.

34:53Ben Meiselas:And Claudia Scheinbaum, who started off strong and then started appeasing him, to me, she's fallen while Prime Minister Carney has risen. It was interesting, kind of the dynamic there, how I've seen her doing her own sovereignty, yes, diplomacy, no. And it's like, all right, he's walking all over Mexico right now. It's so obvious. And then he blockades Cuba. And now they go to Axios also, like they went to Axios with the other story. And then they say, Axios reports, the Trump administration is bracing for potential collapse of Cuba's totalitarian government as early as this summer. And they've war-gamed new military response plans in case the island descends into chaos.

35:36Ben Meiselas:You know, by the way, I mean, this is part of the Trump regime's war plan, in my opinion, which is to utilize Axios and outlets like that to sow chaos and disorder and hope that the sheer force of the propaganda is enough to bring down regimes. In Iran, it wasn't able to. In Venezuela, there was really no fighting back in Venezuela. And Trump just hoisted up another authoritarian there with Delcy. But they're hoping to use this propaganda to get the Cuban people to rise up against the regime. That's their goal. But doing that, they want to commit crimes against humanity on the Cuban people, starve them to death.

36:22Ben Meiselas:And the thinking is if we starve the Cubans to death, they're going to blame the Cuban regime versus the United States for starving them to death. And I believe we shouldn't starve. If we dislike a regime, we shouldn't starve the people of the regime to death, number one. And I think tactically and strategically, it backfires as well. And it brings people closer in solidarity with each other and says, you're starving us to death. We know that we're not stupid. We know what you're doing to us. We know what you're trying to do. And that's what I think is going on there. All right. We've got a lot to discuss still.

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41:26I mean, they're talking about housing affordability. They're talking about consequences for slum landlords. They're talking about helping people with their health care. They're talking about better education, talking about jobs, talking about concrete plans. You know, and so it's just fascinating. fascinating. You take a look at this Texas Senate race, for example. And on the one hand, you have this Democratic candidate, James Tallarico, empathetic, nice, eight-generation Texan, seems like a great candidate. I think he's a great candidate. He's out there talking about issues that matter. On the other hand, you have Ken Paxton, who's been impeached by his own party.

42:14Whistleblowers who worked for him, who are Republicans, called him out for engaging in this horrific behavior with a guy who then went to prison where they were doing quid pro quos to get a job for Paxton's mistress so that they could hide it together. And then, you know, Paxton was under indictment for securities fraud and mortgage fraud and all of these, like, I mean, like objectively, some of the most horrific things. You couldn't have a bigger contrast between Tolerico and Paxton. Donald Trump endorsed Paxton. Paxton beats John Cornyn, the Republican senator from Texas, who did a lot for Republicans.

42:59I mean, you may not like Cornyn. I don't like Cornyn. He's better than Paxton. And he's done a lot objectively for Texas and Republicans in Texas, whether, you know, I'm not suggesting he's a good guy by any stretch of the imagination, But here's a guy who's been a loyal Republican kind of foot soldier, you know, and, you know, in this current MAGA world, you know, he doesn't have the, he's not Mar-a-Lago sycophant enough for Donald Trump. So it's just, it's like, here we go. Here's, this sums up the country for me right now, right? On the one hand, you've got people like Tolerico, Mamdani, and others.

43:41who are proposing solutions, rolling up their sleeves, talking about issues. Do you have to agree with everything they say? No. Are they striving to look at what's worked and what's not worked and how do we improve it? Certainly what's happening now ain't working. We all agree with that. And so they're out there talking about issues. On the other hand, you have this Republican MAGA party that's doing like name calling.

44:11Ben Meiselas:He's Talafrico. He's Tofu Talarico. He's Tofu. He's a transgender. What do you mean he's a transgender? What are you talking about? You just want to bully the transgender community? He's not a vegan. Nothing wrong if he was a vegan. He's not a vegan. Tofu, you're calling him tofu. He's six genders. He's six Exgenders, everybody. He's the most radical guy around. Tallarico is the most radical. I don't know. I think radical, maybe the people who are covering up child sex trafficking rings, who are out there building golden ballrooms, sending$1.8 billion slush funds to insurrectionists. I mean, it's pretty freaking radical to me.

45:01Ben Meiselas:The guy who's like, hey, let's help Americans get healthcare. Let's help Americans get better jobs. Let's make sure we deal with these data centers that are ruining communities and AI, which is taking people to them. What's radical? So this is the dynamic that we deal with, I think, in our country. It's perfectly laid out here. can you know can americans elect people who actually align with their interests or is the pull of propaganda and name calling and divisiveness and whatever is it so strong trillion dollars of media pumped into these stuff that you know americans go i guess he's tofu i I guess he's a vegan.

45:54Ben Meiselas:I guess he's transgender. I guess so. I'm Texas. I can't vote for that. I can't vote for that. I mean, is that, and just think about the power of propaganda right here. It's being used as the main tool in wars right now, right? In Iran, Trump's main tool is the propagandists, the manipulation of the media. Trump harnesses that MAGA media machine of lies and then just pushes it on a country nonstop. California Governor Gavin Newsom saw it in January 2025 with the wildfires. Newsom likes smelt fish. He wanted to do the smelt. The most outrageous thing you say over and over and over again, that starts becoming, You bend reality and you pick a thing that's so far out there that's such a lie that people believe it when you keep on saying it over and over again, because who would lie about these things?

46:53Ben Meiselas:He's not turning on the faucet. It's a faucet. You got to turn it on. You drained all of the reservoirs. You got to eat. It's all Newsom's fault. And, you know, most humans who go into governance for governing are like, well, I'm not going to respond to that. I got to do my job. I can't deal. I got to focus. I have to respond to smelt and calling me Tofu Talarico. And I got to respond to, you know, that I'm being attacked in a way that's also horribly, you know, insensitive to the transgender community. But I got to say, no, that's not true. I mean, like, I have to live in this world. And I think one of the things you see is that in 2026, with the level of propagandas reached with social media, all this, you have to have a plan to push back forcefully and immediately and rapidly every single damn day against this relentless propaganda machine.

47:58Ben Meiselas:So this right here is the RNC chair, Joe Gruters. When he's asked about Tala Rico, here's what he says here. Play this clip. It'd be as Tala Frico is a creep and he thinks he's a vegan. He thinks God is non-binary. He wants to mutilate children. He wants to put boys and girls locker rooms. People are done with that. That's if you looked at the autopsy the Democrats put out. It's simple. All those things and the fact that they are openly supporting communists and socialists. People don't want the United States Senate. Certainly the voters in Texas don't want that. We think Paxson will win. We'll think it's we think it's a red seat.

48:36Hands down, we're not going to have any issues heading into November. We're happy with Paxson and we're going to do everything we can to make sure he's successful. Well, you. Well, you don't talk about any issues. You don't talk about housing, affordability, healthcare, anything that's actually impacting the American people. But you just went through your whole list. That's their entire campaign.

48:59Ben Meiselas:Freako, transgender, socialism, communism, multiple genders, and that's what they do. And then they just spew that over. He's a creep. I mean, that dude looked in the mirror. That dude looks like a pretty creepy dude right there. that that guy i mean like you have guys like that and steven chung out there they're the ones calling other people like creeps i mean you may want to look in the mirror and take a look at yourself and you like whatever and we'll leave it there so you have that and then on the other hand you have james tallarico and james tallarico said the following to me about Ken Paxton.

49:42Ben Meiselas:Let's play this clip. Ken Paxton embodies everything that's wrong with our political system. He was impeached by his own party for using his public office to enrich himself and his donors at our expense. And that kind of corruption is the rot at the core of this broken system. It's why we can't afford anything. It's why we can't get ahead no matter how hard we work because billionaires buy these politicians like Ken Paxton and then these puppet politicians turn around and rig the rules of the game in favor of the billionaires at our expense. And so this has been happening for 50 years in this country.

50:25Mega donors and their puppet politicians have been stealing from the American people, from the people of Texas, stealing the wealth that we created through their bribes, their bailouts, and their billionaire tax breaks. And so I look forward to not only running against Ken Paxton, but running against the broken system that he embodies. Then you have Benny Johnson, right wing MAGA influencer. And there's lots of rumors that swirl around this guy. Lots of rumors that swirl around this guy. Just leave it at that. And here's what he had to say. Let's play this clip. But we're stuck with James Tallarico.

51:03and I'm no political consultant, Jesse, but here's three things you could ask him to defeat him on a debate stage. He says there's six genders. Well, why don't you name them? You say you have a girlfriend. Why don't you name her? And you say that Jesus is pro-abortion. So how do you square that with thou shalt not kill? The Ten Commandments, something I'm pretty sure that Jesus wanted you to uphold. So once again, the reason why Democrats are failing is because they've given up on masculinity. They've given up on testosterone. They've given up entirely for effeminate, estrogenetic, catty, and totally embarrassing candidates like Beto and Beta here.

51:43And most importantly, the American people know what leadership looks like. It looks like President Trump winning.

51:51Seriously? You're talking about testosterone? You're talking about Beta? It's coming from you,

51:59Ben Meiselas:really really benny johnson for real and again notice what he says here's how if you want to win the election here's how you do it in three ask him about gender ask him who his girlfriend is okay and then you can ask him it's like what are you even talking about how and by the way if you want to go down that line of questioning and if that's if those are the issues that are important to you, then don't complain when your electricity bills go up. 30%. When the gas prices go up. 70%. When your groceries go up. 30%, 40%. When everything in your life becomes utterly unaffordable. When the American dream gets destroyed.

52:53Know that these individuals like Benny Johnson and Gruters and others, they're the mercenaries for the oligarchy. And they're out there running, blocking, and tackle, trying to pit people against each other so that their interests

53:11Ben Meiselas:are not being aligned with the politicians, but that they go, oh my God, he's tofu. I can't vote for tofu guy. Okay. Well, then you're going to vote for your life sucks guy. Okay. You're going to vote for the fact that things are never going to get better for you because you are supporting candidates who hate you. And it's just that simple. And the way they go after Mamdani, Zoran Mamdani, he wants to transfer wealth from the landlords to the community. People love Mamdani in New York right now. He's rolling up his sleeves and trying to create solutions to make it a more affordable place. He's actually doing it.

53:55Ben Meiselas:He's very popular in New York. And so I show you how the Republicans are communicating. Here's what Momdani told me. Let's play the clip. You know, I see the Trump regime now also bragging about kicking people off of SNAP, kicking people off of Medicaid. Their big announcement also, the housing and urban development will be stopping emotional support dogs. Yeah, no emotional support. that's what they're considering their dubs. That's their wins right there. And so it's using government to harm people, to take away. Whereas I think you're showing a model that works in New York City and nationwide.

54:38Ben Meiselas:Can you talk to New York City being a model for government working? You know, wherever you live in this country, people come with an anxiety about the first of the month because they don't know if they're going to be able to afford their rent. That is not just a New York City specific problem. It is one that people feel coast to coast and everywhere in between. And this is a vision for a city where we make it easier for people to actually afford to live here, make it easier for people to afford not only an apartment that they may rent, but even dreaming of becoming a homeowner. And so much of what you're speaking about when it comes to federal policy, it's completely divorced from what any New Yorker is actually worried about.

55:16What people are worried about is what we're actually acting on, which is how to make this city affordable and how to actually ensure that housing isn't some imaginary dream or fantasy that people have that they could one day afford, but it's a reality. And the way we do that is by putting the full financial muscle of the city behind that kind of a vision. We're incredibly excited to be doing that today. Look, and as a, you got to stay on message like that and you got to deliver, you got to deliver. And I just find it fascinating too, you know, state regime media, What do they want to talk about today?

55:47May 28th, 2026. What do they want to talk about? Biden. Biden's debate. Biden this, Biden that.

55:56Ben Meiselas:So they have Democratic Senator Coons on and they said, so what do you make of Dr. Jill Biden saying that she was very worried about when Biden was doing his debate? Watch Coons' response right here. Let's play. she thought he was having a stroke it's inexplicable as a wife why you wouldn't stop the whole thing right then and go straight to a hospital what's your what's your take on what she's saying now frankly my take is that as i've gone up and down the state of delaware in the last couple of days nobody's asked me about joe biden's debate performance in 2024 they've asked me about the rising price of gas.

56:37They've asked me about Trump's tariffs. They've asked me about insecurity and instability because of an unresolved war in Iran that is not going well. As someone who cares for President Biden, I too was concerned about what that several second pause meant, what was happening at the moment. But I was with President Biden earlier today. We were at the funeral of a friend of ours, someone who long served as the mayor of Wilmington, and he's fine. I see regular incidents where President Trump falls asleep in meetings in the middle of the day, makes no sense in answering questions. And frankly, what I think the average Delawarean wants to hear is what are we going to do to lower their costs?

57:19And what are we going to do to avoid future pointless wars overseas? Two things President Trump ran on when he was successfully elected in 2024. Well, I mean, we can go back and forth, you know, on the cognitive abilities of President Trump versus what was quite obvious from President Biden. President Trump answers like 30 to 100 questions every single day from the press.

57:46Ben Meiselas:Answers 30 bajillion, bajillion questions a day. Yeah, he answers them horribly. He's not speaking in sentences. is. He's not staying awake during the day, any day. And it's impacting critical decision-making. We see how it's impacting critical decision-making. He's lashing out at reporters, calling them piggy, piggy, and screaming at reporters and saying horrible things to them as he has this disinhibition. And we see him before our eyes with the hands and the neck and this and that. And again, more significantly, how it's impacting the people's lives. You want to talk about 2024 Biden, Joe Biden?

58:39Ben Meiselas:No, the American people don't want to talk about that. American people don't want it. American people say, we're in 2026. What are you doing right now to make my life better? What are you doing? What are your plans? what are your policies? You promised. These were promises. Things would be cheaper on day one. The war in Ukraine would be resolved on day one. Electricity costs would be down 50%. Gas prices would be under$2. These were promises. I guarantee you, I'll be able to do it.

59:21Ben Meiselas:I'll be worse. PCE inflation, 3.8 % today. Inflation is back in a major way. I believe that we'll be at 5 % inflation, PCE, by the end of this year. I think it's about a 0.2 to 0.3 increase every month. So just do the math. If we're at 3.8%, if next month it's another 0.2, that gets us to 4. and we've got about, what, four or five more months left. That gets us to 5 % pretty quickly by the end of that. You don't have to be a great economist to see where this is heading. Personal savings rate now at 2.6%, the worst since 2022, right after COVID. Last year, it was 5.5%. This is why consumer sentiment's at an all-time low.

1:00:14Ben Meiselas:And you all can brag about the stock market this, the stock market that. But for most Americans, we just look like, oh yeah, Donald Trump stock trading from the Oval Office, 3 ,800 trades in quarter one, making all this money. They leak a story, the market goes up, it goes down, they sell, they leak another story, it goes up. That ain't helping the American people buy a home. That ain't helping the American people buy groceries or get a job that pays them what they deserve to be paid, that ain't doing any of that. And so that's where we are, America. And then, of course, I did multiple videos on this as well, though.

1:00:55Pam Bondi's deposition is tomorrow, but she's probably not going to do it under oath. She's probably not going to do it under video camera, just like Howard Lutnick. So expect the MAGAs to come out and say, here's what she said. Then the Democrats will say, here's what she said. And then they'll, whatever. And then we'll get a transcript two weeks down the line. And we won't get to see what Bondi actually looks like, what her facial expressions are.

1:01:23Ben Meiselas:She just announced that she's got thyroid cancer. That was announced leading into this deposition, which is interesting. I certainly don't wish thyroid cancer upon anybody, even people who I think are not good people like Pam Bondi. So I I wish her a recovery and I wish anybody suffers from, but that's what they're announcing this. There was no announcements of this before, but that's being announced this week. You had Donald Trump filing an amended complaint against the Wall Street Journal saying that the letter in Epstein's 50th birthday was absolutely not mine. and then citing Ghislaine Maxwell's statements to Todd Blanche as evidence to support the amended complaint.

1:02:11Ben Meiselas:So that whole thing with Ghislaine Maxwell, she's being used as evidence by Trump to file an amended complaint. Ghislaine's his character witness. Ghislaine is the president of the United States character witness in an amended complaint where he's saying that this card that's in the Epstein estate book of Jeffrey Epstein. This is an independent source. We've seen the letter now. We've seen it. You sue the Wall Street Journal for defamation and say, I didn't write it. That's not my signature. Come on, man. Come on, man. And then you use the Department of Justice to criminally investigate E. Jean Carroll for testimony she gave in a case where you were found liable for sexual assault?

1:03:02Ben Meiselas:You were found liable. It was affirmed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. You were found liable for sexually assaulting her. And you act like you won because you go, oh, well, the jury didn't find it was my genitals. They found it was my finger. So therefore, I was vindicated by the jury. What? Sickening. That's what the president of the United States essential, in my opinion. That's essentially what his argument boiled down to when he sued George Stephanopoulos, where he was saying it wasn't rape because it wasn't genitals. It was finger. And New York has a technical definition that's different.

1:03:43Ben Meiselas:What would that of trial look like? The president of the United States having a deposition taken over that or sitting in a trial over that? that's why when it comes to the Wall Street Journal, they need to just take the guy's deposition. Enough of this crap. They file their motions to dismiss. Then Donald Trump files an opposition. They delay this thing for years. Just take the guy's deposition. If Trump ever sued me, I would take the guy. I would answer. I wouldn't file a motion to dismiss, even though I know I'd win the motion to dismiss. I would answer and I would immediately notice his deposition.

1:04:22I would propound a ton of discovery and I would immediately take his deposition. I would make sure the deposition was public, that the video was open for everybody to see.

1:04:32Ben Meiselas:And then what's he going to do? He's scared. Going back to what I said before, he's scared he's going to sit for a deposition. He ain't going to sit for a deposition. I'm too busy. I can't do it. I can't do it. You filed a lawsuit for the deposition. I'd want to personally take that deposition. Seven hours. Let's do it. That's what the Wall Street Journal should do. That's what all these people who he should do. Honestly, it's what they should do. Take his deposition. Well, we covered a lot of topics. Make sure you watch The Brother Show tonight, 8 Eastern, 5 Pacific. I'll do it, Brett and Jordy.

1:05:07Ben Meiselas:Thanks for hanging in this fight together. I know there's a lot going on. I know there's a lot, a lot going on, but you're hanging in the fight. We're almost in the midterms. And I don't care what political affiliation you have. This isn't about politics. I just want accountability. I want accountability. I want there to be real hearings, real accountability, and I want the truth. That's what I want. Thanks, everybody, for watching. Have a wonderful rest of your day. I hope I see you on the show with the brothers. join become a member of our youtube channel subscribe to our sub stack thanks everybody have a good one shout out midas mighty want to stay plugged in become a subscriber to our sub stack at midasplus.com you'll get daily recaps from ron filikowski ad free episodes of our podcast and more exclusive content only available at midasplus.com

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