Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 6/18/2026

24:53is he having a conversation with himself from 15 days ago or 20 days ago i mean that's the thing i you know the point that he is making about warmongers who say we need to wipe out all

25:10Ben Meiselas:the ballistic missiles and constantly go to war and do all those things he was one of them that's what he was saying. That's what Trump was saying 15 days ago, 10 days ago, before he had to accept the fact that America lost. And when you lose and you break things, you have to fix it. And he was cornered. He was a cornered rat. He couldn't go anywhere. And so now he says this. And this is, again, the complexity of sometimes of reporting on this because of all of the options, I still think that this memorandum of understanding as flimsy and as probably not durable as it is, because it's not actually a deal and all of these things, of all of the options that we have given the regime in the United States that's running, this is the best option.

26:05Ben Meiselas:I hear him saying those things. And I don't, I mean, I think the point that he makes is, what am I going to do? Just go after every country that has ballistic missiles and start bombing everybody? That's stupid. By the way, I feel like that's a stupid idea. I don't disagree with that, right? At the same time, this is the person who told us, we're going to get rid of the conventional shield. That was your whole, I wouldn't say pretext because you went in without even coming up with the reason, but that was your justification afterwards. And so you've brought us into this catastrophic war. You've harmed so many people.

26:42You've caused so much pain, ultimately, to come

26:48Ben Meiselas:to the opinion, basically, of what Midas Touch was saying, right? He came to the conclusion of what we've been saying for a very long period of time right now. That's where, you know, and just think about what he goes here. You all remember from what I've been saying, and this is where our critics, the Midas community critics, people would go after me for being hyperbolic and saying, Ben, I remember I would say, we're about to get into an economic catastrophe. We're about to hit tank bottom. In a few weeks, we're going to run out of reserves, and we're going to have a global depression if we don't do a deal.

27:31Ben Meiselas:And I remember just seeing so many right-wing people and MAGA people, oh, you know, we just might as touch, might as touch. And then here's what Trump says on Iran wars, MOU, I didn't want to see economic catastrophe. If you kept this going, that would have happened. Here's what he says. Let's play it. So the one thing I didn't want to see is I didn't want to see economic catastrophe. If you kept this going. That could have happened. But all I know is every time we talked about the possibility of peace, the stock market shot up like a rocket ship. It never went down. They didn't like it. The stock market is more brilliant than anybody there is, including the people on this stage other than me, of course.

28:17Let's see. I don't know. What do you think, Scott? Is the stock market more brilliant than you? No, sir. Oh, that's a terrible statement. All right. The stock market is quite brilliant. And every time we said something amazing, like we're going to settle, it would go up. And every time we said something negative, like, guess what? We're not going to be able to settle. It would go down very big, Peter. Very, very big. Tells you something. It tells me that you're manipulating the market and you're also breathing really loud while you're saying all of these things.

28:57Ben Meiselas:And what a deranged and strange thing to talk about the stock market like that. Here's what he's posting. The stock market just hit a record high. The stock market hit a record high. If you truly believed that Iran or anyone posed an existential threat to the very existence such that you were putting American soldiers' lives and treasury into this, then why would the stock market even be a consideration? because based on your prior justifications, if Iran has its conventional ballistic missiles and it can operate the way it does, they will likely use that to shield a nuclear program and then blow up everybody.

29:52Ben Meiselas:Why would you need a stock market if the country's completely blown up? Unless, well, just like your own intelligence community said, Iran never posed an existential nuclear threat that required this type of invasion, but that this is, as former presidents have said, what Netanyahu had always been trying to do, administration after administration. You know, Hillary Clinton recently spoke in New York City, and she said Netanyahu would call, and he would say, I'm on the tarmac. We're about to go. You're either coming with us, or we're doing it alone. Hillary Clinton said that happened multiple times during the Obama administration.

30:31Ben Meiselas:And she would tell Netanyahu, go, go, good luck. And then he wouldn't do it. I think that the ultimate kind of irony, if you will, is now you hear J.D. Vance and Donald Trump saying things like Israel shouldn't blow up buildings in Lebanon under the auspices of we're taking out a one Hezbollah person or a few Hezbollah people, so we're going to blow up buildings. It really came to the fact that you had to engage in this unlawful, catastrophic war, kill little girls in Manab, cause the American people so much pain, cause the people of Iran, cause the people in the Middle East so much pain, cause people throughout the world so much pain.

31:19for you to now say that he is always the arsonist who creates the problems.

31:29Ben Meiselas:And then he wants us to cheer for him like he's Shamu at SeaWorld for putting out the fire that he creates, which often creates more fires. Then he passes this to the next president and then MAGA for the next four years, eight years, they all of a sudden say, it was your fault. You did it. Not Donald Trump. You. We're now all of a sudden China hawks and this type of hawk and deficit hawks and all of these things. When all of these people are complicit in the weirdest idiocracy, warmongering, weakest, most pathetic view of America, I think ever. And it's on the 250th anniversary of our country.

32:25Ben Meiselas:We look weak. We look weird. We look like a bunch of losers. I don't know how other people in our country can't see that to the rest of the world, the United States is weak, weird, and losers under Donald Trump. That's what the G7 showed. And it pains me as a patriotic American to say that. But when you have someone running the United States, like a Trump meme coin or a Trump NFT or a Trump property with mold all over, whatever, that's just not how you run things. I'm not saying this as a pro-democratic message, as a pro-independent message, as a pro-Republican message. I'm just saying that there are basic skills of leadership that are so utterly lacking and that what we see here shouldn't be occurring.

33:31Ben Meiselas:Like we, the people, need to, I know you do, but we need to have like much higher standards and people who are leading us. We need to pick the best of us, not literally the worst and most grifter con artist among us. We'll talk more about that when we come back from our first quick break of the show. A reminder, hit subscribe. Help us get to 7 million subscribers. Subscribe to Midas Touch on Audio as well. We'll be right back with Ben on breaking news after our first quick break. It's so annoying that all of my devices have different charging cords. Your phone, your headphones, your watch, your Kindle, all different.

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40:11We have the overhead view, Jeremy, just to show people maybe what it looks like. So you can see over here, audio listeners, you can see as you get closer to the World War II Memorial and you get closer to the Lincoln Memorial over there, some of that green algae sludge looks like it's a little bit removed, at least from this overhead. But the, I would say, 85 to 90 percent of the reflecting pool, including some areas close to the World War II and some areas close to the Lincoln Memorial, are fully infested with the algae. About 80 to 90 percent fully infested with algae. Would everybody agree with me looking at this image that that's what it is?

40:58We have other photos of, you know, some of the ducks swimming in the algae. I mean, this is as you zoom in and it's really harmful to the ducks because they put in hydrogen peroxide also, which could kill these ducks and their baby ducks as well. This photo was taken around the same time that the interior secretary posted what I'm about to read for you. And I think we can see that one of the big issues also is that when you put hydrogen peroxide into something like this. Anybody with a basic sense of science would know this one. The sheer amount of hydrogen peroxide you'd have to put in to kill the algae forever is kind of impossible.

41:42But what hydrogen peroxide will do is it will destroy the paint. Anybody knows what happens if you put hydrogen peroxide on me. I feel like I'm back in my fifth grade science class, right? And so now the blue paint from the bottom is now surfacing and it almost

41:59Ben Meiselas:looks like it's like growing like a creature. Like it almost looks like it's growing like a stingray. It looks like stingrays are flying around or like floating around. Do we have that one from Jean-Claude Damvan? Do we have that one? Silly name handle. Hydrogen peroxide uses paint remover. Anyway, you can see these big mounds. There's a nice big chunk of the reflecting pool. Oh, it is blue. How about that? A big chunk of it for you.

42:41$18 million well spent. Yeah, it looks like a stingray. It doesn't look like It looked like a stingray. You know, it's like growing, it's growing like zombie creatures in these reflecting pool. This is what they write though. The interior press handle writes,

43:02Ben Meiselas:the advanced nanobubbler technology very effectively killed the algae that has plagued every Lincoln reflecting pool reopening. Most infamously, Obama reopening since 1922. The reflecting pool water is crystal clear and our National Park Service team is now vacuuming up the dead algae resting on the bottom of some parts of the reflecting pool, just like the destroyed Iranian Navy resting on the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Is Donald Trump actually writing these? Is he and Stephen Chung and Dan Scavino writing these? I think they are. But how could you more perfectly make the metaphor for me that I'm trying to make about the reflecting pool and the algae, that you can't just paint something blue to fix the problem and then just tell people it's a miracle and it's amazing?

43:58Ben Meiselas:That's what Trump did during COVID. It's always some scam. Inject yourself with bleach, like a miracle that will go away. The sunlight's going to kill it. In Easter, Jesus is going to kill it or something. I don't understand the Easter one. Jesus is going to get to an Easter time, so the curve will be bent by Easter. In the summer, it's going to be so hot that there won't be any COVID. Like a miracle, it's going to go away. We all remember. We remember that cycle. The nanobubbler advanced technology effectively killed the algae. It didn't. It didn't. It didn't effectively kill the algae. And the thing about algae is that it will keep coming back because the water source is the Potomac, which has algae.

44:43Ben Meiselas:And also if birds or animals or other things go into the reflecting pool, they have the ability to bring algae in. Even if you effectively put it through a nanobubbler filtration system and the algae will come back and it will spread. and it will spread quickly because that's what happens when you have a shallow reflecting pool in a swamp, especially over the summer. That's what happens. So that's the reality. And then why I bring this up now, first off, how deranged is that? Like just really deranged. But then you go to this J.D. Vance press conference today and I'll be real with you. There are some things that J.D.

45:30Ben Meiselas:Vance said in this press conference that I said I agree with, particularly when he would be very critical of Israel's occupation in Lebanon. I listened to it. I mean, I might just because I don't like Trump and J.D. Vance doesn't mean I'm going to just say everything they say is wrong. Because sometimes I get that. Is there anything they say? Look, the bottom line is you shouldn't have got into this unlawful war with Netanyahu in the first place. But when J.D. Vance says something that I agree with, I'm not going to lie to you and say I don't agree with it. Even if I despise J.D. Vance and think that he's a liar and a chameleon opportunist who will do whatever he can to get power, including kill us all, I think.

46:16He's a real sicko, but it's the reality. But I'll show you first some of the stuff that he said that I obviously don't agree with.

46:23Ben Meiselas:And it goes back to what I was saying there in the reflecting pool. And here J.D. Vance talks about how he can't just stand on business with his memorandum of understanding, right? With what he and Trump did, because that's what grownup leaders would do, right? But like losers and weak and insecure people would have to go up and say things like the Obama nuclear deal allowed enrichment. Ours won't. The Obama deal gave them a billion dollars of American money. This gives them zero dollars. The Obama, this is better than Obama. Grow up. Grow up. It isn't better than Obama. The Obama deal, in terms of it actually being a deal and it accomplishing something that was actually being complied with and followed was a stronger deal.

47:22Ben Meiselas:But why does everything have to be relative to Obama or Biden? That's setting aside Democrat, Republican. We're recording this live June 18th, 2026. Why do you have to keep bringing up Obama and Biden. Just stand on business and say, we like this deal. We think this is a strong deal. Give peace a chance. We believe that of all of the options, this was the strongest. Just say that. Just say that. That's what leaders do. Losers do this. Let's play the clip. And where we're coming at it is we already destroyed your nuclear program. And so if you promise and show verifiable pathways to not rebuild it, then we're willing to give you some sanctions relief and things like that.

48:16So it's a fundamentally different perspective. Now, there are all these substantive differences as well. The Obama nuclear deal allowed enrichment. Ours will not. The Obama deal allowed the accumulation of stockpiled weapons-grade material. Ours is actually leading to the destruction of that stockpile of enriched material. So there are many differences. The Obama deal gave them over a billion dollars of American money. This deal gives them zero dollars of American money. I mean, again, quite literally everything he said was false.

48:44Ben Meiselas:And that's not cool. Because just stand on business of your deal. Just stand on the business of your deal. And you don't have to lie about Obama. When you do things like that, that shows me how insecure and weak you are, and that shows the rest of the world. You said that Obama's deal allowed for enrichment and yours doesn't. Yours does allow for low-grade enrichment. Non-weapons grade is actually allowed under the terms of what you suggested. The IAEA is supposed to meet tomorrow on Friday in Switzerland, the same organization that Obama utilized that's going to try to use a similar framework.

49:35Ben Meiselas:And the idea was then that Iran could use nuclear power for non-weapons purposes. And this purports to try, because you haven't done the deal yet, but the IAEA will be coming in to try to do the same exact thing that Obama did. And now you're just doing it with all of these concessions to Iran. And then you went on and said Obama allowed for like weapons stockpile. It didn't. That's just an objectively false statement. You said Obama gave American dollars. That's just false. It didn't. It didn't. It unfroze money. Well, it unfroze less money than you're unfreezing, but the Obama deal unfroze money that traced back decades to around the period right around the revolution or kind of pre-revolution.

50:27It unfroze$1.7 billion.

50:31Ben Meiselas:If you take a look at some of the other sanctions that were unfrozen by Obama, you can make an argument that all of the sanctions combined that were unfrozen could exceed$100 billion. If you add them all up of unfreezing, that wasn't American money going to Iran. Right now, Iran will probably make off of this Trump deal, not just$300 billion in an investment fund that the US has to facilitate. And when you go, oh, but that's not taxpayer dollars for the US, of course, it's taxpayer dollars for the US, indirectly or directly. So just say not directly. Say it's not like the American taxpayer is going to pay$300 billion.

51:23Ben Meiselas:So you want to know the indirect path? It's pretty obvious. That$300 billion that the US is now fighting for, we're fighting for a$300 billion fund for Iran, where you would expect the president of the United States to fight for$300 billion funds for the United States. I mean, when you think about, what was it,$200 to$300 billion for rural hospitals that were cut by Donald Trump's so-called Big Beautiful Bill, well,$300 billion of a private investment fund is going to Iran. Now, that's just the reality. We got into a catastrophic and unlawful war because you all followed Netanyahu into this. I think you also wanted to cover up the Epstein file.

52:22Ben Meiselas:I still believe as far as all options go, this is still the best option. So explain to us why the$300 billion is a productive investment. And ultimately, if it could lead to slashing our military budget from$1.5 trillion to$500 billion, because now we don't need to spend that extra trillion in the Middle East and we'll still have spent more money by leaps and bounds than any country. You could sell me on it. You could, I mean, again, put aside, I don't believe that this catastrophic and unlawful war shouldn't have happened. I get it. We shouldn't be the ones paying for it. I get it. But again, you need to speak to us all like we're adults.

53:11Ben Meiselas:Here we are in this situation. don't tell us there's no algae when there's algae. Don't tell us that everything's amazing when it's not amazing. Don't tell us we're in a golden age when we're not in a golden age, when people are suffering right now. So I'll go back to though now where I've seen J.D. Vance say some things that I listened to and I was like, you know i i thought you know he makes a point here jd vance is speaking to the parliament in israel and he's speaking to netanyahu as part of this press conference he held and he was basically saying i'm not sure why it's wise for you to attack us without us you won't have any weapons or you won't have anything here's what jd vance says about that let's play that clip What I will say, and this does bother me, is that you've seen people within BB's cabinet who have come out and attacked the deal and in some ways very personally attacked the president of the United States.

54:14And I guess my message to them would be twofold. Number one, Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time. And he happens to be the head of state of the world superpower. If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world. And the second message I would give to some of those cabinet members, BB, to his credit, has not gone down this path. But to some of these cabinet members in Israel who are attacking the president of the United States, the other thing that I would say is that over the last three months, two thirds of the defensive weapons that have protected your homeland have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars.

55:04The problem for Israel is not Donald J. Trump. And anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the president of the United States needs to wake up and smell the reality of the situation that country is in. Thank you all. When he was on a podcast with New York Times, he also said my response to Israel would be, what's your proposal? You're a country of nine million people. You just think you're going to kill everybody. That's how you're going to try to get out of this. Here's what he said. Let's play it. But, yeah, you've seen people in their system, Ben Gavir and Smotrich, who've attacked the deal.

55:41And I guess my response to them would be, what is your exact proposal? And, you know, you're a country of nine million people. You can't just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have. Look at what. But you got into this war with Netanyahu. You were shoulder to shoulder last June, last February. Oman negotiated a deal.

56:12Ben Meiselas:You want to put aside Obama's deal? Put aside Obama's deal for a second. Because that's obviously very triggering to the snowflake Trump regime people. February 27th, Oman's foreign minister goes on CBS, announces a deal between the United States and Iran that doesn't have any of these concessions that the current deal has for Iran. Nothing about Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz because they didn't then. Nothing about

56:51Ben Meiselas:Iran being able to continue with proxy groups and none of that. None of no$300 billion fund, none of these things. That deal was done February 27th. And right when the deal was done. And all you had to do was say yes. And then we wouldn't be June 18th, where we now have an MOU, which isn't really even a deal. You could have just said yes on February 27th. And instead, Netanyahu calls Trump and says, I'm doing it right now. We're attacking the same tactic that Netanyahu used with Obama and Biden that they said, okay, go do it on your own. We don't have your back. The same way now you're hearing J.D.

57:43Ben Meiselas:Vance and Trump say those things, whether they mean it or not, is TBD. And I think lots of question marks. And I think we know the answer that Trump and J.D. are probably going to fold like a cheap suit very quickly. But then you started this war and now you seem to be in a five-month, six-month period or less taking all of the exact opposite positions that you took, but then also not acknowledging the why and then gaslighting all of us. Again, we're not supposed to realize that you were the arsonist and now you want to be the firefighters putting it out. And we know that you did this with Netanyahu.

58:31Ben Meiselas:You did this. You were the big champions of this. You told everybody that you would be greeted like heroes in Iran and it would be amazing and this would be easy and it would be like Venezuela as you described it and the world would love it and this would be amazing. And the incongruity in all of this, obviously, is that you're pretending the algae isn't there. You're pretending we won when we lost. And this document makes a lot of sense when you lose. And it makes a lot of sense, perhaps. I'm not sure about the$300 billion funds and all these things, but a deal that empowers the Middle East to do the Middle East and allows the US to focus on the US.

59:34Ben Meiselas:It doesn't mean that America should shirk its role globally in being a force for good, but we know under Donald Trump, it's the opposite. America is a predatorial country. But my point is generally that I think, and the American people, I believe, feel that we've gotten into all these never-ending wars in the Middle East where America's been losing lives and treasury for nothing, and it's only made the problem worse and exacerbated it. And a fundamental rethinking of America's position there was needed. And it shouldn't have taken being on the verge of global economic depression. And now we've admitted to Iran what the situation is.

1:00:25Ben Meiselas:They knew before what the situation was. Iran's a very sophisticated society. So when, again, it's a version of saying the algae isn't there when Donald Trump and J.D. Vance would portray Iranians as cavemen. They're the cavemen screaming Allah bar or something, running around. You don't understand the Iranian society and its pride and its history and the Persian thousands of years of history and the sophisticated engineering and culture and the complexity amongst different groups and factions and what's the true dynamic there. And so you've portrayed victory, no algae, crystal clear, it's blue, but then you've done the equivalent of throwing hydrogen peroxide and nanobubblers and all of the things, versions of that at it, which don't reflect that you've actually done what you said you've done.

1:01:31Ben Meiselas:So it creates this sense of confusion and loser behavior and defeat and awkwardness and just never-ending nature of this. American people are saying, I saw a stat before going live. that for the first time, the national average in gas right now, ain't this in California, so take it for what it's worth,$3.99. And it went down dramatically. I'm not sure that necessarily you're going to feel that over this long three-day weekend or not. I'm certainly not here in California, I can tell you that much. But if that's true, as the gas companies have put out that stat. I want that to happen. Just because I hate Trump and I hate Vance because of what they do doesn't mean I want to root for$7 gas prices so I could dunk on them and say, see, look.

1:02:33Ben Meiselas:People are really suffering right now. And this is part of the problem, I think, with media in general and especially as we get close to midterms when people are talking about persuasion and focus groups and, well, this ad moved people in this direction and that direction. You're fundamentally viewing things wrong, especially you see these conversations amongst the Democratic Party a lot right now, this debate. Should we have more centrist candidates? Should we have more leftist candidates? Should we have candidates who look more like this person or more like that person. And then you have all of these political pundits who pretend to know it all, say, it's got to be this and it's got to be that.

1:03:25Ben Meiselas:And I like to say to all of that, just stop, just stop, just stop. What we need to be doing is we need to not love the sound of our own voice, what we need to do is listen and to hear what people are experiencing right now. And when you listen to the American people about what they are experiencing, what their fears are, what they're going through, we should just respond to that as human beings. It doesn't matter if you're going to say that this type of Democrat or that type of Democrat or this type of person or this politician or that type. Just be someone who fights for humanity. Listen to what people are saying.

1:04:23They'll tell you they are psychologically tortured right now every day because of what this Trump regime has done.

1:04:33Ben Meiselas:And the lies and the chaos compounds that psychological torture each day. People have had their health care ripped away. People can't afford their rent. They certainly can't afford to buy homes. People aren't getting jobs. When Trump promised, we're going to have a job boom. And lots of people saw some of those jobs coming back for the first time under Biden. And they see a lot of those jobs fading away right now. And also when people are able to get jobs, sometimes it's part-time, seasonal, or when they get a job, it isn't paying them the money that they need to afford rent, to afford basic necessities.

1:05:25Ben Meiselas:The war has compounded the problems that Trump has created. It didn't create them. It's compounded them because Trump's trade war against the world, his other reckless policies, the tariffs everywhere, the prioritizing his billionaire oligarch buds over the American people has resulted in inflation, which was heading to 2%, now going up to 5%. And it was steadily heading down to 2%. That's where it was going. And so people are psychologically tortured in this regime. You compound that AI, data centers, an uncertain future, other opportunities being taken away from the American people, never ending wars.

1:06:21Ben Meiselas:you add all of this together and you have people who really are worried you know you add to that ice raids and border patrolry and and and the division and the divisiveness and the hate and the vitriol people are scared you know and i i think about different models too i think about in Pennsylvania where you have a governor like Shapiro, who is leading in the governor's race by 30 points, 35 points. Governor Shapiro, a Democrat in a swing state. And lots of people would say, yeah, Shapiro's more centrist, right? They want to give it a label. Okay. Then I look at the incredible leadership of Mamdani in New York City, uniting the city, being with the people, delivering on the promises, working with the governor to bring an agenda that helps the people.

1:07:35Ben Meiselas:not afraid of this label or that label, and delivering an agenda that works. I think about Zoran Mamdani's incredible leadership. And I think that we have to just root our politics in the people, not try to focus on persuading you to like me more and more. Listen to what people are going through and deliver for the people. I watch Senator Ossoff's speeches in Georgia. And to me, that's some of the closest speeches I think we have to what I was seeing with Obama in 2007, 2008, right? And especially as you see the Georgia governor's race now with bottoms. potentially, you know, pulling ahead there significantly.

1:08:38Ben Meiselas:You could imagine a scenario there where Ossoff has a lot of momentum in that regard. I think about California. I think about Newsom's approach in fighting back and how that threatens and intimidates Donald Trump, such that Donald Trump's launched a DOJ criminal investigation against him. I think people write, It doesn't mean we have to agree with everything this person or that person does. But I just think fundamentally we have to focus and listen and truly show people that we're there and that we care and that we're fighting for them. Because if you don't do that, the void is filled by con artists.

1:09:28You see, a con artist like a Donald Trump or someone of his ilk, they see the vulnerability of people and they know how to prey on

1:09:43Ben Meiselas:it. They see it and say, aha, they sense it. Con artists sense it. They know how to prey on it and make these promises and drag people who are fearful into their orbit. And if we're not listening and paying attention and you're focused on, oh, three points of persuasion here, two points of persuasion here, this ad's going to do it, that ad's going to do it, this is going to do it, that's going to do it, and not saying, why am I doing this? you're always going to allow this void to be filled by the charlatans, the con artists, the Trumps, the people like that. So I hope we can kind of round out this episode by that perspective also.

1:10:36Ben Meiselas:And I think you just always got to be here fighting for people, caring about people, truly caring about people. And that's what I see in leaders like Mamdani as well. All right, I'll stop preaching. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. Help us get to 7 million subscribers. Tell others about the show. Subscribe to the Midas Touch on Audio. I'll see you on The Brother Show tonight at 8 Eastern, 5 Pacific. Thanks, everybody. 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 Filipkowski, add free episodes of our podcast and more exclusive content only available at MidasPlus.com.