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Look at him eating whatever he wants, never gaining a pound.
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Well, I'm stuck with the boring special and can't lose an ounce.
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How's your lunch, man? Amazing. Yours?
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So good.
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Oh, I'm so happy for you.
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Cool, buddy.
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He's blinking.
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He's not sleeping. We'll cover that. Also, everything Donald Trump does, he makes just incredibly weird. I mean, the Indiana college football team was at the White House today. Donald Trump didn't even know the name of the coach of the team. And then Trump started talking about the ballroom and how handsome some of the men were and how the fact that they're good looking makes Trump not like them, cuz he doesn't like good looking. It just made the whole thing so weird. Just, can we get through one thing where you don't behave like an actual lunatic? You know? And with all the drama, chaos, devastation taking place in the United States, it was good to see the people of Hungary rejoice. As it was finally the swearing in and inauguration of Peter Magyar. And after making it official that Viktor Orban, one of Trump's friends and fellow authoritarians, was finally kind of expelled and pushed out. Just to see the sheer joy of people in Hungary in front of the parliament building in Budapest gave, I don't know about you, it gave me hope and I'm like, all right, a few years that's gonna be us. And a few, hopefully sooner, but there is a future without authoritarians and we will to get through this. Also, you know, we've been hearing about Golden Ballroom this and Triumphal Arch that. Now, one of Donald Trump's big grifts and oddities is the reflecting pool, right? At the end of last week, he drove his motorcade through a reflecting pool that already suffers from cracks caused by the fact that D.C. is a swamp. And so Donald Trump's solution to all of this is to paint the reflecting pool, which already has algae and cracking issues and leak issues. Donald Trump's plan is drive the motorcade over it. And then he called in his pool guy. I'm not making that. Trump called in his pool guy, gave his pool guy a no bid contract where there's like a $4 to $5 million profit margin apparently in this no bid contract for Trump's own pool guy to paint it br bright blue. To paint a reflecting pool bright blue and turn it into a pool. And this is what he's been talking about as it seems that the war in Iran is very close to having open hostilities begin again as the Strait of Hormuz remains closed and as people in the United States are suffering right now and gas prices continue to go up. The people can't afford rent, people can't afford mortgages. The consumer sentiment numbers the worst in the history of the University of Michigan Consumer sentiment Survey. It it was more than, it was worse than last month's, which was the prior worse in history because that's how the American people are feeling now. We should also talk about A Ukrainian president Zelensky, who at this point is calling Donald Trump out and actually showing what a strong leader looks like, because Trump claimed that he was able to do a 24 hour cease fire where Trump called Zelinsky on behalf of Putin and beg Zelensky not to attack the Russian parade on May 9, which they call the Victory Day parade in Russia. And Zelinsky's like, okay, I'll agree to do it, but we got to do a prisoner swap. 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers get returned. We'll release 1,000 Russian soldiers. And then Zelensky agreed to do a ceasefire just for Red Square. Zelinsky did it, and then Putin didn't release the Ukrainian prisoners, and so Zelensky didn't release the Russian prisoners. And then Zelensky's like, hey, Donald, you claim this was your ceasefire and Russia's not living up to it. We didn't attack Red Square. But isn't it just fascinating that Donald Trump said that he was going to end the war in 24 hours and he can't even do a ceasefire of a small area for 24 hours? Not within the first 24 hours. I mean, just think about that. We'll talk about this and more on the Midas Dutch podcast. I'm Ben Meisellis. Let's bring in Brett and Jordy. A lot to discuss, brothers. Brett, it's good to see you right there, Jordy. It's good to see you, Jordy. How are you doing, Jordy?
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I'm doing well. Don't be fooled. Brett is. He's not frozen, Ben. I think that's your concern. Is. Brett's frozen. No, he's actually just blinking with.
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Sorry. I was blinking. I was blinking. I'm sorry.
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I genuinely. I thought you froze and we were going to have to restart this all over again.
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Made it a little Penny.
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No, I was. I was.
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I was blinking. You know, health experts Recommend you get 7 to 9 hours of blinking every single day. I didn't get a good sleep. I mean, I didn't get a good blink last night, so I figured I had to get my blink on during this episode, you know?
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No, it was really, really good. Ben was pretty scared. But, hey, Ben and I could have done the show. We've done it before. Just Ben and I, without you. Beats it on, don't I?
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Don't cue Ben into my beds.
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For the audio listeners.
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My eyes were closed when we.
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Can I just say this too. I'm really excited to get into tonight's show. I think we have. As Ben was saying at the upfront here, a lot to get into, a lot of interesting footage to show our live audience and for our audio listeners to really, you know, dig in and listen to. But as it relates specifically to the reflecting pool, and I know we'll get into this deeper. Trump has, like, a history of paying, you know, his pool people to do some obscure tasks. You know, whether it's this reflecting pool, painting it blue, or, you know, wasn't there something going down in Mar A Lago with a pool person and trying
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to hide some documents leak, and it, like, destroyed some of the classified documents or something?
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It's kind of aligns, like, really well with a lot of Trumpisms that, that we've seen over the course of the
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years, but neither here nor there to decorate.
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He's like, you know, Brett, anything to you before we kick at the bend to get started, just, I mean, just
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look at how hideous this looks. I mean, come on, folks. Like, this is the. The blue paint on the bottom of the reflecting pool. And Trump posts these AI images, this AI slop on his social media platform of what it's going to look like, but he literally, he just tells the AI to, like, make the water blue, and then he says, this was Hussein Obama's pool. This is my pool. And, like, the AI doesn't even get the Lincoln Memorial pointed in the right direction. Like, it's literally flipped. It's facing the wrong direction. It's facing backwards. We're living through, like, the dumbest times imaginable with, like, the dumbest, most dangerous idiot in charge. I'll. I'll have plenty to say throughout the episode, but we'll turn it over to Ben.
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Ben. Well, here's the thing. There was a lawsuit that was filed against Trump destroying the old reflecting pool and now painting it blue. It was one of these national historic preservation groups who also say, you know, the fact that the reflecting pool was a dark color and had a dark base, that's the point of a reflecting pool. I mean, it's a solemn tribute. It's a reflection, and quite literally is supposed to reflect the monuments also. And you reflect on it. It's not supposed to be a swimming pool. It's not supposed to be bright. And then also, the issue with the reflecting pool that goes back to the time it was built is DC Is a swamp. It gets very, very hot there. And so when you have intense.
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I remember, like, a political candidate who had a whole slogan around D.C. being a swamp. I just. I can't put my finger on it,
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but I Feel like that was not in any way connected to the actual, like, atmosphere around D.C. and like, the environment of D.C. actually being a swamp, though.
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I think it was both. I mean, I think the swamp and the swamp. It was a. There's a play on word charity, but
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I'm not giving them that much credit.
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You're not convinced?
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Not.
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It was. I'll give him at least that.
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It's not really. Not really a close call. The point that I want to make is that the issue that lots of presidents had to deal with, they didn't make the reflecting pool their top priority, but with National Park Services, et cetera, was it had algae buildup and it would have these cracks which would cause millions of gallons of water to leak. And that wasn't that environmentally friendly of a thing to have all this water leaking out and all of this algae in the area. And so Trump's solution, which isn't a solution, but Trump's plan to fix it is, let's drain it, then let's paint it blue. And then. So for a short period of time, it's gonna look bright blue. And then over time, though, what's going to happen? If you just looked at basic science, if you just understood what the problem is, it's not that it needed a $13 million paint job. Okay? It needed real systemic change. But his solution is just paint over it. It's a symbolism here that we'll talk about in the episode as well, which is why I'm bringing it up at the front, not because I want to talk about the reflecting pool. But his solution is not actually coming up with a fixed. It's painted blue. But what's the science if you paint it blue? Well, it's going to attract more of the heat, which is going to lead to more cracks. It's going to cause more algae formation. If it's bright blue, you're going to eventually see all of the algae. It's going to ruin everything. The $13 million, it's not going to look like what it looks like in the AI photos. And anyone who has a basic understanding of pool maintenance and science will tell you this is going to be very destructive and exacerbate the problem. Also, when you drive a motorcade over it for a publicity stunt in something that already suffers from cracks on its own, based on nature causing the cracks with the heat, you driving over it with 20 vehicles, it's going to cause even more problems. Okay? And I think that's a great way to start, because if you think about it, this is Donald Trump's approach to everything, Right? You give it a name. You call the catastrophic war in Iran with Trump and Netanyahu, Epic fury. And when that doesn't work, you come up with a new name, Project Freedom. And when that doesn't work, you come up with the new name. What's Lindsey Graham calling it? Project Freedom plus, dude, Project Freedom lasted less than 24 hours. Where you're like, we're going to bring in our naval destroyers and we're going to bring these ships out the Strait of Hormuz and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and others like, okay, well, then we're not going to give you our air bases. And then Trump's like, all right, well, I'm not going to do that. Project Freedom. Victory. Epic fury. Victory. We've now moved on. We've moved on to what? We may bring back Project Freedom. You bring it back and never, like, why are we even talking about this thing? Like it even existed. Like, it was something that he did for, like, 24 hours. Everything with this guy is the announcement. The gold car, the gold card. We're gonna bring in $5 trillion with the gold card. Okay. There's another lawsuit about the gold card, and we know from Howard Lutnick's testimony how many gold cards were sold to date? One. Hmm. But didn't you say there were 50,000 eligible people who were interested and it was going to bring in $5 trillion? Is that going to happen? No. And what happens in the lawsuit, Trump's DOJ admits, as it relates to the gold card, that it actually does not expedite anybody's visa process quicker than existing process. These that exist. And the DOJ had to admit it because if it was some super special expediting process, guess what you would need? I don't know, a little something called a law. So you have Donald Trump saying, I brought an 18 to 21 trillion dollars. Well, you didn't do that. You have Donald Trump saying that I gonna bring in 5 trillion with this. And. And it just turns out that everything is like, you know, we're just going to paint a little bit, and then we're going to pretend everything is great, Right? We're going to build three casinos right next to each other in Atlantic City. We'll paint it all gold, and we'll give it all of these, you know, lavish names. And then at the end of the day, it's like, so are you going to run the business? No, we're not going to run the business. Bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt. And that's what we're seeing over and over again. And so what is Donald Trump, you know, doing or not doing as it relates to the Strait of Hormuz? He's like frozen there. He thinks he's gonna social media post and do some branding that's gonna get him out of this, you know.
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Okay, Project Freedom.
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Project Freedom plus epic fury's over. All right, all right, guys. I'm gonna unleash hell if you don't do this in 24 hours. I'm gonna unleash this. I'm gonna. And Iran's like, you realize that you're just a ranting, raving lunatic. Like, we're not the Republican Party, we're Iran. Like, we know that every time you've set these deadlines, you don't follow through. You then change the deadlines over and over again. I mean, what. April 8, 2026, Donald Trump posted. The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be very productive regime change. There will be no enrichment of uranium and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried nuclear dust. It is now and has been under very exacting satellite surveillance. Space force. Nothing has been touched from the date of attack. We are and will be talking tariff and sanctions relief with Iran. Many of the 15 points already have been agreed to. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Remember in early to mid March we were telling you what was really happening. Remember at the Midas Touch network we said, look, Iran has a 10 point framework. They've been very clear what their non negotiables and red lines are. Iran views that they've won this war because all of the Trump regime's objectives have not been met. Regime change, removing the nuclear material, removing Iranians proxies, you know, installing a Trump puppet. None of it was achieved. And so Iran's like, why would we agree to things that you weren't able to achieve during the war? And when Donald Trump would threaten, I'm going to go and blow up all of your bridges and annihilate you and blow you out to the stone Age and bomb me to the Stone Age and blow you up to the stone, all these things, he doesn't do it and then he extends the deadline. And you know, this weekend we just saw another example of that. End of last week, Trump goes, oh, they're really serious this time. They're gonna give me a. They're, they're really interested in my latest proposal. All Trump's proposal was is the same things that were rejected before. And by the way, Trump agreed not to make this proposal again when he previously agreed to Iran's ten point framework. So it was not a shock that Iran responded and said no. And Iran's response was basically showing the 10 point framework. You know, they said, and they're trying to spell it out easy for Donald. They're like, okay, we're not going to talk about the nuclear material now. Okay, let's just agree at a very basic level to some basic points. Okay? We will agree that the Strait of Hormuz, you know, can go, can be open through an Iranian controlled route, but you got to remove sanctions. You've got to recognize our control over these straight up Hormuz. You gotta be willing to pay reparations. Why don't we start there, Donald? Let's keep it basic. And then Donald Trump's like, I don't like that plan, I don't like that plan, you know, or I'm really angry at that. Okay, well, what are you going to do about it? You're either going to have to escalate this war and drag America back into open hostilities, which would cause a global depression. That's your where you're out of munitions, even though you claim that's not true. We know Trump's out of munitions and the United States is out of munitions, or you have to make concessions with Iran. I don't know what this other plan is where you post social media posts, but it's like you want to paint it blue and think it's all going to go away. That's the best example. So Donald Trump is asked at this press conference today about, you know, the Strait of Hormuz, what's the status? And Trump says, actually, if you come to think about it, losing the Strait of Hormuz to Iran is, quote, genius because countries are buying all of their oil from Texas now. So it's all amazing. This is great, everybody. This was the goal from the outset. He literally says that. Here, play this clip.
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What's happening is when this first, when people heard about losing hormones, they said, oh, this is, it's genius. They're finding other locations. And some of those people, I spoke to them, companies and countries, some of those people are going to continue to go to Texas. They like it better. They said it's an extra 45 minutes. They like it better. And it's sort of amazing, you know, it found its way. So a lot of people thought oil would go to 250, $300. It's not. I mean, today it's at less than 100. Think of that. Now when this ends, you're going to see a drop like Iraq.
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How long are you going to suspend that tax for?
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Till it's appropriate. Yeah.
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The other thing that he said there, there's so much wrong with what he said, but when he goes, they like Texas better. It's like, it's like 45 minutes is like the difference between like a McDonald's and a burger. It's 45 minutes away. It's just a little bit longer, but it's. It's a little bit better. How is that. How could the President of the United States even say such a thing? Right? I mean, it shows zero understanding of the way international oil markets work. Now you're framing losing the Strait of Hormuz as a victory. And then, you know, Trump's sick offense. But, yeah, that's what we wanted the whole time. The win was none of the things that we said, give Iran the Strait of Hormuz. Yeah. Obama was so weak to think that Obama stopped Iran from developing nuclear weapons and Iran didn't control the strait of her moves. Oh, what are you doing, Obama? And then Donald Trump calls the proposal from Iran over here. And Iran's proposal is, we control the Strait of Hormuz. There's no regime change. Remove the sanctions against us, cease fire in Lebanon as well. And Trump said, this is unacceptable. And Trump says, I have a plan, though my plan is so genius. We've already won with my plan. Here's what Trump says. Let's play the clip of Trump saying calls for the proposal from Iran unacceptable. And says a lot of people say, well, does he have a plan? Yeah, of course I do. Narrator. He has no plan.
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Let me look for this one.
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All right, take a look at that. But, Brett and Jordi, I'll let you respond to all that.
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As Brett looks for that clip. I just wanted to say this just to start. First off, Ben, you are so right. Like, the reflecting pool is the perfect microcosm of Trump's entire presidency, his entire existence. It's short term thinking, short term perceived glitz and glam. Think the Ponzi scheme, stock market. Think Trump media. Think Liberation Day. Think Operation Epic Fury. Go on and on. Right? Like this huge splash moment to make all the magas go, ooh, nah. But there's no substance behind these moves, and there's legitimately no thinking behind these moves, like long term thinking. And worst of all, all of the moves are in the sole purpose of, of serving one person and making one person look good. At least that's the attempt with these things. Donald Trump, without any care for the repercussions or the actual tangible impacts of these moves for the American people at large. People are feeling it. I mean like literally every day. Just one example is the gas prices right now. I mean they are simply outrageous. I don't know how Americans are doing it. It is crazy. And then not to get into more, you know, even more serious topics like our dead soldiers, 13 dead American soldiers off of this war of choice by Donald Trump. It is ridiculous. Donald Trump, in my opinion, is the single most anti American president we have ever had in this country. Every move, every single one is in the interest of him and him alone. And how could they, how could this make me, Donald Trump look good instead of trying to find the interest of the American people and making long term impacts for the American citizens at large? There is none of that thinking that ever goes into any of this from Donald Trump.
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Well, it's also like, you know, there's no consistency in anything Trump does. So like Trump always tries to say, oh, I'm always under budget. I'm always ahead of schedule and under budget. And like with the reflecting pool, it's already, the price has already jumped up 88% to $13.1 million. And it has that 20% profit margin that Benny was talking about to a contractor or Trump hand picked with a no bid contract. And this is the same guy who's going after like Jerome Powell saying that he went over budget with the Federal Federal Reserve building. And meanwhile, you remember he's also talking about the ballroom which he said is going $0 to taxpayers. Now they're demanding a billion dollars from taxpayers. There's just no consistency with anything he does. It's all one fraud layered on top of another fraud layered on top of another fraud. And he uses any of those other inconsistencies to attack his own political enemies and try to threaten them. I got the clip that Ben was calling for before. Let me play it right now. Can you tell us anything about that
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proposal and what, if any? Well, it was just made to break this down.
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It was just, you know, a lot of people said, well, does he have a plan? Yeah, of course they do have a plan. I have the best plan ever. Iran has been defeated militarily, totally. They have a little left they probably built up during this period of time. We'll knock that out in about a day. But I have a plan. You know, that's a very simple plan. I don't know why you don't say it like it is. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
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D
That's not a plan.
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Okay?
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It's not a plan. You don't have a plan, and there is no plan. There hasn't been a plan. And he could just keep lying his way through it. But the fact is, I think Trump thought that this was going to be a Venezuela type situation where he could go in, leave quickly, claim victory, but he's now stuck in a war. And you can't just. It takes two to tango in these wars, right? If one party wants to keep fighting, they could keep fighting. And if that party, in this case Iran, views that they have won the war, and by any of those metrics that Ben listed, they have won the war, then they are the ones who get to dictate the terms here. And so Donald Trump needs to come to the table. And now Trump needs to make some concessions and he needs to land on a deal which is going to now be worse for the United States, worse for the way. Worse than the way things were then prior to this war, because Trump is going to have to give stuff up. And you see Iran already making these red lines around their control over the Strait of Hormuz and getting the United States out of the region. You're seeing regional partners of the United States who have even throughout this process supported the United States, like Saudi Arabia. They, I think, at this point are kind of viewing the United States as a more dangerous. Dangerous to their own existential survival than Iran at this point because of what Trump is doing, because of the way that Trump made them a target by having Iran turn their missiles on them after Trump attacked them, with Trump not responding to those attacks at all. So right now, the region is incredibly volatile. You see saber rattling now on both sides. You see MB Golubov, the parliament speaker, hinting that Iran is awaiting the United States, his next military action, and they are ready and they will strike back. This could get very ugly very quickly. I honestly don't think that Trump even wants to get into any more battle, if not, if for anything else, just because he's, like, bored of it. I think he gets bored of things and he wants to move on. He wants to go to the next thing. It's like, you know, the Fort Knox thing, right? He was looking for gold at Fort Knox and then a reporter asked him about the gold at Fort Knox over the weekend and he was like, what are you talking about, gold at Fort Knox? I never said that. I said that.
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That's weir.
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He says things and Then he moves on to the next thing. And when it's lying about, I'm going to find the stolen gold at Fort Knox, it's a different. It's a bit different of a lie than lying yourself into a war where now you have an entire country trying to take you down, trying to get you out of it. And you cannot just bail. You cannot just say, I'm going home, you know? You know, I think back to Ben when we used to play video games as a kid. When you would lose the game, right, you would shut off the game. You know, theoretically, right, you'd shut off the game, you'd run upstairs before I could actually declare victory. That would be the way that you would do it.
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And.
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Okay, okay, you're gonna. You're gonna deny this live on camera. Okay, Ben, I see it. Unfortunately for Donald Trump, he cannot just shut off the game and run away. There are actual repercussions for that. Other than me crying because I didn't get my win registered against you, you know?
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
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Not that I'm still thinking about it all these years.
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Wait, Jordy, hold on.
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I'm pretty sure it was actually Brett for the viewers and listeners that would shut off the games on. Ben and I are after we.
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Yeah, absolutely not.
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And not only that, anything would happen when Jordy and I would win. We would play we are the Champions and Brett would cry. And then in the future, he would cry a lot.
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Listen, it's not that I'm still thinking about this 30 years later, but I just thought it was important.
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By the way, the song from Queen, the We Are the Champ, that was such a staplehood of our child. Anytime one of us won any of the games, the We Are the Champion song would come on almost immediately, and then one or both other brothers would be crying because that song was playing.
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Yeah, but really, here's the key of playing We Are the Champions. You have to win the game.
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Yes.
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And Donald Trump wants to sing We Are the Champions, but he lost. And Iran knows he lost, and everybody knows he lost. So there ain't going to be any Queen song playing for Donald Trump right now. He's got to play like I'm a loser baby or something, right?
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Actually, let me phrase it. You actually have to win. You have to win if you want to sleep with the knock hockey puck, which was also a thing that we did. We'd have the knock hockey tournaments and the winner would get to sleep with the puck. But really quick, I'm going to bring this back Brett. Exactly. Donald Trump right now, what he's doing with Iran is he's treating it like it's some sort of business deal, right? Like, like he's in an episode of the Apprentice and he's trying to negotiate, like, trying to do this hardball sort of negotiation. That's not where we are, right? Like, American troops, lives are on the line. There are real economic impacts. The longer this continues to go on, like I said, people are already feeling it, like, 10 times over at the pump right now. It's absolutely outrageous and ridiculous. And Donald Trump is out here thinking that he could, you know, just. Just get daddy's lawyers and use daddy's money to, to intimidate a contractor into just submitting. But in this analogy here, we're dealing with war. We're dealing with a country here that is angry that the United States has also bombed the little girls school during all of this. So is so, like, beneath the presidency here for Donald Trump to just kind of behave in a manner where he thinks, like, people will just get bored, right? Oh, people are gonna get bored that our troops are dying in this war. People are gonna get bored by paying tooth and nail at the pump. People are gonna get bored about this stuff. No, there are real life implications the longer this goes on. This is not an episode of the Apprentice, and it's absolutely ridiculous that he treats this like it is.
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You know, you see the power of media manipulation in this, though, because when all of corporate news and state regime media throws its weight behind Donald Trump's imaginary negotiations with nobody when it comes to matters of war and peace, and creates the sense that maybe there's progress, maybe there's hope right around the corner. Think about when that gets unleashed on Donald Trump's political enemies and the political enemies of the oligarchs, and when they want to basically use the same tactics to go after California Governor Gavin Newsom and say, look, it's the smelt fish. That's why they're all of these fires. He was protecting smelt, and he didn't turn on the faucet. And you use the same media manipulation, you know, tactics, because that's what Trump is used to doing. He's trying to now win a war with American propaganda media, trying to control a narrative and just spread lies and disorient what's actually happening on the ground. And Iran has studied this. It's not a coincidence that Iran's doing the Lego videos or the troll accounts. You know, they're not just doing it to be funny or to troll Donald Trump. They recognize the and they've studied the kind of psychological tactics in order to kind of neutralize and push back against Donald Trump's right wing media manipulation. You know, that exists. And you see the power of this thing where, you know, he'll call up this reporter, that reporter, you know, and they will move markets, they will create this phony narrative of okay, Iran's moving close. And actually a source tells us this about the ayatollah. And now a source tells us that like none of it is actually, you know, ending up to be true. And then Iran gets out its messages where it's like, this was Iran's reaction to Donald Trump saying that he was upset at how Iran responded to Donald Trump's demand that Iran surrender. This is what Iran told their state media. We just saw the reaction of the so called President of the United States to Iran's response. It doesn't matter at all. No one in Iran drafts plans, plans to please Trump. The negotiation team should only draft plans for the rights of the Iranian nation. And if Trump is not satisfied with it, that is naturally better. Trump generally does not like reality. That is why he keeps on losing to Iran. We'll pause there. We'll take our first quick break of the show. When we come back, I want to talk to you about Hegseth now threatening Senator Mark Kelly yet again for pointing out that the United States is significantly depleted in terms of our munitions, the Patriot system, the Thaad system, other interceptor systems and missile capabilities. I want to talk more about the Trump regimes, you know, trying to do Putin's bidding when it comes to Zelensky. I want to talk about what's going on in Hungary. I want to talk more about this bizarre press conference that went on today. A lot of other topics we'll cover here in this episode. So let's take our first quick break of the show. A reminder, subscribe to the Midas Touch YouTube channel and subscribe to the Midas Touch on audio. Wherever you get your audio podcasts, search Midas Touch and subscribe on audio and leave a five star review there. All right, let's take our first quick break of the show. We'll be right back.
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Yeah, I need to see.
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I need to see people say in the comments. Let us know in the comments if you. If you play Knock eye. Knock hockey was the best.
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Sleeping with the puck, though, is not regional. That was a weird brother thing that we would.
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Yeah, yeah, we made that up.
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So let me just. Let me just clarify for the audience, and we'll get back to the topic. In order to rub it in the brother's face, who won the puck would be the trophy. And so to sleep with the puck would be the ultimate way to rub it into the brother's face that you were such a champion that you would sleep with the puck. All right, that's a good transition. Brett's like, let's get on with the show. Donald Trump was falling asleep in the Oval Office press conference today. And we've seen this time and time again with Donald Trump. I mean, he likes to brag about how he never sleeps. And I've never heard of a administration, although I call this a regime, but I've never heard of past administrations. Brag that this person never goes to sleep. I was never a fan. And there were always people like that in, like, college and law school. I never sleep. I'm like, that's not a brag. You're human. Like, humans should get sleep. Like, that's not a good thing that you're not sleeping. And in fact, you should look into that, because I want people who are well rested who sleep during the hours. Doesn't mean you need the hours you're supposed to sleep. It doesn't mean that you should be, you know, sleeping excessively or if you sleep little. I'm not gonna like, look down upon it, but like, like getting sleep is part of being a healthy person. But Trump, I never sleep. And then like you always hear people from the regime, so incredible. He never sleeps. Yes, he does. He sleeps in front of us during the press conference. He falls asleep and it's not like he closes his eyes for three seconds. There are minutes where the guy's eyes are closed and he's full fledged sleeping. I mean, you can show it right here for our audio listeners. We're showing video of him, you know, listening to other people talking. And then he falls asleep, he closes his eyes and then just starts sleeping. And then he'll like get startled and he'll wake up. This goes on for a long time. I mean, I cut it after 15 seconds because you get the point. I'm not going to show you Trump's sleep for two minutes straight, but he sleeps. And by the way, it's okay, you know, clearly you're very tired. We all saw you sleeping. You did it. But what does the White House say? Rapid response. The rapid response account goes and makes a post. He was blinking, you absolute moron. So responding to someone posting a Reuters photo and a Reuters video of him sleeping. He's sleeping and the White House calls the person posting it a moron.
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The funny thing is, so this is someone who works with Reuters who posted the image here and they didn't even mention that Trump was sleeping. In the caption at all is just a photo of Trump. And it says, US President Donald Trump attends a maternal health event in the Oval Office at the White house in Washington D.C. united States, May 11, 2026. Reuters, Evelyn Hochstein. That's all they wrote.
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They tell on themselves. They tell on themselves.
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And here's the thing, they called it maternal health. And then Donald Trump spent most of it ranting and raving about the war and how it's brilliant to shut down these strain of Hormuz. But it's. The focus actually wasn't on the maternal aspect of it. It was focused on men's sperm. And they kept on talking about how do we help men's sperm? And that it's because liberals that the sperm is not as strong. And you know, and you have these female politicians behind him, you know, who are like these Republican female politicians. And you know, and like it looks right out of the handmade maid's tale. And they're like laughing at this as like creepy RFK Jr who sleeps with raccoon penises. Like he cuts off raccoon penises and sleeps with it. And, you know, someone who, what, he kept a diary of all the people who he cheated on his wife for before. Before his wife allegedly died by suicide. And then Epstein wrote about that in his emails and wrote oopsie about that. Or words to. Or words to that effect. You know, I mean, you have RFK Jr. You know, who's engaged in some of the most, you know, just vile and disgusting acts. You know, he's out there, you know, you know, talking about sperm. And it's a sperm. It's a sperm press conference. Here, just play this clip of what RFK Jr was saying.
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The fertility crisis for women began in 2007 for men. In 1970, men had twice the sperm count as our teenagers do today. This is an existential crisis for our country. We had a series of presidents that were trying to discourage childbirth and motherhood in this country. We now have a president that is trying to encourage it. And I want to thank you again for your leadership.
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The hell was that? I mean, what the hell were we watching there? We won't do the voice, but we had do it. We had been over. We had prior. I'm not going to do the voice. We had prior administrative. We had priority administrations. It was their fault for not encouraging motherhood. I mean, what the heck are they talking about?
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You're so right, though. The faces, too. Sorry to interrupt. The faces of the people watching RFK deliver this, whatever you want to call that is dystopian. It's so freaky.
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D
It was measuring the sperm count in teenage boys. I mean, it's not a test I remember taking, but RFK seems to know a lot about it.
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B
And again, what was this talk supposed to be about?
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D
It was about maternal health, but you know, and they also like to step back from that.
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Incredibly, maternal health gets right into sex and boy sperm. I mean, just think where they brought it right away, though. Like, there's a lot of things you could talk about with maternal health, infant mortality rates, the care that women get at hospitals, disparate treatment for women of color, undisparate treatment of lower income women in the. In the care that they get. The issue of, you know, pregnancies that aren't discussed with complication. I mean, there's so many things that you could actually be discussing. And they talk about teenage boys. I mean, it's like it's, you know, sperm and they talk about everything but the problem.
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Dr. Oz, during the same Prescott.
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Whatever.
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What the hell you want to call whatever that was. Dr. Oz made a comment he said one in three Americans are. And this was.
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Is.
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This is an exact quote. One in three Americans are under babied. Under babied, huh? He said that means either you have no children or have less children than you would normally want to have. We have a crisis that is causing our fertility rate to drop. But they try to diagnose, you know, this supposed issue.
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Right.
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Why aren't people having kids? Which is a very, you know, totally valid question to ask, you know, in my opinion. But putting aside all the very creepy things that they are around this and treating women like they are out of the Handmaid's Tale and talking about teenage boy sperm and all the weird things that they're talking about, but the thing that they want to avoid speaking about is the reason why people aren't having as many kids these days as they were in the past. And it's, to me, a simple reason. And it's probably the reason for most of the problems in our society right now, and that's that income inequality is so vast and that most people in this country do not have the means to support children. I mean, you used to be able to, on a single income, support a family, send a kid through college. You could have a guaranteed pension. You could be assured that your child would live a better life than you in an ideal world. Now we are experiencing the opposite. We are experiencing people who are unable to afford kids. They could barely afford their own housing. They could barely afford their own food, and now we're expecting them to go out there and have a whole bunch of kids. I mean, you have to address the root cause of the issue. And to me, the root cause of the issue is obvious. It's income inequality. It's the fact that people don't have money. And the people in power are too afraid to admit it because they are the ones extracting that wealth from the people and causing those problems. And now we're seeing this effect ripple through the entire economy. We're seeing some of these CEOs of these various companies speak out, and they're starting to say, like McDonald's CEO, like Otto. We're starting to see slowdowns at McDonald's that. That are very similar to the slowdowns that we were seeing before the financial. Last financial crisis and the housing crisis in 2009. We're seeing CEOs like the Costco CEO. And Costco does actually a lot of really good things for their workers, I will say. But we're seeing the Costco CEO say we're looking at Our inventories, we're seeing people have moved on from purchasing chicken to now purchasing more canned tuna. And that also was a recession indicator from previous recessions. And when you really parse all of it, realize is you have all these billionaires in this society who have extracted all of this wealth, and they're happy to see themselves get richer and richer and richer as the stock market goes up, as they make all this money on everything they're doing. And then ultimately, somewhere down the line, you got to pay the price, because these people didn't become billionaires by selling to nobody. You know, for Jeff Bezos to have money, people need to buy products on Amazon. Right. For the CEO of whatever company people, there need to be people to buy their products. When you all of a sudden have a society that can't afford to buy anything, that's a major, major, major issue. And I think that's why we're kind of in this bubble right now that's essentially propped up by like seven tech or AI companies, and it's just like a house of cards that's weighed a topple.
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Yeah. Look, you want to know why people aren't having kids? It's because this country didn't live up to its end of the bargain for a couple generations here. Right. I'm not going to go deep down this, but there is essentially sort of like an unread, an unwri handshake agreement between, call it upper, you know, sort of millennials, Gen X with this country that said, hey, if we follow these subset of rules that this country has laid out before us, we go to school, we work hard, we get a job, we do all of these things, then we will be able to live as good of lives, if not better lives than our parents before us as, as they raised us. And as that sort of generation continued to get older, the wealth disparity in this country and the wealth inequality in this country grew larger and larger, Larger. And so all of a sudden, you have a lot of millennials and Gen X and older generations, too. But I'm specifically focusing on this group right here, looking around and say, hey, we lived up to our bargain. I went to college. You know, I spent a lot of money. I'm in debt. But I was told that after I got out of college and I get the job, then I could pay off the debt and, you know, maybe go on one or two nice vacations a year and take this money and put my kids through college, buy a house, do all of these things that, that, that again, I Thought I think we were all, you know, assuming if we followed these rules that we would, you know, sort of get to do. But the reality is that that's just not where we are. That's not the buying power that the money has right now. That's not the types of jobs that are actually paying its citizens. And then you see these AI companies out there, you know, just taking more and more jobs from folks. And, you know, it's getting scary as far as, okay, now that we have kids, what's this going to be in another 25, 30? How much more is this wealth disparity and this wealth inequality can continue to grow, Grow.
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Look, consumer sentiment is the worst it's ever been since the University of Michigan survey has been out in the first place. And so the University of Michigan survey has been, you know, around for about 60 years measuring consumer sentiment. The worst reading was last month or two months ago. And then the. That was surpassed by the month after that as well. And so it's been the worst. Why? Because to your point, Jordi and Brett, the American people are suffering, frankly, worse than they suffered in the Great Recession or other financial crises. It used to be during financial crises, it was kind of a shared crisis, right? And because the income disparity was still big, but not so vast that Americans shared the pain. And now all of that pain is what trickles down and the wealth remains at the top. And that kind of props up the gdp. So you don't have consecutive quarters of GDP that are negative, which would be the technical definition of a recession. So while the technical definition of a recession isn't met, most Americans feel that they're experiencing a depression because in their own personal life, they're experiencing foreclosures, they're not able to pay their credit card bills, they don't have healthcare, they can't afford healthcare, they can't afford gas, they can't afford basic things. But what Trump said during this weird maternal health press conference is he says, you know, young people today, they feel like billionaires. I used to say millionaires, but now you say billionaires, billionaires. And he says that young people feel like billionaires today because a billionaire, the billionaires, the Dell family, agreed to help the government put some money into Trump baby bank accounts or whatever so that that money can then be invested in the market to then go back to the oligarchs. And that's how they say, you know, now Americans feel like billionaires. The young people feel rich. There's no young people who feel like billionaires. Or millionaires, even. But this is what they do. They hold out this illusion that, you know, that, don't worry, you're like one of us. You're part of the billionaire club because we threw $1,000 in your account that you invest in the stock market, which props up our stock price, basically, which benefits the billionaires. Here, play this clip.
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And that's another one that's gone through the Trump accounts, where young kids, they turn 18 or 20 or 21, and they. They feel like. They feel like a billionaire used to say a millionaire. Now you say a billionaire. But they certainly feel rich as opposed to having absolutely nothing. It's so popular, right?
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And then Trump in this weird presser says that he was the hunted and now he's hunting. Now he's the hunter. Here, play this clip.
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You know, I was hunted. I was the hunter. Now, you know, I was. I was the hunted then, and I had to devote a lot of time to that. Otherwise I wouldn't have been too effective if I was out of office. I wouldn't been. So we. I was hunted by some very bad people. Now I'm the hunter. It's much better when you're the hunter, but these are bad people.
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And again, for those watching on video, you could rewind that a little bit and watch the faces of the women behind him. It's really deeply problematic that they're normalizing this behavior and they smile like. I mean, what are. Whether you're a mother, a father, a business leader, whoever, anyone. If somebody behaved like that in front of you, it's not funny. It's not a laughing matter. It's not anything like, they're smiling like, dude, he's. He's saying the dumbest, most dangerous stuff like, you know, someone in the room needs to be like, no, no, stop it. What are you saying? What are you talking about, you lunatic? You freaking psychotic maniac. You animal. What are you talking about? You sicko. You vile piece of trash. But what is that? What are we talking about? And then what? He turned. So after you have RFK talking about sperm and men's sperm and teenagers and sex and all of the weird creepy stuff, after you have Donald Trump saying that he's the hunter, he then tells the women who are there and other. Don't speak too long. I'm waiting for generals. Don't speak too long. Okay? I'm speaking to generals about Iran. That's how they pronounce it, Iran. Here, play this clip and Dr. Alex
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Adams, and you'll speak not too long. Because I am being waited on by a large group of generals. And that's also important, you know, having to do, having to do with the absolutely lovely country of Iran. That's the way they pronounce.
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I mean, Brett, he just looks, he looks extra sleepy, too, as, as he's talking about all this, like, it's, it's just so pathetic and disgraceful. Yeah, I commented on threads and blue sky about this earlier. Just like, just the way Donald Trump behaves. Just the way he, he, you know, puts forth this, like, that's the President of the United States right there. He's literally falling asleep at the table. And we have corporate media out there that just glazes the guy and pretends he's some, like, hard worker. Like, it, it really, it just blows my mind. Like, I just want to, like, shake somebody. Be like, hey, can we just, can we, can we figure this out? Like, that's the guy. That's the guy in charge. Him.
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D
I, I, I thought Ben was playing a prank on me.
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Oh, I want to wish every, all the mothers. I'll tell you what I was just doing. I want to wish all the mothers a happy Mother's Day out there as well. And so UPS was supposed to bring the Mother's Day present on Friday, and then they gave me the wrong hour, so I missed it on Friday, and they were coming again on Saturday, and I brought my wife, and he made it to the beach, so I missed. So this would have been my third strike. And I, and I put a big note outside. I'm like, I'm here. Please don't go. Third time, they would have returned the Mother's Day gift, and I was already a daily. See, that would have been a disaster.
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D
It's already a disaster enough that you missed my Mother's Day.
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A
Well, they, I, twice, they, they gave me fake times, and so that's what that was. Anyway, let's take our last.
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B
Wait, I have a Mother's Day.
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A
I just signed for it.
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B
I'll tell when we come back from break. Why don't we go to our last quick break and we'll come back right after this.
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Okay, we'll take our last quick break of the show. A reminder, we got the Mother's Day present. It's all good hit subscribe. We're on our way to 7 million subscribers. And also make sure you subscribe to the Midas Touch on audio as well. Wherever you get your audio podcast search Midas Touch. Even if you don't plan on listening to it on audio, you never know people like listening to this on audio and anyway it helps the show. So go subscribe. All right, last quick break of the show. We'll be right back.
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Also. Nice. Nice MTN hat.
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B
Yeah, yeah, Real quick, quick. Mother's Day story again. Shout out to all the mothers out there. Y' all are literally the backbone of this entire movement of this entire country. So thank you guys so much from the bottom of our hearts. We love you guys. I sent mom flowers for Mother's Day, but they came Wednesday. They didn't come on Mother's Day. I definitely, like, 1,000% checked mothers, like, on Sunday and usually like, hey, these will have to be delivered Saturday because the week. And so I said, okay, agreed to all that. All of a sudden, I get a text from mom on Wednesday, like, hey, thanks so much for the flowers. I'm like, what are the flowers come today? Worst of all, I'm a big, like, emotive, like, emoji guy. Like, I like to do, like, the slash and the three icon to do a heart. Like, that's. That's big for my texting. And when I did this, I guess there was no special characters sort of allowed, so it just said, I love you so much, mom. Thank you for everything. Love, Jordan. And then I did the slash, you know, heart thing, but they didn't do the slash. So it just said three. So it said, love you so much, Jordan.
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D
Three.
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B
And it was a very.
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I got.
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D
Let me. Let me just say this, Jordan.
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B
Yeah.
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D
I don't think it's an issue if the gift comes early. I think. I think gift. Gift arriving early, no problem whatsoever. I mean, the thing you don't want is to, you know, miss the delivery of the gift or miss the window. And the gift comes like, I don't know, like the Monday after Mother's Day. Like, that would be bad. You know, like, if that happened, I'd be like, jordy, you're in big trouble. But come coming Wednesday, I was over prepared. Yeah. Yeah. But, like, you know, can you imagine, though?
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B
I wouldn't want to. I wouldn't want to be the guy.
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I was a day late. But look, UPS gave me. They gave me an incorrect window on Friday, an incorrect window on Saturday. And so today was my final day. I was three strikes away. And then they return it back to the sender. So I heard that. I heard him. I rushed, I ran. I had to do it.
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B
It.
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A
And there you have.
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All right, let's get all time moment on the podcast. Let's get.
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D
Let's get.
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Let's get back to the Episode which is, you know, so, so also, I mean, we, we lose sight of this sometimes, you know, and we don't hear at the Midas Touch network. And sometimes people like, well, why do you do stories about what Donald Trump is posting? Because I never want to normalize it ever. Because if any other president or any other leader in American history posted these things, it would be automatically disqualifying. And we shouldn't have a standard that applies to Donald Trump, I think. I mean, we should not be okay that there's a literal lunatic in the Oval Office. We should not be okay that there's a felon in the Oval Office, that there is an actual sexual predator who's been found civilly liable for sexual assault in the office. We shouldn't normalize that ever. And so I'm gonna say it every damn day and I'm gonna call it out. So when we're in the middle of a war that we're not winning and he posts AI images that say a bye bye drones. And it's a photo of a American destroyer shooting laser beams at Iranian drones, even though the Trump regime has claimed that Iran has no more Navy since weeks ago, but apparent no more Air Force since weeks ago. Bye bye drones. You know, to which Iran responds, POTUS needs better AI image generators for depicting his dreams. And honestly, it's just sad and pathetic that you have the United States States that's just being ridiculed and mocked by Iran and that you have Iran after wanting to meet with the United States for decades and to try to get sanctions removed and to try to, you know, do any like other countries would, would do anything to have a meeting with the President of the United States.
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Right?
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Good reason.
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