➡ The text discusses the potential consequences of America’s global military presence and economic policies. It suggests that if America were to suddenly withdraw its troops from around the world, it could lead to instability and potential danger. The text also criticizes the understanding of trade deficits and economic policies by leaders, including President Trump. It argues that reversing trade flows could lead to economic hardship and that maintaining trade deficits can actually benefit the country by keeping prices low.

➡ The text discusses potential political and economic instability in various countries, including China, India, France, England, and the U.S. It suggests that these countries may face civil unrest due to issues like immigration and government oppression. The text also predicts the collapse of the U.S. government and the end of its global influence, leading to a more localized focus. Finally, it suggests that the return to a gold standard could lead to better global governance and a reassessment of the worth of wars.

➡ The speaker discusses the concept of free will and how it’s rarely exercised in our lives. They argue that most of our choices are based on immediate pleasure or convenience, rather than true free will. They also discuss the dangers of a pre-planned life, comparing it to slavery, and emphasize the importance of developing independence and a desire for freedom from a young age. Lastly, they touch on the struggle of breaking free from societal programming and the difficulty of making decisions without a pre-set plan.

➡ The speaker reflects on the busy life of a friend who works long hours as a lawyer, questioning the quality of such a lifestyle. He discusses the concept of “NPC ism,” suggesting that people can escape this state of mind by exercising their own decision-making abilities. He also advises those who want to think for a living to ensure their thoughts are correct to avoid giving bad advice. Lastly, he shares his personal approach to financial security, which involves investing in gold and silver rather than traditional retirement plans.

➡ The speaker discusses the unreliability of government plans and investments, urging listeners to invest in real money. They express concern about reaching a wider audience beyond their usual libertarian listeners. The speaker also discusses the potential for a breakdown of the price signal in the economy, leading to a return to haggling for goods and services. They suggest that this could be a sign of a shift from a centralized economy to smaller economic units.

➡ The text discusses the concept of haggling in different economic levels, from buying a bag of apples to large-scale business mergers. It suggests that haggling becomes more prevalent as the scale of the transaction increases, and is also common in a decentralized economy. The text also mentions the potential for haggling in the housing market and the current low availability of free-floating silver at The LBMA. Lastly, it ends with a casual conversation about a painting called ‘The Bitter Draft’.

But the thing is, the flood’s coming anyway. Like the waters are, the waters are coming to you. There’s no dry ground, so you might as well, you know, jump in and grab a life raft rather than try to stay on the shrinking island. The ship is going to suck us down. Take a deep breath when I say, hey, guys, Raf here from the Endgame investor with this month’s installment with Phil Lowe of the Bitter End Game draft. The end game gets closer and closer. We can feel it. It’s in the air, it’s in the atmosphere. It’s all around us.

People are saying they’re not quite getting desperate yet, but people are getting pinched, getting squeezed, if you’ve noticed it, among your family, among your circle of friends and acquaintances. It’s getting a little bit more obvious. Phil and I have some stuff to talk about this week. I’m just going to read off the topic so you know what we’re going to be saying, basically. So this was Phil’s suggestions here. The first is Trump’s semi controlled demolition of the system, particularly US EU breakup and empire dissolution. Yes, it looks like the entire Post World War II geopolitical chessboard is being reorganized or it’s totally flipped or it’s, it’s.

Somebody’s just wiping all the pieces off the board and looks like we’re going to start over. We have NPCs or non playable characters. And how this is related to Trump’s semi controlled demolition of the system, which Phil can talk to, talk about with some authority because he lives right next to the DC cage match. What do you want to call dc? It’s like now it’s, it’s a draining swamp and when swamps get drained, the mosquitoes get pissed off and you got to run away. And the third one is either something from the Bible or. I thought of a third topic.

The return of haggling to market transactions. The end game and aftermath. Or maybe we’ll do both. I have a few things that I found in the Torah the past few weeks. They could be interesting to people who believe in a silver standard and a place, a safe place to put your money. Phil, how have you, how’s your life been the last month? Oh, it’s, it’s. I’m, I’m doing great. Everything’s fine. And I’m really like to, I’m really happy that empiricism is now matching our logic because before, you know, when everything’s, when the party’s going strong, it’s hard to be like, guys, guys, guys, everybody should start sacking a little bit of silver and gold.

But you know, when there’s a little bit of, when there’s a smell of panic in the air now, suddenly more people listen to, you know, it’s so, and it’s also nice just to be confirmed because otherwise, you know, the party just goes on forever. Then you start wondering, am I a crackpot? Am I insane? So all these, all these are good things, in my view. Yeah. What panic are you seeing? Oh, there’s, there, people are, people are like, I need to go find a job in the private sector. Actually, I’ll talk about the NPC. I’ll talk about a story with the NPCs.

When we get to that point. People are saying, you know, they’re upset, they’re upset at losing their jobs. They were saying, I was doing, I was doing valuable bean counting for whichever department in very short order, Leela has become a fan favorite, all that kind of stuff around here. So you’re talking about the government sector, you’re talking about D.C. workers, right? Yes, yes. Okay, so they’re, they’re in a depression. I remember, I remember that Peter Schiff had said something like this for many years when I used to listen to him years ago. He’s like, we need a recession in D.C.

and, you know, that’s when we know the economy is healing itself. When there’s a real recession in D.C. which appears to be happening right now, thank God. It’s got to get deeper and more desperate. The more desperation in DC, the better for all of us, I think. Yes. And the, the, the, the feeder, you know, the, the people in D.C. they, they, they earn real money, so, or not real money, but they earn good money, good fake money. So the, the people that cater to them are also now suffering as well. You know, the, the, the sandwich shops and things like that.

Okay, so just give us a rundown of what’s going on in the capital. What’s the mood there? Like, give us a report, because I really have no idea. I live in the middle of nowhere and that’s where I, I, I’m staying here. I’m not going to any capital cities. Forget it. Yeah, so I, I, the last time I was in, actually in the capital city, the people were still sort of pretending the party’s going on. I, I stay, I, I feel like the capital could be engulfed in flame at any moment. So I, I, literally or figuratively, I mean, I think, I think large scale stuff could happen.

Yeah, I mean, I, I don’t know. I don’t think it’ll happen until them. Until the music, the music stops and people start rushing for the chairs. But I don’t know when that’s going to be. So I, you know, I just stay away from crowded centers as well. I try and stay out fairly rural, as rural as I can get anyway. But in the surrounding area, in the greater surrounding area, yeah, I’m noticing, I’m noticing a lot of negative attitude. Like the, the, the energy’s gone. It’s, it’s already starting to psychologically take a toll on people. I’ve heard people, I’ve heard people complain, like I moved here, you know, for the educ.

You know, to be in the education system. And, you know, now it looks like all this might be upended. And really, it’s just, you know, the, there was a huge amount of money pouring into DC from the rest of the world, and it’s no longer, you know, the spigots getting turned off. And people are, people that were. And these are not bad people. You know, the viewers might think like, oh, everyone, everyone is just Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer around here. And that’s not true. There’s a lot of, there’s a lot of good people who just, you know, you follow the price signal.

You say, oh, no, including, including yourself. Right. I mean, you work for the guy. Yes, that’s exactly right. You just, I did that. You know, if you look at what the, you look at the job offers, you say, oh, there’s a good job there. I’ll apply for that, and you get it, and you end up working there. Now, I have the foresight. I, I learned I, I had a great professor in college. His name was Larry Yannicone, and he said, never ever put your savings in the same sector. Now he’s just thinking of investment in the dollar terms.

He wasn’t named gold and silver, but he said, never, ever put the savings in the same sector as your job, because if you lose your job, then you lose your savings too. You know, like, so don’t, like, if you work for IBM, don’t invest in IBM. Right. Because if they’re, if they’re having trouble, they lay you off, you’re going to be in trouble. So I’ve always had, I’ve always had this thing of like, whatever you’re working in, invest in the opposite. That way you always balance out. So I was mentally, I was mentally ready to get, to be very, very flexible already.

And I was already looking for stuff. So personally, I’m okay. And anyone who’s listening to me is probably doing pretty well and okay too. It’s the people who are, who are still npcing. And like I said, we’ll talk about that on topic too because I do have a great story about that. But those are the people who are, who are starting like, you know, they’ve reached the end of their programming and they don’t know what to do. So, so let’s get into the first topic here. The semi controlled demolition of the system, particularly the US EU breakup and empire dissolution.

You know, I have a, I have a basic sense for what’s going on, but unlike monetary philosophy and economics, I usually, I can’t, I can’t produce out of my own head what is actually like, you know, cogent theory. I listen and then when I, when I hear something that makes sense, I’m like, oh yeah, that’s probably it. And that’s, and this isn’t with money, I can do it myself. But with geopolitics, I got to find someone who knows what they’re talking about and then either identify it as true or, or just fantasy. So I’m not sure what’s going on.

I think you have a better head for that than I do. I’m not sure. But what, so what, what do you got to say? And I’ll, I’ll riff off of, riff off of your theories. So what I’m, what I’m looking for, why I’m happy about this is that the, the party is going to end and it’s going to end very suddenly and you people are going to be absolutely shocked at how little you can do when you don’t have any money. I mean, if you imagine in your own personal life, right, if you’re stuck in a, let’s say you move, you, you know, you went on a trip to Cleveland and your wallet got stolen and you have to make your way back to, you know, Pennsylvania and you’re just like, what, what? Like, how do I, you know, you go and ask somebody, can you give me a lift? No, you go and ask 10 other people.

No. Maybe somebody gives you a lift to a gas station where you can call somebody or your phone got stolen too, whatever, you know, Can I borrow your phone? No. Anybody here going to San Francisco? I need a ride. Got $18 70, $0.78 for a ride to San Francisco. So when you, when you enter that state of penury, people are gonna be shocked at how little we can get done. And the problem is we have like, we have, you know, 10 active navies. We have soldiers in every corner of the world if, if we can’t. If we can’t get gas to fuel the planes, how are we going to get these people home? You know? And things will temporarily, you know, collapse to that level where it’s like, well, where do we.

Where do we get gas from? I don’t know. You know, how do we get. How do we get some gold or silver to get the gas into our planes so we can go get them? Because you. Because the credit’s all gone. So I’d much rather. I’d much rather, you know, Trump be like Samson and start tearing the temple down now than just have the earthquake come and tear the temple down for us when we are strategically dislocated. You know, our. The military, the people who were sent out. And I would much rather people get used, you know, Europeans get used to the idea that, no, like, we’re not doing this anymore.

We’re going back home. We’re going back to. We’re going back to the 1890s, where we tend our own garden and good luck in Europe. Yeah. All right, so what. What do you think Trump is trying to do on the international stage? Does he think that if we break up the international order, like, he’ll save the country and then there’ll be. Prosper. It’ll prosper again? Because that’s not possible. But he does. I don’t. I don’t. I don’t know what’s his gusto and what’s his bravado or he actually believes. It’s also blurry. Yeah. I mean, he’s. He’s. I.

I do not have. I do not have faith this guy is going to lead us into the shining, the shining land without consequence at all. No, not at all. And I don’t. He doesn’t quite know where he’s going either, because he’s, you know, pumping. He has the crypto, Crypto reserves, things like that. There’s plenty. There is plenty of stuff I do not like about what. What Donald Trump is doing. And he doesn’t know what money is, and his advisors don’t know what money is. And so they’re still. There’s still the blind leading the blind. But instinctually, he is doing things like, well, if you don’t.

If you don’t reverse the trade flows and start buying our stuff, which cannot happen. It cannot happen without the dollar dying. But he doesn’t know that, so he’s trying to tell Canada and Mexico and Europe, you need to buy our stuff, too, and send our dollars Back. And the, the leaders in Europe, they also don’t know what money is, but they, they have a instinctual understanding. If the trade flows reverse, their gravy trains are over. So they are fighting, they are fighting that tooth and nail. But also, also with the United States. I mean, what, what Americans don’t understand, especially Trump doesn’t understand and the general right wing conservative Republican doesn’t understand, is it’s that it’s the trade deficits that are saving the country.

Because a trade deficit means by definition you get more stuff, you ship out more dollars so you have fewer dollars and more stuff that keeps prices suppressed, keeps prices down, keeps things affordable. The minute you balance your trade, your trade deficits, you have more dollars and less stuff. And prices of everything go way up. I mean, it’s just basic logic, but you tell that to people and it’s just like there’s like blank looks or like. But because they think, well, it can’t be because a balance, trade balance sounds like a good thing. So how could it lead something that would cause me pain? I mean, they don’t get past that.

Maybe this will refresh your memory. I don’t know. Still kind of hazy. How about this? Yeah, I remember him. I used to see him around. Why do you want to know? Maybe this will help. I still don’t think I should tell you. You spot me at 20. How about now? I wouldn’t use the term save the country. I would say keep the, keep the scam going, but, but keep the illusion of saving the country. No, I, I do understand what you’re saying. I do get it completely. Yeah. The, the, the people who are on the gravy.

That’s one of the things I realize when I’m trying to convince people like, hey, we need, you need to, you need to stack, you know, is that many of them are on the gravy train at some form or another. And it’s just this, this, it’s this instinctual desire to keep the gravy train going because, you know, the, the, the reversal of the flows is going to be a very, gonna be very harsh and unforgiving time for a lot of people. And so they want to keep the gravy train going as much as possible. Now because he’s such a combative person, right? And he always, you know, he’s always, he seems to have this instinctual thing that like people are trying to screw him over, whether rightly or wrongly.

And he’s extending. Okay, yeah. And he’s extending that to America as well. He’s like, oh, you know, everyone’s trying to eat our lunch and screw us, screw us over. Therefore, he goes into these meetings, you know, with all the bluster and bravado and, you know, you’re not doing your fair share, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And that is that there’s a second order effect there of him say, well, you know what I’m going to pull, I’m going to pull the troops out of NATO or out of Europe until you guys come to your senses and start trading with us.

So that’s, that’s a good thing. I mean, I’m, I’m for. Ron Paul’s been saying this ever since the 80s. Like, we’ve got troops in 90 countries, blah, blah, blah, bases everywhere. We got to pull it all out. And on the one hand, that sounds great. On the, on the other hand, you know, let’s say go, go Back to like 2010, 2011, 2012, first being introduced to libertarian thought and then you think, well, if everything is anarcho capitalist and you have these sort of naive ideas that, oh, let’s just get rid of all the borders and let people go where they want.

And then they’ll, they’ll, you know, that’s the ideal world. And it’s like, you know, John Lennon, imagine all the people and they go. And then like, but like, as you get, maybe it’s a function of me getting older plus now having some amount of money that I want to, you know, protect and not being in my early 20s. And also the prospect of Arabs coming over and invading the country and then killing all the Jews, which is, you know, a clear and present danger all the time. We really need to have borders and exclude certain groups from our country.

And it’s not, it’s just not logical to have a borderless world. It cannot work. So the how that extends to empire is. Well, look, the fact is America conquered the world and now what would happen if they just pulled every soldier out from, with, from outside their borders? What, what does the world look like the next day? And I don’t know, it might be kind of scary. I mean, this might not be something you can just reverse the empire and then everything will be fine, which will be the effect of the end game. It’ll all come to an end within a day or, you know, a week or whatever it is that it takes.

The. From the point where gold keeps going up and up and up and the dollar keeps going down and down and down, you’re going to have all these military bases stranded and and the nightmare that, that everyone was afraid of when the, when the Iron Curtain fell and the USSR fell was, okay, well, now you have this bankrupt country with all these nuclear weapons everywhere. Like, how are we going to keep them away from crazy people? Because they’re going to be desperate for money. Well, now, you know, with the fall of America, the question is going to be even more sharp, even sharper, because with, with the Soviet Union, you had, theoretically still America was functioning so they could stop the nuclear weapons from ending up in the hands of people for, you know, a few bucks.

But with the fall of America itself, who’s going to stop that? I don’t know. Besides God, I have no idea. Yeah, well, it’s worse than that, Rafi, because China is going to fall too. India is going to fall to. France is going to fall to England. England is probably going to erupt in civil war between who? The, the 25 of the immigrants that arrived over the last 10 years and the native population who is being, you know, rather harshly oppressed by the government to force them to take in the immigrants. I mean, there are, there are rumblings that I’ve heard of people discussing, like England, England primed for like a dirty war.

Like just, you know, the, the rural, the rural people burning and simmering with complete hatred at the urban cores. So that’s, it’s really primed for, for something like that to, to, to pop off now. Hopefully it doesn’t, you know, but I’m just saying it, it, it could easily happen. I think it could easily happen in the end game. They, they became democratic when America just like basically conquered the entire continent and said, you’re going to do it this way now shut up. And then everyone’s like, oh, yeah, we’re democracy, but France isn’t democratic. They keep having new republics and revolutions, other things at the fifth or sixth one.

And there, there’s no democracy there, especially no democracy in Germany. They have, they have the word democracy, but then they have all these free speech police that are invading people’s apartments for memeing and you know, and you, you listen. I was listening to Matt Taibbi and Walter Kern today on America this Week. Walter Kern, he’s my, he’s my go to geopolitics guy. Like he has a sense for what’s, what’s really going on and how to distill it into a few sentences. But basically German Germany is turning into another Nazi dictatorship just from the other direction. They’re, they’re getting way back.

They’re getting right back into it. Europe was never a libertarian leaning continent. It was always about enslavement. And it’s, it’s, it’s going back to that. It’s definitely going back to that. So I want to, I want to put a ray of sunshine in here. Part of the problem with the America conquering the world was that we then had a monopoly. And just like anytime you have a monopoly, you have higher prices and lower quality. That’s just, that’s just the way monopolies work. And this was a monopoly on the money supply. When America collapses, we’re going to have competitive monies again, a lot of competitive monies.

And so people are going to have to, you know, the, the people in charge of these monies are going to have to be competitive with each other and with, with honest money. I think we can have better governance around the entire world. So I’m, I’m hopeful that even Europe and England and you know, everyone will, once the, once the competition starts, we all have honest money and we’re all trading in gold, in honest gold derivatives again, that things could be a good bit brighter. So, you know, without, without the monopoly. Now, look, I mean, I, I’m, you know, I’m not a Pollyanna.

I understand, you know, the world is. The Germans had a great saying before World War I. They said peace, peace is the interval between wars. So wars are the defining event and peace is the sort of the interval where you, where you build up your resources and prepare for the next one. I don’t necessarily, I don’t subscribe to that model. I’m just saying that’s, that there is a tendency for, for things like that to break out. I hope they don’t. I hope we have learned our lessons over time and yeah, that’s about it. Oh, okay. So what do you think you’re talking about the US EU breakup? Do you really, do you really think that America is going to pull out of NATO and pull their bases out of Europe? And what happens here? Does Putin invade at that point? What does Putin want? And what’s he going to do if the US pulls out? I don’t think, I don’t.

So, so yeah, you us will definitely pull out. We’re broke. We’re completely broke. Our army is, you know, was it 13 times larger than all the other armies combined or something like that? We can’t afford it at all. At all. We’re going to have an extremely smaller army that’s going to be based in America. I don’t even know. Like, my question is how are we going to get those troops when the dollar dies? How are we going to get those tr. Out of their four operating bases in Poland and back to US Shores? I think, I think that is going to be.

That’s going to be like one of those. What’s that story of. I think it’s Cyrus, he’s like stuck. It’s like this Greek mercenary who ends up deep behind Persian lines and they have to fight their way back. The movie the warriors is based that. The 1979 movie the Warriors. But they have to like these, these Greek mercenaries end up stuck way behind enemy lines and they have this grand adventure. They have to fight their way back home. It might even look like something like out of that. And so, no, yeah, we. The U.S. government is going to collapse by about 95 to 99%.

There, there’s, there’s. It’s. I can say that with confidence because that is what the government looked like on a gold standard. Everything else is inflation. Every single other thing else is inflation. So this is, this is what we’re going to do. We’re gonna have a much smaller navy, we’re a much smaller army, and we’re going to focus on our own borders, and we’re going to be a much more localized country. We’re not going to be the world’s policemen anymore. Now Russia, so you asked about Putin. Russia is going to have the same problem. They have their, their currency is based on dollars.

Even now they haven’t repeated to gold. So once they repeat to gold, they’re gonna have to say, well, geez, this, you know, these, these wars are really expensive. Do we really want to do them? You know, maybe. I don’t know. You know. Yeah, but I think. Go ahead. I mean, we did, we did. Look, we did have wars on a gold standard. We absolutely did have wars on a gold standard. But I think the initial aftermath, everyone’s going to be reassessing are these, you know, is this really worth it? That kind of, that kind of question.

Right. So you wanted to tie in NPCs to the first topic and you had a story that you wanted to share. So. Yes. So lay it on me. What is it? Okay. So my personal. In my personal life, I help people. You know, I part my channel. And just in personal life, I talk to people and I say, you should stack some gold and silver. You know, and I try, I try and take it down to the level of an everyman because, you know, not every, not everyone sits around talking about economics all day. Rafi. This might surprise you, or at least not.

Those people aren’t real. Yeah, not in a real, not in a real sense. You know, people sit around bitching about high prices, but that doesn’t, you know, they need to get control of inflation. You know, they’re not sitting around like we are. So I was, I was talking to a person and this is one of the people who was like, you know, the job is on the rocks or maybe even gone now. And it’s sort of like, well, what do I, you know, what do I do? I, you know, I’m a little bit despondent and I sit down.

Okay, here’s, here’s what I recommend thinking about doing. You know, stacking a little bit of silver. You know, what are your savings like? Well, and walking through, walking them through the whole process. Find, find some, find some work in the meantime to keep going and, you know, stack a bit of silver and prepare for the end. And they’re, they’re just like, well, yeah, but what do I do? And I kind of gave him the Tucker Carlson look. I just told you. I just told you what to do. And I realized it’s not in their NPC dialogue tree.

That’s the way I see it. They have a set menu of responses, and for whatever reason, I was outside of the realm of those responses. And so they just defaulted back to, well, what do I do? And I don’t. And I don’t know why the concept of stacking some gold and silver has been removed from most people’s dialogue trees. It’s just not in. Yeah, what they’re saying. I haven’t, I haven’t figured out exactly what an NPC really is. What kind of brain they. I don’t understand it. I think it’s a person who’s just not paying attention.

We are apparently easily programmable more than I, more so than I thought people are. You know, you just, you hear messages that get enters into your brain and you go, yes, okay, that must be true because it’s being told to me many times in a row by lots of different sources. I mean, look what they were doing during COVID I mean, did you have this? I had this in the grocery store. I would walk in the grocery store and it would say, you know, the, the loudspeaker had this, you know, artificially friendly voice, female voice saying, keep.

Remember to stay six feet apart and always wear your masks and remember, we’re all in this together. You know, and it just, I mean, it would be like on repeat every five minutes is so it was so dystopian, roughy. So, and, but people, you know, a lot of people, it, it just didn’t, it didn’t, it didn’t rise to the surface level. It just stayed in the back of their brains and they just. Okay, so I’ll, I’ll put forward a theory based on a, a manuscript that I wrote in high school. I wrote, I, I wrote a book that I called Free Will in the Men’s Bathroom.

I was trying to figure out, like, what is, what is this thing free will? Like, what does it even mean? Because most of, most of us, when we choose, we’re not, we’re not freely choosing. We’re just choosing whatever we happen to think will derive us the most pleasure in that moment. That’s all. So we’re just following a pleasure calculus. You know, it goes, it goes all the way down to picking a urinal in a football stadium, which is where I got the, the name of the book for book from. So you’re going left, you’re going right.

Either it’s habit or it’s a shorter line or whatever it is, doesn’t matter. So when do we actually have the ability to choose something for real? As in like the essence of ourselves comes out and says, no, we got to go this way and not that way. So I, I came up with this theory that it happens very, very rarely in our life, right? There’s this like primordial free will decision. Like the first time something or a big fork in the road comes in your life and you have to decide, well, am I going to do the thing that makes sense or am I just going to follow this other, you know, path here that’s paved for me, that probably I shouldn’t, I probably shouldn’t go down that.

But then if I go down this other one where I can’t see it because, you know, the bushes are thick, I can’t see where it’s leading. But that, that seems to be the right one. Whether it’s a moral issue or an independence issue or a self expression, whatever it might be. So it, the first time that, that you encounter that in your life in a major way, it’s, it’s, it’s scary, right? And if you choose the wrong path, then you, you train your soul to just like die down and stop yelling and stop. But complaining, right? I recall a conversation that my wife had with, you know, a friend of hers, she’s going to work for the Misrata or the Education Ministry, because the whole thing is like planned out like you know, the first 10 years you get this salary and then in the next 10 years you get a raise and then you get all these perks, you know, and you get seniority and like everything’s planned out from cradle to grave or from, you know, 20, 20 year old to like 60 year old retirement and that’s it.

And everything like the whole path is planned. They invest your money, they, they have a pension plan for you. Everything’s laid out and then. But you don’t realize that you’re signing up for a lifetime of slavery. There’s. And you can’t really get out of it. So what I think these NPCs are. And this, this is the, I think this is the, one of the main narratives in the, in the Torah, in the, in the Pentateuch, in the, the exodus from Egypt. Right? It, it’s, there’s, there’s degrees and levels of freedom. 80% of the, the Israelites died in Egypt.

Why? The rabbis say because they refused because Moses gave them a command to go search for the gold and silver in the. Their Egyptian counterparts houses during the plague of darkness. And most of them didn’t want to do it because it seemed rude or they were just too scared, so they didn’t do it. And those, those people died. They were that we buried them during the plague of darkness when the Egyptians couldn’t see. 20% are left. And they’re the ones who searched. And then they were, they were, they took the gold. They didn’t steal it. Then they took the gold.

For example, like if, if they go into the plague during the plague of darkness and they find where the gold is, and then the next, the next day during, after the 10th plague, they say, look, give me your gold and silver. And they’re like, oh, I don’t have a gold silver. But. No, but I know it’s in the upper drawer of your cabinet over there in the master bedroom. Because, you know, they searched before. That was the idea of it. And then, and then, you know, at, at the 10th plague, they’re told to sacrifice the lamb, which is the, their.

It represents the, what do you call the zodiac of the Egyptians. Right, I forgot what the name of the zodiac is. The equivalent of a lamb. Whatever. Which one is it? Do you know the, the zodiac names? See, it’s in Egyptians. Yeah, no, it’s the same zodiac as now. It’s the, the March, April one. Oh, oh, God. The lamp. The, the ram is Sagittarius. Yes, I think, I think Sag. I was gonna say Capricorn. But I think that’s a crab. So no, no, okay, whatever it is, who cares? So that, then you need, you need. Okay, so you have enough freedom, you have enough independence to, to go search for the gold and silver.

Do you have enough to slaughter their God and barbecue it in front of them? Well, okay, yeah, they do, but then they make it to the desert and then they’re, they’re faced with the prospect of having to conquer a country now. You know, do they, do they have the faith to do that? Do they have the confidence to do that? And the answer was no, they don’t. So therefore they have to die in the desert and wait for the next generation. It’s, it’s not, it’s not easy to get out of this NPC programming. It’s pre programming.

And if you’re a slave, your entire day is planned out before you, ahead of you, so you don’t have to make any decisions. That’s what that guy is saying when he’s like, well, what do I do now? And you’re saying, well, you have to make decisions on, on your own. Here’s what the first decision you have to make. But like, but, but there’s no plan. There’s no like 401k or IRA that I, that’s already like, has me scared, already has a frame that I could just like put stuff in and click a button, but I have to do it myself.

It’s like they’re, they’re too old for this now. You have to develop independence and freedom when you’re young. And if you haven’t, then, then you’re, you’re freed from slavery. You end up like, like the blacks, a lot of them, just like they still have a slave mentality. You can’t, you can’t force freedom on these people and they’re already dead inside. Do you think, do you think everybody has a little NPC in them or is this a thing where there are, there are NPCs and there are non and there are PCs? No, I think, I think it’s a dev.

I think it’s a gradient of the development of a soul, right? Like if you don’t feed, if you don’t feed yourself or if you eat like crap when you’re young, you eat junk food when you’re young, you’re going to be unhealthy very quickly and, and, and, and good, fatty, healthy food of a carnivore is going to be disgusting to you. So if you’re able to develop it, to develop your soul Your neshama, or what, however you want to determine it. You’re, you’re, you’re. Your appetite for liberty, if you develop it young, then you’ll, you’ll want to go in that direction.

Like, the whole idea of having your entire career laid out for you in a path paved by the state will disgust you as it disgusts me. And this is why, this is why my wife didn’t want to go down that path. And she refuses to, to, to work for the Misrata, for the, for the Education Ministry because, specifically because of this. But, and you know, it’s, here’s another thing. Like, it’s, it’s related to it. Like we, we were at a, we’re at a bar mitzvah in the, in the Americas in the center of the country where all the population is like the huge population centers.

And we, we haven’t lived there for like 7, 16, 17 years. And now everything is so crazily built up, you can’t see anything but buildings. So we were walking around the town that we, that we lived in after we first got married for a year, and I was going through my, I was going through my head to think of who, who do I still know that’s here? You know, maybe I can call them, we can go out for coffee. And I called a friend of mine who’s like a libertarian friend of mine, and it was like 5, 5:30 in the afternoon, 5:30 in the evening.

And I was like, oh, maybe he’s home. So I called him, I was like, hey, you know, I’m in town. Do you want to, can I stop by, say hi? Do you want to, you know, get a cup of coffee or something? He’s like, oh, you know, I’m in Tel Aviv, I’m still at work. And I was like, what do you mean, it’s 5:30? He was like, yeah, but you know, I’m a lawyer and US hours are until seven and I’m usually here like two, three hours after seven every day. And this guy has a wife and kids and he’s going from cubicle in Tel Aviv to cubicle and give us every day of his life.

And he got, he comes home at 9:30, 10:00 at night. What the hell kind of life is this? Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles, stuff, staring at computer screens all day. Yeah, like it’s, it’s. And he’s a libertarian. I mean, they’ve caught, they’ve caught them all. And, and thank God we have these relatively independent lives where, you know, with God’s help, we do this kind of stuff and you’re starting to get, you’re starting to get a following and hopefully it could be enough that you can quit all the other stuff that you do and you can just relax and think for a living.

It’s nice. I just, I’m so glad that I don’t have to be part of this. These drones that whether they have free thought in their heads or not, they can’t act on it because they’re stuck in the system. Yeah, the, this, the advice I would give to anyone who wants to think for a living is make sure, make sure your thoughts are correct because if they’re not, you’re giving everyone very bad advice. I mean, there’s, there’s a lot of people are like thinking Keynesian thoughts for a living, you know, and it’s, it’s not, you know, that’s, that’s not on the other side.

That’s not going to be profitable. You can’t. If, when I think economist is going to be a dirty word on the other side when someone. Well, actually I know the answer to why this all happened and it’s some convoluted nonsense and. Yeah, I’ll punch you in the face. Yeah. All right. Anything else on NPC ism? Um, can. Let me ask you this. Can people be led out of NPC? And that’s not to say like NPCs follow me and they just listen to me. Can they be led out of NPC ism so that they become a PC? Yes.

Nobody’s ever completely trapped in it, but the more you get in it, the, the farther, the harder it is to get out. I mean we can, it’s the same as, the same as a drug addict. Like once the drug addict reaches rock bottom, which means like, I understand my life sucks and I cannot do this anymore or I am going to die, then he will look for ways to get out of it and then hopefully he runs into the right people who can help him. But the first step to getting out of NPC ism is to realize that you are one.

And then you have to start exercising your own decision making ability, which if you haven’t exercised it ever, it’s going to be very hard to do. But there’s, there’s a con, there’s a concept in Judaism of kone. You can, you can acquire your portion in the world to come in a minute. It doesn’t mean you a portion, it doesn’t mean you have a big one. It doesn’t mean like you’re gonna have the biggest portion of heaven among everyone just because you made the right decision at the last minute, but it means that you can have like an aha moment and realize that everything you’ve been doing until now has been the wrong thing.

And even, even that realization is enough to get you a little piece of. Of eternity that you can, even if for one second you understand that you are an independent human being that has to think and feel and decide for himself. Even, even that is enough to keep your soul alive. The part of. The. Part of the problem is it’s a, It’s a big ask, especially for people who are still on the gravy on some sort of grave. I mean, I can see it’s a lot more clear to me now, like, once you’re on that gravy train, even like your lawyer friend, even if it’s, you know, even if it’s a tough, slavish job, you know, his, His.

His company respects him. He’s getting probably very good money and. Or fake money. He’s getting. Yeah. Very good money that he has to use to pay his rent or his mortgage and live in the most expensive area in the country, you know, and never ever see a tree. Or his children. Yeah. Or his children. Yeah, it’s. It’s. Yeah, you. You can see that. Like, it’s hard to get off. It’s. It’s really in the ask, you know, my ask when I. What am I telling people to do? I’m saying, well, you should liquidate your 401k and turn it into gold and silver, and you might need to quit your job to make that happen.

I mean, these are, These are Titanic. Titanic shifts that require, you know, someone to really be willing to, you know, step into the. Step into the, into dangerous waters, you know, potentially dangerous waters. But the thing is, the flood’s coming anyway. Like, the waters are. The waters are coming to you. There’s no dry ground, so you might as well, you know, jump in and grab a life raft rather than try to stay on the shrinking island. The ship is going to suck us down. Take a deep breath when I say, you know that. That’s my view anyway.

I mean, you know, people. People obviously have to make their own. I can’t force anybody. I could just tell you if you come to me with the questions of what do I do? I’m going to tell you some unorthodox things. I think they’re right. I think you should listen to me. But, you know, just coming back with, well, what do I do? Is not, is not, you know, it’s, it’s, it’s, it, I, I, I understand where the mental block is. It’s just, it’s, you know, you’re gonna have to, you’re gonna have to get past. I had to get past it.

I had a 401K. You know, that was hard, that was hard to be like, well, geez, what do I do? This is my life savings. You know, if I’m wrong, I’ve lost my life savings. Yeah, look, I, I’ve had these thoughts that, you know, the, the people when I was in my 20s, you know, late teenager, early 20s, and I was first starting to go into adulthood, like, am I gonna have to open a 401k IRA? All these other letters that are freaking me out, like, I always had an aversion to them. Like, what are people put.

What is a 401k? Why are all these numbers, why don’t you just save your money and then keep it for your retirement? You gotta like, put it all on all these like, tax, tax havens. And then you’re an annuity and you’re able to take a certain percent of it. Like, like this is just all to just stop it. I can’t. Like. And you’re investing, you’re investing in 5, 000 companies and 4, 900 of them you’ve never heard of. And you’re like, well, what I don’t know are these good companies. So only, only recently, only in the past make two or three years have I become comfortable with the fact that I don’t have any of this crap.

I don’t have a 401k, I don’t have any kind of any say. Like every time the government says, well, do you want to put it in our pension fund? I’m like, no, no, I don’t want, I don’t want to put anything in a pension fund. I just want to save my money. And that’s why I have, I have a lot of it with, with gold money with, not with gold money, with monetary metals. Right. Oh, now, now actually they’re, they’re, they’re paying 4% on all gold deposited now immediately. So that’s a big improvement. And that’s really all I need for my retirement.

I have some stocks and some investments, but like the core of it, I just, I’m just gonna put it in gold and silver, and then when I’m done working, I’ll have all that interest that I accrued thanks to monetary metals. You can either, you know, use my link in the description, you can use Phil’s link in the description or my link in the description, depending on which one of us you like more. And it’s, it’s the, the, the fact of gold earning gold in interest is actually, it’s pretty comforting because then I, you can just jettison all this other abbreviations and, and numbers and government plans, which are all going to fall to nothing anyway.

Yeah, yeah, I, I can, I can 100 confirm all the numbers. The savings are not real. I covered this when I covered this in my last episode. The savings are not real, the investments are not real, and the yields on the investments are not real. So get yourself into real money. Anyone who has listened to us who hasn’t done this already, I’m worried. Part of what I’m worried about is that we’re just talking to the same libertarian choir the whole time, but I don’t know how. I don’t know any other way to reach NPCs except to post on, throw my work out into the ether and hope that NPCs are, the algorithm points into them.

But people join the libertarian choir in drips. There’s always new people and we will reach them, and we are reaching them. We reach a few people at a time. But, you know, you never know. You really, you really do never know. I’m not saying this is like, oh, you never know. I’m saying you literally do not know that the next person that you influence could be the person that changes the world, because that happens all the time. It’s crazy. People that you influence are the ones that change things. Like, and, and we are, we are the idea incubators.

We’re just like shooting out ideas, hoping that somebody like Trump. Imagine if we were talking to, you know, Donald Trump when he was younger and trying to put a little bit of sense into what he does. He has great instincts, but if he just understood money, you could really go far. So hopefully we’ll get the next one. Somebody. Listen, I made a, I made a video called the Elevator Pitch, which I dedicated to a man named Bill who’s, you know who he is. But he’s attention. I’ve got, I had his attention briefly and he, he is Trump adjacent.

So I was trying, I don’t, I don’t think I got through to him, but I was, I was close. Well, look, if, if my guy over here is Moshe Fagland, if he gets elect, it’s a very, it’s a long shot. If he gets elected to Anything. But, but we’re in an era where anything, really, anything could happen for any reason. That’s part of the excitement. Yeah, you know, the thing, things that are not. Things that were not possible are not possible. So we need to. So if, if he’s elected, I will be the head of the bank of Israel.

At that point, I will just close the building and, and just fire everyone and burn it down. I don’t know if they’ll give me permission to burn it down. Maybe I’ll just sell it off. But yeah, I’ll try to figure out how to sweep the floors and clean everything up, but I’ll prepare everyone for, for the death of the currency and stock the place with gold and silver and then, you know, divide it based on claims or something. That, that, that would be amazing if next time, next time we chat, you’re in the office of the Central bank of Israel instead of your background just setting fires, you know.

All right, third topic, third topic. We were, we’ve covered NPCs. Did you want to do biblical stuff or did you want to do haggling? Let’s do haggling. All right, so the part of the thing that’s going to occur, and this, Americans especially, and I, I hate, I hate haggling with every fiber of my being. It’s so annoying. But part of the thing that’s going to occur is a complete breakdown of the price signal. And to re. Establish the price signal, the market. The market determines the price signal through people negotiating what the price is. So when you go to buy a piece of pork or some, you know, some clean water or, you know, a house, whatever, they’re going to say, how much do you want for it? Well, I want a thousand ounces of silver for this house.

No, I can, I can get a mansion in D.C. for 75 ounces. So I’ll give you, I’ll tell you what, you’re saving me the trip into the war zone of D.C. i’ll give you 100 ounces sign on the barrel right now. No, I want 500 ounces. No, I’m not going to do that. I’m going to walk away. No, wait, wait, wait, wait. Okay, fine. 100 ounces. It’s going to be the whole, the whole spiel. But you can be doing that for everything. So you’re going to be doing that for, you know, a haircut for pork, pork roast, you know, whatever, fruit and that.

But over the course of that is how the price signal is going to be redetermined. And for America Americans are very used to. This is, you know, here’s your individualized portion wrapped in plastic with preservatives. And, you know, this is the price. And, you know, take it or leave it. You know, scan. Scan your palm at checkout, and you will. You will now be the proud owner of that thing. So is the. Where you are, is there more haggling around where you are, or is it. Is it similar to the Americans situation? It’s. It’s similar to the Americans, but there is.

There’s more. There’s more haggling here than there is in America, but especially among. I used to shop with the Arabs when I lived in the Shamron, and there. There’s a lot more haggling. It’s part of. It’s part of their culture much more than here because we’re part. We’re part tribal and part Western. We’re like a mix. Gotcha. So it’s more of. It’s more. The more tribal it is, the more haggling there is. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense. And now are you, like, the. The reason it doesn’t appeal to me. I mean, the reason I’m most probably mostly because I’m just not used to it.

It’s not something. I’ve had to experience it a couple times, and I’m pretty sure I got soaked every time I’ve had to experience it. Like, there was one time I was in Cancun and I was buying. I was buying souvenirs and that. You know, I thought it was a souvenir shop. But no, it was immediately like, you know, that souvenir. Oh, this souvenir. You, you know, the price said $2 or something. So I went to go buy it, and it’s like, oh, no, that one. Those are $2. This one’s $20. I was like, what? $20? So I was like, started.

You know, I realized, oh, we’re haggling now. And so I think I got it down to like 10 bucks or something. And then instead of getting my change, he offered me, like, more souvenirs. He’s like, have. Have like three or four more souvenirs. And I was like, well, okay, I guess I needed more souvenirs. But then I walked out. I was like, wait, that guy. That guy gave me four, like, junky pieces of plastic for 20 bucks or something. I was like, wow, I got completely soaked. Yeah, that was one of those lessons. But, like, you know, you get the fast talking and the sweet talking, and suddenly you’re like, over, you know, you get overwhelmed by does help re.

Establish the price signal, like I said, and eventually, eventually there will be an expected price. So you, when you go to the, when you go to buy a car or something, or, or let’s say something more commodity, when you go to buy apples, a bag apples that you’re gonna have an expectation of what that’s gonna be. You’re not gonna have to haggle over it every time you go to the store. But to start with, I think you’re have to. I think we’re gonna go back to, you know, well, how much do you want these apples for? Right? Which, I mean, it sounds, it’s.

It’s in. It’s also inefficient because it takes time. And that’s part of the game, right? The seller, the seller’s there all day, you know, and you got other things you got to do. So he’s gonna try and wear you down over that bag of apples even for as little as, you know, 10 cents. You know, what, you know, 10 cents of today’s money, whatever. He’ll fight for it. Right? The. I guess what, what I can add to that is that a lack of haggling in an economy is a sign of central, of, of centralization and concentration of capital.

That because the, the economy becomes, I guess, the units of it become larger. So when you have like, the bigger the store, the more set the price is. But if you go to a hole, you know, some hole in the wall, you know, of guys selling a grain out of a sack, then you can probably haggle more. So the inflationary process leads to the centralization of big chunks of the economy by lengthening the structure of production, increasing, you know, capital. So when that breaks down, we’re going to have to go into smaller economic units where we’re going to.

It’s like the more you put a magnifying glass into it, the more you’re going to have to haggle to figure out where exactly the level is. But it’s, it’s. It is going to take a while. I mean, like, if the entire structure of production gets broken down and you’re going to have to abandon swaths of it and then take all that capital and melt it down for raw materials again, Then, yeah, you’re going to have to rebuild the structure of production from the, from the consumer level back up to the capital level by haggling at every, at every strut, at every step of it.

Not, it’s not just haggling on the retail market. It’s going to be haggling between. You know, that leads me to an even clearer conclusion. Right. When you’re talking about these big mergers, right. Let’s say on Wall street, that’s always haggling. Elon Musk, haggling for buying Twitter, it’s haggling, but huge steps of like, billions of dollars. But when you get, when you get to the top of the economic structure, you return to haggling. Because the amount of people that are, that are able to make these purchases are so few that you got to haggle. You know, on the retail level, it’s like, you know, 100 million people making these purchases.

There’s no. Everything so liquid. There’s no point in haggling anymore. Yeah, yeah. I’m talking about haggle over a bag of apples. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it’s. That’s true. You’re right. And when you’re talking about buying a company or even, even things like buying a car, there’s still plenty of haggling. But we’re, I’m, I definitely see us reducing to, like I said, haggling over a bag of apples or something like that. Right, right. So at, like a, at a, at a car dealership, you’re going to haggle with the salesman. You know exactly how much you’re going to buy the car for.

You. Oh, is this. There’s the sticker price. That’s a good point. There’s the sticker price and then there’s like. That means that it’s not going to sell for this. Right. Or, or, or, or a house. Right. You’re, you’re haggling over every offer of the house. The bigger you get, the more there, the more haggling there is. But when you get to the retail, then it kind of, if, if you’re haggling at the retail level, that means that your economy is very decentralized, which could be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on what direction you’re going in.

Yeah. So my, my concluding thoughts, I guess, to this would be to the viewer. You know, when Rafi has his 75 ounces for a house video, you’re gonna have to haggle down to 75 ounces, probably. They’re gonna start it. They’re gonna start at something that they. But just be ready to walk away because you’re like, Well, I got 100 other houses to go look at right now, so you can take it or not. You’ll have all the, I mean, the holders, the stackers will have all the cards until the silver gets until the silver and gold get distributed.

So as long as. As long as you maintain that, or as long as you start out with that position. Yeah, you should be able to get the house for 75 ounces. Speaking of that, on the. On this weekend’s Endgame investor report, the calculation for the amount of free floating silver at The LBMA is 197 million ounces. That’s low, right? It’s. It’s low. If there were the same amount of ounces today in all of these silver ETFs combined at silver squeeze, that would drain the rest of the float at the lbma. Now it would. Oh, so now all we got to do is attack it now, people just got to get some silver.

Yeah. The LBMA silver float is at a. Is at a critical low. All right, we are here. All right. This is exciting. I’ll get the word out myself. Okay. All right, Rafi. Thanks, Phil. Have a good. Have a good draft. May it be bitter. What is that? What is the bitter draft? It’s a pain. Everyone asked me that. It’s. I told you before, it’s my favorite painting. It’s by Adrian Brower. It’s a guy drinking cough medicine. In my haste, I had grabbed a bottle of the kid’s cough syrup. Huh. I don’t know the scientific explanation, but fire made it good.

I’ll send you the picture. It’s the logo. Okay. Just very. I don’t know why. It tickles me pink. I. I love the painting. Okay. I’m drawn to it. All right, well, that doesn’t mean you’re a serial killer like that guy who liked that. What was it in the movie? Red Dragon. Oh, the Blade. Yeah, the. The Blake painting. Yeah. Yeah. Don’t start eating paint.
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