In the 2024 election cycle, total spending hit a record $15.9 billion. To put that in perspective, if a candidate spent $1 every second, it would take them over 500 years to spend what was spent in just one election cycle. When that much money is in the air, the individual voter's voice is no longer a whisper—it’s effectively silent.

Data from OpenSecrets and RepresentUs reveals a nearly unbreakable trend in federal races over the last several cycles:

• U.S. House of Representatives: Roughly 94% of candidates who outspent their opponents won their races
• U.S. Senate: Roughly 82% of candidates who outspent their opponents won.
• The Cost of Entry: As of late 2024, the "average" cost to win a House seat was roughly $2 million, while a Senate seat cost closer to $20 million.

While the median American household net worth stays relatively flat (around $192,000), the average "career politician" sees their wealth grow at a rate of 14% to 25% annually. For the "Top 100" wealthiest members of Congress, that growth average jumps to 114% per year. Serving 3 terms (6 years) often acts as a financial "launchpad" that the average worker simply doesn't have access to.

We have been told for a long time that China had all the rare earth elements tied up. We had to buy from china or all the Chips and EV batteries had to be made in china. The was definitely not true. I think it was a con job by liberals and environmentalists who just didn’t want us to find it and mine it here in the U.S..

If it wasn’t so destructive this might be a funny moment. Truth is it’s not funny at all. You see all it took was someone like president trump to Bring back the Idea of American greatness, his drill baby drill and dig baby dig mentality to expose the big lie.

Recently there have been several large REE deposits found in the U.S. , actually they were not hidden it’s just that there was no incentive to go after them.

The incredible thing is that at the same time The Trump administration through Tariffs and negotiating have created an environment that is bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.. So now we have the raw materials and we have the demand. This Perfect Storm, If you will, could make America Great Again as Trump Promised. Now don’t get me wrong , I have a few issues with mister Trump, But I believe in giving credit where credit is due.

New Discoveries are challenging the idea that "the science is settled" by highlighting that we are still finding massive, primary drivers of Earth's metabolism.

New research shows a 2.4-million-year gravitational cycle between Earth and Mars that affects deep-ocean currents and global warmth. Current Science Suggests that it could have had an impact on our ice ages, when they formed and when they receded. It causes "deep-sea eddies"—massive underwater whirlpools—that keep the deep ocean from becoming stagnant

During the Cambrian period, CO2 was nearly 10 times higher than today. The Earth didn't "die"; it was a "Greenhouse Earth" with no polar ice—which has actually been the planet's "default setting" for 70% of its history.

When someone says they are following the Science, I always ask, Who's Science. Science does not operate on the same principals it once did. Now we don't try to prove our Theory we just have to find evidence that supports it.

I have been watching all of the press coverage of the Artemis ll moon mission. I have to say I haven't been all that excited. I was the for the moon landing stuff in 1969. I mean I wasn't actually there but I watched it all. Looking back though It occurs to me that, to use an analogy, it was like going to space in a Model T ford. And now 57 years later It was like going to space in a Model A ford. Very little difference in the mode of travel. Fancier computers. So my thought is if we expect to, forget about the moon, colonize Mars. We are definitely going to change the mode of transportation Dramatically. Question is, Is there any technology on the horizon that has the potential to make that happen in the next 57 years?

My analogy was that we strap the astronauts to a giant rocket that could turn into a bomb at any second. And when they come back they have to fall from the sky at thousands of miles per hour and hope their parachutes will deploy and and allow the to splash down in the ocean somewhere, and hope someone will be there to pluck out the water. Seems like a very crude and ancient system.

In today’s podcast I want to talk about an issue that has been around for quite some time, but has recently because of new science and medical advancements, has become a much bigger issue. I am talking about the fast track in ads In As little as one day to get the kind of body you always imaged . You know, the GLP-1 craze, the laser fat removal thing, the bariatric thing and last but not least Breast augmentation. I know at this point this will affect women more, however men are quickly turning to these same things for weight loss as well.

The Divorce Stat: 2026 data indicates these jabs are doubling the divorce risk, similar to surgery, but at a much larger scale because of how accessible they are.

"They call it 'self-improvement,' but in the courtroom, they just call it 'irreconcilable differences.' It’s a funny thing—we spend twenty years building a life on loyalty and 'for better or worse,' but it only takes six months of a new waistline to make someone decide 'for worse' isn't for them anymore. You can’t put a price on a new body, but you can sure as hell see the price of a broken home when you get the bill from the Lawyer. If you're gonna upgrade the hardware, you better make sure you don't delete the People who loved you, when you were you.

"For 60,000 years, from the caves of Shanidar to the mounds of the Ohio Valley, humans agreed on one thing: the body is sacred. We built 'Houses of Eternity' and held festivals to feed the memory of our fathers. But in the last decade, we’ve entered 'The Great Forgetting.' We’ve been told that a flower on a grave is 'waste' and that a grandmother in a bed is a 'statistic.' We are the first generation in human history to look at our ancestors and see a 'carbon problem' instead of a foundation.”

How we moved from "Sacred" to "Resource."

• The Narrative Shift: We’ve spent 60,000 years remembering, but in the last 15 years, we’ve been "coached" to forget.
• The Malthusian Shadow:
  • Paul Ehrlich (The Population Bomb): "The population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people... we must cut out the cancer."
  • Ted Turner: Suggests a 95% reduction in population (down to 250–300 million) is "ideal" for a healthy planet.
  • Klaus Schwab (WEF): The focus on the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" often frames humans as biological data points that must be "integrated" into a more "efficient" digital and economic system.
  • The Logic: This "Reset" narrative often suggests that in a high-tech future, many people (the "Peons") may become "economically irrelevant." If AI and robots do the work, the "Upper Crust" no longer needs a large labor class, making the "overpopulation" of poor people a "security risk" rather than an asset. system.

A recent Forbes article from April 5, 2026 challenges some the facts in my Energy Hostage Podcasts 1 & 2. According to the Writer I am misinformed. Well let's find out, Here is his words.

A widespread myth in energy circles is that U.S. refineries are “unable” to process the light, sweet crude produced by the shale boom. The claim tends to surface whenever gasoline prices rise or energy independence becomes a talking point. The argument is usually that the U.S. is producing record volumes of oil, yet still imports crude because its refineries were built for heavier foreign barrels.

It’s a compelling narrative, but it’s mostly wrong.

Let’s look at the real economics on the ground I just paid $4.30 / gal. For gas today. Two months ago I paid $2.28/gal. That is a 89% increase. That’s the ransom we pay for being held hostage to the middle east when we don’t have to be.

The economics for the oil companies is 50 or 60 Billion dollars in additional profits. We pay a ransom while they make huge profits. And He called it economical. It’s a matter of prospective I guess.

He doesn't dispute the fact the we still import millions of barrels a day from the middle east, but he claims in his words,

U.S. refineries can and do process shale crude every day. The issue isn’t technical capability. It’s economics.

Understanding that distinction is critical, because it explains why the U.S. simultaneously exports large volumes of crude oil while continuing to import it, and why that system works far more efficiently than it appears at first glance.

Stick with here to find out if it is really economical or efficient or which party it might be both of those things.

When I was 7 or 8 years old we lived on a small farm in south willard, not far from the weber county line in Utah. We had 2 or 3 milk cows, one we miked for our use and dad would buy baby calves at auction to put with the other cows after they calved. We had Holstein cows and they produced enough milk to feed 3 or 4 calves. One of those cows just had her calf and dad went to the auction get some baby calves to put with her. But when he got home there was no baby calves, but there was a surprise. He had 2 little donkeys a brown one and a white one.

The Biblically correct name for a male Donkey Would be Jackass. And it Didn't take long to find out that our little jackass could also be The Figurative Jackass as well. Little did I know that our little Donkey would set the Stage for a valuable lesson. A lesson I have carried with me my whole life.