And we are live, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 3109 of the Survival Podcast,

and I let something go by yesterday without celebrating it.

Yesterday was our 14th anniversary at the Survival Podcast. Survival Podcast was born on

June 20, 2008 in the midst of a financial crisis about to happen. Here we said 14 years

later, I think, in the beginning stages of a long, slow financial crisis of many facets.

That's what we're going to be talking about today, dealing with the coming hard years.

Today, I kind of want to drive home with this, is I don't think we're in for like the end of

the world as we know it the way I think most people pontificate this type of thing.

And I also don't think that we are in for a conventional recovery, the way many people,

many financial people, even people I generally agree with are forecasting now. The

dimension will just be this typical recovery. I think we're in for, you know, the term rolling

blackouts, right? Like in California where they have these rolling blackouts and brownouts.

And I've kind of said this, but I've not used that terminology before. It's been going through

this entire thing since the whole COVID thing started. Yeah, that's what we're going to see.

Like there's a problem and it itself begins to correct. And then there's another problem and

it itself begins to correct. And there's another problem. And I do think that a lot of this is

by design. And I think a lot of it is also due to policy. And I think a lot of it is due to

money printing. And I think a lot of it is due to conflict in the world. And I think that a lot

of it is due to intention. I eat the great reset. And I think a lot of it's due to incompetence

in human nature. And I think whenever we try to pin it down to one thing, then we get ourselves in

trouble. If it's all, you know, Satan Schwab, right? Then we get ourselves into trouble. If it's

all the great reset, then we get ourselves into trouble. If it's all a desire to take liberty

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