Charlie Robinson (00:02.082)
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and Canada, don't get pushed around.com is the place to go for that. All right, well, there is a term out there called monitoring the situation, right? And it's turned into a bit of a joke, know, it's envision in your mind, a guy sitting at a desk, computers everywhere, monitors everywhere, and he's going from one to the next, he's looking at the situation in Iran, he's looking at what's happening with his 401k, he's looking at

the social unrest in his city, he's monitoring the situation, as they say. And there's a bit of a kind of a joke about that too. It's like, it's all you can do, right? And what good is it? You can monitor the situation all you want, it's not gonna change anything. Or will it? Or will it? Because, you know, there's some experiments that they've done in the study of physics that says that actually, you know,

Monitoring the situation does impact it. So for those of you who have been told to quit monitoring the situation, because you're not going to do anything, you tell those people, hey man, there's some science involved in this that might want to have a word with you about it. So I want to do this. I'm just going to be kind of a, a little bit of a buffet here because we've got so much to cover and it's hard to know where to focus. So we're going to monitor several situations. Of course, we're going to

We're gonna talk about what's going on with the American empire and how it most definitely feels like the wheels are coming off of it. The only question is have they have the nuts and bolts been intentionally loosened or was this just poor maintenance over the years? So we'll get into that. And I have thoughts on the direction that we're going. It's not great. It has to do with the North American tech, Nate. It has the Monroe doctrine,

Charlie Robinson (04:44.982)
Trump-ro doctrine, whatever we want to call it. Now we'll get into that. The wheels are actually falling off of California. you know, I have, on the one hand, I take a little bit of pleasure in this because it is my home state. And I would feel differently if California was stricken by some external force, like a meteor that came in and did a lot of damage. I would feel bad for the California residents there.

But this is all preventable. And in fact, you guys asked for this, you voted for it, you brought people in. And so we'll get into that. California has been one of my favorite topics for a while because it's just like a terrarium of bad ideas that you can watch happen in real time. It's fascinating. I want to talk a little bit about the media landscape and the direction that we're going with that. This is a huge problem. the media has always been a problem, but...

but now the ownership structure of the media is making this, well, I think you can extrapolate out where it's going. We'll spend a little bit of time on that. I wanna talk about AI because it's creeping in as we know, and then I'll wrap up with where we're going financially because there's issues in the credit market and I had, well, I mean, I talked about the.

best person you could speak to on that, is Catherine Austin Fitz about what we were seeing with the private credit industry. We'll wrap up with that, so stick around. It's gonna be worth getting into, but it feels like everything, everywhere, all at once. And I believe that that is intentional, that when you're getting to the end of empire, when you're living through a fourth turning, it's going to feel like everything's accelerating.

I think in part because it is. as you, you you watch something circling the drain, like actually circling a drain, you throw a little leaf in there and you watch it circle. And as it gets to the final moments before it eventually goes down the drain, that circle gets very tight and everything moves extremely fast, right? The whirlpool in the end, ultimately,

Charlie Robinson (07:08.094)
uses its momentum and sucks you under. And that's where it feels like we were, you you're out there taking a nice swim. What is this? It feels like maybe I'm stuck in a little bit of a riptide, a little current here. it's nothing I can't handle. I'll still manage this. I'll take a look. And next thing you know, you've been pulled out into some rough waters and things are happening much faster than you anticipated. That unfortunately is where we are.

with the end of empires. we've been, know, for better or for worse, we've been plugging along here for the last couple of decades. It's been relatively smooth. And it's funny because I was listening to the radio today and they were talking about a song, it's a smash mouth song. They're like, this song came out like 30 years ago and it was talking about how the world was on fire with, you know, in the nineties with all this chaos and everything. And I'm listening the whole thing going on.

Wow, I I was in my twenties living through the mid nineties. Maybe it feels like it's on fire for every generation, but in comparison now, looking back in the nineties, way, know, knowing what I know about where we are today, there was no chaos at all. There was no, the world was not on fire as a matter of fact. And there was like a hell of a lot more unity. It's funny because I lived through the Rodney King riots.

when I say live through, I I was living in South Central Los Angeles when it, like I came out my door and there's smoke everywhere because everything's on fire. Like, that was race relations between black and white America are at all time lows during the Rodney King things. I'm thinking it's still the way it was back then in 92 is infinitely better than it is now. I mean, white people and black people didn't have a ton of interaction.

I'd say at this point, the term fatigued has entered the conversation, the lexicon, and it is being used quite a bit, right? So things are quite different. So I think a little bit of perspective, just hearing them talk about how, you know, the song was written at a time in the nineties when things were chaotic, I was like, what are you talking about? Things were, in retrospect, very normal. But I think that when you're in it, it feels like it's the end of the world.

Charlie Robinson (09:34.499)
And so we're in this right now and it feels, and the vampire forth turning, it feels like everything is happening everywhere all at once. But is it? Maybe it's just because we're aware of it. Maybe if we lived in some island somewhere and didn't have internet access, it wouldn't feel like everything everywhere all at once. It would feel like nothing's happening. So I suppose it's a matter of your perspective and where you are in the world and...

where you are in your life, know, the course of your life and in terms of how you view things and whether or not this is, you know, you need like the senior member of the tribe to tell you like, this is bad. Like it's never been this bad before. Like you thought it was bad before, but this is the worst. Like you need somebody with a proper perspective. And I will say that given that, you know, I'm not super old, but in my early 50s now,

in Gen X and right square in the middle of Gen X too. We have this unusual upbringing where we have one foot in the analog world and one foot in the digital world. And that may be helpful. It may also be a problem too, because we're not really committed to either one, but we know how it used to be.

I suppose that's the difference is that maybe younger people have been born in this digital world and they have no, they can't comprehend what it was like before that for obvious reasons, but we can and we remember what it's like. And so I think there's a profound sadness for a lot of us that remember what it was like because it's not like that anymore. And it's not going to be like that anymore. And you can get into your DeLorean if you want. Instead of a course for 1996, if you'd like.

but it's not going to be there when you get there, because things are different. And this is...

Charlie Robinson (11:37.601)
It's wild because we're watching things right now that have stood for centuries being destroyed in a matter of weeks. You know, you're watching cathedrals in Europe that have stood for hundreds of years be burned out. Right, and you see that and you go, well there's gotta be more cathedrals, right? It's not the end of the world if one of them goes, but then another one goes, and then another one goes, and then nine million Africans

are in Western Europe and you go, this is fine, right? You turn into the meme with the dog in the room on fire. This is fine. It's not fine. You tell yourself it's fine. You probably need to tell yourself it's fine, but it's not fine. This isn't okay. You don't get to unfuck this. You don't get to get the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria and fill them up with all the people that you don't like and send them back to the Middle East or Africa or wherever. That's not going to happen.

the Trump administration ran on a policy of we're going to actually do that. Have they done it? No. No, no. Because they're not going to do that. It's all talk, right? So.

Charlie Robinson (12:54.254)
Fourth turnings don't ask for permission. They just come in and they crush everything. The end of empires don't get scheduled on the calendar. They catch you when you're not paying attention. Well, I think we're paying attention. I feel like we're, if we're not at higher ground now, we're on the path towards getting there. And I don't think most people are even awake.

to the situation that we're facing. Bank runs happen in minutes, not weeks. The idea that there's going to be people lined up at their banks like, ABC News is reporting there's a bunch of people lined up in the bank. If you're at the point where you're lined up at your bank, it's over.

It is over for you. you're figuring it out only when the mainstream media is telling you, hey, know, there might be a problem with the banking system. It's over for you. FDIC is not gonna make you whole. They're insolvent. They're invested in bonds that are upside down. That's not gonna happen.

I mean, it's called a strategy of tension for a reason. Because if they can get you off your game and they can get you worried about things, a lot of things that are out of your control too. mean, holy shit, the amount of things that I worry about on a daily basis that will A, never impact me, B, I can't fix change or do anything about it anyway, and C, they never wind up happening and then I spent this emotional energy.

running through scenarios about what I would do if that event happened and meanwhile, it just never does. So the strategy of tension is impossible to quantify what it does to people, what it does to a society, you know, because you can't measure the amount of time that people spend worrying. You just know that it accumulates.

Charlie Robinson (15:09.099)
over time and that at some point it creates so much stress on the person that they snap, that they break, that they give up, they maybe mentally give up and then physically you're done. Anybody who knows somebody who's been extremely sick and is just sort of at the end said, you know, think I'm done here. They are done. They typically pass away pretty quickly after that. if you can convince people that

They're up against forces that they can't battle. It's like the old, you know, the elephant that has the chain on its leg to the small little wooden spike, you You don't need the chain. You can put a small rope around his leg that he could pull the stake out anyway.

But as a baby, you try a couple times, you fail, you're taught, well, I'm staked to this place, this is the only place where I can be, the chains are too strong, it doesn't even, it's not even worth my time to fight back. That's demoralization. That's where they get you. That's a, you know, this is the reason why they show us the ghost in the machine videos. This is the reason why they put that on YouTube and don't bury it in some classification somewhere.

because they want you to see that. They want you to know that they're out there, the digital bogeyman trying to mess with you. Because if you now incorporate that into your worldview, yesterday you didn't know that that was a possibility, today you do. And now you behave differently because of that. They may be watching you, they may be reading your emails, they may be tapping into your cell phone camera and taking pictures of you while you're on the toilet. They may be doing all these things. Now, as soon as you're aware of that,

your behavior changes. So when they say that, you you're monitoring the situation, the mere act of observing the situation isn't gonna do anything about it, they're actually wrong. When you know that you're being monitored, you behave differently, right? Now I'm not saying that people just watching TV or staring at your computer are gonna fix the situation, right? I don't actually believe that, but you're not trying to fix the situation. You're just trying to get yourself

Charlie Robinson (17:34.862)
sort of to a level of understanding about what you're facing. You know, we're now officially in Psyop season. I look around, I see him everywhere. And not for nothing, but the United States Army told you that they were with the Ghost in the Machine video. And so did the Mossad with their 60 minute video with Leslie Stahl, where they said, you know, we are a global production company. We create reality.

So again, when you're watching your television at night, you're trying to get a gauge on what's going on in the Middle East. First of all, if you're watching the nightly news, you're not going to know what's happening. You're going to be propagandized. You're going to be believing something else. But if you're out there trying to actively gather information from sources that you believe to be correct, I think the problem with this

Well, first of there is no problem with gathering the information to try and understand what's going on. Where you get into situations is that you're going to understand what's going on. And that means you're going to see when they pull the false flag to drag people into supporting boots on the ground in Iran.

you're going to have the eyes to see it.

like Bill Cooper did in the lead up to 9-11. If you were listening to that broadcast that Bill Cooper did in what, June or July of 2001, said, know, there's going to be an event with Osama Bin Laden and they're gonna blame it on him and don't you believe it? Right, well, if you have the eyes to see that a massive false flag is coming that will be pinned on Iran, it will be pulled off by

Charlie Robinson (19:28.523)
America and Israel, of course, either on American soil or maybe in Western European soil. I'm seeing that you can, if you know what to look for, you can almost see the, the setup for the false flag, right?

Iran launches missiles, air quotes, launches missiles at Diego Garcia and they miss Diego Garcia. They don't hit it, but they show that they have the technological capability to launch rockets that far, right? And then someone goes, well, from Iran to Diego Garcia, they get their little fingers out and they measure on the map is this far, you know, what?

five inches on the map and then they hold it up five inches and they go, okay, well from Tehran to London, that's five inches as well. holy shit. So wait a second, the missiles that coincidentally missed Diego Garcia launched by Iran have shown that they can at least make it that far. Of course, coincidentally they missed, right? But we've now shown that they can make it that far. So it stands to reason that they could make it that far in the other direction, right? Like, so if

I don't know if a Iranian, air quotes, Iranian missile landed in London.

That would be enough to say that the Iranians did it and then we've got to get them there. We got to have boots on the ground. I might even have to have NATO. It's a Article 5 instance, right? We got to get everybody. Everybody's got to jump in this war, right? Can you, you can see how that would be prepped. Imagine us talking about that here. And then six weeks from now it winds up happening. And you're aware of this and you're, you're screaming to everybody who will listen to you and your family.

Charlie Robinson (21:23.149)
in the car, at work, at school, wherever you go. I fucking called this, you know, it was coming. We knew it was coming. Go listen to this episode. said it was... Now what? You did it. You accurately called your shot in advance. Not because you're psychic, not because you're Nostradamus, not because you're Karnak. You did it because you put the pieces together and you understand how these people behave and how they operate. And what you would do

If you were a diabolical monster trying to start World War III and you got the stick and you're sticking it to the person and they won't do anything, come on, come on, fight back, fight back, fight back. And you go, well, we might have to, know, like pretend like this guy fought us. So once you understand these tactics, it's so hard for them to.

Well, it's not hard for them to pull it off. It's just hard for them to get universal approval of it. It's hard to not have, they're never gonna get us, right? We're always going to be monitoring the situation like we're at a Buffalo Wild Wings on a Saturday afternoon during college football season, right? We got 18 different games going on. We're trying to follow all of them. We feel it's our duty and obligation to pay attention.

I mean, but again, like, let's extrapolate out where this is going. Have you been watching as they put the pieces together for the North American tech-nate? Because when Trump got back into office, he starts going on and on about Greenland. And people are like, this is a very strange obsession that he has with Greenland. And then, you know, but he actually kind of started talking about this a couple of years ago.

And now he's back and the first thing he's talking about is Greenland and he also mentioned Panama Canal and he saying how it has to be taken over by, know, the Chinese have control of it through Hutchison and we can't have that. We've got to have BlackRock get involved and so we're going to have BlackRock take over the Panama Canal. And you're okay, you're back in office in the first weekend, you're going on and on about Panama Canal and Greenland.

Charlie Robinson (23:36.171)
surely we have bigger priorities than that, right? What is the obsession with that? And then Venezuela happens, right? And people go, okay, this is actually starting to look like a different map. And they pull up the North American Technate map. And if you pull that map up, you'll see that it is, it goes from Greenland to Venezuela. And you go, holy shit, like, okay, there's something else going on. And then Cuba happens, right? So,

So I guess the good news is, if you want to call it good news, is that if you're looking at the North American technate map and you notice that it has Greenland and it has Venezuela and it has Canada and America.

One of the things you can do with that map is you can assume that they are telegraphing their place. You know where they're going next. It's gonna be on that map, right? Cuba is next. It just is. It's been a problem. See, everyone always wondered like, what is the problem with Cuba? Why does America hate Cuba so much? Like you would think, like we've had a blockade on them for 70 years. They must have done something

unspeakable to America for us to hate them for 70 years. They're right there. We could do almost anything. We have intentionally kept the phone. it's because Castro and Castro is an awful guy and he treats his people horribly. Yeah, I don't doubt any of that. I'm sure he's a horrible guy who treats his people poorly or did. But you know, that's not what it is.

The reason why the American empire is still, think about who holds a grudge this long. You know who. You know who holds a grudge this long. You know who. It's them. And the reason why America has the relationship it has with Cuba is because Cuba threw the Jewish mafia out of their island and,

Charlie Robinson (25:48.325)
That was with Santo Tropicano and this was the whole fuck, like all of the Meyer Lansky and all that shit that was going on in South Florida and Cuba and having to do with that. The reason why America has such a problem with Cuba is because Cuba threw its powerful Jews out of the island. That's why. That's why. Does it make sense now why we've held a 70 year grudge? Because they fucked with the wrong people.

And because of that, so Cuba was like Ukraine back in the 30s. It was the place where you could go to do whatever you wanted. Casinos and beaches and women and God knows what was going on there. And this is where the mafia was running a lot of their operations out of. The Jewish mafia, the real mafia. We get the Italian mafia, sopranos, good fellows, all that stuff. Okay, but.

That's a smoke screen for who's really involved. So Cuba's on the list. You can watch our behavior towards Cuba. You can see that it's on the North American tech night. It's on the list, right? The Caribbean's on there too. So at some point we're just gonna take the Caribbean, I suppose. Gotta take Haiti, unfortunately. Gotta take a country that is so, there's no other way to put it. A country that is so dumb that they

They ran out of energy, so they cut down all the trees and used the trees for fuel and now there's no trees. I don't know you're familiar with the island of Hispaniola. It's pretty much cut down the middle with the Dominican Republic on the eastern half and Haiti on the western half. And Haiti is a, it's the poorest country in the western hemisphere, has the lowest IQ, it has the lowest GDP, it's the lowest everything.

It is, there's nothing going on there. Ironically though, Bill and Hillary Clinton spent their honeymoon in Haiti, as you do, right? And then Laura Sillsby, who worked for the Clinton Foundation, got busted stealing 33 children from Haiti, and Bill Clinton had to fly to Port-au-Prince on a private jet and negotiate for her release and then get her out of there. And then she took a job working for the Amber Alert system to track missing kids. I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, bit of a tangent there.

Charlie Robinson (28:13.292)
It's just that when you mention Haiti, you know, my mind goes to Bill and Hillary Clinton, who also ran the Clinton Bush Haiti Relief Fund in which a couple hundred million dollars vanished from there as well. So if you're going to be the American Empire and you're going to take over the North American tech, you're going to have to take Haiti as well. Sorry, that's just so. I predict. I'm going to my meditative state, I predict.

a million Haitians coming to America in the next couple years. Get ready for that. That's gonna be fun. They're eating the cats. They're eating the cats. They're not eating the cats. They are eating the ducks though, out of the pond. They most certainly are eating the ducks. I don't know if they're eating the cats. fuck. They're probably eating the cats. Let's be honest.

Hey, Canada's not off the table. You know, if you have a map, Canada's part of that. And Mark Carney is a banker. So no doubt he's doing some sort of loan to own deal, rent to own with Canada. What do you suppose the down payment is? You got to put 20 % if you want to buy Canada, you have to put 20 % down. I would do an interest only loan. I think I would do the most reckless loan you could possibly, that'd be an interest only.

Ninja loan, no income, no verification, no assets. Yeah, that's what I do. Holy shit. Do you want Canada? What if you default on it? You try to steal Canada and then you're stuck with it. Then you have to deal with Ottawa. Can we just have Alberta? Can we do that? Cause I don't want Haiti and I don't want Alberta. I don't want any of this to be honest with you, but anyway.

Doesn't matter. And by the way, also, not for nothing, but in this sort of North American tech-nate where it sort of ends at Venezuela, you know what's going on below that in the Southern Cone? The Israelis are moving in and they want South America badly. They've got Javier Malay. They've sent their crews into Argentina who are burning Patagonia. That's a problem. Guys from the...

Charlie Robinson (30:32.612)
that are Israelis that have ties to intelligence. I'm not saying they're IDF, I don't know, maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but they definitely had ties to Israeli intelligence. I'm sorry, if you're in Patagonia and you're Israeli and you have ties to Israeli intelligence and then there's a bunch of fires going on, why don't they just put you in a helicopter? I mean, this is Argentina after all. Why don't they just put you in a helicopter and throw you into the fires? Right, that, am I not allowed to say that?

Might not allow to suggest that the people that they caught who were lighting beautiful Patagonia on fire shouldn't be thrown out of helicopters into the fire. Last time I suggested people getting thrown into volcanoes, I lost my Twitter account. So maybe I should be careful with that. But it's also kind of a move to push China out. You know, we see that happening. So you can push China out of South America while Israel moves in. We saw that with Venezuela.

you know, normalizing relations with Israel in the aftermath of whatever that coup was that the Americans pulled with Maduro. I think that if you move the Israelis into South America, you are going to have problems. Now, let me rephrase that. You will have problems. I don't think that I know that. Let's moving on. Let's talk a little bit about California. This is one of my favorite topics because they're just...

because the wheels are falling off and the signs are everywhere. And for the first time in its history, California lost people in 2025. I don't mean they like went out into the desert and they can't find them anymore. They left. They didn't lose them in the sense that they don't know where they are. They're in other states. They're not in California anymore. They decided that that wasn't gonna work for them. was a total net loss of 89,000.

That's a huge deal. It may not sound like a lot of people when you take into account how big California is, but they've never had a year where they had a net loss. Not once. California, physically, geographically, is a great place. The weather is amazing. It has a very Mediterranean climate. It depends on where you go. You can go up and down the state and find different weather anyway. Deserts, where I grew up, beaches.

Charlie Robinson (32:55.568)
mountains, vineyards, forests. California has everything except, you know, someone with a functioning brain running the place. But from 2020 to 2024, 1.46 million people left California. Let's round that up and say 1.5 million, it's close enough. 1.5 million left

but then 934,000 illegal Soros puppet welfare queens and retards replaced them. So 1.5 million people left and 950,000 new people came in that, look, I don't know who the people are that left, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that they were probably more productive than the 934,000 illegals who came in.

So if you replace roughly a million people who are productive, and by the way, you would be leaving California because you were productive. If you were unproductive and receiving welfare benefits, you were receiving unemployment benefits, homeless situations like that, you most definitely wouldn't leave because you're receiving benefits. The people who are leaving are the productive ones who are like,

I've made a calculation and 13.3 % state income tax is not worth it. I'm not getting anything for that money, so I'm going somewhere else. Maybe you're just going one state over to Nevada that has zero state income tax. You can do that and save yourself 13 % as long as you can do whatever it was you were doing in California in Nevada or Florida or Washington or Tennessee or North Dakota.

or these places that have, know, Florida has drawn so many people into their state because they have great weather and they have no state income tax. Texas has no state income tax as well. That's a reason why a lot of people are going there. You have to vote with your feet, so to speak. Well, that's what also is happening with the businesses there because let me tell you who's left California recently.

Charlie Robinson (35:19.044)
These are massive companies who've made a calculation. Look, it's one thing to pack up your house, your family and your kids and move to another state and buy a house and get your kids in a new school and make new friends and take a new job and do all that stuff. That is a huge pain in the ass. And the fact that people make that decision to do that, to leave the state they're in, California is what we're talking about, and go to another state requires a ton of effort, money,

stress, frustration, and all of that, but you do it because it is an investment in your future. And that is not limited to people making those decisions. Corporations have done the same. Chevron left. Chevron was originally one of the standard oil octopus tentacles. It was founded in California. It has left California after over 100 years. This is not because

They just decided that they were gonna move to Houston. Do you know how much money that cost to make that move? It is extremely expensive. Now think of the scenario I ran for you and your family. Now do that for 10,000 families who work for you and now you have to tell them, hey, you know how you set up your life here in the Bay Area and you went to work for Chevron and you, we're moving.

Sorry to do this to you. Well, we'll help you out with some relocation costs, which of course the company will have to pay. But everybody signed off on this. They made the calculation that they can't do it. Taxes, regulations, restrictions, insanity. Anti-business California.

but they're not the only ones. Even companies that are tightly embedded with the government have made the decision that this government is too much. Oracle, Oracle started by Larry Ellison, Project Oracle, CIA. If anyone would know the inner workings of the government, it would be Oracle. They simply are the, they're the largest CIA cutout ever.

Charlie Robinson (37:34.136)
and they're leaving California because even they can't make it work. And they're part of the system. Hewlett-Packard is gone. Palantir is gone.

Yamaha left, Toyota left, Valero, oil and gas, they're gone. Wells Fargo, banking, they left. Marathon Oil, gone. In-N-Out Burger, relocated to Tennessee. They don't even have stores in Tennessee. They don't even have In-N-Out restaurants in Tennessee, not yet. They'll get them. They moved their headquarters there because they can't be in California. They were started in Southern California in Downey.

And they're gone.

Charlie Robinson (38:24.336)
SpaceX is gone. Anheuser-Busch left. Twitter X gone. Tesla gone. Charles Schwab. Financial Services relocated.

Realtor.com, Jelly Belly, Blue Diamond Growers. When you've got the almond growers leaving, like you have to go buy land somewhere else. You have to go plant almond trees somewhere else. You have to go start your entire company somewhere else. They made the calculation. It doesn't matter. If we stay here, we're dead. John Paul Mitchell Hare gone. Yeah, like everyone's going.

Sorry, gotta go. What were their reasons? Well, there were many of them. Regulations, well, it's obvious. Regulations, taxes, permits, minimum wages, fast food wages, poor government, crime syndicate, authoritarian vaccine lunatics. mean, these are the reasons that I would give for leaving California. But they asked these companies, what were the reasons that you give?

for leaving and theirs were very straightforward. Tax savings, skilled labor pool, meaning where we are in California, it's hard to find skilled labor. It's easy to find retards, you're pumping them in every day, but it's hard to find people that are actually skilled. Lower operational costs was the reason for leaving. Rising crime, fewer regulations,

more available land, regulatory relief. know, regulatory relief is 100 % governed.

Charlie Robinson (40:16.656)
So if you need regulatory relief, what you're saying is, I'm leaving because this state government is out of control and I'm going to go, I'm interviewing other states to see who has better regulations and then we'll plan accordingly. Another reason companies were leaving, homelessness. Yeah, 50 % of all homeless people are in California.

Charlie Robinson (40:43.076)
business-friendly climate. They're leaving because there's a lower cost of living for their employees.

And they are, there's not for nothing, but government incentives also work as well. So some of these companies are being poached by other states. saying, come here, build your Tesla factory here. We'll give you tax credits. We'll give you this, that, the other. We'll lower the barriers for regulations. We'll fast track some of this stuff. We'll approve you for some land purchases. Like we'll make this thing happen.

And you should be shopping around. You should be shopping around personally for a state that's more compatible with your way of living. And you should be shopping around if you're a company. I mean, because to get Chevron to leave, just imagine all of the...

Just imagine all the work because the alternative is we'll just stay. We'll do nothing. But they said, no, we'll do whatever we need to do to get the fuck out of here because if we don't, we're gonna have bigger problems. That should tell you everything you need to know about California. People are leaving. They also, but not before they add a 5 % wealth tax on billionaires and a mansion tax to anybody who's in LA County.

So again, 5 % billionaire tax, wealth tax on billionaires. Who has the ability to get up and move to a state that doesn't have a wealth tax on billionaires? The billionaires do. Who doesn't get the opportunity to move? People who aren't billionaires, right? So you're gonna put a 5 % wealth tax on billionaires. You know what they're gonna do? They're gonna get on the phone with their accountant and their realtor and they're gonna say, find me a place in Palm Beach. Make that.

Charlie Robinson (42:39.375)
the headquarters legally. I'll be there as much as I need to be there legally.

and we'll just get around this. These guys aren't gonna pay this tax. So this is what politicians do who don't know how, who have never run a business and don't know how things actually work. They say, you know, it'd be great if we had more money here in our budget. Well, why don't we just put a big tax on people? All right, who's got the money? Billionaires. All right, let's put a 5 % wealth tax on billionaires. Okay, you know what billionaires are gonna do? They're gonna leave.

hey, now we scared all the billionaires away. Well, that was a dumb idea. Why'd you do that? Well, because we wanted to tax them more. And they didn't stick around to wait for your dumb ass to tax them. No, they got on their private jets and they relocated to some other jurisdiction. It's really weird. I can't believe they did that. This is what we're working with here. So California's top corporate tax rate is 8.84%.

Okay, their top personal tax rate is 13.3 and you've got the California Environmental Quality Act, which is a maze that delays growth. So please explain to me the reasoning why if I'm a company, first of all, I would never start my company in California. That is out of the question.

The only real question is, you relocating your company out of California? How can you do it? How much will it cost you? And where do you go? But you would never start a business in California right now. That would be, I mean, I know that and I'm not like a corporate, I'm not involved in corporate structure. I don't know shit about taxes. Like, and even I know that. So what about socially? Let's take the business side out of this.

Charlie Robinson (44:32.962)
As I mentioned, California has one out of every two homeless people that are in the country. And that's not great because there are more homeless people getting added to that pile every day. Drug addiction rates are through the roof in California. Healthcare fraud is rampant. We have cancer clinics, hospice fraud. have $3.5 billion in hospice fraud in Los Angeles County alone.

There are 500 hospices within a three mile radius in Los Angeles.

I know you can insert all the jokes you want about California being a cancer and Los Angeles being like the epitome of that cancer. I get it. I lived there for 20 years. There still shouldn't be 500 hospices within a three mile radius. That's called fraud. And that's happening like crazy.

We have property taxes in California that go to fund woke schools and build third bathrooms. So if you're socially, let's say business-wise, you don't have any dog in this fight, doesn't matter to you, just socially, if you live in California, it's undeniable that if you have been monitoring the situation the last couple of years, you're in a place where...

Your property taxes are being used for nonsensical things like building third bathrooms, but your taxes aren't being spent on things like keeping the reservoir filled with water and Pacific Palisades. Instead, it's being used to spend $867,000 to hire the most incompetent police chief in the country and stick them in Los Angeles County and then take all of the fire trucks and send them to Ukraine.

Charlie Robinson (46:33.401)
So when people see that stuff, it's really difficult to get them to forget about it.

And it's an indictment on the political class that they now know that you know, this gets into the Solzhenitsyn, know, they're lying, we know they're lying, they know that we know that we're lying and all that stuff. The California residents now know that their leadership are, I mean, incompetent at best.

but I would say more on the lines of criminal.

And yet those criminals aren't changing their behavior. They're not trying to hide the fact that they're criminals. And what's worse is that they don't seem to care that you know, which is a really dangerous place to be. We have fires causing questions about the leadership of Los Angeles. You have Spencer Pratt running for mayor of Los Angeles, Spencer Pratt from the Hills, because he is so up in arms about the fire and he's been...

Talking about it quite a bit, he was on tinfoil hat with Sam a couple of weeks ago too. He might win. It'd be hilarious. But this is the thing, you have these fires and then you get everybody pointing fingers in different directions. it was her, it was him, it was, you know, I hired a woke lesbian to be the police chief and then she did an interview where she said, if you're expecting me to pick your ass up out of a burning building, you're...

Charlie Robinson (48:15.217)
you're in the wrong place and things like that. And you just go, okay, you're being made to see this, right? The Epstein files come out, Casey Wasserman, who's running the Olympics 2028 is all caught up in that, has to get fired. But of course, you shouldn't be surprised that he's involved in that, especially if you knew who his grandfather was, Lew Wasserman, who was involved in, who was one of the members of the Jewish mafia. Here we go, back to that again.

And then of course we have what I think will be sort of the most symbolic, I hell, the leftists has spent a ton of time pulling down statues. They're never gonna be able to pull down that high speed rail statue that has been under construction now for the last eight years that is quite literally a high speed train to nowhere.

Charlie Robinson (49:10.161)
you know, from Merced to Bakersfield? You mean that well-worn path between Merced and Bakersfield, the road that dozens and dozens of people have traveled down, and you're gonna build a high-speed rail? I I hope that...

If you were to get these guys in a quiet moment, you'd go, high-speed rail is money laundering, right? Like, I hope that they would not have the...

I hope they would not insult your intelligence by going, no, no, no, we're actually trying to really build this high-speed rail system. It's so obviously fraud and graft and scumbaggery. I don't know.

If you're not recognizing this and you live in California, then you are clearly part of the problem. If all of this is brand new to you and that you're just starting to consider that maybe your government is out to get you, you've had your head up your ass. Let's talk about what's happening with the media because this between the California situation, which is frustrating, but also kind of hilarious. And now moving into

what they're doing with the mainstream press. It's frustrating. I hope you are monitoring the situation of the new landscape for the media because while people were working three jobs just to keep the lights on, the second richest man in the world, Larry Ellison, is buying every media asset that's for sale and even a few that weren't. And this is not because Larry is a lover of cable news.

Charlie Robinson (51:04.538)
I assure you, this is because there was a lot of noticing going on that was happening on TikTok. There were a lot of questions about October 7th. There were a lot of problems with what was happening in Gaza that was being reported on TikTok. And you know, we just can't have that. So what they did was they got Larry Ellison, who is a well-known Zionist supporter, loves Israel. They've given them...

hundreds of millions of dollars, I think, he sent to Israel. They have statues of him there. He is one of them. But they've given him basically the green light to go and acquire every media institution that has critical things to say about Israel. So he bought TikTok, which was not for sale, from a company called ByteDance, which is Chinese. That was a for sale, kind of much like...

the arranged marriages of the banks back in 2008 when they're like, you and you, you're getting together. And because if you don't, then that company is going out of business. these merges and same with TikTok, the government comes in and says, you know, we can't have you having the social media platform here in the US because you're not allowing us to censor what's on there. And they're like, well, I mean, we censor what's on there in back in...

in China for the Chinese version of TikTok, that's very different. But in terms of what the American version of TikTok is, they didn't want to censor it. They weren't going to be doing that. Trump forced the sale by claiming, we'll just make you sell it. And of course they have ways to make you do that. And they forced the sale to Larry Ellison. So Larry Ellison can then put his team in charge of that and say, make sure that nobody ever criticizes Israel.

on this. And then TikTok becomes the site where if you criticize Israel, you lose your account. And that's what's happened, right? So, know, and you need to know about Larry Ellison and know his background, know that he's worth, you know, over $250 billion and know that he's been a part of the CIA since 1977 and know that he owns 40 % of Oracle and that he, you know, has a, you know, you're, past the point of

Charlie Robinson (53:24.804)
of buying anything that you want. He bought the fucking island of Lanai in Hawaii. Pretty sure it wasn't for sale, okay? He bought 98 % of it. And so he owns one of the Hawaiian islands. Once you've got to that level, like you've got everything that has a price tag. But when you have a much bigger role in shaping global events like Larry Ellison does, buying TikTok isn't to try and make money.

It is simply to put a cap on the Israel criticism. That's what it was. And it didn't stop there because he then went on to buy a series of other assets that, well, boy, if I didn't know any better, I'd think that he was trying to take control of the media in advance of World War III so that people couldn't be critical of his team. His team being the American Empire and the Israeli.

Zionist regime. So what else did Larry Ellison buy? Well, after he got done with TikTok, he bought CBS, he bought CNN, Warner Brothers, Comedy Central, HBO, Discovery, Black Entertainment Television, just to be on the safe side, so he wouldn't be called racist. TNT, TBS, he bought the Cartoon Network, no doubt to fuck with us with some.

more Mandela effects. He bought DC Studios. He's like, I'm gonna buy DC Studios and fill it with a bunch of woke garbage. It's like, dude, it's already there. Bought Fandango, the CW, Pluto TV, Miramax, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount, and Showtime. So a bit of a buying spree.

went crazy at the grocery store, went to the grocery store, the media grocery store on an empty stomach and bought everything. So the consolidation of the press into the hands of loyal Zionists and deep state techocrats is, in my opinion, is what happens right before they do something in which they would be rightly criticized on all these media platforms.

Charlie Robinson (55:46.759)
in the same way that it made me suspicious when Trump went down and grabbed Venezuela and the oil and then grabbed the Nigerian oil made me think that's what you do from a supply chain standpoint if you were planning on there being a big war in the Middle East where the Middle East was going to be kind of off limits and the Suez Canal and the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz was going to be all wonky for maybe a decade, right?

I would make sure that I had my oil coming from Venezuela. It could just go straight north right into Houston, or I could have it from Nigeria. It could just go straight west into Houston, and I'd have it squared away. That's what I would do in advance of a war in the Middle East so that I knew that I had the oil situation taken care of. Well, think about that with regard to how you would do the media landscape. Same thing. I'm about to have a war that's going to be

deeply unpopular and it's going to that the true media had they been there would show outstanding war crimes that I'm committing genocide all this depleted uranium white phosphorus all the war crimes that I'm committing. So in advance of that I'm definitely going to want to have a handle on the narrative management. So I'm going to acquire all the media that I can get my hands on. So you go out and buy TikTok and CBS and CNN and Warner Brothers and

you know, in Paramount and Showtime and all this stuff.

And that's what they did. And then what do you know? We have a war breaking out and what's happening? Israel is doing things that are deeply unpopular and people are criticizing it. Well, you can't do it on TikTok anymore. And you won't see that on CBS nightly news because they bought that, installed Barry Weiss as the head of it, who then put her Zionist people in Tony Dukable to be the head, the...

Charlie Robinson (57:44.221)
the anchor who's terrible, but he's a Zionist, so he works. And you are taking CBS. CBS had its lowest ratings in, well, they said this century. So 26 years, the lowest rating just came out. I just saw it today. The lowest rating, that doesn't matter. Larry Ellison has $250 billion. He didn't buy CBS to make money with it.

In fact, it doesn't matter if they lose money, it's a tax write-off. It's narrative management. That's what it is. That's where the value is for them. You would say, why would you buy CBS? It's a hunk of shit. It's run by a bunch of leftists. Nobody's watching it anymore. Doesn't matter. It's just one less avenue that could ever possibly tell the truth. And I'm...

You know, and when I see media consolidation into the hands of very few people, it reminds me of the werewolf game. And I played that clip during my presentation at Anarcho Polco. It's a great clip for people to understand that werewolf game. And basically what it boils down to is that a small informed minority will always beat a large, uninformed majority. So if you have the information,

then you're always gonna win.

no matter how many people out there are against you. It's about who has the information, right? So if you're monitoring this situation and you're seeing what's happening with the media and you're seeing what's happening with Larry Ellison, you're just a half a step away with what he's doing with AI. And because on day two, we had that massive presentation where Trump, day two of Trump's second term, he comes in and talks about

Charlie Robinson (59:47.547)
Operation Stargate talks about half a trillion dollars going to Larry Ellison and Sam Altman to make sure that we are the artificial intelligence lead. Well, you know what? There's a black hole of money. No one really knows where all this money's going. It's hiring talent, it's going into data centers, it's going into chip acquisition, it's going into energy costs, it's going into a lot of stuff, right? But...

talent, resources, things like that.

but it feels like there's always more money that's needed and a bit of an arms race, not just against other companies in the United States, but then United States versus China, United States versus insert country there, everybody, right? So it feels almost like it's a race to get the best technology. So you've got to pour as much money as you can early on and we'll just kind of see what happens and there will be winners and there will be losers, but.

You know who is ultimately going to be the loser in all of this is us. Because what do you know? The two things that this AI system needs desperately is a ton of fresh water and as much energy as it can get its hands on. Two things that we desperately need as human beings, right? Two of the most important things, water and having energy, right? And they intend to control all of it.

They intend to use all of it. The computer needs to drink, We've made a decision and the priority is that, yes, I understand that you're going to die from dehydration, but these machines have a very important task. And if they don't continue to operate at a high level, China's gonna beat us. Then you know what happens then, right? When China wins the AI race,

Charlie Robinson (01:01:48.237)
know, bad things. Like, I don't know what that means, if China wins the AI race. What does it mean if we win the AI race? What does winning the race mean? Do we get to stop? Is it like those people, did you see during the Winter Olympics, the cross country skiing? My wife and I watched this and we cracked up. I'm not laughing at them. It is an extremely intense race where it's like the most

cardio intensive thing you can do, but when they cross the finish line, there's a reason why I thought of it, is when they cross the finish line, they literally fall over and like collapse on their skis and they just lay there like they'd been shot. You'll see like six of them at the end of the finish line, they're all laying down and they look like they've been hit with tranquilizer darts, but they're just exhausted, right? So my question is, we win the AI race, we cross the finish line, we flop down like we've just done the cross country skiing.

Then what? Is the race over? Because anytime I've ever looked at things like this, they go on forever. There is actually no finish line. So what do we do once after we spend a quadrillion dollars on this stuff? And we don't have the, and it's able to organize our spreadsheets better than anybody's ever organized a spreadsheet in our lives, right? And it gives us great funny video clips of Trump as a samurai or something. And you're like, this is great.

this is what we got? This feels kind of like the metaverse, which by the way, Meta pulled the plug on last week. They announced it officially that they're done with it. But then, know, we've got a, you know, this situation with AI is, you know, everyone's trying to get their bearings on what does it mean? What's it going to do? Well, look, we know that it has the job loss potential across a variety of industries. Right? So that's going to be a huge thing.

And then if you've got job losses because a computer is taking your job, well then maybe the computer needs to pay up, right? So then you've got UBI. Maybe we'll just make it so that everybody gets a little something. That's a big problem. When the state is in charge of dictating what you get, you will get less and less each year until you ultimately get nothing. Not to mention like the societal friction.

Charlie Robinson (01:04:14.566)
coming from jobs and industries leaving, due to AI creep, it's gonna have an impact, right? And it's something worth checking out, keeping your eyes on this, because right now it may not be possible to calculate exactly where this is gonna end up. it's, you know, of all the things you could be monitoring, this is one that might be worthwhile, because it's moving quickly and it's hard to tell.

kind of the direction that this is going to end up. It is making people dumb and lazy and uninformed though. That is certainly happening. Let's wrap up with this, because I mentioned that I was talking to Catherine Austin Fitz about credit markets. we sort of talked about this as being maybe the financial canary in the coal mine. When you see private, so you know of private equity, right? The private equity is we're companies and we,

are going to give your company money, but we're gonna take ownership stake in your company, right? That's private equity. There's also private debt. And that is, you're a company and I'm a company, I'm sort of like a bank, and I've got money and I'll loan you, and you need money, but you don't necessarily want to sell your company. You like what you're doing. You need to borrow $100 million, but you don't want to sell $100 million worth of equity in your company. You just want to borrow it.

There's companies out there that say, fine, I'll loan you a hundred million dollars at this interest rate. these are the terms and this is when I want it back and you don't need to pay me for the first couple of years. But then year five, this is where it kicks in. Year six, boom, boom, boom. And then we get a balloon payment at the end of year 10, whatever the terms are, right? Those companies that do private credit are in huge trouble right now. And it's not little companies either.

These firms are refusing redemptions, meaning

Charlie Robinson (01:06:19.324)
Meaning like BlackRock, Blackstone Group, Morgan Stanley and Blue Owl Capital are these private debt, private credit firms that are refusing to give the money back to their investors. They're saying, we're not going to allow redemptions right now. And the reasoning is a bit opaque, but it stands to reason that it's because they don't have it.

That ultimately is the, they give you all the reasons in the world for why they don't have it, but in the end, they don't have it or they don't feel comfortable enough to give it to you right now because maybe there's too many people asking for it. This is what you get with a bank run. This is why banks make this calculation about fractional reserve lending. They can lend out whatever their deposits are. They can lend out nine times that amount because a calculation has been made and been proven over the last century or so.

that there never really is a time when everybody comes into your bank storming and saying, I want my money today right now. If they did, you would be exposed as being over leveraged and you would be in a real problem. Banks operate in that capacity all the time. Their status quo is over leveraged. And so it's a...

But they've managed this process for years. Maybe the liquidity is a little low. Like, we need to borrow some money from the Fed. Maybe the Fed, hey, can you loan us some money at a cheap rate? Because we're a bit of a cash crunch here. We got a lot of people asking for their money back right now. We want to make sure we give it to them. Because if we don't, not only is it bad for business, but at some point it just becomes like the kiss of death for you. You become a company that will not pay back, and that can't happen.

So we have this going on and we have, know, when private credit imposes redemption limits, that means that you are in uncharted waters here. You're in a real bad place. And these are the big players too. It'd be one thing if the medium size or small players were like, we're, you know, we're tapped out here. Go talk to Morgan Stanley, get your money from them. Go talk to BlackRock, you know, they won't have the same problems with them. no, no, no, you're having problems with them.

Charlie Robinson (01:08:44.69)
They're the big boys. They're supposed to be immune to this and they're having problems. So that's a situation. And what Catherine said was that you need, she said, there's a trap being set right now. She talked about it because she had been offered by Coinbase, she had been offered a 14 % interest rate to park her money there in a

stable coin, know, you're, it's a, these stable coin companies are buying treasuries and they make money from holding the treasuries and you can make money by holding their coins and you, basically, becomes like a digital treasury in a sense. That's what Tether's doing. And, and so what they're, what she was saying was that it's a trap when they're offering you 14 % interest, that's,

too much interest. I mean, it's great that you can get it, right? And everyone's going, fuck, my bank is offering me, I don't know, a half a percent and they're offering me 14%. Like I got to go. What she's saying is that's the trap, is that they want you to go. Leave your bank and go into Coinbase. Now your money's in Coinbase instead of in your bank. And you're getting 14 % for now, but that'll go away at some point. But it doesn't matter because they bridged you.

They've made that move. They've gotten you onto their platform. They've gotten you to load DraftKings on your phone. You've picked your platform. It's them, right? You pick Coinbase instead of Kraken, instead of somebody else, right? And so they get you into their company, but then they also simultaneously get you out of the bank. And so she's talking about, is how they get you into the digital control grid.

Hey, 14 % interest sounds good, right? Fuck yeah, it sounds good. Especially when you know what you're getting at your bank. So now you've left your bank, maybe your smaller medium sized bank and you've moved into Coinbase. Now you're trapped. Trapped in a sense that you're now playing that digital game. You can still buy coins, buy Bitcoin on Coinbase and then send it to your cold wallet and then you're out of that game.

Charlie Robinson (01:11:09.074)
Right, you're out of that system, but you're still, this is how she was talking about how do you get people to go from the banks and traditional bank accounts into something digital, a digital asset in a digital bank account. And the answer is you offer 14 % interest. That's how you do it. This is the carrot portion of the program. At some point you will get the stick, but not right now. So I think it's important for people to...

understand that last, well, recently, they changed bank liquidity standards by the treasury due to write downs and where they see things going. They talked about fundamental reform. Okay, so when they change banking liquidity requirements, when the treasury does that, that is because there is a banking liquidity problem, right?

they wouldn't change it if there was no problem. So the fact that they are changing the bank liquidity regulations is an admission that there is a problem with their liquidity. Therefore they have to change the rules. So they're doing that and that's a problem. And then here's another reminder as I feel like I often do, the G7 bank bail in legislation. Remember that they legalize that for G7 countries. So that will happen.

at some point, they will take the money in your bank account. I'm not saying that I think they will, I'm saying they will. The only thing I'm unsure of is when. I know it'll happen, I just don't know when it will happen. And the reason why I know it'll happen is they legalized it. So you know it's going to happen. This is not a very flimsy limb I'm standing on here. I may be making a prediction into the future, but this is a very solid limb.

I assure you. Commercial real estate, medium sized banks with the liquidity problems are cooked. And medium sized banks handle most of the commercial real estate as opposed to what you might assume the large banks do. They really don't as much. Office buildings in Denver are down 70 % from 2016. San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle are all losing businesses. Their commercial real estate markets are atrocious right now.

Charlie Robinson (01:13:33.908)
catastrophe. And, you know, we probably need to reimagine some mixed use real estate developments and, and have a come to Jesus moment about parking. Because I'm about to drop some parking statistics on you that you never knew you needed. You never knew you wanted, maybe even don't want. But did you know that there are between 700 million and two

billion parking spaces in the United States. Isn't that interesting? Between 700 million and two billion, that's quite a wide gap there. But I said, there are eight parking spots for every car in the United States. The European mind cannot process this. I'm just telling you right now. You're like, wait, what?

You know how they say Americans live in their cars and they drive everywhere and everything? Yeah, this is what we're talking about. I mean, if you've been to Europe, the parking is challenging, let's just say. This works out to 5 % of all developed land in the United States is actually parking lots. Parking lots, parking spaces, things like that. This works out to an area the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. It's so funny, they always use Delaware and Rhode Island.

Sorry, Delaware and Rhode Island. You guys are getting thrown in on this one. It's a hell of a parking lot.

And no, I am not saying that we should turn Delaware and Rhode Island into a parking lot. Tel Aviv maybe, but not them. Residential real estate, well, I don't know. We'll wrap up with this. I would just say brace for impact. This is something you want to notice. A lot of people are noticing this because they own homes and they have a vested interest in this. Trying to figure out where the market is going. Well, there are no move up buyers because most of those buyers are locked in.

Charlie Robinson (01:15:40.531)
at a 3 % interest rate that they got five years ago and interest rates now are six and three quarters. So you're not gonna give up a 3 % rate to, even if you need to buy a house that's bigger in size, because you're not gonna be able to afford it. Your payment will double simply because you'll be pushed into a different interest rate. So the market is stuck in that regard. And it would be, you know.

For those people who got wild hair and decided that they were gonna become house flippers, I mean, I can tell you as somebody who's worked, I my partners have flipped over a hundred houses. I mean, I've lost track of how many they've done. Part of this is that you need to, if you wanna do something like that and you wanna work in residential real estate, you need to have your vendors kind of buttoned up. You need to know that you've got the right people that can...

you know, subcontractors and vendors that are outstanding that have your back. you're, think you're just going to parachute into some new city and set up shop and buy houses and fix them up and flip them or anything. You didn't have to have a network of people that you trust. They're going to show up on your job site on the day when they're supposed to show up because you know them. And if you do this as an amateur, you will lose a lot of money. And, and, and I say this as someone, we had a show on HGTV.

Flipping Houses, Flip or Flop Vegas. And those shows are very deceptive because they make it look like it's so easy to do. And everything that we showed in that show, we were doing, there was no camera magic or anything like that. But the problem is that people think that when they see the final tawies at the end, you spent $6,000 on that kitchen. Labor is not included. And the prices that we're showing are the prices that we get because we know how to lean on our...

suppliers because we do a lot of business with them. you know, so people get this false sense that, shit, I'm going to go in there, 6,000 bucks for, to, renovate this kitchen. can go in there and do that. And then, then it would be worth $20,000 more. This is a great idea. You got to know what you're doing. Right. So, so if you're in, if you're somebody who is in your home right now and you think I'm stuck, I need to fix it up to flip it in order to get out of this in order to

Charlie Robinson (01:18:05.895)
find a buyer out there, be very careful about that. There are certain things for sure that you can do to improve the overall image of your home, but you will wind up in a real trap if you're trying to fix the kitchen to make everybody happy, or you're trying to put the right color carpet in, or the right color paint on the walls to make everybody happy. It's never gonna work. You need to make that as sort of middle of the road as possible.

And if you're doing that as your exit strategy to get out of your house, better have a good attorney, or better have a good real estate agent, however you do it, depends on where you are. Some places use attorneys, some people use real estate agents. If you're in the Las Vegas area and you want to buy or sell a house, obviously talk to us, alterluxury.com, because we can help you with that. we're not in the business of going over to other people's houses and helping them fix theirs and flip it.

If you're serious about doing this, if you're serious about recognizing, you've been monitoring the situation as we say, and you've made a calculation that you need to get out of where you are and you need to move to a different place and get yourself some land and be away from all these people, well then let me give you a bit of advice that will save you a ton of money, time, and headache. Talk to Curtis Stone.

over at Freedom Farmers. Just talk to him and get involved in his program first because they'll save you a lot of time and headache with that. You don't want to buy the wrong piece of land. So for those of you who are recognizing these situations and are asking questions or trying to be proactive and you're trying to say, look, I see what's happening. I'm leaving California. I want to go somewhere else. So, okay, good. You know, do that, but let's make sure you've got the plan figured out in advance. Make sure that you know.

that where you're going, you're gonna stay, make sure it's the right thing. Guys like Curtis Stone can help you shave a lot of that learning curve off. Go to freedomfarmers.com, I think, and just get involved in that. And remember this, they're trying to break you, psychologically, financially, physically, but we refuse to allow that to happen.

Charlie Robinson (01:20:23.921)
It's really hard to demoralize people who know their tricks. So pays to pay attention. It pays to be monitoring the situation. Hey, if you liked this episode, you can take the additional step right now of sharing this episode with people that you think might appreciate it. Scroll down, give us five stars, rate the show if you think we've earned it. Thanks everybody. We'll catch you next time.