The Charlie Kirk Show - January 17, 2025


How Joe Biden Could Have Won 2024 — But Didn't


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Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) and Colin Plume (D-NJ) join me to discuss the hearings and the likelihood of John Thune being confirmed as the next nominee for Secretary of State. We also talk about the confirmation process for Pam Bondi and why she should be confirmed.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, it's in the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:01.000 First, we have Senator Rick Scott to recap some of the hearings and the chances of who is actually going to be confirmed.
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00:01:30.000 Joining us now is the great senator from Florida, Senator Rick Scott.
00:01:34.000 Breaking news, Senator, you're going to have a new colleague as you are, I think, now the senior senator from Florida.
00:01:40.000 Oh, finally.
00:01:42.000 I know.
00:01:43.000 Finally, I think you've been the junior senator to Senator Rubio for quite some time.
00:01:48.000 Your reaction, Senator?
00:01:49.000 I want to introduce Marco yesterday.
00:01:51.000 I said one of the benefits of you getting nominated to be Secretary of State is I finally get to be the senior senator.
00:01:56.000 So I spoke to him.
00:01:57.000 Actually, he's gotten appointed.
00:01:59.000 I just spoke to her.
00:02:00.000 I've already spoken to her a couple of times.
00:02:01.000 I just got off the phone with her.
00:02:03.000 She's going to come up this weekend, so I'll be meeting with her and doing everything I can to help her get automated and get started quickly.
00:02:09.000 She's been a successful attorney general in Florida for six years. 0.99
00:02:12.000 He took over after Pam Bondi.
00:02:14.000 She's put a lot of effort in it to try to hold the Biden administration accountable. 1.00
00:02:19.000 So I think she's going to be a good colleague to work with.
00:02:21.000 So, yeah, just talk more.
00:02:23.000 The announcement was made this morning by Governor DeSantis.
00:02:26.000 Ashley Moody will fill.
00:02:28.000 The vacant seat.
00:02:29.000 And so that obviously keeps us solidly in the majority and will be another powerful voice in the United States Senate.
00:02:38.000 So walk us through how the confirmation process is going right now, Senator.
00:02:43.000 We have Scott Besant and also Pam Bondi.
00:02:47.000 How do you think Pam Bondi did?
00:02:48.000 Well, so Pam Bondi was outstanding.
00:02:50.000 I had the opportunity.
00:02:51.000 She's a good friend, as you know.
00:02:53.000 I had the opportunity to introduce her yesterday at the Judiciary Committee, and she did a great job.
00:02:58.000 She's somebody that's smart.
00:03:01.000 She's going to try to bring respect back to the Department of Justice. 1.00
00:03:05.000 She's not going to play this lawfare, gotcha, what the Biden administration, the Obama administration did. 0.96
00:03:12.000 So I think she's going to do a really good job, and she did a fabulous job yesterday.
00:03:16.000 Marco Rubio, of course, foreign relations, I also had the opportunity to introduce him.
00:03:21.000 He did a great job, as you know.
00:03:23.000 He's very knowledgeable on foreign relations, and I think what he wants to do is bring the...
00:03:29.000 Secretary of State's office back to the importance that it should have in deciding foreign policy in this country.
00:03:36.000 So Pete Hedgeseth did a great job at armed services.
00:03:40.000 So I'm on that committee.
00:03:42.000 He did a great job.
00:03:44.000 Here's what I like about Pete.
00:03:46.000 He's a warrior.
00:03:48.000 My father did all four combat jumps during the Second World War.
00:03:56.000 I respect and admire those people.
00:03:58.000 They know where the problems are.
00:03:59.000 They know what the warfighter needs.
00:04:01.000 That's where Pete is.
00:04:03.000 He fought.
00:04:04.000 He served in Afghanistan and he served in Iraq.
00:04:06.000 He knows what the warfighter needs.
00:04:08.000 That's what we ought to be doing.
00:04:09.000 So I think he's going to do a great job.
00:04:11.000 He will be confirmed.
00:04:12.000 I don't know how many Democrats are going to vote for him.
00:04:15.000 I don't know how many Democrats will vote for Pam Bondi. 1.00
00:04:18.000 But they're going to be confirmed.
00:04:20.000 Hopefully, we'll get them confirmed quickly.
00:04:23.000 John Thune has committed to have an aggressive process to try to get all these confirmations done as quickly as possible.
00:04:30.000 It appears that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are going to try to slow down as much as possible, which makes no sense.
00:04:39.000 Donald Trump was elected president.
00:04:40.000 He won a big win.
00:04:42.000 He won the popular vote.
00:04:44.000 You should help them get their team together.
00:04:46.000 And by the way, if his team does not do a good job, there's elections in two years.
00:04:50.000 Help them get their team together.
00:04:51.000 Democrats should not be fighting us on this.
00:04:53.000 And then let them go do their job.
00:04:56.000 And if they don't do a good job, the public has the opportunity to vote in two years and not elect Republicans again.
00:05:02.000 So, Senator, can you contrast the pace at which the Senate is operating right now versus 2017?
00:05:09.000 It feels as if there was just a slow walk back during Trump 1. This seems to be moving at a rapid pace, even so that I think you and many other senators are bouncing in between simultaneous concurrent hearings.
00:05:22.000 Is that correct?
00:05:24.000 Absolutely.
00:05:26.000 There's a commitment by our leadership.
00:05:29.000 Senator Thune has made a commitment that we're going to do this as quickly as possible.
00:05:33.000 I think all of us are going to do everything we can to get them done.
00:05:36.000 So it's not going to be us slowing this down this time.
00:05:42.000 It's clearly going to be that we're going to stay here.
00:05:44.000 We're going to work, if we need to, through the weekends to get things done.
00:05:48.000 We'll see how much the Democrats want to slow it down.
00:05:51.000 It takes a certain number of hours of debate for every one of them.
00:05:55.000 We need to say to ourselves, we should be clearly no worse than the pace of when Obama got his cabinet put together.
00:06:12.000 And I think that should be our standard.
00:06:14.000 And I know that's exactly what we're demanding right now, and hopefully that's what we'll get.
00:06:18.000 So there are several votes upcoming.
00:06:21.000 Can you just walk through our audience how this is going to work?
00:06:24.000 So President Trump in three days and 22 hours and 47 minutes becomes the 47th president of the United States.
00:06:30.000 I'm sure I'll see you there, Senator.
00:06:32.000 But then it's a workday for you where most of us are going to kind of go celebrate.
00:06:36.000 We have a big ball to host.
00:06:37.000 It is a workday.
00:06:39.000 Walk us through what that day looks like as far as how quickly we can get these people confirmed into office.
00:06:47.000 So what'll happen is, as soon as Donald Trump is sworn in, then he'll sign the nomination letters and send them back over here.
00:06:55.000 We will have our committee votes to confirm them out of committee as quickly as possible, as many as we can get done that day.
00:07:01.000 And then we'll start the process.
00:07:03.000 The Democrats can slow us down.
00:07:05.000 They can make us take 30 hours of Senate hours, basically, for each of these cabinet members.
00:07:11.000 So we'll see if that's what they do.
00:07:14.000 If you go back to Barack Obama, I can't remember, but he got many confirmed his first day.
00:07:19.000 They didn't work to help Trump in 2017. Hopefully, you know, they'll work to get some of these done.
00:07:27.000 I don't know how – Marco Rubio is going to get almost every vote, I assume.
00:07:31.000 I think there's going to be a lot of people that they're all going to vote for.
00:07:34.000 I think you're right.
00:07:35.000 These people, they should get done immediately, within hours after Trump is sworn in.
00:07:40.000 No, I think you're right.
00:07:41.000 I think Rubio could pass on a voice vote.
00:07:44.000 And also understand that it's unusual for senators to vote against one of their own, especially someone like Senator Rubio.
00:07:51.000 Who's been around for quite some time and despite disagreements has always been very respectful and cordial to the other side.
00:07:59.000 So, Senator, if you were to say, which of the ones do you anticipate a little bit of drama or a little bit of a fight?
00:08:05.000 Pete Hegseth had a great hearing, was obviously very high profile.
00:08:09.000 Tulsi Gabbard.
00:08:10.000 Which are the ones that our audience should really focus on to try to make sure that President Trump gets his full cabinet?
00:08:15.000 Well, what you need is you need national defense done as quickly as possible.
00:08:19.000 Number one, things you ought to be doing.
00:08:21.000 So we need to get our Secretary of Defense done.
00:08:23.000 We need to get Marco Rubio done.
00:08:26.000 We need to get Tulsi Gabbard done.
00:08:28.000 So Pete had a great hearing.
00:08:31.000 I think it's very difficult to vote against him.
00:08:33.000 I don't know how the Democrats are going to do, but that should happen very quickly.
00:08:37.000 Marco should happen hopefully within hours.
00:08:40.000 But after that, we need the Attorney General done.
00:08:42.000 Pam Bondi did a great job at her hearing. 0.99
00:08:44.000 She was outstanding.
00:08:46.000 She doesn't take any gut from anybody.
00:08:49.000 So hopefully those get done.
00:08:51.000 We need to have Russ Vogt approved.
00:08:53.000 He's going to be management budget.
00:08:57.000 Tulsi Gabbard.
00:08:58.000 Tulsi, I assume they're going to...
00:09:00.000 They'll make her life miserable for a while, like they did Pete's for a while.
00:09:05.000 What Democrats do, they do smear campaigns.
00:09:08.000 But these are great nominees.
00:09:10.000 These are hard-working Americans.
00:09:12.000 These are people that are going to change the direction.
00:09:15.000 So Cash Patel, they're going to go after.
00:09:18.000 If you look at history, they're going to go after Cash.
00:09:21.000 But look at who they're replacing.
00:09:26.000 Christopher Wray, who was clearly lawfare against Trump.
00:09:32.000 Merrick Garland.
00:09:33.000 And look at how General Austin ran the Secretary of Defense.
00:09:38.000 And by the way, twice within six months, he was AWOL. I mean, he was in the hospital and didn't tell people.
00:09:48.000 So, I mean, that's a violation of the law.
00:09:51.000 And of course, Biden did nothing about it.
00:09:52.000 We just found out yesterday.
00:09:54.000 Senator, in closing here, the new administration is going to hit the ground running.
00:09:58.000 Lessons that you learned during Trump 1 that you want to communicate with our audience.
00:10:02.000 The media is going to be out of control.
00:10:04.000 We must stay disciplined and steady at the wheel.
00:10:07.000 Senator, closing thoughts.
00:10:08.000 So it really matters.
00:10:11.000 If the public is vocal about what they expect.
00:10:14.000 Donald Trump won.
00:10:16.000 He won big.
00:10:18.000 The public needs to do whatever they can to let their senators know it is very important to be very helpful to Donald Trump to get his agenda done.
00:10:26.000 The more active you are, the better chance it'll get done.
00:10:29.000 I love it.
00:10:30.000 Senator, keep up the great work and deliver Pete Hegseth and Tulsi across the finish line. 1.00
00:10:35.000 We're counting on you.
00:10:36.000 Thank you, Senator.
00:10:37.000 We're going to.
00:10:37.000 too.
00:10:37.000 See you, Charlie.
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00:11:42.000 Scott Besson is acing this confirmation hearing.
00:11:47.000 Look, we very well might be heading for some economic turbulence sometime soon.
00:11:52.000 Some choppy waters.
00:11:55.000 Some uncertainty and some financial curveballs.
00:11:58.000 I was just reading here in one of my many newspapers that I try to read during the break here as inflation data.
00:12:08.000 It's looking a little better, but it's nowhere near where it needs to be.
00:12:12.000 And guess who is posting a surge in profits?
00:12:15.000 JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs post surge in profits.
00:12:18.000 This is going to be an unsustainable economic recipe.
00:12:21.000 If the top banks and the top 1% keep on posting record years and record profits while everyday Americans can't afford eggs, butter, and groceries, you're going to have an economic revolution.
00:12:34.000 This is exactly why Joe Biden did what he did in his farewell address.
00:12:37.000 Do we have Joe Biden's farewell address?
00:12:38.000 Joe Biden didn't believe a word of what he said last night.
00:12:41.000 However, it was very well written.
00:12:43.000 Whoever wrote that speech was basically lamenting that that is what the Democrats should have said this last year.
00:12:49.000 Run against the oligarchy.
00:12:51.000 Run against the entrenched economic powers and interests.
00:12:56.000 Joe Biden's farewell address would have been very politically challenging for Donald Trump to run against.
00:13:05.000 Donald Trump himself being a billionaire, Elon Musk being a billionaire, even though Joe Biden got more support from billionaires and more support from the 1%, and the wealthiest counties in America disproportionately voted for Joe Biden.
00:13:18.000 I think 8 out of 10 of the wealthiest counties.
00:13:20.000 It's a message that would have been very difficult for Republicans to overcome if Democrats would have been sane on immigration, sane on crime, sane on the trans stuff.
00:13:30.000 Instead, it's just completely out of control.
00:13:34.000 And Joe Biden's farewell address said that there is a smaller and smaller group of people controlling more and more of the wealth.
00:13:41.000 I mean, he's correct, of course.
00:13:43.000 He didn't believe that throughout any part of his presidency.
00:13:45.000 He pandered to that very same oligarchy.
00:13:47.000 He made that oligarchy protected by the lawfare regime.
00:13:50.000 He did the bidding of that oligarchy.
00:13:52.000 But we don't want to live in such an oligarchy.
00:13:54.000 We want to be able to have it where there is robust free market competition.
00:13:58.000 That if you want to be able to get to $400 billion in wealth like Elon Musk, we have no problem with that.
00:14:04.000 But we want to make sure that we can get 10, 20, 30 more people like Elon Musk.
00:14:07.000 We want this to be the center of entrepreneurial activity around the planet.
00:14:12.000 To have a system where there is an entrenched ruling class that is untouchable.
00:14:18.000 Here in the Wall Street Journal it writes, Big bank profits surged in the fourth quarter as Wall Street roared back to life with net income rising 50% and doubling at Goldman Sachs.
00:14:30.000 I mean, it's the best years they've ever had.
00:14:32.000 BlackRock's profits rose, assets under management edged up to $11.5 trillion.
00:14:40.000 This is Joe Biden with The message that Democrats should have run on, if the Democrats would have run on this message and said we're going to close the borders, we're going to be tough on crime, for any Democrats taking note, that's the pivot they should make.
00:14:55.000 Playcut 90. I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern.
00:15:02.000 This is a dangerous concern, and that's a dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra-wealthy people.
00:15:09.000 The dangerous consequences.
00:15:12.000 If their abuse of power is left unchecked.
00:15:15.000 Now he's worried about an oligarchy.
00:15:17.000 Last week he gave the nation's highest civilian honor to George Soros.
00:15:20.000 He doesn't believe any of this.
00:15:21.000 This last election, Joe Biden represented the oligarchs and now he's regretting that he didn't run against them.
00:15:27.000 But it was the people versus the plutocrats. 0.57
00:15:30.000 That is what this election was all about.
00:15:32.000 It was the people versus the plutocrats. 0.94
00:15:35.000 And we the people own the table.
00:15:37.000 We got a seat at the table.
00:15:40.000 And now the chairman of the board is back to being we the people.
00:15:44.000 But what I'm reading here with this economic data, as Scott Besson continues his testimony, this is unsustainable.
00:15:50.000 It is unsustainable that the biggest banks in the country are posting a 50% profit and doubling of income at Goldman Sachs.
00:15:57.000 How many of you in this audience saw your net income double this last year?
00:16:00.000 Anybody?
00:16:01.000 Anybody in this audience see your income for your family double?
00:16:06.000 How about up by 50%?
00:16:08.000 How about up by 10%?
00:16:09.000 I bet many of you in this audience are actually getting poorer every single year because of inflation thanks to Joe Biden.
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00:17:22.000 We have Scott Besson on the screen doing questions right now to become the next Treasury Secretary.
00:17:27.000 Perfect guest is Colin Plume, great partner of the program, NobleGoldInvestments.com.
00:17:33.000 Colin, say hello.
00:17:34.000 Hello.
00:17:34.000 How are you?
00:17:35.000 Good to be here.
00:17:36.000 It's good to have you here in Palm Beach.
00:17:37.000 Yes.
00:17:38.000 Oh, very nice.
00:17:38.000 It's our last program here in Palm Beach before we head up to the Imperial Capital.
00:17:43.000 Yeah.
00:17:43.000 And you've got some goodies here.
00:17:45.000 So Scott Besson is going to have some serious challenges in front of him.
00:17:50.000 What would you say are the biggest ones if you had to identify them?
00:17:54.000 Well, overall with the economy, I think the CPI report came out.
00:17:58.000 Inflation is still – it's sticky, right?
00:18:00.000 It's still here.
00:18:01.000 So that's something that you have to think about is do we focus on reducing inflation or do we focus on growth?
00:18:08.000 And I think what my opinion is is there's only a few different ways to go.
00:18:11.000 You go high growth, high inflation.
00:18:13.000 You go high growth, low inflation, which is the ideal.
00:18:17.000 But very difficult to do.
00:18:20.000 Low growth, high inflation, stagflation, that's always dangerous.
00:18:23.000 We don't want that.
00:18:24.000 You've been living through a little bit of that right now.
00:18:25.000 We've been living through a little bit of that.
00:18:27.000 So we need, in my opinion, I don't think with the next administration coming in, I don't think there's any way that you're not going to have inflation, but I think it will be coupled with high growth.
00:18:37.000 So from a policy standpoint, what would you like to see happen as far as the Treasury Secretary managing the money supply?
00:18:45.000 To be able to boost middle-class incomes?
00:18:48.000 Well, it's tough because I think they've been very conservative with the money supply and they've reduced the amount that they've exposed to the markets.
00:18:56.000 A lot of people believe they will open that back up.
00:18:59.000 They're going to start freely bringing money back into the markets.
00:19:02.000 You've got to be careful when you do that, though.
00:19:03.000 You've got to be careful because that could bring inflation again.
00:19:05.000 But I think that all the measures going forward, we want...
00:19:09.000 We want wage growth.
00:19:10.000 We want job growth.
00:19:11.000 The people that have been hurt the most over the last four years have been people that have had credit card delinquencies.
00:19:18.000 They've been the highest that we've seen in a long time.
00:19:21.000 Last year was the highest.
00:19:22.000 A lot of debt.
00:19:23.000 A lot of debt for middle Americans.
00:19:25.000 So they need high growth opportunities.
00:19:28.000 They need wage growth.
00:19:30.000 And those are the measures that I think are going to put more money back in people's pockets so that they can live a better life and not take on all this debt.
00:19:37.000 And look, there's a chance that inflation does continue to get out of control.
00:19:41.000 Talk about how gold is doing and silver.
00:19:44.000 Gold has been very reliable.
00:19:46.000 In fact, I think gold is at $2,751 an ounce.
00:19:49.000 Correct.
00:19:50.000 Yeah.
00:19:50.000 Yeah.
00:19:50.000 Gold is up.
00:19:51.000 26% last year.
00:19:53.000 26%?
00:19:54.000 Yeah.
00:19:54.000 Paul Tudor Jones, I mean, he said it best.
00:19:57.000 All roads lead to inflation.
00:19:58.000 That's why you're seeing alternative assets, gold, crypto, all these things really do well.
00:20:03.000 The world is divested away from the dollar.
00:20:06.000 They're moving away.
00:20:07.000 The bricks are moving away.
00:20:08.000 It's a natural progression.
00:20:10.000 The petrodollar, this great control that we had, where every dollar is being used for oil, that seems to be going away.
00:20:17.000 That was a massive advantage that we had that Nixon signed in 1973. It was one of the best things he had ever done.
00:20:23.000 And that seems to be slipping away.
00:20:25.000 So I am concerned that inflation will continue to...
00:20:29.000 Be here in the high twos.
00:20:31.000 And I've been saying for a few years that I think 2% inflation is an unrealistic number.
00:20:36.000 If you look at the world, nobody holds themselves to 2%.
00:20:39.000 I actually think we're going to go to a 3% model.
00:20:42.000 And I think that's much more attainable.
00:20:45.000 But I think we're going to sit in the high twos.
00:20:47.000 And the key is to be able at least to have growth outpace inflation.
00:20:50.000 Right.
00:20:51.000 Correct.
00:20:51.000 The very baseline.
00:20:52.000 Right.
00:20:53.000 Correct.
00:20:53.000 So if you have a new 3%.
00:20:55.000 Baseline inflation rate.
00:20:56.000 What is it technically now?
00:20:58.000 I have it here somewhere.
00:20:59.000 2.7.
00:20:59.000 I don't believe that.
00:21:00.000 Can you talk about the fabrication of some of these inflation numbers?
00:21:03.000 Because people will tell you things are getting more expensive than that.
00:21:05.000 Yeah.
00:21:06.000 Well, if you go back to early 1980s and how they calculated inflation, you take the same numbers today, we'd be above 10%.
00:21:13.000 They've pulled out a lot of different statistics to show a number that's low.
00:21:17.000 And that allows them to...
00:21:19.000 Continue the debt and continue the spending, and that's typically what politicians want to do.
00:21:24.000 They don't want to make any cuts.
00:21:25.000 I think this new administration, that's the big goal, right?
00:21:27.000 To make some significant cuts to bring our debt down, which gives people more confidence.
00:21:32.000 The whole dedollarization is based on the fact that people are losing confidence in our dollar.
00:21:37.000 It's not that they want to trade in another currency that's better.
00:21:40.000 There really isn't anything that's that much better.
00:21:42.000 They just don't feel comfortable with our debt.
00:21:44.000 That's what's happening.
00:21:47.000 The challenge for the administration will be to manage that inflation, navigate those waters.
00:21:52.000 Talk about what you're doing at Noble Gold Investments and your new book about silver, which is equally as interesting.
00:21:58.000 Yeah.
00:21:58.000 The new book is called Silver is the New Oil.
00:22:01.000 And it's basically a book where I believe that we're coming into a new super cycle.
00:22:05.000 And the new super cycle is high growth.
00:22:09.000 And higher than normal inflation, but higher opportunities.
00:22:13.000 And I think the opportunity in silver is something that a lot of people don't talk about.
00:22:17.000 Everyone talks about gold, and gold has already gone on a massive run, but silver is still below.
00:22:24.000 It's 1983 price, and there's no other commodity out there.
00:22:27.000 Why is that?
00:22:28.000 Has there been an abundance of supply?
00:22:29.000 There hasn't been that much supply.
00:22:31.000 I think a lot of it has been pushed down by a lot of the larger organizations.
00:22:34.000 They don't want the price where it should be.
00:22:37.000 But yeah, I mean, we're sitting at $30 an ounce basically today, which is a number that it had already hit $50.
00:22:43.000 It's hit $50 an ounce.
00:22:44.000 So if you look at...
00:22:46.000 Solar energy, EV, all the electrical uses, medical devices, and I go into really long detail.
00:22:52.000 And then the government, the military uses a tremendous amount of silver, drones, all those things.
00:22:58.000 So much silver, they don't even want to release how much silver they use.
00:23:01.000 So I do think there's a massive opportunity.
00:23:04.000 So I get into that in my book, and I also talk about some investment strategies that are outside the traditional investments that I've used in my life.
00:23:12.000 Talk about those.
00:23:13.000 Yeah, well, one of them is just focusing.
00:23:16.000 I really talk about here is that there's going to be opportunities where you're going to acquire assets at a good price and you want to continue to acquire those assets.
00:23:25.000 You just focus and you add.
00:23:27.000 And the two assets I talk about in the book are silver and real estate in satellite cities.
00:23:31.000 I still think there's tremendous opportunities in cities that are outside the main city.
00:23:36.000 So like you're out in Phoenix, obviously Phoenix and Scottsdale is really great.
00:23:41.000 Flagstaff, Mesa, the next city where people now...
00:23:44.000 Yeah, that's one of the cities I talk about in my book.
00:23:56.000 I also talk about Greenville, South Carolina, which I actually just bought a property this year or last year.
00:24:02.000 I bought a property there because I really believe in it.
00:24:04.000 But silver is the easy one in that there's no work, right?
00:24:08.000 There's no maintenance.
00:24:09.000 There's no tenants.
00:24:10.000 So you can really buy it and sock it away.
00:24:14.000 Sleepy investment that you can just not think about.
00:24:17.000 And then, you know, 10 years from now, when it's sitting at, you know, $100, $150 an ounce, you'll be...
00:24:22.000 So yeah, let's...
00:24:23.000 So why hasn't silver...
00:24:28.000 I think the market for silver on the exchange is still pretty small.
00:24:36.000 It's not as actively traded.
00:24:38.000 Also, if you look at gold, gold is bought so much and just held, whereas silver is seen as more of an industrial metal.
00:24:45.000 But what people don't realize is that a lot of the uses for silver aren't recyclable.
00:24:50.000 Some are, but some are not.
00:24:52.000 Like, for instance...
00:24:53.000 Refrigerators.
00:24:54.000 There's almost two ounces of silver in most refrigerators today.
00:24:58.000 Nobody's going to go in that old refrigerator and pull that out, right?
00:25:01.000 That two ounces is gone.
00:25:03.000 Solar panels.
00:25:04.000 10 to 20 grams.
00:25:05.000 But if there was two ounces of gold, they would tear that up.
00:25:08.000 If there was two ounces of gold, they would have...
00:25:09.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:25:10.000 I mean, this is five ounces of gold.
00:25:12.000 So, yeah, I mean, if someone would get in there and...
00:25:13.000 And then what is it?
00:25:14.000 This is a kilo?
00:25:15.000 This is a kilo.
00:25:15.000 Yeah, that's a kilo of gold.
00:25:16.000 Yeah, if there was a kilo of gold in a refrigerator, well, your refrigerator would be...
00:25:19.000 Yeah, don't just walk through the streets with this.
00:25:21.000 No, your refrigerator would be $100,000.
00:25:24.000 Yeah, how much is this, by the way?
00:25:25.000 That's close to $80,000.
00:25:26.000 Wow.
00:25:27.000 Right there.
00:25:27.000 Yeah, that's nice.
00:25:28.000 I asked Colin if I could keep it.
00:25:30.000 He said no.
00:25:31.000 Well, we'll talk about it.
00:25:32.000 I'll give you a good price on that.
00:25:34.000 I'll do a great price.
00:25:36.000 I know you'll do a great price.
00:25:37.000 Keep going, please.
00:25:38.000 Well, and also, I was going to say, not to transition totally out of it, but I was evacuated in the fires, and I've been talking to people- Yeah, and praise God, you guys were spared, right?
00:25:45.000 Yeah, we were okay.
00:25:45.000 And I was talking to people is that this is exactly, this right here is some of the stuff that I put in a backpack and I left with.
00:25:51.000 And I think that one of the things that people are not going to report, and it's going to come out, is that there's someone in the fire that had millions of dollars of Bitcoin sitting on a ledger that's gone.
00:26:02.000 You mean they forgot their password?
00:26:03.000 No, no.
00:26:04.000 They had it on a ledger in their house, and it's gone, right?
00:26:08.000 The thing is, people think some things are investments or not.
00:26:12.000 I was joking earlier about purses and some of these things, and people are going to be in a situation where as if this is so easy.
00:26:20.000 We're talking about like $100,000 here.
00:26:23.000 This fits.
00:26:24.000 This could fit in a tiny little bag, right?
00:26:26.000 Now, silver takes more to supply, though, right?
00:26:28.000 I mean, it takes it to store.
00:26:29.000 Yes, absolutely.
00:26:30.000 Yes, silver does.
00:26:31.000 So we do storage for silver for clients.
00:26:33.000 But gold is not.
00:26:34.000 I mean, this is.
00:26:35.000 Yeah, I mean, this is.
00:26:36.000 Yeah, right.
00:26:36.000 So you could fit.
00:26:37.000 You can look at this.
00:26:37.000 You can fit a million dollars in a shoebox pretty easily.
00:26:40.000 So it's liquid.
00:26:42.000 You can take it places.
00:26:43.000 That's why I think it's a really smart investment.
00:26:46.000 That's why people like it.
00:26:47.000 But the liquidity and the other thing that I love about precious metals, the way we do it, is that you're not paying.
00:26:53.000 You don't pay anyone a fee every year.
00:26:54.000 Once you buy this, it's yours.
00:26:56.000 Every other investment in the world, there is some fee you're paying somebody every year, whether it's a management fee or property tax or an annual fee.
00:27:05.000 Once you buy this, it's yours.
00:27:06.000 That's so interesting.
00:27:07.000 So they are exempt from any property tax.
00:27:09.000 They're exempt from...
00:27:10.000 I mean, if you sell it, there's capital gains.
00:27:13.000 If you do it in the IRA, there's no capital gains.
00:27:15.000 But actually, 12 states have actually gotten rid of capital gains on precious metals.
00:27:19.000 What do you make of this move?
00:27:21.000 That some states want to have a gold-backed currency.
00:27:24.000 Have you seen this, Texas?
00:27:25.000 Texas has done it, yeah.
00:27:26.000 There's this big move right now of states to try to have a metallics-based reserve system, basically.
00:27:34.000 Well, inherently it makes perfect sense because they're already accepting it for tax.
00:27:39.000 Really?
00:27:40.000 Oh, yeah.
00:27:41.000 Yeah, there's multiple states.
00:27:41.000 Utah's been doing it for many years.
00:27:43.000 You could train gold in for your tax.
00:27:45.000 Yeah, and if you think about that, why wouldn't the state want to do that?
00:27:49.000 Like, if over the last four years, gold has more than doubled.
00:27:53.000 If somebody paid a tax, their state tax, in this, and this was sitting at $45,000, and now it's close to $80,000.
00:28:01.000 The state wins.
00:28:03.000 As opposed to them taking it in cash, right?
00:28:07.000 Because the state's obviously going to keep reserves.
00:28:09.000 That's the whole idea.
00:28:10.000 You keep reserves.
00:28:11.000 So maybe they use cash that people pay in tax to pay whatever they need, and they keep some of the gold and silver in reserves.
00:28:16.000 So I think it makes a lot of sense for a state to want to take an asset that's going to go up in value.
00:28:21.000 It's noblegoldinvestments.com.
00:28:25.000 Offers, anything's going on?
00:28:26.000 We have you for another segment, Colin, but I want to make sure you...
00:28:29.000 Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely.
00:28:29.000 We have some silver promotions right now.
00:28:31.000 It's a great time because you have until April 15th if you want to add to your IRA, so we have a lot of good promotions going on.
00:28:37.000 If people want to add more money to their IRA and their retirement, it's a great vehicle to save money.
00:28:42.000 It's noblegoldinvestments.com.
00:28:44.000 I've known Colin for a while.
00:28:45.000 He's the best in the business.
00:28:46.000 There's a lot of shady people out there in gold.
00:28:48.000 He's as good as it gets.
00:28:49.000 Would you say there's some shady people in the gold industry?
00:28:52.000 I would say yes.
00:28:53.000 Let's just say not great actors.
00:28:55.000 Collins is as good as it gets.
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00:30:00.000 So Colin, there were some numbers you were showing me here.
00:30:03.000 Do you want to pull those up?
00:30:04.000 Yeah.
00:30:04.000 They're very interesting, by the way.
00:30:06.000 That's a lot in gold.
00:30:10.000 That's nice.
00:30:11.000 It's a lot of gold, I'll tell you.
00:30:12.000 Make sure you protect that.
00:30:14.000 It looks like Scott Besson has just wrapped up as the cameras are flooding him.
00:30:17.000 That is a wrap for January Madness Committee hearings.
00:30:20.000 What are we looking at here?
00:30:21.000 Yeah, no, I was talking about non-financial U.S. firms held $8.45 trillion in debt as of Q3 2024. Wow.
00:30:30.000 This is an interesting stat because I always look at these things.
00:30:32.000 The yield on season AAA-rated corporate bonds, 5.2% December 2024, double from December 2020. So the rate is high on this, you know, AAA corporate debt is supposed to be the creme de la creme.
00:30:47.000 I mean, that's your best.
00:30:48.000 They're trading at 5.2%.
00:30:50.000 So it's either one of two things that's happening.
00:30:52.000 Either that the market is saying that they're riskier.
00:30:57.000 That's why they're paying such a high yield.
00:30:59.000 They were paying 2.5%, 2.7% before.
00:31:01.000 Or they're trying to keep up with Treasury bonds and what the banks are paying for.
00:31:06.000 I think the average bank's paying between 4 and 4.25%, which is really interesting right now.
00:31:12.000 I remember when that happened initially.
00:31:14.000 Everybody was enamored with keeping money in the bank.
00:31:16.000 But now that inflation's probably at 3% or higher, is a 4% of the bank a number that really Are they even breaking even?
00:31:26.000 Are they losing money?
00:31:28.000 These are all the things that I look at when I look at the economy.
00:31:30.000 They've sort of got people in love with this 4% return, but...
00:31:34.000 When you look at what it takes to live and the cost of living and how everything is astronomically going up, I just don't think 4% is enough.
00:31:41.000 No, it's not for most people.
00:31:43.000 And so the way you look at your company, what are the type of calls you're receiving right now?
00:31:48.000 Give us kind of some of the demographic picture of the incoming you're getting at Noble Gold Investments.
00:31:53.000 Yeah, I mean, obviously people are optimistic about the new administration.
00:31:57.000 They're excited about...
00:31:58.000 What's going to happen?
00:32:00.000 And they're hoping that things will happen soon, that wages will go up and things will get better.
00:32:07.000 I do think it's going to take some time.
00:32:09.000 And I do think it's going to take some time for anyone to come in and fix a lot of the problems.
00:32:13.000 He's going to have to come in four years of problems that he's going to have to clean up.
00:32:17.000 So I think people are optimistic.
00:32:19.000 I also think that if you look at Some of the proposals, when you talk about inflation, which is rampant right now, it's still going.
00:32:27.000 You talk about tariffs.
00:32:29.000 The reason that no president really wants to take on tariffs is really it's a long game because it would make certain products more expensive in the short term.
00:32:40.000 And so what we're starting to see is a lot of people buy things now before they think things will go up.
00:32:45.000 I mean, I've seen numbers where they think computers could go, an average computer of $600 could be with a 20% or 30% tariff could be $700 or $800.
00:32:54.000 So a lot of people are trying to pre-buy things before these things could happen.
00:32:59.000 Before those price upticks happen.
00:33:00.000 Before the upticks happen.
00:33:01.000 And so I think that's smart.
00:33:03.000 And I do think people that are getting early.
00:33:06.000 On some of the things that we do, we'll also take advantage.
00:33:08.000 So I don't do any investment advice.
00:33:10.000 I'm legally not allowed to run, you know, federally regulated radio, nor would I because I'm not there.
00:33:15.000 But I think it's fair to say that...
00:33:17.000 Would you say that in the most durable portfolios, you've seen a pattern that these asset classes have some place in those side of portfolios without giving investment advice?
00:33:26.000 Yeah.
00:33:27.000 Well, I always think about this is the classic.
00:33:28.000 Whenever you hear about hedge funds and these firms, they always say assets under management, right?
00:33:34.000 That's the classic term that everybody says.
00:33:38.000 What are assets?
00:33:40.000 Assets are businesses.
00:33:41.000 Assets are real estate.
00:33:43.000 Assets are precious metals.
00:33:44.000 These are all assets that the wealthy is buying, that these big corporations are buying.
00:33:50.000 So everybody is trying to acquire assets.
00:33:53.000 That's the key to this next economy.
00:33:55.000 And I think what people need to realize is that a lot of people say this to us, is that things sound and feel expensive.
00:34:02.000 And if they sound and feel expensive, then why is BlackRock buying all these houses?
00:34:07.000 Why are all these institutions picking up properties?
00:34:10.000 You know, in Los Angeles, one of the biggest buyers of commercial real estate apartments is the city of Los Angeles.
00:34:15.000 The city of Los Angeles, just you know Encino, Woodland Hills, they just bought a $400 million apartment, the city of Los Angeles, with taxpayer money.
00:34:24.000 They're buying assets.
00:34:26.000 So the key to this new economy, to protecting yourself, is it's really an asset economy.
00:34:32.000 That's really what you have to do.
00:34:33.000 And I do think that precious metals plays a part in that.
00:34:36.000 But I think overall, it's just assets, having a business, having some different income streams, and really being diversified.
00:34:42.000 That's noblegoldinvestments.com.
00:34:44.000 Just repeat any deals or any shipwreck stuff going on.
00:34:49.000 We have some shipwreck coins.
00:34:50.000 Right now, we focus on incredible customer service.
00:34:53.000 I mean, that's really what we do.
00:34:55.000 And there's a lot of gimmicks out there, things that you do.
00:34:58.000 You are going to get some free gold and silver if you do any purchase with us.
00:35:01.000 We have different promotions.
00:35:02.000 But really, what we focus on is selling bullion coins and bars.
00:35:07.000 How much is this worth?
00:35:08.000 That's five ounces.
00:35:10.000 So you're looking at...
00:35:13.000 $11,000, $12,000.
00:35:14.000 I could just put that right there.
00:35:15.000 Yeah, it fits easy in there.
00:35:16.000 Just slide right in there.
00:35:17.000 It's just right there.
00:35:18.000 No one even knows I have it.
00:35:19.000 Do we have a metal detector here?
00:35:21.000 Does it pick up?
00:35:22.000 Oh, yeah.
00:35:23.000 Definitely.
00:35:24.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:35:24.000 When I do our tour of our depository.
00:35:27.000 NobleGoldInvestments.com.
00:35:28.000 Thanks, Colin.
00:35:29.000 Thank you.
00:35:29.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:35:31.000 Email us, as always, Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:35:33.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.