Western Standard - Trump and Poilievre own the age of independent media

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Hey y'all, sorry for the little hiccup there.

00:00:57.940 to spend the new year's hangover getting everything together we're going to start practicing saying

00:01:02.500 y'all because we're going to be 51st state pretty soon right i don't think we'll count on that

00:01:07.860 happening but what a bizarre year when starting out with a discussion of a very unusual president

00:01:14.340 constantly mocking canada talking about annexing us and a completely incompetent but a thankfully 0.71

00:01:20.180 outgoing prime minister who is uh unfortunately though not in a strong position to deal with that

00:01:26.340 right now. What is it? The old Chinese proverb, a curse and a blessing, you know, asking, wishing

00:01:32.620 somebody lives in interesting times. Interesting times we certainly have. I got a good show coming

00:01:38.200 up. Lots to cover again. You know, boy, there's no shortage of news items to cover. Use that

00:01:42.700 comment scroll, guys. Let me know what you're seeing, what you're thinking. If you've got

00:01:45.920 questions, things like that. That's part of the fun of being on a live broadcast. I got a couple

00:01:50.380 of guests coming on in a little while. They're Chris Holden, Chris Holden, I'm terrible with names,

00:01:55.580 and Tessa Partridge Mather. They're on New World Precious Metals. We're going to talk about

00:02:00.380 gold, silver, those sorts of investments, precious metals, because when you're in an unstable world

00:02:04.860 actually precious metals tend to be one of the things that stays stable and constant.

00:02:09.740 All right, I'll be checking in with that news update from Dave pretty quickly as well. Let's

00:02:13.500 start off with gossip and this one's got me pissing and moaning today. So as more information trickles

00:02:18.620 out to the public on the latest turtle debacle interesting i've got the wrong monologue loaded

00:02:26.780 but that's all right i'll find it on my computer and we'll get the right one and uh deal with that

00:02:31.580 so that one sounded familiar it's because it's the one i did a little while ago all right we're

00:02:35.900 getting into a new new era a new era of media here in the western standard and uh uh broke my

00:02:43.980 float right off but that's okay i wrote this check my mic is everybody hearing me can i get a thumbs

00:02:49.560 up from somebody so uh as i said we have a few technical issues going on i just need to know

00:02:55.000 people are listening before i start that monologue so any commenters if you kindly let me know if you

00:02:59.740 can hear me or not it doesn't appear that you do so uh as soon as you guys hear me we'll get going

00:03:05.400 on this and uh we'll see what we can do with it but uh so i got no sound going on or what well i

00:03:12.000 I haven't had anybody commenting saying they do.

00:03:13.960 Either way, let's try with the monologue.

00:03:15.760 A new era of politics and media, get back to that, has begun.

00:03:19.480 And it's going to blossom in 2025 while the last generation of politicians continue to cater to the communication platforms held by the last generation of media.

00:03:30.700 Forward-thinking politicians have embraced new independent media outlets.

00:03:34.720 In the USA, the established media is firmly Democrat.

00:03:37.720 In Canada, the Laurentian media establishment is dedicated to the Liberal Party, of course.

00:03:42.000 In both nations, the establishment elites have been bypassed by conservative politicians.

00:03:47.540 And now those politicians have solid leads and support.

00:03:51.700 Why? They went to alternative media platforms.

00:03:55.340 So shortly before the 2024 presidential election in the United States,

00:03:58.400 we all remember Donald Trump sat down for a three-hour interview with Joe Rogan.

00:04:02.080 I mean, that's unprecedented.

00:04:02.900 And that interview garnered well over 50 million views on YouTube

00:04:06.060 and likely a similar number of downloads on Spotify.

00:04:09.340 I mean, think about reaching a quarter of the American population in a long-form interview format.

00:04:14.700 I mean, it would have been unimaginable, a dream for a politician only a few years ago.

00:04:18.680 Trump upset the establishment and solidly won this presidency.

00:04:22.200 And he did so despite legacy media outlets, not because of them.

00:04:26.500 So, you know, the alternative media contributed.

00:04:30.400 I mean, that wasn't the thing that necessarily got him winning, but it certainly was a part of it.

00:04:34.600 Now, in Canada, we have Pierre Paglia.

00:04:36.040 He appeared on Jordan Peterson's podcast for a 90-minute interview in the new year.

00:04:41.200 The interview has gone viral, and the establishment, of course, is aghast.

00:04:44.360 Oh, you should listen to Coin. Man, it's special.

00:04:46.500 It was typically a slow media period.

00:04:48.100 That interview garnered over 2 million views on YouTube and millions more on X.

00:04:52.840 Polyev reached a significant portion of Canadians in a short period at no cost to his party aside from time.

00:04:59.280 You can't buy advertising as effective as this, and the interview is galvanizing his path to the Prime Minister's chair.

00:05:05.620 The days of little soundbite politics, they're over.

00:05:08.200 Sure, every politician wants to pop out a memorable and quotable one-liner now and then,

00:05:12.240 and they're going to keep trying.

00:05:13.420 But citizens who they decide to vote for, they're going to expect more now.

00:05:17.020 They know politicians can speak to them in a long-form format,

00:05:19.700 and they're going to want them to use it.

00:05:21.340 People, they want to get to know who's vying for the job of governing,

00:05:24.640 and they don't want them hiding from new media sources.

00:05:27.160 Now, not just any politician can take advantage of independent media platforms effectively.

00:05:30.740 Could you imagine Justin Trudeau trying to do a one-and-a-half or three-hour unscripted interview?

00:05:36.560 Trudeau needs lines written for him.

00:05:38.080 Apparently, I do, too, looking at this thing.

00:05:39.580 Hey, I'm improv-ing a lot of this.

00:05:41.980 As he, if he doesn't have them, he descends into witless utterances of word salad.

00:05:47.400 Viewers would tune him out after 10 minutes,

00:05:49.520 and the interviewer, hard-pressed not to show pain while trying to get answers from him.

00:05:53.540 I mean, Trudeau was the ideal candidate for media platforms of a decade ago.

00:05:57.240 Social media was all short form.

00:05:59.060 The quotes written for him could go viral, and the photo sessions of him with his hair cascading behind him in Fabio's style could be released to grace the walls of fangirls in college dorms and behind CBC news desks.

00:06:11.080 Trudeau's face could appear everywhere while the words attributed to him were carefully curated, but those days are gone.

00:06:16.880 People want to feel they've gotten to know the politician, vying for their support, and only long-form interviews with a real candid feel can do that.

00:06:24.180 This can backfire, of course.

00:06:25.240 If the politician's truly an odious character,

00:06:27.000 well, you're only going to get to know them better

00:06:28.580 and get to dislike them more. 1.00

00:06:30.380 Trump's an abrasive, arrogant man. 0.99

00:06:32.380 And after listening to him for hours 0.99

00:06:33.620 on the Joe Rogan interview, 0.59

00:06:34.580 I still saw him as an abrasive, arrogant man,

00:06:37.260 but I did find myself a little more endeared to him.

00:06:39.800 At least a little less put off.

00:06:41.820 With that much time to listen to him,

00:06:43.140 he was humanized,

00:06:44.020 at least felt a little more like somebody

00:06:45.360 who would do more good than harm.

00:06:46.580 And truly, a lot of Americans got that impression as well. 0.89

00:06:50.220 Pauly F., he's always been a wonky, pit bull

00:06:52.440 kind of a politician.

00:06:53.800 He's been effective in attack mode in the House of Commons,

00:06:55.840 but hadn't established himself yet as a person with a plan to govern the country.

00:06:59.800 Well, after listening to him on Peterson's show,

00:07:01.440 nobody can claim he's hiding his plans,

00:07:03.660 and he's pretty confident in his pursuit of them.

00:07:05.680 He's smart, personable, and he's going to shake the establishment to the core

00:07:09.080 for the better when he becomes prime minister.

00:07:11.740 The impression that could never have been communicated to citizens

00:07:14.400 in any other way than a long-form sit-down interview.

00:07:17.540 Progressive politicians, they'll learn and embrace the world of independent media,

00:07:20.780 but they've let themselves fall behind in that evolution

00:07:22.920 as they clung to the sinking ship of legacy media.

00:07:26.160 They're going to be climbing uphill when the CBC is defunded,

00:07:28.640 and boy, I'm looking forward to it,

00:07:30.000 and those legacy media subsidies are cut.

00:07:32.440 North America, we're heading into a remarkable year

00:07:34.720 with new leadership in both the United States and Canada,

00:07:37.660 and the traditional gatekeepers of communication and information

00:07:41.140 are dying, and we're all better for it.

00:07:42.680 So let's bring on the age of independent media,

00:07:44.920 and I promise you we'll get better at our tech issues

00:07:46.900 as we go ahead with it.

00:07:47.940 Okay, well, that's what's got me to kick things off today.

00:07:50.680 Let's talk about some more things and broader things.

00:07:52.640 We've got our news editor, Dave Naylor, in the studio here.

00:07:55.860 And let's get an update on what else is happening in the world we'll have.

00:07:59.640 There we go.

00:08:00.140 Hey, Dave.

00:08:00.400 There I am.

00:08:01.240 There I am.

00:08:01.640 Happy New Year.

00:08:02.340 Happy New Year to you.

00:08:03.500 I even came back on my holiday a day early. 0.97

00:08:06.340 Yeah, you masochistic man. 0.79

00:08:09.900 You know, I thought you had your monologues all memorized. 0.95

00:08:14.700 Well, pretty close.

00:08:15.880 That's why I stumbled a bit.

00:08:17.160 I mean, I'm going between my memory and what I've written and back and forth.

00:08:20.140 It makes it worse.

00:08:20.640 So it almost could have been better just to blather that off the top of my head.

00:08:23.920 You did very well.

00:08:24.600 Well, thanks.

00:08:25.220 So where are you off to?

00:08:25.800 The desert again?

00:08:26.680 I am.

00:08:27.160 Back into the desert.

00:08:29.060 Middle of nowhere, set up your trailer.

00:08:31.120 Quartzsite area, solar panel, generator.

00:08:33.840 And yeah, Jane and I, if we don't kill each other, we'll bond and enjoy ourselves and relax.

00:08:38.440 Be careful of the snakes, right?

00:08:39.800 Yeah.

00:08:40.220 I don't mind the snakes like you do.

00:08:43.540 Anyways, as you can imagine, the follow continues from Mr. Trudeau's so-called resignation.

00:08:48.880 you'll remember

00:08:51.340 Tamira Leach and Chris Barber from the Freedom Convoy

00:08:54.040 they were interviewed by Fox last night

00:08:56.200 and that's leading off our

00:08:58.100 website at the moment and you can

00:08:59.640 guess what they have to say about Mr.

00:09:02.080 and his

00:09:03.320 farewell

00:09:04.600 was it Springfield, Ohio? They were eating

00:09:08.000 the cats, eating the dogs

00:09:09.500 Vancouver's got them beat, they're eating the

00:09:12.060 eagles

00:09:12.480 there can't be that much meat on one of those

00:09:15.380 especially it was a young one too

00:09:16.980 But the cops found or went to the bridge there, Lionsgate Bridge, and somebody had found an injured eagle and they were preparing to eat it.

00:09:28.060 So fortunately, the bird was rescued and is now rehabilitating eagle wings, I guess.

00:09:37.300 Maybe we could start a new trend.

00:09:39.100 Well, you've run the restaurant.

00:09:40.540 I have.

00:09:41.300 We would have been the only one in the block offering eagle wings.

00:09:44.140 I bet you they're bigger than chicken wings.

00:09:46.200 Probably.

00:09:46.440 uh elon musk called trudeau a girl today so there were words continues he's basically saying sit

00:09:55.180 down girl you're no longer the even the governor of the 51st state uh and uh romeo leblanc the

00:10:03.020 finance minister has ruled out running for the the liberal leadership and we got tons and tons

00:10:09.820 of opinion led by our erstwhile opinion editor nigel hannaford talking about um uh this true

00:10:16.420 Trudeau situation, using words I've never heard of before, but I'm sure our readers will have better luck.

00:10:22.620 Nigel gets me bringing that dictionary up sometimes. 0.77

00:10:24.700 Oh, he's a bit crazy, man.

00:10:26.340 And the big wildfire is in Los Angeles, so we're keeping a close eye on it. 0.69

00:10:30.080 It's pretty bad.

00:10:31.620 A lot of Hollywood stars, it looks to be losing their home.

00:10:35.080 And it's bad for the horses and animals, and the looters have apparently begun.

00:10:41.560 At least they shoot them down there.

00:10:43.180 There you go.

00:10:43.820 And Trump is blaming Governor Newsom for the evil.

00:10:46.420 Oh, the fingers will be pointing for a while on it.

00:10:49.340 Let's just hope anyways that they manage to get it under control

00:10:51.920 and they can all start squabbling over whose fault it is later.

00:10:55.200 Yeah, we all know the experience too well on big forest fires coming in the towns, right?

00:11:00.360 That's what you certainly do.

00:11:00.900 Good luck to them.

00:11:01.800 Yeah, well, I won't have to worry about those out in the sand and scrub where I'm parking for a while.

00:11:05.960 You have a great holiday.

00:11:07.000 Great, thanks, Dave.

00:11:07.900 All right, well, I'll let you get back to that newsroom and on things,

00:11:10.280 so I appreciate the update and just kicking off the new year on Eagle Wings.

00:11:14.480 all right and it's what I like to remind everybody you see you know if we want to keep

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00:11:46.120 there. It helps us. If you have already subscribed, we really do appreciate it. And if you haven't yet

00:11:50.680 consider it guys, just like an old newspaper subscription, as you see, Dave is covering all

00:11:54.420 those stories, the serious ones and the less serious. I mean, I guess, you know, people eating

00:11:58.560 Eagles, that is serious. Uh, that's bizarre. The world's a strange place and, and, you know,

00:12:06.500 you need to break up the stories and the stories. I mean, the stories in the serious realm are just

00:12:10.480 as bizarre as the people eating eagles. I mean, really, look at this year so far. Look at this.

00:12:15.920 We got, we got Musk taunting Trudeau. That's one of the things I said on X a little while ago.

00:12:21.200 And it's the truth of it. Trudeau is the pencil neck geek of the international leader world. I

00:12:28.260 mean, he's the dork. Nobody's got respect for him whatsoever, whether it's other leaders, 1.00

00:12:32.660 whether it's Elon Musk, they mock the guy. And unfortunately, by extension, that's mocking

00:12:39.920 Canada, because for now, whether we like it or not, that ass clown is our prime minister. 0.99

00:12:43.680 He didn't quite resign. He gave notice. So he's not out. So we still have to put up with this 0.99

00:12:49.820 humiliation. We have to put up with these headaches. But again, you know, the stories

00:12:55.420 being serious and not serious. You know, Dave didn't mention, but with Fox News, you know,

00:12:59.680 the American outlets picking us up and things like that and going viral throughout X and all

00:13:04.040 those independent media outlets. But those who might not have caught it, Elizabeth May got up

00:13:08.660 there. Oh, yes, here's somebody really doing Canada proud. Elizabeth May was up talking about

00:13:14.800 how we not, you know, this 50s first state conversation, which is just getting so weird

00:13:19.260 and bizarre. She's talking, well, no, we should just have Oregon and the West Coast and California

00:13:25.660 join Canada and Washington, like as if things aren't messed up and weird and unreasonable

00:13:31.300 enough as it is. We had good old Liz May weighing in on maybe how we should parse up North America 1.00

00:13:38.100 for for the sake of the country and uh yeah dj one of the commenters saying elizabeth may is an 0.67

00:13:43.060 american yeah she was born in the states i imagine she still maintains citizenship on both sides

00:13:47.080 you know they're welcome to have her back i we really could do worse than have her still hanging 1.00

00:13:52.340 around as i said she probably just wants cleaner easier access to california wine she's proven 1.00

00:13:59.100 herself repeatedly to be uh an aficionado of many of the finer spirits around the world unfortunately

00:14:06.160 though, when her ramblings get onto news such as Fox, it just makes Canada look even more comical. 1.00

00:14:14.840 It's just, it's getting bizarre. We're looking right now, we've got this period of, you know,

00:14:21.940 stasis we're sitting in, we got a prime minister who's kind of given notice. He's lost all public

00:14:26.640 support. He's lost all international respect. And now the liberals are scrambling. Clearly,

00:14:31.840 they weren't quite planning on this. So they got a leadership race that they're probably going to

00:14:35.540 have to open and close in a matter of less than two months. Normally it's five to six months.

00:14:41.420 They got to find a leader, get this person in, get some bills through the House of Common. If not,

00:14:47.780 they're going to basically going to go down the second they become leader and they're going to

00:14:51.400 be straight into a general election where they will be annihilated. And you might notice that

00:14:54.700 people are all talking now, who is going to run for the liberal leader? And nobody of note has

00:14:59.900 put their name forward yet because who wants to be the next Kim Campbell? Who wants to be

00:15:04.280 the one who was in there. I guess you can get your painting up on the parliamentary wall.

00:15:08.940 Technically, you would have been a prime minister if only for a short period, but

00:15:13.780 you're going to be out of there. So I mean, it's not a large lineup for that job. So the liberals

00:15:20.580 are scrambling. It's similar to Alberta right now. We've got a liberal party of Alberta. I know

00:15:26.180 not many people realize it exists. It was actually strong at one time. It drove the agenda at one

00:15:31.580 time. You know, I'll show my age. But back in the early 1990s, it was the Liberal Party driving the

00:15:39.280 agenda that drove Ralph Klein into being fiscally conservative. It was actually the liberals

00:15:43.860 breathing down the neck of the progressive conservatives, pushing them to balance the

00:15:48.420 budget, pushing them to get their finances in order. But eventually, slowly but surely,

00:15:54.180 the liberals were liberals. They declined, they got worse. And in Alberta, they actually held

00:15:59.540 a leadership race in 2022 for the Alberta Liberal Party, the party that was threatening to win

00:16:05.080 government in the 1990s. And guess what? Not a single person applied for the job, a complete

00:16:10.120 embarrassment for this rump of a party. And basically, they just said, well, you know what,

00:16:14.680 we're going to make our interim leader, our permanent leader. And he's been sitting there

00:16:19.420 ever since, unheard of in the background. Now we've got a similar thing going on. Well, there's

00:16:25.000 Chris, you know, one of our commenters saying he pounded on the doors on behalf of the Alberta

00:16:28.200 Liberal Party in 1992 in Pinocchio. Yeah, the Alberta Liberals were strong, and they were

00:16:32.020 reasonable, but they turned into these goofy, strange, woke Liberals of today, and Trudeau 0.86

00:16:36.740 has really crushed them into the dust. I mean, normally, a government in power with an opening

00:16:41.500 for the leadership, you would have people throwing their names out left and right. They

00:16:46.360 kind of want that job. Right now, we're already in, and nobody's quite jumping onto that list.

00:16:52.160 It'll be interesting to see who the Kim Campbell II will be. We'll talk a little more about

00:16:58.180 that after my next segment. So yes, I've got my guests in studio. We're going to talk, get off the

00:17:04.320 full politics thing. Everything is tied to politics one way or another in a lot of things, but still

00:17:08.700 we've got our real life to go on and a lot of things are getting forgotten in all this lunacy

00:17:12.260 right now. The Canadian dollar, for example, boy, is it ever going down. Currency in general,

00:17:17.280 finances, we've still got to pay the bills. We've got a lot of things to worry about. We need some

00:17:21.180 serious conversations. The government's not going to take care of us. That's getting pretty clear.

00:17:24.500 we've got to take care of ourselves. And some of that discussion is, well, what do we do with our

00:17:28.820 money to maximize? What can we do? What are some of the things in the world? So from New World

00:17:33.540 Precious Metals, I've got, again, I slaughtered your name I asked earlier. I think it was, you

00:17:38.840 know, it says Chris Holti. That's right. Okay. And Tessa Partridge-Mather. Okay. Well, both you

00:17:44.080 guys have come in. Thank you. And I appreciate your patience on my naming. I get my own wrong

00:17:47.820 sometimes. Thanks for having us, Corey. Yeah, no, I really do appreciate it. Like these are

00:17:52.860 singular times you know they're very strange we can't forget the important things as we watch

00:17:58.080 the news and everything else we got to take care of ourselves and and there's been more talk about

00:18:02.080 that and and precious metals I mean it's a field all of its own but it's like a constant you know

00:18:07.720 historically uh precious metals were the the initial items of trade you know or the first

00:18:13.620 forms of currency really I I guess I you know I could start you Chris like what's the importance

00:18:19.020 of this that this your business is about yeah so we're in the business of um we're brokers and we

00:18:25.900 help people um purchase physical precious metals um we precious metals have been basically used

00:18:36.240 as money for the last 5 000 years and they're still used as money today uh central banks uh

00:18:42.780 hold gold is considered a tier one asset. There's only two in the world. And so being that precious

00:18:51.420 metals are, are difficult and expensive to mine. They have all the attributes of money. They have

00:18:58.620 been used as money throughout time and still are today. So we help people basically protect their

00:19:06.780 wealth. Okay. So, and something you mentioned right off the start, I mean, so you're talking

00:19:11.260 about physical purchase of gold so it's not a matter of like making a bet on the commodity

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00:20:40.160 So gold is, of course, the first one people think of.

00:20:42.620 But as you mentioned earlier when I was talking to you before,

00:20:44.560 silver, of course, it gets overlooked.

00:20:45.820 It's another precious metal, and it rides the markets fairly stably as well, doesn't it?

00:20:53.380 Yeah, it does.

00:20:54.260 Yep.

00:20:54.440 silver, because it has three unique properties, it conducts electricity and heat better than any

00:21:03.380 other element. And it's also the shiniest metal. It actually has over 10,000 applications. So

00:21:09.020 is one of the most used commodities on earth. And it's also considered, just given its price

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00:21:20.980 so when we're talking though about taking i mean that's where i guess a service like you guys it's

00:21:27.400 not as simple then as just buying some metal keeping it home which a person you know theoretically

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00:21:42.100 clients that they take a portion of the metals home and then they roll over a portion of their

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00:21:53.060 Yeah. So taking investments outside of Canadian borders, I mean, it's just an area where a person

00:21:57.360 also wants to make sure they're doing it right or doing it carefully. And that's part of where

00:22:01.600 I imagine you guys are helping with this. I mean.

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00:22:22.320 many of them rural. They're looking for ways that they can grow and protect their wealth

00:22:28.160 and move some outside of the banking system. And actually, Canada is one of the countries

00:22:34.220 with the largest amount of banking hegemony. We invest our money solely inside Canadian

00:22:42.140 jurisdiction. It's very uncommon in the rest of the world. Most countries that are Western

00:22:48.100 countries have portions of their wealth invested in other jurisdictions, but we solely grow our

00:22:54.820 wealth within the Canadian jurisdiction. And only recently, you know, given the last, you know,

00:23:00.280 nine, 10 years of our government, et cetera, have been people been interested in, you know,

00:23:04.780 hey, maybe there's other places to store our wealth. How can we, alternatives to grow our

00:23:09.660 wealth, basically. Yeah. So, I mean, everything has their ups and downs. Quite often, it's something

00:23:13.460 you've always been able to see. If a currency goes down, often the precious metals will go up. I mean,

00:23:18.700 that's where investors tend to go if they're losing confidence in a fiat currency. So, I mean,

00:23:23.900 as a hedge against the Canadian dollar dropping, precious metals, I imagine, have been a good bet

00:23:28.380 lately. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Over the course of the last 25 years, the price of gold has

00:23:34.400 appreciated on average 9% a year. Even last year alone, the price appreciated by 27%.

00:23:41.800 And if you take a look historically, back in 1913, when the Federal Reserve, the Central

00:23:48.680 Bank of the United States was created, gold was trading at $20.67. And nowadays it trades

00:23:55.480 at $2,600. And so if you do the math, you can see that the value of the US dollar has lost about

00:24:05.820 98% of its purchasing power in terms of the value of gold. Yeah. So I mean, it's still always a

00:24:12.900 person has to think very carefully. I mean, you've only got so much in your portfolio. How much do

00:24:18.240 you suggest a person kind of dedicates that? I mean, you were saying some of the risk is having

00:24:21.380 everything in the eggs in one basket in Canada, but at the same time, you don't want to pour too

00:24:24.580 much into another investment, I guess. But I mean, you know, what's a reasonable amount of

00:24:31.300 person to be looking at? I would say historically, wealth managers have recommended approximately 10%

00:24:39.500 of a portfolio be in physical assets and gold and silver. But in the last few years, and the amount

00:24:46.180 of global instability, a lot of products coming on the market, cryptos that can go up and down

00:24:53.160 rapidly, different wars happening, that's really increased over time, where some managers of

00:25:01.480 portfolios are saying, you know, maybe 40 to 50% of wealth should be moved out of markets that move

00:25:07.460 a lot and into physical, but it's really up to the client's particular appetite.

00:25:13.700 So, I mean, and does this, you know, is this only for large investors or are there some people with

00:25:20.440 modest portfolios like I mean what does it take to get into sort of well I think I think regular

00:25:27.140 everyday investors should have a portion of their wealth protected through precious metals

00:25:32.680 our accounts start at five thousand dollars and we're one of the only brokerage firms in Canada

00:25:39.840 that offers such a low entry point we feel like this investment is actually for everybody and

00:25:45.280 everyone should move a portion, whether it's $5,000 or whether it's $100,000. Our average

00:25:50.600 account sizes are around $100,000. We have million-dollar investors into physical gold and

00:25:56.740 silver. So we do everybody. We serve everyone, and we like that philosophy. We really believe

00:26:02.860 in this investment. We're also at the beginning of a bull market. Yeah. On the two previous bull

00:26:12.200 markets. There was a bull market from 1972 to 1980 that saw gold appreciate 800% and silver

00:26:19.980 appreciated 1500%. And then there was another bull market cycle that occurred between 2002 and

00:26:27.080 2011, where again, gold appreciated 800% and silver appreciated 1200%. And we feel that this

00:26:36.460 latest bull cycle started in 2015, where gold was just over $1,000 an ounce. And so if history

00:26:44.500 repeats, we should see potentially $8,000 gold. It sounds wild, but we've been here before. And

00:26:54.100 this percentage point has happened in these bull market cycles before. And they always tend to do

00:27:00.480 better in times exactly like this mention of war global instability and now this bull market cycle

00:27:08.120 could be even bigger because now it's global and the central banks around the world are are buying

00:27:13.780 up gold year after year record-breaking levels in the last four years and and it looks like it's

00:27:20.100 not slowing down so why why would these central banks be accumulating so much physical metal

00:27:25.120 um more you know the same levels you know that that matched the 1950s yeah so as an asset if

00:27:32.580 it's tied up in in in precious metals I mean that's still an asset a person can have on their

00:27:37.100 books as well right like if you were going to leverage for another purchase somewhere else or

00:27:41.360 things like that I mean it's not lost and then uh you know I mean it's not lost but it's in that

00:27:46.300 it's not tied up uh out of the country I mean you can still utilize no our program is amazing

00:27:51.300 actually you can buy and sell on on a well we say on a phone call usually we do deal with a lot of

00:27:57.640 email and and the things these days but um it's liquid in all global markets so it can be bought

00:28:02.780 and sold anytime and even better is um just by having the the gold and silver uh you have an

00:28:09.500 automatic 80 percent line of credit against your holdings and when i was learning about this years

00:28:15.600 ago, I was surprised to realize that a lot of the autonomy of the major players that control our

00:28:21.860 globe, they're not beholden to governments or things because they actually have vast amounts

00:28:28.600 of gold and the gold then becomes their bank. So they borrow off their holdings. And that's what

00:28:34.080 we do in a micro way is that exact same thing. Yeah. And that's kind of what I meant. You know,

00:28:39.360 it's a little harder. You're talking to the bank, secure credit. Okay. Well, I got these mutual

00:28:42.580 funds, these RRSPs, but I mean, they prefer secured credit. I mean, some sort of assets

00:28:46.500 that theoretically, if you default or they can get. And there's nothing that's harder and more

00:28:51.960 real than saying I have X number of ounces of gold. Yeah. Right. And it's completely liquid

00:28:57.140 for sale at any time. So yes, we get clients that come in and say, Hey, I need a workup on my

00:29:02.620 account because I'm applying for this or that. Okay. So as far as clients go, you guys offer

00:29:08.120 services across the country, like you're, you're Calgary based, but it's a national company.

00:29:14.300 Yeah, we do have clients across Canada. We have, we have some clients down in the U.S. and we have

00:29:19.800 some international clients as well. Yeah. Okay. So, I mean, do you have a physical office? I mean,

00:29:25.060 it's just kind of the new world and, and things, you know, I'm just talking to, it's one of the

00:29:28.240 things too, when it comes to investment, you know, you want to talk to a person, you want to,

00:29:32.860 you know, you need that help. I mean, you guys are available for that sort of thing.

00:29:35.820 Yeah, you bet. Our office is just on 17th Avenue here in Calgary and where we appreciate and love when people want to come visit us there. And also we have a broker team where they work from all over the place. So we deal with online presentations, in-person presentations, whatever people's comfort level is.

00:29:57.200 Yeah, that's just what I mean.

00:29:58.440 You know, I mean, a person can go out, I guess you could find somewhere and actually just buy some gold if you want it.

00:30:02.780 But it's not really a planned investment or portfolio or means to hold it.

00:30:07.280 But at the same time, if you've got a service, I don't want to phone and say, yeah, we'll put you through to the call center of somebody on the other side of the planet who's giving you chat GPT.

00:30:13.840 Yeah, no, no, actually, I think that's where we excel is, you know, the feedback we've had from our clients and customers is very personalized service.

00:30:23.220 education is the main thing and going above and beyond to make sure people are happy with their

00:30:28.920 with their portfolios and how much silver how much gold they have and yeah personalized and the time

00:30:36.420 goes fast there's a lot to cover on it I understand that and I know but I mean that's the thing is it

00:30:40.580 people want to ask more questions they want to follow up they want to diversify their portfolio

00:30:45.060 and I think with looking at things these days you know something as solid as a precious metal is a

00:30:49.440 way to go is as you said it's withstood for thousands of years where do they find you guys

00:30:53.340 what can they do for sure um well people can um can can uh you know email us my my email address

00:31:05.140 is kris at newworldpm.com or people can give us a call our office number is 1-888-342-0190

00:31:18.460 Okay, so a newworldpm.com, so newworldpreciousmetals.com.

00:31:21.920 I mean, that's the way of it now, too.

00:31:23.220 People don't even type that off and just search out new world precious metals.

00:31:25.940 They're going to find you guys.

00:31:26.860 You betcha, yep.

00:31:28.200 All right, before I let you go, anything else you'd like to add?

00:31:30.920 I just think that the future is really bright for gold and silver investors.

00:31:37.280 I think when people get into the market to help protect some of their wealth, diversify,

00:31:43.120 um you know when you take a look out at a 10-year time horizon i think people are going to be really

00:31:49.560 happy about their choices i think we need something to look a little bright in these

00:31:54.780 crazy times and again stability that's the main thing and precious metals are one thing that's

00:31:59.880 always always there can't go to zero no yeah all right well thank you very much for coming in today

00:32:05.740 guys and i'm certain we'll be talking again thank you so much cory appreciate it all right so that

00:32:11.560 was, Chris and Tessa from New World Precious Metals. Look it up, guys, if you're looking

00:32:15.660 to, again, diversify those things. I mean, we're in some crazy times. The dollar has been drooping,

00:32:22.780 you know. We've got instability, if you certainly want to talk about that. We don't have to worry

00:32:27.020 about the tanks rolling north across the border from the United States, but one of those scary

00:32:31.780 things, you know, we should talk, we've got to talk a little bit more about this with what we

00:32:35.540 going on with incoming President Trump. I mean, people kept dismissing it, saying he's just

00:32:41.580 trolling. Don't worry about it. He's just playing around. Well, he's an incoming president. He's

00:32:47.680 talking about annexing a nation. And repeatedly, it wasn't one tweet. It wasn't one off the cuff

00:32:54.380 statement anymore. He keeps saying it. We have to take that seriously. I'm not saying take up arms

00:33:01.100 and get ready for one, we don't have the means. Look, militarily, yeah, if the United States

00:33:06.680 wanted to come on in and take Canada, it would take a matter of minutes. I don't think they're

00:33:12.280 out to do that. But he was asked about that. And Trump said, no, no, we won't do that. But we're

00:33:16.660 going to do it economically, basically saying through tariffs, he could crush Canada down

00:33:21.680 enough that we'd have no other option but to join the United States. I, you know, the discussions

00:33:29.240 are just getting bizarre. There's a lot of people talking online. Again, you know, I've never been

00:33:34.060 a strong advocate for unity and sentimental Canadian value. I wrote the Sovereignist handbook

00:33:40.160 for crying out loud. But one of the things I've always been strong on, even in that, it has to be

00:33:46.340 any move, anything that big has to mean having a majority of people on board. Alberta Sovereign,

00:33:52.000 for example, nothing less than a referendum with at least 60% of people. If you're looking to get

00:33:56.860 out a confederation or change the deal, I wouldn't feel that would be, anything less than that

00:34:01.660 wouldn't be a comfortable way to go. It wouldn't be a democratic way to go. It wouldn't be a right

00:34:04.820 way to go. As much as people are talking online, oh, it'd be great to join the states. Oh, look at

00:34:08.360 all the advantages. Look at the rights. Look at this. Look at that. Realistically, what have we

00:34:12.580 got? 20%, maybe in these crazy times, 20% who might actually want to do something like that.

00:34:19.480 Don't forget there's 80% who don't. And the discussion's gotten ridiculous online. Dave

00:34:25.040 was mentioning. I'm going down to Arizona. I go there every year. I love it down there. My mother

00:34:28.740 is an American citizen. I don't dislike the Americans, not at all. But some people say,

00:34:33.400 well, if you go down there, how do you spend your time south of the border yet oppose an annexing

00:34:38.720 or merger of the nations? Well, yeah, I've been to Mexico. I've been to Guatemala. I've been to

00:34:43.000 Russia. It doesn't mean I want to merge with them. I can respect them. We can have relationships. I

00:34:50.640 think Canada and the United States should have a closer relationship, a better relationship.

00:34:54.760 We should be having more free trade.

00:34:57.040 We should be opening the borders between our nations more.

00:35:00.580 But this sort of talk is going to make us introverted.

00:35:04.140 This sort of talk destabilizes the Canadian economy.

00:35:07.460 It makes us, yeah, I mean, think of if he really does want to bring in those tariffs that hard.

00:35:13.540 It's going to hurt us all.

00:35:15.120 We've got to take this seriously.

00:35:18.640 You know, it's not trolling any longer.

00:35:21.760 It's a man talking about taking over our country.

00:35:23.660 years ago those were words of war you don't uh uh well here's you know a comment or i'll read it

00:35:31.660 out your comment about trump repeating us becoming a 51st state over and over have you noticed that

00:35:35.720 trump repeats statements over and over in his previous now it doesn't mean that he had a chance

00:35:38.940 to do it uh he has a way of negotiating that escapes the competing in the mentality i'm not

00:35:44.140 quite sure what that all means i'm not going to make exceptions for the man he's supposed to be

00:35:49.040 acting like a president, not a troll. And his mannerism is to say something over and over and

00:35:53.500 over again. Well, no, he's adding little images. He was asked at a conference. And that was not

00:36:00.540 just a little statement. That was him saying, we will take Canada through economic means.

00:36:10.120 I'm tired of people saying, well, he's just kidding. No, until he says he's just kidding,

00:36:13.840 we've got to take it seriously. And this little fantasy thing, thinking there would be some

00:36:18.920 sort of open merger and we'd all be better off as American citizens is stupid, to be blunt. 0.99

00:36:24.020 Maybe that time will come. But you know, if that time came, the way we'd have to do it is making 0.98

00:36:29.660 our relationship closer. This is a marriage that's going to take some years. One of the things that

00:36:35.980 he has talked about is, well, we've got to clean up our act in Canada with the border crossing back

00:36:40.520 and forth between the United States and Canada. Fair enough. Absolutely. We've got a lot of other

00:36:44.820 stupid things. We've got our stupid supply management. We've got a lot of trade issues 1.00

00:36:48.600 we should be ironing out. One of our issues with Canada is we've been bringing in immigrants with 1.00

00:36:54.240 the floodgates wide open and some of the odious, terrible immigrants, because some of them are, 1.00

00:36:58.700 and there's some fantastic ones, but a lot of the problematic ones have been going south.

00:37:02.240 And I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I remember looking those up for a call on my road

00:37:05.040 a little while ago. And because the people kept saying, oh, there's barely any illegals going from

00:37:09.240 Canada to the States versus Mexico to Canada. Yeah, I know, but it's the quality of the illegals 1.00

00:37:13.380 going south. And of, I think, 700 and some identified terrorists who'd gotten into the

00:37:20.440 United States or suspected terrorists, something like 87% of them got in there through Canada,

00:37:26.540 not Mexico. And, I mean, we got to worry about terrorists. I mean, you know, the New Orleans

00:37:34.220 massacre, that terrible act, was done by a born American. But these radicals can come from all 0.88

00:37:40.480 over. You'll never totally stomp it up, but you'll want to reduce it. Well, where's the biggest source

00:37:43.880 of those coming in the United States? Unfortunately, it's Canada. People say, well, it's only a few

00:37:47.100 hundred. Yeah, well, look at the amount of damage one lunatic did. What does a few hundred radical 0.77

00:37:52.940 lunatics do? See, these are the issues we need to seriously discuss. These are the things we need

00:37:57.040 leadership to be going back and forth and having these conversations. But it's hard to have that

00:38:03.120 Again, when we've got a lame duck prime minister who nobody takes seriously and a president who is insistent on constantly poking at him, Elon Musk.

00:38:16.180 I mean, I laughed at first and I still kind of laugh at the poking.

00:38:19.240 I mean, I'm an online, you know, rough player on X and everything, but there's serious ramifications to this thing on what's going on.

00:38:26.140 We got to get serious with these things.

00:38:28.240 We do need to sit down.

00:38:29.080 the whole problem we've got is uh we we we need stability in canada we've got to have an election

00:38:38.740 we're months away from it so how screwy is it going to be and we're watching some of the

00:38:44.340 politics going on of course you know again the andrew coins and the others are furious that

00:38:48.340 daniel smith has been talking directly to american governors she's going to trump's inauguration

00:38:53.800 I put a post out on X saying Daniel Smith is now the de facto and acting Prime Minister of Canada.

00:39:01.540 And to be honest, she is. 0.99

00:39:02.360 She's been more effective in protecting our trade interests than our idiot Prime Minister has been. 1.00

00:39:09.000 I mean, he's too busy, stuck on himself, lost in himself. 1.00

00:39:12.640 Yeah, you know, part of my job means I have to listen to these things.

00:39:14.940 I sat through and listened to that man do his giving notice.

00:39:19.280 He didn't resign, he gave notice.

00:39:20.700 and you know you you could tell um you can tell

00:39:26.220 he still doesn't realize he did anything wrong he's a pure true narcissist he was talking about

00:39:34.920 it's the infighting of those liberals that caused this and i i was gonna solve everything but you

00:39:39.340 know i've been pushed out he's still ticked off he's been pushed out unfortunately this guy

00:39:43.240 is gonna be as far as we could tell sitting in the prime minister's chair for a few more months

00:39:49.000 these critical months. I mean, Trump has shaken things up this much, and he's not even officially

00:39:54.580 the president for 12 more days. So we've got to be more careful in looking at and dismissing some

00:40:02.200 of the stuff that he's saying. Because, you know, even if he's not coming in to take things over,

00:40:08.900 he's shaking things up so badly. We're rocked on our heels. People talk about it as a negotiating

00:40:12.580 tactic. Fine. Well, let's negotiate back. We've got to show some strength on our side and we

00:40:19.840 don't have it. We don't have it at all. It's frightening. I mean, but nobody's there to get

00:40:26.740 this country under control. This is a discussion that's been going online. Jared, our BC reporter,

00:40:32.580 Jagger, he's been tracking that in Mississauga of all places though. These lunatics out there, 0.97

00:40:38.840 radical Islamists. Again, we're not talking about all Muslims, we're talking about radical Islamists. 1.00

00:40:42.740 I know we can do the whole discussion on whether there's such a thing as a moderate Muslim, blah, blah, blah. I don't want to go into that.

00:40:46.480 Let's just talk about the real, true wackos among them, because there's a number of them, and there's a lot.

00:40:50.240 And they put out a release, because they're going to hold them, they're trying to hold a meeting, but they're having trouble signing a venue now,

00:40:55.240 to form a caliphate. What this is, it's a Muslim concept, an Islamist concept, of a theocracy, of a religious holy land.

00:41:05.460 they want to form it in Canada, one where we would suddenly be under the laws of Sharia law.

00:41:11.160 You know, let's put the burkas on the woman. Let's whip them to death if they're cheating. 1.00

00:41:16.820 You know, stonings, throwing gay people off buildings. And it's not exaggeration anymore. 1.00

00:41:21.360 These things happen. Let's quit sugarcoating that crap. They do. They happen all over the Middle 0.99

00:41:26.380 East. They've built quite a reputation through their actions over many, many years. So why

00:41:33.740 shouldn't the Americans be concerned about this when we're pouring millions of immigrants don't 1.00

00:41:40.560 seem to be taking it under control and we're actually considering it's free speech for these 0.99

00:41:46.900 lunatics to want to form a caliphate in Canada yeah we've got some crap to get together again

00:41:53.740 so rather than Trudeau having somebody on his behalf put out an x statement saying it'll be a 0.84

00:41:59.580 whole day on hell before Canada becomes 51st state blah blah he should be standing up and saying we've

00:42:03.420 got radicals in Canada and we gotta get them out we've got to stomp this out that's not what we're

00:42:10.080 about and uh you know the other aspect of this whole thing and yes I'm gonna lay a lot of blame

00:42:18.440 on Trudeau I love doing that I'm certainly never been a fan of his have I but look at the attitude

00:42:23.920 we've had among Canada for years now. We're settlers. We're colonialist. Let's do land

00:42:30.520 acknowledgements at every event. Let's have radio stations do land acknowledgements. Let's pretend

00:42:35.540 we don't even belong here. We're beholden to some people who died 300 freaking years ago,

00:42:40.380 and it's our fault. We should feel bad about it. We should stare at our shoes. We shouldn't be proud

00:42:44.540 to be Canadians. John A. McDonald's an asshole. His statue should be torn down. Gee, I wonder why 1.00

00:42:51.640 suddenly we have as many as 20 or 30 percent of people thinking, I don't care if we become

00:42:55.900 American. Yes, because Trudeau created that post-national state. He created a country where

00:43:01.620 nobody cares if they're Canadian anymore. They might not want to be American, but they don't 1.00

00:43:05.580 even know what they are anymore. Land acknowledgements. What a joke. I know the land. It's

00:43:10.360 here. I'm on it now, and I've got a deed for the stuff I own. I owe a fair amount on it, too.

00:43:16.420 This is the environment that he created. Look at the loony lefties who put right in their profile,

00:43:20.920 I'm a settler oh yeah I was born in Airdrie well then you weren't a settler you moron you're an 1.00

00:43:26.040 idiot you're self-loathing you jump on stupid trendy things but you weren't a settler well my 1.00

00:43:32.600 ancestors were well so what to go far enough back my ancestors were running around in caves swinging 1.00

00:43:37.920 clubs it doesn't matter today and if we want to keep hanging up on that sort of thing gee I wonder

00:43:43.820 why we don't have any national unity I wonder why we don't have pride post-national world yeah it

00:43:50.900 sure is, isn't it? Good work, frigging dingbat. And you know what? I'll leave off on that before 0.98

00:43:56.760 I take off. Legacy Media, it's dying, and I'm loving watching them die. That's where I did

00:44:01.920 like seeing the success of Polly Evan Trump, where they bypassed Legacy Media and did it so,

00:44:07.080 so well. And I mean, as I was scrolling through, you know, saying, what stories do I want to focus

00:44:11.100 on today? I can see here, it keeps popping up, and they're talking about the bird flu.

00:44:16.600 The bird flu.

00:44:18.080 This is the big issue of the day.

00:44:19.360 The bird flu.

00:44:19.740 They're so desperate for another pandemic.

00:44:21.920 They like pandemics.

00:44:23.400 They like authoritarianism.

00:44:24.760 They want everybody to be afraid.

00:44:26.200 They want some sort of existential threat they can protect us all from.

00:44:29.840 They want something to get everybody cowering and hiding so the government can come in and control things again.

00:44:34.880 Why?

00:44:35.260 This bird flu thing. 0.99

00:44:36.120 They've been trying to pump this crap for years. 0.99

00:44:38.100 Ever since COVID's gone, they've been trying one thing after another. 1.00

00:44:40.500 Whatever happened to monkeypox?

00:44:41.700 Weren't we all supposed to get that too?

00:44:43.760 What else is going on out there? 1.00

00:44:46.160 Cut it out, you jerks. 1.00

00:44:47.980 God, we got enough stuff to deal with 1.00

00:44:49.660 without you guys trying to come up

00:44:51.140 with more hysteric pandemics.

00:44:53.680 I know you loved that time.

00:44:54.940 It made you feel self-important.

00:44:56.520 Look at me.

00:44:56.900 I lived through my World War II sort of time

00:44:58.960 like my grandparents did

00:44:59.960 because I lived through the great COVID pandemic.

00:45:01.960 Oh my God, I survived a virus

00:45:03.960 that 99.99% of the world survived as well.

00:45:07.480 Good work.

00:45:08.200 I'm pretty proud of you for that. 1.00

00:45:09.940 I have, if you're one of those ass clowns 1.00

00:45:11.420 who's still wearing a mask, seek mental help. 1.00

00:45:14.440 All right, that's enough ranting, raving, pissing, and moaning coming out of me, guys.

00:45:19.780 I am going to be taking off for a couple of weeks, heading on down south. The pipeline's still going

00:45:23.940 to be on. More shows are going to be going on. The Western Standard is on there. Be sure to

00:45:28.620 subscribe to these things. It's how we keep rolling. It is the future. I appreciate you

00:45:32.480 tuning in today, guys, and I'll see you again in a couple of weeks. Keep watching things. There's

00:45:37.500 going to be other stuff coming out in the meantime, and let's just try and stay sane.

00:45:41.880 we can vent we can go off now and then but in the end we'll all figure it out somehow we still

00:45:47.760 managed to pull through it so have a good one happy new year and i'll see you in a couple of weeks

00:46:11.880 We'll be right back.

00:46:41.880 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - January 09, 2025

Trump and Poilievre own the age of independent media

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