MarkZ Memorial Day (Uncut) 05-26-2025

Memorial Day coffee with MarkZ. 05/26/2025

Hello, all. Hello, all. Happy Memorial Day.

Hello, Speed Racer Sluggo. Good to see you in the house. Hello, Fred.

Mr. Gia. Hello, Sergio. Hello, Q Ball.

Hello, Sissy and Flipper and Half Pint and TXJK. Just checking out. Hello, Understanding Self.

Hello, Miss Paula. Again, before we get started, the RV news is slim to non-existent today. I was suspected that would be the case this morning, and I warned you guys on Saturday.

Hello, Jet, Sooner D, Mordecai. Hello, Ms. Sheila. Hello, Randy.

Lots of number of folks. Duck Dynasty, Phil Robertson dead at 79. He certainly had, towards the end, had his share of health issues.

Many strokes, dementia started. He was just having a tough one. Good Christian man.

Also, on a note, guys, prayers for Dagoo Man. Dagoo Man’s wife passed. Harold.

Last I checked on Harold, he was good. He still checks in on occasion. I’ve not checked on him in a while, though.

Hello, Marcia. Hello, God’s Girl, Mal Smits. Hello, 865 Evans.

Hello, Charlie Bon Bon. Hello, Bill, a.k.a. William Wallace, triple daughter. Do we need to plan on the possibility of this not happening until September? Video making the rounds is claiming that due to banks not being ready.

I’m not hearing anything that says banks aren’t ready and that they’re waiting until September. Everybody I’ve talked to in the banking world is like, no, we’re prepared. Or could be within days because they’re that prepared already.

I’m just not hearing that. Should we be prepared in case it goes long? Yes, we should. We’d be foolish not to.

But I’m just not hearing any of the sources thinking that it’s going to take that long. Plenty of folks out there in the info blog sphere, but none from anything I would consider a decent source. Joyful voice.

I appreciate that one. Going to be lots of prayers for the Degout. Going to be tough.

Sorry, I was reading some of the chat over on the Rumble side, folks. Video just said September was Trump’s back wall, not necessarily a delay. That makes more sense.

Texas artist certainly does. Alyssa. Oh, wow.

Said we will always remember Mark Z’s magical birthday after four years of dialysis, seven months at the top of the list. Five calls, four denials. My 35 year old son received his kidney and pancreas transplant.

God is good. Alyssa. Praying that everything has gone successful and he his body does not reject them.

Wait, wait a minute here. Confident. Wow.

Blown away. Thank you. You didn’t have to go that crazy like this.

Wow. But we are. I am.

Definitely. We will take a moment of silence. As a matter of fact, before we do that and get to the news, Kim struggling.

A lot of people are struggling. Kim, reach out to folks in the podcast. Community is here to help.

I don’t know how much financially or anything, but emotionally, they’re very supportive. Hey, YouTube access. Penny.

I wish I could tell you why to just email me your exact handle and I’ll see if I can find out in the back office. But I need your exact handle on YouTube before I can try to be of any help. That’s even Sarah kicks in and bank debts forgiven.

Won’t that put the banks? No, Brian, it won’t put them out of business because the money never existed. Well, only a fraction of it did. It’s like an artificial IOU that they write.

So, yeah, we should do a long one on that, Brian. So it makes more sense to folks. All right.

Great opportunity here, folks, to remember those that have passed in service to the US. If you have relatives or friends, children, parents, fathers, uncles that paid the ultimate sacrifice, would love to have you guys sound off here and remember those that died in the line of action for us. So I’m just going to guys just post it, just add name, perhaps the conflict, if you would like, so we can so we can pay homage to them so we can pay our respects to those that sacrificed for us.

Reading a few of these. Ronnie Lee, this is a great reminder. Armed Forces Day for those still in uniform, Veterans Day for those who hung up their uniform, Memorial Day for those who never made it out of their uniforms.

Rest in peace, James Heath Pirtle. Mr. Pirtle, I think, was born, if I remember correctly, Ronnie, what, late 70s or early 80s, passed away in Iraq. Let’s see.

Sheila, remembering my brother Paul, who was killed in Vietnam, August of 1970. Sluggo, Sergeant First Class Greg Cartet, the only military man to lose his life in Hades. In the Operation 1995, one of my best friends, we went to the military together.

Henry Simon in the Korean War. Floyd Lindbergh, Korean War. Uncle Ambush, World War II was over, but word didn’t get to them.

Aw, Cheryl, what a senseless one. Trying to read a few of those. My dad-in-laws.

Okay, Colonel Vet, let’s see. U.S. Navy Master Chief Andrew A. Woodbury. Brother James H. Five killed in action in 1966.

August 8th, Staff Sergeant Chuck Kaiser, United States Army, killed in action, Iraq, from Cincinnati, Ohio. Susie, my Uncle John, or let’s see, in World War II, Uncle John, World War II, cousin Jimmy in Vietnam. Don’t want to miss any.

Oh, Penny, I bet you’re kind of relieved on that when your son becomes a veteran this month. 26 years, U.S. Navy. Bobby, so many in that day and time.

Bobby just said, I graduated in 1968, lost too many friends in Vietnam to list here. Sergeant Alex Bennett, 19 years old. That’s just tough.

Let’s see, Brother Brian Marines, Dad Calvin, Army. Charlotte Roberts, my son, who’s not with us today. He was in the 82nd Airborne.

2005, seven soldiers from company killed in action. Puppy Whisperer, World War II. My grandfather’s uncle lost his life.

I’m told he was one of the best men. Melvin Dye, Vietnam. Robert Swenson, Vietnam War.

Frank Woods, helicopter pilot, shot down, 1971, Vietnam. My Uncle Raymond Steer, well, this is one Titan. Raymond Steer, shot down over the Sea of Japan in World War II.

Uncle Tim, Kenneth E. Wood, captured during Korean War, was 19 years old. Gary Richardson, Vietnam, 18. Thomas Dowdle, World War II.

Bernie Granger, World War II. Thank you, Ronnie, for putting that one in there. It was 76, killed in action in Iraq in 2003.

Russell Wilcox. Stephanie died of service-related injuries while serving in Panama, choking on his own blood. Oh, dear Jesus.

Next to our neighbor, childhood friend. Charles Davis, U.S. Marines, killed in action, Vietnam, 1968. Justin Schmidt, Iraq, 2004.

Largest roadside bombing with eight killed. Billie, sister’s husband, killed in a mortal attack in Vietnam. JT, I think there’s an excellent chance we can be done before then.

Jeannie, happy birthday. Before I forget, happy anniversary to Mr. David and his bride. Let’s see, LSU nurse.

My brand new son-in-law is having a tough day remembering all of his men that did not come back from the Middle East. Please give him all others pain today in your prayers. That is something we should remember, LSU nurse.

Lost their brothers in arms. I know that was very difficult for my uncle, who did not pass away in World War II in the Pacific. He survived, but overwhelming majority of everybody he served with didn’t.

He carried that. Danny Goss, killed in Vietnam, 1969. Hello, Matt C. Wow, patriot hero.

I would have loved to have heard his stories. Great-grandfather Emery Blossom, Civil War. Wow, Michigan Volunteers.

Walked home from the Carolinas. Wow. That’s ready to go home.

Vernon Franz, in World War II. Tomorrow’s grandfather died in World War II. Steve, oh man, that P-38, that was a cool looking plane.

Yeah, Priscilla, as far as I’m concerned, I count them. I might offend some people, but the folks that were killed from Agent Orange and those things from their time in the military, I lump those in there. Great-uncle Herbert, Uncle Herbie, World War I. Jackie in Vietnam.

Maverick. I knew so many folks from my day and time that would have been closer to my uncle’s age, that Agent Orange got them years after, decades after, in some cases. Paul Prevelinsky.

Rhonda. See, here’s a good example. My brother, a Marine, died from bile duct cancer from being in Vietnam.

So many people exposed to just some horrendous things throughout these wars. Burton Howard, World War II. Glenn Elrod, Korean conflict.

Countless friends in Vietnam. David Cheesy. My father entered the Navy at 17 years old after Pearl Harvey.

Pearl Harvey was designated as an atomic vet from nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll. Died of cancer. I know I’m going to miss a few of these.

Uncle Jim and Iwo Jima. Boy, I’m messing that one up. All right.

Manhattan-born’s brother, 2nd Lieutenant Robert Harold Temple, the 101st Airborne who died in 1967 just before going to NAMA. Patsy’s uncle Jeff, World War I veteran. All right, folks.

Probably do need to get… Oh, man, there’s just so many, and I don’t want to miss them. Carroll T. Boyd, Air Corps. Shot down July 1944, one month before his first son was born.

Jack Kirby, POW. Two years during World War II. Mental health issues and took his own life.

Can you imagine dealing with that trauma? Gloria’s dad, Korea. World War II, Vietnam, 17. Died of cancer.

Brother Nam. Karen’s brother passed from Agent Orange as well. How many folks here? How many folks? Okay.

Try to catch that one. First Lieutenant Adam Malson. Killed in action, Baghdad, Iraq, January 2005.

Rasgold. Lost dad in 1959 as a result from World War II. Seven.

Boy, that’s a tough one. Lloyd Vajin, or Vajan. Killed Korean War.

Husband had stage four in the bone and blood from Agent Orange. Made it, but isn’t the same. Noreen, happy anniversary.

Deborah’s son, happy birthday. All right. That always shakes me up a touch, guys, as we remember.

On the RV front, the news is non-existent this morning. I do not believe that any banks worked over the weekend, meaning redemption centers were not staffed, or at least I can’t find any evidence thereof. My contact has still not checked in that works in wealth management, so I don’t know for certain, but I think we would have had word that we have too many folks that work in that, or, excuse me, are slated to work on that side of things in the industry, and I’m just not hearing that anybody worked.

I think it was kind of a nothing burger weekend on that front. Not saying that a lot of fun things didn’t happen. One of my key group people was in Virginia instead of out in the desert, so I feel pretty confident they were not shooting for the weekend.

I’ve not heard anything negative. I also have not heard anything positive this morning. Hopefully, we will start getting news breaking later today or first thing in the morning.

I don’t know if it’ll be as quickly, or the news will hit us as quick today, tomorrow, as a normal week, because we were shut down for a three-day weekend, meaning it might be Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday before we get much news, but I will keep shaking the trees, rattling the cages, whatever you guys want to call it, just a very, even out of Iraq, and extremely, it’s like the whole world, took a vacation on this Memorial weekend. Ella 3, excellent vote for evening podcasts on Monday. Or mid-afternoon, one to give stuff time to happen.

Reading a few of these. Oh, all right. David, that’s pretty much exactly.

We just got to hold on a little while longer. Let’s see. Tiny Maddie, three to four bucks still for the IQD.

That’s still what I’m hearing. Actually, I’m hearing closer to four. Still what I’m hearing.

David’s birthday. They’re all watching Trump at Arlington for the wreath ceremony. That could be where everybody’s at.

Wow, GTD, this is good news. Received my phone call on your birthday to head back to West Texas to return to the oil rig. Such a blessing since the RV hasn’t happened.

Been laid off for two plus years. Yeah, since the oil dive after COVID when demand dropped through the floor. A lot of folks in the industry got laid off.

Glad to know you are headed back to work. Bissells, I continue to still hear 2 1⁄4 to 250 on the DONG is what I continue to hear. Ron L., it’s good to see you.

Fauzi, militiaman and crew covered the ASEAN GCC China Summit Malaysia and Iraq was invited. Could this be another puzzle or another key to the puzzle because Iraq’s economy is so very tied with Vietnam and a couple of those Asian countries or Asian basin countries. I would think they’re going to try to tie a lot of those together when it goes.

Debbie’s going to celebrate 63. Debbie, David, Ella, Jeannie. Cuddy, Cuddyo for sure.

Happy birthday, Cuddy. Still reading birthdays. Brandon celebrating his 20th.

Beth, no bond updates. It was a painfully quiet weekend. I mean a painfully quiet weekend and that has extended into this morning.

Dawn, I wasn’t expecting you this morning. Yeah, Memorial Day. I wanted to make certain that we remember those that paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.

Yes, Stephen, there are going to be a few people doing codes, different pots of money for this thing. Third, Ferguson’s dad would have been 100, so we get some heavenly. Yeah, just there are no bond updates, guys, today.

Painful, painfully quiet. Only chaplain, let’s see. Grandfather, only chaplain in his day to carry a sidearm.

He will crawl from foxhole to foxhole administering last rites to dying soldiers. Retired as colonel over the chaplains. The dedication those folks feel for the comfort that it brings is just awesome.

Happy how no, plenty of people emailed me. Plenty of people emailed me. Bear Bruins, yeah, we’ve talked about that about a million and 20 times.

Have you heard anything about deleting three zeros from the NAR question mark? Yeah, we’ve heard about, but it’s something that doesn’t translate well when they talk about the project, delete the zeros. Shabibi talked about that, who designed it. Sudani’s talked about it.

Al-Alaq has talked about it. The white papers in Iraq talk about their reform papers. Their goal is to increase the purchasing power of the DINAR and then to issue lower denominations.

And when they say the project to delete the zeros, it is to move all of those out of circulation after they’ve been traded in. If value goes up, you can’t use the big bill. They’ve talked about this so many times in Iraq where you can go and you can easily research.

I don’t think we have hundreds of articles we have shared on this one as they’ve talked about it over the years. Their goal is to lift the purchasing power, increase the value of the DINAR, or as Sudani called it, make it the father of the dollar again, restore it to its former glory. Then big bills won’t work anymore.

You can’t go into the store with a 25K note if it’s worth 25,000 bucks and expect change. So you come in, you would be exchanging your big bills for more small bills, or you would just be depositing it in the bank. They’ve talked about it.

I mean over and over and over, but people continue to spew some of the most uninformed opinions on that one because they just won’t take the time to read the articles, the documents, the laws passed, the reform papers out of Iraq. I don’t understand. It drives me nuts painfully.

Let’s see. Tom said both Frank 26 and Militiaman are quoted as saying that the project to delete the zeros is still a go, still on time, and the rate could be greater than 1980 price, which was 395 as of today. Very possible, Tom.

Ted, I like this one. My nephew informed me and his younger sister that he will soon be 12, and that is considered to be a preteen. He’s going to be a handful when he hits 13.

That’s a good question, John. Did you see where the big three banks, JP Morgan City Wells, increased their assets and deposits? 681 billion bonds getting paid. I don’t know.

Is it possible? Yeah, I’ve not seen the widespread bond payments that we need before. I just, you know, just go ahead and throw the party. Charlene’s nephew buried in Arlington after being killed by a suicide bomber, Afghanistan based just before the soldiers 5K run.

Yvette wants to know if I’ve heard something about Trump. How many people have, I mean, we’ve been told that this starts Memorial Day, 2025, and the celebration of going golden lasts until the end of the year. July 4th, 2026.

So we do know that Trump has great plans between Memorial Day and next July, not this July, but the following one, where do we fit in that one? What do you guys think? Are we going to get any kind of announcement today? What is this big build? I think it is the, the systematic role, a rollover or roll out of the plan to reform, a.k.a. Sarah. That’s what I think we get starting today through July, 2026. Debbie, your lady that reads the armistice every year.

Yes. She’ll be back this armistice day to Connie. Thanks for belated birthday.

Let’s see. Trump said in a speech three years ago, art of the war. If we know what’s going to happen, the bad guys know what’s going to happen.

So I don’t think it happens today. I agree with you on that one. Buddy said, red pill is spreading all kinds of bad info saying people are exchanging.

Redemption centers are not banks, but military run facilities. They say you need a QFS card. Yeah, I, I think I would do your own due diligence folks.

You got to be responsible for yourselves. Very first thing though is apply some common sense. Does it make any sense? I mean, Trump’s all but declared war on our dollar.

At the same time, he’s trying to preserve. It’s really weird when you watch what’s going on. It’s like he is trying to rip down Fiat and position asset to take its place.

Debbie, I tried. I have a muscle disease and the blood work kept showing in. So they want to keep me in the military.

Steven says, Bruce said we’ll have to set up facial recognition during our exchange for security. Steven, I’d be okay with that. Facial recognition would just be like me.

If I’m trying to get into my phone account, my bank account on my phone, those things, it uses facial recognition. I would, I would be happier with that than somebody stealing my money. They already have your face.

They can get it just about anywhere. All right. What do we have in the news today? Trump delays the 50% tariff on the EU goods to July 9th.

Ursula von der Leyen asking nay. They pretty much begged for an extension. Trump said, Hey, we’re going to 50% tariff because we’re just not getting anywhere in negotiations with the EU.

They don’t want to sit down and talk. I guess that’s exactly what they needed was a good old cattle prod to the rear end. Now they want to talk, talk quickly.

They’ve already got teams going back and forth now. So they get a delay until July 9th to finish a deal. If not 50% tariff hits them.

Now you will guys, when you read the tariff information from the EU against the U S they do not charge us that much, but then they turn around and add a VAT tax on top. So it works out to about those numbers. And that is how Trump is designing it.

He’s saying, look, we count all those extra taxes with it coming in as a tariff. So we’re looking for, you know, basically penny for penny dollar for dollar here. Enough Republicans oppose the budget bill to stop the process.

Senator Johnson says Ron Johnson expressed concerns about the bill’s impact on the federal deficit, suggesting there was enough opposition to force changes. In other words, he says it does not go nearly far enough. It is time to get in there and actually sharpen the pencil and cut some spending.

It is going to force some negotiations. I still feel positive about its future. We knew that was coming.

And I’ve told you that before guys, the big, beautiful bill, as I have read more of it does not go far enough. It needs to be more aggressive. Would I take it? Is it an improvement? Yes, but it doesn’t fix anything.

So it’s gotta be, it’s gotta be bigger and more beautiful and that will help force it. And it will also make the Democrats a little afraid. In other words, the Democrats are going, Oh my God, this might get worse.

Maybe we should just go ahead and pass this thing and vote with the Republicans so we don’t lose more money. And I’m wondering if that’s a negotiating tactic that’s being used. American charged with trying to fire bomb the U.S. Embassy in Israel.

A dual U.S. German citizen accused of attempting to firebomb a U.S. Embassy building in Israel, Israel was arrested at New York’s JFK airport on Sunday. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 28 year old Joseph Neumeier was apprehended by Israeli police. He had three Molotov cocktails with him.

Of course, they were just full, full of 80 proof vodka, which doesn’t burn very well, but I guess he would have figured that out at some point when it just refused to light properly. Every time we turn around, we are seeing more and more and more radicalism coming out. It’s here in the U.S. We seem to have raised an entire generation of unhinged radicals.

Of course, it is what they’re being fed garbage in garbage out. This is where the very, very, very. Oh, what’s the word I should look for here? The press and the politicians with their extreme rhetoric and justifying the violence is what has led us to this thing.

They are horribly, horribly irresponsible. This is war. Oh man, Catherine Austin Fitz has been nailing it.

I just wanted to touch on this one because I so agree with it. The evils of the central bank digital currency and fighting the most invasive form of tyranny, tyranny that’s ever existed. But she gets into the cost.

How much does cancer cost? Eat better food. Don’t get cancer. Just all these like common sense things to help you stay healthier and says that the our goal should be food.

I love that when she loves gold. Don’t get me wrong, but she also said food, not gold as the ultimate asset. Well, gold is traditionally served as a hedge against financial instability.

Fitz is now more bullish on beef. You put gold in a ball. It doesn’t grow.

You put cows in a field and they multiply. They’re the ultimate increase. I love this one.

You know, being a farm boy at heart. It’s a great reminder. We need to control our food supply.

Each and every one of us need to be able to control our food supply somehow, some way. And that’s more than just, you know, raise organic or those things. It could be make enough dollars in your job to squirrel away food or to be able to buy healthier food.

We’ve all got to figure a way out. And I know it’s not easy. So many people here are living in vehicles, living on the street, can barely keep the lights on.

And that’s part of it. How do you, with what you have, with the resources you have, how do you increase your food supply? Thomas, amen. Stop eating so much.

Highly processed foods are killing you with chemicals. That was just a great article. If you guys are up for reading it.

Ukraine tried to attack Putin’s helicopter mid-flight. Russia alleged, alleged, responds with a massive strikes on Kiev. A lot of people upset around the world, schools, buildings, apartments, Kiev being bombarded.

I forget it was, but it was a, a 300 SAAD drones, 70 missiles hit Ukrainian cities, Kiev, Zaitomir, Odessa. Yeah, I can’t even say that one. Homes, dorms, businesses destroyed, children killed.

Every strike’s a reason for tougher sanctions, et cetera. This is no reports, very, you know, pro-Ukrainian group. What would you have done? I know if I’d have been flying now, the story is, and it’s been verified by outside news sources, meaning outside of the US, outside of our mainstream ones, outside of Russia proper.

So take the extreme propaganda on both sides, find some in the middle that are actually sources close to the front or in the region. And they verify that a massive number of drones, et cetera, were launched at Putin’s helicopter while he was touring over the Kursk region, over some of the holdings. I forget how far, 20, 30 miles back from the front lines, but it was directed at him purposely.

It appears, or is what’s being reported from a number of news agencies, Russia responds. I mean, would you, if they came after you and your family, let’s just say, Lovelight, let’s just say you are president of the country and they target you personally. They target your, I don’t know, your, your limousine.

They part, they target your helicopter and you have the ability to react. I probably would too. Right, wrong, indifferent.

They just tried to kill you. I would probably take it personally. I probably would go, boom, take that and send a lot back.

And I know that that’s not very good salve when people are dying and innocent people that didn’t make any of these decisions, but your leaders are making those decisions for you. Do they just not see that the common sense of that? I’m reading a few of these. Seeing what you guys are talking about.

Okay, that’s all I wanted to cover today. Very slow news day. I think it will take till end of September fiscal year for you as fiat dollar to revalue to treasury notes, but other currencies will revalue way before then, like any minute you can.

This is, you can saying that I definitely think you may be right in that. That’s how long it will take to get them all out of circulation, meaning to be replaced by the note, because it will take probably at least 90 days to transition them all. So I would buy a September is the end of that.

But I stopped very much. Think we go before then very much. Think we go before Jimbo.

I have no idea of what picture the white swan picture you’re talking about with Trump. Yeah, the big bill, big, beautiful bill. Suppressors would be legal.

Oh, no, mass shooting in South Carolina, 11 dead. Definitely want the details on that when I can. Trump’s going to speak at 11 today.

We’re going to wrap up here, probably Texas artists in five minutes, because we just don’t have that much news. Give everybody a break before his 11 p excuse me, 11 a.m. speech. Let’s see.

I forgot to send you this article topic. Iraq graduated first university 2025 graduating class, 20 men, 18 women out of the former Saddam presidential palace. Isn’t that cool? Z-Wing fighter jets just flew over my house in central New Jersey.

I wonder if there’s an event fair or excuse me, a festival, and they’re making an appearance. Chase, I thought Mark, we’re go. I wish I could wear gold today.

Yeah. How about you guys? Who’s saying more plane farts, more chemtrails, whatever you guys want to call them in the sky. Rebecca at work.

Curl ass boyfriend killed in action Iraq 2005 while we served together. Also mother joy celebrating her 94th heavenly birthday, man, just reading some of these, some of the sacrifices, tiger, Paul’s daughter, 22. I guess we’re going to sing and call it a rap folks.

Just not that much news today, Florida. Yeah, I’m reading your comments. Uh, Roy, I probably need to not say anything, get myself in trouble.

Certain things you can talk about certain things you can’t. So they tell me it’s your birthday. Well, happy birthday, darling.

May you live. May you love me. All your dreams come true.

Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to all those celebrating which we had more news this morning, but we just don’t. Hopefully that will change for tomorrow morning. If something does break this afternoon, I’ll still drop.

I’m going to be working from home majority of the day. So I will be here. If anything breaks.

Reading those. Okay. Wish I had more.

See you tomorrow morning.