#654: The Great American Land Grab
77 min
•Jun 10, 2026about 1 month agoSummary
Episode #654 examines the consolidation of land and real estate by institutional investors, tech billionaires, and government agencies, analyzing threats to property ownership, the rise of data centers, and FEMA/ICE detention infrastructure. Host Charlie Robinson discusses systemic land acquisition strategies, residential foreclosure trends, and proposes solutions including multi-generational living and alternative communities.
Insights
- Institutional investors (BlackRock, Starwood Capital, Blackstone) are systematically acquiring single-family homes via shell companies at pennies on the dollar, creating a future rental-only economy where corporations own all residential property
- Data centers consume massive freshwater resources (2,598 operating, 910 planned) with unclear public benefit, suggesting infrastructure built for digital control rather than consumer internet improvement
- Commercial real estate collapse (office buildings worth 10 cents on the dollar) is forcing risky retrofits into residential units, creating structural safety issues and unaffordable housing conversions
- Government agencies (FEMA, ICE) have built detention infrastructure (16 regional facilities, 8 compounds holding 7,000-10,000 people each) with capacity far exceeding immigration enforcement needs, suggesting broader population control apparatus
- Residential foreclosure filings are at 6-year highs with 26% year-over-year increases as interest rates rise (10-year treasury at 4.6%), triggering cascading defaults in medium-sized banks and commercial real estate
Trends
Institutional real estate consolidation creating corporate-owned housing monopolyData center proliferation without transparent public utility justificationOffice-to-residential conversion pipeline (90,300 units) as commercial real estate collapsesResidential foreclosure acceleration tied to rising interest rates and adjustable-rate mortgage resetsGovernment detention infrastructure expansion beyond immigration enforcement capacityMulti-generational housing re-emergence as financial necessity rather than cultural choiceMedium-sized bank vulnerability to commercial real estate loan defaultsSouth Florida condo market collapse due to mandatory structural reserve assessmentsPrivate equity acquisition of home builders to circumvent single-family home ownership restrictionsFreshwater depletion by hyperscaler data centers in agricultural regions
Topics
Institutional investor land consolidationBill Gates farmland acquisition strategyData center water and power consumptionFEMA detention facility constructionICE regional processing centersCommercial real estate foreclosuresOffice-to-residential conversionResidential mortgage interest rate exposureSingle-family home ownership restrictionsSouth Florida HOA structural assessment mandatesMulti-generational housing economicsPrivate equity home builder acquisitionsSan Francisco office building collapseSan Diego downtown high-rise foreclosuresAlternative community development (Belize farmstead)
Companies
BlackRock
Institutional investor acquiring single-family homes through shell companies at scale
Blackstone
Major private equity firm buying residential properties and considering home builder acquisitions
Starwood Capital Group
Institutional investor systematically acquiring foreclosed homes via spreadsheet-based bulk purchases
Bill Gates/Cascade Investments
Owns 275,000 acres of farmland through Cottonwood AG Management and related entities
Liberty Media
John Malone's company; largest private landholder in US with 2.2 million acres
EverPeer
Data storage platform for AI infrastructure scaling
Woop
Health optimization platform for sleep, recovery, and training tracking
Lennar
Major home builder vulnerable to acquisition by private equity firms
Amazon
Referenced as model for warehouse-scale facilities and ICE detention infrastructure design
Dell Webb
Age-restricted community developer offering alternative rental investment strategy
ECI Development
Real estate development firm partnering on Belize farmstead project with Freedom Farmers
Take Back Your Tech
Organization tracking AI data center locations and water risk via ai-data-center-map.org
People
Charlie Robinson
Host discussing land consolidation, real estate trends, and systemic control mechanisms
Bill Gates
Subject of discussion regarding farmland acquisition and alleged eugenics advocacy
John Malone
World's largest private landholder with 2.2 million acres; encountered by host during ranch viewing
Christian
Health optimization specialist offering organic acid testing and personalized wellness programs
Michael Lush
Mortgage acceleration strategy expert; previously interviewed on show
Curtis Stone
Land partnership network connecting ideologically-aligned buyers; partnering with ECI Development
Mike Cobb
Real estate developer collaborating on 1,600-acre Belize farmstead project
Todd Lyons
Described detention facilities as 'Amazon Prime for human beings' in controversial statement
Tim James
Referenced as resource for health optimization and wellness strategy
Terrence McKenna
Quoted regarding proactive planning and backup strategies
Quotes
"They're doing it using banks and deeds and titles and they're doing it legally, illegally in the process of which, but through a system that's legalized this."
Charlie Robinson•Early segment
"Data centers don't just get up and move. So you know where they are, right? And commercial drones are easily available."
Charlie Robinson•Data center discussion
"We're going to declare you mentally unfit well look do you want to be mentally fit to live in this world?"
Charlie Robinson•Canada detention discussion
"Amazon Prime for human beings"
Todd Lyons, ICE Acting Director•ICE facilities description
"Stealing land is frankly an American tradition. Whether it's murdering the buffalo and stealing it from the Indians or financing Israel for them to throw people off their land."
Charlie Robinson•Opening segment
Full Transcript
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Go to livelongformula.com tell Christian that I sent you and ask for an organic acid test. And what that will do is it'll kind of open the hood and look and see what's going on inside. If you have any sort of gut issues or things like that, that'll identify it for him. And he'll be able to customize programs specific for you instead of just throwing darts at a dartboard and hoping that they guess so what's going on inside your body, right? So livelongformula.com also for those of you who own a home, replace your mortgage is out here. I suppose you could pay your house off in 30 years if you wanted to, but why? When you can do it in between five and seven years, it's not a refinance, it's not a recasting, it's not asking you to pay double payments, it's none of that. You can pay off your home in between five and seven years without increasing your payment by one single dollar. The way you do it is to get out of the mortgage that you're in. It's the instrument itself that is screwing things up. So if you're interested in finding out more about this, if you own a home, you've got equity, you've got your cash flow positive, you've got good credit, you're doing the right things, right? You know you're going to pay interest. The first five years is nothing but interest. You can flip that into your favor if you want. Watch the video associated with this website. Go to wipeoutyourmortgagenow.com wipeoutyourmortgagenow.com or just go back a couple months and find the episode that I did with the founder, Michael Lush. He explains what it is and how it works. I swear I promise you it's not a scam, it's just math. They flip the math into your favor, it makes all the difference in the world. So go to wipeoutyourmortgagenow.com watch the video, see for yourself. Alright, so we're speaking about real estate. It's kind of going to be the topic of this episode. I mean, stealing our land it's undeniable it's happening. It's been happening for a while. It's not like it just started. I've been documenting this for quite some time. I mean, in my first book we get into what Bill Gates is doing. So it's not, this isn't something that started in COVID or it's not related to that. It's a much bigger play and you know, look, stealing land is frankly an American tradition. You know, whether it's murdering the buffalo and stealing it from the Indians or financing Israel for them to throw people off their land, like, if you're a nation and you're looking to treat the indigenous people poorly the American Empire will be on your side. I assure you, we love that stuff. It's who America is. You know, it's no wonder Israel is such great friends with the American Empire. They think similarly. Let's take all these brown people that are here and throw them off of their land and destroy all their animals and burn their trees down and just rip their entire culture out from under them because we're the good guys and God promised us this land. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, whatever. So, um, we've been watching that for a long time. It's nothing new, of course. It's not even new to the American Empire. I mean, fighting over land is like at the core of the human experience. This is what what countries do, what cultures do, they go out there and they have a certain piece of land and someone else has got some better land, they decide they want to take it and it's a fight. So, you've got to fight for your land. And maybe maybe we have to fight for our land too. Maybe we're being colonized and we just thought it would look different. Like, we expected them to be driving us and our buffalo straight off of a cliff into a big pile of carcasses down at the bottom, but that's not what it actually looks like these days. They're doing it with the pen and the contract law and all of that. I mean, they're doing it using banks and deeds and titles and they're doing it legally, illegally in the process of which, but through a system that's legalized this. So these days, Bill Gates is coming for your farmland. You know, which and by the way, his nefarious Microsoft entity is coming for frankly the rest of the land for their data centers. So this is not you knew it was only going to be a matter of time. When these guys got a bunch of money, you knew it was only going to, you know, they were going to make a calculation. Well, you know, these people we've been talking about world government for a long time. We want to thin the herd. We've got money. We can do whatever we want. Why don't we just buy up all the farmland? You know, like they can't defeat us if they're not eating, right? So why don't we just starve them out by buying all the farmland and in either not producing food with the land or producing the kind of food that's poisonous like genetically modified organisms and things like that. So you know, whether Bill Gates wants your land to grow GMO tomatoes or he wants it to put a data center there it's not for you. It's not going to benefit you in any way, shape or form. And this might be our last stand. I mean, they are quite literally building the digital prison around us while we watch. Now some of us are trying to do something about it. Others are completely oblivious to it, but it's undeniable that it's happening. These data centers are like they're like the guard towers. We're like applauding them as they build these sentry towers in our neighborhoods that are going to enslave us. But you know, look, here's the bright side if you want a little bit of good news about this. Data centers don't just get up and move. So you know where they are, right? And commercial drones are easily available. You can go to Best Buy and buy a DGI drone for $500. And I suppose if you were enterprising, you could rig that thing up with just about anything. Did I mention that data centers don't move? Right, so there's going to come a time when these guys are going to build all these data centers and they're going to be up there trying to enslave us. And they're going to say, boy, I hope that the people don't figure out we have a gigantic Achilles heel, which is that they can blow up these data centers whenever they want to. And that will happen at some point. I'm not advocating for that right now because that might get me arrested. I'm just saying that based on human knowledge, the way we are, you suppress and oppress people for a while. You know, some people you'll be able to turn their minds off immediately. Simply by exerting a little bit of force, they will comply. Have you been to East Tennessee? I spent a lot of time in East Tennessee. There are some folks in the hills there that will not comply. Thank God for those people. And, you know, they'll take out your data centers with drones or long rifles or whatever they've got, bear traps. You know, the good old boys will plot and scheme and huff and puff and blow your house down if they need to. So I think this needs to be a reminder to these people. I simultaneously want to inform people that this is going on, but I want to be careful not to cross that line where you guys are all freaked out and scared and say it's over. No, it's not over yet. These people make a lot of mistakes and they're going to build these data centers in places and people are going to burn them to the ground at some point. Maybe not tomorrow. It's going to take a while. Hell, the Epstein files came out and they showed that the people in positions of high power were draining the blood from children and drinking it, okay, and nothing happened. So maybe nothing will happen to the data centers. I mean, maybe I'm a little too optimistic, but nobody asked for this. And yet here it is anyway, which is a hallmark feature of the agenda. When nobody wants it and yet it's there, you have to say, why is it being made to happen? Am I being clearly we collectively aren't... Do you need a data center? Do you need your internet to work a half a second faster? It's not that. That's not what this is about. In fact, you know, they've never really given us a good explanation for what the data centers are for. I understand there's a lot of computing power and you're talking about AI and we need them for AI, but I'm going to need you to elaborate what's wrong with the current internet that we have. What are you doing with the data centers? What sort of data are you collecting? So, I mean, we got a taste of this with the Bluffdale, Utah NSA facility and everyone went, what are you guys doing there? What is this? You have enough storage there to keep to track all of human history, like current human activity. I think they said for like hundreds of years they could fit it all in. I don't know. The question is why? Why now? Why everywhere? All at once. Right? That's the agenda. David, I just talked about how do you know when you're dealing with the agenda when it's nowhere, I can't do David's voice, and then it's everywhere. When it's nowhere and then it's everywhere. Where were the AI data centers six years ago? They were nowhere. Now they're everywhere. Why? It's part of the agenda. So let's talk. I want to do that. I want to talk about the data centers. I want to talk about the FEMA camps. They're the warehouses and things like that. They're commercial real estate related. Commercial real estate. I used to work in that industry. They're buying single family homes. We're going to talk about that. Commercial investors and what they're getting hit with. And then lastly, solutions. We got to have solutions, right? But the freshwater is being drained by hyperscaler data centers and the numbers are alarming. I think a lot of people assumed that the data centers will use a lot of power. It's a logical assumption. But they didn't realize they would use as much water. And we had a key man who are on from Take Back Your Tech and above phone talking about that. You can go to his website he built for this. ai-data-center-map.org. Ai-data-center-map.org. And that's an interactive map tracking that's a lot of people are using. Map tracking water risk aquifers they've got it listed. He's got it listed as as of the recording of this 2,598 operating data centers 910 more planned and 1,016 current hyperscalers in existence. And they're draining a ton of water. And that water is not you know, you go well, you're using it to cool like they use water for cooling in nuclear reactors and things like that but it doesn't use this much water. So the question is, can we use the water after, I mean, you use it to cool down the whatever the equipment. You cool it down, is it water after that? Well, the answer is kind of yes and kind of no. A lot of it gets evaporated out so it's not water anymore. But some of it is the water that remains is not drinkable. So they're destroying the water. It's you know, it might still be water technically but it's not good water. It's not water you can drink. They're destroyed. So they're sucking all the power. They're using at least half the power right now, which is crazy. Some of these data centers they use is there's as much water and power used by a small city for one of these one of these hyperscalar centers. And there's a 1016 of them currently in my assumption is there's going to be more at some point. So if each one of these is like a small city using sucking water and power at some point we're going to run out of water right? I mean maybe not tomorrow, but you can extrapolate out where this is going. I mean if you can't extrapolate out maybe you should get in politics and you'd be perfect if you can't understand like second order effects here then maybe you are not you shouldn't be in a position of just thinking of policy because somebody needs to come up with a solution to this because the way we're going this isn't going to work long term. It can't work. That'd be one thing if this were like I would maybe even be on board with this if the power and water being used to build this this infrastructure for the country wasn't an AI data center but it was instead we had mapped out I don't know 15,000 miles of high speed rail track that we were going to put in and it was going to be a 20 year project and we were going to start here and it was going to take a lot of energy and a lot of water and a lot of you know all that and a lot of money and time but this is what we're doing this is what it's going to look like when we're all done like if that was it if you're putting the money into that sort of infrastructure project or they said we're going to use all this money to rebuild the ports on both coasts and we're going to widen you know we're going to clear out the parts of the Mississippi that are giving us problems and we're going to rebuild some ports along the Mississippi you know we're going to really build out the infrastructure you know I might be on board with that they'd say look at China look what China's done don't you and we're getting left behind we got to do something right maybe like maybe if they say oh but it's going to take a lot of water I'd go well that's a bad trade off but we're going to get this all right well maybe maybe we make that deal maybe we do that maybe the water is maybe it's a calculation that we can live with the water but we're not getting any of that we're getting a data centers and everyone goes great and then what do we do with them they go well you know it's for AI and you go okay and then what do we do then what so it's not a high speed rail it's not infrastructure it's none of that it's it's something else it's agenda 2030 I mean it's it's the it's the beginning stages of that it's it's how you control people with a 15 minute city this this is it this is what we're watching everybody scratching their heads going it's what are they doing with the data centers now if you're waiting for them to come out and say we're building these data centers because we're because the digital control grid isn't going to build itself and so we have to do it and then by you know in 10 years instead of this bullet train theory in my head that I've I'm using instead it's going to be you will be locked in a digital prison I mean then it'll be yeah what what did you think we were building with all these a I did you think they were so that you could get Netflix faster you'll be like well no but they told me it was for AI yeah I know we told you a lot of things that's not what it's for what it is for AI wink wink technically they want regions off limits you know it agenda 2030 straight up tells you that and the stuff they're doing in Belize with the the United Nations is issuing blue bonds and things they're trying to they're trying to take over the trying to take over the waters it's it's sick that you know you saw what happened in Maui in Pacific Palisades they quite literally are burning cities down you know I think people at first were like oh you conspiracy theories with your ideas and Maui and whatever now you see Pacific Palisades it's like are you starting to get the hint here I mean you can you can be dismissive of this stuff if you'd like it's fine I get it I do I really do understand I understand why people go that's crazy it is crazy I'm never going to argue with somebody who is dismissive of this saying it's crazy that is implied but that does not mean it isn't happening crazy is irrelevant at this point it's all crazy that's that that is that should be assumed once you get past this is crazy now let's talk about is this real because Bill Gates through Cascade Investment and his other companies owns 275,000 acres of farmland he has companies called Cottonwood AG management so it's not Bill Gates at all in their buying your farmland right it doesn't come like that you don't go oh shit Bill Gates showed up at my ranch today and offered to buy it I say I say that is it I say that's never going to happen I was actually at a ranch in Colorado and John Malone from Liberty media the largest landholder in the world actually did show up at that ranch and was in the process buying it so I suppose it could happen that Bill Gates shows up at your ranch and decides he's going to buy it because I was actually there when John Malone was what was funny about it was that it was a nice place you know it's got a house and like this great setup for you know like indoor barn outdoor barn all this stuff but it's like it was like maybe a maybe like an eight million dollar property I was there because we were there at the stables and we had my daughters riding horses there and so I was like oh shit like I know who that guy is he's with his real estate agent I was like that is John Malone like yeah I'm like what's he doing he's like he's looking at this I'm like he owns 2.2 million acres of land in the United States he's quite literally the largest landholder in the world no offense to this beautiful property but what the fuck is he doing here you know what I mean he's like yeah you know he's just looking at it but through the so okay so maybe Bill Gates maybe he will and maybe he won't show up at your ranch to buy it okay but but more than likely it will be done by some company that you've never heard of before like a cottonwood AG management or it'll be like I don't know it'll be cottonwood AG management 2 or cottonwood AG management 4 or something like that and you go it's like a shell company that wants to spend a hundred million dollars to buy my land well look what they've got they've got 70,000 acres in Louisiana they've got 48,000 acres in Arkansas they have 25,000 acres in Arizona and 18,000 acres in Illinois they're planning something this goes along with 20,000 acres in Nebraska 14,000 in Washington 15,000 in Florida 17,000 in Mississippi 45 hundred acres in California and 23 hundred acres in Colorado that's just Bill Gates that's his group you know he's he's so concerned with humanity you know he is a eugenicist and when my book comes out on September 11th you can have a field day going through the work I've done on him his family and the tentacles that come from Bill Gates and look it's not great that John Malone from Liberty Media owns 2.2 million acres of land but he's not threatening to block out the sun okay so I'm going to give him a pass on this until he starts talking publicly about wanting to murder half the population or turn out the lights let's move on let's talk about FEMA camps because they're very real it's a classic tinfoil hat dismissive conspiracy theory trope where you go oh you guys in your FEMA camps right what is FEMA first of all FEMA is one of the most dangerous organizations in the world people just don't realize that if you think that it's a federal emergency management agency oh this is who comes in when we have hurricanes and this is who comes in when we have floods yeah sort of they're the cover story a lot of bad stuff happens through FEMA a lot of bad stuff happens through FEMA and from 2020 until 2025 they have been building warehouses FEMA has been they've been building camps they've been building FEMA camps so like what do you call it when FEMA builds 1.2 billion square feet of warehouses and industrial do you call that FEMA warehouses I'm fine with that let's call it FEMA where FEMA camps is too and the nose for you let's call FEMA warehouses what are they warehousing what items are they warehousing I worked in commercial real estate and I would have to go from warehouse to warehouse to warehouse and in Compton which is hilarious if you know what I look like and the I and all these warehouses have similar they're either bursting at the seams or they need to shrink either business is good or it's bad right when you're building 1.2 billion square feet of off of warehouse and industrial space business is booming the question is what business are you in the answer is they're in the warehousing people business and that's quite disgusting so we have simultaneously a real estate industry that is going through different phases office real estate is a straight up catastrophe it you buildings are being sold in downtown leftist main sit big cities they're being sold for ten cents on the dollar you know like really like 40 story building bought for $600 million in 2018 just changes hands for $73 million you go oh baby you know like yikes or an office building in downtown LA and you go that thing sold for $40 million ten years ago and someone just picked it up for a million and you go Jesus if you're buying a house you go it's gonna buy this house in Beverly Hills high rise downtown LA it's the same price frankly cheaper I'm getting it for $40 a foot that house in Bel Air was gonna be a thousand a foot you know I don't know but I mean this the so office is a catastrophe residential is going to be a catastrophe it's on its way and then a weird segment of the real estate industry warehouses industrial warehouses under construction like crazy right so you go oh that's right is it just can't just be FEMA right can't be FEMA can't they can't be the only one 1.2 billion square feet of warehouses quite a bit but it's not it's not a lot for um you know I mean I I knew a guy who had 50,000 he he had a million square feet of industrial space just as just himself so I don't know 1.2 billion is fine but it's not so I see construction like crazy on my way to Denver International Airport out by the airport they're building um they're building warehouses like certainly probably nothing certainly not not because of the impending pole shift and the moving of the capital from Washington DC to Denver I'm sure that has nothing to do with every time I drive by on the way to the airport and I see just there are tons of warehouses under construction I think this I I always think it's pole shift yeah great it's all coming I mean I guess I'm in the right spot for it I suppose if everything is going to be underwater I don't know I don't know if I want to live through that one that'd be a tough book to write but you know these I ice is actively purchasing and then retrofitting dozens of Amazon style warehouse facilities they have currently this is ice right so I let me let me tell you what I think I think the idea of FEMA camps moving forward and like the we're all going to get around I'll see you in the FEMA camp you know I hope you don't snore for roommates and that whole thing I think actually it's going to be ice camps and I think the the play is you build them with the sales pitch that it's for them right the others everybody who's come in you know we're going to get those 10, 20 million illegals who came through here right and so you have all of MAGA going yeah well I'll help you build the centers fuck you know so you've got that but I think what's going to happen is sales pitches that it's for the migrants and maybe it will be for a little bit but eventually that'll be for dissidents right so what do they have currently what's ice doing it's not you know they've announced this so you go well did they announce it and just sit on it or did they do anything with it well I'm here to tell you they're hard at work they're working they've got 16 regional processing centers already now in these regional processing centers they are equipped to hold 15 a thousand to 1500 people and they intend to hold these people in these regional centers for between three and seven days you're going in to be processed in one of the 16 regional processing FEMA camps I mean sorry ice camps you need god I just I just know at some point I'm going to be sitting in one of these ice facilities talking to my cellmate going I did a show on this that's nice they still got you there are eight so 16 regional compounds there are eight massive compounds that are each holding between 7000 and 10,000 people and they will hold those people for 60 days before they're deported or deheaded or whatever I don't know that they're going to be deported necessarily and they might put them on these boats and say we're going to sail them out to Africa we're going back to Africa and get about 150 miles off and then just open the Bombay doors and send everybody to the bottom of the ocean I don't know I don't think that people I think it's I don't think people are actually going to get deported back anywhere I think if you've made it here to America you're either staying or if you're leaving you're going under you're going to be you know cremated at some point I think it's I don't I don't envision them loading up cargo jets with people to fly them back to Ghana it's just probably not going to happen so so what they say is so it's 16 regional facilities and then 8 massive compounds that they can hold up to 10,000 people in before deporting them and then on top of that FEMA has also bought 10 key 10 turnkey prisons I frankly didn't know they were for sale they didn't know they were available in my mind maybe I'm wrong but in my mind prisons are out there but they're all operational and they're full of people I don't know how you just go and pick up 10 turnkey prisons but FEMA did that they just said we need them so that's where I said they're they're spending money to retrofit these things so now if you're getting a bad feeling about this I I regret to inform you it's going to get worse because I want you to hear what the head of the ICE facility said when describing what they're doing here this is Todd Lyons he's the acting director of over at ICE it is it is so bonkers that I promise you I'm not making this up I wouldn't do it I don't need to but this guy described this the facilities as quote Amazon Prime for human beings so I guess when you absolutely positively need to put some Pakistani in a prison in 8 hours you can you can this will be the Amazon Prime for human beings I just have questions about this I let me I'll mention where these ICE facilities are in case you live near one or you're familiar with these cities so in Arizona they've got one in Surprise Surprise you're in an ICE facility Georgia Social Circle Oakwood and Jefferson in Louisiana Port Allen Hammond in Maryland Williamsport in Michigan Highland Park and Romulus in New Jersey Roxbury Township in Pennsylvania there's two of them Tremont and Hamburg in Texas they've got four of them there for you Socarro San Antonio Baytown and Los Fresnos and lastly in Utah they have one in Salt Lake City so if you're wondering what's going on if you're near any of those cities ICE facilities there and if you've got one of the you know it's one of these big ones one of these 10,000 person ones then you just so you know they're coming they're coming and by the way they proposed a solution of camps some might call it a final solution they proposed a solution of camps um it didn't it didn't actually wind up working it got kind of bogged down with the government aspect of this but they had a plan to build tents they were going to build tents for it they wanted to build tents that would house I don't know if this were the number of tents or the number of people it would house but there's 107,000 107,759 of these tents by 2025 they financed it and by the end they only built 110 so I don't know if they built 110 and they went this is a bad idea we should probably not build the other 107,758 of them but they only built 110 maybe someone stole all the money maybe the tents were just not a good idea but they had big plans for this instead of this tent city that I guess was sort of modeled on the Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio tent city where he used to make everybody where he put them outside in pink boxers and stripes that's the prison where Sean Atwood did time he talked to Sean about that he knew Sheriff Joe he's got stories so yeah this is what they're doing they are building warehouses they're warehousing people now you go oh they're not warehousing people that's great the guy said we're gonna be Amazon Prime for human beings they are warehousing people how could you describe it other than warehousing human beings this is such a bad idea like the idea of private prisons is a disgusting stain on humanity FEMA camps ICE camps I get it we want to get these people that aren't from here out but you're building the architecture for tyranny with this you just have to know you have to know where this is going and if you don't know where this is going go back and find some footage from 2015 go search Jade Helm good luck finding it now I mean they've scrubbed the internet of everything worth watching but I watched an interview they were doing a role playing exercise in 2015 called Jade Helm and they were simulating domestic terrorism right and they were interviewing a guy who was participating in this he worked for the state somehow they said what are you guys doing out here he said well you know we're running a simulation and we're we get everybody here we're you know focusing on domestic terror groups and what we would do if this kicked off they go oh great interesting fascinating and who are in your scenario who are the bad guys and they go well you know constitutionalist you know people that are really wait I'm sorry constitutionalists are the bad guys you're hunting down you know because you expect them to say well it's terrorists you know it's al-qaeda or it's whatever right it still be nonsense but you expect that answer you don't expect constitutionalist because you know the people who care about the constitution aren't criminals the people in government who have destroyed the constitution they are criminals so when you are a group who wants to uphold the constitution you are going to be viewed as the enemy of our government so I guess in retrospect I shouldn't have been so surprised that they were simulating that I think my surprise was that they actually admitted it or that they didn't think that that was a problem but you can look it up it starts with the illegals it ends with all of us getting rounded up and put in there and you can shake your fist at the sky and say how unfair it is and how there's been some mistake but history is littered with stories of the people who were on the wrong side of tyranny the reason why you hear the stories about how I escaped the Warsaw ghettos in 1939 right before the war broke out I was able to get the reason why you hear those stories is because they lived because they got the fuck out people are going to have to make a calculation on this if it gets much worse do you stay and fight the data centers with drones filled with hand grenades or do you run because you know it's coming it's like the totalitarian tiptoe I just watched a guy in Canada get declared and committed by the police or by the authorities in Canada because somebody declared him mentally unfit and that's all it takes the chances are that somebody could declare me mentally unfit I have laid out ample evidence for that I mean you're all on it I wouldn't even put up much of a fight if they dragged me in front of court they'd be like did you say it sounds like something I would say you called this guy a fourth world immigrant yeah probably we're going to declare you mentally unfit well look do you want to be mentally fit to live in this world I think that might be a sign that the wheels have really fallen off for you if you're looking around going everything's fine that's a problem too but and I joke about this but it's no joke if you're that guy in Canada you get thrown in the nut house the thing about getting thrown in the nut house when you're not crazy is that the first thing you want to do is scream about how you're not crazy but you do that nothing says hi I'm a crazy person like screaming that you're not so imagine the thoughts going through that guy's mind he's like they're going to like they're going to medically subdue me as soon as they get me into the police station or wherever they hospital and I mean this is a huge problem so it's worth paying attention let's stick to let's stick to real estate we're going to wrap this thing up here the there are investors as you might have noticed that are buying single family homes like crazy I'm not talking about your boss who's doing well and has three rental properties right I'm not talking about that I'm talking about starwood capital group coming in and saying looking at a spreadsheet of foreclosed homes and saying we'll take all of them because in 2010 I was interacting with people in Vegas real estate I had a guy from starwood capital come through and I gave him a presentation at the mid-rise condo project I was selling ultimately I knew it wasn't going to work for them for what they were doing but he was I did take the opportunity to ask him a million questions about what they're doing and what they're looking for and it was surprising to me I mean it was brutal honesty but that's why when I say that they'll take a spreadsheet and say give me everything on it I'm not like being facetious about that the guy told me like we will get spreadsheets from he said you know Dan so and so and I know him he's the REO king of Vegas yeah you know him yeah he'll send us his spreadsheet for what he got from the bank that day and we'll get everything on it I go you just don't I mean you don't go look at him he goes we don't give a fuck okay so and I'm saying all right well that's not what we're doing here at this stalled out mid-rise project and he goes yeah this probably isn't going to work for us but that's what we're doing really he'll go into a neighborhood he goes I would just buy it he goes I know the neighborhoods I mean I know where they are and I said I know the neighborhoods too I sold them for years I've been selling them what do you buy in there I'll buy a fucking hell you're gonna buy that whole everything there I sold that neighborhood four years ago I sold all the homes in there he goes I'll buy everything in there pennies on I'm looking I'm what are you paying for it huh you oh my god I know what I sold at those poor bastards god damn they're like we're picking it up for $60 a foot $40 a foot you can't build it for a hundred a foot you know and so this is happening so it's been happening for a while but something just went through Congress recently and and frankly I'm a bit surprised I mean a house bill just passed that would prevent institutional investors that owned more than 350 single family homes from buying even more now it needs Senate approval they think it's going to get it we'll see how this plays out it it is I'm they'll find a way around it for sure right I mean I my assumption is that they'll they'll find a way around it but but this would stop a BlackRock Blackstone Starwood Capital Group from coming in and doing the we'll take everything on the spreadsheet that would stop but the concessions that they made because of course you always have to give something away and when you're in politics the concessions that they gave away for them is they said look we're not going to allow you to buy any more single family homes but we will allow you to build them so I would expect activity in the mergers and acquisition area in the way of home builders I mean if I'm Starwood Capital Group I'm the guy who buys houses off spreadsheets I would go okay all right let me think about this I can't buy any more houses but I can build them right okay I'm not a builder but I could buy a builder why don't I just go buy a builder why don't I just go buy Lenar right I mean you can't do that if you're small but if you're BlackRock you can if you're Blackstone if you're Starwood Capital you can you buy Lenar I used to work for Lenar you could go either publicly trade it or buy a new one or buy a new one just to think about what's what's their market cap I don't know $6 billion $8 billion I don't know they're going to buy we'll buy it now you can control all the house so they'll get around this it's called the 21st Century Road to Housing Act but Road is all an acronym ROAD I mean look I hate I don't like the government coming in and saying you can't own more than 350 houses. Even though I don't like the groups that are buying the house, there's also something about the government saying you can't do it, that inherently makes me think, well, they should be able to do it. Then if the government's own and they can't do it, then they should be able to do it. But it's like both parties, I don't like. I don't like the government and I don't like the big investment groups that are coming around buying all this stuff. But, and it'd be one thing if they were just owning, like I don't think people would have this feeling if they were buying office buildings or warehouse buildings, right? But it's single family homes because that is more than just an investment. Let the banks play in the investment world of commercial real estate all they want, right? But when it comes to single family homes and things like this, that's sacred. The idea that you would be renting, the idea that a hundred years from now, nobody would own their own homes except corporations and you would be forced to only rent from them is a catastrophe, right? And that's the direction they wanna go. So the idea of these groups buying homes, I don't like, buying home builders so that they can build homes that they would own. I mean, I'm certain for the years I worked in new home sales and I worked for the biggest builders out there. If I'm in the M&A industry right now, I took a look at what's going on. I'd be on the phone with every home builder right now growing, you guys wanna get out? You're about to go into some economic uncertainty. If you wanna get out, I got private equity, they'll buy you up tomorrow. If you're some Texas home builder, it's been doing it for David Weakley homes, you've been building for a long, long time. You wanna exit? Here's your off ramp because all these private equity companies are gonna be looking for home builders right about now. So it's gonna, I mean, I don't need a crystal ball to know that. I just need to have worked in new home sales for a decade to see how this will play out. I mean, look, there's a couple of things that happens too here. You have to be, this is, don't throw me in the briar patch, right? This also locks out the competitors to these groups too. So I wouldn't be surprised if the Black Rocks, Blackstones and Starwood Capitals of the world weren't sitting down with Congress to push for this. It's please don't regulate me and all of my competitors, potential competitors, please don't, you know, grandfather me in and lock out everybody else. That's what it looks like to me. At least that's where my mind goes. And to be fair, like, you, like, I don't know how much this is going to prevent them from getting, I don't know that this will stop these big groups from doing it. I mean, real estate investment trusts exist and have for a long time. So if REITs are out here buying up commercial property and have been forever, you wouldn't just buy up, you know, homes, right? Let me tell you about, I'll tell you about a good strategy for people who want to invest in real estate. Here's a trick no one will ever tell you about new home sales. But I know investors who've made a lot of money doing this. And here's how it goes. You're an investor and you want to buy homes as investments, right? You might think that new home builders are the last people you'd want to talk to, but here's what you can do with them. You approach a new home builder and you say, you're going to be building this new community here, I see, and you're going to build four model homes to sell, to show the different types of floor plans available. You're going to build four model homes. You're going to set up a sales office in the garage of one of them, of the first one, and you'll put a parking lot there, and then it'll just be, you know, you come in through the first one, you go through the second, third, fourth, and boom, boom, and it's gated off and that's how model homes work. Now, the company who is selling the home builder builds those homes and they intend to sell those homes, but they can't sell them right away. They're models. They need them for like four years or so to live there and show everybody what they're getting and then we'll sell them at the end. Well, they don't want to sit on them for four years. So what they do is as soon as those models are built, you can go in there as an investor and say, I'll buy your four models from you and lease them back to you. I'll lease them back to you for 1% a month, every month for, you know, for the, for, we'll do a 50 year, a 50 month term for four years, let's say, and you're, cause you're gonna, that's how long your build out is gonna be on this community. So I'll just take them off your books right now. So the home builders will do that. They'll do that deal all day long. They want to sell those houses right now and then that lease that they pay, the 1% that they pay every month is a write off. So they don't, they're not so worried about that. So you can find, and I know an investor group, husband and wife team knew them very, very well. And what they would do is they had hundreds of model homes getting 1% a month. So, and then after that four years, you know, once the whole community is built out and you've made 48% of you've basically paid off half the house, you then sell it. And if you've done your, if you've done it right, you sell it for more than it's worth because you've now owned it for the last four years and you've been just banking money. But at the end of that, when the build out is done, you got to sell it or you can keep it as a rental. So model leasebacks, you're welcome. Give you that strategy. That's someone for free. Not too many people know about that, but I know those people. I know those people that do that and they made, there's a very, and what they would do is they would raise money from investors. So they'd go to investors say, give us a bunch of money. We're gonna go do all these model homes. They would use the investor money to go buy the 100 model homes out there and they just, and they just made the money off the top from that. So, and making money every month, investors are very happy. So you're going to see that there will always be groups out there that want to own large numbers of single family homes, but there's different reasons for that. You know, I mean, the model leaseback scheme is not, first of all, it's a great scheme. I say scheme as if it's bad. It's not, it's a tactic. It's an investment strategy and it's a damn good one, but you got to be right. By the way, if you're wrong and the market turns and then the value of the house goes down, you have to sell it. You know, you maybe have to sell it for less than what you wanted to, but it doesn't really matter because you're getting consistent money every month. And you know that the house is going to be in great shape because they take very good care of the model homes. They're cleaned. Nobody's in there squatting. Nobody's riding motorcycles down your stairs, you know, doing anything like that. So great investment. And look, I mean, if you want, not for nothing, but I also worked in an age restricted community. If you're an investor and you go, I want to buy these houses, but man, I can't put families in there. They destroy it, you know, like you come out, I bought this house and I had a rental and God, every renter I put in there was worse than the one before. I finally just sold the house. I was so tired of dealing with renters. I just never wanted to deal with that. So, you know, if you're an investor and you go, I'd love to own single family homes and rent them out and have this great thing, but I just don't like people. I don't like families and they're destroying my house. Buy age restricted communities, buy in the 55 and older, go to Dell Web, which is where I worked. Then you're renting to people who are 55. The worst is that they're gonna, an old lady's gonna have a cat who pisses in the carpet. That's as bad as it's gonna get. But nobody's going to decide that they want to recreate some sort of motocross dirt bike track in the living room. Like I'm pretty sure happened with one of my tenants. Moving on, let's talk about commercial investors because they're starting to get creative. There's a lot of, they're taking these office buildings. Like I said, the ones that were going for like 10 cents on the dollar and they're saying, we can convert them into residential. So there is an office to residential pipeline, office building to residential space pipeline. And as of January of this year, 2026, there are 90,300 apartment units that are in some form of office to residential conversion. And I'm not an engineer, but I have to imagine that's a catastrophe to take one of those buildings. I did work on a high rise project and I did sit in with the engineers and would listen to them talk about the structure of the building that they were going, this 50 story high rise we were gonna be building in Las Vegas. And it was like, I mean, I just would sit in those meetings and nod my head and try to not say something stupid because it was so complicated and so complex, all the things they were talking about. The idea that you're gonna go into an office building and retrofit that and add toilets and plumbing that is the type of plumbing you need for residential as opposed to office is gonna be different. The type of services, elevator service that you need. Boy, it's not as simple as saying high rise office building, high rise residential, what's the difference? Huge differences. But that just goes to show you how desperate they are, that there's 90,000 units that are currently in this process because they're making a calculation and going, whoa, if it stays as an office, we're cooked. We just are. There's just not enough demand out there that's gonna fill it. So if we do the retrofitting, we've got a chance, but you're gonna have to spend money to make money on that one and that's what's happening. Many office markets have 20 to 30% vacancy right now and of course, we've done a lot of work on Doom Loops, San Francisco is a prime example of that. It's not just that if you're 30% vacant that it impacts the owner of the office building, it impacts the stores, the retail stores that live off of the people who work in those office buildings. And so when the people go away because they're not in the office anymore than the retail stores that were living, were thriving because of those, they go away. And next thing you know, whoever stayed is now in an office, it doesn't look like it used to. The people aren't there, who they worked with, so the office is kind of empty and spooky and weird and sad and demoralizing if you're walking through a place that used to have 100 people working in it and now there's 40 and the cube farm's empty, it's kind of a reminder that things aren't the way they used to be and that might not be the best. So there's a lot, it's not just about the guy who owns the building. I mean, yeah, they're gonna get walloped financially, but there's second order effects that impact a lot of people here. San Diego has 11 high rises right now that are in foreclosure, 11 high rises in downtown San Diego. Are you familiar with downtown? Downtown San Diego is a prime example. It used to be a shithole back in the 80s and then they decided, hey, if we built a Petco Stadium down here for the Padres, we could really kind of revitalize this back in the days that the Padres used to play in Mission Valley at Jack Murphy Stadium and that's like where the Chargers played and it's fine, but it's not downtown, it's nowhere, it's not near San Diego, it's a half hour outside of town. So they revitalized downtown, they built all these office buildings, they built Petco, they, it worked for a hard rock, put a hotel in there and like it worked for a while. Did I mention that there are 11 high rises in foreclosure right now? Not maybe, not struggling, we're in a bad spot. I mean, in foreclosure. If there's 11 in foreclosure, there's 11 more that are in pre-foreclosure. So some are being converted into residential, as I said, it's part of that 90,000 units, but boy, like the plumbing, electrical, HVAC, all that that goes into it, it's gonna be expensive, so this isn't gonna be affordable housing, it's just gonna be more housing. I mean, if you want a million dollar condo in downtown San Diego, you can get one. That's never been the problem. The problem is the $300,000 condo in downtown San Diego doesn't exist. Well, I mean, if you're taking office buildings that are in foreclosure, that are essentially worthless, you're still gonna have to put a lot of money into it. I don't know that you're ever gonna get the $300,000 condo in downtown San Diego ever again, and you know what? I don't know that it's the city of San Diego's responsibility to make that happen, you know? Affordable housing, we have to have affordable housing, the government's gotta get involved in affordable housing, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Why? Who, what is your mission statement, Mr. Government? Nowhere in your mission statement does it say that you need to be responsible for affordable housing. That is not part of what you're responsible for doing. When the government gets involved and decides that they need to make sure there's affordable housing, one thing is guaranteed, rampant criminality. That's where the fraud happens, okay? So the problems are leftist, shithole cities that are run by communist mayors financed by George Soros who wanna reimagine crime. That's the problem. If you wanna fix the 11 foreclosures in San Diego, first in downtown San Diego, first thing, get all the homeless people the fuck out of downtown San Diego. If you're unwilling or unable to do that, then you, we're not being serious here. Because the 11 buildings that you convert into residentials, you'll just have to convert 11 more next year. You're not being honest about the root of the problem. Let's talk about where things are headed. Residential foreclosure filings are the highest levels in six years. They are 26% year over year increase in foreclosure filings. The wheels are about to come off. And everybody's been keeping it together with bubble gum and duct tape, right? As long as we can. But if you had an adjustable rate, it's gonna adjust up to seven. If you were lucky enough to get in at a low interest rate in your house, you're good. If you're somebody who is freaking out a little bit right now, you might wanna go revisit that ad I talked about at the beginning of the show with the wipeoutyourmortgagenow.com and get to, you know, reconfiguring your own personal loans. But this is happening. The 10 year treasury is at 4.6 now, as of the recording of this. In March, which is three months ago, it was 4.0. It's now 4.6. The reason why this matters is the 10 year treasury is what is the rate that loans are calculated based off of. And when Biden was shitting himself on stage with the Pope, it was at 4%. And that was a hell of a lot better than 4.6%, which is where it is now. And by the way, it's headed up. In, no, let me rephrase that. In March, it was 4%. When Joe Biden was on stage with the Pope, it was 1.3%. So that's 2021. So to give you an idea, you'd really like this 10 year treasury rate. If it's low, then your interest rate will be low. The government's borrowing rate will be low and everybody's loan fees will be more manageable. As that rate gets higher, everything gets more expensive. It was 1.3 when Biden was in office. It was 4% in March. It's 4.6% now. It's a problem. It's heading in the wrong direction. So everything is gonna get more expensive. And this puts economic pressure on medium-sized banks because they're the ones who handle the commercial real estate loans. So you're gonna see medium-sized banks get hammered by this. I mean, they're already, if you've got 11 foreclosures in San Diego alone, that's a bad sign. Medium-sized banks handle most of those. So you're gonna have issues there. It's not limited to the West Coast and San Diego. Let's talk about Florida and the East Coast. Florida's HOA bill, 1203 was signed in 2024 for condos and co-ops. It's, there's also, that was a recent house bill, but the bill that really got everybody's attention was Senate bill four dash D. And this is requiring structural inspections and fully funded reserves by 2025. They came up with this several years ago. It had to do with the apartment, the condo building in South Florida that just up and collapsed. Do you remember that? There's a lot of fuckery around that building, by the way. Turned out John McAfee had an apartment in there, which is very unusual. And the rumors were that somebody was looking for something, I don't know why you'd take an entire building down if you were looking for something in there, but regardless of the conspiracy concerning that building in the aftermath of that, by the way, if you want to talk about super suspicious, the group that was brought in to go through the rubble of that collapsed high rise building in South Florida was an Israeli firm that was brought in. It wasn't American search and rescue, it was Israeli, which is massively weird to me. But anyway, we might have to get into that at some point. But they said, look, that building came down because you guys hadn't been taking care of the maintenance of it. There were structural problems and the HOA failed to collect enough money to do the proper retrofitting. In fact, so what we need to do is we're gonna pass a law and we're gonna have something called the structural integrity reserve studies. And we're going to make sure, we're gonna make it so that every single high rise in South Florida has had a structural engineer come by and make sure that it is sound, safe. And if it's not, then you need to do all the retrofitting immediately and you need to fund your HOA and you need to get on board and we need to raise money. There's gonna be a special assessment for all these buildings and you're gonna have to come up with the money needed. Each individual, not the building owner. We're talking about a condo. So this is individual owners. Whoever developed the building and sold it off, sold it to individual owners. Each of these individual owners will have to come up with, in some cases, $100,000 per unit. Every single person in there needs to come because they're saying you guys gotta fix the structures of these buildings, all of them. Now, you can't wait. You guys haven't been doing this for 50 years, you all have to do it now. So if you wanna buy, if you go on like realtor.com and you search for condos in South Florida, you'd be like, oh my God, what a deal. These are all, these are amazing deals. A $50,000 condo. Here, I can't believe, whoa, what's going on in this building? All these buildings are all these places for sale. Yeah, because when you buy it, you now have to pay the assessment. The person who's selling it doesn't have the money to pay the assessment. They're like, I'm out. I'm just out. My $500,000 condo that I now have to put $100,000 in and I'm required to. I don't have it. So I gotta sell it. And everybody in the building is thinking the same thing. So now your $500,000 unit is worth $200,000. Everybody's trying to sell theirs all at the same time and anybody who's thinking about buying it has to get the talk. Yeah, you're buying it for $200, but then you gotta come in with another $100. And so it's not as simple as just the price on the sheet of paper. And this is happening in South Florida. It's a catastrophe. But what are you gonna do? San Francisco office building bought for $200,000,000 in 2016 with $150,000,000 of debt. This is how it works. Here's an example. There's $200,000,000 building you bought it a decade ago. You used $150,000,000 of debt. So you put 25% down, you put 50 down and financed 150. Your building gets assessed today. The place is worth $60,000,000. You paid $200,000,000. You put 50 down, you financed 150, it's worth 60. Do you know what you do in this situation? You take the keys to the building and you go to the bank and you put it on the banker's desk and you go, enjoy your new building. I'm out. It's yours. And you walk. That's what's happening. That's what you, you know, have no sympathy for the bankers, of course, because they typed into the computer when they were issuing that loan, we need $150 million of money to loan to this guy to buy this building. They typed it in the computer and little digits made the money out of thin air. So I don't really feel bad for the banks, go hand them the keys and say, enjoy your high rise building, but this is gonna happen. It's happening already. It's gonna continue to happen. Let's wrap up with this with solutions. Okay, because that's the question, man. What do you do? Do you stay and fight? Or do you leave before the bombs start dropping? You know, whether proverbial bombs or literal ones. You could stay, let me tell you how to stay. Let me tell you a strategy for staying. If you wanna stay in your home, but you're running out of money and things aren't going well. Multi-generational living situations is actually how most people lived throughout history. It's how a lot of cultures still do, but in the West, we have been trained that you gotta leave home immediately because if you don't, you're just a loser in your parents' basement playing video games and you're never gonna amount to anything you gotta get out and do that. And maybe you do. And maybe that's good advice, but for some people. Some people aren't ready to leave. Some people need the stability of a family. Some people want that. And also, if you're thinking of it from a financial standpoint, let's say you're married, you have a couple kids, you're all in the one house. The kids get a little bit older, they're turning there in their 20s. They both go out and rent apartments down the street, different apartments, doing their own thing. Well, now you've got a family that used to just have one house payment, but now it's three. There are ways to do this. And culturally, I think you need to make sure that people don't impose some sort of guilt or make you feel less than if you're living with your parents. Look, if you're living with your parents because you really are a loser and you're doing nothing, that's not great. But if you're somebody who's like, look, it's tough out there. What do you want me to do? Take a job and then go out there and I'm gonna spend half my paycheck on rent, only to have, that's demoralizing. It's not a good strategy. So maybe the solution is culturally, we need to be more accepting of the idea of multi-generational living. I just got done with a multi-generational living situation with my family. Not that we were in financial distress or anything like that, but it was one of those things. We sold our house, my in-laws sold their house and we bought a house together. And we lived in there for almost six years doing that. It's a great idea. It doesn't work for everybody, right? Obviously you have to have the right fit, the right family, the right sort of mentality for that. And it's not perfect, but there are ways in which you can re-imagine your living situation so that it's not so overwhelming. And the boomers that are telling you to just suck it up and get out there, they were coming from a different era. And the idea that you can just go take some job and then get cheap rent somewhere, cheap rent doesn't exist anymore. It just doesn't. It's expensive rent. And so you have to make a calculation. Do I have a job that pays me enough to deal with expensive rent? If the answer is no, then get creative. And don't let somebody shame you. Don't worry about that. This is, you gotta do what's right for you, right? And you gotta take, you know, if you're somebody who's looking to, let's say you're doing pretty well, but you don't have a ton of money, you got some, you wanna get out, you wanna just go, you're ready to leave the city and be somewhere you wanna buy a piece of land. You'd love to buy a piece of land with your family, but maybe your family is ideologically opposed to the way you live. Why don't you, you could always go to freedomfarmers.com and that's Curtis Stone's group. If you're a member there, he can partner you up with other potential land buyers, but people who have the same ideas you have, geographically, you know, in your region, maybe through that network, you can find somebody who says, I'll go in on half that land with you. We'll split the price in half. We can cut the line here. Yeah, I'll do that with you. Or maybe we don't even have to split up the property. You put, we'll build your house on that piece and I'll have my family's house on that piece and it's doable. But if you feel like you don't have that network, well, then maybe you find a network like Freedom Farmers. They're already there. Somebody's waiting for you to join and find a piece of land with them. They're like, thank God you're here. I've been looking for a while and I've never thought someone was gonna partner up with me. That's an idea. I'm not gonna work for everybody, of course, but it's something, ECI Development and Freedom Farmers, it's Mike Cobb and Curtis Stone, they're now working together on a Belize Farmstead project, 1600 acres. I think that's fantastic. I also think that's fantastic because I made that introduction. So because I love both those guys, they're great. But if you're thinking like, maybe there's a different way of living. Yeah, yeah, maybe there is. You maybe, maybe it's time to go to Belize. You know, when they get this thing up and running, you'll have residency there. The legal department of ECI Development, I hope you get your residency squared away. I got a buddy, John, in Belize right now who's developing, bought himself a piece of land with a little extra space on it, building an extra house there, gonna sell it, gonna keep doing that, right? So you can do it. You can do it, it's doable. It's just that there's a lot of things that need to happen and maybe you're not in the right time or maybe it's not there. That's fine. Sometimes the timing isn't great, but keep it in the back of your mind. You know, for when the timing does, when things align a little bit better and maybe it's, pull this episode out and re-examine it. Growing food, can't go wrong growing food. You know, even if you're in a small studio apartment in New York City, you can grow microgreens. I mean, there's always some, take care of your health, you know, regardless of where you're gonna be living. Make that a huge priority, man. If it's the best investment ever. Talk to Christian, talk to Tim James. Those guys can help with that. 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