Me, the animals, yoga, jogging, nothing is exciting.
Really? I mean, my story is totally...
“Steuja, how do you feel about the story?”
Yeah, I have a lot of time to get over 1000 euros. Do you have your connections or access? No, just the way Steuja is. Wow, and that's easy. Yeah, the taste is almost automatic.
I feel so completely different. It's exciting. Hold your money, Tsukuk. Upgabber is 31 years old, Yuli. What?
Do you have any fun with the way Steuja is? Oh, yeah. We have a major announcement we are making today here at the Midas Touch Network.
And I am so proud to be able to share it with you first.
My brothers and I are releasing our first book. It's called WTF America, the way out of this hell, and back to democracy. WTF America. That is how I feel every morning when I wake up.
WTF, how did we get here? How do we get out of here? And how did three brothers, me and my two brothers, with no political backgrounds, with no background in journalism?
How did we create the Midas Touch Network? Grow the Midas Touch Network into one of the biggest news organizations in the world, champion independent media, in general, rally, a pro-democracy movement, and continue to fight not just each and every day
to make our days better right now, but to fight for future generations. And one of the things we talk about a lot in this book is you, it's the Midas Mighty.
It is the power of the people and how the most important thing
that I always tell everybody is listening.
“You have to listen to what the people are saying.”
You have to listen to what the people are feeling. You have to understand the pain that people are going through and understand the aspirations that people have. What people want for themselves, their community, for their kids and grandkids, for future generations,
it starts with listening, and then you have to deliver, not some political talking points. You have to deliver with action, with empathy, with love, you have to genuinely care. And that's a lot about what we talk about in WTF America.
And so I'm not going to give away everything in the book, but we talk about how my brothers and I started the Midas Touch Network when we were on a text chain during COVID, and we were all at home, and we were worried, and we just decided, maybe if we put together,
our various skill sets, me as a lawyer and litigator, Brad has a top digital editor, Jordi has a top marketer.
“Maybe we can just get out these messages into the world,”
and we could do our best to see if there are other people out there who are experiencing what we're experiencing,
and we found this incredible community with you,
with the Midas Mighty. And we talk about that a lot in this book, WTF America. And then we talk about the growth of the Midas Touch Network. We talk about the future of the Midas Touch Network. But then we talk about what we cover at the Midas Touch Network.
And we talk about how did this authoritarian fascist movement arise in the United States? How were the kind of preconditions and precursors kind of all building for generations to allow this authoritarian movement to rise?
And as you know, at the Midas Network, I don't mince words. I call the Trump regime a regime. I make it very clear that this is an authoritarian and repressive regime, and I call it out. And so how did a regime that was filled with disinformation, lies,
and hate? How did it metastasize, expand, and take power and how do we avoid this in the future? Obviously, how do we fight it? Right now, how do we deal with it right now?
But how do we get out of this constant cycle where you'll have a Trump break things and destroy things and be the arsonist? And then when the firefighters come out to put out the fire, the arsonist blames the firefighter as though they are the arsonist.
And I talk about the responsibility, and me and my brothers talk a lot about the responsibility of the media, and that when the fourth estate, you know, really revealed their true colors when the Trump regime came into power,
They showed what bootlickers they are and how they kissed the ring
and they would all go to Mara Logo,
“and remember that whole disgusting humiliation parade?”
That's who they always were.
And they always wanted to gamify politics for them. This coverage is not life or death. It's a job, it's about access, it's about fame, it's about going to the White House correspondence and dressing up and acting all Hollywood.
You know, and that's why when we created this, we showed, you know what? We can speak to the people from our living rooms. We can speak to the people with my dogs barking in the background. Now with the love of my life,
other love of my life, my little baby, you could hear a crying in the background, what I'm doing takes. But getting that information out quickly, getting that information out accurately,
connecting with the community and building a true movement and authentic movement, rooted in you, rooted in the mightest mighty. And that's a lot of what we talk about in WTF American, the way out of this hell and back to democracy.
And, you know, each of the chapters begin with, you know, WTF, this WTF, that WTF, this WTF, that. And, you know, we talk about how Donald Trump, you know, engages in these kind of various scams, how he engages in the schemes,
how the way America is being run into the ground, is very similar to how Donald Trump bankrupted and ran into the ground, his businesses. You know, I drawn my background as somebody who was involved in some of the most high stakes litigation.
“That's what I did before the mightest touch network.”
I was a partner at a law firm and did high stakes litigation. I was in some of the biggest, most either, you know, culturally significant, high profile, mediation and negotiations, you know, where real deals are made, not fake deals were made.
We talk about how my brothers draw in their marketing experience and Brett draws on his digital editing experience, how you can kind of translate, getting out truthful information into modern mediums to get out information quickly.
We talk about, you know, like given example of, you know, Donald Trump's constant cover ups, whether it's the Epstein files, whether it is, but they're quite literally everything that it covers up. We talk about in the book how the reflecting pool is,
and I've always been saying this,
but every day it becomes more and more clear how the reflecting pool is a perfect symbol of kind of all of Donald Trump's fraudulent schemes. Just painted blue, just painted blue and everything will be great. And then when it doesn't, you scapegoat.
You blame the vandals and they tore it and I'm gonna prosecute them and the grievance and the anger and the lies and the constant fraud and how, you know, just this painted blue approach. And then when you screw it up, you find your target,
you find who you're gonna scapegoat. That's what Trump did with COVID.
“That's what Trump's done his entire life.”
It's white lines. Obama did it, Biden did it, this person did it, this person did it. And, you know, at the end of the day, we need to be solution-oriented.
We need to figure stuff out. We need responsible adults in governance. And so we talk a lot about that as well in WTF America. You know, and what I don't shy away from is talking about, you know, leading with values and leading with principles
and fighting for marginalized communities and fighting for civil rights, standing up for people, punching back against the bullies, punching up, not punching down. Just fighting, fighting for people,
fighting for all people to be, you know, to be happy and live thriving lives. You know, I have, of course, you know,
there was always early on there was always people who were like,
you know, can, can bend and might as touch be like the next Joe Rogan and Manosphere and all of this stuff. And I've always, I've always rejected that. Remember, just kind of from the very outset. And I talk about how the disbehavior that I observe
from the so-called Manosphere of bullying, of mocking people, of applying all the time. You know, I was viewed that as like that's the one I grew up. That's the least alpha behavior out there. I don't know what the hell that even is.
And, you know, when I grew up, the bullies weren't the cool people. Was the people who stood up for people? Was the people who, you know, was the people who, you know, spoke authentically. And we're true tellers and, you know,
and who made decisions and who didn't lie.
I mean, to me, that right there, you know,
was always the people I looked up to and, and I admired.
“And so, you know, WTF America, it is a broader theme”
than just, you know, Trump did Trump did that, Trump did this, Trump did that. You know, as we talk about Trump is a vessel. And we connect this to the international landscape, as well. Trump is a vessel that we see played out
when Orban was leading hungry.
We see it in Havir, Malay, in Argentina.
We see it in Bukheli, in El Salvador. We see it, you know, in the rise of right wing,
“you know, ultra-so-called nationalist parties.”
In Europe, I mean, this is, you know, Trump is a vessel for this type of destructive thinking. And we talk about the landscape of how we went from, you know, this idea of liberal democracies growing within light and thinking internationally
to how it's under attack by authoritarian forces right now. And then there are bigger issues, even at play, than just kind of the day-to-day politics, which need to be addressed. But we need to get out of this loop.
We need to reframe the arc towards,
“towards freedom through democracy, towards empathy”
for advancing human rights, for protecting each other. And I talk about the existential issue of these oligarchs and often these right wing oligarchs who are out there constantly taking and taking
and beating everybody down and can never
say she ate their greed. It's always more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more. And how do we stop that? How do we get out of this cycle? How do we empower people as my dogs are barking?
They may have some ideas as well. So here's the book, WTF America, the way out of this hell and back to democracy. I spent a long time writing this with my brothers. I hope you will enjoy it.
You could pre-order it right now. Check it out with the, you know, with the pre-order. There's a link in the description below. You can hit the QR code above, get your pre-order right now. We're grateful for you, WTF America, WTF America.
The way out of this hell and back to democracy. Hey, if you want the full story, how democracy got here and how we take it back, pre-order our new book, WTF America today. Just scan the QR code or click the link in the description. Let's do this.
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