The Paul Truesdell Podcast

When the Safe Harbor Takes Fire
This is about money, and the parts of it most people have never laid eyes on. It is not a sermon about whose side God is on in the Middle East. It is about what happens to people's savings when the balance of the world shifts, and it is shifting right now.
Here is the plain truth. Most people who save money do not know what they are actually invested in. Not because they are careless. Because the money sits in bundled financial products, and nobody ever opened the box for...

If It Quacks
Her hair never moves.
She sits in a white coat with a stethoscope around her neck, a neat bob, a kind face, and a calm voice. She tells you what to put in your coffee. She tells you which thirteen foods help your body's natural weight-loss hormone. The channel calls her Dr. Elizabeth Monroe.
Here is the surprising part. Much of what she says is ordinary, decent advice. Eat your greens. Eat fish a couple of times a week. Eat beans, berries, and eggs. Watch the sugar. Walk. Your own doctor would tell...

Hooves on the Ballot

Ground beef is running close to seven dollars a pound, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The reason is simple. America is running out of cows. And the place where that problem meets your kitchen table, your property value, and your grandchildren's jobs is a school board runoff right here in Marion County, where two candidates, Brigitte Smith and Donald Barber, are running a cancel campaign.

I am going to explain how these two individuals, with their wildly intolerant cancel culture, are clueless when it comes to agriculture...

The Argumentative Waterboy

What This Is About

A week ago I said, Mr. Barber, you're next. This is that piece.

It is about a man running for the Marion County School Board in District 5 against Sarah James. His name is Donald Barber. His campaign calls him Donny. I call him the argumentative Waterboy, because he ran a city's water system and because of his long history of plain obnoxious arguments. By the end of this you will see that the record backs the nickname.

This is not about his family, his...

Leaving the Room
Separation Anxiety, the Caregiver's Own Life, and What a Fiduciary Actually Does
Contents
The Essay
1. Two People in One Room 3
2. A Letter from 1994 3
3. What Separation Anxiety Actually Is 3
4. Leaving Well 4
5. The Bench 5
6. The Caregiver Is the Second Patient 6
7. Two Households 6
8. Medicare Already Agrees with You 7
9. What a Fiduciary Does in This Season 7
10. ALIVE, for Two 8
The Essay
1. Two People in One Room
There is a particular moment that nearly every family caregiver knows. You are standing at the front door...

Waves of Hogwash
The Dinosaur in the Gas Tank - The Star Chamber on the Ballot
Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF, CLU, ChFC, RFC

September 26, 2026

From a 1970s science class to a 2026 school board race, the same wave of nonsense keeps rolling in. Here is how to see it coming.
Dinosaur oil, famines that never came, a burger that crashed the cattle market, and two local candidates who see fraud behind every door.
Every generation gets its prophets of doom. Ours had Ehrlich, Carter, Oprah, and Gore. Marion County has the...

I'll Be Your Huckleberry
The Paul Truesdell Podcast and Blog September 23, 2026.
Tuesday at Stone Creek
On Tuesday, September 22, I sat in the Stone Creek Republican Club meeting with hundreds and hundreds of Republican residents, and a few non-residents, to hear our State Representative Ryan Chamberlin promote Amendment 3. It would significantly increase the homestead exemption and give tax relief to a lot of retirees. Ryan has worked diligently to abolish property taxes and now to increase the homestead exemption, and he should be respected for his efforts. 
This piece is not about Amendment 3. It is about w...

Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF  0:08  
Well, good morning, good afternoon, or good evening. It is Monday, September the 14th, and it is 2026. So today, I thought I would start reactivating the Paul Truesdell podcast and start doing things a little bit different, kind of telling you what we're doing and why we're doing it, because I think it's important for me to talk to you in a way that we're having a real conversation and talking about things that may you may not know how things have developed over the years, and it's been you know really qu...

The Warehouse Where They Keep You
By Paul Grant Truesdell, The Elder – September 8, 2026.
What This Is About
This is not a story about the government spying on you. That is an old fear, and a healthy one, and I am not here to talk you out of it. This is a story about the other crowd. The ones who never needed a warrant, because you let them in the front door yourself, and you did it for free.
The Chat Room
Go back with me to when people were just getting on the internet. AO...

Disclaimer  

Due to our extensive holdings and our clients, you should assume that we have a position in all companies discussed and that a conflict of interest exists. The information presented is provided for informational purposes only. 

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Facts are important and are often muddled with language that is not...

Think About It

Connecting the dots with clear-eyed forecasting and practical wealth advice and management. Rational. Calm. Built for a mature audience that wants facts, not noise.Think about it.

For most of our lives, radiation has been a scare word. The movies taught it. The news stories taught it. The school lessons taught it. Radiation was pure poison, the thing that turned people into monsters or gave them cancer overnight. A whole generation of us grew up believing it was the worst thing on earth. Here is the simple truth.

We cannot...

Fix the Engine Before You Wax the Hood
A bite-size think about it bite.
When my father worked on the family car, he never waxed the hood while the engine was still knocking. He fixed the big thing first, then worried about the shine. In Ukraine, they made a smart choice about order. Most of the supplies moving into Crimea came over land. Only a small slice, something like four or five percent, came by sea. So they went after the land routes first, the ones carrying the heavy load. Only after those were degraded did they...

The Outernet.  
A bite-size think about it bite.
Remember when finding a phone number meant reaching for the white pages, and finding a good plumber meant flipping through the yellow pages? That world has quietly slipped away. And here is something even harder to wrap our heads around. Star Trek, Star Wars, and Buck Rogers — the shows many of us watched as kids and assumed were pure fantasy — have started to become real. That future is unfolding above us right now, and it is beginning to change the way money moves.
Some people are calling it the "...

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The Long Bet
Two and a half million souls, a wild coast, and the wager that built an empire
Picture the whole country in 1776. Every man, woman, and child who called this new place home — you could have gathered them all up, and you still wo...

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The Truesdell Companies
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Ocala, Florida 34482
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Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF  0:00  
It is Thursday, june 25 Let's talk about AI and the bias built into the programming, and how frustrating it is when you are fiscally conservative or Republican and favorable of the overall direction of the Trump administration, regardless of who you are and what you be...

Rough Producer Notes

LIGHT BLUE
They told us Antifa was just a myth, an idea, a figment of conservative imagination cooked up to scare folks, but this week in Minneapolis the Department of Justice proved every last one of them wrong and the arrests have already begun.
YELLOW
For years the legacy media, the Democrat Party, and every left-wing voice with a platform swore Antifa didn’t really exist while black-clad militants blocked roads, stalked officers, and launched military-style attacks on American law enforcement right in our cities, yet President Trump and his team ha...

Kaiser's Coffins to Killer Swarms

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Why Cheap, Expendable Drones—Not Billion-Dollar Platforms—Will Decide the Next Century of American Power

Good morning, afternoon, or evening, this is Paul Truesdell and this is the Paul Truesdell Podcast. There is an old truth out in the high country, one that every scout and every hunter and every man who ever read the weather off a ridgeline comes to learn. The wind always tells you w...

SOCIAL SECURITY 2033

The 2033 Deadline: What Every American Over 55 Needs to Know About Social Security and The Truth About Social Security's 2033 Problem

The trust fund didn't fail overnight. It was emptied one predictable year at a time. What the Trustees' report actually says -- and what it means for the check that lands in your account every month. A straight-shooting look at the largest government program in the world, and the seven years that will decide its next chapter.

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J.D., AIF, CLU, ChFC, RFC
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THE FUTURE OF DRONE TECH: NAVAL LAUNCH PLATFORMS

You have known the aircraft carrier all your life. It is the floating city of steel — a thousand feet of runway riding the open ocean, home to thousands of sailors and scores of fighter jets. For three generations, it has been the proudest symbol of American reach. When trouble flared anywhere on the globe, a president had only to ask one question: where are the carriers? And the answer, more often than not, settled the matter.

That great ship is not going away. But the story of th...

562 Podcast
# Five Counts Down, the Rest of the Cabal to Go: The Morens Indictment Is Just the Start

The Justice Department finally indicted someone. One person. A 78-year-old senior adviser, two years past retirement. On April 28, 2026, a federal grand jury in Maryland charged him with five crimes: conspiracy against the United States, destroying federal records, falsifying records during a federal investigation, hiding records, and helping others do the same.[^1] The law allows up to 20 years in prison for each falsification count.[^1] Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche called it a "profound abuse of trust" during a global...

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May 22, 2026

  PODCAST EPISODE 561 — THE NUMBERS NOBODY WANTS TO SHOW YOU
By Paul Truesdell

This is episode five hundred and sixty-one. And I'm going to start with that number, because that number is the whole reason I'm doing this episode. The title of Episode 561 is The Numbers Nobody Wants to Show You.

Last time, I wrapped up episode five hundred and sixty. Five-six-zero. And I'll come back to it in a minute, but I want to set the table first.

Last episode I talked about what I've learned over three dec...

Why most podcasting efforts are a waste of time. 

PODCAST NOTES — WHAT I'VE LEARNED ABOUT PODCASTING
By Paul Truesdell

A LITTLE BACKGROUND

Let me give you some background on what I've learned about this whole podcasting business. When I started, we had dialup. That's right — dialup. The internet sounded like a fax machine having a nervous breakdown, and I was running a program called Icecast. I-C-E-C-A-S-T. Phenomenal piece of software. Still around, by the way. We did everything live.

I shut it down. Why? My business partner had a peculiar habit...

Oh Cala Wood.
Due to our extensive holdings and our clients, you should assume that we have a position in all companies discussed and that a conflict of interest exists. The information presented is provided for informational purposes only.  The future performance of a security is not guaranteed. This conversation does not involve securities. 

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200 NW 52nd Avenue
Ocala, Florida 34481
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If you've ever driven north out of Orlando on Interstate 75, somewhere around the time the sub...

Either the President Owns the Wreckage or He Owns the Rescue. Pick One. Drug overdose deaths fell to pre-pandemic levels in 2025. The same crowd that blames a President for the weather can't seem to find the microphone today.

The Lifeguard Pulled 30,000 People Out of the Water. Now Ask Who's Pushing Them In. America just had its third straight year of falling overdose deaths — and the real story isn't only who gets the credit. It's why the beach was ever this deadly to begin with.

Rough Draft & Disclaimer

There's a story making its way ou...

Recently, I did a podcast where I connected the dots between Chinese propaganda, its infiltration into Hollywood, and the ramifications for movie theaters and rank-and-file Americans. Not that many people watched it. And I will be a little bit mean about this: complex topics are getting harder and harder for the majority of Americans to understand and deal with.
We are seeing the endless rise of attention deficit disorder, fed by telephone scrolling, YouTube scrolling, Facebook scrolling, and one short video after another. As disappointing as that is, I have to remind myself that those folks are not...

The Fifty-Dollar Movie Ticket
Hollywood, Beijing, and What It Means for Investors Over Fifty-Five
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When I was growing up, a movie ticket cost a couple of dollars. You walked into the theater on a Saturday afternoon, you bought a box of popcorn, and you settled in. It was not a special occasion. It was a Saturday. That model is gone.
This spring, Regal Cinemas sold opening-night seats to Dune: Part Three for fifty dollars apiece in their 70-millimeter IMAX house. Premium tickets now average eighteen dollars nationwide. They run as high as thi...

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200 NW 52nd Avenue Ocala, Florida 34481
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J.D., AIF, CLU, ChFC, RFC
Founder

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A New Dawn of Americanism: America Is Back at the Bargaining Table — and the World Knows It
By Paul Grant Truesdell, The Elder
 
Let me tell you something, and I mean this from the deepest place in my chest — the place where pride lives, where conviction breathes, where love of country isn't a campaign slogan but a way of life. I have watched this nation, my nation, your nation, get picked apart, laughed at, taken advantage of, and quietly hollowed out by decades of so-called leaders who confused diplomacy with surrender and called it sophistication. They shipp...

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Why Higher Oil Prices Are Not Saving Moscow — and What That Means for Your Portfolio
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Picture a warehouse full of product the world suddenly wants to buy. The orders are coming in. The prices are the best they've been in years. The problem is the loading dock. Someone has been quietly, patiently, methodically disabling the loading dock — not once, not dramatically, but in waves, each one designed to make the next repair harder than the last. That is Russia's position in the global energy market today. And the people responsible for it have been worki...

 
The Wall Street Journal's Dirty Little Secret

Let me be perfectly clear about something. I rarely read comment sections. Life is too short, and my time is too valuable.

But this morning, I made an exception.

The Wall Street Journal ran a piece about President Trump. He likes a particular brand of dress shoes. He buys them out of his own pocket and gives them to people. As gifts. Because he's generous and he found something he likes. I personally favor Stacy Adams — good fit, fine construction — and I own most of the b...

The Bill Is Coming Due — And Nobody Wants to Hear It

Governor DeSantis said it plainly this week in Kentucky: Interest payments on the national debt now eclipse defense spending. Our national debt is projected to reach a record $64 trillion by 2036 — triple the pre-COVID figure. Twenty-eight states have already passed resolutions supporting a federal balanced budget amendment. Every state except Vermont has a balanced budget requirement in its constitution. It's time Congress lived by the same rules the rest of us do.

I've been watching this slow-motion train wreck for a long time.

Ba...

Scheduling Prevented Paul From Recording

THE GREATEST SENTENCE EVER WRITTEN
Walter Isaacson’s Timely Meditation on America’s Founding Creed
A Discussion, Elaboration, and Outline
Introduction: Thirty-Five Words That Built a Nation
There is something audacious about writing a book on a single sentence. But when the sentence in question is the second line of the Declaration of Independence—the one that begins “We hold these truths to be self-evident”—the audacity seems proportionate to the subject. Walter Isaacson’s The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, published by Simon & Schuster in November 2025, is a slim volume—ba...

Deliberation, Not Debate: A Casual Conversation on Writing Your Story with AI
Reflections on Session One of a Four-Part Series
By Paul Truesdell

This piece is written for those who attended the first session of our four-part series on using artificial intelligence to write your own personal stories. It is also written for the lady who arrived a bit late and missed the handout, for those who could not attend but wish they had, and for anyone considering joining us for session two. Consider this your on-ramp. Consider this your invitation to keep going.
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One...

Almost Nobody Writes. Here’s the Proof.
And Why That’s About to Change for You.

A Handout for Folks Who Like Facts
By Paul Truesdell, JD, AIF, CLU, ChFC, RFC
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Let me tell you why you’re here, or at least why I hope you’re here. You’re not here to write the next great American novel. You’re not here to craft fiction or chase a publishing deal or see your name on a shelf at Barnes and Noble. You’re here because somewhere inside you, there are stories that matter. Real stories. Your stories...

Oops. $40 Billion in Bitcoin—Gone in 30 Minutes.
By Paul Truesdell, JD, AIF, CLU, ChFC, RFC
If you ever needed a reason to be skeptical about cryptocurrency, South Korea just handed you one wrapped in a bow. Bithumb, the country’s second-largest crypto exchange, accidentally gave away 620,000 bitcoins—valued at more than $40 billion—because a staffer made an input error during a rinky-dink promotional giveaway. The total prize pot was supposed to be about $425. Four hundred and twenty-five dollars. Instead, one lucky winner who was supposed to get enough for a cheap cup of coffee walked away—at least temp...

The Deadly Poison of Nullification
How the Selective Application of Justice Is Destroying the Republic and Why the Reckoning Will Be Severe
By Paul Grant Truesdell, JD, AIF
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What We Are Witnessing Is Nullification and It Will Not End Well: A Warning From History
There is a principle in American jurisprudence that most citizens never learn about in school, and for good reason. It is called jury nullification, and it occurs when jurors refuse to convict a defendant not because the evidence is insufficient, but because they disagree with the law itself or believe...