The Tucker Carlson Show
One of America’s Biggest Gold Wholesalers Exposes the Most Common Gold Scam Enslaving the Country
24 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Gold and silver prices are out of control. Have you seen this? Have you checked the spot price for gold? It is at an all-time high in world history.
Chapter 2: How has gold withstood the test of time?
Why is that? Well, because it's the new global reserve currency. That's why countries are moving away from the dollar. And they're doing that because our national debt is exploding. The dollar has been used as a diplomatic weapon. And in general confidence, we say this with great sadness in our financial system is collapsing.
People know something is wrong and they're looking for safety and gold and silver, but precious metals broadly collapse. have been a reliable store of value since the beginning of recorded history. And people know that. They're tangible. They can hold in their hands what they own. And in moments like this, they want to. So gold is more important than it's ever been.
No, it's not an ancient phenomenon. It's a very modern phenomenon. And for the time being, it's the future. So we were not surprised when multiple gold companies reached out to offer us money in one case, nearly $20 million a year to pitch their products. And we're totally for it. We love gold. We've always felt that way about gold.
Chapter 3: Who is buying gold and why?
So why wouldn't we work for a gold company? But $20 million to market gold? Wait a second. Isn't gold a commodity whose price is set on the international market? Can't you check it anytime you want on your phone? How could these companies afford to spend $20 million on one guy for one year of selling their product? Well, the answer is obvious because it was a total scam.
They weren't selling gold as a commodity. They were selling it to customers based on the promise that it had real value, but they were selling it for like twice its actual value. They were come up with gimmicky schemes like, oh, it's a commemorative coin. No, no, no. Gold is a commodity. And almost all of the time, the value of your gold coin is the weight of the gold in it.
It's not whatever image is printed on the coin. So they're ripping people off. And what was happening, what is happening right now is that people, a lot of them old people, are buying these commemorative coins for like 150% of the spot price. And then when they try and sell them, they realize they can't get their money back. They've been scammed.
These companies are making a ton of money and that's why they could afford to offer me 20 million bucks a year. We wanted no part of this at all. Wouldn't mind the 20 million bucks, but we turned it down because that's wrong.
So instead we thought, wait a second, this country needs an actual retail gold company that sells a couple points above spot for overhead, but in a transparent way and makes it easy for people, average people to buy gold and have delivered to their homes if they want. physical delivery.
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Chapter 4: What are the risks associated with buying gold?
So we decided to do that. We reached out to one of the biggest gold wholesalers in the country, someone we had mutual friends with, and we found we could trust, a man called Christopher Olson. We've been buying gold for him for years, actually. And together, we launched a new company called Battalion Metals. It's a truly honest gold company.
Chapter 5: What is the difference between silver and gold?
We're not going to say the only, but definitely one of the few that gives ordinary people, investors, full transparency and the lowest markups possible. Few people know as much about precious metals or have traded in them as long as Christopher Olson has. No one in this space operates with greater integrity. He's an amazing guy with an encyclopedic knowledge of the topic.
He's been in it his whole life. We recently sat down with him where he shared some of his insights that every investor, big or small, should hear. We think especially now that gold buyers have been vindicated. Boy, have they been. It's crushed the stock market over the last 20 years. We think now you will find this conversation especially interesting and we hope valuable.
Just to note the obvious, this video was pre-recorded. So the values we assigned to gold are set by the markets, the spot price, and they were accurate when we recorded them. Are they accurate now? Well, to find out, visit battalionmetals.com. Chris, thank you for doing this. Absolutely. So I was thinking about it last night. You're one of the biggest gold wholesalers in the United States.
Definitely one of the biggest. You could be doing other things, but you're really interested in gold. The fact that you're in this business is a little weird if you think about it, because gold is the most primitive, the longest standing, the oldest form of exchange, medium of exchange. And it's like the only thing left from antiquity. I mean, you're not a chariot builder. That would be absurd.
There's no use for chariots. But like the one thing that connects us to the past, going back through recorded history, is gold as a medium of exchange. Why in this sort of hyper-progressive moment where we're building AI and visiting Mars, why in the world would gold still be relevant?
Well, within society, unless you want to have a barter economy, you have to have a form of money of some kind. And money requires certain characteristics in order for it to be good or useful as money. So you couldn't use sand or seashells. And in the past, we've used lots of different types of money, like beaver's tails or pelts or tobacco. Yes.
But with gold, you have something that is durable, it's portable, it's divisible, it's fungible, it's recognizable, it's scarce. So there can't be enough of it to satisfy everyone's demand.
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Chapter 6: How do gold scams operate in the market?
So it has a certain... level of value just intrinsic to the characteristics of the element. And if you were going to look at say the periodic table of elements and figure out which of those is going to be suitable or ideal for money, The only two that really shine are gold and silver compared to the rest of them.
So over the course of history, it's been a natural progression for societies to adopt gold as a medium of exchange simply because it has those hallmarks and those characteristics that allow it to be useful as a medium of exchange and a store of value.
and it's when you you go away from that that you begin to have the horrible problems in society that that come about through inflation or the artificial creation of credit because when you do that you're you're essentially conveying arbitrary power purchasing power to entities that didn't really earn it so it's a form of counterfeiting to
build on top of that to counterfeit gold or create paper claims or to inflate a currency that's backed by gold. All of those things are fundamentally lying and they're fundamentally stealing. And so inflation causes horrible effects within a society that nobody can really diagnose or pin to inflation, but it's really at the root of those things.
And it causes the gradual centralization of power towards those that are able to issue a currency without any tether to reality or to manipulate the rules of the system. And so, for example...
whoever's closest to new money within a society has more purchasing power than the market expects that they should have because the signals haven't gone out that there's excess money in society so prices don't change and that's ultimately where inflation comes from and over the decades i'm sure that is such an interesting point that i've never considered the people who are closest to new money
have the first mover advantage effectively. Like there will be inflation, but the system doesn't know it yet. And therefore they have more money at lower prices than everyone else is gonna have. Is that what you're saying?
That's the real power in it. See, if everybody, say you lived on some desert island and everybody had a fixed amount of money in their accounts, And on that island, you had a well-established economy and there were prices that were pretty stable. And some magical event happens overnight where everybody wakes up and the amount of money in their accounts has doubled.
But it's doubled evenly for everyone. And if they were to collectively understand that together, they would realize that the prices of everything should also be doubled. So just because you've doubled the amount of money in circulation doesn't mean you've doubled the amount of goods and services or actual wealth. You've just doubled the claims on wealth.
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Chapter 7: What are the common misconceptions about gold investments?
I don't want to be digressive, but I can't control myself on this. you were saying that from the beginning of time, gold was used as a medium of exchange because of its inherent physical properties, right? But I also find it interesting that gold was used, was considered valuable and used for trade on every continent on earth before we believe there was any communication between those continents.
So separate civilizations, the Egyptians, the Mayans, the Incas, ancient African civilizations, um, Every, basically every civilization before, again, there was any contact between civilizations all decided of all the metals and elements out there were using gold. The first and second temples were adorned with gold, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Right.
It almost feels like there's a metaphysical thing going on. I mean, I don't know the answer, but have you ever thought of that?
Definitely. Yeah. I think all of reality is symbolic. And I think gold symbolizes something. So it seems like it's, you know, baked into the fabric of reality itself that... If you're going to need money, if you're going to have money, then you're going to need something that's suitable to it. And it seems like quite a coincidence that you happen to have two elements that fit that bill so well.
And it would explain why.
But that everybody recognized it thousands and thousands of years before the Internet.
Yeah.
I mean, independently.
What are the odds? Yeah, the odds are astronomical. And I think that's why that explains why that would happen. If it's basically encoded into reality, in a sense, a symbolic, a symbol of wealth that's meant to be viewed as such, then you would imagine that people would discover that. The ancients were very, very smart.
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Chapter 8: How does the gold market impact the economy?
And if everything they do points in the same direction, that's the motive. Yeah, don't look at what they say, look at what they do. Well, that's exactly right. The point of a system is what it does. Exactly. And the point of the system they created was to destroy the United States, to knock it from its perch, to degrade it, to break it apart.
And destroying the dominance of the dollar was something as insane as their reaction to a war that they started on purpose between Russia and Ukraine. Just tells you everything.
But where does that leave us now? Well, there's a process underway that many people refer to as de-dollarization. And a lot of it's centered around BRICS economy. And you've even seen President Trump talk about threatening sanctions on these countries. I think 100% sanctions if they attempt to move away from the dollar.
So he's obviously been advised as to the threat that that poses to US national security or foreign policy objectives. But there's a distinct move to look for a neutral reserve asset that can be used to settle balances of payment accounts between various countries that are trading with one another.
And historically, it's been dollars and treasuries for decades now as the world's reserve currency, but now they need an alternative. And the only alternative that's ever truly existed has been gold. Some people Talk about maybe Bitcoin could serve that purpose.
And I mean, on some theoretical level, maybe it could, but it's also got a number of security issues and technical infrastructure problems that many foreign governments are- It's based on electricity, okay?
And people have to generate electricity. All of this stuff is based on electricity. And all of it. AI, our whole life is based on electricity and electricity is like a little over 100 years old in its current form. So like this is a pretty new technology and it can be taken out really, really quickly. So that's just a fact that no one ever wants to say anything about. But like.
An EMP attack like eliminates crypto and the internet and AI and you know what I mean? Like it's all sort of transitory actually.
Right. And it's also not as private as one might think. Well, yeah. So you have the blockchain where every transaction is public as it has to be.
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