maybe a sign of the times.

So Trump's in Tokyo. He's already met with the prime minister of Japan and his alleged victories so far in his Asia trip. So he's touring Asia right now. I don't know how much to believe because the reporting seems a little light, but there's reason to think that Trump set up a number of alternative paths for rare earth minerals through other countries that he's meeting. And he's not done yet. He's still going to South Korea and might even meet with Kim Jong-un if he wants to catch up. I love the way he does that. We'll talk about that in a minute. So the question is, did Trump successfully find alternative paths for all of the rare earths? Do we have a new, more robust alternative path that's not China? And does it cover everything we need or does China still have a hand on us? Well, it seems that around the time that these other deals with other countries were being made, China got flexible. And we don't know if that flexibility is because they realize they're going to lose the entire rare earth market, which they might. They might lose the entire rare earth market for ever having tried to restrict it. Would you ever buy rare earth from somebody who had ever tried to restrict it for political purposes? No. Not if you had a choice of buying it from somebody who never did that. You know, it's the same rare earth materials. So China may have realized how much they shot themselves in the foot with threatening the world with rare earth restrictions. Maybe. See, this is the part I don't know because there might be levels and levels of what's happening behind the scenes, but apparently there's a soybean agreement. Scott Bessent said he was a soybean farmer himself. I asked Grok and he said, "Well, he's not a farmer. But he does own farms." So he's a landlord. He's a landlord who owns some farms that would have been growing soybeans, but China didn't want to buy any until now. Now, I guess they're going to do a big soybean purchase. And they also have agreed allegedly with the sale of TikTok to some American entities that'll be running all the sensitive stuff so you don't have to worry about China stealing your stuff. We think so. That's the question. We don't know how successful Trump has been on this trip. We know that everybody's treating him like a superstar. We know that he's our celebrity in chief. They seem to love him. Do you remember the days when it was reasonable for his critics to say that the other leaders were not respecting him and that that was some of that disrespect was coming on us by extension? When was the last time you heard, "Oh, those other foreign leaders don't respect Trump." That's gone. I don't know if that's ever coming back, but apparently they got used to him and they got used to him as a star, a superstar. They didn't just get used to him, they kind of love him. They kind of love him. So I guess we'll have to wait to see how much of a real world deal making happened. But the stock market like