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May 24, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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	Welcome to Bright Town Broadcast News for Wednesday, May 24th, 2023. May 24th, 2023.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of BrightTown.com.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	And we, as always, we have a really packed show for you.
	Some very interesting guests coming up for you.
	First, we have Masako Ganaha here.
	She is a Japanese independent media reporter who has been traveling the world.
	She's aware of the globalism threat against Japan as well as the United States.
	And she knows what's up.
	She knows about the depopulation agenda.
	She knows about the economic warfare that's being waged against Japan and the United States through money printing and debt control, debt enslavement and all of that.
	She'll be joining us here.
	It might be the second interview we do.
	Also, I'm going to be talking here with Uncle Vigilante, who is an advocate of Epic Cash right here.
	Today I'm making a major announcement about how we are going to accept Epic Cash as the privacy currency for our store and our tipping system, by the way.
	I have completed my due diligence on Epic Cash and other privacy coins.
	Actually, I have a chart here I'll share with you during the show.
	We have become very excited about the whole cryptocurrency space, including Bitcoin, including Monero, the whole privacy coin space because of, well, let's say the collapse of reason in the fiat currency banking system.
	And so we are embracing cryptocurrency as a means of controlling your own money, having privacy for the right coins, We'll talk about that more on today's show, but that should be a fascinating interview with Uncle Vigilante coming up.
	I was a guest on his show, so he got to ask me questions.
	I was interrogated by Uncle Vigilante.
	We'll see how that goes.
	All right, we have breaking news from thetruthaboutguns.com.
	As you know, the pistol brace ban is about to go into effect in just about a week.
	The Fifth Circuit has issued an injunction on the ATF pistol stabilizing brace ban.
	This injunction only affects the plaintiffs in this particular case, by the way, so it does not...
	Remove your responsibility to comply with the ATF's rules, I believe, before June 1st.
	So, as I showed you yesterday, I brought a pistol brace in from Maxim.
	I will be removing the pistol braces from my AR-15s before June 1st.
	I don't want to give the ATF any reason to charge me with a crime for buying something that was perfectly legal and was approved by the ATF previously, by the way.
	There are going to be a flurry of lawsuits against the ATF filed as soon as this rule goes into effect.
	But this injunction is, I think, a very strong sign in the right direction that even courts, the Fifth Circuit in this case, they are seeing that this rule from the ATF is nonsense.
	It's lawless.
	It's insane.
	The ATF told us all that this is perfectly legal to buy.
	They issued letters approving these braces.
	They even issued statements that said you could put the braces against your shoulder, that you could use arm braces on your shoulder, and that that was okay.
	And now they're saying you're a felon if you have one of these arm braces, which is essentially a piece of plastic.
	So we'll see where that goes, but just be careful, folks.
	Follow the law.
	Don't let yourself get trapped by the ATF. Disassemble, separate parts, whatever you need to do to comply and understand that I'm not your attorney so I can't give you legal advice.
	You need to figure out what's right for you in your state or in your state of mind as well.
	Next story from Climate Depot.
	John Kerry targets farmers.
	He says, quote, we can't get to net zero unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution.
	In other words, John Kerry, who is...
	What's the right way to describe this?
	Weasel?
	He's a horrible human being who wants to enslave and exterminate humanity, I think.
	That's what he's all about.
	And he realizes that the way to do that is to starve people to death by shutting down farms.
	And how are they going to shut down farms?
	Oh, they're going to claim that the farms are bad for the climate.
	Which is utterly insane, of course.
	I mean, farms are part of our ecosystem.
	Animals have been eating grass and people have been eating animals for as long as we've all been around.
	And just having them organized a little more doesn't mean it's horrible for the climate.
	Of course, this is a war on CO2, which ends up being a war on farm animals and a war on meat.
	The day is coming very soon.
	Which is why we need private money, by the way.
	The day is coming soon where food rationing will kick in and you will not be allowed to purchase meat.
	In fact, the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, has already initiated an effort to monitor the grocery purchases of private citizens of New York City and to reduce meat purchases by 33% in the next couple of years.
	How are they going to do that?
	They're going to initiate food rationing.
	Limitations.
	Oh, one too many slices of bacon for you.
	Can't have that.
	We have to save the planet.
	No soup for you, right?
	So that's exactly how it's going to happen, and this is why we need private money.
	I'll be talking about Epic Cash and our decision to integrate Epic here soon.
	But we need private money so that the government can't tell us what we're not allowed to buy.
	And also so that the government, which has become an evil, tyrannical regime of lunatics and tyrants, so that they can't confiscate your money just because they want it.
	Just because they spent all their money, and they're running short on money, they want to take your money.
	You know, reparations, right?
	That's what's happening in California.
	They want to take all the money from Asian people, Hispanic people, and white people and give it to black people.
	That's California.
	Well, I'm sorry, that's lawless, that's tyrannical, that's Marxism, and that's wrong.
	And if you put your money into a privacy-protected currency, then the government can't just come take it from you like they can if it's in your bank account.
	So we'll talk about that in a minute.
	Next story from Zero Hedge.
	646 hospitals at risk of closure.
	Did you know that?
	You would think that with healthcare costs so high that hospitals would be making money hand over fist, especially as they were paid off to kill people during COVID, right?
	Half a million dollars to kill grandpa.
	They did that.
	And they collected on that.
	And they're still going broke.
	Makes you wonder, where have all the people gone?
	Not enough people to pay enough health care money to keep 646 hospitals in business across the country?
	Check this out.
	Texas is going to lose 81 hospitals, it looks like, or is at risk of losing them.
	Kansas, 56 hospitals.
	Oklahoma, 38.
	Mississippi, 27.
	Alabama, 27, and so on.
	Look, they're shutting down the hospitals in flyover America to where you just won't have any hospitals, no doctors, no emergency rooms.
	Look at that.
	200 hospitals, more than 200, are at risk of immediately closing.
	You see that?
	How shocking is that?
	The losses will likely increase as inflation and workforce shortages persist.
	Well, why is that happening?
	Because they killed the medical staff with vaccines, obviously.
	They killed the nurses, they killed the doctors, they being the vaccine pushers, the mass murderers using the COVID jabs, they killed off the medical staff.
	Not enough staff.
	Even though they were collecting money themselves, that money didn't last forever.
	So now they're broke, and they killed off their staff.
	Not a good business model, actually, and that's why hospitals are going out of business by the hundreds.
	Okay, next item from Breitbart News.
	PetSmart pushes the LGBT agenda.
	Look at this photo.
	Celebrate pride with your pet.
	Yeah.
	Well, you know, they've been cutting off the balls of dogs forever, you know, getting them neutered.
	So it's really quite aligned with the LGBT agenda of neutering human children as well, except they don't call it neutering.
	They call it gender affirming care.
	Well, now your neutered dog can be forced to wear a rainbow flag and or you could also perhaps mutilate your dog with the applause of PetSmart.
	They would love your mutilated dog to demonstrate pride, even though this is a human delusion that is being projected onto victimized animals, by the way.
	So I guess you can drag your mutilated dog through PetSmart, You see that?
	So, by the way, after you're done dragging your mutilated pet through PetSmart, don't forget to drag your mutilated child through Target stores to pick up the satanically created LGBT pride t-shirts and other schwag for your mutilated child at Target because Target is targeting your children for extermination.
	Isn't it nice to know that so many retailers are into mutilating children and pets?
	Isn't that amazing?
	I guess we can all choose where we want to spend our money or not.
	And maybe, maybe you don't want to spend money at PetSmart or Anheuser-Busch or Target stores or any other woke corporation, i.e.
	Ford Motor Company.
	Any place that is all about pushing the woke agenda and child mutilations.
	Alright, next story from Revolver.News, Darren Beatty's website.
	Nobody's buying the latest U-Haul Nazi stunt at the White House.
	This has FBI written all over it.
	As you know, yesterday, some guy with a foreign-sounding name, I don't know, what was his name here?
	I don't even have it here.
	Some guy who was not a typical American rented a U-Haul in Washington, D.C. and drove it into the barriers in front of the White House.
	Which, it's obviously a stunt, and then they said, oh, they found a Nazi flag in this U-Haul.
	How much you want to bet the FBI just recruited this guy like they do all the time, and they said, look, you know, we got your brother on a cocaine charge or whatever, and if you just drive this U-Haul and just crash it into the barricades in front of the White House, then we'll let your brother off the hook, or something like that.
	This is how they get these people.
	And then they planted the Nazi flag in the U-Haul so they could create this theater.
	It's all theater.
	No real person would try to kill Biden with a U-Haul.
	I mean, first of all, the barricades stopped the trucks, right?
	And any rational person would recognize that.
	And by the way, There weren't any explosives in the U-Haul.
	It was an empty U-Haul.
	Like, what kind of a mass murder plan is this?
	It is not even anything in it.
	I mean, that's how lame the false flags are getting now.
	They're just laughable.
	You know, they used to actually, the deep state would blow things up, you know, and blame it on Timothy McVeigh, for example.
	They'd blow up their own FBI building in Oklahoma City.
	Now, they don't even put explosives in it.
	They just drive a U-Haul van and say, oh, Nazis were under attack!
	You were never under attack.
	Biden was never threatened by a U-Haul.
	I mean, it's all narrative.
	It's all theater.
	And nobody's buying it.
	It's really quite embarrassing, actually.
	It kind of makes you wonder if they can even pull off a major false flag anymore.
	Like a dirty bomb terrorism event or something, or like an EMP attack.
	I'm thinking that the Biden administration is so incompetent at this point, because the wokeism has just destroyed their brains.
	I mean, they're lobotomized lunatics and morons at this point.
	They can't even pull off false flags that are impressive anymore.
	I mean, when Obama was running the false flags, man, those were elaborate.
	Those were complex.
	Those were, you know, well-executed false flag operations.
	Those were quite convincing to a lot of people.
	All the Obama-era false flags.
	I mean, man, Obama could give you, he could deliver a false flag that was really impressive.
	Let me tell you.
	Biden...
	His false flags look about the way Biden looks, like a decrepit Alzheimer's patient, a dementia patient who doesn't know where he is.
	And even the false flags don't even add up anymore, so it's laughable, but nice try, FBI. Nobody's buying it.
	Okay, next story from Breitbart also.
	Newt Gingrich says that default will end Biden's 2024 presidential campaign.
	This is interesting.
	And in this video, which is quoted in this article, he's talking about how, in fact, the Republicans can leverage this to actually attempt to achieve a default on the debt that lands the blame on Biden.
	And the way to do this, Gingrich argues, is for Republicans to simply make reasonable demands.
	Like, hey, let's not spend ourselves into oblivion.
	Let's claw back the unused money on COVID. Let's not fund these crazy things.
	And let's just have something resembling sanity in the federal budget, right?
	But of course the Democrats, they don't want sanity.
	They just want endless money, spend, spend, spend, and they will never agree to any cuts, it seems.
	And so this is going to go into default.
	As long as the conservatives appear to be reasonable in their demands, then the blame will be put on Biden.
	And as Gingrich says, this will end the Biden presidency.
	And I think that he's right.
	And he says Kevin McCarthy, the speaker, that's the Republican speaker, has done a great job so far of setting a series of setting goals that the conservatives really want and are refusing to back off those core goals.
	There you go.
	I happen to agree.
	I think McCarthy is actually, so far, standing his ground.
	Will his jellyfish spine hold out much longer?
	Who knows?
	We'll see.
	I don't have a lot of faith in Kevin McCarthy.
	But this could be something that changes my mind.
	If he holds his ground and does the right thing and just says, no, we're not going to give in and just print more money.
	We're going to have some kind of limits on the federal spending.
	If McCarthy stands his ground and holds the line, then...
	We'll see that.
	We'll recognize that.
	And a default would hurt Biden more than the Republicans.
	Let's see what happens.
	Okay, next story from the Defender.
	Trial of Gates-funded vaccine patch for infants is successful, the company said.
	So, yeah, they won't even need needles now to murder your children, to maim them, to make them infertile, to cause them to be disabled.
	They can do it with a patch.
	Hmm.
	Okay, this is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, by the way.
	An Atlanta-based biotech company said it successfully concluded first-ever clinical trial testing of a microarray injection-free vaccine on children as young as nine months old.
	So, you see, with this microarray, which is really just a bunch of needles, actually, just a bunch of smaller needles, they can slap this patch on your kid.
	Just kind of press it in a little harder, you know, because they're trying to kill him.
	And then the kid, you know, gets the mRNA transhumanism chromosomal altering injection that will either render that child infertile or dead.
	And then, you know, the globalists will applaud, yay, we got another kid, another child destroyed by the globalists, and that's what they want.
	It's all about depopulation.
	And Microneedles, there's a whole conference called Microneedles 2023.
	So if you thought this wasn't coming, think again, Microneedles 2023.
	You know, they'll probably have functional clothing at some point with the microneedles built into the clothes.
	And then the clothes will be on the Internet of Things, and the clothing will receive signals from the federal government to inject you at any particular time with who knows what.
	And you'll have to wear these clothes in order to be compliant, in order to get your central bank digital currency money so that you can afford to buy the food because of hyperinflation and food rationing restrictions.
	So, yeah, Bill Gates will have needles in your underwear before long, and you'll have to just hunker down and take that injection.
	Alright, a couple other things then to announce.
	As I hinted, I've completed my analysis of privacy-oriented cryptocurrency and decentralized finance.
	And I'm happy to announce today that our store, HealthRangerStore.com, which I have up on my screen here, our store will be integrating very shortly here the ability to pay for our products using Epic Cash.
	In addition, we will be accepting, soon after that, we'll be accepting other cryptocurrencies.
	There's the site for Epic Cash there.
	We'll be accepting Monero.
	We'll be accepting Bitcoin.
	We'll be accepting some other coins, Ethereum and so on.
	I don't have a final list right now, but this is depending on an integration with an IO company and kind of a wallet integrator.
	And we are happy to do this because, of course, it's nobody's business what you buy.
	And when it comes to food, right now, you know, food rationing is about to kick in in America.
	Your banks don't give you control over your own money and you can be denied on a credit card purchase if they don't like the merchant, which just happened to me recently.
	Banks are not allowing you to withdraw as much money as you want.
	They're not allowing you to send wires that you want.
	They're not even allowing you to write checks that you want.
	I've experienced that recently again too.
	We're trying to issue donation checks, half a million dollars in donations going out the door, and then the company freezes the whole thing and says, oh, it's a fraud flag.
	We can't let you send those checks out because we're not sure if it's fraud or not.
	And so they hold everything up.
	You can't get anything done in regular banking.
	The regular banking system is a nightmare.
	It is a collapsing mess.
	The banks' record withdrawals are taking place.
	The banks will continue to collapse this year.
	The dollar is losing value.
	The central bank is a criminal front group, like a financial cartel.
	It's...
	It's going to be printed into oblivion.
	There's no scarcity on the dollar.
	There's no limit.
	It's just going to keep printing until it goes to zero at some point.
	We have to have a better system of money.
	Well, I've looked at every kind of money.
	I've considered them all.
	Gold, fiat cash, bank account money, Bitcoin, Epic, Monero, Zcash, Pirate Chain, Ethereum.
	I've looked at others too, like Polkadot and whatever.
	And I've come to the conclusion through my weighted scoring system right here, which maybe you can't read from there, but my weighted scoring system has arrived at the following conclusion.
	Based on the following properties of money, number one being privacy, that money should be private because it's nobody's business, as RFK Jr.
	recently said, it's nobody's business how you spend your money.
	Or even how much money you have.
	You know, you earned it.
	You already paid taxes on it.
	You want to keep it in some super secret private digital vault?
	That's your business, right?
	That's your business.
	So privacy is number one.
	And then other criteria that I ranked here on my scoring system is that it's confiscation proof.
	The government can't take it from you, right?
	They can take everything out of your bank account, but they can't take...
	Epic Cash or other privacy coins.
	If they don't know they exist, they can't take it.
	I'm talking about transaction transmissibility, the ability to easily transmit money, to send it, to receive it, to make a donation.
	Hey, what if I want to donate to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign?
	But I don't want everybody in the world knowing that I donated, let's say.
	Or if I want to donate to Trump.
	Same story, right?
	Well, RFK is accepting Bitcoin as campaign donations, by the way.
	First candidate to do that.
	I applaud that.
	Well, but if I want my donation to be purely private, I would want to donate with Epic Cash.
	Or Monero, by the way.
	You know, some kind of coin that actually has built-in privacy.
	The other criteria are permissionless portability.
	That's a term I came up with.
	Permissionless portability means that you have the ability to just move this money or take it with you without asking for anybody's permission.
	No one can stop you.
	You don't need approvals.
	You don't need stamps.
	You don't have to apply, blah, blah, blah.
	It's your money.
	You can take it with you.
	A store of value, scalability, these are some other properties, censorship proof, accessibility, the ease of getting into it and out of it, fungibility, so that every coin is the same as every other coin and coins can't be tainted, which unfortunately with Bitcoin, the coins can be tainted, and recognizability.
	So do people recognize this as a kind of store of value, as a kind of money?
	So if you take all those criteria together, Physical gold is pretty strong on a lot of these and it rates 64 on my current chart, which may be updated by the way.
	I'm still pondering all these numbers, but gold is about a 64.
	A bank account with money in it rates 33.
	It sucks.
	You have no privacy.
	The government can take it.
	They can seize it at any time.
	You can't move it without permission.
	You know, it's horrible.
	Money in a bank is almost useless money at this point.
	Let's see.
	Bitcoin I rated at 49.
	So much better than banks, but lacking in privacy features and having a problem with fungibility because Bitcoin coins can be tainted because of the history of where they were before or how they were used before.
	Monero, which is a privacy coin, rates 83 out of 100 on my scale, which is a really strong rating.
	And I like Monero, and I've advocated it before.
	And I'm holding Monero, by the way.
	I've been doing a lot of testing recently, especially the last couple of months.
	And Monero does very well.
	It's got a couple of downfalls.
	It does store your wallet ID in its blockchain, which means eventually...
	That wallet ID could be discoverable.
	It's obfuscated with other wallet IDs at the same time to try to mix and match.
	It's called like Ring...
	I don't know what they call it.
	Ring Tech...
	Ring Technology.
	There's multiple wallet IDs all at once, which also bloats the blockchain on Monero.
	It's larger than it should be.
	But who solves that is Epic Cash.
	And Epic Cash in my scoring system scores a 90, which is the highest score.
	So it's 90 out of 100...
	And it scores the highest on privacy and it's confiscation proof and so on because of its unique features and it uses what's called a Mimble Wimble blockchain, which does not store your wallet ID on the blockchain.
	And of course, for the record, I do hold.
	I hold Epic.
	I hold Bitcoin.
	I hold Monero, Zcash, Pirate Chain.
	I hold all these coins, just to be clear, because I've been playing around with so many different wallets and so many different coins.
	I have all these coins.
	What Epic is amazing at doing better than anybody else is having full privacy, full fungibility, censorship resistance, confiscability proof, or let's say confiscation proof.
	No one can confiscate it.
	And yet, it's a very small blockchain because it uses the Mimblewimble technology, which I think is a game changer that makes every other type of blockchain obsolete from what I can tell.
	The Mimblewimble blockchain is so efficient.
	It doesn't store your wallet IDs, so your wallet ID can never be discoverable.
	It's not even recorded in the blockchain.
	So all the blockchain tracing tools can't trace your Epic cash coins.
	It's impossible.
	It's physically impossible.
	I mean, electronically impossible.
	The other thing about Epic is that because the node is so small, it's about one-tenth the size of Bitcoin for the same number of transactions.
	So it's very small.
	Right now it's only 5 gigabytes or something.
	It can run on mobile devices.
	You can run full nodes on mobile devices, which you really can't do easily with Bitcoin.
	It's difficult with Monero.
	Monero is about 150 gigabytes, I believe, the current blockchain size, which exceeds the memory of most mobile devices, by the way.
	But Epic Cash can run full nodes on most mobile devices, And you can download, if you want to use it, you can download the wallets for free.
	Just go to epic.tech and click on Downloads here.
	And if you click on Downloads, you'll see here it is.
	Windows GUI wallet.
	You've got the Mac OS. You have Linux.
	You have mobile versions and so on.
	I've been using these wallets.
	And I've also tested the restore function, which is very important.
	Because if you lose your computer on which your wallet is hosted, you can restore the entire Epic wallet simply by remembering, I think it's about 20, what is it, 24 seed words.
	Yeah, it's eight groups of three words.
	If you remember those 24 words or if you write them down in a secure way, you can go to any other computer, type those in, your full wallet is completely restored.
	I've done that.
	I've tested that.
	It works.
	And that means that you can carry your Epic Cash in your mind, in your head.
	You can actually just memorize 24 words or tattoo it on your body somewhere, if you don't trust your memory, or, you know, send it to someone in advance or whatever.
	Get to your destination.
	Maybe you're a refugee fleeing Venezuela or you're fleeing New York City because Eric Adams won't let you buy pork ribs.
	Because, you know, the war on meat, right?
	And you get to your destination, you don't even need a computer, you don't need a thumb drive, nothing.
	You just go in, you download the wallet, you type in the 24 words and shazam, your whole wallet is there.
	Everything you put in, all your value is in it, it's there.
	So, and you can do that with other, there are other wallets you can do that with as well, like I think Exodus Wallet.
	There's a lot of different wallets where you can do that, but Epic Cash works that way as well, and I've tested it, and it works.
	Now, we're going to be accepting Epic Cash.
	I'm not asking you to in any way speculate in Epic Cash or any cryptocurrency, just to be clear.
	I'm not about speculation.
	These prices of various coins and tokens can be very volatile.
	By the way, they can move a lot.
	They can go up and down quickly.
	Some projects fail.
	A lot of projects have failed in the last 18 months, right?
	Projects can fail.
	Bitcoin, I've always said it's technically backed by nothing physical, nothing in the real world, but what I've come to realize recently is that it does have intrinsic value because of its utility.
	In an environment when banks are confiscating people's money and freezing people's money, Bitcoin has inherent value in the fact that you control it.
	Epic Cash has even more value from the sense that it's privacy.
	Epic Cash is like a better Bitcoin.
	It's really private money.
	It's fully fungible, which Bitcoin isn't.
	It's a lot more nimble because it's on memble wimble, which we jokingly say nimble memble wimble.
	Tongue twister from Harry Potter, I guess.
	But Epic Cash, from what I can see, is a much better Bitcoin.
	The only thing that Epic Cash lacks is not as many on-ramps and off-ramps, not by a long shot.
	In fact, Epic Cash, most people have never heard of it, and so it's a really undiscovered but vastly superior technology, which I find baffling.
	It's like, I looked at all these coins, and people told me about Epic Cash.
	Josh Sigurdsson told me about it right here on the show, actually, a couple months ago.
	And he's like, you should look at Epic Cash.
	And I said, okay, sure, I will.
	But I didn't expect that it would come out on top.
	I really didn't.
	And I started digging into everything and installing stuff.
	And I've interviewed, you know, the founder of Quartal, by the way, Jason Crow, you saw right here on this channel.
	And I was installing Quartal nodes and I was buying and selling some quartz to see how that works.
	That's the coin of that realm, by the way.
	And I started hammering Monero and Zcash and Litecoin and everything else.
	And started keeping track of everything, what's working, what are the properties, and built my scoring system, and at the end, boom, Epic Cash, highest score, 90.
	Which means it's not perfect, by the way.
	100 would be perfect.
	Epic Cash isn't perfect.
	But it's 90 out of 100, and the closest coin to that is Monero at 83.
	And then Bitcoin is 49.
	So...
	I was kind of self-astonished at that.
	But Bitcoin has its place.
	Don't get me wrong.
	Bitcoin is the translator coin.
	It can be used for anything.
	Bitcoin is the universal crypto.
	You can translate Bitcoin into Epic or Litecoin or Ethereum or whatever else or Zcash or Monero or whatever.
	So the best thing about Bitcoin is that you can use it to buy the privacy coins that you actually want to use to protect your privacy or to protect the fact that you even have a wallet.
	So, just as a disclaimer, let me think about the disclaimer points.
	Number one, I do hold all these coins.
	Secondly, we will be accepting all these coins in our store.
	HealthRangerStore.com, the entire store, you'll be able to buy everything that we offer using Epic Cash.
	That integration should be happening soon after the ChangeNow.io launch, which I understand is happening soon.
	Last day of May or early June.
	Shortly after that, we should have our integration in place and we'll be accepting Epic Cash in our stores, which means, you know, essentially you can redeem Epic Cash for food or nutritional supplements or any of the things that we offer.
	In addition, I'm involved in some other projects and a lot of other major retailers, or at least retailers that I have A line of communication with, they're going to be integrating Epic Cash as well for other products, survival items, firearms accessories, communications gear, all kinds of things.
	So that's coming up over the next few months.
	My other disclaimer is I don't talk about price.
	I'm not a speculator.
	I don't encourage anybody to be a speculator.
	I don't want to attract speculators.
	Epic Cash, there's no target price.
	Frankly, I hope the price just stays right where it is.
	Because for me, I just want to get out of the fiat currency banking system and have money that's truly private and usable.
	That's it.
	But it's possible Epic Cash can go down, it can go up.
	Like all these coins, good things can happen, bad things can happen.
	I can't make any promises in any of those spaces.
	So I don't want to hear anybody come to me and say, oh, I bought 100 Epic Coins and then it lost 20%.
	Yeah, I'm telling you right now, that's probably going to happen at some point.
	It's probably going to happen.
	Maybe more.
	Who knows?
	You can never tell with these projects.
	I'm not even saying to buy and hold it.
	I'm just saying get ready to learn how to use private money.
	When you want to make purchases and you don't want the government watching what you're buying, you're not even breaking any laws, right?
	You just want your privacy.
	You know, you're buying food.
	But the government has no right to intercede in that.
	Then you need to use a privacy coin.
	That's all.
	Learn how this works.
	So download the wallet.
	Install the wallet.
	It's free of charge.
	If you have a way to contact me, I'll send you some coins so you can play with it in your wallet.
	Or if you know anybody else, send each other some coins around and you can play with it.
	And you can learn how this works.
	Send and receive privacy.
	Oh, and then the other exciting thing I forgot to mention is that on BrightTown.com, we're going to allow every content creator there to enter an Epic wallet receive address in your dashboard.com.
	And then, well, I guess I can't really bring up the dashboard here, but then anybody can tip you using Epic Cash because your QR code will be visible and your Epic receive address will be visible on purpose.
	And it doesn't, by the way, it doesn't compromise your wallet because this is not like Bitcoin where everybody can track you based on your receive address.
	This is different.
	Epic Cash is different.
	Your public receive address does not...
	It doesn't reveal your wallet.
	It doesn't work that way.
	It's truly private.
	So people will be able to tip you with Epic Cash on Brighteon.com.
	And that tip goes straight to you, folks.
	It doesn't go through Brighteon.
	It doesn't go to me.
	I don't touch it.
	I don't even know about it.
	It doesn't even touch our servers, by the way.
	It goes peer-to-peer from them to you.
	And you can tip somebody else.
	And frankly, as soon as we get that feature launched, I'm going to go, I'm going to take my mobile wallet and I'm just going to start tipping a bunch of people all over Brighton who have good videos.
	That's one thing I'm going to do.
	So if you download the Epic Cash wallet and you wait for this feature to roll out on Brighton.com and you put in your receive address there on your dashboard, you should expect to get some coins from either myself or other people at some point.
	You're going to get some Epic coins.
	And then what you choose to do with those coins is your business.
	Do whatever you want.
	If you want to spend them on our store, you can.
	Or not.
	You spend them somewhere else.
	Or send them to a friend.
	Or send them to the Canadian truckers.
	And guess what?
	Justin Trudeau will have a freaking fit because he doesn't know that you did that.
	Or if you want to donate to the RFK Jr.
	campaign...
	Maybe I should talk to his people and see if they can accept Epic.
	I'm sure they'd be open to the idea, but I can't speak for him, so we'll see.
	I know he's accepting Bitcoin.
	Probably should accept Epic, too.
	Maybe the Trump people will accept Epic, right?
	So, this has utility, and that's why we're integrating it, and that's my announcement today.
	And, let's see, is there anything else I meant to cover on that?
	No, just...
	Look, personally, I've even posted this on social media, I'm emptying my savings out of the fiat currency banking system.
	Because yeah, I have some savings over the years, you know, I do get paid occasionally a salary when things go well.
	And so I have some personal savings and I'm just taking that out of the banking system completely.
	Completely.
	I'm going into gold and crypto.
	That's it.
	I'm going into gold and crypto.
	And I'm spreading it out.
	Some of it's Epic.
	Some of it's Monero.
	Some of it's Bitcoin.
	Some of it's gold.
	Some of it's silver.
	I'm just being transparent.
	That's what I'm doing.
	I don't trust the banking system at all.
	Bunch of freaking crooks, cartel criminals, incompetent lunatics at the banks.
	They can't even do math at our local bank branch anymore.
	I don't know what's wrong with these people.
	They can't even do math.
	Meanwhile, Epic Cash is building advanced encryption systems with the most elegant...
	Almost like alien IQ math that's just so amazing.
	It's light years ahead.
	Our banking system, our fiat currency banking system, is run by morons in America today.
	True morons and crooks.
	That's who runs it.
	And I'm sorry if you work at a bank, but if you do work at a bank, you know what I'm talking about.
	You're surrounded by idiots.
	These people can't even do basic math.
	I told you this story before.
	I told you this story.
	Where, you know, I had, okay, vice president of a local bank came up to me when I was in there.
	So, Mr.
	Adams, you know, you know about money, so answer this question for us.
	Okay, what's your question?
	Again, this is the VP of a local bank branch comes up to me.
	So what's the question?
	She says, well, we're having a debate here among the staff in the bank, all the staffers here, and we couldn't figure out, if you have $100,000 to put into a CD, should you do one CD? And at the time, I think the CD was paying 2% or something.
	She was like, should we do one CD that pays 2% for the full amount, $100,000, or should we do like 10 CDs that pay 2% of $10,000 each?
	And I'm thinking, is there a hidden camera?
	Is this a trick question?
	Like the bank VP is asking me a basic financial question that the answer is obvious.
	Hey, I don't want to be condescending VP, bank VP, but 2% is 2%, whether it applies to 100,000 times 1 or 10,000 times 10.
	It's the same freaking 2%.
	You're the VP of the bank.
	You would think that you would know this.
	But no, no, no, they don't know anything.
	All they do is punch buttons.
	They have no idea.
	They don't understand compounding interest, the rule of 72, nothing.
	Our banking system is run by the most insane lunatic morons imaginable, and I'm tired of dealing with them.
	I am sick and tired of dealing with these lunatics.
	And so I'm moving into a system of money that actually has smart people in it.
	And frankly, that's crypto.
	That's decentralized finance.
	And I understand it took me a while to get to this point.
	And yeah, it took a little bit of anger, a little bit of frustration, maybe more than a little...
	I'm getting pretty pissed off to finally realize that decentralized finance is the only option for money at this point.
	That's it.
	I'm going to convert freaking everything, everything that I can in my business, in my personal finances, on our platforms, tipping systems, donations, everything that we do.
	I'm going to move it all to decentralized finance to the extent that I can.
	And I'm sorry I didn't see this sooner.
	But I guess I just took a little more punishment from the central banks before I finally got the message.
	But I get it now.
	I get it.
	And I'm fed up with the fiat currency system.
	And that system is broken, by the way.
	It will collapse.
	It is a complete bankrupt system.
	And I don't have any faith in it whatsoever.
	Oh, I've got other financial news for you here, by the way.
	This is interesting.
	I'm just mentioning this as a favor, but if you know the company CraveKicker, CraveKicker.com, spelled with a K, K-R-A-V-E, CraveKicker.com, that we've mentioned here on the website.
	This is a company, I know these people, And they developed this beverage that helps people quit addictions because this has a mukuna herb in it, so it helps promote natural dopamine production.
	And I don't have any stake in this, by the way, folks.
	This is not my thing.
	But this company is looking for an investor.
	And I agreed to just share this news.
	They're looking for only like $125,000, I think they said, and they're willing to give you, I think, over a 30% stake in their company because they just need money to go to the next level.
	Well, if you want to find out, I think they have a pitch deck that they can send you, and all you've got to do is email cravekicker at protonmail.com.
	Again, that's spelled with a K. So K-R-A-V-E. Cravekicker at protonmail.com.
	If you want to be an investor in Cravekicker, all I can say is I like this product.
	I'm not an investor.
	I have no financial involvement whatsoever.
	It's just that I think this is a good product.
	I think it's, in my opinion, it's viable, though I can't make any promises.
	But this product is something that I would like to carry in our store and to help retail it at some point as it grows to a larger brand.
	So if you like CraveKicker and you're looking for an investment opportunity, you can check that out with those folks, CraveKicker at ProtonMail.com.
	Again, I don't get anything, nothing in it for me.
	I'm just passing this along for you if this is something that entices you.
	But I can't make any promises.
	You could lose everything.
	Who knows?
	I mean, you could make a million dollars, you could lose everything.
	Isn't that always the case with every project?
	I can't make any promises.
	I don't know.
	But for people who have that kind of money and believe in that product, it might be a good choice for them.
	Now, for our own sponsorship, our own financial interest, this is my official sponsor today, is arcseedkits.com.
	There it is, 50,000 seeds.
	Can you see that?
	Yeah, 50,000 seeds right there in this 4-inch PVC. And the Arc Seed Kits company, here it is, they have, you can get a quarter of a million seeds from And you can go in with multiple families on this for less than $1,200 if you're looking for a quarter of a million seeds.
	Or you can get smaller packs here.
	They've got different packs, 50,000 seeds, 20,000 seeds, backyard seed kits, all heirloom, non-GMO seeds.
	The website is arkseedkits.com.
	That's A-R-K. ARK, which stands for Agricultural Resource Kit, and this is a really great company, by the way, and I understand they're more caught up right now, so there's not as long of a wait time, although it says on their website it might be 10 to 14 days.
	I was told that's not the case at the moment, so good opportunity to get some seats.
	We're going to need to grow food.
	We're going to need to have freedom of gardening, which is what that's all about, but also freedom of money, which is why I'm talking about decentralized finance and Epic Cash today.
	We're going to need to reconfigure the way that we operate among each other, buying and selling things, trading things, growing things, self-reliance.
	This is the pathway to the future.
	If we continue to rely on the centralized systems for food, for finance, for government, for education, whatever, we're going to be destroyed.
	It's going to be over.
	We need to homeschool our kids.
	We need to grow more of our own food.
	We need to build our own peer-to-peer, decentralized money systems that are truly private money.
	We need to share knowledge about natural health, about natural remedies, natural cures, keep each other healthy, keep each other aware, awake, alive.
	That's how we make it through this.
	Because we're facing the attempted total annihilation of the human race, by the way.
	That's where we are right now.
	The attempted total annihilation of the human race.
	I think they're going to fail, but they are trying.
	They are trying.
	And they will use everything as a weapon against you.
	They will use food scarcity.
	They will use weaponized money systems to make sure you can't use your money.
	They will use every weapon that they have.
	I mean, you know, censorship, obviously.
	You know, blacklisting.
	They'll even try to criminalize you for doing things like quoting Bible scripture, if you can believe that.
	So avail yourself of these freedom-oriented solutions while you still can.
	And that's how we make it through this together.
	I'll keep you posted on all of this, including our crypto projects in our stores and the crypto tipping system on brighteon.com, which is coming soon.
	I'm hoping that's in June, by the way.
	In the meantime, let's go ahead to the two interviews today, which I think you will greatly appreciate.
	Let's actually start with the Uncle Vigilante interview.
	And then we'll go to the Masako interview after that about Japanese culture and U.S. imperialism.
	U.S. cultural imperialism invading Japan.
	How's that for a twist on history right there?
	So those interviews straight ahead right here on Bright Town Broadcast News.
	Greetings!
	Shout out!
	Shout out Darkstar for pulling that masterpiece together.
	Thank you.
	Greetings everyone!
	I am so excited about today.
	You know...
	You know you are a highly respected voice when the likes of Robert Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump, when their teams are calling you asking you permission to come on your show.
	Let me tell you, that's who we have today.
	We have Mike Adams.
	He is a major alternative influencer with a massive audience, and he has a powerful media platform, brighteon.com, and he is an all-natural health entrepreneur, healthrangerstore.com, healthrangerstore.com.
	Mike Adams, it is a pleasure.
	Thank you for coming on little old me, my show.
	It is just a pleasure.
	I can't wait to dig in.
	Well, thank you, Uncle V. It's an honor to join you.
	I have to thank you because I've learned so much from watching your channel.
	I've been doing this deep dive into privacy-oriented things.
	Decentralized Finance.
	And I've learned a lot from you.
	Thank you.
	And we've had a chance to talk personally, and I've learned even more in that.
	So thank you so much.
	I really appreciate you having me on.
	My pleasure.
	My pleasure.
	And by the way, we do, Mike, have to give a proper shout-out to Josh Sigurdsson, who is the one who, during an interview with you, Josh mentioned Epic Cash.
	That's right.
	And that's where it all started, isn't it?
	Yeah, Josh was just texting me this morning.
	He's in Europe right now, and he was telling me about how crazy these 15-minute cities are, where there's like drones and cameras watching everybody.
	Anyway, Josh deserves credit.
	Actually, frankly, two or three people kept kind of pestering me about Epic Cash for years.
	For some time, I kept seeing in the comments on my videos, like, you need to look at Epic Cash, but of course, you know, I hear that all the time, and only when I started to look into it did I realize, oh my goodness, you know, these people are actually on to something.
	Yes, yes.
	By the way, those of you in the chat, hello, welcome, and please smash that like button.
	It does help the algorithm.
	Give it a thumbs up.
	Follow the channel, please, and share it.
	You know, we're just getting started, folks, so you might as well share it with your loved ones if you are interested in their Financial future.
	So, I want to set the table, Mike, and just before the show, I kind of wrote down, we of course, I named this A Better Bitcoin Than Bitcoin with Mike Adams, and I give you all the credit for that title because yesterday,
	for those of you who didn't listen, please go to my last video that I uploaded, and it is Mike Mike, on his podcast from yesterday to where he was riffing on Bitcoin and other privacy coins, including Epic Cash.
	That is literally must-listen audio podcast.
	Oh, you like that one?
	You know what?
	Somebody, I saw it in our Epic Cash community, they call you Mike GPT. It's like you've absorbed all of this and you just so eloquently articulate it.
	I'm jealous.
	I mean, I've been doing this for two and a half years and I can't articulate the positive attributes.
	Yes, you can.
	No, I learned from you.
	You distill it down to help the rest of us learn.
	But I've been doing a deep dive for several months.
	And just as a background, I used to mine Bitcoin on ant miner machines that were powered by solar machines.
	When we had an office in Arizona, this was years ago, and we had excess kilowatt hours off our solar installation because the federal government paid a big part of the solar, and so we had extra solar.
	So I bought ant miners, and I mined Bitcoin back in the day.
	And then I didn't like all the Bitcoin hype about it's going to go to a million dollars and everything, and all this hype really turned me off.
	from a lot of the crypto community.
	And so I ended up selling that Bitcoin for physical gold.
	So I turned sunlight into gold through Bitcoin back in the day.
	Yeah.
	And then now in the post FTX era, I see actually a lot more maturity and level headedness, even RFK Jr. talking about Bitcoin.
	And now for me, this feels like a new renaissance in cryptocurrency, like finally a lot of more adult voices are in the room to say, hey, this is utility driven.
	We have to have some kind of money that the governments can't confiscate like Trudeau did in Canada.
	But I'm getting ahead of myself.
	Go ahead.
	Speaking of background, for those in my community who may not be familiar with you, who've been living under a rock over the last, you know, 20 years, could you give us a little background on yourself and your different initiatives and platforms?
	Yeah, sure, sure.
	I'm one of the most censored people in the world, other than maybe Donald Trump.
	Because I'm a holistic health nutritionist and food scientist.
	I'm actually a published food scientist.
	I run mass spec instruments in a food science lab.
	We have six mass specs now.
	We're ISO accredited and audited, inspected.
	And using food testing then, I built a pretty large online retail operation, healthrangerstore.com, For lab-tested, clean foods, superfoods, nutrition, storable foods, almost everything certified organic, meticulously sourced, no artificial fragrance, no GMOs, no garbage.
	Most of it's from the USA, not all of it, but we support American farmers, and then we make massive donations.
	We just, actually, with the help of another individual who helped us fund this, we literally, last week, we wrote checks to the independent media Of different donors for half a million dollars.
	And I was just starting to get thank yous today from those people because they finally got the checks and they're like, whoa, this is saving my life to get this money.
	It gives me goosebumps.
	I'm telling you.
	We're very blessed.
	We have a big support base.
	We do honest business.
	And now I see, but I hope you don't mind me.
	I mean, interrupt me anytime, Uncle V. Sure.
	We just covered a story about New York City where Mayor Eric Adams is monitoring the food purchases of the residents of New York, and his goal is to reduce meat purchases by 33%.
	The only way they're going to do that is by food rationing.
	And the only way they're going to carry out rationing is by monitoring how much food people are purchasing, specifically how much meat are you buying.
	Well, I think we should live in a world where the government can't tell you not to buy hamburgers if you want to eat hamburgers.
	That's right.
	Or bacon or whatever.
	So privacy-oriented money is going to be the key to outmaneuver the food rationing that's coming.
	And I'll turn it back to you on that.
	Well, you know, on that, I just want to share my screen real quick, just because, again, if people don't think this is coming, here's an example.
	European lawmakers draft reports include taxes on investor capital gain, transactions, and mining.
	The draft, which was published on January 16th for the Parliament's Budget Committee, speaks about various taxes for investors' capital gains, transactions, and mining.
	The draft report suggests the implementation of European attacks on cryptocurrencies where the revenue would flow into the European budget.
	Regulating and taxing crypto assets at the EU level is more efficient than at the national level, given their high mobility and cross-border dimension, said the report.
	So I read that to you.
	I think it kind of marries with what you're saying.
	And the key word there that you had mentioned is private.
	So if they cannot surveil, they cannot...
	Do this nonsense.
	This is all about a mechanism of control.
	And with that, I would like to set the table for the rest of this show.
	And you're going to do most of the talking.
	Believe it or not, community, I'm going to let my guests talk more than me.
	It's all good.
	Go for it.
	And I think it's, you know, I'm always trying to distill things down to a level that all understand it, and in a way that succinctly we could communicate it to others.
	We've found a better Bitcoin than Bitcoin.
	Epic Cash is everything Bitcoin hoped to be, but isn't.
	Private, unconfiscatable property.
	Truly peer-to-peer.
	Decentralized.
	Scarce.
	Fungible.
	Scalable.
	Permissionless.
	Trustless.
	Censorship-free.
	Surveillance-proof.
	With Epic Cash, I can privately send money anywhere, anytime, to anyone for any amount in less than a minute for under a penny.
	Nobody, and I mean nobody, can stop my transaction or confiscate my money.
	This is true, undiscovered financial freedom for the masses.
	Mike, what say you?
	I think that's a very accurate statement.
	Yeah, that's very accurate, and it's part of what I value in Epic Cash.
	I want to be clear.
	There are some other contenders that have some privacy orientation features, such as Monero, for example.
	In fact, I have a rating chart here.
	I have a weighted rating system.
	I shared it with you before the show.
	We can talk about it.
	Tell me the header.
	Well, so in my system, which I value privacy and being confiscation proof, and having what I call permissionless portability.
	Now, I don't know that anybody's really talked about that, but this is the ability to take it with you without anyone's permission.
	In this day of refugees fleeing Venezuela, and understand that through my correspondence, like Michael Yan, we did a full tour.
	Of the San Vicente camp near the Darien Gap in Panama, and we actually interviewed people fleeing Venezuela, okay, families.
	I talked to a 14-year-old girl and her family that were desperate.
	With epic cash, you can take your money with you, whether you're a refugee from Venezuela or Los Angeles, by the way, or New York City, and Which is going to happen with, you know, the food rationing.
	I mean, you know, I want bacon, I'm leaving New York City, right?
	That's going to happen.
	Or you just want to be able to drive a combustion engine vehicle at some point.
	With Epic Cash, you can take all of your assets with you by simply memorizing the seed phrase of your wallet.
	So it's portable because it's in your mind.
	And, of course, with a lot of coins, you can do that.
	With a lot of wallets, you can do that as well.
	But you can't do that with a bank account.
	You can't do that with physical cash because, you know, it gets bulky pretty quickly.
	You can't do that with gold or silver because it also gets bulky.
	If you try to take gold coins out of Venezuela and trek through the Darien Gap, you're going to get robbed and probably killed.
	And they're going to take your gold.
	But they can't rob you of something that's in your mind, which is why what I call permissionless portability is absolutely key.
	And Epic shines in that.
	Epic, on my chart, scores 90 out of 100, which is the highest score of any asset, including gold or cash or anything.
	Monero scores 83.
	Monero has some limitations.
	For example, the wallet ID is actually stored on the Monero blockchain.
	It's simply obfuscated by other, maybe 15 or 16 other sort of fake wallet IDs, which means that one day that wallet ID could be potentially discoverable.
	That's right.
	Whereas with the Mimbo-Wimbo blockchain, as you know, I think I learned this from you, there are no wallet IDs stored on the blockchain.
	So no matter what happens with quantum computers or breaking code or whatever, no one can ever know the ID of your wallet, which means that no one can find your wallet.
	No one can take it from you.
	It's money that you control.
	May I just insert just an entrepreneurial idea here?
	Yeah.
	Maybe within your store, And I'm serious here.
	Maybe within your store, there could even be a free download of PDF. I don't know.
	But just something that would help people be able to memorize 20 words, 24 words.
	You know what I mean?
	Give them some tutorial.
	Because I think when you say that, people are like, I can remember Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
	That's about the extent of it.
	I do think there's a there there, and maybe folks in the chat can do a little bit of research, and if there is a way to be able to help people, I would be interested in that.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I brought a big book on it, and it sat over there on my desk, and I have not consumed it, but I did memorize my words.
	Oh, good for you.
	I did.
	It's 24 words.
	I memorized them.
	It took me from Tampa, Florida to Los Angeles to be able to do it.
	But I did, and I nailed it.
	And that was about three months ago.
	And if you ask me what they are now, I couldn't tell you.
	I need a real crusher.
	Well, human memory is sometimes fallible, so there are a multitude of ways that people can do this.
	I've even talked about this on my podcast, but first you can memorize it.
	And by the way, you know this, I'm a speed cuber, or I attempt to do it quickly.
	My solves are about a minute right now.
	Wow.
	But I've memorized like 41 algorithms in order to do that.
	And those are hard because they're all so similar.
	With the seed words, they're easy because they're so different.
	Usually it's like tiger and sunflower and waterfall, whatever.
	But the other thing is if you can't trust your memory, you can tattoo it in your pubic region.
	And you can just like make sure nobody or if somebody's there and they're asking, what is this?
	You know, like, well, I can't tell you.
	My girlfriends.
	They had weird names.
	Right.
	You know, you might want to mix up the words a little bit in case someone gets curious and starts writing those down.
	You might want to maybe not let everybody into your pants is the other idea.
	It's another form of security.
	Yeah, I thought of a really good idea that then I realized is a really horrible idea.
	I thought if somebody offered a service to where they'll create a custom book for you and you could literally choose, you know, let's say every fifth word on a page, you would be the one who would control which one it is.
	- True. - You could populate it and it would go through and then it would be impossible, but if you gave that it's the fifth word to the manufacturer, they of course would know and so it's a bad idea.
	- Yeah, but it's still tied to a physical object that you may not have with you That's a good point.
	It needs to be on your person or in your mind, ideally.
	Note to self, shave your head, tattoo it on the back of your skull, let the hair grow back, you're all good.
	But, hey, before we get carried away, let me announce something here on your show.
	I've kind of been saving it for this.
	We are going to integrate Epic Cash Payments in not only our stores, which will be healthrangerstore.com and also varietyonstore.com.
	And that integration is happening as soon as the Change Now integration goes live, because I watched your interview with, was it Bassam?
	Bassam.
	Yeah.
	Amazing.
	I love that interview, and it taught me a lot about what's coming.
	I mean, frankly, it's going to be amazing, all the integrations and the portability, but once Change Now goes live, My devs, they kick into gear.
	They're ready to go to integrate with our online stores.
	So everybody who has Epic Cash will know that they can always redeem it for storable food, organics, nutritional supplements, high-end supplements, turmeric extract, whatever, black cumin seed oil, all these things.
	Have you seen my smoothie?
	This is my life.
	I drink smoothies.
	I'm the health ranger, and this is what I do.
	I'm all about nutrition.
	There's turmeric in there.
	And chlorella, by the way, blue-green algae, single-celled algae, also spirulina, but whatever.
	In addition, because I do so many interviews, like you, Uncle V, I interview people.
	I've interviewed probably 300 people in the last year.
	Right.
	And I started talking to some of the people that I know who run online retail stores.
	Right.
	And these are some pretty major players.
	I can't name them yet, but I'm talking about, like, one of them is $100 million a year in online retail.
	And others are in the tens of millions.
	And it's very common for the people that I know to do this.
	And every single one that I've spoken with, I said, hey, look, we're about to integrate this crypto payment system in our shopping cart.
	And since we believe in open source, we'll share the code with you, whatever code it takes, a few lines of code, whatever.
	Would you want to integrate Epic Cash into your stores?
	Every single one of them has said yes.
	I haven't heard a no yet.
	So that after we go live, it's going to have a domino effect of these other.
	Yeah, all these other retailers.
	Plus, I'm launching another partnership with another major business guru.
	Oh, tell us about it.
	No, I can't tell you about it.
	Oh, you can't.
	Okay, never mind.
	But it's about prepping supplies.
	So it's going to have custom American-made knives and swords with a special metal alloy called MagnaCut that is corrosion-resistant, by the way.
	So you can use confiscation-resistant money to buy corrosion-resistant knives.
	Yeah.
	That will be a thing.
	Think about it, Mike.
	Epic Cash, backed by food.
	Exactly.
	Your poor business.
	Exactly.
	Astonishing.
	Now, is it okay to share that you have also had some productive conversations and one day we may be able to say epic cash backed by gold?
	Oh, yes.
	I have spoken to now two gold precious metals retailers.
	One of them was right away because they used to take Bitcoin.
	He actually mentioned to me that he had problems with Bitcoin because of tainted Bitcoins.
	Shoot now.
	Let's talk about that.
	Everybody in the Epic community should already know that you've educated people about this.
	Oh, by the way, as a disclaimer, I do want to mention I hold Epic coins.
	I also hold Monero.
	I've bought Zcash.
	Of course, I hold Bitcoin.
	I bought a lot of stuff, and I'm running a lot of wallets.
	I have way too many passwords to tattoo on my private parts.
	Let me tell you, there's just not enough room.
	I'm sorry.
	That's why you need a harem.
	Yeah.
	But I'm running way too many wallets, and I've also destroyed wallets, and then I've restored them on other computers using seed phrases to make sure that that process worked.
	And I was very happy with Epic Cash when I did that, that it came up and it said, okay, scanning the blockchain to restore your coins.
	And I just waited a few minutes.
	It didn't even take very long.
	And then shazam, boom, the full balance was there on this other wallet.
	Isn't it amazing?
	And I had only entered the seed phrases.
	I mean, I know theoretically it should always work, but you always want to try these things just to be sure.
	That's right.
	Well, I've noted over the last two months of your due diligence, you do like to try to break things.
	Oh, and I successfully break things a lot.
	And I did mining, by the way.
	I did epic cache mining, which pays you nothing, almost.
	It's like, this is, if you really are good at Linux and command line interfaces, you're going to love mining, but Otherwise, the payoff is not really a big payoff, but it is important for the decentralization of the community.
	So I'm glad lots of other people are doing mining.
	And maybe perhaps one day if those coins go up, that mining will pay off.
	But for what it's worth right now, the mining is a big headache in my view.
	So I'm not advocating people mine Bitcoin or mine Epic or mine anything.
	I'm just saying use it.
	Just use it.
	Use the value of it, the properties of it, the privacy.
	Yeah.
	I want to talk to you about use cases.
	Just from the beginning, you were just adamant to focus on use case, not store of value.
	We'll unpack that.
	But you recently did an expose on Bitcoin yesterday.
	Everybody, go watch that.
	I command you, go watch that after this show.
	Yeah.
	I don't know if expose is the right word.
	I mean, I see Bitcoin and Epic Cash coexisting in a very friendly, sympathetic way, actually.
	I think Bitcoin is the universal crypto that you can translate into anything else.
	It's kind of like the common translator.
	Can you please share what you shared with me last night regarding the Invisible Man?
	That was about Bitcoin being fully visible that everybody knows your wallet ID and how much you have and so on.
	So let's say you're a guy walking around a city and if you're using Bitcoin, if you're holding Bitcoin, there's like a giant flashing Bitcoin dollar sign above your head that everybody can see.
	A big orange coin.
	Yeah, a big orange coin over your head.
	You're walking around the city and everybody's like, oh, he has that much Bitcoin, that much.
	Oh, he just spent Bitcoin over there at that cafe, at that Starbucks or whatever.
	And then the minute you translate Bitcoin into epic cash, it's like you become the invisible man.
	You vanish and you can walk around the city and nobody knows how much cash you have, where you spent it, where you got it, what you're doing with it.
	No one knows, which is the way it should be, because it's like if you're in your apartment or your house at night, and let's say you're changing your clothes, you're taking off your clothes, I don't know, you're going to bed, taking a shower, whatever.
	Don't you pull down the window shade?
	You do.
	I mean, don't you close the shade?
	Because you don't want everybody in the world walking up and just watching you undress.
	It's none of their business, right?
	Yeah, it's kind of a right.
	And it doesn't mean that when you draw your curtains, if you will, or your shades, that you're doing something nefarious.
	No, you're not in there cooking meth.
	You're just taking a shower.
	But it's nobody's business.
	You're not feeding puppies.
	No, right, right.
	The thing is that RFK Jr.
	spoke about this very point.
	It's never the government's business how much assets you have or what you're doing with them.
	As long as you're not buying illegal things like grenades or whatever.
	But if your purchases are ethical, moral, legal, you want to buy garden seeds.
	You want to buy bacon, which will probably be a crime soon in New York.
	You want to buy CBD oil, right?
	Yeah.
	Because it's anti-seizure and it helps people with pain, right?
	Or even you want to buy THC capsules that are usable in various forms of medicine, by the way.
	We don't sell that just for the record.
	We don't sell any cannabis-derived products.
	But if you want to buy that stuff, that's your business as far as I'm concerned.
	Right.
	And the government shouldn't be monitoring or limiting or controlling what you do with your money, nor even knowing how much you have.
	And by the way, I'm not in any way, I'm not saying, I'm not advocating tax evasion here.
	You know, for most people, they earn money in the fiat world, they pay taxes on it, okay?
	They already pay taxes, and then they take the after-tax money, whatever the mercy of the government allows you to keep of your own earnings, right?
	That's right.
	And then you put that into crypto.
	You put that into Epic Cash, then poof, it vanishes from the surveillance grid of the government and the banks, and now you have instant control and privacy.
	That's what I'm talking about.
	You haven't evaded taxes.
	You just now have private money.
	That's right.
	And you know, they say never meet your heroes.
	This last week, I was interviewed by Leah Halpern down in Miami and decided to stick around and just walk around.
	They were having the Bitcoin conference down there.
	And so it was amazing.
	There was a lot of people, and interestingly enough, the restrooms in the main area, they were having an issue with, but they had these porta-potties outside.
	And I went out there, and I met Michael Saylor.
	I have a picture of this.
	And...
	I could see his Bitcoin address.
	It was amazing.
	But it was pretty cool because Epic Cash showed up and Epic Cash is the...
	The outhouse on the left that has the door closed.
	But this is all in fun.
	Private by default is what cash is.
	And BTC is full transparency.
	So again, I have to speak uncle.
	I have to see uncle.
	And this is seeing uncle.
	This is what it is.
	Bitcoin is a surveillance chain.
	And so there are companies out there, Chainalysis, etc., that's a $20 billion industry to be able to surveil that blockchain.
	Think about that, Mike.
	$20 billion.
	Uncle V on my chart, where is that?
	Bitcoin scores 49 out of 100 on my current chart.
	It's just my own scoring system.
	Interesting.
	Epic scores 90 out of 100.
	Monero scores 83 out of 100.
	The reason Bitcoin scores so low is because, of course, it doesn't have privacy.
	It's not confiscation proof per se.
	Mm-hmm.
	Governments can order centralized exchanges to block specific wallet IDs, and they have done that.
	Although the government can't necessarily take it, they can sort of make it a hassle to use it, which is almost the same thing.
	It's kind of like the way in the SWIFT system they cut off Russia from its holdings in Western central banks.
	There were like $300 billion that Russia held in Western central banks, and then after Russia invaded Ukraine, The SWIFT system just said, oh, hey, Russia, we're deplatforming you from our system, and you can't access your $300 billion that you have.
	And what they did with SWIFT, they can do to us.
	Think about it.
	I have a saying, actually, I've used in a podcast.
	Everything that the Western financial systems have done to Russia, they will do to you.
	That's good.
	That's great.
	Not that we're in the same, you know, we're not in bed with Russia or Putin or anything like that.
	I'm just saying that they have proven that they will weaponize financial systems to use them against us if they don't like what we are doing.
	I was just going to insert and say, so you're telling me that Bitcoin is not fungible?
	No.
	Well, no, seriously, let's talk about fungibility.
	In your analysis, give us some examples of why Bitcoin is not fungible, why 1BTC does not equal 1BTC. Well, this gets back to my conversation with the precious metals retailer owner that I was talking to.
	Thanks for bringing me back to that.
	But he said he had problems taking Bitcoin before because those Bitcoins turned out to be tainted Bitcoins.
	And he actually had Bitcoins that were, I don't know how many hops away from having previously been used by somebody else on Silk Road transactions or something.
	Right.
	And so he could not offload those Bitcoins and get them back into cash.
	And in the precious metals industry, they operate on very thin margins, if they're honest dealers.
	It might be a 2% margin, actually.
	Right.
	Wow, so he couldn't take those Bitcoin to any exchange?
	He didn't tell me all the details, but he indicated he had problems getting that Bitcoin.
	He couldn't get it back into fiat.
	So somebody was buying gold probably to wash tainted Bitcoin is really what happened.
	So they spent the Bitcoin with him, gave him the tainted Bitcoin, he shipped them physical gold, and then that person now has clean gold because gold is fully fungible, unlike Bitcoin.
	That's right.
	So if anybody watching doesn't follow that, and I think Michael Saylor should be more upfront about this, but Look, Bitcoin has a lot of advantages.
	It's got the most on-ramps and the most off-ramps.
	It's the universal crypto.
	And I think the best thing about Bitcoin is that it gives you options to get into things like Epic or other privacy coins.
	But if you end up with coins in your wallet or just three or four hops away from somebody using those coins for something that the DOJ, let's say, considers to be illegal or some other international...
	You know, anti-money laundering group, then they can actually target your wallet and they can say, you know, your wallet's now tainted and they can demand confiscation of your wallet and create a lot of legal hassles for you.
	They can block your wallet from being usable by centralized exchanges, which is part of the problem with Bitcoin.
	Too much of the use is very centralized.
	You know, most people really don't run their own nodes.
	Most people...
	You know how many people don't?
	I don't know, 90 plus percent, 95 plus percent.
	99 percent.
	Yeah, that's a lot.
	But also the blockchain is so large, right, for Bitcoin.
	And that's another problem that Epic solves.
	Because of MembleWimble, it's about 10 percent of the size for the same number of transactions.
	It's just a more efficient way to stack data in a blockchain, which actually has huge implications for long-term portability and being able to run full nodes on mobile devices, by the way.
	Think about that.
	That's right.
	So what you're talking about there, the blockchain being large, has to do with scalability, right?
	Absolutely.
	That's one of the attributes.
	So talk to us about scalability as you understand it.
	And it's really been interesting over the last...
	Gosh, a couple of months since the notion of ordinals came into our atmosphere, right?
	I just can't believe that.
	I mean, look, I might take some heat for this, but I call ordinals graffiti on the blockchain.
	It's like spray painting your art all over the walls.
	Of a really fat streaker.
	You know what I'm saying?
	It's like, why would you use the blockchain as a data storage device for images?
	Can you see my screen?
	Oh, my gosh.
	I'm sorry I did.
	Yes, I just saw that.
	That's inordinal, everyone.
	You know, it's a streaker that's really fat, not very mobile, with tattoos all over it because that's what ordinals are.
	It's basically tattoos of, you know, it's NFTs on the Bitcoin blockchain.
	But the very real effect is that it is further bloating it to the point to where two weeks ago to send a transaction from one wallet to another, if you actually wanted it to go through, You had to pay the premium.
	You know how you can pay just the normal and then you can speed it up or you get the guaranteed?
	$94!
	What?
	So if you had $100 and you just had to have it go, you'd be left with $6 on the other side.
	Okay.
	I thought it was only $30, which was still crazy.
	$30 was the actual if you're just normal whatever, but if you had to move that money...
	It was $94 premium.
	Well, that's just not acceptable.
	You know, cryptocurrency, it's got to cost just pennies to move.
	That's right.
	And it's got to be faster than, you know, three blocks of 10 minutes each.
	It's got to be faster than that.
	In your research with Epic Cash...
	Can you share with everyone approximately how much is a transaction, and in your experience, trying to beat things up, about how quickly does it take to actually go through?
	And based upon that, can you see that being a medium of exchange in your shopping carts?
	Can you wait long enough for somebody to send their Epic?
	Well, yes, but...
	I don't think that even if it takes five minutes, although it takes a lot less than that with Epic, even if it took five minutes, that wouldn't be a barrier for people to use it to make online purchases.
	People want to use a privacy-oriented cryptocurrency for other reasons other than speed of purchase.
	For example, like we talked about, they don't want their food purchases tracked by a government that's leaning towards probably food rationing.
	So I did want to say, though, you know, in your situation, online, right?
	But if...
	Starbucks implemented it.
	You know, they don't want it to be five minutes.
	That's true.
	Right.
	So I'm thinking, ultimately, if you're going to bet on a horse that has a shot of being able to be, you know, implemented at retail, you know, obviously I'm biased.
	I think Epic Cash is the strong frontrunner.
	Well, I mean, that's to be seen in terms of can it be done in 30 seconds or less?
	Will someone stand there at the Starbucks counter for 30 seconds and wait for the transaction to go through?
	I don't know the answer to that.
	Maybe it'll be faster than 30 seconds.
	I've seen it happen in, I'm just guessing, roughly about a minute.
	I don't know.
	Does that sound right?
	Is that what you're seeing?
	Yeah, it depends.
	I mean, if we're right there together, I think you and I, we did a test.
	We did the test exchange when we were together, and it was...
	But it was unconfirmed, though, but it was in the wallet, but unconfirmed for a couple more blocks.
	So you know it's on the way.
	You know the transaction worked, but you need to wait.
	But I think any retailer would probably, once it hits their wallet, they'd say, okay, two confirmations is enough.
	And so that's where it can become literally seconds.
	Good point.
	Yeah, I think so.
	But certainly, and again, not here to build ourselves up by bashing Bitcoin, but really, Bitcoin, kind of the hat...
	Where they hang their hat is on store of value, right?
	Well, yeah.
	Let me throw this metaphor at you here.
	You're familiar with, of course, international cargo shipping.
	You have these massive ships that are loaded up with massive numbers of containers, 20-foot or 40-foot shipping containers.
	Mm-hmm.
	Some of these cargo ships hold tens of thousands of containers.
	On these containers are pallets, pallets of products that are moved around with forklifts.
	In my facility, we have truckloads coming in and out all day long of all the food and all the pallets and forklifts and everything.
	Bitcoin is the cargo ship.
	Okay.
	Bitcoin is slow, but it can hold a lot.
	It's got massive volume.
	So when you launch a Bitcoin ship, you can carry a lot on it.
	You know, there's a lot of cargo on there.
	It's going to get to its destination.
	Eventually you'll be able to unload it, but you better not be in a hurry.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Epic Cash is more like the pallets.
	The pallets can be moved around in a more nimble way.
	You can put a pallet on a pickup truck, drive it around.
	It's more nimble.
	It's faster to deal with that.
	Or maybe even you break it down and you have the cases of the boxes on the pallet.
	And in my mind, you're moving assets around.
	You're moving money.
	Bitcoin is expensive and slow to get into and out of at the moment.
	Epic is nimble and fast.
	Nimble, nimble, nimble, nimble.
	Yeah, nimble, nimble, nimble.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Right.
	So that's my metaphor for that.
	But the bottom line is we have to be able to engage in transactions.
	And if you don't have privacy, you're really at risk of just...
	Losing your ability to use your funds.
	I had an issue the other day.
	I talked about this publicly where I was paying a shipping fee from an online retailer that has the name gun in it.
	So it's something gun store or whatever.
	And I had to pay a $25 shipping fee.
	I wasn't even buying a gun for $25, right?
	And I tried to put that fee on my credit card, which was with JPMorgan Chase.
	Which I keep this because JPMorgan Chase is one of the banks that will probably be bailed out.
	And I still have to have some fiat to meet payroll.
	That's true.
	That's so funny.
	Right.
	So JPMorgan Chase denied the charge to the retailer multiple times, and I got the manager on and they checked the codes, and it was that JPMorgan rejects all purchases from retailers that have the word gun.
	That's just nuts.
	Yes.
	Yes, exactly.
	Right?
	Because I'm pretty sure there are lots of other words that contain G-U-N that don't refer to firearms, by the way.
	Right.
	Like Gunite or whatever.
	Yes.
	Or Gunther, right?
	Gunther's flowers, you know?
	So your digits on your credit card, right?
	Right.
	That's not fungible digits.
	Yeah, right.
	That money's not usable.
	Right.
	So even though, of course, I have perfectly good credit, but Jamie Dimon doesn't want you to be able to use your money in your JPMorgan Chase Bank.
	Well, if this retailer had just accepted Epic, we could have saved a half an hour and just, boom, it's done.
	Here's $25 worth of Epic, or here, have some extra.
	Right.
	Yeah, that's right.
	You know, go have a night on the town with Epic or whatever.
	And I would have sent them extra.
	I mean, just to avoid the hassle of the credit card.
	Sure.
	That's right.
	I have a question, Mike.
	You've gone through your analysis.
	You have your specific system.
	Would you mind sharing with the group here what the attributes are that are important to you and kind of the ranking and why you weight some heavier than others?
	Yeah, and just understand, this is evolving.
	I might upgrade this, and I'm looking for feedback on it, too.
	But I weighted privacy as 20 points, 20%, 20 out of 100.
	Confiscation proof also weighted at 20.
	Those two things are 40% of my algorithm because if your money can be confiscated and if it's not private, it's just not that useful, period, in this age of government confiscation.
	After that, I have transaction transmissibility at 15%, which means the ability to send and receive it borderless internationally in an efficient way.
	And gold gets dinged on that one because gold is a great store of value, by the way, but gold is very hard to send through email, obviously.
	The next one, 10%, is permissionless portability, where you don't need anybody's permission to take it with you, and you can successfully take it with you.
	Store of value is also 10%.
	Scalability, the rest of these are all 5%.
	Scalability, censorship-proof, meaning no one can block you from using your money, even if they...
	Don't know that you have the wallet, but we don't want them to block us.
	Accessibility, which means the ease of acquiring it.
	And right there, by the way, Epic gets dinged on some points because Epic is not yet...
	It doesn't have as many on-ramps and off-ramps, obviously, as Bitcoin or even Monero.
	Will that change in your mind?
	Will our score change once we are integrated with ChangeNow?
	Yeah, all these are dynamic.
	So once ChangeNow goes live...
	Then these scores will be adjusted accordingly.
	But of course, I need to test change now, make sure it's all working.
	Of course.
	Yeah.
	Fungibility is five points, and then recognizability is also five points.
	So right now, pretty much everybody's heard of Bitcoin, which is why it's the universal crypto.
	Not everybody's heard of Epic.
	In fact, most people have it, right?
	Exactly.
	We're undiscovered.
	It's kind of shocking to me, frankly, that I really couldn't believe that Epic had so much really cutting-edge technology, but that even I hadn't heard of it before now.
	Actually, someone tried to tell me about it a year ago, and I blew them off sadly, and it had to come back around.
	But the fact that almost no one's heard of Epic Cache means that it is really undiscovered, and it has a lot of room to expand into utility.
	Yes.
	Why is utility so important to you versus win-moon, you know?
	Yeah.
	Well, because, I mean, a currency that people are just speculating on to make something go up and then sell it, you know, buy low, sell high, I have zero interest in the speculative side.
	In fact, that's what turned me off from crypto.
	I was very critical of a lot of the Bitcoin promoters.
	I took a lot of heat for that, too, by the way, over the years.
	But it was because of the hype, not the tech.
	I've always supported peer-to-peer stores of value.
	I've always supported decentralization, and I believe in that.
	And I'm putting my money where my mouth is by working to accept crypto.
	In our stores and also advocating for people to, you know, off-grid their money from the banking system to the extent that it makes sense for them and look at decentralized finance.
	Suddenly it makes a lot more sense than it ever did.
	And we have banks collapsing now in the U.S., which hadn't happened before this year.
	I mean, not recently.
	But I would say that...
	See, everybody talks about, well, what's the price of Epic going to go to?
	I don't pay attention to that.
	I pay attention to the utility of it.
	All I know is when we accept it, more people will want to use it to buy the things that we sell.
	And when I can convince more of the people that I know to accept it, I can buy stuff from them that I want to buy, like extra magazines for my SIG pistol or whatever, without going through J.P. freaking Morgan.
	If I can convince my suppliers, which are a lot of American farmers and so on, organic farmers, if I can talk to my suppliers and say, hey, I want to buy 50,000 pounds of organic whatever...
	Which is very typical for us, by the way.
	And will you just take Epic Cash and you'll have the transaction like right now and the banks won't get involved and have all their fraud flags and halt everything and calling, oh, is this real?
	Is this check real?
	You know what?
	Screw you.
	I wrote the check.
	Just honor the damn check.
	I'm tired of banks telling me they won't honor the money that we're sending to other vendors, by the way.
	You can tell I get kind of emotional about that.
	Yeah, of course.
	And also we lost $30,000 in the Silicon Valley bank collapse just because we paid money to a vendor through a service that, and that service was using Silicon Valley bank and freaking 30 grand vanished.
	And I'm like, if I had just used Epic or even Bitcoin for that matter, the money would have made it.
	Right.
	But $30,000 got lost for a long time.
	They finally found it, which is like, you're just proving to me that your whole fiat currency banking system is a piece of garbage that doesn't work anymore.
	You know what, Mike?
	I'm really happy that I came late to the party with crypto.
	Just because...
	I just think about it and I would kick myself, you know, long term, like let's say 2028 and we're looking in the rearview mirror.
	I'd kick myself if I looked at Epic Cash as just a $25 million market cap coin when you have Bitcoin that's a $500 billion blockchain.
	Is it?
	500 billion.
	Yeah.
	And if I was just so set in my ways that orange corn, good Bitcoin or shit coin.
	And I didn't think through that historically, usually advanced tech wins.
	Have you ever have you read the Bitcoin white paper, Mike?
	The Bitcoin white paper?
	I don't recall one single white paper.
	But the Bitcoin white paper, it's worth a read, Satoshi's white paper.
	It's like eight pages.
	But when you read it, it's all about peer-to-peer.
	He mentions trust 12 times.
	Never mentions store of value and any of that.
	And so when I say that Epic Cash is...
	Yeah, that makes sense to me, yeah.
	Right, right.
	And so I've always said, and maybe for your viewers who end up watching this, the way I like to describe Epic Cash to people who are a little bit crypto-savvy is that if Satoshi Nakamoto, who was founder of Epic Cash, I mean, I'm sorry, founder of Bitcoin, he's anonymous.
	We don't know who Satoshi is or who they are, if it's a group.
	But if Satoshi Nakamoto today...
	Had access to today's technology and all of the learnings of the last 12 years, and he can rewind in time, bring that technology with him, he certainly would have wanted private Bitcoin.
	He certainly would have wanted scalable Bitcoin.
	He would have known all of the issues of ordinals, etc.
	And he would have launched...
	Ladies and gentlemen, Epic Cash with Mimble Wimble technology, with Cut-Through technology, with Dandelion, all of these things that make Epic Cash so special.
	Now we're $25 million market cap.
	So what I like to share with people is, you know, better tech usually wins in the long run.
	And you are what your record says you are.
	Remember Bill Parcells, famous football coach, that was his line.
	You are what your record says you are.
	And I like that a lot.
	I had for the Leah Heilpern interview, I had Enrique, He's a wonderful numbers person in our community.
	I had him go back, and from the Black Thursday in 2020, it was March 13th, 2020, when there was that crypto crash, when the world was going to hell in a handbasket because of the boogie virus, right?
	So that was the worst day.
	You know, that was like 1929 in the stock market.
	And so that...
	As the starting point, because I think that's fair, I had them go up to today and take a look when you look at store of value, and I had them compare gold.
	You know, if you did, goodness, if you did, well, let me do percentages first.
	Gold from three years ago to today is up 33%.
	33%.
	Now, Bitcoin kicks some butt.
	It's up 425%.
	Okay?
	What?
	Wait.
	Bitcoin's up 25% from when?
	400 from March 13, 2020.
	I'll send you all of the information.
	Are you sure?
	Are you sure it's up 400%?
	I'm totally sure.
	As of the day that I had my interview with last Monday.
	Okay, because I don't think Bitcoin's back up that high unless it hit some low that I wasn't aware of.
	No, it is.
	It hit a big low.
	Oh, okay.
	It hit a big low.
	Epic Cash, now three years, Leah, she was saying, well, Epic Cash just hasn't stood the test of time.
	So, well, Epic Cash in the last three years is up 14,250%.
	And so, again, Bill Parcells, you are what your record says you are.
	Yeah, but...
	And when you say, stand the test of time, I look at Bitcoin and those dozen years versus gold.
	Okay, but I think the answer to that, though, is we have to look forward because we can always retroactively choose a time window that is favorable.
	To whatever asset, you know, that we might be talking about.
	And Epic is so early, I think, that you would expect very rapid gains in that timeframe, I think.
	I don't mean to disrespect by that, but I think that if you look at the early days of Bitcoin, it had massive thousands of percents gain.
	But then as it matured...
	At certain points.
	At certain points, right.
	But we need to look at what it does from here forward.
	And I strongly believe...
	I don't like to talk to people about...
	Where it might go in terms of dollar value or even Bitcoin swap value, I like to talk to people about the utility value of it.
	Indeed.
	That more and more you'll be able to use Epic to buy the things you want to buy or to send money to people you want to support without government interference.
	I think that establishes the value naturally, organically.
	And then whatever the price goes from that is organic and it's not, you know, manipulate.
	I don't want to see speculators jump into Epic, frankly, and just start manipulating.
	But I think we can get there.
	I think we both can play in this sandbox of discussion because kind of where I was wanting to go with this is people taking a look.
	When I was saying, I'm glad I'm late to the party, is that when people look at Epic Cash and they just hand wave it and say, you know, oh, a $25 million market cap.
	Well, what I look at is, yeah, but when you think about we are undiscovered and what happens when people actually start embracing the tech and embracing the utility of it, to your point, then I think it is...
	It is more probable that you're going to be in an appreciating asset within Epic Cash versus BTC, which is a half a billion versus 25 million.
	I just think there's a greater opportunity when you're speaking to the farmers out there to, wouldn't it be great to be paid in an appreciating asset?
	Well, okay.
	Yeah, but that's a maybe.
	I mean, that's a speculative forward-looking statement that I don't want to count on.
	From my point of view, and I've told you this, and I've said this publicly, I am personally in the process of transitioning my fiat bank savings completely out of fiat banking, especially out of J.P. Morgan.
	Damn you, Jamie Dimon.
	I'm taking it all out of there and I'm putting it into two things.
	I'm putting it into gold and crypto.
	And of course, in crypto, I prefer Epic, but it's not the only coin that I'm holding.
	But I'm doing this personally.
	I would be thrilled, Uncle V. I would be thrilled if Epic...
	Didn't gain and didn't lose a penny either way and just stayed right where it is.
	I would be thrilled because the dollar is losing value every day.
	That's a valid point.
	Yes.
	But the nature of crypto is it is volatile, which means it does go up and it does go down.
	But I get your point.
	But, you know...
	I wouldn't be thrilled if it just stayed the same because I know it's volatile and it could go down a little bit.
	It's just the nature of crypto.
	But I hear you.
	And that's what I've learned a lot from you is focusing on the utility.
	And all of us who've been in this a minute or two, we do suffer from looking at our apps and the price and all of that.
	Let me share something else with you that I think will add a lot of value to the context.
	So I have a non-profit organization, and we had a very wealthy donor that gave us half a million dollars to fund grants to independent alternative media.
	We just sent out those checks last week.
	Okay.
	I think I've told you about this.
	And by the way, a lot of people are receiving those checks right now, and we're going to make that list public.
	But I can tell you, Sherry Tenpenny thanked me for that.
	Oh, nice.
	Yeah, so she was like, this was awesome.
	Thank you so much.
	And a lot of other people are receiving those checks.
	We sent those out through the fiat currency system.
	On the day that we issued those checks, think about it.
	Half a million dollars in donations all in one day, grant money from a non-profit.
	The bill payment service that we used froze all the money, like said, no, we're not going to issue these checks.
	They froze it and tried to contact us.
	Of course, we were busy in meetings and everything, but they wouldn't even honor the checks until they called us back because, of course, fraud control flags.
	So just giving money away in fiat flags their fraud algorithms, which is insane.
	It's not like we're stealing money from it.
	It's just giving it away.
	That's right.
	In the future, and I kid you not, I am so incensed about this.
	In the future, when my non-profit gives away money from now on, this is on the record.
	Hold me to this.
	I am only donating money in Epic Cash because I want it to freaking get there.
	I mean, I'm tired of these banks calling me up and saying, oh, it's too much money.
	It's like...
	What is wrong with you people?
	You know, the banks steal billions with bank bailouts and money printing.
	They steal billions, but if I want to move just half a million in donations, they flag it like I'm some kind of criminal.
	I'm done with that.
	I'm done with it.
	I'm going to use Epic Cash for every donation from here forward.
	And here's what my conversation is going to be like.
	Oh, hi.
	Hey, we love what you're doing.
	Would you like $25,000 because I have that grant money for you?
	And they say, yes, okay, download the Epic Wallet and tell me you receive.
	Yeah, download Epic Pay, tell me you receive.
	Boom, I'll send it.
	It's done.
	That's it.
	That's it.
	Yeah, but what about the, I mean, with all due respect, I do have to show some of our Achilles heel.
	What about Epic Pays?
	Sorry, let me shut that off.
	What about Epic Pays fraud control team?
	There is no fraud.
	There is no, no, it's just private money.
	It's private money, peer-to-peer.
	Right, it's peer-to-peer private money, which is what we need.
	That's what it's supposed to be.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's like, my goodness.
	And then probably that person receiving the money would say, okay, well, what do I do?
	Like, I need to pay some bills.
	How do I get out of Epic?
	And then guess what?
	I get to educate them about, you know, Change Now or whatever services.
	Yeah, you can trade Epic for other, you can trade for Bitcoin.
	You can convert Bitcoin into fiat if you want.
	Or check this out.
	Here's all these other places you could spend Epic, you know.
	Here's all these other places you could spend Epic.
	Here's a strategy where you could take 20% of your Epic and just hold it in a wallet and save it for a rainy day.
	It's beautiful.
	Uncle, I have found the fiat banking system to be like a collapsing building.
	It's like you're trying to get out.
	Like the building is collapsing behind you.
	Or it's like Indiana Jones running out from the first movie and this giant boulder is rolling and there's air ice shooting through the air.
	And he's running out of this cave with his treasure.
	That's what the banking system is like.
	They're always just trying to kill you.
	It's true.
	Or smash you.
	I just so appreciate and respect you, Mike, because you just got me thinking over the last 10 minutes or whatever.
	You know, when you were saying, I'd be happy if it just stayed the same.
	Because why?
	Because you're comparing it to fiat.
	Can you educate people what's happening to the purchasing power of their fiat year over year today?
	By my analysis, you're losing 2% of the purchasing power of your dollar every month.
	Every month.
	Every month.
	Compounding month to month.
	And of course, I include food in that.
	So everybody buys food and you've noticed it took long for food to double, right?
	Also, a lot of other things.
	I mean, a piddly-ass little steak, you know?
	Yeah.
	It used to be an inch and a half nice steak that would be like maybe 20 bucks.
	Now it gets you just as...
	I mean, it's...
	Ridiculous.
	It gets to the point where I just say, screw it.
	Not going to have any steak tonight.
	And I, as a major buyer of food, I've had suppliers triple the prices to me.
	And I talk to restaurant owners that I know.
	I know a lot of entrepreneurs.
	And restaurant owners have told me certain things like crab meat, for example.
	Bulk crab meat, if you buy it as a restaurant owner, that's gone up 400% in less than a year.
	Even just chicken breasts and things like that.
	So you notice the government's inflation numbers don't count food.
	No.
	That's on purpose.
	If you don't count food, it doesn't look that bad.
	If you count food, it's horrible.
	So your dollars are losing so much value.
	And that's why I have advocated people look at gold and silver for all these years.
	Because gold and silver, they are assets against inflation.
	But gold and silver, again, especially silver, if you have a lot of it, you can't take it with you because you can't carry 500 pounds of silver, whatever you have.
	It's very bulky.
	And also, you can't send it remotely, right?
	So I think the perfect combination is to have some precious metals for local trade.
	you have a very bad collapse scenario or the banks totally freeze up for some period of time or the power grid even fails for some period of time, you know, it won't happen forever, but you know, whatever, a few days or something, you can trade with people, you know, you've got some silver, you can trade, you're good.
	But for doing business and for having transactions and sending money to people that you wanna support, RFK Jr.
	said he will accept donations in Bitcoin on the Lightning Network.
	And, you know, I interviewed RFK here on the show.
	I'm very sure that he himself and his staff would be very open to learning about Epic at some point and accepting donations in Epic, which would be perfect.
	Because another use case, if I want to make a political donation, and that candidate is someone that the establishment doesn't like, whether it's RFA or Trump or anybody, you want it to be private.
	Yeah, you don't want them coming after you and freezing your bank account.
	Exactly.
	And that can happen.
	And that's why you shouldn't use a surveillance coin to make donations.
	You should not.
	No, I don't know why.
	We just need to get his team aware of Epic Cash.
	He's a very bright man.
	And I've interviewed him several times over the years.
	And he's very sharp and he's very open-minded.
	Mike, where can people find that interview?
	Well, on my platform, Brighteon.com, which is the free speech platform there.
	I think it's up behind me.
	Brighteon.com.
	You can go there.
	My channel is called HR Report, which stands for Health Ranger Report.
	Or you can just search for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
	You'll find it.
	Hey Mike, one day when I grow up, I want to livestream to Brideon.com.
	Is that possible in the near future?
	Well, it's funny you should ask because...
	build after we finish the tipping system.
	So we've been working on this tipping system for two years.
	Yeah.
	And it's because we want to allow viewers to be able to tip the content creators because yes, brighttown.com is a video platform kind of like YouTube, but without the censorship.
	And, you know, there's over a hundred thousand users and, you know, we buy bandwidth by the petabytes of Wow.
	Because we have a lot of users and viewers.
	So we want to give people the ability to tip the content creators.
	And we actually built a very complex system to allow tipping in fiat where people come in and they use a credit card and they make a purchase and then they get like tokens or chips or whatever we ended up calling them.
	And then they can donate the chips to other people and then those people can cash out the chips for fiat.
	And then guess what?
	We have to get their 1099 tax documents and we have to report to the IRS.
	All of a sudden, we're the custodian of people's fiat currency, which we don't want to be.
	And then secondly, suddenly we're working for the IRS accidentally because we have to do all these documents.
	And then people complain, oh, I cashed out this much.
	There's a penny missing or whatever.
	Oh, my gosh.
	And I think you're at risk of being a security lawyer.
	No, it's just too much hassle.
	So as I was digging into cryptocurrencies and especially privacy coins, I had a discussion with my dev team, which kind of frustrated them because I said, you know all that work you've been doing for two years?
	There's a better way to do that where we're not custodians, where we just let people tip each other.
	And so I'm happy to announce here, thanks for reminding me of this topic, we're going to allow all of our users to enter their Epic wallet receive address on Brighteon, and then if they choose to enter that, then that Epic receive address will appear beneath their videos, and a user can click an icon and get a QR code, or they can just copy and paste, and anybody can donate to that content creator via Epic.
	Guess what?
	And we're not in the middle of it.
	Another use case.
	Another use case.
	Yeah.
	And talk about a step and repeat use case.
	Oh my gosh, that solves so many problems worldwide with content creators.
	Well, yeah.
	And also then think about this.
	So content creators, they get tips in Epic and then they can turn around if they wish and they can purchase food with that same Epic in our store.
	Yeah.
	And they don't have to translate the Epic into anything else.
	So they're not paying all these translation fees, which can be considerable.
	And the other thing is, Uncle, then we're not custodians of their money, which we don't want to be.
	Because I don't want to ever have anybody accuse me, like, oh, you kept my money.
	No, we didn't touch it, man.
	It went peer-to-peer.
	Right, right, right.
	Gosh, that's amazing.
	Yeah, it'll simplify our lives, too.
	Well, Mike, I want to be sensitive because I know you have that next phone call.
	I do.
	But you have been amazing.
	Gosh, we have over 53 watching.
	For me, that's, I don't know, maybe a record.
	Well, wait until we post this.
	I'm going to post this on my channel, and then we'll cross-post it on other platforms, and it'll pick up a lot of views, ultimately, over the next few days.
	That's great.
	Well, for all of you who don't know me, my name's Uncle Vigilante.
	You can find me on YouTube.
	Just search for Uncle Vigilante.
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	Subscribe.
	This is where I unapologetically cover Epic Cash, usually two to three live streams a week.
	I try to get a lot of great special guests on, but my blockbuster guest today has been my favorite.
	There, I said it.
	And Mike, it's just ever since I met you, since we first started talking and then I had the good fortune of receiving an invite from you to come see your amazing facility and your studios and everything.
	Ever since then, it just feels like you're my twin brother from a different mother and it's just been so fun and I'm so grateful that you've spent almost an hour and a half on this show.
	You're so easy to talk to, Uncle V. And look, I owe you a lot of credit.
	I've listened to a lot of your content.
	I've learned a lot from your channel.
	And I would encourage people to check out your channel if they want to stay up to date on Epic in particular.
	Uncle Vigilante is the channel name, right?
	It is.
	And yeah, we want to get you live streaming on Brighttown as soon as we have that tech available.
	But first, we want our tipping system to be available.
	But first, before that, we need to see the Change Now system go live.
	So that's kind of the order of things.
	With that, I think I want to give our whole community an update, okay?
	So we know that Change Now, the target date is to implement on May 31st, so right around the corner.
	I want to let everybody know, though, because I want to level set expectations, because if not anything...
	Uncle V tells the truth, even if it's not what you want to hear.
	I sense that there are expectations out there that when we integrate with Change Now, that Shazam, the Epic Pay Wallet, is going to automatically go from send, receive, to send, receive, buy, sell, and swap.
	No, that's not going to be the case.
	That's going to take a lot of UI work, and frankly, it's going to take another raise from the community to be able to fund that because Diego Salazar has real costs to be able to do that.
	But that's what we're all about, right?
	So I just want to level set that expectation.
	There may be a little button that'll say buy, and then it'll be in an iframe or something that will go to ChangeNow.
	But you will be able to buy Epic Cash on ChangeNow.
	That's ChangeNow.io.
	And you will be able to buy with credit card, debit card, if you go through KYC. If you don't and you have crypto assets, you're going to be able to swap those for Epic Cash.
	And when you do, you simply put your receive address of your Epic Pay wallet or your GUI wallet.
	So I just wanted to be crystal clear on that.
	And...
	We're also, though, going to integrate some code into BuyEpicCash.com, where we'll be like you are buying from ChangeNow, but it'll be all nice within our website, I hope.
	I'm probably overcommitting something, Spencer.
	I'm sorry.
	Uncle, I would just say, look.
	You keep building it, you and your team, you keep building the infrastructure, and I'm going to keep applying it.
	Okay?
	I mean, that's my bottom line.
	Whatever you build, I'm going to use.
	And I'm going to show others what we're doing and even share code with them, whatever code we write, you know, to integrate.
	I'll just open source that code and share it with others.
	I'm so sick of the banking system, of the fiat system.
	I just want money that just does what it's supposed to do, which is go.
	Go to that person.
	Not get confiscated.
	Privacy.
	It's critical.
	I just want money that works.
	That's all.
	So Epic Cash, as far as I can tell, is the best system of digital money that I've ever seen.
	It's the best system that exists today from all the research that I've done and we intend to apply it in every way you can.
	So whatever you build, I don't know all the names that you just mentioned there, but whatever they can build, we'll use it.
	That's great.
	That's great.
	Wow!
	What a live stream, everyone in the chat.
	What do you think, huh?
	Maybe give some claps in there.
	And I have recorded this, Mike, so I will get that to you and your team.
	But gosh, this was fun.
	I hope we can do it every once in a while as we move forward.
	Give people maybe a monthly update.
	You up for that?
	Yeah, I'm totally up for that.
	As long as change now happens, I just want to see these steps take place because we need that too in order to integrate these things.
	You know what's funny?
	It's like we were having a call today.
	It's like I'm nervous because we haven't really heard from their devs.
	And every...
	Nobody else seems to be nervous except me.
	Okay, Mike.
	Well, thank you very much.
	And, man, this was awesome.
	Everyone in the chat, thank you.
	And we will see you on Friday at noon, Epic Cash Live.
	Cheers.
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	Welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, the free speech platform, and we are joined today by a journalist, author, and analyst, and world traveler.
	She's from Japan.
	Her name is Masako Ganaha, and I've got her Twitter handle up here.
	It's Kanaha Masako is her Twitter handle.
	There's her Twitter page.
	And she was recently also in Panama, by the way.
	And we have a lot to talk about globally, including the cultural imperialism of the United States, pushing all kinds of agendas, woke agendas on Japan.
	So Masako, it's an honor to have you on.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity.
	It's my honor.
	I'm a little bit nervous.
	Oh, not at all.
	We're honored to have you on here because you do incredible work.
	Michael Jan has lots of words of praise about your work.
	Let's start with just a little bit of background about what you do and your analysis in journalism and travels and so on.
	What's your background?
	Yes.
	I'm born and raised in Okinawa.
	It's a little island located in the southern part of Japan.
	And I'm sure many American people know Okinawa because we have many U.S. bases.
	So the town I live in is a very controversial place because of the Camp Schwab.
	I'm not going into detail, but I am pro-America, and I love American people.
	So, because a local newspaper in Okinawa lies so much, and it's like playing divide and conquer strategy for China to demilitarize Okinawa, I started to do my activity to let many Japanese people know what's really happening in Okinawa and also about CCP threat to my country.
	This is where I started.
	And then I decided to go to the United States in 2020 to report on US presidential election.
	And that's when this international reporting career started.
	Well, I'm really glad to hear that and thank you for all that you've done.
	I'm glad you brought in the CCP because I do want to talk about that as well.
	And I know that the CCP wants Japan to be disarmed and defenseless in addition to Taiwan.
	And like you, I love the American people.
	I love America.
	I am American.
	But I also love the people of Taiwan.
	I love the people of Japan.
	I want each country there to be its own nation, its own sovereignty, its own culture, its own people.
	And all of those things are under attack right now, especially in Japan, are they not?
	Yes, it's under attack.
	And I think everything can be understood by this famous phrase, divide and conquer.
	And again, there are heavy information operations played by Japanese media and medias all over the world.
	And so this time, actually now, a huge topic discussed in Japan is LGBT law.
	And suddenly, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, he pushed this legislation to pass.
	And it was so obvious interference of domestic affairs.
	So I am one of the Japanese who are very shocked and concerned.
	Well, tell us about that legislation.
	What does it do?
	So to begin with, there is no discrimination against those people.
	But also we have good tradition to co-exist with those people without admitting ideology.
	But this legislation uses this term self-identification of gender.
	So if you say you're Female.
	Then people have to accept it and welcome this person as female.
	So this is the tricky part.
	Many Japanese people are concerned.
	It's not specifically written what this self-identification is.
	So that's why many Japanese people are against it.
	But, because of this heavy push by this US ambassador using his Twitter, and he also created video content.
	On the day, LDP, our major political party, the committee was about to discuss this on the final stage, he made this video.
	And he also made this video putting comments from other ambassadors, including EU or many countries in Europe.
	So we are very shocked to hear this.
	What should we say?
	Instead of appreciating our culture, Being ambassador, they are destroying our culture.
	Yes, well, the United States excels at that, by the way.
	The U.S. is destroying its own culture as well.
	So you're not alone in that.
	But just for those watching who may not be familiar with Japanese culture, and correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that Japan is culturally quite conservative.
	Very much pro-family, family values.
	Japanese culture is difficult for foreigners to penetrate.
	It's almost impossible for, let's say, an American to ever really be accepted.
	In traditional Japanese culture.
	But as a result, Japan's culture is very strong.
	It's very resilient.
	It has a very strong national identity as Japanese.
	Does all of that sound correct?
	Or would you add to that?
	Or did I say anything that is not right?
	Thank you very much for recognizing my country like you just told me.
	But I'm afraid it was sort of like in the past.
	Now, Japan cannot maintain our culture without...
	What should we say?
	Because of this heavy brainwashing conducted in our school system, many Japanese people actually cannot sing our national anthem.
	What?
	Are you kidding me?
	That's the level of seriousness we have here.
	So, for example, if you have a Japanese flag in front of your house for national holiday, let's say, you will be considered to be ultra-right.
	That's great, but that's like it is in America now.
	If you wave the American flag, you're condemned as a far-right person.
	No, you just love your nation.
	Yes, but it comes...
	Actually, it's very difficult to explain it to you in short sentences, but I would say Democrat America made this to cause.
	Because after World War II, there was this information operation led by the government.
	It's called World Guilt Information Program.
	A lot of this program contained a lot of information censorship and did a school system not to teach us, To love our country.
	Just like what you American kids taught in America, it was done to us a long time ago.
	But I must emphasize that it was done not by patriotic American people, but should we say the deep state or the Democrat people?
	They did it to us.
	You know, Japanese people, we love America, so we accepted this information operation, because we thought, many Japanese people thought, that now we are going to enter this new era, and we wanted to have good relationship with America, so we accepted it.
	But it caused a very serious issue, so that's part of it.
	Well, I would pray.
	I mean, thank you for that explanation, Masako.
	And I'm really shocked to hear that.
	But I would pray that Japan does not follow the United States down the rat hole of self-destruction.
	Because the U.S. right now, with its influence...
	Is gathering Western allies to destroy them, to destroy their cultures, to destroy their children, destroy their education, destroy their economies.
	And so among those Western nations, of course, is Western Europe, you know, the United Kingdom and Germany and so on, but also then New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Japan, Canada, and a few other allies.
	And yet we don't see China...
	Destroying its own culture like that.
	China is not buying into, for example, the transgender agenda, nor is Russia or other nations like Iran outside of the Western influence.
	It's just these Western-influenced nations that are following the United States into this suicide mission, it seems to me.
	That's my view as an American.
	What's your reaction to that?
	Yes, to me, it looks like those American, not American people by heart, but American citizens, they are destroying your country.
	I was an exchange student when I was 15 years old, and I had a nice birthday surprise.
	When I turned 16.
	So I know how America was great at that time.
	And I had a great host family.
	And they are very faithful Christians.
	So I know those like warm, reimagine America culture.
	But now I cannot recognize it anymore.
	Yeah, there are so many ways our nations are being torn apart.
	One thing I'm aware of about Japan that I've read and have covered is that young Japanese couples are not getting married and they're not having babies.
	And there's no replenishment, or very little demographically, of Japan's population.
	That Japan's population is actually in a rather alarming decline, a generational decline.
	Is that what you're seeing as well?
	Yes, now those people with ideology started to say we have to recognize the new type of family, meaning not getting married, but they want to pretend to be married, or two women want to be recognized as their marriage, or that kind of destroying our Japanese culture.
	And yes, the birth rate is under 2, so we are not having enough children.
	But interestingly, there are heavy push of eating insects or doing this environmental activist saying we have to protect our nature or world because there are too many people.
	Why would Japanese people have to eat bugs or do this CO2 emission ideology because of this mass of too many people on Earth when we don't have enough people in Japan?
	So everything does not make...
	So those logics do not meet.
	So Japan is falling apart.
	Yes, following those ideology coming from, I would say, from outside.
	Okay.
	See, that's shocking for a lot of Americans to hear that even in Japan, they're trying to get you to eat bugs.
	We know that's happening in Europe.
	We know that's happening in America and Canada.
	I'm just shocked.
	But it seems like The Western influence on Japan is very sad, and I think it's very destructive to Japan as a nation, but also its economy.
	Now, let's talk about economics here for a moment.
	We know that the yen is in real trouble, that the Japanese central bank has been trying to protect its currency in desperate measures.
	Which in some ways, it's even more desperate than what we have in the United States with our central bank trying to protect our currency.
	But both of our governments, yours and mine, share the same fate, do they not?
	Which is printing their way into collapse.
	Fiat currency collapse because they cannot ever stop spending.
	Is there a lot of awareness of that in Japan right now and the problems with the yen and the central banks?
	Yes, but at the same time, if we were to talk about general Japanese people, many Japanese people do not aware of this crisis or us being treated as slaves.
	So governments say we have so much debt, so we have to print more money, and also we have to tax more.
	That's the situation happening.
	But Japanese people do not understand this behavior of our government as part of a globalist agenda, and our government measures are not taking place.
	To protect our country.
	So what I'm trying to do now in Japan is to bring awareness of what is happening on a global scale.
	It's not just the problem in Japan.
	In order to understand what is happening in my country in Japan, we have to understand what is happening globally.
	So I'm trying to bring the awareness to this global level.
	I don't know if I answered your questions correctly.
	Well, yes!
	We appreciate all the information that you're providing here.
	Let me ask you this, though.
	Your Twitter page is in Japanese.
	Do you do most of your reporting in Japanese?
	Or is it somewhat in English?
	So when I go abroad, I interview people in English.
	So I publish stuff in English.
	Yes, and many people ask me if I should produce more in English, but my main purpose is to wake Japanese people up.
	And many Japanese people do not speak English or read, so most of the stuff I do is in Japanese, yes.
	Okay, so let me ask you this then.
	Now, do you live in Japan most of the time?
	I do live in Japan, but now I spend time more abroad than in my country.
	Okay.
	Do the people of Japan, do they feel threatened by, for example, North Korea's missile launches, which sometimes go over the country of Japan and its territory?
	Do they feel threatened by North Korea and do they feel threatened by the CCP? It is very difficult to just answer Japanese people.
	So the bottom line, many Japanese people are living in flower heaven.
	We say people who are not aware of this crisis, we call it, oh, they are in flower heaven, meaning they are not aware, and they think that they are in a peaceful moment.
	You can tell us what's the Japanese idiom, the term for that?
	Ohana batake.
	Ohana Batake, okay.
	Yes.
	Okay, cool.
	Flower heaven.
	It's like a delusional utopia or something.
	Yes, yes.
	And they are always in peace as long as they listen to the government.
	Okay, yeah, we have those people too, yes.
	Okay, so let's go back to your question.
	Many Japanese people are so used to those missiles launched by North Korea.
	So every time we hear the news, we say, oh, it happened again.
	But they are not aware that it will fall on our soil.
	So they are also worried, but they are not prepared and they are not analyzing what's happening to them.
	Right, and I think this is a global challenge to get people to live in reality of what's happening, but Japan's proximity to North Korea and proximity to China and history of conflict with China Plus,
	Japan's necessary dependence on the importation of certain resources puts Japan in a very sensitive position, a very vulnerable position, some might argue, in some ways.
	How does Japanese leadership navigate that?
	Being a Western ally, being an ally of the United States, which is not there, but China's right there.
	How does Japan thread that needle, as we say in English?
	So, your question is, how does Japanese leadership handle this situation?
	Yeah, how does Japan's leadership plan to make the nation safe from the CCP, even though its allies are so far away?
	Yes.
	Now, the government...
	It's trying to build up Japanese military back again.
	So when we talk about the military issue in Japan, the topic everybody has in my mind is about our Constitution.
	Our Constitution contains Article 9, which is we abandon war as a means to negotiate with others.
	So We say we are only to protect us.
	There is no defense and offense separate.
	But we only say we are to defense.
	So the law, Article 9, many conservatives are saying we have to toss out this Article 9.
	This is the beginning of actually our company to be truly independent.
	That's why we have to rely on the United States too much, and which will cause a lot of, what should I say, not inconvenience, but, okay, because of Article 9, the Constitution we have, U.S. Ambassador, Ron Emanuel, can interfere our domestic affairs like he did.
	Right.
	So we cannot just say whatever we think to America because we are relying on America to protect us.
	Well, exactly.
	And I think the US State Department wants it that way to where Japan is forced to obey the demands of America, which America has become the imperialist nation.
	That Japan once projected that in 1945, but the world's a very different place now.
	And if anybody is the imperialist today, it's the United States.
	And Japan, I believe every nation has the right to defend itself.
	I think every person has the right to defend themselves.
	Doesn't Japan...
	Because Japan has so much...
	Outstanding technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, scientific knowledge, just extraordinary, world-class, right?
	Doesn't Japan have its own...
	I mean, you don't have to answer this if this is going to get you into trouble, but I would imagine Japan has super-secret weapons programs to defend itself in emergencies, because you have a country full of amazing engineers, right?
	What are your thoughts?
	Well, I hope we do.
	That's what I would say.
	Because I don't have that kind of information, but I hope we do.
	But it seems we are too much relying on the United States.
	And most of the politicians, when we talk about our defense, we consider how much America can protect us.
	Is it written in paper?
	Like how these American politicians think about protecting our country.
	That's most of the questions or concerns Japanese leadership have.
	So I hope we do.
	Right.
	But see, maintaining favor from the United States as the U.S. is increasingly insane.
	Maintaining that favor is becoming impossible.
	Even Taiwan is in a very similar situation as what you just described.
	Taiwan depends on the United States for its defense in so many ways.
	Weapons supplies, military training, the presence of the United States Navy in the waters near Taiwan and also near Japan.
	But the U.S. Navy, getting back to the cultural issue, the U.S. Navy is now promoting transgenderism.
	More than, you know, effective fighting techniques.
	The U.S. Navy is becoming an embarrassment to the military history of the United States.
	And I say that as someone who supports veterans, by the way.
	And I know many veterans.
	And they are incensed.
	They are angry about what the Navy has become.
	And the woke push, the LGBT push in the military, you can't have wokeness and combat effectiveness.
	You can't have them both simultaneously.
	Either your ship is going to function as a projection of power, kinetic power, drone power, missile power, whatever, or you can dedicate your aircraft carrier to drag queen storytime hour, cross-dressing drag shows and transgenderism parties or whatever.
	But that's not an effective fighting force.
	So, the more woke the US military becomes, the more vulnerable Japan and Taiwan become, in my assessment.
	What's your take?
	I completely agree with you.
	And actually, not so many people, Japanese people, are aware of this wokeism in US military.
	Right now, I'm trying to address to Japanese people that we are relying on too much on the United States, but at the same time, America is struggling within their nation.
	So, actually, these things can be seen in a different perspective also.
	I think our crisis also can be a chance So if Japanese people see this, oh, we cannot be relying on this, on United States, then we have to wake up.
	So hard time, I hope, this hardship will wake Japanese people up.
	That's what I also think.
	Yes, but at the same time, I think, and of course everybody, I think, shares this thinking.
	Destiny for the United States and Japan are the same.
	And Taiwan, too.
	If Taiwan fails, then Japan fails.
	And if America collapses, then it's a collapse of my country, too.
	Exactly.
	Yes, so we have to unite with correct counterparts and rebuild good relationship allies, true people, with true people.
	Yeah, I completely agree.
	We also have to have honest money between our nations and our governments.
	As you said, if the United States collapses, Japan is at risk of some sort of collapse as a result.
	What happens if the U.S. dollar loses its world reserve status?
	We're already seeing many signs of de-dollarization.
	This will affect Japan.
	This will affect Japan's abilities to acquire resources such as oil and energy, by the way, because you can't do all those trades just in the yen, right?
	You have to exchange for dollars here and there in order to get that done.
	We are all in kind of the same boat, which is interesting, isn't it?
	How much history has changed.
	We're all in the same boat.
	And this boat is sinking from my point of view as an American.
	Our country here, our republic is being lost here rapidly.
	Not just our culture, but our infrastructure, our military, our economy, our borders.
	The rule of law, reason and rationality are vanishing by the day.
	And the implications...
	Will be global as the United States falls, if indeed that's what happens.
	I hope we can prevent it, but I'm afraid that we're going to have to just live through the collapse and then rebuild it.
	That's where I think this is headed.
	Your thoughts on that?
	Yes.
	The more I know about the reality, the more depressed I get sometimes.
	Sorry to hear that.
	I always try to be, what should I say, look good future because I think collapse, I think we are the ones who will decide our country to fail or not because as long as we have hope then they cannot defeat us and there has been so many miracles in the past so I always believe that we can win.
	And at least we know each other, like many Japanese people started to wake up, and many American people who are raising, they are now trying to build the bridges.
	So we know who are the allies, real allies, and who are the real enemies.
	So we know this.
	So I think we are starting a good fight.
	By the way, I think this conversation is really valuable, and I so much appreciate it.
	I think, frankly, I'd like to post this video on our platform and other platforms and allow you to post it if you'd like, if you think it's valuable, because I think that Japanese-speaking people would find this to be a very refreshing viewpoint on what's going on in the world.
	Yes, and because you talk so directly, that's what Japanese people need.
	You know, when we talk...
	Yes, yes.
	You know, many Japanese people, like, we wanted to be, like, direct, but at the same time, we have to rely on America.
	So how much can we be so direct to American people?
	So we are sort of like this...
	I understand.
	Yes, no, as an American, I can say these things, and I'm a Texan, I'm an American, I'm pro-military, you know, I support our veterans, and I support the American dream and so on, and yet I am saying these things, I'm observing these things as Americans.
	A well-informed American.
	I just...
	I think that if we could have Japanese subtitles and then we could post this a second time with the subtitles, I think that would be very widely shared and might be very valuable to some people.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	Let's...
	Okay, let's do that.
	We'll plan on that.
	Okay.
	So what else is on your mind globally?
	Because you travel, I saw you on video in Panama recently.
	I guess you're watching the ongoing migrant invasion of the United States down there.
	Is that what you were doing?
	Yes.
	Earlier you mentioned a very famous war correspondent, Michael Yan.
	Yes.
	And I constantly send messages and I get information from him too.
	And he's now down in Texas, I believe.
	And I saw the footage also, and I went to Panama with other journalists too.
	And I know, I understand.
	People in Texas, they are not just in border, they are in war zone.
	That's what I think.
	That's right.
	We don't see this kinetic war, bullets flying by, but it is invasion, it's war.
	So Japanese people need to realize our biggest ally is in war, and American people There are many American people who are not realizing what is happening.
	And who is causing this war?
	I'm afraid.
	It's American government letting those migrants in.
	Or I should not use the term migrants.
	It's illegal aliens.
	Correct.
	So it's a very twisted world.
	Well, yeah.
	There are very strong differences between what the people of Japan experience, being an island nation largely, where the ocean is your border, right?
	And in Texas, we have no border.
	We literally have no border.
	People just walk right across.
	They are invited across.
	By the Biden regime, I would call them.
	The government actually helps the illegals come in and they get free stuff and then they get transported and deposited in cities across America.
	I can't imagine Japan would ever put up with that.
	But in America, for some reason, we do.
	But the other difference, well, there are a couple, is that here in Texas where I am, we are all heavily armed, by the way.
	Even half the people who work here at my facility are armed.
	They carry guns every day, and so do I. And I know in Japan, very few people carry firearms.
	It's not, you know, you don't have the Second Amendment there.
	And also, it's not, there's not nearly as much You know, shootings happening in Japan compared to America.
	So we see Japan as a far more orderly and less violent society than what we are living through in Texas, which is violence, especially in the cities, Democrat-controlled cities, there is extreme violence every day.
	I won't even go into the city of Austin unless I absolutely have to.
	And if I do go in, I will make sure in my vehicle that I am legally carrying an AR-15.
	Again, legally, not illegal, but legally transporting a rifle in case something happens and I need it to protect innocent lives, perhaps my own, or perhaps even the lives of law enforcement.
	By the way, I'm pro-law enforcement.
	I know a lot of cops and sheriffs and former Navy SEALs and so on, but Those differences are rather sharp, are they not, in terms of what Japanese society looks like and what it's like to live in a border state like Texas?
	Yes, yes.
	When I visited America, I felt, oh, I have to protect myself.
	That's what I learned.
	So I understand the situation and concerns you are facing.
	And I would like to take this chance.
	And as a Japanese, I would like to ask for many Americans that please, please protect your Second Amendment.
	I did not understand how important Second Amendment is.
	Until I visited America in 2020.
	And I learned this global issue and Japan, we cannot, ultimately, we cannot protect ourselves from the government if something happens.
	But only American people on Earth can protect yourself and that will stop the collapse of America.
	So it means it will protect the collapse of the world, including helping protecting Japan.
	That's what I understand, the importance of the Second Amendment.
	You have a greater understanding of the Second Amendment than most Americans do, by the way.
	So thank you for that.
	It's very serious.
	And they're going to come after those Second Amendment hard, even harder, I believe.
	So I really pay huge respect to those American people who are protecting the Second Amendment, including you.
	And please keep doing so.
	Yeah, and we shall.
	Trust me, we're in Texas and we're not giving up our Second Amendment under any circumstances.
	But another key difference is that in American society, it's very easy for the media to divide people based on skin color, race, ethnicity.
	Or religion, but right now they focus on skin color and sometimes, I guess, transgenderism, LGBT versus everybody else.
	In Japan, it's more difficult for the globalists to divide your society because it's more homogeneous.
	People are mostly of the same ethnicity, so you don't have stark skin color variations that can easily be exploited, for example.
	And in the case of trouble or a collapse, my perception, and I want to ask you this, but my perception is that the Japanese people are more amenable to helping each other to overcome a crisis, an earthquake, let's say, a tsunami.
	The Japanese people rally together and tend to help each other, whereas the American people just shoot each other and steal and rob and burn down shops.
	It's chaos.
	The American people, I think it's been driven by the media to drive everybody insane, psychological warfare.
	There's so much division that it's not safe, especially after a collapse scenario.
	Is my perception of Japan accurate in your view?
	Yes, Japanese, we are very good at helping each other when crisis happens.
	But at the same time, we just witnessed what happens or how Japanese people behave when media successfully deploy information operation, for example, the pandemic.
	You will be surprised to see how many Japanese people still wearing masks.
	I know.
	Even in Taiwan, too.
	People love the masks, I tell you.
	Yes.
	I mean, they are afraid of standing up by themselves.
	True.
	And many, they are saying the same thing.
	Oh, if others will take off, then I will take off.
	And they are waiting for everybody else, and everybody else is not changing.
	So, I'm trying to convince Japanese people our weakness is...
	Explained by this saying, the road to hell is paved with good intention.
	You got it.
	That's the phrase Japanese people have to learn.
	Our good point is turning back against us.
	Yeah, you make a good point.
	The American people are very independent-minded, especially Texans, and so that's where we're strong.
	Like, you can't really tell us what to do, a lot of us.
	I mean, I guess some, but a lot of us are just, no, we're not going to obey your stupid government demands, basically.
	That's part of the American spirit.
	And I see what you're saying.
	You know, I lived in Taiwan.
	I speak a fair amount of Mandarin Chinese.
	And I've noticed that a lot of Asian cultures tend to be rather obedient to authority.
	More so than most Texans, for example, or many Americans.
	And you're right.
	That can also be a detriment sometimes if your government authorities are lying to you, which is what they did during COVID. And people are afraid to speak out or to stand out from the crowd, right?
	Very common in Japanese culture, as I believe so.
	I'm not...
	I'm not in any way attempting to insult the culture.
	I'm just saying this is a property of Japanese culture that is real.
	Would you agree with that?
	Yes.
	And actually, there is a term we use.
	It's a wa.
	Have you heard of wa?
	We say wa.
	It's W-A-wa.
	It means harmony.
	So we want to keep this harmony or circle And so we would like to follow others and do the same as others.
	This characteristic of our culture has been the good point.
	But then, when our government started to change and it's not looking at us but looking at something else, then this wa is turned back and then used against us.
	So, I say we need plus instead of minus.
	Good point.
	Right.
	And you mentioned that perhaps the Japanese leadership is answering to some other external force or external influence rather than meeting the needs of the Japanese people.
	And I believe that's exactly what's happening in the United States as well, that the Biden regime is answering to the globalists.
	And the globalists' interests are to destroy America.
	To destroy our infrastructure, take down our energy supply, remove freedom of speech, which is happening at an alarming rate, to have our country occupied and invaded by non-citizens, which is also happening by the millions, as you know.
	These globalist forces probably are trying to destroy both your country and mine, Masako.
	We're both being targeted.
	Yes, yes.
	That's why I want to build strong friendship, true friendship, with true American people.
	And Japanese people need to realize that.
	And back to this LGBT law, Japanese people were shocked by this experience.
	You know, LDP, our domain political party, they had a committee.
	And actually, They were against more than pro.
	But then the chair ignored this vote.
	And they said that it's up to this chairperson.
	That's how they proceeded.
	That's shocking.
	It is shocking.
	So by this, we all witnessed.
	They don't care about democracy or vote anymore.
	So there is an existence of outside pressure.
	Because for us Japanese, we don't act like that.
	Look, my interpretation is that the transgender agenda in particular is about the destruction of the family and the destruction of reproduction and the destruction of population.
	So the fastest way for the globalists to destroy Japan and destroy the United States, it's the same method, is to destroy the family unit, have children mutilated to where they can never reproduce, And also, of course, vaccine mandates, which cause their own problems with sickness and disability, infertility and death.
	But by destroying the culture, they can convince more people to never marry, never have families, never be parents, and then you're only a generation or two away from a country, frankly, collapsing in terms of its population and economy.
	I think both of our countries are on that trajectory right now, sadly.
	Yes, I think the characteristic of the United States and characteristic of Japan is different, but they are trying to push us the same result.
	And I think one of the characteristics that they are imposing is apathy, the state of apathy of our nation.
	And I think we can see this phenomena in Japan already, sort of.
	Recently, I interviewed a man who married a doll.
	Have you heard of it?
	Married a doll?
	Yes.
	Like a famous anime character.
	Oh, no, I have not heard of that, but it does not surprise me.
	Yes.
	So, this kind of phenomenon is happening.
	It's not just one case.
	There are many of them.
	And, of course, our government did not issue the certificate for marriage, but one company started issuing the pretending certificate.
	Well, why not?
	It's a pretend wife, so it should be a pretend certificate.
	Yes.
	Yeah, but this is an example of what I'm talking about.
	I mean, the sustainability of your civilization depends on reproduction.
	You must have mothers and fathers and healthy children that can themselves have children one day, and all of that is under attack in both our countries.
	Masako, I want to mention here, I see on your Twitter page you have a locals.com page.
	Is that active?
	Yes, it's active, and I have to publish more.
	Okay, alright, so here it is, masakoganaha.locals.com, and people can support you there too.
	Do you have a subscription option there?
	Yes, if people could support me, that would be helpful.
	Okay, outstanding.
	Yeah, look at all this content.
	This is great.
	I'm really glad you're posting there.
	I also want to encourage people that if they find your message to be important, they should consider supporting you and visiting your site on Locals.com.
	And, of course, inviting you.
	You're always welcome to launch a channel with us at Brighttown.com and post your videos there.
	And soon we'll have a tipping system in place where you can receive financial tips from viewers.
	Thank you very much.
	Absolutely.
	You're very welcome to join.
	Before we wrap this up today, what final thoughts do you want to leave our audience with?
	Yes, I'd like to once again tell American people that we have to be united.
	There are many Japanese people who are waking up and I'm telling those people, we are not alone.
	So we have the same enemy, so we can get united, and that's when we can fight effectively.
	And one more thing I'd like to experience, share.
	When I was an exchange student, I went to a local high school.
	I was a sophomore, and I was surprised.
	After the lunch break, I think, when the class started, bell rang suddenly, and then all the students stood up and did this pledge to allegiance.
	It was very surprising, but I was very happy that I could experience this, and still I can say it.
	So please protect this beautiful culture.
	I respect it.
	Well, thank you so much.
	Yes, when I went through all my childhood school, we stood up and said the Pledge of Allegiance every day.
	And those words ring true today more than ever before.
	And I'm glad you recognize that.
	And thank you for your time today.
	This is really a fascinating interview, and I would invite you back.
	So we can continue to have discussions, especially as additional events unfold in our worlds, both of our worlds, that are going to be, I think, rather historic, we'll say, financially and otherwise.
	But thank you for joining me today.
	It's an honor to have you on.
	Thank you so much.
	Absolutely.
	So again, folks, Masako Ganaha, G-A-N-A-H-A, Masako Ganaha is the Locals.com and also the Twitter channel here.
	And you can follow her work even more if you speak Japanese.
	You can follow more work, but we'll have her on to do interviews in English.
	English is excellent, Masako, by the way.
	I know English is not an easy language to learn, especially all of our idioms and the strange way that we name the months of our calendar, among other things.
	But, you know, you've done a great job, so thank you.
	I appreciate you joining us today.
	Thank you so much.
	Yeah.
	For those of you watching, again, I'm Mike Adams here at Brighttown.com.
	I'm just laughing because I learned Chinese and I was amazed how simple it was to do like days of the week and calendar months of the year.
	It's so simple in Chinese and in English.
	We just make it crazy complicated for no reason whatsoever.
	Like November is NOV, which should be nine months.
	But instead, it's 11.
	The English system is pretty insane sometimes, but Masako's nailing it.
	So this has been a really wonderful conversation.
	Thank you again, Masako.
	And for all of you watching, share this with your friends.
	You can repost this.
	And Masako said we'll have a Japanese subtitled version, I guess, here coming up soon.
	And we'll repost that separately.
	But if you know people in Japan or in the Japanese communities that are all over the world, including many on the west coast of the United States, share this video with them, see what they think about it, and feel free to repost it on other platforms.
	Thank you for watching today.
	Mike Adams here, the founder of Brighteon.com.
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