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Sept. 1, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Sep 1, 2023 - 61% of Americans now living paycheck to paycheck...

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	Welcome to Bright Town Broadcast News for Friday, September 1st.
	I'm almost confused.
	Yeah, it's September now.
	Can you believe that?
	It's Friday, September 1st, 2023.
	Welcome.
	Thank you for joining me.
	Mike Adams here.
	And we've got an interview coming up today with Maria Z from Z Media.
	And it's a very special interview because Maria joined me in studio.
	Yes, she is in Central Texas, and she dropped by the studio, and we had a great time.
	Maria's a super awesome gal.
	And I gotta say, she was a ton of fun because you know how I like to joke around with people, and not everybody likes that.
	Some people, sometimes it offends people.
	Not Maria.
	Like halfway during the interview, I'm like, Maria...
	Can you break out like an American accent?
	Because she's from Australia, as you probably know.
	Can you just do an American accent?
	And she did.
	And she just dropped like an Arkansas accent right there in the studio.
	Hi, y'all.
	Maybe she didn't say y'all, but she said something that was like, wow, that sounds like Arkansas or North Texas or something.
	And then I tried an Australian accent and she said, what the hell was that?
	And basically I lost that competition quite clearly.
	But you can hear her Arkansas accent, which is pretty darn good, in the interview coming up today later in the show.
	So great job, Maria, on the international linguistics.
	And then on top of that, I got her to handle my pistol.
	I said, what about Glocks in Australia?
	And she said, what's a Glock?
	And I'm like, oh, come on now, you're in Texas?
	You're not even allowed in the state if you don't know what a Glock is.
	So I gave her my Glock and made it safe and everything.
	And then she picked it up and she said...
	This would get you arrested in Australia.
	Like, well, we're not there, girl, and we're not going anytime soon.
	But yeah, no, Australia is like some kind of anti-gun police state.
	And then we talked about that during the interview.
	But I had a table full of knives and, well, at least one gun.
	I had a Glock 19 there.
	On this particular day.
	And I gotta say, I think she was a little jealous.
	I think that she was really wishing she could have all the weapons that a Texan can have.
	I know.
	I saw a little gleam in her eye about that.
	A little bit of jealousy right there.
	Maybe you can pick that up.
	But that interview is coming up here a little bit later on today's broadcast with Maria Zee.
	Now, before we go on, I did want to tell you I've been really working on my Kung Fu game.
	I'm just working it hard, and I just want to share this photo with you of my Kung Fu training.
	It was kind of a montage, but here it is.
	Kung Fu Mike in training.
	Take a look.
	Yeah, that's right.
	I've got to thank Dean Ryan for that from Real Deal Media.
	He put that together.
	It's part of a funny comic strip thing that he does with people.
	And he calls me Kung Fu Mike.
	And so there you go.
	That's that.
	That's me looking a little bit like Jackie Chan or something.
	I'm not sure what you call that hairstyle.
	What is that?
	Is that like a Chinese mullet?
	Sort of?
	What is that?
	I know in Chinese, when men have a hairstyle like women, kind of like that, we call that, I think, mei mei to, which means like a young girl's head.
	It's what, mei mei to.
	There you go.
	Kung Fu Mike with a mei mei to.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Moving on.
	Moving on.
	Before we get into the headlines, I want to thank you for your support.
	A lot of people are taking advantage of the Labor Day sales event that we have going on right now and over the next few days through Labor Day at healthrangerstore.com slash Labor Day if you want to see all the sales there.
	A ton of stuff on sale.
	A lot of new products.
	I covered it yesterday in more detail.
	I'm not going to spend a lot of time on it today.
	But check it out.
	I've got my new line of Health Ranger Survival Gear knives.
	That people are absolutely loving.
	And I think the mass ratio knife is just about sold out.
	It might be by the time you hear this, but that's selling very rapidly.
	We're trying to get more made.
	We've got the AquaPail water filter and the Juvent kinetic energy plates or the micro impact plates.
	Those are available now.
	And a lot of new products in our store.
	So a lot of things on sale as well.
	HealthRangerStore.com slash Labor Day.
	Thank you for your support.
	Now, in terms of mainstream headlines, and on a serious note, I know I prefer to spend the whole podcast just goofing around, but eventually we have to get to real news because there are serious things going on in the world.
	And one of those serious things that is just a horrifying headline to have to read for you is this one involving Joe Biggs.
	Ex-Proud Boys organizers sentenced to 17 years in prison.
	This is the second longest sentence in the January 6th case.
	Joe Biggs was sentenced to 17 years...
	Prosecutors...
	Now, by the way, I think all he did was tear down a fence or something.
	He didn't bring any weapons.
	He didn't attack people.
	He didn't hurt anybody.
	I mean, this sentence is insane.
	You know, I mean, if he were a left-wing person throwing Molotov cocktails at federal agents, he would have been given maybe 17 days in prison.
	But because, of course, he's a political enemy of the Biden regime, he's sentenced to 17 years.
	This is absolute proof that the justice system is gone.
	You can't get a fair trial in America if you're a conservative.
	It just, it doesn't happen.
	You get let off the hook if you're a Democrat.
	You get the book thrown at you if you're a conservative.
	Prosecutors recommended, this is from TheBlaze.com, that Biggs received 33 years in prison.
	Because, as they say, he breached police lines and he removed a black metal fence.
	Really?
	That's it?
	He removed a fence?
	And I think they...
	Yeah, they were only going to give him seven years, where the judge was, and then the judge agreed to apply a, quote, terrorism enhancement, which adds ten years.
	So wait a second.
	He wasn't convicted of terrorism.
	He wasn't even accused of terrorism.
	He was accused of basically trespassing and, I don't know, disturbance of a public function or something like that.
	Again, if a leftist did this, they would have been let off the hook.
	Even if a leftist burned up police cars and set fire to a government building, they would have been given almost nothing.
	But because his name is Biggs and he's a former military, he's a veteran from the military and he's a Trump supporter and he's a conservative, They said, oh, you have a terrorism enhancement plus 10 years.
	How is that even constitutional to do that?
	I mean, that's stupid.
	Terrorism enhancement.
	He's not convicted of terrorism.
	But the point is, this is so unjust, and it's very indicative of what's going on right now with the loss of our constitutional republic, the loss of our freedoms.
	And I want to publicly state here and call for this The next president, if we have an election, if we even make it there, if we get Trump into the White House, or let's say RFK Jr., or anyone else, you and I must demand pardons for these J6 political prisoners, including Joe Biggs.
	And the others who have been, you know, Stuart Rhodes, for example, wasn't even there.
	He was off-site.
	Wasn't even there.
	And he was sentenced to decades in prison?
	Let's see, what is that?
	18 years, yeah, for Stuart Rhodes.
	These are outrageous.
	So this is one more reason why it's critical to support Donald J. Trump, by the way.
	Get him into the White House and he will pardon these people.
	And probably just limit it to, you know, time already served, which will still be a gross abuse of the justice system.
	You know, Joe Biggs, okay, so he moved a fence.
	You know, he walked and he trespassed.
	Okay, fine him $1,000.
	You know, make him issue a public service announcement, apology or something.
	You know, 500 hours of community service, you know.
	Giving food to people who are homeless because of Biden's economic policies or what have you.
	But 17 years, it's outrageous.
	It just shows, if you're a conservative and you are charged with anything in America, you cannot expect a fair trial.
	You cannot expect the rules of evidence and due process to apply to you at all.
	And that's clear.
	And it makes me wonder if there's a point where conservatives across the country just say, yeah, we don't recognize your corrupt judicial system any longer.
	We don't recognize it as having any legitimate power.
	Because if justice is not blind, i.e., dealt out equally across political persuasions and race and color and whatever...
	If justice isn't blind, then it's not justice at all.
	This is selective persecution of people because of their political beliefs.
	That's all this is.
	And it's sick to watch.
	And Joe Biggs does not deserve this persecution.
	And I also happen to believe that he won't serve those 17 years because I think things are changing rapidly.
	And I also think that the...
	What do you call it?
	The collective, West, I don't know, the cabal, the criminal cabal that's running things.
	I think their days are numbered.
	And more and more Americans are suffering so much that, you know, you're seeing a big backlash against the Biden regime also.
	Here's a shocking headline from MRCTV. 61% of Americans are now living paycheck to paycheck.
	Personal savings rate falls.
	As of July, Americans are saving less, new reports reveal.
	This was a report by CNBC citing a lending club study on consumer trends.
	61% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck.
	And the savings rate in July was 3.5%, which has plunged almost 75% from the rate that existed when Trump was president, which was 13.4%.
	Total personal income increased slightly across America, but disposable personal income was unchanged, and real disposable personal income, however they calculate that, actually decreased for the month.
	So these are very concerning economic numbers, but the fact that Nearly two-thirds of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
	What does that tell you?
	It tells you that when the banks go down, people are going to freaking panic.
	These people don't have buffers.
	Nearly two out of three people that you probably know.
	Unless, of course, everybody you know happens to be well off.
	Lucky you, I guess.
	But two out of three Americans nearly living paycheck to paycheck.
	So they're barely getting by.
	This number is probably going to increase substantially in the months ahead.
	And we've even seen a shocking story from CNN, by the way, that talks about how Dollar General shares are tumbling after it cuts forecasts, blaming a spending slump, that is consumers not having any money left, even for the dollar store, And theft.
	Because, you know, more and more people are stealing from the dollar stores.
	And I said this the other day.
	I said, how desperate do you have to be to shoplift at the dollar store?
	Like, of all the places you could shoplift from, you know, not to say you can't find a few bargains here and there at the dollar stores.
	You know, there's Dollar Tree and Dollar General and whatever else is out there.
	But is this really the place to shoplift?
	No.
	You could spend hours stealing and not even really have that much.
	Especially in California where shoplifting is not even prosecuted anymore.
	You can go shoplift $950 worth of goods at a time from each store that you raid and you don't even have to Sneak around.
	You don't have to slide it into your pockets or carry a big purse and drop stuff into that purse.
	Whoops!
	It's in the purse!
	You don't have to bring in an umbrella and carry it upside down and drop goodies into the umbrella.
	Yes, these are advanced shoplifting techniques.
	I've written about this before.
	I interviewed cops when I lived in Arizona about this.
	We did a little book series about how criminals think.
	What they do, who they decide to rob or carjack or how they shoplift.
	And so through that and other articles over the years, I've seen some pretty clever stuff that thieves do, shoplifters do, in order to shoplift things.
	And some guys go in there and they'll take like a...
	They'll wear baggy pants, you know?
	And then they'll go to the meat section, and they'll just grab like a side of ribs, like just a rack of pork ribs, and they'll just slide it down one of their pant legs.
	And then they'll kind of walk out the store a little bit stilted, you know?
	But depending on how low your pants are, they might just look like a gangster walk anyway.
	It's like, I'm just cool.
	I'm not stealing.
	I'm just cool.
	You got like $50 of pork ribs, you know, freezing your knee on the way out.
	You're trying to prevent it from coming out of the bottom of your jeans.
	It's like, please don't fall out now, you know.
	Are you happy to see me or is that a side of ribs down your pants?
	You know, that kind of thing.
	But people are, who steals from the dollar store?
	That's crazy.
	But anyway, that's what's going on.
	So, you know, they call it losses, or what's their technical term?
	You know, there's Organized Retail Crime, or ORC. They're called ORCs.
	But then there's just, I don't know, losses, they call them.
	Just losses and loss prevention.
	So, let's see.
	Dollar General says it expects full-year earnings to decline up to 22% to 34% from its previous estimate, Which was a decrease up to 8%.
	I don't know if you want to do all the math here, but basically, it's going down.
	Sales are going down a lot.
	And a spokesperson from Dollar General actually says, or I'm sorry, a retail analyst involving Dollar General says, this has been exacerbated by cuts in SNAP payments, those are food stamps, as temporary pandemic benefits came to an end.
	Right.
	Because, of course, all the money printing and the stimulus was driving Biden's fake economy.
	It's all fake.
	It was just stimulus spending.
	As a result, lower-income shoppers are cutting back on non-consumable and indulgent purchases from the chain in a bid to save money.
	Now, I think indulgent purchases, that's an exaggeration.
	I've been to the dollar store.
	I did a video about it, I don't know, a year ago or whatever.
	I went around, picked up some stuff and shot a video.
	I was like, hey, you could actually find some pretty good things.
	But nothing was indulgent.
	There was nothing indulgent.
	There were a lot of things that were, they sort of qualified as the item they pretended to be.
	Like, oh, here's a 99-cent can opener.
	Like, okay, you could say that's a can opener.
	It's not like anything that anybody would want to use on an ongoing basis, but technically it could open cans.
	It's like, here's a dollar sewing machine.
	You're thinking, sewing machine?
	How can that be a dollar?
	And then you look at it, and it's like, I don't know, it's like tweezers and needle and thread on a spring or something.
	Okay, technically, you got me.
	It's a sewing machine, but that's not what people think of when you say sewing machine.
	Oh, here's the term I was looking for, inventory shrink.
	Inventory shrink.
	That's either a loss of retail items from shoplifting, or it's a psychiatrist that works in warehousing.
	It's one of those two.
	It means inventory losses caused by external theft, including organized retail crime, there's the orcs, employee theft, vendor fraud, damaged or mismarked items, and other losses.
	Dollar General's CFO, Kelly Diltz, said in a call with analysts that the company, Dollar General, expects $100 million of, get this, I've never heard this phrase, additional shrink headwind.
	Do you know what that means?
	$100 million of shrink headwind.
	Shrink headwind.
	I mean, I did visit some...
	Head shrinkers, when I was in the Amazonian rainforest, they would shrink heads, and we saw shrunken heads on a stick.
	By the way, they were like real human heads.
	They take out the bones, but they take out the skull, and then it just kind of shrivels to about a third of its normal size with a lot more wrinkles.
	But all the original hair, it's kind of creepy, yeah.
	So I've seen head shrinks, but I've never heard of additional shrink headwinds.
	In the retail business, and I'm not sure how that's a $100 million headwind.
	Why don't they just talk like normal people?
	Let's just say, yeah, people stole $100 million worth of stuff from us.
	It's gone.
	Why are you talking about wins?
	Now, given that it's the dollar store...
	The math is going to be real easy here.
	If people stole $100 million worth of stuff from the dollar store, and each item costs a dollar...
	This is your advanced high school word problem.
	How many items were stolen from the dollar store?
	The answer, of course, is $100 million.
	If they each cost a dollar.
	So...
	100 million items were stolen from the dollar store?
	That's a lot of items.
	Who's doing all this stealing?
	That's quite a haul.
	I mean, that seemingly would require some organization on its own, I mean, some real effort.
	It's almost like, at that point, you can't even call it shoplifting.
	Basically, you're transferring the inventory of the dollar store to the inventory of your shoplifting warehouse staging operation in your garage or your basement.
	It's basically an inventory transfer at that point.
	I can't even call it shoplifting.
	It's almost like some guy who stole all this stuff could just open his garage door and have a garage sale of discounted dollar store stuff where everything is 50 cents.
	Now it's the 50 cent store.
	And then his neighbors would come over and steal half that stuff from him.
	It's probably the way that would go down in America today.
	Oh, by the way, I was also on earlier, a few hours ago, with Clay Clark, the organizer of the Reawaken America Tour.
	And you gotta love Clay and his passion and his dedication to America.
	And he was giving me this crazy sob story about how much he had to spend on air conditioning or something.
	In Las Vegas, I think it was.
	No, he teases me about stuff.
	In fact, he had questions for me about Vivek Ramaswamy, and he teased me about pronouncing it that way.
	He's like, well, clearly, Mike, if you say it, Ramaswamy, you must be in with him.
	You probably must be part of his campaign team.
	And I said, no, no, I'm not.
	And I'm pretty sure it's pronounced Vivek, and it rhymes with cake.
	And Clay said, I think it rhymes with fake, and I think his name is Ramaswampi.
	And he went on to unveil what he claims is all the big pharma links in Vivek's Ramaswampi, his history.
	And actually, those are all true points.
	Ramaswampi does have a history.
	In big pharma.
	That's how he got rich, by the way.
	So in essence, the Ramaswamy campaign is funded by pharma money that he made, I think by selling his company to some other big pharma companies.
	Anyway, it's hotly debated.
	Especially among those of us who don't trust really anybody in Big Pharma.
	And in fact, that's our beef with President Trump is the fact that he ran Operation Warp Speed or at least endorsed it, right?
	But anyway, Clay Clark and I always have a fun time and he's got a great sense of humor.
	That's one of the things I really like about him.
	And, you know, except when he's sobbing about paying air conditioning fees at his events.
	Yeah.
	Because from what I heard from the people who were there, there was no air conditioning.
	Sorry, Clay.
	Some folks got hot, is all I'm saying, in that tent.
	So however much air conditioning you had, I don't think it was enough, because people were sweating it.
	Good thing it wasn't a high humidity environment.
	Good thing that people could cool off by...
	Waving fans in their faces or something.
	But hey, I'm teasing him.
	I'm just teasing him.
	He teases me.
	I tease him.
	His events are fantastic.
	Wayne Allen Root gave a really amazing speech there.
	And frequently General Flynn gives speeches at these events.
	And occasionally I show up and give a speech as well.
	And it's just a great event.
	So thank you, Clay, for putting these on.
	Don't take my teasing seriously.
	We're just joking around as usual.
	Now, the only thing that would concern me is if at the next event, Clay Clark has a copy of the dollar store inventory, everything on sale for 75 cents.
	I'm like, hey, Clay, where'd you get all that dollar store inventory?
	Because I heard there's been some organized retail theft going on there.
	Hmm, where did this come from?
	Don't worry, it's on sale.
	You see all these items?
	They've been liberated from the dollar store.
	You ever think about the revenue model of the dollar store as the dollar collapses?
	The dollar is going to become worthless.
	It's going to go down in history as the most disastrous, catastrophic collapse currency ever.
	Your store is named after it.
	I mean, how crazy is that?
	Would that be like...
	What was the name of the currency that collapsed in Zimbabwe?
	What was that even called?
	Does anybody remember that?
	Like the Zimbabwean real or whatever?
	No, that's not the right country.
	But if you had a store named after that, and then even if you started out as just a dollar, then by the time the hyperinflation kicked in, people have to bring in like a billion dollars to buy a pencil.
	You know what I mean?
	The dollar store...
	It's not going to be long before everything at the dollar store is $100.
	In fact, this is going to be a pretty good marker of hyperinflation in America.
	When you have to start slapping down Benjamins...
	For, like, a little stack of flimsy paper plates or one can of, like, crappy no-name white-label soup, then you know things are bad.
	And that's exactly where things are headed.
	You know, thanks to Bidenomics, thank you, Joe, for giving us absolute economic misery all across America.
	All right.
	By the way, kind of speaking of the craziness in America, this is some of the craziness that Clay Clark fights against with his Reawaken America tours.
	This is one of the craziest stories you've ever heard.
	This is from One American News.
	L.A. City Council urges lawsuit against Texas governor over migrant buses, but it's more than a lawsuit.
	It's a criminal probe.
	The City Council of Los Angeles wants to criminally indict and arrest Texas Governor Greg Abbott because Greg Abbott is bussing migrants to LA. I say migrants generously.
	We're talking about illegal alien invaders that Texas puts on a bus, drives them out to LA, and drops them off there.
	Now, according to OANN here, the city council came to a unanimous decision on Wednesday and demanded that the city attorney's office investigate whether Texas Governor Greg Abbott committed any crimes through the migrant bus program.
	Now, you already know this Fulton County, Georgia DA's Off her rocker insane and leveling criminal charges against President Trump because I don't want him to run for office again.
	I want to keep rigging everything.
	And that's insane.
	And there are other examples of this happening in New York and so on.
	And, you know, legal action against Giuliani, people like that.
	But now, I guess, apparently, any libtard city council anywhere in America can just say, we're going to go arrest the governor of Texas or the governor of Florida.
	Let's arrest DeSantis.
	Let's arrest the governor of Missouri.
	Let's just arrest all the governors of all the red states.
	Just arrest them all.
	This is the way Democrats think now, because they're totally out of control and nobody's stopping them.
	Which is kind of a nudge to the red state attorneys general, by the way, and the DAs in the counties, the red counties in the red states.
	You should be indicting Hillary Clinton.
	You should be indicting Joe Biden.
	You should be indicting, especially counties in Arizona, you should be indicting your fake governor of Arizona, who stole the election from Cary Lake, by the way.
	And rural counties in California, you should be indicting Newsom, for that matter.
	I mean, you want to play the indictment game.
	I mean, there's all kinds of conservative city councils and conservative counties and conservative DAs all over the country.
	How come they're not just issuing a flurry of criminal indictments all over the place?
	You want to play the indictment game?
	We can play the indictment game.
	We're going to indict you for being a stupid libtard.
	We're going to indict you for a conspiracy to commit climate oppression, you know, whatever.
	Lots of indictments can fly all over the country, but these lunatics in LA, they want to come arrest Governor Greg Abbott.
	And I just want to say to all the city council members of Los Angeles, please come try that shit.
	Please come and take it.
	Which, of course, refers to Gonzales, Texas, and a little bit of history.
	Please come and try that.
	Get on your little Prius electric vehicles or your scooters or whatever and do yourself a little road trip.
	See how far you can make it in your electric vehicle.
	When that runs out, hop on a Greyhound.
	Make your way east until you get to Texas.
	Alright, once you get to Texas, make sure you announce on social media that you are coming to arrest Governor Abbott In Austin, Texas, okay?
	Now you do that, and I will help you.
	I will magnify your announcement to tell all Texans, hey, guess what?
	We got some lunatics from LA who are coming to arrest Governor Abbott, and we need to give them a proper greeting, Texas style.
	So gather up, everybody.
	This is going to get interesting.
	And I want to see these L.A. City Council members bring out...
	Well, I mean, they don't believe in guns, so I guess they're not going to bring guns.
	What are they going to have?
	Like little ding-a-ling bells?
	Ding-a-ling, you're under arrest!
	What are they going to do?
	Like little soy catapults?
	We're going to, you know, hormonize you into women, and then you'll surrender.
	What are they going to do?
	They're going to come out and say, you're under arrest, and pretty much all the Texas state troopers are like, no, he's not.
	Why don't you get on your little Prius and go on back to L.A., where you came from, before you find yourself in some real trouble, little lady?
	Something like that, you know?
	I mean, honestly stated, not everybody in Texas is totally thrilled with Governor Abbott.
	And he's done some things on the border, but a lot of us would argue maybe not enough.
	But guess what?
	You try to come take Abbott, you're going to find out that Texans take care of Texans.
	Whether it's our favorite governor or not, you're not going to get very far in Texas to try to kidnap the governor and take him back to California.
	Mm-mm.
	Oh, but I would love to see them try it.
	Please give me a heads up so I can have some cameras out there.
	Man, I want to see this.
	I want to make a documentary about this attempt.
	We'll have to figure out a title.
	It'll be something like, you know, Sleepless in Seattle.
	But I guess it'll be libtards from L.A. and their failed attempt to kidnap the governor of Texas and what happened next, possibly involving a historical cannon from Gonzalez.
	And the Alamo.
	I don't know.
	The best part is the minute these LA City Council libtard lunatics set foot in the state of Texas, Governor Abbott probably ordered them arrested by the state troopers or, I don't know, Texas Department of Public Safety or whoever.
	Or some of the other, let's say, not-so-public agencies in Texas that get things done and arrest these city council members and charge them with attempted kidnapping.
	I would love to see that, too.
	So please, please try it.
	I pray to God that the Los Angeles City Council comes to Texas to try to kidnap the governor so that we can just watch Watch a reality check happen for libtards who think that they rule Texas.
	You don't rule Jack.
	You don't even rule LA. They can't even figure out how to run their own city except to run it into the ground.
	Why don't you focus on LA problems?
	Instead of thinking that you're going to come get somebody from Texas.
	You're going to blame Texas for your LA problems?
	Your own city is crumbling.
	I mean, your own city is a nightmare out of idiocracy.
	You got just violent criminals being let loose all over the streets.
	You've got an insane crazed mayor, Karen Bass.
	You've got an insane criminal governor.
	Kickbacks from China.
	Money laundering operations.
	Why don't you focus on your own problems there in California?
	Because you've got a pretty long list of things to deal with right there.
	But one more comment I think that would be really funny is if this whole Los Angeles City Council group makes their way to Texas and then one of them defects Texas.
	Once they set foot in Texas, they ask for political asylum.
	Please let me live here, where there's actual freedom.
	We're all enslaved under the fascists in Los Angeles.
	It'd be like Russian defectors coming to America back in the 1980s.
	It'd be something like that.
	Can you imagine?
	Asking for political asylum in Texas.
	Please get into a red county.
	We've had enough of taxation and tyranny.
	Alright, speaking of tyranny and stupid ideas from libtards, check out this headline from the Gateway Pundit.
	New York police to use drones to monitor backyard Labor Day parties.
	Are you kidding me?
	Are you kidding me?
	Kaz Daughtry, the assistant New York Police Department commissioner, made the announcement during a security briefing.
	During an annual Caribbean festival, Daughtry's plan to use police drones to monitor backyard barbecues got immediate backlash from civil liberties groups.
	The Associated Press reported that people attending outdoor parties or barbecues in New York City this weekend may notice an uninvited guest looming over their festivities, a police surveillance drone.
	The New York City Police Department plans to pilot the unmanned aircraft in response to complaints about large gatherings over Labor Day weekend.
	So, hold on a second.
	I mean, this is right out of Minority Report, by the way.
	I mean, come on.
	So, you can't have a gathering in New York City or the drones are going to come spy on you from above?
	Barbecue crimes.
	Barbecue crimes taking place below.
	Monitor, GPS coordinates.
	Send units.
	I mean, are these people serious?
	Like, burning meat crime in progress on, you know, Broadway or whatever.
	Out of their minds, insane.
	Flying into people's backyards.
	What if you want to have a nudist barbecue Labor Day party?
	You know, you just want to be all nude with your nude friends and your nude DQ, which is nude barbecue.
	That's what that is.
	Your nude DQ party.
	And then the cops send like five drones.
	We really have to monitor this situation.
	This one could get out of control.
	Bring more drones with cameras.
	And the crazy thing is that the police commissioner announced this Having no sense that this is a bad idea.
	That's what's crazy about this.
	Like, this went up the chain in the New York PD. It went up the chain.
	It got rubber stamped.
	Like, send drones into people's backyards to spy on them on Labor Day?
	Yeah, that's awesome!
	Rubber stamped, kick it upstairs.
	You know, the boss is like, oh yeah, that's totally awesome!
	Rubber stamped, kick it upstairs.
	Gets all the way up to the commissioner.
	The commissioner announces it!
	In a public announcement at a celebration event, like, thinking that everybody was going to cheer this.
	Yes!
	We want police drones to spy on our private activities in our backyards!
	We love obedience so much!
	Like, that's what they thought was going to happen.
	We love you, NYPD! Can you also peek in our windows and have little drones monitoring us on the toilets?
	Like, that's what they thought was going to happen?
	These people are insane.
	Delusional authoritarian libtards.
	That's what this is.
	NYPD. How would you like people to spy on you in your backyard?
	Or in your home?
	Huh?
	Kaz Daughtry.
	What kind of name is Kaz in it?
	What the heck is that?
	Kaz Daughtry.
	Sounds like somebody can't talk.
	It's like, why you look so jacked up?
	Kaz, I drank too much!
	Oh my gosh, what's wrong with these people?
	You ever wondered if they have so many drones and drone pilots to monitor things?
	Why don't you send them to the freaking border?
	Huh?
	How about that?
	You know, New York's always complaining, Eric Adams, the mayor, complaining about all these illegals coming to New York.
	Why don't you send a drone to the border of Texas and stop some of those illegals coming across the border?
	Better yet, why don't you join the L.A. City Council and see if you can kidnap the Texas governor.
	See how that goes down.
	Seriously, I really do want to see them try that because Texas won't put up with that bull crap.
	If you thought that video the other day of those Nevada Rangers, whoever that was, like dragging those climate cultists off the road, which was the most awesome video I've seen all year.
	If you thought that was something, wait till you see libtard New York people and California City Council people try to kidnap the Texas governor.
	Man...
	It's going to be history in the making.
	You know, and also another thought, if we have all these drones, why don't you spy on the politicians with them?
	Why don't you follow all your bureaucrats around and catch them accepting bribes?
	How about that?
	I mean, if you have all this surveillance technology, instead of spying on innocent citizens having a barbecue in their backyard, just follow all your corrupt politicians around.
	You're going to find some interesting stuff.
	If you can even fly into some of those areas, red light district, drug alleys, whatever, like money laundering locations.
	I don't even know if the drones can get into some of those places, but that's what you need to be doing.
	You got all this tech.
	Why don't you use it to fight corruption or protect the border instead of just terrorizing the people of New York City, for God's sake.
	Now, I'm going to kind of shift gears here a little bit, but it is related.
	See, I think that Democrats have literally gone insane.
	And I don't mean that as hyperbole or as a metaphor or as satire.
	I think their brains have been poisoned, like chemically poisoned, and that they've lost it and they've gone insane.
	And in fact, their symptoms like Trump derangement syndrome are very consistent with heavy metals poisoning.
	They are.
	This is what you get with lead poisoning, mercury poisoning, cadmium poisoning, and so on.
	And as you may know, I own a mass spec laboratory, and we test...
	I don't know how many thousands of samples every year of our own food products and nutrition products and personal care products and so on.
	We have two mass spec instruments that are ICP-MS that test for heavy metals and then we've got, what is it, four other mass spec instruments to do pesticide and herbicide testing and then we have a new dioxin testing piece of equipment that is getting set up now.
	But we have two ICP-MS instruments and We have tested over the years, I think, we probably conducted more heavy metals tests than, no doubt, any other private laboratory in the world, and probably more than most governments in the world.
	That's no exaggeration.
	Now, then this story hits me from the Epoch Times.
	Cannabis users have higher levels of toxic heavy metals in their bodies.
	Hmm.
	A new study published in Environmental Health Perspectives on August 30th, researchers concluded that marijuana users have, quote, significantly higher levels of toxic heavy metals in their bodies.
	Wow.
	Lead and cadmium.
	Lead and cadmium.
	And it's both in their blood and in their urine.
	Much higher in people who use cannabis versus people who don't use cannabis.
	Now, This is interesting because, of course, cannabis is more heavily used and more legalized in Democrat-run states, right?
	Like New York, for example, and California.
	And apparently, you know, cannabis picks up a lot of metals, by the way.
	And that's even mentioned in the story where it says here...
	Marijuana is a source of cadmium and lead exposure.
	And let's see, they're quoting one of the authors of the study.
	The cannabis plant is a known scavenger of metals.
	And sure enough, they found it in the blood and the urine.
	And they've got specific numbers here of how much lead is in the blood and micrograms per deciliter.
	And it's not present in people who just smoke tobacco, by the way.
	Not at these levels.
	It's unique to cannabis users.
	Now, So here's a theory.
	What if these lunatics running states like New York and California, who mostly smoke a lot of cannabis, by the way, what if they're heavy metals poisoned?
	Which might explain their literal medical, clinical insanity.
	Because, you know, lead poisoning makes you crazy.
	Lead poisoning causes mental retardation.
	It interferes with neurodevelopment processes of children, in particular.
	That's why they don't have lead in paint anymore in homes in the U.S. since, what, 1978 or whatever, because kids would sit around and eat those paint chips, and they would get lead poisoning.
	Whereas today, they just sit around and get mind poisoning on their mobile phone devices.
	I mean, social media likes!
	They were probably safer eating lead chips, actually, come to think of it.
	But there's too much lead in cannabis.
	And so what if all these people are actually poisoning their brains with lead and cadmium?
	Now, cadmium is an interesting heavy metal.
	It's not as toxic as lead in the same concentrations.
	In other words, you have to have much higher exposure to cadmium to get toxic effects versus lead, which is more toxic at lower levels of exposure.
	But cadmium has some very interesting effects.
	Cadmium gives you a rush, and so does mercury.
	I don't know if you knew this, but there's a lot of cadmium in coffee beans.
	Coffee picks up cadmium, just like cacao picks up lead.
	That's why there's lead in chocolate bars.
	In every chocolate bar, there's some amount of lead.
	It just picks up lead out of the soil.
	And there's been a lot of lead pollution in the soils over all the years of, you know, industry on planet Earth and all the pollution in the air that settles on the ground and so on.
	But coffee plants pick up cadmium.
	And did you know that some of the kick of coffee, it's like a little jolt.
	Mitch McConnell needed that yesterday when he was talking.
	And we'd like to say to the Americans, and then he needs a jolt.
	Mitch McConnell reporting for duty, you know.
	Probably he could use some cadmium.
	And I think Joe Biden could use some lead, come to think, or maybe he's already had too much.
	The point is, cadmium gives you a jolt.
	It makes you feel energized.
	And so does mercury.
	And people used to smell mercury vapors.
	They used to inhale mercury as a medical treatment.
	Because it would make you feel very energized.
	You would, like, inhale some mercury.
	Everyone's like, where am I, you know?
	And you would have this burst of energy.
	And so the doctors, back in the 18th century in particular, they thought mercury was really great for everything.
	That's why they poisoned the crap out of George Washington with mercury.
	He was mercury poisoned like crazy.
	A lot of people don't know that, but they were treating everybody with mercury all the time.
	And even back in the 1950s and the 60s in the United States, did you know you could buy mercury in the form of topical antibiotic treatments, by the way?
	I actually have a tube of that in my museum.
	I have a museum of interesting stuff that's got heavy metals in it, and I have a tube of mercury in I forgot what it's called.
	It's a yellow tube.
	And it's from the 1960s.
	And it's like, you know, mercury rub or whatever.
	And it's for killing bacteria on your skin.
	You just rub mercury into your skin.
	Seriously.
	So it's not that long ago that people were, you know, rubbing toxic metals into their own bodies.
	You wonder why people get vaccinated with spike proteins today.
	Hey, the history of medicine and personal care products has long been a history of people poisoning themselves, by the way.
	In any case, cadmium gives you a kick.
	And when people drink coffee, they're actually also getting not just caffeine but the cadmium.
	It's like a caffeine plus cadmium kick.
	And if you have enough cadmium, Exposure, you start to have kidney problems and also skin problems and certain neurological problems and things like that.
	Whereas lead definitely focuses on, I mean, obviously it attacks the bones and bone structure and bone density, but it also attacks neurology and brain function, cognition.
	So that's my working theory that these people who are smoking so much cannabis are In these Democrat-run states that they are actually lead poisoned.
	They are clinically insane.
	And that explains Trump derangement syndrome.
	And that explains their hatred towards everybody else, including the entire, like, all women.
	They hate all women now.
	They hate white people, and recently they've begun hating Asians.
	And they also hate Muslims that are pro-family, by the way.
	So, like, the hatred keeps expanding from the left.
	But I think that there's heavy metals poisoning involved in all of this, and I think we're living in a nation, this is not a joke, I think we're living in a nation of heavy metals poisoned masses of oblivious people who are cognitively poisoned, I mean damaged.
	They have been made cognitively retarded through heavy metals exposure, plus a lot of other things, including hormone disruptors in the plastics.
	And there's also, of course, chemical castrators and gender benders, such as atrazine, which is an herbicide, Joe Rogan.
	It's not a pesticide.
	Joe, it's an herbicide, by the way.
	No big deal.
	I'm glad he mentioned it on his show, but it is an herbicide.
	It's the second most popular weed killer that's used in agriculture right after glyphosate.
	But anyway, people are poisoned with all these things.
	So I think we're living in a nation of people who are just straight up mass poisoned.
	And that explains, as much as anything, the psychotic behavior that we see from the radical left.
	Remember that crazy psycho woman from, what was it, the University of Missouri, Columbia, who was on campus screaming about, we've got to get some guys to take these people out or whatever, and her eyes were all bugging out.
	And you're like, whoa, TDS, man, what's wrong with this lady?
	What if she's just heavy metals poisoned?
	This is a kind of clinical psychosis.
	You know, and you look across the country, you look at these insane lunatic leftists and their extreme hatred for everybody else, and you're like, man, this is not normal human healthy behavior.
	There's something wrong with these people.
	They are brain damaged.
	I mean, Kathy Griffin, for example, there's psychosis.
	A crazy woman tattooed her lips.
	I wonder what that must have felt like.
	I mean, I don't have any tattoos, but from what I understand, it hurts.
	And if you're tattooing your lips, wouldn't that be about as much fun as tattooing your nipples or something?
	I mean, that sounds painful to me.
	I would not sign up for that.
	And what if they mess it up?
	It's your lips.
	Well, I mean, it is Kathy Griffin's face, so it's not like things can get that much worse, but you know what I'm saying.
	I mean, what if they make a mistake?
	What do you do at that point?
	Blame Trump?
	Gee.
	I mean, here's from the story from the Epoch Times.
	They're quoting the CDC on what lead does in the body.
	Check this out.
	Here's what lead does.
	Now, see if any of this rings a bell of what people are dealing with right now.
	Exposure to lead has been linked to a risk of reproductive problems in both men and women.
	Hearing and vision impairment...
	Has that happened any time in the last few years?
	Yeah, people are losing the sense of hearing and sense of smell in some cases.
	High blood pressure, nerve disorders, muscle and joint pain, brain damage, reduced IQ, and learning difficulties, which obviously has horribly impacted the White House spokeswoman.
	I'm sorry to say.
	I don't know how much lead she's taken in, but...
	She needs to donate her brain to science so we can figure out what went wrong, that's for sure.
	But all that's according to the CDC, all those symptoms there.
	So there you go, you know, cannabis.
	We were one of the few labs, I don't know, maybe the only one, to...
	Quantitate the cannabinoids in cannabis extracts and conduct heavy metals testing using this special mass spec method, which I'm a co-author of that paper that's written up in Chromatography Online from a few years back.
	And I'm also co-author of a poster, a method for atrazine quantitation.
	As I understand it, most of the cannabis labs don't really bother doing heavy metals tests.
	They do test the cannabinoids, especially the CBD and the CBDA, because that's critical for customers to know.
	You know, like how many milligrams of CBD are in this bottle?
	Is it a 500 milligram bottle?
	Or is it a 1,000 milligram bottle?
	And of course, people want to know the THC levels because of guidelines to bring that below 0.3% in order to avoid...
	The Fed's confiscating it as a Schedule I narcotic, obviously.
	So there are those kinds of issues that are at play, and that's why some people do some testing.
	But I've got to say, overall, I don't think there's a lot of heavy metals testing that takes place in the cannabis industry.
	Am I wrong?
	Do you know something different from that?
	If so, let me know.
	But my impression is that there's not a lot of heavy metals testing.
	In the cannabis industry that the testing focuses on the cannabinoids.
	So it's quite possible that there's quite a lot of lead and cadmium that's getting into this.
	And by the way, there's a dirty little secret of the cannabis industry.
	And I know this from my lab experience and talking to people in the industry, especially in certain parts of California, like up north, where they grow cannabis, they spray the craziest pesticides.
	On their cannabis products.
	I mean, typical cannabis that's grown for people to smoke, it's not organic, it's not anything close to organic.
	I mean, it's more like whore-ganic, as in horror-ganic.
	That's even more accurate.
	It's a horrifying situation of toxic chemicals that are sprayed on the plants, on the buds, on the leaves, the stems, everything, to have more crop.
	And at least my understanding is there are very few standards about this.
	Granted, maybe there are some really truly organic growers out there that are doing this the correct way.
	In fact, I was on the phone recently with one who's a remarkable woman who's actually growing cannabis.
	In pristine soils and doing it in a regenerative agriculture type of way.
	And maybe I'll have her on as a guest at some point because there are people like that.
	There are some people in the industry that care about clean cannabis, frankly.
	But by and large, across the industry...
	It's kind of like, I don't know, it's kind of like the strawberry industry.
	It's like, we've got to have more strawberries, so what are you going to spray on it?
	You know, the answer is everything!
	Everything that kills bugs!
	Anything that can get more strawberries!
	Like, we don't care how toxic it is, just spray it!
	Like, that's pretty much the attitude in the cannabis industry as well.
	So if you're smoking that stuff...
	You might want to think about where it's coming from.
	If I smoked cannabis, which I don't.
	I don't smoke anything.
	But if I did smoke cannabis, man, given how intimate that is, like inhaling that and having it touch your lung tissue and going into your blood and everything, I would want the cleanest possible cannabis that you could possibly source.
	I would want it tested for everything.
	Wouldn't you?
	If you're inhaling it, wouldn't you want it to be clean?
	And I guess the more desperate you get for a high, you start moving up the supply chain of various street drugs, things get increasingly dirty and scary, right?
	Like if you're, I don't know, if you're getting heroin or something, you know, where did that come from?
	You know, what was the extract solution?
	Oh, gasolina!
	What?
	You use gasoline?
	Oh yeah, we use gasoline.
	It's like, some of this stuff, the way they make it, I mean, have you ever seen documentaries on how they make cocaine?
	The process they go through, from the coca plant to powdered cocaine, or the solvents and things, the chemicals that go in there, you know, They're not formulating this for health-conscious consumers.
	Because if you're snorting cocaine, you don't care about your health.
	This stuff is made with the craziest toxic ingredients that you can possibly imagine.
	And then they cut it with, you know, fentanyl or something else.
	It'd be like 10% fentanyl and 90% cocaine extracted from who knows what chemicals in what jungle from, you know, from what cartel somewhere.
	Who knows?
	Cut with whatever, you know, like rock ash or something.
	It's like powdered chalk or I don't know.
	Who knows?
	Why would anybody snort that stuff?
	I truly do not understand that.
	You know, you wonder why Hunter Biden seems so crazy all the time.
	Well, who knows what's in the powder he's been snorting, right?
	It's not like you can just check out the whole supply chain, you know, like we do in the food industry.
	You know, send me your organic certifications and your lab tests.
	You know, you can't do that in the cocaine industry, at least not that I know of.
	Send me your supply chain.
	The supply chain is a man named Carlos.
	And you don't want Carlos to visit you.
	Carlos gonna bring in trouble.
	You just don't ask man, right?
	I guess what I'm saying is somebody needs to trademark the brand name Clean Cocaine.
	It's just like, cocaine, you can trust.
	You know, like lab-verified cocaine.
	Only truly natural ingredients.
	You know, I mean, I'm joking about that, but what's funny is...
	The coca leaf has been used as indigenous medicine for centuries by the people in Central and South America and in Peru and Colombia and Bolivia and all these places.
	And there's nothing crazy about it when you're just drinking coca leaf tea.
	In fact, when I arrived at one of the hotels in Lima, I think it was, many years ago when...
	I was hiking in the Andes Mountains.
	And the hotel, it's a very Americanized kind of, I don't know, four or five star hotel, whatever it was.
	The hotel serves coca tea.
	It's just, you got a lot of tea.
	Oh, here, you can have, you know, herbal tea.
	You can have, like, Earl Grey.
	You can have coca leaf tea.
	And it's no big deal.
	Everybody drinks a little coca leaf tea because it's not extracted, concentrated, you know, processed, and snorted.
	You know, if you're just using the indigenous medicinal plants in their mostly natural form, You're just drinking coca leaf tea.
	You're not a crackhead.
	You don't become addicted.
	It just helps you with immune function, with stamina, and at high elevation it helps you with oxygenation and cardiovascular function.
	It's actually medicinal.
	You know, of course, the United States declared war on the coca plant as part of the war on drugs that has never worked.
	But they declared war on a plant.
	The plant is not the problem.
	The problem is all the crap that people put into the mix when they extract the plant and then mix it up and they use crazy solvents and all this other toxic stuff and they highly concentrate the cocaine into an unnatural form.
	Then it becomes toxic.
	That's the problem.
	The problem is man-made.
	It's not the problem with the plant.
	It's like if you extracted pure caffeine from coffee plants and you snorted caffeine for some crazy reason, that would be dangerous too.
	That would be insane.
	And up until a few years ago, by the way, you could buy caffeine as an extract over the counter.
	I don't think you can anymore.
	I think they pulled it off the market because some people were loading up on it as they're trying to do like a weight loss thing.
	By just loading up on caffeine.
	It didn't go too well.
	If you overdose on caffeine, you can die also.
	Just like overdosing on cocaine.
	Frankly, if you extracted all the glutamate from tomatoes, and you had a little pile of glutamate, like a dried pile of glutamate crystals, and you just snorted that for some crazy reason, it'd probably kill you.
	It would certainly make your head hurt badly for a long time.
	But that would be stupid.
	Why would you do that?
	The problem is not tomatoes.
	The problem is the idiots taking the molecules out of the tomatoes.
	Same thing with coca leaf and the stupid American war against The coca plant and the indigenous farming and agricultural operations of all of these Central and South American countries, like Panama, for example.
	It's just, it's insane.
	Just let the people grow their coca leaf.
	You notice, by the way, that the U.S. sends its military into freaking Afghanistan to protect the poppy fields that produce heroin.
	While at the same time the military is air bombing the coca leaf small family farms in, you know, Colombia, what kind of insane policy is this?
	It can only come from the United States.
	Something that stupid and contradictory, totally insane, like, let's bomb the small family tea farmers over here, but then let's protect the heroin production because, you know, that's necessary for CIA funding.
	I mean, this is the kind of stuff that the US actually does, and it's beyond bonkers.
	Okay, coming up next here, you're going to love this interview with Maria Z from Z Media.
	And Maria Z is just a remarkable woman.
	She's got a courageous voice out of Australia.
	And yet she's very popular, by the way, in North America and in Europe and many other countries around the world because of her ability to just speak the truth.
	She's courageous.
	She's uncensored.
	She's truthful.
	And she digs deep into these issues.
	And I think she's right about all these issues affecting us right now.
	And she's talking about the depopulation agenda on a global scale.
	And so in this interview coming up, I get a chance to talk with her in studio.
	She stops by the studio here in Texas and we get a chance to chat about all these issues and a little bit about her history as well and what motivated her to do this job for humanity.
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	Now the interview with Maria Z. Coming up next.
	Welcome to today's interview on Brighttown.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, joined in studio today by Maria Z from Z Media.
	And Maria, welcome.
	This is the first time you've been in our studio.
	It's an honor to have you here.
	It's wonderful to be here with you, Mike.
	Thank you so much for having me.
	Absolutely.
	We're thrilled to have you here.
	You're doing amazing work with InfoWars and your own network, Z Media.
	That's spelled with three E's.
	I just want to be clear.
	So Z-E-E-E, media.com, right?
	Yes, that's it.
	That's it.
	And Maria Z on Rumble.
	Maria Z on Rumble.
	Perfect.
	Okay.
	Now, most of the time you're based in Australia, though, right?
	Yes.
	This is actually the first time we've been able to come to the United States.
	Is that right?
	Well, there was a mandate for injections, and I'm not injected, so we couldn't make it before this.
	We have a no shedding rule in our studio, by the way.
	No problem to you.
	Except my dog is allowed to shed a little bit, but that's not spike protein.
	Anyway, so this is our first time to the States.
	Then I have to ask you then, what do you think of America now that you've been around and been hanging out with a lot of people?
	I... My view really hasn't changed in terms of the fact that I knew that Americans were good people and I knew that they were welcoming and that they loved freedom and that they were patriotic.
	I just did an interview this morning actually where the gentleman asked me, Has your perception changed since you've been here because the world really views us as unhealthy or not involved in politics?
	And I said, no, because there is, just like in Australia, a group of people that really do care about their country.
	And I think that movement here is quite strong, Mike.
	Oh yeah, absolutely it is.
	Well, and let me direct this at you then, because our view from America, our view of Australia during COVID was rather horrifying.
	And now, by the way, I lived in Manly for a summer.
	You know, right across the harbor from Sydney there.
	I didn't know that.
	Yeah, I did.
	I did.
	And I've traveled around many areas of Australia.
	Well, all on the East Coast side.
	I didn't go across the whole continent there.
	Because it's bigger than Americans think, right?
	Yes.
	For one thing.
	Like, Americans think that Australia is the size of, like, Kansas.
	It's huge.
	It's not.
	Small population, but huge landmass.
	Massive, yeah.
	So, you know, I've lived for some time with the Australian culture, but then looking at what happened during COVID, I was horrified because the people that I knew in Australia during that summer were very free-spirited, adventurous, you know, definitely self-driven, and then we saw all this compliance happening.
	Suddenly.
	But then a few people like you, you know, resisting it and others, but there was so much compliance.
	But then again, we saw it here in America too.
	But we were horrified because Australia, it was so aggressive what they were doing in New South Wales and many other places.
	It was like, what the heck?
	What's going on?
	They understand the population.
	This is a psychological operation as much as it is, well, the entire thing is a psychological operation really when you look at information war.
	So they know what they can get away with in every population.
	The Tavistock Institute's been on Australia forever.
	Oh yeah.
	And so I think our people have never really had to stand up against the government.
	That's something that's never happened in our country.
	And, of course, there is the fear of job loss, the fear of loss of the comforts, the creature comforts that we're so used to in Australia.
	We have a very good way of life, or at least we did.
	Absolutely.
	And so people were unfortunately very weak when it came to the idea of losing that.
	And I'm sure that that's consistent worldwide, unfortunately.
	If they just all banded together and said, no, we would have never been in the position that we are today.
	And I suppose that's something to be mindful of now as more people are realizing and waking up.
	If we don't say no on COVID 2.0 or whatever is coming our way next, we can expect worse action than we saw last time, I think.
	Well, that brings me to my next question, then.
	You know, the people of America are fed up with COVID and, you know, do not comply.
	And you're seeing even governors of certain states saying we're not going to comply with mask mandates, whatever.
	What's the vibe in Australia right now about COVID 2.0 coming out?
	Very little is being said about it.
	So there have been some articles about maybe masks need to come back.
	There was one just the other day in the mainstream media about, oh, China really did a bad thing when they ended their zero COVID policy.
	They should have kept that.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yes.
	And so I think they're slowly starting to prepare the people, but I do think that they're going to try it here first, this time around, and other countries are going to follow.
	Here, America.
	I think so.
	The propaganda machine is so much stronger here than it is for me back home.
	Wow.
	That's something.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	What about New Zealand?
	Because that was, in many ways, New Zealand was even worse than either of our countries.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I can't see the same level of propaganda in either of those countries right now, Mike.
	So honestly, obviously they want to interfere with the 2024 elections here, but it is more than that.
	And this is what I keep saying to people.
	It's not just the 2024 elections that if they get away with this, this will achieve.
	There is a current timeline with the UN and the WHO that lines up Really, like, you look at the fact that the WHO announced the Global Health Certification Network earlier this year.
	They want to, by May 2024, finalise the amendments to the international health regulations, finalise, as of next month, they want governments to agree to Antonio Guterres being essentially the dictator of the world.
	Right.
	Go ahead.
	Yes.
	So, I mean, in terms of timeline, the agenda is still global.
	It's not just America.
	And I guess I want people to understand that because it's very easy to look at your own country and say, oh, this is what's happening to us.
	Remember, this is a worldwide agenda for a worldwide takeover.
	That's a really good point.
	But let me bring in the structure of our two nations.
	So Australia has its states, but they don't have as much autonomy as U.S. states have.
	Correct.
	And so in the U.S., each state is almost kind of like its own sovereign nation when that is asserted by the governor or the AG of the state.
	And yet, you know, we see the WHO trying to push this global rule following, where they can announce that, oh, everybody has to go into a camp now, or everybody has to take the vaccine, everybody has to take the mask.
	I don't think that's going to fly across many states, about half the states in the U.S. What about Australia?
	How much pushback will there be against the WHO? At the moment there's very little.
	We did successfully, Z Media helped with a campaign with a great group of people that's working on stopping the international health regulations and more so even exiting the WHO. That's the outcome that we want.
	Every single person needs to be demanding right now.
	Because let me tell you, it doesn't really matter who's in government, especially at the moment.
	If we are still members of these organisations, the clauses that they've included, for example, within the IHR, means that if a country or a member state, which means country, does not comply, they can bring in other countries to enforce it.
	These are the clauses.
	An invasion.
	That's what it allows for.
	And so, you know, we have to demand an exit from these globalist organisations immediately.
	But what we have in Australia, Mike, is terrifying in terms of the legislation that's already in place, which is a reflection of what the WHO wants to achieve in every country.
	And I'm warning Americans about this because the legislation's passed in Australia already based on what the WHO want.
	want.
	I will mention two key things.
	Last year when Dr. Tess Laurie, who was a former consultant to the WHO, attended the World Health Assembly meetings, she came out of that and told me that they were discussing forced injections and punishments for anyone who did not comply in future.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Within their own international health regulations documents, they've removed human dignity, fundamental freedoms and human rights from the documents, which means they will never consider these again.
	So even though a country may stand up, they will bring in...
	Foreign, you know, invaders.
	Foreign enforcers.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	And so in Western Australia, this legislation that I keep telling everyone about already exists, which says that an authorized COVID officer, whoever that may be, and they brought this in after the mandates, Mike.
	It was like an afterthought, but it wasn't.
	It was a reflection of the WHO.
	An authorised COVID officer who is appointed, whoever that person may be, appointed by the chief health officer, who is a former UN guy, can come into your home, strip you naked, remove you and your children, separate you, take you to a quarantine camp, inject you as many times as they want for as long as take you to a quarantine camp, inject you as many times as they want for as long as they want without That legislation already exists in my country, Mike.
	There's a similar one in Queensland with loopholes where other states can access this.
	So, again, this is what they're trying to achieve worldwide.
	It is so, so dangerous.
	Absolutely.
	Maria, I want to shift gears for a minute, by the way, and just ask you on a personal note how you found yourself in this position of being, you know, the outspoken truth teller from Australia, but with international appeal.
	You speak to audiences in the United States, in Western Europe, you know, even I know people in Hong Kong and Singapore listen to you as well.
	So give us a little bit of story how you got here.
	Well, I was working in quite a high position, the senior role within my organization, which was a government-funded disability employment service.
	So we helped people with medical conditions get into work, and it was meaningful employment.
	And I was responsible for the state sales team who went out and tailored jobs for these people based on their needs.
	Uh-huh.
	It was very fulfilling work and I loved it very much.
	I never thought I'd do anything else.
	My entire career was devoted to this.
	And when the mandates started coming in, even though I wasn't the one responsible for it, my staff were.
	They were asking customers to start masking up and getting injected.
	And I couldn't live with myself because these people are my responsibility.
	So I prayed, Mike, and I asked the Lord what I need to do.
	And the opportunity came to start speaking out more.
	My account started going viral and I actually resigned from my job to do this at the same time that Australians were sort of asking me to step up for independent media because no one was really doing it.
	I was just doing these Instagram Lives.
	I had stacks of articles and I was just going through it trying to inform people.
	And so because they wanted it, the people wanted it, I did it.
	And I don't really do anything half-half.
	Right.
	We started speaking to doctors predominantly at the beginning because Australia had so few doctors that were speaking up.
	We had doctors being raided.
	I know one that went to solitary confinement for speaking up.
	They would take their patient records.
	It was unbelievable.
	And so when we finally managed to gather Australian doctors, we had 17 doctors.
	In one room, that's all we had.
	17 in the entire country willing to speak out because the penalties were so harsh for them.
	Australia's government is known, I think, worldwide as being very oppressive, especially in the medical field.
	The Australian government has been so pro-vaccine, just pushing vaccines relentlessly for so long.
	And as you say, punishing or in some cases criminalizing doctors who would speak out against it.
	But were you also surprised at the backlash, the attempts to silence you, the debanking that you went through, for example?
	Was that a big aha moment?
	From the beginning, Mike, because I knew that I would take this all the way.
	I don't get scared very easily.
	I don't get intimidated easily.
	And I will fight until my last breath.
	And I mean that.
	And no, I'm not suicidal.
	But I really mean that.
	This is my life because humanity is so important to me.
	And so I expected that things would happen.
	Earlier this year, when I was debanked in February, what I was shocked at was how they did it, because there was a report that came out on 60 Minutes, a program called Under Investigation, which is an offshoot of the Australian 60 Minutes.
	And they insinuated that I'm a domestic terrorist that is radicalising the Australian people.
	Wow.
	And the debanking happened a week before that report, which tells me that it's very possible that the media and the banks are working together.
	And so they wouldn't answer the reason why they debanked me.
	They claimed it was due to customer confidentiality.
	I'm the customer.
	We can't tell you why we're punishing you because it's a national security secret.
	That's right.
	But what I wanted people to understand when this happened, because it was the first time, I think, in Australian history that a journalist has been sort of put in the category of domestic terrorism...
	And I wanted people to understand when CBDCs are implemented, this is the future for everyone.
	We now have a major Australian bank saying that they are potentially going to cancel your bank account if you make comments on social media that they deem hateful.
	I was just going to go there.
	Wasn't that the NAB? Yes, it was.
	And their new updated policy, which has the longest name ever, it's like the updated policy for hate speech and whatever policy.
	And they said any derogatory comments towards anyone, which means that I guess they're now going to monitor every Australian citizen's social media accounts?
	Yes.
	And if you say anything, mean tweets?
	Yes.
	Yes, that's essentially what it is.
	And what is a bank doing involved in my social media?
	Your job is to manage my money to an extent, and that's it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And it's my money, but they don't see it that way.
	They don't see it that way because they, I would say at least the major banks, are part of the globalist agenda that really sees us as property, Mike.
	That's what they see us as.
	Well, yeah, and clearly the NAB, because I read their policy, I even commented on it, I noticed they don't have a policy against pedophiles or child sex traffickers, by the way.
	No, that's allowed.
	That's allowed.
	Perhaps even encouraged at some banks.
	I mean, look at JPMorgan Chase and their business with Jeffrey Epstein in the United States.
	So the NAB is like, well, you can't say anything mean.
	Which could be anything they make up, but kind of unstated, oh, if you're a pimp running prostitutes and doing abortions or child sex trafficking, pedophiles grooming, child mutilations, if you're a doctor mutilating children for profit, you can gladly bank here at NAB. Go for it.
	Essentially.
	I mean, they haven't put out anything, you know, to protect children.
	Similarly, we have this e-safety commissioner in Australia.
	And as far as I'm aware, Julie Inman Grant, who's associated with the World Economic Forum and has worked with the White House on, you know, LGBT stuff...
	Yeah.
	She says that her job is to keep the internet safe.
	All that she's really done thus far from what I can see is stopped, shut down, personally shut down a social media user's account who was speaking up about this man that just decided to join women's sports, came and beat the women to the point of hospitalisation, one of them.
	Jeez.
	And so she was speaking up about women's safety.
	Right.
	And Julie Inman Grant, our eSafety Commissioner, shut down her accounts.
	I haven't seen any of the access of children to pornography online being implemented, any targeting of that.
	No, that's fine, it seems.
	It's only when you speak up about the truth.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	So you've had to be very creative then in your own life and how you handle your finances and also channels of where you're able to speak.
	Of course, you know you're always welcome here on the Brighteon platform, and we don't censor anybody, especially not people like you.
	You're free to speak here, and you host InfoWars.
	Is that every Tuesday?
	Yeah.
	Every Tuesday at 2pm Central, yes.
	And then also, I'm also on the Stu Peters Network, so that's every Wednesday and Friday at 8pm Eastern.
	Exactly.
	And it all gets posted up on zmedia.com if people want to find a central place for all of that.
	So you are finding many outlets.
	Yes.
	And I would say that we are the real press, the real media of the world now.
	We're the corporate media, the old school media, nothing but government propaganda, gaslighting and lies.
	And yet, here you are, making gains in the real media, gaining audience rapidly, especially since 2020.
	You've really skyrocketed in popularity.
	Where do you plan to go with this?
	It's a real challenge in Australia, Mike, because we have new misinformation laws that really are a mirror of, say, the Digital Services Act in Europe or what they've just done in Canada, you know, where you look at Canadians go to find news sources and it tells them they cannot look at the social media profile.
	And it's resulted in people not being able to access life-saving information during the fires.
	It's unbelievable.
	So it's not just silencing the truth.
	It's actually harming them in other ways as well, which people need to consider.
	But very similar laws are being proposed in Australia.
	It will see potentially people like me investigated by the media board.
	They want access to our files.
	They want access to our investigations, you know, our reports, everything.
	I'm not going to give you my scoops.
	Are you serious?
	So it's really challenging, Mike.
	We're going to have to continue to think of how to be more creative and contribute to some different platforms.
	Well, exactly.
	I mean, and Australia doesn't have...
	The First Amendment as we have it in the United States.
	There's no Bill of Rights per se.
	There is a Constitution, but it's not accompanied by this Bill of Rights.
	And so what is the situation with freedom of speech being respected at all in the Australian Constitution?
	It isn't.
	Okay.
	It's not protected at all.
	Well, I'm not surprised to hear that, but it's kind of sad.
	Of course it's sad.
	It's why we are in the situation that we're in.
	We just had an expose done by another media outlet about RMIT fact checkers from Australia working with foreign companies to silence Australians when it comes to them speaking out on The Voice.
	It's a huge issue right now in Australia.
	They're trying to change our constitution.
	And so they've been sort of discarded now by Meta, but only because they've been exposed.
	These people have many of these fact-checkers working with them.
	I know I was targeted by and have been and am continuously by AAP Fact Check, who's owned by Murdoch.
	And they, for example, there was a video that came out, Mike, during the state elections, the last round, where...
	erasing something on that ballot paper.
	So I put it out there and I said, what is happening here?
	Australian electoral commission, please explain.
	And if anyone has further information, please come back to me.
	Yeah.
	The AAP fact checkers, um, marked my post as false information and, So I actually had enough of this.
	I said, that's enough.
	I'm going to email these people.
	Because you think there are enemies we won't get through to them.
	But I said, no, I have authority here.
	We're a media outlet.
	Why are you marking this as false?
	I'm asking questions as the mainstream media often do when there's a situation.
	They say, if any member of the public has more information, come back to me.
	They actually had to take the false information.
	Really?
	Yes, they did.
	They had to take it off.
	Because in my experience, the so-called fact checkers, they never operate in good faith.
	They're not interested in facts, obviously.
	What they do is they just cover up the stories that are being reported by independent media that they don't want to get out.
	Yes.
	So they'll just label everything false that they're trying to bury.
	Yes.
	Like, oh, Joe Biden lost his battle with the teleprompter today.
	Oh, false!
	Joe Biden won.
	How?
	In what world did he win that conflict?
	Yes.
	But it's more serious things, too.
	You see the fires in Lahaina, in Hawaii, and all the things that happened there.
	And now, instead of just unleashing fact-checkers to try to bury everything, they just build a giant black fence.
	You can't look in here.
	You can't see.
	The children burned alive because of government incompetence.
	And did you hear the U.S. government wants to cancel any further expeditions to the Titanic at the bottom of the Atlantic?
	I did not hear that.
	Yeah.
	There's a group that has the salvage rights to the Titanic, and they want them to send down another submersible to gather artifacts that they actually show in a kind of a museum, a little tourist attraction.
	And the government says, no, you're not allowed to go down there anymore because it's a grave site.
	Well, it's been a grave site since 1912.
	Is this because people have recently started asking questions about the Titanic?
	Is this what this is about?
	It's about the Ocean Gate submarine.
	Right.
	And how that, at least that's my belief, But how the CEO of that company, remember he fired the 50-year-old white guy because he wanted to have a more exciting, diverse...
	Diverse, yes.
	And then those people didn't understand engineering and they engineered a sub that had a structural failure of the whole.
	And now that wreckage is down there.
	So the government's like, we don't want anybody to go down there and see that.
	It's not about the Titanic.
	It's about the submarine wreckage.
	Right.
	So that only raises more questions.
	Well, why?
	Why are you trying to cover up a wrecked sub...
	With five dead bodies probably somewhere in there.
	Well, they try to cover up everything.
	They are so afraid of the truth-reaching people.
	I think some of them think that people can't handle the truth, Mike.
	I don't think they're all part of the club, if you will.
	Some of them genuinely feel the public can't handle the truth, and they're somehow protecting people by spinning the story to favour the government of the day.
	But...
	The directives, and I say that because I know someone in the mainstream in Australia, and I won't say which outlet, but I know someone who works there, and she says they all believe this dribble.
	They believe it.
	Yeah.
	They believe the injections are great, even though their colleagues are getting injured.
	They believe they're great.
	So there are some people that are just lost and think it's right to withhold certain details from people, or...
	They just read off a script.
	These people aren't journalists.
	They're actors.
	They're just paid to read, really, narrators.
	They're not even thinking for themselves.
	But it seems like more than ever in human history now...
	And my question is whether you agree with this or not, I think you're reaching a lot of people who used to believe the lies, and now they can never go back.
	You know, you can't unsee what you've seen.
	Are you finding that more people are getting red-pilled, as we say, and waking up to the reality of what's going on and questioning the lies of the establishment?
	Yes, I do think so.
	I think that people are more wary now than ever, and I think they're becoming more paranoid, which I don't blame them for, because everything should be questioned.
	Yeah.
	But I worry that it tips into the black pill situation, if you will, for those who are already awake, where they think there's no hope.
	I never want that to be the case until there really is none.
	So I think we have to be wary of that.
	But I do find people are willing to question things.
	You know, I make the effort, Mike, to talk to strangers a lot and ask leading questions and ask them what they think about certain things.
	And they're angry.
	They're not happy with the way that the world is going.
	Even though they think things are normal, they know that they're not.
	The cost of living is skyrocketing.
	You know, the airlines are a mess.
	The rental prices in Australia have just shot up beyond belief.
	And so people are struggling...
	Gas prices here, inflation.
	I mean, and it's not going away.
	And the answers that the governments are giving are not sufficient.
	People are starting to realise something's wrong.
	They may not understand the injection aspect and the aspect of transhumanism being the final goal, but they know that something is wrong.
	Yeah, good point.
	And that's how it begins with a lot of people.
	Yes.
	Is where they say, oh, I can't afford to eat.
	And they start skipping meals.
	Or I can't afford to pay rent.
	And then, you know, that can snowball into more questions.
	Like, what's going on here?
	You know, why am I working three jobs and I can't afford to pay rent?
	How is that possible?
	Because, you know, people say my parents and their parents, they didn't have this problem.
	If they worked nine to five, they could afford a home.
	And they could afford to eat, and they could raise a family.
	Today, that's not possible for many people.
	That's right.
	And the whole aim of the fourth industrial revolution is, we've all heard it, you'll have nothing, you'll be happy.
	And when Yuval Noah Harari is asked, how are people going to be happy?
	Oh, we'll just drug them, he says.
	Yeah, right.
	You know?
	It's unbelievable.
	If people understood how little value the globalists place on them, they would...
	Yeah.
	You would think there's no way that they wouldn't.
	So I really, I encourage people to keep trying to wake people up.
	Okay.
	If they don't want to listen to you about the poison shots, listen, talk to them about the fourth industrial revolution, what the great reset is.
	It's on the internet.
	Now, you know, my post used to get fact checked for that, even when it was up on the WEF website, there's no such thing as the great reset.
	Yeah, there is.
	You know, talk to them about the fact that the cost of living is just going to continue getting worse because they want to collapse the economy.
	They don't want the US dollar to be as powerful as it has been.
	They want, and it's interesting, Mike, because we have these competing world orders right now and BRICS is rising up.
	Oh, yeah.
	Really, I mean, where the world is going to go, it's getting tricky.
	It's getting even tricky to predict.
	Yeah.
	Where you have to place your money, maybe.
	Or, you know, I talk about gold and silver a lot, but people are worried.
	They're worried about crypto.
	They're worried about their finances.
	They're worried about their banks.
	It's like a tumbleweed of issues that just keeps going.
	Well, they should be worried, you know, because the unipolar world of the West is crumbling.
	Right.
	The dollar domination of the world is done.
	You've covered this with the BRICS nations rising up.
	And if you think about the Western nations, it's the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, Western Europe, and a few others, versus now the rest of the world, which is China, India, Brazil, Turkey, Russia, and so on.
	And in fact, the BRICS nations now have a larger combined economy than the G7 nations.
	And frankly, it's the non-Western nations that have most of the manufacturing, most of the population, and most of the natural resources.
	I mean, think about Russia alone, the resources they have.
	So the question is, since World War II, Western nations have dominated the trade routes of shipping and have dominated the currency.
	And even the United States and Australia recently announced a combined joint defensive operation involving submarines and intelligence sharing and all of that, mostly, I think, to push against China because of the proximity of Australia and China is very worrisome there.
	But the U.S. is not going to be able to convincingly project this power any longer.
	The dollar is becoming a joke.
	The military is obsolete.
	Russia's got hypersonic missiles.
	China has these advanced lasers.
	And America's ICBMs are decades old.
	And the military can't even recruit qualified people for the most part anymore because they really just want transgenders and soy boys to join up.
	So Australia is going to be affected by all of this as well.
	All the Western nations are going to lose power in the world.
	Yes.
	And this is why I am so passionate about America.
	Because I know that if they topple this nation and if they successfully demoralise the people in this nation and convince them that they can't do anything about this, the rest of us are finished.
	Right.
	Along with you.
	You know?
	It has to come from here.
	I don't believe the situation is hopeless, Mike, but we are dealing with a power structure that is...
	Far more advanced and have plans that far surpass what we understand.
	That's the reality of the situation.
	Yeah, it is.
	All right, on a lighter note, are you ready to eat the bugs?
	I will never eat the bugs.
	I used to joke about this.
	I used to say, I'll eat rocks and grass before I put bugs in my mouth.
	I mean, how can you possibly...
	As a human being, and I know that there are chefs out there that are kind of trying to make it fun right now.
	It's demoralizing to put bugs in your mouth.
	You're devaluing yourself.
	We're not meant to eat these.
	They're poisonous to us.
	Yeah, I know.
	That's crazy.
	But then again, in Australia, you have Vegemite.
	I tried that, and I was like, what is this stuff?
	You didn't like it?
	I did not like it.
	Oh, really?
	No, because if you're not raised on it, you don't know what that is.
	Well, I wasn't raised on it because my family are European, so we don't eat a lot of that stuff.
	But I don't mind it.
	It's a little bit.
	It's very salty.
	It's very salty.
	That's the unexpected kick right there.
	You're like, I thought it was going to be like mustard or mayonnaise.
	No, this is something totally different.
	Okay, next lighthearted question.
	Can you do an American accent?
	Well, which part?
	I don't know.
	Have you ever played with that?
	Have you ever tried that?
	Talk like a...
	I can do an American accent.
	That's really good!
	That's very good, yeah.
	So what region is that?
	I think that's a little bit southern, isn't it?
	I don't know.
	Let's hear it again.
	I can do an American accent.
	Oh, yeah.
	That's definitely southern.
	That's like Arkansas.
	That's a little bit of Arkansas right there.
	Oh, is it?
	Okay.
	A little bit of North Texas.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Very good.
	Thank you.
	Okay.
	I can do a little bit of Ruby talk.
	What's that?
	I don't know.
	I was just going to go home and just call it all off.
	Well, it's a good effort.
	It's a good effort.
	The Australian accent's a hard accent to get.
	It's very difficult.
	Do you find it difficult to understand us?
	No, no, no.
	No.
	Okay.
	It's when Americans try to imitate an Australian accent, they usually end up in the U.K., Yes.
	It's easier, I think.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I don't know why that is.
	I don't know.
	I don't know either.
	But I love the pronunciation of certain words by the Australian people.
	In particular, like the word home, which is pronounced home.
	Home.
	Home.
	Hoim.
	Hoim.
	I've heard it almost two syllables.
	Yeah, okay.
	It depends.
	See, I'm not from the outback or country towns, so they speak a lot differently.
	Like, how you going, mate?
	You know, it's really harsh.
	So in the city, we don't have that twang, if you will.
	Right.
	It's just like America, right?
	So, you know, like a Boston kind of dialect.
	Boston?
	Totally different from, you know, rural Missouri or rural Texas or, you know, so many different dialects.
	But when I was visiting and spent some time in Sydney and...
	I was introduced to a guy my same age because we're all just trying to meet interesting people.
	And he was very kind to me because he said he would gladly drive on the right side of the road to make me feel more at home as an American.
	So he was adventurous in navigating traffic and a little bit crazy.
	And he took me to a place called King's Cross.
	Oh dear.
	In Sydney.
	Yeah, he said, this is Australia.
	You need to see this.
	And that's a little eye-opening experience.
	It's not a very good representation of Australia.
	No, that's what I learned.
	You don't want to go there.
	He was totally pranking me the whole time.
	Yep, yep, yeah.
	King's Cross is, for anyone who doesn't know, it's like a red light district.
	It's terrible.
	Right, right.
	Terrible.
	Yeah, he was playing a trick on me.
	Yes, obviously.
	Hey, Rudy.
	Oh, hey, hey, we have a visitor here.
	Hi there, Rudy.
	What you doing?
	This is my dog, Rudy.
	Rudy, yeah.
	I know Rudy.
	Yeah.
	He's getting bored or something.
	What are you up to?
	Let me just check on him.
	Hold on.
	You don't mind me joking around a little bit?
	No, not at all.
	Of course not.
	Because the things that are happening in the world are so serious right now.
	And so often, we live in a world of zombies.
	Just the oblivious sleepwalking masses who have no clue what's going on.
	like you and I are investigating constantly and waking up some small percentage of the people.
	But then the rest of the people have no idea how anything works.
	They're just completely absorbed in their own lives.
	I just feel like if we don't poke fun at some of this sometimes, you can go bonkers.
	Yeah, so that's such a good point, Mike.
	First of all, people say to me how they think I'm miserable or something.
	They say, oh, we never see you smile.
	I smile all the time, but when I'm reporting, I'm reporting on horrendous things.
	And so, you know...
	And is it overwhelming sometimes?
	Sure.
	But truthfully, I have so much joy in my heart.
	I really do.
	I'm a happy person.
	And so I think it's so crucial to maintain that humanity in the midst of all of this.
	And they want us to forget our humanity.
	True.
	Yes.
	And they want us to not love our neighbor.
	And we have to keep that.
	We have to hold on to that.
	But at the same time, what you were talking about, poking fun at them, I've seen some people come out in retaliation to this intel that's come out about them trying COVID 2.0, and they're saying, we're now at the point where if you muzzle up, we're going to make fun of you publicly.
	And I'm not suggesting we bully people, but I am saying we need to use humour to reach people and say, you can't be this dumb again.
	You just can't.
	There's no way.
	And I think that may break through that previous barrier that they created when they made you hate your neighbor and told you to dob your neighbor in like they did in Australia.
	I don't know.
	Did they do that here?
	What?
	Tell you to report your neighbor to the authorities?
	Oh, maybe in certain counties, but not across the board.
	Oh, this was on national television in Australia.
	You need to, if your neighbor is out, you know, without a mask or has unexpected visitors, you need to call the police.
	Wow.
	Yeah, like Nazi Germany.
	So we have to, they really created this divide between people and the way to bridge that will be through humor and it will be through that humanity again.
	Yeah, I completely agree.
	And that gets back to your background because you were working to help disabled people find gainful employment.
	Yes.
	It's a very noble thing to do.
	I loved it.
	Yeah.
	What you're doing now is helping a lot more people in a different way, but also a very meaningful way.
	And in a sense, people with physical disabilities obviously have very unique challenges, very difficult challenges.
	But in a sense, we are all struggling in a world that is disabled.
	Our governments are...
	Incapable of functioning in a normal, healthy way, right?
	I don't want to equate that with people who are disabled, but I'm just saying our governments are dysfunctional, and as a result, we the people have to always compensate for that, which in a sense is, you know, a disabled person has to find compensation, has to find ways around that.
	But we're dealing with governments that don't know how to function, and so we have to overcompensate and figure it out.
	But you're helping a lot of people figure out how to do that, so it's a noble thing that you're doing.
	I appreciate that, Mike.
	I think what you're describing is the human welfare element that we all in this battle carry.
	It's a transferable skill from my prior career, but it's not...
	It's not just a career skill.
	It comes from our hearts.
	And so I know that every single person who's standing for truth has that compassion in their hearts, otherwise they wouldn't.
	They wouldn't care for humanity in the way that they do.
	And so incompetence, I think, is an understatement.
	You know, if it's not willful, sinister motives, These people, I mean, I wouldn't employ them in a fruit shop.
	Not that there's anything wrong with fruit shop workers.
	They do a better job than the government's.
	But they just, I don't know how these people even get a job.
	I don't.
	They're inefficient.
	They're dumb.
	And they're power hungry.
	Yep.
	But that's it.
	For many of them, the reason they have that job is because they can't do anything productive in the real world.
	All they can do is function as a parasite on society and take other people's money and project power over other people.
	I mean, we saw that in spades with the government of Australia during COVID. Yes, this is why I really think people need to focus on their local communities, and I talk about this a lot, and I know communities that are already doing this, that have really, you know, this guy's got the potatoes, this guy's got the rice.
	You know, they know, and they've all prepared, and they're going to look after one another, because the state's never going to look after you again.
	Let that be clear.
	Well, and I would add, I think the state is trying to murder you.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Clearly.
	Clearly.
	What is the status of gun laws in Australia right now?
	Yeah, we're allowed to have a gun with a license, but you, for example, during the period of COVID, I know people personally that had a knock on the door and the police said, you are deemed to be too risky to continue holding this license because they had a traffic offense four years ago.
	Really?
	Yes.
	Another one had a mental health...
	He had an anxiety record with his GP, with his doctor, and they came and took his gun because he was too risky.
	Well, that's why you don't tell your doctor if you feel anxious about anything, for one thing.
	Yeah.
	And he's just going to prescribe you antidepressant pills.
	Well, that's right.
	That's right.
	But in Australia, can you have like a Glock with a 17-round magazine?
	What's a Glock?
	Really?
	Yeah, really.
	What's a Glock?
	Yeah.
	Oh, come on.
	You know.
	All right, Maria, here's a Glock 19, which...
	You're almost obliged to get one when you come to Texas.
	I mean, I think this is almost required at the Texas border.
	Right.
	But can you have something like this in Australia?
	No.
	And no semi-automatics either.
	And I think double-pump shotguns are not allowed either.
	Pump action?
	Yeah, pump action.
	Really?
	So you can't have AR-15s?
	No.
	What about bolt-action rifles?
	Can you have something like a hunting rifle, just single-shot bolt-action?
	Yes.
	So with a license, you can get a license to go and hunt.
	But again, as I said, they really went hard during the lockdown period and made sure that they stripped people of their licenses.
	So it's not the same as it is here, Mike.
	We've been conditioned for years since Port Arthur to believe that guns are bad, and most Australians believe that.
	Another engineered event in history.
	But how does an Australian rancher function without tools of having firearms?
	They have them.
	They have firearms.
	They're licensed to have them.
	But it's not, you know, a situation where you can walk around with it.
	And again, they have very, very strict monitoring laws.
	In fact, last year when that terrible, tragic incident happened in Queensland, which there are many, many questions about more than there are answers, Mike, if I'm honest, two police officers were shot, but they said they were going to go even harder on the gun laws.
	Well, they can always create another crisis narrative to go after people.
	But since you are here in Texas, you are welcome.
	I've got a table full of weapons.
	So we've got, I don't know, a dozen knives, including this combat knife right here.
	We have beautiful knives.
	Thank you.
	And we've got at least one Glock here.
	Right.
	And other staff members are also carrying as well.
	Yep.
	If you feel the urge to just cycle some handguns, you want to lock the slide back?
	You want to have fun with this one?
	There we go.
	How about this?
	There.
	That's there.
	All right.
	Yeah?
	Look at that.
	You know, I always, recently the other day, I was with someone that was carrying.
	And I said, my goodness, I feel safer.
	I feel safer knowing that someone around me, because I trust that person.
	I know the gun is not the problem.
	It's the person using it.
	And so I genuinely appreciated that I was in the company of someone that I know could be trusted with a weapon.
	We would, I mean, if you did this on TV in Australia, you'd be in prison.
	In prison?
	Yes.
	Well, let's hope all the Australian ranchers are tuned in right now to see this.
	Share everywhere.
	Because this is just Thursday in Texas.
	Yeah.
	I appreciate it, and I wish that people didn't have that opinion about weapons.
	I mean, I watch in the United States where they're trying to paint it like guns are the problem.
	And it's just simply not the case.
	Every single time.
	I mean, just look at that tragedy where that transgender person committed that hate crime in the Christian school.
	And it was a hate crime.
	And they, again, trying to blame the guns.
	Hang on a minute.
	This child has been put on dangerous, mind-altering drugs that have made them mentally unstable.
	Did we look at that or did we just keep prescribing these mind-altering drugs?
	Yeah, and castration chemicals.
	Yes.
	With endocrine system effects and neurological effects.
	If you thought about the fact that the transgender chemical mutilations are kind of like a pharmaceutical murder factory.
	I mean, they're turning otherwise normal young boys and girls into unstable, chemically afflicted mass murderers.
	Yes, that's exactly what's happening.
	And we're seeing it.
	There have been, right after, if you recall, that horrific event at the school, they had that protest planned and they were using a gun on their flags.
	Do you remember, Mike?
	And they were saying, we're going to come for you.
	We're going to deal with this transgendered genocide by killing more people or something.
	The transgenders were saying this?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Yes, the activist was saying, we're going to kill more people, essentially.
	And it's like, who's coming after them?
	Who's saying these transgender extremists are dangerous?
	I didn't see that in the news.
	No, of course not.
	You'll never see that.
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	Well, again...
	Welcome to the United States.
	And there's plenty of gun rangers all around here.
	Oh, great.
	You want to go shoot something?
	This is a true story.
	When I was training with Special Forces here in Central Texas, and we had a guy actually visit from the UK who couldn't believe that he could get his hands on the weapons that we were training with every day.
	And he was like a kid in a candy shop, like, let me shoot that!
	You know, I gotta shoot that!
	And I would bring a couple of rifles like, you can own that?
	It was hilarious.
	But he flew all the way to Texas just to be able to shoot these firearms.
	Well, you know...
	No, no, no, no.
	Oh, no.
	Rudy.
	Oh.
	Rhodey wants to...
	Is it Rhodey or Rudy?
	It's Rhodey, actually.
	Rhodey.
	I keep calling him Rudy.
	No, it's okay.
	What are you doing, Rhodey?
	He wants to play.
	When he grabs these rings, it's playtime for him.
	But he likes to show his butt to the camera.
	Or his balls, one or the other.
	Come on.
	Come on, Rhodey.
	Come on.
	Let's go.
	Come on.
	Get up.
	There we go.
	Yeah.
	Thank you.
	Good boy.
	Now we have knives and guns and a military dog.
	So it's getting more interesting by the minute.
	He's so gorgeous.
	Yeah, thank you.
	He loves it here.
	He has fun with all the guests.
	Yeah.
	Pretty much interrupting his job.
	Or he holds up these rings and he's like, look, I'm Lord of the Rings.
	Do you have any pets?
	Yes, we have a tiny little fox terrier.
	Oh, yeah?
	Yeah, or foxy cross, yeah.
	Yeah, he's very, very cute.
	He's about this big, and he knows he's that small, and he'll come and sit in your lap.
	And he doesn't really give affection, he just absorbs it and wants more.
	And you're not allowed to stop.
	If you try and stop, he'll just claw at you, like, come on, keep going.
	That'll go on for hours.
	Wow.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So you have family or friends taking care of him right now?
	Yeah, family.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Excellent.
	Yeah.
	You must miss him.
	Yeah, of course.
	Of course.
	How much longer are you in the States?
	Roughly.
	I mean, don't give any specific dates.
	Until probably the third week of September, roughly.
	Oh, wow.
	Okay.
	So what else do you have ahead?
	Do you want to announce anything here that you have coming up?
	Look, I'm going to be speaking to a lot of different people while I'm here, meeting with a lot of different people.
	What I want to leave is the message that the whole world really is looking to the United States.
	I know that there are challenges coming.
	I know that as it comes closer to the 2024 election, things are going to get more difficult.
	It's going to be the same worldwide, not only because of the Final nail in the coffin of medical martial law finalized.
	And so my message here with whoever I see and whatever shows I'm doing, Mike, is the same.
	Please stand up.
	The whole world is looking to you.
	Don't give up and know that we're all standing together.
	It's one, I don't want to use their words, but it's really one humanity standing against the anti-humans, if I can put it that way.
	Absolutely.
	Well, that's why I consider you, you're on team humanity.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	And no matter which platforms we're on and all the different personalities and all the different businesses, at the end of the day, we're all just fighting for team humanity.
	That's why I do this, too.
	It's like...
	I didn't ask for this.
	You didn't ask for this.
	We kind of fell into it.
	And then it's like, who's going to do this?
	We have to take a stand and tell the truth.
	And then you realize how deep the rabbit hole goes.
	It's like, I never imagined knowing the things I now know.
	I couldn't have imagined five years ago knowing these things.
	Absolutely.
	But what I also encourage people to do, Mike, is because it's really easy to just be a spectator and enjoy listening to people tell the truth, and that's all well and good, but there needs to be action behind it.
	So I just met a mum recently, for example, who really stopped mask mandates in her school.
	She kept relentlessly going to the principal, meeting with them, bringing peer-reviewed studies, did not stop her battle, and is hated by most of the parents, but says, I don't care, I'm going to do what's right.
	And so that's just one example of one lady, one mom who said, I'm going to do my part.
	And I really do encourage people to do that.
	Whatever your area of interest is, yes, listen to the information, support independent media so we can keep warning you in advance before things get more challenging than they are now, if you can imagine it.
	It will be.
	But pick something that you're passionate about and run with it.
	Run with it and make a difference.
	Don't ever underestimate the difference you can make.
	And you are living proof of that.
	And I just want to thank you for your courage and for your voice, for speaking out, for just taking a stand.
	And it's remarkable.
	I think that you have demonstrated a turning point in the history of our world.
	Literally.
	Without your voice, many people in Australia would not know the truth.
	And I do believe, by the way, that this evil, tyrannical Western regime system, it will come to an end at some point.
	Yes.
	And maybe soon.
	Because it will implode under its own weight of lies and money printing, by the way.
	Yes.
	And I think that the current fake government of the United States will fall, just as the current regime in Australia will also suffer its own failures.
	And whenever that happens, whatever that timescale is, it's going to be because of people like you.
	That your fellow citizens are ready to peacefully rise up and build a new nation based on principles of humanity rather than lies.
	So thank you for what you do.
	Thank you so much, Mike.
	It means a lot coming from you, and I would say the same thing in return to you.
	Your effort is just relentless, and I'm personally very encouraged by you and glad to know you.
	Thank you.
	Well, likewise.
	Thank you so much.
	And is there any other final words you want to say to our audience?
	Never surrender.
	We are not going back to what they tried to do to us last time.
	It doesn't matter how hard they try.
	I am telling you difficult times are coming.
	But we are ready.
	We are resilient.
	We know the truth now.
	So much has been exposed.
	And we will never, ever give in to these tyrants.
	Don't ever, ever let the tyrants rule your mind.
	I say that a lot, Mike.
	And I mean those words.
	Because this and your soul and your heart are the biggest battles that they want to win.
	And we're not going to let them.
	Well said.
	100%.
	Okay.
	Completely agree with you, Maria.
	Thank you so much for joining us today.
	It's a pleasure to have you here.
	And I look forward to watching your work and having you visit in the future as well.
	Thank you so much, Mike.
	Thank you.
	And for those of you watching, I hope you enjoyed this interview and the little bit of fun that we had playing around as well.
	Hey, we're human.
	We're on Team Humanity.
	We can't be all totally serious all the time.
	So give us a little bit of leeway.
	We have to let off some steam, too.
	But, folks, there's a lot of real, hardcore, honest information in this interview that other people could benefit from.
	So be sure to share this interview.
	You have our permission to repost it on other channels and platforms.
	And just give a link back to ZMEDIA. Media.com.
	That's funny.
	You know, triple E. When I was in Australia, I learned that in Australia, when they give out phone numbers, it's all kinds of triples and doubles all in there.
	It's like, you know, seven, triple zero, double five.
	We don't do that in America.
	Really?
	No.
	I have a few double numbers in my number, but it happened because when I started speaking out, I was still working.
	So I had like Maria with three A's, and my surname starts with Z, so I just kind of added a few E's on the end, and then it stuck.
	That's how it happened.
	Really?
	Yes, yes.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, the first time I heard somebody give me a phone number in Australia, I was like, what was that?
	I'm going to have to decode that.
	But the other things that we find amusing in America is, at least when I was in Australia, they don't say used cars.
	At least when I was there, they were saying pre-loved.
	Oh no, we say used.
	You do say used.
	We do.
	Oh, that's a relief.
	I've been living with that burden the whole time.
	It was pre-loved.
	You were living with that burden?
	Yeah, I just couldn't quite make it work because people's used cars are not that loved.
	They're getting rid of them.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Because they hate those cars.
	But it was called pre-loved.
	Maybe at one point.
	I think we try to soften or, you know, we're so PC in Australia.
	It's so boring.
	You've got to break through that.
	You've got to break through that.
	Pre-loved is not the word, guys.
	Okay, well, so what's the craziest American idiom that drives you bonkers when you hear Americans say it?
	Oh my gosh, I don't know.
	I'm so used to you guys, especially because I'm so tuned into American media.
	I can't think of one.
	Cat got your tongue?
	You know, we say that.
	You say that too?
	Yeah.
	We say that.
	Do you ever say, let's go for a wander?
	No.
	We say that.
	A wander?
	A wander, like a little walk.
	We don't say that, no.
	No.
	Do you use the word youngins?
	Not really.
	No?
	No.
	But I know what it means.
	Yonder?
	No, we don't say yonder.
	Well, you say wonder, but we could wander out yonder with the youngins.
	You know what I love?
	I love when you walk into a place in Texas and they say, howdy!
	Like, every time.
	That's right.
	It's the best.
	It's the best.
	Howdy!
	How y'all doing?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's just at every restaurant.
	It's like a movie set.
	Yeah.
	You know, with the guns.
	Howdy, out yonder, yeah.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	Okay, well, anyway, I'm just playing with you, but thanks for playing along.
	Thanks so much, Mike.
	All right, thanks, Maria.
	Take care.
	You too, everybody.
	Hope you enjoyed this.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of BrightTalent.com.
	Take care.
	All right, Mike Adams here with Health Ranger Survival Gear.
	I want to give you an overview of what we have with our new line of super heavy-duty, high-end knives made in the USA. I co-designed these knives with Dawson knives, which I think is the best knife maker in America.
	They use MagnaCut alloy steel, which is revolutionary.
	And I've got three knives to show you here today.
	Some of the just breakthrough innovations that they have done.
	And why I chose these three designs and also what's coming out next.
	I just want to mention these are available right now at healthrangerstore.com.
	If you go to the website and you just search for knife, you'll see knives like this.
	This is called the mass ratio.
	I'll show you that here.
	It's a beautiful design.
	People are going nuts over these designs.
	I mean, look at the treatment of the blade and the G10 handle and the patterns.
	These aren't really rivets.
	They're Allen screws, but they have been anodized for that brass-looking color.
	These are amazingly functional.
	So, in fact, let's start with that knife right here, mass ratio.
	I'm just going to show you some of the features that I think make this amazing.
	First of all, like I said, it's a G10 handle.
	This is a pry bar on the end, and it also can function as like an emergency slotted screwdriver.
	The blade, of course, like I said, it's a full-tang knife all the way through, and it's magna-cut steel.
	It has a Rockwell hardness of between 60 and 62, which is extraordinary.
	This particular metal, called magna-cut from CPM, It comes out of New York, by the way.
	It makes these blades able to hold an edge from two to six times longer than even a high-end D2 blade, by the way.
	So these are, again, the metal is revolutionary.
	It holds an edge and it's corrosion resistant.
	So it's almost as corrosion resistant as stainless steel, but stainless steel is fragile.
	This is not fragile.
	This has, again, high rockwell hardness.
	It's got enough flexibility to avoid shattering, but it's also got...
	All the functionality, the corrosion resistance, and the durability that you would expect from anything that I put my name on.
	And that's why this is branded right here.
	HRSG might be hard to see, but that's HealthRanger survival gear.
	Now, let's talk about the sheath because that's revolutionary as well.
	Now, let me start with this sheath right here.
	This is the resident's tactical knife here, really quite amazing.
	The sheath comes equipped in a standard vertical format here.
	First of all, this is carbon fiber that's infused in Kydex.
	So the strength of the carbon fiber plus the Kydex is extremely high.
	And it comes with, you know, of course, it's vacuum formed to the shape of the knife so that it hugs your body as you carry it.
	And the connection hardware here is, as shown, this is a carbon fiber piece.
	This is a crossbar.
	It's all tension adjustable with these spacers.
	And then what you can do is you can take this off and you can remount it in this format for cross draw.
	So if you prefer to carry it in a horizontal format, you can do this.
	And then it's good for cross draw.
	Now you can take all this hardware and you can flip it, you can put it on the other side.
	So this is ambidextrous.
	You can do left-handed or right-handed draw, both vertical and cross draw.
	And it's very, very flexible.
	In addition, You might notice that these four holes here on the sheath, these four holes do not have these eyelets through them.
	That's because they are set up for future additions of accessories.
	And here's an example.
	of one of the accessories which is really just a demonstration.
	This piece right here is just an extra add-on layer.
	It's screwed on with the four screws and this can be engineered and that's underway to carry a paracord or a small sharpener or a small light.
	And so we're going to be offering Health Ranger Survival Gear accessories that add on to your knife sheath to give it that additional functionality.
	But that's why there are not eyelets in those four holes on all of these sheaths.
	Now in addition, there's something else that's really critical to understand about this.
	So not only are the knives available in different handle colors, and here's blue and this is kind of the rust color, forgot the official name of that.
	But we have Apocalypse Black on the blade here, and that's what you're looking at right here.
	And then in addition to Apocalypse Black, we have a blade called Scorched Earth.
	And if you go to my screen, you can see what that looks like.
	That's the scorched earth treatment right there.
	It's absolutely gorgeous, especially with all these different handle colors.
	But this is not just about cosmetics.
	This is about functionality.
	So I want you to notice something really critical about this knife, that cut into the MagnaCut are three One here on the knife blade itself, one here on the finger guard, and one here on the back end of it.
	These three holes are designed to allow you to make a spear out of this knife.
	So you can, of course, you can find a stick if you're in a survival scenario, or you can use a rod or something, and you can use paracord, and you can strap with three points, you can strap this knife onto your You know, stick in the woods or forest wood or whatever, whatever you have out there, and you can make a spear out of it.
	And because of those three points of contact, that spear will be very rigid, especially if you maybe notch the wood in the stick just a little bit so that this handle rests in there.
	You can make a very tight-fitting spear, and that will be something that, you know, all kinds of functionality.
	So this knife is the tactical knife.
	It's called Resonance.
	and this is called mass ratio this is the bushcrafting knife and then this knife here is the covert knife And I call this knife consequences.
	And this one is very easy to carry.
	It's very easy to put into a reverse grip format here.
	And it's also, it's got three of the Allen screws that are anodized on the handle.
	And it's more of a cylindrical handle shape because it's a smaller handle so you need to be able to grip that.
	Whereas these other knives are more of an oval type of shape or an oblong shape, and it's a little bit of a beefier handle.
	Depending on what kind of grip that you like.
	This is a very aggressive battle grip here, whereas this is your more defensive grip.
	Those of us trained in edge weapons combat, you know about these grips.
	This covert knife does not have a hole on this end, so it's not appropriate for a spear type of application.
	Just keep that in mind.
	Whereas the Resonance Tactical Knife is ideal, For a spear, and the mass ratio bushcrafting knife could also be used as a spear, although it's intended more for, you know, bushcrafting type of activities.
	You can chop some light wood with it.
	You can cut rope.
	You can cut canvas.
	You can also use it as a defensive weapon.
	It's not, of course, as long as a blade, as resonance, the tactical knife, but it's a lot easier to carry.
	It's more of an everyday utility type of knife.
	So, Sorry about all the desk noise here.
	The bottom line is, if you look at these knives together with what the sheaths offer, which is the carbon fiber infused kydex with the four different configurations of vertical draw or side draw both left and right, you can clearly see that this is something that nobody else offers in the industry.
	And, you know, again, it's very rare that I put my name on something, but you know I'm a prepper.
	I've been into survival and gear and combat training and martial arts training and firearms and also edge weapons training for many, many years.
	And mostly what I've come across in the industry, most of it in terms of knives, are just...
	They're just garbage.
	They're cheap, made in China, cheap metal that will rust if you leave it outside, even in Texas or especially places like Louisiana or Mississippi.
	It's just going to turn to rust in no time.
	A typical knife.
	Those cheap steel knives, most of them are not even full tang.
	They don't have good hardware.
	They don't have good handles.
	They break.
	They shatter.
	They don't hold an edge.
	You use it a few times and the edge is gone.
	I just...
	I'm never going to put my name on something like that.
	For me to put my name on it, it's got to be the best of the best that I could find on planet Earth.
	It's got to be rugged.
	It's got to be reliable.
	It's got to be hard use.
	It's got to work.
	Even if you leave this in the back of your pickup truck, let's say, for six months...
	You need to be able to come back and find that knife and be able to use it without it having rusted out or lost its edge.
	And because of this revolutionary steel magna cut, this can accomplish that.
	All of these knives can do what you need them to do.
	They are reliable.
	They are rugged.
	You could theoretically break this if you tried really hard, which I absolutely do not recommend you do because doing that itself would be kind of dangerous.
	But if you stuck this in between a rock and you pried on it and jumped on it and stood on it, you might be able to shatter this thing.
	But as far as accidental breakage...
	It's virtually impossible.
	Through normal use, you're never going to break this knife.
	You know, the handle's not going to break.
	The blade's not going to break, and it's not going to rust.
	So this is the kind of reliable knife that you need in your bug-out bag.
	You want to have one around the home or around the farm as a utility knife.
	It's good to have something like this in your vehicle.
	Just be sure to check your local laws about blade length.
	I do want you to, of course, obey the local knife laws, obviously.
	In some jurisdictions, this kind of tactical knife may not be legal to have in your vehicle, maybe in California.
	I'm not sure.
	Maybe Massachusetts.
	But check your local laws.
	Keep it legal.
	But here in Texas, this is all legal.
	And in most states across America, it's all legal to have.
	Again, survival use, defensive use, even emergency hunting type of operations, utility, all kinds of things.
	You are not going to find, I believe, I don't think you're going to find a better quality knife that's made in America that's available right now.
	And we've got these.
	And if you go to our store, healthrangerstore.com, and if you find that they're sold out, Don't worry.
	We've got two production lines now in Arizona running these knives five days a week, normal business days, but two production shifts that are running.
	We're going to have a steady supply of these knives coming in.
	So don't worry.
	We've got the supply chain already nailed down.
	We've got the metal, the steel already reserved, the G10 reserved, the Kydex material, the carbon fiber material, all the hardware.
	It's all reserved.
	So we're going to be able to produce at least through the end of this year, we know for sure.
	So again, if it's sold out right now, just check back or you can enter your email address to be alerted when the knife is back in stock.
	One more thing I want to mention is that there's a fourth knife that I designed with John Roy from Dawson Knives.
	And that fourth knife is called Escape from L.A. And of course I came up with that name because of my sense of humor and also my love for the Kurt Russell movies, you know, Escape from New York and Escape from L.A. Big shout out to Kurt Russell on that.
	So The Escape from L.A. knife is designed to allow you to escape a city where the power grid has failed.
	Where doors don't open and windows don't open because, again, the power grid's down.
	So it has a very prominent prying tool as part of the knife.
	It's a rather large knife.
	It's even larger than this tactical knife.
	It's got a lot more steel in it.
	And it's going to cost more, by the way.
	But it's a knife...
	Again, not available yet, coming soon, in about six weeks or so.
	It's called Escape from L.A.
	It has both the prying use.
	You'll be able to pry open doors, even like in many cases a car door, or pry open a window or smash a window, and you'll be able to open latches and maybe a window that's latched shut or a door that's latched shut so that you can get out of a collapse scenario. and you'll be able to open latches and maybe a It's not about breaking into anything.
	It's not named like the thief's entry knife.
	No, this is about getting out of L.A., because if you're stuck in a city like Los Angeles when the power grid goes down and the zombies come out to play, you're going to want to get out of things.
	You're going to need to be able to pry things and open things, and you're going to need a tool that you can rely on that's not made in China with some cheap steel that's just going to shatter.
	And that's what this next knife is all about, Escape from L.A. I wonder if the city of L.A. is going to give us any crap about that.
	That would be funny.
	It's like, hey, everybody's trying to escape your city.
	The only people left behind are those who can't afford to leave, by the way, because of California's high taxation.
	But bottom line, we're going to have that knife available.
	We're going to have additional accessories available.
	And on top of that, we have some other surprises that I can't talk about yet of some things that are coming in the same line.
	Health Ranger survival gear, unique designs that even Dawson Knives themselves don't sell these exact designs.
	Because these are Health Ranger Survival Gear designs, and these are designs that I give my okay on, and they have made these exclusively for us, and they will continue to do so.
	So I want to thank Dawson Knives, by the way, an amazing company.
	What they have done, they're real innovators, and they're manufacturing high-quality American-made goods that are going to save lives.
	And that's why we're thrilled to be able to support them And by the way, if you're looking for swords, Dawson Knives also makes swords.
	And I own quite a few of their swords.
	And my favorite sword, I dare not name, because John Roy told me that's the most difficult sword to make.
	And they don't like it when people keep buying the sword because I mentioned it.
	So I won't mention it.
	There are lots of swords there.
	If you want a high-end sword, again, they're not cheap.
	But they're durable.
	Many of them are made with MagnaCut, for example, and you can get those or you can get various knives.
	But if you want these knives, they're available through HealthRangerStore.com and we've got a lot more coming.
	So I want to thank you for your support.
	And your purchase of this hardware not only will equip you with essentially the knife of a lifetime, you're never going to have to buy another one of these.
	This is going to last you a lifetime with proper care, as long as you don't try to break it.
	But in addition to that, whatever profits we make from these knives, of course, help support our platform, brighteon.com, brighteon.tv, brighteonradio.com, Natural News, and so on, where we are fighting for America and for humanity.
	We are a pillar of truth.
	We are the real press in America, telling the truth, asking the questions, speaking truth to power.
	And bringing you innovative solutions, remedies every single day that can help keep you healthy and alive no matter what comes our way.
	The collapse is approaching.
	I would not want to face the collapse without a tool like this.
	That's for sure.
	So upgrade your knife collection right now.
	Go corrosion resistant.
	Go magna cut.
	Health Ranger survival gear.
	It's available now.
	HealthRangerStore.com.
	You will love these.
	You will absolutely love these.
	And that's why I'm willing to put my name on them.
	So thank you for your support.
	God bless you and God bless America.
	Take care.
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