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BBN, Sep 4, 2023 - Burning Man MUDPOCALYPSE reminds us there are consequences for not being PREPARED

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	Well, happy Labor Day.
	This is Bright Town Broadcast News for Monday, September 4th, 2023.
	Mike Adams here.
	This is going to be a shorter version of the podcast without an interview today, but I do have a really rocking interview for you tomorrow.
	I just want to let you know, happy Labor Day.
	I 100% support labor.
	And any kind of childbirth, actually.
	When women are in labor, I think we absolutely need to support them with a special day.
	And, oh, is that not what this day is about?
	Oh, this is about working.
	Workers.
	Workers' Day.
	Okay, I'm kidding.
	I just thought we should support women, too, you know, with women under attack all the time.
	What about women?
	What about motherhood, right?
	Mother's Day is under attack.
	But Labor Day, okay, so I absolutely support the American workers, and I contribute myself.
	I'm a hard worker, have always been a hard worker my whole life, as you know, even as a kid, even as a teenager, working jobs, doing the labor.
	I mean...
	You know, I cleaned many a toilet at Pizza Hut when I was in high school, working at Pizza Hut, working at UPS, loading boxes in the trucks, hot, hot trucks, hot tractor trailers at 3 a.m.
	Yeah, I've been there.
	And that's part of what gave me the work ethic that carries through to this day.
	I fear for the younger generation now that don't know how to work.
	Like, you tell them, mow the lawn!
	And they're like, what?
	We don't mow lawns.
	We sit and play video games.
	Other people mow lawns.
	No.
	No, when I was a kid, I bought the lawnmower.
	And I went out and asked people.
	I drummed up the business.
	I was like, will you pay me to mow your lawn?
	And then I mowed the lawn, and then I went back and collected the money.
	You know, the whole cycle.
	That's young entrepreneurship.
	Using the resources that you have.
	I bought a lawnmower at that time, I think, for $125 and earned it back in a week and then kept the rest of the money after that, working my butt off.
	Of course, I had to buy gasoline and all that.
	And again, that's that work ethic that our youth is generally missing today.
	But that's what builds great nations, is people willing to actually work, to innovate, to create, to put in the effort that it takes to generate rewards.
	And so, yeah, I look at Labor Day as a very important designation, but also kind of a cry for help because the idea of working has been largely lost in our culture.
	And how are we going to survive without people willing to work?
	There's a question for you.
	Anyway, happy Labor Day to everybody who is willing to work in America.
	And by the way, we're going to cover the Burning Man mudpocalypse today here in this podcast.
	We'll get to that in a second.
	You know how, what, 73,000 people are trapped in a toxic lake bed in the desert of Nevada.
	And there's a huge lesson here about preparedness, isn't there?
	Oh, my goodness.
	This is quite a learning experience at the expense of these 73,000 people, mostly rich tech white people, who think that they are immune to the rules of the world and now have come to discover they aren't.
	All it takes is a little water from the sky to totally destroy their plans.
	So we'll get back to that here in a second.
	Wanted to mention just a little bit of celebrity news here.
	The lead singer of Smash Mouth is on his deathbed.
	He's only 56 years old.
	His name is Steve Harwell.
	Quite a talented singer.
	And he's in the final stages of liver failure on his deathbed.
	That's kind of sad.
	If you don't recall some of his songs, let me sing a couple of lines for you.
	Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me.
	I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed.
	Remember that song?
	She was looking kinda dumb with a finger and a thumb in the shape of a nail on her forehead.
	Well, that's how it goes.
	Yeah, that's the song right there.
	Famous song, famous singer, you know, some really groovy tunes from the 1990s, typically.
	And it's just, it's sad that someone is dying at 56.
	But here we have also a reminder that, you know, you got to take care of your health, folks.
	And I know you know that, and of course I know that as well.
	And there are...
	I mean, there are consequences for decisions about diet or substance abuse or what have you.
	I mean, I always wish people the best.
	I wish Steve Harwell the best.
	From the New York Post, it said that he's no longer part of the band as of October 2021.
	I mean, again, I normally don't cover this kind of news, but...
	Quote, Steve had been dealing with long-term medical issues over the last eight years and during his last performance he suffered numerous symptoms directly linked with his current medical situation.
	As of today Steve will be retiring from Smash Mouth to focus on his physical and mental health.
	That was in 2021 and that was after a chaotic on-stage rant.
	Hmm.
	I wonder what that rant was.
	Could it have been worse than Michael Richards' onstage rant?
	I'm not sure.
	But in any case, we wish him well and we pray for the end of human suffering.
	There's a comment in the comment section of that story.
	Of a person who says they were a serious alcoholic for 25 years.
	They were in the hospital with withdrawal seizures and really bad liver function tests.
	And by the way, stay tuned.
	I want to tell you how to protect your liver from alcohol, even if you're just a casual drinker.
	This person says he's been sober for eight years.
	I hate these stories.
	He says, I can't even remember how many fellow AA participants have died since this person's been going there.
	He says there's been many.
	He put in a lot of hard work, but was lucky that he got sober in time.
	Thank God.
	Another person says, sober 31 years.
	Thanks to my wife and kids, stopped going to AA after two years because of all the deaths.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's rough.
	But look, a couple things to mention.
	If any of you out there are drinking alcohol, even casually or habitually, don't forget about licorice root, okay?
	Because licorice root contains this miraculous molecule called glycerin.
	Which protects the liver from alcohol damage.
	It is incredibly effective.
	It also protects the liver from Tylenol damage, which is acetaminophen.
	And you know if you drink alcohol and you take Tylenol at the same time, it causes permanent liver damage.
	And a lot of people do that because Tylenol is available over-the-counter, of course, and alcohol is pretty easy to acquire.
	So a lot of people unknowingly damage their livers And, you know, perhaps the Smash Mouth founder is in that situation right now.
	I'm not sure.
	But licorice root can protect you.
	It's like a bulletproof vest against alcohol damage of the liver cells.
	And it's not a license to drink more, mind you.
	I'm not saying that.
	But if you're drinking even casually, definitely look into licorice root and take that in advance would be something that I would encourage you to look into.
	And then there's also, of course, our friends over at CraveKicker.com who I haven't spoken with them for a while, but K-R-A-V-E, spelled with a K, Cravekicker.com, they have a nutritional supplement.
	I mean, I'm not part of their company or anything, and they're not paying me to say this, but they have something that supports natural dopamine levels in the brain and helps people kick nicotine habits and sometimes sugar habits as well.
	So whether you're addicted to nicotine or sugar or alcohol or maybe you want to drink less of those things or, I don't know, maybe gambling or something, and there's a lot of behavioral addictions, seek help.
	Get help.
	There are a lot of resources out there.
	There are some nutritional things that may help support you, but I think combined with behavioral help as well.
	And protect your liver with licorice.
	Remember, the liver can regenerate itself, but you have to stop poisoning it.
	So as we start to move into the fall, you know, and Thanksgiving and then Christmas again and New Year's, you know, it's drinking season for a lot of people.
	And it's really critical to protect yourself during all of that.
	And if substance abuse is wrecking your life, seek help and seek God.
	And there are many, many people who can help you heal and recover and restore your life.
	So avail yourself of those resources.
	Now, let me shift gears and tell you a fascinating story of what I did over the Labor Day weekend that absolutely shocked me.
	I never thought I would do this.
	And I actually went on a barbecue tour to the barbecue capital of Texas.
	And it's funny how this happened, but I was talking about barbecue brisket on the air one day, and then one of my crew members said, hey, you know, the best barbecue in Texas is in a town called Lockhart.
	Which is kind of south of Austin.
	You could go there.
	You could drive there.
	It's driving distance.
	You could go there and get the best barbecue.
	And I said, really?
	The best barbecue in Texas?
	How good could it be?
	And he said, oh no, it's crazy good.
	It's to die for.
	Of course, I said, well...
	The cows already died for it, but I mean, are you saying it's good enough to make a trip there and check?
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, it's amazing.
	Melts in your mouth, he said.
	I'm like, okay, which place do you go to?
	And he gives me the name of a place.
	And then another crew member was saying, no, no, that's not the best place.
	There's this other place.
	That's even better.
	And it's in Lockhart also because Lockhart is the barbecue capital of Texas.
	I have since learned, right?
	And I'm like, oh, great.
	Now I don't know which place to go to.
	So I decided on Labor Day to do something I've never done.
	And this was a cultural experience more than just food experience.
	I wanted to learn about Texas culture, and so I drove to Lockhart, Texas, and I went to what are recommended as the top three barbecue locations in Lockhart.
	And my wife went with me so we could do like a taste test, like a barbecue taste experience adventure tour.
	And we went to three places.
	And they're called, let's see, Black's, Smitty's, and Kruz.
	I'm not sure how to pronounce it.
	K-R-E-U-Z, I believe, is a German name.
	Kruz or Kruz.
	And so we actually went to these three places to get barbecue and to taste sample each of the three.
	And little did I know that I was about to experience a rich part of Texas culture and history.
	And Smitty's Market, for example, started in 1924.
	You can go to smittysmarket.com online.
	It's just a single page if you want to see what I'm talking about.
	Smitty, S-M-I-T-T-Y-S, smittysmarket.com.
	Now, it's named Smitty because of the founder of it, Edgar Schmidt, also another German name, who worked for the Kroes family.
	At the age of 13, according to the website.
	So the Croix barbecue in Lockhart is the same family name that Schmidt worked for.
	And then his nickname became Smitty.
	And then he started Smitty's Market, which has been doing the same barbecue with the same pit, the same building, the same brick fire pit since 1924.
	This is before the Great Depression, folks.
	So I took some photos and I was fascinated by the history of it.
	It was like going to a food museum and then also getting to taste it and talk to the people there and learn what this was all about.
	So I found it really, really fascinating, the history of food in Texas.
	Of course, none of this was organic, right?
	So not something that I would eat every day, obviously.
	I don't eat that much meat.
	But in this case, I wanted to experience the history of meat barbecue in Texas.
	So went to all three places, sampled all three meats.
	And let me just tell you, if you want to go to Lockhart, Texas, the barbecue capital of Texas, I say my vote is to go to Smitty's Market.
	There's nothing else that's like it.
	Let me share something with you.
	I went to Black's Market first.
	Black's is heavily advertised in the town.
	It has a lot of billboards, a lot of fanfare.
	But Black's just didn't have a lot of taste, in my opinion, compared to Smitty's.
	There's no comparison.
	And then I went to Croy's, or Croy's, or Crewe's, however you pronounce it, And Croy's was overly salty.
	It was lacking in the wood tastes that really defined good barbecue, but it was compensating for that with extra salt.
	So that was too much salt.
	But if you go to Smitty's Market, let me tell you, This is not only an historical experience, but in a way, kind of a food spiritual experience.
	To taste what they do to meat at Smitty's Market is...
	You do not want to go to your grave without tasting the ribs or the brisket.
	I'm serious.
	I'm telling you.
	You want to put this on your list of things to do.
	You want to go to Lockhart, Texas and check out Smitty's Market because...
	I'm actually kind of drooling while I'm talking about this.
	And by the way, you don't need any barbecue sauce.
	You shouldn't use barbecue sauce.
	Good barbecue, you don't need it.
	It's kind of an insult, actually, but...
	In properly smoked barbecue, whether it's brisket or ribs or what have you, the flavor of the wood is so expertly infused into the meat that eating this meat is like candy.
	I mean, I don't know how to say it.
	It's rich.
	It's savory.
	It's slightly sweet.
	The texture, it's moist, and it does melt in your mouth.
	I've never had barbecue like this in my life.
	And again, I'm not a big barbecue guy, but I do occasionally enjoy a brisket sandwich, things like that.
	Well, now I've been ruined.
	I can't have anything other than Smitty's.
	It's kind of far to drive.
	So I don't know what I'm going to do now, but now my whole definition of barbecue has been recalibrated.
	So I don't know what I'm going to do.
	But brisket is $20.90 a pound.
	Let's see.
	Prime rib, $24.90.
	Pork ribs, $13.90 a pound, and so on.
	And here's the other thing that shocked me about this.
	It was very surprising.
	I had never experienced this part of Texas culture before.
	Well, so, first of all, when you walk in and you buy the meat, you're in the room where they actually are doing...
	It's hot because there's an open fire right there at your feet on the floor.
	And there's, you know, a giant brick oven that's keeping the meat warm.
	And the fire's right there.
	And it's, you know, it's like 110 degrees in there or more.
	In the summer, it might get even hotter than that.
	And the workers are there and they're chopping the meat.
	And you tell them what you want.
	Like, you know, give me a pound of brisket or whatever.
	And they just grab it right out of that.
	You know, they lift the lids and grab it out of the brick oven and weigh it out.
	Give it to you right there.
	They wrap it up in wax paper.
	And you're smelling, your sensory experience is already on fire also from being in that room.
	You're like, man, it's hot in here and smells amazing.
	It smells like barbecue smoke, right?
	And then what you do is you take that barbecue that's wrapped up in the wax paper and then you go through a door into an air-conditioned dining hall type of area.
	And as I observed, the way it works in this dining hall is it's set up like a bunch of picnic tables.
	And what you do is you take your meat.
	Oh, and they give you bread if you want it, too.
	They just give you a loaf of bread.
	Now, here's a loaf of white bread, basically.
	So you take your loaf of bread and you take your barbecue and you just find a table, you know, you and your family, typically, and you just roll this thing out.
	You just open up all the wax paper.
	And so the wax paper becomes the plate.
	There are no other plates.
	There are no plates.
	And then...
	In this room, you can buy, like, pickles and onions and mixed peppers and coleslaw and beans and, you know, the side dishes and whatever.
	They don't have any forks, by the way.
	They have spoons, but there are no forks.
	They even have a sign that says, we don't have any forks.
	It's kind of like, hey, it's a picnic.
	Bring your own forks, you know?
	And so you roll this out on the table, and then you just put your bread right there on the paper.
	You and your friends and family members, you just start...
	You start making sandwiches out of your brisket.
	You just start eating ribs.
	And again, no plates.
	It's just the wax paper.
	That's like a tablecloth.
	And you just start going at it right there.
	It's like an indoor picnic, basically, of fresh barbecue meat that's the best in the world, apparently.
	And I had never seen this before.
	I had never experienced it before.
	I always thought, you know, you have plates and forks and whatever else.
	But nope, not at Smitty's Market.
	It's the best barbecue in the world, at least in Texas.
	Maybe some of you in, I don't know, Nashville might argue with me.
	I don't know.
	Or New Orleans.
	I don't know.
	I've had barbecue in Kansas City.
	I've had barbecue in Nashville.
	I've never tasted anything like this at Smitty's Market.
	It's just something, it's a whole different level.
	But I actually, this is one of the few times I actually had to ask people, like, what do I do next?
	What's next?
	Oh, you go in there, you stand in that line, and then you get your sides.
	Oh, and then what do I do?
	Oh, and then you grab a table.
	And you just roll it out.
	And I'm looking around, I feel like I'm a foreigner or something.
	I didn't know what to do.
	Because I wasn't raised.
	Near Lockhart, Texas.
	I didn't know this was the way you were supposed to do barbecue brisket.
	Family style, you know?
	But I gotta say, all the people were super nice.
	Even the guys working in the high heat...
	It was an amazing experience.
	I strongly recommend it for the cultural experience and the historical knowledge and the taste of that barbecue.
	Even if you're a vegetarian or vegan, you don't want to go to your grave without tasting one bite of this, trust me.
	Gonna get hate mail from vegans.
	You told us to eat brisket, not just one bite.
	I'll give you a bite of my brisket, frankly, if you want.
	I mean, you gotta...
	You have not tasted anything like this in your life.
	Okay, so that's what I did on the Labor Day weekend, and I'm really glad that I did.
	Oh, I should also mention the sides there, like the potato salad and the coleslaw, were better than the sides at the other places that we tried as well.
	So there you go.
	There's a lot of history, obviously, in Texas.
	And because of the resources of the state, there's a lot of history that's associated with things like cattle, but also oil and railroads, it turns out.
	And so, oh, and of course, military.
	There's a lot of military history in Texas as well, like historical aircraft museums and things like that.
	But I love to learn about the history of the region in which I live.
	For example, one of the things I learned is that in Central Texas there used to be actual coal mining.
	And another thing I learned, a little bit disturbing, is that in Central Texas there used to be actual slave cotton plantations.
	Did you know that?
	Slave plantations growing cotton.
	I mean, I knew there's good agricultural potential in this area.
	I did not know that they grew cotton.
	And I did not know there were slave plantations, but there were.
	I mean, I didn't know for a long time.
	And now I know.
	And I was thinking that California, you know how they're going to pay reparations to black people in California who claim to be descendants of slaves?
	Yeah.
	But, you know, California was never a slave state.
	In other words, slavery was never legal in California, at least until Governor Newsom took office.
	And after that, everybody became a slave.
	But you know what I mean?
	Actual labor slavery.
	Speaking of Labor Day, you know, how would you like to just be enslaved and not be able to keep the product of your labor?
	Oh, wait.
	IRS taxation of everybody.
	Yeah, right.
	Just slavery hasn't gone away, folks.
	It's just been transformed and expanded, frankly, into every color and race.
	But I was thinking if California wants to pay reparations to people who were descendants of slaves, I think what California should do is pay money to black people in Texas.
	Because they actually, Texas was actually a slave state at one point.
	California was not.
	So California, you know how they said they were going to send their city council members from the L.A. City Council to maybe come arrest Governor Greg Abbott, or at least attempt to.
	We'll see how that goes.
	I think they should send the L.A. City Council with bags of money and hand out that money to black people In central Texas who are descendants of the cotton plantations.
	And they should just keep doing that until California runs out of money.
	How about that?
	Oh, you think that's a bad idea?
	You think that's crazy?
	Well, it's no crazier than the ideas they've come up with in California.
	At least if you're going to pay money to black people, shouldn't they actually be descendants of slaves in a slave state?
	Doesn't that make more rational sense?
	But I'm still waiting for the checks from California to be distributed all across Texas.
	Still waiting for that to happen.
	Apparently there's a lot of money in California.
	There's so much money that rich white people can spend a week up in this high lake bed in Nevada at the Burning Man Festival.
	So let's talk about that for a minute.
	Burning Man.
	And let's be honest what this is.
	This is some kind of anti-human, satanic, demonic, pagan ritual event.
	Attended, again, mostly by wealthy Californians and people from a few other states as well.
	People who make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
	Mostly whites.
	Mostly high-tech people, actually.
	Who, I guess, want to go get crazy for a week or something and They want to do a bunch of drugs out in the desert in Nevada or, I don't know, like free love or ritualistic demon worship or whatever they do.
	So that's Burning Man.
	The very name Burning Man is about the destruction of man.
	It's burning down mankind.
	Man created in the image of God.
	And at the end of this event, every year, they build a temple with an effigy of a giant man, as I understand it, and then they burn it down.
	So they're literally burning the image of mankind.
	And that just tells you all you need to know about what this event is all about and the kind of people that go there.
	These are not Christians, right?
	And they tend to be kind of arrogant, holier-than-thou type of elite-oriented people who think that they're better because they're financially better off.
	And these kind of people don't tend to think about the consequences of reality.
	They think they're immune to reality because that's been their life experience.
	They could buy their way out of everything.
	They could just use money as a weapon against everybody else in society so they themselves have, you know, more stuff, nicer house, nicer car, more travel, more fun, more drugs, you know, whatever, because they're just spending their money on that.
	And again, these people are out of the high-tech industry for the most part.
	Well, things have gone horribly bad for those attending Burning Man because the rains began, I think, on Friday and also on Saturday.
	And, you know, it does rain in the desert occasionally, folks.
	And apparently nobody who attends Burning Man ever knew about that.
	They don't know that it rains in the desert.
	There are very few deserts where it never rains at all.
	They do exist, but they're kind of rare.
	I mean, how do you think cacti thrive?
	They wait for the rain.
	They have to have rain, too.
	So, let's see.
	As of Sunday evening, 73,000 attendees are still trapped in the toxic desert full of alkaline mud after a rainstorm transformed the dried-out lake bed into a swamp.
	And then event organizers have tweeted out from their official accounts, quote, The gate remains closed.
	Please stay off the gate road.
	Rain and mud make it impassable.
	We'll update you when conditions improve.
	Lots of stuck vehicles trapped by mud about a mile out attempting to exit from Burning Man.
	This person tweets, I just walked by 30 various RVs and cars that can't move.
	Yeah, because, you know, RVs and mud do not mix, it turns out.
	They do not mix.
	Some are growing impatient as they run out of food and water, and they're getting vehicles stuck in the clay-like mud.
	Other tweets, a Burning Man festival gets hit with torrential rainfall.
	They've blocked the entrance and the exits.
	Everyone's supposed to shelter in place.
	They can't make it in with fuel for the generators.
	Hmm.
	No electricity.
	I thought that's what they wanted.
	There's six inches of mud everywhere and they're expecting more rain tonight.
	Now, remember that Burning Man is also attended by people and it's set up with a philosophy of kind of a, like a...
	It's kind of communism.
	It's this radical left-wing, utopian vision of the world.
	You're not supposed to use money there, for example.
	Everything's just given away.
	You're supposed to bring stuff to give away to other people.
	There's no actual functioning free market principles there.
	It's just communism.
	And it looks like these people are getting the communism that they have asked for, which is no electricity, Roads that don't work.
	Running out of food and water.
	Yeah, there's communism for you right there.
	Because, again, this is what they asked for.
	No driving is permitted except emergency vehicles.
	Conserve food and water and shelter in a warm space.
	Well, people brought tents for dry desert conditions.
	And they never figured that, oh, guess what?
	This is all going to turn into six inches of mud.
	So food and fuel are running low for tens of thousands of attendees.
	The Independent confirmed that there's been at least one death, but haven't released details on the suspected cause of death.
	The toxic alkali dust that makes up the lake bed is now three inches of mud in one report.
	And because it's so alkaline, if attendees aren't wearing socks and clothes, shoes, it can cause chemical burns.
	Chemical burns called playa foot.
	Oh boy, that sounds fun.
	And also, by the way, the porta-potties.
	Can't be emptied.
	Because the vehicles can't come in to empty them.
	And so they are full.
	And they are filthy and overflowing.
	And...
	Good luck with that.
	Let's see how that works.
	I mean, it's...
	Hey, you're walking in your own feces and running out of food and water and getting alkali burns on your skin.
	And that's a really good metaphor for communism, by the way.
	Now remember, these are the people who are supposed to be so smart that they're programming all the systems that will run our society.
	And of course, the systems that will control you and spy on you and surveil you.
	You know, the AI systems and more and Yet they're too stupid to bring proper equipment to a remote lake bed where it rains from time to time.
	So lesson number one in this is, of course, don't go on trips with communists because they don't believe in reality.
	And wherever you go, make sure you have proper preparedness gear.
	I mean, this kind of ends the debate of whether you should have sufficient gear in your vehicle, whether it's a bug out vehicle or RV or otherwise.
	You got to have gear for, you know, wet weather conditions and you need to anticipate impassable roads and you need to have backup energy sources and so on, right?
	The other thing is backup communications.
	And frankly, this gets right to our frequent sponsor, the satellite phone store.
	Satellite phones are the only phones that work at Burning Man because there are no cell towers.
	They do not exist there.
	And so people who had satellite phones and satellite bandwidth, well, they're the only ones who've been able to upload videos or tweets or photos or what have you.
	And everybody else, you got nothing.
	In fact, there may be a lot more people who have already died there that we don't even know about yet because it hasn't been reported.
	They're still trapped there.
	But satellite phone store, you can find them, of course, at sat123.com.
	And their satellite phones are critical.
	I won't travel without them.
	And so, frankly, if these people, these high-tech, you know, techno bros had been intelligent, they would have had satellite phones.
	And some of them did.
	But they all should have had satellite phones with them.
	They all should have had backup power with them.
	They should have had backup food, you know, water, water filters, the whole deal.
	But most of them didn't.
	And this is why they're suffering chemical burns on their bare skin.
	And I saw reports of people that lost their shoes in the mud.
	You know, because if you don't have good footwear and you're walking along in mud and then the mud just sucks the shoe right off your foot.
	Have you ever had that happen?
	Well...
	That's what happens if you don't have good footwear.
	Or if you're walking around in, like, a city person's, you know, tennis shoes or flip-flops or whatever, sneakers.
	Yeah, that's not going to work in six inches of mud.
	You're going to need actual gear, outdoor gear.
	And these people just largely weren't prepared for that at all.
	As evidenced by the fact that they drove a bunch of vehicles into the mud and got them all stranded there.
	Now, here's what's interesting about this situation.
	Local authorities in Nevada have declared this event to be a disaster.
	And Joe Biden apparently has been briefed on this, according to CNN. But he hasn't yet declared this to be some kind of federal disaster.
	I don't think FEMA has been dispatched to the region.
	What are they going to do anyway?
	It's an 11-hour drive on a good day, a dry, sunny day, just to get through the road to the location.
	On a muddy day, it's impossible.
	What are you going to do, fly helicopters in there to rescue the rich techno bros?
	How's that going to look?
	When Joe Biden abandoned the people of Lahaina.
	Remember that?
	The people of Lahaina, their children burned alive.
	Joe Biden abandons them or writes them a check for $700.
	So if, in contrast, Biden starts sending helicopters and all this aid to all these tens of thousands of registered Democrats and techno bros who are dumb enough to get stuck by themselves in the Nevada desert, a dry lake bed that got muddied up, I mean, it's their own damn fault.
	You went there on purpose, and then you got stuck there.
	If Biden sends helicopters to bail these people out, how's that going to look?
	See?
	And by the way, I don't think anybody in America feels sorry for these people.
	I mean, sure is nice to have enough money to spend a week partying.
	Just take a week off work and go party with all your rich techno bro friends and all the venture capitalists there with all your extra money.
	You can buy all these extra RVs and, I don't know, party down with a bunch of people and a bunch of drugs or whatever they do there.
	I don't think America looks at these people and feels any sense of pity or sorrow about what they're going through.
	You people did this to yourself.
	I mean, you want to have a real struggle in America?
	Try getting by on minimum wage.
	How about that?
	Try working three jobs.
	Try paying rent and affording food because of food inflation if you don't have free money coming at you from venture capitalists.
	I mean, you realize a lot of these techno bros stuck in the desert, they've never really earned the money they have.
	It was just handed to them.
	It's VC money.
	Or it's IPO money.
	It's other people's money.
	They didn't earn the money themselves.
	Many of them haven't worked an honest day in their lives.
	They haven't actually done any real work.
	I just, alright, wrote a few lines of code, and then I got paid a million dollars and went out to party and do drugs, and it got stuck out there.
	Again, nobody feels sorry for you.
	In fact, if anything, this looks a lot like God's judgment.
	May your toilets overflow with abundance.
	You're creating a society of demonism and paganism and anti-Christian values and surveillance and Orwellianism.
	You know, you kind of deserve what you created for yourself.
	I mean, that's the attitude, at least of the people that I've spoken with, and I get that.
	I mean, with all our rights under attack and big tech colluding with big government to censor freedom of speech, with big tech also enforcing the censorship demanded by the CDC and the FDA, which caused the medical murder of at least a million Americans.
	And here we are at the verge of another pandemic where they're going to lock people down and destroy lives and destroy economies and have mandatory masks, mandatory vaccines, hospital homicide, things that are actually destroying people's lives.
	It doesn't seem appropriate for a bunch of rich white techno bros to go party in the desert.
	It doesn't seem appropriate.
	There are serious things happening in this country.
	We don't have time to party.
	You should be protesting against censorship.
	You should be fighting for health freedom.
	You should be fighting for human dignity and human rights instead of doing drugs in the high desert.
	So no, nobody feels sorry for you if you're stuck in Burning Man, in the mudpocalypse, Because of your own stupidity and lack of planning.
	And of course, the question on everybody's mind is, how many days till they start eating each other?
	When does cannibalism kick in?
	You know, people asking that with a sense of excitement.
	That probably won't happen.
	I certainly don't hope that happens, and I'm not predicting it either.
	There'll probably be some kind of organized rescue of these important people.
	Who are rich and plugged in to the techno machine to take away your freedom and surveil you.
	So of course they have to be rescued.
	But wouldn't it be great if they had to actually deal with the consequences of their own actions without being rescued?
	Hmm.
	I'd like to see 73,000 people hike out of there and see how that goes because that's what's going to happen one day out of Los Angeles, of course, and probably San Francisco.
	There's going to be refugees fleeing these cities as they collapse.
	And it's probably not going to look very good, but maybe it'll look a lot like Burning Man, actually, right now.
	By the way, the Burning Man event is held in a town that's called Black Rock.
	Yeah, the same name as the investment giant.
	You know, the asset giant that buys up all the homes and controls some massive portion of public companies.
	Yeah, BlackRock.
	And some of you know there's...
	There's a very important spiritual connotation for the term black rock.
	There is an actual artifact of a black rock that's supposed to be tied to Satanism and grant the possessors of it dominion over humanity and so on.
	There's a whole podcast just about what is the black rock, by the way.
	And so this event where they burn down the man, Burning Man, is held in black rock.
	Again, it's all a ritual to Satanism.
	But it's also they destroy the environment when they do this.
	There's trash released everywhere across this.
	And in fact, I want to play for you two minutes of this video from a YouTube channel called Explore With Us.
	Where they have been exposing Burning Man and all the trash.
	They just trash out the desert.
	All these supposed climate change and global warming and green people.
	They go in and out of Burning Man and they just trash the place.
	They trash the roads.
	They trash the deserts.
	There's plastics all where the animals are trying to survive out there.
	Check out this two-minute video.
	It's highly disturbing, but...
	But not at all surprising that many of these people coming out of Burning Man, they just trash the nearby cities as well, just throwing their bags of trash in the dumpsters at Walmart, just tossing trash and driving away.
	I mean, this is who they really are.
	These are not good people.
	Check this out.
	So we stopped right at the entrance of the Burning Man event and decided to take a closer look, and this is what we found, and it's pretty shocking for being just right outside the event.
	What we noticed is there's a ton of trash out here on the side of the road.
	And we're right outside.
	We don't like burners!
	We're right outside the event.
	There's the event right there.
	As you can see, there's tons of people coming out.
	Yeah.
	And then, like, the event's over there.
	There's a ton of trash right here.
	There's a ton of trash back there that we actually passed up.
	And there's trash here.
	We're gonna keep going, guys.
	There's bottles all over the sides of the roads here, you guys.
	This was not here when we were just here before the event.
	None of this trash was here.
	The sides of the road, guys, it's just covered in trash.
	Do you see it?
	It's like everywhere.
	So this, I guess, is where all the trash is.
	It's in the sides of the dunes.
	It flies off the fly and gets caught in the dunes.
	And then look at this.
	This is just totally trash.
	Now, we are going to go pick some trash up, guys, but we can't do it here because we got a whole family with us.
	Yeah.
	And there's a lot of big rigs coming down this road and a lot of fast traffic.
	If you look right now, there's people going down this road really fast.
	So we're going to look for an area where we can pull off and get further away from the road so we can pick up some trash.
	Let's go.
	The traffic was so insane that we decided to wait a week before we came back to pick up trash safely.
	Who just dropped that?
	In the meantime, we saw photos of overflowing garbage all over Reno and Fernley and we decided to go take a look ourselves.
	This was a garbage bin outside of the friendly Walmart, overflowing with Burner's trash.
	And yes, they just left it there like that, outside the bin, just freaking flying all over in the wind.
	Then we headed back out for another day of investigating, and we wanted to actually do our part and help try to clean up some of this mess that they have left behind.
	For a Leave No Trace event, I'd have to say what we found was appalling.
	We are right outside the Burning Man event.
	It's right over there.
	We are going to pick up some trash right here.
	Just a little trash here.
	And there's a, like, it looks like it's some kind of maybe fox or rabbit den.
	Right there.
	And they left garbage all over here.
	Or it's blown over here.
	Or it's blown over here.
	If they escaped their little three-foot-high fence, I would have never seen that coming.
	I thought that that little fence would capture 100% of everything.
	Oh, yeah.
	Trash never goes above three feet, guys.
	Yeah, I mean, since out here where the freaking wind blows like a hurricane, I bet you that that little orange fence just captures everything except for this stuff.
	Who wants to do it?
	Isn't it interesting that every time leftists have an event like Woodstock, they trash the place?
	Isn't that interesting?
	It's always like that, too.
	Even when they're protesting something in order to save the planet, and then they trash the place.
	Over and over and over again, these people show that they're all fakers, they're all virtue signalers, and they don't even practice what they claim to believe in.
	It's all a bunch of fakery, just as we suspected.
	Changing the subject, by the way, remember when I said the other day that Mitch McConnell, Senator McConnell, was having seizures?
	When he freezes, you know, he freezes for 20 or 30 seconds, and he goes...
	He just stops talking.
	And I'm not making fun of people who have seizures in their...
	Even the older young or whatever.
	I'm just saying this guy's supposed to be the Senate leader, or the minority leader, and he's clearly not capable of it.
	He's having seizures.
	Well...
	I don't know who else was saying that, but to me it was obvious because I've seen this kind of thing before.
	So finally, we have an article out of the Gateway Pundit.
	GOP senators waste special meeting on leadership after doctors suggest that McConnell may be experiencing small seizures.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So it looks like GOP senators may call a special meeting and...
	Who knows?
	At some point it's going to become obvious that he's not able to function and he's going to have to step down.
	And again, why is our country being run by people like Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi who are cognitively gone?
	They can't function.
	Why are they in charge?
	Or, you know, why are they pretending to be in charge in Joe Biden's case?
	I guess Mitch McConnell just, he still wants to be, he wants the power, he wants the command and the obedience, you know, from the rest of the GOP, like they're supposed to just sit back and raise their hand and say, all hail seizure!
	Okay, right.
	And now from the Epoch Times, here's a headline that has taken a while to come out, but you're going to love this one.
	California Democrat regrets backing liberal crime bill amid retail theft epidemic.
	So a county supervisor in California's Bay Area said he made a big mistake in backing the liberal crime bill Prop 47 a decade ago.
	That basically legalized shoplifting of anything up to $950.
	So San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa went on to Twitter to express deep disappointment with current strategies in California for dealing with the explosion of retail theft, which he called an absolute outrage.
	He says, whatever we're doing now to combat the epidemic of organized retail theft is not working.
	Yeah, because people like you voted to legalize shoplifting.
	Well, at least now he realizes that was a mistake.
	He says, $30 billion lost to national retail theft.
	It's an absolute outrage.
	The fear of organized retail theft is driving people away from our beloved shopping centers.
	Now, what's happening here is that the retailers are shutting down, just like I predicted they would, and we've talked about it here on the podcast.
	If shoplifting is legalized, you can't, obviously you can't make money selling stuff because people just walk in and steal it.
	So if you can't sell stuff, then the county or the state or the city, depending on the jurisdiction, well, they can't collect money off your sales, sales taxes.
	And inventory taxes and payroll taxes of people at your stores.
	So this is not about that anybody in the government in California cares about the retailers.
	What they care about is losing the golden goose, losing the free money they get taxing retailers.
	Of a portion of their sales or a portion of the payroll, like I said.
	So these retailers are packing up shop and leaving.
	And that's going to leave California and many counties and cities high and dry.
	And with, you know, just lacking all this revenue.
	So this Mr.
	Kanepa said in a follow-up post, again, this is according to the Epoch Times, that he plans to introduce legislation to form a task force In San Mateo County Task Force, comprised of law enforcement and business community leaders, which would come up with new strategies and sentencing guidelines to combat organized retail theft.
	And he says, quote, I made a mistake.
	That's what he says.
	You know when they use the term task force, it just means they're going to waste a bunch of time, typically.
	You don't need a task force, Mr.
	Kanepa.
	What you need is to start arresting the damn criminals.
	It's very simple.
	You don't need a task force.
	The answer is obvious.
	Arrest and prosecute the shoplifters.
	This is not a complicated thing.
	And grant legal immunity to any employees or shop owners...
	Who confront these shoplifters, and even if they get into fights or if they use firearms in self-defense of their property and their life or whatever, grant legal immunity to the shopkeepers and employees.
	You need to send a message to the shoplifters that shoplifting will no longer be tolerated.
	It's really that simple.
	You don't have to have a task force.
	You don't need a committee.
	You don't need a debate.
	It's just...
	I mean, my God.
	Where I am in Texas, Texas isn't going to legalize shoplifting because that would be insane.
	It's the kind of insanity that California always leaps on.
	And then there are horrific consequences, which is exactly what you are experiencing right now, Mr.
	Kanepa, in California.
	I hope I'm pronouncing your name correctly.
	I'm not trying to mess it up.
	But at least this man is saying, quote, he made a mistake.
	It was a big mistake.
	And you have to acknowledge your mistake.
	And he says, quote, by doing this, what we've done is we're letting people take thousands and thousands of dollars, and why should people be subjugated?
	He says, we can't go on like this.
	He says, retailers are facing near extinction.
	Well, what did you think was going to happen?
	I mean, again, I give the guy kudos for admitting that it was a mistake.
	But what did you...
	It's kind of like, hey, you know, if you leap off this tall building, it's going to hurt when you hit something down below.
	I mean, what did you think was going to happen?
	Why is it that Democrats can never understand consequences?
	Like, cause and effect isn't something that operates in the Democrats' world.
	They never think about the consequences.
	Especially, of course, the unintended consequences, and that's where things always get bad.
	I mean, why would you legalize shoplifting in the first place?
	And how could you not know what that was going to cause?
	I mean, if you legalize speeding and make it impossible for law enforcement to ticket people for speeding, guess what you're going to get?
	Oh, you're going to get speeding everywhere, all over the state, with all kinds of fatalities.
	If you legalize drunk driving, what are you going to get?
	Oh, you're going to get drunk driving.
	If you legalize shoplifting, you're going to get shoplifting.
	If you legalize cocaine, you're going to get cocaine.
	I mean, people, this is not rocket science, but apparently for Democrats, this is a leap because as far as I know, this man is the only Democrat that has admitted that it was a mistake.
	All the other Democrats are still on board with their insanity.
	Like, that was a great idea.
	Let's keep it going.
	Well, the retailers are going to leave your state.
	I mean, the process has already begun.
	Again, as this guy says, retailers are facing, quote, near extinction.
	He says, quote, you know, if we don't stop this, our shopping centers and retail giants, such as Nordstrom, face near extinction as they are continually looted by mobs of criminals and create a climate of fear for shoppers.
	Yeah, exactly.
	What did you think was going to happen?
	And by the way, why would any retailer stay in California at this point?
	I mean, especially in the Democrat-controlled cities.
	Why would anybody stay?
	Because that's financial suicide.
	And why would any retailer set up a new retail operation in California under these current laws, total lack of enforcement, shoplifting, legalized?
	Why would you open a shop and just wait till the organized flash mob looting starts targeting grocery stores?
	And then the grocery stores start shutting down and just closing up and leaving.
	And then you're going to have food deserts, which is what Burning Man has turned into at the same time, by the way.
	You're going to have food deserts where there's no food for miles around.
	I mean, no food retail.
	And then the mobs just start robbing all the fast food restaurants, the ones that take cash anyway.
	And then they'll shut down and they'll leave.
	And then they'll just rob the gas stations.
	The gas stations are shut down and leave.
	And they're just going to keep robbing and everybody's going to keep shutting down and leaving.
	Which is the correct answer.
	If you live in a state run by insane lunatics, i.e.
	California or certainly many counties in the state, your job is to leave.
	Get up and leave.
	You still have the option to do that right now.
	You may not have that option coming up soon.
	California could do things like they could announce a tax on your income even if you leave the state.
	New York announced that.
	I mean, they pursued Rush Limbaugh to Florida.
	Even after he left, they still try to tax him on his Florida income.
	Or they could tax your real estate sales if you leave the state.
	To try to make it so that it costs you a big penalty to sell your California real estate and move somewhere else.
	So the smart people are selling now while you can.
	Everybody's fleeing.
	All right, one more story here.
	We're going to wrap this up for the Labor Day.
	And this comes on the heels of my interview with Ed Dowd, where he was talking about a slow rolling Mad Max scenario unfolding across our country right now.
	And if you missed that interview with Ed Dowd from just a few days ago, definitely check it out on my channel at brighteon.com.
	My channel is called HR Report, which stands for Health Ranger Report.
	Of course, you can find it there.
	It's a must see.
	And then on the heels of that, Michael Snyder from the Economic Collapse blog has an article with a very similar message.
	Quote, Mad Max conditions are coming.
	Desperation is rising as the economy rapidly deteriorates and food costs soar.
	I'm going to cover this article.
	Before I get into the details of that article...
	I've got to make sure I don't forget this.
	Our Labor Day event, the discounts and the sales and the new products at healthrangerstore.com continues through midnight tonight.
	So this is the last day to take advantage of the Labor Day sales.
	And we've got a lot on sale.
	We've got a lot of inventory still available.
	We have a lot of new products.
	And you want to talk about preparedness and getting food before it goes up in price.
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	Check out the specials, healthrangerstore.com slash Labor Day, and you'll see what we have available.
	It ends at midnight tonight, like I said.
	And again, food costs are about to soar.
	In fact, let's go to that Michael Snyder article here.
	He says, most Americans are just barely scraping by from month to month.
	The UN has reported 2.4 billion people did not have enough food to eat last year.
	Food prices have become extremely oppressive and economic conditions are moving in the wrong direction.
	670,000 full-time jobs have been lost in just the past two months.
	And then you notice how the Biden administration is always retroactively adjusting their economic reports a month or two later, and they're always adjusting them to make them far worse than what they originally reported.
	Let's talk about the survey that found that 61% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
	It also found that of those who earn less than $50,000 a year, 78% are living paycheck to paycheck.
	And as a result, more U.S. households are turning to debt to make ends meet.
	And so total household debt in America climbed to a new record high in the second quarter of 2023.
	Now it is $17 trillion.
	And credit card debt alone exceeds $1 trillion.
	It's staggering.
	Absolutely staggering.
	And as Michael Snyder points out, as economic conditions get worse, people are becoming more desperate.
	A giant food store in Washington, D.C. is going to be taking all of the Tide and Colgate and Advil products off the shelves completely because the shoplifting is so bad people are stealing laundry detergent, toothpaste, and painkillers.
	I mean, over-the-counter painkillers that barely work.
	So what a lot of people don't know is that Tide is used as a common barter item among low-income people.
	Because you can buy Tide with food stamps, by the way.
	And so people would trade Tide with each other.
	It's like a unit of currency.
	Even though I would consider Tide to be highly, highly toxic with all of the artificial fragrance chemicals that it contains, I wouldn't touch Tide.
	But for low-income, uninformed people, it's actually a type of currency.
	An executive for this food chain told the Washington Post that the company has no other choice.
	That's Diane Hicks.
	And she added that other nearby stores have locked up all their products on those aisles or they've removed them completely.
	I've been leaving it out for our customers and unfortunately it just forces all the crime to come to us, she says.
	Mm-hmm.
	There was an extremely shocking incident that happened in broad daylight at a Home Depot store in California.
	Brazen thieves were caught on camera walking out with $9,000 worth of mostly power tools, by the way, stolen goods from separate California stores as lawlessness in the state governed by Gavin Newsom continues.
	They raided a Home Depot store in Signal Hill and stole $5,000 worth of power tools.
	Seven men loaded two shopping carts with expensive goods and carried as much as possible in their arms before walking out.
	And no one stopped them.
	The police won't do anything.
	Prosecutors won't even prosecute them.
	If you try to stop them, if you're an employee there, you'd probably get fired or sued.
	Snyder asks, are you prepared for what's ahead?
	I've been relentlessly warning my readers, he says, that Mad Max conditions are coming.
	Global leaders have been making disastrous decisions for a very long time, and now we are all going to reap the consequences.
	Well, Snyder is correct, and what's coming is going to be a Mad Max type of scenario.
	I saw that Bill Holter did an interview over the weekend as well, where he's saying the same thing.
	Mad Max is coming, and what that means is the complete collapse of the rule of law.
	And it's not going to happen everywhere, but it's definitely going to happen in the Democrat-controlled cities.
	It's happening now.
	At some level, it's just going to dramatically increase.
	And like I said, the retailers will close down.
	A day is coming very soon when you will not have retail stores in the cities where you can get groceries or power tools or electronics or frankly anything.
	At some point they all close down because the crime is just completely out of control.
	The Democrats refuse to do anything to stop this.
	The Democrat Party is a pro-criminal party.
	They are advocates for the criminals and they will not support police or even the rule of law.
	They are lawless.
	And that is not a template for a sustainable society.
	It doesn't work.
	So I bought some ammo, finally, over the Labor Day weekend.
	I hadn't purchased any ammo for many months.
	And I did pick up some ammo online.
	Got some good deals on some stuff that I like to get.
	And, of course, I've got my new line of knives that I co-designed with Dawson Knives.
	They're available right now at HealthRangerStore.com, including a bushcrafting knife.
	And if you haven't seen the video on these knives...
	You know what?
	I think I'm going to attach that video to this broadcast today so you can just see it here.
	But I interviewed John Roy from Dawson Knives and we went through what is so revolutionary about these knives with the magna cut steel, corrosion resistant, but incredible Rockwell hardness, incredible flexibility.
	The durability of these knives, made in America, lasts a lifetime, the G10 handles, the carbon fiber kydex fused sheaths, the multiple draw positions, and many other features.
	Just extraordinary knives.
	We've got these available now just in the last few days when we launched them.
	HealthRangerStore.com, just search for knife, and you'll see the three knives we have available now.
	But you know, the fourth knife I have coming, I've kind of mentioned this a few times, is called Escape from L.A., Because I'm anticipating, obviously, a Mad Max exodus out of Los Angeles, and people are going to have to get out of the city, which means you need a pry bar.
	You need a tool that can shatter windows and break latches and open doors when the power goes out.
	You're going to be trapped in these cities, and you've got to be able to get out.
	And a good knife tool can help you do that.
	So I have a fourth knife coming in about six weeks called Escape from L.A., I can't wait to show you that knife because it's a game changer, that's for sure.
	But you shouldn't be stuck in LA, is my point.
	You shouldn't still be there when all of this hits the fan because you've had how many years of warning now?
	To get out of San Francisco, to get out of Seattle, to get out of Portland, to get out of San Diego, to get out of Chicago and so on.
	Get out of Miami, get out of Austin, Texas, the whole deal.
	Get out of Houston, get out of Denver.
	Get out of Phoenix, on and on.
	Frankly, you should probably be getting out of Tucson at this point too because it's overrun by drug cartels.
	So if you're stuck in these cities, man, you kind of missed the window.
	I know some people have to be in these cities because of certain obligations often involving family members or medical situations and so on.
	So I get that.
	But if you can get out, get out while you can.
	And then get prepped up at your destination.
	Make sure you've got everything you need.
	I mentioned earlier, make sure you have backup communications, satellite phones, sat123.com.
	Make sure you've got a backup food supply.
	Make sure you can grow food.
	Make sure you've got your self-defense situation squared away, firearms, ammunition, ballistic vests if you need that.
	Make sure you are ready.
	Food supply, backup medicine, iodine.
	Make sure you've got...
	What you need.
	Because Mad Max is coming.
	And the Democrats are lawless and the Republicans are spineless.
	There's nobody that's willing to enforce the rule of law in this country.
	Except maybe a few governors and a few AGs in red counties or red states.
	But aside from a few exceptions, nobody's willing to enforce the law.
	Everybody's just watching while the whole thing burns down.
	Talk about burning man.
	What about burning American?
	I mean, the whole America is being burned to the ground while the lawmakers just collect bribes and kickbacks and just watch it happen.
	They're not doing anything to stop it.
	We're looking at the collapse of Western civilization.
	And that's the honest assessment of where we are and what's happening.
	This is not a self-correcting issue, so be ready for the Mad Max scenario that's coming.
	And maybe after that total collapse, then there's a possibility of rebuilding among the survivors, whoever's left.
	But these people, the kind of people that run out to Burning Man with no plan and no gear and no rain gear, no boots, nothing, man, they're not going to make it.
	They're probably going to be lucky to survive Burning Man.
	Imagine what happens when their whole city loses power and there's no police and the gangs just run rampant and just ransack everybody, loot, murder, pillage, rape, kill, everything.
	These people will have no survivability.
	They have no planning, no skills, no guns, nothing.
	They're dead in that scenario.
	So don't be stuck there with them.
	All right, with that said, I'm going to go ahead and play the video interview with John Roy from Dawson Knives because...
	This is gear that you do need to know about.
	It is a knife that we are selling, obviously, at HealthRangerStore.com, but this will teach you all about the alloy, the sheath, the design, and some knife combat that I contributed to this interview because I'm trained in edge weapons combat, as you probably know, and certain things you want to know about getting into a knife fight.
	Rule number one, everybody bleeds.
	The question is where are you going to bleed from?
	And you get to choose where you bleed from based on what you present to the other person.
	We'll talk about that a little bit in the interview, but try not to get in a knife fight.
	It's good to have a firearm, but also a knife, and to have options.
	But try not to get in a knife fight, because like I said, everybody bleeds.
	It's not a pretty thing.
	All right, check out this interview.
	Thank you for your support.
	Get prepared.
	Here we go.
	All right, welcome to this special interview here on Briteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, and we have a really special thing for you today.
	I'm joined by John Roy from Dawson Knives, and his family has been making these extraordinary knives that we're going to show you here for, well, generations.
	And they're based out of Arizona, and this is the company that we've collaborated with with my line, where I've co-designed these three knives.
	Actually, it's four.
	That are available now that are made out of MagnaCut, which is an extraordinary alloy and a G10 handle and a lot of amazing features.
	And John Roy is here to describe what goes into these knives and how they manufacture them and some of the innovations that set these apart from ordinary knives.
	So welcome, John Roy.
	It's great to have you on, man.
	Love what you do.
	Thanks for joining me.
	Thank you very much, Mike.
	And I have to say, this collaboration has been really exciting because it has really pushed us to come up with something that really hasn't been seen in the knife world.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, and you know about the knife world a lot.
	I mean, you've been doing this for a long time, and you know about all the advanced methods.
	In fact, you have a heat treatment protocol that nobody else in the industry knows about that is a special way to treat the MagnaCut steel.
	Can you tell us about that heat treatment, the benefits of that?
	Yeah, absolutely, Mike.
	So when we work, the whole soul of a knife is in the heat treat.
	So if you don't have your heat treat just right, then you're going to have a lot of issues or it's just going to be just like everyone else's knife.
	So what we try and do is we get a differential heat treat out of powdered metal.
	And there's a lot of people out there that have tried this process but have not quite succeeded.
	So we can actually get the cutting edge to about a rock well of 61 to 62.
	And then on the back end, or the spine part, we're usually getting it to a Rockwell of about 48 to 50.
	So having those two properties gives you a razor sharp cutting edge, but then gives you a lot of strength and flex out of the knife.
	In fact, we have some videos on some of our own blades that he treated with this proprietary process, being able to bend 70 degrees.
	That's almost unheard of in the knife or the sword world, to bend a blade 70 degrees without it shattering.
	Especially with a stainless steel blade.
	That's totally unheard of.
	Most people don't realize that you're either in the knife world, you're sacrificing edge sharpness for flexibility or flexible strength in the steel, but With our knives,
	we've found a way, using kind of Japanese techniques, and that's why everyone talks about Japanese swords, being able to get that edge strength and that edge sharpness along with a knife or sword that is very malleable and has flexibility and just won't break chip or do anything of that sort.
	So this is the, we call this the mass ratio knife.
	This is kind of the bushcrafting knife, and this is actually the favorite among our audience right now.
	And so what you're saying is that the Rockwell hardness of the edge here is about 60 to 62.
	Yeah, you've got the same one there.
	But then along the spine, it's actually got more flexibility so that this knife, if you were to use it in a prying type of situation, which, of course, people use them that way, but you don't want it to shatter and break in your face when you're prying something with it.
	But you also want it to retain that sharpness for the chopping or the cutting or the rope cutting or whatever you're doing with it, right?
	Yeah.
	You know, your first primary function of any knife is to be able to cut.
	So that's the main function of any knife.
	And so going to a rockwool of 62 and having the unique properties of MagnaCut, now a lot of people are going to say, well, that's going to be hard to resharpen.
	Well, MagnaCut is very unique because we're not getting that stainless property through chromium.
	So that means, and chromium is what makes things hard to resharpen.
	And there's some other things, but it's the chromium carbides.
	So what we're doing here is that this is actually not stainless by that standard, because you need 13% to be considered stainless in chromium.
	This is only 10%.
	So you can still get a super razor sharp cutting edge that's easy to hone out in the field or survival situation.
	But on top of that, because you don't have that much chromium, we've been able to do a differential heat treat that allows you to get a lot of flex out of it.
	So that way you can get You know, just in a real-world scenario, you don't know what's going to happen in a survival situation.
	You don't know what's going to come up.
	I mean, during OEF operation during Freedom, we sent a bunch of knives out there.
	And we had a bunch of soldiers that had to use these knives for all kinds of things.
	Yeah, like just tools.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, this knife wasn't really intended beyond, or we told them that it could do, but they had to use it in a pinch.
	And that heat treat has saved a lot of lives.
	Oh, no question about it.
	And let me mention, you know, we're thrilled to work with you and your company, John Roy Dawson Knives.
	These knives are available exclusively from us.
	HealthRangerStore.com is where you get these.
	But DawsonKnives.com is where you can find all the other knives and the swords and blades that Dawson does.
	And that's how I found out about your company.
	Years ago, as you know, I was searching for a really rugged survival sword.
	That's how I first found you.
	I'm going to go ahead and name the sword that I really love.
	That was the Windstorm.
	that was before you started using magnet cut.
	And that was also before your expansion into all of the new automated control CNC systems that you have now.
	But you've been doing this for a while and you've, you've had a lot of innovation in this space, right?
	Yeah.
	We've been doing it for, as a family, this is actually our 50th year.
	So on all these knives, and that's another thing that makes these really special, is that they're engraved with our 50th year anniversary.
	So we've been around for three generations as a family business.
	We have passed down this knowledge from generation to generation, and now my sons are taking up the trade, and they're working out in the shop, and we're teaching them along.
	Oh, that's awesome.
	With these blades, they're so unique because they're the future of knives.
	I mean, when we got together, I really appreciated all the feedback that you gave us.
	And taking it to the next level, we wanted to do something totally unique.
	Something that hasn't really been done in the knife world.
	You can see a lot of knives out there.
	And they all look the same.
	Because everybody's doing the same thing.
	They're copying each other.
	But this, we wanted to create a survival knife that would last a lifetime.
	That's an heirloom piece, but that you can bet your life on.
	So we did a lot of different features to this that you're just not going to find on other knives.
	Between the knife and the sheath system, and even down the road in the future, the different accessories that will be coming with it.
	Well, and I want to say even just the end here of the knife is so unique.
	I mean, it's hard for people to see it on camera, but it's chiseled to a very fine width here.
	This can be used as a Frankly, as a screwdriver even as well, but also as a prying instrument.
	And then this hole that you've engraved in here, as you explained to me, you combine it with these other two holes.
	Now you can affix this with paracord to a staff or a stick, and you can literally make a survival spear out of this.
	But the combination of the...
	Oh, and then this is also a really effective, you know, crushing edge if you were to use it in a kind of, you know, like backhand smashing to break a window to escape from being trapped in a vehicle, for example.
	There are so many uses of this.
	What else do you like about this?
	Plus the serrations for the grip as well.
	But what do you see this end being useful for?
	Yeah, so that's actually really unique.
	So the whole idea is that with the knife and the sheath, they should all work together.
	And so there are screws on the sheath that you can use to adjust your tension on the blade, so that way you get the fit that you want in the sheath, just like you do with a gun holster or something of that sort.
	But that back end is really cool because not only is it a pry bar, flathead screwdriver that works with the screws on your sheaths, But it's also a glass breaker.
	We've had guys that because we rocked well that at 62 and having that malleability that allow you to do all kinds of different things.
	And because this only has 10% chromium in it, if you were to wear away some of the finish on the back end of the knife, you could still use it as a fire striker because it's a high carbon blade.
	So it's very unique, and the whole idea of this blade is to be able to survive, and especially with the mass ratio, because you have a Green River-style blade, which is excellent for hunting and skinning, but it's also good for bushcrafting work.
	So if you have to build a shelter or anything of that sort, this will work out really well right here.
	And then we also Cerakote it, so there's a clear Cerakote on here.
	Now this is the actual finish of the blade, so that's the actual steel.
	So this is more of our special type of acid dipping that we do to create this look, but that's just the steel itself.
	And then we have a clear Cerakote on top of that to protect the finish, but then just adds to the stainless properties of this blade.
	So you don't have to worry about rust or anything of that sort, whether you're in an extremely humid environment or not.
	You know, I'm glad you mentioned that because here in Texas I've noticed that tools that are, of course, left outside, they just rust in no time.
	And, you know, typical things, even like machetes or knives or, you know, like plumbing tools, wrenches and whatever.
	And so for a lot of those things, because often I have to do things outside and I have to have things in an outside vehicle, like a side-by-side ranch vehicle, where I have tools in a tool chest, but there's no way it can be airtight, right?
	So they're going to be subjected to that.
	Or I have things in a barn.
	So I've been using a lot of aluminum tools for that purpose, and just for the corrosion resistance.
	But what I love about your knives is that I know that I can put this in a vehicle, even in a high humidity Texas environment, and that I can leave it there for six months.
	I can come back to it, and I can know that it's not going to be rusted out, and the edge is still going to be totally usable six months later.
	And the wood's not going to be all rotted out or anything, because this is a G10 handle, which is super high density.
	So this is something that I know I can put where I need it, I can come back to it, and I can count on it when I need it.
	That's what I love about it.
	Yeah, because the whole knife is made to last forever.
	So, like you said, the G10 handle.
	I mean, first, it fits really good.
	And even when it gets wet or even if you get sweaty or it's really cold, it's going to fit really good in the hand.
	You're always going to have a sure grip.
	The other thing about it is that the whole knife and everything we create, everything that we do, we do it in-house.
	It's handmade and machine-made, so there's certain aspects on both ends, but all our raw material comes from this country.
	We're 100% American-made, and we source almost 100% of our raw material here in this country, besides the screws on the sheath.
	So, that's it.
	Right.
	Importantly, the steel comes...
	I thought you told me before the steel comes out of a company out of New York, right?
	That is correct.
	Niagara, yes.
	And that's CPM, and they are specialists in special alloys, and this MagnaCut is a kind of alloy that seemingly would violate the laws of physics and chemistry.
	It's almost like a magical combination that even that company almost stumbled across and found how amazing it was.
	The guy who invented it invented it in his house, and he had a doctorate in metallurgy.
	He just loved knives.
	And because of COVID, you know, he was home a lot.
	So he came up with this amazing concept of making every alloy that's in the steel bond with each other so there's no free chromium carbides.
	So that way there's nothing to attach for corrosion to start eating away at the steel.
	So they've done an actual test on this MagnaCut, and they've done a 30-hour saltwater test.
	And it has held up better than steels with 20% chromium in it.
	Yeah.
	In a marine environment, you know, or just living in, you know, Louisiana for that matter, or Florida, you know, living close to the coast.
	And you need to be able to count on something that's not going to corrode away in a couple of months.
	And that's, I mean, this is the perfect knife for having on a boat.
	Or, you know, even in the bayou, right?
	Or just you're around water, lakes, just freshwater lakes.
	If you're around water, you know, things are going to tend to corrode, but this solves that problem.
	It's just, it's a knife for literally everywhere on the planet.
	This knife is going to outlive you, and I used to live in Houston, so this blade is, even in an environment like that, this is the knife, and these knives, this line is the line that I've always wanted to build.
	And with your guidance, we were able to come up with these designs that really fit the Real-world problems and how to survive in this world and how to take the knives to the next level.
	I mean, it took a lot of R&D. There was a lot of research going in there, working with the holes, getting them so you can tie it down and make a spear.
	I've got to show you that spear.
	I keep promising I've got to bring it.
	We made a spear.
	It's awesome.
	Yeah, I want to see what you've done with that.
	Oh yeah, it's so cool.
	I like hiking.
	I like being in the backwoods.
	I love hunting.
	I mean, that's the other thing.
	This is what I'm going to take on my elk hunt.
	So right here.
	So if I get one, I'm taking a picture with this.
	It's just awesome.
	It just feels good in the hand.
	I mean, this knife, I've been wearing...
	Actually...
	This one, I really enjoy.
	So I've been taking that backpacking and I can put it on my Molle.
	I just love the resonance.
	It's just an awesome blade.
	It just does all my camping chores.
	I've been able to...
	Build a shelter, a primitive shelter, but still build one and start fires and all kinds of things with that one knife.
	The bushcrafting knife, the mass ratio, is going to be my everyday carry and my skinning knife.
	I'm very excited to take it out there for that.
	And then we also have the consequences.
	So that one's awesome.
	Let me show consequences to the audience.
	So this is a rather thin covert knife.
	It does not have the smash end on it here.
	It doesn't have that third hole here.
	And it's got a smaller diameter handle, but it's designed to be very fast, very nimble, and more covert.
	And it's got its own functions.
	It's a great fisherman's knife, by the way.
	It's a great all-around utility knife on any ranch or farm.
	Or frankly, just for backyard usage as well.
	It can accomplish some other functions, you know, like maybe self-defense in a pinch or something, but I would rather have other blades for that.
	But as an everyday utility knife that's going to work for you, this is really something.
	And it's easy to carry on your body, too.
	It's not bulky and it's lightweight.
	What are your thoughts about this one?
	You know, there's a lot of functions of that particular blade.
	And I'm going to throw one out there, but there's a lot of self-defense, but I'm going to throw a practical and that people don't always talk about a lot.
	So it's great for everyday carry.
	And that particular knife makes a great steak knife.
	I'm just telling you, taking it out, it is awesome.
	Good point.
	It works great.
	So, yeah, great steak knife.
	But for self-defense, it...
	It doesn't leave an imprint.
	And that's really important.
	And that's why it's rounded.
	And that's kind of the features that you wanted in that.
	And you're right on.
	But just carrying that, it doesn't leave an imprint.
	It's very lightweight, sleek, especially when you put the sheath in a cross-draw configuration.
	So it hugs the body really close.
	And it's just accessible.
	And I also like the guard.
	That guard gives you a sure...
	I was going to comment on that.
	Yeah.
	This guard, I think a lot of people would consider it to be a little bit oversized for typical knives, but I like that because if you think about thrusting operations, if your finger slips past that guard and goes onto the blade, you've lost that finger.
	Right?
	So this guard is absolutely critical to protect your finger.
	And that's why I love the size of it and the fact that you can build a hole into it for strapping the knife onto other objects like a staff or a stick.
	That's right.
	Staff stick.
	And you can also use it for paracord to give you a sure grip.
	So it comes from around the front, works around the wrist.
	That gives you even a better grip.
	And the other thing about that guard, and that's really important, people don't realize you have a sure grip on some knives that don't have a guard until you hit something hard.
	That's right.
	Exactly.
	You have no control.
	You're going forward.
	And if you don't have something to stop you, then you're going to be bleeding too.
	So it's very important to make sure that every part of that knife serves a function.
	We even put a little thumb And finger grooves up on the top, so that way you just have more grip, even with that guard.
	So we always like to overbuild, because you never know what the situation is.
	And that particular knife is very good for concealed carry.
	It's really excellent for concealed carry, and I really like this defensive grip on it right here, which is, depending on how you carry it, you can pull it out in a defensive posture.
	And I like to actually really press my thumb on the end of a knife like that for edge weapons combat.
	And then that guard, of course, guards your pinky from sliding onto the blade.
	And so what I like about this kind of grip is that it gives you a lot of options in hand-to-hand combat.
	You can punch.
	You can parry, you know, like you might parry with your forearm.
	Well, I mean, and that's what I love about your designs.
	These designs are real-world designs.
	This is not like some fantasy piece.
	This isn't some mass production piece that you're going to get from some of these other companies.
	And there's a lot of that.
	They're just mass production piece.
	The actual knife is designed just to be mass produced.
	These particular knives are made for real world use.
	There's been a lot and a lot of real world testing with these knives before you guys put them on the market and before we all said, okay, they're ready.
	And these knives are made to perform and exceed all expectations.
	So it's very important just to bring up and talk about these features because this is what it's made for.
	I mean, like I said, we have the steak knife.
	And if all is well and good, well, we can eat our steak with that knife.
	But if we're walking down the street and it's not, well, we can protect our loved ones.
	And that's what's important.
	I'm a family man.
	We all are.
	And that's number one, especially in this crazy world.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And with that in mind, let me mention what you've done on the G10 handles because it's really extraordinary.
	And it's hard to see on camera, but there's a special texture along here.
	And I'm very curious how you accomplish this, but this texture enables you to maintain a grip even when it gets wet.
	And one of the things that we always know about not only just outdoor use where it might be raining or high humidity, but in a knife fight, as we all learn if you train in edge weapons combat, in a knife fight everybody bleeds.
	Everybody bleeds.
	And really the question in a knife fight is like...
	Which part are you going to bleed from?
	And can you survive that, right?
	So if you bleed from this part of your arm, you can survive that.
	If you bleed from here, you cannot survive that, right?
	So it's about being able to bleed, if you have to, from the right parts so that you can walk away.
	Well, blood is slick.
	Blood gets on your blade if you're effective in a knife fight.
	And you've got to be able to hold on to that handle.
	And that's where the structure comes into place and also the finger guard and then the serrations of the thumb where you're pressing down with tremendous pressure there and really tightening up on that grip.
	It's not like a handgun where you have to deal with recoil.
	You want to grip this thing hard, hard, harder than you would grip any handgun.
	And again, I'm not trying to get too graphic, but you're going to bleed in a knife fight.
	Can you still hold on to your knife?
	These are actually great points.
	And another thing is, when you do get cut, your body actually, depending on who you are, starts to go, the adrenaline starts running, and your grip ability starts, you start losing it a little bit.
	True, yeah.
	So, you want something with a sure grip.
	That grip took about 300 failures to get the right one.
	So...
	That was a labor of love because a grip is super important.
	You don't want hot spots and it has to fit a variety of hands.
	Right.
	And to get everyone a sure grip and to be able to We perform exceptionally well, like you said, if you get blood.
	Are you in a cold environment because your ability to grip is not as good?
	Are you sweating?
	Is it really wet?
	Exactly.
	Yeah, we've tested all these different things.
	I'm from Arizona, so the sweating part, we know.
	Yeah.
	So we tested a lot of these different things, and that's all that real-world testing that we were talking about, real-world designs.
	And that grip is super key.
	There's a lot of knives out there that might have a cool blade, but then you get those to the handles, and they're very square, and they're not really made for hands, and they're not made for anything but to produce really fast.
	And the quality isn't quite there when it comes to hand retention.
	And what we see with the really kind of cheap, mass-produced knives out there is that, I mean, you've seen this, they'll just do the full tang, and it's flat, and they'll just wrap it with paracord, and that's it.
	And it's like, man, I would not want to bet my life on that because that paracord is not riveted into the full tang of the knife.
	That paracord can slip.
	It can corrode.
	If you leave it out in the sun, it will get weaker and weaker.
	There's a lot of things that can happen with that paracord.
	I mean, $10 knife?
	I'm not betting my life on that.
	No way.
	You know, we get a lot of stories about that.
	Guys who bought the $10, $20, or even like a $100 knife.
	And they've actually written us stories.
	And I have to say, Mike, you have some amazing customers, amazing friends, amazing people out there.
	And, you know, ever since you've just released this product, we've been getting a lot of emails and chat, talking to different people.
	About knives and their experience, and how does this compare to one of those $100 knives?
	And they give us their horror stories about those $20, $30, $100 knives, and how is this different?
	And it's all about the craftsman.
	Does the craftsman care?
	What is the craftsman?
	And who are the people behind that?
	And so with Dawson Knives, and just like with you, Mike, and especially this collaboration, it's about giving the best, because that's what America has to offer.
	That's what I grew up.
	On my dad's side, we're multi-generation American, but on my mom's side, I'm first-generation American.
	And, you know, this country has given us an ability to work really hard to produce something really great and to use materials that come from this country that is the best out there to give the best to our customers and to yours.
	And I'm very proud of that.
	And that is something that I'm handing down to my son.
	And that's why we're going to be a fourth-generation business, and we believe in that very heavily.
	I love that aspect, and it's just so obvious in the craftsmanship and the materials choice.
	Look, I tell people right up front, this is not a low-cost knife.
	It's not about the dollars.
	Dollars are going to be worthless at some point anyway.
	This is going to maintain value and functionality for your lifetime.
	But I want to talk about the sheaths here for a second, too, because you've done something incredibly innovative that even it took me a while to get my head around this.
	But these sheaths, you have carbon fiber inlaid with Kydex.
	So it combines the resilience with the rigidity and strength of both of those materials together.
	But then your innovative system allows you here, you can mount it horizontally, which is how this one's set up.
	I don't know if people can see that.
	Or you can mount it vertically here, and you can change that yourself.
	And it's ambidextrous.
	You can switch all these to the other sides of the sheaths.
	So whether you draw right-handed, left-handed, cross-draw, vertical-draw, however you want to carry it, you can accomplish that with a screwdriver.
	And you have tension control because of the spacers.
	So the tensioners that people are familiar with, with pistol holsters and so on, that's used in this as well.
	John, you've outdone yourself on this.
	It's amazing what you've done on the sheaths.
	Nice job.
	Thank you.
	That was one of the things that I really took a lot of feedback from different people that I had testing and just going over, over, all the way up to the last minute before this launch.
	And so that just shows a lot of passion with it.
	But it's important because if you can't carry your knife or it's not comfortable, guess what?
	It's going to sit in your safe.
	It's going to sit in a shelf.
	And what good is that going to do?
	So we try to make a super versatile sheet system, and we're going to be releasing some videos even showing that carbon fiber kydex being bent all the way over and not breaking.
	Wow.
	Which is really cool.
	Yeah, it's really nifty.
	That's amazing.
	Because I've broken a lot of Kydex pistol holsters, by the way.
	I've gone through...
	I've shattered Kydex all the time with pistols.
	It just doesn't hold up by itself without the carbon fiber that you have, you know?
	Yeah, and it's a new thing that they're doing.
	So this company released this.
	It's not a hydrographic.
	You see some with the carbon fiber.
	It's a hydrographic or something like that.
	You can actually feel the texture, and they got some of the properties.
	And it's made in America, which is really cool.
	Actually, some sheets, you'll see it inside because it's just part of the sheet, and it'll tell you it's made in the USA. But...
	Yeah, I had a lot of sheaths.
	A lot of our sheaths before we went to the leather hybrid with the carbon fiber, We had a pocket clip system.
	And that was really cool because it was a pocket clip that goes in your pocket.
	But those clips would break all the time.
	They were Kydex clips.
	They would always break.
	So we were really searching and pushing ourselves to find something really cool and slim down the sheath.
	Even though it's a double-sided, riveted sheath.
	I let it.
	We've really reduced the imprint of that sheath a lot and made it functional so you still have a lot of tie-downs.
	Plus, we have future proof this thing, so there are upgrades that will be coming down the line for these sheaths.
	So the great thing is getting one of these knives with these sheaths allows you for a lot of upgrade ability down the road.
	So it's a lifetime purchase that is made to last forever.
	I can't wait.
	And the sheaths...
	No, I'm sorry.
	I can't wait to see some of those accessories that we've talked about off camera.
	And I love the fact that you slimmed this down.
	It's really critical for first responders who already have a lot of gear on their belts and also soldiers.
	So, you know, a typical soldier is just so loaded with so much gear.
	And that waste real estate is very valuable.
	You have to make a lot of decisions about what to put there.
	But let me just go through real quick what these are.
	All of these knives are branded HRSG, which is Health Ranger Survival Gear, and it's right here on the blade.
	I've got it upside down there, but this one's called the Mass Ratio, and this is the bushcrafting knife, like John said earlier.
	These are all available at healthrangerstore.com.
	This one's called Resonance, and this is the tactical knife with the crusher end here.
	And then this one is called Consequences, and that's that kind of covert, slimmer, more stealth knife, and also a steak knife, as John Roche says.
	So those are the three that we have right now.
	But what people are also super excited about, John, is the fact that we have another knife coming soon that is just the monster.
	Do we want to talk about that one?
	I'll talk about it in this sense.
	I'm sorry that it wasn't released with these guys.
	It has pushed our manufacturing capabilities to limit, but it is one of the coolest.
	You're never going to see a knife like this that is going to be coming out because it's a tool.
	It's a tool.
	Yeah, it doesn't serve the same function as those other three blades.
	Each blade that we have in the series works with the other, and each one is a tool for a different situation.
	So if you have the Escape from L.A., it's going to do a lot of features, but it's not going to be the same as consequences.
	You're not going to be able to covertly carry that.
	Right, and by the way, that's the name of our new knife is called Escape from L.A. So since you mentioned that, I might as well give the name out.
	That's what it's called.
	And it's designed, at least my intention, John, was to have a tool that can double as a knife.
	It's got the same kind of cutting edge, but of course it's a longer tool.
	But it's got the MagnaCut, it's got that high Rockwell hardness and the flexibility, but it is a pry tool.
	So that you can pry open.
	You might be trapped in a vehicle, an elevator, a building.
	There might be a window latch.
	There might be a door latch that you need to pry open and break through or a window you need to smash in order to get out of L.A. in this case because of a power outage or an EMP weapon has gone off and all the electronics have shut down.
	Whatever the case may be, this is about getting out of an urban environment.
	That's the focus of this.
	And I think you've nailed it, John.
	I think it's going to be the perfect tool.
	Oh, yeah.
	I'm so excited because we're getting ready for some testing, and we'll show videos of that at Junkyard, which is really cool.
	So we'll be testing cars, all kinds of different things.
	And you should be also...
	This knife is so cool.
	I'm not going to give away a lot about it until we do it, but we've had guys in the military during...
	And there's some videos on some of our knives where they're crushing brick.
	So they're crushing brick and they're working through on concrete and not damaging the knife.
	So building those aspects into this particular knife really opens up for any type of urban obstacle that you're going to be running into.
	And having that high Rockwell hardness and having that flexibility, being able to bend to 70 degrees, but it springs right back to true, that's very important because their blades have been 70 degrees.
	You're right.
	They never come back.
	That's right.
	Exactly.
	We've all seen that.
	No, but you're going to take this knife to a junkyard and film prying open doors and smashing windows and doing things with the cars.
	Maybe pry open a glove box and things like that.
	But I think it would be really cool.
	All kinds of stuff.
	Wouldn't it be great if we, I don't know if we even have the budget for something like this, but to film somebody escaping like a zombie apocalypse city and using that knife in five different ways, cutting, crushing, prying, opening, and maybe beheading a few zombies along the way would be fun too.
	But getting out of the city successfully with one tool that does so many things.
	Oh, that would be awesome.
	That would be just so cool.
	And to really showcase what this could do and just have fun with it, you know?
	And that's why I love these projects, is to have fun.
	And I love your ideas because it pushes us.
	It pushes us past the norms and says, I need this special tool.
	It needs to be able to do X, Y, and Z, and all at the same time, and can you do that?
	And I've had a lot of fun with that, and I think this knife is really going to showcase that.
	It is so different, and with the way the design is and the way these designs are, like I said, this is the future of knives right here.
	Can we confidently say that we think we're going to have that one out before Thanksgiving?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Absolutely.
	All right, that's good.
	And giving us a little bit of buffer there.
	Now, I want to talk about your manufacturing for a minute because you've just moved to a new facility.
	You've made huge investments in CNC equipment that, I mean, people are wondering, how do you even cut a blade like that out of a sheet of metal that's so rugged?
	How do you possibly cut it?
	But you have machines that do that.
	Can you talk about...
	Some of those machines, the manufacturing that you've set up?
	Because this is all, you're doing it right there in Arizona.
	This is not like some overseas thing that you're importing.
	You're making them right there.
	Absolutely, Mike.
	And someday I would like to show a video so they can see our manufacturing process.
	But just to cut that steel, it's very interesting because we heat treat first.
	We get our heat treat done first, and then we do the knife work.
	So we are cutting that hard.
	And we had to be careful for a heat affected zone, so we cut with a water jet.
	So we actually have two water jets.
	And we cut out these blades on a water jet so there's no heat affected zone.
	So that way it's just using garnet and water.
	Very high pressured water.
	I would imagine.
	That's got to be super high pressure.
	Man, there's got to be some sound associated with that too.
	Oh man.
	So if you cut underwater, you're pretty good.
	If you cut above water, it is really loud.
	So I think it...
	I forget what they say, but it creates this air pocket.
	And so it gets really, really loud.
	You almost have to have hearing protection for it.
	So we cut underwater, especially when it's with steel.
	And yeah, it'll cut those hardened plates.
	And we'll take it through that process.
	And then we'll use surface grinders, CNC surface grinders.
	We have some router tables.
	And we also have some milling machines, some vertical mills.
	And then we do it by hand.
	There are certain aspects that we do by hand, certain finishing, sharpening, even some of the grinding just to get that looking just right, some of the shaping just to get that nice feel to the To the grip.
	And then our sheath work.
	A lot of that, a lot of parts come from our CNC shop, but there's that hand fitting and that assembly.
	And then the inspections all the way through.
	A ton of inspections.
	Quality control is key to this whole thing.
	I mean, I can only imagine, because I'm into manufacturing too.
	We manufacture food and supplements and so on.
	And in manufacturing, you always have a certain amount of waste.
	There's some stuff you just reject, didn't make it, something happened.
	That's in the recycle pile, right?
	But the same thing is true in knives as well.
	Yeah, I mean, you have a standard.
	And your name is that standard.
	So if you have this standard, that means you stand by it.
	That means that no matter what, if it doesn't pass or clear mustard, then it's not going to fly.
	So we have 15 checkpoints that we go through.
	And then the final check, we make sure that it functions exactly.
	We stress test everything.
	So we Rockwell test everything.
	We make sure that it's going to perform.
	Yes, it takes a lot of time.
	But at the end of the day, you're not buying this knife so someone can just throw a bunch of knives at you and say, hey, buy one of my knives.
	You're buying this knife because you're relying on the craftsman to get you this knife that will last through your family for generations.
	It used to be that way.
	People used to get a sword made.
	In medieval or during the Renaissance times and pass it down all the way through to some people even today.
	I mean, we've been around for 50 years.
	We have people that bought our knives in 1973 and have passed it down three generations and are still using it today.
	Wow.
	That's extraordinary.
	And I want to mention, too, in your background there are some of the tools.
	You have sanding belts and it looks like eye protection and gloves and so on.
	Yep.
	Those are, I mean, that's not just a decoration set.
	I mean, these are tools you use every day in your shop, right?
	That's welding.
	Those are my old pair of welding gloves.
	And then I got my welding helmet.
	I got some of the belts that we use.
	You know, and, oh yeah, the taped sledgehammer.
	That's awesome.
	And so...
	You know, there's a lot of different tools, like the little buffer wheel, you know, to clean the buffer wheels.
	You know, everything has a purpose.
	I've been doing it for 21 years.
	You know, it's hard to see, but I've got all the scars.
	You can see that.
	It's kind of messed up there.
	You cut yourself there.
	You know, craftsmen.
	That's what you do.
	I still got them.
	So I got all 10 digits.
	So I'm doing good.
	Yeah, I feel you, John.
	I almost cut off my index finger like three months ago.
	So I know exactly what you're talking about.
	Yeah, yours healed a lot better than mine, though.
	I do have to say.
	Well, I mean, I know about nutrition, and I was able to...
	I mean, you can barely see the scar now, but seriously, doctors would have thought I would never get the nerve function back, but...
	Yeah, John, I mean...
	Being that I'm into nutrition and so on, we figured out a good healing protocol and regrew the nerves and all that stuff using medicinal mushrooms, among other things.
	But it's a dangerous thing doing what you're doing.
	You're grinding sharp blades, high-velocity belts, and CNC machines, and the product itself is very, very sharp and very capable.
	I mean, it's amazing you still have all your fingers.
	Yeah.
	You know, we've learned.
	You know, we take a lot of precautions.
	We have family out there.
	And so we take care of family.
	We have employees that are like family to us.
	And more importantly, we're Christian.
	And so we want to make sure that we have a very safe environment and that everybody there is enjoying what they do.
	And I think that shows in our work.
	That everybody loves being here every day.
	I mean, I've been doing this, like I said, for over 20 years, and every day is an exciting new adventure that I get to do with these knives to push the envelope and to come out something different and new.
	And I love it.
	Wow.
	Well, it's an honor for us to be able to work with you.
	We're completely honored by this partnership, and you have really outdone yourself with these designs.
	And I hope you don't mind me dropping a hint, but this is just the beginning, folks.
	I mean...
	John, you and I, we both have crazy ideas about tools and blades and knives and functionality and survival.
	And there's going to be more than just these four.
	I'll just leave it there.
	There's more coming.
	I have to say, Mike, I love working with you.
	And you have an amazing team, but I love your ideas.
	I mean, you're on the same page with me.
	I mean, I just love where you're coming from.
	And you have a lot of experience, which is so refreshing.
	So it's so wonderful to be able to put that into these knives, to take these ideas and make them a reality.
	And I love it.
	I mean, I'm so excited about this collaboration and partnership.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, you know, I am too, and I mean, it's amazing to know you and some of your family members and to have worked with your company, just frankly, just promoting your company for a couple of years now, just because of the amazing things that you do.
	But to be able to collaborate with you, where, you know, I live on a ranch, and I deal with animals, and so...
	Large animals like donkeys and small animals like goats and dogs and chickens.
	And so I'm a hands-on person.
	And I've carried...
	I have an everyday carry knife that I've carried for 20-plus years, plus a pistol, and actually more than one knife, obviously, and a flashlight, of course.
	I mean, I could go on.
	But you get the idea.
	But the point is, I can take your...
	And I can take it out on the ranch, and I can start to integrate it into the real-world things that I'm doing.
	Oh, I'm slicing strings off of a bale of hay right here, right?
	Or, you know, I'm separating some frozen food items.
	I'm actually prying it apart, you know, to feed the dog some frozen bones or things like that.
	Or, you know, I might have to dig something out.
	Like, one time my donkey got stabbed with a stick.
	I don't know.
	that she backed into a stick or something.
	It was a deep wound.
	I had to treat that with antibiotics for a couple of weeks.
	But you never know.
	I mean, this is a multi-use tool.
	And when I can go out on the ranch and I can use it in every day, then I can confirm that it's functional in the way that you and I are anticipating, John.
	And that's the reality.
	Like you said, I have experience.
	It is daily experience using this stuffing.
	And you're an outdoorsman as well.
	We put this stuff to use every day.
	There's not some academic exercise sitting here behind a desk all day talking about, oh, isn't that curve cool?
	No, it's like the curve has a freaking function so that you can slice smoothly without it getting stuck on a piece of bone or something.
	You know what I mean?
	It's there for a reason.
	Absolutely.
	And that's why I like working with you, Mike.
	You know, we live off the grid.
	And so there's this practicality of just everyday life.
	You know, like you said, dealing with animals, just dealing with your property and just being Continuing being off the grid is a responsibility.
	Just growing your own food.
	All this, the first tool, and we always joke, the first tool that man ever invented was a knife.
	You know?
	I mean, he had to cut something.
	And so that has been ingrained in our DNA throughout the ages.
	And that's why, you know, it's so important to make knives functional and to build it out of the best materials of the age that you live in.
	That way they last.
	Well said.
	And these materials are the most advanced revolutionary materials that could be sourced today.
	And that's the thing.
	Even in ancient Japan, when they would do, you know, like 400 folds of this to make this sword, and, you know, those are very expensive to purchase today.
	Well, frankly, MagnaCut It's a game changer.
	Yeah, you can do 400 folds, or I could find a Native American Indian that can handcraft a bow, but I have an AR-15.
	You know what I'm saying?
	It's a totally different type of technology.
	MagnaCut doesn't compete with folding steel from two centuries ago.
	It's not in the same category.
	Yeah, not even close.
	I mean, the technology is amazing.
	In fact, we compete with space companies for the steel because of its properties.
	There you go.
	Yeah, and you know, I'm not the big guy, but luckily we have such a good relationship because we've been buying from them for such a long time that they allow us to get this super advanced steel where, you know, you've got space companies that are competing for it.
	And so we're bringing that into the knife world.
	And now there's a lot of other knife makers that are bringing that in there.
	But they don't understand the heat treat process.
	It's actually very unique.
	So we've been very blessed.
	We've had a lot of failures, you know, learning these things.
	But at the end of the day, we are very grateful that the Lord has led us to making a product that is top-notch.
	Well, there you go.
	And made in America.
	So when people ask, like, what can we do to support America?
	Well, this is just one example right here.
	You know, Arizona-based company, an American family, third-generation knife makers, and using nearly all American materials except the screws, as you said.
	But the steel, the G10, everything else is sourced here in the United States.
	So...
	There's no downside to this.
	John, I just want to thank you.
	It's always fun to get to talk to you, and I really enjoy collaborating with you on this.
	There's a ton of excitement out there about these.
	I keep having people text me, like friends, and they're like, save one for me!
	I keep getting that request from everybody.
	Everybody wants one.
	They're afraid we're going to run out, but look, you're going to make more.
	I mean, it's...
	Yeah?
	Yeah, you know, we're producing these.
	We're going to be able to get, you know, with our manufacturing, we're going to be able to release them every week.
	And so they'll be coming to you and you'll be able to announce what's coming in and what's going on.
	And there's just a lot of cool things that are happening with these and a lot of cool announcements that will be coming down the line.
	Absolutely.
	And I'll add too, by the way, I was one of probably your best customers before we ever collaborated on this.
	I mean, I was a repeat.
	I was buying all your stuff.
	You didn't even know who I was.
	I was just, here's another sword from Dawson.
	You know, it's awesome.
	Yeah, you were getting our swords and tomahawks.
	I mean, I was like literally just supplying you solely with tomahawks.
	I'm telling you, man.
	I was so thrilled to find out about your company years ago.
	I do.
	I have a whole set of Dawson knives.
	And now on my desk, I've got like 12 of them here.
	It's an ever-expanding set.
	But I'm going to be giving some of these away, by the way, to some first responders here in Texas.
	And, of course, I know plenty of folks who can use them.
	So everything is going to go to a good use one way or another.
	It's either going to end up on my ranch or in the hands of people I know, some of whom are first responders.
	Some of these are going to go downrange, by the way.
	You know, in the hands of actual military personnel.
	And when we start to get stories back from those men, mostly, I'll share those with you.
	I'm sure you've had lots of those.
	Yeah, and I always like to hear feedback from the product, especially when guys are depending on it.
	And that means a lot to me.
	I come from a military family.
	I was never in the military, but my dad and everyone else up the line was.
	Well, you're supplying a lot of brave men and women with the tools that they need to stay alive in some dangerous times.
	So I just want to thank you so much, John Roy, and remind our audience, healthrangerstore.com, and you can just search for knife there.
	We only have three knives right now.
	More coming, but if you search for knife on our store, you're going to find these knives everywhere.
	And you're going to be thrilled with these.
	You show them to your friends and they're going to be jealous.
	They're going to be drooling over these knives.
	I want one!
	I want one!
	Get me one!
	So that's the reaction I get.
	But thank you, John.
	It's always a pleasure speaking with you.
	Thank you very much, Mike, and thank you for having me on, and God bless you, brother.
	God bless you as well.
	And thank all of you for watching today, and thank you for your support.
	You know, if you pick up these knives, you're supporting us, of course, our studio and brighttown.com, but also Dawson Knives and the jobs that they provide in Arizona, being an American company doing really innovative work that benefits a great many people.
	So thank you for watching today.
	Thank you for your support.
	Of course, I'm Mike Adams here, brighttown.com, and a long-time survival person, prepper, trained in edge weapons combat.
	Actually, I don't know if you ever knew that, but that's been part of my history of training, and so I really, really appreciate what these knives can do functionally and for self-defense as well.
	So get them while you can, and John's company will keep on making them, and we'll keep them available for you as best we can.
	Thanks for watching today, everybody.
	God bless you all.
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