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April 2, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Brighteon Broadcast News, April 2, 2024 - Why Israel is America’s most DANGEROUS ENEMY

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	Welcome to Bright Town Broadcast News for April 2nd, Tuesday, 2024.
	Mike Adams here.
	Thank you for joining me.
	Quick note, I am scheduled to host the Alex Jones Show tomorrow for the second and third hour of the show that begins at 12 noon Central Time.
	Alex is apparently out of the studio for the week, so he's got guest hosts during the week, and I am scheduled to be interviewing a Very special guest, a former intelligence community analyst that I think you'll find really interesting.
	So you might want to check that out, Infowars.com.
	And again, I'm hosting from 12...
	Central Time, 12 noon Central until 2 p.m.
	Central.
	There's another person hosting for the first hour of the show.
	It might be Harrison Smith.
	I'm not sure yet.
	And that should also be interesting.
	I've got a lot of announcements to cover today.
	The big news is that Israel has bombed Israel.
	In Damascus, the residence of the Iranian ambassador and has killed high-level Iranian people, but not the ambassador.
	Miraculously, the ambassador survived.
	This latest act by Israel is an absolute lawless provocation of war that's designed to start World War III. And in fact, I'm going to work this into the title of today's show.
	You know how people in Congress say that Israel is our greatest ally?
	I'm going to do a little play on words on that and say here today that Israel is actually America's most dangerous enemy.
	Because Israel is trying to drag America into World War III in the Middle East.
	And what they just did is one of the ways that they are trying to achieve that.
	And probably when I'm hosting the Alex Jones Show, I will touch on the latest developments in the Middle East as well, but also other areas, Ukraine, Russia, gold prices, and whatever else is popping up in the meantime.
	Anyway, we're going to go into a lot more detail about what Israel just did and why it's such a dangerous act and why they did it.
	Netanyahu is a completely out of control, sociopathic, murderous lunatic.
	And he will do anything to drag America into a war with Iran.
	Because I guess that's the only way he thinks that Israel can survive.
	And he might be right.
	Israel's survival right now does not look very good.
	Based on what Netanyahu has done.
	And so I guess he's going on an all or nothing kind of approach here.
	And, you know, watch out.
	Sometimes you play all or nothing and you get nothing.
	And that's probably where this is headed for Netanyahu and Israel.
	But before we get to that, let me mention that today's interview is with Adam Curry of the Podcast Index.
	This is a decentralized TV interview that my co-host Todd and I, we recorded actually a while ago.
	It's my fault.
	I was late with my team to get this approved, but I was reviewing the interview with Adam Curry today, and his website is podcastindex.org, and it's just as fresh and just as interesting.
	I mean, Adam Curry is an awesome guest.
	You're going to love this interview, so we're playing the full interview for you here today.
	It's about decentralization of speech, It's about the democratization of podcasting so that it's not all controlled by Apple or Google or Microsoft or whoever.
	So it's a really great interview.
	We cover so many things including Christianity and religion and so much more.
	You're definitely going to enjoy this interview today.
	Now gold is at an all-time high.
	Yet again, gold is at $2,250.
	So what does that mean?
	Well, the dollar is collapsing as gold rises in value.
	I sent out a tweet with the following.
	Quote, gold is now $2,251 per ounce.
	The dollar is rapidly becoming worthless.
	The world is moving away from the dollar as a useful reserve currency.
	BRICS nations are rolling out a replacement settlement infrastructure based on blockchain that will make the dollar largely obsolete in world trade by the end of 2025.
	When that happens, the question becomes obvious.
	Who will be stupid enough to keep buying dollar treasury debt?
	And anybody holding dollars is going to be decimated by the rapid value loss caused by endless currency printing.
	Gold and silver and crypto will outlast the dollar.
	Mark my words, whatever dollars you're holding, prepare for a total loss.
	Diversify while you still can.
	And then this is why I'm urging red states to urgently prepare to roll out their own local currency replacement for when the dollar collapses.
	And that's a little podcast special report that I released a few days ago urging red states to get ready.
	When the dollar collapses, it's the states that have their own backup currencies that are actually going to prosper, by the way.
	So I know some of you listening, you're in high-level government in Texas and other states.
	Take this seriously.
	You need to have a backup plan in place for what you're going to do statewide in order to restart your economy when the dollar collapses.
	Now, the blue states will probably not prepare alternative currencies because they're all in with the corrupt federal government.
	And these blue states, like California and Oregon and Washington and now Colorado and so on, there's a story in the UK Daily Mail where eight states are now planning to completely ban the sale of gas-powered cars.
	No gas-powered cars will be available to be purchased in these eight states by the year 2032, which is not that far away.
	I mean, eight years away, you won't be able to buy a gasoline-powered car.
	And it's not just California.
	It's eight states.
	And they say they're only going to allow the sale of zero-emission vehicles, which, of course, is a misnomer because they're not zero-emissions.
	Electric vehicles are some of the worst polluters in the world when you add up everything that goes into the batteries and the mining of the lithium and also the waste of the bad battery packs.
	And then where does the energy come from to charge the cars?
	That's not zero emissions.
	It's just emissions somewhere else.
	So zero emissions is a lie.
	There's no such thing.
	So the states where this is happening...
	Although it varies from state to state, but by the year 2032 through 2035, all of these states will have, you will not be able to purchase a gasoline vehicle.
	Rhode Island, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Washington, the District of Columbia, I know that's not a state, but Delaware, Colorado, New Mexico, and California.
	It seems like that's more than eight.
	Yeah, so I don't know why the headline says 8, but anyway, it's more than 8.
	So think about it.
	If you live in any of those states that I just mentioned, you won't be able to buy a car that works.
	I mean, you'll be able to buy an EV, but with everybody forced to buy an EV, yet without the necessary upgrades to the power grid, the power grid will crater, folks.
	It will absolutely crater.
	You're not going to be able to charge your car when you want to or at the pace that you want to.
	There's going to be electricity rationing.
	And that's how they're going to control you.
	You won't be able to drive very far because the power to charge your car, your EV, will be rationed thanks to the smart meters.
	And then they'll monitor you.
	And by the way, if you say the wrong things online, then your rationing will be cut in half.
	Oh!
	It's kind of like a CBDC for kilowatt hours.
	Kilowatt hours will become a kind of currency.
	And even if they can't control you by controlling your dollars, let's say maybe you're a really wealthy person, they can control you through the kilowatt hours that you're allowed to consume.
	But they have to get rid of combustion engine vehicles first, you see.
	That's what this is all about.
	It's about controlling everybody.
	It's about 15-minute cities.
	It's about making sure that you can't travel where you want or as far as you want, that you can't refuel with a gas can, that you are entirely dependent.
	On the electric power stations, the recharging stations, which will be tied to your identity via your credit cards, they will not take crypto.
	They won't take anonymous privacy coins.
	They're going to be tied to your identity.
	So if the state or the government doesn't want you to drive very far, they just disallow your ability to purchase recharging.
	This is about total control.
	This is going to be so disruptive to the marketplace because a lot of people are going to start to really value combustion engine vehicles a lot more.
	And you're also going to have No doubt, you're going to have people that buy combustion engine vehicles from neighboring states, like Arizona, Nevada, or wherever, or some states on the East Coast, and then they shuttle those combustion engine vehicles to the states where you're not allowed to buy combustion engine vehicles.
	So there's actually going to be a premium on combustion engine vehicles, and there's going to be a whole black market, you could say, You're going to see now, coming up in the years ahead, you're going to see the real symbol of wealth will be a person who's driving a V8 truck.
	Then it goes vroom, vroom, you know what I mean?
	Like somebody who's actually got an engine.
	That's going to be a symbol of wealth, not poverty.
	Maybe in the years past, if you had a neighbor that had a car in their front yard and they're always working on it, and they're like vroom, vroom, like some white trash, you know?
	Somebody who's got a car parked in their yard.
	Hey, 10 years forward, that's going to be like, oh my God, that person must be rich.
	How do they get a combustion engine vehicle?
	That's so awesome!
	I bet you you can buy them with gold in the year 2035.
	If you want a combustion engine vehicle, just make sure you have plenty of gold.
	Trade gold for combustion engine vehicles.
	Yeah.
	Now, by the way, if you don't want to pay a premium for a vehicle, get out of the libtard states.
	I mean, you notice they're shutting down everything.
	They're shutting down the farms, the food supply, and Air conditioning, all kinds of water restrictions like crazy, especially in California.
	And now they're shutting down combustion engine vehicles.
	With their regulations, they're shutting down restaurants.
	I mean, how are you supposed to live in a place like California?
	Plus, it's the highest taxes...
	In the continental United States, I believe.
	So you're paying the highest taxes.
	You're getting the worst government services.
	In fact, government is oppressing everything that you want to do.
	So no wonder everybody's going to leave if they can.
	The only people left behind in California are people too impoverished to leave.
	Now, in states like Texas, where I live, we're never going to give up diesel trucks and combustion engines and AR-15s, by the way.
	So if you appreciate...
	Affordable energy, affordable food, affordable ammo, firearms, full capacity magazines, these kinds of things.
	You know, come to Texas.
	Now, don't come to Texas if you're a libtard.
	Don't come to Texas if you already ruined the state where you currently live and you're trying to escape the ruinous conditions that you created because you're dumb enough to vote for Gavin Newsom or whatever.
	Don't come to Texas if you're that person.
	Please, only come to Texas if you're already a Texan at heart.
	If you are okay with guns and gold and diesel trucks and the energy exploration industry and longhorn cattle, yeah, then come to Texas and help us defend Texas from the libtards that are trying to take it over.
	By the way, this new Biden-EPA rule That is essentially a mandate to end combustion engine vehicle sales across America.
	This rule is designed to destroy America's logistics and transportation infrastructure, and it will destroy America's automobile industry.
	So this is sabotage against the United States of America, once again, just like open borders, just like the dollar weaponization, just like the weaponization of the government via big tech against the free speech of the American people.
	This is a takedown of America's automobile industry because when EVs are the only cars that you're allowed to buy new, what's going to happen to new car sales across America?
	They're going to collapse.
	Everybody's going to buy a used vehicle, last year's vehicle, that's still got a combustion engine in it.
	And people are going to drive those things For a decade, keep them running because they don't want to be forced into an EV and all the inconveniences that come with the EVs and also the electropollution because you're sitting inside four large motors that have a huge electromagnetic signature.
	So the health consequences of driving EVs all day have yet to be fully understood.
	People are concerned about their mobile phones.
	Have you checked the amount of electropollution that's generated by an electric vehicle?
	It's orders of magnitude greater than a mobile phone, by the way.
	It's way larger than a cell tower.
	Are you kidding me?
	You're sitting inside, you know, giant electromagnetic...
	Well, motors, like I said, and there's a lot of power going through them, so your body is affected.
	All right, here's another story from the UK Daily Mail.
	Fury, as Boston, plans to fill a former veteran housing unit with migrants as the city asks residents to take people in.
	Turns out that this unit, called the Chelsea Soldiers' Home, That was used to house veterans.
	Now, guess what?
	It's going to be a homeless shelter instead of housing vets.
	There were 545 homeless vets in Massachusetts in just one night in 2023, according to this story.
	And so now, you know, hey, if you fought for America, according to Massachusetts, you're worthless trash.
	They're just going to throw you out on the streets.
	But who's going to get the special protections?
	Oh, the illegals!
	Yeah, the illegals!
	Who never fought for America.
	The illegals who weren't born here.
	But if you were willing to fight and die for America, you have no value to the Democrats whatsoever.
	Understand, any veteran voting for Democrats is frankly betraying your country.
	Democrats don't give a crap about veterans, and we see that of course here in Boston and other blue cities.
	And by the way, in Denver now, which is a so-called sanctuary city, there's video that has emerged now of an official speaking in Espanol and begging the illegals there To take a bus ticket to anywhere else.
	He's telling them, go to New York, go to Chicago, go to Canada, go anywhere, and we'll get you a ticket.
	We'll get you out of here.
	Because he says that you're going to suffer if you stay here in Denver because we can't help you.
	Yeah, this is a so-called sanctuary city run by libtards, of course.
	And I'm going to play some of this video for you here so you can hear it yourself.
	Now, it is in Espanol, so...
	We're going to play the audio, but I'm going to read for you in English the rough translation.
	All right, so again, this is a city official in Denver.
	He says, New York gives you more.
	Chicago gives you more.
	So I suggest you go there where there's a longer-term shelter.
	There are also more job opportunities there.
	Guerrero is Denver's so-called newcomer communications liaison.
	That means that he meets the busloads of new arrivals.
	The city says this group got here on March 26, sent up by Texas' Republican Governor Greg Abbott.
	He warns them the jobs, the resources, the opportunities have already gone to the 40,000 migrants who came to Denver before that.
	We've received too many migrants, and that is why we ran out of resources, he says.
	No, look, we're not going to block you if you want to stay here.
	I'm not here to block you.
	I'm here to let you know that your path is not over, your invasion path.
	If you stay here, you are going to suffer even more, and I don't want to see this.
	Wow.
	If you stay here, you're going to suffer even more.
	Wow, this is a Denver city official saying this.
	Incredible.
	Let's see what else he says.
	He's continuing.
	Your path has not ended.
	Your path has not ended.
	That you travel a little more.
	You don't have to walk anywhere.
	We can buy you a free ticket.
	You can go to any city.
	We can take you up to the Canadian border, wherever, wherever.
	Oh, I thought this was a sanctuary city.
	I thought you loved migrants.
	Huh?
	Denver?
	Freaking libtards?
	You sent them all to Denver.
	This is what happens when the blue liberal morons of Colorado elect libtards.
	You get overrun with migrants.
	Because you said you wanted them.
	You elected the officials that said they wanted unlimited illegals in Denver.
	Well, you got your wish.
	Thanks to Texas Governor Abbott that's just sending them to you by the busload.
	Wonder why that's happening.
	So you got your wish, Denver.
	So what does Denver do now?
	Do they love the migrants?
	Do they provide them housing and food?
	And welcome with open arms.
	We love you, you precious ones.
	No.
	They're like, get out of here or you will suffer.
	Get on a bus.
	We'll take you anywhere.
	Please, just go.
	You know?
	So much for sanctuary cities, huh?
	So much for blue cities.
	This is why I have always supported what Governor Abbott is doing here, which basically is just flooding New York City and Chicago and Denver and L.A. Flood those cities with these migrants.
	Now, I know Michael Jan disagrees with me on this, and he points out correctly that this is actually causing these illegals to penetrate more deeply into the U.S. and sort of positioning them all over the country.
	And I understand that.
	But my point where I agree with Governor Abbott on this is that You can't just keep this a Texas-only problem or an Arizona problem or a Florida-only problem.
	You've got to let the other states know that if you don't close the border, guess what?
	You're all going to be impacted by this, and there's no better way to get that point across than just shipping thousands and thousands of illegals to their cities and just drop them off right in front of City Hall in Denver or wherever, New York City.
	Just drop them off.
	That's why Mayor Eric Adams of New York, he's like, so many migrants coming in, it's going to collapse the city.
	He says that one day, and then the next day he turns around, and here's free debit cards for all the illegals.
	Yeah, because they're going to collapse the city, so let's have more.
	I'm telling you, these liberals, they are suicide cultists.
	They've lost all rationality.
	They have no morality.
	They've abandoned the rule of law.
	They have no logic or reason whatsoever.
	And they're desperately just trying to have a mad rush into the country because they hope that Joe Biden will legalize all these illegals before Election Day.
	And this is how the Democrats plan to rig elections forever, is to just have America completely overrun by illegals, hand out free stuff to all the illegals, free money, free food, free hotels in New York.
	And then just say, keep voting for Democrats and we'll keep giving you free stuff.
	This is their plan.
	This is the Democrats' plan.
	And it's a suicide plan.
	And that's why we've got to have, frankly, at this point, Trump in office.
	And Trump promised, by the way, if he gets elected, he's going to reinterpret the federal civil rights laws to also start prosecuting institutions for discrimination against whites.
	Because, have you noticed that discrimination against whites is way worse now?
	That all the civil rights laws, they never said that you can't discriminate against white people.
	You know, in renting an apartment, or hiring for a job, or getting a scholarship at university, or even gaining entrance to a university, or a government job, they can always discriminate against white people, because white people are never mentioned in the civil rights laws.
	You notice that?
	It's only about protecting people of color, or in some cases women, and now transgenders, but never white.
	So white people are being targeted, and they're being fired, they're being passed over for scholarships that they frankly deserve based on merit, they're being passed over for jobs they deserve.
	Practically every police chief in every major city across America is a black police chief, whether they deserve it or not.
	And I don't have anything against black police chiefs, by the way, if they're the best qualified.
	And there are plenty of black law enforcement officers who are well qualified, but skin color shouldn't be the determination.
	So you would expect to see, well, there'd probably be some white people and some black people and some Asian people and some Hispanic people and so on.
	But it's not.
	There's no whites anymore in police chief positions anywhere across America.
	Isn't that amazing?
	That's discrimination.
	I guess whites and Trump is going to, at least he says, going to try to put an end to that.
	And it seems like the time has come for that.
	By the way, speaking of Trump, did you know that he took his company public?
	Well, Truth Social went public last week.
	And its value has absolutely skyrocketed in the stock market because people are sort of voting for Trump and giving him money by basically bidding up the stock price.
	So now this true social company, I don't even know what the stock symbol is because I don't play roulette in the stock market, by the way.
	I don't own any stocks at all.
	I own things like gold and silver and crypto and whatever, but not stocks.
	I don't mess around with that.
	But apparently Trump now has gained another $5 billion in asset valuation.
	And the Democrats are going insane because they never saw this coming.
	There's a story from the National Pulse that talks about this.
	And it talks about how Trump could easily sell off some of his shares and gain hundreds of millions of dollars in cash.
	If he needed to do that, you know, to maybe, let's say, meet the cash requirements of the bond in the New York trial, you know, because they say, you got to pay us $450 million.
	Well, there's not very many people that can come up with $450 million.
	That's almost half a bill.
	Trump actually can come up with $450 million, thanks to Truth Social.
	So, if you actually kind of want to financially vote for Trump, and I'm not doing this, and I can't tell you to speculate, but some people are buying Truth Social stock.
	You know what?
	Let me find out what the stock symbol is.
	I'm curious.
	Okay, it is, I believe it is DWAC, Digital World Acquisition Corp.
	DWAC, that is the corporation that now owns Truth Social.
	And it is currently, let's see, it debuted...
	Wait, let me get the one-month price.
	It was as low as $35.60 a little over a week ago, and now it is $50.
	Well...
	That's a lot of valuation right there.
	I don't know what percentage Trump owns, but I would imagine it's a significant percentage, especially if his value just went up $5 billion.
	Yeah, you know what?
	It's going to be hard for the deep state to take down Trump.
	They've tried a hundred different ways, and they still can't make it happen.
	Isn't that wild?
	Now, remember all those illegals that stormed across the El Paso border, you know, of Texas?
	There was a video, I don't know, a week ago, a couple weeks ago, and they were storming across, and they overran the fences, and they overran the Texas Guard.
	And then, I think a day later, Governor Abbott put out an announcement and said, hey, don't worry, they've all been arrested.
	Well, here's a story from Information Liberation.
	El Paso judge, who's Hispanic, by the way, orders the release of the illegal aliens filmed overrunning the National Guard on U.S. southern borders.
	So the judge is Humberto Acosta.
	And he ruled that they have to be released.
	From jail, and they're going to be released into America, and they're going to vanish.
	So storming the Texas border, according to a federal judge in Texas named Humberto Acosta, storming the Texas border is not a crime.
	You actually get rewarded by being released back into the United States.
	So this is...
	I mean, my goodness, this is a total invasion.
	And you can bet that that judge is also a liberal.
	Just wants to see America overrun.
	You know, I wonder when the American people are going to have enough and say, hey, you know what?
	We're going to have to just stop this invasion.
	I wonder when that day is coming.
	In the meantime, I would encourage Governor Abbott to just round up all of them.
	If there's 300,000 illegals per month, That you catch in Texas, put all 3,000 on buses and drop them off in Denver.
	300,000 in Denver.
	What would that look like?
	That would be like a train, just a train of illegals being dropped off in Denver.
	Now, I know those of you who live in Colorado and you didn't vote for the liberals, you're probably like freaking out right now.
	No!
	I know.
	I don't want to see your state overrun either.
	I'm just talking about short-term.
	This is to send a message in order to close the border.
	We've got to close the border.
	We've got to do a couple of things.
	We've got to close the border.
	Obviously, we've got to elect Trump.
	Otherwise, nothing is ever going to be done to stop the illegal invasion.
	We've got to elect Trump.
	We've got to close the border.
	And then we've got to deport millions of illegals.
	And it took me a while to warm up to this idea.
	For a long time I was very concerned about that, and now I see it's absolutely necessary.
	You're gonna have to deport millions of illegals, like 10 million illegals.
	You're gonna have to just say, hey, look, you crossed the border illegally, you violated federal law, we're gonna take you back to where you came from, and if you want to come back in, We welcome legal immigration, so go through the legal route.
	Go visit the American Embassy in your country.
	Apply for whatever.
	Apply for amnesty there.
	Apply for an investor visa.
	Apply for a work visa.
	Apply for, you know, university visa, whatever.
	But you do it legally.
	You don't just walk across the border.
	Sorry, you're out of here.
	Now, let's move on to the food supply.
	I'm going to play a little video for you here from a farmer who was at a grocery store in America, and he was talking about the popular foods that could soon have bugs added.
	His name is Drovers, I believe, and he says that PepsiCo is going to start using cricket protein in their products like Cheetos and Quaker granola oats.
	He says there are at least six or seven companies in this world that's now using crickets to make flour.
	And he says, although I haven't confirmed this, he says that insect protein flour is going to show up in products and it won't be labeled in a way that you know it's cricket protein.
	Because he says that it's going to reach $4.6 billion in sales by 2027.
	He's talking about the cricket protein.
	He says that ADM, or Archer Daniels Midland, is in the process of producing insect foods in Illinois, in their plant right now, in partnership with Innova Foods.
	And they say crickets are 60% protein, but Iowa State University says crickets are only 12.9% protein.
	Yeah, 60% sounds a little high.
	What about all the chitin, huh?
	And then from the Daily Mail, apparently PepsiCo is experimenting with worms as a protein source to use in their snacks.
	The firm posted a request for new protein sources on an innovation website.
	It's looking for plant-based, fungi-based, or insect-based protein sources.
	Mmm.
	Yum Pepsi.
	Let's see.
	They're working on mealworm powder made of mealworms ground into a Finer powder.
	It can be baked or fried.
	So check out part of this video from this farmer in the grocery store.
	Hey, this is a farm boy.
	I'm in the flour section of the grocery store.
	I wrote up something.
	A whole bunch of somethings.
	When it comes to flour, things are changing in the world.
	Have you ever heard of cricket flour?
	There are at least six or seven companies in this world that's now using crickets, insects, to make flour.
	According to Dover's, PepsiCo is looking to use cricket proteins in products such as Cheetos and Quaker granola oats.
	Insect Gourmet says insect-related businesses in the Western world are producing insect proteins for foods, beverages, confectionaries, and other things such as butters, oils, and pestos, as well as spice and seasoning.
	So it's most likely going to show up, not be labeled, and you're not going to know it in pretty much everything you eat.
	Alright, now we're going to go to the main subject of the day here.
	Israel is America's most dangerous enemy.
	Not ally.
	Now, I know everybody in Congress describes Israel as our most important ally.
	Really?
	Is there some document?
	Is there some treaty with Israel that I've never heard about?
	No.
	No, Israel's not our ally.
	Israel is actually like the crazy friend you had as a teenager that always wanted to drag you into some illegal activity that might get you arrested by the cops.
	Israel is the friend that said, hey, let's go set something on fire.
	Israel is the friend that said, hey, let's do 150 miles an hour down the highway just to see how fast this car goes.
	Right?
	Israel is the friend that was saying, hey, let's go buy some illegal drugs and see what it's like.
	Yeah, that's Israel.
	Israel is your most dangerous enemy, not your ally.
	And what Israel has just done is intended to drag America into World War III. So let's get to the facts of what just happened.
	So Israel launched a missile strike on the consulate, the Iranian embassy or consulate in Damascus.
	So in other words, Iran's ambassador to Syria, okay, his residence, which is adjacent to the embassy building there, was obliterated by an Israeli missile or bomb.
	I don't know the correct term of what was launched, but it was launched in Israel and it was not intercepted.
	And it now appears that eight, I'm sorry, 11 people have been killed.
	Eight Iranians, two Syrians, and one Lebanese.
	And let's see, one of them was Brigadier General Mohammed Zahedi Zahedi.
	He's the commander of the, I believe, the IRGC forces.
	That's the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
	So, again, General Mohammed Zahedi, General Hossein Aminullah, The chief of general staff covering Syria and Lebanon, and also Major General Haj Rahimi.
	He's the commander of Palestine.
	I mean, these are high-level officials, okay?
	These are the top war guys who run the resistance against Israel across the Middle East, across multiple countries.
	So they were killed in the consulate building, That's part of the embassy there.
	Now, understand that an embassy is considered the physical property of the representative nation.
	So, for example, Iran's embassy in America, wherever that is, maybe it's in New York, I don't know, is considered Iranian property.
	So, if America were to bomb Iran's embassy in America, that would be an attack on Iran.
	That would be an outrageous act of war that goes far beyond, I mean, it's breaking all the rules of warfare.
	I mean, you don't bomb other countries' embassies, okay?
	Unless you're just a crazy lunatic like Netanyahu and you want to start World War III, which is the whole point here.
	So, again, Israel then bombs the Iranian consulate slash embassy building in Damascus in Syria and kills these 11 people.
	So, number one, it shows you that Israel has very good intelligence about the timing and location of these high-level officials.
	Somehow, Israel knew that all these people were going to be in that building at that moment.
	And as evil as Israel has become, do not underestimate The competency of their intelligence.
	Israeli intelligence is very, very good.
	And this demonstrates that.
	But, of course, Israel has no morals, no ethics.
	They don't recognize any international rules.
	They don't honor the International Court of Justice.
	They don't listen to the ICC. They thumb their noses at the UN, even at America.
	They do whatever the hell they want.
	They bomb anybody they want.
	Including civilians in Gaza.
	Including, you know, potentially ambassadors.
	And so, what Israel has just done is they have just set in motion a series of events that are designed to drag America into a war with Iran.
	Because, I mean, think about what's the next step here.
	Iran is likely, and by the way, Russia's probably about to get involved here.
	But Iran is likely to start...
	Using missiles to attack Israeli ambassadors and Israeli embassies in other countries.
	I mean, Israel just set off a chain reaction of events.
	Basically, Israel just said that, oh, embassies are now fair game.
	That is not a good development.
	Not if you are in favor of peace or diplomatic solutions.
	Now, if you just want massive bloodshed and war and violence all over the place, which is what Netanyahu wants, then this is great.
	Because now every embassy in the world...
	Is, I guess, you know, in the minds of the people playing this deadly game, now it's fair game.
	So, and also, you know, this was, I believe this was the home of the Iranian ambassador.
	Is that the message from Israel too?
	That it's okay to start bombing the private homes of high-level officials?
	Because Israel, there are no limits to what Israel will do.
	No limits.
	And Iran understands this, and it's anybody's guess how Iran is going to retaliate, what that's going to look like.
	It's not going to be pretty.
	And then Russia has issued a statement from its foreign ministry.
	Quote, we strongly condemn this attack on the Iranian consular office in Syria.
	We consider, this is Russia, we consider any attacks on diplomatic and consular facilities, the inviolability of which is guaranteed by the relevant Vienna conventions to be categorically unacceptable.
	Well, Netanyahu doesn't give a crap about any rules, any...
	Any conventions, any treaties, nothing.
	Netanyahu is a crazy, murderous, satanic death cult psychopath, and he's trying to drag America into his dark, demonic, you know, death cult outcome.
	Again, he's the crazy friend that you might have had as a teenager that always wanted to get you into the worst possible trouble.
	That's Netanyahu.
	So, What's America going to do now?
	You notice that America continues to ship Israel 2,000 pound bombs by the plane load.
	Isn't it crazy?
	Like, Anthony Blinken is like, hey, we keep telling Israel to stop bombing.
	And then the next sentence, so let's send them more bombs!
	You know, it's crazy.
	Or KGP, the White House spokesperson, we've told Israel not to respect civilian life, but you're sending them more bombs, right?
	Yes, of course we are.
	2,000 pound bombs.
	By the way, it's pretty clear that Israel is stocking up on bombs to attack Hezbollah.
	Okay?
	So, from Israel's point of view here, the plan is...
	To provoke a reaction from Iran, something big, which the Iranians are pretty pissed off at the moment.
	It's more and more likely that Iran is going to react in some big way.
	And then Israel wants to drop nukes on Iranian cities and probably nuke southern Lebanon.
	Nuke Hezbollah and drag America into the whole war to defend Israel while America runs around just committing genocide and ethnic cleansing and war crimes and dropping nuclear weapons all over the place.
	Because Israel, under Netanyahu and his lunatic war generals, has become America's most dangerous enemy.
	That's why I titled today's episode with that, America's Most Dangerous Enemy.
	In fact, Israel is the enemy of peace on earth under Netanyahu.
	Now, granted, plenty of Israelis are protesting against Netanyahu.
	And all kinds of Jews outside of Israel are also protesting against what Netanyahu is doing.
	So I am not attempting to conflate Netanyahu's crazy, insane, satanic death cult behaviors with all Jews or all followers of Judaism or even all Israelis.
	Netanyahu is completely out of control, and increasingly, his actions do not represent the people of Israel, and they certainly do not represent Jews.
	They do represent Satanism and mass death and destruction and bloodshed and all that other stuff, but Netanyahu wants a greater Israel.
	He wants to kill everybody around and take all their land, which is what he's doing in Gaza.
	So the question is, what the hell is the USA doing continuing to send Israel more bombs?
	The USA is complicit in this.
	And I'm not the only one who realizes that.
	Iran realizes it.
	Russia realizes it.
	And since Israel just opened up a Pandora's box to say that it's okay to start bombing consulates and embassies, how much do you want to bet that U.S. embassies are now going to be targeted?
	So, in other words, probably...
	You're going to have U.S. citizens and employees working at the embassies in who knows where, Iraq and Syria, Jordan, wherever, even Iran.
	U.S. embassies are about to be bombed or attacked or overrun.
	You're going to see, this is my prediction, you're going to see American embassy employees dragged through the streets.
	You're going to see them set on fire, tortured, beaten, dragged to the streets in probably more than one city because of what Israel just did.
	Because the whole world knows that America is complicit with Israel, that America is the backbone behind Israel.
	The only reason that Israel is so arrogant and forceful is because America keeps shipping them 2,000 pound bombs, which is completely insane.
	America needs to stop sending weapons to Israel.
	Here's what needs to happen.
	Joe Biden, whoever's in charge, it's not Joe Biden.
	He didn't even realize that he signed the Transgender Visibility Day now.
	He says he didn't even sign that.
	It's not him.
	Well, who else is the president?
	Well, it's probably Barack Obama, right?
	So Barack Obama needs to get on the phone with Netanyahu and say, Hey, Netanyahu, you freaking psychopath.
	Guess what?
	We're pulling out all American military forces, all the naval vessels.
	We're pulling them all out.
	We're blocking all money to Israel.
	We're blocking all bombs, all military weapons.
	Guess what?
	You're on your own, Netanyahu.
	Good luck.
	Or even better, declare a no-fly zone over Gaza and have the U.S. Air Force start shooting down Israeli Air Force jets that fly over Gaza or try to bomb Gaza.
	That's what America should be doing is shoot down the IDF. America shouldn't be at war with Iran.
	America shouldn't be at war with Hezbollah or even Hamas.
	America should be shooting down IDF jets and bombers that are escalating this war.
	America should be calling for the arrest of Netanyahu under the International Court of Justice or the ICC. America certainly shouldn't be supporting this genocidal, deranged lunatic.
	But anyway, Barack Obama should get on the phone and just say, we're pulling out everything.
	No more support for Israel.
	The Navy sails away.
	Goodbye, Israel.
	No more bombs.
	No more money.
	No more anything.
	And then Israel would be like, you know, two days later.
	Okay, can we talk about this now?
	You know.
	Okay, let's rethink this situation.
	Okay, we might have been a little aggressive there.
	That's what would happen if America pulled out its military support for Israel.
	And I pray that America stops sending bombs to Israel.
	And I pray that America stops...
	I mean, why is America supporting Israel at all?
	Why are we giving them billions of dollars?
	We're just wasting it away, bombing civilians, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
	This is an insane situation.
	It's got to stop.
	But will it stop under Biden?
	Probably not.
	So, if you're wondering then, how does this escalate now?
	Well, Israel did this by design.
	They wanted to provoke a response from Iran.
	So, Iran is going to probably start bombing Israeli embassies or Israeli proper, or Israel proper.
	They're going to launch missiles and rockets into Tel Aviv.
	Is my guess.
	And that's exactly what Israel wants.
	Because then Israel can say to America, hey, we're under attack from Iran.
	And then Senators like Lindsey Graham can say, aha!
	It's time to bomb Iran.
	Or as he says, bomb Iran!
	And that's what a bunch of war zealot rhinos want, and that's what Israel wants.
	They want World War III, they want America to bomb Iran.
	Well, when that happens, guess who takes notice?
	Russia.
	Russia takes notice.
	And Russia says, probably, I'm guessing, Russia says, well, we can't let Iran fall.
	Because, you know, Iran is a major trading partner for us.
	They're the gateway to the Middle East.
	They're an ally of Russia.
	So Russia gets involved and starts launching, you know, hypersonic missiles to take out U.S. naval vessels near the Red Sea.
	Or even in the Mediterranean, it starts sinking aircraft carriers.
	You see what I mean?
	And the U.S. naval vessels start sinking, and Hezbollah gets in on the action.
	It's like, hey, we have anti-ship missiles too.
	And then the Houthis are like, and so do we!
	We've got hypersonic missiles.
	They just launch everything.
	U.S. Navy takes major casualties.
	Ships start sinking like crazy.
	The rest of the surrounding nations outside of Israel see this happening, and then they're like, hey, Israel has no defenses.
	Look...
	U.S. aircraft carriers just vanished thanks to Russia.
	It's time to invade Israel.
	And then they just go all in.
	Hezbollah invading Israel.
	Forces in Syria.
	Forces from Iraq.
	Forces maybe from Turkey.
	Who knows?
	And then Israel's like, it's the end times.
	Let's invoke every horrible thing in the Bible.
	They start launching nukes.
	They nuke Damascus.
	And other areas.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's exactly how this can escalate.
	And it's this lunatic Netanyahu who is carrying this out.
	He needs to be arrested.
	And, you know, maybe by U.S. special forces.
	Who knows?
	He needs to be arrested and removed from power.
	Actually, it's funny because Senator Schumer, a Democrat, said that Netanyahu's got to go.
	And Schumer is a big-time Israel supporter.
	He wants somebody else in power there.
	You know, Schumer's connected with all the deep state players, obviously.
	He's basically an extension of the deep state in the Senate.
	Even he says Netanyahu's got to go.
	Because even Schumer, as crazy as he is, realizes that what Israel's doing is very damaging to America and to America's interests.
	Perhaps Schumer realizes that America will not do well in World War III. America has already been defeated by Russia in Ukraine.
	NATO couldn't beat Russia.
	NATO tanks are getting blown up or bogged down.
	You know, the British, what are they, the Challenger tanks, practically worthless over there.
	American HIMARS systems are getting blown up by the Russians.
	Look, America can't beat Russia in Ukraine, and America can't beat Iran on the ground in the Middle East, by the way.
	If America gets swept into this war, America's going to lose that war.
	And what are you going to do?
	Have a draft in America?
	Call up men and women because it's all supposed to be gender neutral now?
	What are you going to do?
	Call up a couple of million American wokesters who don't even know how to fight or how to do anything?
	They can barely operate a pencil sharpener, much less an M4 rifle.
	What are you going to do?
	Put them in tanks?
	Russians will just kill all of them, too.
	It's a joke.
	And America has no remaining industrial output capability.
	Can't even really manufacture much of anything anymore.
	Can't make the artillery, can't make the missiles, the rockets, the tanks.
	And certainly can't make anything that works.
	Because everything's gone DEI, you know, critical race theory, Woketard.
	The whole military at the top is run by Woketards.
	So, World War III would be a disaster for the West.
	And maybe Schumer knows that, I don't know.
	But he's warning us not to get involved while Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican, definitely wants World War III with Iran because Lindsey Graham is a lunatic.
	And the decisions that are going to determine the outcome of human civilization across many nations now are being made by lunatics like Netanyahu or Lindsey Graham or, you know, I was going to say Victoria Nuland, but she resigned, although her death policies continue on in the State Department.
	Anthony Blinken, you know, Sullivan, the whole lot.
	These people are lunatics.
	Scholz in Germany, Macron in France, absolute lunatics.
	And they're running a death cult operation that will destroy Western civilization if they allow this escalation to take place.
	So right now, the U.S. should tell Israel, that's it.
	The U.S. should be the mom and dad of Israel right now.
	And should say, okay, Netanyahu, that's it.
	Time out.
	Go to your room.
	You've done enough.
	Stop punching little Susie in the eye.
	Stop kicking little Johnny in the balls.
	You've done too much damage.
	Go to your room.
	That's what Netanyahu needs to be told right now.
	But instead, the U.S. is run by incompetent, lunatic, just illiterate, historically illiterate morons who have no qualifications to run any government at all.
	So they don't know what they're doing and they're going to get the U.S. involved in World War III and the U.S. is going to lose World War III.
	Iran has nuclear weapons, by the way.
	Steve Quayle confirmed that in a recent interview.
	Russia has nuclear weapons.
	China has nuclear weapons.
	Turkey can access nuclear weapons.
	Palestine has nuclear weapons, by the way.
	Of course, North Korea has nuclear weapons.
	Russia has orbital EMP platform weapons already in space.
	That's already been confirmed.
	And, you know, China has missile delivery systems and all kinds of things.
	So, this doesn't look good, folks.
	And Israel is dragging us into this.
	Israel is America's most dangerous enemy.
	We've got to cut Israel loose here and say no more.
	No more support for you.
	No more weapons for you.
	No more covering for all your violence by passing censorship laws in the U.S. Governor Noem of South Dakota, freaking lunatic.
	Say, oh, you can't criticize Israel or that's anti-Semitic hate speech.
	That's going to be a crime.
	Even Governor Abbott of Texas signed some kind of anti-Semitic hate speech law.
	You've got to cut that crap out.
	It's not hate speech to point out that Israel is run by a freaking death wish satanic lunatic who's trying to drag us all into a losing world war, by the way.
	That's not anti-Semitic.
	That's just telling the truth.
	So you got to cut ties with Israel or Israel's going to drag you down, just like your most dangerous teenage friend who said, hey, let's go play on the lake ice.
	Surely it's thick enough.
	And then, you know, you and your friend fall through the ice and you die from hypothermia.
	Yeah, that's the kind of friend that Israel is.
	Cut them loose.
	Alright, one more thing to mention here, shifting gears, and we're going to go to the interview.
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	I don't know what's going to happen during the solar eclipse.
	I kind of think some of these counties must be losing their minds.
	Because it doesn't seem like the moon's shadow should cause all these problems.
	But maybe they know something that we don't know.
	Maybe there's something bigger coming and they're not telling us about it, but they are saying that everybody should have extra food and water and emergency supplies.
	And they're saying the hospitals might be full and emergency services won't be able to respond and the cell towers won't work.
	I mean, my goodness!
	I jokingly said today that I think we should rename the illegal migrant invasion to be a quote solar eclipse so that more counties will declare emergency over the illegal immigration.
	Let's just call it a solar eclipse because apparently that's a bigger emergency than our country being invaded.
	But I guess we'll see what happens.
	I pray nothing crazy happens.
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	Alright, now, let's get into the interview today.
	I think you will really enjoy this.
	Again, it's Adam Curry with podcastindex.org.
	And Adam Curry is an advocate of free speech and decentralization, and he's got a lot to say.
	We had a great time interviewing him for Decentralized TV. And remember that you can check out all the other episodes of DTV at decentralized.tv.
	Just go to that website, decentralized.tv, and you'll see all the other episodes.
	Enjoy them.
	Thanks for listening.
	Thank you.
	Alright, welcome to today's episode of Decentralized TV here on Brighteon.com, our free speech platform.
	Thank you for joining us today.
	And you're going to love this show.
	We've got a great guest.
	And also, before that, let's bring in Todd Pitner, my co-host.
	Welcome, Todd.
	Great to see you today.
	Hola!
	Really, really looking forward to today's show.
	I think it will go down as my favorite of all time.
	Just saying.
	You have done more show prep for this guest, I think, than ever before.
	I mean, you're almost antsy about this.
	Well, it's just because I've been listening to Adam for so long and have been enjoying his content.
	He's amazing.
	I love he and John.
	Well, now you've given it away.
	Our guest today is Adam Curry, and I think I'm going to be an instant fan and listener of his shows.
	He has the No Agenda podcast, which is at noagendashow.net.
	And in addition, he is the creator of what's called podcastindex.org.
	We'll talk about both of those projects, but welcome to the show today, Adam.
	It's great to have you on.
	Oh, man, the bar has been set so high.
	I'm very worried about Todd's expectations now.
	I don't know if I can live up to it.
	Well, hey, now do you two know each other before this?
	No, I've just been a fan.
	Are you kidding?
	Didn't we meet in jail?
	I thought there was some moment there.
	It was the post office when we both had to do the side profile shot.
	Oh, that's what it was, yes.
	We're all family.
	We're all family.
	Well, now, Adam, I have to admit, I don't know nearly as much about what you do as Todd does, so he's going to be asking more questions, but I can ask the first one, which is give us a little introduction for our audience and why you believe in decentralization or democratization of knowledge and power, let's say, to the people and what you do that coincides with that.
	Well, the easy start to that is my background, which is mainstream television and radio.
	Started my career in the Netherlands, where I grew up, although I'm American.
	We moved there when I was seven.
	Worked in pirate radio for a while.
	Built my own transmitters, which was incredibly fun and educational.
	Went from there to actually enter the Dutch broadcast system, which at the time was completely government controlled.
	That system still exists.
	It's very similar to national broadcasting systems like you see in Canada or in the UK or even Australia.
	Since then, they have gotten commercial broadcasters.
	But having lived, A, in a socialist country, B, under that type of broadcast regime, and then starting a career in the US where I was at MTV for seven and a half years.
	And I know intimately how mainstream works, how it functions, how everything is really intended to sell you something.
	That's really the bottom line.
	But also radio.
	I had a syndicated radio show.
	I worked a lot at Z100 in New York.
	And it was, I think, around 93, 94, I saw the internet.
	Well, I actually was on the internet since 87, but saw the capabilities of Potentially broadcasting over.
	I wasn't quite sure how that was going to happen.
	And left MTV to start my own company.
	That became a company that built big corporate websites.
	So we built all the websites for Anheuser-Busch, for Continental Airlines, for Reebok.
	A lot of marketing, but a lot of content creation.
	And very slowly, as broadcast-like capability came available, I was more and more interested in that.
	Really, it started in 2000, but in 2003, I was working with a guy named Dave Weiner who was building weblogs.
	He invented the weblog and created this protocol, this format really called RSS. And I convinced him to add a piece to it that would make...
	It's kind of like sending an attachment to an email document.
	And that's what we now know as the enclosure in podcasting.
	We had that system running between the two of us and on his software for a couple of years until I saw my first iPod.
	And so this is 2003 and I immediately went radio receiver.
	I saw it exactly for what it was and then started recording.
	Really, I mean, I had this little script that I used, an Apple script, and so you could receive my program.
	We didn't have a name for it.
	We didn't have the podcasting moniker for it, but it was a program that I could put out there in a Blog posts, but the iPod would see that as a radio show.
	It would see there was something new.
	It would download it.
	Back in the day, your iPod had to sync to your computer.
	So, you know, your computer really downloaded it and then synced it to the iPod in the morning.
	Your new show was there.
	And I needed developers to come in and start making applications.
	We didn't have, you know, we didn't have smartphones or anything at the time.
	So we had computers and we had applications, programs.
	And so I started with the first, arguably first podcast called The Daily Source Code, which was really about these developers and what they were doing.
	And we were kind of learning as we were going along, you know, what is it like when you first subscribe to a podcast feed?
	Even the concept of subscribing, all these things were kind of developed amongst this group.
	And that went really fast.
	The first people to show up who really understood what was happening here were what I affectionately call the Godcasters.
	These are guys like, hey, wait a minute.
	I'm paying for airtime on local public access or whatever, radio airtime.
	Now I can have a program that will come to people as they subscribe to it when it's ready.
	So they showed up.
	A lot of public broadcasters, NPR, BBC, and that kind of snowball went really, really fast.
	In 2006, I got a call from Steve Jobs and he wanted to talk.
	And so I checked my calendar and made sure I had some time for Steve there.
	I've spoken with a lot of people, interviewed a lot of interesting people.
	he was one by far one of the most up there with Quincy Jones, uh, interesting people.
	Um, and, and we, we spoke for about an hour and, you know, he said, Adam, I, uh, I would like to build radio receivers for you.
	Um, are you okay if I put this into iTunes and on the iPod?
	And I went, uh, yeah, pretty cool.
	Uh, and he also built, you know, I would say like the radio dial, which was iTunes, um, which is where you could find stuff, um, as, uh, At that point, there were probably 5,000 or 6,000 different podcasts, and we had a directory, and we gave that to Apple.
	They used that to kind of seed their own directory.
	And when they launched...
	He actually played a piece of my Daily Source Code when he launched that.
	Great show, man.
	He knew exactly what he was doing.
	The whole thing was just brilliantly done.
	I was very impressed with how he launched all that.
	And if you actually see that video, it's funny because it was on stage with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg.
	The Wall Street Journal.
	And so he plays a bit of my podcast and I say something about the Mac and I use an expletive and it's funny and it's kind of anti-Apple and Steve is laughing.
	And the first thing Kara Swisher said was, right, we have to have a way to filter that out, right?
	We can't, you know, right off the bat, we can't have bad words.
	So that was kind of like a...
	Things to come was already obvious at the introduction.
	Wow.
	So that's always been on my mind.
	I started the podcast with John C. Dvorak, The No Agenda Show.
	We just celebrated 16 years together, which is the longest gig I've ever had.
	It's probably the same for him.
	And we deconstruct media.
	We're both from media.
	So the biggest amplifier, the biggest bullcrap machine in the world is the media.
	So it's a lot of fun.
	We probably play between 40 and 50 little clips.
	Wow.
	We can tell you what's going on.
	We understand where it's coming from.
	We have built up a large audience, which we call producers, and there's a reason for that because we've never taken advertising or corporate money.
	We've always worked on what we coined the value for value model, and that's very simple.
	It's like we give you the show for free.
	There's no...
	No paywalls.
	There's no gatekeepers.
	There's no subscriptions.
	If you find any value in this work that we do, which is about three hours twice a week, then send us whatever it's worth to you.
	And you can do that with time, talent, or treasure.
	And so the producers, literally, we've never built a website.
	They build the websites.
	We've never, the hosting, I mean, we do pay for bandwidth and stuff, but all the hosting is managed by other producers.
	People create meetups.
	They host multiple times a week all around the world.
	It's really quite an interesting group.
	And they help each other and everything.
	They help for the show.
	And even giving us some information you have.
	We call it boots on the ground.
	Everybody is an expert in something.
	So if it's aviation related, military related, pharmaceutical related, politically, everybody is somewhere where they have some insight that goes beyond what you might get from the mainstream.
	So we use that.
	And it was a very interesting experiment.
	And that kind of folds into what we started three years ago.
	We started initially saying, this is a lot of work, so you guys got to pay us.
	And I think we did start with a $5 a month subscription with predictable results.
	It was not going to pay for anything, for any real work that we were doing because we had other things to do.
	And we just said, you know what, why don't you just send us whatever this show is worth to you?
	And the very next show, it was amazing.
	We had a lot of $5, but we had a significant amount of $50, some $500, and one $5,000 donation.
	And we never looked back.
	We said, well, this is, we clearly have no idea.
	What people value or how much money they have.
	And it doesn't matter whether you send $1 or $1,000.
	It's the same.
	If that's what it's worth to you, then that's what it's worth to you.
	So you didn't have to corral your audience through a bunch of metadata scraping systems to sell the data to third-party marketers to push whatever keyword, linguistic, statistically, analysis fits.
	It was never a consideration.
	And also we knew that advertising would never work.
	We understand how advertising works.
	We understand, you know, the biggest advertiser on television for sure is pharmaceutical.
	So we can never do a pharmaceutical story.
	We can never talk about that.
	We can never talk about, you know, a multitude of things.
	So that would just not work.
	And I love the whole podcast.
	It's always only been audio.
	We've never done video because, well, first of all, It's too much work.
	It is.
	It is work to do video.
	We never do advertising.
	We don't want to have meetings with advertisers.
	We're too old for that.
	We're not interested.
	But it's very satisfying because your audience keeps you on your toes.
	And they really keep you going.
	And our pitch is very simple.
	You may have a store in town.
	You know, oh, there's a cheese shop.
	You think every single time, I should go to the cheese shop.
	You know, go to the cheese shop, and one day the cheese shop is gone.
	So, you know, we're still here after 16 years.
	That's awesome.
	So this cheese shop is a little old and stinky, but I think we're still good for a little while longer.
	And it has really become much more of a lifestyle for us, but also for the people who are producers of the show.
	The whole concept of value for value is really an exciting way of looking at the world and looking at Peer-to-peer commerce.
	I love that phrase, yeah.
	Actually, there's a website, value4value.info.
	We just do on our show and everything's kind of humming along.
	And a couple of interesting things happen.
	One, I was invited on the Joe Rogan show.
	It was like getting a recertification because at this point, no one knew Adam Curry from MTV. People were born after I was long off the air.
	The origin of podcasting, most people might think, oh, that was a serial or whatever.
	It didn't go back 20 years.
	And so Joe very kindly recertified me, but also he announced that he was going to Spotify, which meant that he was about to disappear from all the podcast apps that are out there simultaneously.
	Now, in the meantime, you know, Steve has passed.
	Apple had been a pretty good steward of podcasting, and they've kind of become the default on-ramp.
	Because all of the podcast apps that are independently produced, most of them are free, maybe you can get some premium features for a couple dollars a month, but they were all operating off of the index that Apple had created because if you want to be anywhere in the apps, you have to be on Apple, which was fine until it wasn't because they then colluded with Facebook and I think Twitter at the time and possibly Google.
	It was truly an overnight Silicon Valley move and they all decided Alex Jones had to go.
	Now, I don't care what you think of Alex Jones, and it wasn't just him.
	It was probably about nine other podcasts, X22 Report.
	I mean, not really horrible stuff, just, you know, oh, conspiracy theories, whatever.
	You know, it doesn't matter.
	I believe in free speech, you know, freedom of speech.
	We're in the United States.
	You know, I believe in the First and certainly the Second Amendment, living in Texas.
	I understand that much better than I ever did.
	And so I was just like, this is bullcrap because immediately those podcasts all disappeared from all the apps because it was no longer in Apple's index.
	Right.
	Apple gave us a bunch of grief too, of course.
	I'm sure.
	My content and this platform and everything.
	And we had to threaten to sue Apple.
	For them to turn our app back on, by the way.
	So that was $50,000.
	Not everybody has that kind of money.
	Exactly, exactly.
	If you don't have money to threaten these big corporations, they ignore you, and that's not the way it should be, and that's why what you're doing is so important.
	But Adam, please finish what you were saying there.
	We've got to let Todd speak.
	He's about to blow...
	His head's about to explode because he's got so much to say to you.
	Three more minutes and I'll finish it.
	I was just going to say, hey, man, he's answering all my questions, so just keep rolling.
	That's great.
	It's efficient this way.
	It is.
	So I saw this happen and we were just doing our podcast and I hadn't really paid much attention to...
	And podcasting, the good part about podcasting...
	The creation side is completely decentralized.
	There's thousands of podcast hosts.
	You can set up your own little server anywhere, put an RSS feed on it, throw your MP3s on it, and you're good to go.
	But because of the sheer number of podcasts, it's no longer efficient for that to run on your phone in a single app so you can easily find what you're looking for and make sure that you're always notified when there's a new episode available.
	So that's why you had a big index Like Apple, that everybody was basically just leeching off of for free.
	And although they still allow that, when they remove something, it's removed from every other app.
	So I called up my buddy Dave Jones, and he's a sysadmin at a company in Alabama.
	We've been friends for 12 years, 10 years at this point.
	And we've started many little fun projects together, mainly software stuff that we wind up using ourselves and no one else is interested.
	I said, Dave...
	We've got to build our own index, and we've got to make it free and open for developers, and we've got to put some other things in there because we just can't have Apple capturing podcasting and determining what people can see.
	And Dave, in typical Dave fashion, went, yeah, okay, that's good.
	And so we started filling up this index with every single podcast known to man, but we added something else.
	We added an extensibility to RSS called a namespace, which you can forget right away, but it means you can put in extra features.
	And the one feature we had come up with was based on something that was new at the time, which is the Lightning Network.
	And the Lightning Network enables you to basically program money.
	And it's done through Bitcoin.
	Don't be afraid.
	It's not a scary thing.
	And it's really incredibly good at micropayments.
	One of those things that we've been promised from Silicon Valley for 30 years.
	Not only will you be able to send micropayments, which to me is less than a penny, but also your refrigerator will know when you're out of milk and automatically order it and it fills up and I'm still waiting.
	And AI is the greatest thing, but my spam is still in my email.
	But micropayments, it really does this well.
	And so we came up with this.
	We took the value-for-value idea, and we said, well, what if your app was really a wallet, and you could fill it up with dollars or euros or whatever, and that's just converted into lightning-capable payment method.
	And if you are listening to a podcast, and you say, you know, this podcast is worth a dollar an hour to me.
	And the minute you hit play, every 60 seconds, 1 60th of that amount is sent directly from your app, which is a wallet, to the podcaster.
	And then what was added after that was a boost, kind of like, oh, this was a great moment in the show.
	I want to send a dollar or $10 or whatever.
	And then we added the capability to add a message.
	And remember, this is all the payment part that we call that a boostagram.
	And so this immediately, of course, you know, a lot of people are like, oh, this is very interesting.
	A lot of people are very worried.
	Oh, it's crypto and all this stuff.
	But it took off.
	And we added one extra feature, which I think is really the beauty of the whole project.
	We added something called a split.
	You as the podcaster control everything.
	Just like your RSS feed contains your MP3 files and where you download this from, it now has your payment information.
	And you can say, of the 100% of a payment, no matter how big or how small, I have a co-host.
	I have a producer.
	I borrowed some money from my mom to pay for the equipment.
	So we'll do 30, 30, 10, 10, and then mom gets 5%.
	And then we have 5% for the person who promotes us the most.
	And everybody has their own independent wallet.
	So there's no clearinghouse.
	It goes directly.
	In fact, it's multiple payments from the podcast app going to each of these people every minute or when you send a boost to grant.
	Along with that, We also enable the apps to have a percentage and be included in that split.
	Because they've never been in the deal flow.
	If there was a big ad buy and Rogan got that, the apps would never see any of that.
	And so apps are always struggling to be a part of that.
	And so now they can be a part.
	And they say it right up front.
	Our app takes...
	1% of each payment you send before you even send it.
	And this is why.
	And many of them even have, well, if you upgrade to premium, we won't take that percentage.
	But it put everybody into the flow all of a sudden.
	And that really made it exciting for the developers because they came in and now they're a part of it.
	They're a part of The value for value distribution.
	And this is really taken off as, not just as a concept, but as a working model.
	There's now 65 apps and services that use podcast index.
	I think there's 15 apps that all do value for value.
	And what this also unleashed was one other thing, because apparently, well, so you need The hosting side and the app side if you want new features.
	So we put in a shim to make this value for value thing work for everybody with their existing feeds.
	But people just came out of the woodworks for a decade.
	There's all these things they wanted like cloud chapters and location and transcripts.
	There's 26, 27 features that now are being implemented by the podcast hosting companies and the app.
	So we're working completely outside of Apple, Spotify, all these other companies.
	And while we're growing, you're seeing that Spotify who incorrectly thought they could come in and, well, we'll just take over podcasting.
	Yeah, we'll spend a billion dollars.
	We'll buy a bunch of companies.
	And they failed.
	They failed miserably.
	They fired the whole podcast team.
	And now, you know, it's just kind of another throwaway thing they've got going on.
	And, you know, we'll see where they end up.
	But the podcasting, we call it podcasting 2.0, but it's obviously your podcast is compatible, backwards compatible with legacy apps.
	But we're really seeing a lot of people moving towards the modern apps for the value for value feature, but also, you know, other minor things such as When you post in Podcasting 2.0, when you post your episode, the apps are updated 90 seconds later, not an hour or two hours later.
	It doesn't take forever to get to...
	Now, it still takes forever sometimes to get to Apple.
	That's just how Apple operates.
	But if you're using a modern podcast app, then right away, 90 seconds, you're notified.
	We have live podcasts.
	I mean, there's a lot of stuff happening, including now music, which we can get to.
	But maybe I'll just stop for a second.
	This is incredible.
	I know Todd wants to jump in.
	I just got to say, this show has got to be turned into a podcast on your platform.
	Travesty that it isn't.
	No kidding!
	But take it away, Todd.
	Wow.
	I mean, yeah, this is amazing.
	I guess the only thing I'm left to say is I can wish you, Adam, a happy belated decolonization day or something.
	I did want to open, you know, just talking about myself.
	You know, humble brag, Adam.
	I graduated with a PhD from SUU, which is Suck Up University.
	And I would like to now leverage my advanced education and ultra-impressive suck-up skills to just say, man, you have beautiful teeth.
	You know that these are new, right?
	Yes!
	I listen to your show!
	That's what I love, how you and John play back and forth with each other.
	It's just such a nice dance, and you're self-effacing, and it's just beautiful to witness.
	But thank you for...
	All that you shared.
	I mean, you literally did cover a lot of what I wanted to ask.
	I do know that you 100% believe that centralized platforms are going away.
	And Mike and I believe that.
	Yay!
	Yay!
	I believe that to be the case, too.
	So I was thinking, I was wanting to advance a movement, see what you think, you know, due to the absolute need to exit centralization.
	How about advancing sexit?
	C, with a C, not an S. You know, centralization exit.
	I don't know.
	I think that there might be a worthy tattoo in there somewhere.
	What do you think, Ed?
	Well, so when it comes to centralization, I think it's not going away, but it's going to be completely homogenized for your safety.
	And this is very – well, there's a couple of things happening.
	And thank God for the Constitution of the United States of America because – Free speech, the freedom to say anything you want, and there is a legal limit, you know, the incitement limitations in the United States, but the freedom to say what you think, what you feel, be insulting, be racist, whatever you want, is quickly evaporating from the Western world.
	The European Union is...
	And the United Nations, very active with their Article 19, which is, you should be able to say whatever you want, but...
	As long as it's legal, we can put some restrictions in there.
	The UK is already there.
	You can't hurt someone's feelings.
	You can't insult someone for their gender or sexuality or whatever.
	You just can't insult anybody.
	I'm not saying that it's a good thing, but we have to have the freedom to do that and freedom to be insulted right back.
	Right.
	Ireland, this is now happening there.
	And this was already signaled a couple of years ago in their Senate or their Parliament that this would happen.
	And, you know, with this recent incident that took place with the stabbing and, of course, that being blamed on certain groups.
	So it's being ushered in there.
	And it's obviously going to happen here.
	Although I'm not a fan, thank God for Elon Musk for standing up for something and But Twitter, Facebook, all these centralized platforms are going to be ruined because it will be mandatory for you to register as a known person, probably with some form of government ID.
	You see Facebook or Meta Platforms is under attack for this with their damaging teens under 13 with knowledge that they were doing this.
	And it's no secret that social media is addictive and damaging.
	It's been engineered this way.
	I don't even care.
	I'm kind of happy that some of that just goes away or can't hack it.
	But I think the bottom line is you'll have homogenized speech on these platforms.
	And what's necessary is education.
	Because, you know, the two generations, about a generation and a half now think that their iPhone is the internet and that Google is the internet and apps are the internet and they don't understand the basic network.
	And if anything, we need to protect browsers.
	You know, the browser is really the true freedom of the internet because you can...
	You know, kids should be taught how to set up a web server.
	In school, they should teach them how to build Linux on an old laptop.
	I mean, these are essential survival skills for the true future that is coming, which will be somewhat dystopian when it comes to the digital realm.
	I mean, we need to keep educating that, you know, no, that's not the Internet.
	And also...
	It's not important to be number one, have the most.
	It's not.
	I mean, we have so many examples of as long as you have a community that cares about whatever you're doing, that community will support you.
	I mean, the No Agenda show is a perfect example.
	It's not in any top ten list.
	We have maybe a little under a million people who are producers, and they sustain us just fine.
	And so with a hundred people, with a thousand people, whatever you're doing, you can sustain it just fine.
	And there's beautiful overlap between these groups and they find each other and that's the type of networking that's important.
	We're quickly moving away from you have to have the biggest audience, the highest ratings, That's failing.
	That's failing for everybody.
	It's failing for streaming.
	It's failing for broadcast.
	It's failing for network.
	It's failing for cable.
	Yeah, and the highest numbered Podcasts or Instagram influencers or whatever are the junkiest, the worst, the most corporate-funded shills.
	Oh, here's $200,000.
	Push this latest vaccine shot.
	And it's garbage.
	What intelligent person wants to be fed a feed by some big, boobed, Well, sadly, this is one of the top career choices for a new generation.
	What do you want to be when you grow up?
	Influencer.
	Why?
	Money, stuff, fame, all these honestly ungodly stuff.
	We're going in a wrong direction in general with this.
	Adam, a quick question, because I know that in the past I've heard you talk a lot about payment friction, and I believe there was a point in time to where you were even starting to get deplatformed or unbanked to where it was hard for people to be able to send you contributions.
	And perhaps that's why you pivoted towards the Lightning Network and trying to find an alternative solution.
	But it seems the more and more that people like us speak truth to power, the more they are going to try to kneecap us financially.
	So what are your thoughts on your experience of payment friction and the solutions around it?
	How have you muscled through that?
	Well, we've been quite fortunate.
	We really only have one mainstream system that has worked well for us, and that's PayPal.
	And in fact, we lost a lot of people during the PayPal-pocalypse, if you recall.
	And I can't fault people for that.
	But there's no doubt that as a backup solution for ourselves, I wanted to have this in place.
	So that, you know, and it's all getting more complicated, but ultimately people will find a way and, you know, you If we have to default to Bitcoin only through the Lightning Network, then that's what it'll be.
	Sorry to interrupt you, but speaking of that, Mike and I, we are raving fans of private crypto.
	Bitcoin, as you know, is a surveillance coin.
	So when you think back to the donations to the truckers and how ultimately Some folks lost their banking privileges because they supported these truckers with some PTC. What are your thoughts of privacy crypto in your model, or is that just an added layer of complication that you don't think is necessary?
	Okay, so I'm a Bitcoin maxi.
	I believe in Bitcoin.
	For me, the privacy aspect is a separate issue.
	So that depends on where you get your Bitcoin from.
	But in order for Bitcoin to be successful, it has to be completely transparent.
	There's many ways you can obfuscate your ownership, etc., So I'm not so worried about, you know, once you have Bitcoin, there's no one stopping me or anyone from sending it to somebody else.
	Now what you're sending it for, yeah, that can be monitored.
	So there's definitely other blockchains.
	Monero comes to mind, which I think would, if you really are that security conscious, and there's lots of reasons to be security conscious, then that will, I mean, it's an open standard.
	So that can be implemented at any time.
	Certainly within our system, if anyone wants to do that with Monero, not only are they welcome to, the code is open and we'll be happy to help them.
	No one has stepped up so far.
	The bottom, I mean, I think Bitcoin is going to be very mainstream soon.
	Again, if it's really about the privacy of it, I mean, it'd be easier to walk dollar bills to somebody.
	That's going to be your true private measure.
	You and John have done an amazing job of being able to play footsie with topics that might get most people banned or deplatformed.
	But you never quite go there.
	And it's like...
	It's an art form.
	And I really respect that about your approach.
	But there are others that, like, Mike, the way that you cover things, I don't think that there's ever going to be a welcome mat at any of these mainstream platforms.
	Would you agree or no?
	I mean, I've been blacklisted everywhere for speaking.
	So yeah, I don't try to cater to being accepted by mainstream platforms.
	What I love about what Adam is saying here is that we the people are building alternative economies or parallel economies.
	We're building parallel comm systems, parallel podcasting index like Adam has built, Adam and Dvorak.
	I mean, I think this is the future.
	Yeah, there's going to be this centrally controlled, homogenized, as you said, Adam, mainstream tech platforms that are just going to be low IQ, dumbed down consumerism, selling freaking energy drinks to morons.
	I mean, that's what that's going to be.
	And then if you want to actually know how the world works, if you want to be inquisitive, if you want to understand real history, A sustainability of human civilization philosophy.
	Then you're going to go to this alternative parallel system, which is what Adam is building and what we are building and advocating, and that's it.
	You're going to have the dumbed-down, mainstream, soda-drinking, cheese-pop-tart-eating fools, and then the rest of us are going to be actually doing something for human society.
	That's the way I see it.
	Let me address that, Todd, because I think that we are – I don't know if we tiptoe around anything.
	We were the first to call out all kinds of bull crap on many – extremely counter to the narrative.
	But it's uninteresting to – first of all, what are you going to deplatform us from?
	We're not on YouTube.
	We're not on Twitter.
	We're nowhere.
	Good point.
	There's nothing to deplatform.
	And this is where my pirate radio background comes in.
	As a pirate, you know, we were playing songs that were not, I mean, the Netherlands had a top 40, a popular music station which played polka music in the early 80s.
	And, you know, we had, in the 70s, we had pirate radio stations in the North Sea.
	That's where we, of course, learned from.
	And so even though our audience was relatively small, it was maybe a couple hundred thousand people in Amsterdam only, you know, it was sustainable.
	Now, once in a while, the FCC would come by and say, hey, you know, you're busted, and they'd They'd take all our gear and then the audience would have gear back to us within 12 hours.
	We're back on the air.
	But there was no reason for them to bust us because we weren't really, in their old thinking, we weren't really competing on a national level with them.
	We were competing within, I mean, yeah, because it was broadcast radio, it's a geography, a geographic community.
	But what we're talking about here is communities of interest.
	If you want to find out something about – look, if you're into conspiracy theories, you want to talk about 9-11, JFK, moon landing, you can find your podcast for that and to your heart's desire.
	The main reason why people get deplatformed is for – I would say it doesn't – it counters the narrative, which is political.
	So as an example.
	Right now, in mainstream, you have to choose a side.
	You're either for free Palestine or the Jews can't be attacked.
	I'm just going to put it like that.
	And if you go against that narrative, you're deplatformed and you'll get kicked off of any of these platforms.
	But it really is.
	It's political.
	If you look at the protests, these are protests, the professionally printed signs, every single one of them, and it's the World Workers Party, the Socialist Party, in the UK it's Labor Party, and they're all calling for...
	De-platforming politicians.
	This is not about humans.
	It's a farce.
	People who are protesting don't actually care about the death.
	It's just a handy tool to say, ho-ho, genocide Joe, you gotta go.
	I mean, it's hilarious because it's the same people the Democrat Party activated for BLM to not to help black people but to make Donald Trump look bad.
	Let's be honest about it.
	Yeah.
	It's all political.
	These things are coming from, and it's broken.
	Their communications, their signaling system is breaking and crumbling right before their eyes because people are starting to figure out, we don't need this.
	We don't need to be on your big platforms.
	We're happy over here.
	We'll have a little discussion, our communications over here.
	We'll sustain that ourselves.
	And, you know, groups like Media Matters and Sleeping Giants and all these also politically motivated groups and funded.
	I mean, Media Matters has $20 million coming in per year.
	You know, their whole point is, hey, you're against the narrative of the of the political party that, you know, that is either in power or that I'm being paid by.
	It doesn't matter which one it is.
	I don't like what you're saying.
	So I'm going to find a way to get rid of your advertisers.
	Yep, that's exactly what they did.
	When advertisers are gone, this is what they're doing to Elon Musk.
	Now, they're mistaken because Elon Musk doesn't care.
	He's building a bank.
	He doesn't care about a social network.
	He just wants to stay in the news.
	He wants you to be on his platform.
	And I guarantee you, he does not care about ads.
	Hey, Adam, one quick question.
	So, Wag the dog, right?
	We've all seen that movie.
	Shouldn't by now, and I know this is your space, you know, assessing mainstream media, deconstructing it.
	By now, shouldn't we literally be auto-hoaxing everything that comes from mainstream news, Adam?
	What do you mean by auto-hoaxing?
	Almost like, if I want to know the truth, let me turn on mainstream news and see what they're pushing, and I'm going to go opposite day.
	I mean, this has always been my mantra.
	The minute, I mean, with everything, really, it's like if the government says, go right, look to the left, that's probably the right direction.
	It's crazy to think that way.
	And it's such a beautiful thing to see people awaken when they discover it.
	And I think for us, although we've been doing this for quite a while, and back in In 2012, we already knew that vaccines were the big moneymaker.
	There was this huge medical conference, I think, hosted by Goldman or one of the big bankers.
	They were already talking about how vaccines are great because you're giving medication to people who aren't sick yet.
	It was foolish.
	They were already talking about, oh, it'll be a vaccine against cocaine addiction, which has nothing to do with vaccine, but injectables, really.
	And they got their indemnity, so you can't sue them as long as you call it a biologic.
	So we knew all this.
	So when this came down, it took us about 10 days to Uh, into this and we're like, okay, no, no, this is, this, this is just a hard no.
	And, and no, and we're not going to do it.
	We're not going to, you know, participate in this way.
	And we went very hard against it.
	And certainly we're anti COVID vaccine.
	I won't say we're anti-vaxxers, but that's what, that's the label you might get.
	Um, and, and so in that period, we have people to this day, and I'm sure you have it as well.
	I think anyone who was doing independent I'll call it reporting, media, whatever you want.
	During COVID, you have received emails from people saying, thank you.
	Thank you because I didn't feel alone.
	I wasn't crazy all by myself.
	And you might have saved my life.
	And you've received those.
	I know you've received those because everyone I talk to receives it.
	And that to me is of immeasurable value.
	And that's why we're doing this stuff.
	I love you doing that.
	Pardon me for jumping in here, Todd.
	Adam, as I understand it, you now live near Austin, Texas.
	Is that right?
	I live in Fredericksburg in the Hill Country.
	I lived in Austin for 12 years.
	Had to leave to reenter the state of Texas.
	I completely understand.
	Okay, so this is amazing because I'm filming in our studio today, which is not that far from the Austin airport.
	Okay, sure.
	So we're kind of neighbors.
	I mean, Fredericksburg.
	I'm waving.
	I'm waving to you right now.
	Oh, I see.
	And then your partner, John Dvorak.
	Now, Dvorak was, I mean, this guy in the PC Magazine days, he was the legend.
	I mean, I would devour his columns because I was one of the, I was like the first kid on the block to ever have, you know, a PC, right?
	The original IBM PC, like 4.66 megahertz CPU, you know what I'm saying?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And Dvorak was like a god to all of us, you know?
	And he knew so much at that time, and he's done so much since then.
	I just got to say, I mean, you and he together, no wonder people love your podcast.
	Well, that's very kind of you to say, and I should explain.
	Yes, so John...
	He's a very famous columnist.
	And you're right.
	People would buy PC Magazine just to go to the back page.
	And if anyone was contrarian, it was him.
	He'd be like, these Macs, they suck.
	They're no good.
	I mean, he would go against everything that was popular.
	He would have a contrarian view.
	So much so that he has, you know, people would call him a curmudgeon.
	But he also has a lot more.
	I mean, he did a lot of television shows or certainly video shows.
	He goes back to tech TV.
	He did radio.
	He's published multiple books.
	I mean, and he had a little publishing empire going on there for a while.
	And we met each other, and we met each other remote.
	He lives in San Francisco, not far from Berkeley.
	So he's kind of in the thick of an interesting area.
	No kidding.
	But he likes being in the milieu still of Silicon Valley.
	But he, I mean, our first meeting was like, hey, Curry, what's your deal?
	People say you're rich.
	I think people also think you're a dick.
	I'm like, what?
	And I said, we should have lunch.
	So we had lunch and we hit it off right away.
	But we never speak outside of our show.
	We don't communicate.
	I mean, yeah, maybe some very simple stuff like, you know, here's something for the newsletter or here's minor stuff.
	But we both show up to the show.
	He's remote.
	He's in San Francisco.
	I'm in Texas or wherever I am.
	I can also do a traveling show.
	And I'll have his clips.
	I have my clips.
	He has no idea what I have.
	I don't look or listen at what he has.
	And we just start.
	And it's become a performance because we're very keyed into each other.
	And sometimes we get into tiffs and strong disagreements.
	There's never been a rage quit, but sometimes it can get a little heated.
	I mean, we're not really even friends, but we...
	And he said the same thing.
	You know, we love working together.
	That's awesome.
	And it's challenging and it's fun.
	And as long as we're both breathing and of sound mind, we'll keep doing it.
	We really, really love doing it.
	And I love him as a...
	As a partner, because he will push back on anything he even slightly disagrees with, but he also has a wealth.
	I mean, he's worked for as a government air quality inspector.
	He's done so many interesting things in his life.
	And still, after 16 years, sometimes he hits me with a story like, oh, man, I have not heard this story before.
	He just has an incredible life experience.
	He's a little bit older than I am, so he's just been around longer.
	I'm the Gen Xer.
	He's the boomer.
	So it fits really well.
	Hey, Adam.
	After all these years of podcasting, indeed, you are the podfather.
	Can you please suggest a setup where someone interested in podcasting can successfully do so, from microphones to headphones, or just tell us about your podfather gear and where people could find it and consider it?
	Sure.
	And I've actually, up until about a year and a half ago, I spent most of my time trying to figure out, most of my free time, how can I create the ultimate podcast setup that is on the computer?
	You should be able to just do this on a computer.
	You shouldn't have to have racks.
	Because I come from studios.
	I've built studios.
	You've got racks of gear and you've got processing and stuff.
	And it never really worked on computers because, you know, you need to be able to hear in real time what the processing sounds like.
	And I've even tried to build something myself, crowdfunded it.
	It was very expensive, was not easy to pull off.
	And then Rode came out.
	They came out with a couple of products.
	The first one was the Rodecaster Pro, which I didn't like.
	I didn't get that.
	But the Rodecaster Pro 2 had everything.
	And I have designed this.
	That's what I would build.
	They nailed it.
	Then they came out with a Rodecaster Duo, which is the exact same guts inside, just smaller, and you have two mics instead of four.
	And I'm very impressed by, if you're just getting started with podcasting, get one of their pod mics.
	It's a USB. And it comes with software that has all the same software that these mixers have.
	So you can create, you know, the same sound basically that I do.
	And for a podcast host, you can go to podcastapps.com.
	That's forwards to our podcast index page.
	And you can filter by podcast hosts and by podcast.
	It's interesting because we have two kind of podcasting 2.0 native hosts that have just started up in the last couple of months, podhome.fm and rssblue.com.
	So seriously, if you're really motivated, get one of those pod mics and the software is free that comes with it.
	Get one of those two hosting companies and you'll be up there.
	Is there a website that people could go to that kind of walks them through that?
	I thought when I was doing my research that you have a webpage somewhere to where you're even given your how to dial it in for value consideration.
	So I have the...
	Yes, that's podfathergear.com, but it's not updated.
	So it doesn't have all...
	Thank you.
	I shall update this right after we're done, so you can go there and I'll fix that.
	Awesome.
	But really, the Rode PodMic, once you have that, and there's a lot of tutorials on YouTube and lots of places you can find setups for that, and then just get one of those modern...
	Podcast host.
	There you go.
	See, this is my older gear.
	I'm going to change this right away.
	I feel...
	We're shaming you into progress now.
	And then the only other thing I will...
	Because everyone says, what are the rules for a great podcast?
	And I say, stop talking when it's not interesting or when you're being...
	Just end.
	So end it.
	There's no...
	We know from experience that there's no perfect time length.
	As long as it's interesting.
	And the other one is, if you're on a weekly every two weeks or once a month or every day, it doesn't matter, but let's say weekly, release on the same day and about the same time every single week.
	Because people adapt their lives to your podcast.
	Right.
	And even if they listen to it three days later, it can screw up their podcast.
	They're their entire schedule.
	And if it's not there or if they haven't seen it yet, they might actually start listening to another podcast and you might lose them.
	That's the number one thing you can do.
	Wow.
	Hey, Adam, just my own setup.
	I'm dying to understand.
	So my mic goes into a Tascam.
	You know, it's not one of the big fancy schmancy ones.
	But it gets the...
	Yes.
	Yeah, I'm familiar with it.
	It gets the job done.
	But what would be the equivalent of that with the Podcaster pod or whatever?
	The Roadcaster?
	Yeah, the Roadcaster.
	The Roadcaster Pro 2.
	So the MixCast 4 is not bad, but it's really missing.
	Now, as a reminder...
	I mean, I work with someone remotely, so I have a remote feed coming in.
	Not everybody needs that.
	I very much like the processing that they have.
	So they have a noise gate, limiter, compressor.
	They've got all these different processing bits.
	And that's really the most important thing that I'll put on my Podfather Gear website is the processing setup.
	So anybody can use that.
	I'm perfectly happy with giving that away.
	Yeah.
	And it just gives you a crisp sound that punches through everything.
	It's really, you know, I've learned to mix for earbuds.
	Oh, wow.
	I mean, yes, people listen to it sometimes on speakers in the car, but in general, it's a very personal experience.
	And so your sound has to be a little bit adapted to that.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, I've fine-tuned that over the years, and most people say that, you know, they really enjoy it and that it works well for them.
	So I don't want to be ignorant here, but the Rodecaster Pro 2 would be like my Tascam, right?
	That would be what I would be plugging in my, okay, thank you, and then that would plug into my computer.
	And Todd, I use the Rodecaster Pro.
	Oh, you do?
	Yeah, that's what I use for my daily broadcasts.
	Oh, awesome.
	Okay.
	Yeah, that's very helpful.
	And also it's got the cheesy robot voice thing in it that you can just...
	This is my favorite when you use this one.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	So I found it to be reliable, too.
	Did we just have Anthony Fauci get on the call?
	I take the shot.
	Oh my goodness.
	All right.
	So first of all, I can't believe this has been really fascinating and fun, Adam.
	And I can't believe how the time has flown by here.
	We do need to think about wrapping this up here shortly in the interest of all our time.
	But I want to give you the opportunity, Adam, to just summarize how people can engage with your show, your podcast index, and the apps that are using the protocols that you've described here.
	Action items for us.
	Sure.
	So noagendashow.net gives you a couple of things.
	It shows you the most recent episode.
	It also shows some of the podcasting 2.0 features.
	You can find the transcripts there.
	It also has links to lots of the other podcasts.
	Web sites that are associated with the show.
	That's my main gig, what I do there, and where a lot of love and passion goes in there.
	And this is all based on the podcast index protocols, podcastindex.org.
	Now, what I would recommend is if you're just interested in Some of the apps that are being used that you can download for free and use and get into value for value and see what it's all about and see a lot of these other features, by the way, you know, chapter art that changes.
	You know, transcripts, searchable transcripts.
	It's really incredible when you have a podcast that has transcripts which are searchable and all these apps do it.
	You know, sometimes I'm like, what was it?
	Somewhere in the show I was talking about this and then you find it like, oh!
	And when you can search the transcript, it gets really, really easy and efficient to do that.
	So that's podcastapps.com.
	And that'll take you in and it'll show you all the apps, but you can then also filter it to learn for other services that are using this.
	And that really gives a good overview.
	And then just for an understanding of value for value, which...
	It doesn't require Bitcoin or anything per se.
	Again, it's more of a concept.
	I call it the new international lifestyle.
	It's value4value.info and it's value4value.info.
	I'm on Mastodon as well.
	If anyone wants to follow me, Adam at noagendasocial.com.
	I still have a Twitter account, but I wouldn't rely on it.
	Okay, excellent.
	All right.
	Yeah, a number of great websites.
	Now, for someone who has a podcast, what's the easiest way for them to begin to use your ecosystem?
	Oh, that's a good question.
	They may already have some of that built into their podcast host, so that would kind of depend on that.
	You can even, on that podcastapps.com website, you can see all the different features that it has.
	If you'd like to just get started with Value for Value, there's two ways you can do it.
	You can go to podcasterwallet.com or you can use, and this is actually a cool app, Fountain.fm, but it's in all the app stores.
	If you get the Fountain app, not only can you set up your podcast to enable it for value for value, but you also can just listen to other podcasts and it will actually help you earn little bits of Bitcoin for every single minute that you listen.
	And they did that really to onboard people.
	So then you can get a feel for it.
	And you can listen to any legacy podcast.
	It doesn't matter.
	It doesn't have to be 2.0.
	And you'll be racking up Satoshi's, which is little pieces of Bitcoin.
	And then you can send those to another podcast.
	You can test it with your own podcast.
	It's a great mechanism to onboard and also helps new listeners who may be a little bit apprehensive to get over that first hurdle.
	And with all the apps, filling up that wallet is very simple.
	You can do it in-app with a credit card or a bank card.
	But if someone just wants to get the feel for it, the fountain app is pretty.
	And I should just make clear, no one's got any intellectual property.
	There's no copyrights, nothing.
	Dave, Jones, and I, we're doing this because we want our kids to have something to work with so it's not like this is a money-making venture for us.
	We're just doing it because it's our duty as Americans and as free speech advocates.
	Yeah.
	Amen to that.
	Absolutely.
	And one last technical question.
	When you say podcasts 2.0, is that the label that's designating the innovations that you have described and taken part in here?
	Or what does that term exactly mean?
	Yeah, we just started calling it 2.0 because we've upgraded podcasting.
	Everything is backwards and forwards compatible, but it just became a moniker, podcasting 2.0.
	Oh, we've upgraded podcasting.
	It's still podcasting.
	We've just added all these features, and to take advantage of those features, you need newer apps, Again, there's about 15 of them.
	And if you're a podcast producer or creator, then you need to either take advantage of those.
	Most of the big podcasting hosting companies have at least some of the features already implemented.
	If not, their customer service will be happy to help you.
	And again, you can find all those features.
	Or you may have to move to a different host.
	But there's so many options now.
	Really, it's at the point where we're growing...
	Probably twice as fast as the legacy apps are shrinking.
	That's really what's happening.
	Particularly, you know, Apple and Spotify.
	I mean, they're trying to implement some of these features.
	They're trying to replicate some things that we're doing already.
	But we've got hundreds of thousands of podcasts already using transcripts and chapters.
	And there's about 20,000 podcasts that are actively using the Value for Value system.
	That's amazing.
	That's going pretty fast.
	And there's some real money flowing around the network.
	What about which, for our audience that want to do their own podcasting, and they're definitely uncensored people, so which podcast platform is going to be the most tolerant of real free speech?
	All of them.
	All of them are going to be tolerant of free speech.
	Not a single one is going to block you unless it's illegal.
	You're doing something blatantly illegal.
	There's not a single one that I know of that has ever kicked off any podcast for any reason like that.
	We can test that theory.
	I'm sure Todd and I will put something together and see where we can get kicked off of.
	Well, it won't be from the podcast host.
	I mean, that's never been the problem.
	It's always been, you know, the big aggregators like Apple, Amazon, and Spotify.
	They're the ones that have the most to lose.
	The podcast...
	It's really a beautiful industry.
	It became so distributed by its very nature where, you know, you have these companies.
	One has maybe 2,000 customers.
	One has 20,000.
	There's bigger ones that have 200,000.
	That's pretty distributed, you know.
	So it's from mom and pop to small business.
	And it really depends on the level of service you want, which is I think what it really comes down to.
	I like kind of the newer guys on the block because they're really out there with the newer stuff.
	I mean, now we're even adding music to it, which now finally musicians are getting paid in real time for those who own their own work.
	And so they're helping musicians.
	I mean, look, an album is basically a podcast with tracks.
	I mean, it's the same thing.
	You've got a podcast with episodes or an album with tracks.
	And you add payment information in there, which includes the traditional things like composer, writer.
	You can put who played on the record.
	And you can put those splits in there.
	It's transparent.
	Everybody sees what percentage is getting paid.
	Everybody gets the full amount payment information.
	So it's completely transparent.
	But what's great is it's immediate.
	There's no waiting 48 months for ASCAP BMI or waiting forever and getting nothing from Spotify.
	I mean, there's a revolution taking place here, which is – It's really quite exciting.
	Wow.
	Adam, is there a national convention of podcasters?
	It's like your go-to to where people are like, if you're going to go to one thing and for those who are interested, go here.
	Well, that's interesting because I lovingly call that the podcast industrial complex.
	And you want to stay as far away from that as possible.
	I mean, it's like the podcast conferences.
	I went to one two years ago.
	I was disappointed as usual.
	It's just a lot of big companies trying to dominate the space.
	It's not that there's bad people trying to run this, but...
	It's not really what I would advise anyone to become a part of.
	It's almost like YouTube.
	YouTube is like, oh, it's great.
	I can make money with YouTube, but YouTube puts you on the treadmill, man, in the hamster wheel.
	And if you get any traction, the algos pick you up, and then you've got to do more.
	And if you don't upload at least three pieces of content a day, you drop in the algos, and it becomes a horrible experience.
	And I've seen so many people just burn out from it, where if you want to do a podcast, don't expect to make any money right off the bat.
	If you're going to do this to make money, then you're not doing it for the right reasons.
	If you've got a message to convey an outstanding product, everything you want, everything you need will follow.
	It always does.
	Amen.
	Beautiful.
	Perfect.
	Well, Adam, a real pleasure to meet you here today, and thank you for sharing your thoughts with us.
	I mean, this is really inspiring.
	And I love what you're doing.
	And we're going to spread the word big time about this.
	So thank you.
	Oh, thank you.
	And I have to say that Dvorak and I often talk about Brighteon.
	We're always cracking up because if it's some really off-the-wall thing that no one's ever heard of, you'd be like, where'd you find that?
	Brighteon?
	Yeah.
	We love you guys.
	We love what you're doing.
	It's really important.
	Tell John I was a fan reading his columns in...
	I think it was the late...
	It was 1980s, man.
	Oh, yeah.
	And I had...
	The very first Apple II computer and then the very first IBM PC. And it was so early that when I took my Apple with the 1.4 megabyte floppy disk or the 5.25 inch floppy disk.
	It wasn't a megabyte.
	What am I thinking?
	It was like kilobytes.
	I took it to the school.
	I had a teacher that said that box is voodoo.
	Yeah.
	And I kid you not, so that's how far back I go in the computing world and reading Dvorak, by the way.
	Well, I'll be sure to let him know.
	I'll be sure to let him know, you bet.
	Yeah, I think somebody, I don't think it was Dvorak, but somebody tried to do a column in PC Magazine one time that said, asked the question, can you zip a zip file to eternity and reduce it to one byte?
	And that was actually a debatable concept back in the 1980s.
	Back in the day, sure, sure.
	Yeah, it's like, is that possible?
	Could it happen?
	Yeah.
	But there you go.
	I'm dating myself a little bit there.
	But thank you so much, Adam.
	Oh, it's my pleasure.
	And thank you both.
	You as well, Todd, obviously.
	All right.
	Thank you.
	Excellent guest.
	Take care, Adam.
	Take care.
	Wonderful.
	Cheers.
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	This was your suggestion to bring on Adam Curry.
	Great suggestion.
	Amazing guest.
	I love what he's doing.
	You know, I can't believe it.
	We've got a link to his stuff on our website, Decentralized TV. We've got to spread the word.
	We've got to get everybody through this system.
	I love what he's talking about, and I love the micropayments through the Lightning Network with the value-for-value barter, right?
	I mean, it makes sense.
	I love it.
	Yeah, I mean, it allows people to be able to enjoy based upon their own budget, right?
	Yes.
	I mean, you and I have both been in positions at certain times in our lives to where if you wanted to be very, very generous, you could, and it makes you feel really good to be able to do that.
	Yes.
	But we've all been in scenarios to where we really like the product, but we might be on a tight budget.
	Things may have happened in our lives.
	And so, you know, sending something smaller that is still appreciated is, you know, fantastic.
	Absolutely.
	Even if it's like five Satoshis.
	I love that he just...
	They just went out and figured it out.
	And that's a lot what you do, Mike.
	Oh, thank you.
	Yeah.
	You just do it.
	I get things done as well.
	But I want to be mindful.
	Adam is still connected.
	I just want to say, Adam, you are welcome to stay connected here.
	We're going to talk about you.
	I just wanted to just have to stay connected.
	I was loving the after party, man.
	You can absolutely listen.
	That's what we're doing.
	What's going on here?
	Yeah.
	Perfect.
	You're not obligated to.
	If you don't mind, I'll hang out for another minute.
	If you're into some torture, you can stay tuned in.
	Sure, sure, sure, sure.
	And you can come back in because I'm going to talk about the question I didn't ask that I wish I would have.
	But you're not gone yet.
	He's not gone.
	I think I have something to say.
	We have the resurrection of Adam Curry back in the after.
	You're the only guest that is back in the after party.
	I couldn't hang up.
	I was like, oh, these guys are still talking.
	Hold on, let me see what they say.
	There's Jesus and then there's Adam Curry.
	Both resurrect.
	I'm in service of him, not anywhere near Colorado.
	Right, right.
	Here's what I want to say, though, Todd, since Adam is listening in, but I want to say this.
	I feel like if I'm a podcaster or a listener, I want some clear, simple instructions to follow.
	I want one page, five steps to either, here's the best app that does it all, or here's the best platform.
	Now, I know he's got the list.
	He's got podcasting.
	I've got to interrupt.
	I got you now.
	I should have promoted the place to go.
	There's one guy who's taught more people how to podcast than anybody I know.
	That's Dave Jackson, School of Podcasting.
	So schoolofpodcasting.com.
	And Dave Jackson can take you from zero all the way through value for value.
	He's done it all.
	He knows it all.
	The guy is amazing.
	Here it is.
	Okay, we have that site up here.
	schoolofpodcasting.com.
	Fantastic.
	Okay.
	Awesome.
	Excellent.
	And I want to say to our audience, if you're going to start a podcast or maybe transition podcasting activities that you've been doing, I think it really is important to engage in these, what Adam is calling podcasting 2.0 features, which include Lightning Network micropayments, value for value, and also transcriptions and chapters.
	You know, I mean...
	Adam said that being able to search past transcriptions is critical.
	I found that the case as well.
	Because even sometimes I'm doing a broadcast and I'm like, two weeks ago I mentioned this, but I don't know where that is.
	I have no idea, right?
	But we should be able to index and search, but also tell Google not to index.
	Right.
	You know, like put in that no robots file.
	Bad robot, bad robot.
	Stay away from these.
	Check this site out.
	It's called bingit.io.
	B-I-N-G-I-T dot I-O. So one of our producers, so we've always put all of our information out open source, all the clips we use, all the news articles.
	We've made that all available all through RSS, including our transcripts.
	You can search for anything on that website.
	It goes through 1611 episodes.
	It will bring up...
	If you type in any phrase, it'll show you where we talked about it.
	You click on the link and it brings up That piece in the podcast where we were talking about it.
	Okay, I've typed in trannies.
	I've typed in trannies.
	Yes!
	Any mentions?
	Look for mentions.
	There you go.
	Look how many episodes cover trannies.
	This is amazing.
	Look on the right-hand side.
	Mike, Mike, Mike, you got to...
	Let's keep with this.
	Put in bonus hole.
	I wonder if they've ever talked about bonus holes.
	No, I don't think they've talked about bonus holes.
	Ah, you might be surprised.
	Let me see.
	Let's see.
	Bonus hole.
	Huh?
	Uh-huh.
	Uh-huh.
	I see mentions on the right.
	I don't know, but it could be like bonus in this sentence and hole in another sentence.
	It'll bring up the transcript.
	If you click on it, it'll bring up the transcript.
	Bring it up.
	And if you scroll down.
	This is awesome.
	Really?
	Where?
	Well, did it have a zero mentions?
	No, you have to get one.
	That's got zero.
	Okay.
	The other one I want to, because it's relevant to the question I wanted to ask, but I'm going to ask it because you're still here.
	Put in NPCs.
	Oh, pfft.
	Definitely.
	NPCs.
	Okay.
	No, here we go.
	Wait.
	Thank you.
	Give me a bonus.
	I'm sorry, bonus.
	It's a bonus.
	A bonus in your package.
	That's close to bonus hole.
	Trust me.
	Bonus hole.
	Maybe do it in quotes.
	Trust me.
	It's come up.
	Okay.
	And NPC has most definitely.
	Okay.
	So, Adam, regarding NPC. Okay.
	All right.
	We'll switch NPC. All right.
	Let's see.
	I have a sincere question related to NPCs.
	We all know that NPC stands for non-playing character, and prior to the COVID, I knew there were dumb, uninformed people out there, but I never considered there being almost a separate species of NPCs, people who have zero capacity to critically think and simply get their downloads from the mainstream media.
	Adam Curry, I have a number.
	It is written on the back of this, okay?
	This is my NPC percentage prediction.
	This is the percentage of people who I believe are NPCs, meaning they just turn on the TV, whatever they download is what they believe.
	First of all, do you subscribe to the NPC theory?
	Well, not that they're actual true non-playing characters in a huge video game of the simulation that we're in.
	Right.
	So, what you're saying is, yeah, people who turn on, open up, receive, and take their instruction.
	That's right.
	And I want to say, I pray for these people.
	I pray that they break out of this.
	27%.
	Alright, Mike, do you have a...
	27%.
	Am I giving my percent or what I think you wrote?
	No, I want you to give your percent and then I'll give my percent that I wrote.
	Yeah, I think a third.
	I'll say 33.
	Guys, I'm going 85%.
	What?
	85?
	85%.
	That's pretty high, man.
	That's pretty high.
	I don't know.
	Look, look, I've given this a lot of, you know, thought and prayer because within my own family, I mean, I'm talking about extended families, you know, three brothers, three sisters, parents, everything.
	I'm like flying solo here.
	If you look at Matthias de Smet's research, he came up with the mass formation thesis.
	Psychosis.
	Right.
	Well, actually, there's no psychosis.
	It's mass formation.
	Yeah, that kind of got twisted a little bit.
	Ah, okay.
	The official term is mass formation.
	And he posits in his theorem that 30% of people are awake, clued in, tuned in, understand what's going on.
	30% are what we would call NPC, completely clueless.
	And then there's that 40% in the middle, which will shift left or right based upon kind of You know, what they feel empowered to do, if they're not too scared to do.
	And that's really the 40% we want to move more towards the awakened side.
	So you could say that they are also, in a way, NPCs, but they're just NPC on the outside.
	On the inside, there's stuff going on, they're having debate, they're thinking, but they're terrorized.
	I like that.
	And they're traumatized.
	Are you familiar with there are certain people who don't have an internal dialogue?
	Have you ever discussed that?
	No, I don't think you have.
	They're literal studies.
	I mean, because I don't know about you two, I do know you guys that have internal dialogues, but apparently there was a story about this husband and wife, and the wife...
	They got on this discussion, and one asked the other, do you talk to yourself?
	And they're like, no.
	That's weird.
	And this is actually a thing.
	I mean, I went down the rabbit hole a little bit, but the percentage is higher than you might think.
	20% of the people just don't have that internal dialogue.
	I just don't get that.
	My internal dialogue has been deplatformed due to outrageous comments.
	No longer allowed to speak.
	Yeah, bonus holes are why people stick around for the after party, I guess.
	My internal dialogue got shadow banned on Twitter.
	That's what happened.
	But it is kind of...
	It's very sad people don't have an internal dialogue.
	They should try out church.
	Maybe they can get some internal dialogue.
	But we're in a place now where...
	Look, everybody wants to have a better world, a world where things are just better for everybody and we love each other.
	But there are...
	And this is all kind of new for me, but...
	I remember when I was maybe seven years old and my parents said, we think we've taught you what is right from wrong, good from bad.
	If you don't understand that, then maybe if you don't have an internal dialogue, you don't understand that.
	But I find it hard to believe that people don't.
	Everyone has that in them.
	It's God-given.
	You have that feeling.
	But people are trying to live by utopian rules to create a utopia where everything is fair and equitable and it doesn't matter.
	If you feel this way, then you can be this way.
	And we have to start pushing back a little bit harder.
	And it's fun and funny to do.
	do and I saw the Daily Wire just came out with the trailer for a pretty funny, looks like a funny movie talking about men in sports acting as if they're women.
	But we've got to kind of be a little more stern with this, I think.
	It's just like, no, hard no.
	Come on.
	Stop it.
	Wake up.
	This is crazy.
	I mean, for me, God gave us a book.
	And the way to live is in there.
	And you can still make whatever choices you want.
	I'm not going to get mad at you.
	You don't have to get mad at me for not agreeing with it, but I'm going to say I don't agree with it, and I'll pray for you and hope that you figure it out.
	We need more of that.
	We need more of a reformation of how we approach things, and we don't stop pussyfooting around it.
	But also, I think...
	Just making memes and jokes is probably not the solution either.
	We just have to be like, no, this is a hard no.
	This makes no sense.
	This is not the way life was intended to be.
	And you've got to cut that out.
	We have a whole generation of younger people now that think that if their feelings are hurt, that that's physical pain, that that's assault.
	They define it as assault.
	And these are the same kids...
	That they got participation ribbons and the sports, they never kept score.
	And so nobody ever told that kid, hey, you suck at kickball.
	The kid needs to hear that.
	But guess what?
	You might be really good at this other thing.
	Let's be honest about it.
	You might suck at kickball, but guess what?
	You might be an amazing artist.
	You know, you might be a sculptor, you might be a world-class musician, but you still suck at kickball, but the kid never heard it.
	Hey, Adam, so I know you're a man of faith.
	My question is, was that always within you, or was there a point in your life to where, like, I can state personally that, you know, I went 42 years, but there came a point in time where God brought me to my knees so that I might look up.
	And so that was a pivotal time for me to where that's when I would say that I arrived at true faith.
	What about you?
	Well, I'm a very new Christian.
	This only started to come together for me about a year and a half ago.
	Oh, excellent.
	And the way it happened was, well, my wife and I were both, and we're on this journey together, we were getting nudged in interesting ways.
	I'm now 59, so we're up there a little older than most would find their faith.
	And at a certain point, I was working with all these different people, and I looked around, I'm like, You guys are all Christians.
	What's wrong with me?
	I should look into this Christianity stuff.
	Wow.
	Because I was working with, you know, doing podcasts with them, you know, working on podcasting 2.0.
	I was like, I need to look into this.
	And no one's ever pushed anything on me.
	No one's ever, you know, I've asked questions in the past about, so is this revelation really, you know, fire and brimstone?
	You know, do you think God's a real person?
	I've asked questions from time to time, but...
	And it was also, it was a weird, there was Naomi Wolf, a very famous leftist writer, you know, hoity-toity Upper East Side New York feminist.
	She, during COVID, wrote a series of sub stacks, which, and she's Jewish, where she really came to her faith and, you know, started investigating Jesus and God.
	And she determined that what was happening in the world was not necessarily evil people, but there was a real evil force and there must be a counterforce to that.
	And these were interesting sub stacks.
	She just wrote a book called Facing the Beast, which is worth the read.
	And so I, as I approached everything, I'm like, well, I'm just going to look.
	This is a conspiracy theory.
	Just like Moon Landing, JFK, all this stuff.
	I'm going to dive into this.
	And there's a lot of stuff written about this, it turns out.
	There's a lot of books you could go on.
	And after two weeks, and I read Evidence That Demands a Verdict.
	I mean, just so many interesting books that just take you to more books and more reading.
	And after two weeks, I went, that's it.
	God is real.
	Jesus is real.
	He died for our sins.
	Prayer works.
	Wow, once I started using prayer, oh man, that is amazing.
	That's such a great story.
	And I rearranged my schedule and now we go to church together and we worship together and we have a great community.
	I've never had this many friends.
	And from the outside looking in, I was like, oh, you know, these church people must be weird.
	No, there's greatness against me.
	Very interesting people with all kinds of interesting vocations and backgrounds.
	And especially being out here in Fredericksburg, we must have 30 churches.
	I feel there's a bit of a revival going on.
	If you want to meet weird people, go to the podcasting conference.
	There's a Spark Media conference.
	I was invited.
	And that's a podcast conference only for Godcasters.
	And they wanted me to do the keynote.
	And I was like, well, this is interesting.
	And I kind of understand now how God has been guiding me throughout my life.
	When I was at MTV and you'd have the Video Music Awards, and I was always intrigued by, namely the hip-hop guys, when they won an award, they get up on the stage and like, and I want to thank God for putting this into my head and giving me the lyrics and the beats and everything.
	And now, I'm like, oh yeah, I get it.
	I didn't invent podcasting.
	I see where this is coming from.
	Adam, don't you think that it helps?
	Let's reconcile the world, especially since 2020, to where I believe now with all my heart and soul that I know there's a spiritual war going on.
	I know we all, in our meat space, we all think, well, who are they?
	We always talk about they, are they the Illuminati?
	Who is the puppet master of Klaus Schwab?
	To me, it's really, really simple.
	You know, if you believe in God, God of the Bible, you know, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, it's really easy.
	And if you take a deep dive into that book that God wrote, you recognize that there are some other characters, you know, and that Satan is also real.
	And demons are also real.
	Absolutely.
	It's the enemy.
	And he's everywhere.
	He's at work.
	You know, and we have...
	America was built.
	We just had this...
	DeBarkin had this conversation.
	He's what he calls a lapsed Catholic, which is a fun descriptor.
	America was built on God-loving people, God-fearing people.
	And fearing doesn't mean, you know, it means revering, not that, "Oh, I'm so afraid of God." That's what it was built on.
	It's on our money, for better or for worse.
	It's everywhere in our symbols.
	It's everywhere in our ideology.
	It's throughout our Constitution, our Declaration of Independence.
	This was what the country was built on.
	And throughout history, these periods come and go, certainly with Christianity.
	And God, and from time to time, you leave the door open and there's no one's in there, and then it's just open space.
	So when we start dropping religion, people need something.
	They need something in their lives, something to believe in, incomes, Climate change, incomes, you know, transhumanism.
	And so we need to start pushing back on that because ultimately no one wins with that.
	You know, Satan wins, the enemy wins, and it won't end up good for anybody.
	You know what I think you would enjoy, Mike?
	We interviewed Adam on Decentralized.tv, Pastor Todd Coronado.
	Coconato.
	I'm sorry.
	Yes.
	And Coconato.
	There was these moments where the Holy Spirit was just released.
	And the dialogue that went back and forth between the three of us, it just, I know that you would appreciate it because it was totally organic.
	It was so fun.
	It was such a blessing to participate in that.
	But I kind of feel the same thing right now with you.
	And so thank you for opening up and sharing that because you're talking to two guys who are strong believers.
	Oh, sure.
	Yes, thank you.
	And also, I have to mention, this is the first time that we now have an afterlife afterparty.
	So thank you for bringing that level.
	We're all going to be partying in heaven eventually.
	This is a first on the show, so thank you, Adam.
	There's another guy, John L. Cooper.
	I don't know if you've ever heard of him.
	He's in kind of a metal band called Skillet, which has been around for a while.
	And he's a Christian.
	He's written a couple of books.
	His most recent one I'm just reading.
	I just want to give him a plug.
	It's called Wimpy, Weak, and Woke.
	And it is a dynamite book.
	And he's also a podcaster.
	Yeah, Wimpy, Weak, and Woke.
	There's a subtitle to it.
	Check that out.
	How...
	Hold on a second.
	Wimpy, Weak, and Woke.
	How...
	Oh, man.
	How Truth Can Save America from Utopian Destruction.
	Thank you.
	There you go.
	That's it.
	Nice.
	Oh, man.
	He sounds like an excellent guest prospect.
	He does sound like a great guest.
	Let's get him on.
	You'd be a great interview.
	Okay.
	We'll do that.
	All right.
	Well, thank you, Adam, for sticking with us here.
	I'm going to go help make dinner.
	Okay.
	Well, you know what?
	This is why people stick around, because it tends to be when we get more loose and sometimes goofy.
	So thank you for participating in this as well.
	I like talking about this.
	It's important.
	It's important that people hear it from people like us, too.
	It became a little unfashionable to be a Christian or to talk about God or Jesus.
	But when I hear my friend Joe Rogan saying, if only there was a guy...
	You know, if only there was some, like, a manual to get with your car.
	I'm like, who's going to tell Joe?
	Right, I saw that clip, yeah.
	It's there, it's there, it's there.
	And it's worth it.
	And it's helpful for anybody, even for me, you know, atheist most of all of my life until, you know, the last year and a half.
	Yeah, you know what?
	I want to share this with you, Mike.
	In a consultation I did this last week, a woman shared with me, she opened with thank you, and I'm like, for what?
	And she says, you reignited my faith.
	And I'm like, what are you talking about?
	And there was a show that Mike and I did, and I was sharing about a pivotal point in my life when I was 42, and this guy named Adam, also Adam, told me, hey, you know, Todd, I've been thinking a lot about you.
	You've been on my heart, and God just put on my heart to tell you that if God wrote a book...
	That you should probably read it.
	And to tell you to start with the book of John.
	And so, and that's where it all started for me.
	I mean, I can talk for hours on the subject, but that's where it started for me.
	And this woman that I spoke with, she said that she went back and read the book of John.
	And that quote-unquote reignited her faith.
	So that was very cool.
	That's like one of those, you know, butterfly wing flapping things that you never know what we say, how it might positively affect others, and we don't even have a clue.
	Amen to that.
	We impact people every day, all of us and what we do.
	I'm glad to know you, Adam.
	Glad to meet you.
	I'm glad to know you, Todd.
	And I feel honored to be able to have this platform and do what we do and positively impact people's lives.
	So thank you both for everything today.
	Right on.
	Hey, you should release this on...
	No, that's too far from now.
	I was going to say Resurrection Sunday, but no, let's don't wait that long.
	No, no, hold it.
	We can bring it back on that, which would be appropriate.
	Yeah, there you go.
	We'll bring it back.
	This is one I hope we edit quickly, Mike.
	This was great.
	We will.
	Okay, my dog tells me the show's done.
	He's holding up toys.
	It's time to go.
	Okay.
	You see him, Adam?
	There he is.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Oh, wow.
	Oh, look at him.
	He's ready to go.
	Oh, such a stud.
	Get it.
	Okay.
	All right, Adam, a pleasure.
	We'll see you later.
	Enjoy the evening.
	Awesome.
	All right.
	Thank you, guys.
	All right.
	Cheers.
	Goodbye.
	Bye-bye.
	Bye-bye, everyone.
	All right.
	Bye.
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