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April 19, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Andy Schectman critical warnings: Western banks losing control over GOLD, silver price...

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	Thank you.
	Welcome to today's episode of Decentralized TV here in the Brighteon.com studios in the great state of Texas.
	I'm Mike Adams and we've got a great guest coming up for you, Andy Schechtman.
	But first, my co-host Todd Pitner joins us.
	Welcome, Todd.
	How you doing?
	Hello, hello.
	It should be the great nation of Texas pretty soon, Mike.
	The great nation.
	Yeah, probably.
	That's where it's going.
	I think so.
	It's fine with me.
	I think Texas will be a great nation.
	Me too.
	But we have, and actually the events that are probably going to lead to that are well known by our guests coming up today, because we're talking about the collapse of the dollar, the rise of the BRICS nations, and how the West is weaponizing the dollar in order to try to punish Russia, for the most part, But the West is only committing financial suicide itself.
	So let's bring in our guest, Andy Sheckman from milesfranklin.com.
	Welcome, Andy.
	Great to have you.
	Hey, Mike and Todd.
	Great to see you both.
	Thanks for having me, and it's always great to be here.
	Appreciate it.
	We always appreciate having you on.
	And, you know, Andy, I think you have been so correct in your analysis and so ahead of the curve for so many years.
	I actually...
	I think of you and Gerald Salenti as the two guys that know most what's coming.
	I mean, you're both just nailing it for year after year after year.
	So do you feel a little bit vindicated, actually, about what's happening with Bricks now?
	That's very kind of you to say that.
	No, actually, I feel a little bit more concerned than anything.
	I got three kids, my youngest, not even 17 yet.
	And I see the acceleration in these things that I've been talking about for almost four years now.
	And it's concerning.
	And it's concerning because, you know, the people who watch Brighteon TV, listen to you guys, and maybe some of the people that have followed me have at least an understanding of what is coming.
	But the thing is, our media...
	Doesn't even do a poor job.
	They do no job of telling people what is coming.
	And so people who are even considered well-read arguably are just reading the wrong stuff.
	And I see this acceleration.
	And yeah, I guess you could say it feels good to have been right.
	But on the other hand, it's almost concerning as I see the byproduct of that and what that really means to me is a bit troubling.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And the latest, and then I know, Todd, you've got questions, but the latest sanction against Russia was announced by Janet Yellen.
	And the Biden administration is saying, well, we won't allow you to ship us any aluminum or copper or nickel, right?
	And it's like, that's a suicide pact for the West.
	We need Russian aluminum.
	Well, it gets a lot better than that, Mike.
	I mean, first of all, how many people know that the Chinese own the LME, the London Metals Exchange?
	They bought it.
	And the LME sells those base metals.
	Now, they have to be adherent to the LME rules.
	But now they're talking about stockpiling these metals in China, warehousing them on the contracts that are being sold on the London Metals Exchange, which is different than the LBMA, which sells the precious metals.
	But when you talk about sanctions and our brain-dead Treasury Secretary, let's focus on three things.
	That's a big one.
	Yeah, we don't want your copper, your nickel.
	And it is.
	It's cutting off your nose to spite your face.
	And, you know, three weeks ago, Janet was in Brazil, the backyard of the BRICS, a charter member of the BRICS, and has the gall and the nerve to say publicly at this conference in Brazil that, you know, the West, the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom, not only, you know, sanctioning isn't enough for Of the Russian 380 billion in forex reserves, but we need to confiscate them to fund the Ukrainian war.
	And it gets even worse.
	From the too stupid to be stupid category, in an interview she just gave with CNBC, get this.
	The United States is prepared to sanction Chinese banks and companies as well as Beijing's leadership if they aid Russian military in its invasion of the Ukraine, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Monday.
	So it's okay for us to fund the Ukraine, our ally supposedly, and I would argue China and Russia are better allies than we are with the Ukraine.
	You know, take all of this stuff that's happened in the last year or two with Ukraine out of the equation.
	And I think they're more aligned and a common cause.
	But she says, you know, anything that involves aiding Russians' military in their brutal war against Ukraine is unacceptable to us.
	This is the funny part.
	She says, China is entitled to have a relationship with Russia.
	Well, thank you, Janet.
	That's great.
	She said, noting that much of the trade between the two countries is seen by the U.S. as non-problematic.
	But the provision of military aid from Beijing to Moscow could trigger sanctions.
	So you have a sanction-happy administration that is just cutting off their nose to spite their face in every turn.
	And you wonder why China is down to just over $700 billion in treasuries from $3 trillion.
	They're all selling treasuries and buying gold, replacing it.
	Because why the hell would anyone want to buy anything of duration from a country That not only is going to choose inflation over austerity, not only is bankrupt and insolvent, but can go around in a massively hypocritical way where it's okay for us to do this, but not for you.
	And if you do that, we're going to sanction you.
	Why would anyone want to hold our treasuries?
	It's the height of absurdity.
	Well, it certainly is.
	Todd, you want to jump in?
	Andy, what's the price of gold today for ounce?
	Well, it depends where you're asking.
	I mean, in the United States, in the West, price of gold right now is...
	Right around $23.80, but it's about $50, $60 higher.
	In fact, let me tell you exactly what it is in Shanghai.
	And this is another interesting thing in that, you know, in Shanghai, the price of silver right now, which is even a better measurement, if you will, is $3 higher than it is in the West.
	It's over $31 an ounce.
	And the price of gold yesterday was $24...
	Let's see, $2,437.53.
	That was the closing price on April 16th.
	Gold's up today, so it's going to be closer to $2,500.
	See, China's been buying everything that's not nailed down, and now they are arbitraging on the Shanghai Gold Exchange and enticing the traders who have access to the LBMA, to the COMEX, and the Shanghai Exchange so that they can buy at the COMEX price or the LBMA price and deliver To Shanghai at a 10% premium in silver and roughly, well, about an $80 premium in gold.
	And that is their attempt to continue to siphon all of the gold and silver from the West.
	This is being done strategically.
	And my understanding, Andy, but correct me if I'm wrong about this, is that much of this current spike in gold, which is really historic, I mean, these are all-time highs, And it's been a burst of activity.
	But most of the buying is not from end users right now.
	Most of the buying is central banks.
	And China's central bank is one of the main ones.
	Is that correct?
	It's 100% true.
	I mean, the people in the West and the United States have been selling into the rally.
	They look, you know, the talking heads would say, well, you have, if you believe the CPI, as the talking heads would like us to believe, that you have positive real yield right now in fixed income, so you can buy a six-month treasury paying 5.5%,
	and you have a strong dollar, and you have, you know, but You know, when you look at the motivation of a country like China, a country like Russia or Saudi Arabia, and see a sanction-happy government where, you know, the way that it used to work is all of these things that would be bought around the globe would be purchased in dollars, and any excess would go into U.S. Treasuries.
	But now what's happening is that we're seeing not only a deviation from the settlement in dollars as these countries are trading with one another in their local currencies, But they're also replacing their excess reserves, which used to be U.S. Treasuries, which are now being shed month over month over month over month.
	And I believe they are replacing it with gold.
	And I say that to you for a few reasons.
	Number one, you go back to the turn of the century, since 2000, gold has outperformed Everything except for Bitcoin.
	Everything.
	And, you know, it's up 9.1% per year compounding.
	Since 2000, the S&P 500 is about 7-ish percent.
	And the bond market's a fraction of that.
	But the real reason is, you know, what you were talking about at the onset here, the weaponizing of the dollar.
	The gold market doesn't have default risk, doesn't have sanction and confiscation risk for these countries.
	And that's huge right now.
	And it's outperformed the bond market.
	So to me, it's exactly what's happening.
	The public is asleep at the switch.
	They are infatuated with Bitcoin and NVIDIA.
	And I understand that they perform really well.
	really well.
	And they're ignoring the fact that gold's at all time highs.
	And it has not only doing it without the public participation, as you mentioned, but doing it in the face of things that are supposed to neuter gold's rise.
	And that namely being, you know, positive real rates and a strong dollar.
	Yet here we are again today with it with it up today, at least in the United States, up 20 bucks.
	So it continues to defy gravity when the economists would tell us that, well, it should be falling because of this environment.
	And no, it's really not.
	Andy, can you share with me the psychology of the normal consumer out there?
	Your founder, CEO, MylesFranklin.com.
	A, is business good?
	And B, as it starts to shoot up, do people tend to say, man, I missed the boat?
	Or are they getting on it, saying, a rising tide lifts all ships?
	Well, I think, you know, what's interesting...
	When Silicon Valley Bank failed, Todd, we added 14,000 clients in 45 days.
	Wow.
	And it was the mainstream terrified by the prospects of more bank failures.
	You know, the mainstream, most of the mainstream has no idea even what a bail-in is, and that a bail-in was written into law in the Dodd-Frank Act.
	If they only knew this, and they really took a step back to reflect on the over-levered and undercapitalized banks right now that are on razor's edge.
	The thing of it is, is when Silicon and Signature were illegally bailed out, and I say illegally because the Dodd-Frank Act made bailouts illegal, but, you know, Janet again, and the FOMC, which is the Federal Reserve, and the FDIC, and supposedly the president, if he actually remembers that, The conversation said it was too systemic, that they had to do this in order to save the system.
	You know, future banks that would run into trouble would not be bailed out, in fact, would be bailed in.
	Now, the other banks that have failed have been gobbled up by J.P. Morgan or other regional banks.
	But if a bank fails in this environment, bail-ins, well, they're coming.
	And I think that's the kind of environment where you see massive demand.
	But what we've seen lately is very interesting to me.
	Lots of very large orders.
	When I say lots, I don't mean hundreds of them, but large orders from much older folks who lament what is happening to the country.
	There is a much greater focus on the open borders, the lawlessness, the questioning of the judicial system and the electoral system, all of the things, the wokeness and the cancel culture, the things that really, if you grew up in this country when the three of us did, or older people, Most of us find repugnant, and some find it, you know, some people, 75, 80-year-old clients that I talk to, they're saying, this country is done.
	Now, this comes from their perspective, and they said, I want out of the bank, I want out of the system, I cannot leave my children fiat currency in this country.
	I hear that a lot, too, yeah.
	But the average person...
	No, you can't get out of the way of what you don't see coming.
	And even people who are very well-read, they're just reading the wrong stuff.
	And they're not aware of how dire this situation truly is and can quickly become.
	So it's shocking to me, Mike.
	Mike, in fact, it'll go down as one of the biggest contrarian indicators and mysteries of my career, how the public is selling into this rally in an environment where our country has lost its, in many respects, lost its bearings and its culture being whitewashed.
	The thing of it is, is that the media doesn't tell us what's happening outside the country, with the exception of the wars that are being fought.
	They don't tell us how these countries are joining together, finding safety in numbers because of the weaponizing of the dollar, because of the mismanagement of the world reserve currency, and because the world looks at us as being completely and totally hypocritical, where we can go into Iraq 20 years ago, we still occupy their country, we sanction their banks, and we hold their oil revenue.
	$95 billion they made in 2023, and at the end of the year they asked us for a billion dollars, and we said it's not a good time.
	So they've kicked coalition forces out or are in the process of doing it.
	They've made trading in dollars illegal.
	They have formally applied to the BRICS. And as of January of this year, six months ago, almost five months ago, there are no green dollars in the country anymore.
	So these countries view us as hypocritical.
	We can do these things.
	You know, we went there looking for weapons.
	Sorry we didn't find them.
	Sorry we destroyed your country.
	Sorry we're still occupying you 20 years later.
	But we can do this because we're the United States.
	But you guys can't do anything like this or we'll sanction you.
	And I think that has gotten very long in the tooth.
	And Andy, that's coming to an end.
	The era of the U.S. being able to sanction its way into global compliance by other countries, that's coming to an end.
	I want to show you this story from Bloomberg.
	IMF steps up its warning to U.S. over spending and ballooning debt.
	This is really monumental that the IMF would warn Essentially that the U.S. debt and U.S. spending is unsustainable, and even though they don't use the term collapse, what they're saying is it's headed for collapse.
	And yet, inside the U.S. government, both Republicans and Democrats alike, all they want to do is print more money, give it to Ukraine, print more money, give it to Israel, fund more bombs to be dropped on Gaza, or fund more missiles or artillery to be launched at Russia.
	It's like the burnout.
	I feel like we're in the burnout stage of the U.S. empire where all they can do is print money and bomb everybody and steal money from Russia because Russia still produces things.
	I mean, doesn't it feel like that to you?
	Doesn't it look like that's what's happening?
	It completely and totally does.
	Look, that is what's happening.
	And, you know, we're broke, we're insolvent, and we continue, we're like in the terminal stages of decline.
	And that's exactly what's happening.
	And, you know, you look at the fact that We're adding a trillion dollars to the debt burden every 90 days.
	It took over 200 years to do it the first time.
	We're adding a hundred billion dollars every four months in interest payments.
	And, you know, I don't know who in their right mind would ever hold any duration treasuries because we are broke.
	We are insolvent.
	You know, and there's no end in sight.
	We have a $34 trillion debt and $155 trillion in unfunded liabilities in Medicare and Medicaid.
	Social Security, $77 trillion in the red.
	And, of course, government military pensions.
	And, you know, people don't quite get it when you hear the word trillion.
	It's a trillion seconds ago was thirty one thousand six hundred eighty eight years ago.
	And so when you talk about how broke we are and the fact that people come to us and we're giving another sixty billion to the Ukraine.
	And I mean, it's just insanity.
	It's a total insanity.
	And yet our our borders and our infrastructure, everything is in shambles.
	And it's an afterthought.
	And we continue to fund these words, which is an interesting side note, by the way, you know.
	I gave a speech in Vancouver two years ago, and I said that there's 500 ounces of silver in a Tomahawk cruise missile.
	This guy comes up to me, and he says, I work for the Department of Defense.
	He says, I developed the Patriot missile.
	I know there's silver in it, but I don't know how much.
	I'll get back to you.
	Never heard from him.
	I go to the conference this year.
	It's Jay Martin's conference, the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference.
	It's a really good one.
	And he was there, and he hands me this cup.
	And, you know, it shows me this is my cup is what I developed the Patriot missile.
	And he showed me all sorts of pictures.
	He said, you know, it used to be shot out of a submarine.
	And he showed me how they had it on a platform just beneath the water in California and how it was a challenge to launch it vertically because of the guidance system, blah, blah, blah.
	But you know what?
	I'll be damned.
	You are right.
	There's between 14 and 15 kilograms of silver in every Tomahawk cruise missile.
	Wow.
	If you think about this, the military-industrial complex is involved in funding all of these wars all over the place and providing munitions.
	And the Silver Institute, who just released their numbers saying 185 million ounce deficit for the second year in a row, has no breakdown at all.
	They don't even talk about military at all.
	And so when you look at So why would a couple of banks like Bank of America, according to Ted Butler, be short 1 billion ounces of silver in the OTC market?
	I mean, that's as dumb as a mud wall in this environment.
	When India is importing almost 500 million ounces in the last two and a half years, which is crazy.
	12 times more than is backing the bars currently on COMEX when China has told their citizens to start buying silver.
	This is new news that, hey, buy silver.
	It's the Achilles heel of the West.
	And instead of buying gold, now they're massively buying silver.
	And you can see that $3 premium on the Shanghai exchange is Enticing people to do it, they're going to catch some of these shorts, like Bank of America, with their pants down.
	And if you listen to the Chris Marcus interview with Bart Chilton, which is one of the best I've ever heard in my career, right before he died, he admitted that's why Bear Stearns went bankrupt, because they were massively short, and Silver went to 21, and JPMorgan took it over.
	And the interesting part about that interview, if you listen to it, and I recommend everyone Google it, Bart Chilton, Chris Marcus, Arcadia Economics, and it's the most influential interview I've ever heard.
	He says all of these conspiratorial things.
	He admits it.
	Bart Chilton was the head of the CFTC. The Commodity Future Trading Commission.
	And he says Jamie Dimon came into the office of him.
	He was there with Bernanke and the Treasury Secretary.
	It'll come to me in a moment.
	He said, listen, I'll take over the position, but with our positions, Hank Paulson, I'll take over the position, but we'll be in violation of position limits.
	And they said, okay, you have a period of time to get it under control.
	And at the end of that period of time, Bart Chilton says, not only did they not decrease those positions, they added to them.
	And he went into his superiors and said that...
	J.P. Morgan needs to be prosecuted.
	They have violated our agreement.
	They're in violation of antitrust law.
	And here's the kicker when we put this in perspective.
	Is this the interview, Andy?
	Bart Shelton and Chris Marcus?
	Yep, that's it.
	Okay, so this is on Arcadia.
	Everyone needs to listen to that interview.
	And he says he was told to back down because it was a political decision.
	So when you talk about these massive short positions in silver, the largest concentrated short position on any commodity traded on the coal mix, why?
	Why in an environment like this would they be that stupid?
	It's because the military industrial complex and the people who control it are pulling the strings.
	And all of the military and aerospace technology that needs copious amounts of silver, according to a consultant for the DOD, told me personally, it's nowhere to be found in the data from the Silver Institute.
	You know, things are nuts, and we are a country that's lost its bearing that would rather wage war to, you know, to make profit for a handful of very, very wealthy, you know, bankers and the military industrial complex and the hell with everything else, the hell with this country.
	But these countries are looking, I believe they have re-monetized gold and oil as an alternative to the dollar and to the treasury market, and it will only get worse.
	And the common currency that they are building, I want to read something to you in a moment, it'll blow your mind.
	But the common currency that they are building, yes, it will have impact.
	But if you look at what they've done so far, all of these countries are trading in their local currencies instead of dollars.
	And instead of putting the excess into bonds, they're putting it into gold.
	And the trading in local currencies chips away at the settlement status of the dollar.
	And of course, the selling of bonds and buying gold starts to chip away massively at the reserve status.
	So yes, there will be a common currency.
	Not yet, but when there's time, I want to read to you something from a finance minister in Russia that everything that I've been saying, he's saying, but he says something else that you really got to hear.
	If you'll indulge me...
	We'll get to that.
	Just one second.
	Todd's got a burning question for you first.
	Yeah.
	I just...
	You had referenced something that I think...
	It's so brilliant and beautiful, but it probably went over everyone's heads.
	So I want to rewind a little bit.
	You put a trillion in perspective in number of years.
	Could you revisit that?
	One trillion seconds ago was 31,688 years ago.
	The numbers are too big to ever be paid back.
	Okay, say that one more time.
	I'm going to ask you one more time.
	I want everyone to listen to this.
	31,688 years ago is one trillion seconds.
	That's right.
	That boggles my mind.
	And the U.S. is spending a trillion dollars every 100 days.
	Bingo.
	Okay.
	Two things I want to read to you, because...
	Everyone always says that, you know, we're playing checkers and they're playing chess.
	They think in terms of decades.
	We think in terms of days and weeks, and it's true.
	I want to read you two things.
	The first was a statement made by the chairman of the Shanghai Gold Exchange on May 15, 2014, where he says, Shanghai gold will change the current gold market with its consumed in the East but priced in the West arrangement.
	When China has the right to speak in the international gold market, the true price of gold will be revealed.
	Now, keep that in mind.
	Keep that in mind as I talk about this.
	Now, for three years, largely because of Sergei Glazyev, the main Russian finance minister, he's told the world that we are going to have a common bricks currency, and it will be a basket of local currencies and a basket of commodities, largely gold, which the BIS reclassified as the only other Tier 1 reserve asset.
	And this is probably why the central banks are buying in hand over fist and have been for over four years.
	But here's where it gets interesting.
	Another Kremlin adviser named Yuri Ushakov gave an interview just recently, and I saw it in the Russian news agency TASS. But in it, he says a few things.
	He's talking about the new BRICS currency that they are working on.
	And they tasked all the finance ministers at the end of the meeting in August in Johannesburg to go back to the drawing board and come to us and present your findings in October in Russia.
	And he said, here's the deal.
	The idea of the currency is that there are two baskets.
	One basket is national currencies of all countries involved.
	Now, we knew that.
	The second basket are commodities.
	We've known that, too.
	All right?
	That's nothing new.
	He says it will be in a digital form, which means it can be used without the banking system.
	Now, we've known that, too.
	I've said it will marry blockchain and gold.
	That will give it the immutability and the veracity and the trust.
	And they developed the project Enbridge.
	Several months ago that was with China, United Arab Emirates, who just joined the BRICS, and I think Singapore, where they just completed the first ever cross-border gold payment on the Project Enbridge gold purchase using digital yuan.
	All of this we know.
	Here's the cool part.
	And this is what I've been saying for three years now, and you look at the Shanghai Exchange and you can see it's happening.
	He says, the second part is price.
	For the moment.
	Price is determined by Western speculation.
	We produce these commodities and we consume them, but we do not have our own price mechanism, which will balance supply and demand.
	It's impossible to make any strategic planning for economic development if you do not control prices of basic commodities.
	Here it is right here.
	Price formation with this new currency should get rid of Western exchanges of commodities.
	They understand, now remember, they bought the LME, that's for the metals, base metals, They're gobbling up and taking delivery of all the precious metals, and they just developed the BRICS Grain Exchange where they go on to say global prices are determined primarily on the Chicago Commodity Exchange.
	Moscow and the BRICS seeks to move away from trading grain for the U.S. dollars in favor of the national currencies of BRICS member states.
	What did China just do?
	They just canceled massive grain contracts with Australia and the United States and bought it from Russia.
	They're going to pay for it in yuan, which is what?
	Immediately convertible into gold on the Shanghai Gold Exchange, which is what?
	The only other tier one reserve asset, which is probably going to be what?
	Backing a new system.
	And so you can see this all starting to happen.
	You know, it's rolling together.
	Importantly, just to translate what you said to our audience, this ends the JP Morgan manipulation of gold and silver.
	That's what this does.
	And when you end that, I mean, that's the only thing protecting the dollar, is manipulating the exchange rate between the dollar and precious metals, right?
	So when that is done, and when control over price discovery actually leaves the domain of the Western corrupt banking system, then the dollar's done, right?
	That's right.
	And the thing is, the point I take away from that is, They know what we are doing.
	And in jujitsu, you use the leverage of your opponent against them.
	That's exactly what they're doing.
	Fine.
	You guys want to be stupid?
	Go ahead.
	Suppress the price.
	We'll buy everything that's not nailed down.
	And then once we're done doing that, we'll start to turn up the arbitrage.
	So we'll pull up the stuff that is nailed down and you'll want to deliver it to make a fortune in arbitrage.
	But that stuff's never, ever coming back.
	Okay, Andy, I have one correction for you, though.
	You said that the West is playing checkers and the East is playing chess.
	The correction is we're actually playing tiddlywinks.
	Please show my screen.
	There's what the West is playing.
	It's called tiddlywinks.
	There's no instruction manual.
	You just throw colored circles into the mouth of the bear.
	That's it.
	All right?
	I mean, it's beyond retarded at this point what the West is doing.
	I completely agree.
	It's suicide.
	It's a financial self-immolation demonstration by the West.
	But that's why my guys say this is planned.
	I mean, I say it's planned because, you know, you weaponize the dollar.
	You threaten confiscation in a BRICS country.
	You threaten China.
	You're already sanctioning Iran.
	You sign an executive order to go green when the linchpin of the dollar hegemony is protecting Saudi Arabia and by extension the OPEC pricing of oil and dollars.
	You destabilize the bond market by jacking up rates because Part of the petrodollar is putting the excess in bonds.
	Now, over the last year, they've been eviscerated.
	And then you destabilize the United States because all of the things that I've said to you, that's what I've said to you before.
	But then you add into the soup what's happening in this country where kids wanted to wear Levi's jeans and listen to rock and roll music of the West.
	They look at this country and say, my gosh, what's happened to it?
	And all the things that we were saying, the open borders, the lawlessness, the election system, the judicial system, the wokeness where merit is thrown out the window in favor of what gender you associate yourself with.
	All of these things, I think...
	It's almost too stupid to be stupid.
	And then you have all of this debt that continues to grow, putting the Fed in a pickle.
	What do you do?
	And that's why I think we've incentivized the rest of the world to join together, which is now a massively larger swath of human population, much larger swath of global GDP. The majority of oil and Natural gas production, larger production of wheat, three of the four largest nuclear arsenals.
	And that's just the 10 countries right now.
	36 other countries have formally applied.
	Another 20 plus have informally applied.
	Critical mass is happening.
	And then you look at the belt.
	I'm sorry.
	Go ahead.
	I was just going to say you just gave an amazing history lesson there in the last few minutes.
	And to me, as I'm listening to you, I'm like, damn.
	We've been conquered from within, like a long time ago, right?
	Who is the they that did this?
	Do you have your finger on that, Paul?
	I mean, I guess you could argue it's the World Bank and, you know, I mean, Klaus Schwab.
	I mean, I don't know.
	I mean, you have to...
	Richard Russell was my mentor.
	And I don't know really who the they is.
	I'd be honest.
	I'm lying if I said I do.
	I have ideas.
	But Richard Russell was my mentor.
	And he always said 20 years ago that the Fed had crossed the Rubicon of ever getting out, that they had two options to inflate or to die.
	And I say option three is find a villain.
	And that's Xi Jinping and Putin and OPEC. Our lead economic advisor, the US government, advocates for this.
	Jared Bernstein, who has a degree in music and a master's degree in social work, is the number one economic advisor who advocates that owning the world reserve status is a privilege we can no longer afford.
	So what do you do?
	Everything in your power.
	To lose it, including here at home with this country being a shell of what it was.
	Let's hope we still have the American spirit and can find our bearings again.
	But, you know, by weaponizing the dollar the way that we have, by going green and turning our back on Saudi Arabia and the petrodollar.
	We couldn't have drawn it up any better in terms of losing it.
	It's true.
	Yeah, and they want to reset the system.
	So option number three, find a villain.
	And the country is so stupid, the people, that they'll believe it.
	They'll believe it hook, line, and sinker.
	And how else do you get people to take a CBDC? Well, no one wants to take it.
	None of your listeners will take it.
	Well, you blow up the system, point to a villain.
	And what would happen if rates went parabolic in the face of dollars?
	Every country in the world has had to stockpile them for 50 years, and they dump them.
	Rates go to the moon.
	Stocks, bonds, real estate.
	The insurance companies have 90% exposure to treasuries.
	And how about the banks?
	They're all over-leveraged and under-capized.
	Bang, it all blows up.
	But have no fear.
	Number two is here, Lael Brainard, modern monetary theorist.
	And she's all about central bank digital currency.
	She worked with MIT in its development.
	So yeah, I think, you know, is it too stupid to be stupid?
	Is this planned?
	I don't know.
	I don't know what you have against all these trillions of dollars that I'm holding here from Zimbabwe and Yugoslavia and all these collapsed nations.
	I mean, clearly this is worth something.
	But I need to ask you, since you brought in energy and the petrodollar status, The Middle East.
	Okay, the Middle East situation is on fire.
	We are in a rapid escalation cycle that could go insanely bad.
	You know, Israel could launch a nuke at Iran.
	Russia could retaliate by nuking the U.S. Navy.
	I mean, this is getting out of control, but Iran could block the Strait of Hormuz.
	And please explain to us...
	What would be the ramifications on U.S. debt, currency, and gold if Iran, and I understand this is almost a nuclear option from Iran, but to block the Strait of Hormuz or selectively block, to say no energy to the U.K., no energy to Western countries, but China, you can have energy out of the Strait, but nobody else gets any shipments.
	What would be the ramifications?
	Well, and if you look, too, I mean, if you look at Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and I think, who just applied, it's Sudan, I think, and Ethiopia.
	It was put in.
	They have the entire Straits of Hormuz in the Red Sea controlled themselves.
	The BRICS do.
	Completely and totally controlled.
	But what would happen?
	I mean, you know, price of oil goes parabolic.
	Massive inflation starts to kill the economy, blows everything up.
	I mean, that's the thing.
	You know, I would like to hope, at least in terms of You know, rationale that these people understand they can destroy the West by just doing things like that, by no longer accepting US dollars, by blocking the Straits of Hormuz, letting the price of oil go to $200 a barrel.
	Watch what happens to the economy.
	Watch what happens to the stock market.
	Watch what happens to inflation.
	Watch what happens to Treasury yields.
	I mean, the whole thing blows up.
	You don't have to kill all of human civilization And a tit for tat.
	You can blow things up by doing things that way and I think they understand that.
	So I think that's a much more plausible You're saying that you think Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz first before trying to escalate kinetically.
	Because the economic warfare against the West is even more effective than kinetic warfare.
	Is that kind of what you're saying?
	That's kind of what I'm hoping.
	Maybe that's hopium.
	But, you know, look at all of the countries that are in the BRICS alongside of Iran, and you have the Straits of Hormuz controlled.
	If they unilaterally said, hey, we're not taking dollars for oil anymore and the Straits of Hormuz is closed, it's over in this country.
	It is.
	I mean, it's over.
	And that's the thing, that all the dollar bulls say, no, that could never happen.
	That could never happen.
	The bond market is the most liquid market in the world, and the dollar is everyone owns the dollar and the dollar debt.
	I mean, it's all nonsense to me.
	We're doing everything we can to destroy that reputation.
	This arrogance becomes policy, right?
	So Western arrogance, which is really built up from post-World War II dominance in terms of global currency, but also military dominance and so on, even though that's all obsolete now, our decision makers are still operating as if it's still like 1982 or whatever, but it isn't.
	That's the problem.
	They haven't come around to reality.
	I mean, Iran just launched ballistic missiles that penetrated Israel's Iron Dome, by the way, and struck precision targets on military bases as a demonstration.
	Nobody in the West will even report it because they're still pretending that the Iron Dome is impenetrable.
	Yeah, the whole thing is ludicrous, to be honest with you.
	And that's the way I interpret it as well.
	It was kind of like, well, you know, And they did it the right way, I guess you could say, if there is a right way.
	They didn't target any civilian population, and they did it in saying, hey, you know, this is what happens next time.
	But when you talk about all of the cost involved at firing off all those missiles in the Iron Dome, there is a French warship That just has been in the Red Sea for 70 days had to turn around and go back to France because they were 100% out of munitions.
	They ran out of everything.
	They're firing $2 million missiles at $10,000 drones and going through them like gumballs.
	That's the economy of the West right there.
	$2 million missiles are taking out $10,000 drones.
	We're winning!
	And he says those drones fly at sea level.
	And, you know, they're very hard to see on radar.
	And you're firing real quick.
	You're firing missiles at them.
	And, you know, but think of the military-industrial complex.
	That's really their wet dream.
	Well, we'll build you some more.
	And that's why they're trying to keep the price of silver down.
	But when you talk about the cost involved, yeah, look, I would really hope that neither of these countries feel that their back is against the wall and needs to do something that will change the scope of human civilization forever.
	I really do.
	I try not to be political.
	I think all war sucks.
	The fact that we continue to see this accelerating It's a shame.
	It is.
	And it will probably lead to something much worse.
	But I think, indeed, a form of a blockade of the Straits of Hormuz, I think that's in the cards for sure.
	I mean, there's very little, I think, very little that they could do that would affect us worse without firing off a missile.
	And the fact that they're all there, all of the BRICS control that completely and totally.
	If Sudan joins, I think it's Sudan.
	I'm pretty sure it is.
	Between Ethiopia, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, they have it all covered.
	They own it.
	And it's kind of like owning a whole section of the board on monopoly.
	You ain't getting through unless you pay.
	And maybe we just don't want to send it to you any longer.
	I don't know.
	Todd, I got a question for Todd on this, but first let me give out your website, Andy.
	It's milesfranklin.com, and that's where people can get gold and silver precious metals from you.
	And just for full disclosure, this is not a sponsored segment.
	We are not paid by Andy or Miles Franklin.
	We don't get a commission or anything like that.
	We always have Andy on because of his expertise.
	But, Todd, my question to you is, You know, Andy, and it's awesome to be here and be able to participate in this interview, but what's going through your mind as someone you own, I think, some amount of gold and silver?
	Are you thinking that you need to get more, or are you thinking sell now and take profits because the price is high?
	What's going through your mind?
	I've been dollar-cost averaging into gold forever.
	I mean, that's...
	Once I started, my wife and I started acquiring gold, and I think it was when it was around like $1,900, we've just been dollar-cost averaging.
	So it really hasn't affected me.
	It's been more of a discipline.
	It's been, you know, a muscle that I've continued to work.
	And...
	I do have a question regarding the price of gold, Andy.
	And can you educate us again about trying to make the price of gold relative to...
	I remember you sharing a story about a suit.
	Like back in the 1920s, you could buy a suit for a silver...
	Like an ounce of gold.
	Like a really good suit, yeah.
	I don't know if you can see that, but...
	That is a $20 gold piece, which is right there.
	A $20 gold piece and a $20 gold certificate.
	The difference between a $20 gold certificate and a $20 bill, $20 bill now says, in God we trust.
	Here it says payable to the bearer on demand in gold coin.
	So a $20 gold coin back in the early 1900s would have bought you a hell of a nice suit.
	And now, $2,400 an ounce nearly, it buys you a really nice suit.
	It retains its value.
	So it retains its value.
	So the moral of the story, I was thinking this through, I thought, am I doing it all wrong acquiring gold?
	I should just be buying a boatload of suits.
	Yeah.
	Well, you know, there's another analogy, too.
	The Census Bureau would tell you that in 1960, the price of a house was $17,000.
	The price of gold was $39.
	And if you take, say, your grandfather left your parents...
	If you take 17,000 and divide it by, let me do the math real quick, 17,000 divided by 39, 436 ounces.
	So Grandpa left your parents 436 ounces and they say, well, should we sell the gold and buy the house?
	And no, let's not.
	We'll throw it under the mattress.
	It's been there for 60 years.
	And that house that was $17,000, the Census Bureau today would say it's more like $400,000, an average house in the United States.
	And the price of gold is $23.60.
	So 400,000 divided by 2360 is 169 ounces.
	So that hole that was earning no interest for 60 years now buys you three houses.
	Yeah, right.
	And that's the thing.
	And the $17,000, that doesn't even buy you a couch and a TV anymore.
	No.
	That's great.
	And you can go all the way back to the beginning of time and you'll see similar things like this.
	It's the tortoise, not the hare.
	I mean, if you ask people how much is gold up since 2000, no one would really know, but it's outperformed everything.
	It's up 9% per year compounding.
	It's the tortoise, not the hare.
	Little by little by little, it continues to move.
	I think you guys will both appreciate this.
	I recently did a consultation, Mike.
	You know I do those for Decentralized Directory.
	And I had a wonderful woman.
	Her name was Mary.
	She's in her 50s.
	And she has had her grandson who was coming to visit her over the weekend.
	And she said, you and Mike, you guys are so smart and everything.
	Can you give me three pieces of advice that I can give him?
	To demonstrate that there's going to be a bright future.
	How to have a bright future.
	And it kind of caught me off guard.
	And I thought about it.
	I said, okay, three things.
	Three pieces of advice.
	Turn off your TV and turn on nature.
	That's one.
	Second, turn off your TV and turn on gold.
	That was the second.
	And the third one was turn off your TV and turn on truth.
	And I said, that's...
	Someone like Mike Adams, you know, who speaks truth to power, the gold, you do, and everything.
	So you guys have impacted me a lot because, you know, I really think that the bright future, it all centers on the first thing, which is turn off your TV. Nothing good comes from it.
	Would you guys agree?
	Well, absolutely, Todd.
	That's a great story and kind of leads me to a bigger question here for Andy, which is what's going to be left for the American people that don't follow that kind of advice?
	So people that are still holding dollars and they think that dollars are good, they believe the establishment, you know, these are probably also the same people that are still wearing masks for whatever reason.
	And they trust whatever the government tells them to do.
	What are they going to be left with when this, you know, currency collapse really...
	Universal basic income.
	If you are not a contrarian, you're going to be a victim.
	And if you are fully invested in dollars, you're destined to go broke.
	And I really do believe that.
	You know, oftentimes, if you go back through history, in large macro events, there are too many people that hang on, that think this could never happen to us.
	That recency and normalcy bias would say, we've always, with our backs to the wall...
	We've persevered and prevailed, but this is a country that I think no longer has that same unity.
	We have 12 million people in this country illegally.
	Look at it this way.
	The Congressional Budget Office, which is the last nonpartisan group in all of Washington, said that in seven years, about six and a half years, 2031, That 100% of tax revenue would go to pay just the interest on the debt and mandatory entitlement spending like Social Security.
	That doesn't take into account the 12 million people that are here illegally, who's going to house them, feed them, and give them medical service.
	Who's going to pay for that?
	You can see what's happening in Denver right now.
	The point is, is how do we pretend to be the dominant superpower militarily and financially when military spending is discretional?
	So 100% of discretional spending will have to be borrowed.
	So who's gonna borrow us money to fund our military to go around telling the world what to do?
	And it's even more stupid when you realize we're already at that broke place, and yet we continue to give money to the rest of the world, ignoring what's happening in our own backyard, Money just grows on trees, and that's the mentality that we've always had.
	That's the rallying cry that is making all of these people, all these countries stick together to find safety in numbers and a massive adoption of ideology and of natural resources and all of these things.
	The glue that makes it work, in my opinion, will be commodities and transparency.
	It will be gold.
	It will be blockchain.
	They will be married together for the world to see.
	They will audit it.
	They will have it independently audited.
	And now the world will have trust for a system that I don't think anyone will ever trust fiat again.
	Even Kristalina Georgieva, the head of the IMF said, look, if you have a CBDC and it's not pegged to something, it's going to be fiat.
	And there is no other reason that the Bank of International Settlements would have reclassified gold after 75 years of it just being dollars in treasuries as the only other tier one.
	And there is no other reason that the banks keep buying it, the central banks, like they are if they don't have something big in store for it.
	So being in dollars is a disaster.
	A really critical corollary to what you just said is that the BRICS nations are talking about a gold-backed Blockchain-based digital settlement currency to be used by governments, businesses, and individuals.
	And one other thing, too, Mike, that I don't know if you've heard yet, you know, a lot of what really got me onto this a long time ago was the Belt Road Initiative.
	That's where I started focusing on this stuff.
	So let me just read you one thing here that is interesting.
	I just read it the other day.
	I'll have it in 10 seconds.
	But real quick, I want to point out that the thing about blockchain is that no nation can counterfeit the currency.
	That's the key.
	This is the first time in the history of human civilization when we have a technology that governments can't cheat.
	That's right.
	And they understand that.
	And more importantly, as well, you are outside the SWIFT system.
	So the Belt Road Initiative has every old country on it, everyone.
	And it's got 75% of human population right now, 50% of global GDP. The Chinese government just launched the new public blockchain infrastructure platform led by Confluence Network.
	The new platform dubbed ultra-large-scale blockchain infrastructure platform for the Belt and Road Initiative.
	The main focus of the project is to create a public blockchain infrastructure platform.
	This platform will be able to support, here it is, the implementation of cross-border cooperation projects along the Belt and Road Initiative.
	So you have 75% of human population that will be able to trade with one another not using SWIFT or not using dollars.
	Wow.
	And I would imagine, I'm just guessing, but that can also handle the tracking and country of origin status tracking for products.
	So if you want to know, where did these tomatoes come from?
	Well, the blockchain encodes the origins of the tomatoes and tracks it through, kind of like a public...
	Todd, this is where the blockchain being transparent is really useful.
	Yeah.
	When you want to certify where something was made, where it came from, where did this aluminum come from, you could track all the inputs of a project through the blockchain, not to mention the settlement and the payments as well.
	So, I mean, it's a revolutionary technology.
	China's got it.
	Yeah, the infrastructure is being built, period.
	And it's interesting, Zimbabwe, who just applied to the BRICS New Development Bank and has informally expressed interest in joining the BRICS, well, they just came out with their new gold-backed currency.
	But the interesting thing about it is the new currency, and this to me sounds familiar, is a basket of gold.
	Currencies and a basket of commodities.
	Yep.
	Where have we heard that before?
	So you can see they are putting pieces in place.
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Because nobody's going to trust, after the dollar collapses, nobody's going to trust a currency that's just printed by a government that's not backed by anything.
	Right.
	Everybody's going to rush to something backed by metals.
	That's right.
	And President de Gaulle from France proved that convertible currencies convert when he tried to drain all the gold from the U.S., and that's why Nixon closed the gold window.
	That's right.
	So by using blockchain, you don't have to have it convertible.
	You can show immutability.
	If it is properly audited and agreed upon independently, you don't need to have a convertible just so that it is tethered to sanity so that the governments won't do what all governments have done, what we're doing, and that is inflate the currency to zero, to worthlessness.
	So I think it really is, as Zoltan Pozar calls it, Bretton Woods III, an era of commodities and transparency.
	And look at what the Chinese are doing.
	They bought the LME, all the base metals.
	They're signing contracts all around the world for food, soybeans, corn, wheat, etc.
	They're building infrastructure all over the world in unindustrialized countries, building oil wells and gold and silver mines and train tracks and maritime channels and roads and bridges and everything you need to industrialize and to do it cooperatively.
	And then they're building the rails for trading currency and commodities cross-border digitally outside the purview of the West.
	All of the things that they are doing, you can see it if you take a step back and say, my God, this is real.
	And there's too much poo-pooing of it and blowing it away.
	I like the phrase logarithmic decay, little by little by little by little and bang all at once.
	And the little by little takes a long time, and that's where you get the naysayers.
	And they're always, well, it takes so long, it's a nothing burger.
	But when it happens, I think the speed of the switch will blow people away by how fast it happens.
	In hours, in days at the most.
	Andy, speaking of little by little by little by little, we all know that if we look at the last two decades, the best time to buy gold would have been two decades ago.
	The second best time to buy gold would be today.
	So what I want to do, and again, everybody, you're not a sponsor.
	I just want people to hopefully start developing this muscle.
	How would somebody through you be able to take, let's say, $500 and acquire their first bit of gold, Andy?
	The best way to do it, you know, we have our third version of a new website.
	Let me completely redo it coming out in June.
	And you can buy on our website.
	But for anyone who wants to see our special pricing that we hold closer to the vest, that'll be probably as competitive or more so than anyone in America, is to send us an email with any questions at info at milesfranklin.com.
	Any questions, what you've heard here, anything on IRAs or whatever, or you just want the price list.
	And look at our super competitive price list.
	And you can buy online if you want to just do it quickly and easily.
	You'll get a better price if you get the price list and there's no obligation in it.
	And if you have questions, give us a call.
	We will make it very transparent and very easy.
	Do you have anything set up to where somebody could just set up a plan with you and say, hey, I want to invest $250 a month, dollar cost average, auto deducted from my checking account?
	Is there such a thing?
	There is, very much so.
	And I have also just signed a contract with I'm going to wait until the next time on your show to announce it, but it's a...
	Well, I guess I can say it now.
	I mean, I got nothing.
	We're not pressuring you, Andy.
	No, you're not.
	I signed a contract with Glint, and they are an amazing platform.
	I went to London and met with them.
	They've spent a lot of money developing it.
	I've heard of Glint.
	It's a phone platform where you can buy right on your phone like that.
	You can buy monthly.
	They have a deal with MasterCard.
	You can spend your gold if you want.
	Wow.
	It's a really easy way to do it.
	You can connect it to a checking account, to a credit card, whoever you want, and it's instantaneously.
	The gold is physically held at Brinks.
	You can redeem it through us for physical gold.
	So yes, our new website will have that feature.
	A lot of people will call us and we take their ACH information, their checking account or savings account, routing an account, and then they say on the first of the month, buy me $500 of silver maple leaves.
	We We do that all the time.
	And then you ship it to them so they can take self-custody, correct?
	Correct.
	Absolutely.
	And, you know, that's the thing.
	Gold and silver in a world of counterparty risk are assets that have none.
	There is no liability.
	And this is why the central banks are buying it because we are showing our hand as showing them what counterparty liability is and that sanction and confiscation liability.
	Same thing is true here.
	You let someone hold your gold and silver.
	I mean, there are a lot of great storage programs.
	We have a fantastic one at Brinks.
	I think it's the best in the industry.
	But the beauty of gold and silver is an asset that is simultaneously no one else's liability.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Counterparty risk is going to be – that's a term a lot of people are going to get familiar with when they lose everything.
	Huge.
	By default.
	Yeah.
	Like your bank is a counterparty.
	You know, you don't own the money that you put in the bank.
	In fact, you are, by definition, an unsecured general creditor of the bank.
	That's right.
	Right.
	An FDIC that everyone feels so comfortable with, it has $128 billion in assets backing $18 trillion in deposits.
	Not a good ratio.
	Right.
	Back to that trillion conversation and how many seconds in 30-some years that is.
	31,688 years ago.
	Pretty much their acronym needs to be enhanced.
	It needs to be F-U-D-I-C. But in any case, the website is milesfranklin.com.
	Sorry, Todd.
	Andy, thank you as always.
	Just bombshells of information.
	You are so well informed.
	You must spend hours every day staying on top of this situation.
	Says the guy who spends hours every day staying on top of things.
	Yes, I do, and so do you.
	It's very obvious, but it's a labor of love.
	It's something I feel very passionate about, and I follow what you guys do, and I love being on your show, and I thank you.
	It's an honor.
	Thank you for the kind words and know that I'll always come back at the drop of a hat if I'm able.
	And it's a privilege and an honor to be on a show with you guys who see things so clearly and doing so much for the rest of the world.
	It's great to have you on.
	And yeah, this is abundantly clear.
	Anybody paying attention, you can avoid being wiped out.
	But to those people who aren't paying attention, you will be wiped out.
	I mean, that's just where we are.
	But thank you, Andy.
	You got it, guys.
	Hey, all the best.
	You have a great weekend, and I look forward to picking up with you both, hopefully not too far down the road where we left off.
	We'll do it again soon.
	All right.
	All right, guys.
	Take care, Andy.
	Yep.
	All right.
	Bye-bye.
	So that was Andy Schachman, everybody, from milesfranklin.com, just one of the top guys in this space.
	He knows more than anybody else about what's going on.
	So, Todd, how about you and I take a break, and then we'll come back and do the after party.
	You got it.
	5 minutes?
	Let's say 10 today.
	Oh, okay.
	Perfect.
	Okay.
	10 minutes.
	I got to take my dog out.
	5.15.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	5.15.
	All right.
	All right.
	Cheers.
	We'll be right back.
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	All right, Todd.
	Wow.
	Look, you know, you and I are both huge fans of Andy Sheckman, and I remember the first time I saw him doing an interview, I think it was on Kitco, and I'm like, I've got to talk to this guy.
	Right.
	We've got to get him on.
	And then that was, you know, a couple years ago, and since then, he's just been nailing it on everything, one after another.
	It's amazing.
	I mean, he's just like a spigot that is just always on, and...
	The only thing he can do is divert it And let you get a few questions.
	I mean this totally positive.
	It's just he has so much knowledge and energy.
	I really think that it's just like this gift from God.
	You know, it's going to come out.
	And the key for him in life, I'm sure, is how to be able to manage it.
	And you know what?
	It's not just spewing about nothing or saying the same thing twice.
	The guy just, it's like, whoa.
	Yeah.
	I wish I was F as smart.
	He's absolutely nailed it.
	And I should explain to our audience, if you're watching this after the Alosha interview, we had a double-header today.
	So we interviewed Alosha, Lenov, and then we interviewed Andy Shackman back-to-back.
	So this is the after-party that we're going to put on both of them.
	But speaking of amazing people, Alosha is just super intriguing.
	We never have low IQ people on this show.
	We have the kind of people you want to hear from for hours because they explode your world of possibilities.
	Yeah, just to borrow a little from the movies, we're like a box of chocolates, Mike.
	You just never know what you get when you turn on DTV. I mean, literally, you don't.
	I mean, I don't.
	Every week, I'm like, who are we going to interview?
	And you're like, Alosha Alinov.
	I'm like, who's that?
	And then I go down this rabbit hole of research, and I'm like, wow.
	Wow.
	That is a different kind of, you know, brilliant.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	But what's amazing is all of this ties in together.
	I mean, all the guests that we interview from, like today, Andy Sheckman or Alosha or others, it's all about bringing power back to...
	of your community, getting off-grid, disconnecting from evil, nefarious systems, and reconnecting with nature and food abundance and love and truth.
	That's the common thread here.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, in the interview with Andy, I talked about turning off TV, right?
	Turning on nature, turning on gold, turning on truth.
	And it all starts with turn off your damn TV. Absolutely.
	Because you're not getting anything good from that.
	Nothing good comes from your television, I'm telling you.
	And so if you stop receiving that as an input, you're way ahead of the game.
	You're way ahead of the game.
	I was just going to finish saying, then that opens yourself up to other inputs, whether it's from Andy or Alosha or Corey Interlott or Peter McLaughlin.
	All of these, you know...
	These guests that we have had on, Mike, when you go back, it's just astonishing, right?
	And each of them brings a different gift to the table.
	Absolutely.
	You're so right that it's kind of like our job needs to be seeking out others like us, And others who can water us, you know, with their different perspective on life.
	Yeah, and this is the whole point of why we have to have freedom of speech, you know, because we need to be able to bring in all these innovative ideas and speakers that change people's lives for the better.
	And I would even say, Todd, that for people, like, we've been doing this show for about a year now, right?
	Yeah, yeah, amazing.
	It's been a year.
	People who implemented the ideas that they learned here on this show, whether it's Food Forest or Jim Gale's information or what you're doing with your Food Forest, or whether it's precious metals or decentralizing through blockchain technology, freedom of speech, platforms like Bastion and so on.
	If you took the advice that you learned here, your life is better today than it was a year ago.
	It is.
	You are more free.
	You have more food abundance.
	You have more assets.
	If you bought gold, for example, a year ago, you're sitting on major gains right now in the dollar, compared to the dollar.
	But gold is doing its job.
	It's preserving value.
	It's allowing you to have the off-ramp from that system of controlled fiat currency that is dying.
	Yeah.
	And I feel sorry for people who don't have access to this show.
	They're just watching mainstream TV. Their lives are getting worse.
	I agree.
	And I can't wait for the next year, Mike, because there's certainly going to be two or three ideas or whatever that just kind of are a little...
	Breadcrumb that you know me, I'll follow along and I'll, I don't know, I'll do something else in the back property.
	But these are constructive things and I will tell you, this is my aha.
	I was out in the food forest today with Corey and his dad, Rich, and Peter McLaughlin came over as well.
	I had no idea these people that we interviewed, you know, lived in the area until the interviews, of course.
	And so just invite them over.
	We had the most amazing time.
	But what we talked about when we were out in the food forest, we talked about the miracle of God's gift.
	Absolutely.
	And looking around.
	And when I say turn off the TV and turn on nature, that's what I'm talking about.
	Go outside.
	It doesn't have to be a food forest or anything like that.
	It can just be a walk in your neighborhood.
	Yeah.
	You know?
	And a walk somewhere in your area that might be pretty and beautiful.
	But the key is to...
	Count your blessings, because they can really be taken away from us pretty quickly, too.
	Yeah, that's right.
	And we have to take steps to defend our liberty and our assets.
	And if you just go with the mainstream advice, you're going to lose everything.
	You're going to lose your liberty.
	You're going to lose your assets.
	You're going to lose your country, probably.
	You know, I was online, Mike, and I was looking at different websites.
	I decided to do something I never do.
	I'm like, I wonder what CNN.com and MSNBC.com, I wonder what they're talking about.
	And I never go to them.
	But I did it just because I was curious.
	Man, you would think that the world is a beautiful place right now.
	Oh, really?
	Everything's awesome?
	Oh, the dollar's kicking butt.
	It's like, you know, the economy could never be better and things like that.
	They're not speaking the truth.
	Yeah.
	That's why you have to turn off the TV and turn on truth.
	Well, they're all trying to get Biden re-elected, of course, is their goal.
	And that's going to be tough if...
	The situation accelerates with, you know, war and money printing and devaluation of the dollar, food inflation.
	What if gas prices go to $10 a gallon because of what's happening in the Middle East?
	You know, Biden's going to have an even more difficult time than he would otherwise have.
	Well, then I hope they go to $300 a gallon.
	Let's just control all and delete this Biden experiment right now, please.
	Oh, my.
	Yeah, well, but part of that, though, is that How much of the system is so embedded with bad ideas and corruption to where even if you get somebody different in charge, Trump or someone else in the Oval Office, that doesn't replace the entire system, the deep state, the bureaucracy, and just this...
	The brainwashing, generations of brainwashing that the U.S. is the leader of the world, the dollar is the best, and it's always going to be the best, and there's nothing that anybody can do to stop it.
	And this arrogance is going to get us destroyed, frankly, because the U.S. has forgotten how to get along with other trading partners.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's like, Russia's like, hey, we'd like to sell you, you know, aluminum and copper.
	Sell you, you know, technology.
	And the U.S. is like, screw you, we'll sanction you.
	You know, we don't want your stuff.
	We're going to try to punish you.
	And then the U.S. ends up punishing itself.
	And it's like, you know, if you were running a kindergarten and you had children on the playground, like, the U.S. would be the bully that runs around pulling the hair of the girls and kicking the other boys in the balls.
	Doesn't know how to get along with anybody.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	And then going in the corner and doing that, what is it, self-flagellations or whatever, where they hit themselves on the back.
	I mean, that's what we're doing.
	The enemy is from within.
	Like if the bully set himself on fire and screamed out, we're punishing Russia!
	You know, it's insane.
	But would the bully have three, four, or ten pronouns?
	Oh yeah, it would be like a rainbow flag transgender bully.
	It would be actually a biological male bully who says, it's ma'am, you know, runs around kicking everybody in the balls.
	You can't punch me back.
	I'm tranny.
	You know, that's how insane it would be.
	But Zur would be reading a nice book to the kids because it's library day, Mike.
	I guess.
	I guess.
	I don't know what they're doing to the kids these days.
	It's a horrifying thought.
	But anyway, kind of back to what we covered today.
	Hey, you know, isn't it nice to know that Alosha, for example, here's a guy lived in South Africa, lives in Moscow now, or I think was joining us from Moscow, talking about from a very global perspective that the Russian people have more sanity at this point.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And they don't look at us as as the bad guys.
	They're smarter than that.
	You know, yeah.
	Now, my my wife is is from Russia.
	And, and it's always interesting, because, believe it or not, there are a lot of people who are Russian who are leaving Russia, can't get out of there fast enough.
	And not everybody, you know, from Russia thinks that Putin is, you know, God's gift to Russia.
	And so, you know, that's where it's...
	Bottom line is, Mike, I would love to have Alosha back on, and I would love to be able to take a deeper dive and have him give a...
	More in-depth presentation with visuals and such, because I think there's a there there, and it's definitely worth exploring.
	And if not anything else, I think we might run the risk of learning something from Elosha, because I love his vision.
	Alright, so Todd, look, bottom line is a couple of great guests today.
	Alosha is an amazing individual, and I'm also glad to be able to have someone on from Russia so we can always try to bridge that divide that's artificial.
	That's pushed by the establishment trying to make everybody hate each other, you know?
	Yep.
	Which is completely insane.
	The truth is, you know, a lot of the Russian people share the same ideals and philosophies that you and I have, and it's true among people all over the world, in the Middle East, in China, in South America, everywhere.
	People want to be free.
	They want to be free, and I keep rewinding and going back to the one fact of life that cures most, and that's turn off your TV, because your TV will tell you that we think differently than Russians and all of that, but it's just kabuki theater, you know, that's intended to...
	Turn our perspectives upside down.
	And it's all a game of inversion for these Druid Babylonian bastards.
	And they're pretty good at it.
	But their tool and their power really comes through the TV. So that's rule number one.
	Absolutely.
	Now, I completely agree with you, and it's great to be able to do this show with you and talk to all these amazing guests.
	We need to give credit to our sponsors today, because that's how we fund the show.
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	And then your website, Todd, is decentralizeddirectory.com.
	What do you want to share with us about your site today?
	Maybe you could just take them to the section where, yeah, the key partners supporting decentralization.
	Click on that and go down to the middle, the one that talks about the tax strategy.
	There we go.
	Yeah, if you click on that, Mike, when you and I did our one-on-one show together, and we talked about this in more depth, it was amazing the response that I received.
	I had a lot of people that reached out to me, and they were interested, and many booked an hour with me, and I even made an offer to one guy.
	He's like, well, you know, I don't know if I... I mean, I know I need this.
	I want to keep more of what I earn, and Yes, I pay more than $5,500 in taxes a year, but I said, let me just make it easy for you.
	You book an hour with me.
	Now, it's $500, everybody, but I guarantee you it's the best $500 you'll ever spend.
	If, indeed, you pay taxes as a W-2 earner or 1099 of over $5,500 a year, it's a no-brainer.
	But...
	I respect the fact that you just don't know what you don't know.
	So if you book an hour, and we do an hour with me, and you know what?
	If you decide, yeah, I learned a lot, but not for me, I'll send half back.
	Is that fair, Mike?
	Wow.
	Satisfaction guarantee.
	Yeah, or it's half guaranteed, just because it's my time, too.
	But really, since then, I have had, I mean...
	It's been beautiful.
	There have been many people who are now super excited, especially because tax season just came and many experienced the pain.
	And if you lawfully keep more of what you earn, and I'm talking way more of what you earn, hopefully it's at least a good investment of time.
	You might learn something.
	And as I always say, I don't Suggest anybody do anything that I haven't done.
	And I have had my entity, the UNA it's called, for over four years.
	And it's a blessing.
	It's a real blessing.
	All right.
	So that's at decentralizeddirectory.com.
	And someday I've got to learn more about that, Todd.
	But I know you've helped a lot of people, so it's definitely worth people checking out.
	One more thing to mention, which is kind of a news item for our show, is that we launched Brighteon.io in the last 10 days.
	And Brighteon.io is built on Bastion.
	So it uses the Bastion source code.
	It's just branded Brighteon.io.
	It's the same ecosystem, the same users, the same content, and it's even powered by the same coin, the pcoin there.
	And Todd, it's so funny.
	I don't even talk about this coin.
	I don't plug it.
	I don't tell anybody to buy it.
	It's kind of a reputation coin.
	You can use it on the platform for paying for advertising, or if you have enough coinage, you can post more content, things like that.
	But it went up from $0.25 to $0.60 and now settled to $0.51.
	And I have not talked about it at all.
	And from what I understand from the creator, it's basically a version of Bitcoin.
	It's like a fork of Bitcoin.
	It's the Bitcoin code.
	So it's not a privacy coin, but it's a practical coin.
	It's a token on this platform.
	In any case, the most important thing about Brighttown.io is that it's decentralized.
	It's peer-to-peer.
	There are no central servers.
	And what I like about the coin and the tie-in with Brideon.io is now we're talking about that coin has a real viable use case.
	It's all about use cases.
	You and I have always talked about that, Todd.
	And if you post something, you can boost your post on the platform by just using a couple of these pcoins.
	For like 50 cents or a dollar, you can boost your post to reach a much larger audience.
	So yeah, it's a real practical thing.
	Even without that, What I love about this platform is that it's uncensorable.
	No one can censor anyone else.
	No government can censor.
	Even if the government ordered me to censor somebody, I can't do it.
	Because the code doesn't even allow it.
	And it's peer-to-peer traffic.
	And if you download the app, that's at brighteon.io slash applications.
	It works even if the domain names go down.
	It doesn't need domain name resolution.
	So even during the internet kill switch.
	But Todd, this is like a...
	The kind of stuff that you and I talk about all the time, like rolling out solutions for freedom and decentralization.
	This is it.
	And I so admire you, Mike, because you don't just talk about things you do, you know?
	Whether it's your large language AI model.
	Yeah, no, but you definitely lead with your chin, and I'm so grateful for that.
	We should all be grateful for that.
	You're just an animal when it comes to execution.
	Well, I've come to embrace the slogan since we started the show.
	The slogan is building the infrastructure of human freedom.
	Right.
	Which I think would be a great slogan for this show, by the way.
	But that's what I'm doing.
	And you notice that a lot of the things that we release, like our AI model and now Brighteon.io, these are free tools.
	People can use them for free.
	And they're decentralized.
	And so even the AI model, you know, you download it, you run it locally, it's not in the cloud, no one can stop you.
	This is, and it's kind of, it's really the cypherpunk mentality.
	This is what crypto is based on.
	It's supposed to be self-custody.
	And better still, is running it locally on your above book.
	Yeah.
	Exactly.
	Well said.
	But anyway, those are some resources for our audience here.
	A couple of sponsors and a couple of free resources.
	Todd, anything else you want to add before we wrap this up today?
	It's been an awesome day already.
	Maybe what you can do, because I have people who have inquired about how's the food forest going, and I'm really excited about the fact that I am diving headfirst into the shallow end with the beekeeping.
	And Mike, you know I did a quick four-minute documentary of the bee reveal, having the bees and the beekeeper, the owner of TampaBees.com coming to my property, and we...
	I now have about 20,000 bees, and so maybe your producers can attach that little video to the end.
	I think people would really enjoy it.
	Me documenting the arrival of my, I think it's 8 to 20,000 bees.
	I don't know how much, but it's a lot of bees.
	Did you count them all?
	Did you make sure you got every bee?
	Yeah, I did a joke on my wife.
	I told my wife, because I had to travel, and I called her, and I'm like, oh, Jana, hey, do me a favor.
	Man, I'll send you some links so you can figure out how, but I really need you to go back and milk the bees.
	And she was like...
	I mean, for a sec, she thought it was serious, but she's smarter than that.
	It didn't take her long to just, you know, I don't know, give me a mental middle finger or something.
	But anyway, I sent a link to your producers and to you, Mike, and perhaps you could attach that to the end.
	I've got the videos, yep.
	Really enjoy seeing the unveiling of the bees.
	They are fascinating, and I really want to keep everybody posted over the upcoming months and years.
	Okay, so that's what we're going to do.
	We're going to close out the show by rolling Todd's...
	Bee videos.
	The bee experience, right?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	All right.
	That's what we're going to do.
	Thank you, Todd, for your time today.
	It's always a joy to do these shows with you.
	I had a great time.
	We learned a lot today.
	And I'm so excited about your bees and your food forest.
	Thank you.
	So, everyone, be well.
	Okay, be well.
	Perfect.
	All right, stay tuned, then.
	You're going to watch the video from Todd here.
	We'll go out with that video.
	But thank you for watching today here.
	Decentralized.tv is the website, and it's all hosted here on Brighteon.com.
	Okay, take care, everybody.
	enjoy this video.
	Crack it.
	Smoking crack.
	Okay.
	This is smoking crack for the first time.
	Very pretty, girl.
	That's called bird comb.
	It's extra comb that they don't really need.
	Uh-huh.
	It's outside of the frame.
	It's outside of the frame.
	Yeah, they're so cute.
	Oh, she's got eggs everywhere.
	She does?
	Yeah, so that's all a really pretty group pattern.
	It's 100.
	You can see that, Titus.
	Wow.
	So...
	Her eggs, when you're looking to hold that...
	Uh-huh.
	So, always the main, like, the older bees are going to be in the middle, and then your eggs are going to be on the perimeter.
	So, you put your back to the front.
	Uh-huh.
	Then you're going to let down on your cells.
	Oh, yeah.
	- Yeah.
	- The eggs and stuff.
	But, see you later.
	Bye.
	- Got the pollen in there.
	As you can see, they were probably all over that tree.
	And so here-- - Where's the pollen?
	The yellow.
	Oh, okay.
	All the yellow.
	And then there's the orange one right there.
	You know, you get the honey, ultimately.
	So, I can do the same thing on the side, though.
	I see.
	Oh, that's cool.
	Nice.
	You can pull up on your frame.
	Yep, so nice and slow.
	You can put it in.
	Very good.
	She's not here.
	Oh, I see.
	I got it.
	You got it?
	Uh-huh.
	Yeah, honey.
	There's a big one on this side.
	So if you'll hold this maker up, and just give them a little bit of puff right there, so they get away off of the, we call those the ears of the frame.
	Okay.
	Now watch how I put this one on right here.
	Oh, okay.
	And then over here I get it down.
	I get it down.
	And then also for having a mite problem because at the time we'll check you for mites.
	I don't like to check them when they're brand new because you're killing about 300 bees.
	Oh really?
	Oh there she is.
	Oh yeah?
	I don't know.
	This is getting back right here in the corner.
	Oh wow.
	Hi mama!
	Thank you!
	Is that her coming up here?
	Yeah!
	Got her!
	There she is!
	Well, she is!
	She's fast and she's in a hurry.
	She's got to lay her a thousand eggs today.
	She's like, I don't have time for this.

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