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April 22, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Shocking truth about open borders HUMAN TRAFFICKING revealed - An interview with Miguel Casas
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Welcome, everybody, to today's interview here on Brighttown.com.
And as you see, I have a guest in studio.
I'll introduce him here in a second.
This man has been recommended to me by so many people in Central Texas.
Someone who is, not only is he a well-experienced expert firearms trainer, and he has a firearms school in Central Texas, well, a training facility.
But he knows a lot.
He's got a lot of connections to important people.
He's a faith-based person.
He understands the role of God and Christ in life and taking guidance from Christ to work for humanity.
He knows a lot about what's happening with the border, and he's been able to suss out a lot of what's happening with human trafficking.
So we're going to have a very interesting conversation in studio today.
We're going to start with the firearms training.
So, my guest is named Miguel Casas.
Welcome, Mr.
Casas, to the show today.
Hello, everybody.
Thank you for having me.
I appreciate it, Mike.
It's an honor to have you.
I probably should have invited you six months ago.
People kept saying, you've got to talk to Miguel Casas.
Six months ago, really?
Yeah, more than six months ago.
I don't know if it's important, but I think the word important applies.
I think it's more infamous.
Infamous.
Infamous.
No, people always said amazing things about you.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
So you're saying I did something right at some point.
You have made some waves in a good way that people remember what you're doing and you're working for the right causes.
Well, you know, there was a guy many, many, many, many years ago who made waves for the right causes and it didn't elicit the right reactions.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
His name was Jesus.
Yes, that's right.
So I'm like, I'm doing it according, hopefully I'm doing it according to whatever he wants and whatever reactions people have.
It's just there.
It's going to happen.
That's right.
Right there with you.
So this is actually the first time that you and I have ever spoken.
Right.
This is the first time.
But that's actually great for this interview, because I get to ask you from a very fresh perspective, just like our audience.
Absolutely.
But let's start with your website.
It's therealsdi.com, and that stands for Sheepdog Initiative.
Let's show the site.
This is your firearms training.
Now, of course, our audience knows what sheepdog means, so you don't have to explain that, probably.
But tell us about your firearms training facility, which is in Central Texas, right?
Yes, it's Central Texas.
It's just outside of Austin.
I'm not law enforcement or military.
I came up through the academia of firearms training.
Interesting.
I was educated by other extremely talented teachers.
I came up through a very large firearms training facility in Nevada.
It's about 650 acres of training.
And the people I learned from there, I'm not sure if you're familiar with...
A man by the name of Jeff Cooper.
Well, a legend.
That's probably a good question.
Jeff Cooper, I mean.
So Jeff, you know, the author of The Combat Mindset, the author of the current modern curriculum behind handgun training, right?
The father of the modern combat handgun training.
He basically taught the guys that I learned from.
So there's this thing that I tell my students all the time.
There's Jeff, there's this person, there's me, and then there's you.
And so you've played that game before, right, where you whisper around the table.
By the time it gets to the other side, it's a whole other thing, right?
That's what I tell people, the advantage of knowing that the curriculum was that close to the creator to you.
And that was about, I think, 2011 is when I actually trained there previously.
Previously, I really had no formal firearms training.
Is that right?
I had training, you know, edged weapons, Filipino edged weapons, empty hand techniques.
I grew up in the Philippines.
No kidding?
Yeah, I grew up in the Philippines.
Filipino edged weapons.
Actually, I... There's a name for that art because I took some lessons from a master.
What's it called?
There's a bunch of names.
Oh, a bunch of names.
Because there's a bunch of arts.
This guy would always carry this straight blade right here in the front.
And it was so quick.
You know the popular karambit?
It's the curved thing.
Everybody thinks that that's a...
Emerson.
I've carried this Emerson.
That's a Fox?
No, this is an Emerson.
Emerson, okay.
I don't like the Fox.
You don't like the Fox.
The dimensions are different.
I like the Emerson.
I've been carrying this for 15 years.
Well, not this one.
I've lost like three of them.
And that hook right there, the hook is important because that's what opens the blade.
Oh, yeah!
I mean, just like, yeah, you know.
Now, yeah, absolutely.
That's a Filipino thing.
Absolutely.
Right?
But then, I try to spin it around into an aggressive stance as soon as I can.
Now, my advice to you, by the way, is that ring where you have your pinky in the true Filipino art.
Do not leave your pinky in there.
Because...
I will use it to break your...
You might get it broken.
I will use it to break your...
Yeah.
Well...
You are probably capable of that, but the average guy on the street, I'm going to make him bleed first.
This is the blade I carry.
Oh, tell me about this blade.
Okay, so this is just a Spyderco.
I'm in the Philippines, and I see this.
This is last year.
I see this on display, right?
And I look.
It says police on it.
This was barely issued.
You'll notice that this Spyderco blade is actually longer than most blades of the same design of Spyderco.
True, yeah.
This is an actual police issue blade.
Really?
Right?
And so I see it like this, and I'm looking at it, and I ask the guy, you said everything on this top shelf is made in China.
That's why it's cheaper.
He goes, yeah, that's China.
I go, can I see that blade?
He shows it to me, and I read the back.
Seiki City, Japan.
Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and pay for this one right now.
Right.
I'll take the Japanese deal, yeah.
My brother explained this to me.
Because my brother is the true blade master.
We're talking about a guy who literally studied most of his life.
Most of his living life.
And he's 40.
So he said this.
The reason why the Spyderco, this isn't inspired by Filipino blades, is this shape right here.
This blade shape is called the taruk.
Do you remember Avatar?
Do you watch Avatar?
Yeah.
All right.
Remember the big bird?
Yeah.
His name was Taruk Makdo.
Oh, yeah.
That's right.
This is the beak of a big bird.
Wow.
That's why it's called it.
Wow.
Yeah.
Wow.
And I noticed the way you gripped it when you pulled it out.
So this is a liner lock like that.
Yeah.
And you pulled it out and gripped it like this.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Yeah, so it's a very aggressive stance.
Right.
And there's a reason behind that, right?
There's a reason behind this.
That's why I love this.
It's because if I insert that and it somehow catches a rib, I have the extra support to wiggle and push.
And hence that curve there, right?
Against your palm?
The heel of my palm.
Wow.
My finger.
Wow.
That's why I like this blade.
Ergonomic mastery.
Absolutely.
And so basically, you know the term, train like you fight.
Yeah.
Right?
I mean...
Jeff Cooper used that.
Yes.
The guy in Thunder Ranch used that.
Right.
Right?
He says the same thing.
And that's basically why I carry this.
Well, that's very cool.
The zip ties.
Huh?
The zip ties?
Yeah.
That's the same reason for your hook.
The Emerson wave.
Yeah.
That's what it is.
Exactly.
That's why I like that.
I saw you.
I like that.
You're able to retract it when you pull it out.
Right.
Yeah.
But getting back to Jeff Cooper...
See, this is the problem.
We talk about weapons.
I know.
We're going to be here all day.
We'll be here all day, Mike.
You know, I actually co-designed a line of knives with Dawson knives out of Arizona.
You did?
I did.
Oh, my gosh.
I've got some here.
What we can do is we can ask for our crew to bring some over, but they're made out of the Magna-cut steel, which is corrosion-resistant.
Magna cut.
The Rockwell hardness factor is very high, but it's flexible.
Some of these short swords they've made, they've bent them 60 degrees without shatter.
Oh, see, that's good.
It's amazing.
They can bend, but they're hard.
They keep an edge, and they don't corrode.
We'll show you some of those here.
Awesome.
Yeah, just put those over there.
I'll grab them here in a minute.
Thank you.
Okay.
My dog's checking them out like, what is this?
Is it toy time?
Right.
He will try to play with anything that we have.
But back to Jeff Cooper and Firearms Training, your training company, Sheepdog Initiative.
Yeah.
Again, therealsdi.com.
As I recall, Jeff Cooper, he always trained on the 1911.
He did.
He liked the.45 ACP with the 1911, right?
He did.
And then, of course, as firearms evolved, then so many things changed.
And so what you're teaching today is a derivative, obviously, of what he taught back then.
Right.
And everybody's got a Glock or a version of a Glock now.
Right, right.
Right.
Striker fired.
Striker fired.
Right.
You know, and the jams clear differently.
Everything's different from 1911.
Yeah, mailbox and clearances and all that, yeah.
Exactly.
Yeah.
What would you say are the key things that people are coming to realize today about firearms, you know, for personal defense?
Okay.
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, I had the immense privilege because I can certify firefighters and first responders to carry on duty now.
Can you?
Yeah.
In order to do that, I had to go to training with the DPS in Florence, Texas.
Uh-huh.
I can tell you that the Florence facility of the DPS, the training there that they provide, is excellent.
I've been to a few schools, and so you're saying a derivative.
My derivative is the same principle that Bruce Lee used.
Learn from every single master that you can.
Take what works for you and discard the rest.
So for me...
Jiu-Jitsu doesn't work.
Why?
Because I have bad knees.
Now, do I need to know Jiu-Jitsu?
Absolutely.
And so I studied a little bit of Jiu-Jitsu in order to learn how to defend against.
Did I incorporate in my defense concerning that, did I incorporate a concealed handgun?
Yes, I did.
Concealed knife, concealed handgun.
We're not going to take the trouble to fight fair.
We don't.
We don't, right?
No, because it's not a cage match with rules.
Absolutely.
And that's my principle for everything.
Never fight fair.
And so in the DPS facility, here's what I learned.
We actually were given the results of a test that was done between.45 caliber,.45 ACP,.357 SIG. 40 cal.
And 9 mil.
Yeah.
The 9 mil came out on top.
In what way?
Ballistically, everything.
That's the reason why the entire DPS carries 9 mil.
Now, I don't...
There is a particular round.
Is it okay if I tell you which brand it is?
Because that's the round that came out on top.
Yeah, of course.
You can mention...
It's called Hornady Critical Duty.
Oh, I own tons of that.
Okay, yeah.
Not to be confused with Critical Defense.
Because Critical Defense did not really perform as well as Critical Duty.
Yeah, critical duty, it's got a very large expansion factor on the head.
Right, but here's the deal.
It went through the windshield right into the head box of the target without dropping.
.45, it dropped.
Okay, so your ballistics are much more reliable.
Ballistics are much more reliable.
Now, the penetration alone of a 9mm ball around is that deep in ballistic gel.
Yeah, yeah.
Right?
.357 SIG,.40,.45.
Interesting.
Yeah, so with the capability of a hollow point with a polymer tip, that expansion, perfect expansion, perfect starfish, slows down, keeps the damage in that pocket of energy inside the body.
Well, and plus, I love the fact that you can carry a lot more 9mm rounds.
Cheaper, more easily available, and when this goes down, and when I say this, you, your listeners, all know what I'm talking about.
When this goes down, you stock up on the most common round, Best ballistics, easily available.
That's right.
And that's why now my students, I impart that to my students.
They're beginning to understand that, right?
Some people come in with.45 and when they hear this report, now they're scrambling to sell their 1911 or their.45 caliber striker fire and switching it out with 9 mils, right?
Uh-huh.
There are now the other adaptations for 9mm in terms of turning it into a carbine.
PCCs are all centered around 9mm.
Yeah, that's right.
Mostly standard on Glock mags.
Right, exactly.
I actually just bought one that has Glock mags.
And it'll take the Glock 19 mags, it'll take the Glock 17 mags, it'll take the Glock 30 round Glock 9mm mags.
It'll take anything.
That's right.
So...
Well, let me show you this mag that I carry.
I carry on a horizontal holder here.
This is a Glock 43X. Oh, nice.
I love the fact that that's like a one and a half stack.
This is Shield Arms.
Shield Arms.
This is the 15 rounder for the 43X. Exactly.
Excellent.
So I carry a few of those with the 43X. And then Shield Arms just came out with a version of the 43X. I actually have it, but I don't have it here, where they cut the bottom off the grip so it's even more concealable with less of a print.
Nice.
I mean, it's professionally done, but then you can pop these mags in it.
You can carry a smaller mag as your first mag, and then your reload mag is a higher capacity mag.
I think it's great.
If you need to be really concealed somewhere, it's a great way to go.
Yeah, this is great.
I love Shield because they took a problem, but they fixed it.
But the funny thing is, Glock could have fixed it themselves, but they just...
Well, so it's the contention, right?
It's a love-hate relationship.
Yeah, right, right.
Because, I mean, there are guns out there, the Canik, the CZ, P10, P10F, P10, their triggers are far better than the Glock stock out the box, right?
Yeah, absolutely.
I'm from the old school way of thinking concerning that.
I don't really necessarily, I want to say condone, because if you like it, all the more better for you.
But for me, I don't want to buy a gun and then put in another thousand dollars into it just to make sure that I can carry it.
Right.
And so for me, it's out the box.
Whatever I buy, I got to use.
Yeah.
Meanwhile, the prosecution of, of the civil case that's brought against me because I defended my life with even a judicial use of deadly force.
Yeah.
I can still be sued civilly, right?
So now, I'm over there thinking, okay, when you sue me civilly, what's the prosecution going to say?
The other guy, you're going to say, oh, look at this gun.
Wow, look at this.
He's a trained killer.
He's a vigilante.
He says Molen Lobb and he's got a Punisher sticker.
I'm not saying anything bad about that if that's how you want to roll.
And he's written words all over the gun.
If that's how you want to roll, great.
But for me, they're going to pull it out.
Look at this guy.
This is a stock Glock.
And then put it back down.
He can't say anything about it.
Yeah, yeah.
Right?
Good point.
This is how Glock manufactured it, and that's what he bought, and that's what he's using.
Now, having said that, it took a while for Glock to listen to my complaints.
Okay?
Because my first complaint was, when you add barrel length, it adds speed and accuracy.
Yeah.
But the stock of a 17 was too big.
Yes.
Right?
It's hard to conceal.
Very much so.
I concealed my 9.
My 19.
Right?
I concealed my 19.
Okay.
But it's also kind of thick.
Right.
Yeah.
But still, I mean, it's concealable.
Yes.
And I have a remote control shelf that I carry with me at all times.
So I have the real estate to start to kind of hide it.
So I asked for, can you guys make a version where you have a 19 stock and a 17 barrel?
Because the 17 barrel is going in the pants.
Oh, and they did make that.
No, yeah, recently.
Yeah, recently.
But they came out with the Glock 45, which is a 17 stock and a 19 barrel.
Oh, right, right, right.
And I'm like, I guess you didn't understand what I was trying to say.
Yeah, the part that's easy to hide is the barrel.
Right.
Obviously, my advice to Glock wasn't, it's not that important.
Right?
But then I guess the old man Glock died recently, and I'm not saying that's a reason, but right after that they came out, or I think it was after that, they came out with a Glock 49, which is a Glock 17 barrel, Glock 19 stock, right?
And so now, okay, that's the gun, right?
So that's what I'm carrying now.
Yeah, that's what I'm carrying now.
That makes sense.
Right.
That's a great combo.
Right.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
And it works with all the Glock bags.
Right.
All right.
So to your training facility, and don't mind my dog here.
He's just saying hi.
I like him.
Yeah.
So do you...
Do you start people from no skills?
I get people from all walks.
Every skill set?
I can say this only because of the fact that I came out through the academia.
I never was hired by a police department.
I was never hired by...
A military division.
But I've had students that came from both sides.
I even had students who worked with SWAT. Things like that.
Not from this town, but elsewhere.
I can tell you that one school will say, this is the proper grip.
Other school will say, no, that's wrong.
This is the proper grip.
To be honest with you, I've been to schools that taught either or.
So there's a couple of major groups out there.
I saw Solis and Weaver, and both sides will laugh at the other side and criticize the other side.
When I put Sheepdog Initiative together, I asked God, please make this about you.
I don't want this about me.
Because all of the other firearms training schools was all about the awesomeness of the instructor.
Oh, really?
You know what I mean?
Like, you know, Haley Strategic.
It's about Travis Haley.
22422 in under two seconds.
It's impressive.
It is great.
It's impressive, right?
Being able to come from concealment and pass a test called the Combat Master Test.
I mean, it's been around for 20 years, and I think only 400 people have passed.
And they do several thousand a year to take them through that.
And so, I mean, that's impressive.
But it's not about God.
It's about a human being.
Uh-huh.
Well, somebody can call me a liar if they want, but when you put your hopes in the human being, it's a problem.
I completely agree with you.
There's too much celebrity worship and all that nonsense.
And having to go through those kinds of training with the scientific analysis of each and every technique that they're training, I basically realized that everybody's body type is different.
For example, if you're shooting isosceles, and you are shooting it correctly, The pressure is going to be back here.
Right?
If you're shooting Weaver, the pressure is here.
Right?
Somebody might have shoulder problems.
Sure.
Right?
Somebody might have, you know.
So I take them through both, and then I ask them, which one's more comfortable?
That makes perfect sense.
Right?
And then we take them according to what they say, the students.
Right?
So it's about understanding that realization that it's not about me.
Yeah.
Probably allowed us a little more flexibility with regards to, okay, what should we actually teach?
Yeah.
What should we, you know what I mean?
But you teach, I take it, self-defense.
Right.
But do you do rifle training as well?
So what we teach, the proverbial tip of the iceberg is license to carry.
Because, I mean, let's admit it.
That is literally the basic of everything.
And that's like a one-day course, right?
It's a one-day course, but it's actually, we don't touch the license-to-carry course until the afternoon.
In the morning, I take them through my personal safety, marksmanship, weapons manipulation, administrative loading and unloading.
That sort of thing, right?
Yep.
And then actual shooting.
And then once we're done with that basic course, then we take them into the test, and then we take them into the classroom.
I see.
Right?
Okay.
So that's the tip of the iceberg.
Yeah.
Right?
Then the next is, which is what I've studied the most, admittedly.
This is what I know most, right?
It's a defensive handgun, and that's four days of training.
It's not, you don't have to take them all in four days.
You can split them up.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
And then in between, we have something called a skill builder to review what you've already learned.
But defensive handgun is doing that show, the reality check.
What I've come to understand is 90% of the gunfight, I wouldn't go higher, 95% of the gunfight is being able to produce the gun from the holster.
No kidding.
Right?
No kidding.
Concealment with movement, dynamic movement, all of that stuff, right?
Well, you could dry fire practice that all day then.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
And not only that, when you move, because if you're practicing static, right?
That's one thing.
When you move in dynamics, right?
Oh, yeah.
Now your front sight's dancing, right?
Big time.
Yeah.
And it's a whole other discipline, right?
And being able to produce that gun to save your life, Is what you're working towards.
Yeah.
Right?
I hope I don't offend anybody by what I'm about to say.
You hope you don't offend?
Offend.
Oh, okay.
I know I'm going to.
Oh.
Right?
That's okay.
People process their own way.
Right.
So have you seen the footage of the White Settlement shooting?
The White Settlement Church in Fort Worth?
No, I guess I haven't.
The poor gentleman that died first, right?
He had his back up against the wall.
He was doing everything correctly.
He had his back up against the wall.
He could see everything.
There was nobody seated beside him, right?
And then the bad guy pulls the shotgun out.
Well, I put a timer to it.
This is actually part of training day one.
It's a case study that we do.
Training day one, hour one at SDI. I put a shot timer.
As soon as the shotgun comes out, the timer goes off.
This guy who was part of the security team, he was armed, right?
Stood up and for 3.1 seconds was trying to find his gun.
Oh my gosh.
That's a lifetime.
He pulled it while he's pointed in looking at the shotgun.
He pulled it and then he came down here.
I don't know what kind of training they did.
I'm not going to make any judgment towards it.
But I can certify...
I can certainly say, right, that theoretically...
If you are training, that gun wouldn't come down here.
It wouldn't take you 3.1 seconds.
No.
Right?
No.
In 3.1 seconds, somebody who's actually trained can probably come from concealment, move, continue moving, and from that range, which is about 5 yards, 5, 6 yards, probably lay out 6 or 7 rounds.
Exactly.
And so, that gap...
That's what we fix with defensive handgun.
There are a bunch of other things, like defensive handgun includes multiple adversaries, worst possible scenario hostage rescues, that sort of thing, shooting while moving, shooting from cover and concealment, close contact shooting, a whole bunch of stuff.
Well, I'm really glad to hear you say that because one of the reasons that I ended up doing so much private training over the years was because I found that the ranges were very limited in their usefulness because the targets weren't moving, you weren't moving, and of course the range masters don't want anybody to move, right?
Right.
That's not allowed on any range.
Yeah, for big classes, yes.
I only teach privates.
Oh, you do?
Right.
And the biggest joyful thing for me to see is families that come in and train together.
Oh, that's cool.
The wives are not around other men.
They're not being judged, right?
And I tell my students all the time, this is a resort.
This is not a military training facility.
I'm like, you're on a cruise ship right now, and I'm the cruise director.
If you need something, we're going to get it.
It's a cruise ship with firearms.
Absolutely.
And so my range is designed literally to train that way.
It's designed to train that way because we have to do it at some point.
Well, some of the best...
I remember some of the most effective training that I had with a rifle was moving and shooting and moving the four corners of a large square on the ground.
Yeah.
Moving forward, backwards, laterally, and then breathing and watching your red dot.
Yeah.
Watching your sights move as you're stepping and breathing.
It's like, whoa, there's a lot of stuff going on here.
Yeah, so you're...
I always say if you can practice to shoot where intentionally you will make your red dot or your front sight bounce and then fix the problem, that's proper training.
That's always proper training.
We do a lot of that A lot of movement like that during the advanced classes, leaning out from odd angles, all that other stuff.
But in the basic four-day, we do go over that kind of movement.
We do actually do, to a certain extent, that kind of movement.
And then to answer your question from earlier, we also teach defensive shotgun, which is so much fun.
Defensive shotgun, defensive rifle, combat rifle.
And then...
I'm trying to work with a guy right now, because I could say, I could give you some pointers on precision rifle, but there are guys out there who are much more skilled than I am when it comes to precision rifle, and they will literally help you take shots that are like 800,000 yard shots, like as if it's nothing, and then afterwards you'll be able to make those calculations of trigonometry and calculus afterwards just in your head.
See, that's...
That's the wheelhouse that I love.
I'm all into the ballistics and the Tremor 3 reticle and all that stuff and the long-range rifles.
I'm a big fan of all that.
Because I love the math, actually.
I love...
I mean, estimating wind, estimating, you know, I mean, understanding spindrift and all these things.
And, you know, it's not like Hollywood, right?
Right.
Nothing in firearms is like Hollywood.
Right, no.
No.
I blame Hollywood for most of the problems with firearms training nowadays.
Yeah.
I blame Hollywood for it.
Yeah.
And people are always, and you always see, like, the new student.
Right.
Who thinks that if they lean back, they're going to get farther away from the pistol.
Right.
I'm going to shoot like this!
You know how I've figured out how to correct that in their minds pretty fast?
How?
I say, okay, do me a favor.
Very slowly holster the gun.
Okay, holster the gun.
Alright, are you done?
Alright.
Now, let's pretend we're boxing.
And so they get into the stance.
And I said, you know, that fighting stance, that doesn't change.
It's the same as this, it's the same as this, it's the same as this.
That doesn't change.
Unless you work for Notre Dame, you're not going to fight like this.
So don't shoot like this.
Right, that's their understanding.
Oh yeah, that makes sense.
That's why he called it a fighting stance.
But for people who have watched a lot of firearms in movies, they're very much afraid of the gun.
Because that's what's taught, is that the gun kills people, and one shot from one gun can cause a person to fly across the room, you know, in the movies.
Even like a 9mm round.
And no wonder people are afraid of it.
I've done some basic instruction with some people in the past, and I find once they get the first couple shots off, they're like, oh, it's not crazy like I thought it was.
No, no.
As a matter of fact...
So, I hope I don't scare people, but if I scare people, I'm sorry.
My class, obviously, like I said, I also have a media company, and I do a lot of instructional videos.
So all my presentations are all keynote presentations with videos and all that.
Oh, really?
I didn't know that.
Oh, that's so cool.
My example of the ballistic deficiency of handguns is quite horrendous.
Oh yeah?
I don't know if you've ever seen it, but it is a man who is about six foot, I think six foot three, six foot four, 200 pounds, right?
Heavy set.
Not heavy set, but this is a big guy, right?
And a cop who's a little pudgy.
And this guy, the man is chasing him with this huge, like, stick, a branch, right?
He's smacking the cop.
And the guy who's filming is inside a truck, and the guy in the truck is saying, shoot me, shoot his beep, right?
Yeah, right.
And so the cop finally brings out his gun, shoots this guy almost, like, this distance, conversationally, about less than three yards.
Yeah.
Twelve times.
Yeah.
And at one point, the facial expression of the guy smacking him is as demonic as you can get.
You can see it.
I freeze frame it.
Whoa.
After 12 shots, and his face was like a snarling monster.
Wow.
Right?
And I told him.
What's this thing that, you know, you have friends who are saying, I carry this stopping power.
Okay, no.
Handgun rounds are ballistically deficient.
We don't carry them for their stopping power.
No.
We carry them because they're portable and consistent.
You can have them with you.
Right.
And you have a chance to get away.
Right?
Yes, absolutely.
So now, right?
I'll take 3,000 feet per second any day over 1,000 and 50.
That's why you and I love rifles.
Yes.
Right?
Now, I never go anywhere anymore without a carbine.
There's a carbine in the car.
Right.
And there's this saying.
It sounded a little bit arrogant when I first heard it, but then I understand the logic.
And the saying is, The reason for my handgun is so I can get to my rifle.
Yeah.
I've said that too.
Absolutely true.
It's absolutely true, right?
So the next question is, how fast can you walk up to your car engaging an adversary with your handgun and then immediately open up your car, put the handgun away, pull the rifle, and then go back?
Are you training for that?
Yeah.
Or did you even have your rifle in it?
Because mostly vehicle rifles are concealed under the seat or whatever.
I went to the car wash today, so I left the rifle at home.
Exactly.
Or you're going into a city or a county where the cops might arrest you for having a visible rifle.
Or you can be Miguel.
I won't go into that town.
I just won't go.
If I see a restaurant and I see the Right?
The odd six, odd seven sign outside.
Yeah.
Miguel's not going in there.
But then there's kind of the in-betweens of this, like Maxim Defense.
They have their collapsible 7.62x39, which is, I think, a pretty good little vehicle weapon.
Any...
I think most of the rifle rounds that are out there are devastating.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're devastating.
Even out of shorter barrels.
Right.
Yeah.
I... My current 9mm carbine in the car has a 16-inch barrel.
Really?
Wow.
And it folds.
Okay.
So it becomes this small.
Yeah.
What's the brand of that?
That would be the Sub-2000 Gen 3.
Oh, Kel-Tec.
Gen 3.
Gen 3.
Gen 2 and 1?
Yeah, I was not a fan of the Gen 1.
No, I wasn't.
But the Gen 3, when you unhook the barrel, it twists.
Yeah.
Right?
Because before, it folded directly on top, so you can't have a sight.
You have to swivel your sight.
I remember that, yeah.
I am not a fan of moving your sight every time.
No, no, no.
So now, when you pull it out, it actually twists and then closes.
Oh, okay.
So now I have a flashlight.
I have a red dot.
You know, I have all this stuff on it.
Right.
Right?
And that's exactly what I wanted.
And then I pull it out, and now it takes any Glock mag.
Yeah, any Glock.
So if I run out of the 30-rounder that's on it, I do still have my Glock handgun mags on it.
Right.
So I can switch out.
Okay.
Okay.
Now, let's talk about what you think is coming.
Absolutely.
For America, for Texas.
So this is directly tied in with what was going on at the border to now.
Yeah.
Do you want me to just go over everything?
Well, start wherever you want.
Okay.
But let me just set some context.
Sure.
If we were having this conversation four years ago...
Yeah.
A lot of people would say, oh, everything's going to be fine.
There's nothing wrong.
It's all good.
You don't need guns.
Whatever.
No longer the case.
Anybody who's informed already has firearms, probably, and gold and backup food supplies and everything.
So we don't have to convince anybody at this point.
But let's talk about practical terms, what you think we might be facing due to, I don't know, open borders, terrorism, or false flag, or whatever.
Absolutely.
Okay, so...
About, like you said, four years ago.
It's 2024 now.
We're talking about 2020, towards the end of 2020.
My whole mindset at the time was that I rescued people from human trafficking.
God shut that down.
Let me explain to you why.
At the time we had, I think there was 10,000 people in Matamoros, Mexico, and about 15,000 in Reynosa that were camped out, waiting to come across.
That's right.
Right?
Biden was already in power.
He was announcing that he was going to let them across.
Well, no, this was still before the election, let's say.
I would say, I would say like...
Oh, you're saying right after the election.
Oh, okay, okay.
So people are now encouraged.
Okay, go for it.
And I get it.
I'm an immigrant.
I get why they're coming here.
And I'll tell people this, and I'm going to say this, and I don't care what people say about what I'm about to say.
But your worst day in this country is still the best day anywhere else.
And people don't understand that.
They complain about this and that, and they want to move to Canada.
Go ahead.
But there's a reason why hundreds of thousands of people are trying to come to this country.
Because your worst day here is still the best day anywhere else.
Oh, I know this.
Just to let you know, I lived in Ecuador.
I lived in Taiwan.
I speak Chinese.
I spoke enough Espanol in Ecuador to live there.
Well, I didn't live, but I used to go to Hong Kong a lot.
Yeah.
I've been to Hong Kong.
Unlike most Americans, I've seen a lot of the world, and I've seen what real poverty looks like, or real corruption.
I mean, I remember paying off cops in South America.
It's routine.
It's just routine.
Now, I have not been to Manila, haven't been to the Philippines.
About the same thing.
Is it?
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of graft and corruption.
I'm not saying I'm not proud of the Philippines.
I promise you, I've been to so many places in the Philippines, and I can tell you that it is one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
Oh, I've heard that.
Absolutely.
The island systems there.
I'm an islander at heart.
Yeah, yeah.
So when I went home last year, I pretty much didn't do anything other than go to different places that are all these amazing spots of paradise.
Oh, yeah.
And that's great.
But for...
For what was happening here, right, at the time, the difference, the big difference, is that there are people who try to do things legally, and then there are people who try to do things illegally.
Well, asylum has been around a long time, right?
As a matter of fact, Trump actually had asylum, right?
But there were parameters.
That's right.
Okay.
Well, what happened next is basically...
When these people were camped out, they're from 18 different countries.
I heard people say they're from Cambodia, China, coming to the border, right?
Yeah.
And we know that to be true now.
Some are from Syria.
Right.
Some are from Iraq.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
And what they did was they were camped out there, and we were basically trying to find out...
I'm not a master tactician.
I'm not a Navy SEAL. To tell you the truth, in my personal life, I'm pretty dull and boring.
You don't sound dull and boring.
I like watching Friends at night and going to bed.
I don't party.
I don't do any of that stuff.
And so for me...
What was happening at the border, it pulled me to have a deep purpose, right?
And essentially, I mean, technically, we're fighting the cartel down there, right?
That's right.
The human trafficking down there is controlled by the cartel.
Multiple different cartels, right?
And so I'm over there as a missionary.
I'm coming across to spread the word of God, to feed them, to, you know...
And then during those interactions...
God shed light on certain people's stories.
Because claiming asylum means that if you go back to your home country, they'll kill you.
That's right.
Most of the people that are saying that are not telling the truth.
No, they're gaming the system.
They've been told how to claim asylum.
God shed light on certain stories that were true, that we researched, we figured out was true, and then God gave us a way to Save them.
Not save them, but rescue them.
Right?
And there are multiple stories I can say.
There's a guy who formerly was a Honduran police officer that started an anti-cartel task force.
Then one day his friend showed up.
His friend collapsed in his arms because apparently he was riddled by bullets.
And he said, you need to leave because they killed everybody on the team, including the chief of police.
You've got to go.
So he packed him and his three girls, his wife and his two daughters, in a car.
Drove to Mexico.
He gets to Mexico.
He hires a coyote to bring them across because they're dire straits, right?
They can't wait for the asylum.
Turns out the guy also works for the cartel.
Big surprise.
And he realizes their story and traps them, kidnaps them, and contacts the Honduran cartel and says, how much do you want for me to kill this guy?
Oh my gosh.
And basically, most people don't know this, but they were rescued by the grace of God.
Right?
And through the courage of their seven-year-old daughter.
No kidding.
Yeah.
And she has more guts, I promise you, than most of the operatives I've ever worked with.
Wow.
Right?
And so this is a miracle.
Are they safe now?
Yeah, absolutely.
They're in the United States.
And what was our role?
Jesus saved them.
God saved them.
All we did was provide an avenue for that to happen.
Yeah.
I thought at the time that Miguel saved them.
God has other plans.
Right.
And so there's that.
And that happened with a few others.
I'm not as well-funded as Operation Underground Railroad.
They get, I don't know, $40 million a year maybe.
Oh, wow.
Just the initial investment of Glenn Beck and Tony Robbins and OUR was like $40 million.
Is that right?
Yeah.
And so that being said...
We function on whatever God provides, and He provides a lot.
Like, when we had them, we only had them overnight.
We received the funding for their plane tickets.
And transport to somewhere else.
Now they're in the country.
They're thriving.
The two little girls, I still receive pictures from their mom, what they're doing now.
They're thriving.
They're doing well.
They're learning English.
They are the exact kind of immigrants that we want.
Exactly.
I'm really glad you're pointing this out.
Because in this chaos of open borders and the mass asylum rigging, And I saw this when I interviewed Michael Yan, and he was in a camp in Panama, San Vicente camp, and Lajas Blancas camp, and we were talking to some of the people in the camps, in Espanol, and learning about them.
And you always saw there were some really deserving people who would make great Americans, you know?
And my wife's an immigrant, by the way, from Taiwan.
Nice.
Yeah.
I need to know from her where the best Taiwanese restaurant is in Austin.
Oh, that's...
Yeah, we can get you those answers.
No, there's authentic Taiwanese restaurants.
You can get, like, chicken feet and everything.
Yeah, everything you want.
Yes, sir.
You're like, this is authentic street food, you know?
Right.
But...
But the hard part is that the good people, let's say, are not being, there's no distinguishing them from the much larger masses of those with evil intent or the criminal cartels, the human traffickers, the weapons traffickers, and drug traffickers.
Absolutely.
And I think you and I both agree that we love merit-based immigration, but it's got to be organized and they've got to be vetted.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
And that's not happening at all.
No.
So we're getting the worst people coming across.
I think that I can tell you my answer to that in terms of the question of How do you know if you are rescuing people who are being honest?
Good question.
The Holy Spirit will tell you in real time.
Really?
Especially in the darkness.
Because I tell you down there, man, it's really dark.
Where all of this trafficking is going on, the realities behind it, and what some people have done.
I mean, we're going all the way to organ harvesting.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
That's happening.
That's happening, right?
It's not.
And there are people down there who are working.
Like, I know this one guy, they killed his entire family in front of him.
You know what his punishment was?
What?
We'll let you live.
Oh, my God.
Now, he said that was their biggest mistake because all I do now is hunt them down.
I pray for this guy daily because he's taking matters into his own hands.
Yeah.
It's like full-on vigilante, huh?
Matthew 24.
Wow.
In the end days, people's love will grow cold, if possible, even the elect.
Right?
But those who endure will be saved.
I pray to God that love gets returned in his heart.
Right?
Forgiveness.
He's able to free himself from the chains.
There's so many things that are going on down there that people don't realize.
Because nobody's talking about it.
Well, I mean, there's actually, I would say, an organized cover-up.
Oh, 100%.
You and I, exact line with that.
Here's why.
It's a $250 billion industry.
That's more than Hollywood and Washington combined.
$250 billion will buy silence, except not against people like you and me.
We're not going to be silent.
That's why we're censored.
They try to silence us, but we do our own thing.
I don't feel like God is still in control though.
And here's what happened next.
Right?
We started to lose more people than we were saving.
Right?
And...
The Bible says that young men will have visions and old men will have dreams.
Never had any visions, which is very sad.
That means I'm old.
But I had a series of dreams.
So the connotation, we all know what the connotation of sheepdog is.
Sheepdog, wolf, sheep.
And the sheepdog stands between the wolf and the sheep.
That's what we're supposed to do.
So, in my first dream, and this is what culminated now.
This is how it transformed from what was going on then to now.
What am I doing in preparation for what's coming?
This is the transition.
So, God showed me in my dream that I woke up and I'm a sheepdog.
I'm standing on a hill and I see the sheep down the valley and they're being attacked by wolves from all sides.
And I'm trying to get down there, but he holds on to my collar.
And he says...
Sit.
Stay.
And I'm...
Think of a sheepdog watching the wolf attack the sheep, right?
How would the sheepdog be reacting?
Right.
He'd be going thrashing, right?
I mean, imagine him just standing by, right?
Your dog, I mean.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
And so he said, sit, stay, right?
That happened a few times.
And then the second dream...
First of all, let me preface this, that between the first and the second dream, Biden's administration put up an app...
You go on the app, you apply, and in about a certain amount of time, which is not very long, you get the appointment at the International Bridge.
You walk in, you say you're seeking asylum, they give you what's called a humanitarian visa.
Right.
That humanitarian visa is now what you're going to use to work.
You have IDs, you have driver's license wherever you go, right?
All that.
It's all possible with that humanitarian visa.
And they say you have an appointment two years later to come back to the court.
Right, to get proper asylum.
Right.
Okay.
Meanwhile, we all know this.
Now they're allowed to buy guns.
Now they're allowed to serve as law enforcement officers.
Wow.
Okay, that's an insult, first and foremost, to every conservative immigrant that came across that wanted to serve, but couldn't because they were waiting for their naturalization.
That's right.
Right?
The citizen.
So whatever.
That's neither here nor there.
Basically, what happened was those tent encampments where the sheep were Empty.
There's nobody there now.
Yeah.
Right?
Okay.
So second dream.
I wake up.
The sheep are still being attacked.
But now he's seated on a rock and my head is on his lap and I'm looking at him.
And that's it.
I'm not.
That's the entire dream.
He's just petting me and speaking to me.
Right?
And the words that are coming out of his mouth are scripture.
So what does that mean to you?
To me, he wanted me to stop paying attention to that and focus on him.
Okay, so long story short, about three or four times I had that dream.
And then it changed fairly recently.
Fairly recently I woke up and he stood up.
He brought me to the edge of the hill where we were.
The sheep are now gone.
I'm standing there as a sheepdog, right?
And he points to the distance, and in the horizon, the gates of hell have opened, and they're coming.
The demons, the dogs of hell are coming, and they're thick.
They're thick armies, like the armies of Mordor, right?
And of course, I realized at this point that I'm with the one who even created those demons.
This is the commanding officer, right?
But in my flesh, I whimpered.
I mean, that's a daunting thing to look at that, right?
To look at what I was looking at in my dreams.
I'm looking at revelation dragons and demons, and they're all coming, right?
And so I whimper, and I kind of step back behind it, right?
And then he puts his hand on my head.
He's no longer holding my collar.
And he says, it's okay.
Do you not know my word?
This is supposed to happen.
So I look to my right, and I look to my left, and I only see one line of sheepdogs.
And I hear a sound behind me, and all that I see behind me are the sheep with the faces of the people that I love.
Now, he's not saying that it's up to you to defend them.
He's saying, hold the line of faith for the sheep.
Hold the line of faith.
So now, what I believe, when I woke up from that, what he was telling me is, I'm calling my warriors.
Right?
He said, you were never meant to rescue anyone.
I brought you into deeper waters because you're a really good swimmer.
You're supposed to rescue the people I put in front of you, and the rest of them, in fact, all of them, are mine.
I will not lose a single one.
So all of this, he's saying all of this, all of the ugliness you're seeing at the border and around the world, read my word.
And sure enough, if you read Revelation, the book of Revelation, you'll see this is what's supposed to happen.
In the meantime, right, what am I supposed to do?
Well, what he put in my heart is a new curriculum called the Warrior Line.
The Warrior Line is a curriculum designed to train Christ's warriors.
And what is it exactly?
Addressing the threat or addressing the use of deadly force in the spiritual as well as physical.
Alright, welcome back folks.
We took a quick break and we let Rhodey...
We let Rhodey totally impress the guests.
So, actually, you ready?
Yeah.
Hey, Rhodey, come on up.
There we go.
Yeah, good boy.
Yeah, after what he just did, and he's...
Look, we ran him pretty hard.
He's breathing.
But he loves to play.
He's another...
You know what you need?
You need a holster and a handgun because there's no law that says you can't arm your dog.
That's true.
Yeah, well, so, himself, he's a form of artillery.
He is.
Canine artillery.
Yeah, they call them fur missiles.
Good boy.
Go ahead.
Yeah, go ahead.
Good job, Brody.
All right.
I love your dog.
He's awesome.
Yeah.
I don't yet have hearing protection for him, though, for training.
So I've had him at a distance when I'm training on my own ranch.
But I do need to figure out some kind of canine hearing protection.
These might work, but you just have to make the phone bigger.
Oh, yeah?
These might work.
Because having the hearing that's like a bridge with like a regular earmuffs, they'll fly off.
Yeah, I thought they were like special dog sound protection.
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
I haven't had a dog in a while, so I'm not sure.
Otherwise, I probably would have figured that out.
Yeah, I'm going to figure that out because I don't like to have him so far, but I keep him far away while I'm training.
Yeah.
With my rifles, I usually train with a suppressor anyway, so it's not a big deal.
But pistols are loud.
They're loud.
And rifles without suppressors are louder.
Indeed.
But that was a very profound story that you just shared with us.
And I absolutely want to invite you back into the studio again because I can tell this is just the beginning of what you are inspired to share.
Absolutely.
But where does this...
You're talking about...
This very clear guidance from our Creator and this horde of demonic masses that's coming.
What does that mean to you in the real world?
How does that translate?
So when he said, train my warriors, I needed to figure out who the warriors were.
And so now the first word you're going to hear when you come to my training is Jesus.
Because the devil will flee at the sound of my name.
Even the documentary that I have, the video documentary I have about what was happening in Reynosa, Mexico, the first word you'll hear in the documentary is Jesus told his disciples.
Like, Jesus, long pause.
It says that on my screen.
It says, Jesus, long pause.
The pause is to give people time to leave, right?
If they're not of the fold, if they're not warriors, right?
So my curriculum is faith-based.
I have biblical protocol embedded in my entire curriculum.
And the warriors that are training with me will attest to that.
Amen.
It's biblical protocol.
We follow what the Bible says about any particular, like the use of deadly force.
It's now transformed when those hordes come.
It's going to transform from self-defense to warfare.
At some point.
You cannot wage warfare if you're not a warrior.
If you're just a soldier, I have no space for you.
But when you talk about the threats that we may face, maybe as a nation, are you talking about foreign invaders?
Are you talking about cartels activating that are already here?
Are you talking about domestic terrorism?
What exactly are you thinking?
I'm going to say this clearly so no one mistakes my words.
All of the above.
We have 5,000 to 10,000 Chinese men of fighting age coming across the border daily.
Daily.
I drove the wall all the way from the Rio Grande to McAllen, Texas.
There's no wall.
It doesn't exist.
We have a Chinese colonel who defected to the United States and then bought up 200 square miles of ranch land along the Rio Grande.
The report is he now has an airstrip.
I went to a bus stop where the border patrol trucks were stopping, letting people out, truck after truck after truck.
These people now have identities in the United States, and they have money, taxpayers' money, and they're coming across.
I spoke to nine guys who only spoke Arabic and Farsi.
No kidding.
I spoke to ten guys who only spoke Chinese.
Now, I didn't speak to them.
I had translators to actually talk to them, right?
And these are usually volunteers from the churches down at the border.
Why would a church down at the border need a volunteer who speaks Mandarin?
There's a lot of Chinese nationals coming across.
Exactly.
Right?
And that's the truth.
Right.
We all know this.
Many, many years ago, the Japanese asked the general who invaded Pearl Harbor, the guy who orchestrated the attack, let's invade, and he said, we can't.
There will be what?
A rifle behind every blade of grass.
The only way we can invade the United States is from within.
Well, we let the enemies through the gate.
Yeah.
They're here.
Big time.
Right?
By the millions.
Sorry.
By the millions.
And these news reports are being shadowed by fake news and, oh, we fact-checked this person.
You know why I figured it was good for me to trust you and come over here?
You want to know why?
Because the fact checker said you were lying.
Yeah, exactly.
It's like the best credibility that you can get.
Exactly.
This, for me, is a plus in a resume.
Totally.
Right?
And so, yeah.
So what's coming?
All of the above.
Yeah.
The cartels are operating in the United States.
Because think about it.
They would use the same processes for asylum as the immigrants.
We're not going to know who they are.
Yes.
Right?
They're not going to tell us.
No.
Right?
And so they're here operating.
Why?
Because they make more money in dollars than they do in pesos.
Yeah.
I would, right?
Well, right, but do you think there's going to be a day where they all get orders, or is it going to be more spontaneous, or what's it going to look like, or when?
They're not planting crops down at the border, that's for sure.
At the Chinese facility, they're not.
Everything they're doing are all...
I'm not military or law enforcement oriented, but I love studying tactics.
I promise you that's what they're doing.
And the reason why, again, if I was planning on invading, that's exactly what I would do.
I would do exactly everything they're doing.
Right?
They're getting prepared.
A friend of mine said something about, there was a news report that was immediately squashed about a couple of containers down in Long Beach coming into the port of Long Beach that had fully automatic AKs that all of a sudden got shipped out and nobody knows where it's going.
I promise you I know where it's going.
Well, and we've had other guests in the studio here, some that operate on the border for the state of Texas, for example.
And everything that you're saying is confirmed through the other sources that I've interviewed, some here in person, some remotely.
There are weapons stashes.
All across America, basically.
They go out and rent a storage place, and they put in full-auto drop-in Sears for ARs or AKs.
They have illegal suppressors that came in from China by the They have night vision, they have ballistic armor, but more importantly, one of my sources told me, this is now two years ago, the US State Department was freaking out because they knew that surface-to-air missiles had crossed the border and they couldn't find them.
Well, they could find them.
They don't want to.
They were paid.
Right?
If you have the capability of throwing an un...
This is the reason why all of these nefarious organizations like cartels and otherwise, they're never going to let go of human trafficking.
It is the largest criminal organization that exists now.
People say, oh yeah, it was second to the drug war or whatever.
No, it's not.
Well, it's not.
It's ahead of it.
You can sell a bag of drugs once.
You can sell a child for sex 20 times a day.
Unreal.
Right?
So you're not, like, I'm not mincing any words.
This is what's happening, and people need to know it.
But we've seen...
I mean, we'll have to do another conversation, but where does this demand come from?
Who are these hellish creatures in America that are buying access to the children?
So what I'm about to say is what course Sheepdog Initiative down that path.
I've lived in a couple of other countries, right?
I've visited a few.
And like I said, I fell in love with the United States.
In 2016, when I asked God to take over this, I got an email with statistics from Operation Underground Railroad.
The specific one that changed my life completely and shifted the existence of Sheepdog Initiative was that 80%, and this is from Homeland Security, 80% of this multi-billion dollar industry is funded by American men.
It didn't say men.
It said American men.
I fell in love with this country, so I refused to accept that that is the true statistic.
And I looked into it, and they were right.
The reason why trafficking is so prolific is because it starts with porn.
Porn is where it begins, right?
That's why, and I don't want to trip anybody up if they're a journey away from porn and all that, so please don't listen if that's the case, but the truth is, this is the truth.
If you look at porn, the first category, the most popular category you're going to find is teens.
Right?
18.
Then you'll go into the dark web because you want more.
Because that's what porn is.
It's an addiction.
You want more, right?
Then you'll go 17, search 16, search 15.
Well, at that point, aren't you just talking to FBI agents if you're doing that?
No.
If you're looking for a 15-year-old?
The dark web is vast, right?
So I heard about this one guy who put his phone in his pocket with the camera out, and he'd visit malls and parks.
This is in California, right?
Literally in rich neighborhood California.
Because to a white pedophile...
What is exotic?
A brown-skinned, brown-head girl.
That's why there's a lot of American men that are down in Mexico.
Philippines is the third most trafficked country in the world.
India is number one with child sex trafficking.
Thailand is number two.
This guy asked me, what do you think is exotic for an oilseek?
An American child.
Blonde, blue-eyed, white girl.
Right.
So they'll visit the parks in these rich neighborhoods, taking pictures, go back to a house that's under a fictitious business name.
Nothing's there but internet, a computer, and a bed.
And he posts this in a dark website that it's a bidding site.
Right.
The price tag for one of these girls, anywhere upwards of $300,000.
You mean to kidnap, to abduct, and then deliver to a customer?
$300,000 will get you a private plane to the Middle East, right?
And then he disappears for a few months.
And then he comes back under another alias.
This is going on, right?
This is the ugliness about it.
And the truth is, 80% of this multi-billion dollar industry is funded by American men.
So it starts with the fight against porn.
That's number one.
And then number two, education.
People don't talk about this.
I mean, for a long time it was considered a conspiracy theory.
This is even happening.
Still is.
I come out like this and I talk to some people from California.
I talk to some people from Oregon.
They'll all say the same thing.
Oh, he's QAnon.
I actually had somebody literally email me and post on my Facebook page that I'm part of QAnon.
I had to research what QAnon was.
And I'm like, I'm not part of a cabal.
Right.
But the very people that would claim that, those are probably the people involved in buying the children.
The number one thing that the devil does, right, his greatest feat, and this is something some people say, his greatest accomplishment is making other people believe he doesn't exist.
That's right.
And I am a firm believer of, Lord, like every day, Lord, please show me what the lies are.
Show me what the truth is.
Right.
I'm human.
I've lied.
I've made mistakes.
I've done stuff.
But it's only through His grace that we can come out of that.
Since He told me to train His warriors this way in preparation for what's coming, all of my assessments against threat or use of deadly force, that's all changed now.
It's all changed.
And the best way, actually, to understand that is to come to take a class.
Yeah, let's talk about that.
Just to wrap this up, therealsdi.com is your website.
That's Sheepdog Initiative.
And then what about the courses that you mentioned?
How do people access your video courses?
The videos are not video courses.
When you take a private class, you actually watch case studies.
Video case studies that I've done.
Do I want to do video courses?
Eventually.
I'm spread pretty thin at this point.
Hopefully we're trying to grow that part now.
We just built a new range.
It's one of those things that...
I'm waiting for God...
me to move.
I'm not going to move until he speaks.
Yeah.
Right.
And so there are certain things like video courses and all that.
You mentioned Brideon.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Now that I heard about it, I'm probably going to use that as a platform.
Oh, yeah.
Because obviously YouTube's not going to allow me to press a trigger.
That's right.
On video.
No, no.
You can post your videos all over Brighteon.
Right.
That's probably the platform I'm going to use.
That sounds great.
And probably have people subscribe to it, I guess?
I don't know.
Well, we even have something called Brighteon University, which is brightu.com.
Oh, wow.
And all we do there is we play...
We have educational courses 24-7 every day.
And it's free for people to watch them, but then people can also purchase the full digital download and bonus materials and things like that.
So we work with Dr.
Sherry Tenpenny on her course and Sayer G from Green Med Info and a bunch of people.
And we help educate people through that.
So if you have a course that we could broadcast through Bright Town University, we'd love to do that.
Absolutely.
Yeah, absolutely.
We don't even have a firearms course there.
Cool.
Let me put something together, a sample.
I'll send it to you.
Let me know what you think.
That sounds great.
Yeah, absolutely, man.
I love the fact that there's a platform like that.
Yeah.
Because to be honest with you, the other ones are not very reliable.
No, no, no.
And it's important to actually know, to meet the people who are behind the platforms.
Right.
You know, like you and I are getting to meet today.
100%.
And, you know, we don't have any investors.
We don't have board members.
We don't have loans.
Nobody controls us.
Yeah, you know what that's called?
I think somewhere that's called freedom.
Yeah, freedom.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And we're not a public company, so we don't have to try to appease investors with higher and higher stock prices or whatever.
Right.
I'm not saying there's not a place for that.
Trump has raised a bunch of money with his Truth Social going public.
I think billions of dollars.
He needs the billions to pay off the rigged court fines in New York and places like that.
So I get it.
But we chose a different route, which is don't go public Privatize it.
Keep it private so we remain in control.
And it's worked out very well.
So we definitely welcome you to educate people about firearms.
I strongly encourage people repeatedly to don't just buy a gun.
It's useless.
You need to practice with your firearm and you need to have instruction so that you know how to handle it safely.
Please keep your finger off the trigger.
And for all the cops out there, understand that there are things behind your target.
Okay?
We're going down deep rabbit holes now.
So rule number four of gun safety is what's behind your intended target?
I've seen too many videos of cops shooting up like a Trader Joe's because they were going after a perp that entered, and it's like, hey, these bullets, they keep going.
Right.
So the way it's defined in the license to carry is be sure of your target, the backstop, and beyond.
Right.
There you go.
Rule four for me is be sure of your target.
Is that the right bad guy?
Or is that Miguel trying to stop the right bad guy?
Absolutely.
Please don't shoot.
That's critical.
Okay?
Number two, is there somebody that's going to run in between you and your target that doesn't know what's going on?
What's in line with your target?
Yep.
And then, obviously, what's behind your target, which doesn't just include marksmanship.
What kind of rounds are you using?
Absolutely.
Yes.
You're using ball rounds and you're using a nine mil.
That will pretty much go through anyone.
Yeah.
And so all of that understanding, absolutely, it requires a deeper sense of it.
It's not just buying a gun.
Jeff Cooper actually said, the graveyard is littered with people who think that a license to carry is enough.
I was training at a range a couple years back, and one of the Texas Highway Patrol guys came up, and he saw me training.
We were doing some rifle training, and he was like, hey, can you help me just take a look at this rifle and give me some pointers and things?
He was asking me, and I was the student.
And so we opened up his rifle.
It had never been lubricated, ever.
It was bone-dry blue metal.
You know how that sounds, bone-dry?
Yeah.
And I'm like, hey, have you ever thought about lubing this rifle, maybe?
Yeah.
This thing's called the BCG. Right.
It slides back and forth, you know?
Right.
And he's like, oh, is that important, you know?
Just a little bit.
There's a lot of...
I'm not...
By the way, I'm pro men and women in blue, just to be clear.
I support law enforcement.
But...
The budgets are cut so much that there's not enough in the budgets for them to get the training that they need.
So there's a lot of cops, highway patrol, whatever, they might have a rifle and they never train on it.
Or sheriff's deputies who have plenty of handguns but they're allowed 50 rounds a month for training.
I mean, 50 rounds a month?
Yeah, it requires a personal investment, and it's very stark.
I have trained law enforcement and military, although I've never been in law enforcement or military, but most of the people that come to me are usually people that are about to sign up.
Oh, is that right?
Because they have an understanding.
There are things that I need to know that I don't.
And then they get there and they ace the shooting tests because the preliminary shooting tests for most of those divisions and departments are very cursory.
Pretty easy.
They're very easy.
Yeah.
Right.
And my test is actually the test that you do after your four days of training is going to be harder.
Yes.
And my students pass it.
So when they get to that kind of training, they're usually like, are you serious?
That's it?
That's all I have to do?
Right.
And yeah, they usually ace it, and that's great.
But I provide training, if you're law enforcement or military, if you actually want to come and train in the academia concerning the use of Of deadly force and the escalation of use of deadly force and the use of firearms, then please contact me.
Because we have a private range.
Your department doesn't need to know.
I'm not going to talk to them or anything, right?
That's a private thing between you and me.
No, I know a lot of guys that are about to deploy in the military, they will connect with people like you and get a lot of extra training before they go downrange.
And I think that's very smart.
Right.
Steve, I want to show you these knives.
Oh, you have a crate.
What we have remaining is not the same as what we did have.
But, okay, this one's called Covert.
Oh, see, that's Kydex.
That's excellent.
Ooh, that's good Kydex work right there.
Oh, yeah, baby.
So I think, don't quote me on this because I'm not sure.
I'm not entirely sure.
I love that little notch underneath, by the way.
I insisted on an oversized...
Yeah.
I think in the shape of this knife, it's actually, there is an eastern derivative called a huastare, and the tare is the blade that's behind the leg of a fighting chicken.
Oh, wow.
That's the shape.
Interesting.
I've seen, by the way, those blades are so sharp, the way this is designed, it's so easy to sharpen, that those blades will cut off a man's fingers on a chicken if he holds the chicken the wrong way.
I've seen it.
Oh my gosh.
That's excellent craftsmanship.
Look at that.
That's one piece of metal all the way through.
These are made in Arizona by Dawson.
This, I believe, is our bushcrafting knife.
By the way, I love Kydex.
We have holster solutions that we do.
Basically, I help design holsters.
Do you?
Yeah, I even design women's purses, customize women's purses.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, so that's a really useful bushcrafting knife.
Yeah.
And then this is our primary combat knife.
This is...
I've been looking for a blade like this, honestly.
Well, consider it yours, Miguel.
No, sir.
Yes.
Are you serious?
Yeah, I have...
Yeah.
If anybody needs...
Oh yeah, that's standard combat.
One of these.
Yeah, that's a combat blade.
Yeah.
And then we have another blade that I don't have here.
It's called Escape from L.A. And it's...
No, seriously.
It's one of my favorite movies.
Right.
I gotta show you that blade.
I need to get some more from Dawson, but Escape from L.A. is designed to escape an urban scenario.
And it actually has a giant wedge tip But it's also sharp.
This will blow your mind.
It's very unusual for a blade.
Right, but there was a purpose behind the Blade Master's crafting of it.
Absolutely.
There always is, from what I've learned.
Look at this.
This is just...
You've got the spacer for inside the waistband.
And you can mount it, you can change that and mount it horizontally.
Right, mount it the other way and all that.
So these are crafted from magna-cut steel that comes out of New York that is corrosion-proof very nearly.
So this, the reason why I've been looking for something like this that's this well-made, right, is you can process any kill of any animal.
Absolutely.
Look at the shapes.
Yeah.
That's what it's made for.
It's got a multitude of uses.
Right.
Yes.
And I just want to point this out.
I'm not saying anything, right, but technically human beings are animals.
I'm just kidding.
That's a bad thing to say.
No, but there was the report of cannibalism in Haiti recently.
Still happening.
Still happens.
There's cannibalism in the Philippines.
Is there really?
From my understanding, there's still tribes in the Philippines in the deepest, darkest parts that don't know God, don't know Jesus, and some of them practice cannibalism.
Whoa.
Some eat the dead, some to consume their essence or whatever, and then some eat their enemies.
Whoa.
Like there's...
It's demonic.
Yeah, clearly.
100%, it's demonic.
Yeah.
Right?
It's also pretty contaminated, because think about what people eat, and then if you were to eat people, it would be like the dirtiest jerky.
I'd rather eat a wild boar.
Absolutely.
I'd eat a wild animal.
It would be way cleaner.
Somebody that eats meat from Tyson.
Right?
Yeah.
I'd rather eat Tyson Foods chicken than my neighbor, you know?
Right.
Exactly.
I'd rather eat crickets than my neighbor.
Right.
Exactly.
Hopefully we won't have to eat crickets either.
Okay.
I'm sorry for keeping you so long.
No.
It's been a fascinating discussion.
Absolutely.
Let me give out your website again, therealsdi.com.
Right.
For firearms, personal training in Central Texas, near Austin, you said?
Yes.
It's just outside of Austin.
It's in Bastrop.
It's in Bastrop?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
So east of Austin.
Yeah.
Okay.
30 minutes east of Weird.
Okay, so the Austin Airport gets to your place.
I would say even from the Austin Airport, there was very little traffic.
30 minutes, 25 minutes?
Yeah, okay.
Awesome.
All right, and I'd love to invite you back to have more discussions.
I would love that.
If you're open to it.
Absolutely, sir.
And we will definitely have some interesting things to talk about off-camera.
I'd like to give you some things off-camera, some things from our facility.
Awesome.
Because I know you can help get them into the hands of the right people.
Okay.
I've also had some of our...
Some of our sponsors and vendors sometimes send me things to distribute to just pay forward and here you are.
Thank you.
I will definitely pay all of that forward.
I know you will.
I know you will.
And so what we can do is we can help provide some emergency essentials to your network, whoever those are.
Oh, that would be great.
Wherever they are.
Right.
And we'll talk about that more.
But I just want to thank you for coming in today.
And it's been an honor to meet you.
Thank you.
It's been an honor for me, sir.
It's all my honor.
No, I'm humbled that you're taking this time.
Absolutely.
To have enough trust in me and this platform.
And I'd like you to come out.
Bring whatever toy you have, and let's have some fun, man.
Because the thing about firearms training that people lose sight of is the fact that you're supposed to be having fun, because if you don't have fun, you're not going to learn anything.
That's true.
It's been a few years since I've actually had fun with firearms.
It's always been serious.
I tell them, let's have some fun turning money into sound.
Turn money into sound.
At ammo prices today, that's no joke.
Every 5.56 round is 50 cents.
I mean, We used to get those for like 19 cents.
It used to be my range was like a mile away from the house.
Now the range is in my garden.
So we have all the comforts of like the Hilton firearms training.
Oh really?
My house is right there.
Really?
Like my range is in the garden.
It's really awesome to walk out, about to get into the car to go to work or whatever, and turn around and I look at the steel right there in my garden.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
That's a great way to start your day.
How do you pick up all the brass out of your garden?
Manually.
Yeah, manually?
Yeah.
It's a lot of brass.
The thing is, I tell my students, at the end of the day, you're picking up brass.
Yes.
So if you're tired, let me know.
We'll stop.
Pick up brass now.
Yeah.
Well, that would have been music to my ears because my instructors were normally like, you're going to lay in hot brass during the training, by the way.
Yeah, no.
And then you're going to pick it up.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
This is a resort.
This is not a military training facility.
I've got to make sure that if you beat up your students at the very beginning, especially if they're civilians, they're not going to want to come back.
No, that's true.
I still have hot brass burns.
I'm just like, oh my god, what just happened?
Some of those are permanent.
Yes, some of them are permanent.
It's like training scars.
Right.
Well, Miguel, again, it's been a pleasure.
Thank you for taking the time.
Thank you so much for having me.
Absolutely.
Thank you for watching.
I know this has been an extended interview, a little bit outside our normal format, but as you can tell, our guests here...
Oh, well, we have a giant basket of knives over here.
We have a lot to cover.
And I can't wait for us to get together again, and maybe we'll talk firearms next time.
Maybe we'll bring some stuff.
We haven't had big rifles on this desk yet, so maybe we should do that.
Oh, that'd be great.
I'll bring the Nemo.
I have the Nemo.
It's the 300 Win Mag Semi-Auto.
The Omen.
That's a nice gun.
Yeah, yeah.
That's my ranch gun.
That's the one?
Yes.
And I have it in the scout version, so it's a little bit shorter barrel, so you can actually handle it.
Nice.
Otherwise, it's freaking heavy.
Nemo Arms.
Nemo Arms.
Yeah, great.
I'll bring the Nemo.
Great company.
Yeah, that'd be fun.
Yeah.
Oh, hey, did you see the U.S. Navy admiral guy that was photographed looking through an AR with the scope backwards?
Yeah, saw that.
I'm like, dude.
They received a lot of flack for that.
How do you even, did you even try to look through it?
Because if you look through it backwards, you're going to see this is not right.
The sad part, and this is a statistic, and it's a bitter pill that everyone has to swallow, is being law enforcement or military doesn't make you a firearms expert.
No, it does not.
No.
And...
80% of them don't actually train.
Yeah, but they qualify.
They qualify, and that's it.
Every year.
Yeah.
Got it.
50 rounds.
Which is better than most.
True.
Think about it, right?
That's kind of good, if you think about it, the regular person...
Maybe 90% doesn't train.
Well, hopefully you're going to help change that and get some more people trained up.
That's what I want to do.
Okay.
All right.
You can train in Miguel's Garden.
Absolutely.
And pick up brass afterwards.
Right by a bathroom and a kitchen with a fridge.
Ooh, there you go.
Yeah.
Get a Vitamix, get some of our products, and make smoothies during the training.
I need to talk to you about that, by the way.
You could have, like, Health Ranger smoothies during the gun training.
That would be great.
It's called Health Ranger smoothies?
Well, Health Ranger brand, but we have all kinds of little smoothie mixtures and things.
Absolutely, man.
Like peanut butter, chocolate, smoothies.
I'll put out a display for people to do that there.
Yeah.
I'll put out a display.
Oh, man, it'd be fun.
Absolutely.
Okay.
I'll give you some samples.
That'd be great, man.
You can just mix them up.
Right.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Well, thank you for watching today, folks.
We could just go on, but we'll do this again.
Of course, I'm Mike Adams here, the founder of Brighteon.com.
And I just want to remind you that firearm safety is your responsibility.
Every round that leaves the barrel of any firearm that you control is also your responsibility, where it goes and what it does.
So get trained, practice, practice, practice.
You don't have to spend a fortune on gear.
Spend time on training, and then you will be safe and effective when the time comes if you need to use a firearm in self-defense.
So thank you for watching today.
I'm Mike Adams.
Take care, everybody.
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These are goldbacks, and we've got different denominations to show you there.
They come in 50, 25, 10, 5, and 1s.
That's a stack of 1s.
This is 1 1,000th of a troy ounce of gold.
And it's embedded in the polymer layers in the gold backs, and you can get them, again, at those different denominations, so it's good divisibility of gold.
And since the gold is in the gold back itself, it's not some fiat currency.
It's actually a piece of gold that you can use for gifts or barter or trade, even in a local community.
If the grid goes down, a lot of people might be using gold and silver or goldbacks.
Now, if you go to our website, verifiedgoldbacks.com, that's our affiliate site, we do earn a little bit off your purchase there, but what we've done is we've done the laboratory testing.
And on that site, you'll see my lab test results, how we tested them using a kiln, using ICPMS mass spec instrument, using an acid stone test here as well, We verified the purity and the masses of the gold that are embedded in these different bills.
And in fact, I've got here in these vials in my hands right here, this is actually one of the pellets of gold.
I melted it down into like a BB shape.
I don't know if you can see it, but I've got gold in these three vials right here.
Yeah, there you can kind of see it moving around there.
You can hear them.
And we did the tests on these, and this is the gold that came out of these goldbacks.
So we were able to confirm the gold is real.
It's 24 karat plus, and it actually exceeds the mass that's required.
Our recovery ranged from 102% to about 100 and, what was it, typically 105%.
I've got the results here.
Check this out.
Look at these photos.
I did all this myself.
So if you melt them down, you get this, and then you keep melting, you get it into like a pellet, and then you use an analytical balance in the laboratory, and you do the math.
It's pretty amazing.
At first you get this gold foil, which is pretty cool, and then you can melt the foil into this BB pellet-looking thing.
Anyway, here's the recoveries we got.
From a low of 102.89%, or 101.96%, that's the lowest, to 107% recovery.
And the bottom line is, if you want real gold in your hands that's divisible, that is also incredibly beautiful, that people instantly love, they recognize this, they see, wow, that's gold, and they're actually looking at gold.
This isn't paint.
this is the gold just kind of made really thin and put into this format and then sandwich between polymers goldbacks are your answer.
So check out verified goldbacks.com and there you can purchase goldbacks and you can help support this platform at the same time because we earn a small percentage.
And this is a really good form of off grid money and you might have gold coins or silver coins.
And I strongly encourage gold and silver coins, but a gold coin is a pretty big piece of value to try to trade with, you know?
You're at a farmer's market, like, I want a loaf of bread.
What do you have?
I have a one-ounce gold coin.
Well, that's worth $2,200.
Gold's skyrocketing.
So, what are you going to do?
Like, buy a loaf of bread and then give me change for the one ounce of gold?
No.
But if you're trying to buy that loaf of bread with a gold bag, you say, hey, how would you like one one thousandth of an ounce of gold for that loaf of bread in this format, gold bags, which actually has a premium over just the raw price of gold because it's better than just one one thousandth of an ounce of gold.
I mean, it's in a format that's...
It's beautiful to look at.
It's durable.
You can carry it.
It fits in a wallet or a pocket or a purse.
A lot of merchants will say, absolutely, I'll take that gold.
And now you can buy a loaf of bread or you can buy a bag of potatoes or whatever, depending on what the economy looks like after the debt collapse.
I don't know what it's going to look like exactly, but I know I want gold and silver, and I want to have lots of different options of money that works off-grid.
So, yeah, our grid's not reliable.
Our monetary system is not reliable.
The currency's not reliable.
But you know what you can count on?
Physical gold and silver in your hands.
That's what you can count on.
It doesn't need a password.
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It doesn't need the backing of a government.
You don't have to have faith in the treasury to confiscate money from people.
This has value all by itself.
And gold has had value for centuries.
I mean, come on, millennia, what am I saying?
And it will continue to have value long after the collapse of the dollar and probably the collapse of Western civilization itself.
So, there you go.
That's why the wealthy are buying gold like crazy.
That's why gold is spiking.
What is it now?
Let me actually bring it up.
Gold.
Here it is right now, gold at $2,128.
Silver at $23.67.
These are all skyrocketing.
Bitcoin is skyrocketing.
Gold is skyrocketing.
Monero is skyrocketing.
Why?
Because people who know what's about to happen, they are bailing out of the banks.
They're bailing out of the dollars.
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They're going to off-grid forms of asset protection, and that's gold and silver and land and certain types of crypto and maybe food supplies or ammunition supplies.
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That's beautiful.
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This is so cool.
The 50 is thick.
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