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April 22, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Apr 22, 2024 - US Congress BETRAYS America while waving UKRAINIAN flags

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	Welcome to Bright Town Broadcast News from Monday, April 22nd, 2024.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you for joining me.
	We are building the infrastructure of human freedom.
	I took the weekend off from doing any podcasts, but I worked the entire weekend on the AI project.
	And I got to say, made some major breakthroughs on our data pipeline.
	And we are...
	I'm getting a lot of data processed, a lot of books processed, a lot of podcasts and interviews and article content.
	It's really going quite well now.
	You may recall that last week on Friday, we actually released our first 7 billion parameter model.
	It's called Neo Dolphin Meestrel 7B, and it's epoch 3 of training.
	I'm not happy yet with the training results.
	We give it 100 questions, and then we rate the answers.
	However, it did actually score 82 out of 100, which was better than I thought.
	It still suffers from some repetitive behavior, but it's going to keep getting better.
	We're training Epoch 4 right now on that.
	You can download all these models free of charge.
	They're non-commercial.
	They are open source.
	They are free.
	You can get them at brighteon.ai and there's much more to come.
	You can rest assured.
	All right.
	Now, we're going to cover a lot of things here today.
	I'm going to try to move quickly because we have a pretty long interview coming up with Miguel Casas from Central Texas, a man who he and his fellow teammates were involved in rescuing children from human trafficking operations across the border.
	Both on the Mexican side and the Texas side.
	It's a fascinating, wide-ranging interview where we talk about everything from what knives we carry and why we carry those knives and pistols and firearms, self-defense, and just all kinds of things.
	The need to bring back Christian principles.
	Otherwise, we won't have a nation remaining.
	And we're also going to cover, of course, the total betrayal of America by the United States Congress.
	These members of Congress waving the Ukrainian flag voted to pass a $95 billion funding bill, mostly to fund the weapons industry.
	But handing out money on behalf of Ukraine and Israel, $26 billion for Israel, And some more billions for Taiwan.
	Hey, it's easy to give away money when it's not your money, isn't it, right?
	When you can just print money and give it away, well, there are no consequences.
	Except maybe political consequences.
	But everybody feels betrayed by watching these morons waving the Ukrainian flag in the U.S. House of Representatives.
	And yet they would never wave the American flag because they're embarrassed to wave the American flag.
	They're afraid.
	And all the Democrats hate America and they feel like the American flag is a symbol of racism.
	Yeah, they think it's white supremacy.
	Trust me, you'll never see a Democrat waving an American flag.
	They hate the flag.
	But they'll gladly wave the Ukrainian flag or the Israeli flag, of course.
	Oh, they're all in for other countries, just not their own country.
	So if you want to know who they work for, well, just look at what flags they're waving.
	And by the way, for all these House members that keep voting for more money for Ukraine, Hey, if you love Ukraine so much, go there and fight on the front lines.
	I think we should dispatch all these lawmakers to the Ukrainian army.
	Yeah, put them in the army.
	Mr.
	and Mrs.
	Congressman, you know, Congresswoman.
	Put them on the front lines.
	Oh, you love Ukraine?
	You want to fight for Ukraine?
	Now's your chance.
	Yeah, here.
	Check out this foxhole and hope you don't get blown up by a Russian FPV. So...
	These people would do nothing for America.
	They do nothing for America.
	There wasn't a dime for U.S. border security in the bill.
	Not a dime.
	Not a dime for veterans.
	Not a dime for rebuilding bridges.
	Not a dime for America.
	All the money goes overseas.
	We have been betrayed at every level.
	But we'll get to that, I hope.
	Talk about that more.
	But if you've been wondering just how much our modern society resembles idiocracy...
	You were reminded of that a week or so ago when Representative Sheila Jackson Lee from Houston, she said the moon was made of gases.
	Remember that?
	This was right before the eclipse, so I guess it was a couple weeks ago.
	She said the moon is made of gases.
	And she said that might be why we can't live there.
	And she said something like the surface of the sun is also almost too hot to live on.
	As if it's just a little on the hot side, but not that bad, you know, 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit or whatever it is.
	Well, now you can excuse Representative Sheila Jackson Lee because she's the affirmative action congresswoman, right?
	She was elected because of who she is, not because of any knowledge, any intelligence, nothing.
	She's elected because of the way she was born.
	That's all there is to it.
	But now we have NASA director Bill Nelson, who's a white guy, telling us the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
	Well, I should say the second dumbest thing because Sheila Jackson Lee, that was the first dumbest thing about the moon.
	Bill Nelson, the director of NASA, just said the second dumbest thing imaginable about the moon.
	He says that the far side of the moon, that is the side that we don't see, You know how when you look at the moon, you're always seeing the same side?
	You're seeing the same pattern?
	Because there's a phenomenon called tidal lock that kind of locks an orbiting moon into the pole of the main planet to keep the same face facing the planet at all times.
	So we never see what's called the far side of the moon.
	We never see that with our own eyes.
	Well, Bill Nelson says the far side of the moon, and you're going to hear him say this.
	I'm going to play the video.
	He says the far side of the moon is always dark.
	That's right.
	Always dark.
	He thinks that the sun never hits the far side of the moon, which is amazing because we just had a total eclipse where the moon was between the earth and the sun.
	The moon covered the sun.
	Which means that the entire far side of the moon was lit up by the sun because we were looking at the side of the moon facing us and it covered the entire sun.
	Obviously the sun's hitting the other side of the moon.
	Bill Nelson, the director of NASA, is a woke moron idiot who doesn't even understand how sunlight works and how the moon works.
	Man, no, check this out.
	You're going to be astonished.
	Check out this video.
	The dude, he's like the Joe Biden of space.
	Check this out.
	And we're trying to get at what the Chinese are doing, you think, on the back side of the moon.
	Do you have any insights on that?
	They are going to have a lander on the far side of the moon, which is the side that's always in dark.
	We're not planning to go there.
	And why not?
	And what's the benefit of doing so?
	We don't know what's on the backside of the moon, so that would be something that they would discover.
	But our decision is that it's more profitable for us to go to the south pole of the moon because we think that's where the water is.
	Why do you think they made that decision?
	I'm curious.
	I have no idea.
	So did you catch that?
	NASA director, I think that's his title, Bill Nelson.
	Again, he thinks the sun never hits the far side of the moon.
	Someone should tell him about, you know, lunar cycles.
	Waxing, waning, half moon, full moon.
	Does he not know that the sun...
	I mean, oh my God!
	Where do we even begin?
	He has no idea.
	Someone buy that man, like one of those little hanging solar system models that you get for your kid.
	You hang it from your kid's room ceiling and it's got like the planets on little coat hangers swirling around.
	Get Bill Nelson a model or a little desktop model or something.
	My God, this guy doesn't know where the moon is.
	Anyway, he also says he has no idea why China would go to the far side of the moon.
	He said, I have no idea.
	Really?
	Are you truly a moron?
	Oh my gosh.
	I've talked about numerous reasons why China or Russia or anybody else would want to go to the far side of the moon.
	I mean, I've talked about it in my podcast over the years.
	It's abundantly obvious.
	I mean, okay, number one, you would put a telescope there.
	So that you could see without light interference from planet Earth.
	See?
	Because, of course, if you're on the far side of the moon, then the moon behind you or under your feet covers the entire planet Earth, blocks it out.
	So you're not going to get a bunch of light pollution from Earth.
	So if you want to see far into the universe, well, that's one place to put telescopes.
	Although, of course, they might get hit by various meteors and so on that collide with the Moon.
	But what else would you want to put on the far side of the Moon?
	How about a giant missile base that could not be observed from the Earth?
	Because, you know, and maybe Bill Nelson needs to hear this lecture since he doesn't know anything about the Moon.
	He probably doesn't know anything about gravity, but the Earth is in the bottom of a gravity well.
	And the moon orbiting Earth is the high ground above Earth.
	And the sun, of course, is a bigger gravity well, which is why the Earth is orbiting the sun.
	It's been caught in the sun's gravity.
	So why would you want to put a missile base on the moon?
	Because it's the high ground.
	Because you have Earth dominance from the moon.
	You could launch a missile or launch a projectile, and you could...
	With enough calculations and some corrective thrusters, you could get that missile to land anywhere you wanted on Earth.
	Eventually, it might take a few days, but you could launch things from the far side of the Moon without them being detected.
	Now, I know you're saying, well, it would be better to just put something in orbit and launch it from orbit.
	Yeah, okay, great.
	But long-term, if you want to defend Earth...
	And you want to dominate Earth, you want a military base on the Moon, and you want to start mining the Moon for fuels.
	Some of those fuels could end up being so-called rocket fuels because you don't need much thrust to get off the Moon.
	You understand?
	You don't need much thrust at all because the gravity is so low.
	And the orbital velocity of the Moon compared to Earth is quite high.
	So by launching from the Moon, you've already got...
	You've already achieved orbital velocity around the Earth without any extra effort because, of course, the Moon is orbiting the Earth.
	Oh my God, somebody explain this to Bill Nelson.
	Give him a physics 101 class, high school physics, whatever.
	But there's another reason that you'd want to have a base on the far side of the Moon, and that's to detect gravity waves.
	Gravity waves are rippling through the cosmos all the time, every second of every day.
	Gravity waves alter the fabric of space-time.
	They literally alter the shape of space, just as gravity does.
	Gravity well has altered and distorted the shape of space and caused planets to move in, apparently, circular orbits, when in fact those planets sort of feel like they're moving in a straight line.
	I don't mean to turn this into a physics lesson or anything, but gravity distorts space-time.
	Now, because gravity is distorted and there are waves of distortion, there's like ripples in the fabric of space-time, the speed of light is altered.
	Where gravity is pulling at space and, let's say, expanding space, it causes light to bend.
	This is why light bends around stars.
	It's a well-known effect in astronomy and astrophysics.
	At the same time, this also means that the speed of light is not a constant.
	I know it's called a constant, but it's a little trick of math about the way they define the speed of light.
	It's circular logic, actually.
	The speed of light is not a constant, and this is why so many laboratories around the world, when they independently measure the speed of light, they get all kinds of different variations.
	So you were taught the speed of light, C, is a constant, but it isn't.
	Now, if you stretch out space...
	Light will seem to move faster than the speed of light across that expanse of the stretched out space.
	And if you compress space, then light will seem to move more slowly across that expanse.
	And again, this is why there's a lensing effect of light as it passes around the perimeter of stars.
	Again, this is a well-known phenomenon.
	I'm not, you know, just saying it.
	This is well-known.
	Now, anything that distorts the fabric of space-time will send out waves, ripple waves.
	Imagine a speedboat on a lake.
	There's a giant wake behind the speedboat.
	It ripples out kind of like a V-shape behind the boat, right?
	And it sends the energy of the waves crashing on the shores or messing with other boats or other skiers or jet skiers or whatever, right?
	You know how that works.
	The same thing happens in three dimensions in space when there are crafts that use faster-than-light drives.
	So any kind of a warp speed type of technology, or FTL as it's called, faster-than-light, Which works by warping space-time so that you can seem to travel faster than the speed of light without actually even needing to accelerate to the speed of light.
	Because you're bending space-time so much, which takes a tremendous amount of energy, by the way.
	But it sends out 3D ripples.
	There's a giant wake.
	And the faster that your FTL drive makes you go, the bigger the wake.
	The bigger the waves are.
	So if you have, let's say, an advanced exotic alien FTL craft and you can go, let's say, 10C, 10 times the speed of light, which is not very fast if you're trying to move around the Milky Way, by the way, you'll send out a certain magnitude of waves, gravity waves, which will ripple through and it'll distort light and the speed of light, obviously, as it ripples across the cosmos.
	But if you travel at 1000C, which takes a lot more energy, obviously, but at 1000C, you might be able to kind of traverse the spiral arms of the Milky Way in a lifetime.
	You know, that's how big the Milky Way is.
	But if you're traveling at 1000C, you're going to send out bigger waves, much bigger waves.
	Now, gravity detectors...
	Can, of course, pick up these waves and they can detect how much FTL traffic is happening in the neighborhood.
	And if you're going to build a gravity detector because you want to know how much faster than light travel is happening nearby, where would you put it?
	You'd put it on the far side of the moon.
	That's exactly where you'd put it.
	Because, number one, the Moon is mostly equidistant from the Earth.
	It's not exactly, but it's close enough.
	So you know how much gravity you're going to get from Earth, and it's mostly a constant.
	So you can filter out Earth's gravity, and you can calculate out the Sun's gravity.
	And then any aberrations from that coming in are faster-than-light drive waves.
	So if you're going to have defense for your planet, Whether it's Earth or some other planet, you'd want to have a gravity detection system on the far side of the moon that's orbiting that planet because that's your early warning defense base.
	This is not science fiction, folks.
	This is kind of obvious.
	Bill Nelson at NASA doesn't know any of this stuff.
	I mean, he's only the director of...
	Of NASA. You would think that he would know something about gravity waves and the moon and faster than light travel and all this stuff.
	No, he doesn't know Jack because he's another woke idiot out there, just like all these people that run our government today.
	But you ask anybody who knows what's going on, you ask them just, you know, tactically, where would you put your gravity detection equipment?
	Well, you put on the far side of the moon.
	It's also an early warning system.
	Because depending on the direction of the waves, the moon would get them before the Earth gets them.
	And so it's a logical military defense strategy, and China is pursuing it.
	So China is going to set up a base on the far side of the moon, and you can bet one of the things they're going to run there is a gravity detection system, for all the reasons I just mentioned.
	And I don't know if there's anybody out there who still thinks that we're alone in the cosmos, but I don't have time to educate tiny, tiny minds.
	So, I mean, if you think Earth is the only planet with life on it, eh.
	Go watch CNN or something, because we're not alone.
	The universe is filled with life, and we're not by any means the most advanced civilization in this cosmos.
	In fact, we might be the most suicidal civilization.
	But the other civilizations, the way that they monitor us and the way they get here is they use FTL drives, faster than light drives.
	And the technology is not even complicated.
	You just have to have a really big energy source.
	Where do you find masses of energy?
	Magnetars, man.
	Pulsars.
	Stars.
	But magnetars are the best.
	There's massive amounts of x-ray energy and other types, other spectra coming off of those stars.
	You capture that, you store that into some hybrid version of antimatter, and you can warp space-time, and you can go multiples of the speed of light.
	So it's a very common technology in our universe.
	It's kind of like on Earth, since the invention of the wheel and the bicycle, like everybody knows how to get a bicycle or ride a bicycle, and everybody can make a bicycle.
	I mean, every country, not every person, but every country can make a bicycle.
	Well, in interstellar travel, FTL drives are kind of like the bicycle wheel.
	It's the most common element of...
	Interstellar travel is just FTL drives, project a massive amount of energy, warp space-time, boom, you accelerate to, you know, 100c, but you don't even feel the acceleration because that's the way gravity works.
	You don't feel it.
	Just like if you step off a tall building, you don't feel an acceleration toward the ground, right?
	You feel weightless, actually.
	So accelerating to a thousand times the speed of light, you would also feel absolutely weightless if this is achieved by distorting space-time.
	And that's why I witness reports of UFOs all over Earth, they often report that the UFO blipped in or blipped out or seemed to teleport like vast distances.
	Yeah, because it looks like teleportation when they instantly go to 100 times the speed of light.
	They just blip out and then boom, blip in somewhere else because they move faster than light.
	But the people on board the craft didn't even feel it because, again, you don't feel the acceleration of gravity.
	Anyway, I don't mean to get into the weeds on all this stuff.
	I've covered all this before.
	It's just that I'm astonished, you know, of all the examples of idiocy that we have in our federal government, to have the director of NASA, even if he doesn't believe in other civilizations in our cosmos, you would think he would know something about our moon and our sun.
	I'm not expecting him to understand how faster than light travel works.
	I mean, the guy's obsolete.
	But I do expect him to understand that the far side of the moon, there's sunlight on it very frequently.
	Like, every time you look up at the moon and you see that the sun is only hitting it partially, or like a little sliver of the moon is lit, That's because the other side has the rest of the sunlight hitting it, obviously.
	And when it's a completely...
	I guess they call it a new moon when it's totally dark, when you don't see anything.
	I'm not going to go into details of this.
	I mean, people buy little models of the solar system.
	I mean, it's just these NASA administrators...
	Did you hear about what happened over the weekend at an airport?
	I think it was the Atlanta airport, but I'm not sure, where one of the DEI air traffic controllers had to scream.
	I think they were screaming at JetBlue.
	JetBlue, stop!
	JetBlue, stop!
	Stop!
	Because they had cleared JetBlue to cross a runway, and then they had also given permission for another airplane to take off using that same runway.
	Right.
	Because, yeah, it was another, you know, affirmative action hire there.
	Someone who was hired because of either their gender or their skin color or something else, obviously not qualified.
	Put two planes on a collision course.
	And the audio has been released and it's not impressive.
	Hey, I've got something else for you here.
	According to last 24 report, lack of free San Diego dry docks complicates The repair of the USS Boxer, it's an amphibious warship, faces delays in rudder repairs due to the unavailability of suitable dry docks in San Diego.
	So there are only two local dry docks capable of handling this large vessel, and they're both occupied by other Navy ships.
	Now there's an alternative repair dock in Portland, Oregon.
	But you would have to modify the ship's mast.
	Maybe to go under a bridge or something, I would imagine.
	Basically, they have to cut off the top of the ship.
	Oh, man.
	Or just drive it into a bridge.
	That seems to be happening.
	So, you know, China has 200 times the dry dock production capacity than does the United States of America.
	Did you know that?
	Or the U.S. Navy?
	China has 200 times more dry dock capacity.
	200 times.
	I know, it seems impossible, but it's true.
	The U.S., not only does the director of NASA not know how the moon works...
	And a member of Congress thinks the moon is made of gases.
	But there aren't enough dry docks to repair U.S. Navy vessels even when we're not in war.
	Now, imagine what would happen if Russia or Iran starts attacking ships, or maybe even Hezbollah with their anti-ship missiles starts taking out ships or severely damaging ships, or hey, maybe Israel just starts bombing American ships like they did in 1967, I believe, the USS Liberty.
	They just attacked the ship to try to kill all the Americans on board to try to cover up their war crimes back then.
	That's Israel for you.
	They've been killing Americans for generations.
	But imagine if these ships start getting damaged in the Middle East, and then, well, where are they going to get repaired?
	Nowhere.
	Nowhere.
	Because the U.S. has virtually no available dry dock capacity.
	So, we have no ability to manufacture any real supply of munitions.
	We have no hypersonic missiles.
	We have F-35 fighter jets that barely fly.
	We don't have good anti-air defense systems.
	Our Patriot missiles barely function.
	We don't have dry dock capacity to repair naval vessels.
	Yeah, that's the United States Navy.
	But we're in luck because the United States Navy is pushing trannies on deck.
	That's right.
	As long as we have enough trannies on deck, we'll be okay.
	We'll win wars as long as you use the correct pronouns.
	We don't need dry dock capacity.
	We don't need munitions.
	All we need is some like hairy, stinky bearded dude, throw on a woman's wig, a pushup bra and some high heels and wave the rainbow flag in one hand and the Israeli flag in the other and say, we're going to win as long as you use pronouns.
	Cause that's, that's what the Navy has become.
	It's pathetic.
	Metro out of the UK is reporting there's an explosion at military weapons factory in South Wales.
	An explosion has occurred at an arms factory run by the largest military contractor in Europe.
	This happened in Monmouthshire, Wales.
	I'm not sure if that's how they pronounce it locally.
	I noticed that the people in Wales, they tend to shorten a lot of these words into just like one syllable.
	You and I might say, mon mouth shire, and they were like, oh, did you sneeze or was that a city?
	Okay.
	The article continues.
	Emergency services have raced to BAE Systems Glass Code after a blast happened this morning.
	The incident happened at a remote part of the site.
	And no injuries have been reported, but the explosion caused the ground to shake.
	The South Wales Argus reported.
	Caused the ground to shake.
	Sounds big, actually.
	There was also an explosion or a fire at a U.S. ammunition plant that manufactures, I think, artillery shells.
	I don't have the city for you on that, but I remember reading that a couple of days ago.
	Do you think this is just coincidence?
	These ammo plants blowing up?
	Is it just random?
	Or is it sabotage?
	I don't know.
	Now, in addition to all the money that the U.S. is sending to Ukraine, $60 billion, of course, most of that goes to weapons manufacturers in the U.S. According to Politico magazine on Saturday, U.S. could send more military personnel to Kiev, says the Pentagon.
	The new advisors would help with logistics and weapons maintenance, Major General Pat Ryder has said.
	He said they would serve in non-combat roles, primarily supporting logistics monitoring deliveries of U.S. weapons, which Washington admits it cannot trace once they arrive in Ukraine.
	These advisors might work at the Office of Defense Cooperation at the Embassy.
	Hmm, that's interesting, because according to Israel...
	Launching missile strikes at embassies is fair game if they're involved in any kind of activity that might be related to the war.
	So the U.S. is admitting that it's going to send its soldiers and commanders and weapons experts to the embassy.
	Does that mean that Russia has the right, as Israel claims, to strike the embassy in Ukraine, the U.S. embassy, and just blow it up?
	Because that's where You know, the enemy soldiers are operating out of?
	Hmm.
	According to all the Zionists, that's perfectly okay.
	Of course, Moscow has issued a warning over the passage of that massive funding bill for Ukraine.
	Washington's hybrid war against Russia will turn into a humiliating fiasco, says the Russian Foreign Ministry.
	According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Kovac, I'm not sure I'm pronouncing it correctly, but I'm doing the best I can.
	She said that this allocation of more military assistance to Ukraine and Taiwan would only aggravate the crisis in the world.
	She says, she's a tough woman, by the way.
	She's tough, man.
	She says, quote, Funds sent to Taiwan, she says, is interference in the internal affairs of China, while aid sent to Israel is a straight way to unprecedented escalation of a conflict in the region.
	So she said that the U.S. is going to end up facing a humiliating fiasco on par with Vietnam or Afghanistan.
	Well, that's funny, because according to the West, we won!
	In Vietnam, we won!
	How did we win?
	I don't know.
	No one can really explain.
	According to Biden, we won in Afghanistan.
	We left because we wanted to.
	We didn't have to.
	We left because we wanted to.
	We left all that equipment behind because we wanted to, you know.
	You realize that most of the American people don't even realize we lost the Vietnam War.
	And we lost in Afghanistan.
	And in the Gulf War in the early 1990s, we weren't fighting an organized military.
	We were fighting goat herders wearing sandals.
	I mean, we weren't fighting an actual military like Russia.
	Okay, remember the Israeli strikes against Iran that we reported on Friday?
	I'm glad that I mentioned in that recording that we need to wait and see what information comes out because it turns out that that attack wasn't much of anything.
	It was really small drones which a top Iranian diplomat said, quote, were more like toys that our children play with, not even drones.
	But three small drones, UAVs, That were just harassing some military base in Iran and didn't even cause any damage because Iran's anti-air defenses took them out, according to Iran.
	Now, Israel and the New York Times, of course, took the Zionist perspective and said, oh, no, this was a major attack.
	And it was it was us.
	It was Israel.
	We did the attack and we're sending a message to Iran and we can hit them anytime, anywhere.
	But that's because Israel has to get in the last punch.
	But it seems like this is a de-escalation pattern right here.
	Where Israel just had maybe some of its spies somewhere in Iran launch three little tiny drones, like the kind you can buy on Amazon.
	Just launch them and fly them over an Iranian military base.
	So that Israel could say that, oh yeah, we struck Iran.
	And they could lie.
	It was a massive explosion.
	Well, the explosion was the anti-air defense of Iran.
	And of course, all of the pro-Western analysts are saying that Iran is lying.
	They always say Iran is lying, but Israel is telling the truth.
	Well, okay.
	If Israel is involved in any conversation...
	Israel's lying.
	There's no question about that.
	Is Iran lying too?
	Possibly.
	Iran has lied before.
	I mean, every government lies.
	The U.S. government lies, but the Israeli government always lies.
	The Iranian government, maybe they're lying too.
	The point is, we don't know for sure, but it wasn't a massive attack, and it did not instigate a massive retaliation from Iran.
	So at the moment, It appears that things have been at least temporarily de-escalated.
	We'll see.
	We'll see how long that lasts.
	Yeah, quiz time.
	How do you know if a Zionist supports genocide?
	Because his lips are moving.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	From KTLA 5 in Los Angeles, two more insurance companies announced plans to leave California.
	So this is according to filings from the Department of Insurance of California.
	Two more insurance companies are leaving California.
	This is in addition to State Farm, which canceled or is in the process of canceling something like 72,000 homeowner and property owner policies.
	So these two additional companies are Tokyo Marine America Insurance Company, and Tokyo is not spelled like the city in Japan.
	It's spelled T-O-K-I-O. And then Trans-Pacific Insurance Company, which apparently insures trans people.
	I'm really surprised that Trans-Pacific would leave California, given how many trans people there are in California.
	If you're going to insure trans people, you probably need to stay in California.
	But for whatever reason, Trans-Pacific says that they just can't handle the state anymore.
	Well, good luck.
	I don't know if they're going to find trans property owners in Texas.
	Not that many.
	Okay, yes, I'm joking.
	That's not what the name means, but it is called Trans-Pacific Insurance Company.
	They are subsidiaries of a Japanese company.
	Together, they provide 12,500-plus homeowner insurance policies and then 2,732 personal umbrella policies because people who have expensive umbrellas, they have to insure them in case there's a gust of wind.
	Everybody should have an umbrella policy.
	You never know.
	You never know what can take out umbrellas like hail, for example.
	So I'm asking the question if farmers insurance is abandoning California, which it is, and State Farm, which is different, is also abandoning California.
	Allstate is abandoning California.
	They got to change their name to Allstate except California.
	And then the Hartford is also abandoned California.
	And now Tokyo and Trans-Pacific abandoned California.
	What do these insurance companies think is going to happen in California that's causing them all to pick up and flee?
	I remember covering the State Farm pullout from California, and they said that they had to leave California because otherwise, and I'm paraphrasing, but they said otherwise they would not be able to remain solvent as an insurance company.
	There are laws about solvency, and if the risk is too high to where you can't maintain solvency because of the expected wave of claims, then you have to leave.
	And that's exactly what they're doing.
	So, I mean, you tell me.
	Five, what is it?
	Five, six insurance companies?
	Probably more, are bailing out of California.
	Are riots coming?
	Is a giant earthquake coming?
	Is there a giant meteor that's going to hit California?
	It's like, will God throw a burning mountain at Los Angeles and Hollywood?
	You know, all the parts of the book of Revelation, will they happen?
	In California, maybe.
	There certainly is a lot of satanic evil there.
	It's kind of a magnet for natural disasters, you would think.
	But insurance companies, they understand risk.
	And they are saying right now, they're sending you a powerful message that by pulling out of the state, they're sending you a message that there is massive risk in something that is anticipated but has not yet happened.
	I think it's going to be massive riots.
	The collapse of the Blue Cities and also Activation Day.
	Remember?
	All these millions of illegals that have crossed the border.
	Well, some percentage of those are active enemy combatants who came across the border.
	They're occupying certain cities like Los Angeles and Denver and so on.
	And they're waiting for orders, waiting for activation.
	Then they're going to go out and sabotage the power grid and the bridges and the ports and blow everything up and launch RPGs into police stations and things like that.
	So if you're an insurance company, do you really want to be insuring blue city properties when you know that crime is exploding?
	The border is wide open.
	America has been invaded and the invaders want to destroy this country from within.
	The answer is no.
	You want to leave.
	If you're an insurance company, you want to insure properties in places like Texas or Florida or Tennessee where people will defend their properties with AR-15s.
	That's really what you want.
	In fact, you should get an AR-15 discount.
	For homeowners insurance.
	Seriously.
	Like the more guns you have, the cheaper your insurance should be.
	And if you have enough guns, it should be free.
	By the way, have you noticed how expensive insurance has become?
	Whether you're paying insurance for your car, insurance for your house, or insurance for business properties.
	Heck, we had a hard time even finding insurance for our business property.
	Insurance companies just don't want to insure anything anymore.
	It seems like the insurance industry is basically just closing down.
	Really, they're just closing down.
	I mean, you used to have seven, eight options.
	They would compete on price.
	Now, it's like two options and both of them are triple the price.
	That's because things are falling apart, folks.
	This country is collapsing.
	Now speaking of that, by the way, the United States Congress, specifically the House, consists largely of traitors who are just giving away our country.
	They're just rubber stamping endless money, hundreds of billions of dollars now for Ukraine.
	I mean, seriously, it's approaching like $200 billion now for Ukraine, something in that neighborhood.
	Did you know that only 21 members of Congress voted no to the Ukraine and Israel funding?
	Yeah, only 21 members, which means that most Republicans voted for this as well.
	And the ones who voted against it, a lot of names you would recognize, Rep.
	Thomas Massey and Corey Mills, Andy Biggs, Lauren Boebert, let's see, Scott Perry, Chip Roy, Ryan Zinke, and some others, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gozar, good guy, Matt Gaetz, you know.
	But for the most part...
	The U.S. Congress voted to just sell out America because they work for Ukraine.
	They work for Israel.
	They're actually paid by Israel.
	They don't work for America.
	So our country's lost at this point.
	It's lost.
	And the only thing that's going to stop this is the collapse, the default on Treasury debt, the collapse of the dollar.
	And that's going to happen much more quickly than most people realize.
	It'll happen all of a sudden.
	And people will lose their minds, and then you're going to have mass uprisings and properties burning down, and all the insurance companies are going to say, good thing we got out of California just in time.
	Now, one Democrat lawmaker, lunatic, Nate McMurray, well, a U.S. congressional candidate for New York, tweeted out when the vote was passed for all this money for Ukraine.
	He tweeted out, Slava, Ukraine, die, MAGA, die, you lose.
	Nate McMurray.
	He tweeted that out on April 20th, 2024.
	He's an attorney and a Fulbright scholar who grew up in western New York.
	He's running for Congress to give residents of Erie and Niagara counties a proper voice in Washington, D.C., according to his website.
	So this is a guy running for Congress as a Democrat, and he wants all MAGA people to die.
	And he's happy to call for them to die as he's signing away all the money of America to foreign countries while watching the United States of America collapse into lawlessness, disarmament.
	destitution, and hyperinflation.
	So, of course, he qualifies as a Democrat.
	I mean...
	What else could he be?
	Robbie Starbuck said of him, this is a Democrat running for Congress.
	Democrat politicians are bloodthirsty tyrants now who've lost their grip on reality.
	That's true.
	And then there's another similar example of this.
	This was covered by Information Liberation, Chris Minahan's website.
	John Podhorets demands, even got the word whore in there.
	That's amazing.
	John Podhorets demands National Guard be sent into Columbia University to put down pro-Palestine protests.
	Now, John Podhore here, he looks like Jabba the Hutt, by the way.
	I'm I'm having flashbacks from, what was it?
	I think it was Return of the Jedi.
	There was a Jabba the Hutt creature in there that had Princess Leia on a chain.
	Remember that?
	Yeah, that's this guy, John Podhor.
	He's a neocon.
	He says, if you think the National Guard shouldn't be sent in, you don't give a bleep about Jewish kids.
	It's that simple.
	You don't give a bleep.
	Say you do all you like, but you don't.
	So he thinks that soldiers should be used to go in like Kent State and apparently open fire on anybody calling for peace in the Middle East.
	And anybody who criticizes him is instantly labeled, quote, anti-Semitic filth.
	According to Jabba the Hutt, John Podwhore.
	I think that phrase, anti-Semitic, is now obsolete.
	It's been worn out by all the Zionists shouting it every time they're reminded what genocidal, murderous lunatics they are.
	So notice that everybody labels the college protesters, you know, insurrectionists now, and terrorists, even if they're not carrying out any acts of violence.
	All of a sudden, their speech is terrorism.
	Isn't that amazing how quickly things shifted?
	Because when Trump was president, the Muslim voice was protected in America.
	We have to let the Muslims speak.
	Trump tried to ban them with the Muslim travel ban.
	The Muslims are our friends.
	Now, according to practically every Democrat, Muslims are all the enemies.
	Now it's all about protecting Jews from, you know, hateful speech of Muslims who are saying hateful things like, stop killing us.
	Stop committing genocide.
	Stop bombing babies and women and children in hospitals and refugee camps in Gaza.
	Apparently that's now hate speech.
	To call for peace, to call for an end to genocide is hate speech on campus now all across America.
	That's how insane it has become.
	Now, by the way, just imagine if Jewish students were stabbing all of the Palestinian students Well, then, you know, the university leaders would say that's perfectly acceptable.
	That's, you know, that's their right for self-defense.
	They can run around stabbing Palestinians and killing all.
	Basically, all the Jews on campus, they would say, can run around and just shoot and stab and murder pretty much anybody they want because, you know, they're the ones chosen by God.
	How can you argue with that?
	And anybody who criticizes it is anti-Semitic.
	So they should just, frankly, just make that the policy at all universities across America.
	If you're Jewish, you're free to murder.
	If you're not Jewish, you might get murdered.
	And you can't say anything against it, or you might be anti-Semitic.
	So that's the policy.
	What would you do?
	I mean, I'm just curious.
	When you were a student, if you went to a university, what would you do in your early 20s if your ethnic group was being slaughtered by somebody else, by a bunch of murderous, genocidal lunatics?
	What would you have done?
	Would you have protested?
	Would you have carried a sign, marched, shouted?
	I mean, peacefully, but wouldn't you have done something?
	Wouldn't you have raised your voice?
	And demanded an end to the violence because that's what any normal rational human being would do.
	But only now, today, because of course the Zionists are carrying out all this violence, now it's bad to want peace.
	It's anti-Semitic to say that genocide is bad.
	So I think John Podhoor should just have a whole new slogan, and this was actually suggested by Information Liberation.
	He should just have a new slogan, new tagline under his Twitter account called, quote, Kill everyone who protests our genocide.
	Because that's pretty much what he believes in.
	So...
	Podwhore.
	Sounds like a skanky girl who trades sex favors for iPods, doesn't it?
	A podwhore.
	Not a gold-digging whore, but a pod-digging whore.
	John Podwhore.
	Man, these people.
	Now, moving on from pod-digging whores, Pepe Escobar, who's a very, very smart individual, very connected person.
	He's got a lot of world sense.
	He's an independent journalist and analyst.
	And he had an exclusive story that he broke over the weekend.
	Not everybody agrees with it.
	But he said that it is, quote, confirmed and reconfirmed that Israel was going to respond to Iran's missile attack immediately.
	By launching a high-altitude EMP weapon to take down Iran's power grid.
	He said that Israel had sent an F-35 loaded with a nuclear bomb.
	It was sent east over Jordan.
	He said it was going to be an EMP attack to cripple Iran's electric grid.
	And he says, quote, as the Israeli F-35 was leaving Jordanian airspace, it was shot down by the Russian Air Force.
	Hence, the publicized version of the Israeli counter-response was such a travesty.
	In the end, all sides decided not to publicize the real news, and they decided to de-escalate.
	Okay, so that's from Pepe Escobar, who I have not interviewed, although I would welcome an interview with him simply because he's got so much knowledge and so many contacts across the global south and parts of the Far East and so on.
	Not everybody agrees with him.
	In fact, most people do not agree with him, and notably, Scott Ritter, who I have interviewed, says that even though he respects Pepe Escobar, that Escobar got this one wrong.
	He says that in order for an F-35 to carry this weapon, it would have to be carried in the internal weapons bay, which he says would be an ASAT-type weapon, an anti-satellite weapon that could be launched from a plane and make an anti-satellite weapon that could be launched from a plane and make it to outer space, where presumably it could make it through the moon's gases, according to Sheila
	Or maybe it could go to the far side of the moon and do a NASA mission and find out whether there's any sunlight over there.
	Anyway, Scott Ritter continues and says, Israel has no such weapon, and if it did, it could not fit into the internal weapons bay of an F-35.
	And he said that if Pepe had said the aircraft was an F-15, then maybe it's possible.
	But he said it's an F-35.
	And so he says that kills the story right off the bat, that the story's not true.
	Well, is it possible that they could have a weapon mounted to the F-35 and they don't care if it's stealthy on the way in?
	Maybe the F-35 only needs stealth after it has dropped the weapon.
	Maybe it's an externally mounted special weapon.
	I don't know.
	I mean, I'm not an expert on F-35 weapon mounting systems, so I don't know.
	Scott Ritter knows a lot more than I do in this area.
	He's probably right, but I'm just asking questions.
	Anyway, Pepe Escobar did raise the possibility that Israel wanted to massively overreact and And that Israel wanted to do so by unleashing an EMP weapon to take out Iran's electronics and power grid.
	Imagine that.
	You realize where we would be right now if that had happened?
	The whole world would be flipping out right now.
	Because, you know, that would be a nuclear detonation over Iran.
	An EMP strike at altitude.
	There would be, you know, radioactive fallout from that as well at some level.
	Do you realize that if Israel does that, it kind of opens Pandora's box of lots of nations using EMP weapons?
	And did you know, did you know that Russia has orbital nukes?
	Yeah, it's an orbital weapons platform orbiting our planet, obviously, and it can drop nukes out of high orbit.
	At almost any time.
	I mean, it depends on where it is in the orbit, obviously.
	But it can drop the nukes down to detonate over North America and carry out an EMP attack on the United States of America.
	And yes, Russia has those weapons in place.
	At least that's what my sources tell me.
	So let us hope this doesn't go into an EMP tit-for-tat.
	That would not be a good scenario.
	We would all be in trouble then.
	I mean, taking down the power grid, you'd have no energy whatsoever.
	A devastating effect of an EMP weapon.
	But now here's a story out of Europe.
	Europe's largest gas field shuts down.
	The Dutch government has halted drilling in Groningen over earthquake fears.
	The Netherlands has officially shut down the Groningen gas field on Friday after the authorities approved a permanent halt to drilling operations to limit seismic risks in the northern region.
	This is the Netherlands and Europe committing energy suicide.
	So this is the largest gas field in Europe, by the way.
	This is a massive amount, trillions of cubic meters of gas that are found there.
	Europe won't tap into any of it.
	Because unlike the scenario of, you know, Israel launching an EMP and shutting down Iran's energy grid, in Europe they do that to themselves.
	They don't even need an EMP. They just say, might be earthquakes.
	Shut it down.
	There they go.
	Just shut it all down.
	Also, shut down the farms while you're at it, because that's happening in the Netherlands.
	That's happening all across Europe.
	Yeah, shut down the farms, shut down the energy, shut down businesses.
	But welcome unlimited migrants.
	Come on in.
	Take over.
	That's what's happening in Western Europe.
	It is committing outright suicide and it will not survive.
	So, hey, if you cut off all your energy, cut off all your food, guess what?
	You're going to freeze and starve to death.
	And that's what's coming for Western Europe.
	And you cut off your economy?
	I don't get it.
	It's like watching a suicide cult.
	They're just prepping the Kool-Aid.
	Hey, you want some Kool-Aid?
	Put this special little packet of some bitter tasting additive in the Kool-Aid.
	And then we'll all drink it together.
	That's like the leader of Germany, the leader of France, the leader of the UK, the leader of the Netherlands.
	They're all like, yeah, let's just all commit suicide together.
	Let's shut down everything that keeps civilization humming.
	So there we go.
	Hey, we're the Dutch.
	Remember?
	We talked about the history of tit for tat.
	It's the Dutch.
	Yeah, they've been doing this for centuries.
	Isn't it crazy, though, that they shut down a gas field that provides the most gas to the continent?
	Because they say there have been 1,600 earthquakes since 1986.
	And, you know, most of those are like 1.5 or whatever.
	They're little tiny earthquakes that you can only pick up on a seismograph machine.
	Oh, the needle moved, but nobody felt it, you know?
	They say it's damaged 85,000 buildings over that time.
	Like, what?
	Was there a crack?
	Did somebody's shelves fall over at some point?
	You know?
	It didn't topple any buildings.
	It just damaged them.
	There's cracks in the foundation.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Well, so instead of damaging now 85,000 buildings over how many years?
	Over decades.
	They now want to damage everybody across all of Europe.
	Just spread the damage to everybody by saying, no energy for you.
	No food for you.
	No energy for you.
	Good luck.
	You're all playing a giant game of Survivor.
	Yeah, also take more jabs because we, the European leaders, we're literally trying to just kill you all.
	Take the jabs, eat more crickets, turn off the heat in the winter because there's no more energy.
	And buy an electric car, you fool.
	So you know what this is going to do?
	In reality, it's just going to make Russia's gas more valuable.
	It's like everything that Western Europe does to try to hurt Russia ends up helping Russia.
	It's like these leaders, they're just killing themselves and people are going to have to pay a premium for gas out of Russia and other gas exporting regions like Texas, for example, or the Middle East, for example.
	I mean, they have gas under their feet in the Netherlands.
	It's under their feet.
	Some of it's under the water.
	And they won't tap into it.
	Why?
	Because somebody felt the earth shake a couple of times.
	Oh, wow.
	Really?
	You're going to deprive an entire continent of its largest energy source because you're scared about a couple little rumblings under your feet?
	Well, how much worse do you think it's going to be when your continent has no energy and you suffer a total economic collapse plus a migrant invasion that takes over your continent and throws all of you out to where you're homeless and penniless and destitute?
	Is that better than having energy?
	I mean, these people, these climate lunatics in Europe.
	Okay, I got to wrap this up.
	I said I would keep it short and I haven't, but I'm going to wrap it up here because we have an interview coming up with Miguel Casas.
	But first, look, let me apologize a little bit for my attitude today because I'm so incensed at the U.S. Congress, the total betrayal that I really had to resort to some satire and Humor, attempts at humor today as my coping mechanism.
	Because if I verbalize what I really want to say about the United States Congress, you know, first of all, it would be profanity-laced beyond belief.
	It would sound like Richard Pryor.
	Secondly, if I said what I really wanted to say, It would not be good for my career because I'm so incensed at these absolute traitors.
	And I think, and I can say this, I think they should be arrested and prosecuted for treason against the United States of America.
	And I hope that every person who just voted to hand out $95 billion to other countries while doing nothing for America, they're absolute traitors.
	They're not representatives of the United States of America.
	They've betrayed their own people, and they should all be arrested, prosecuted, barred from ever serving in public office ever again.
	They should be stripped of any government power.
	And they should face trial, in my opinion.
	And that's me saying it lightly.
	The fact that half these people are blackmailed because they're caught on tape You know, raping little kids or whatever they do, that makes it even more infuriating.
	We're living in some very dark times and there is a satanic control grid that is influencing the United States Congress.
	And with some exceptions, most people who become members of Congress, especially in the Senate, they are highly influenced by evil.
	They get taken over by evil because they're weak.
	They're weak.
	They have no courage.
	They have no strength, no spiritual strength.
	Most of them don't believe in God.
	They don't have faith.
	And they never had a difficult day in their lives.
	I mean, look at Joe Biden.
	The guy never produced anything, never did an honest day of work in his life.
	Nothing but kickbacks and grift and bribery and fraud, right?
	His whole family, it seems.
	And so none of these people in Congress, again, with few exceptions, are qualified to represent the American people.
	Hardly any of them.
	What we need is a whole new system of government where the representatives are people who have been through the tough times.
	People who have been farmers, people who have been truck drivers, people who have been first responders, ambulance drivers, or EMTs, paramedics, police officers.
	We need people who have been in society and saw with their own eyes what's going on.
	That's who we need in Congress.
	Sadly, that's not who gets elected.
	People get elected are the rich kids, the Harvard graduates, and then they get bribed by Israel to keep voting more money for the Israelis to keep bombing more Palestinians and committing genocide against women and children.
	And so it's a giant racket.
	It's a war racket.
	It's disgusting.
	I can hardly stand it.
	And I'm going to stop there before Before I get into trouble.
	Now, another thing that's going on, which our next guest is going to talk about, Miguel Casas here, is the human trafficking, child trafficking, which is also absolutely infuriating.
	And it's allowed by Congress.
	Members of Congress, they won't close the border.
	They won't stop the trafficking.
	And so hundreds of thousands of children every year are kidnapped.
	Some kidnapped in America, taken across the border to be flown to the Middle East to serve as the sex dungeon slave for some, you know, wealthy, chic oil baron or something.
	In other cases, it's like South American kids that are kidnapped and trafficked into the United States To be repeatedly raped by some, you know, Democrat donor pervert with his underground dungeon somewhere in Seattle.
	And there's just intense satanic evil going on across this wide open border.
	But no member of Congress, it seems, will do a damn thing about it, especially the Democrats won't.
	They won't stop the trafficking.
	They won't stop the child abuse.
	They want to pretend like they care about people.
	They don't care about anybody.
	But themselves.
	They care about their money, their profits, their power.
	They won't stop the massive human suffering that's happening right under their noses, right in their own states.
	They'll do nothing to stop it.
	As children are kidnapped every day, hundreds of thousands a year in America alone go missing.
	Well, my guest coming up, Miguel Casas.
	Has had a lot of very dark experiences in the child rescue operations side of things, and he's got some pretty scary stories to share with you.
	It's kind of a lengthy interview, but it's a very important one to hear.
	So I'll stop now, and we'll go to that interview.
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	I hope I'll be a little more upbeat tomorrow.
	I don't know.
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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, you know, 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.
	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, 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, man.
	You know the popular karambit?
	Yeah.
	It's the curb thing.
	Everybody thinks that that's a Philip.
	Emerson.
	Yeah, right here.
	And that's a fox.
	I carry 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.
	Right.
	I like the Emerson.
	I've been carrying this for 15 years.
	Right.
	Well, not this one.
	I've lost like three of them.
	Right, right.
	And that hook right there, right, 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 finger.
	You might get it broken.
	I will use it to break your finger.
	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 steel.
	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 is 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 Maktor.
	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.
	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.
	Wow.
	And hence that curve there, right?
	Against your palm?
	The heel of my palm.
	Wow.
	My finger.
	Wow.
	Right.
	That's why I like this blade.
	Ergonomic mastery.
	Absolutely.
	Yeah.
	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 shattering.
	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.
	But...
	Yeah, just put those over there.
	I'll grab them here in a minute.
	Thank you.
	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.
	I mean, 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.
	Mountlocks 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 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.
	I'm Filipino.
	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 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 of the target without dropping.
	In.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 and 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...
	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 $1,000 into it just to make sure that I can carry it.
	And so for me, it's out the box.
	Whatever I buy, I've got to use.
	Meanwhile, the prosecution of the civil case that's brought against me because I defended my life with even a judicial use of deadly force.
	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 it.
	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.
	So now...
	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 of...
	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.
	Yes.
	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.
	Oh.
	Which is a Glock 17 barrel.
	Uh-huh.
	Glock 19 stock.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	Yeah.
	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 mags.
	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?
	So 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...
	I've had students that came from both sides.
	I've even had students who worked with SWAT. Not from this town, but elsewhere.
	I can tell you that...
	One school will say, this is the proper grip.
	Hold the gun.
	Other school will say, no, that's wrong.
	This is the proper grip.
	And to be honest with you, I've been to schools that talk either or.
	Oh, yeah.
	So there's two, like there's a couple of major grips out there.
	I saw Solis and Weaver and both sides will laugh at the other side and criticize the other side and You know, 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?
	Yeah.
	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.
	Wow.
	They take them through that.
	And so, I mean, that's impressive, but it's not about God.
	It's about a human being.
	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.
	If you're shooting Weaver...
	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, fire, 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.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	Right.
	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.
	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.
	Right?
	But defensive handgun is...
	You know, doing that show, the reality check, right?
	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 drive fire practice that all day then.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	And not only that, when you move, because if you're practicing static, right?
	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 defend anybody by what I'm about to say.
	But I teach.
	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 fixed 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?
	Right, 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.
	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.
	Moving forward, backwards, laterally, and then breathing and watching your red dot.
	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?
	No.
	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.
	It 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.
	Yeah.
	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.
	Yeah.
	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 the 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.
	Yes, absolutely.
	I'll take 3,000 feet per second any day over 1,150.
	That's why you and I love rifles.
	Now, I never go anywhere anymore without a carbine.
	There's a carbine in the car.
	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 do 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.
	Right?
	Exactly.
	Or you're going into a city or a county where the cops might arrest you for having a visible rifle.
	Right.
	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 odd six, odd seven sign outside, 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 you have your gun.
	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.
	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.
	Yeah.
	But your worst day in this country is still the best day anywhere else.
	And people don't understand that.
	Yeah.
	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, 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...
	And 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...
	Because I'm not a master tactician.
	I'm not a Navy SEAL. I'm not, you know.
	So...
	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.
	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-catel 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.
	Yeah.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Right?
	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%.
	Yeah.
	You and I, exact line with that.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	Here's why.
	It's a $250 billion industry.
	Oh, yeah.
	Right?
	That's more than Hollywood and Washington combined.
	$250 billion will buy silence, except...
	Wow.
	Not against people like you and me.
	Right.
	Right?
	We're not going to be silent.
	That's right.
	Right?
	And so...
	That's why we're centered.
	Right.
	Exactly.
	They try to silence us, but, you know, we...
	I don't feel like, you know, 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?
	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.
	Proper asylum.
	Right.
	Okay.
	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 him, right?
	And 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, Rhodey.
	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 irregular earmuffs, they'll fly off.
	Yeah.
	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.
	But with my rifles, I usually train with a suppressor anyway, so it's not a big deal.
	But pistols are loud.
	Right.
	Yeah, no, they're loud.
	And rifles without suppressors are louder.
	Indeed.
	Indeed.
	But that was a very profound story that you just shared with us.
	And I absolutely want to invite you back in 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 know, you're talking about this very clear guidance from our Creator and this horde of demonic masses that's coming.
	Yeah.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Right?
	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.
	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 a full-auto drop-in Sears for ARs or AKs.
	Yeah, they have illegal suppressors that came in from China by the pallet load.
	Right.
	They have night vision.
	They have ballistic armor.
	But more importantly, one of my sources told me this is now two years ago.
	The U.S. 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 throating 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.
	No, it's not.
	It's ahead of it.
	Yeah.
	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 like rich neighborhood California, right?
	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 would 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 and 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.
	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.
	And so, since He told me to train His warriors this way in preparation for what's coming, all of my threat 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...
	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.
	Yeah.
	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.
	Exactly.
	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.
	I'm not saying there's not a place for that.
	You know, Trump has raised a bunch of money with his true 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 a deep rabbit hole 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.
	The way it's defined in the license to carry is be sure of your target, the backstop, and beyond.
	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.
	Right, right, right.
	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.
	And my test is actually the test that you do after your four days of training is going to be harder.
	Yes.
	Than any of those tests.
	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.
	That's a private thing between you and me.
	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 down the range.
	And I think that's very smart.
	Oh, hey...
	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, 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.
	If anybody needs 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've got to 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 it's, these are crafted from a magnet cut steel that comes out of New York that is, you know, 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.
	Yeah.
	That's a bad thing to say.
	No, but there was the report of cannibalism in Haiti recently.
	Still happening.
	Still happening.
	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.
	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, 100%.
	It's demonic.
	Yeah.
	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.
	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.
	It's been a fascinating discussion.
	Absolutely.
	Let me give out your website again, therealsdi.com, 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.
	Yeah.
	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.
	Absolutely.
	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.
	And 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.
	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, wherever they are.
	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.
	It's been an honor for me, sir.
	It's all my honor.
	No, I'm humbled that you're taking this time to have enough trust in me.
	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.
	As long as I've 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.
	Right.
	Exactly.
	Every 5.56 round is 50 cents.
	Right.
	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.
	Pow!
	Bing!
	You know what I mean?
	That's a great way to start your day.
	Oh, I love the sound, yeah.
	Yeah, it'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.
	It's 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.
	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, I 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 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 Breitian.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 that if you need to use a firearm in self-defense.
	So thank you for watching today.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Take care, everybody.
	Also, have you seen these?
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	That's a stack of 1s.
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	And since the gold is in the gold back itself, it's not some fiat currency.
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	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.
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	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 gold backs.
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	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.
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